The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 24, 1915, Page 7

Meikle Smears | The Giants will never win othe pennant if they toss otf with the quiting from a misunde: Ing between Brooks and Bon- ner, were direct factors in Se. " Meikie was en- on his pitching, but the Tigers were not entitied te victory on their hitting. | Bonner balked the first run ever in the first frame, and balked the winning run to sec: ‘ond in the tenth, from which 4 int Ward scored on a techni. cal double. We recommend a Signal block system for the Giants. Safety first. | The Indians did not play yee terday, so gained but half a tt has been figured out should Spokane break even on the road—that is, win 14 from this date to Sept. in when the season closes, ‘Beattie has no chance to catch bi, no matter how fast they aR i themselves. Raymond em six more games scheduled Tacoma and the remainder @f hie fattening must be done the Indians and the Beavers. ‘Rather slim pickings, we should as 4 major leaguer, per full to the present time at bat, 35 hits, average .265. seven being double triples.’ 0 Bezdek, coach of the Uni- to that he | when | ty of Oregon, admitted : newspaperm: keenly disappointed n decided to stick to En; rogby. Oregon had figured on | with Stanford to make up) floss of the game with Wash BALL LATEST Coast. with the } ip. The ball was barred by es , ‘ 01T CLUB IS J . > Pitcher Morton of E club and $20,000 for an. . player of that team. He de ad it was Joe Jackson. He is taking a longer stride. ty is using also. _ CONTINUED _ FROM PAGE 1 The - fge sum of money. No Secrecy About Place the whole lot of us. Say that the policeman on the don’t know about 219 Occiden- eat disorde! Hi cele. | dl Giants Jim McKenry has ig n bis time he has allowed 17 runs ; 43 bits, which is an average : 2.43 runs nine-inning and 6.14 hits. Williams’ rec- fs 132 hits have also gone for extra and Ryan, with Los Angeles, has the mud ball on the Pa- He cleans off the ball, a little mud, which, by fric- air, gives a ball a the | money. .| Red Sox during the week, Detroit Mathewson is working | #008 Will concede them the pennant. increase his ies io tabtna ooo 9 | his ery for pitchers has been an- the spitball fre-|swered in the during the hour we spent at 219 ave. the crowd came and| gq, at will. The police could have lowing in and nabbed us with ease. Paraphernalia was on the money was on the Each dealer had before him Was no secrecy about it. iy n detectives could have F i in, played, and, at a signal, of the vital organs, Nerves, Liv *, Vario Eoxema, Kidney and “600" or “9 Come to me for reliable Wasserman Blood Test cisCc || By A number of Seattle baseball folks who laid bets on the Boston Red Sox to finish first {n the Amer. joan league race may be sorry they and. Both Detroit and Chicago are hitting a swift pace and the first sign of a Boston slump will likely see one of these teams tn first piace. The Tigers strengthened by pur- chasing Portland's Bill James from | quiring Joe Jackson from Cleveland gh Jennings has offered $15,-/>Y parting from a large sum of Both clubs gained on the particularly. Sunday the Tigers had won nine of their past 10 games. While the Boston clan seems to have the edge in hitting and de- fensive strength, no one whose memory carries back to other sea- Jennings has always had hitters; purchase of James, a big fellow sure to win most of his tal and many other places like it, is to perpetrate a joke. To say that Chief Lang doesn't know about them is to insult his | intelligence. At the very moment when Chief of Police Lang was declaring that gambling did not exist in Seattle, was in progress at the fol- ‘Tubs DUMAS CLUB, Fifth ave. south, near Washington. T. M. A. CLUB, better known as the Green Room, on Spring St., between Second and Third. THE MANHATTAN CLUB, King st., between Sixth and Seventh. THE DOUGLAS CLUB, ave. south, THE BUSINESS MEN’S CLUB, Crown buliding, Second and James, THE UNION CLUB, Union block, /13 First ave. THE WASHINGTON REPUB. LICAN CLUB, top floor of the Olympus building. . THE LIONS’ CLUB, 1616 Third ave. Third Tem « legally tier © had 20 years experience in my profession: 1 EXAMINE FREE cone Voina, for Blood Disorders, DR. DONAWAY,'202-3-4 Liberty Building Union and Third, Opposite Postottice o Guide Visitors a LINCOLN HOTEL @ 8 Market st., San Francisco's greatest 5 2 min. from Kerry Depot. 