The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 3, 1920, Page 12

Seattle Portland Firat base, Murphy, Kallio, Behroeder, , Metbold, @chorr _ Seattle Siwashes to Open in Sacramento; Other Baseball News How Coast League Teams Dope Out Now; Just Why the Thomas Deal? Plenty of Good, Clean-Up Hitters in ~ League; Gardner and Mails to Hurl Seattle Openc Good Lead-off Men in Circuit BY LEO H. LASSEN Batter up! That's the command that will send the army of Coast e baliplayers on the 1920 race for the flag Tuesday. | e one day’s bill finds attle playing Sacramento; Vernon at San Francisco; Oakland at Los Angeles and Port- land in Salt Lake Cit) The first tilts in the Coast league will pry the lid off of | the baseball season in the country as the Coast cireuit is | the first league in the United) “errr SEATTLE LINEUP FOR 3! FIRST GO OF SEASON Here's how Seattle team prob- ably will ine up for the opening 2 Coast league with Sacramento } Tuesday Kopp, left field. Cunningham, center feld. Bohne, third base. Wolter, right feld. the Seattle team? ee! ’ and Vernon class the reat, of the teams? T Masd @ hundred other questions Popping out of the fans’ dope ) Be the opening gun of the year ‘ to be sounded " pg opening in Sacramento. f forces will stop over is are box is the at Galt Lake for a series of games |} and then open here April 20 with|} Murphy, first base, the San Francisco Seals, By that ) Kenworthy, second base. time — will know just how good |} Hartford, shortstop. the locals are jj Adams, catcher. ‘The teams are more evenly bal-|) Gardner, pitcher. anced this season with Seattle hav- ne schimameritis dled most improved team in the | gone right now as it is to walk Portiand, weak last year, | oo ater | ie ee far from being a first-p ‘ WHO WILL PrTcH | popes. 2 rest of the teams are more) Ones? } they of form new ‘evenly matched than how it but it looks like Harry Gardner, the big righthander, will do more or less guesswork, on of Meusel, Plenty Loss of Houck, Finneran . may hurt. Fine/ Edington and fs mainstay of with Mitchell at short and at second being stellar per- hitting third and mound duty for the locals in | the first tilt, opposing Chatty | Walter Mails, Sacramento south. | paw. Kallio is almost a cinch | to start for Portland, if he is in | condition, with Baum or Cullop for Salt Lake. Dell, Vernon; Seaton, San Francisco; Crandall, Los Angeles; Ariett or Kramer, Oakland, is the way the dope should run for the other teams on opening day. menses } ANGELES — Best pitching im the league, with lots of| hitting power in Crawford, Griggs. (Crandall, Bassier and Lapan. Team any too fast. Poor infield.| CLEAN-UP HITTERS at first base is only class FOR SEASON Man signed. Crandall may do} Another bit of interesting dope mecond, and Niehoff will be all/is the line-up of the clean-up hit if his legs are O. K. If McCau-|ters on the Coast league squads | Jey, shortstop, signs, he will bolster| ‘The fourth sticker is always the defense. |bay with the big wallop, at least SALT LAKE CITY—tTeam needs | it's according to Hoyle to have! ) pitchers. Gould and Leverenz count-|the baby who knocks in the runs 4 a8 mainstays are in poor can-|bat in the fourth place in the line ‘dition as race starts, according to | up. reports from Beeville Wolters, Seattle; Sheeler: SAN FRANCISCO—Good Lake; Schaller, Portland; | Salt Eldred, | infield, “peeds hard-hitting gardner and/ Sacramento; Guisto or Miller, Ouk Right-handers are | land; Koerner, San Francisco; Bor good, Seaton and Scott ranking with ton, Vernan, and Crawford, Los ‘Dest in league. Fitzgerald only real| Angeles, is the way they Mneup .200 hitter on team. | now. @AKLAND—Fair pitching: needs | another catcher; good outfield; In LEAD-OFF MEN field is questionable. Knight may | LINEUP A good lead-off man is a big help to a team and means a lot of runs. There is a host of good lead-off men in the Coast cireult, each team having a» good man for the job. Seattle has Kopp, who is a good run getter, Glance over the rest of this list, where plenty of class do at shortstop, but isn’t any too| fast, Guisto at first is one of the| best men in the league. Wille, | Miller and Lane form good ov a | ‘trio. Need, catcher, to repla a | lott, who is with Brooklyn. | SACRAMENTO — Need pitchers | and third baseman. Stumph is too weak « hitter for third. Malls and| t004 | ates: Prough onty real hurlers. Good/ radi outfield and fair inf! Loss of Biue, Portland; Fitzgerald, | Pinelli, third, and Piercy, piteher,| San Francisco; Mitchell, Ver | hurt team’s chances. non; Killefer, Los Angeles; Mag- ake; MeGaffigan, PORTLAND — Need pitchers and fgecond baseman Kallio should re Place Oldham on the slab, but reet of staff doesn’t look any too good. ‘aceording to pre-season dope. Beav ers are waiting for either Siglin or Ellison from Tigers to fill second base. Kingdon slated for short stop is “young «apd inexperienced but may develop. SEATTLE — Most improved team and Lane, Oakland, bunch were right All of this up among the leaders in run- scorers last year, with the ex- | | ception of Kopp, who is | only new leadoff man in the the HOW ABOUT THOMAS DEAL in league. Fair pitching, plenty| Unless Seattle lands a good player of speed and well balanced team.|!n exchange for Claude Thomas, | Good hitter in Wolters. Could use| *tar pitcher of the local club last year, it looks like the Seattle club) was the catspaw for the St. Louis Nationals, Thomas was traded to | | St. Louis for Horstman, a right hander, with the promise of a real pitcher later. Thomas in turn was turned over to Los Angeles in tho deal that sent Jack Fournier to the ood southpaw ‘This is just a rough outline of how the teams stack up now, What players do in training camps and what they do on the ball field ‘after the season starts is different and it's about as easy to juggle the pitcher. Gfle Cards. Thomas is one of the best cas ads hurlers in the league and for him Seattle, #0 far, has obtained the 5 goodwill of the Cardinals and per [haps some coin. In these days | when good pitchers are about as EGGS— scarce as Old Crow liquor, the ae | Thomas deal doesn't speak wel for | Sumed in large numbers | the local club, at least not at the tomorrow, not only at the present writing. Seattle has been fable; bet ikewlse an pretty successful in lining up new talent this year, but we still think it was a haneheaded move to let stream and lake. Speaking of eggs, our tackle depart SPORTS GOODS STORE ment ts featuring every Tommy get away. kind of salmon exgn that - will really eatch fish. Braves Want Indian Our stock includes only COLUMBUS, Georgia, April the, frosty pack that as There is one pitcher in the big sures satisfaction when leagues this year that President out on the trip. irant of the Boston Braves would itike to have on his own t mn man {4 Tim Murchison of the ¢ land Indians. Grant says he wanted Murchison, but Stallings, after hear. ing from scouts, refused to give the big Three-I leaguer the 0. K. MILLER. COAC WI BROOKL’ YN JACKSONVIL Via.—Otto Miller has been appointed coach of the Brooklyn team by Manager Robinson, succeeding Jack Coombs, who ts do- ing the same dnty for the Detroit Tigers. The Robins break camp to- morrow and start North. KAUFF BUSTS UP GAME NASHVILA ny Kauff, Gt That ove een | | TRUSS TORTURE Can be eoaneee. 7 wean $s) Landberi ptr outfielder, broke up the ware w gy tres tral to prove {tw superiors |"2",outfielder, troke Eien: yeswroie san the Giants beat the Red sos, 4. LUNDBERG Co. Frank Frisch, the New York youngster, A101 Third Ave, How Coast League Regulars Will Lineup for Starting Gong of 1920 |hooks into Louis | Hulen‘s last night }in the tourney as the men | with the use of Sacramento Wa, firet bese Ih fata Viteher= Maile, Prough, Larkta, RARARARAAAAS THE SEATTLE STAR--SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1920, Salt Lake City fheety, fir Krug Banda, third b rient etd. Tumier Jenking, eaten Hyler, catehor Cullop, ¢ OH GOLLIES: I dust GoTTA FIND OUT Prohibition May Kee Young Fellow This la HOLLINGS rom Winning! Jould, Leverena, Prohibition is the only thing that'll keep Hollings from establishing a new record for himself with the Oaks this year. enough alcohol to yay the sensation of the He says he’s having considerable his finger in condition, ague last year, and was one of the trouble finding Holly was very few pitchers to finish the season with a higher av- lerage than his club. We, the city baseball league. Telephone..... as -- (Team Name) baseball team, hereby apply for franchise in The Star uJ Baseball Application ‘| . .Manager. Does your baseball team want to play league ball this summer? Well, if your diamond squad wants to be sure of a game every Sunday and wants to play for the city championship, have your manager fill out the application blank found elsewhere on this page and send it in to the sporting editor of The Star now. And then see that your team is represented at the next meeting of the league, April 12. 