The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1914, Page 7

WINNER OF BOUT TO MEET CHAMP WELSH SEATTLE SENDING CARDS TO CHARLEY SWAIN *SPEED”--NEW WHITE SOX CRY--MEANS VICTORY IF IT’S SPEED OF BRAIN AS WELL AS OF MUSCLE team did not have great speed, tn spite of Cobb's terrific feetness. The Chicago Cubs, at thetr best, were only moderately fast, and the Athletics never were the fleetest team in their league. Last season along came Georg By Hugh S. Fullerton Clarence Rowland, the new man. of the Chicago White Sox, f tato baseball with one dig ‘and a whole lot of practice. ‘Mew the practice will pan out de “ Ma — yah the White notoriously hard team to aa Pe Soe pack because of Tack receive him. But interests the general baseball fe his theory. 289 @ is a firm Ddellever tn He declares tt is more than Om of baseball, He has stat- M@ in his early interview that a ‘ that steals one tn three bases 8 starts out to steal is a pennant ie part of a ball sheet r ofa club, yet alone does not win. The Red Sox were faster before Won a world’s championship they were the year they won Detroit as a championship RE ram AINLESS At Cut Prices . Until Further Notice. ALL WORK GUARANTEED PIFTEEN VEARS Sista Crews... $3-50 sin Brides Worn... $3.50 Bet of Teeth $8.00) Bescher Stallings with a team just moder. ately speedy and won BY NOT RUNNING THE BASES: that ta, they stole fewer bases than almost any clud In their league. Evers, one of the cleverest men on the bases and a man with sufficient speed and head to steal about 60 bases a year, stole less than half that number. Boston was not play- ing the baserunning game CHIEF: LY BECAUSE THEIR OPPO NENTS THOUGHT they would. Th part of Rowland’s theory about @ team stealing one base out of every three efforts remains to proved. The year Bill Lange stole 100 bases in the National league he did out of 342 starts. Yet he scored the season he stole The year Ty Cobb stole 71 he scored fewer runs than when he ree other seasons was far below that mark The reason is that if the other im knows a runner ts going to SPORTING FLASHES Centralia echoolboys got their ex- ercise by doing much of the labor on the new gympasium of the Win-|" lock school, just completed. ‘The new owners of the Tacoma Tigers are in session tn Tacoma to- day, and a complete reorganization of the team is expected to result. President Joe McGinnity and Secre- tary Redpath will turn over their holdings to the new owners, and, with all debts paid, they will try to put the Tigers on the map this sea- son. Stock in the team will be of- fered the public. £. Lamping stands first, with a perfect score, in the three-cushion holiday tournament at the 8. 8. C. holt tournament at the A.C J. B. Lewis, who has played six games and won five, is second, with & percentage of 838. CHURCH TEAMS | ON THE LAST LAP The Seattle Church Athletic league will get under way with the second half of its basketball sched- ule for the son at the Leschi Park gym orrow night when the foliowing teams will clash Plymouth vs. Green Lake Congre- | gationalist; Tabernacle Baptist va. Pilgrim; St. Clement's vs. Queen Anne M. ; Colman Bible Class vs. Queen Anne Christian. During the last half of the son the Thuraday night games will be played on Wednesday evenings. Plymouth church leads the pro- cession up to this point with a per- fect score. Emanuel Lutheran and the Ballard Christian are tied for second place, with .859 each, and the Queen Anne M,%., Queen Anne Christian and University M, BE. are tied for third place, with 14. B. Will be one of pleasure comfort. "> No snow or cold weath- Sunshine and flowers “Come in and consult us buying your ticket. HOT GAMES IN CITY BOWLING LEAGUE Three teams, Gerald's Cafe, Basel's Stars and 8. A. C, No. 1, are tied for first honors in the City Bowling league, with percentages of 639, giving promise of some mighty hotly contested matches during the closing days of the tournament, Kinne has the high- est individual average of 184, but Kock and Peacock are clone sec onds, with 183, while Harris and Ellis are tied for third, with 182, Freight and Pi or > Elliott 1256 720 Second Avenue 50cto$5 SAVED Call at My Optical Department, Dr. C. T. Knowl- the Optometrist, BROWN. and fit glasses and I will guar to save you from $6 on any pair you may re- Gupiteated tor GEORGE SUTTON IS LEADING CHAMPS After a week of hard play in the a EDWIN J. BROWN ee rin hve, Washing Bide. ! Trio of Speed Merchants of the ig leagues. steal