The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 21, 1925, Page 5

Daavo Nurmi Likely to Run Here in May mn stadir , Wa. hen it was ¢ ounced that His appearance there fe the bow Divi ty athle rvities here be- vs a vce of the Los on, is a signal that he is ea other Coast cities pearance here would be the fea- the annual Washington Relay car- titel the first week in May Strings are out now to insure the ap- y, the Illonis A. C, tinst Nurmi, Ray and their clashes pewrance of Joie star, to race ¢ TTLE a sienieaeidienaaitaiamaes e Mickey O Donnell Looks Over Some Real Estate Ebright Has Pictures of Star Eights Several Reels of Pictures ———_ Some Players Are Tried Who Haven't Played in Stuff Under Fire; New BY LEO I camps, baseball particular ¢ Mowe pictures of Washing AY. ton's great crew of last yea and of the Yale eight in ite Olym races are being used by Coach before And thc st, | should this famous pair get together he cert to pack the big ow hat University officials here are trying th Nurmi, to absolutely insure a local — “Gibbons and Wills to Box in Milk Fund Bout BY HENRY L, FARRELL EW YORK, Feb. 21 Bs Gibbons and Harry Wills, two leading challengers for the heavyweight champion- ship, will meet in| a 15-round bout to a decision in the Yankee stadium early in June as the feature of a card that js to be presented for the benefit of the New York milk frnd. Tex Rickard wil] promote the show and the match will be approved by the New York Olig boxing commission at its meeting next Tues- Tha GAY. Eddie Kane, today that 3 match was on. ha Paddy Mullins, who handles that he was willing. “We have given up hope of getting a match with Demp Mullins said. bbons and Wills placed challenges for manager of Gibbons, a far as he was concerned the Wills, said FARR | mission yesterday were not acted upon ee Star League } WOULD DECIDE See ad | DEMPSEY NEXT se . . i « ~ ies 1M 1 Wanded of ial hile the season doesn't start of a a for os ack Demps RK 0 They : gh r he leaghe consider ; ape Se eet thly by turning In their eftries early F hampton him to appear . benefit n ac| omise given | was no chance oe Maing the werk High school players art asked not | heavyweight ca fe file to the league sq as to Temes CAG: hen indianed erate with the sehol official a Trep atheletes are not piermit! that Dempsey would fight Miticipate with outside trams during on ww that had a nen eee yubts and he said he was con ts belle publianea | Vineed that if Dempsey did sera bhould again in defense of his tit | po bel would not pull on the gloves unt ii nechreagittes | September, at the earliest | DEMPSEY MUST | ACT THEN Friends Raised Cash | “ater ci for Willie Keeler Serve wii nave vo EWillie Keeler, the great star of | title © r days, did not die| in poverty ‘i es cown when Poa ar Kane notified Gibbons that the} ray ch was on and he received al Charie: ts of the Biooklyn club| ™atch was on an ee cen an saeoun tag ee the | reply that the St. Paul heavyweight Teer csleed by friends in 1921, wheA | Was willing and that his. manager Wile was in dire neqd.. Ebbets’) Should look around for a training itement showed that $),670.81 was | Com? = d at that time, and after Willie's | Terms offered the two boxers expenses, doctor, bills and| have not been made public. Rick- expefses were paid, $4,508|ard will get 60 per cent of the his labor in promoting left. This sum was returned to| Profits for Be saacriners : ee show and the milk fund will 50 per cent. wae bbons and Willa decide will have defemi his definitely announce that he is going Rickard said. aes — | set Has Nurmi Reached | pana: ; : 2 One Ousition Wins a ae pig if es o| Match From Landis| Rumi, ¥inland's wortd ¢ goed George Ade lured Commissioner ‘tmner, hged baz In $50 and | Landis into a golt match at Bellals fe les in @| prominent | ra, the other day. Everything was ee ot the Pinniets American | cing along splendidly until Landis ee ners to + peen| Was about to make a long, difficult Rat to > saad Serpe age wt beon|#pproach to the 17th green. Ade Mths country, He hay so much | then inquired of him if he had heard id shea Ci Pott at be bana, lately from Ban Johnson. It was an iw you what real running alse ees 2 yw you before he re-| verter alse | Jack Fournier Signs New 2-Year Contract Mickey Waiker has agreed to put Ma sparring exhibition for the Jack Fournier, veteran first base. man of the Dodgers, has signed a the heavyweight championship before the New York com-| and they! Ebright in teaching his California Take the Seattle club, for be vs Pheasant