The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 14, 1925, Page 12

PAGE 12 THE TUESDAY, JULY 14 1925, Pancho Villa, Flyweight Champion, Is Dead Baseball World Ring King Pas During Operation Teeth and Infection That Followed Cause Death of Filipino Fighter; Dies on Operating Ta- | ble; Recently Lost to Jimmy McLarnin Away Hitting ll pad Prospects x oungsters Ss es Snell Raves Goozeman in | Ball Park Go| BY. LEO H, LASSEN SEN AN , July 14,.—Pancho Villa, flyweight| HEY say t # aren't ex boxing champion of the world, died at St, Mary's hos-| p> . iT" Been ee ccne ce oe, pital this morning, I eather wesley. At ° boards thes s of lively} The end came during an operation for an abscessed and | Sinals 8 bd a riany |i eorie dso, Eel ae 3 g a moker 12. |infected jaw and infected throat, which developed July 2, ars} before Villa and Jimmy McLarnin, Coast boy, fought at RNIE Goozr th MAN an or ‘heir! Oakland. yess u The ailment kept Villa in bed for a day before the bout. f ea therweights, tt tabtge Pe | He insisted on going ahead he Rb ae8. ft tato Kid” of th aa NE ela BE 5 eo aixround tives Four Tyg gers with the fight, against the fala Svea “oF the most ou Lead League ecg HE other day the four leading : hitter in the American leagu ¢ were M Cobb, Wir ‘ ‘| Hellmar All Detroit and all outfielder Three of them we " he tevining 400 mark w Hellma eh. the ra five points out of that see was in QOakh The fit a eee, REE hit safely four trips pais a i while he was ht Tribe to sean trom | fh8 cs victory. 0 of “Covered Wagon” ecker of oxtremely doubtful if Portland has. played a few has ever produced such games in the outfield and has held|} ® auintet of hitting tfielders up his end when it comes to hit-|| ggy Eros Le in the _ * ting. Rube Yarrison, of the same|| #0. Certainly it is out of the club, is also quite a sticker || ordinary Lake, Geary, of] Jall and Root, a cars: of Los Angeles, and Krause of Oakland, oftimes kick thru ~-!Tacoma Bid Is timely bingles. Several players in started out as pitchers, but became | regulars, because of this ability.| ‘The most notable are Lefty O’Doul, | Buzz Arlett and Fritz Coumbe. Don't forget that Babe Ruth, him- Is self, was one time the best south: |, this league} PACIFIC paw in the Ame an league. Prospects | HERE is a splendid crop of ma jor league possibilities In the} Coast league this year and It would |traveting not be surprising to see many) names now in P. C. box scores ¢ appearing in ma- jor league lne: ups next season Tony Lazerre| and Hal Rhyne| are leading can-| didates for grad- uation, These} shortstops are! big leaguers right now Seattie’s best | bid fs ~ Lucas, | who has played good all-around WANER baseball. ling up the In Conflict w games is the ‘There are Portland has Bill Hunnefield, a fast young outfielder. Besides Lazerre, Salt Lake has Lefty O’Doul and Johnny Frederick. And in addition to Rhyne, San COAST LEAGUE Won “ other confe eball ficlals will hol Just About Off 1 an nee on the Tacoma bid for Thursday and day morn league turing team, games the there is Sun. ng Coast | fea- Seattle little or no chance of the up-Sound dians this year. ith Timber big hitch two Tacoma clubs this clreuit and one of them plays} there each Sunday team lin- | league | in | A Coast league | advice of his physicians, jaw was cut awa: wisdom th remo ing grea Villa entered th tt pital for treatment Krache ares the fana of a real OPERATION " f h make ‘ t « PAILS x u want to or not Surgeons attended him nd 1 h in around 126 An operation was orde pound ing came at Joe Wilson, the comical colored the p failed t welterweight, who can fight as well opera Surgeons an sissies, in booked to go swelled and indirectly x rounds with George McCormick to death. A promising youngster from Spo Dr. Charles E. Hoffman performed | kane. the operation Fritz Hendricks, Pacific fleet mid | Villa had been flyweight cham: Ulewelg ampion, is carded to | pion of the world since he box r roun with Duke Potter, j kino ked out Jimmy Wilde, Eng | lish boy, in New York two years * Plug Boyd, the Aberdeen | ago. He went to the Philippines, mid boxes Mel Berg, of | his native