The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 23, 1920, Page 10

THE SEATTLE STAR—-MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1920. Strong Catching Corps to Work in Coast ‘League ub” Spencer, Local © ine, Ranks Well - With League Mask Men Portly One Swings Mean Stick; Los Angeles Well Fixed With Bassler and Boles; Flock of Big League Veter- ans Behind Plate This Year BY ‘LEO H. Catching—the main cog in defensive baseball mighty high plane this year, men lined up for the coming season. LAS SEN will be on judging from the array of Most of the ers are veterans of the 1919 coast campaign. Seattle will be well fortified behind the bat if “Tub” the portly receiver | ined up by the locals, comes “Spencer is a wise old bird and while he is about as as an armless man with boxing gloves lify as one of the best cate’ fot only can Spencer catch tutor for hurlers and works his pitchers well. he can still hers in the circuit. a nice game of ball, but he is His is still strong, and he hits around .300 in this league. er May Not Play for Seattle “Tub” Spencer, slated to hold chief catching job with the tf Siwashes, may jump the for a Rocky Mountain out iw league, according to news from Salt Lake today, Prexy 4 Riepper, of the local club, states ‘That he will make a big effort to ‘bring the big catcher here, but is not worrying over the mask if Spencer refuses to come, there is a catcher promised y a big league clud. ommuters to Battle Y. M. Cage Outfit League ‘Fives Tangle Wee Rennle's University Com five faces a tough game in) Star league, when they tangle the Y. M. C. A. five in the a» ‘Tuesday night. The & game to the Elke a Gm, but are still very much in Commuters registered a win the “Y™ in the first half of the, by the narrow margin of three Whether they can do ft again remains to be seen. Community five will lineup Bell and Woodcock at forwards, at center Rennie an4 at guards. The “Y" takes th ‘with Counts and Allen, tor-| Wood, center and Stock and guards, The game starts hte of an siophant, when| wes ellotted to any other of John!| is very expensive, the tan- taking about six months. MOORE TH 2:30 8:15 Yea, much about Seattle won't have to worry catching if Spencer ix on the job. He will be helped out by either Ritchie, hrer or Tobin. Oakland Is Weak The other clubs in the league are all well fixed with the exception of Oakland. The Oaks have no one ned up to help out Honus Mitze, cording to information to date. towdy" Eliott, the first string catcher of last season, is now the property of Brooklyn > Francisco will have Sam Ag new, veteran major leaguer, and Baldwin, doing mask duty. Agnew has slowed up some, but should get by In this company. Los Angel has a sweet pair in Johnny Bassler and Boles, two of the best receivers in the league, hard-hitting catcher. De Vormer will do the receiving for the Vernon Tigers again. He is & good steady worker, He will be helped out by Clarence Brooks. Cady at Sacramento Forest Cady will be back on the > for the Sacramento club again Cady didn't show much last year but still has a lot of good baseball in his system. He ts another vet eran of the big leagues, playing with the Boston Red Sox when they were winning pennants every other year. | Joe Jenkins, the White Sox young: ster, will be the mainstay of the Salt Lake club. He will bave to show his speed in this company before | judgment is passed on him, but he looks like the goods. Del Baker will hold forth again at Portland with Art Koehler as change catcher. This pair did valient ser vieo last year and should have no trouble holding down jobs again this season. DODGERS DRAW 19 SUNDAY BATTLEES| The Brooklyn Dodgers in the schedule of the Natignal| league. They drew 14 Sunday — at Ebbetts Field. This is more tha Heydier’s cireuit. The Giants got) but 13 Sunday games. EATR MAIN Z22 NIGHTS USe, 25, S0e ‘We, $1.00 MATS. Se, 25e, Ste ALL WEEK A Glance at the New Bill of Orpheum Vaudeville Makes a Visit to the Moore Imperative EMMA Singing Her CARUS Own Songs J. WALTER LEOPOLD—at the Piano KENNEDY and Company In “A Golf Proposal” Jack Hughes Duo Dainty Danseuse of Original Production Joseph Mack, Jr. Jack