The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 17, 1919, Page 16

\\ LO \\ 1Gnor Rit ANT ) hat Wonderful Brand of Baseball Must Be on Tap in Salt Lake! s and Mormons Score Only 65 Runs in Four Games " =Use 6 Pitchers—Classy First Sackers in League BY LEO H. LASSEN What wonderful basebal *t be dishing up in the Mormons’ den this week. 1 Seattle and Salt Lake City What § already happened has looked strangely like bush league ibitions of the nightmare of the series Seattle City 40. Add this little scored in four games! order. During the first four has scored 25 runs and Salt sum and 65 results. Only 65 The poor scorers who had to WELL I HOPE TW’ Grass Grows GOOD AN’ Lone Ms Sonnee! I tay Gosu Lin’ Goat Fee! Have ‘To BAT IT ip Peices @o te each and every one of those counters have our| thy. ‘esterday’s game eviden runs were shot across it Seattle scored the odd counter. tly was the climax. Twenty- the plate, and as luck would ling melee if nothing else. A few more figures speak for themselves on the series the Mormons. Seattle has hammered out 54 hits and Bees 59; Seattle registered 13 errors, with two for the team. The Rainiers us . Nota ne after starting it. Figures Talk Here Seattle men have at least the short right field fence in Utah metropolis five of our pasting the onion out of enclosure in yesterday's fracas, turning the trick twice. SAY _ANY TIME : of first basemen, there inty a classy array of first in this little league of ours. fet there ix Earl Sheely, the slug we first sacker of the Sait Lake m, and then there is Phil Koer- of the San Francisco Seals, ean also bang the agate a bit. all Phil is doing at the writing is leading the tm the stick department. And , too, there is Jack Fournier, heavy clouter of the Los Angeles Babe Borton, who holds down pillow for the Vernon an also rap the agate, and i fielder. Griggs, of the Solons, is no ple with the stick. and is one of x of the circuit. “Blue, of and Roche, of the Oaks, hitters and fielders, Our | Gus Gleichmann is far and the best fielder of the bunch, bas been hitting ball with the them. If he continues bis hitting clip, Seattle won't y in the comparison of first Rit Steen came out of retire- the other day to pitch for the and was trounced. Bill used the mainstay of the Portland in the years when the Beavers their hey day. Bill took a in the majors, pitching for ind and Detroit, but he never & very strong go of it in the PLAYS G GAME fellow Chadbourne, who is down the center field berth ‘Vernon Tigers, is one of the Veterans of the Coast circuit. still clout the ball and ranks in the fielding averages. He with Portland for several ‘Tom Seaton, who generally three days or #0 to pitch a game, is still fooling the Coast stickers in the South. Tom several good games for the shipyard team in the local last season, but it took Tom to make up his mind to the agate every time that he up, that the fans could go town, eat lunch, and come “without missing a single play. won't see the Angelg in until the middle of July. ‘The are here the week of national ndence day for their only ser; of the year. It is too bad that 16 local fans can't see the Seals faction more often, as the Golden team is 4 great attraction on road, et THE SPORTING GOODS STORE: wy? That good looking young Irish lassie “with a bit of _a brogue” who has been m this week's bill up at the Moore paid us a visit the other day and is now _ the owner of one each of yur Jantzen and Saxonknit | swimming suits. Miss Molly McIntyre de tlared “The Sporting Goods Store” one of the most -in- teresting places in Seattle. nd ed nine pitchers and Salt Lake ngle Seattle pitcher has been able to finish | HosP STILL | ON JOB | In spite of the fact that the | Vernon team is reported to ha Bob Fisher on the Coast, Old | Man Hosp continues to hold down the second base job with the