he has a harder time doting it, and they make far fewer wild throws than when they are called upon to throw unexpectedly, Rowland {s right about speed in Beneral-——not so much sheer fleet- ness of foot, but on every man run- ning bis best every time he starta anywhere, whether it {# in going to first, stealing or on trying to tare an extra base on a bit or an out [JOHNNY DUNDEE _ BREAKS A RECORD DURING YEAR 191 Johnny Dundes, the clever little lightweight, has perhaps broken the modern record for boxers dur- ing 1934. Since Jan. 1 he has fought 24 real fights in all parts of the country and has been returned winner or received a draw in all, | ‘WILL HOLD INDOOR TRACK MEET IN FEB. ‘The preliminaries for the annual indoor track meet of Seattle gram- mar school athletes will be held February 20, and the meet itself a |'week later, On account of exam- jinations and semester graduations, |the date in January, on which it |formerly has been held, to the Feb. ruary date BARNES TALKS BALL UP AT BELLINGHAM Jobn Barnes, recently elected di- rector of the Northwestern league, js in Bellingham today, talking over the matter of placing a fran- jchise for a team tn that city, Bel- |lingham business men are interest- ed as are business men of Everett. Barnes must put a baseball club in one of four Sound cities during the next few daya and is looking around for the beat field where the most financial supports offered, Champion Billiard Players’ league, old George Sutton, veteran of the cue and tvories, retains his post. tion at the head of the list, with a percentage of .737, having won 50 and lost 18 games. Calvin Dem- arest is second, with .632, and Cline third, with ,625, the meet has been postponed from | STAR—MONDAY, DEC, 28, 1914. PAGE 7, —IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS— EDITED BY HAYBEE SMITH MAN WHO WINS | THIS BOUT TO. FIGHT CHAMP BY HAL 8 NEW YORK fana will be treated @ regular ring contest here tomorrow night | when Young Joe Shugrue and Charlie White meet tn a ten-round | bout at Madison Squs Garden. | Both men hold newspaper do-| cisions over Freddie Welsh and the winner tomorrow night will be matched with the champion, | Betting on the bout ts at even! money. Chicago fans who believe | several thousand dollars ting commissioners here placed. Shugrae's home folks are flock: | ing to his support and it ts prob-| able he will enter the ring a slight| favorite, | Both men were reported in tip top shops, and each was confident of victory, White went so far as to predict he would win by a knock out. “I have met Shugrue twice,” he said, “and both bouts were even, I have improved fully 60 per cont, | however, since our last meeting | and Shugrue will find he ts up against an entirely different prop- osition. I expect to knock him out. Theo I will take on Welsh for the} title.” Shugroe grinned when told of White's threat to knock him out. “The man of my welght does not lve who can knock me ont tn te “he eald. “I will have a much easier time with White than T had with Welsh when I was) given the decision by the sport) writers, White could not knock} me off my feet in a hundred years.” SOLDIERS PUT UP STIFF GAME; CELTICS WIN) The Fort Lawton soldiers put up a cracking good game of soccer) jfootball on their grounds yoster-/ | day afternoon with Fred Marshall, halfback of the their movements, and the reorgan-| ized Celtic team had their hands |full in winning the contest by the | odd goal in the five made. The score was 3 to 2 in favor of the! Celtica, The Celtics took afvantage of) the stiff wind that was blowing| |when they won the toss for post-| |tions, but ft took 25 minutes of stiff work, even with thelr wind) vantage, before Upton shot across the firat goal for the Celtioa. | McKitlim landed a second goal be fore the call of half time. In the second half, after a long run by Celtic forwards, the third goal wan made, but the soldiers! stuck to thetr knitting, and, by de-| termined effort, chase the ball| into the net twice before the call of time. | The Celtics were entertained at dinner by the players and official |at the fort club rooms following to bet to be! ! the wellknown Celtic halfback who haa been at Fort Lawton for three years, leaves next month for England, expecting to take up arms for his native land. CENTRAL BOYS GET COVETED LETTERS Richard Leahy, right tackle of the Central . school football team last season, has been elected cap- tain of the 1915 team, succeeding Button, who