The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 2, 1919, Page 17

THE SEATTLE STAR SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1919. PAGE RE Washington Has Host of Football Veterans Ready for Call CINCINNATI CLUB CLINIBS INTO. FIRST PLACE IN NATIONAL LEAGUE Coach Hunt Will Have Big Field of Players to Choose Squad From Inve Daily Will Lead Team; Smith Back; Other News of Washington; Dobie Should Make the Eastern Teams Hump; Lot of Vets at 0. A. C. With an army of veterans ready to answer the football eall at the University of Washington, Coach “Jump” Hunt's prospects for a winning gridiron squad at the local varsity are brighter than a new, thin dime. During his regime at Washington Hunf has been handi- capped by war, losing most of his good timber to the war But this year most of the veterans will be on hand angwer the first pigskin call and Hunt will have a big field to pick from. Of last year’s team, Ray Eckmann, the brilliant quar- terback, will return to the game. Eckmann was picked as all-coast material. Ray is a natural born football player and is favored to hold down the pivot position this season, Eckmann looks like the only first team man of last year’s material. Irvin Daily, who will captain the squad this season, is picked for one of the backfield places. Irve has speed land is one of the best backfield prospects in recent years. He is also a track luminary. He played his prep football lat Everett, where he was the star of Enoch teams for a quartet of yearg. George Smith, veteran end was in France, will return igehool. He will be eligible for game. George is one of | the | : GEO. JOHNSTONE AND Washington and will be a great the best ends ever turned out at Phelp to the squad. { Faulk Returns ‘Ted Faulk, the Aberdeen boy who an impressive showing with | jon two years ago, will be! to take care of ‘the other line Faulk looked good on} "a last team here. | Cyrus Johnson, former Lincoln athool star. who was in the ce, will be out for a line job. Johnson is a big moose and has ‘a fine chance of landing a tackle P. @ veteran tackle, will, as line position, as will Fat high player, and are that big Geliatiey. whe | center a couple of years be out for a job. . is expected to go after a tackfield berth. Southwick | alo be after a job behind the Pope to Try Out Pope, the track star, will @ line place. Gus. ts a CARMAN BRIDGES PLAY | Carman Bridges and George |} Johnstone will battle for the pres |} dent's cup at the Jefferson park links Sunday, From a field of ) 120, Bridges and Johnstone have ) reached the final round. . Hoth ) players were handicapped at 15. Johnstone reached the finals by ousting Young. 4 and 3, and Bridges eliminated Ayers |} ame count, The match played last Sunday | fon squad this season & job open at the Penn. State ¢ lege this season, and may not re turn to the Coast. At the present time Hugo ty managing the Pitti burg Pirates, in the National league. < ALIPORNIA WANTS | TITLE BADLY With « big squad of veterans | Peady to answer the football call, the University of California will make a strong bid for conference Bagshaw’s {\turnout call from C | | | | Will Soon Call Grid Stars aepestemnesnemarnemenemanemenemennn ea ea ne ~t Sisler Leads ‘| Stick Battle in American Ty Cobb in Second Place; Cravath Still Leads Na- tional; Dope on Majors NEW YORK, Ang, *.-4United tampering with Ty Cobb's § Averages published here today, show the St, Louis star leading the batters of Ban Johnson's clr cuit with an average of 61, while Cobb was in second pli with 355. Veach, Detroit, was third, with 351 Gavvy Cravath, who hes turned into a manager and pinch hitter, was still heading the Nw tlonal lecguers, not having done anything to deerease his aver age. His figure is 353, with Hi M ers giving him a sort of battle with 325. Myers’ teamie, Zack Wheat, is only one point behind. Cleotte leads the American league pitchers, with 19 victories and five defeats, Sotheron, St. Louls, tk second, with 14 and 5, and Williams, Chicago, is third with 16 and 6. The pitchers’ honors in | tional fall to Barnes of New who haw Won 16 and lost 4 ther, Cincinnati, is In second place, the Na York Reu | with 11 to 2, while Toney, New York, | stands third, with 9 and %. The Chicago team ts doing the best | Washington gridiron warriors will soon hear the first|!" the club batting branch, having | {| destinies ‘oach Hunt, who has béen guiding the | of the local varsity for the past couple of years.