The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 6, 1925, Page 16

PAGE 16 First Washington Crew Turnout on January 12\ 40 Varsity, |About Fights Paavo Nurmi Is Running « on Indoor Track Tonight d Fight Penta New Test for Finnish First Time Nurmi Ha Rival, in Two Event: BY FRANK 6.—The tes Ne=* YORK, Jen. 6.—The er that ever pulled on a spiked shoe, makes his first att of es .|can appearance in two races 4 nst this country’s | 1 t i ol It is not that which is extraordinary, however; it saloof i the| Nurmi, who never ran on ard track until he reached eur: far New York less than a montl will attempt to negt fis Western } tenn t ¢ th tM ay a steep turns of the track at Madison S« Three boxing arenas, two out competition h en who ave bee used door stadiums and the Broad the stages of thruout their careers, . will be meetiz Lloyd Hahn and others in a special mile in on the turns will count 2 can work his way thru tl way theater were some of the famous world’s championship fights of two de : cudes. ago. considerabk doled ” —-» it will be one of those at Brent ava fs. tnt ot as 8-1 StQve League | tion write “ : oo ee al wer s N thos "ag ll baa ullivan W tched Ring Stars |“ *. + ; ~ ; ked A ' ‘ Daite « ° brea s . fomeys |=. i tans DRE | NURMI WILL RUN ‘ b t Ae “* * TWICE TONIGHT ' F . NHE } Noy la H ’ kt Leo Larrivee, Walt and others in rm. will appear the k a in wh ais en Nurmi e ) u wards a I remember seeing Ketchel, reiig t who was never considered more t seat than a preliminary boxer in tho Butte, a ng fellow with 7 ; wonderful physique and an in = domintable belief in himself, * eh agen om swagger down the street to the | ¥? © r Bh eggs Piss training quarters ; esstine ; ; There may be m hitch In the delivery - a e ' naw r Th @ ey trainis ta, ft «* NURMI DOES HIS OWN TRAINING showed the r then of fh Yale Boxing Team NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Am Ketchel Went to California herr 2 1 Ketchel went to| Yale in 10 boxing matchere here|from 3,000 ‘ Ks March 30 are three with titles, Thejnext summer to break is ea ted te it|Marauls of Clydesdale, the Emir of rt with . then the world's |Ira, Viscount Lord Knebworth and |ov At mid ch and nobody |#¢ven other Britishers will face the rin the Garde r "i Eli battlers in three-round matche ) t They were matet . Rit 1 t Ketchel stoped .. Johnny Leonard Wins |. : 4 Otym } He afterwards licked him again in € r t t 1 hin eee Over Frank Ritchie beg epeup lth pets “Ketchel was made. He Knocked out both of the Sulli- Allente Races. beat Ritola van twins, Mike and Jack, and aa wee “gaged won fight after fight until he 1 rs fe lost to Billy Papke by a knock- Aiererént kind out in Los Angeles in 12 rounds. He stopped Papke in 11 rounds conbaa aa in their next meeting, regaining - 4 ; ; his title, which he held until his GIBBONS VS. I a Bade , ntimely death in 1910. Outside peti fk RO ke Reap ‘ of that loss to Papke Ketehel qommy Gibbons, St htaee th i f lost only one other fight after ||." i aOaet haba iat = ; ioe he had won the middleweight wai : crown, Jack Johnson, a heavy- weight, stopping him in 12 Athlete in Manhattan Tried Indoor Game, He Will Face Willie Ritola, His Countryman and Greatest He Is His Own Trainer greatness will velous Finn, probably the greatest distance \y and tricky runner (Ohio State Coach Here | Lightning Left Punch Is Leonard's Chief vhat t BANTAM MIX ON TONIGHT against these hatchet-throwers in a quest Charley Weinert Is Winner by Knockout | rs R ya R proof of Leonard's great skill and ring smartness is fc nd hi onard stowed Kilba | a terrific battle on th he next time they met Leonard knocked him out in a elght r roun rounds. Joubtedly tt i of al ti =r |OUR BOARDING HOUSE after he won t BY AHERN| No I nternational Horse Butte May “Come Back” Mew er BROTHER \ ger the ee of old, the a HERE, TLL Zo Ae eer.| NoTso HARSH covery of a new copper mine ha 4 ae J brought the price of ore up and THE IDEA OUT OF His MDEAR~EGAD~ HEAD THAT “THis IS A things are on the boom gain “; REMEMBER, the Montana city, accor to | REST NITAR ce ahha , ivan, ‘Legalized box EST SANITARIUM | JAKE 1S MY thorized in the state, but the law| [| THERE MUST BE A demands fiat tne reent of the et “4 SHORTAGE OF HELP pce! he pald over to disa } veterans, an. : it this percentage | om i Hic cry, oR, trimmed, as expected to, Butte ELSE HE WoULDT may come back as the big fight BE COMING on BROTHER !