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Seattle Wins | How They Hit First Melee From Solons STANDING OF THE CLUBS Won. Lon. Tos Angeles Ban Franctsco Caklandt Balt Lake City Vernon Racramento Beatle Portiend Mains 16. = Varsity Ball “sc! Squad Lacks Real Punch With pair ‘ ‘ 1 outfield, Coach et er sity of W thru SACRAMENTO, Apr S} Beattie ball crew carricd Dp wicked bats in yew pF and hammered the for a total of 16 h ay . the Gleichmann a boys with the three safe er * poor Unt team The Seattle ran hits. The locals of knotting end of the to 6 Falk & on the mound for the and stopped the rally h while . the jo. met “GB two more count “ehapter. Jerry Coleman, a eher, turned ftle club by played the bat ve eam is for its » whieh will allman crew next Week going first near the the score mame ny too who is likely char r to tro quad at pe strong bunch an present entire for the consint game hasn't ¢ e try Seattle | he ing for places on the college aggre gat Th with hard hitting been in- mm Knight, Bastern » played third hase was shifted over to short Pabrique, the regular short-| fs stil! out of the game throwing art. rad has be et Db fielder long tunson, a has not to be who schoo! enough team, and thru Rordeaux who fate for a gar for the first | eligi: den berth Chambertain Only Harter ey Chamberlai the that only pitcher Brinker ean boast o a ia the only ott ho shows any burl | abil ging from his} showings he will hardly Coach Johnny catehing In the inf eat strength He has im Ladner at first Reem at shortstop, and Smith at third. Bill Foran, a newcomer, is holding down the keystone sack In good shape. He is one of the best hitters on the squad. In the field, McCroskey, Taylor, Allen and Grant are making the jwtrongest bids for places. Grant #4! and Taylor are the two best players Homan of whis quartet. Grant is a left sets. nore, Misdie- |handed hitter who hita hard enough . Pinellt. Sacrifice hits! tho not any too often. He can also) 2. nase on| pitch and may be added to the burt | a Bastiey 2 ¥ / 2 Be MeKeary 5. |1ng corps before long. Eastley 2, by Fatkenbers | piven REN Seip pit Matis | wiaeter2s-e=" QAKS DOWN Rune | responsible for 3. Dost MURPHY HITS, SAN FRANCISCO, April 16—| Harry Krause pitched a good game} for the Oaks in the opening | of the series, holding the | to ur bingles and two PORTLA |Rod Murphy broke up the os a aaa tad In the eighth when he shige another leiceion to add the agate for a triple ‘to the string he has already sent| nO” bases. i the majors? fan Prancisco .... ae ° Ben Stoloff, the youngster now | OSSGNt .'” anton. Couch and Trooks: down the shortfield position, | Krause and Mitzs, ENiott. do for « Roy Ta Allen will with ld Hew lor and of the with two me me eo TAKE this kid a chance that most " don’t get. The Reaver! was up against it when Sig LOS ANGELES, April 16.—The gap. Stoloff, who re- Bi the SAD. ay utter'the train. 108 Angeles team won the first ae acs started, has kept pegging |#eMe from the Vernon squad after |game for the home squad while | Eire saiceaglalemagees Manager Eesick of the visitors Everyone realized — oe used three hurlers. | he was fast and a ! Vernon ang teat eM nce there a yawning sap |p ettiee Fitters = 4 Lapan: Fromme, Re! +» Cheech and vormer. short, with no one to fm it). kid stepped in, at McCredie’s “He doesn't look like the greacest| in the world, but Ken Penner, siiats'S yas S's) OREGON CLUB CITY, April 16— pitching, and that he ought| Tying the score in the ninth inning @ fair hitter | " _ | series from the Portland Beavers when they pushed over another ta) |ly in the tenth frame, Sheely hit with the majors later on. OPENER FROM refused to report, as he didn’t Gaiey Gay, never saying a|® hard 12-Inning battle here yes- aney didn't appreciate how | tos "Ange! , and has been pulling “«" BEES TAKE : at Los Angeles, says the by a batting rally, the Salt Lake WIVES OF la) ja homer during the fracas. brief holdout of Paddy Sigtin| Whether he was placed on the|‘erday. Fittery pitched the entire Las Apgelor ...--- he was until it became appar- joem't toon itxe whe cromet| BATTLE FROM was hitting well against big crew won the opening game of the nr . mB. ; peeke x5 lake OMy . . eee 7 +E J ‘ ‘tterien: Oldham and Paker; Laver- ‘and Spencer, Pyler rank Farner, Tacoma light heavyweight, who is now in Canada, haw been matehed to battle Phil Har- rison of Chicago in Edmonton, May Int, according to reports from the North. It will be over the 15-round route. REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS In order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which is the lightest 4nd strongest plate known, covers very little of the roof of the mouth; you can bite corn off the cob; guaram teed 15 years, | EXAMINATION FREE $15.00 Set of Teeth. $10.00 | $10.00 Set Whalebone Teeth. ...§8.00 | $8.00 Crowns ...... +++-84.00 $8.00 Bridgework . +++ 84.00 $2.00 Amalgam Filling. -$1.00 Painless Extracting | 1S years. Have impression taken in the Examination and advice free. Bridge Work. 