The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 4, 1924, Page 11

~ yonpay, AUGUST 4, 19 BIG D Rickard Expects Crowd She Has Her of 100,000 at Battle Luis Firpo Already Is Training at the Spa, Charging Followers One Dollar a Head to Watch Him Work; Wills Works Out on Long Island BY FRANK GETTY ry EW YORK, Aug. 4.—Seats went on sale Monday for the Wills-Firpo fight at Bogles’ Thirty Acres ‘on Sep- jember 11 and from the advance demand there isn’t 3 doubt in the world but that the bout will draw more spec tators than any previous encounter in which a title was}, pot at stake. Tex Rickard already is talking of squeezing 100,000 fans jnto the Jersey City stadium. Thus Harry Wills, whom dy inst little Bartley Madden over in Brooklyn a couple} months back, gets his} - a | ! at a big fight and big ,: |Marquis Helps |. va x | Gibbons Train myriad LONDON, Aug. 4.—Titled fists ring, are mixin, jabs with Tommy Gib ladder || bons, who tg training here for his |] cham-|| bout with Id Aug. 9 money after all. despite The dale and 4 | | Doug’ fest won and heir of too far ah k It is rather too ut} | te Duke and Duchess of Hamil s winner with any certa we wou from this distance a sparring partner = } » “Pirpe. The marquis is considered one ‘The big South American already! | o¢ the best boxers in Scotland. jas begun his colorful training gunta at the Spa, losing no time | behind a wicket that * . BT det aptsce from thew Waterfront in Tie sho would watch him work out With W. F. Jahn) Wills is out at Southampton,/ Pecause they had the punch in & Ls 1, rounding slowly into shape. {pinch, the Waterfront A. C. can Preliminary betting makes the/dlame its holding the W. F. Jahn| gen an even money choice. But/Co. team to a 2 to 2 tie in the with what Wills showed and failed | game for the City league champion f show against Madden, there|ship, Sunday afternoon. The Jahn gems every possibility that if Firpo |tossers took advantage of the! fea get himself into as good shape|Wuterfront’s boots, and got into ig he was against Dempacy, he/|the lead in early innings, But the “Geld be able to take all the biack |longshoremen came back and tallied me give and wear down and fiat-|im the fifth and ninth. The game jg bis man Within 10 rounds or so.) WAS called on account of time limit wed an unfortunate in-|, 12 other games in the City ee showed jleague, Hugh Baird's defeated Se Way to fight effectively at long! site Cap. & to 4, and the Union fae and to fight at all without) oi nosed out the Policemen, § ton, has joined the Aemrican as “th ed trick of holding and hitting. we & Firpo, on the other age: a | with that right of his. 5 } 3 i eal | Bellingham Elks 3 | Win in N. W. Loop Diamo! id Dust } BELLINGHAM, Aug. 4.—The ni Bellingham Elks defeated Sedro Wooley to 1, in a Northwest | league game Sunday atetay’s here, MeManas, Brewnle | at Sedro-Woolley, Everett defeated jome Fun in tbe |sicedelDonovan, 3 to 0, in = fast game played here. Ferguson twirl . ed nice ball for the winners, Inj és, Pirate, twirled the Dedgers another league game, Mount Ver be pebmission and Pittsburg went into t |non bested Stanwood, 9 to 1, at womd place by defeating Brooklyn 6 ianweed: | Fi iremen ' Win Close Game From Nippons | The Firemen defeated the Nippon A. C, 1 to.0,.in a. fast. game q jthe Semi-pro league yesterday. The | ih faning and amassed six runs, de- | lone tally was madg in the last of} ‘Cubs 19 to 2 the ninth. The Mail Advertisers | : hae [bested the Queen City Allstars, 15 jto 8, and Georgetown Merchants | had little trouble in trouncing their | old rivals, South Park, 9 to 2, and | land won from Boston AND AS TICKETS G II find well we rather wrote out of things after his poor showing] gir.” quartert THE SEATTLE STAR PA Harrison Johnston Shows Nebraska Wrestler p Makings of Great Golfer) ,, Boosted by Lewis Runs to Save Pride and fi Own Ideas of What to Eat!) 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Tilden, him Mike Paim, former Penn State star | competitions. He qualified in the if luck 1 always have in win-|steam, The crowd laughed all the| gies championsh ing Alfred pen tWo years ago at Skokie ms the sea at Hoylake, Walter | ning them. Almost before I knew harder Chapin, Jr, of Spri ishing strokes ahead of Frank nm ran an 18-foot on the| it I was watching the ball disappear| Kreider came thundering downthelin the finals after four sets, 2-4, aux, Ira Couch, Johnny Anderson home green to win the I » the cup stretch holding his pants with one 64, $6, 62 THE OLD HOME TOWN OUT OUR WAY WOT 00 YA “THiNK) OR MY PITCHERS MA ? AINT THEY SWELL? A FELLER WUZ “TEARIN OFF 4H’ CIRCUS POSTERS AN I GOT A NUFF “TMAKE MY ROOM iA wusT A BIT SSS DIZZY- | THINS 1S TH HoT SUN OR SOMETHIN — you Four Few ovER W017 + . — NO. DOUBT THE TWO CIGARS A CHICAGO DRUMMER GAVE STATION AGENT DAD KEYES HAD SOMETHING TODO WITH HIS GOING HOME 2 WHY MOTHERS GET GRAY Four HOURS BARLIER THAN USUAL TODAY _.copright 1901, by NEA Server, > “THE INTERIOR DECORATOR. E 11 O ON SALE FOR FIRPO-WILLS FIGH Sets New Half-Mile Mark Hard Fight in Tennis Match BY WILLIAMS dreve|the Supply Laundry walloped the City Sash and Door team, 10 to 4 }in the other games. | | bees | Kirkwood and Hagen Win in Exhibition NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—By turning jin.« best ball at 70, Walter Hagen, } British open champion, and Joe Kirkwood won an exhibition match from Mike Brady and Jack Dowling at the engineers’ course Sunday. Hagen and Kirkwood won, two to one. Jim Rice Signs | e to Help Wright Jim Rice, the former Columbia | rowing coach, who assisted Joe| Un {Wright at Pennslyvania the past | Bef Ridley, Seattle featherweight, | season, has been rp-engaged for next by his manager, Joe|season, according to an announce. in, has arrived in San Fran-| ment made in Philadelphia the other in search of bouts. day. WITH RUTH AT BAT faning—Grounded to pitcher. inning—Fanned. th inning—Doubied to right. ‘ Fanned. BY CONDO) ANS FORSNOON ou M & MY House. RRENTED IT To — Wece, tt LooKS Une SIXTY Forecasting Results THAT PROVES HOW A LITTLE SHRIMP WHO HAS NOTHING LIKES TO STRUT AROUND LIKE A PRIZE PEACOCK ATA BIRD SHOW = SUCH CRITTERS ARE ‘TOO DUMB "To REALIZE “THAT PRIDE COMES BEFORE «A FalL- MOM’N POP... 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