The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1919, Page 11

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It will be a big boost for the game here if such @ series can be played which will be run off on the elimination basis, according to present plans, 6 Southern $10,000 ROAD q Players for | RROR hates Big Circuit ELGIN, TL, Aug. 19—The win. ner of the Elgin automobile road race of 301 miles to be held here Satur | day, August 23, will gain the title a Leads With Seven °f #919 road champion, possession of : | the Elgin watch trophy and $4,000 | for Big League Berths | in cash. The Cobe trophy and $2,000 ’ will go to the driver finishing second | vd the L place “ATLANTA, Aus. 19-—Sixteen re-|2%4 the third, fourth and fifth plac 11 of whom have never been | & major league ball park, will) winners will receive $1,000, $600 and) $400 respectively, a total of $10,000 in cash prizes in addition to the two poe etaaee bg Msp = | handsome trophies. a per oe \eads the |, These prizes are attracting all the teh «einen dates of big | @ecins drivers and owners of the| pte ae archay every (Country to enter their gasoline Of them will stick. Pitchere| Mounts in the big classic/ Ralph ioe, Roberta, ¥ ‘and Shee. | Mulford, Ralph De Palma, Tom Al Shortstop Galloway, First Grittith and Catcher | ley, Eddie Hearne, Wilbur d'Alene} are the seven Crackers to/ FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS— AW —~ AIRBDALES Ape ALOT BETTER THAN DOGS LIKE YouRS- PoP SAID So! TW FELLA THAT GINE WIM To ME SAID We Wu A DONTER, BOT HE AIN'T NO WHAT'S YER DOG, SLIM WAT Do VA CAL YER DOG, TAG? WE AIT A COMB, 1S HE 2 SuueKs! AIN'T Nou EVER GOING To WALK? RUH!~ ALL You Do aS JUST SET DOWN AN’ WAVE MB PULL YA- _ siatnaieateestaeatenaacea TDONT CARE TW RET MY dos CAN SWOM BETTER NOURS- WET A RAW ~ WES A CUBE Doe oF ; ; A SEYTER, ¢ Atl ‘ G UP WITH THE JONESES— Pa Gets Worse and Worse PST! COME IN [ ALoysiuS P MSGINIS,] { guee WHY NOTP WHY You} HERE A MINUTE!) || DO YOU MEAN TO SAY) | Gapice| || POOR SimP WHAT Do | YOU CALLED THAT WHY | || YOO SUPPOSE THE -_ SECOND HAND CLOTHES! | Wor ? SONESES WOULD THINK re NAN IN \F THEY “HEARD OF you ‘tae Pagan oe HERE? SELLING YOUR CLOTHES |} Athletics Give : er sy, TO A Walter Battle —‘¥¢ PA SECOND WASHINGTON, Aug. 19— pian One thing about Walter John- MAN? son's pitching against the lowly ( Athletics is that the big Swede has won most of his games from that club this year by the tidy little score of 1 to ©. That is the margin of most of John- son's vietories generally, but it appears to be particularly the case when he is opposed to the | Mackmen. Hl KEEPI HIGH CASH CLOTHES! HIGH CASH- and George Buzane are among thoxe | who have already forwarded their entries. Other drivers have signi- fied their intention of participating | and when the entry list ts closed, it |is believed that all the stars of the motor racing game will be entered. u to higher company. All| them have already been sold to le Mack. Most sought after player in © » league is Shortstop Christen- | , of Memphis, who started the with Atlanta. The Boston the St. Louis Browns, the i phia Athletics and the Chi- White Sox have already put bids for his services and other) are looking him over. Neu- fleet-footed outfielder, and teher Griffith of the Chattanooga okouts are destined for berths the New York Giants, the | being managed this sea- gon by Sammy Strang, a former Giant. Outfielder Duncan pf Bir- Mingham has been sold to the Cin- cinmati Reds. Larry Gilbert of New Orleans, | the league's leading batsman, is "said to be slated for the Cleveland | apes sa rey | Indians, as is Pitcher Torkelson, | SOLDIERS’ MARATHON | Grimm, Little Rock first baseman,| A feature of the four days’ Olym-| ‘and