The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 22, 1925, Page 13

[oF Ah don't know TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1 Farmer “Scared to Death” When He Battled Langford Tacoma Veteran Held Like Vise Thruout Four) Rounds With Boston Tar Baby in Arena Fight; Langford One of Famous Ring Characters By Lonnie J Austin {AS TOLD TO LEO H. LASSEN) | CHAPTER XX, | IERHAPS the story of the Frank Farmer-Sam Langford fight at the Arena a few years ago is too recent to be included in a series of this sort, but it was one of the out- standing scraps of the past 20 years in Seattle from a point of interest that the story, altho fresh in the} minds of the fans who saw it, should recall plenty of incidents to make it worth while. | Langford, since gone blind from his long | tenure of service in the ring, was no longer | the Boston Tar Baby of the palmy days when he was a terror of the heavyweights, but he was still good enough to lick the | average fighters posing as such and his ring | fame struck terror into the hearts of his oppenents and he had half of them licked before he ever entered the ring. AUSTIN with the gloves, was more scared that night | than any fighter I ever saw in the squared circle. Before the fight started Langford waited until Farmer went into the ring first and then fussed around his dressing Sept to ANGFORD was one of the truly j In their first scrimmage last | Friday they both showed a weakness on being drawn in on end runs, which Bell must | remedy before Starts, the season is one of the Par. the | the potentialities In room for fully 10 minutes, / letting the Tacoman sit in his || Colonels Will corner to think things over. || ~ Langford finally made his appear Battle Seals ance, dressed in flashy bathrobe, and Q AN FRANCISCO, nearly every one of the thousands|| ) 4 ninegame series between Present stood up to get their first/} 4. Louis aus “of tha Ane look at the famous colored heavy erfcan association and the Ban swetetst. Francisco Seals has been sched- Langford was certainly an tmpos || ied open here October 22, ing sight, and, odd, to say the least. || owners of the local club an when he disrobed. He was very|] hounced Monday. short In stature, had an extremely Ths peblin Gt Gealinemet anes large head, with his left eye badly Wrawntics wink the Paci Pounded and sightless. His huge| Coast league championship arms looked very menacing and Gdauace oe that aekaer showed punching power. In spite 0, the Seals have a lead of of a huge “bay window,” Lansford|| ning full games over Salt Lake, was in good condition and had}! 1. second place trained faithfully for the ma referee called them tnto the W's of the ring and big beads Three More popped out all over Farm oi bald head and his knees shook | ne it For four rounds all Farmer ans Soames | Cinch Flag clinch after another. Lanford eis ie ee knocked him down for a nine Sat or Bice gaaee count along about the third retoaining on -thelr round with a short left hook to achetéla~ wit ‘de the chin that didn’t travel four tear tbe. Sekfonal Inches, league pennant for ‘The fight turned out to be such a 1925 to the Pitts terrible frost because of Farmer's burg Pirates who cold feet that the Tacoman was haven't heard the Darred for a year here. | gentle rustie of Before this, Farmer had put up} ere ap thal some very creditable bouts, and has! o since, too, but that night was ono vn ee \paialedaraigl Lictoy a that the Kapowsin logger would like |), aloes, * . We athoct age eas A pebgent bang battle in which there was much loose hitting and looser field-| ing, considering that the Phils got famous figures of the ring. No-!11 hits and the Pirates a dozen. body knows how old he fs, not even} Even if the Giants should win all Sam himself. He was working out/of their remaining eleven gamen id gymnasium down on First) they can’t win if the Pirntes win \o somebody asked Sam his|three, The Pirates, therefore, need jonly two victories In nine games to “gh dunno,” answered Sam. “You| te even ifthe Giants sweep along to isee, it was this way: When Ah was |the end without losing a game ot Fhorn my mother notched the date ball. The Giants were idle Mon- on an old tree in our yard in Nova|#y. by the way, because of rain| Scotia and one night a big storm |!" St. Louts. Tcame up and blew down the tree, so] In the American league the sttua- my birthday and|ton Isn't changed because the Sen- neither does any of mah sisters For | to were idle Monday, while the en Athletics won from the Tigers in yeaa | Philadelphia, 10 to 7. If the Sen- (Mo Be Continued Tomorrow) — | ators play .417 ball and win five of Cg p pra | their remaining 12 gamea they will! YALE CAPTAIN | be “in” even if the Athletics win | Y BELOST) 3 MA rag NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 22—| POOR