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YORK April 16 Wild the British Oyweight pion, who has signed « contract wit Cc. B. Cochran to f t Pal Moore ¢ Peter Herman, of the United States, for the bantamweight of the world and a purse ia one of the « in. the world wi they may in England Last summer I mw Wilde In ae tion several Limes. 1 first watehed him at some Anglo-American army and navy exhibition bouts at the Na tional Sporting club, London. Later I came across him boxing for the ‘Tommien at Grandvilliers behind the Pritiah Ines in France. Jimmy was too small to get into the army. You Jimmy cham w could put him into a trench helmet What firet struck me about Wilde his apparently frail physique almost looks consumptive, Hut spindle shanks of when he ia once maken wap He to gaze on those his and bony arms vound up 1 going as diezy an ecroplane propellers York far learn tha ina geree looking are surprised London sporting the decision the other night gave Wilde stake and @ purse amounting to| 2,000 in hig 16round go with Jor wneh of Amerien at the National’ Sporting club. Lynch too many natural advantages to take a beat ing from the midget Britiaher He not only has 15 pounds to the good. New to now | writers but height and reach wa man's agement and the newspapers never give a Such lets names of bishops, to the ctlors, bers of the aristocracy old dear, would never do in dear old Lupnon! However, and won't kick at fate must have fore rt wan McCredie Is Predicting a Coast Major near-major t “wr f JSIMMY WHILDE WORLD'S FLY WEIOHT PON cham oS) SEA more th my MUNN \\ q y THEQe WAS A POG “ Frank Barrieau May Argue Bartfield Here ith ving from LS HAVE OVERFLOW OF Tacoma at great future when there North we California major league JAKE ABELTO_ *.": BOX TONIGHT : -ANO THIS IS AN ENGLISH FIGHTER ON HIS WAY TO THE RING night Jake Abe n of the mber can expeditionary f will his first appearance battler. THe the main event Abel went thru the nt in London. it a dete Frush, an Joe with in nchedul with K Lynch in a while Kood He, anyway, got some fun boxing be the Prince of Wal Prince Lord Lonsdale and the other puck fight the N. & ¢ told, donteherknow, when I there, that there as agreement between the man sport id Hermann nterallied box last De hb boxer Michie Johnny Schauer, of St Johnson, of Oakland, will of wi of Philadelphia. man ‘The opener will be #taged by a based Franklin, of Lon Ange and with at list of “those present.” | F of Portland. gasoli would Invariably contain | SPORTS ten-fiftee privy coun . nerve ministers and mem-| ST, LOUIS, April 16—Playing on) And th and that, their own home grounds, the St young Je Louln Cards looked like an even bet e his for the spring series today. After | Creapt, And, believe wome amu at i's will meet Gorma hangout cabinet Wh Win Major BY I. K SANBORN | Chicago Tribune. Geography, climate and architeo- ture have a lot more to do with the | winning of baseball pennants and the making and unmaking of ball players | Ask any major league player why . Louis never has won a National or American league championship, and he will tell you the heat and} humidity of a Mound City summer! make It impossible to maintain the | pep and ambition necessary to cop a pennant. They admit St. Louis isn't so much hotter by the thermometer thhn some other cities in the big show, but the humidity of the Mis- duwdppl valley in what saps their vitality, Players Lack Sleep Lack of sleep is a big factor, for It | ls one of the chief ingredients In an athlete's repertoire, The St. Louin| players have to stay in that city two| or three weeks at a time, while the | visiting teams get rour days of it on| a stretch at the moat. Moreover, the home performers live mostly tn boarding hounes or the cheaper hotels at their own expense—while the | visiting players stop at first class hostelries, equipped with electric fans in each room—at the club's expense. And an electric fan is a great ald to| somnolence in the Mound City in | July and August. As one player told me: “When it's hot in other cities, there is usually | enough air stirring so you can keep | cool by keeping still, but in St. Louis | if you even let your thoughts wander | you sweat off a couple of pounds.” Cincinnati is another city which saps the vitality of the players. Al- tho it is possible to be comfortable on any of the hilltops which sur round Porkopolis, the ball yard is located in one of the river bottoms, eut off in nearty every direction from the winds, and when {t is hot the Red ball yard is hotter than any- | where elwe in town. | Chicago teams have won quite a |number of championships and world’s pennants in the last 20 years, but seldom does a Chicago team | lead its league in batting. One White | Sox team acquired the title of “hit less wonders” by copping the big flag while trailing the league in | swatting Lake Breeze | | Hurts Batting The players say thelr low batting averages are due to climatic cond tions, There is plenty of ozone and pep in the Windy City atmosphere, even in hot weather, but the two ball parks are laid out so that the prevailing winds are against the batsman most of the baseball season, Chicago players, of course, play half their games at home, while visiting teams play only one-seventh of their schedule against the lake winds, A bigger factor in batting aver Ages, however, ix the