Karr, a pitcher on the same¢ pic games at Camp Dix, Wrights | team, are to rejoin the St. Louls town, N. J.. August 30 to September “Moon” Ducote, the|2, will be a soldiers’ marathon race | best all-around football) starting in Trenton and finishing at star as a member of the Auburn!Camp Dix. Teams of four men will ‘eleven, who has been playing with| run five miles. the Mobile Bears this season, has| ready been sold, it is said, to the! jew York Yankees. SELL HIM ANY THING! __ Browns. | South's How many « man fools himself when he thinks he is fooling his wife. | DOPE FAVORS WHITE SOX TO WIN, SAYS ED BANG BY ED BANG zs | Cubs, heralded as unbeatable, in the ing Editor, Cleveland NeWs)| blue ribbon event that fall WHAM ~~ STRIKE t WA GAY - T COULD ROLL A STRIKE UP A FUSHT ’ It looks like the Chicago White! | Box for the pennant in the Amer- fean league more and more with |who were showing their heels” to In 1911 it was the Detroit Tigers the others at the start of August, but when it was all over the Phila f each passing day. History tells us that the team that heads the pro-|to battle the New York Giants in , cession in the Johnsonian organiza-| the big playoft tion along about the first week in| In all the other years the team ust, year in and year Out Be) that set the pace in the early days lerally has its nose in front of the| of August was “right there” at the procession when the flag chase/finish. Chicago turned the trick in terminates. Of course there are €X-|1900 and 1901, Boston in 1903 and to all rules, but what will! 1904, Philadelphia in 1905, Detroit row. say when we tell you that the/jn 1907, 1908 and 1909, Philadelphia 1 nm that led the American league | jn 1910, Boston tn 1912, Philadelphia dy in August during 19 strenuous|in 1913 and 1914, Boston in 1916 npaigns won the gonfaion in 16|\and 1916, Chicago in 1917 and Bos- those seasons. In other words|ton in 1918 ¢ only exceptions to this fast rule | in 1902, 1906 ahd 1911. Yes wir, 16 times the team that wetting the pace the first week ¢. ‘August had the pole at the finish. 3 Pipe, Says Art 4 inasmuch as the White Sox are| Art Griggs had been playing p i thumping along on all eight| fessional baseball a great number iinders there is every reauon to be- | Years before he learned that it was 6 that they'll ffnish out in front | *ofter Job playing the infield than plenty to spare. | was chasing fly balls, in 1902 the Chicago White| Since becoming a fixture in the x were pacing the Philadelphia Jletics on August 4, but when the|Plenic of it. He playa the game ittain went down the Mackmen had| Without the antics of a cabaret off the prize. In 1906 Chi-| dancer and forgets all about dancing 9 had revenge on Philadelphia,| Wildly up and down the line, like it was the Athletics who were| some of the other dashing first sack im front early in August with the |ers in the league do Yhite Sox in fourth place only to| “First base is a pipe dream,” solil ve Fielder Jones’ hitless wonders oquizes Art. “When a fellow has ea sensational winning streak of |been used to chasing fly balls for |delphia Mackites had won the right First Base Is \ it consecutive victories which car-| years and im shifted to the infield] 4 them to the pinnacle. And to|/it turns out to be lots casier. In the ize this achievement they | outfield your nerves are taxed much out and beat the Chicago’ more than in the infield,” 2 Sacramento infield Griggn has had a} “Now He Is, and Now He Ain’t”’; § § | { NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—When 5 Frank Snyder, then a member ' for his runin with an umpire in ( New York,.