The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 1, 1911, Page 2

WATCH THE STAR FOR SOME SNAPPY AND EXCLUSIVE SPORTING FEATURES—WATCH jiants Trim the Haughty Red Men SENTIAL ELEMENT ICTORIA has our goat and the same is true of Spo kane—with the revense English. The doughty Giants trimmed the Indians for the first game of the series yesterday by a & to 2 tally. James Wiges wae on the firing line for th Jooals and had lots of stuffon the ball, Ten of th redskins took three terrific smashes at the atmos phere in attempting to locate his slants and he was only touched for seven slams, three of these being doubles, James was given pretty fair support } O'Loughlin did the flinging for the Indians and the Idaho reerult dished out some hice offerings. Ho | has a nice drop, lots of speed and good control He held Seattle to aix bite and three runs in the first seven sessions and it looked like anyone's Kame, but in the etghth the Giants fell upon him for three clouts and two runs which relieved the suspense of what fow fans witnessed the contest Seattle scored in the first when Leard drew a} went to third on Cruickshank’s single and scored when Bues was | out at firat by Cartwright. | JACK JOHNSON SIGNING ARTICLES WITH WELLS ' MY ME ASWeEly THIS MORNING AND Vm GOING YO TAKE He DUEHESS OUT FOR A DOM a ee COUNT Ry > ae 3B HouRS LaTeR ‘ Y Mn Tureen You Have NO Gasowene (f NO SWE HAS NO ounciues five YRSTRO Alu THE ries AND Hey ALL HAVE arm 1 Tae, Now "LU SEE WHATS THE MATTER WITH Tet Spann. bx Spokane scored first in the fifth on Netzel’s double, a soerifice and 4 t's sing m ertor, a passed ball and an infield out gave ¢ Giants another in the sixth. : ‘Spokane made it two to three in the eighth, Frisk and Nordyke J SeMNThen, with the tamue in doubt, Hues singled, Weed sacrificed and O'Loughlin muffed it, Ort advanced them by a beautiful bunt and Ray Meond’s single tallied both. Much applause, The score: SRATIER. AB. he We can beat Spokane, anyway. Yeuterday’s victory makes 14 out (Baltor’s Note. —F of 22 over the Indians this senson. | the game wherever it's play roasts the umpire, He's the goat of|fatrer with the umpires every day, How does he like 1k? Does be get mad |and much credit is due to the news. Dug didn't weep any weeps yee | when he's booted? What is bis defense for gprisions that look bad to| papers, which have consistently terday over Cocash, 4 ta BOW | the fan’ William Brennan has written the eifswer, Better read it.) tes ood for oy ana in every playing with Spokane. Johuny was) = gy WILLIAM BRENNAN been in doubt UNIL THE UMPIRE ‘partment of the game. be — who struck him out | National League Umpire. MADE HIS DECISION. Ofter fro i pes inane _, or ote . : ne where I sat a man who was safe : . | ‘Tealey Raymona robbed Netre!| 1 have often beon asked whether) Time © Hilt A mite ta man our (Odsected to by the fans, because of w bit in the seventh, when he | “Thiet! Rotten! Robber! | ee ee ete be wale. 1 BAW Ti of this distance from the play and Ay r 2 1 . 2 : : 1 Si eSewcerened Sl ewerconcce? 4 i ° out--Ry Wires 10: Struck OLoughiia «Double play 7H fe ninth e e ase on balle—ort Norayke = Umpire mm we by O'Lonal Carew rig ran over to the right of second base and picked up a hot ot | throwing Netrel out at first. It was ‘a great play | Spokane’s new pitcher, O’Lough- | tin, has nice apeed and a beautiful i drop that seems to be hard to hit, “Are you blind?” from = baseball| pLaAY FROM SUCH AN ANGLE crowd bothers an umpire, [I ean| AND FROM 80 GREAT A DIs- truthfully say th ot. TANCE THAT 1 COULD NOT SEB The great pe of specta-|IT AS IT WAS ACTUALLY MADE. are usually pooting for the The fan sitting directly back of team, and any decision} first base frequently misses the mo- against the team may bring forth|tion of a first baseman’s hand as the angles at which they view the play. Any fan who will take the trouble to switch his seat from one part of the grounds to another will be astonished at the difference. If the same fan could get as close to the player as the umpire he would nee it through different eyes than day. holding the Beavers to one lsolitary single, Tacoma beating Vancouver | to 0. Rasmussen was also effective, Umiting the Tigers to five blows. Coleman's three bagger and James’ boot gave the Bengals the winning rum in the sixth, Mike Lynch was beaned with a pitched ball and knocked leenseloss, He had to be carried |from the field. The score oe) } ‘ Vane’r r oma couver | on | Van GUE. ; Rasmemen and Lewis, Wiggias and Burns, Tacoma. us} NATIONAL LEA ies Sze sees ssc! ‘ ek ee Matters and Milne: Prnadeiphia . 