The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1919, Page 17

_Star’s Ball Series Will Decide City Title for This Year; Here’s Dope Strong ies Entered in City Race; Umpires Are to Be Chosen at Grounds; Belmont Dye Works Quits Race for City Honors. . Here’s Series Schedule « ae agemnga vs. O. B. Williams, at Lincoln playfield, :30 p. m. Works vs. South Park, at Hiawatha, || Steel 3:30 p. m. Mike Wright vs. Queen Anne Merchants at Wood- land No. 1 at 4 p. m. Navy Yard Cubs vs. Iron Moulders at Walla Walla. vs _ Athletic club vs. Anadel, at Mercer play- ield. Wet Wash 44 vs. Co. B Third Washington Infantry, Woodland No. 1, 2 p. m. Shaner & Wolff vs. Alhambras, Liberty park, 2:30 p. m. of The Star's e city Sunday. Sixteen squads were originally entered, but the Belmont Dye Works has quit the race thru the lack of men. All games are scheduled to start at 2 p. m. with the ex- ceptions printed above. Umpires are to be selected by the captains of the two teams at the start of the game in the first round. Umpires will be assigned by the executive committee in second round games. CREAM OF PLAYERS ENTER . Some real baseball promises to be on tap Sunday. The cream of the city amateur players are entered in the race or the city pennant. ® The second round games will be played next Sunday Fm mong the eight winners today, including Ballard, which oves into the second round by default. “The semi-finals will be played the third Sunday with _ the finals coming the fourth week. The winner of the city | series will play the Todd shipyard team for | the Puget Sound title. MUST HAVE BLANKS _ Entry blanks have been turned in for 12 clubs. The other teams will have their blanks in at Spalding’s today. h captain must have a list of his players to turn in the umpire at each game. No players may be added to clubs after the first round. Racing Bill Opens in No. Yakima Soon; 50 Horses Entered in East- ern Washington Track Event ~ YAKIMA, Aug. 30.—With entries of 50 horses, including some of the fastest in the Northwest, the pro- gram of running races for the Wash- ington state fair, at Yakima, Sep- tember 15 to 20, is expected to de Yelop some contests equaling in in-) py terest the harness races, which were dropped on account of a conflict of dates. Here are teams entered now: Anadele—Truckey, Mike Pecarovich, MeGillicudy, D. Riley, F. Riley, Pendie- ton, Broski, Rode, Attieson, McKnight, Chittendon, Gus Davis, oR Titeme— Fr. Morcers—F. Cott Hayes, Colman, Bee Clanden, Navanie, Pet S. Cotter, Casper, Anderson, Evans, | 1 Steet Works—tMarold Kee Cunningham, ge Barnecut, Scott, Howard Blair, Beather, Harvey Meivor, W. H. Hensley, F. RK Reneade, Thos Gassman, Clarence Senith, Ben Smith. My Devgias F Pallard—Al Stokke, Bell Kokash, Kart | *, John Holland, George Meriach, Mike Naffer, E. Holmberg, Don Snyder. | Rows Mokke, Otis Stokke, Fred Schwen- | der, Lawrence McCumber. | A total of $3,000 In prize money f#| Navy Yard Cube—Pud Ridley, Mike! being offered for the running races, | Miia, Bod Peterson, Amith, J. | exclusive of the Indian races, which | Di k . AL Sever: | Lan. A Ruley, J. H. Smith. | will be a feature of each day's pro- gram, and of the Elks’ Derby on Fri- day. Following is the program: Shaner & Wolff—A. P. Jantkula, Com- ere, EK. R. Mullin, Frank Hell, @&bley moe, Carl Knoblanch, George Perrin, | Rddie Cullen, G. A. Ramaey, A. P. Hol-| brook, Mike Clancy, pounds weight for age, 2 pounds | lowed for each 160 pounds leas to 3 — geran, Knai ‘aughiin, Hugh pounds Six furlongs. ; Race No. 2—Seven fartongs, purse $156. Mareal Gillies Shinabacker, Bchrape, Hace No. 3—Five furlongs, parmse 106. | 3 we +. Race No. 4—-Yakima Derby, puree $509! Alhambra Clum—P. Norris, Mooney, Hanticap, t-year-olds and upward, 1% | Dean, Ages, Penn, Wella, Roden, Conna, miles | Wilson, Austin, McCiair, C. Norris, Race No. &—Four and one-half furlongs, | pote eth m, puree $100 Hibernians—-Collins, D, Molloy, Higgin- ait th iting, puree | ee wee pals i calles ets | betham, Graham, Moir, White * eer Sept. 18 Te » Donohue, Me-| Rac rt handicap, | HMinchy. vgn 290 $5) and upward, = Quene Anne Merchants—F, I. Kunz, E. | Bare Bo $—One mile, selling, ontel ee eames Mananetad: fae Dennis, EK. A. Jonneon, ut. Mon- Race Ho, trive furlongs, vurye #100 pans. 2: coment D7 Race No. 10—The Elke Derby, sweep-| 7, Oliver, Friedholdt, stakes of $20 on each entry, the fair - - | to add $20 To be ridden by mem i ot Yakima lodge No. 218, B. P. 0. iINEW GOLFING One mile purse $200. Race No. 11—Seven furlong: puree $100. Rac . 