The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 7, 1919, Page 14

Ame \» \) W) x Bill Rogers Will Lead _ Yippers Against Locals =aei a on Seattle Lot Tuesday n Looks Like Good Receiver—-Changes ae lt Due in Local Roster Soon—Double Bill . Here Sunday — Pitching Staff Looks , Stronger — Rodgers’ Men Have Been) j Having Their Troubles. (BY LEO H. LASSEN) Bill Rodgers and his crew of Raw Meaters will be the baseball contingent to invade the Seattle Rainiers’ back when they open a week's series here Tuesday. Bill ind his worthy men have been having their troubles in Port- nd this week, where the Beavers have taken three straight n from the Solons. Sacramento had a sorry week in} it Lake City just before leaving for the Coast, and the ub, ted as one of the teams to beat, is on the verge of oo caventh pepe a4 pov wok onetiecy bron a good club is self-evident, as he has a od staff of pitchers and some brainy ball tossers. His} [wpente club. which will in c staff is one of the strongest in the league, and he| hence arccomeitiay: -aylh megan cece mced men in every position, but the gang doesn't ball player in his day, and 2, ” 2 still takes bis ture in the feld making the runs they should be at the present pt oe ae baseman by trade, and het down that post with his club untit he signed Billy Orr, his present keystone man. STARTIN’ A GARDEN PHEW! AINT IT Too BAD WE'VE GOTTA WORK So HARD For EVERY THIN G& IN . | THIS OLD Cwo RLD id gi | Yipper Pilot to | Lead His Outfit | Here's “Kaw Meat” Bill Rodgers, the pilot of the Bac. 2g m to be Here's Pitchers ! , Gariner, Bromiey, McKen Vance form a pretty good of pitchers. Piercy was with and Sait Lake in the Coast for a number of seasons. and Ih the New York Yankees for a Gardner is wel! known here. | pitched in the Northwestern fue & couple of seasons ago with ¢ Falis team, and hurled for in the shipyard league last McKenry is the same big pitehed for Cincinnati a ‘eeasons ago. He pitched for here a couple of years ago, | for Camp Lewis last sum and Bromley are new to, fans. | Eldred, the star outfielder Herr, the portly pilot of the visitors, | @ Solons, played centerfield tor knows what Bill Clymer bas had to! Je @ couple of years ago and was put up with thruout the mrason after! permis Jonnsen p Of the leading hitters in the| Watching Cliff Markle, his star right the field for Une © terday. Ve a ‘Wes sold to the Chicago hander, h atralg! Dandied & buadie of chances without He / ©, burl 11 ht balls in oe) ag Oty ge hare this ween, howe: Levinson Makes Gloves for Big Ring Title Mix Sol Levinson, Golden Gate fight manager, if making the gloves for the coming Willard- Dempsey set-to, in Toledo, on July 4. Sol has made the gloves for nearly all of the big cham Pionship fights of recent years. He ia the manager of Johnny Me Carthy, former Coast weiter weight king. Billy Cunningham made @ swell | eaten of BUI Homier's tasty rep in the second frame Mulvey, (he Mormons’ left Melder, con. herd Me Knocking in the only third. srason ball right) MAILS WILL with best or | HAVE TO WORK © Goudie in the encewt frame Compton misjodged the Bees ts inner works Art Griggs, the Orr is at the key-| McGaffigan at shortstop. | Pinelii at third. Pinefit| best prospect for gradu | H H ae | jeing. “My Wild Irish Howe Sthe selections rendered it z ES 3 wes kinda hard to understand the words, althe the singers Were ail Uhere with the epirit. iff ifs i ‘Twe nice double plays areund the F I i rick started one of the dewble hill- ings and Walsh the other. Zz ° 2 Pte! F Zz —} 2 Jimmy Walsh is looking: better at the With the sun drying out the field | third base station. Jimmy ie aise hitting and the Northwestern league about |t¢,>#!! harder tham he did om the last to disband, “Scotty.” the local)" ** ground-keeper, won't have any more. alibia for not keeping the field in fast | t condition. The local field has not | ‘”' been in really first class condition | since the start of the season. receiver, and young , Who was let out by the tm tm Gene Dale, the long hurler w Heved Cliff Markle on the hill f Hees after Clifford blew sky Fly lately. He was the star of Portland Beavers when ib was winning pennants in| DOUBLE BILL League. SUNDAY Seattle and Salt Lake will play ® double header mber pile to, the ts his ehare of ¢ e r SF Hi Kari Shedley, highly tox Jencker, ian't doing much bit | big Beattie pasture this w Lake hits "em over the | tieia ten }on the Bon é z z i A : z *.