The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 17, 1920, Page 10

dham, Meusel, Piercy and Fournier Have Best Chance of Lyle Bigbee Is Seattle’s Representative Sent to’ Big Time; Kamm to Have Trial With Pittsburg; Other Sporting Gossip. Winning Jobs BY LEO H. LASSEN > Ten 1919 Coast league ball tossers will have a chance to their wares in the big circuits this season. Lyle Bigbee, e hurler; “Red” Oldham, Portland flinger; Paddy Sig- Beaver second sacker; Bob Meusel, Vernon. third base- n; “Rowdy” Elliott, Oakland catcher; Louie Guisto, Oak sacker; Jack Fournier, Los Angeles initial pillow dian; Willie Kamm, San Francisco third baseman; Bil! cy, Sacramento hurler, and “Babe” Pinelli, third sacker, show their wares in big league training camps this Of this bunch, Oldham, Meusel, Fournier and Piercy have best chance of up before. icking. All but Meusel of this trio have had a trial with Detroit, Fournier! ith the Chicage White Sox, and Piercy with the New York| } ” Quintet and Elks to Mix Tonight Cage “League Teams Swing Into Action | league basketball teams will) Way in the second half of | n in garnest this week. The CA. five will take on the Elk» Elks’ club gym tonight. Both | ty of the antlered herd. te Well with Moss, who has been ivy scorer for the Elks most season. At the Knights of Columbus hall. ht, the Knights will _WASHINGTON’S. BIRTHDAY— Win be Mtingty observed - A Mountaineers, who spend the week-end tonal phy at ea git ahtiona A tabegene Snowshoeing. ging and pkiing are omeng the sports to be fou where e out-of-doors or- leaves for Sat- ve 21 BSF da Bed par ja in, charge of iineers. Diper « Taft Inc THE Fen GOODS STORE | series of Mutts and, in a word, be-|of old age. Oldham goes back to Detroit for another chance, Fournier goes to the St. Loute Cardinals, and Piercy re turns to the Yanks. Meuse! goes to the Yanks, too, Meurel is the best prospect going up from the Coast league this year The big fellow has played but one year in the minors, and haa shown that he ts big league timber. He can | bit, throw, rum and field, in fact, he ean do all the work required in the diamond game, and do it mights well.|—either to fish along the Jersey|a Human V. Chances are that the Yanks will jmake a third Baseman out of him if “Homerun” Baker Insists on quit ting. He may fit into the outfield. He would make a fine running mate for “Babe” Ruth if he plays the tinal of ball sho showed in the Const league last year, and it isn't euch a jump from the Coast cireuit to the| big show. OLDHAM SHOULD STICK Oldham should stick. The big red: headed pértsider pitched some mighty | sweet baseball for the Portland) Beavers last summer, and the Ore | gon squad didn’t amount to much as! @ baseball team last season, And “Red™ also swings wicked mace and fits in nicely as a pinch hitter. Bill Piercy, the Sacramento right Sry TH’ LEAGUE OP NATIONS 13 ON Ry CHARLES DRYDEN Being now well advanced in this coming a prey to those morose rem- [iniseences which tend to lower one’s morale and curdie an erstwhile! sunny @ixposition, we set about in 7 They poor, mangy beasts, bereft of pep and living only for a chance to die With « strip of near leopard skin across his naked chest the trainer shooed the animals tn rheumatic hops across the out | | stretched legs of the patient in the| UTNE A 3006 OUTA TH’ LEAGUE AND 1S MAIN’ Im we Pavoe oF A LEAGUE of RATIONS’ “MAT D-You THInk OF TH LEAGUE OF City’s : Prize Speeders R Race for Seattle Ice Title Wednesday} What Iu ortals B How Clubs Stand in Star penta LEAGUE NO. 1 'LINCOLN FACES HARD GAME IN HILL GYMNASIUM TODAY Standing of Prep ‘Satta a8, at eee. Ee Basketball Teams Wen. Lest. Prt 1,000 Racing King Crowned at Hockey Tilt. Kings aren't very popular an 4 general rule these dayn, but the) king of the Seattle ico racers will | be crowned at the Arena Wednen | day night when the six star mpeed.