land, six months age | Ever Al Gallagher t for a visit with his family, While with Johnny Woe in the bar | there he engaged in two bouts, | weight di | winning them both, | Dan Salt and | in charge of the show on. Austin are | which starts Lonnie . B.C. Villa met rank Churchill was taken {l] yesterday after. akland fe Austin is in California, so ant may handle the smoker THE “WISE BOYS" AS USL AL Goodrich New Lightweight King by Win| the champioy Jimer was of Buffalo, great pain was idenced, how: is the New | ever, by the fact that he went Boxing commission's thru the bout guarding his Jaw t champ’ against the swift left jabs of al knockot McLarnin. Jast night of Stanislaus Loay ke this statement on behalf | Chile, or thereabouts, the gamest iw," was j for Villa's And the “ man I Churchill's expla: % ation rich hind the Chilean on the floor and on the ropes several times in the first and second rounds. Hin | neconds tossed in the towel after 3 lon to seconds of fighting in the | with death round, amest another tle man bout—thin went lose one necond | | ‘Star League’s i 7 Finals Sunday Francisco presents Gene Valla and|game in the morning would be} Pa ac Be. Paul Waner. bound to cut in on the attendance Wie the’ Parkland A. C. and the ‘3 Vernon has Jimmy McDonald and|of the Timber contests. | Independents ay the finallste/t rae oat sienae Jack Warner available. They're} The present proposition is that{/in the two divisions of The Star m ‘ ‘ 00 both infielders and reports have|the Seattle would have to| league, the play-off for the ch 34 aT at Warner sold now to the Detroit|/make up any falling off in the|pionehip will occur next y Brae veer Americans. Timber league receipts. This would | when the first game will be playe i : : Sacramento has Mervin Shea sold|be practically impossible, as the ex Managers of tho two teams are| At St. Louls— R. A to the New York Yankees. While|pense of sending the teama there | requested to meet the ¢ of | Washington ......... 4 6 he didn't look any too good here|twice a week would be heavy and | the sports department of The Star | St. Louis ‘ a Get eae because of a bad hand, he has the; makings of a fine catcher. Jake Flowers, a good shortstop, and Delaney, a pitcher, may go up from Qakland. necessary Promising Youngsters Go LEAGUE teams are carry- ing more young ball players this year than usual and they are Yeing given a chance to play. A Little Rock, Only game. (second game nothing like ac- tual playing for} Tulsa, 2; W experience, aA Lincoln, 5; Ennis, a young Omaha, 2; catcher, is | an|_ understudy for Sandberg at Los | Angeles, and he} is improving rap- | idly. He needs! INTERNATIONAL Jersey City, certain amount! Reading, 7; of bench fs nec-| Baltimore, 5; essary for base-|! Only games ball education, but there is WESTERN LEAGL Oklahoma Cit 4; Nashville, 6. 9-0; Toronto, seven innings.) Syracuse, 4 Rochester, 16, today. ichita, 8. ~ 4; St Denver, 7. es Moines, 6 Joe, the local club wouldn't take an un- chance on losing money. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION LEAGUE 14-1 0. and Severeid j Tuesday evening at o'clock, to Batteries: Zachary make arrangements for the coming | G@ston and Hargrave, | series. a | A twooutofthree series will be} At Cleveland— R. HE held, the winner being the cham. | Boston 12 14 [pion for 1926. ‘The first game will |Cleveland 11 19° 3 ie played at B. F. Day playfield| Batteries; Fuhr, Ruffing, Ross, und the second at Garfield The Neubauer, Wingfield and Bischoff. third contest will be held on a neu- | Smith, Miller, Sewell and Myatt | tral grounds, B. F. Day ia the | oe home for the Independents while At Chicago~ R H Garfield is the home lot for the New WOR i cesiiveceese 4 7 1 | Parkers. Chicago * 8 12 1 The Parkland A. ©. won the right Batteries: Hoyt and Bengough;| to be the champ of league number | Faber and Schalk | one by defeating the Quéen’ City | aie | Motors Sunday, while the Independ:| At Detroit R. H enta won by default from the Gar Philadelphia .., 4 9 field Cubs when the latter team | petroit ae 5 failed to put tm an appearance for| Batteries the second time. Stoner Quinn and and