Tigers. This bird Fisher is | @ good hitter, clicking the ag- ate around the 300 mark in the big brush for several seasons. Something must have been wrong with his legs or think- | tank to have ever Jost his job up there. THE OLD, OLD WAIL “Watch our speed when we get in shape,” is the wail of some of the writing. Some of the clubs will still be walling this ditty at the end |of the season. Spring training sea | son im the time to get into condition. not after the season has started and the fans have to pay their good money to see rotten ball, because the players aren't in condition ARBUCKLE BUYS NEW OUTFIELDER “Patty” Arbuckle, the portly mag: nate of the Vernon Tigers, has started to bolster up his Vernon Tigers. He has purchased Hugh High, former New York Yank out- elder from the Gotham club, ac cording to reports from the South. He will undoubtedly take Bob Meu- sel's place in the Tiger fold until the ix hard to figure out just where High will fit in. Chadbourne, in ce ter, and Edington, in left, look like high clase garners and Meuse! is the best pasture prospect in the league. )N. W. Club Will Not Put Smoker on Here Tuesday There will be no amoker staged |} by the Northwest Athletic club |) at the local Arena Tuesday, ac- |) cording to Clay Hite, promoter. He expects to put over a show on the following Tuesday, with Young Hector and the winner of the Frank FarmerOle Anderson fight in Tacoma Thursday, billed as the headline bout. Young Jimmy Storey, who made such a hit with locat fans {/ at the Crystal Pool last winter, } may be matched with Lioyd Mad bon for one of the preliminary bouts. clubs in the league at the present | young slugger gets his release from| the navy. When Meusel returns it! It must have been|, { (1) Ted Ahmer, second ham, pitcher, West Seattle Broadway, base (4) Bart Some good ball players have been developed in the high school base) bail circuit which is now nearing ba | close here. Henry Cunningham, | the angular twirler of the West So attle squad, is one of the best mound men in the league, with a good curve ball, Among the outfielders Spencer | Harris, who holds down the right field job on the Broadway nine, ie one of the luminaries of the bt school orchard patroimen. He/ sticks left handed and hits well, | Ted Abmer, the stocky second! sacker of the Franklin aggregation, has played a bangup game for the Mt. Baker squad thruout the |son. His stick work has been the feature of his play altho he is also! rated as a capable man in the field. | All-Around Player Playing & good game at stop and taking up burden now and then, tenson, captain of the Queen Anne) team, is one of the best all-around ballplayers in the city league. He) hits the ball hard and is a con thort: | sistent performer. | | WiGH CosT OF ror Franklin; i SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1919. ROOoZ WWNOsi eM ereMars erly weore FoR A Boot CALLED “THIe ways Yo CU ina HAS tty % (2) Spencer Harris, Christenson, (Capt.) shortstop, right fie — * { }Rain Halts Prep; School Baseball | All of the high echool baseball games ncheduled for yesterday afternoon on the local playtields postponed because of grounds. TRroaway wee ready to meet Mallard, Franklin was billed to entertain Lincoln and Queen Anne was scheduled } aw host of the West Side contin- \ gent These games undoubtedly } will be played off before the end i of the season, Maa ALLL. fee i ) Much of the muccess of Jimmy Marquis, Broadway's star pitcher, is due to the work of Ed Dean, catcher of the First hill team. he works @ piteber well. He has a good throwing arm and ts speedy on the bases, Dean is just about the most valuable high school player in the city. Will Fight in PARIS, May 17—There will be] some freat boxing matches in the| ye yey rugtnes bullanyy Ytth | Kart Baird, former Seattle amateur | star, has bean signed to mix