The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 20, 1917, Page 10

; —. All big things, have small beginnings i | among the big leaguers. The pre ' Connie Mack, silent leader of the Athletics Outbursts of Everett True. By Condo Ed fiill’s Comment HIRTY-THREE years ago a number of shotgun enthusiasts met at Chicago to take part in the first trap-shooting tournament of which there is any record. The title of the shoot was the Nationa! inanimate Target Tourney,’ won by the Exeter Gun club, of Exeter, N. H. The tournament was conducted under the management of J. E | | | | | OF THE DUI beJIP YoU ONLY HAD A, BATHING Surr Now 1D BE GLAD TO MIND THE BN so You couto SQ TOPANS Movie — “TERRORS OF The DEEP ~ INC DENTAL MUSIC BY RASBOS FALE BAND Hugo Does Not Like | New Place. Coaching a championship | varsity football team isan easy | Job, compared with managing a big league baseball team, ac- cording to reports from Pitts burg, where Hugo Bezdek, | University of Oregon gridiron | tutor, is trying to make a team | out of a bunch of misfits hand. | ed down to him by Jimmy Callahan, Reports | home of the! from the The clay pigeons were the first to be successfully thrown with Pirates are to the effect that t bird flight from a trap. These facts, which ha Photographed at this reunion after a period of 33 years. " ICAGO THIS YEAR will again @ the scene of the national target nt, and the grand Amert- trapshooting tournament will Place over the 14 traps of the mth Shore Country club, adjoin- Jackson park, today and Tues- , Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- . oh, where can you find a big leaguer who wouldn't spend several thousand dollars for Schang? * adelphia. 4 men everywhere believe it is due. It didn’t take very long to com- Plete the trapsbooi!ng tournament of 33 years ago. One trap and 4 is By United Press Leased Wire NEW YORK, Aug, 20. Hills, L. 1, will singles patriotic get under way to stars will compete. Side club, Forest see the national tennis tourney day. Many L. of shooters turned out. It quite different today, when it “takes 14 traps of the most modern The foundation has been built for another fine baseball team in Phil-| &™*wers Managers and baseball bufllt in a single afternoon, nor can such great importance as part of the hie-| Rerdek boc: ‘Of trap-shooting in the United States were brought to light a few | is holding ago at a reunion of the old Exeter Gun club team. The veterans | +) Wallie | COUrle of fana are already starting to “ride’ ause the Pittsburg club| down the cellar post-/ jon. "Get a manager,” is the roar put up by some of the fans every day the Piratos are at home “Can Barney Dreyfuss,” shrisk a the Pittsburg papers every day or two “Pittsburg expects too Bezdek “Rome much,” wnan't a baseball team be welded together in & season.” | But it's no real wonder that Rez. | ‘The West | dek is yearning for the opening of the 1917 football season, when his| coaching duties will furnish « calm relief to strenuous labor of a| bie league managing Job. | 1 to accommodate the shooters and five days to complete the pro- however, MORE AND MORE the efforts of “4 » are gaining respect py United Prese Leased Wire CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—More than 600 appeared on the entry list when the grand American handicap trapshooting tourna- ment opened here today. Many stars will participate. Amateurs opened play in the South Shore introductory, In which there were 200 targets on an 18yard rise. The national amateur cham- pionship begins tomorrow. There will be 100 single tar- gets on a 16-rod rise. The preliminary handicap, diction made by himself when he Began to whittle off the stars with Whom ‘he had won several world’s championships that he would be ack in the race by 1917, has not been realized, but he has succeed > ed in making the name of Philadel! phia once more one to be feared in ‘the American league. | Discussing Mack and his newly made team