architecture of the major league ball parks. It is doubtful if the White Sox team ever will lead the American league in hitting, because every swat made on the home grounds has to be the real thing. ‘There are no short fences in any direetion, and many a wallop | that would be good for a home run, or, at least, a two-bagger, in almont any other city, winds up in am ent Title Honor. fleider’y mitt at Cominkey park. The leagues that can compare with the South Side plant in that respect in the National league park in Howton. New York's polo grounds, on which both major league teams play has short fields both in right and left, right field being the shorter; consequently, the crop of home runs in consideradie, and many of them would be caught at Comiskey park. Boston's American league park has a short left field only. A home run into right or center is the real thing. | Brooklyn has a shot right field) fence, but it requires a healthy wwat to hit it, at that. Philadetphia’s = parks §=«are = the | smallest in the league, the National league's being the “cigar box” of the majors now, Right feld in so | short that frequently a batsman can get only to first base on a drive | against the fence, if the fielder plays | the rebound properly. Wouldn’t Let Her See Ball Games; She Gets Divorce SAN FEKANCISEO, April 16. Testimony of Mrx. Ethel E. Bones, of 55 30th st, that her husband, Reuben Bones, would not allow her to go to baseball games, altho he attended the games himself, won her an inter locntory decree of divorce in Superior Judge B P. Shortall’s court, She said her spouse went to all the league games here and often to the contest in Oakland. BY B. CLYMER Pat Eastley, veteran Seattle hurt er, was given the biue envelope by Manager Clymer in Sacramento yer terday, according to word received by Prexy Brewster, of the Seattle ub, from the Rainer pilot Clymer signed Cole, a left-handed twirler, who had a trial with Sacra- mento, to replace Kastley on the staff, according to Brewster. ROANOKE, Va., April 16.—The De- troit Tigers went to Staunton today, certain that nothing could take the series with the Braves from them. Yesterday's game was a slugging match, in which Jennings’ crew was on the heavy end of a 19 to 9 score, Herman Pillette, the young Seal pitcher, has been turned over to the Des Moines club in the Western league. Pillette figures to return Coast league after a year in Western. He has ali the re quirements of a successful pitcher save experience, and under the guid- ing hand of Jack Coffey, manager of the Des Mdines club, he should receive WIVES OF MEN} |w Gleason's men had little trouble in| ¥O% *trouncing that city’s aggregation, 9 |g) to 2 The Sox tackie Memphis to only other ball grounds in the big day SOX BEAT LITTLE hite Box were “cockier” today, aft ler a day at Little Rock, Ark. where | chalking up circuit drives. The Cards their first showing against the Browns yesterday, the National leaguers were feinstated in the fanr Hornsby and Sisler were the of yesterday's scuffie, both whe his just how The | graces. heroes PHIS, Tenn. April 16 work of and says that ner Sto4 You think of ndvertixing, think of The Star. When like Bil no wildnes He anothe: his ability to pitch Lee Fob! is much taken with corner, Critics with New Orleans are saying Lunte fields | le MOUND MEN be effec control has along And Couch has to be ir he begins to re he was which is bad Smit trength wher Heutenant, morale, and Casey Here mn the t the range Baum t there with is in hi when can do more things with Henry Ford ymato can, two bits’ worth a motor from the en-cent store, and a Ji than can five ine, en there is Hal Dimock {thander, who is to turn on the “nour Del pungster, has shown janes AA ball, ®ut a chance to riain the n he will get wares is unc the Henry Lunte on third base the Indians are safe on Gardner or no Gard the Indians at Bradicy used to do. AMELS meet your fondest cigarette fancies in so many new ways—they are so unusual in flavor, so refreshing, so mellow-mild, yet so full-bodied—that you quickly realize their superior quality, and, become a Camel enthusiast ! 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C. 18c a package a> x Q\ PPP APPL PLD ALLL LL LPL LS Eastern Star | Prepares tor’ vin eve rriday, eyith whill nxtow Kast ied ‘tite ring ae sy while! couple § not qui broth saa hardet es why rforme out again thi looks Ait an! sernk urd ay ‘ond to ai raiser. centers Mitche ighty PIPP SHOULD BE THIS YEAR'S STAR-HUGGINS Manager Miller Huggins ie over what Pipp this jot about ff I've come to ta a lot of boosts McInnis and ot however, that I th 1 have the best first baseman yall, and that he will be recognized before another 0 Hug “Pipp can do everything aro first base any of the others do, his great reach gives him @ cided advantage over most of ti And 1 know of no other first Bal man who carries ‘more of a” id at bat. He hit .304 for me year, but a batting ‘average not begin to tell Pipp's useful to a team. His ability to m these long hits at critical tif makes him one of the most able men in baseball. He led gue in home runs in 1916 thusing ex expects f ne 1 basemen and I he Chase I want to say win are Sisler ow 191