The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 11, 1920, Page 12

Johnny Logan Leads Star C Knights’ Pilot Counts 115 Points; Semi-Final Teams Prepare for Tilt Big Game Is Billed for Saturday Night at Y. M. C. A _ Knights Add New Players; First Second-Half Games Under Way Friday Johnny Logan, captain of the Knights of Columbus cage five, is leading the scorers in The Star city hoop circuit with Be ints to his credit for five games work. An average points per game is not,to be sneezed at. Johnny has ped in 38 goals from the’ field and 39 free throws since rt of the city league. Logan earned the honor by hard ing and without sacrificing team play. Moose Bielk Phoenix Mutual center the leading scorer of 1, with 42 field goals, for He has an is No. ta to his credit HANE Tene AN MAKIN’ A AWFUL FLOP TR ainsi YEP: . PRETTY HIGH (NW THE =LCOnMUNITY, AND rae Look AT » Logan in this department, | pads the Knights’ star by four field shots, and he has played in but four games. Walter Wood, of the Y. M. C. A is the third high man, with 80 points to his credit, 30 coming in free throws Otter big scorers In the joague are Milliken, of the Rainier Post team, with points; J Davidson, of MacDougalls, with Rich, of Brewesters, with 56, and Moss, of the Elks, with 60 points “Tramp” Murphy, of the Phoenix Mutual five, is the leading guard , Tunning up 29 points. Phoenix Mutuals and the with 215 points each 8 Knights of Columbus are the leading team MacDougalls register high, with 191, and held their opponents to 108 points. The Knights have been scored 123 times. Which tells the tale of the success of these two squads pr Doesn’t Mean Much honor of leading a basketball|yet. The Phoenix players feed him in scoring doesn't mean much. | the ball all of the Ume, and conse n it helps the fans get a quently Siclk gets a lot of baskets. the better players in a/ When Sielk learns how to play a de- Dut basketball “batting” av-|fensive game, he will be one of the Ate as different from baseball | best cage men on the Coast, because Aables as ice cream and castor he has a remarkable eye i And then, take the case of play re ers of the Wea Rennie type. Wee is the pilot of the “University” Com: munity five. The Commuters went thru the first half of the season with three wins and two lomes for the year, and yet their squad was out scored by their opponents by some 30 points, a aman piles up a big lead in honors in basketball it usu Means that a man iq a good and that he is “being fed" by Members on the team. A rack shots get in and mix Just like the Crown Prince yet pile up a lot of points. are a lot of basketball play-| Wes makes his share of the bas Never shoot,more than one kets, checks hard and plays with Baskets a game, and yet are the rest of the fellows, There are } help to their team by their a lot of such hard-trying players in ‘Snd floor work than the man the leagu don't get any credit Btands to one side and does all in the averages for the work they ope 4 }do, and the men who find their the case of Sielk, the Phoenix names down in the scoring lists don’t center. Sielk is one of the shote in the city, and bum basketball hasn't mized in one rea! among the scoring im The Star league comes, bor en't mean ts Register and his gang of hooy Mowers, manager are ready for the The Knights have annexed John " Cochrane and Charlies Mortarity, who tat wil start the semifinal 12.4 Sone" paging wish te " Mac: tive. because they Rh thing aren't it doe any Knights of Columbus, and will finiah will strengthen the Knights consider. ably. The Knights expect to start | «| the game Saturday, however, with the same lineup that faced the Spald. ing team last week. Powers and Logan will start the and Needles and Mooney guards. Sent | they are letting no grass grow under Teservé strength of |their feet in preparation for the tite ralls will be a big help! game games of the second half) tilt at Broadway starts at 730 Star league cage season will ae Se Lye Ae ry liste in writing a je Star by Briday. The Brewster and|riursaay night, in order to play squads will meet at Broad- their games. The lists may be made the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ | up of any 10 players and a manager, h the Elks, and Co. B meets | with the exception of men belonging & Taft. The Elks’ go will|to other teams in the league, whose ‘at 8 p. m., and the Co. BP. & T.| managers have not given them their Z under way at 9 p.m. The | release. Tangles With , Post The Y, M. C. A. will start off the County Another half of their season with the | Would help the “Y™ oye jto one of the guards. eet five at the “Y" Satur-| "1. Rainier Post five gave a good night in @ preliminary Ult tO) account of itself in the first half of MacDougall-Knights big tiff.