The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 21, 1924, Page 5

| | . About Fights| Traditio |} rete Daley “May : SATURDAY, JUNE _ 1, 1924 t’s Up to Univers n Keeps Many and Fighters) Crews in Big Regattas THE SATTI STAR Osborne’s Form The Roll and Dive Style of America’s High Jumping Ace Which Is Under Official Fire { BY LEO H. LASSEN Washington Has Chance of Getting Wisconsin, Navy, Princeton and California Here for Race Next Year; Quarters Would Have to Be Built; Others Doubtful a,’ * | ODE BERCOT vs, Harper. That's the next big league} voy Dundee Has _ Lost One of His Titles fistic attraction for Seattle, | Both local favorites, Bercot! and Harper | ave been going at a fine pace lately. TES up to the University of Washington athletic officials to bid the college crews to the Northwest if a regatta on Lake Washington is to be possible for next year. | The big varsity crews of the East will not come without an invitation and those that will consider it at present Navy, Princeton, Wisconsin and California—must be in- vited by the University ‘of Washington. None of the officials of the university who would be in charge of such a program are in Seattle at present, Dean Condon Darwin is out of the city, Meisnest and Coach Callow are returning from the East and Dr. Suzzallo is also out of the city, The wa the situation stands, 1 races would undoubt “ and Harvard in the East and as Syracuse, Pennsylvania in Bercot's/, 7 Cornel! and Columbia belong to the Ag EW YORK, June 21.—T ‘ i victory over Joe Benjamin| N™ ‘igs vert i trie lintercoliegiate Rowing association, it proved that he has the class, |,, ee — e a ck rc gma oa gad Be “ undes, 0 « adorned by two|break away from the Hudson race as Benjamin is one of the . at this time rank ligt ; crowns, Is burdened with but 7 4 ranking lightweights of the)... , Wisconsin, Princeton, the Navy count — and California would make a splen. gp eee ; Johnny drop bis did race with Washington however ant vd aon “ me Harper has tn |wetght title to Sullivan, of |@n4 if such an event could be staged 8! ‘ou! engagement with 4 big < or co Webitac sles Brooklyn, at the Nostrand Athtetie|® bg traaitt mal re might be built r . up for the course at the Seattle ball club, Brooklyn, Friday pight | If the crews accept such a bid bea and tt behoov to dispose The veteran lost the decision in|then money must be raised to build poi aid ark - ran: lore think-/4 i0.round battle in which Sullivan |@éequate crew quarters on Lake & of any other eneagements isuinarit seikthe Vatreapad Washington, an outlay something neklentally, Webster resembles | “'™! [Mike $50,000 being necessary Bercot very much in style, being lett There were four men in the ring.| ‘The Northwest wants such a race handed and awkwardly clever, It the kid, refere Jack ‘and the people of this section would Will be interesting to see how Harper n—and Invisible Old Father | go the limit financially to back such fares with a southpaw ‘The latter was most effec:|a proposition. —— tive against the faltering Dundee,| The next move ts entirely up to Dundee Is jwho needed ali his ring craft to|the University of Washington. Slipping Fast jevel 4 a knockout in the eighth| Johnny . Dun is hitting the} re It was not chutes fast. Once one of the most exceptional ring men in the game prepa Recent ing’ ted sree Song destin to (Pon TEMA ling fighter of the past: Dundee Some young fellow named Kid Sulll-| 105 jittie tort bus Mean van relieved him of his 130-pound|- soi ad, and a with: title Friday night. ‘The necesalty of SNS body punishment by the taking off weight to make the feath. |“Ctve Sullivan took its toll. The erweight limit will probably cost him| "er was unhurt by Dundee's ia featherweight title thecfimt time |DO%% which have lont their sting he meets a high class 124-pounder Dundee has been one of the freaks Leonard Will of the ring; at times he has weighed over 140 pounds and has taken off as much as 18 pounds for a fight. | Cullen Has Tough Fight Ahead NEW YOR June Battle Walker! | ‘ Benny| young outfielder from the | Leonard, the lightweight king, will/ league. jhave a chance at the weiterweight!a boon to Manager Fob | title in July or August, according! ting has been both timely and spec tne dynamic, dancing. (Ake Boone Is Now Idol of Boston Fans astonishing develop. ment the major league sea son has been the unexpected upris ing of the Boston Red Sox, a team which finished an emphatic eighth last year And one of the main reasons for the Ike HE moat of phenomenon is Boone, a Texas Boone has truly been His hit Mr Fred Cullen shapes up as the beat |'2 AM Announcement of the state!tacuiar, and his work In the field light heavyweight that has fought | DONS commission fround here in years. little trouble beating the best the Promoters have trotted out for him. Tuesday night he boxes Jimmy | Darcy, young Portland veteran, in| what should be a real test of Cullen's | . ability. Darcy, in spite of his youth, | in Ledoux Bout has fought hundreds of times and has} NEW YORK, June 21.