1 Chiengo ae 2 © Ratterion —- Alexander amd Moran; Brown and Archer - | Now atm ; Watterian--Mar _ line, Laudiormitic, York . Lowe at aed Meyers, jen and Biles Bt | Dombadier Billy Wells signed pub- Ne articles to fight for the heavy: ~ lett, The men will fight late in Sep- tember, and probably in the ir. A record crowd is expected at he contest. Already a scandal has been brewed, the story Betng that Johnson will lose to Wolts. (Pure Cnewe) Mitchelh and Ketcaneit; Cot ‘and Currigne (Recon Ganseh «. ; 4\% fortune, for the odds are 5 to 1 Nerine—Powell and Clarke; tase Pare, [on the black panther. Wellw trn’t | conceded & chance, even by bred inthe-bone Engttehmen, Johnson is hog fat, He welche 260, He fought Jeffries at 210. to the Warrens STAR LEAGUE STANDING. ee " sm 8 “TACOMA, L—"Dee” Hi wo i = E> a SIDELIGHTS ON THE SPORTING SHOW] : HELP! JOE THOMAS IS LOOSE Joe Thomas, the former middleweight champion boxer, is with a challenge to fight Billy Papke and is putting up an) as to why he should be given first chance at the | [iilecs finois Thunderbolt.” Somebody should lead Joe up an alley |} ‘gid keep him out of harm's way. Thomas has been beaten so many times during the past} ‘three years that it would necessitate an adding machine to! | keep an exact count. If there are.any middleweight scrappers | z who have not whipped Thomas, will they please raise right hands so we can count ‘em? NATIONAL RACE IS NOT SLACKENING is ver and that terrific race im the National league shows no of slackening. The Cubs are still in the lead with New York Pittabeng ond St. Lovls closety bunched behind. Oniy |"V%* an@ gees thee ste the games separate Chicago and the Cardinals, showing how nearly {Fst inning, Kapan’s three-bagger “are the first five teams. The Phillies were picked to slump | driving in two of the tallies | Dooin was injured, but they have shown no nghiny of weaken-| The Warrens made ft 4 to 0 in The Pirates are coming fast and are pressing the Phillies closely |i, second and thon the Fastidos third place. It's anybody's race and luck will probably determine Commenced to play ball, They tied canpandl |in the fifth frame and then the aia jteams battled two innings without VEAN GREGG LEADING LEAGUE. scoring, But in the eighth singles Yean Gregg, Who was the prime factor in Portland captnring the/by Mathews and Marquet and a Warrens 7, The Warrens sprung a surprise lyesterday by trouncing the Fas | tidos 7 to 5 in ‘The Star series. The Warreus got the jump on their ox ing. ES WARKEN JUNIOnS. An R ~wod ° works last year,-4# {ast showing that he honestly came by his honors. | “lashing triple by Davenport scored Gress young swall sum of 3. Today he stands the leading pitcher of America.| The game was well played, but (ander. It {s an extraordinary sight to see two “bushers” jeading auch |"endered by the umpires. The 1 Gregg was the strikeout kid in 1 the Coast league last year. 1 has achieved a distinction probably never enjoyed before by a|tWO more runs, The gamo was pitcher breaking into major league society. For a club which jg | called at the end of the eighth as “not fn the race Gregg has pitched 21 games and of this number he lost | the time limit had expired. iis earest opponent is Alexander, another neweomer into fast com-|W4% marred by considerable cra pany, who has pitched 2i games for Philadelphia and fost 4. In point of bing, both teams Kicking strenu- of games won and lost Gregg is. 17 points ahead of Alex.|0Usly on almost every decision | brainy generals of the peak as Mathewson, Ford, Walsh, Brown and | *°ore “Bender. At no time hax Gregg been ignominiously beaten. The three | he lost he did so by a run each. With a club like Detrott behind fim ‘vean might have a perfect score. It was no trick for him to fan a dozen Reavy hitters in a day. He broke all records with his strike outs last |» season, and he is now showing that his 1911 performance was no fluke. WATCH THIS STAR LEAGUE CONTEST Ten teams, all averaging less than 15 years, are fighting it out in ‘The Star league for trophies offered by this paper. The games are at Lincoln park every morning and some mighty classy contests are resulting. Frequently the pitchers will fan from eight to 13 men and hold the opposition to four and five hits’ Double piays are pulled off often and the errors made by these kids are surprisingly few. Several of the games of The Star league series have been far more |; interesting that some of those seen at Dugdale's park this season, Matt Wells Will Fight the Winner MILWAUKEE, Wis, Avg 1-— ‘That Matt Wells, the English light- weight, will meet the winner of the MeFarland-Wolgast battle here in & few weeké after their contest in September, was announced today by Promoter Frank Mulkern. 