onl sal aa two newcomers for first base “imagine Enoch Bagshaw letting man, What if Elliott fails to hit Andy Smith photograph his football ard and if Herman is too playa or “Red” Killefer tipping off slow? Elliott, too, was out We can't, either, and yet ankle Ha: reco en ak “Rusty” Callow let Ebright, his And then there's ter of only Western rival, take ple pitchers tur of his men in action on the India s : the Hudson last year from the Stryker Miljus, Y ‘ a Washington launch! ried in this compa Pert ps t's n weakness of We know what McCabe, D: a mine,” says Callow, “but if it helps Brazill can 4 ce the rowing game, why not let them And t is ¥ er ¢ It wil remembered that Ca! he - ow let Columbia coach wateh his men t here from the coach Portland ing launch at the University a ached | Ed Lead st as bigshearted as tis op Rowland Riconda sacker, has a good r ;#n unknown quantity develops behind the p again that, and the movies that Ebright has of the Yale elght in action were | taken on the well-known Q-T | Callow says that the movies | gave the new oarsmen a physi cal picture of the way rowing ers may be it should be done and is invaluable The Beaver pitchers are a ques to instruction. mark, too. Hollingsworth and Washington could find good use tur have been sitting on the lfor such a camera, but it has never! at Brooklyn for a couple o! obtained for the coaching | ®. Miller was a so-so south n the Hasty and Bui hould w eir records with the Ath But only \ their worth |been staff [staf | |Shreveport Is After | | International league on ying will prove Four-Base Champion Reports are current In Texas! league circtes, that Shreveport in| home n Francisco on FRANCISCO ng with only one ball playe experiment- tfying to get Clarence Kraft i champion of 1924, as Jett Pfeffer c He may make or break the Seal pitching corps, altho since eteran manager of the Gassers. Kraf tified the Fr p ' : the addition of Doug MeWheen- ba wou th an ws et iia. tne Eanes ey, who should win again in | nts a ; this league after a year. with | ~ Konetch aa f a the Chicago White Sox, Pfeffer doesn't carry as much import |* ance as he did before. aseroa Wladek Zbyszko Has| jae i etter nie wine wv |® Defy Out for Mann | or Polish heavy = Oakland , 1 that he willing Fighting isn't Mickey O’Donnell’s only business. The Coast bantamweight champion is TiLimdaks: ‘Piowers-bear-up met Whee Sores also a real estate salesman. R. W. Barker and Vincent Miller, of the Carter, MacDonald nd of i aaa a ee oe cae yn, rand t{& Miller firm, took him out to N. Broadway the other day to show him some of their well as he showed in the will wrestle Munn for nott it it| residential property. r is pictured on the left, O'Donnell in the center and Miller sPpria rs ‘aul 1s necessary to get a chance with! on the right. Adams’ shoes at second | him for the title. I can | Photo by Price & Carter, Star Btatf Photographers base? And \who will win the 24] = in 36 minutes or leas and t iad? lb fas * games of ball that Walter Mails; turned in last year? | “O'Donnell Is Fighter Who Figures ws cand, tie Soe for Future; He Sells Real Estate : : depend ICKEY O'DONNELL is one fighter with an eye to the future. | . aba 2. Contain * nave The Coast bantamweight champion puts to good use his spare time, the boxers | 4 contracts by the Pitts-| having the mornings and forenoons to themselves even when in training, and instead of |hanging around gymnasiums or hotel lobbies, as most of the fighters do, O'Donnell s enough of a re will not meet me California Players | nd clu Signed by Pittsburg “ | Vernon | ITCHING weakness shoved the Tigers into the second division pendent been tend recom burg Pirates. They were a ant mended by Joe Devine, Their names) sells real estate for an Oakland firm. lt RE ee hel ee Fl Apperove: ax enttiolier,| Ps Tee) 08 eae ie Goal i he is one of those clever fel-|"ihut Frank Scheltenback, who O'Donnell is in the “big money” in the Coast ring, and he is one of those clever fel-| won nearly 20 games. ‘They have | ard Montague, third baseman, | Donald Feely, son played with Omaha in 192 Blue Ridge Player \ lows who doesn’t stand flatfooted and take newcomers in Cole. ime a GOSSIP oF ‘em on the chin while the crowd roars. O’Don- | three Weinert | | nell is saving the money he’s ant Barfoot. Can they deliver for| making in the ring and in-| Pil) Vests tage a meal will jus ermine the Ti vesting it, and when he can |} nlhos: fa thes tans no longer fight main events | pitcher Apper Signed by Portland | ¢, | and win O'Donnell says