—Charlie met the best men in the business | Ledoux, a member of the Georges with success. | Carpentier troupe, imitated the work Cutien has never been really|of the» beautiful Georges Friday forced to extend himself, but he'll} night and lost @ decision to Irish have to show something to beat! Johnny Curtain of Jersey City at Darcy. If he gets over the Port-/the West New York Athletic club. Jander he will be in line for some| Curtin knocked the Frenchman Feal shots here and the promoters! down in the second. can begin scouting the Coast for new | Opponents for him. Bercot Returning to Seattle Sunda: Come Up This Way | Dode Bercot, Seattle boven Pete Daley, an Indian lightweight |is returning Sunday from his suc. of California, who hasgbeen one of! cessful invasion of Calif, the main event battlers in the Francisco and Oakland four-round game for some time, jto meet Leonard, and the winner will be pitted against Dave Shade, Curtain Victor ‘ornia rings. | | | Mickey Walker./nas been up to the standyrd in He has had | Welterweight champion, has agreed | every detail Boston fans have lifted him to the pedestals ef iolatry formerty occupied by Speaker, Hooper and Lewis when thee outfieiding notables cayorted at Fenway park Great Golf Is Dished Up in Arizona Meet HANDLER, Ariz, Jane 21 What is believed to be a rec- ord was set here rece when Charley McArthur, playing in the Southwestern golf championship, beat par on 77 holes during the course of the tournament McArthur’s victory over Dr. | ank Jordan in the semi-finals de golf history here. They both San | Bercot won every start in the South) had 70s for 18 holes and were tied | but one, being held to a draw byjat match play. is heading this | yack sitver, the San Francisco star.| at Both scored eagles the 19th hole. McArthur took way. Indian fighters in the ring are vane partionlarty "tek ‘Sass feg,| His biggest triumph was a four-janother eagle at the 20th, which skin battler jround decision over Joe Benjamin|was good enough to beat Jordan's 8 liast ‘Tuesday in Los Angeles. . | par. Lacrosse Game Here Saturday With Vancouver HE Vancouver, B. C., amateur lacrosse team will meet the Se- attle aggregation in the University of Washington stadium next Satur- day afternoon, in the third lacrosse contest of the season here, Altho the local club has been beaten by its two other rivals, in- terest in the Canadian sport is high here, and a big crowd is expected to turn out Saturday to see the con- test. HAS been a long while since the Middle West produced such a gal- axy of notable hurdiera as showed their wares on the cinders this sea- son. Big Ten universities boasted such chaps as Brookins and Crawford, Towa; Kinsey and Johnson, Illinois; Snyder and Guthrie, Ohio State, and Hubbard and Loomis, Michigan. Here were eight timber-toppers who could cover the barriers in close to record time. " ble, Missouri star, another real ‘The local team will hold a prac- pny Chant: tice Sunday morning at 10:30) in Brookins, Iowa had the best low o'clock on the Lower Woodland) nurdier yet developed in the West. grounds. A complete turnout 48) The Hawk ts the present holder of expected. the world’s record for the event— 23 1.6 seconds, He hung up that | mark in 1923, breaking the old record established by Kraenzlein in 1898. Brookins is also a good quarter-miler, and has gone the distance In 50 flat. Crawford, a team-mate, is a high hurdler who confines his activities to the 120-yard event. In the season just closed he has won Iowa yaany into, double in the 12th inning which lowed Washington to win from the Mackmen, % to 2. Lightnin’ John Watson treezed ‘em by | points. the Hraves yenterday and the Giantehad| Kinsey, Illinois, was the best high Ifttle difficulty winning, 6 to "9 Young got four hi >” | hurdle performer in the Middle West ‘Then there was Kee-| \Mid-Western Colleges Had Great Season for Hurdlers this campaign. the unknown, From the ranks of Insey stepped into the limelight to defeat the great Johnson, a team-mate, who in 1923 waa considered a world-beater. Snyder and Guthrie, Ohio State, were both stellar men. The former copped the high hurdles at the Penn relay games, but could only place third in the Western Conference meet. Guthrie placed in the low bar- riers. Hubbard and Loomis made a great pair for Michigan. Hubbard runs the 120-yard barriers and Loomis the fur- long event. Hubbard, while ranking with Johnson and Snyder, was kept out of the Big Ten hurdles, being used in the 100-yard dash instead. And in that event, to the surprise of the experts, the colored boy ran off with first place in 9 4-5 seconds. Keeble, pupil of the famous Bob Simpson, world's