3 nent «| oom ' Smith panne, cienddeceill 1 iacuu pene nnd! Kaufman Sails hemes isin for Australia|’ SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Aug. 1.— | 2it#—D« Al Kaufman will safl trom Vancou- | ikapa ver September 6 for Austrailia. Hix # first bout there will be with the |{'% winner of the Bill Lang-Jack Lester | « mill, scheduled for October. Kaut. man will receive $5,000 for the Racing, Davenport Herman. Bacrifiog ite Mtruck out-—My Mmith §, by hanes on balls pitched batt Betrnan Mannle match. Ou July 16 Jack Johnson and/ That the Wells Tight te a Weight title, Here you eee Johnson in the act. Wells fe at Jobuson's Monte Cotler, whieh does not make | Crutck speared the bali, cutting off If he ®Dparently, that he did not stipu- docs, the gamblers will clean ap! 'ste $20,009, win, lose or draw. . | Duncan, a catcher who sat on the | Beattle bench # couple of weeks, ts He batted for h, hit a slow *, and many of the fans | thought he beat the throw to first j but the umpire called him out be fore the ball got there. Bucs got two hits, as did Ort and | Cruickshank, | Raymond's single in the eighth browght in two runs, ‘The crowd had a lot of fun with 'Cooney, as vaual, Although the fans never mixes an opportunity to jowh him, they all admire him for \the great little bell player that \he ts. | Wiggs pitched nice game, and, |though he loosened up once or twiee, be asiways found the sand pile before things got serious. Raymond bumped into Netzel at third tn the eighth, when be was trying to take two bascs.on Shea's foko . but Netzel held the ball. him ts shown by the fact that John-| Cruickshank got us out of a bad son's theatrics! contracta.wil! keep| hole in the fourth With two out him busy well into September, and }and two on, Splesman lined a peach that. from sparring with to left center, but after a hard ron, one to Bu jae temet two runs. One squeaky-voiced fan got ex- him perwpire, he tent exercising. ‘The articles signed in public call! for $40,000, the richest purse over, d lotfored im Erland, to he aplic ag that Tighe sbould pull Wiggs, but lper cent to the winner and 26 to|the crowd howled him down, Then like danas,’ Go coumaoah x Del Jimmy showed his apprectation by | striking out Coca: “Rube” § Marquard, “McGraw's 911,000 Lemon.” delivered the goods yesterday, holding the Cardinais to arate fa oreo Ry experience he should have to meet) nirring Gian: & man of Johnson's caliber, ‘oles | prunes to 2. eccaton weetens ‘the stories cireulated are true. “Alexander the Great” got rm: os bumps yesterday whea the Cub: (McLaughlin j | Wells in two inches taller than slammed bim for eight bingles and Is trimmed the Phillies 4 to 2. “Three | Fingered” Brown held the Phililes | to four bite, bd Western Cham | Detroit was avenged on the Ath. PP recicn, the Tigers taking the Mack- LAKE FOREST, Uls., July 31. -~)men down the line to the tune of Maurice EK. McLaughlin of Sat/6 to 3. Mullin wae effective and Frapelace today won the western | Casey and Krause were hammered \eballenge champtor ip in feants | hard ‘singles from Thomas dy at Lam| Watch those Pittsburg Pirates Angles. In the first set Melaugt|travel! They are qoly one game lin bad the score 42 when Bundy | behind the Phillies knd two back } rallied and took the set, 64 Injof the Giants. And how they are jthe second net Bundy’s rally ended | coming! [and MeLaughiin pinged in excel-| lent form. A strong wind ; something erday, The Senators jsprang up, which both players| trimmed Cleveland 5 to 2 with the found in ditticult to meet. McLaugh: | Weiser phenom in the box. lin took the second set @1 and the) Jack Warhop, the Highiander third 6-3 star, got an awful drubbing yester McLaughlin took the fourth Bet day, the White Sox Mattening hiv #2. It was played after an inter-| slants for 17 hits and 13 runs. Chase migkion, and he went in jn @| kept Jack in the box and made him smashing style take bis medicine. tornoy John F. Murchy te Preparing | Shreveport Panes Are Heping Av wri ul That Officers Mav Can't Raise Necessary Cosh 8+ Rehearsal Franchise Wil Remain There, } | itled that Heiney M will play with De season. Alno it int baseman MeDonald hreveport this seaw fist of releanes announ mt Chivington of } ix jern House on Thi wary 1%, Attorney Jo! | sctive mem! |t¥e of the format « dr. Murply }t the production it anything of t med it best as asure to sue out Injunction, elted In the eighth, and demanded | Walter Johnson must have had) such yemarks | he touches the runner a fraction of Most »ple attending a ball/a second befoer the runner's foot! rane lly if the home team |touches the bag; or & fan some- wins vances against an| Where else falls to see the flelder’s umpire by the time