| ers of Seattle skim over the tee in the finals of ‘The Star ice racing championships. | Clint Farr, Elmer Satterberg, The | Staples, J. T. Towey, P. J, Dona hue, FF. Raby are the boys who} should heed Franklin's 2 however, as the Frankfin which gave Broadway hardest rubs of the Lincoln faces one of the acid tests beating out at Ballara jof the local high school cage season when the Tualleplitters invade the | Queen Anne gym to take on the Quayr, The hill squad bowed to Brewsters LETTERS DUE AT DEMPSEY JURY HEARING! BAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 17---When this issue to discourse on the irri | chair, whereat Hube rose to a #itting |ine federal grand jury met again to dexcent capers of Rube Waddell Every fourth day, if not otherwise engaged, Rube appeared from no- where in particular to atrike out 12 or 16 shivering guys with his left handed stuff, after which he drifted back into the void whence he came shore; to tend bar gratuitously, to save horses and total strangers from the flames tn some large city, | Philadelphia preferred. There be those who claim Waddell was a reincarnated fire horse, vis. he had the physique and speed of a or |horse, but lacked the staid mental-| His per.) ity of the nettled equine. sonal appearance worrted him not a tall, ‘The back of hin coat generally was scorched and seared from lean- ing nonchalantly against live wires, and there were times when soap failed to make any kind of @ hit with Rube EAR ON GONG In his more sedate momenta the great southpaw hung around fire houses with his ear to the gong. On! the road he demanded @ front room + #0 as to be up and going before the clanging apparatus was out of hear-, ing. If there were no horses to be led blindfolded from the burning liv ery stable, and if there waa a dearth | Of imperieled inmates in the blazing his fielding conting htm his| the majors, Hut Jack is a- heway tenement, Rube kidnapped an tnno- cent bystander, dragged him up the back stairs and slid, with the pro- | tenting fire victim, down a ladder In |front to the huxras of the multitude. | Take it from ua, Rube was a hero off the ball field as weil as on. hero showed up at the ball park out of his turn and Connie Mack gave ‘him a Dill of that rank fished out of hithard Rube acquired by the quick touch | } Pinelli is fast. He gets a trial with the Tigers, too. But it's doubtful if) he can hit hard enough either for a| major leaguer. Hé hit for about .240/ in this league, which means about ; | 200 in the big show. Willie Kamm, the bey wonder of he Seale, goes to the Pittsburg ie is & bear in the fieid- corner, but can't about. He can) Eg i ul z : E who goes to the SCO Dodgers, hag also been up before. | But Eliott will have to take a lot| better care of himseif and pay strict ¢r attention to baseball if he expects | 2 RE eT Louie Guisto, Oak first meker,| goes to Cleveland. He can hit and field, but won't have much chance of bumping Harris off of the initial bag in the Indian infield. Chances are that Guisto will be back with | } IN ICE RACE) STANDING oF = clones attle alipped back into the lead in the Coast puck race here last night, when the team walloped the Vancou- mont of the game, Which beld the score down. First period: 1—Reattle, Poyston tron Walker, 1:19. Second period: %—Meattle, Tobin, 6:44. Third period: 2—Beattle, Poyston from Rowe, 15:00, , Harrie from | Taylor, 1:24, » Harris from Bkinner, 9:21. |The carnival the managerial watch—never more, never leae—and Rube went away satinfied. If the $1, $2 and $5 billn method were pasted end to end they | would belt the earth with a bright \green equator. But who cares? No- body; Rube was worth every cent) of it. And so one time the Fraternal | Order of Iggies, of which the south paw was a member, put on an indoor carnival for the good of the order. lasted a week and Rube sidestepped his bartending and firefighting obligations to get season oF #2 in the | saved nightly in @ den of lions; also|plonship for 1919-20 is claimed by | for the good of the order. Stretched out in @ motheaten red plush chair, his long legs extended to the foot rest, our intrepid hero awaited the onslaught of the Hons— posture and shot the lions dead with & toy pistol that snapped paper caps After that the barber, also # Brother | legie, gave the hero @ clean shave| for the good of the order. | Combine the tntellect and the art of the average barber and we have| acuum Cleaner ax well