champion high hurdler, al#o had an excellent season, and with a bit more experience is apt to make them all hustle. The high hurdles are his specialty. Mid-Western sport has developed some great timber-toppers in the past, but this has been its most bountiful season. This shows Harold Osbori ne, of University of Illinois, champion high jumper of America, at the topmost effort of his jump, Osborne's body has assumed an almost horizontal position and is seen literally rolling over the bar. in this country, however, pr French Olympic officials question this style, Critics ronounce it perfect. This shows Oxborne’s finishing form in the high jump, an acrobatic lunge that suggests a somersault rather than a leap. Osborne. does not land in an upright position. As the picture shows, he alights on his hands and left foot, after the Californi® manner. Across the Atlantic they say this is not only deucedly bad form, but illegal. lOsborne May Be Barred in Jumping Form OSTON, June 21.—It is generally, concetled that only one thing can prevent America from winning the running | France for | \high jump in the Olympiad th is summer at Paris, That one thing is the possible disqualification of Harold | Osborne, Mid-Westerner,, who recently ieaped to a world re- cord of 6 feet 844 inches. | Osborne employs a “hip roll” in clearing the bar, followed | by an almost head foremost downward dive, a style popular Many Olympic Athletes Ill On } BULLETIN | ABOARD 8. 8, AMERICA, dune 21—The American Olym- ple team has developed a sick list of more than a score, but none of the athletes is seriously iil. Charley Paddock and Loren Murchison, sprinters, are among the late additions to the hos- pital list. i Washington Net Pair Finalists in Net Tourney HILADELPHIA, June 21.—wal- lace Scott, University of; Wash- ington, and Wallace Johnson, Phila- |delphia, were to meet in the finals lof the Middle-State tournament at the Philadelphia Cricket club here this afternoon. Scott and Bob Hesketh, the Wash- ington doubles team, meet Johnson and Pearson, in the finaly for the men’s doubles title today, also, Berlenback Stops Jaffe in Seventh NEW YORK, June 21,—Paul Ber- lenbach added another knockout to his string in Brooklyn last night, eliminating Knockout Jaffe in the 7th round. It is the second time Jaffe has taken the count in the seventh from Berlenbach, ‘The Indians took another hitch out of the Detroit pennant hopes by slamming out an 11 to % victory. The tail-end Phillies showed some spirit yesterday and Brooklyn sut- fered under a 10 to | whipping. While Glenn Wright, Pirate shortatop, | was clouting out two singles, a triple CCER football is perhaps the and a double, the Pittsburg won from Cincinnati, 9 to 4. ; ; j S| most truly international of all modern sports. Texan Equals This was strikingly demonstrated Paddock’s Own at the Olymplé games earlier thi . month. Spring Record BY FRANK, GETTY Instead of the United States, | Great Britain and Frange monopoliz- EW ORLEANS, J 21—Joe ymple socce Chaeney of Howie Pavhe hey ling victories in the Olympic Feel fage, Texas, recently equaled hailey | competition, we found what fort ge, Texas, y ea arley fighting it out in the countries t semi-finals and finals? Holland—Sweden — Switzerland ~ Paddock’s world record for the 100 meters in the Olympic tryout at New Orleans. The time was 104-5 seconds, which | Uruguay! incidentaliy broke the southern ree: With the possible exception of ord of 11 seconds Held by “Monk’| Sweden, none of these countries Simmons since 1910. will cut much of a figure in the} remainder of the games. Neither will Czecho-Slovakia, nor the Irish Free State, nor Bulgaria, Yot these countries furnished soccer teams that were in the running after those of the United States and France had been eliminated. was in almost unbellev- w the track Was sOREY. The able time race A defent has its solaces Pad-| dock, for instance, knows now that a fourth placer gets a better view of the finish than the winner, NE reagon for the truly interna- tional scope of soccer is ita sim- plicity. It is played on a level field, the object being to Kick a ball be- tween two posts and beneath a third. ven men on a side and) that is about all there is to the game. Different nations may develop different technique; somé may use thelr heads like fect or thelr fect like heads, and work up a tricky passing game, but, after all, there is the ball, and the single idea of the game is to work it down the field nome way and kick it thru that goal, Probably this slmplicity, more than anything else, accounts for the fact that the game is played, and played well, in every country, The Swiss could scarcely be expected to hold their own in deep-sea diving, and pole vaulting j# thus far a lost art in Soviet Russia, but in every land there is some level sward and Fee ere Tay LIS TP