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20 Detense Built to Stop Howard Slater Cougar Fullback Threat of Pullman Grid Eleven ng Playing Last Year, Has Had Great Success in Hitting Line; Martin Will Do Kicking; Other Gossip of College Game BY LEO H. LASSEN OWARD SLATER, captain and fullback of the Washington State football eleven, has a busy afternoon mapped out for him by the eleven Washington Huskies that will face the Cougars tomorrow in the last ence football game in the stadium for this year. Slater, a big 200-pound line-smasher, has raised Old Ned with the lines of the teams Washington State has played this year, and Coach Bagshaw figures the big threat of the State will be eliminated if Slater is stopped. later has been watched by Washington scouts, and they know pretty well the style of plays built around him, and their reports Bagshaw has developed a defense with which he hopes to stop this battering ram. While the Husky defense will have a busy time trying to stop Slater, the Cougars have a large afternoon in store for BT SEw ogn sl 00l A el Eddie Huffman I BOBRWkUG 1 TP WGP ISR LS king his sccond start as cventor in Seattle, Eddie Huffman, hard-socking navy Hght Rt, tackles Bob Ropsr at the Pool ncxt Tuesday night, 838 siz-round go.

Huffmar made Mg kit when he beat gney kere gome (ime ago. CTHE TWO BOUTS McCormick-Webster and Cliffe-Griffiths Battles Scheduled for Pool 1 preliminary bouts to the Ed die Huffman'Bob Roper battle have been made up by Matchmaker Nate Druxinman for Tuesday's ring show at the Crystal Pool. George McCormick, a hnrthlttlngl youngster from Hpokane, meets Pep! Wehster, the colored welter, This pair waa supposed to have been matched for the Inland Empire title, but Druxinman induced them to fight here. McCormick recently knocked out Ritchie Davis, the first time the Wallh Walla boy was ever stopped 811 Griffiths and Roy Cliffe, two big fellows, tangle in the four.round special event ind somebody will probably end up on the canvas. Two other prelims are to be added.

Huffman working out at Austin SBait's. Roper is expected In Sat urday from Canada. Landis Receives 2 I Fan Suggestion NEW YORK, Nov. gestion of a fan that the Glant base. ball scandal be given a public Ing and all cvidence and testimony presented to a jury of 22 and sport writers, has been pre- sented to Commissioner Landis, according to Fred Lieb, former presi dent of the Baseball Writers' clation.

00l Johnny Dundee No I Longer Champion? SEW YORK, 21 Johnny Dundee, who resigned ns the world's champlon, will be re garded only as a challenger, and not as a titleholder, If he wants to resume competition in the feather. welght class, George Brower, chalr. man of the New York state boxing commission, sald today, Board Talk i oy of Post-Season The post-season game situation, which is very much up In the at the University of Washington, dus to the refusal of Penn Btate come West, wasn't discussed at last night's meeting of the board of control, according to the A. 8, U. office this morning.

ibl ks An indoor horse polo league has 'bcen formed, but as yet no arrange. ments have beeo made to hold the oxercise of tha Atlantic flect ln oncl of the state them lif they are going to trip up one George Wilson. With anything like a dry fleld (it was raining again early Friday) Wilson will show the boys and girls real running. He has been going wild in practice this week. A lwet fleld cuts down his speed and his swings around the ends ineffective The Pullman team orrives early Friday morning and may work out ithln afternoon, Washington ia holding light signal drill today, the last scrimmage being held last Hoth teams will have thelr full strength in the fleld, Tunney Would Box Gibbons Next Summer YORK, Nov.

Tun. ney, American light. heavywelght champlon, has denled he was afrald to meet Tom Gibbons, and he named the conditions under which 'he would accept match with the St, Paul boxer, I Tunney wants to fight at an show, figuring that a match with Gibbons would draw more at the gate In one of the outdoor arenas than It would in Madison Garden. Gibbons will issue a formal challenge to me and will accept the 1244 per cent share of the receipts, which the rule provides for the challenger, 1 will meet him next Tunney sald. Oregon Regulars in Bad Condition EUGENE, Ore, Nov.