5 vg incipal docks. New, mod- ern. rite for reservations, $1.00. $1.50, 82.00, $2.50 per day. 500 to $1.50 Daily. Keduction by week Hot and evid (HOTEL RO STRAIGHT STUFF the Sporting Editor ted so hastily, when October rolls| | St. Louis and the White Sox added| 4 AFTER STAR NAPS 10 per cent to their punch by ac-| How Williams, the Tennis Champion, Serves The large photo shows Wil- Mame at the start of his serv: lee, As he tosses the ball high into the alr, his right arm swings down and back as far he can reach, Then he brings his racquet overhead with all his foree, Notice how he leans back. As he smashes the ball he puts all bis weight into his stroke. is iy = . Second of a series of photos, posed especialiy by R. Norris Wil- liame, national tennis champion, showing how he plays tennis, starts. James will be of big help to | Dubuc, Dauss and Coveleskie, upon whom the pitching burden has been | unloaded. Rowland has been getting lelent pitching. }club should average at least one more run per game, and one run hosed forces. [finish onetwo in the National The Cards toppled Monday. them twice to show at New York, but failed tn every instance. Kelly hasn't hit safely in a league game. |his worth to the White Sox. His triple scored Eddie Collins with the winning run in the eleventh inning Monday. And many more, for all The Star knows. Anyone not suspected of being one of Prosecuting Attorney Lan- din’s special investigators or a Star reporter can—or could until the present publicity made the gamblers wary—get into any one of these “clubs” without trouble and get skinned. These “clubs” were organized and operated by private capital for pri- vate profit, and they are not clubs at all. federal liquor Hceens which is nominal, but not city liquor licenses, which cost $1,000 a year, Yet these clubs have well equipped bars and sell liquor to the public, in competition with regularly licensed saloons. They hold state “social clubs"—-which they are not. The Dumas club holds its charter in the name of Dr. David T. Card- well, Burr Williams and Albert Huddleson. It ally belongs to two men—“Blackie Ned, allas “Noodles,” Smith bar is open night, day and Sundays. | club, it is frequented by white men and women A “Biind Pig” Also } The T. M. A. is a white man’s) lclub. It 1s owned by Jack Sears and! |R. C. Torrey, and operated as a |gambling room and “blind pig,” | though {t hides its true character) under the gu of being a “stage- hends’ club. Sears was formerly n waiter. | Torrey once was a partner of the| [notorious Charles ‘Shomo, whose) {sensational “é’cape” from John! Roberts, then a deputy sheriff,| who had gone to Hot Springs, Ark., to bring him back to Seattle, |tickled the sense of humor of the| underworld. Torrey has had three joints in | Seattle besides the “Green Room” | —the “Waiters’ | by @ court orde the ‘Printers’ and her ye 4 club,” closed by former Chief of Police Griffiths, ‘M-Quad clu Sell Booze Without License charters as) Willams and) The) | five at j tlon of the Indians, for Coltrin and | | } | Newark o pees. ae 8 tng the distress signal Ghicage 4 | A pitcher who uses the spitball | lee. Leute tt tft a good deal ts bound to lose his } swe od s8 483 curve ball. There never yet has Rreokiyn + ee : 71 f }been a spitball pitcher who cou! wip farts 44) throw a good curve. That's why | pitchers who can win with the fast Lost. Pet. | bat! and curve ball spurn the spit beg ti Biter, except a last hope Dag ” Cy Young ignored the spitball bi for years, but when he found he nd fair hitting. With | ® | Joe Jackson added to his payroll, his| p | will win many games for the white-| nests | The New York Giants will never Bre" league unless they take a brace. | s: | George Kelly had three chances fell heir to $46,750 and Monday Joe Jackson is already proving | Yard. Supposed to be a colored men’s) TWIN FALLS, Ida, Aug, 24.