Baasler Perkins; } another season or two in this| company before | SLADE they can talk about. the majors for him. Mulcahy, a big pitcher with Salt NA Lake, and Crockett, a right-hander, with San Francisco, are being worked with the regulars and are getting many chances to start] games, They have the stuff to make good, Pickering, an outfielder who can hit, breaks into the Oakland lineup 4) almost every day. Oliver, the Ver- non outfielder; Vinci, the Sacra mento southpaw; Gordon Slade, Ti- ger shortstop; Hoffman, Sacramento outfielder, are all young fellows fust getting their starts in baseball and they are doing well to break in so soon in the Const league This circuit is just a jump behind | the majors and youngsters, with na- tural improvement, who ean make good. in the Western minor figure to deliver in the ble feng. Referee Halts Berlenbach Go With Marrullo REAMLAND PARK, Newark, N, Ds. July 14,—The championship bout between Paul Berlenbach, world’s light-heavyweight champion, ta f yy, and Tony Marrullo, of New Or. Jeans, gave off such a strong| odor of cheese as the two fighters} floundered around the ring for more than elglit rounds Monday night, that Referee Harry Lowis stopped the bout In the ninth on focount of “stalling.” ‘The business of making holes in one has reached a point where only | golfers who have none to their eredit can really claim distinction, HAVE Nou GINS MADE ANY PLANS ON NouR CETION 2 = Tie “TH WAVES WERE OLN SHORTER BETWEEN NEW YORK AIS! PARIG, « ip Jum? A BORT AN’ GO OVER AN! GE “HiT CHT BABY STARE!» > 1 Beis een Nou) } MY VACETION 19 ALL GET ME AN! AW WICKER ROCKING CAAIR ARE GONNA I CAUGHT MY BOSS IN AN GFF, MOMENT LAST WEEK WHEN HE SEEMED y ' TOUR “W’ FROST CHEERFUL, AN AGKED aes Bhs A HIM ABOUT ME GETTING |] eRe’ A LITT Le | A VACATION, —<HE JES’ |! ARGUMENT OF A GAVE ANS OFFICIAL GRUNT, Yen's STANDING, AN BIT OFF A DIMES ot WORTH OF HIS NickeL™ eis eal uy Caan “WHICH MEANT, El ad ALARM EGAD ~ T wast WAYTING For “THig!, T HAVE A SPLENDID PLAN FOR OUR VACATION # AND Meets Doc Snell | Ernie Goozeman, Snell in the main event of ing in the past few months. the Go South, His manager, man is also a fighter of the type of Doc Snell, ana the young battler who will fight Doc jfive P: Austin & Salt’s Open-air at the ball park Tuesday night, has done some tough fight- He has been billed on several) tne Telegram, are Hal Rhyne, short- Catifornia cards and has met some of the best battlers in| stop, that | both j|Tony Lazerre, shortstop of the Salt Larny Lichenstein, says when the two millers get busy it will be a “survival of the} fittest.’ Rudy Unholz, _ Freak of the Boxing Game (American Asn. } | Lightweight Wanted to to the Greatest Pay “Battling” Nelson’s Transportation for Privilege of Fighting Him; Ruined by Slap on the Back BY T. J. (Uncle Tom) McCARI ay N all my boxin perience 1 be- lieve that Rudolph Unholz, the South African lightweight, was the biggest physical freak that I ever saw 1 recall had just time when Unholz @ sensational fight in Los Angeles with George Memsic and won the decision so decisively that the papers ac- corded great and favor. able publicity. In the mean while, Battling Nelson, then the lightweight king, beat Aurelio the made contest at Butte, ny Mont McCAREY Now itt pened that the Battler saw these stories In the papers about Unholx and feared that someone else would get him for the next match, so Nelson wired me as follows: eur Uncle, please save bird for me!" hap- that SAW Rudy and told the Battler had said, replied: “Say, wire him immediately and also ask him if he wants moe to send his. transportation. Tam just as anxious to get him as he is to get me.” and Rudy Nelson finally arrived and the contest took plac Unholz had developed a great lik ing for Nelson and didn't put him out as he could have in the seventh or eighth round. 