a a, ee ; Soccer Football Is a Real International FOUR SMALL NATIONS TAKE RANKING IN OLYMPIC GAMES some boys and men willing to get out and kick a ball afound. HIS four countries that outlasted all others in Olympia elimina- tion matches and came down to the final tests—Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden and Holland-—showed differ. ent styles of play, different qualifi- cations of championship caliber, The Swiss team was the best at the short game, dribbling and pass- ing, feinting and at trick plays. Yet the Uruguayans wore them to a frazzle in the finals and beat them handily, 3 to 0. Sweden's big husky team was de- feated by the diminutive Swiss in the semi-final, and Holland lost to Uruguay in a game which was vain- ly protested, Sweden then beat Hol- land, and the final standing was: 1, Uruguay, 2, Switzerland. 4. Sweden. 4, Holland, on the Coast and for that rea- }son known in athletic circles as the California jump. American critics and officials have made a study of Osborne's form and are of the opinion that, it is perfect- ly legal. ‘Their reasoning is based jon the broad and sensible theory that any form 1s all right as long jas the bar {# not touched. “If Oxborng cares to risk a broken jneck in making an acrobatic man- jeuver out of the high jump, that is his affair,” assert the bewhixkered | American dignitaries, ‘It is certain- |ly not our neck.” The gentlemen in Paris, however, may not be so hard boiled about the matter, They may urge that Mons. Osborne be restricted in his strenuous | Ways, for his own personal safety— |not to mention the safety of Buro- pean records, They may, in short, insist that he jump either according to accepted forms or not at all. The American Olympic committee haw received word from France that Osborne's style will not be protested “if it is legitimate.” This is akin to saying that if we Uke It we'll say so, and if we don’t | we'll say plenty. The situation is at least interest. ing. Whatever action is finally tak- en Osborne's taxk is not being made any easier by the constant fear that he faces possible disqualification in the Olympiad test. The French of- ficials should study Osborne's form in a preliminary jump and make a definite ruling on it before the sports carnival opens. The high jump Is one event in | which America hag enjoyed a con- sistent monopoly On the other hand, he who laughs last may have heard it before, Game HE Uruguayan flag was unfurled from the flagstaff at Colombes stadium, and the ittle Swiss captain called on his tired men for a cheer for the victors, Then the teams shook hands, held a triumphant pro- cession, after which the South Americans fell upon their opponents and kissed them vigorously. Old-timers said they never re- member seeing a soccer team that showed the class of this Uruguayan organization, unless it were the old English “Corinthians* of 1899, They are figured better than the best pro- fessional teams of Burope. HICH reminds ua that the only difference between soccer in the many lands representéd at the Olympics thia year is in the mattor of professionalism, Some countries aré more lenient in their attitude towards the line of demarcation than others, Indians Face Big Test of Season PAGE 5& ity to Invite Crews Here} Next Week in Series With Seals Seattle Club Tangles With Champions on Home Lot; Frisco Has Dropped Series at Home This Year, Tying One With Sacramento; Scouts Are Following Bill Plummer; Ray Rohwer Is Pounding Ball; Other Gossip | HE Seals next! | The series that Seattle bugs have been waiting for since the Seattle Redskins jumped into the fight for the Coast league flag, will be on the boards beginning Tuesday. It’s the first meeting of San Francisco and Seattle and the battle will be waged right i the Seals’ back yard. } The champions haven't lost a series at home this year, Sacramento getting a tie in eight games. opposition invading the Valencia st. park. “Red” Killefer has his team playing remarkable ball on the road; in fact it’s the first Seattle team that has come even close to breaking even away from the home heath. With any kind of pitching the Indians will give the jclub is hitting and fielding jlike it should. The pitching, ‘however, is still somewhat wobbly. After this big series, Seatt re turns home for a two-week et The Tribe should knock over Lo Angeles and then comes San Frat cisco for its first visit of the year If the Seals and Indians are bat tling for the lead at that time, too, local attendance records will be |nmashed, as the Seals are the big | gest drawing card in the circuit and |with a team capable of giving them & fight, Seattle fans will turn out in | droves. (SCOUTS FOLLOWIN' BILL PLUMMER For three weeks, Joe Engle, Wash- ington scout, and Joe Devine, Pitts. burg gumshoe expert, have been fol fowing the Seattle club in hopes of