—Tne » T, M. A. sells booze without| Maru, which grounded in the mud| city Ucense, night, day and Sun-|at Three Tree point early Monday, STAR—TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1915. PAGE 7. BETTER INSTALL INFIELD SIGNAL BLOCK SYSTEM a NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE WILL LOSE FRIEND IF -HERZOG QUITS CINCY NEW SPOKANE FANS REALIZE RACE NOT YET OVER "The big question right now ts: ‘Can the Indians stand the grind of a solid month on the coast and} still capture the Northwestern) league pennant with the eight-game lead they now possess? says a Spokane writer {In a recent tssue, | “All year long the Indians have} won the majority of their games on the road, which Is more than any| other team on the circuit has been! able to do, Both the Seattle and Vancouver teams have been play: ing very fast ball lately and the Indians must play six games in Vancouver and 13 In Seattle. Ta-/ coma, however, has been slumping badly and the Indians have nine games in Tigertown. Seattle and) Vancouver book up in nine games,| Vancouver. Seattle has only seven more games with Ta-! coma after Sunday, Vancouver hav-| ing 13 scheduled with tte Ti “Vancouver has an easier sched-| ule over the rest of the way than Seattle and this ts favorable to the Indians, for Vancouver is three or) four games behind Seattle “Much depends upon the condi YORK, Aug. 24.—There was @ rumor among the ballplayers that here today Charley Herzog was about to quit as manager of \ | | | the Reds and jump to the Federal league os manager of the Balt! more team. tion could be obtained, but several of the 8t quartered members Louls Feds, who were in a hotel across the street from the Cubs, sald they had heard such reports, and New York teams of the Na- tional league also had heard the rumors, Baltimore is the home town of Herzog and players said he was anxious to be at the head Gof a team in his own town, Wuffll are crippled. “The matter of pitchers is also sertous, but Farr and Wicker have Mines out for two men, one of whom is to report at once and another at once if the early results on the road trip are not propitious.” How They Stand In the Leagues NORTHWESTERN LRAGUR ‘on. Lest. Pet. | Spokane "“ a et — 4 +4 ue e e Si ] oom Sit e tice SS S| Matty Hoists Distress Signal; AMERICAN LEAGUE wen e Bere ; | Lengthen C Fes : '&) Uses Spitball to Lengthen Care : ‘ne a NT PERSE adh o ee BY BROWN HOLMES “0: ek] Christy Mathewson, after 15 18-418) years of success a8 a pitcher, has NATIONAL LEAGUE | finally changed his style. He ts | Phiiadetphta to “3 "SS | using the spttball in the hope that| | Boston’ a #8! the damp fooler will make {t pos Chicago “ ot {ble for him to get by a few more| Pitteburge “ ” years. Be Low : yours. New York Het | Matty admits he ts using the Cinetnnat! ua” spitter and that f# unusual, Few! mesa " pitchers, when they realize they/ are ae jare slipping, will admit they are trying the wet one. It’s like hoist- couldn't put the old zip on his fast ball and couldn't break his curve | with the old-time snap, he fell back saat eon. |on the wet one time he was able to fool a lot of batters who had been schooled to cage STs Yesion's. |. Ed Walsh of the Chicago White | look for only a spitter and fast one Pittsburg 2; Cincinnat! %, Brooklyn 1: @t | gox did just the opposite of Matty| by slipping up a curve now and Loate and Young. He was the spitball| then. king for years, When he found The records show pretty well his speed falling off and his spit-| Just how much Matty has changed. Kai A ing to get a good For ason. Last year he won 24. JOHNSTON RECALLED JACK MUNRO DEAD LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 24.