with Joe White of San Francisco in one of the preliminary bouts at Loule Parente’s bo ing show to be staged there next Thuri day. Richaras, who was e & coming ¢hampion in the |Golden Gate ring circtes until it wae Giscovered that he had a glass jaw, will meet Frankie Farres on the same card. It te billed as the headline event, ‘Tommy me looked Jack Thompaon, the big negro heavy- weight, is much im demand tn the Souter. He would undoubtedly, make « good o ponent for Young Heetr here some tim in the future, Whether or not Hector has drawn the color line tx not known. Local fans would like to get a peep at Danny Frush, the mrent little featherweight who licked Joo badly in Portiand tly. He hi faluting Ideas about getting a few gold mines y time he climbs into a ring, and unless he comes down in his de mands there isn’t much chance of his showing here. rank Farmer, the mg Kapowsin lom- will do baitle with Ole Anderson of Tacoma in the City of Destiny smoker next week, It is rumored that after show George Shanklin, Ta- coma promoter, is going to close shop for the summer mont ‘The three Jones hers of Tacoma card. Harold . the younger brother, meets @ Tacoma young- ster in one of the preliminaries. Since Morgan Jones won over Wrankle Murphy, Coast flywelght champion, been billing himaelf as the North- ight champion, accordme 4 from Taco) have it ed the ba title, is doubtf whether or not’ Jones could make t bantamweight limit of 114 pounds, and Morgan should squawk over hin win over Murphy. He was handed a beau- tiful perfumed decision by Roferee Shock, Tacoma’s own referes, after tak- ing @ boxing lesson from Murphy. Pershing Olympic gamex, Uncle Sam's boys have been boxing mad for months and in every regiment | jin France there have been some hot | phis; |matches between the soldier glove-| Herman Butchin, Philadelphia; Ray | men. New stars have developed and the game. As a result excellent ma-| Pp (“4 Mt j the old ones have kept their mitt In | “Jackie” Clark, 78th division; WL, Yh) |terial has been developed for the| who has an ambition to lick Johnny big contests in June. | The only handicap the American | boxers will undergo will be the re- turn to the states of many of the| stars. Some of them are making an effort to be allowed to remain until after they've had a chance to par-| ticipate for the big championship. | Among the ring stars who have been active over here are: Sam No-| lan, heavyweight champion at Camp} Dix; Frankie Wagner, Jersey City, | and Artie Fink, Passaic, middie | weights; “Kid Henry, Rochester, | light heavywetght; Johnny Martin, | Buffalo, Paddy Quinlan, Paterson, ! Army of Boxers Over There | the Olympiad and Neil Allison, Waterloo, Iowa, ightweights; Jake Delucca, Newark, and Cleary Marshall, New York, featherweights, and Tommy O'Con- nor, Newark, bantamweight. Others aro Gene Delmont. Frank Brenkus, Mem ht; ia” Suilivan, New York, bantamweight, River, New York Nght Kilbane when he gots out of the army; Ray Gibbons, Indianapolis lightweight; Jack McManus, Cleve land featherweight; “Chick” Clem: mons, Danville, Til, bantamweight Sergt. George Kneeshaw, Alpino, Mich,, known in Buffalo, Detroit, and Cleveland rings; Jimmie Costello, Newark, In wrestling events the leading soldiers are Sergt. Michael Dorizas, world’s champion intercollegiate wrestler; Joo Turner, Washington, world’s middleweight champion; James Pappas, Cleveland contender | for the heavyweight championship, FAMOUS BALL | COMEDIAN IS __ DEAD IN EAST SARANAC LAKE, N, Y., May 17. (United Prese)—Germany Schae- fer, baseball's great comedian, is dead here, a victim of tuberculosis. As Germany Schaefer, the famous ball player was known for years, but one of his last flings at wit was to ask that he be known as “Lib- erty” Schaefer. Schaefer's antics on field are known to baseball the world over. His uproarioy