1 remember partieMarly in one round that "Bat" the ropes, carried him to the enter of the ring and I thought the crowd would go crazy. They had never seen qnything like this before in a ring, . was over against won th 10-round news decision, altho he could claim the championship, aa it was during the time when there were no referee decisions in Los Angeles, ( NHOLZ paper not Unholz | Herrera in their} him what | Rudy pleked him up and | | Everything Rudy said had a laugh jin it. It is seldom that you seo a man in the good nature displayed by | Nelson the day after losing unex- pectedly to a man practically un- |known, It was Unholz’ disposition that won the day. Ce as BELIEVE that Unholz would have become’ the greatest light- weight that we ever had but for a lite accident that happened in my office, “Little Lord untleroy" |Hugh, who worked for me for yor_l4 years, came into the when Rudy was there and his appreciation of ess, slapped him’ on with his open hand. This caused some Kind of a dislocation of the spine that | doctors were unable to remedy, | Rudy's next fight was with Joe | Gans, and in the fifth round this dislocation caused him to double up and he had to quit, Old-timers probably will remember Me- 12 room to ex- Unholz’ the back that little Rudy went from there jgradually to the grave in a vory short time, and I have «ways felt [that a friendly 8 |the cause of it, (TO Be Continued) Garland Won in Last Two Starts for Reds Garland “Big Boy" Cleveland's 286-pound piteher, has done well of late, In his last two tarts he beat both Detrott ang Chi. cago, holding tho latter down to one run, He's a lofthander, ap on the hack was Buckeye, show |# effort to strengthen the team for} TEN DAYS OF PRACTICE FOR DIVERS HERE ree Want to Get Used | to New Diving Platforms Swimmers Expected to Arrive in Seattle During the Next Two Weeks; Merlin Fadden Is in Good Con- dition for National Diving Events By Peter Salvus N order to become accustomed to the diving tower the Lake Washington canal, which will be the scene of the National A. A. U. championship water meet late the constellation of divers will Seattle In abo 0 | days before the rest of the entrant New towers have been erected for the competition, and it rive in akes practice for the divers to get used to them Fadden, the local div ing crack, has been practicing his stunts for the past two weeks and is using , | Merlin “Blackie” every means to become accus- a omed to the ne g. | COIL le DEW Local Men Head Den Tardis, the | Jeiarida Lt Swim Officials 4h gaps , am mee n Burroug nee of Port 1 mer ,tered in the tourne Hov the only plunger KE. Duhanel. who has been able SWIM OFFICIALS | to Fadden, and t refevas—hten ; hands ft Portland be has made him out of his lethargy cd J. Ferris, preal- and start ; in earnest N * Clerk of course—Ea Berseford Wins Aaslstante=Chu Torchy (Torrance, Phil Glenn, From Hoover in | Scull Regatta, Coghlan. Announcer— Judges—Enoch Bagshaw, Lefty ONDON, July 14.—Jack Beresford, |} Hoagiand, Frank Vance, Leo winner of the diamond sculls, || yassen, Ben Evans, Cliff Harri- and champion English singles scu son. defeated Walter M. Hoover of Phila-| _Timers—Al Goldsmith, George delphia Monday in a challenge race} rek, Dr. D. H. Hall, c. for the Philadelphia gold-cup. Pelton, Tubby Graves, a. Just after the start of the Cook, Neil F Hoover fouled Beresford, but th Diving judges—J. W. Howell, Jed to continue, and did 80, | *. E, Duhanel, of Ta- sily by three lengths, de-| and Jack Sy lepite:s a final spurt by the American. |\\ and ae ot| imer Surrey side of He established a lead | n the start which the chal lenger nat >vercome | | The gold cup will be returned to the United States by Beresford, as the {British Amateur Rowing association | 'does not recognize it as emblematic | of the world’s sculling champlonship, | preferring, instead, to regard the d mond sculls as the supreme test | Beresford won the toss, the inner and ‘No Break in Tight Race Yet NOTHER day of baseball brought no let-up in the tension at the top —— jof the National league. Again both the Giants and Pirates won their New York Yanks games, the New York team winning lover the Cubs and the W. 1 s C ‘esterners Are After Five defeating the Dodgers. Thus the |Pirates remain, as they have stood |for nearly a week, one full game Coast Leaguers EW YORK, July, 14.