he'll| Sacramento Portland, of the Coast league, has | anes THE | quit the ring. | UDDY RYAN 1s experimenting obtained Qutfielder George (Reggie) | | “No has-been stuff for me,” says with two young infielders — Rawlings from Martinsburg, of the) Blue Ridge league. He has been the Mickey boxing right now than I could at |at third. If they can't make the leading hitter of ee si biter Dan Salt has completed his rim card in Lon Angeles now, are|any other Ine of business, and|grade the Solons will have a hard years, San the home run cham | 95. Tuesday at the Cr . Peal Pg 14 ading sha: - ond at the races at while I can make {t and win I'll|time getting out of the rut. And plon in 1924 eit and Oriffin are ca or th } ne fle " mse] stay with it, but when I feel my-|Ryan is also experimenting with Balhiniore Club Has| |10 Per Cent Dividend | At the annual meeting of the Baltt | more club, all officers were re-elected | and a 10 per cent stock dividend de clared, Jack Dunn, who will con tinue as president and mangger, said main event with the Const ban-| tive training for eeveral weeks and Aus ea t Young Jack|tin figured the layoff would do them | self slipping it's retirement for me.” | three pitchers, who will go a long Peter Jackson | Rood O'Donnell is a clean-cut | ways towards deciding the pitching eent windy, youngster and he was intro: |for Sacramento. Martin and Keat Aberdeen taht! duced to Vincent Miller and W. |ing 1 Miller the other day, and |for some time and are trying a | comeback last y > Webster in the welter fights four rounds I) Griffitha and noavy weights, ne cen hit.| A. the two members of the big real estate firm of Carter, MacDon- ald & Miller, who, incidentally, can are rabid boxing fans, took him watching | If they | ar with a sore arm Danny Matthews, the game Port An- goles kid, who ran Into a punch that thal dividend Wwaaidace’ eesti sel, Seattle lightweight, has | chin in the first round of his fix out and showed him some of hat the ¢ d_was made possible to California for @ fling at the| Foimer in Tacoma the other n the company’s holdings. thru the sale of Bob (Lefty) es| longer game. Geysel has recovered trom |took « terrific Inctng before he could! Ornonnell, who fights Dandy Dick to the Philadelphia Americans for ly injured ear which kept him Out) clear his head, is taking a layoff for} bd A ting for some time. a while, And then he wants another | Griffin at the Crystal Pool Tuesday $100,600. He made it clear that the chance with Folmer. He's a world gate receipts alone would have made| gomehody was asking about “Red” | beater for gameness 1924 a rather lean year. jane, the Seattle lightweight of « Los Angeles TCHING was a worry with Los Angeles last year and they are |trying out a new man, Sandberg, | who isn't well known on the Coast | night, is planning to stay in the | Northwest long as he can get bouts, bs 5 years 060 reemed a Soto Woods and Freddie Mack fought | POU i‘ ee back to Oak-/rhey'l also string along with Spen- what had im. Gage hi tx-round draw in Mt. Vernon the| land for him. He holds a. positio ‘ | hat, bad es a tae | ner round: aeaw in Mt Vernon th holds a position | er, who may go along for a year married © lumber busin | with one ot Ja kland a 8 e ortiand. ne of the Oakland real estate /o- two and who may be thru any firms, and they give him license to/time. Will Horan fill the hole left come and go as his ring work calls!» Durst in the outfield, and who Alncondes Signed by Chicago Again'| Bog Harper is on the shelf “Chick” Tabit, Seattle welterweight, Is) 114 bad hand being on the bi FI Grover Alexander veteran right-|*!4 to } fred from the boxing | hurt it im the fight with Jimmy Cacco | e Grit " | will replace Root on the pitching | hand pitcher of the Chicago Cubs, | #*™* eae other signe cine owen that} | i ; a foo, has something to | stare? | without any doubt, but he's sporting a| fa has signed a one-year contract. This! jute Canton, Filiping fentherweight, | beautiful shiner on hin right lamp, which | vocation when 1 In the way of) | — will be his 15th season. He declared| nas been under the weather with a bad | proven that he didn't duck all o¢ them. | ation when his ting days are | Salt Lake | He'll be in action again soon. ——___—_— over, The crack Texas battler, that the injury to his wrist last sea-| °!4 ‘ hal jury to his wrist last sea s | who has been very successful HORTSTOP has been a bad spot icy of the modern Tin Ez eoey a beautiful thing. Welident of the United Htates. The ! two-year contract son will not interfere