tight rope walking along chalke lines of a playing field, his wrest ling watch in which he threw him- self after a desperate struggle, his snap throws, which in themselves were funnier than most all other comedian's funniest, have brought laughs to the faces of kings, for Germany accompanied the White} Sox and the Giants on thelr World| encireling trip. Schaefer first played with De troit as a second baseman, but since then has been with Wash the baseball PINKMAN IS" BEATEN AT GOLDEN GATE SAN FRANCISCO, May 17. (United Pres#)--Johnny Ray, Pitts: burg lightweight, won a decisive vie tory over Eddie Pinkman, of Seattle, in the four-round main event last night. The Easterner had his oppo- nent outclassed in every way, and is already in high favor, Young France walloped Charlie Schumann, who outweighed him 10 pounds. Frankie Haynie and George Shade drew, Spider Webb won over Bert Myers, Joe Coffey ood Young Vierra, and Johnny Ortaga beat Joe Riley. ——— ington and New York in the Amer- ican league. He was signed by the Giants for the present season, AT VERNON LOS ANGELES, May 17,—(United Preas.)—Eddie Pinkman, Seattle lightweight, will meet Herb Brodie in one main event at Vernon's show, PINK Queen Anne; Pittsburg; | Some of the Luminaries of the Local Interscholastic Ball League Season in Salt Lake 5 a M4, Broadway; “w (3) Henry Cunning Ed Dean, catcher, [SEATTLE AND VICTORIA TO OPEN SERIES | With Old Sol on the job this morn. ing, prompecta for the opening game of the Victoria-Seattle Northwestern |teague series at the local park were bright. Yesterday a steady down pour of very wet rain postponed the first game of the series with the Canadians, If the weather holds up, Bill Me: Ivor, former Franklin high school land Seattle Northwestern league | pitcher, who has just returned from |the wervice, is due to take up the mound burden for the visitors, Dave Williams, one of the most depend the pitching | Dean is the hardest working Dlay.t ahie pitchers in the league, will be Earl Chris in the local high school league and on the hillock for the home crew. The Seattle men are leading the | league, and intend to keep it, accord. ing to Devine, who has his heart set | jon winning his third straight pen nant this year, Fa | SN \Bow,| ing a \e AS r te 108— 20— ry Jack . 79 “ Totals 238 290—— Tee Due kaos no we? 186 18 333 359-1 | Mattards— Anderson . Sundine Wissing “T “ 113 103— 239 16— 106— $1 | | Totais “Ra ae 108 | Rite Grades | Zimmerman | Luke . Hooper . i Totals ~ 169 Tea | Gorman j Standria: Behr Huntoon | Daab ‘ Mohier Tot 03 343th Oe \Senators Wallop Portland Crew | SACRAMENTO, May 17.—Solon | stickers craced the ball hard yester- day, collecting 15 hite, and ran up nine runs on the Portland men, The final score was 9 to 1, with the Sen- ators leading. The score: Portiand .., 1 5 2 Sacramento -9 15 0 Batteries—Penner and Baker, Fal lentine; Gardner and Fishe: rR HW OMAHA, May 17.—Norman Ross, swimming for the Tilinois Athletic club, set a new world’s record for the 300 yards when he swam the distance in 3 minutes, 271-5 seconds here last night, The former record was 3:28, held by Ted Cann, New York Ath- letic club. LONDON, May 17.-—Jimmy Wilde, world's champion flyweight, knocked out Young Mansfield in thp 13th round wt Holborn stadium last night. WEAEVEVEDTS AQUEQRVERE! WWE 761 Locals Take | | Weird Melee Rainiers Annex 13-Inning Fracas; Teams Score | 25 Runs | we How Coast Clubs Stand Won Lost. t 4 In| one of the wi nitions ever ntaged here, Seattle emerged victor over the Bees in the 15th inning when Jack Knight, Seattle sacker, hammered th agate out of the lot for his second home run of the day The final score was 13 to 12 with |the visitors leading. Salt Lake | wtarted out wtrong nd trotted over five runs in the first inning, but the Seattle men evened up the going in the second frame when