—| | Jack Munro, romantic figure of n Johnston, Oakland outfielder| the prize ring several years ago, ryt : who once fought Jim Jeffries for and star base stealer of the Pacific! tne title, has been killed - Const league, will have bis third Fre — phere ed in North- trial in the majors, the Chicago Na-|<'™ France, according to reports. tonal league club having notified) wunro served In the Canadian con- Kansas City 18 curve, Some people seem to get every- thing. A year ago Portus Baxter morning when his Ci around the corner of Gowan’s store at Three Tree point he found a trans-Pacific lner in his front The Red Sox continue thelr mad pace. They won their fourth|the Oakland management that {ts/ ae straight Monday, Vean Gregg com-|option on Johnston would be exer-| Abe Ri paroled, will stay ing thru with a shutout at St. Louey.! cised. away from Frisco politics. 3 ver Hear of These Gaming Joints, Chief? QiARKET REPORT Jobn Green, colored, a tenderloin) character. It t# a club for colored men. The “members” gamble and there is a bar at which booze ts sold without a city Ieense. The ugias club is owned by Frank ith. It is a “plind pig” and a gambling den The Business Men's club is oper ated by Hence Brookins. It is like the others. The Washington Republican club is operated by Harry Shear. a The Lions’ club, at 1616 Third ave, was opened originally by ©.) Bush and D. O’Brien, For some) Native creamery, solid Prices Paid Wholesale Dealers for Vegetables and Fruit (Corrected dally by J. W. Godwin & Co.) Rests, sack . Bananas .. Biackberries . Cabbage .. Cal lemons, per erat Domestic wheel . Limburger ‘ Young America Belect ranch ry May and Grain es paid producer) Alfalfa, No, 1 Barley reason, which has not been e@X-| cerrots, Eastern Washington 01 plained outside police circles, the| Caulitiowe: ea pane Poovey eee! club did not prosper. three nights. It was then sold to Frank Babb, Sears and Torrey (the same 8 and Torrey who run the T. M, and under their proprietorship the Lions’ club has enjoyed immunity} from the law from that day to this. Corn, green, cack .. Tt lasted Cucumbers, hotouseh . Garlic, new ... ¥. Huckleberries 08 Local head lettuce, 4 dox in ora wen 1 4.60 PRESIDENT OF FIVE CHILDREN ARE ji. <222<: & 8:2 | MINNESOTA!’ “$2 LAUDS SUZZALLO Dr. George Edgar Vincent, prest- four children of John Tooth and the child of a neighbor are dead today| as the result of a fire which de- New apples, cooking Gravenstein ... dent of the University of Min- stroyed the Tooth home, 35 miles “ : nesota, who arrived in Seattle oop og bg eh vaur ca te Monday night from Canada, en LA id , route to the California expositions, vege Marge them in the house addressed the College club at while they went to a party. When mn, Tuesda “Vo they returned they found the house} , lane dagen th saty aia in ruins and the children's charred University of Minn bodies in the debris. n' finnesota alumni Seeman” tor shee in Seattle will entertain him at - yeniey,. Vaskteah Peres dinner Tuesday night, He will GOVERNOR COMING fea speak at Broadway high school Helgian Mares re Tuesday evening at £. o'clock, on é oe Rrotiers ... : ‘The Sense of the State.” The aa ag gh Mag cind ‘peopel meeting is open to the public. syivania, w & party o baer) K) fat “The university here has made and 48 women, will be the guest of) 4 Ibs. and over 16 | a good start,” Dr. Vincent declares. the Seattle Commercial club for’ sen 5 tig nai wade to os e 1) [Seattle 1s regarded as a good 1 luncheon and a boulevard tour Sept I place for the university, because 7, according to word recelved py 1 of the city’s Interest {n education wociation,” closed | Otto Case, secretary of the club. @ 3ty,|88 displayed by its splend!d school L ¥ $ ts” | system. Educators everywhere feel JAP LINER GETS OFF |: o . @ 160 |the university is fortunate in ob- and the] ive b 8 to 