recently, Bill Donovan said that he would rather play al- Most any club in the league than send his men into a contest against the Mackmen “They won't win any pennants \ ‘More Than 6OO in Big Trapshoot Meet open to amateurs, will be held Wednesday. The Grand Amer. ican event is to be on Thurs. day, and the Consolation Fri- day. Daily matches between pro- fessional shooters will be held | in addition to the regular pro- gram. Preliminary events were cleaned up yesterday, when R A. King, of Delta, Colo., won the A. B. Richardson memorial trophy and Wm. Ridley, of Whatcheer, Ja, successfully defended the Hazard doubles trophy. this year,” Donovan commented, | “but they’re going to fight mighty/ hard for every game they go into. From this time on they're going to Smprove. I'm a mighty mistaken student of this national pastime if the Athletics are not found kick img considerable dust around be fore the end of the 1918 campaign| Donovan figures—and so does ev-| @ry other baseball manager who| has had a glimpse of him—that Ray Bates is one of the finest play- ..ers the minor leagues have yielded in many a day. He also believes) Witt the equal of any shortstop in|stuck out now and carried down the American league. h the pos-|thru September will give the White sible exception of Roger Peckin-/ Sox the right to meet the National paugh, his own short fielder. Sec-|league pennant winner in the ond base is a problem, but MeInnis| world’s series. A false step now fs fully the equal, perhaps the su might as well begin to perior of any man doing first-base + plans for year duty. Chicago Sox have kicked “There isn’t a thing wrong with veral to sew up that outfield of Connie Mack , but today in spite of their Donovan ruefully remarked they 1 the only wish I had a pair of those) b o full games. They now birds working for me. 1 migt uled at home for a stretch have a chance to win a pennant be-|that will carry them up to Septem fore he makes the going so rough.”|ber 17, That list of games should Where is the manager who|mean a flag wouldn't like to have Bush Myers Injuries to Buck Weaver and a and Noyes pitching for him? And!shattered pitching staff have made BY H. C. HAMILTON United Press Statt Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 20—The question whether the Red or White Sox carried the greater amount of nerve will be settied in the deadly series that be gins today in Chicago. A display of cast-iron feelings chance ad procession ENTRY BLANK YOR STARR SECOND ANNUAL BIKY. RACE I hereby make application fer entry in The Beattie Mtar's second Ganual endurance Vicycie race, to be staged on the morning of Labor Day Year of birth. . 1 am @ pupil of the 1, the undersigned perent or guardian of the above boy, the above, and give my perimingien for hit to partietpat Bieyele road race on labor Day morning Reatricted to boys of 17 and under, (PM this blank ont completely and take it to Piper & Taft, Second ave. between Seneca and Spring, Fntries clone at 10 o'clock p.m. Bep tember 1. ‘that ca Red Sox and White Meet Today in Mix the Sox's task hard, but the White kives them a well-d loped Sox in series However, the is one of the kind lly be measured with The Red Sox, histor ve won their last two pen the face of are called present proves, nants | just such o upon today They have the determination and no nerves, They composed one of the greatest “money teams the| same has known.” If they should slaughter th hite Sox, no one would reatly sur | Erni probab’ will be sent against the White Sox in to day's p with chance pointing at Eddie Cicotte for the Chi cagoans Billy Evans Too Busy to Help Out Ball Fan “Hey, there, brush off the plate I can’t see it for dust,” yelled a fan to Umpire Billy Evans. “And neither can you!” Said fan objected to a strike decision, “Come out here and do it your self. You've got lots more time than T have, I'm awful busy right now,” retorted Evans with a grin Shore me Grand Circuit Opens in’ Philadelphia Now