home run | wallops by Schultz and Knight scored five counters for the Rain fern | Knight was the big man with the stick for the day, his two home| runs featuring the batting of the visitors. He clicked out three sin too. Canningham Stars, Hilly Cunningham, Seattle center | fielder, played a nice game, saving | the Rainiers with catch in the {12th and 13th frames with the win ning runs on third base for the | Bees. H recond Re AAS. BuT wot ONE Way WORKED! AUK ————— The Brains | Behind Big | Mix | —s n— |w. | | The Seattle crew forged ahead in | the third inning and added one run | in this frame, and one in the fourth, fifth and sixth. In the seventh they put over two more runs and were | | leading by a count of 11 to five at} the end of the wixth. Well, i Mormons did in the seventh was to tie up the count again. Until the 12th neither team was able to score, }but in this frame Cunningham | knocked the pill out of the lot, but | the Bees evened it up again with | three safeties. When Knight soaked | the ball over the fence in the 13th |the home aggregation was unable to knot the count agair. | peattie— aD. R yPabriqos as Ca Gieich mann. Canningham, ef Compton, if | Harper, rf | Murphy, | Ketane >. Hehang. ¢ Schulte, p Rowman. p Bigdee, p .. AR « ? ‘Totals fait Lake— | Mae Jobneo Bheely, 1D .. pencer, ¢ Byler, © | onmoounenucceer Ran for Rpencer in ore by Innings mn . Dala Btolen basew Sheely, Compton. Struck out 4. by Markle 9, by Bowman 2, by & Bases on balle—Oft Gould off Schulte 2 Double plays— | © fiands to Spencer to Johnson) © Johnson to Sheely; Cunningham hang. Rune responsible for--Gould 5, Schorr 4, Markle 4, Schult 2, Bowman bee 4 0! eocccccccsccce a! ecoumoeccee ali the! MUAY \\\ AS \ q Varsity Wins Second Tilt FromOregon Washington Leads N. W. Conference; Beat Visitors 8-1 Here NORTHWEST CO? . Won. 1 Washington snaaeerece- § OAS Oregon 4. ¢. cr oat, Pete eu ‘4 University down the line to the tame of 8 to 1. Percy Chamberiain pitched 2 strong game for the Purple and Gold crew, striking out 14 and allowing but seven scattered hits, The Oregon men scored their lone run in the firwt canto and were unable to dent the plate aganin. Washington took the lead in the third inning when they slipped ov their second They cinch the contest in the fourth whem they spiked the rubber three times, Before the game was over the var sity added a couple of more coum ters, running their total up to 8. Star Stickers Beem, Clark were the big score. Foran and Smith men with the stick for the home team. Lind, visiting first sacker, played @ strong for the Oregon men. Durno, th twirler, didn't have much on f ball and the locals maced the aj ple for 12 safe ones. 1 n 3 rleeonececoe™ Totals oia-- Oregon— Morrison, 2b Rinehart, x Lind, 1b cocem ems | emo Bl wmancccouePe! unccconeP : 238 tted ball 1reo1rse2@ Totals 3 *Mediey hit by ba f Taylor and Chamberlain. Left on Washington §, Oregon 5. Umplt Wells. Time of game—1:20. Broadway and Lincoln are fa’ to lead the field in the annual elf track meet to be staged by the high schools at the University First, of course, comes Tex Rick- ard, in the promotion of the big July 4 bout between Jess Willard and) Jack Dempsey. Closely associated | with him is Frank Flournoy, of Mem- | phis, But Ad Thacher, president) and matchmaker of the Toledo Ath-} letic club, which was granted the per- | mit for the show, is officially the | promoter, He will be on the job with Rickard and Flournoy helping to} smooth out the wrinkles and have everything in working shape. Cor-| nell Schreiber is the mayor of To- ledo, He has been a good frierti of the game, and when convinced the Willard-Dempsey go would be a box- €. Bigdee 1. Credit victory to Bigbes; charge defeat to Markie | | | | 1 1] | ” | AMERICAN LEAGUE Won. Leet lenteare .. Fi New York Cleveland . | Rorton | Washington St. Loule . 