11. Coach Maddock, who has made only one substitution In his Oregon team in the last three games, Is worrying about the injuries which Bliss, Mauts and Terjesen ure nursing. Bliss has not been in a sult this week, while the latter two are suffering from Injurfes received in the Oregon.W, 8 game last week. Huge Crowd Is Due at A Tussle CORVALLIS, Ore, Nov. largest crowd that ever attended a football confest In Oregon is expect ed here Saturday for the Oregon 0.

A. C. contest. A total of 20,000 gents In one of the largest covered lmadmnm on the coast await the and it expected every one be filled. Queen Anne Plays Franklin Today Queen Anne and Franklin will closs high school football scason at Denny field this afternoon, meeting at 3 p.

m. Both teams are In the second division, but the rivalry Is keen between these schools, and a Igood game Is OUR BOARDING HOUSE Golf Gossip and Chatter of Links Here and There. BY ALEX (. ROSE Tm; last of the match play petitions on the 1924 schedule of 'm. Jefferson Park Gelf club will draw 1o close Sunday when Club Captain Dr.

Rey Dawes and George Willlams meet in the 3 -hole final mateh for the cup. Vlay will be en scratch basis as both fi Imlbll have handicap rating of 13. In order to reach the last racket young kuoights of the links had to dispose of pair of men lapd both matches went into extra Skipper Dawes defealing Jack on the 27th green and Paul Pigott losing the eall to Wik on the 19th hole Mml. HOMER DEAN, a very promising lnkswoman, scored a five and four victory agalost Mrs Herman Friese in the final match for the annual trophies donated by Prof. Phil Jefferson at the Everett Country club, Sunday.

The winner received a steelshafted driver and the runner-up a box of golf balls, AL ESPINOSA, the ex-Inglewood professional and Missourl state champion, is being kept busy on the links during his short stay here. He Is billed to play over the new Olympie course today, Palred with Westland he will tackle Ray and Bill Noonan Saturday on the Meadow Park links, Tagoma, and on Bunday, Mortle Dutra, the Aber. deen pro, Walter Pursey, the Ingle wood pro, and Professional Jack Hueston of Earlington will hook up with Espinosa in a 36h01e match the Lake Shore linka, THB Maple Grove Golf club, which ia the name that George Eddy, former professional of the Earlington Country club, has decided upon for his pelf.owned and self-built nine-hole course at Foster, is to be thrown for play about the middlp of next month, It is a very sporty lay. out and will, undoubtedly, recelvs its full share of play from the golfing fraternity. WILLIAM Gets DOLCOM, of the Olymple Golf and Country club, was reminded that there was something lacking to complete this youngest of golfing rendezvous when he was presented with a large flag.

True to form, Billy got busy and the result is that soms day next weoeek he will, with the assistance of several other strong men, ralse the 125400 pole. Prexy Bolcom will then unfurl the flag and hoist It to the top, The pole will be erected between the clubhouse and the first tee, TH! of the 18th falrway at the Inglewood course is being straightened out by the cutting down of the dead trees on the right side the area nbout the 200. yard mark. Not only Is this section going to be Iclqmd out and made part of the falrway, but ths swala on the left side Ix going to be tapered out so that the player will have a comfort. able stance from which to play his shot to the green.

The present contour Is such that a long drive usually leaves the player with an uphiil or downhill stance for his second shot. Six Feathers Fo ighting in Title Bouts NBW YORK, Nov, of the leading featherwelght boxers of the country will meet tonight In Madison Squete garden in three 10. round bouts, opening a series of elimination contests to produce a successor to Johnny Dundee, who recently relinquished tha titla The six boxers, as they are matched tonight, are: Kid Kaplan, Meridian, va Bobby Garcla, Camp Holabird, Md. Danny Kramer, Philadelphia, va. Mike Dundee, Rock Island.