£ g < 2 in and 74 for the nf Bob Stein, the rion park b links’ star, led field for t hi « yeater with scores who has just returned finished in of 106 » two ‘Stein Lead Stein Lea | * ° ; @ Beating in St. Paul in Race for | ST. PAUL, June 7.—Willie Mee-| Surely makes a difference in the! » - oe: han, of San Francisco, took an} ° r) Sed Links’Crown Op after his team mates have| ete 'ast night. Miske won every| ‘a big lead. Ernie Schorr | °P* Of the 10 rounds and knocked | ” . him » Bipsy- the Golden Gate man down for the | i & pretty Steady brand of bell | unt of 9 in the ninth round but|Fleager, 1918 King, Is ing real ball. Eddie} a Trambitas Gets tinue Today Draw With Ghost) jiancing vp a nore of 77 ? LES, June 7.—Fans to-|in the opening day's { lucky man. A sudden punch in the Jef! fourth round at Vernon last night! tt floored Jeff Clarke, the Joplin Ghost. at the Beattle nd Country after it looked like Trambitas was | y's course. “Dixie” Fleager, last MALPIO COAT LEAGUB the match was called a draw Jcard of 84 and 80. Ctaire Griswold Athletic Park | Danny Kramer and Kid Mende | and Clark Speirs also finished ahead BASEBALL fought a draw in the nemi-windup. | of the 1918 champion - -—— of 76-80 and 81-80 respectively | SEATTLE V8. SALT LAKE || M. Sunday Game at 7:30 P. M. LONDON, June 7—Lady J. Doug. | from the service ‘Take Fourth Ave. Car. Bayuda won the Oaks stakes at| place, with a count * 1 hema Sas | Today's play will be continued Ss DENTISTS over 36 holes, and the golfers regi« days’ play will be declaréd city golf order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which is the lightess “0 Mouths netween young Stein and Griswold you can bite corn off the coh; guaran | rev Cara anya Care EXAMINATION FREE : $15.00 Set of Teeth... $8.00 Crowns . $2.00 Amalgam Filling Have impression ta xamination and Bet ie Ball club to have a pitcher #0 lawful beating from Billy Miske| and had the rest of the couldn't put over the slee lop. . la p wali.) Fourth Place; Con- stamped Valley Trambitaa a! city golf ttle beaten. On the strength of that blow re king, finished fourth with a penAt dae, LADY BAYUDA WINS | Paul Fora wom Downs yesterday afternoon, | strokes behing Fleager tering the lowest cards for t ‘Gad strongest plate known, covers very little of the roof of the Fhe fight today is expecta, to be teed 15 years. 10.00 Set Whalebone Teeth. Painless Extracting — Plate je Work. We 8t, AM _work guaranteed for 18 years. ing and get teeth same pies of Most of our p ent patronage ia whose work {a mill giving. good 4 r work, en coming to f fic Bring this ad with you, ™" °Ff!0® be sure | OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS UNIVRRSITE Gppecite Vrases-Patersen On ested ou! ight place. W. Rongerud t Herg va. MH, Hjert “G Benmids, Abrams; fifth | * two b \\ : Yen ee \\( War NWN V Va “aitvudaad =\ Re \ YEP! SPUDS CABBAGE, ONIONS ,LETTUCE CAN EVERYTHING. Seattle Wins MeleeinOne Wild Cc hapter Markle Loses Control and) Seattle Scores Five; Game Is Slow Affair Cliff Markle, Selt Lake's star hurter, couldn't find the plate in the first inating of yesterday's ball mix at the Rainier Valley ball lot, and Seattle's Hainlers busted into the win column when five runs drifted over the plate in the initial canto, After the riot of runs in the first chapter in which five passes, two singles and a couple of infield outs count- ed five times for Seattle, the game developed into a slow af. fair with each (eam scoring one run. Dale relieved Markle in the first inning. Spencer scored Salt counter in the third Dale and Mulvey hit safely. bunched bite scored Knight with Se attle’s sixth run in the fifth inning. Fast Ernie Beborr pitehed a nice game for Seattle. uxing a crom fire and curve ball with effect uble plays around the keystone bag