BATTLE. Johnny Joss, captain of the Yalo| CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—After many | football team, has a serious attack | postponements, the bout between Ad! of sinus trouble and may be lost| Stone, of Philadelphia and Ernio| for the season. He Is still confined| Owens, of Los Angeles, was held to the hospital and it is certain| here last night at East Chicago that he will be able to play in| with Stone winning the decision in| the early games. a poor 19 round bout. St Possibilties 1 Green Lincoln Gridders EDITOR'S NOTE—This ts the six! of @ series of pre-season re- views of the Seattle nigh school elevens by Henry ¥. Blake, football expert of The Star. By Henry F. Blake IAN Walter Bell put Idncoln,) ‘There ts some mighty promising ev iisshe serct alcog with | |_material for tackles in Stidham, Broadway, back on the football | Hall, Olstad and Eckmann. The Gap? | latter weight over 190 pounds and The former) he’s fast and a good tackle. Oistad Queen Anne! ts the other outstanding man at this coach is taking | up the duties of | Position. tutoring the Lin-| Knox, 198. pounds, coln eleven after | lending candidates for guard; a year or 0 lay-| ker, Finlon and Thrasher are off and the) other men fighting it out for the Northenders are! other position Woontha <0: iil Melntyre has Yirst choice for to regain some) center, but at present isa little of the Railsplit-) wild in his passing. Plenty of ters’ lost prest-| hard work should fron out this ge on the grid-| fault, and he will make one of iron. the best centers in the city. Bell faces 4) De Bruler and Rols are having a . wig wevero task IM} pretty fight for quarterback, BLAKE trying to mold | or the backfield, the outstanding & machine out| boy is Strong, who played on tho of the green material that repasted | Hroadway freshman team two years to him this fall. He has the heave! ago, He is fast and a strong run. est bunch of linesmen in the city, | ner, but ft remains to be ween whether) titer, Reld, Hokum and Walker he can teach them enough football are the most promising of the other to cope with the more experienced backfleld aspirants, players on the other squads, Wer Cullbasie Piosperie i tas Tough Opener call over the others. Bell has an added hurdle to make Bell is depending upon him in that he must send bis charges aml Strong for the punting end against Garfield, one of the strong.| of the game. eat teams in tho league, in the| ‘There aro great op game of the season on| this team; it remains to be seen | Or 2. | whether Bell can mould it into a re is only one letterman | machine in the short time before on the team, Asbury, the col- | the opening of the season, ored end who played so well oe last year, Parfitt is the other Yednesday Blake will review outstanding wing man to date, the West Seattle eleven. & at Farmer, in spite of his great experience | Ca! | him | they were traveling, ped Shade with a right swing to Cham pion Decision Victor |New York Battle Goes! Limit of 15 Rounds; Tough Battle By Westbrook Pegler i INGSIDE, Yankee Stadium, York, Sept, 21.—Mickey Walker welterweigt champion of the world, parted his face toothlens, of foyous astonish nu Monday night when Joe Humphreys, the announcer at the fights in precincts in a bloody grin ment about o'clock prize these imparted amazing that he, Walker the dec Dave rounds of the news Mich ad w after 16 had corner to corner, had beaten th teeth out of his head, hy to the wrong cé after ¢ rounds, and conquered him in all respe of a kn lammed Walker from very rer uutive ta shor after it waa all over Joo Hum col- tle voting slips from the refree Judges, and amid a throbbing ailence that held the announced NER AND hreys climbed thru the ropes, ted the | and two crowd, w | WORLD'S CHAMPION “The winner and still champion of the world, Mickey Walker.” reckless fer only be compa ween Jack Dempsey Firpo. after three years of . hankering, pleading and bleating to the boxing commis sions of the land for a chances at Mickey Walker's title, was meet ing Mickey in the ring with full permission to knock him as silly as possible, Walker had been }in his training | barely pounds, After the first cautious em- brace Walker sent some muscu- lar slams bouncing off Shade's ribs and Davy broke ground, only to come back with » fire of straight, clean shots at the Jaw, which almost floored Wal- ker and brought the crowd leap- ing up from the chairs all over the huge stadium, Shade pulled further tn front tn} in round two, for this 1 him not only willing to inches with Mickey fed the hardest puncher of his weig but able to outpunch him in the exchanges. 