I Jose Lombardo, Panama, va. Lew Salt Lake City, I THE SEATTLE STAR Decision to Roberts; Harper Robbed in Tacoma Bears and Cards Set for Game BY M. TRACY SAN FRANCIBOO, Nov, the of the coast season--the Stanford OCall fornla contest about 24 hours away, the Ban Francisco bay dis trict could take little else serioualy, I Down in the financial district, out thru the resldence sections, in the retall In struggle was the only teple In which real in terest could be arcused, The gume will decide the coast championship. Betting odda changed overnight from even money to 10 to on California, according to Kyne, betting commissioner was due to a multiplicity of that Ernle Nevers, the Stanford fullback, might not iplay at all; the disqualification yes- Itenhy of Norman (leaveland, Stan fastest halfback, and to iscarcity of Stanford money com Ipared to that offered on Callforula, Kyne sald, NO TICRETS The scrambie for tickets was one of the chief features of the pre game activitiea, There lan't a ticket to be had. Rumors of tickets In the hands of speculators are going around, Storles of sales being made at S3O a palr have been heard, It Is known some folks have more tiekets than others, but the sear city of seats at any price seems to indicate no large blocks of tickets has gone into improper 1 hands, College spirit 1s ruming high.

Stanford last night broke loose and captured Collins, graduste stu. dent, who recently attacked the team an baving professionals or near fesstonals on IL STUDENTS ALT The students took him to a tree, where he was put lin a real, old. fashioned pillory, and a card pinted to his breast, reading: Is J. Collins, a traltor to Stanford. He made untruthful re.

marks on a subject hs knows nothing about, He A man without a Collins finally was released, un. hrt, by a group of former varsity football men headed by Fred Ludeke, Both teams are In seclusion at country clubs far from the din and excitement of the campus. Reports were that all were doing fine and all was well with the warriors, 1 California spokesmen expressed re. gret that Norman Cleaveland had disqualified, declaring they to meet Stanford at strength, Gorman Is i Winner Over Gene Delmont Ore, Nov. Gorman, Portland featherwelght, won a 10.

round decision over Gens Delmont, Teninesseo, here last night In recent fight between the two it was stopped in the sixth round llm--wm Delmont leveled a question. able low blow, He watched his Ibo-ly blows carefully last night. Jimmy Sacco, Boston, woni an Imsy decision In 10 rounds over iJohnny Trambilas, Portland. They i fought as welterwelghts, In the preliminaries Eddle Kelly jand George Dixon, feathers, fought a draw; Vie Eades, lightwelght, knocked out Ted Tharton In the first, and Benny Peltz, fiyweight, a decislon from Kid Panama, I With all his prosperity, It can never be truthfully written that the bony Mr. Mack waxed fat on the national pastime.

I BY AHERN Fighting Garland When Roosevelt takes the field tomorrow in the big game with Garfield much will depend upon this young man who not only plays quarterback for the Teddies, but is their safety and punter, Bob Garland is a battler from the word go, and is one of the stars of the season. Roosevelt will cinch the cup with a victory tomorrow, Puote by Fresk Jacohs, Blar Maff Fusvlographer in Annual Game Saturday Yale Favored; Many Teams Completing Their Schedule Saturday; Notre Dame Meets Northwestern; Vanderbilt Plays Minnesota; Big Games for Coast BY HENRY L. FARRELL FTER a most successful season in which public intar. est reached Its highest point, the current football season reaches its finale with a number of good A games tomorrow and a bunch of Thanksgiving day contests next Thursday, Home of the leading crities complained that the tandard of football thruout the season did not com), pare with the game played by the leading teams last year, but It was admitted generally that new attend. ance records made posgible by the large number of new stadia registered the greatost national Interest that ever haa been shown in football, There are a number of open shots on tomorrow's as several of the leading teams are resting up for Thanks- Biving day games The blg game In the East, for tradition if nothing cise, will be played In the big at New Haven between Hnrvard and Yale, While It will bs a rather mild day along the Atlantic seaboard, it will be one of the biggest dayas of the soason In the Western conference, where three most important games are on the card.

Illinoia plays Ohio State at Urbana. Jlowa plays Michigan at Ann Arbor Chicago plays Wisconsin at Chicago and Minnesota plays an intersectional game at Minneapolis agalnst Vanderbilt, one of the leading Southern teams, other gnmes are in the East. ern schedule with the Yale-Harvard game, but only one of them has any real importance and that is the Syracuse-Colgate battle at Syracuse, It is a hard assignment for Syracuse as the team has another game booked for Thanksgiving day against Colum. bia In New York and a fianl game on the Coast against Southern Call. fornia.