Hy United Vress Leased Wire PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20. The first Grand Cireuit race meet to be held here in more than 25 ye: will get under way today. $5,000 Bellevue-Stratford e¢ is the feature event | READ STAR WANT AD ArH, The hotel OW | HAVE ONE. ‘THAT MR. DUFF STAR—MONDAY, MR DUFE GAVE me | DeLieve That Or “THERE AND He PRomiseo TO AUG. 20, 1917. PAGE 10 There Sie IS, HELEN + AND “THAT'S “THE BATHING TRACK me TO | eure 2 WHY = WHATS He DIFFERENCE / OH NOTHIN’ — ONLY 1 WAS Goin’ TO SPRINKLE MY WAR “Caruso Dan” remarks that the American league race is closer than Sid Mitchell. Any man who will not do all he can to help the government and the Sammies at thin time is a slacker Fighters take notice. Walter Johnson is going back. Th, one-hit game he pitched against the White Sox proved it. loent |derstudy, MeMullin This guy Cruise still seema crulse toward the National league batting championship Crutch is the name of a book. maker at North Randall. Ho, | hum! Why do it? | We may be a little early, but it looks like Schupp and’ Rariden, Cleotte and Schalk By saying he can help the United States more by play- ing golf for the Red Cross than by fighting In a trench, Francis Ouimet was given Benny Leon- ard another alibi, The Giants and the National! ague are as far apart as a couple o were married in 1907 | “I may not be the best-ook. to} ing man in Seattle, ys Tea ley Raymond. Can't all be handsome, eh, Tealey? | The fellow who would ask for a pass to a benefit boxing show would rob a cripple of his crutch “Butch” Erb ivory in the world has not been made Into billiard balls. Harry Harper, coma outfielder, the #lugging Ta has bi farmed out to Peoria by Joe Tinker’s Colum bus club. Pillet, the Tigers’ star pitcher, also failed to stick in the! big show | were r Big Show Will be On Today By United Press Leased Wire CHICAGO, Aug. 20—The Sox—White and Red—formed an all-star cast here today for a revival of the old favorite drama, “the crucial series.” A matinee and evening perform. ance will be given today. It will be repeated tomorrow and Wednesday The home talent section of the east will be crippled by the ab sence of one of ite stars, Buck Weaver, who was injured on @ re barnstorming trip. His un will take his place. The road company, direct &® fourday run in Cleveland. expected to present elther Shore or Carl Mays in star Stage Manager Rowland he did not know who would do the from was roles |heavy work for the White Sox —Someone Is Waiting for You, Tom. | Don'T Prueve MRS, DUFF LikeD IT VERN WELL WHEN Swe FOUND OUT THAT Nov GAVE ME “THis BATHING Surr OH WELL, JLL DONT OMORKOW AN’ STAY IN “TODAY AN FINISH WRITIN’ MY New PLAY ! |, [ SO sue KNOWS ABouT it? WHat 6 ire an, % Crov bot BY ALLMAN | HADN'T BETTER. | Go IN NET - THERES STIL A LIGHT IN OUR ROOM GOT TH’ Two INTER MISSIONS Crack Mermen of World Reuther Train for Honolulu Meet Ernie | admitted | The home boys enter this series | good city In or atop the two full games to t der to leave the league, the Bostonese must make | a clean sweep first game will be played at NATIONAL At New York 0 No other Sunday LEAGUE AMERICAN At Clevetand 7, B LEAGUE COAST LEAGUE Duthies and S. & I Teams Are Winners) The Duthies and Skinner & Ida victors Saturday in league urned the Shipbuilders’ lost to the former, 11 to Matis on the mound, while t Dockers were defeated, 5 to with Dry Ice Hockey League May Not Start Year Nothing definite has been given out as yet as to whether not the Pacific Coast Hockey associa tion will be in operation this winter President Patrick is not much in favor of starting the sea son under present conditions or your Se cigar is the brand-mark of good Judgment. HEMENWAY & M OSER CIGAR Co. SEATTLE, WASH. Ames | Ross, SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20.