retired with a vote of thanks from his teammates for leading them to victory. The fol- lowing men were awarded green and white letters, and veterans and service stripes, in the case of those who already had letters: Capt. Harold Button, three years; Leo Johnson, three years; Irving Gleason, Leo Driscoll and Paul Lavan, two years each; William | Bailey, Edward Cunningham, Rich- ard Haverty, Meada, Alfred Sather, Byron Updyke, Arthur i, Har. old Alfaras, Morris Bernatein and Captain-elect Richard Leahy, each one year’s service, 8. A. C, PREPARING FOR CITY TOURNEY With a view to interesting every a attle in the development aport and making a tryout for the team which will represent the P. N. A. at the world’s tournament next spring at the San Francisco fair, the Seattle Athletic club has issued a call for all amateura to participate in the city boxing and wrestling tourney which will be held at the club gym Jan. 14 and 15. After Jan, 1 entry bl.aks may be had at the club office, where entries in the various divisions will be explained to possible contend- ors. GOOD-BY, JOE; TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF TACOMA, Deo, 28, — Having cleaned up all the heavyweights In the Pacific Northwest, Joe Bonds, Tacoma’s clever and hard-hitting boxer, Is preparing to invade New York and take a whirl at the ten- round game there. Bonds will try to get a match In New York with Gunboat Smith, Battling Levinsky or Tommy Me- Carty, SAN FRANCISCO, Deo, 28,— Middleweight Billy Murray and Lightweight Red Watson, accompa- nied thelr manager, Jack Kearns, today to Milwaukee, where arrange- ments have been concluded for Mur- ray to meet Eddie MeGoorty, Jan- wary 11, in a ten-round bout. | minsed next | will take ti PLAYER LIMIT TO SEND MANY BACK TO BUSH By Hal Sheridan NEW YORK, Dec, 28.—The 21 player limit invoked by the Nation al league at {ts recent meeting here will cut off many a promising youngater from his chances with « big team. Practically every team in the league has already signed from 30 to 40 players, The num ber must be cut to 21 by May 1 Many of the youngsters whom managers would like to retain dur-| ing the season will get the ax be-| showing thetr worth The Central wociation and the Three! league are still furnishing the player market with “comers.” W. L, Flannigan, who pitched for the Muscatine team last year in the Central association, haa been signed by the Giants, His six feet odd inches of height and a light ning-like delivery are said to be his features, McGraw also signed up Eddie Holloway from the Spring. field team of the Three-l league. Last year Holloway made good as} a fast man and a hard hitter. | Around the lobbies of the Wal-| dort and the Imperial during the/| meetings of the National and Inter. | national leagues here were seen many of the veteran big leaguers, released after years of baseball | service, Mike Donlin and Wiltee of} the Glants were on hand, pondertng | their prospects for the coming sea- son, Both were gingerly fingering thelr unconditional releases. Ger. many Schaefer, the comedian of the Washington club, will be Many a Jaugh burst from the fans when Germany was indulging in his favorite “horse play.” MIDNIGHT GONG STOPS BATTLE MERRITT, B. C., Deo. 28.—The tapping of the midnight gong Sat. urday night during the 17th round of the fistic battle between Joe Bayley, former Canadian champ, 4 Johnny Moore, caused the dec: | Celtics, directing | Inration of an armistice Saturday | chase night. The fight will be resumed today where the boys left off. Long delay in getting the scrappers away Saturday night made it tm-| possible to finish the bout before | Sunday arrived, and Referee Al| Barge of Caltfornia would give no| decisjon, until the remaining | rounds were fought today. | (SOME SPARE HINTS | No. 4—When the 2, 7 and 10-pins are standing the ball should take the 2-pin thin on the left side. The ball will get the 7-pin and the 2-pin 10-pin, PLAN A MAMMOTH MOTORBIKE RACE Following on the heels of the gigantic San Diego-Phoentx and El Paso-Phoentx motorcycle roads races, enthusiasts of Phoentr a) planning another contest which promises to far outclass efther of these events, This meet contem- plates combining the course of the El Paso-Phoentx and that of the San Diego-Phoentx runs, making a total distance of 1,000 miles, And though the course is chiefly made up of mountains and trackless desert, it is the bellef of the “Bor- derland Boosters” who are behind the movement that the run can be made in 30 hours. As yet the detatis of the project have not been worked out, but it ts stated that a number of the motor- cycle factories have agreed to sup- port the event. Pacific Salmon Company WH! continue to ship Salmon, aver. Aging 8 pounds, dressed, in individual omega, to any point in the U. & All Charges Prepaid, $1.26 Guaranteed to arrive in perfect oon- dition. 