| the season, losing two games by the the “YX” nor the Post team | single margin of a single basket sent in their registered lists as) good forward shifting Weeks | for a strong team and with a couple |ot new additions the former soldiers should make it warm for the other teams in the league, Les Turner, Broadway high coach, has been requested to the big game Saturday night y the managers of the two squads. Official for the first game has! been a. ¥. M. C. A. has one of the best | teams in the league, and a| of good shots in Wood and! WHAT THEY SAY | curve, bat mot one that would feot the batters. “When my speed died ont I wae gone, Matty was quick to diagnose my case. My grip was worthless, and he showed me the proper one. First it interfered with control, but locate the The grip Matty tanght me @ pitcher.” CHRISTY MATHEWSON ‘Christy Mathewson does not ser! harmful influence in playing on Sunday. However, he Mt is @ question for each com to settle for itself. | plate again. me mad 4OE BENJAMIN The ‘Frisco lightweight flash, Joe Benjamin, is on his homeward «wing jnow. He had been lingering in New York, where an operation was per. formed on an infected ear that devel- |oped from one of his Joe Welling bouts. Alibis are not in order for his poor showing against Welling and Mickey Donley ries mm came backs te the syria confident that I will be even ton seems to reduce it- Fach community a for itsett whether Sunday ben benefit of an evil for "nat yu wit » why not piny 1? If it te on od abolish Hurling Jimmy Ring gives credit pitching success to Christy ‘son, Jimmy says Matty can show a fellow how. rf need to think that they are playing! Both tossers belong to the|p i the season with the club team. This | Leal. ¥. game at forwards, Classic at center) These teams must have their en. | Milliken and Bell form the nucieus | | joined the Final Dope on First Halt| of Star’ s Basketball Season | LEAGUE and Ballors LEAGUE ‘Teams Seoring. Opponents Kalgnte of ( M2 olumbus 218 Individual Scoring Records Look Over This List and See the Class of Star League Cage Tossers Mr. Basketball fan! Here's the dope that you're been waiting for. The individual scoring of the players in The Star Gity league. Look over this list and you'll recognize the players who have made basketball history in the Northwest. There's a pretty fast game of basketball on tap in The Star league now. The semi-finals will be staged at the “Y" Saturday night,| when the MacDougalls meet the Knights of Columbus. | LEAGUE NO, 1 i Field Free Ocala Threwe, Total an % Pin Gamea Position, Team | Mictk, C, Phoeois Mutuals Wood. F YMCA | Davideon, ¥., Macbougalis H. Rich, ¥.. Brewsters Mosley, Resting 7-2 Murphy, G.. Smith, F. MacDougails |P. Mang, F, Soldiers « Cc. Kien, ¥. Reonie, ¥ | Mempnin, Brows, F Heweweeons Bultia CF, | Bhiveley, ©. / | Frayne P"Macbougaits le Rion, F re and Kallore 1 | Mutuais 7 | to them Saturday night. The Macs have a strong second squad tafson and Frayn, forwards, |Overton, guard, all reserves, a |among the leading players of the league. Just who else will be signed by the Macs is a big question, altho Grittith |feoca. : : | tien, Gh ; ; Dopaion, Martin, « | | Dyke. « Pin | Rice, | Crawtora, | Bullock, ¥ | interest | league and scored lene than thre ix Mutuals, Overton “ < | Milliken. | | Moms, F La Triechel ; | Staley, v 1 Day Ghibert, 'F | Brett, | |i Vake, ‘olumbue Piper « i" Knights of Piper & Spaidings Knights of Co ik G. Bike | Ontver, Spaldings | Riddle, G., Spaidings layers who appeared in three oF Al Dahle, G., Co. B, 2; Hargrove, G 2; Donahue, ¥.-G., Tika, 2 Tate Burke, | Tueker, 1 1 more games scoring lems than thren potni Rainier 2; Turner, 6,-F., Robinson, G., Rainier Post. 0; Wright, G Jtogether on the championship team sjof the A.B. F. This ts Clark's first |season in Huff's shoes, the big fel low having retired from active coaching “Illinois had a championship foot ball team, a basketball team that bids fair to cop and now they want & baseball championship,” said Grover, “and I'll do my best to help them get ity Incidentally I am got ting in shape myself.” The Ilinois baseballers have huge armory to work out in- enough to practice. A huge encloses the players. In 24 years Illinois has had 11 Alexane ulty of the University Alex the Great isn't teaching Greek. He's teaching baxe ball to the students of pitching. He has a sizeable class. George Huff, athletic head, and Potsy Clark, base ball coach, are perfectly satiafied to let Alex do it, for Alex was the most effective pitcher in the Nation. al league last year and previously, season after season, he ranked as one of the best pitchers who ever toed the siab. He knows it and he can tell it. That's why he is here. One of the reasons over is here of Tilinols a big net into the hig show ® eurved ball handi- me. Of course, 1 lad o iy to help out an old teammate-Pot sy Clark. Potsy and Grover played) champion teams and Ued once for the honor, 1 REMEN BER a chance to see |by Quinn, manager of the St | they |a body and to a certain degree were moet | sters | magnates |move without being pressed by pop ular sentiment TH N AWY GUY HUNDRED A WEEK OF ne! \WAS ON TH’ ROAD To W(GALTH! A FELLOW oe ee Use To be ABLE TO ENJOY A LARGE EVENIN’ Waite FIVE oF ne IN HIS POC ke vw MAJO EDITOR’ ST. LOUIS, Feb. 11.