12—Five furton: Saturday, Sept. Race 13—Non-winners at this meet, purse $290, one mile. Race No. 14—Selling, purse $156, six fur- longs. Race No. 15—Non-winners at this meet, CHAMPION IS _| 200 POUNDER PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 30.— Davidson Herron, the new national purse $150, five furlongs. Race No. 16-—Non-winners eines eptem-|*Mateur golf champion, will be 22 ber 1, purse $100, five furlongs. | years of age in October. He has been playing golf since 1905, when he lived across the street from the Oakmont Country Club. Herron welghs 205 pounds and this weight aids him to get the| great distance and in playing from the rough. Golf is his only hobby, ‘The races are to be run under the rules of the Intermountain Fairs and Racing association. Jockeys are re- quired to obtain licenses, and purses | are divided 70, 20 and 10 per cent. 0. A. C. WILL PUT although he played football while | he was a freshman at Princeton. | OUT STRONG TEAM He was graduated from Pane | \last year Football Coach W. H. Hargiss of | se the Oregon Agricultural college ia in| #® Played for four years on the | Portland with James J. Richardson, | oles golf team. In the 1916 na-} general manager of athletics at Cor. posrsy amateur championship at De vallis, completing arrangements tor | ‘Tot he tied with New Lgl in the opening of the football training | Pe preliminary qualifying roun 5 season during the middie of next| Herron is the third Pittsburg month, Hargiss expects that foot |#lfer to win the national amateur ball will come back stronger than | Championship, the others being W. ever in the Northwest this season, |C: Fownes, Jr., also of Oakmount, The Aggie coach is confident of |*4 Eben M. Byers of Allegheny. Shaving a strong cleven thin fall, a| Herron learned the game as a caddy large number of letter men of 1917 | for Fownes and 191% announcing thetr intention — of donning suits again this fall. POSTPONE MAYS’ CASE | NEW YORK, Aug. 40-—Applica- | tion of attorneys for the New York | American league club to postpone Marty Farrell is out of the serv-\the hearing of their application to foe and in New York starting train-| make permanent the Carl Mayw’ In- ing work in the ring. His aftairs| junction, was granted today in the are being handled by Billy New-| equity division of the supreme court. baad also manages Irish Patsy | The hearing was set over until Sep tember 5, OUT OF SERVICE | Fourteen teams will swing into action in the first round | amateur baseball ‘series on the playfields of | |what they'll do, aa the Giants take | pleasure in doing |sliump and if they do, s.'BIG AERIAL THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1919. * ) ) | 5 i x Anyhow, Giants Cam lave ‘ BY FRED TURBYVILLE From present indications the Giants will take second money in a walk, And that isn’t any joke, either, for in the big leagues this year the runnerup in each "yace will receive a proportionate cut in the world series swag. The Giants look to have second place cinched. Despite the fact the Reds outgamed them on their own field and now hold such a lead that only a miraculous performance can put the New Yorkers at the fore again, they have played wonderful ball of late. They're traveling almost as fast as the Reds. Their only chance to win the pennant is the cracking of the Reds. The Reds have played .800 ball on the road and a team that is going at that gait at this stage of the season is hard t to stop If the Reds should lose half of their THE MIRACLE