Cook KINOGRAMS TOPICS OF THE DAY CONCERT ORCHESTRA Winthrop “Caught in a Jamb” An Episode Bassler is another YOu KNOW TWAT RICH DAME IVE BEEN Goi? WITH? MELL L SPOKE TO HEF PA a Net! INDEED Yeliy! a FIRE YOUR DAUGHTER MOODLAMD BRooK RUNS ON for ever * 7EP’ 1 SAYS “tty LOVE FoR T Is Like tues Phoenix Mutuals ls Hand I K. of C. Five Beating, 'BELIEVE IT OR NOT— i) mite! WCELLENT MILWAUKEE UGHT WEIGHT = is WiTH AGRACTION OF BEING 6 reer! | | (son os ws somes | STRUCK ONT 42, MEN mH a au Shade vs. Welters Meet for Champion Welter Crown |Keeler and “Reed Billed | to Argue in Semi- Windup Billy Wright, Coast welter king,! [will put up his crown for competi jtion again Tuesday night at the) lc Pool when he takes on Billy | the battling welter from Cali-| fornia. Shade made a mighty nice! impression on the local fight bugs| with the nice win he registered over Jimmy Storey a short time ago at) the Crystal Pool | | Shade is @ strong fellow. who can | use his hands. Wright has been go ing along at a fast clip this season | and ign’t worried much over the out-| jeome. In fact Wright picked Shade} as his opponent toffrrow night. “Wild” Bill Reed, a hard-hitting kid, also from California, will make | bis debut with Willie Keeler, the lo-| cal heavyweight, in the semi-windup. | Reed polished off Joe Bonds in Ta-| coma the other night, and shows the same kind of willingness to mix it as he did in the up-ound city he will make a big hit with the Seattle fight followers. He is a swinging hitter. Keeler can also hand out @ wallop. It looks like a| good battle on paper In the other bouts Bert Forbes and | Eddie Jackson tangle once more. “Soldier” Woods and Patsy Ciacco meet, and Bernie Rogers, a colored |boy argues, with ] Anacortes, | | | Apparatus that massages women’ throats with sprays of water to im prove the contour has been invented, Another Good One Will be the match tomor- row night between Billy Wright of Seattle and Billy Shade of California—tt's for the Coast welterweight championship, which has been adorning the head of the local athlete for some little time now As both the boys will use Levinson Boxing Gloves, there's no question but that “Billy” will win. It will seem good to the fans to have the old Tues- day night date swung back into place, as it was a reg~ ular fixture on the calendar of the local sportamen and # lot of them had trouble in switching dates. It's an Austin & Salt show and, as usual, held at the Crystal Pool Ticketa? Certainly. Piper & Taft Inc 8 ° & z 5 8 n = FYOLS SGOOD ONLLOdS 3HL' acl GAME —— YET LOST, if he) ate Rae Scribner, of |* J THORPE GREATEST FOOTBALL PLAYER’ = WEYER REQUIRED “Te OUT IN ALL of Wis CAREER | GEORGE D. NOREMAC PAN S100 MILES Wi 100 DAYS (omequarteo by MANOR BLAST) Yous cyr LIFTED 4300 “185. ad ~ ar What Mutts These ortals Be. (Ea BY CHARLES DRYDEN time the Giants took steamer from New York to the Bosky delis of Jacksonville, Fia., to do a little pring training for the cellar cham plonship which, in those days, was their exclusive specialty. In order ein the pink at the tap of the the outfit carried a trainer—a n observed to this day by our ding tallenders was that about the hair of the t ner, traveling first-class, and the cast of his features which used comment. ‘Trainers may be but not In firet night out our slipped into where the male pas mutts in some all things. The physical director smokin respects, room, sengers had assembled to discourse on th marked, stage cout and vest CA. HARRIMAN WALKED 121 MILES, S YARDS WITHOUT a sToP CHARLES PETERSON’ ' RAN 100 POINTS IN SI SECONDS (esx set) , Wright on Tuesday How Clubs Stand ee : in Star Sesgat Diamond Men set ets | Take Miners’ cas gt Sire | Soccer Derby LEAGUR NO. w Prot | Carbonado Goes Down to} Defeat to Tune of ‘Tea Phoenit Mutuaie MacDougalis Viper @ Taft . Brewetere | Biack Diamond turned the tables on Carbonado yesterday in the Mc | Millan cup soccer series, winning by | tw goals to one, in the hardest) |fought battle seen in the Northwest for many seasons ‘The game was played in Carbonado| and with ground advantage, coupled with the fact that they had annexed a victory at Black Diamond two} weekn