The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1925, Page 12

se | PA 1 Oregon Aggies Have Edae for Basketball Title endians on Washington Still Faces | | Ball Field | Hard Trip; Aggies Home Redskin Thorpe, | } Levi T atest } on Diamond; } Sockalexis, Bender, 3 it ar al BY BILLY EVANS a Le Jo . aa Washington Does Nice Comeback by Beating Oregon Saturday Night, 33 to 29, but Defeat at Corvallis to Aggies Hurt; Beavers Play Mainly at Home ete, Aggies } tive a argin held by the a comparatively ea face igh Corva chedult y of the season, too with Oregor Montana Idaho, » two, handed U be sailing along » defeat Huskies As it Wa 75, while th is O. A. ¢ is, \gg 800 ar d Washing East vs. West in Women’s Tourney at Pebble Beach EVANS cireus. Wr e the fans came out to se game, a m nore anxi alexis, D Chief Bender and Jim Thorpe were two other Indians who had a big following among the fans, Thorpe Drew Fans ex THORPE, while never a & ball playe ro than drew his salary at the gute A wonderful athlete, he started at Carlisle echool branches of spert. He was more at home on the gridiron track than the ball fiel At the 1912 Olympic Gteckholm, Sweden, Jim Thorpe was the outstanding star. He set a num ber of new record: After being crowned one of M MES. HUTCHINGS haa} * Is ENTERED MISS HOLLINS» TO PLAY in al even or | Bantam Title Has Changed Hands Often nk, ¥ greatest of Olymple v laurels because of professional charges. Itgseems that Thorpe had played tartan «soos, LEAVENWORTH mitted it and was force: | quish medals as well as records | oe WINNER 2 i AKING @ bad start in the Chief Bender was perhaps the M - ats ht idee greatest of ail the Indian ball as a. } ii players who have managed to st sa “ break into the majors. Bender Was Good "T was my good fortune to ump in the Am le during the years when Ben th baseball in a small Southern lea laurels, nabl r was at his I seriousty doubt if I ever called |* for “a smarter | ad a 1 of ity and with it remark wo natural ab able cunning, 3 His control of the ball was real uncanny. It was not unusual f et riv him to work a game without a base attle player on balls. In fact, It was the un- e Incomplete usual when he passed a man. |ahowed @ woeful luck of practice ‘A great student of the batters, | Quite a crowd turned out, but the Bender was nble to put his gre Sunbeams to gmanage 1 held control to the best possible advan to tage. If a batter had a weakness, Bender certainly played up to it Often he would tell certain bat- ters, who didn’t like a fast ball in side, to look for nothing else. Then he would proceed to throw them at that very spot. 5 minutes f the forma al of som: 1 their wu from, gbe t until Gibbons Withdraws’ as Light-Heavyweight NEW YORK, bons, Bt Paul [notify the New | mission taday th challen, |leaving t 2.27om Gib? National League Jubilee Stars | r YORK, Fet I know many a ball player who would start to feeling bad- ly the moment he would see Bender warming wp for the t he NEW i ht heavyweig’ y anne m Athletics. “1 oa » weight the leagne laaiponi more and to fight as.a|th nal i | heavyweight.” Gibbons said. am|Jublles celet Fans Liked Bender jalso going to tell the commissioners al wD ENDER was the typical Indian. |tnat 1 am prepared to’ meet Several: y ‘. He looked the part, the high | heavyweight who wants to claim the ran who cheek bones, swarthy complexion |championship when Jack Dempsey the origin and pearly white teeth. retires.” to an ‘the fans liked Bender. Announce- pee ee wilaking: the ment that he was to pitch always} Jimmy Blowin, thru the formality of approving the! iq brought out a large gathering. In-| bowling champion, achedule which already cidentally, the fans liked to josh} Jimmy Smith, & former | drawn. a him. ti Ider, in a ser 20 games No business of importance | 4 When he walked out on the ball month for premier honors. the program « field he was always greeted with 4 the wild war whoops. However, the ‘more the fans yelled, the better he | pitched. Unless angered because was formed ann schedule 1 magi remain I clubs In the lea for all down to meet has been waukeo, of some (Camp Favors name Todd’s and Renton Gene § Paavo Nurmi, the Superman of Athletics TA AVI y/ baba V URM! (UPM] ae eee | Nurmi Proves His Class in His Indoor Running BY ART CARLSON | Others From Old Country ——' Big 10 Men A few years ago