—Most of the minor leagues already have boosted the price of ad- |mission to both grandstand and bleachers. leago this week similar action is almost certain to be taken. Baseball players are demanding higher salaries. expenses are higher and all the little incidentals that come up during a season require Therefore the baseball men n feel _they are entitled to raise their else, costs more to produce. greater expenditures. prices. Any kind of a boost in the high cost of living is unpopular, but the baseball fa will pot kick as bard & boot in dmirstons as the ger eral pub bas kicked op the boost ng of prices in every other line And, te the major leaguers car take « * of ating out of the boost In admission if they will be enough to adopt plar the kide-—th or i tI ball games for 15 Any boost in pre which apply to the will lock the gates Only a few of them and more generous rn whereby ‘ under—can cents admission. admissions pungnters, to n their faces 1 afford a than a quarter in prohibitive, For the good of the game and for the make of the youngsters the magnates adopt a IScent admission aside a portion of the the youngsters on nee quarter pavilions for week days. ‘The man who is firat to announce himself in favor of this plan is Bob- Louis Browns-—virtually head of that club. Quinn believes this is a much bet ter plan than to allow certain class os of youngsters to come to week- day games once or twlee a year. Ho believes the youngster of today has getup enough to go out and earn 15 cents and some day he'll be a better mar for so doing Several big league clubs have opened the gates of the parks to! the youngsters on certain days, but! always went to the games in held in restraint by an adult leader | teacher, scout leader or head of | fome society xponsoring that partic: | ular group of boys But the average boy would rather #0 along without restraint and make ail the noise he chooses. A kind hearted policeman in charge of that) particular section of the bleachers | in the very best kind of » guiding| hand for the youthful fane The kids of today are the fans of| tomorrow and the magnates should! recognize thin fact. ‘They must build for the future. While they are| building up their clubs with young | talent they should also be building | up their patronage. By keeping the of the youngsters on the races they'll always have a ir The youngsters won't be youngsters long. Tomorrow | they'll be young men of the world of them making good money admission patrons of fan reserve and regular the ball parks. Baseball in game. It is worthy of that title, As| such it haw been recognized by the best men of the land. It is a| healthy tonic for growing young- and its influence will make| them better men | The fans should insiet on it. The should met behind the America’s national Let the kids in for 15 cents, Lanky Jim he Sunset olf professional of | untry club of Bt ailertos on | Ts the old familiar saying that isn't so far off these days We found the first signs of Spring — manifesting themselves in the form of “serub” out on several back lota last Sunday. Leave it to the boys— they are the first to start and the last to quit when it's time for the great American and prob ably can up" in form some of league players that found knocking about coun try At that—we are ready to supply your entire team outfit right off the bat— all we ask is to come tn early that you can be as sured of getting the selee- tion, If it's to be uniforms, we suggest early attention. the are the 3801S SG005 ONLLNOdS 3HL | morrow |in the making lo" SAY NOLDMY RESP Cc ant T EVEN BUY 4 DOZEN EGGS 3; OWCE L WAS A GUY Now Im ONLY CTs me 1 Im NO Goop for A THEATRE TICKET EVEN! AND THE HARD THINGS THEY af MISTER KLEPPER—DON'T LOCK THE GATES ON THESE KIDS LET ’EM IN WEEK DAYS FOR FIFTEEN CENTS RS TO FOLLOW MINORS IN: BOOSTING ADMISSIONS i NOTE.