18001, ‘1 G04 | taining the services of Dr, Sun | vn ets . zallo.” |. ‘The Japanese liner, Panama| ¢ pg STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS was floated by the ald of tugs at 6 o'clock Monday evening. No authentic informa-| while some players of the Chicago) ‘T ball lens effective, he began work-| He has won seven games this sea- | Boston Red Sox Have Real Batting Punch With Only Two Regulars Below .250 By BROWN HOLMES 1 Hop the Sox outfielder, is hit- It's pretty hard to see how the|ting .226 and Barry, infielder, .222, Boston Red Sox can be kept out of| but both, especially Barry, has the the world se when a study {#| punch on a pinch jmado of the team's batting! ‘Tris Speaker is hitting .228, with |strength and the information added| Cobh and Jackson the only regulars to knowledge of the club's strength|in the league ahead of him, Fol- in the pitching department lowing Speaker comes Duffy Lewis |, Only two Sox regulars are hit-|with 210. Forest Cady, catcher, has jting under .250, The slugging of|a mark of .221, Del Gainer, first Cobb, Crawford and Veach keeps) baseman, is going along at 201. At | Detroit around the top in team) first the Sox are especially weil hitting and the work of Eddie Col-|tixed, using Gainer, a right-hand jlins, Fournier and Weaver does the] batter, against southpaw pitching the Chicago White Sox,/and Hobiitzel, a left-hand hitter, }same for but neither team has as much bat-| with a mark of .2 3, against the ting strength sprinkled thru the) right-handers batting order as the Boston gan Th : | ~ Po : ont omas and Carrigan, the other | {ho ‘Chicago was strengthened PY! catchers, are hitting .267 and .268 ee ce cores respectively. On the infield Janvrin jand Gardner are hitting .279 and WHAT HO! TREASON | ee or oo 00% sone nate thete bat LISTEN TO SPOKANE jting punch when they get down to the pitchers. Six of the hurlers are : above .260. Gregg does not work The Coast league wants Seat-1! often, but he is hitting 400. Three tle and Spokane and Dugdale and Farr want to get away and the Seattle and Spokane fans hurlers who take regular turns are Ruth with 3 Foster with .293 aad Wood with .283, Collins has hit for |.310 and Mays for .250, | The punch of the pitchers has | been responsible for many more | victories than it has taken to keep he Sox ahead of Detroit and Chi- ago. The Sox are well fixed for utility men with Henriksen for emergency work in t outfield, and Heine Wagner and Everett Scott ready for infield duty. The Sox are better prepared than any other club and it looks as tho preparedness will reap | its reward, y and night by scores of eager baseball fans begging him to cast off. If the Northwestern league cannot be reorganized in 1916 along broader lin ith a sched- ule that will be satisfactory to Spokane and that will hold for the whole 1916 season, then Farr and Dugdale would better get out of it any way they can. Farr says very plainly he will not back a club in 1916 under the conditions that have existed thrs year.—Spokane Spokesman-Re- ¢ —?>} A. & 6 6 2 0 o | ais © 64 2 0 4 6 2 6 2 6 Oa ¢ 6 1 1 ARR. HPO. A e 1 J 2 7 De BE See Bae | ie ee ae Oe oe ie Bee ge ee ae er ae | 4 i 2 a 2 ° o 1 6 s e o ’ 2 5 abo § ‘ ° e e i pce age Bie gies Finest looking and most Totals a : 7 20 46 Score by innings satisfactory artificial teeth in Beattie the world. Tacoma Summary: 7 Brooks, Barth, © base—Smith. & vie play—Grover Struck out—By Bonner 4, by Meikie ®. lie--Off Bonner 1, off Meikle Bonner 2. Us Crown and bridgework a spe-| clalty. | WENATCHEE, Aug. 4—A. 1,| | Marble, football star of the Kansas! Aggies, has been appointed coach) of athletics and instructor in physics of the Wenatchee high) |school for 1915-16. Mable played jtackle two years and in the back| field two seasons, so should be able to develop a team of uniform strength. Wenatchee has promis- jing material for this season's team. 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