Finland pro: duced another jonal run ner in Hans Kolehamainen. He copped three first places in the Olympic games at Stockholm in 1912, finishing ahead In the cross-country run and 5,000 and 10,000-meter canters, For a t he regarded as the king pin Fall Rapidly |... was Track Records teré a race “Br itons Had sors Dartm Nurmi t* one of the easiest runners the game has seen in § yea numbe be no undue effort with him, He just seems to jog along in a sort of carefree way. His stride is something to marve at, When under wraps he cov ers around six feet, seven inches at a clip, whieh is in creased to over seven feet as he rd from two of them still Are Soccer Victors Todd's and Renton r ad in rubb right up to surmi, r rs from fan lifted the B © top 2 save held the upper r the most part heights in long « Black Diamond 5 to 0 SARAZEN'S SCORE BEST hung up in the na onal open « st five seasons was that ragen at Skokie in 1 sar-| 7, 18NT the f with a 288, shooting ) ar remarkably con-| tent golf. BY AHERN) very talks, but fistic on | when he does, Northwest fans listen in. | tently — — Davis, who Pete Bross Falls welterweight, in a re. turn match at the Crystot Pool meets SAM RICE Washington Outfielder, Morocco, Ind., February 20, turn of affairs, Bender alw wore an engaging smile that caused you to immediately admire him. SO JAKE IS GONE! WELL, WELL,~ HE SURE MADE A COMIC ODERA EXIT WHEN HE FOUND OUT THAT MRS’ HOOPLE WAS GOWG TO TIE Him UP VARNIGHING FLOORS No MILAD, You ARE MIGTAKEN! T REALLY SHouLDiT TELL THIS » BUT JAKE IS A SECRET SERVICE MAN ! = HE RECEIVED AN URGENT CALL FROM HIS CHIEF “TO REPORT AT ONCE “To NEW ORLEANG/. Perhaps John Levi is one of | the few great Indian ball play- | ers. If so, the Yankees will | have a rival attraction fpr | | | Tiger Flowers to | Battle Ted Moore NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 2.—Tiger Blowers, negro middleweight, is @cheduled to meet Ted Moore, Eng lish boxer, in 12-round bout here tonight. Flowers was quite a sation until he was.knocked out by Jack Delaney recently. However He has won two fights since the ttempt to rebuild his ia THEN JAKE PACKED HIS FL CAMEL AN' RAISED DUSTY in an 4 veputat ring (Unique Record for E. Meusel NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Several unique fielding records were chalked up in the National league last season. One of the oddest was made by “Irish” Meusel of the Giants. Meusel took part in 138 games. He had a total of 301 chances, of which 287 were turned into put outs, four were assists and 10 set down ag erto Four assists for over & season's span Close to the minimum in number. Sut the odd part about Meusel’s fielding efforts was that he didn’t participate in a double play_all year. Few outpost men ever thru a complete campaign with- out getting into a two-ply killing once in a while. But not so with rish” in 1924. an outfielder is pretty bf ED “Gh cB MAJOR ADDS LUSTER TO JAKES EXiT= J | Born 1802 Tuesda night, has spoken. Davis lost a decision to Bross gue Career Joined | on in 1915, coming Trom MY NEXT TRIP-TO-TH! “e | LAUNDRN WILLTTELL \P the Paterstarg, club bf the ‘Wrtitia =| (Started pitcher, © bi WAN To NeW ORLEANS, OR STILL WN “TOWN fe : F JAKE 19 A SLEUTH, HEY | son ‘ : SE souk eee MUST BE GOING“ GROW | Rie ) howled for fully 4 ‘ 5 15 inutes, ad ph ital Nene j Northwestern’s - eae . . see “i to be Razor piaves /]/ Swimming Team | the opinion. that /, Smashes Marks) draw, if not the de Travie was entitled to at least a ion, ‘The box HREL ords were recently smashed by Northwestern university swim. One world record was league as ago, and seldom hay there been such @ demon- stration by fans as when that Accepted 471 of them being 62 bases same sea. Outstanding Feats chances in 1920, | putouts, Stole DAVIS national intercollegiate rec | the howl let out. But that he's out to “g |hasn’t shown a to “et” anybody time he fought here. Davis made and bestdes fights human a the Travio has it * Bross, Tra particular di since the Heinie Schuman good his threat, ming team also broken. In a special 600-yard Fr anston, Ill, the team t record of 3:45 1-5 for gogiating the ¢ also broke its own record for nda, making the distance in 4:39 ainst the former mark of 4:45 3.5 For the full distance of 600 yards, the Northwestern swimmers, by making the time of 5:39, smashed the