The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 11, 1924, Page 20

PAGE 20 i th About Fights and Fighters BY LEO H. LASSEN & OS ANGELES, Cal., April 11.—One of the newest sensations among the four- rounders in Los Angeles is} Young Nationalista, a Fili-| pino flyweight, whose speed and punching power has “made him a great card in the) * short fights. But he has yet to face a real test. He has beaten Abe Gordon, a veteran, who is| just about thru, and Frankie > Grandetta, the Portland a“ youngster, who is really no| better than a preliminary} boy at his best. Nationalista’s strength lies In his} swinging power. How he would| fare with a boy who would crowd ‘him and punch him in the stomach might be something else again. Tho ‘fittle Filipino hasn't been extended yet, but if he can still win against >+-a boy who would stop his swinging | | attack it would have to be admit. " “ted that he has real class. | It's a great night for the bell-| Chops when Nationalista fights, as| he has a great following among the F Filipino boys in L. A. When Pancho | Vila, Filipino fyweight champion ~-of the world, was here there was an effort to match the pair. But the four-round promoters were skeptical “bout using a champion. TEN SCRAPS - AT AMATEUR MITT SHOW! mittens wil! fly tonight at bouts will be run off with | Issaquah light- heavy, and Ray Wittman of Rainier | Valley, topping the card. | Langhout, who executes. a jig in) mid-ring after each victory, will be! in no shape to jig tonight, accord: | fng to the rugged Wittman, who says| he knock all of the jig out of the quahan. On the other hand Langhout says he will do his cus-| tomary jig after he has trimmed Wittman and may throw tn a few! gestures of the “spring dance” for 4 easure. | Ten bouts are on the card with featherweight, lightweight and wel- |» terweights predominating the affair. | | The first battle is scheduled for 8:20. | nme | CONFLICTS LACKING IN BIG RACES 1B men back of the Maryland | Preakness and the Kentucky | Derby have seon the light. There | {will be no conflict between these | two great turf events this spring. __ The Preakness will be run a week earlier than the Derby. This will enable horsemen to point their en- tries for both events. With good weather, which usually | greets the running of these two ing classics, there should be no difficulty for the trainers to keep | their charges on edge for both events. ~ The Preakness ig the shorter dis- \ tance, a mile and a furlong. It be- ing run first, makes {t possible for the thorobreds to be gradually ‘worked up to the Derby distance, ~ y-which isa mile and a quarter. “DE PALMA WILL _ NOT BE ENTRY * Ralph De Palma will not drive in ‘the 12th international 500-mile auto- Mobile race to be held at the Indian. Apolis motor speedway May 30. This " definite. announcement has been * made from the speedway office. De Palma will not ride at Indian- apolis, it was explained, because he * is not now a member of the Amer. Aican Automobile association, the gov- erning body of the gasoline sport, “under whose rulings and jurisdiction ‘the Indianapolis affair and all other championship events are held. | | | | their places. |tlonal observatories. THE SEATTLE STAR ) WASHINGTON AND CALIFORNIA ARE READY FOR BIG REGATTA® | Seattle Has ‘o Foolers 4 Loses His First Tilt Angels Win onlts Team Corps of Spitball Twirlers Is Getting Less and Less Each Year BY LEO H, LASSEN Sporting Editor of The Star OS ANGELES, Cal. April lL Coast league will use the Harry Gard. Krause at at enback at Ve Pudgy Gc Thomas has ast ye dropped out and Lefty been jet out by Los Az There is still some chance who has been in ill health. ng to Salt Lak Bill James, once the idol of Seattle fans, and one of tha tragedies of baseball because Ne hurt his wing while at the peak of his fame with Boston's Braves, is trying another comeback with Sacramento. He has| tried often, but has never been able to mak grade. James was| a pitching coach with Sacramento | last year and has had his arm worked on for many months trying to bring back its old magic James was a wonderful spithall| pitcher when he was a star, ranking along with Ed Walsh, the old Chi cago White Sox fayorite, as betng | the moat effective spitball hurler of | all time. They always said that the wet de livery was hard on the arm, but Gardner, Krause and Crandall have | been tolling.for many, many years | and they will win their share of com: | bats again this season. PICK THINKS SOLONS WILL BE POLISHED | Charley Pick, Sacramento's man-/ ager, hasn't made many changes in| his club for this year, entering al-| most the same team that finished second last year. Pick thinks that | the machine will be much smoother | and that Rohwer, at third base,| Brown and McNeeley in the outfield} Given shaky support, and Canfield, his young southpaw,|q@ Coast league game, lost his will have benefited by last year's ex-| perignce and will prove important | cogs in the lineup, Pick is banking |J@VE twa on speed to keep his team up there MUCH DEPENDS —and don't forget that “speed gets ‘em.”" SALT LAKE WILL HAVE TREMENDOUS KICK BY HENRY Le FARRELL Altho Salt Lake has. lost Paul EW YORK, Aptil 11,.