~ BESIDES, HE IS | MISSION FoR~THE/ city of the West shia tym c ’ Over in Butte they regard 1 —_HERE le c Meets Hood, the socking little bantam, 4 ba who fights Vic Foley here to- BUSINESS night, as the best prospect DEAL! = Butte has turned out since Leo | Benz, the middleweight of a few Fears ago; whe wis ‘really s | great fighter. | If La Hood has the stuff he may / join the ranks of the Thompsor the Benzes and the Ketchels, wi have made ring history for E Mickey Walker to Weigh 155 for Title Bout) (otal YORK, Jan. 6—When| y Walker, the weiter. weight champion, mests Mike Mc Tigue, lightheayyweight titleholde at Newark, Wednesday night, will h around 155 pounds. Walker is taking on as much welght as he fely Walker, to win dhe igh it title, must cither knock M Tigue out or win on a foul Mr. Coolidge is pictured wearing shiis on the White House grass. This shows what will happen to man who eats pic for breakfast. SOME BENCH! NEXT S DAKE 1S COMING HERE TO-TEST WEDDING, a HE WAG EVEN SITTING Down WHEN HE STOOD UP FOR “TH' When those lyhooed it w jnational re |were and maybe they did, But they| Before Epinard came to this coun- > proved that they are not fa try last summer, it was evident that the hor t had toe do there was no outstanding equine ONLY COMING Fi HERE ON A rible riding that in the colt’s last|mile, & mile and a quarte appearance hia regular jockey,/mile and a half. Tho French colt, Haynes, was taken off, and the |it will be remembered, finished sec- mount given to a local rider. jond in all three races—a better z javerage than was mado by any of |3 at Belmont park made the handi Tiger Flowers Wins p of indifferent jockeyship unsur- mountable. the, third of the three special races | Atlanta for which it Such things, of course, could not|in the fourth round hero last night. jbe foreseen. But what now can be|The referee stopped tho fight to foreseen is that the wear and tear} save Britten from too much punish- of travel, changes in climatic con-|ment. Flowers had the best all of ditions, the possibility of acoldent|the way and the unfair handicap of racing an invader against half a dozen of | JOHNSON STRIKEOUT RECORD Jour best, any one of whom may| Walter Johnson has brought veo an exceptionally good day,| strike-out record to tie amazing to. hile the presence of the rest sim-| tal of 3,216 for the 18 years of bis serve to hamper the visitor— | car In all probability that ree things make international ord in even s ake events a dublous adjunet to] 59 home run. | American racing HE principal reason, howev Left Jab Has Put Leonard on Throne of Lightweight: Trade; Keeps Opponents Off Balance; Leonard Is Smartest of All Present-Day Fighters BY JOE WILLIAMS written of the fistic prowe however, may surpri yu. Leonard thinks more of his left jab than any other punch he uses, And remember a jab is not a particularly awesome weapon. It is, relatively, » bunt in baseball is to the home run Yet the cha ri d by man eight since of Gans and Lavigne—insists a left to the face has made and kept him champion Li Leonard Talks at's to be He is off bal. are scoring ar “Here's another argument. When jabbing you put your glove in the other fellow's eyes. You partly obscure his vision. Literally you are fighting a blind man, This leaves an opening to slip across a heavy punch, a hook or a cross, which may end the fight right then and there. ack of ba t of all 5 workma fighte quality is shown ers his his body to the right he length 1 width shoulder, and in this way is alway’s the plus length of a nh an oppon: y ne uff, but it r mart. A lot of fight it Here's another “feature about Leonard's fighting style that may interest you, He always uses a Jab on a fighter who has been knocked down. “The first thing I do when a fellow gets up after going down is to ‘cross him.’ I know he is expecting a heavy finishing punch. I don't gi it to him. Instead, I jab his head back. Nine times out of 10 he will drop his hands, And then comes the real open- ing for a knockout.” ow good Le him with Gans. Bu was at his best. It has Tat gNelson, i MoFadden. W ank Erne, have done Real Proof of Champ’s Smartness ind in against an opponent the next time he the title from Fredd Welsh. He fought the 1 Leonant scored a knockout. his troubles. When they met'sevéral years late in a second test way in three coast In a four-rounder, closing year there will be no such; been no outst ernational : races lsh « races were being bal-/the best in 8 customary to were fine things for sp that Papyrus was the best in 1922. rt| French turf has produced no ere: ey helped improve inter-|\bred with a press agent equal to tions. Perhaps they | Epinard’s cean voyaging champion to measure strides with | The finicky Papyrus and the n- the visitor. Various trainers picked Epinard were victims of bad | horse ey thought worthy of the st Donogt it 1 task v being the most popular | lidn't try on the English | selection. As it turned out, it took Imont park in 16 and|three different horses to beat Epin- ard was hampered by such ter-|atd in threo different races over a and a HEN the plates worn by Papyrus | is American opponents. over the slimy mile and a halt hoof, not, r| BOSTQN, Jan. 6.