ago, the home boys were Strong favorites to administer the mame dose, but the dope was upset} and the plucky Black Diamond play-| ers returned home with a well earned victory Thompson opened the scoring for Black Diamond 20 minutes from the start Play waa all in tho visitors’ favor in the first half, but they could not} increase their one goal lead until well Jon in the second half, when Thomp- | son again beat Goalie Banks. Eddie Harlin registered Carbon-| ado's lone marker 10 minutes from / time, and said 10 minutes resembled a Donnybrook fair, as the players jacemed to lowe all control of their tempers and incidentally forgot that they were supposed to be playing | 1 | BY ALEX ©. ROSE came is doubtfal if he will de any more playing this year. The Knights of ‘olumbue five has gone the opinion of the cag Bar league gam Dreexed inte the sem! half of the season, I the MacDougall-Southwick squad the play off. And the Brewster eq and Phoenix Mutuals spanked the Knights and the club men are decorat ing the cellar in their division. will be three games on tap in 0 Wednesday night. The nue with the Macl K gang in the big game | m. The Piper & Taft team plays the | Knights at & p. m., and Mpaldi | the Soldiers’ & Ballors’ club pi bm. . soccer It was a wild and woolly exhibi tion, and if the fans expected to see “pep” they were not disappointed. Yuna, the husky Black Diamond back, was easily the best player on the field, with W. Harlin of Car-| bonado ranking second. | ‘The line-ups were as follows | Diamond--'Troyer, Hughes, | Pettigrew, McLean, | Strange The Phoenix Mutuals are comin; Black Yuna, McGrath, White, McMillan, Thompson, and Moroni. ‘arbonado Weston, Stobbs, Hannus. Ranks, Allen, W Buch, Anderson Davis, BE. Harlin Har: | Ry: | and | the © firosdway high }nons ago. He 1 is piaying center for the cutive neta ine tan Wictoria Meets Vancouver Team 12 to 12 tle at the ‘The Chaunceys Victoria and Vancouver will come together in the hoc tilt billed for co and will give lt of the squads a hard game, Craw today in Vancouver. A loss for either club at this stage of the race, with} 4 was the high scorer with five field oni, the Coast playoff but a few games away, means ruin for elther squad, + #0 it’s bound to be a nip and tuck tonight ‘aneouver mate Netiher team has lot « Friday's game wins billed for Mroedwa; plays ite last regular Wednesday night with Mets. The locals have a Lincoln and Franklin will miet in the important game tomorrow at Lincoln Lincoln walloped the Quakers in the SISLER’S COLLEGE MATE | Tee Coune iromdway enterraine| DROPS OUT OF SIGHT Went feattio and Queen Anne plays host! Teland Benton, who caught vadpesseae. teats ls adidas | Genewe ‘auier. on the. Mishioen’ ont versity team, hag dropped out of notice altogether, ‘The Chicago Cubs gave him a trial in 1917 and then sent him to Lacrosse In 1918 he} was on the list of th St. Louis the National Negro Baseball league. | Cardinals, but never w in a game. Other cities that will likely put nat is the last heard of him, The teams in the race « Indianapolis r, on the other hand, St. Louis, Detroit, Dayton and Chi-|forms a bright page in the annals Jot basebay KANSAS CITY TO HAVE NEGRO TEAM Kansas City will have a berth in | dong! [the friend, | Inatate topics of the day. “Speakin’ of hyp'tiam,” he re “the perfeswer he Rats for volunteers and I steps up th Gypay, be says, take off yer nd # t Here the trainer, standing in the of the room, stripped to a veless undershirt and cast @ baleful eye around. then, Gyp.’ spur up your Now, the perfenser ayn right arm Gyp Up at the arm and out bulged * large and round and hard wut yer other about it Gyp. The ¢ many gazed silently at the keg like wt and the huge arm muncles m the perfesser in the eye and he says, if youne think youre can. Gyp, and unbyp. Slowly the great chest deflated. the knotted arms came down and hung low; and with a slightly curl ling upper lip the orator of the eve ning delivered his peroration. "‘Gyp, the perfesner he say ‘Td hate to have youse tackle me, we ep an a coc Spur up yer chont, and out m, Gyp, wh Gyp, stick he looks me Gyp, unhyp Go abead, layp’” When the trainer departed