held the score down. | Krow Beith, 9 Heverneuem weoewneuss]e? | Cunning tam, Marper, rf Compton, if. Kaien, 1» ove Giatenmans, 10 Derrick, Lapan, « ehorr, p “eee wenn ie ovuwerese oeucseose? Totals Beore by innings | fat Lake Rone Mie Bees pees Mreck out 1eo8 23018 Dy Behore to Gietehmann Walsh to Keight to Gistchmann. Stolen tane-Harper Wid piteh—-Markie, In-| sings pitehed le %. rune 9, dite Markle & * | cr Phyle aed Frary City Water Meet to Be List of Events indoor swimming and championship meet will be June 20th under the of the Crystal Pool Swim club at the Crystal Poot and bronze medals will be awarded in all events. Following is a list of events: 50-yard dash—Men Women Men Women stroke—Mer free style Boys. Girls dash—Hoy« ards, breast The | diving | staged city silver } | soyard dash 100 yard dash 100-yard dash s0-yard back swim dash dash O-yard Men. | 14 to 16 years. 12 to 15 years. 10 to 14 years, rtroke—Men Plunge for distance yard 50-yard Fancy 4 10-foe ing t board 10-foot board Men. | Wo. Fancy diving meo. Strong Competition Seattle of the best Northwest, | keen in the The Crystal recently or} has @ promising and also the} npetitive team | of swimmers a diver touch Viekers of the tal Poot squad} anticipates a large list of entries in} As aquatic et has some the competition will be coming ty meet Pool Swimm ganized, The ¥ neh of yc W.CA club, ha M. ¢ some A unget has a all events OAKS BUNCH | HITS; WALLOP | LOS ANGELES, June 7.—Scoring | fiye runs in the eighth inning on bunched hits, Onkiand won from the Vernon Tigers here yesterday by a count of 6 to 5. Rel®et who was on the mound for the Tigers, blew. higher than the sky in the fatal | elghith The score | Caklana Vernon R. #8, 6 9 5 10 Holling and Mit» Dawson and Brooks The batteries: Reiger TIGER CREW SL ai iaitoesieminetitmaieeiomedtandtened ememamteaneaiieataniakordekatiee THE SEATTLE STAR-—SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1919. N A NEW a Ww RR Wewe ay » Vi \S eh yee WELL L DUNNO, tty BROTHER Dion'r HAVE mucH Luck! This is Claude Derrick, Several nice! putting up a good brand of baseball here. Derrick is handi- caped by a bum ankle, which has slowed up his playing He is just a fair hitter, but manages to considerably, his blows in the pinches. “WHAT DID HE Grow? \ N NOTHIN’ OUT A VAN DYKE BEARD’ SS = LLL _dradod BALL _ ic hamp Will Stop Jack Dempsey Within Eight Rounds, Says Hector |Local Boy Has Boxed Both of the Big Fellows—Says Willard Is Too Big—Hite’s Show Called Off by. Prosecutor | Jess Willard, world’s champion heavyweight, will Inock out Jack Dempsey within eight rounds when they meet at | Toledo on Independence day, according to Young Hector, | Seattle heavyweight, who has mixed in the ring with |of the big fellows. } “Jess is too big, in the first place, for any of the present | heavyweights to beat him; Willard can hit and can box, too, | says Hector. “Don’t let people kid you into believing that | Jess can’t hit. He has a bear of a left hand and Dempsey is easy to hit with a left. A good left beats a hard right any |day in the week. Of course, if Willard is not in condition, it will be a different story, because Dempsey is a tough, | rugged battler.” ae | Hector boxed Willard in a four-round exhibition at Den- | | ver, Colorado, in 1915, a few months after Willard put Jack =] Johnson to sleep in Cuba. Hector says he has trite to |show that he boxed with both the champion and the chal- lenger. Hector boxed 10 rounds with Dempsey in | Colorado, in 1917. The bout went to an even decision. | | Dempsey In Plain Fighter | “Dempsey is a fighter, and he will | have to put Jess to sleep to win over him in Toledo, and Willard is too big | |for him to do #0 in 12 rounds. | Willard t* by far a better boxer than | his coming opponent,” continues the | Seattle battler. | | Hector will join Willard's training | corps on the 15th of this month. He| |has accepted Willard’s offer to act | las a sparring partner in the cham-) | plon’s camp. | | Hector plana an invasion ot the fi i jq| Rast after the big fracas in Jo. Seattle’s shortfielder, who is myelin te: San Mirada tor the