« great ery went up | that the Cardinals should be } shown mercy, since Snyder was | thelr catching star. And when { Snyder was sold to the Giants | ) > ) ? ) }. of the Cardinals, was suspended ) ) )) ) ) \) it was stated that he really S } wasn't needed by the Cardinals, } 2 aw they had a tip-top eatching } } staf without him. And there { { you have It, coming and going. _ { j , There is about $5,000 in the Ameri “kitty,” which will be wl up among the players of all bu the tailend team. centage of the gate at each game has been set aside to creat the fund. The pennant winners will receive 30 per the second plage team 20 per cent and the Test divided among the other five teams, grading downward, }can association A small per | | | MOVE UP, SAYS) | RODGERS LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19.—"Brick” | | Eldred, who has been crashing out! base-hits galore for the Sacramento outfit, is playing his last season in | the minor leagues, according to Man Eldred has the He ager Bill Rodgers |earmarks pf major leaguer. lcan hit, ign’t bashful in the pinches, | | either; can run, fields nicely, and hag | a fair throwing arm | “Pat Moran overlooked a bet in El |dred,” states Manager Bill. ‘The Cincy leader was looking for a right |hand hitter a short time ago who could deliver. Dozens of names were |mentioned, excepting that of Bl 4 He can step right into the | majors today and deliver.” | | When Pat Moran needed an out-| |ficléer, right hand hitter, George Malsel, Beaver outfielder, was men tioned for the berth, Maixel is good, but {it is) the opinion that Eldred would have filled the bill better, Oi @ ee | DETROIT IS AFTER ONE-EYED HURLERS The Detroit club seems to have a liking for pitchers with but one eye. Once up on a time the Tigers had Pog Cavet, ) now has purchased Cl nard from Nashville. Altho handicapped by the loss of an eye, and with a talented team, Jonnard has made a great record in the league this year, ~ RAP SHOOTING RECORD HAMPTON, Iowa, Aug. 19-—A world's record at trap shooting was established here recently when Fred Ibert of Spirit Lake, Towa, com: pleted his long rin ef 569 registered targets and his continuous run of 589 targets. Let's go buy Boldt, Ft try. Uptown, 1414 34 Ave, down- town, 913 2d Ave. | from seven to 10,000 barrels a day INTO WEALTH IN OIL LAND SHREVEPORT, La, Aug. 19.— Flowing at a rate estimated at the Standard Ol Company's well on the Oakes lease in Claiborne parish, came in Thursday, spouting over the top of the derrick thru a 6-inch pipe. As a result of the new producer, “Rebel” Oakes, for- mer major league baseball player, has been lifted into the millionaire class. His daily income will be one-eighth royalty on probably 6,000 barrels production for at least 60 months, @At $2.25 per barrel his income at this rate will be $1,680 a day. PARIS, Ky., Aug. 19.—Viva Amer: jca has been sold by her owner, Charles T, Worthington of Danville, Ky., to 8. K. Nichols of this city for a reported price of $10,000, Viva America, third in the Kentucky Derby in 1918, is four years old. ENTRY BLANK FOR SEATTLE STAR'S BICYCLE RACES Saturday, August 30th, 1919 I hereby make application for entry In the Seattle Star's Bicycle Race, Full name (write clearly) ....essee0+ seeeeeeees ABC eeeceee es PORTS Year of birth I am pupil of the seer eeeeeeeeweenereeeseseeeumeseees ss SONOO! Check races desired to enter, 15-mile, free for all. Stock or racing bicycles, All ages. 9 miles, 16 years or under. Stock bicycles. 6 miles, 14 years or under. Stopk bicycles, 3 miles, 12 years or under. Stock bicycles. I, the undersigned parent or guardian of the above boy, give my permission for him to participate in the above races, + MONth,..cceeecees DOY.sceessecees Signed .... se eeees (Fill out the blank and mail or bring same to the “Bicycle Race Editor" of the Seattle Star. Entries close August 27th).