with out waiting for applause all hands agreed that as far as names went | Gyp Davina, with the acce on the Gyp, would do as well as any. wan so ordered. Among the recruits was a bulky young catcher named Adam Stan- hope, of Harlem. The camp was an old fashioned hotel a mile down! river from the city of Jacksonville Adam Stanhope, of Harlem, trained jin the ball yard by day and at the | pinochle table by night. In every respect Adam was a model cadet. TOO MUC Ss ENOUGH Three nights before breaking camp | |for the return trip, Adam went forth Jalone to sample a bit of Old Diablo Gin in Darkest Jacksonville, The last two quarts disagreed with him, and on the way back to the hotel in a dinky little trolley ear, Adam dis- agreed with the motorman. You all know how these argu- ments end, Biff! on the coco with the contro! handle, Ding! the blue wagon. Arthur Irwin, the Giants’ mana. ker, had a friend in the police de- partment. About 2 a, m. Adam and a one-horse wagon arrived at the hotel. Before daylight the friend was back with the big news. The motorma A visited police headquarters with his traction uniform cut to ribbons, with his hide unscratched. Adam Stanhope, who didn't own a knife, @ murderous attack on th so he said, but that gal lant individual had beaten Adam off, and if the department wished to re anybody for noble conduct the motorman would be the last guy in the world to object to the pro ceeding. To make himself the least bit stronger the motorman charged A. Stanhope with assault to commit murder Geo whiz! ‘That listened like ten} |years in a convict camp, removing Fattlesnakes and palmetto trees from THATY THE HEINEMAN SUS PENDFRS | Hav Rested Lightly on Mdn’ Should rsifo wt Fifty fi loi e~ 8 col de wopehde We of/nep; clastic~Wouble/sti teed siecilbend rewl leath¢r ends brass deposed cop. the! It} Arthur, | but | F re f/) {the interior counties of Florida. The steamer for home wasn't due to sail for three days and the cops were coming out that same morning to pinch Adam Stanhope. Bill Gleason--there t only one Rill—had a large To-Let fireplace in his room at the old fashioned hotel Quickly mobilizing a quantity of sec- ond hand brick and some mud, Bill walled Adam up inside the fireplace. One brick waa left thus af fording facilities for passing the time of day and sandwiches that would fit the hole. AN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY Thus stowed away in his snug re- jtreat Adam had nothing at all to do in the day time; at night he could look straight up and see two or three little stars twinkling in the heavens, but he didn’t know the names of any of them. This was his first visit to Jacknc e Meanwhile nome insidious propaganda. He said that Mr. Stanhope had left hurried ly for Harlem by train, The sleuths laughed in their false whiskers. After frisking the hotel they camped out in front among the stumps of nke trees killed by the last big and kept @ watchful eye 1 on the exits. strategist Mr. Gleason stands ut a Foch. It was Bill who planned the getaway ue to leave the downtown wharf 5 in the evening. At daylight that morning Adam was smuggled out to a launch on the unguarded river side of the hotel and tutted to the steamer, She was lying broadside to the wharf taking cargo in the side ports from a barge in the stream hidden from the sleuths on the dock An the launch sped close to the barge Adam leaped from the stern lof the little boat, hopped across the barge and disappeared in the hold of the ship. We now swing back to Gyp Dav loone. Mr An with jins, the celebrated physical director. | | He was in on the plot and his play was to slip into the hold and hand |the fugitive stowaway a package of food to sustain Adam thruout the long day. Bill G. Foch thought of everything. That's what makes him such a great man. THIS FOCH HAD A‘WATERLOO But, alas, that same morning 4 New York paper came in with a lit-! tle story written in the Park Row office to the effect the Giants were |leaving Jacksonville in splendid con- |dition, due to the jof the negro trainer, Gyp Davin From his Post in @ barroom across jthe wharf, Gyp Davins, stated, | around 9 o'clock, how he would