| order named. Hunt has won the confidence of his men and local football| BILL Life's a funny game some times. Take the ense of Bill Brown, or rather William Henry Brown, who carns the daily luere as senior sidekicker of Chariey Halen in Brown & billiard = hall » longing to live the rest of his days on # farm, in fact, be has a big place under lease on the Nisqually river, near Olympia, where he sneaks away to fish every once in a while. Kansas, when I made up my mind that it was the business world for me, “With 80 cents in my pocket I came to Seattle and went to work for a carpenter. I worked with hammer and nails and the rest of the builders’ brie ae for a couple of years and finally landed In a local railroad office. I worked there until 1 palled up with Charley Hulen. “Charley and I have been to gether now for 15 years,” says \) followers are expecting a great deal of the big fellow this {| year. accumulated .276. Cleveland and Detroit follow in tne | ‘The same honor in the National | league is held by New York, with) 279, with Cincinnall and Brooklyn | following. ‘Idaho Court C hinipliatens /Entry List for N. W. Ses-| sion Closes Today Aug. 2 Coeur d'Alene, TACOMA, Cady, of Empire, will compete in the Pa- lelfie Northwest tourney on Tacoma Lawn Tennis club courts |next week, His entry was recetv- jed late yesterday Tacoma Meet - Fennimore | the | "Pinelli Holds at Least One Record “Babe” Pinelli, the Sacramento third sacker, holds one record at least. He is the first Coast league ball player to be sold to a big league squad this sea son. He will have a trial with | the Yanks in the American league at the start of next*sea | som. U NUAWY L fely ) | efi NA Yy Mi yy = ef unike yy) | course record at Beacon hill when hb made a 67 last Thurwday before he lowered the mark from 6 to #8, | made an mone LONG ese Sees Sdaesses lin. 34443333 His “Se” on the first 45-35 5-32 ninth and on the sixth was 4 peach Gene Hatton is the luckiest Clark Speirs again «mashed the| A week | deserve a lot more credit than the | Hin latest performance Wa* | have won tieir place with the team 18th | Yanks stepped ahead of the Tigers tennis | holes were not very good, but the 3| when they walloped the Westerners. champion of Idaho and the Inland | Reds Down Giants on ‘Home Grounds; Moran Proves Pilot Ability Ohio Team in First Place as “Result of Win; Another Crucial Game Today; Other Clubs Trying to Hand Giants a Pennant Walloping the New York Giants 6 to 2 at Cincinnati yesterday, the Moran Reds walked into first place in the race for the National league bunting sterday, in the first game of the crucial series of the year. Today Moran’s team is leading with a percentage of 682 with the Giants a half a game behind at .675. A de- feat for Cincinnati and a win for the Giants today will put McGraw’s men back in first piace. Seattle baseball fans are pulling for the Reds to cop |the rag because McGraw and New York have had their |share of pennants. And then, too, the Reds have never | won a flag in the senior mayor. | Canned by Philadelphia, Pat Moran has proved himself ja miracle man by leading the Reds into first place when |they weren't considered first division prospect at the begin- ning of the year. Whether the Reds win the flag or not, Moran’s future as a ball chief is assured. “Dutch” Reuther, a pré Northwestern league | Piayed with Spokane for ict of the | — he several sea ablished himself as the of the Reds, Local fans pull hard for “Dutch” every time he steps to the rubber. Reu |ther is a big, likable felldw, who plays the game hard for the game's sake. where WOLGAST GOES GOOD IN COMEBACK FIGHT YUMA, Ariz, Aug. 2.