as| |® boon to that portion of soclety too | | proud to cut its own hair, ‘The carnival ended in a @rawtng| tor an automobile for the most popu lar Brother Igeie, Rube felt the need of $2 on account that evening and, being unable to locate Connie pulling the slips in the lottery, Stand: ing blindfolded on a table bexide « huge glass globe filled with folded squares of paper, each bearing the name of a Brother lexis, our hero) was instructed to draw three attps in| sucommion and the third was to be} the winner. PICKS | SLIPS | Very freely and above board, with the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, Rube picked the first two slips lwhich proved to be John Smith and Fred Jones. So far so good. Then from behind his back, where he had kept it all the time, Rube drew his left fist, tightly closed, jammed it into the bottam of the Yowl, with. drew the fist and it, axpos-| ing to the Brother Iggtes a wrinkled, | dirty, sweaty alip of paper totally un lke the others. In « solemn hush and tn a thin, | pale voice the teller read the name (of the winner—Brother Isadore Carp! A aight rustling at )@xit marked the unobdtrustve grt jawny of Brother Carp, minus an automobile and $2 in real money. As | for our hero he looked fo utterly simple and free from guile that the | Brother legies refrained from caus | tle dincourse tn his tmmediate viein) | ity: besides, Mr. Waddell weighed 220 | pounds—moatly bona | (Copyright, 1920, by the Bell Syndi-| cate, Inc) | | VANDERBILT CLAIMING SOUTHERN CAGE TITLE The & TI. A. A. basketball cham- Vanderbilt university. The quintet holds decisive victories over the pre- mier basket fives of the South. fap Tech and Georgia antversity are among the teams vanquished. of Atlanti cigarettes, FATI At the Traymore and at the Ambassador, as well as at most ¢ City’s other big hotels, Fatima outsells all other TIMA A Sensible Cigarette Mack, the artless athlete insixted on | , day, the probe into the war ree of Jack Dempney wan resumed Certified copies of the now famous “slacker” letters, which Mra Maxine Dempsey announced would prove her husband @ “draft dodger” were to be Presented, the district attorney's of fee announcer, ‘The grand jury, it was believed, face the wire, This sextet showed lot of class in winning their | heata, ‘The @tar ractng cup will be pre wented to the winner of the event at the press box. [be run off between the first and | would end the Dempeny inventigatian | today. Netther Dempsey nor his manager, Jack Kearna, will be called before the jury, it is under a The investigation thus far bh on cerned ttaelf largely with the affi vit mworn to by Mra. Dempary, ex nerating Jack. Some sensational | disclowures regarding this are prom: ined RENZ WILL NOT JOIN YANK OLYMPIC TEAM Eddie Rens, champion walker of the New York Athletic club, will not take part in the Olympic games at Antwerp next summer. Tie was « member of the 1912 team at Stock holm; but failed to score any points PLAN NEW LEAGUE second periods of the Victoria-te attle hockey tlt, The big race will be 11 laps around the Arena, All of the pre-| liminary races have been eight laa. ‘The racers must report at the Arena at 7:30 for tickets and num bers and final tnatructions. BOXERS WILL WEIGH IN AT 134 RINGSIDE| F4die Shannon and Bob Harper, who meet for the coast Nghtweight rown Friday at the Crystal Pool, je | will weigh in at 134 pounds ring mide. ‘This bout tn the beat lightweight card In this section now. Robert has never dropped « fight tut hasn't taken on the rugged hattlers that visitor will be the toughest mortal the local boy has ever tackled. In the semi-windup Chet Neff wil |have hin chance to show Seattle ‘The event will) Shannon has mixed with. The | Queen Anne team is @ home floor | winner and Lincoln has a mighty wweet job outlined for thie after noon. The hill team gave the Broadway five a real battle when |they met, Broadway winning 23-20.) | If Lincoln wins the Northenders | Will still be in the race for a chance with a tle with Broadway. The Lin- coln squad lost its first game of the season to Broadway by @ two point margin. 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