1t wan Walker who broke out of step in the second and Shade again nailed In face with well almed swings and punches of both gloves: SHADE’S STYLE drawn too fine and Shade, who thad welght of 147 the atrong ma: wa | 18 PUZZLING Walker was swinging a bit as early as the third because Shade was gty- ing him a puzzling combination of head rolling, crouching, swatting and stand-up fighting, Walker was forced to stand off, setting himself for his leap, but before he could take the spring his nose would intercept three or four left pokes, Walker would ride Into a clinch, and his head would spring back from a series of uplifted rights to the mouth, In the aixth Walker, who peered! to be weaken!ng from the wild galt suddenly clip- the point the alarm brought his of the in chin Dave's seconds that rang corner and crawling up | the steps to the ring side with thelr towels nalte, he had club and smelling Walker saw what and he meced in to done Shade -| down by sheer force and frequency. But after Mickey had corked Dave with another right swing and a left on the chin, he was punched out for the moment and couldn't wriggle loose from Dave to throw In the finishing punch. Walker, lost some teeth in the llth and his mouth became a gory gap thru which he was wheez- ing for breath, Senators to Be h A Champs—Huggins NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Wash- ington will win the world’s series from Pittabury Miller Huggins, manager of the New York Yankees, said today. he Senators have better pitcher that they are nerles.” They have shown better in a short FINE THREE TRIBESMEN LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22.—An nouncement was mado here yester- day by President Harry Williams, of the Const league, that Frank Bra- all, Sterling Stryker and Babe Her- man, Seattle players had been Indefi- nitely suspended for their actions in the second game between Seattle and Los Angeles, Bungay, BACK SWIMMER NEW YORK, Sept, 22,—Contin- uing to stand behind Gertrude Hderlo in her crlticiam of Jabez Wolfe, her trainer, the Women's Swimming nssoclation issued a state- ment in which isle Viets, who chapéroned the channel swimmer, charged that tho English trainer did not use lis best judgment tn handling Misa Ederle, Old man winter must be lurking around the corner, ... The papers Willie Hoppe is challenging Juke Schaefer agin, New | nd Luis a better Infield and | SCRIMMAGE GIVES COACHES LINE ON HUSKIES OUR BOARDING HOUSE SN» Notice YouR PRIZEFIGHTER FRIEND, “BAD NEWS BURKE” | “TH PoLice, ~~ 1 SAW “REE COPS CLUBBIN — WIM YTO A PADDN WAGON LAGT NIGHT! eT RACKET PARLOR, ~~~ GORT OF ANOTHER CHINESE | BOXER REBELLION, | | A sent | Neate PHIM » will switch to. 1S QurTe CLUBRBY Writ 09 ~~ WELL. 1 DO NoT MEDDLE IN ROSCOES VERGONAL AFFAIRS, AGIDE OF WIG RING ACTININIEG! » T Am nio FiGkT MANAGER, wot HiG GUARDIAN bs G MUZLLED, MATOR | = ' “How to Tackle;” Bagshaw Tells About Defensive Art on Gridiron By Enoch Bagshaw yers. ! BY AHERN rf Stemo-h’ FROLIC STARTED OVER A COVER CHARGE,~ AN! ROSCOE FELT HE WAG ENTITLED “To “TAKE “TH “TABLE CLOTH AN’ GILVER- WARE HOME WHTH HIM, GINCE VE PAID FOR ITI Bagshaw Sends itn “Veaine. Tea By Leo NOCH elevens thru th BAGSHAW Line Rhinitis Greeness in First Battle ms Thru Hard Scrimmage Session Behind Closed Gates for First Time This Season; Willamette Here Saturday Lassen sent two Washington eir first scrimmage practice at the Stadium last night and while the workout wasn't any for the fi work of the new approval of the Little rather crisp r the session, poi The | particularly the first string two backfields smoother than could be expected actual gridiron warfare, the linesmen didn’t meet the iant, judging by the emarks that he used thruout nting out their fault worked pretty well, backs. George Guttormsen | worked at quarterback in this combination with young Pat- ten, Bill Charlestom and George Wilson as backs. ot for the other squad, with and Louie Tesreau completing Ww. Rem Amp R: Les Sherman was the piv Pat Wilson, Harold Shidler the backfield. Elmer Tesrea night; he'll fill in at Charles- ton’s place on the first squad. Judd and Don Douglas Nashed en in the first workout, but the tackles, with the ation of Waldron in for plenty of speeche bh. Cutting well at Erickson, s from y and Rice worked at cen- with the latter breaking thru Rice is a bi fellow, overly fast and none too experienced, but he’s going to be hard to keep off the squa tough task in tinuously not Bagshaw faces a moulding 2 new line, but the boys all husky fellows and as fast as the average. They should look | much better by the time they tackle Willamette here Saturday. Bag. shaw hasn't named any definite Mneup as yet, but the boys who worked yesterday will ree action in most of tliat opens the season rinsT ‘rene wy mea the game i Bonamy B, Brix Head Football Coach, University of Washington ACKLING is the most important feature of defensive fdotbull. will disrupt the finest offensive possible, providing, of course, that the defending play-| jers