—This is a movement that is sweeping the country. baseball magnates have not been approached on the subject, but if there are any chances lof softening up the hearts of the “moguls” for the kids in Seattle, to give the youngsters |) real baseball, we're going to do it. BY FRED TURBYVILLE When the majo: (T AIN'T Fare [ TELL YA: SAY ALOUT NE i Last Call Is | Preliminaries to Close Arena Tonight; Vancou- — ver vs. Seattle RACERS LISTED FOR FIRST HEAT M. Fee Carlos Lyon William Olson 1”. J. Donahue Jéhn F, Watson Erie W. Lindroth, N. P. Nichols Bill McKinley Jack Blyth SECOND HEAT George Delfel W. Carlson L. Wall R. Binsett Cc. BE. Kelly William Berry ¥F. J. Raby, C, Bjorstad G. MeLeod | The Seattle} i 1} r league moguls meet in Chi- Baseball, like everything Traveling | } | The last preliminary of The Storey Boxes | Billy Shade in Pool Bout: Azevedo Meets Wright in Main Go; Ring News Jimmy Storey and Billy Shade will) perform in the sembwindup at the| Pride in lowering the colors of the|for the locals tonight will make ‘ place in the playoff almost a cht Crystal Pool Friday night. This re: places the Chet Neff-Puggey Morton battle. Morton was called to Van- couver by the finesse of his mother. Shade is a Calffornia boy and has been going great guns in the South. He was in the Northwest last season | nd incidentally took a bad beating from Storey, but when he went down South again he started winning Pegulariy In the main event Joe Azevedo, one of the ranking welterweights of California, will step with Billy Wright, Const champion. Azevedo | in a raring battler, according to re- ports from the Bouth. The visitor will work out today for the first time at Austin @ Ralt’s gym at 1 o'clock. Young - Brown, Mexican light weight, who has been working in the ring around Los Angeles for the past season, in in Seattle. He will proba- bly be lined up with Chet Neff for next week GORDON 18 VISITOR Abe ion, Portland feather. weight, is another Seattle visitor. He has just returned from San Fran- cinco. CASEY BOXES WILLIS ] Harry Caney, accompanied by “Caruso” Dan Salt, is in Portland, where he boxes Stanley Willis to night in a preliminary to the Tom- | my Gibbons-MeCormick battle, CASEY VS. ROGERS Harry Casey and Frankie Rogers box #ix rounds at Sunnyside, Wash., Feb, 20 for the American Legion. | SCHU) N BATTLES SHANNON | Heinie Schumann and Eddie Shan- non bex six rounds at Tacoma to- night. This is the second) {meeting of this pair, a draw result- ing from their first bout. sHOW HERE FEB. 20 j The Veterans’ Athletic association, | which staged their first smoker at the Armory last week, will show | again on February 20 at the Crystal) Pool, Oscar Koch, the big fellow who beat Young Hector at their first show, has the call for the main event, The rest of the card is still GIBBONS VS. M'CORMICK Tommy Gibbons, world's champion lightheavyweight, will box 10 rounds | with Boy McCormick, English cham- pion, in Milwaukie Ore., tonight. ersity nop! have come out on top, with the frosh & close second. The bouts were all run off under direction of Wrestling Coach Ka Brown: Untversity officta: are confident that | the stadium will be completed in time for | artmouth game If something | | happen to delay the structure, m will probably be a Denny field will be ne large crowd th: witness the first Hast staged rthwest expected game The v C. A, te night. This w mig of the ought to give | dopesters a's co to predict the Purple and Gold chances in later inter collegiate conte Returning from a 25-to-16 defeat at) the hands of Whatcom high school, Bell- ingham, the freshman basketball team In be due for a thoro Heck” Kamundaon. bility to lusse for the year ¥ meet to be held at ing with favor at the Piper < Toft Inc. 1109 SECOND AVE, ice racing championships will BROADWAY IS RESTING FOR QUEEN ANNE GAME Coach Les Turner is giving his Broadway high cage squad a rest today to keep them fresh for the big game with Queen Anne at Broad- way Friday. The first time these two teams met Broadway came out nm top, 23 to 20, and Turner is Tak- ing no chances of having his team ‘stale for the big game. Queen Anne ix practically out of the race, having lost two gumes,/and there won't be much doubt but the hill men, like all the other| what the Mets will make a schools in the city, take particular/effort to stay in first place. A | night. All racers who have not called to race or who have and lost out will be eligible ton | The race will be eight around the Arena rink. ‘The finals will be staged next when the winners of the six pi naries tangle. Incidentally the Vancouver Seattle hockey squads will tonight. The locals are in the Pine street school Good Clothes Good Business The secret of many a man’s success in business may be often traced to the good clothes he wears. Clothes selected with discrimination and worn in good taste, in- spire confidence and respect in others. Here is an opportunity to purchase the finest of tailored clothes — the kind of clothes you have always wanted to wear—at a really great saving— $85 For this price you can now have a suit made by Stone the Tailor, which will be an investment in clothes comfort and satisfac- tion, These suit patterns afford a wide choice of material and shadings—they are meant for year-around wear and are part of the stock which sells regularly for $100 to $125. Order your tailored suit—now. Stone the Tailor 1206-1208 Second Avenue (Adjoining Savoy Hotel) Established 1900 _ Sent Out for. , Ice Speeders THIRD STAR HEATS last call for ice racers tonight! | form between halfs at the Arena