—Several Paul Strand. the Bees will atit! have | IN sar, ago, during a minor a tremendous punch a Vitt, Laslle, Fredericks, Peters, as? meeting, Bill Killefer was 2 asked why ho didn’t spend some of Jenkins, Wilholt, Sheehan and Lewis |}Xed ™t ted to be back of would all be .200-hittera in any Coast |i Tiitees Gene and get. himestt li a thaw he hicago J ¥ wamtie park and they say that this/ “0 icin, Killefer’ replied that Race ex FY 1 RARER PEORT OC | ver aeons have: a lub ‘ithe If the Bees had a little more speed |"*4 to buy one. in this lineup so that they could com.| It was his theory, he sald, that bine ft with this hitting punch ‘they |the best. results were to be obtained would be favorites for the flag. by building and developing you |players .and. that while progress SEALS WILL |might be slow, the results were MISS M’WHEENEY |more permanent. Doug McWheeney, the fast-ball art.| Killefer im still bullding, and he jist, wam the best relief pitcher in|%¢¢™# to be set on an intention to the league last year. He didn't win|#et the Cubs @ raft of’ young so many games, but he saved a flock |Pitchers who could keep the club of contests for the San Francisco|UP for years after it) got its real Seals. start. McWheeney was the fastest hurler} ‘The Cubs finished in the first 4i- in the league and for twe or three | vision last year and they will enter Innings, particularly late in the aft-|the 1924 ene raco with the ernoon in the San Francisco park, |*@me team. e chance for land. where fogs hang over the park a} ing a higher place this year de- | great deal of the time, he was al.|pends Mrgely upon the improve most unhittable. |ment in the young pitchers. ‘The Seals-wil! miss him and they'tt| Charley Hollocher, shortstop, be miss Ira Courtney, who southpawed 16 victories. | And they haven't anybody to take came afficted in the middie of the season last summer with what the officials of the club inalsted was an {maginary illness. It wan believed by them that Hollocher wan trying A few countries use standard time|to work them for a transfer to based on the longitude of thelr na-lanother club and he was placed on the retired list. Earl Adams, a WHEE. son yesterday to Los Angeles. y to a pinch hitter in the seventh. PITCHERS OF CHICAGO CUBS Third From iti Local Club Seattle’s Makeshift Infield Doesn't Look So Good in Los Angeles Games PACIFIC COAST LAG! Les Anpeice RESULTS Leos Anasies | 08 ANGELES | 44 Angele when the Angels 5 ne the Jong end of an § to for the visitors and remained in [tired for a pinch hitter | ‘The Seat field ts stil] in make | form, due to the injuries of | Baldwin and Sammy Cra | Welsh looka awkward at | while Emmers is no | acked out for in the first y ahead of him ADK HPO AB ‘Sei 3b 6 8 Tie RAs tae Bas ea aes re 2 0 6 a) Sirerceice i) 8 Tae OY fag ae Per I Sat Hes Wire Wir se 1 584 a et Var ba ee 316.8% 8. 679 | eeoeirie 1o¢@ 6 ° | » 8 62 8 AD. R. WL PO. A. B Vir t3 6 6 Waals; 8.8 261.3 ‘ iv ere: 8.8 ee Mere 6 1 q-:8 wea 8 (Tis es tr Tar fa 4°04, 6.0 Fe ZER DELL IGS ARB Sag acty z Totals 8 8 418 8 Wheezer Dell, veteran of many) snattea tor Dell tn » h. Matted for Emmere n ninth. first contest of the 1924 8€Q-| jeore by innines Dell started out nicely but |ssins ite “ON YOUNG |, Muclend Plich—Dell basesHood. Home om Welsh. Two-bi hite—DBrady, Root, eAuley. Bacritic {Reaper jyoungster, was used at) short and) Dots) wood Brady Golem Peubie jbe did quite well ‘The club was |pisy-—MeAuiey to Guther to Golvin, |handicapped ‘also by a. peculiar |Time—t:60, Umpires — Reardon and jspinal trouble that crippled Ray |" Grimos, the regular first baseman It was reported from the training | jeamp this year that he is much | better and that he will be able to |pliy hin standard game this year. | | Georg Grantham, a good hitter and a flashy base runner, will play VERNON WINS OVER SOLONS SACRAMENTO, April 11—Ver non defeated Sacramento here yes- terday, 9 to 6. Seven