14 Detroit f 12 | Philadelphia ... 2 '"Major League | Score’ | NATIONAL LEAGUE Won, Lost New York 4 Rrooklyn . nnatt Pittaburg « Chicago : | Philadetphia [St Louls Boston 6 6 8 10 3 13 NATIONAL LEAGUE BROOKLYN, May 17. Cineinnatt . . Brooklyn " ee Batteries; Luqu 1 Rariden; Mar- quard, Cadore and Krueger PHILADELPHIA, May 17— R 8 " a ¥. ° ae ig og 5 p and = Schmidt; Ooschger and Adama BOSTON, May 17 St. Louis Boston buses See Watteries: Tuero, Sherdet and Snyder; Villingim, Northrop and Wilson, NEW YORK, May 17. Chicago New Yor! ®, PS | O'Par- Kiefer; a MeCarty, AMERICAN LEAGUE CHICAGO, May 17.— Rn MM, ton. Te aR As | eee J rand Schalk. ST, LOUIS, May 17.—Phitadetphia-St, Louls postponed; wet grounds, CLEVELAND, May 17.—Washington- Cleveland « poned; rain, pernorr, May 17.—-New York ry -Detroit ame postponed; wet groun 3 {Matt ing exhibition of merit, did not hesi- tate to sign his name to the permit. Hinkel, Cleveland promoter and referee, will be on the job from June 1 on to assist Rickard, Flour- noy and Thacher in promoting the bout. Matt is one of the most popu- lar men among the boxing fans in Ohio. hy) "Y) WIL Spokane is making plans for the Northwest golf tourney which will be held in the Inland Empire metropolis in June, Many contenders for Northwest links honors are expected to en- ter the meet. The Georgia Tech golfers are stil! at their tricks in the East. This week they cleaned up the teacn from Harvard and played a tie with the team from Yale. Previous to this/ they defeated Columbia, A trench golf tournament may take the place of the annual amateur and open championship tournaments in England this year. The British clubs have de- clared themselves against the big event until next year, so the trench tournament will probably take its place, The event will have as its qualification service in either the army or navy. Spokane's semi-annual handicap golf tournament has started at the Spokane Golf and Country club, A movement is under way to organize @ new golf association in Spokane | with an initial membership of 100, Plans are being drawn for a new, clubhouse, | NORTHWESTERN _ ¥v myn 4 WH oly) HAY Ky. 4 Washington oval this afternoon, While Queen Anne, Franklin and Ballard will enter teams, they not expected to count much in th final score. Broadway is strong in the dashes and distance runs, and is expected to cop both hurdle events, Lincoin is conceded the weight events, with the possible exception of the shot-put The North End school is also con+ ceded the honors in the pole vault, Lincoln won the track honors last season, but it looks as if Broadway. has a cinch on today's event, because the Pine street men swamped their North End rivals last week in their dual meet. TIGERS RUN AWAY FROM SEAL CREW LOS ANGELES, May 17.—Vernon went on a batting rampage yester: day and clicked out 11 hits, good for eight runs, in their game with the Seals. None of the three Frisce twirlers was much of a puzzle to the home team. Mitchell led the stick: ers with a trio of safe blows, R HH E 2 3 4 ees 8 8 i e Couch, Smith, Cresph Dell and Brooks, ANGELS EVEN SERIES WITH OAKLANDERS SAN FRANCISCO, May 17.— Scoring four runs in the eighth frame, the Los Angeles team evened up the series with the Oaks here yesterday. The final score was even at four runs all, Oak+ land scored three runs in the third |_ The score |San Francisco . | Vernon Batteries: and McKee Los Angele: Oakland The batteries and Boles; Krause and Mitze, KICK AT VERDICT LOS ANGELES, May 17.—F: weren't exactly tickled with the 4 cision which gave Sailor Kramer they main event at last night’s four-roun boxing show over George Thompson Many said Kramer wasn’t even en titled to a draw, ‘ Your Patrenage Appreciated Pay Checks Cashed TORREY & SEARS’ BILLIARD PARLOR Seattle . Vancouve Victoria .. i, BROADWAY IS __ a 4559r2shs om emiscscr -