the enxt game | hand tip the runner's shoe as he starts, but in some small cities in| Midas. The umpire standing over minor leagues, crowds have been | @ach play sees these things, known to throw bottles, rocks and| Baseball crowds are becoming mud at an umpire, and in canes have inflicted bodily harm. 1} [recall but one such case in the | major leagues, and that resulted in} |serlousty tujuring Umpire Evans of | the American. | In the larger minor leagues and | in the major leagues, the double) umpire system is in vogue, which | | is @ great help, it enables the} umpire to get ci te every pla land ineures the accuracy of | Judgment. | average seat at a ball Lgpied | te from 90 to 600 feet from first or | | third base, and an umpire ts from | & to 10 feet from first or third base | [when he renders bis dectsion. Taking for granted taht the | vision of the umpire is at least as | wood as that of the fan, any fair | minded person will admit that the | umpire, close to the play, is the best | } judge. Mind, I'm not oriticiaing the fans | he does from the grind stand or bleachers. WO B8B wrran Diagram drawn from rough sketch by Umpire Breanan, showing « play at second The shortstop puts the ball onto the runner in such « manner that spectators cannot see him clearly. They see culy the motion of bis hand toward the runner. The umpire sees the entire play. Who ts best fitted to judge in such a oase? The reader ces tied or from bebind second base, the runner-sliding in from rst base. decision, THAT THE ANGLE OF VISION,) DISTANCE FROM) i the sdle cause of io protest, and that such will be @ cake as long as there are um- Another of Umpire Brennan's diagrams, illustrating his sto: pirea tn baseball. Chicago Incldent—catcher touching runner's shoe feet belies the I know this to be the fact, be- ls reached. The position of players prevents spectators seeing | cause [ have occupied grandstand detail. In this illustration the reader is looking at the play from seats myself on off daye, and have position oocupled by the pitcher. See es Sine The Marathon $ Evett team defeated the J to 4 at Woodland park Sunday afternoon. Tho feature of the game was the batting of Col | bert, who knocked one homer, one |double and two singles, and the pitching of Lewin, who held the Lenehis to four hits, The batteries were Lewin and Butler, Evett; | Creeke and Rarkley, Leschi. The | Byetts want games. Phone Grean| | 842 of North 16, and ask for A. J.) ‘orsythe. | ‘The Pantoriums want games with | the Comets or West Seattle for next | Sunday. Address Clarence M. Tur-} ner, 4111 Fremont av, or phone White 341 / The Moran team journeyed to Port Blakeley Sunday and were slaughtered 23 to 1, The batteries | were Hod, Berry and Nichols, | Moran; Chapman, Brown and Byler, | Port Blakeley | The Washington Iron Works team feated 14 to 5 at Taylor Sun Burton was tapped for 16 hits. Spencer of Taylor made a} triple, a double and two singles Ravensdale won*¥rom the O’Brien Pirates Sunday by an 11 to 7 score, The batteries were Smith and Cas tagna, Ray ale; Sharkey and Cochrane, O'Brien. For the second month, Kirkland trounced — the | Georgetown team Sunday by a score of 10 to 1. Kirkland won the| first game 9 to 1. Kirkland won the| team played poor ball, making mauy errors and being weak with the stlek. The Kirkland bunch played a classy game, not making a single error, Oker twirled fine ball. Winslow defeated the fast Ross) Athletic Club team 5 to 3 In a fant) game Sunday. The feature of the! game was the hitting of Quealey, | Winslow's twirler, | The dings went to Wilkeson | Sunday and were trimmed 14 to 3.| Southpaw Hovey of the Spaldings was batted off the mound in the! fourth and Taylor held the Seattle. ites to four hits. Tho batteries wore Taylor and Waltenberg, Wil son; Hovey, Wright and Clark, Spaldings, | The Edgecomb Warriors wallop. | ed the McMurray White Sox 15 to @ Sunday. Edgecomb won the game | in the first inning, pounding over seven runs, The Iroquois beat the Rainiers 14 to 3 Sunday. Gallan of Rainier pitched good ball but got poor sup port, Kneeland and Johnson, the! Iroquots battery, did excellent work. | Spang Substantially made, with heavy steel frame, extra heavy wheels, with half- inch rubber tires, maple seat and tongue, non-tip construction. Special price for tomorrow only Our Exchange Department Is Making Very At- tractive Prices on All Odd Furniture time within aj] A Metal Broad Box, finished in white en- amel, very strongly made; size 12x18 inches; regular price $1.25. Spe Ge celal Sixquart size Gray Enameled Toa Ket tle; regular 65¢ qual- |{ty. Spectat tor to .. 40¢ jonly . 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