Penn State plays Marietta college and then takes on Pittsburg at Pitts. burg next Thursday. While the Navy Is resting up for the Army game In Baltimore a week from tomorrow, the Cadets will put on their final touch of training with an easy gamo against Norwlch at West Point, IN the Missouri valley the competi. tion tomorrow will bo rather light, Kansag and Missourl are rest. ing up for thelr annual Thanksglv.

ing day battle at Columbla and Nebraska, just out of the Notre Dame game, I 8 booked with the Kansas Ag. glea ot Manhattan, Nebraska also has game next Thursday against the Oregon Aggies at Lincoln, and Californin will fur nish the big attractlon on the Pacifie Coast, 1t was handed around before the season opened that Calls fornia wans going to have a terrible team and that Stanford, in the good bullding hands of Glenn Warner, would have the best teanm on the connt, California, however, showed good form In beating Southern Call Cornell and Pennsylvania, getting ready for their annual battle at Philadelphia Thursday are idle and Plttsburg also takes the day off to rest up for the Penn State game, Washington and Jefferson and West Virginla, who are to play at Morgantown on Thanksgiving day have no games scheduled and Dartmouth is thru for the season. Notre Dame offers a feature game in the Middle West with a contest at Evanston against Northwestern, the second "Rig Ten" team on the Notre Dame schedule, Notre Dames goes East again next week for an annual affalr with Carnegie Tech at Pitts. burg and then will have a short rest before starting over again for a trip to the Coast, Alabama, Georgia Tech and Centre are Idle in the Southern sector, Alabama plays Georgla at Birmingham fnext Thursday and Georgia Tech plays Alabama Poly at Atlanta, Vanderbilt, which has been ming. ling, around in the Western confer.

ence for several years, goes to Minneapolis to play Minnesota and then has to jump into the Sewanee game on next Thursday, and ought to give Stanforda real fight. Southern California plays Idaho nt mn Angeles while Stanford and nre battling at Berkeley, Callfornin and Southern Callfornia will pull up after tomorrow's game and start getting ready for the hig Intersectional gnmes against Pennsyl. vanla and Syracuse Seattle Boy Wins Four Rounds After Knockdown Roberts Floors Harper in First Round and Wrestles Him to Floor in Second; Second Round is Even and in Third, Fourth and Fifth Harper Wins gFDDIE ROBERTS floored Bob Harper in the first round (4 of their six-round fight in Tacoma last night. The secjond round was even. MHarper won the third, fourth, fifth and sixth rounds by wide margins, giving Roberts a terrific body beating.

And they gave the decision to Roberts! The Tacoma fans, rooting for Roberts, booed the decision 15 minutes and the anvil chorus was in full swing over the verdict. It must have been very brzguefort. Roberts can sock; nobody argues about that, and it was a clean knockdown that he registered with a punch on the chin in that first round and he half-wrestled Harper to the floor again in the latter part of the session, The second round was even, but Harper won like Calvin Coolidge in those last four chapters, Henry Geysel has a tough time in Tacoma. The young Georgetown kid lost another fight in that city last night in the six-round semi-windup when Jimmy Rivers trimmed him. beat him there recently, Rivers outpointed eysel, Harry Huson, Tacoma middleweight, beat Mike Connor.

Mike Mitchell, the Seattle bantam who is trying a comeback, stopped Ludwig Jones in the second round. Jack Malone and Eddie Flynn, a duet of Tacomans, opened the show with a draw. Frank Brower, the new tosser obtalned lhy the Ban Francisco Sesls, ought to be good hitter In this league. Brower led the Internstional league home runs few seasons ago and hit well with both Washington and Cleveland In the American leagus They say he no wonderful fielder, end lan't very faxt, but should make San Franciseo a valuable man, Brower can play at first base or io the outlield. Clef Brady Is the enly Seattle inflelder certaln of returning agsin, MHe'll be at stcond bass again in 1924 Poth Ted Baldwin and Sammy Crane have sald they wanted to play nearer their homes in the East, Whether Eimer Dowman will be retalfied ils doubtful, altho the bLig fellow went well 4t the end of the season.

The goes for Frank Emmer. Emmer showed great possibliities at times and looked bad In other gamea. With regular play he may smooth over his flelding I Jimmy Welsh, who worked a lot of games at first base almost cinch to be sold. New that FPortland has obtained Riconda, a third sacker from the Philadel- I phia Athletics, how about Frank Hrasilr Prazill can't throw well enough to play base, being heipless on double plays and double steals, bul he did pretty well at thiva. Prasill can sock that ball too well to retalued just as pinch hitter and in of his dlzsy throwing, Brazill In the game every day If Baldwin decidts to stay in the East next year, Hraz 1l would Jook pretty good lon this club, socking that apple off the right fleld wall.

