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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-05-21
Prep Tennis
Meet Start
on Thursday

TUE Seattle high school city ten.
L mis- tournament vas scheduled to
get under way at the Woodland park
courts this afternoon. the first
matches being played a, $40.
Tho feature match in tho frs,
round was expected TO be between
Alex winston OF Roosevelt, and Tru
soft Of Garfield. Normal whIttet OF
Ballard and Johnny Crawford. West
Seattle. were booked as even. while
Dennis Murray. OF Queen Anne, WA
given the edge 10 beat Elmer BaFcus
OF Ballard.
Howard Langlie. considered this
best net player In the prep League
and Carl English Of Queen Anne
hook up In tho best bill OF the sec
ond round that starts at 40.
TOBAY's SCHEDULE
First Round. $50 +. VI.
Morgan. Q. A., vs.. Peterson. Car.
Cartano. w s.. vs.. Cook. Linz
Trusotf. Gar, vs.. Winston, Roos
Matasuka. Br., Vs. Hack. q. a.
whittet. Bal. vs. Crawford. Q. 4.
Carlson. Fr.. vs.. Hogan. Roos
Godfrey. w. s.. vs.. Dickens. FIR.
Murray. Q. A.. VS.. Barene. Bal.
Second Round. 40 r VI.
Ncwkirl. Lin. VIZ. Nordstrom. Br.
Benton. Roos.. VS.. Clarke. Gar.
Ianglic. Rons. vs. English. Q. A.
spaadecker. Gar, vs.. Calvin. Br.
Mcpherson. Br., VS.. Meth. Lin.
Anderson, Bal, w. Cox. Fir.
D. Brown. FIR. vs.. II. Brown, Bal
Brownell. Lin. w. Mills. w. S.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-05-21
Turenne Great "Getter"

rs the past decade there hasn't been
4 high class tennis player who
could compare with Leon Turenue,
the present Seattle ace. IN one rn.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-05-21

Nurmi has split with his manager.
The comment on this being obvious,
you are petitioned please not TO
make IL.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-05-21
Coasts New
Hurlers Are
MakingGood
Flock Of New Mounds
men Wins for Various
p. c. League Clubs

WHEN you baseball fans cast n
w critical oyT over the batteries Of
the various Coast league teams these
days many new pitchers monlcksrs
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-05-21

Esters, his tcamnate, has been aid.
ing the leaders also. by turning in
some sensational fielding stunts.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-05-21
Footfault
Penalties
RareHere
NET UMPS LAX
Henry Blake Says Service
Rule Should be Enforced
BY LEO IL. LASSEN

LoorFAuLTS, stepping over the
Il service line before hitting the
hall. arc seldom called By tennis um'
niros in matches played in Seattle
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-05-21
OAKS SWAMPED

LOS ANGELES, May 2l.--Los
Angeles defeated Oakland here ycsA
terday In q WHO game, IA to ..
The score; r. II, u.
Oakland ,t., .,.t,.c 10 7
Los Angeles ...,.,.. IA II /
liatterlcs-- Foster, Fowler and
Mcdonald; Crandnll and Sanberg.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-05-21
Coast League
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
RESULTS

Los Angelica ID. Oakland 4.
San Francisco 4. Vernon 2.
sca,,lc-salt Lake. rain.
Portland Sacramento, rain.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-05-21

Batteries Harrison. Brooks. Knud.
son and Bliss: s. Jones. Mccoman
and walby.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-05-21
TIGERS LOSE

SAN FRANCISCO. May 2l.---Thc
leaders won from Vernon here yes.
a ~.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22