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Admirers of Chariey Swain in Seattie and the Northwest today are adopting an idea advanced recently by Stacy Shown and are showering the former Seattle athlete, who is recovering in a San Francisco hos- pital from the amputation ‘of his foot, with picture postals, letters, holl- day cards and other greetings. It's a good plan for every one to get into the game and remember Charley tn this way, as a bunch of mail is & mighty acceptable thing to a fellow in a hospital, as it takes his mind off his troubles. His addrees is St. Mary's hospital, 2200 Hayes st, San Francisco, Advices received here say Charley has so far recovered from the operation that he is able to be about in a wheeled chair, but ft will be weeks yet before he ts able to hobble away from the hospital. It Will be good news to his friends here to learn that a third operation, which was contemplated and which meant the removal of his injured leg above the knee, was found unnecessary, eeeee Ray Campbell and George Ingle are yelling “Did!” and “Didn't!” at each other like @ couple of kids. Campbell eays he got a verdict over Ingle, and Ingle denies it. About the best way out of the muddle would be to stage the two boys in a main event smoker here and let the talent Judge for itself who ts telling the truth. eeee John Barnes, new director of the Northwestern league, Is spending a lot of time trying to decide between Everett and Bellingham as a seat for the proposed sixth team of the league. It is said that both towns want the team, and foxy old John may be playing both ends against the middle before he decides on the town that puts up the greatest induce- ment in the way of hard cash and gate receipt prospects, eee ee So far ae | know, It wae the first time the tmp of the gong put both fighters out as it did at Merritt, B, C., Saturday night, when the 20 round battle between Joe Bayley and Johnny Moore was stopped with but three rounds to go, because the clock sounded Sunday morn ing. They resumed the struggle today, but they might as well have started from the first and given the fans a scrap not on the installment pian, Williams beat McLoughlin for the amateur tennis championship, and yet McLoughlin is ruled champion—on which basis, the Athletics still are world’s champions in baseball. / eoeee Stan Ketohell saye waiting for the bell ie the hardest task of a boxer, With Rudy Unhols !t is the dinner bell. y Sid Mercer may get entire charge of boxing In New York, which will be sad news to certain parties who subsist upon put- ting things over. Clarence Rowland says: “I have every reason to believe the White Sox will win the American league pennant and the world’s champton- ship.” After he sees the team play he may claim something more, eee ee Dr, Alexie Carrel, In Parle, has succeeded In grafting one man’s arm onto another man's body, Jtist supposing some baseball manager could graft Rube Marquard’s arm onto Mathewson's head. eeeee Some genius suggests that to Insure real peace In Europe a baseball league be organized to Include London, Paris, Bertin, Petrograd and Vienna—and how'd you like to be a German ump working In London? eee | don’t know much about Walter Johnson's case, but If any one will |, offer my who ow $9,000 a year more than I'm getting, I'll let the courts decide is. Johr to prove Tot a champion. . Reporters writing of the huge Salaries paid to Collins, Johnson, | Speaker and other stare seem to | forget that the fellow who isn't a star, but Just works hard is pay- ing a big.part of the stars’ sal- aries, eee Judge Lamm of Missouri has decided that the mule ts a faithful, willing, intelligent and kindly animal, We now expect to hear that Jawn McGraw loves his players and that Heine Zimmerman ifs a docile and well-behaved ball player, . indee fought 24 real fights In 1914, which alone Is enough § This fellow, Jake Ruppert, who Is to have the New York Yankees wished on him, isn't the boner organized ball evident- ly picked him out to be. 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