with his pitch- = Dode Percot, Bud Bereot, Roy Cliffe | In the ring, is a trained book- | on the Salt Lake te: 7 {dg the co a " Wn ganttin’s sine . d Shi § A am for ng the coming year. ant onnion Avmtin, Beatties Fie *|Leo Dressen Wants ashe SANIT ER en IR Can aoe ae rsd [championship from the strong New| r BY BILLY EVANS | York club. | rs POR vom reason or olher few Of/ ‘This would seem to prove that picking the |the team’s victory in the American league race was anything but aj fluke. Just the same, the experts| |are still indicating a hesitant atti | tude. pthe experts are ion team to refjeat in the American race tHis yea The| made that the? claim fs © I notice, however, that Miller Hugging manager of the Yan- is very much impressed the potentialities of the shington team and predicts he must beat that team In or der to win the flag. A tionals | were not the best oall club | n the jieague las 00 and that either tlhe Yankees or the Tygers, with 4 better break jin tuck and Hess is a shrewd judge of conditions, would haseball strength. I recall he sve | gone on| was none too enthusiastic about the 4 Yanks’ chances to repeat when 1| But |the proof him at New Orleans last of thd baseball | spring. | the final figures, and| While practically everyone was howed Brlckey Har-|conceding the flag to the Yanks| team on top. To prive further|again Huggins pointed out the ae Supremacy, the | Nationals |ieague as a whole would bel d out and won| the world! stronger, particularly the Waghing: AMILLER HUGGINS FEARS WASHINGTON BALL CHAMPS .“*"sc0 Soy to Get Back Again) «0 back to that business when |bill? If this newcomer can't, the he Inys aside the gloves Jees will have a tough time of it, Fighters ond ball players, with | and if he does they'll be dangerous. : ! nocl Much also depends upon Bill Piercy, tion club several years ego and who| could well follo ‘ootsteps of |Who replaces Kallio on the pit ton, Philadelphia and Cleveland|nothing of Reuther, all veteran | jater played outlaw baseball, h | cou wel Fl Ghetin eid pom Py and Connolly, ss wil f| teams, | pitchers, aren't going to weaken his | asked Commissioner Landis to rein-| the future. 5. ai Lewis’ shoes in the outfield. “This means,” went on Huggins,|team any. Nor is Mike McNally, | state him so that he can return to| pee “we are going to have a tougher| who Js a versatile man for reserve | organized ball > 1 "INS time winning ball games from these | infield work. Pires aie } The Referee ane 2 ntti Sys teatns than we did the year before.| The Washington outfield is trong, | |. 108) ANGELES; | Beb.’'31—Fidel It is not so much a question of our| The infield, if it goes along without Harry Lee Referee LaBarba, former amateur flywelght| boxer, easily defeated Young Na-| being strong enough to win again! mishap, will rank wth the best in When dif Everett Scott begin hi § as it is a question of the other|the jengue, if not as the best. Judge of Walker Battle | ....07.0" playing streak cad isd tionalista in a 10-round bout he: Leo Dressen, who played first base teams being strong enough to hold | jg @ fine first baseman, Harris and| Feb. 21.—Harry | still intac HRS. last night. LaBarba won nine us back.” Peck, a great keystone combination, | Lee, veteran referee in these parts,| Scott started on his record stunt |0UNds. with one even. | ae Jand Bluege will more than fill the | will referee the bout between Mickey|on June 20, 1916, and has partici Se TE nks | Dill at third Walker, the world's welterweight| pated in 1 straight games, the| TO ENLARGE ADIUM | Huggins wa did not repeat. Washington and Philadelphia were stronger. Cleveland, alone did not come up to his spring forecast as to right. The Y champion, and Bert Colima, WAittier, here Tuesday night. string still b COLUMBUS, 0. Feb, 21.—Plans| for building an arena for basketball How many Big Ten football games |and other tndoor athletics by tem- did Wisconsin win in 1923 and how |porarily enclosing one end of Ohio| ing unbroken. 1 Ruel deserves to be ranked as one of the game's greatest catchers, and the return of Walter Johnson ought to be a big factor. All in all the Pennsylvania May team strength, Washingtons look mighty formid- many did it lose?—H. E. D. stadium, were announced today t | able. @ Wisconsin won one and lost three|L. W. St. Johng director of ath-} Get Sunday Ball games In 1 It also played a 0.0||letics at Ohio state university. UGGINS may be right again in A bill has been introduced in the} tie with Minnesota John's visionary arena would seat | saying the Washington team I'd say, off hand, the Nation. Pennsylvania legislature by Repre- nie 20,000 spectators | ia the team that must be beaten. als will start the season as sentative Stavitski of Luzerne which Did Paul Berlenbach ever fight fatal oat rapa favorites to repeat, but a would permit baseball on Sunday.