MAN | jtho it is a small one. The Glants Moran Has Team Fighting) ‘0 29 avie tinsers The Giants have had all the best for Pennant; Lacks Real [ot assistance ‘They got Frank Snyder, a corking catcher, from the Reserve Strength Cards, and Phil Dougins, a first | das clase slabran, from the Cubs. Looks | aa tho the rest of the league wanted the Giants to win Not #o the fans and baseball writers. They're pulling for the Reds in several cities. I heard the Pittsburg stands applaud the Reds generously And when the Reds beat the Pirates six in a row there was consolation in knowing it was helping them to the fore Of course, Pat Moran had most of his team when he took the job at Cincinnati, but just the same, he |should be credited with the great work he has done. Pat has worked wonders with the pitching staff. He has two able catchers in Ivy Wingo and Bill Rariden—probably the best | staff in the ctreult The players like the veteran man ager, and there is harmony in the lineup of the Reds. Rousch, Neale and Magee are working their heads off in the outfield in their efforts to rob opposing batters of hits, The infield—Daubert, Rath, Kopf and Groh—is playing a beautiful game. As long as Eller, Keuther, Sallee BY FRED TURBYVILLE (N. E. A. Sports Writer.) When I asked Pat Moran what he thought about it-—the National league race—he ould: “We'll do our best.” And that is the Nmit of his boast ing. And neither will any man on the tear boast. The Reds, however, @ not lacking in the old fighting | spirit, even tho they do not boast of One of the Giants said the Reds were lucky—that they'd won a lot of games they had no buainers in win- ning. That dope hardly stands up. The Reds have won their games be- cause they have played bangup ball from the start of the season. They've been lucky in one respect— they've had no bad slumps, Maybe theyll go thru the season without a| they will in deed be lucky, for seldom does a team play thru a season without hitting a slump, either of batters or pitchers, or both, | Luque, Ring and Mitchell keep in And if they do have a serious | form it looks like a race to the finish slump—good night to pennant aspir- | with the ta, ations, For the Reds haven't the |-—-— ee reserve strength to pull them up. The Cincinnati team all around Is | acorker, The pitching staff is, per haps, the best in the league, even DERBY ENDS f# running boxing shows at Long Branc ROOSEVELT FIELD, MINEOLA, N. J. L. 1, Aug. 30—(United Press.)— die Fitesimmons, who boxed at Onk North America's greatest aerial race, |iand throe or four years ago, made a the New York-Toronto derby, had |start at Boston the other night with closed today with 32 of the 51 en. | Harry Carlson, and stopped his man in trants having completed the round |‘°"" — trip. y McFarland Acocrding to tnofficial figures Lieutenant B. W. Maynard, U. 8. A., jestablished the best time, 467% minutes, with Lieutenant Dan B, Gish second, Gish concluding the Ph oye tereen and Carty Val round trip in 603% minutes yester day here The only other arrival . Georke Ingle, Beattle Hehtwotght yesterday was Major J. W. Simona, | nig first start In t sitgotnes who made a non-stop fight from | cisco Fiores in « 1d 40. Toronto in three hours, 44 minutes, over a course estimated at 450 mi The best airplane performanc ‘was by the De Haviland four, which according to available figures, won first, second and fourth places, This Lee Morrisey fights Fred Gilbert in Bend, Ore., Mons Mick King and Frank Barrieau, mid~ dieweights, tangle over the 12-round route at Holse, Idaho, Monday plane was equipped with Liberty Web. Biareee, beatles ahtweleh, motors. A De Haviland nine took} challenged the winner of the Bulrd- next honors, ‘There was but one| Pelsinger go last night, It means he serious accident in the race. meets Pelsinger, < Harry Casey, Beattie lightweight, Cmhta “spider” Kelly of F in the Montana | CHICAGO, Aug, 30.