are following the ball, as they should. Correct tackling should be done with the weight of the body behind it and should not be confined to the use of the hands, as is the fault of many high school | and inexperienced pl. | There are three styles of tackling, speaking with perfect conditions pre-| vailing. The toughest of these is the tackle which must be made with the} player coming straight at the tackler. | The tackler should feint with his head, to one side or the other, to dupe} the runner into going into the opposite direction. should throw his head and body in that path which he figures the runner he runner should be hit on the shoulder, describing an are about his body. Clean, hard tackling |,\/ Dutra Qualifies LYMPIA, CLUB, Chicago, Sept. 22.—A chilly drizzle dampened the courses of this, club, today, as 32 survivors of the And then the tackler) with the arms The head should be brought i in close to} quatitying round started tho firs the runner’s body to prevent injury to the head and to the nerves inj round of match play in the Pro- the shoulder. runner, BAGSHAW | This is the perfect most important thing is body contact, which throws the runner oft his feet. Grabbing with the| hands brings in the danger of their | alipping on the moleskins, and the lrunner gots. away But if you! | knock him off hia feet, he isn’t go. jing very far. | And then there ts the tackle with the runner coming at an angle. The tackler should fig- ure to drive about a yard and a half beyond the runner, This will insure him plenty of body drive when he does hit his man. | The head should be in front of | the runner when the tackle is | made, and the arms the same as described in the head-on tackle The drive ts the important thing hore, and the tackler, too, must often leave his feet. Tackling from behind is merely a matter of courage. Tho tackler must timo his dive and must simply be brave enough to fling himself at the runner at any point above the| knees, below them being called clip. ping, and that is a foul under the rules. So, In tackling, the body con- tact, hitting with the shoulders, with the arms in an are and using a wristlock after hitting a man and bringing his head in close to the body, to prevent In- juries, are the important essen- tlals. Tackling should be practiced both | on swinging dummies and in scrim mage, tho formmer for perfecting form and the latter for timing the tackling correct! Cokie; the} (The second of this series on low to Ph noch Bagshaw, will appear In a few days, along with another diagramed play for the high school and independent players of the Northwest. ‘The second article will deal with blocking.) NAME SCORER PITTSBURG, Sept. 22,—John Gruber, newspaperman and offictal scorer for the National league in Pittsburg for nearly 36 years, has been chosen official scorer for the world's series games to be played here. "AERIAL DRIL MADISON, Wis, Sept. 22.—Long drills in forward passing are in store for Wisconsin this week, Other faults developed in scrimmage will be corrected, TO KEE) r HEADS U r, LA FAYETTE, Ind., Sept, 22.—An aerial barrage may be puntins beat trick this season, The tentative backtleld \s bert at passing, MU ‘ST BEAT EXAMS EVANSTON, Ill, Sept. 22.—Appre- hension will settle over Northwest: erm tomorrow when half a dozen promising candidates tackle examl- natoins towremoyve conditolnal marks, Tackling should not be done with the hands, weight of the body behind it and the arms should be wrapped around the} one hand grabbing the wrist of the other arm in a lock. almost impossible to break this. but with the! fessional Golfers’ association na tional championship. Chief interest today centered in | the match between Walter Hagen, | defending title-holder, and Al Wat It is x STanclo rod Endrun wn bollancecl Ling. LE blch Tackle Sorel e LT beech © RT. block Guore os RE. and 3 bhch Tachle Guarels come out as in dicated Yor /n terference Ry and Jorn Eon san carries bal as indtc ated! rous of Grand Rapids, Mich., who set the pace yesterday with a | medal score of 140. It was a trick jof fate that pitted these stars | against each other—they drew their numbers out of a ha 4—Mortie Dutra, Aberdeen, Mass. va French, Mehl urse No va. Willie Ogg, Worcester, Howard, C! Onto, Enimett ve, William Derr, Cincinnatt, Ban Francisco; Bobby City, va. Wm. Al Watrous, Gran Pasads Ray home 1, Philadelphia; A | Rapids, vs, Walter | Floride. Hagen, Won +112 102 4 90 83 Lost Pet. Ban Francisco $0 t Lake le. Los Angeles « | Portland Oakland on ramento games scheduled Ning. 5 5 1433 | 4 6 2387 66 Monday; teams DED Won HOW THE SERIES Won +. 4 | Portland | Vernon . 4 | Oaktand 3 | Seattle Balt Lake « Los Angeles ...