—Yuma and Somerton fight fans who saw } Ad Wolgast stage hie first come- ; back attempt here last night, to- ; be believe Ad isn’t yet thru } fighting fons, has € pitching a The other squads in the National league are trying hard to hand New York @ pennant, for some reason or | other. Just yesterday, Boston trad-| ed Art Neff to New York for Causey | and a couple of other youngsters i Causey showed great promise at the | start of the season, but with Neff} on the payroll and the recent acqut: | sition of Douglas from the Cubs and | Snyder of the Cardinals, McGraw ts making one final drive to win the league title If Morin wing the pennant, be wil! His bout with Kid Beaver, an Arizona fighter, went stx rounds to a draw, but many thought Wok Sast had all the better of it. Die 7 AIAG Ind ' ysis) in, Yj Ds Stl) NATIONAL Boston at Pittsburg, clear. New York at Cincinati, clear. Philadelphia at Chicago, clear. Brooklyn at St Louis, part cloudy. 4 ®| New York outfit, because the EY that started the season, and not by 5 | pulling strings for crack players. 2 In the American league, the | Chicago has a comfortable lead, and | uniess the White Sox are headed off soon, it looks as if Kid Gleason and | his gong of white-bosed warriors will AMERICAN Detroit at New York, clear. St Louls at Philadelphia, clear. | breeze under the wire first. Cleveland at Washington, clear. Chicago at Boston (two games), The entry lst will be closed this } % afternoon, and Monday will nee the | | opening round of play Well, the funny thing about this yarn is that Bill was born on the farm, and after chaperon- Hill, with no small amount of Charley Logg. who was on the! pride, “and we're still making f, Will try out for the center Local Water Stars Ss i all a ck to im an cy he rt, s ax { a "s a PF RMmes tn France | Pade Whether or not Buel Blake will retin to school this year is un- tain. Blake was a guard under While a host of other aspirants Jare expected to tura out, a glimpse the squad already named shows promise of the coming gridiron at the university. tackle eral seasons, is planning to enter the of Washington next fall to finish up his college work. He be "ineligible to play football . He woukl be a big asset it he could play, as he for himself as a grid- at Pullman. He Lincoin high school his prep days. if s g : ie F H [ i i E i 2 ; a F F z ; ; Fl & WILL BEZDEK IRN TO OREGON? Coast football fans are still won dering whether Hugo Bezdek will re turn to the Coast to couch the Ore- TILDEN WINS FIRST LEG ON SEABRIGHT NET CUP’ SEABRIGHT, N. J., Aug. 2.~Wiil dam Tilden I1., the Philadelphia ten- Ris star, was the first today to win a We on the Seabright club's bowl. He Gefeated Leonard Beekman, former Princeton star, in a dull match, 6.2 44, 62, 61 FOR SUNDAY SPORTS BOSTON, Aug. 2.~The b Secure Sunday sports for Masvachu fetta, which met with temporary de- feat in the legisiature, will be Wied on under the initiative and ref frendum. Francis J. Finneran, pres Ment of the democratic club, has filed & petition signed by 14 members f the house, for the purpose of se uring legislation under the initia tive and referendum jaw permitting ball, golf and tennis. tle to car BOSTON AFTER MEET 2A movement launched here to make a BM 6» the weicome home meet tor The United sistes soldier athlete ok part in the inter- allied to s@cure the Harvard stadium | if the ia fa» vevosstul, LEONARD ‘TRAINING W YORK, Aug. 2- Benny lightweight champion, is | Founding inty shape for his six-round | Irish Patsy Cline at the bout with iiladephiia park August Efforts are being | 0. A. ©. HAS VET SQUAD Bighteen football veterans will an- ewer the call at O. A. C. this fall This does not speak well for the | the circuit. It tw a question whether Coach Pipal will be back on the job eee this year or not eS ce eee | BY RAZZ BERRY | If Cicotte of Williams over. seeps some day where would | Kid Gleason be? | Well lalarm clock fatled day or Williams had | stomach ache, | work— Kid Gleason ought a bad cold. to make his two pitchers sleep at the all park|nong hax come to light |so there of a stipup. wouldn't be | Gr suppose Joe Jackson lost his|o¢ the season to the couldn't !in modern baseball. Black Bertha