—The New! put there is likely to be a break York Telegram “Monday stated|oon ‘The Pirates, in the present {that the New R ork Pepet gs ruptin pen Eastern ‘excursion, have not hung up 0 pure . eth, Net . in 22Y remarkable record. They have {fic Coast league players in/.on three games and lost three, and wan ‘ yet they have not met up with a ue w pe nnant artys vse eon to| Daz Vance. The Giant machine is he players inyolved, according © lapparently and of Paul Waner, the San y grinding out vi with customary regularity, i bea season {s just about half ovel francisco club;) On Monday the Giants defeated the Cubs, 3 to 1 st ira |Lake team; Mervin Shea, catcher| i, Dodgers Tia Fiesteg trimmed for Sacramento, and Jack Warner,| “nn. Reds gave Boston anothad Vernon third baseman. defeat, 4 to 1, and the Phillies, in According to the Telegram all! 19 innings, won over the Cards, 3 to except Lazerre and Shea already | > putting the St. Louis team down have been attached to the Yankee! ¢) Qo. point above tha ‘Reds in the: roster, | percentage column. eS The Athletics cut down the margin | between them and the Senators to jtwo and a half games, by winning | over the Tigers as Washington lost to the Browns. The score at De- | H. R._ E,}troit was 4 to 1 and at St. Louis Toledo 6 11 2/5 to4. St. Paul -9 16 1 The Yanks further demonstrated | Batteries; nt and Schulte;!their need for new material, for |Kolp, Johnson and Collins, which Ed Holly is searching on the H.R. #,| Pacific coast, by losing to the White It so happened on the day | columbus & 9 2] Sox again, 8 to 4, alter the contest that Nelson, |atinncapolis ... 9 9 0] Boston won from Cleveland, 12 Rudy and I took Iunch togeth: |” fatteries: Northrop, Foulk and|to 11. er, One’ could never forget how | t; rban; Hall and Ainsmith, Pars ote Nelson enjoyed the company of | Hi sR. 5. in Unholz. ze was as comical a | taianapolis 4 Cummings Leader man as I ever listened to, Milw ; | We all ordered oysters, and when |""nateree: “Henry, ‘Dumont spe| 22 Western Amateur the waiter sald, “What kind, folks?" | menske, Robertson and Florence;|_ LOCHMOOR COUNTRY CLUB, tab" said. * ign eae aaa TRIE "\Detroit, Mich, July 14,—Finishing aia o i Gcieeniey Sitar H. Rb, |With a score of 68, four under par nd ‘what kind will you have, |Loulsville ............. 3 11 1{made in two 84's, Dexter Cummings, sir?” asked the waiter, addressing | Kansas City wsses 2 9 9/8. 7OUNE Chicago collegiate” golfer, Unholz, In all seriousness the lat-| Tincup and Redman; Keenan, |!¢4 the field of 145 golfers Monday ter replied, “South African," Koupal_and Snyder. OF nO Nad a ee: eae dual aa ata thea ndadehiie sand x mabey ios Anise round of the Western amateur cham. thought he would split his sides, ae ee 0h NATIONAL ] ( ATHLETICS HIT CHICAGO, July 14.—The Philadel phia American ball club is leading Pittaburg Won “et Pet. ! the league in hitting, which is small Newyiee i: tag | Wonder considering the coterie of Brooklyn cy 300 swatters the lank Connie pos- binder * sesses, Eleven batters are in the Philadelphia Hy -800 circle, with Bill Lamar topping Chicago 4a tho regulars with a mark of 394. Boston 49 Simmons and Hale are close bs At Brooklyn— RH. Pittsburg 9 Brooklyn Batteries; Gooe and Aldridge Hubbell end Taylor, Smith, BOXING At Philadelphia— oR. H. By St. Louls ..... ’ 2 13 0 TONIGHT ee Mh Sia Re | FIRST BOUT 8130 SHARP attortes Reinhart and O'Far- AS rell; Decatur, Couch and Wilson, COAST LEAGUE BALL PARK At New York R HOR, Take Fourth Ave. Cars Chicago UAT Witt} Auspices Austin & Salt, Inc. New York EVRA ae rT} wy j Greenfield Snyder, of Tacoma At Boston— Ri H, OB cineinnatl « «aif ERNIE GOOZEMAN Boston | MS CA ama Batterles; Benton and Kruger; | alla lat OTHER ALL TAR BOUT 4 Ladies Cordially Invited Kota on sale at Druxman's, Barnos, Marquard and Gibson, Former Cub Player Figures in Barter Catcher Blood Wirts, former Chicago Cub player, has been trad. ed from Minneapolis, of the Ameri | ean association, to San Antonio, of Oceldental and 140) dim) Purstey" cat Austin & 0 Ninth Ave, corner the Texas league, it was announced recently, The Minnies. get. George Brovoid, an infielder, for the trade, Ringalde 8: Renerved $1.05 General Adminston §110