—W. F. Bacun, | city, 12 rounds, Monday. | Portland, Ore,, tied the world’s ree- ord in light fly casting here Friday in the 11th annual fly casting cham- pionships with a mark of 99,6, doe Siminiet, atte battler, ism Seattle vinit je would make @ opponent for Travie Davis, the vere cracks yeaa ceca | fighter Second Momey | remaining games and the Giants should win two-thirds of their remaining games they still would fall short of It looks all over. In the American the White Sox are still away up there but with not the solid footing the Reds seem to tying Moran’s men, have in the National. Fans still wonder if Kid Glea- son's two pitchers and the terrific hitting of the team can hold out until a pennant is cinched. At the slight- est sign of slowing’ up, either Detroit or the Cleveland Indians stand ready to step to the front. apparently and Browns are The Yankees out of it. After getting rid of Carl Mays the Red Sox are showing more pepper and are making trouble for the leaders, who strive to fatten their — S. Searles, and C. George Baker, J. B. Lowls, R. L. Templeton are shooting today in a meet at Kent, “Thdlan” shoot The big will be staged at Lake Crescent next week This in the big shoot of th: here, Many outsiders are the event, move ti Lawton at seanon entering | The Green Lake Gun club will their new grounds at Fort the end of the season. ‘These grounds can be easily reached by street car and auto, Bobby Hipkins, manager of the Foundation Shipbuilding ompany, has his order in for a age Varker, This is for Mrs. Hipkins, who ts o lover of the hunting game. Hunters are going into Kittitas county for grouse and this hag been an «& year for upland birds BECKETT Is declares that heavywelght is ready Dempsey, the world's the London, next month. because big cities of Amerten Beckett. make a try for the belt, however, ts where in the United States Home rune—Dighes and Mullen (Beat. ' limit vill probably be the order of the day | tray champion, in England or at any time a Carpentier, the French slugger, STILL AFTER J. DEMPSEY Bernard Mortimer, manager of Joe | Beckett, Britian to meet Jack heavyweight America, his match with Mortimer declares that he prefers! §. Garland, Jr., to have the bout staged in England, | the fighters could go a longer distance than in any of the| R anxious to We Will Do Our Best, Says 3 sic" \tackiaasi? s ‘Ball Chieftian “ and is not ‘Rain May Put Stop to Big | Racquet Meet |Fifth Round Reached in Na- | tional Singles Tourney in the East FOREST HILLS, L. L, Aug. 39. (United Press)—Rain early today threatened to cause a postponement of the fifth round of the national singles tennis championship here. | Four feature matches, bringing to- gether the surviving stars of the were scheduled for thin ‘The present champion, R Murray, Niagara Falls, N Y., was matched with William M. Johnston, the San Francisco star who put the Australian, Gerald L. running yes tournament | week-end Lindley Patterson, out of the “comet,” the lone the gE California Brookes, Loughlin, and Norman survivor of the Australian team, was | Indelphia star, Walter Merrill was paired with Philadelphia big stare of the tournament, including two of inter national fame, went out in senna. tional matches which marked the fourth round yesterday, Patterson, the veteran Australian, succumbed to the superior playing of Jobnston; | the Jnpanese, Ichiya Kumagae, was eliminated by Tilden, Philadelphia, land the Southampton winner, Charles the former Yale star, was beaten by the Australian, Nor- man E. Brookes. With the defeat of V, Thomas by Richard Norris | Williams 11, the chances of the Australians in the tournament were | put up to a lone. survivor, Brookes. Though {t was far from a perfect | exhibition of skill, with loose, er. |ratic playing on both sides, the match between Patterson and John- ston was thrilling and spectacular, to meet the F William Tilden Hall, New York, w yar Johnson, trio of tb Star Bike Races Today Some hundred boys are racing in The Star bike race carnival at Green Lake today. The races were scheduled to get under way at 2 p. m. There are four races on tap with a long list of