- GAMES THIS WEEK Seattle at Oakland. Los Angeles at Sacramento. San Francisco at Sait Lake. Portland at Vernon, NATIONAL } There will be the usual Washington special to tha Washington State game with Pullman Inte in the season, Meine nest wan talking over the details of the train with thy railroad men yesterday, Judd Cutting Is du ‘The veteran end verything well the gridiron, and last year's experience should make him doubly valuable. for m big year, Rill Charleston t* doing some allok work In snaring practice, He's going to make a fine understudy ‘for Blmer Tea roau this year, an he has the size und Arive, and the apeed to go with them, George Wilson saw quite a bit of action In the scrimmage yesterday, The groat halfback Is working hard, and {n aplte of hin {iinewn thin he ahould be an food ax over When the big games roll around, a real bid for a wing Job ¢ Washington team, Ho's a lanky follow and pretty active, Darwin Melisnest counted the A, 8, U, W. money fn time to make. the afternoon practice yesterday, the first time the raduate manager has seen the Huskiew ork this fall io Won Lost Pittsburg | New York . | Cincinnatt | Bt. Louls | Brooklyn . Boston . Chicago. | Philadelphia H. TERE TT Crumpler, Oldham, At Pittaburg— Philadelphia. Pittsburg Batterles—Decatur, Couch and Henline; Morrison and Cooch, R. 7 9 Ulrieh, Meadows, At Chici R, Brooklyn Chic ¥ Washington will have » rent kicking threat this year, with George Guttorm- sen and Loule Tesreau on the squad. They are both good punters and drop Klokers. Tes Sherman and Harold 8hid- ler have been doing the placo kicking in practtoa, 2 Ae | 1 Bhrhardt id Taylor; * an Kauffman and Hartnett. H aT) voit jenton, Kamp and Gibso1 jonton, May, Brady aad Hay At Cincinnati— Boston Cineinna Romeo Turom ts still ont of active practice with a sfwht injury, He's going to give Rice and Bonamy a lot of com: petition for the center Job, in spite of hia lack of welght. Tee Sherman ts snappl wtih the same pepper two years ago, and: the veteran) quarterback pe | Grove his aqued until tho men w (AMERICAN | ady to drop. ‘Won Lost Pot. rh 0 4 At St. Louts, game postponed; rain. Bagshaw closed the yonterday, and for th et practice wi dium, Washington + Philadelphia ft, Louls Detrolt ten on the Arent W Toston +. | At Phitageiphte— T undoubtedly | in Pro Tourney FIELDS COUNTRY | the world's largest country | * led u isn't out for practice last song | Trapshooters in the United States re- | cently in session at Dayton, Ohio, during the grand American hadicap shoot there, passed a resolution requesting the ellm- ination of the excise tax on sport arms land ammunition. The bill will be pre- rented to congress at its winter session. see SALMON LAW QUOTED Because of tne misunderstanding prevalent among fishermen regarding the jeatching of salmon, the state fisheries board has requoted the Iaw to clarity Sny doubts existing. It ts as follows: Any person may catch salmon with hook and line in any waters of the stato of Washington below the mouth of any river, lake or stream at such times as it ts lawful to fish for trout therel oe PROVISIONS ree provisions ar ARE MADE made to this rul- mon may be taken dering the closed Period from January 15 to March 16, inclunive, No person aension at an hall havi one time, in his pos- more than 0 inches or Ul the aggregate exceed wful for anyone to have | or take, any salmon of a length of PHEASANTS CLOSED Chinese pheasants in Walla Walls county have been protected for the sea- son of 1925 and until further notice is given by the Walla Walla county game ian patridges and other upland rds are not included in tne re- ‘BUCKY HARRIS BADLY HURT! BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Bucky Harris, manager and second base- | man of the Washington Senators, j will be out of the lineup for at | least a week, and maybe kept out of | th he world’s series by an injury he || Sustained to his hand in the first inning of the game between the | Senators and the Cleveland Indians | here today. | The second finger of Harris* throwing hand was split from the nail to the back of his hand when stepped on it in running Harris down between third and home. | TROJAN’S GRID PILOT IS OUT | LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22.—Fay | Thomas, University of Southern California grid captain, was declar. ineligible here last night for inter-scholastic competition, accord-, |ing to an announcement made by | Professor Hugh Wilett, head of the faculty athletic committee, It is said that Thomas accepted money from a semi-professional basketball team here. PORTLAND, Sept. 22.—Danny | Edwards was outpointed decisively \ here last night by Young National- ista, In the 10 round feature event of the army card. Tommy O'Brien knocked out Babe Foote. ¢ Good 014 Oorinroy— larly true of those fine tailored Trousers, Breeches and snappy Norfolk Coats — tailored pays Bhopa, And jooking| ph? wD ‘her to : rut toys tna ae Ps