holder Of the record at 200 yards.
Wyckoff, an extremely powerful
swimmer. was the winner OF both
the 100 and 220.yard free style swim
in the Intercolle last season.
While these are the stars Of the
team. Ortland has some other good
men. He has two very good quar-
Lermilers In Coale and Turner, the
former, comparatively inexperi-
cnced swimmer, taking q fourth
place at the distance in the Inter
collegiates last year. Creecy. is the
best man at the 100 and 220 outside
Of Wyckoff
For the spirits and two places In
the relay. Rule and Wyckoff being
certainties for the others. there are
Rogers, Lee, LaHardy and Prince,
Rogers makjnk a particularly good
showing. This was a weak point
Tor the Navy last year, two Of the
swimmers In the event being only
mediocre.
Cooper win be the only fancy
diver at present. DaiseIy, another
good one. having broken his leg
playing company football. How
ever. he may be In shane TO com.
pete late in the season. Both are
above the average in this event.
and are likely TO improve.
The swimming schedule follows,
all the matches being at the Acad.
envy unless noted: January 80. Uni.
versity Of Pittsburgh; February. 6.
Rutgers; February 10, Syracuse:
February 90. Washington and Lee:
February q. Catholic University;
March s, Princeton lat Princetori)::
March Is, Lehigh; March 90, Yale
tat New Haven); March 81, Intor-
collegiates lat New York;; April p
8. National Collegiate Champion
ships.
Much interest is being taken in
the national championships, the only
national event in college swimming,
which will be held this year, with
the Naval Academy as host.
Coach Foster has a good squad
at work at waterproof. and af~good
team is expected. O'Bierne AMI
Schanze are two brilliant players
left from last year, and Aichel, a
big football tackle, is doing good
work at goal. Other places will be
filled from capable and hard |
working squad.
The water.polo team has these
dates: February IS, Syracuse; Feb.
ruary 20, New York Athletic Club;
March 6. Princeton lat Princeton);
March 20, Yale lat New Haven).
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22
De MARCO GETS
ROUGH DEAL

NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec. o.
Pal Moran. New Orleans light
weight. and the judges were the
only gentlemen present who be-
lieved that Moran had the better
of 15-round bout with Cuddy
DeMarco, Pennsylvania flash, here
Moran was given a decision, which
was universally unpopular and
brought bowls of protest from the
crowd.
Moran proved a clever defensive
fighter, but DeMarco was fast and
able TO land with either hand to
advantage. His left jab worried the
New Orleans boxer throughout and
he closed Moran's left eye and
split his lips in the early rounds.
Moran scored with long range
punches while DeMarco led most
of the time and landed from all
angles.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22
Pop Bottle Heavers
Resent Magazine
AS Weapon

The Minnesota boxing fans
appear to have grown too lit
erary to suit the commission.
! OF course, it was not very polite
Of them to throw magazines into
Minneapolis ring to signify
their disapprOval Of q decision,
but it couldn't have been such
good fight, anyhow, If the
customers took along reading
matter to entertain themselves.
a Baseball fans in q couple of
big league towns also resent
the actions Of the Minnesota
spectators. They say it estah-
fishes q bad precedent.
How come these guys get so
literary !" one Of them pro-
tested. Don't they have pop
bottles IN Minneapolis First
thing you know, this magazine
business win get to be q fad,
then where'll we be? Imagine
chucking 3 magazine at an UNI
pire! / tell you, this thing
ought to be stopped before it
goes any further. It's not for
the best interest Of sport. Pop
bottles always have been chucked
and we should stick to old GUS
toms. Could Whitley Witt have.
stepped on . magazine in such
q manner that it would fly up
and bean him? No, sir; let's
stick to the good little old pop
bottle"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22
Johnny HOLDEN
ENTERS NEE

NEW YORK. Dec. 22.-Another
trio of track stars were added to
the galaxy who will appear in the
Christmas fund meet in the Thir-
teenth Regiment Armory, Brooklyn.
tonight. They are Cecil Cooke. OF
Syracuse University, national quar-.
ter-mile champion; Johnny Holden.
N. Y. A. c., half-miler, formerly
of Georgetown University, and
Albin Stenroos. Olympic marathon
champion.
The "440'' will bring together
Jimmy Burgess, of Georgetown.
and Cooke. In the two-n.ile run
entries include Joe Donovan, Sig
Greenafege and Walter Gegan. al;
of Georgetown, and Teddy Swan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22
At 70 RIVGsTER
IS burnt OUT