pitchers were |necond base again. He tan't the | used flouriest infielder in the. game, but| The score— RH. E he should be Improved this year. | Vernon hey Pat es | ae | Barney Friberg. a good all around | Sacramento OT Mee jplayer, will be used again at third| Batteries: Kock, Gilder, Carson, [ase Cruze and Hannah; Canfield, Hall, Statz, Heathcote and Miller, form | Shea and Koehler. |the outfield combination. Statz and | nites ic Miller give it some offensive strength but it fs none. too strong on ‘ne | OAKLAN WINS defense. | SLUGGING TILT O'Farrell and Hartnett are the! air LAKE CITY, April i-- regular catchers, but the sturdy |iortyone hits were 4 and durable O'Farrell thrives #0 eee ee lmtich on work that he will do moat =m Played hero yesterday, which of the job behind the bat. Oakland won from Salt Lake by Grover Alexander, who reema to|"% 18 to 17. score, be bothered little by age, lends the | The score— R. H. E. [pitching staff, with Aldridge, Kauft. ‘ahs ‘ ethane }man, Keen and Osborne as the |5 ake 17:20 2 Jother remulars. ;. Batteries: Boehler, Siebold and POETS LE Rea Rae | Baker; Hulvey, Duchaisky, McCabe, | LOUIE'S WIN. FIRST Thomas and Peters, . Loute's Dry Cleaners blasted open ofeach } another ball season by winning from the strong Rose Hill nine by a 5.3 |score at Kirkland Sunday. SEALS DEFEAT BEAVERS AGAIN OUR BOARDING HOUSE 1 DUST DROPPED il HOOPLE, TO SEE How YoU WERE FIXED UP OS GARDEN SEED? TVE GOT A NICE LINE OF STUFF YEH, AN’ EVERY SEED 1S GUARANTEED, Too! OH YES, YES, —~ HAWTHORNE, ~ MIGRTY GLAD You CALLED~ INDEED YES = HM=M ~ COME, WE WILL GO UP~To MY STUDY ~~ ER~AH WHAT HAVE You YW BARLY BLOOMING to this treatment. Apply road gently without rubbing. AA glow, a comf ment is taking effect. The pain 2 ceases — then — how welcome! — grateful relief. Get a bottle from -. your druggist today—35 cents. SAN FRANCISCO, April 11.—The |Portland Beavers lost their third BY AHERN! |consecutive game to San Francisco |here yesterday by a score of 10 D) jto 9, , 2 Tho score— RO. EB. HH~ THATS HIS jPortland ...., im Fee tect taey PeT Hooch San Francisco .. sei 18. 31 Batteries: Schroeder, Pillette, Eck- ert and Querry, Daly; Hodge, Schorr, Geary and Yelle, Ritchie, Agnew. ss FRED KNIGHT GOLF VICTOR Nour Nose!e< THAT FLOWER “TH! MATOR IS ASKING ABOUT,IS-A QUART PINEHURST, N. C., April 11.— , Fred W. Knight, of Philadelphia, ; ; OF BORNEO BROTH!/A |won the north and south annual jamateur championship here by de- fenting B. P, Merriman, bury, Conn. one up, after being four down at the end of the first 18 holes. HOLLOCHER HARD TO FOGL Shortstop Charley Hollocher, who refuses to report-to the Chicago Cubs because of a salary difference, is the hardest man in the National leaguo to strike out. He whiffed only five times last season, Eddie Collins, with eight strikeouts, was the toughest batter to fool in the American league, TWO HARD-HITTING PITCHERS They do say that pitchers cannot hit. The averages of the 1923 world series fall to bear out that belief. Jack Bentley, with an average of .600, was high among the Giants, while Joo Bush, with a mark of .429, showed the way to the Yankees. HOPPE RETAINS TIT) NEW YORK, April 11.— Wilile Hoppe, world’s billiard champion, retained his title at the close of his 1,600 point match with Edouard Horemans, Belgian champlon, here last night. The final score was 1,500 to 958, Most cyclones in North America follow definite tracks, which cover Southern Canada and the Northern " \ Stars $ | boosts Eissick's chances. * two big bets ; | Beckett chin of Water- | Crystal Pool Party Tonigh Tigers Have Much Color This Year' 4 of eight articles BA BY ED FRAYNE Eby Bengals finished They may finish t 1924. But no ¢ colorful and none will have more p sibilities than Kasick’s youthful ag gregatior Favorite complaint of the club ts] Weakness in pitching. Essick has refrained from echoing this wail, It} has been unnecessary—bis predica ment tn this regard is obvious. In all other departments his ma chine will match the best in the cir-| cult, in spite of its youth. Two, pos sibly three, 21-year-olds will have regular jobs in his infield, and one, | possibly two, will be outfield reg. ul The catching staff alone remains unchanged. Hannah and Murphy, capable ve is, will handle the bulk | of the work ven behind the plate, however, Easick has a Texas leaguer named Whitney who may get the second string job. A minute addition of Harry tney's name to the Vernon pay | gives k three pltotiers of known Clans AA caliber Courtney, leading pitcher of the league last | year, was