2 gether now. Piaying fast jards at the close of the game, Elmer Larson sunk the Teepe in the only billed in The at Brown & The final count th match meet e-cushion ‘a angle was 25 to 17 with Larson on the long nd of the score, He ran out in 48 innings. The score was even until Larson made a run of four and fol lowed it the next innings with a run of five. The next games in the tourney will be played Monday night when | the men who have not competed yet Some fast competition Is promised are very enly matched, Jim Davis, veteran star, has dropped out, town soon SIBLEY FAST G. Chase Sibley, Northwestern three- cushion champion, is playing mighty fine game these 4 He tn averaging a little worse than 1 per PLAY inning. He will go into competition with Champion Bob Cannefax and Charley McCourt at Pope-Sibley's parlors in a short time SUTTON IS REAL WONDER George Sutton, the billiard star who performed at Brown & Hulen's during the past week is one of the marvels of the billiard warld. both arma cut off just below the elbow Sutton plays a wonderful game of be ue and bridge. He didn't have much trouble beating ‘Tommy Gore, local star, who shoots well himeelf. Albany Buys Team ALBANY, N. Y., April. — The franchise of the Providence (R. rnold to The » hall magnates at Albany |loop are Pittsfield, Springfield, center, Hartford, New Haven, Water. bury and Bridgeport. as he leaves | al | | With | Kline and three cushions | on of the league will open| which ]on April 28. ‘The other teams on the| Wichita (Kan. fans last year to be held at Play begi The Star Rules have been adopted and can be obtained at The Star office after Monday. ins on May according to present plans, so get your bunch to- Star’s Thwee-Cushion Tourney Under Way at Brown & ‘Hulen’ 8 "HOW PLAYERS. STAND * IN STAR { CUE MEET RR ee > my ea ac ler the pri Tert McCann was o Firondway's tball athletic association me at. achool. High school baseball Friday when Queen A way, Li plays Seattle plays Ballard ten: ave Nek r. Moody, atar liminary track training Iowa, Franklin and ¥ Avengood, bankethatl « tennis high ler wily ng vacation, lncted captain of eam at @ recont eting at the neanon opens next nne meets F man s feet 7 Inches ¥ got his pre a high school in | Likes Job saad Fob PADUCAH, Kentucky, 1)| Withoit, club in the Hastern league has been|Mud Hens at training w Puda the diamond-studded was given ting in ¢ nseoutive » April.—Joe ith the edo cah, is wearing gold watch fob him by the when Wor.|he broke the world's record for hit games when he rang the bell with 69, of) Oakland firet awa 1 hase, left £ Kramer, Moll OCULDST TELL TE WHAT 4@ CAVE TAN ARE? Star League | Lines Up 17 Ball Squads |More Teams Expected to Enter During Week; Sea- son Starts May 2 ‘No Out-of-Town Entries Will Be Considered Now Several applica “2 na have been received from outoftown teama for The Btar league, but with the large number of city teama al teady entered and the big bunch | of teame expected enter during the coming week, it in not advis able for the league te {oftown teams now. The ¢ \$ play the ma jc Of ite games in Seattle and in ar | excep » this rule A Puget |) Sound series may be arranged lat er, but it ia not advisable to plan for it yet. Games wil) be I up |{ for outoftown tama thru The Star by requen 1 giana ae ” | Beventeen baseball teama have en tered The Star's « lengue to date | Louie's French Dry Cleaners, Seattle Chain Co, Mt, Baker Park, Green Lake, Porter's Baking Ca, City Cubs, Shamrox Athietic Club. Play in The Star league begins May 2. Another league meeting will jbe held at The