bat, and | whale out two or three extra base | Swats during an afternoon. | It must be hard on the nerves of an old man like Gleason. If bie nerves hold out for the next two months he ought to be given a day | off in October | Williams and Cicotte are the rules of the union. | working too much overtime and not | getting bo and a half for seme. Battling Levinsky used to fight every see But all pitchers go to | the well too often. \BIG SEASON | EXPECTED ON RACE TRACK NEW YORK, Aug. 2. With $28, 480 offered as purses for the Pough keepsie races and two beautiful silver loving cups, the Poughkeepsie Grand Circuit race meet to be one of the most prominent drawing cards in the history of the turf. All | the big horses driven by “Pop” Pom Murphy, | Cox, Dick McMahon, A. 8 Charlie, Valenti and Will Mleming are entered. The 1 track alone should & | enough for a record-breaking anee, but in addition to this the best purses ever offered are Nineteen-nineteen promises to #0 down in the history of Poughkeep | #le races as the most successful thus far hel. | “Let's no bey Bokit's French Pas: try. bey 1414 3d Ave; down- | town, 9 | DON'T MISS A TRIP TO ALKI BEAC Fare 5 Cents | Good Pienle Grounds, Good Bath- | ins, Fishing, Boating and Entertain violating promises Ww attraction | chances of the other colleges around | | jeet down | lata Drivers | attend: | included. | |the old lively ball, ing the cows and chickens until he was 18, he broke the traces, bound fer the city. “There ware ten children in our family,” says Bill, “and it seemed as if all the work fell on my shoulders. There never was anything exciting on the farm. Watehing the corn doesn't exactly make one's nerves tinkle, Comes West “Well, after = year or so T strack out for the coast. J had finished high school and was in my first year in college—an agri- cultaral school Fina Manhattan, GIANT CLUB NOT EASY TO WHITEWASH. Facing al! sorte of pitching— good, bad and mediocre—the Giants romped thru 63 games without sus taining a single shutout. In their #7th contest of the season, and just suppose Eddio Cicotte’s|awinging at the southpaw hooks of to alarm some| Wilbur Cooper of the Pittsburg Pi r | rates, and couldn't come toltwo previous had beaten on they were they occasions without a ran is no record—or at least of another whom There |whitewash brush from the opening 12th of July It is possible that in the days of before the art of pitching had been raised to its pres ent high plane, some aggregation of gentlemen who wore shirts laced up the front and Dundreary whisk after the fashion of the day, long or longer than the Giants in escaping 4 run defeat real old timer may record of such an John McGraw, who back quite a ways him recollection of a similar went as ever les bob up occur can go has no feat Some with a HERMAN RISKS TITLE W YORK, Aug. 2.—-Pete Her bant eight title hol risk his championship in a bout to a decision agninst year at Tulsa, Okla., on I Pete | the bout than ever. any chanee|team dodging an application of the| | possibie training in Philadelphia for | and is reported to be faster ton out as business pards. This is our seventh year in this hall.” The Farm Again While Bill has no special plans for the future, he's not forget ting that place down on the Nis qually where the fish bit better than any other spot in the state, according to Bil, And some day Bill may move his wife and young daughter down on the Olympia farm, where he won't have to bother with train schedules to go fishing. Brown & Hulen’s billiard par. Jors have a high ranking among a billiard halls of the coun- TCARPENTIER NOT FRENCH RING CHAMP Georges’ Carpentier t# the heavy y weight champion of Europe, but he evidently does not hold the heavy weight championship of France dispatches from Bordeaux tell ef recent contest for the title in city which Albert Larie by Niles. held in beaten Lurie six years, He is now 40 suli a remarkably a hard hitter the youthful challenger. and The new titleholder is in his ear stands five feet, ten In 168 pounds be consid for Jack twenties, and weighs only he can scarcely 8 a8 opponent ney The Lurie Niles bout was the fir championship contest to be held France the outbreak of war Late, like Jens lard, fident of de title wefully, but himself out in the and the end came As ix the custom in France “resigned” when he had no chance to win stopped fighting, over to Niles raised ring upon him the rince 1914 in w wa he in the sixth. Lar and the ly ring upon hi mthe France FIGHT DRAW Aug Chiek and Bobby BOSTON Indianapolis. Jones, I st night Jack loheeencble? 