prizes for the winners. The full dope will be pub- lished in Monday’s Star about the outcome of the event. BY ROBERT L, RIP There i# another pictur wall of old masters. Jack Britton, pion of the world. Britton is the within the most hempen today. scientific man in the ring. ty in the welterweight cham: | fought wonderful | occasions square Jack is the oldest and most At the age of 37 this master boxer won ‘lam if to size up the damage. Richard Norris Williams 11, | ptionally good | Boston, was to face Maurice E. Mo- eattle Amateur Baseball Series Gets Under Way Sunday HIGH SCHOOLS TO HAVE STRONG TEAMS ENTERED IN GRID RACE '|Martin’s Big Battle Was Short Melee Story of How A. E. F. Ring King Won Honors of Squared Circle /Grid Season Will Get Under PAGE 17 Prep Schools to Call Out Grid Squads Way in City Soon; Lincoln Strong CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—Bob Martin's Greatest battle was his shortest. It scarcely lasted a minute, yet It won the Ohio heavyweight soldier |boy the championship of the allied | | forces overseas, The story of the fight is brought | back from France by Ed Shaves, one of Uncle Sam's physical directors, | who is in Chieago to confer with Jimmy Bronson, Martin's manager, Jabout Matt Hinkel's offer for a fight | lat Akron between Martin and either Sergeant Jack Burke or Captain Rob | Roper. | “Bob Martin had waded thru the |best fighters of the various allied nations until there was just one op |ponent left in his path, Captain |Cogswell of Australia aye | |Shaves, “This Cogswell had a great | reputation in the ring and the Aus tralian fighting men came to Paris prepared to bet every cent they had on their man. | “The American soldiers were | hoping against hope that Martin would win but it looked like he was | up against it. Hence they didn’t rush to take the Australian bets: “But the bell-hops in the hotels are | natural born plungers and they took | all the wagers offered. | “When the two men stepped into the ring, Captain Cogswell looked the part of the finished fighter. First crack out of the box he cut loose with a sharp left Jab over Martin's low guard and flattened Bob's nose. | “Bob was surprised and brushed |his nose with an involuntary motion With | that Cogswell let him have another punch that was a twin brother of [the first “But when he tried the same thing | |a third time, Martin coolly side- stepped and came back with a ter- rific right-cross that sent him down and out so far that he fell against the ropes and had to be carried to hia corner. “The bell-hops collected all the ready cash the Australians had and | when General Pershing was present ing the medals to the American win- ners, he stopped in front of Martin, put his hand on the boy's shoulder jand said: ‘Well, Bob, I knew fou could do it, but I didn’t think you'd do it so |quickly, You have proven yourself the greatest fighter in the greatest fighting force the world has ever known.’” MANAGER OLSON? Rumors float around Brooklyn that Ivan Olson is to succeed Wilbert Robinson as manager of the Brook: | |iyn Dodgers next year. Wilbert Rob- |inson, so the story continues, will manage the New York Yankees, in | Place of Miller Huggins. HORNSBY 18 SUED Frank G. Rowe, retired grain deal- ler, has sued Roger Hornsby, of the St, Louls Cardinals, for $15,000 dam- |ages. Hornsby in his automobile, recently ran down Rowe and severe- ly injured him. The man has been in a hospital since, and alleges he has been crippled for life. ‘The Reals scored 10 hits, the Oaks five. ‘The Oaks made six runs, the Seals four. An error by Corhan and a close decision | at the plate were fatal to the Seals, | prvstrltahlinear anata + Ver- ‘esterday's non, Salt Lake, Portiand. back his welterweight title by a knockout from that good young fighter Ted “Kid" Lewis, He has that youthful and excellent Renny Leonard, on three and held his own after terrific battles. And mind you, Brit: ton is well past the age at which a boxer is considered to be at his best, And what ia more