Star office, April 12 to discuna schedule arrangements The ledgue will be divided into two letreuits, junior and senior with age limit for the juniors being | years. No player ov js the junior lragt Managers should be |their men now because jistration lists of players munt |turned tn ta the sporting editor of | The Star during the week this month, Any team may 15 players, including « manager. The Star league plans to run al the winner of crowned cham lant ter r be If you want you team sure of a game ever day # Jup with The Star circult now. There jare no charges to enter the league Each team furnish {ts own equipment © games will be layed on Saturdays and Sundays jon the playfields c Team | planning league should | he mure have © represent ative at the next meeting of the league, which President “Wild I McKinley has called for April 12 SEATTLE TRAP MEN TO HOLD REGULAR MEET Seattle trapshootera will hold |regular Sunday shoot tomor a the Fort Lawton traps. About 25 or | the 2 r 21 may play lining up rem! be | regix aying | t 30 gunners are expected to be on the job, ag usual The Seattle Gun club plans to ho its formal opening the last Sund: in the month, according to the ent dope The next ble trap event ia the state shoot billed for Tacoma the first week in May. The cream of the state trapshots will take part in this | event Wares’ Gang Wins STAR NET MEET SOON ing made in hit hard I . but was accorded per. foct support by hin teammates. 1 prew From Californians OAKLAND, April 3.—Senttle' Coast league club walloped the Unt versity of California, 7 to 0, yester day, Gardner and Geary were on the hill for the leaguers, holding the col: | Jlegians to eight hits and no runs, S Jattle collected only nine hits off the |collogé twirlera, but they were more | timely With a host of mean racqu be jing tossed thru the air these days. tennis is gé@tting under way with a ban The uttle § bille r June, at Woodland park, | promises to be the feature of the net season Star for fyrther announcements of “the event SOX RUN WILD HOUSTON, Texan. The White Box ana! @ lornl club today rubbed sore jolts Hit of yesterday's hippodrome. in the AAA recent Pat PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP San Francisco Vernon or, firet base. Dorton, firet baw. - “ Chest “center field Agnew, o6 Ba Long on, right field. AAR AR APRA PDD PDP PPP D RPP PDP PPD PDP PPP PPP DPD APP PPP PPP PP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPL PPP PP PPP PPPAPPRPAP PAPAL AAPA King Baseball Ascends Throne on Coast Next Week Diamond Campaign Tuesday} Los Angeles I COULDST P| \F LT WoutpsT: WELL HURRY YP | 4 CAVE Tt AN’ \OULDST! THAT HIDE: ALL Ni@rT! gi Bobby Harper Wins Call Over Joe Mandot at Elks’ Cluk a4. J. Brown will captain the Eartington Golf and Country clab team this seuss so the Black river gang is now all fixed up, because the question “who will we get for captain?” has been worrying the trustees for several week The new captain ts an enthusiastic and good golfer and his selection is a very popular one, Mrs. Frances M. Kellar will captain the ladies’ team. The following commitices were also appointed by the trustee board at last Monday's meeting: ireens Committee—C. A. Dean, chairman; E. J. Brown, T. F. Ryan, Woods, J. ©. Reifenider. committes—T 4. Brown, A. Schoenfeld. Albert staged by the Jefferson Park Golf club last Sumday, when his last stroke car. ried to within a few inches of the home hole on the Beacon Hill Schoephoester won the Tombstone tourney, course. The second prize was won by Charles Speirs, who finished five y behind the winner. Harry Hjert and Jamie Chrystal “died” next in order named, their “tombstones” being found on the 18th fair green. Thirty players took part in the competition. Capt. Bon Stein will probably put on a similar event before the season closes, Another big bunch of teams are ex Saeneh ve tae Aoprcntion nike thks Good golf and close results featured this week's matches in fl vtcre are the teama entered in| “DOM ball and aggregate” competition at the Seattle Golf club PE iy ing A Paros gah | course, The semifinals will be played this week, when K. Fisher vr Star Image to Gate itiama,| and W. KE. MeMicken oppose