8 Different Jack Johnson is interesting despite his unpopt ably will be a tong time until the U. allowing him to slip back into this cou you can't keep him down for keeps von left this lowing bis al 6 he was quite a figure in tired of him and he dropped out traits, some capacity or other, doh authorities got after him, Mann act. For a tl other Kuropean cities, They of sight, But only for a time. and lost to Willard, He too, tired of him, posed as a great healer and physical cultare expert. faded again, we heard of him as a bull fighter in Spain. He managed to get into Mexico City arity. It prob: S. forgets his objectionable ry. Nevertheless He's always bobbing up in ntry when federal wed violations of the London, Paris and He showed up later at Havana Months and months later He went big. They, ere he Kv ntly he went big, again, but the inhabitants of that city tolerated him so long and then bh titude. He was lost again at he was grooming a win back his title by proxy. will he do next?. name again was mud. to the limelight. ew heavyweight, Captain Bob Roper, to Roper lost to a third rater. is reported that Johnson is to box Dan Flynn at Monterey, They didn’t like his at- Next came a story Now it What Demp ¥: for a that) was | expected to enter. the championship for| tho| clever man and] he was no match for| 3 ly hes} #0 that | % et in the nding his fought first few rounds, ie realized that he He sudder walkin, latter's championship of championship of ? * fought 12 rounds to a draw here i | the Among the latest entries are Miss Sara Livingstone of Seattle, former queen of the courts in the | Northwest; Miss Gertrude Schrin- er and Mrs. Bragdon of Seattle. | Any one of them is expected to sive Miss Mayme McDonald, North- west’ champion, a@ run for honors EXPECT BIG | ENTRY LISTS | INNET MEET Entry Mata for the state championship will close Thursday according to Sam Russell, managing | the meet. A large field is expected | from the state to battle for the net | \honors of Washington. The sexsion will get under way August 11 at the Firlock club, The courts are being asphalted and will be in condition for tournament play |in time for the meet to get under way at scheduled time. Delegations from Vancouver, Ta coma, Portland and California are Entry blanks from Piper & Taft, Spalding'’s or of Sam Russell, in the Burke building. ——————_ Codst Vet Plays With Local Club | “ Schaller blue After being handed the slip Bit”? eteran, has signed up by Seattle and is | holding down an outfield berth with the Schaller always } nit but lost his Job with the Golden | Gate club when his “dogs” went bac Kk | on him this spring KNOW LEO McKERN. HOUGHTON, Mich, Aug. Dia |you ever hear of Leo McKernan? No? That's funny. He 16 and |beon Jack Dempsey's some time. Leon MeKern Jack Kearns, His uncle, Phil Knaut |of Houghton, president of the Cop per County Baseball league, says x0, I he ought to know, He is Jack Kearns’ uncle. He meonicker and decide locals to use it, could | | | tennis | | planning to put in nine more, day, 33 to 24. Ortffiths, cal fellows who made the trip. Stein | Frank Orchard, ,the Bellingham pro- fessional, They defeated Phil Jef. may be obtained) ferson and Fred Frye 1 up in their first meeting, and 2 ond mix MITCHELL SHOULD GO up in their sec Before Why lyn rmy his fs te a tire blowout by hands as an aufomobile passed him |Nine times out of 10, so realistic was the imitation, the d bring his car to a halt to investigate, much te of Mitchell When he the stunt day army Clare Mitehe!l Nationals of entered Ret ou’ the deligh’ got in the a but not very often he gave the imitation as car