East, and may mix with “Bat tling” Levinsky there during the} get summer months | Hector Knocks ‘Em Out | In the game for 12 years, Hector Big Ring King to Outweigh Dempsey Willard very Ukely will out- weigh Dempsey by 50 pounds when the two atep into the arena on the afternoon of July 4, Demp- wey in weighing around 195 to day, but he says when hot weather mts in he probably will lone about five pounds. “T always lone a few pounds in hot weather,” sald Jack. “Right now I am weighing 195, and that ia my natural weight.” Witard probably will train down very clone to 240 pounds, thus making him @ half-hundred weight the bigger man. He weighs under 260 now, and will be able to take off another 15 "Baird Is | Many Track Earl Baird In real condition Earl Baird, Seattle lightweight, is hitting his true stride in the fight game in California and has won a home in the hearts of the Southern fans. Earl is » clean: living fellow and is well liked everywhere he goes. He was American amateur lightweight king before he turned profes sional. He fought a draw with doe White in San Frasiciseo last night. SCOTT HURLS GOLDEN GATE TEAM TO WIN SAN Scott FRANCISCO, June 7 pitehed San Francisco win over Los Angeles here yester. day, the Seals taking the game by a 3 to 2 count. Seott was hit hard, but was tight in the pin Ken worthy, Angel infielder, the hit ters with three safe wallops The score Rr Los Angeles ........... 2 San Wrancise ‘ oo 8 The batt Scott and Ba Hn 10 6 RE 1 *: Brown and twin hassler Dailey Will Pilot 1920 ‘W’ Oval Team Elvin Dailey, star sprinter of the University of Washington track team during the past season, has been elected captain of the 1920 “W cinder team. He is alao a football man. He comes from Everett, where he was a star of Enoch Bagshaw's famous Everett high school teams for several seasons. Jim | field to a VOU LAY thes “if CYT “ | Lew Tender, the great Eastern it~ | | weight. te starting to knock ‘em is eee has had about 95 fights. He has only had & couple of reverses in his career, and has fought about seven times in the Northwest, winning the \majority of them by the k. 0 method. His last bout was with Harry Williams, the Bremerton boy, whom he stopped in two rounds. Show Called Off Hector was scheduled to fight Frank Farmer, the Tacoma heavy- weight, here Tuesday night at the Arena, but it seems as if Prose cutor Brown has got busy for some odd reason or other and called oft | Clay Hite’s show, Hite has had a) jlot of hard luck to buck since he} leame here, and this is the climax. | He has called off his plans for the present, but will undoubtedly make an effort to settle things with his nibs, the prosecutor. Brown also called off Nate Druximan’s proposed - | show, to be staged at Liberty park noon, Dan Salt and Lonnie Austin, rival promoters, arrived home in the mid- | dle of the week, Their arrival and | | Prosecutor Brown's action yesterday lis just an odd coincidence. ———$——————— i} Willard Not Fast Enough in Top Piece, So Says Former Champ * Who Never Lost Fight BY H. ©, HAMILTON (United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, June 7.—"I don't be eve that Jess Willard’s thinker is t enough to beat Jack Dempsey's later handie Young Hee-} if he goes Bast this wut Hector haan’ signed any papers as A new dive wutt as & remembrance of his trip to Cailfornia. Wonder what bappened to all of Eddie's hewespaper clippings this time? Major League that that is whining. NATIONAL LEAGUE Won. Lost. Now York s-s-s-2e--- Cincinnal litrookiyn . | Chicago Pittebure . Philadelphia Boston St Louls Leo Movck ts still in the South ready to do battle, H Wonder what's become of Ted Whit- man, our well known artist? Too busy at Skinner & Bady's reaim, it esema AMERICAN LEAGUE Won. Lost. Chicace .. Cleveland .. New York Dan fait &t. Louis Southern trip. @ldn't . cutter He looka fat on bie 1 prosper- Hise anybody seen Ad Sohadt handball lately? When Inst alding Theo Kai 7 Washington play Philadelphia rd of Ad the well known y running him od at Austin & Salt’s gymnasium, R, 1 vam HERTEREET fas' | Punches cAulifte, former lightweight | Dattaries: Benton Ragan, 1 | cnampton, thva steed up the ap- | re and Mecarty; Adame Ga@ proaching Willard-Dempsey mill for pSINCINATE Juve TR | the United Press today. SUUMEN. ‘caenensklagnesaleiin Mroaulitte, who never had a defeat |Cincinnatt |... -- ~ recorded against him in his days as}. °TUStoing Wingo. champion, declared he had made a ase close study of both principals in the || ST. LOUTS, June 1. coming contest, but added that he |i uae - had seen neither man since they be-| iatteries: |gan training, and did not feel com- | Tvere and Snyder. | petent to pass final judgment. “{ read a lot in the papers about Willard'’s height and reach and Dempsey’s comparative smallness,” he said. “People are wondering, ap- | parently, if a good little man can beat a good big man. But how do | we know Willard is a good big man?” “He has never proved it to me. Self-Starter “Dempsey is a self-starter, Wil }lard has to be cranked. Some one has to hit him and hurt him to make |New York ... Pittsburg ee cerscscecccoese T com , Be Stars Meet in Chicago Big Oval Session On in the Windy City CHICAGO, June 1— Boston .....<- @rix and Kiefer. AMERICAN LEAGUR TON, June T— R. 7 field, Ayers CHICAGO, June Press.)—Ticket take Stagg field University of Chicago, were nurd pressed today, Theirs was the task of assembling @ grand stand crowd jef proportions to equal the flock of athletes bere in the annual West crm conference championshtp Four hundred and forty-three ath:/ him mad, letes galloped, hopped or plodded—! «ye jg @ panther-dear fight. Wik according to their events—on to the | tard is an active bear, but Dempsey, when the program began.|as the panther, is more active, | PHT. Big Ten school was repre| “At. some time in every cham.|Pblsdelphia game ‘postponed; rain” sented and 14 other western instl-| pion’s life he wonders to himself if he | Ss |tutions had men entered. Wabash, |really can be beaten. It struck me|Chokes to Death When He Swallows | Grinnell, Ames, Kansas, Kansas Ag » I saw it strike John lL. Suill \giew, Nebraska, Drake, Notre Dame,|van once—just before Jim Corbett | Gum at Ring Show OMAHA, Ned. June T—Johnny |Missourl, Lake Forest, American | beat him, | School of Osteopathy Western “Willard has gone thru the minors |State Normal of Michigan and|—Dempsey is coming up. Chances Lee won from Harry Williams in the fourth round here last night on @ foul. Williams, formerty first base- | Miami fre the thought has struck Willard. | |man for the New York Yankees, had Ohio's entry If it has, it will make him pause. Forty-nine The ring hesitator is lost before he all the better of the, bout up to that time. | | (United st ‘ Washington . . Batteries: “Dav Wright and Severeid; Picinich, . Lal Shaw, rn ——. 1 ® 6 2 ee ee ee Ehmke and Ainsmith; Peme and Schang. BOSTON, June 7.— Detroit .. " Boston Battorios nock PHILADELPHIA, June 7.—cy very list topped them an, men w ner colors; 1 Chicago had 41 each; Notre Dame 26 and In Michigan a smells rosin. Purdue 33, “Willard might win and then I'd diana 14, look bad, I'll have something more | | Michigan Favored |to say about this fight after I've] Michiasn UF was the | seen the men work in training,” favorite. | he ed themselves | TROEH TIED | handicapped ints with the! Los ANGELES, June 7.—Frank | Wolverine star 1 Johnson, con- | proeh of Vancouver, Wash., and 8. ceded in, the two hurdles | 1, Sharman were tied for high gun and the broad jump. Coach Stagg| among the amateurs today when the $$. looked to his distance men to keep | second day of the Vernon tra M ms rm ) ¢ Pshoot-| Rabe Adams pitch the honors in Chicago. Captain | ing tournament opened this morr -jtoa T tol valid tres the McCosh of Stagg’s squad won the! fred Bair of Etiroka, Cal, and ¥. H ar ee An 1ith-ho Imile and twomile events in the in | Meltas of Loa Angeles tied for sec n 1ith-hour finish just fell short and the Dodgers 1 Reda, door championships ond place in yesterday's events. we weber OMAHA, Neb., June 7.—Cormnus* Nelson, 32, becoming excited while ling the Lee-Williams fight here st night, swallowed his chewing gurn and choked to death in three | minutes. for victories