a big factor In giving San | Francisco the pennant and his deliv- ery to Vernon by the White Sox} Frank Shel |lenback, veteran spitballer and Frank |Kech from Cincinnati are the other c ir | The Tigers look like a club with a| |Jack Dempsey punch and a, Joe Vernon must get three | pitchers from its three stars or it j will take many a knéckout Most Coast league clubs will be/ |no better than they are at the first. | |The “Kindergarten” from Vernon | | will be twice as good in June as in) April, and will improve correspond. | \ingly down the stretch. P BALL |PRE BILL TODAY |THE second games of the high | L school baseball league were to |be played this afternoon. Queen Anne and Ballard were |to tangle at Ballard, Roosevelt was to meet Broadway at Broadway, Franklin was to journey to West Seattle to meet the Indiang and Lincoln and Garfield were to have it out at Garfield. ‘SOCCER TEAMS TO PLAY SOON The Olymple club soccer team of | San Francisco will meet the Union Iron Works team April 13 for the| California state championship. | The Olympics scored a handy 4-0} victory over the Thistles eleven in| | the semi-finals of the blg tournament. Fo lvcutt snot | GAMES ON /f : —~ the spring \ i ARROW C COAST LEAGUE NOW J ‘Changes May Be Made in Final Crew Choice Rogers, Bruin Stroke, Suffers Strained Back and May Not Row; Washington Men All on Edge and Ready for Great Race BY JACK HOHENBERG ASHINGTON, the national champion, stands ready to defend her hard-won laurels of last year against the ferocious onrush of the California F As the two crews paddle to the starting line of the race tomorrow, at 30 p. m., the champs will have a decided edge. Callow doesn't think so. The Husky oarsmen don't think so. But it can be seen with one eye shut and the other half opened, Ky Ebright of the Bears up to his neck in worries for his star stroke, Jap Rogers, is suffering from a mysterious back ailment Th is a fifty-fifty chance Rogers rowing in the big splash tomorrow. If he does not, Francis Holland, frosh stroke last year, will be moved up to eight and one bi Coach is of of the Bear substitutes moved in at Holland’s place. That is the e of affairs with the regatta 24 hours away In the Wasbir ach ae te | Callow ta biti 4 swea t the Husky crew will be beaten the ‘The thelr own abi vas Varsity Mat “| Leader Will of his as Captain Don Grant, the scrappy | REDGRIFFIN, Washington The Husky yearlings, too, are|’ wrestling captain elect, prac- primed to win fromthe Bear 1927| “° is certain to participate in the men, The Washington oars got ! A. meets at Spokane May 16, 17 and 18. Griffin would go on A. 8, U, W. funds if he made the journey. Two other Husky grapplers, Ray Cilthero and Ed Hertz, are planning to go on their own resources. Griffin has not Jost a match to any Coast wresfler for two years in the 145-pound class, Of course, he has had no opportunity to meet Robin Reed, the Oregon Aggie champion. Since Reed goes in elther the 135 or ether yesterday and elected Stan ley, Powers of Spokane, captain for the year. Powers rows bow, Here's what Ebright says “It is not logical that California should win.” This is Rusty Callow’s statement “California is mighty good.” Captains Grant and Loscamp do an Alphonse and Gaston “The Huskies are fine oarsmen.” — Loscamp. the 145 class, Griffin has a 50-50 ‘Those Bears certainly make the| chance of not meeting him. water hum, We will do our best to It is certain that no man in the Northwest with the exception of Reed would stand much of a show with the Husky captain. Should Reed go in the 135-pound class, he will meet up with Ray Clithero, two- year varsity letterman. — Clithero, jbarring the possibility of meeting Reed, should come thru as class win."—Grant. Also obvious. At any rate, the battle is ready to start. Wait a minute. Oh, that’s Dar Melsnest, graduate manager, on the bank. What's that, Dar? Tickets? Oh, you, there are a few tickets left yet for the three lake steamers. The price is $1.25 and will help de. fray expenses, The race will start | (; promptly at 2:20, with ‘the freshinen | “2a™plon. starting an hour later. Are you| Hertz a 125-pounder, wrestled ——_—___——— & good showing. EXPECT FAST | Griffin and Clithero, therefore, stand a fast game Sunday when the speedy feat? |the freshman team this year, @ “Gor showed nice form. He should make Tho P. N. A. meet this year is combined with the Olympic tryouts. GAME SUNDAY |» good chance of traveling East to Local sand lot fans are expecting | the finals. 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