— Will Norman Ross, represent ing the United States, return from Honolulu with the scalp of Duke Kahanamoku? This is the question which will direct the eyes of the aquatic world to Hawali the first week in Sep. tember, when the swimming championship events occur | Ross, during the t few months {has annexed a large numbe records, but hi lacked the wonderf The Duke” and the | speed of Lan swimmer | Ross now hold j the 20 and 440, He also }18 American records, Recently San Diego, Ross lowered the time for the mile, held by Ludy 49 seconds. Langer competing. Ross says he believes at right; | | | | of time pr, long-distan world’s time ir old 00, by was not Kahanamok u, Top at has Langer, he could Woodland Park I Left, and Langer make faster time at the mile if pit against 1 n Hawail, and two will id ens appears confider nt of defeat 220 and 440. no particular optim Kahs record for the rk 100 ts swam away, har ered the dis Ross’ best held » the by who distan igh Honolulu ce has been porters of Ross pat the islander. swimming judges say yt t es more speed in the r than any man who ever swam But Kahanamoku is SOME fish at his favorite distanc ) Winner at Aquatics Amid joyous shrieks and splashes, nearly 150 Seattle kiddies participated, Saturday, in the first annua! playfield swim ming meet, at the Mount Baker municipal bathing beach The Woodland Athletic club was first, with 953 points, The others follow: Mount Baker, 6 }487; Ballard, 381 Jumbia, 334; Unive ler, 188; Hiawatha Gr Station No, 2 Dry Dock The first thre includir Walla Walla Collir : Co 7 Mil en Lake Athletic 8 winners in each the points won by ntestants and the playfields represented follow (65 naximum number of points that ontestant could gain in a sin- event) Midgets-—Ed Athletic club, W. A. C,, 38; Royse was hannon, Woodland oOrnest Romstes.d, lloyd Ellis, Collins, Dan O'Leary, Collins, @4; Steven Bohonon Mt Baker, 59 'Fred Nelson, Columbia, 58. | Juniors-Roosevelt Hermans@n, W. A.C, 63; Harry Speidel, Mt Sunday at the trapshoot at Green | 48 out, 60; Huston Johnson, W and Stanley A | Baker \¢ Ral. Girls—Hester Eastman, W. 6 Stina Holmberg, W, A Alina O'Leary, W. A, ¢ | Senior Edith Eckland, A.C., 6 Thompson, W 60 Mt. Bake’ Thomas, Speidel, Mt A. C. 7 Russell Daley, 7 Cannon, Walla Walla, 46; Judy Fisse Collins, 40. Pat ott, Adolph Schacht and Syd Goodwin were the ju ges, The meet Was run off under the direc: tion of Frank Puller, superintendent of playfields, | ‘ \National Net Meet | Is Scheduled ‘Tod: | L, 8. Barnes, Dr. King and Fi | A. 0. i} C.,. 823 Ww A 58 Mt Baker, 7M Dora Hur boys W.K W Baker 61; B Inter W. A Call were tied for high gun honors Lake. | Each finished with of a possible 60, Is Liked — in Boston Fred Mitcheil turned “Dutch” Reuther, former Northwesters league pitcher, loose a few weeks, ago, but according te opinions of Eastern sport scribes, he pulled a “boner doing so. Of course, Reuther still remains in the National league. Christy Mathewson, of the Reds, w. too wise to let him get by, and paid the walver price for him. If Matty had not taken Reut {t is likely some other club wo have stepped in. Boston writ are especially strong for “Dutch™ W. C. Spargo, of the Journal, co | ments as follows: “Several days ago we printed many lines to the effect Dutch’ Reuther, hard hitting handed pitcher, with # , world stuff, had become dissatisfied his Chicago Cub berth and co be secured by the Braves if were ready to lay out a sm amount of cash for a better lookit prospect than any of the mi leagues hold. “Within a few days action curred in the Reuthers case, al not with the Boston cluh, as hoped. Christy Mathewson, ever ™ awake {n an effort te upset the jinx that has long followed f Reds, learned of the details of Reuther-Cubs affair and sec him for the climbing Rhinelandes The Braves could surely kave u him to as good advantage as ~ Reds, but that’s the way things oftentimes.” ( Ben Hunt, pitching for Skinner Eddy, shut out the Seattle El squad at 15th and Jefferson Sul day, 1 to 0, in a grilling pitche duel with “Toots” Agnew. 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