commendable | champion, | | ; mn | than all that is the fact that Britton devoted his whole time to boxing for the wounded soldiers and sailors during the war, Although well above the draft age, Jack enlisted his serv ices as an entertainer of the wound ed and has boxed several hundred times—more often than any other boxer for war charities and the | what kind of teams the other schools” | city title as they won it a couple | played a tie game with the first halt = lin charge of the physical | will give the doctors the power [PREP PROGRAM] October 3, vadway. October 18, Queen Anne va. West Seattle, October Ty Franklin vs, Batlard, October 26, Droadway ve. Franklin, October $1. Lincoln vm, Queen Anne, November 1 West Keattle va, Lincoln, November 7, With the opening of the city high schools next week comes the first call for gridiron practice in the high schools. There promises to be a warm race for city honors this year Lincoln and Broadway will have powerful teams as a host of veterans will return to each school. Just will have is rather problematical ag yet ‘ There have been strong rumors in ~ city high school circles that Coach Leslie Turner of Broadway would not return to the first hill school this year, but he is expected to be back at his post again this year, Wells at Lincoin Ernie Wells will be out at Lincoln again this season after an absence of two years. Lincoln now holds the of years ago from Broadway and school last season. i Coach Green, who was at the head of the Lincoln school last youty in at the North End school this Allen is expected to return Queen Anne to tutor hill teams again. Reseberg will be the job at Franklin and McComb at — Ballard. The West Seattle Be has not been ‘appointed yet. a Lincoin Vets Lincoin has the nucleus for powerful team. Walter Juul, will captain the team. Loule wood, guard of a couple of ago, who has been in France, wi return to school and will be | the second quarter. Other veterans returning Allen Harris, backfield man; fullback; Eddie Hedwall, end; Savage, tackle; Sandberg, gf Tommy Murphine, halfback, Phil Glenn, center. : Among the new men who promise are: Jack Pickering, a field candidate; Heinie Harold Weber, quarter, and R Bargelt, backfield man. Broadway Lineup At Broadway Cot Rice will to play center; Martin, at guard, 4 star last year; George Hagen, Sergt. Allen, Bill Graham, tackle, Chet Vincent, tackle, are some the stars who will be out for half; Dick Reekie, half; Ted guard, and Warren Iverson, © back for places. Up at Queen Anne Bill fullback; Dick Holbrook, “Molly” McCarthy, end, and a a of green material, will be problem. Nothing has been heard from Bab lard or West Seattle as yet. Games at Brown & Hulen's terday: L. Teepe fell before Jim Davis — in a game of — 25 to 23, G. S. Sardam, with a store 100, took the first game of balkline from G. S. Cooper, but jatter came back and took the ond mix, 100 to 90, “Dad” Meeker, 2 Hew! A . “a 120, Norman and Da Davis split two an games, Norman winning: first 25 to 16, and Davis the second 25 to 18, “Shorty” Shaw, the safest player _ in the world, fell before B. Berg to the tune of 25 to 18 at three tushs fons. NATIONAL DIVERS MEET a NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—Arrange: ments are completed at Rye Beach for the national high diving cham. Pionship gontest today. Clyde Swen- son, of the Los Angeles Athletic club, national champion, will defend his title against Frederick Sponberg, newly crowned metropolitan chame pion, and others. Sponberg has been displaying wonderful form in: recent competitions, and his followers be+ Neve the Californian will have to show some remarkable work to OUte point him, CURE FOR CANCER PREDICTED SOON LONDON, Aug, 30.—A cure cancer will be discovered sho} cording to the prophecy of Sir Jam Cantile, the eminent surgeon, who res cently preached at St. Peter's chure He contended that if the autho money required, they will abolis amusement,of soldiers and sailors, ie ‘we every disease, tuberculosis and cer included,