former _intercolleg record of held by Yale. The mark also | d the world record of 5:40 3-5 held by the Illinois Athletic club of| | Chicago, at Ev its own of his terrible career, beating gave His friends predict that the same thing will happen to Bross Tuesday Anyway, it will be worth watching. In the other six-round bout, Cal Stor nia Joe Lynch, the clever South. , meets Rufe Canion, Filipino featherweight champion. nieht nall are rematched. This | Q |Eddie Collins Has : a slam-bang affair. Never Lead Hitters Betiny Ferrel, Fillpino bantam, meets George Ishii, Japanese, in th Badie Collins, veteran second b second, and Bill Griffiths and man, and recently appointe ayne, heavyweights, are slated to ager of the White Sox for 1 has} open the show. |yet: to top the pack in the batting |columns, Eddie has been right up| card, jnear tho first rung several times, but thus far has failed to make the] An Ohio man bowled 28 hours on rade, Collins has been in the big/a strech the other day. And now how since 1906, we suppose he is on a stretcher, HE’S READY often that Travie| here two weeks | of | judges even quit as a result of | known | putting up one of the} sclal event Freddy Mack | ‘Tod | Nate Druxman is putting on the Frankie Genaro Has Indian Sign on Pancho Villa Now American Flyweight King Makes 110 Pounds Easily; Beats Villa Three Times; Genaro Beat Car] Tre maine to Match With Joe Lynch, Bantam Boss BY JOE WILLIAMS nan takes 19 Fraukis Ma > prom: my Wits accepted as the To get matches the tiny New York Italian battles in three classes—fy weight, bantamweight and feath has the an sign on Panche has beaten the Filipino, and Will be heavily backed tp nero give Cart Tremaine, a Madison Sears erweight. Genaro Villa, Three if they meet times he again, Genar win again, I saw ¢ little Garden bantam, a bexing lesson in remaine trem kard brougn, of building & sprang a fat do to quality for , Won been a sure shot to take e didn't win, and the istein, who wom ns could have taken t one to get m crack at Tremaine Would Have 6 would have naro, now with Benny Leonard, retired, stands out as the smart st little ring general in the pusir He is not a puncher. He has knocked out but five opponents all during his career. Mostly he wing with his noodle, “I know I am not a puncher,” Genaro tells you, “but I have the kind of blows that win points, and points win titles” n is the most telling blow he land, 1 I knocked out Bushy Graham, Bothy item and the mite cham eat battles. “One thing arted @ punch with more important thay Doesn’ t Think Villa Is Remarkable on that Villa ts a remarkable but he has « serious weak es to be called remarkable, at's why I always beat him have developed a detens I found him fust as ‘t taken up amatexr ing business. That was his fint STAR LEAGUE | G Te Refers } "MEETING, ON (scams "play in tho, ie R ‘tstop for the Giants. He d the same position for eee it.| What was the outcome of th y team | bout between Rocky Kansas and Sid ue this) Barbarian in 19217—T. H. 8 d tonight, They fought 10 rounds to a draw, at, preparations ©: oae What was Nurmt's time for the 1g will start promptly|10,000 meters cross-country in the m. 1920 Olympic games at Antwerp!— — sre 8. 0.'C. Nurmi ran the distance in 3t'mia utes, 15 seconds. BARNYARD GOLF TOURNEY ill know wh: Washii.gton Frosh Win From Yakima YAKIMA, Feb. The Washing. The annual tournament to decid n Frosh had ttle trouble in de-/tne national horseshoe title will be ating the Yakima high school bas-| neta at Lake Worth, Fla, from Fe all team here Saturday, 36 to! ruary 16 to 28. It is expected tee 17, A crowd witnessed tne | biggest yet staged, with entries =m coming from all over the United | States. ‘ big It is predicted the victory of Big - Munn will make wrestling popular] ‘Tiger Flowers will now engage ia again. There certainly ought to bejan interesting scientific experiment a law against that. of changing a meow back to @ rear MLLE,. SUZANNE LENGLEN Here is a late picture of Mlle, Suzanne Lenglen. looks mighty well for a person reputed very ill, pro lof tennis for good. Perhaps her improvement in health is due to the sg | Hele n Wills is in California, not Europe. Recently | @| made her first appearance in @ singles mate h since | tired in June. Her health was so poor she didn’t lose a gamty gececeravas Bagsgeg akrr ee pus.