Darr Arlett has signed his contract with the Oakland club for next year ard he will stay in this league another season 1t will be Aviett's ninth year in baseball and he's no Xid any more. Whether he will ever go up to the big show now remains to be seen, as he Is past the prospect age. But hie big bat will make him a star this company for some time. Arlett fast, too, for a big fellow, and his flelding will Improve with every day Ameri mericans Favored in Big Golf Match ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Nov.

The American combination of Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen have been installed early favorites, albeit at close odds, to defeat Abe Mitchell and George Duncan, great. est golf team, in their 36.h01e match to be played here on Sunday, Decem. ber 14. This meeting is regarded as the most important golf match of the year, inasmuch as it brings together the premier professional linksmen of two continents, Hagen stands out this year as the world's greatest golfer, a distinction he clinched when he won the Amer. lcan professional champlonship, fol.

lowing his victory in the British open tournament. It was his second triumph on English courses in three years; in 1923 he finished second, a stroke behind the winner, James modest admissions in Roar of the Crowd" seem to settle beyond all doubt who the great. est fighter of all time was, Mr. O'Goofty is one of those gents who thinks the Spanish revolution is being planned merely as publicity for the native onion, Five Teams Qualify for Grade Soccer Cup Play sectional winners have been decided In the grammar school soccer league, Adams, Interlake, H. Coe, Hawthorne and Highland Park entering the finals, Green Lake must lose its two re.

maining games to be tied. Two tles exist now and will be played off, with Horace Mann meeting Leschi and Madrona playing Stevens, Results of Wednesday's games follow: At Walla Hlill 2, Rainfer 1, At Columbia--Hawthorne 1, Columbla 0. At 2, Lafayette 2, At 4, Alkj 0, At 2, Montlake 2. At 'ark 1, Concord 00 At 1, Webster 0, At Woodland 4, North Queen Anne 0, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1924 Windi Winding Up Great Race and West Seattle mix tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock and Roosevell and Garfleld follow directly affer the end of the first game in the two contests that are expected to decide the Seattle higt school football title. i Roosevelt can cinch the honors with a victory, while Ballard can win with a victory, and a defeat for Roosevelt, A tie for Roosevelt and a win for Ballard means that they will be tied in the standings and Ballard will retain the title won last year, A defeat for Ballard, a defeat for Roosevelt and a win for Broadway over Lincoln Wednesday will give Ithe Tigers a tle with the Teddles.

The biggest crowd of the prep sea! son Is expected Saturday. IL Sport Salad I It's about time the wild bulls of South America got together and prelumed Senor Firpo with an ulti. matum, demanding an apology. California is open for boxing again naturally the money-mad pugs will make a stampede for the golden It seems logical enough that the i Yale players ghould be fed Sugar. what they've got the bowl ia BTN Jim Thorpe has been playing football for 16 years.

Pretty soon he'll be experienced enough to play with the Army or the Navy. John D. was knocked looser than a $3. porcelain tooth in a squash championship the other day. Wesuppose this may be considered a moral victory for La Fol.

letto, Experts say the huddle system all wrong. And If they mean the guys who huddle in front of bur. lesque show posters, just as we are passing, we agree with them. Don't open till Christmas a phrase which was never designed for the lips of a baseball magnate, Jack Renault boasts that Dempsey can't buffalo him. Why doesn't he go further and admit that Firpo can't wild bull him? Arrange for (Game Returns Returns of the California-Stanford game will be given at the College club under the directon of alumni here of both universities and play reports will start at 2:30.

College men are invited sTe- At 1, Latona 1. At 3, John Hay 0. At Mann 2, Central 0, The finals will be staged next week, and will be an elimination affair. The eight captains will meet Monday to draw for places in lthc tournament, I Roller Puck Meeting Set There will be a meting of the captains of the roller hockey teams at Spalding's at 10 Saturday, and all pllots should be il on hand, Beaner Walby will be in charge of the mecting, 7Twen. ty-four teams have signed up this year, QT SRR SRS HARPVER.

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