seeing Bill Plummer work The young righthander has been out of the game for some time with a sore arm, due to a torn ligament tn pitehing elbow. Plummer pitches his curve ball and | |nerew ball with a wristamapping mo- | |tion and his arm must be O, K, be fore he can take his turn again. _YELLOWHORSE 1S LET OUT Chief Yellowhorse, who should be one of the best righthanders in this Jeagtie, has passed to the Texas loop. Dabbling with’ firewater has caused his release. He is one of the fastest men that has been in this league in 4 Jong time, but he was of little use to the Benators because he wouldn't jntay away from the primrose path He goes to the Fort Worth club. |. Yellowhorse, who owns a big oil | well in Oklahoma, gets lly check from the government and is one of the wealthiest ball players jin the game, KREMER AND JACOBS STILL WINNING Ray Kremer and Elmer Jacobs are still pitching wonderful ball In the National league. Kremer has been going great for Pittsburg, while Jacobs in rated next to Grover Alex- ander on the Chicago Cub staff. They're real pitchers, both of them, and they had no business in this | league. Both possess excellent curve balls and mixed with their intelligence, experience and control, the hook is winning for them. HOLLOCHER PROVES SHORTSTOP TRUTH ‘The old, old baseball truth that 2 |team can't win without a good man lat second base is proved again by the Chicago Cubs. When Charley Hollocher left the team last year it floundered around, but when he came back this spring and paired up with George Grantham the Bruins started to climb, and right now are a real menace to the New York Giants. The men at second base will come pretty close to making or breaking your ball club. BRADY AND KILDUFF It will be a battle of second base- men in San Francisco during the In- dian-Seal series. Senttle has one of the best second sackers in the minors in Clift Brady, while Pete Kilduff has been far and away the best keystone man in this company for two years. . They are the class of the Coast league and it should be a treat to see such master workers in action. WILLIAMS KICKS THRU \ Carl Williams is delivering nicely for the Indians. The big right-hander has won his last two starts and has been effective as a relief hurler. While he hasn't as much stuff as some of the other deceivers, Wil- Mams has control, which is the real secret of good pitching. And he's the hardest working ball player In the league. Here's something else, too: Wil- Hams is the pest fielding pitcher in the league and when he's out on the hill the Indians have five infielders, Williams is a good hitter to boot and helps his own cause along by hitting that baseball. 400 last season. GREGG COULD WIN IN MAJORS RIGHT NOW Voun Gregg could win in the ma- jors right now, The big left-hander has as much stuff as ever and what a relief man he would make for some classy big league club. With his stuff Gree can step in and buze tem by the best hitters they cun trot out. Strikeouts in the tight spots save ball games. Cliff Durant Has a New Schooner Cliff Durant, coast sportaman and auto driver, has Jaunched his new schooner The Aurora will fly the colors of the San Franetseo Yacht club, Coulter Is Named Iowa Track Leader Chan ¥, Coulter of Towa City has been elected captnin of the 1926 Uni. versity of lowa track team, He will [be a senior next year, big month. | Williams hit an even | well known Pacific | Aurora, | | Hot Action in Net Match The camera Restrepo, welt jracket star, just slashing overhand return in his match againat A. A. Fyzce during | the recent Paris championships. man snapped F. R known European as he made a Speed to Be | Curbed Again | in Auto Race IT \DIANAPOLIS, June 21.—With the almost certain 100-miles-an- |hour average for the winner of the 18th annual 600-mile international sweepstakes next May 30th, James \A. Allison, president of the Indjanap- olis Motor Speedway company, an- nounces that for the 14th race in 1926, the piston displacement maxi- jmum will be 91% cuble inches. This is in line with the policy of jthe Indianapolis Motor Speedway |company, the maximum engine size |having been reduced four times since the initial race in 1911. All jof the details and specifications for the race have not been worked Jout, but the announcement !s made lalmost two years in advance that the engineers may have an oppor tunity to perfect the small engine. The minimum weight for the 1926 race, for the car, without driver, oll, water or gas, is to be 1,206 pounds, the same stipulation as is in the entry blank for 1925 for cars with engines of this size, The history of the 500-mile race, from an engineering standpoint Is reflected in the stock car which the owner drives in the conduct. of jhis business and in the pursuit of recreation, Back in 1911, when the 500-mile race was born, the engines were