Somewhat lugubriOuB reports con.
time to drift northward regarding
young Billy StribIing, the pre-
cocious light heavyweight from
Georgia. They say now that Strib-
ling, not vet tWent y-o11e years Qt |,
age, lis burnt out. shot TO pieces 20
far as his future ring efficiency II
concerned
stribiing. not vet old enough Il
vote, is actually q veteran Of the
ring, veteran Of at least $50
fights. If he II ready for the
scrapheap now it should not be an
overwhelming surprise to the world
in general Most OF the boys have
bartender has been given much
more work than has been good for
him.
IL Pa Stribling, Ma StribIing and
the rest OF the Stribling family that
collabOrates upon the business or
managing young Billy have ruined
the goose that laid the golden eggs.
they have only themselves TO blame.
And if the StribIing goose Is, cooked,
it win not be-,the first time that
such q situation arose.
The bugs OF another generation
viii remember Eddie Han1on, OF San
Francisco, one Of the fightinsest
young featherweights the boxing
business ever saw. HanIon started
fighting at the age of fourteen and
battled Abe Attel and frankie Neil.
two future champions, in his first
year of boxing.
At the ace OF sixteen. Hanlon
fought Neil to a fifteen-round draw,
and knocked out Morris Rauchs Kid
McFadden and Maxey Haugh. He
was seventeen when he held At
tell, Young Corbett and Benny
Yanger to twenty-round draws and
not yet eighteen when ne knocked
ont Kid Broad. Then some wise
manager sent this undeyeloped
eighteen.year-old kid in against
Battling Nelson, and Hanlon after
leading most of the way, was
knocked out in the nineteenth
round Not satisfied with that his
manager selected Terry McGovern
as Hanlon's next opponent. Nc
Govern stopped the Frisco boy IN
four sensational rounds.
That ruined the promising young
Aanlon completely. He was only
nineteen. but he never amounted 20
rnuch afterwards. He fooled around
with Indifferent success Tor while
and finally quit the business alto.
gether at the ripe old age OF
Hanlon alone, is justification enough I
for the rule OF the New York State
Boxing Commission. which prohiDlts
any young men under twenty-one
from engaging in bouts OF longer
than six rounds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22

SCOT, 900 how much they nave Deen
But estimates have placed the fig
ures beyond $3,O0O.0O0.
He was paid $4,000 for four
minutes work against Luis FirpO:
Georges Carpenter into submits
sion. The Tom Gibbons
fight yielded $265 900, the Bill
Brennan duel was worth 500, 900,
and he was paid $65, 900 for knock
ing off Billy Miske,
He has starred in several movie
serials. he gained money through
the sale OF the pictures taken Of his
fights. He has made many
vaudeville tours and gone on sew.
eral remunerative exhibition tours.
Why doesn't Dempsey know how
much he has earned?
S Because we'll, here's his
own recital:
When Kearns and hooked up
in 1917 l told him he could have so
per cent of my earnings but that
out of his end he would have to
pay operating expenses such as
railroad fares, hotels, etc.
That. agreement remained in force
until we split. We never
had a written contract from 1917
until 1928 and we made one then
only because the New York State
Athletic Commission wouldn't let ms
fight F,irpo until we had complied
with their rules, and made a writ
ten contract
Except for the Firpo fight.
never collected anv of the money
made =. Kearns collected 1t
We didn't keep any books
or records-not for our joint &C
count Kearns would just
take the money and when he'd
think of it, or I'd ask. him. he'd
give me my share. ] gen
orally got less than / figured
should get, because Kearns would
teH me about some big expenses he
had to meet which he
said it was only fair that both of
US should pay jointly. although
figured he orght to be paying II
out of that SO per cent / was al
lowing him, against the usual 25 or
80 1-3 per cent that a fighter gives
his manager"
And SO was conducted $1,000
600 partnership that endured for
something like eight years; bust
ness in which the real Garner
never handled TIis own money and
never knew the exact share that
was his due.
Through all the years, Kearns
zealously guarded Dempsey from,
women. Enemies of Kearns
insisted he was trying to keep
Dempsey out of matrimony because
he feared, IL the champion married,
that his wife would object to the
business methods pursued.
But Kearns maintained that II
was because of his conviction that
love and marriage and a worlds
athletic kingship nexer mixed.
Despite the watchfulness OF
Kearns, women came into the life
of Dempsey; they came to be his
friends his admirers; to idolize him
and to bask in the reflected glory
that is the portion of a monarch
of pugilism. Yet few lin.
gered long. For Kearns,
ever vigilant, was relentless in eff
forts to efface women from the life
OF Jack Dempsey.
By one means and another-and
stt1 Othays-things happened which
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22