go home, avenge his dear old mother and proceed at once to Ossining, N Y., and sit in the electric chair. noon ten or a dozen electric chairs llooked good to Gyp. Along toward sailing time Gyp confided to the world at large that they could fill Madison Square Garden with elec: tric chairs and he would go and sit in every blamed one of them, take it from him. When at 5 o'clock the first de- parture whistle blew Gyp lurched across the ship's gangway, where he recalled his mission to feed Adam Stanhope, buried somewhere in the bowels of the steamer. Lurching back to the barroom the trainer plucked one cold, disheveled weinerwurst from the lunch counter. Proceeding the up the gangway to the deck, Gyp removed the cover from the first manhole, dropped the sausage into the bunkers, replaced the lid and went on about his regular e chair business. Twenty-three years since Bill Gleason executed this masterly Since then, off and on, I etric have elapsed planned and getaway have in |tended to ask Adam Stanhope if the| weinerwurst hit the right spot, but ‘somehow or other I never did get around to it, Bill might know. (IT's A LONG JUMP FOR CUBAN TOSSER | Manuel Cueto, the lively ban, has covered a lot of terri is destined to do some more ling in this country, The Reds t him from the Portsmouth (Va. team in 1917, In 1918 he was shift ed to Chattanooga, came back, only to be traded to Rochester last year for Charley See. Now he will be nt to Seattle, It'’ a long way from Cuba to the Pacific Cgast, but Cueto is the chap not afraid to make the jump. AL SIZES Guardia Trust & Savgs Bank COLMN BUILDING The boat was efficient system | at| black abyss of coal | little Cu-| Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Club Wins Fi First Gov Knights Drop Th Third Straight Cage Game in Star League the third straight time the Knights of Columbus basketball five went down to defeat in The Star league Saturday night at the Y. M. |& A. when the Phownts Matuale sunk the hooks into the club men to the tune of 34 to 27. The game was close all the way, but the Knights Iacked the punch that carried them into the semi finals in the first half of the sea- son. The Phoenix men started off in | the lead and were in the van 15 to 12 at the end of the first half. They increased their lead by four points in the last half, scoring 19 points to 14 for the opposition. MURPHY PLAYS STRONG GAME “Tramp” Murphy, at guard, played the strongest game for the winners. wive game and was the big scorer for the insurance squad. He count+ ed nine out of 12 free throws from the foul line and scored two baskets,” For Gleason released ‘The Phoenix men showed a lot of | team work and are a much improved — squad. Time and time again Murphy would get the ball on the Up off from guard formation and on a to one of his forwards the ball ft its mark on a continuous play fi center. Baccke played @ nice game at ward for the winners, chasing it four field goals. Powers was one of the high scor- ers for the losers with five field goals. He dribbled too much and bad a tendency to break up team work, in spite of the fact that scored five field shots. MORIARITY GOES j j | ome “Chuck” “Moriarity played s good game for the Knights at and center, covering the floor well, | Jobnny Logan, center, was again the high scorer for the Knights with © two field goals and seven free throws |for a total of 11 points. Im the other game of the night Soldiers & Sailors won their fin game of the season when they |downed the Rainier Post five, 26 to 13. Jimmy Rice, hn gy so big scorer of the night, wi field goals, The score an the end of the first period Jcount knotted at eight po! but the service men ran a’ | their opponents in the second half. | ‘The Rainier Post five finished last quarter with four men, as Bushnell” injured his eye and had to leave t | The lineup: of ©. | Powers rity | Mooney | ‘The summary: Bubstitutio: | Boring: | Raceke 2, Powers 5. | throws—Murphy 9, Logan 7. hoentx Mutuals credited with | point by referee when Powers was al- [lowed to stay in game after committing: four personal fouls. Referee: Les Turner. 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