almost “square, which is to say that the bore ‘was almost the same as the stroke. The 1911 and 1912 races were for engines of 600 cubic inches or less, which developed leas power and speed than the en- gines of 1923 and 1924, consumed many times the gasoline and Jubri- cating oil and were bulky and heavy pieces of machinery. In the year 1918 the displacement was reduced 25 per cent to 450 cubic inches or less, which maintained until 1915, when it was reduced one-third, to a maximum of 300 cubic inches, which was not reduced until after the war, the 300 class racing in 1915, 1916 and 1919. In 1920, 1921 and 1922 the maximum was 183 cubic inches and in 1923 was re- duced to the present 122 cubic jinches. Otherwise the Seals have licked all of the Seals a terrific fight as the Negro Welter Boxes Harper Here Tuesday 1, PEP WEBSTER, California negro welterweight, does as well jin the ring against Bobby Harper Tuesday night at the ball park as he does in his gymnasium workouts, the local pride will have to step fast for six full six rounds if he hopes to cop the verdict. The colored boy looks like he can make things tough for anyone his own weight. Fans who are Present at Tues- day evening's en- tertainment can get a good line on what Harper can do against Dode_ Bercot. Webster fights quite similar to Bercot, a south- paw, awkward, but able to hit with either hand. HARPER Harper and Webster will begin tapering of in their gym work Sunda Both boys are said to be in the best of shape The other half of Tuesday's main event will be between Jimmy Darcy, | Portland middleweight, and Freddy | Cullen, the local luminary. Cullen |has been going great lately, and most of the fans predict that he will win from the veteran Darcy. The Portlander, whose real name is Valley Trambitas, has had a4 Jot of fights and isn’t lacking in exper- jence. The four-rounder that will. pre- cede the double main event will bring together Freddy Mack, hard- socking local lightweight, and Roy Small, clever Tacoman. Mel Berg, Everett light heavy- weight, boxes Jack Lee, a newcomer from Oakland. Chick Tabit and Jack Cheslock, welterweights, are down for the opener. Nate Druxman, who is staging the show, has moved the ring nearer the stands and has made a number of other improvements at the ball park. Sportsmen to Picnic Sunday Beyond Renton ‘WO HUNDRED members of the Seattle Sportsmen's association are going on a trip to the woods north of Renton on the Swan lake road Sunday to cut greens for the Sportsmen's show in July, The party is leaving from the — corner of Second ave. and Pike st. at 7 a. m. and will make camp about two miles north of Renton, n It will be a regular picnic party — and everybody is urged to bring saws and axes to help in the cutting of the greens. Big Polo Games A on in Vancouver Vancouver sport fans are expected to see a great polo contest Monday afternoon when the Royal Canadian mounted police team tangles with the Kamloops aggregation at the Brighouse race track. They are in for another treat Wednesday \when the Brijish Co. lumbia title will be settled with the Vancouver team meeting the Kam- loops aggregation. EARLY SERVICES An early morning church service for young tennis players has been instituted by a vicar at Hampstead, one of the great centers of the sport in England. FIRST REGATTA IN 1873 The first national amateur rowing regatta was held at Philadelphia in. 1873. EW YORK, June 21.—Ball players have been known to eat themselves out of the big league. Some have talked them- selves out of the majors. Mike Gazella, who made the = spring trip with the New York Yankees, enjoys the unique distinction of being the only player in captivity to finance himself out of the big show. Gazella, a former Lafayette col- lege star, joined the Yankees in June of last year, He was carried by the club thruout the season, altho he got into only a couple of games for a few innings, When the Yankees got into the world series the veteran stars on the club decided that a present of about $500 would be enough for Gazella, Mike Gazella Financed Himself Out of Majors The college reerult rebelled at | | (membea sores tevapesouiens vil a yreinta etoortutie so small a sum and took the mat- ter up with Manager Huggins, who agreed with him. The two decided that about $1,500 would be a fair split for Gazella, The regulars agreed to it. Then after everything seéméd settled, some kind friend informed Gazella that he had been with the Yankees long enough to be entitled to a full share, under the baseball laws governing the dispo- sition of world series prize money, Gazella proceeded to take the matter up with Judge Landis, who sustained his plea for a full share, Thus the Yankee regulars, who at first intended to give Gazella only $600, were compelled by the. Judge to slip him a full share call. ing for better than $6,000,