| rank Carbone, and if #0, what was| Jack Dempsey will probably re-| stronger outfit on paper than the| race is certain with New York, |The bill provides, however, that/the result?—F. A. 8 main retired until Tex Rickard one that faced the barrier last| Detroit and possibly Philadel. |every employed person, be he a base-| Beelenbach met Carbony in 19%4,|starts waving a certified check at| April. phia furnishing plenty of oppo- | ball player or ditch digger, be giver |knocking him out in the sixth|him. Tike all artists, Jack must Coveleskic and Gregg, to say] sition, one day off a week. round, have his temperamental moments. Harris will start the season with a ITH spring training already under way ition to the news about the ne the league. This Showing Washington men who will wear the | and Yale Crews Used clubs A of players who h “1m making more money | Davis at first base and McLaughlin | ‘They are: ve been in outlaw baseball {college tr Yellowhorse was out jt niversity of It deliver watch out for Sacra. jeer mento. | nia, jthern California, New Players May Swing Balance in Coast League Ball CALIFORNIA USING CREW. MOVIES ecru Club Has New Men Who Are Question Marks Veterans, but Newcomers, League Before, Must Show Men May Change Results 1, LASSEN some followers are beginning to pa: ry of the various s particularly true ared in this league aven’t app men m or break sev- teams in this year’s race example. The Indians have Ace” Elliott and Babe Her- up to Coast league stand- Tigers Drew Most Passes COAST GETS NEW COACHES OUR new coaches will add color to k Coast foot- next season. new mentors either from the Mid-West o the East, and should give the fans something in teresting to watch, Howard Jones, ormer Iowa coaon ¢ university, Dur- be in charge at Southern Cali. mer Oregon and sity gridiron player, on coach Two former Notre Dame men make up the remainder of the new ‘oach Smith will be captain hip Notre named the rsity. Marvin Goodwin to Boss Houston Again Marvin Goodwin has been re- ected as ma wer of the Houston m of the Texas league. He took up the piloting duties in May last season, eceeding Hunter Hill, Goodwin plans to take his regular turn in the box. |New Rene Pitcher Is Married in South Denny Burns, pitcher recently sent to Portland, of the Coast league, by the Philadelphia Athletics, on Feb. ruary 11, in Shreveport, La, was married to Miss Doris Clark, daugh- ter of I, M, Clark, bursar of Cen- teuary college. Illinois Town Has 3 Coast Leaguers Mount Vernon, HL, has a pretty proud claim. Three men who will play in the Coast league this year were developed on the lots there, Jimmy McLaughlin, with Sacramento, Jack Warner, Vetnon and Al Elliott, Seattle, WESTERNERS HONORED Four athletes from the Far West gained places on the All-American kK and field team for 24. They were Clarence Houser, outhern California, in the discus; Glen Hartranft, Stan- shotput; Bill Neufeld, Califor. javelin, and Morton Kaer, Soue in ‘the pentathion, 1 Colt Named After Nurmi TEN the celebrated Paavo Nurmi broke all running records in New York, Mrs. Whit- ney wired Clyde Phillips, trainer of the Green Tree stable, owned by her, as follows: “IT want you to pick out the best unnamed baby colt in my stables and. name him after Paavo Nurmi. I want a colt that will live up to the name of the great Finnish runner.” Mr. Phillips looked over Mrs. Whitney's 2-year-olds which have never faced the starter and picked a big rangy fellow to call Nurmi. Strange to say, this colt hap- pened to be by the celebrated racing stallion, “The Finn,” and is out of Hurakan. Mr, Phillips sald: “You never can tell anything about baby 2-year-olds. This Nurmi colt, however, in trials has shown a lot of speed and is one of the gamest youngsters that ever looked thru a bridle, He never wants to quit. “He has trained splendidly and behaved splendidly when at the post In trials. So far he has beaten all of his stable mates in early morning spins.” side from paying tribute to Nurmi, Mts. Harry Payne Whit- ney is playing a hunch in nam- ing one of her thorobreds after Finland's famous runner In 1922, when Gene Sarazen won the national open golf title, Mrs, Whitney named & 2-yearold Sarazen, and he proved a wonder horse. ey.