'.TIesitation BAH, shot back
Ehmke as we staggered to get our
breath.
Don't smile, he went on. .sI'm
not kidding at all. / mean that
my bestb bet IS the hesitation ball. !,
We urged him to keep on firing
away and this Is how he explained
the hesitation ball.
.'WelI, back il the Detroit
training camp in the South Iii
1920 ! started working on this
ball, using IL against Cobb and
Heilmann In batting practice, and
! now have got Il down fine.
As you remember i take long
windup just as did when wore
a Syracuse Uniform But after
being in the bis show four years
began to get d little bit wise and
could see the batters timing my
windup perfectly and could also
perceive that they were stepping
forward in perfect rhythm with
my pitch. I figured out In my
mind that IL could delay or lesi-
tate q little bit with the motion
after had swung away back that
would pun the batter off his bal
ance and he would not be able to
nit me so effectively 1 worked on
that for a long time and now I
have mastered it so that I get by
pretty web with that little hitch
In the motion that is not noticed
by the batter.
Il mix it up by slowing nm
somewhat now and then on nv
last ball and then occasionally
shooting curve bali which BAT.
Hes many Of the hitters in Ban
Johns loop
So we have given you the secret
OF Howard Ehmke's best bet when
he is on the mound.
Ehmke left Syracuse for Detroit
yesterday. after holding a confer.
ence with George B. "Cy'' Thurs
ton, graduate manager of athletics
on the hill, regarding the sale Of
a tarpaulin to cover the Archbold
stadium gridiron and baseball dia-
mond.
Howard plans to pay a visit to
the University of Michigan and
the University of Illinois shortly
after the holidays. He has been in
vited to >show the pitchers Of the
two colleges a few pointers and he
will spend a day or two at each
college
He may or may not show how
he pitches the hesitation ball.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22
SCOUTS FORCE
Bis LEAGIUERS

This secret service system OF
baseball often develops some anus
ing situations. Bill Friel. business
manager of the ST. Louis Browns,
offers an incident to prove that
even the best Of scouts through
loneliness, lose their knowledge of
players and the game.
One spring a group Of scouts were
In the st. Louis stand watching
the Browns at practice. Aaron
Ward, Of the Yanks, was working
out with the st. Louis club to be
ready for his return to the New
York club after an illness.
HE made two or three brilliant
stops says FrieT, land, handled
himself beautifully. 1t would seem.
impossible to mistake his big
league. !"
who is that fellow out there?'
asked one OF the scouts.
why said F'riel. winking at
another scout, II don't know his
name-some fellow WHO wants a
chance. I've got his letter down at
the office"
The scout grew interested and
finally when Ward made a brilliant
double play the scout suddenly
arose.
I'm going to find out who that
bird is he declared. He looks
pretty good"
He came back indignant. why
that is Aaron Ward of the Yanks"
he said.
Yes said Friel land i'm this
whole stand you-a big league
scout-are probably the only one
who didn't know it"
Despite the enormous amounts
expended annually in digging up
material that incident may explain
why so many mistakes are made.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22

Under Coach Henry Ortland. the
Naval Academy swimming team has
made splendid record and is
frankly out for the highest inter
collegiate honors this season. This
honor was won two years ago, and
last season, the Naval Academy
team was ranked second to Yale.
This season it looks as IL 1t should
win back the first place.
The Naval Academy. relies large
~ upon three great swimmers,
Rule, Allan and Wyckoff. Arthur
Rule. who is captain of the team,
stands alone as the only swimmer
holding intercollegiate records In
two styles OF swimming, as he has
the high figure for the 5O-yard
dash, free style and the 15O-yard
backstroke.
Rule played football the early
mart Of last winter, and did not
get into his real stroke until late.
On account Of his failure to reach
his standard, the Navy lost
though it afterwards defeated that
team m the intercollegiate Assoc
citation finals and the National
Collegiate championships.
Rule, and consequently the
Navy team. did not strike Its real
form until it reached the National
Collegiate championships at Chica-
go, which the midshipmen won
nandily. Yale, however, did not
have its team in this competition.
In Allan. the Naval Academy has
the best breast stroke swimmer in
college ranks, it is believed, and the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22