passed and it was suc cessful stopped and major stepped out. Not finding blowout and spying Mitchell watch ing him with great interest, he threatened to court-martial him |he tried the prank again. Mitchel jout it out CRAVATH TELLS BAKER my he tried car Manager Cravath has told Presi |dent Baker flatly that there is no |chance for the Philadelphians te climb unless they hawe pitchers. present pitching staff is lacking both |in quality and quantity. The hurl ers had allowed 714 hits in 67 gumes nearly 11 to the game, and * hac forked out 191 basew on balls. Anc yet Baker had let two men, | Watson and Mike Prendergast without even getting anybody in ex change |KONEY IS HAVING GooD Seattle's team of 24 golfers lost a/ team match to Bellingham last Sun- | ‘Ted Knudson, Harry Jim Forde, Alex Rose and arms | TO RACE IN While he was in Bellingham, Ron | EAST SOON played several matches with ON STAGE WITH THIS) the the rite prank was to im clapping his ver would One an a 4/ great dearth of crack jockeys TRUTH ABOUT HURLERS The Mule go Enter Big Events PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 2.— With a big field of star en- tries, the A. A. U. swimming ae will be decided today. Mitrie Konow- Siett is entered from Seattle. “Budd"’ Wallen is here to de- fend his championship. The race is one mile. Stubb Kren- ger, of San Francisco, is also entered. Cincmnati leaped gracefully tnto first place, following a 6-to-2 victory over the Giante Art Nehf celebrated his trade to ‘The Senators absent-mindediy bunched thetr hits, defeating Cleveland, 3 to 2. Anna Mayhall, Seattle swim- mer, is entered in the three- mile open swim at Victoria to- day. She will compete against | Audrey Griffen, of Vancouver, | three times champion. DALY’S BOY The Browns held the Athletics, profit= ing to the extent of a 6-tol triumph. Home rans—Rumier, Griggs, Senators. The Angeés symped to thre "Father" Bill Daly, who developed | most of the great jockeys who were riding in the golden days of raging in this country, Snapper Garrison, Tod Sloan, Winnie O'Connor, Jimmie Me- | Laughlin and Danny Maher being} jonly a few of them, has a young rider under his wing whom he pre. dicts will become a sensation. This youngster his own son, Jerold Daly. The youngster has been ‘brought up with race horses and has on - been riding them ever since he was | ‘"" reg can five years old. He now is 14, and| “Father” Bill is going to allow him/| to make his debut soon. “Father” Bill's methods were rather peculiar, | but he certainly got results. They consisted for the most part of liberal | applications of the balestick The balestick no longer plays a part in/ the education of young riders, which may or may not be a matter of re Certain it is that sinc Bill's school was broken the institution of more hu there has been a Angels back into the upper Oaks win again, 3 to 1. is Clymer's Rainiers are getting it a@ bad as the Seals, They also lost their fourth straight when the Bees stung ‘ens WOMAN CHAMPION LONDON, Aug. 2.—Mrs. R. Irvine led all male and female competitors on the National Rifle assbdefation ranges at Bisley in a competition re+ cently with a score of 91 points under king's prize first stage condi- tions. Her nearest rival was H. W. | Nicholson, an ex-soldier, who scored | 89. t t d her up by mane methods, “YOUNGSTER,” 80, BOWLS. LONDON, Aug. ~A bowling |match was staged at Newton Abbott in which two of the contestants were | 80 years of age, two 78, one 77, and the youngest 76. f MENACED 1| LONDON, Aug. 2 public and privat by the land settlement bill, which en- | jables any local authority, with the| consent of the board of agriculture, to appropriate permanently any | lcricket or recreation ground in the country The sporting world is up »/{n arms against the measure Sport grounds, | are endangered | ROMA IG. VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 2.—Bob Wabraushek, of Seattle, fell before Milne, local crack, in a three-set match here yesterday. Mayme Mee Donald lost to Mrs, Cushing, after winning the first set. 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