—Tiger Flowers, came. |ped Billy Britten of Kansas City A Los Angelos surgeon Dempsey's nose will stand a heavy Brooklyn to Get McCann 75 Yearling and Poole? MenExpected It That Coach Callow Expected to Return Wednesday; Intensive Work Early Beaver Infielders (Husky Crew Stroke Back SOCCER MANGLED Stock in ‘uv Idaho Vandals - Beat Whitman O MUCH has be of Benny " . . 5 S Leonard, champion of the lightweights, the commentator | year In First Game finds himself up against it to unreel new material. This, tSITY y It takes some basketball FOURNIEK y the greatest light- LE AVE DODG hman led the ata) With Zach Wh hile fouling was light send him on to F MORRIS NOW TACOMA PRO BY ALEX C. ROSE veteran Scotch pro. , has been chosen to fill |the berth at the Fircrest Golf club, |! | Tacoma, and will take up next month, which were vacated sev weeks ago thru jeorge Turnbull. The new Fircrest profess grand-nephew of the “grand old man the second period 08 55 the second half, Penwell at guard going in for Nedros # Whitman, Buck # and Fry at forwrad were out first period ended with Idabe SUMMARY w the death of 10 professiona pool Golf club, where this latest to the Northwest professic learned the game in all its t According to advices fr the selection {made from a long list ot appl leant | from all over the country. The newcomer comes Vandal Five _ Has Success °, Leonard wasn't called on| « Gans had to face, men u ke Soin Langford, | on Journey me ITY of IDAHO, Mose, player and expert on course instruc: victories out " He is leaving the Butler County in 10-round fights. The first two went the limit. In | club and his construction and greens mM battled Johnny Kilbane, then champion of tho feathers, in 1913! keeping knowledge hi ounds, Willie Ritchie gave Leonard | new one: . nine of the holes his eye tight. But/are just being built and will be ready r play this spring. Prior to his engagement with the} Country club, Morris professional at |tothian Country Town and Country and Louisville Country tive games by scores of 56 to # took two victorit from the Coeur d'Alene Ellis, 59 to won two samt from Leavenworth All Stars, 32 2, and ; Butler County first and lat Race for cee Season“: | games played on the | Vandals lost nding French or Eng: | Hiktio stake th champion of the 1924 flat rac. pinahd {redvand failed. which won the Epsom derby, ts rae and, any more aa ° 8. and to the ; | Dakota Aggies, 30 to 33. The bat ketball squad was gone 12 da& leaving Moscow on December 19 am] returning on December 31. MATCH WINNER} the Seattle Golf club | champion, scored a two-up and one| |to play victory against Jack Bal- | liger in the 36-hole final match for | the President's cup at the North End | jlinks Sunday Tho remarkably who made the trip are: Guy Patt | well, Moscow; John Miles, George Green, Culdesac; Natl Ralph Ericks™ KS a Stellman, . Harold Lamphere, Moseot z dros of Moscow, and Waltef BOXING TONIGHT CRYSTAL POOL Second and Leners Ausplees Nation: Club, Ine. Nate Druxman, Pres. VIC FOLEY nm Bantam Weight Champion DIXIE LA HOOD Intermountain Bantam Weight mplon fine shooting of Stein in the morning round was 8 too | good for his opponent, {the day's play with a six-up handi- On the outward half of the} second round Stein gained what he| ‘a comfortable but he needed everything he had, as Ballinger hit up a fast gait on the and made the going y interesting until he lost the| |thought was home stretch, Sunday's victory makes the sec- Jond successive year that § won the President's trophy. Battle by Knockout | ®""») Bolcom was and Jim Stirrat will donate the sil- negro middleweight, stop.|Y¢fWare for Sunday's matéh, which the 1924 competitive | was part of » Andrews and Fred Me-| Kenaio ever settle their argument in the finals of the high handicap com- the 1924 program at the North End Will_be completed. Chick ‘Meshan Signs at N. Y. University | afer than Babe Rut h's| Meehan, who Sunday resigned as| Syracuse's football coach, signed to coach at New York unie insists | versity, it was announced lat night. Altho Meehan’s t Hout Starts 8:30 P.M at Droxman& venue; Joe Dike Store, 1M "aim Puralg Aust ue i 1620 Ninth Avent why We will not seo a similur'blow. And we find ourselves won event this year is that there has dering exactly what he means, Kingside 82.20, 1 made known, G 1 Admission $1. ho is to get $10,000 yearly, ws understood that ) rowing ¢ Washing iuad of ome trem aw the Note game and & ay, and he work: ia & his om sisted fn the again s year oe to replage graduated ie California & IDAHO, Moe University heir fire rd, in his firs the star of will and tally: for a total @ rd, was Te eplaced by L two substitutes ros 2, Miles & Free 5, Paut rows, at ° that is | the tes y of Idabe has just Tf barnstorming t08? Bibytic, Coach Mackilh Ha ig _ defeated the Sand Hickey I it two consecl> BiBo won from , 83 to & by the Idaho ip when tht A. A. Cot Vandal squad os > hiette