In the far.flung days OF 1910,
Jack Dempsey was fighter almost
unknown beyond the western min
ing camps. He debuted in New
York, that year receiving $27 for
one fight, $47 for second, and
500 for the third. Thereupon he
was voted "a western bohunk that's
going nowhere in particular" I'm
mediately afterward Dempsey, dis
gusted, trekked back to his home
In the land of the setting sun and,
when he was dealt setback there,
decided to hang up his mittens and
get himself some nice truck-driy-
ing or farming job.
Just about then Kearns doomed
UP in the Dempsey offing
Kearns had been fighter in his
younger years Later he be-
came a manager : He had
seen Dempsey in action. he liked
his style, he figured that Dempsey
had gameness. terrific punch and
ability to take ring lacing- and
still carry on Dempsey
looked like meal ticket"
"You need a little polishing
up," said Kearns to Dempsey. 81
can give you that. - After
that I'll send you against some
soft ones until you get the nee
essary experience and learn some
tricks. Then you can
take on the tougher and still
tougher ones and some day Ill
toss you I'm with Jess Willard and
you'll be champion" :"
1t was like sweet music to Demp.
ReV,R ears He loved to
battle; from smuggling fists or
gloves-he derived the ultimate
pleasure in those days. He
had been fighting for $3.50, IS. $40
and SIS purses-and thought he
was cheating the promoters. The
time he received the 500 he
thought the money counterfeit. And
now here was a man who was talk
ing Of $500 and 81 900 purses and
$4,000 purses-and a possible
worlds Championship.
Dempsey wasn't sure that Kearns
was sober, sane or serious-but he
CHANGED all of them.
Its all o. K with me-, said
- 80 9''-' :
For a few weeks Kearns tutored
Dempsey. Then he turned
him loose. That was in
1917. -" In a trifle more
than. two years Jack Dempsey with
his cyclone attack, his fists of steel
and his lion-hearted COURAGEOUS
from the obscurity of a mining
camp slugger to the crest of the
fistic world; Jack Dempsey, the
self-condemned pugilistic failure o.
1917-was king of all the fistic
kings in 1919-An immortal in the
realm of whirling gloves.
In the years of Dempsey's reigr
his earnings have been staggering
in their size. How much they have
been-the exact totals something
that Jack Kearns alone knows
Dempsey frankly comedies that he
doesn't know within s25e.0O0 tt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22
CATHOLIC U. IS LISTED
BY BOSTON COLLEGE

NEWTON, Mass, Dec. 22.-The
1926 Boston College football SEIZED
ule was announced today. as fol-
lowsl October 2, Catholic Univer.
sity; II, Fordham; %, ST. Louis at
St. Louis; 80 West Virginia Wes-
leyan; November 6, Villanova; 12,
Haskell Indians; 20, Providence Col
lege; 81, Holy Cross. All home
games are scheduled for Boston.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22
KID KAPLAN WOULD FIGHT
AS JUNIOR LIGHTWEIGHT

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-PernTis-
sion to abandon his class and fight
as a junior lightweight until a
suitable featherweight challenger
has been developed will be asked of
the New York State Athletic Com
mission by Louis kid Kaplan,
worlds featherWeight champion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22
.KEbRNS Pays DEARLY
TO LEARN D[MPSEY's
LOVE IS HONEST.
By FRANK C. MENKE

Estele Jack Kearns only
had the thing that's
41tuaon--but there Estele and Kearns didn't know
athletic
history gone crashing the rocks.
dainty wisp girl petite and wnsome, who speaks but he
yet whose actions and whose expressive speak more
than could the cmaxng in the split
Jack Dempsey that ended partnership that had
yielded Keans something like $OO00O and destined to paT
him nerhan more - 8 b
The entire of the Dempsey Kearns partnership strange
with quaint and astonishing
wa mans being written into it
anao final
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-22
Soldiers Take Pair

Two basketball teams Of Com
pany 'F'' of the Hyattsville Ma
tional guard won games. The first
team defeated the Calvary IA. =.
team IL to 16. while the reserves
of each team went the limit and
the churchmeh lost ~ to 81.