S. L. Russell and BR. E, Campbell in Cee ee ey montis, the upper end ef the draw. R. Gillespie and Ed. J. Brown (grouped Merchants, Shaner & Wolff, New| If the lower end) will meet the winner of today’s match between Svolem. ai, Wate Wall, Junior, 2 W. Summer and Fred Alexander versus J. 1. Keena and Alex. | Mercer Athletic club, Navy Y¥ Dickenson. Cubs, Artillery Pirigade Camp Lew! “Golf Mustrated. a monthly publication, will give its Seattle subscribers a silver cup to “shoot” for, Fred Fry, assistant pro fessional at Beacon Hill and agent for the magazine, received the trophy yesterday and expects to get the competition started about April 17. Match play, with full handicap allowance, will be the order of play, and Fred says that according to present “business” he will have over 60 names on the list when the draw is made. The competition will be handled by the Jefferson Park Golf club. The regular monthly medal competition will be on tap for the Seattle Golf club members today, Full handicap will be allowed in this event of 18 holes in which the “putt out”-“putt in” system is played. A 14man team from the North End club will travel to Belling- | ham next Seturday to engage Scotch confetti throwers of that city in a 36-hole match. H. B. Perine will captain the Seattle club squad The feature event—the Blethen Kelectic—of the Seattle Golf club's competitions, started Inst Thursday, and the Northenders will have four months to “shoot” at it, as the closing date is set for July 31. Dixie”) Fleager carried off the handsome prize last year, in fact, “Dixie helped himself to most everything that was put up for competition in the club's 1919 season. An interesting 36-hole match was played at the Seattle club course last Sunday, when “Dixie” Fleager and Bon Stein beat Bob Johnstone and Jack Ballinger by two up. Paul Johns, the Tacoma Country club captain, and several other stickers from the City of Destiny, plaved over the Earlington course last Sunday. They “invited” Gene Hatton into the game, but the baberdasher had other engagements, Gene knows these broth- @ra (7). The “outward nine” at the Tacoma Country club course will be closed for several months as an effort is being made to make grass grow on the fairways. A lot of work and dollers have already been spent in trying to make these fairways look like a golf course in- stead of a desert. The putting greens are al 'S green and velvety— oasistike. ‘ jin the Py ron dis that num Index lakes, BY EARL A. PRY Alibis have been falling ms fast as per & Taft fishing contest. Lar | t | the snow drops during the past two | | entoh vt-throat trout ing taken from the dings, or since. the pening of the sing Ith the fellows whe ~ bE) ry among Sg "cold feet, Mra. R. F. West of 1 W. Walnut at., was one of yesterday's contenders for Piper & Taft's opening season Mra. West dit is which gave he Tul district weighed 2% home on account of th any fish, the openii x nice catches registered ty aitter pounds. | | ying | | | rts from the hilis state that the down fairly deep and the eam Rport is not so Lake fishing will rs best bet over the week Rep angle feaine | D.C. Bryant te showing a 6%-pound |trout. ‘The bass fishermen surprived | ang pane. For the bert display of trout thommelven with catches tise early in the /S°S Tore Toatharcbound ‘eemeet will be season which, considering the weather | civen For the best display of bass a fine ma, was somowhat remarkable, Heddon casting rod will be given. The ® Tis Cup That Cheers ‘Tilden Takes, {| PASADENA, om, April — i valry among the Coast baseball clubs Tennis Title! to win the Wrigley trophy cup, whieh __a | is being offered by the owner of the Wnited | Chicago Cubs to the team that gives the Cubs the best battle, is keener YORK, “April, William T, Tilden I1., Provi-| R. 1, became the national in-|than @ series for real money. The r tennis champton here today, | CUP Is only worth $250, too, and there when he defeated Vincent Richards, |!8 Hothing to put in it but water, 17, New York, the ch: Tilden won in thre mpion of 1919. » sets, by scores NIC SCHOOL | OPED AGAIN of 10-8, 6-3, 6-1, BOSTON, Mass., April. — The O-—Manager Mitchell Melrose Y. M, C, A. is trying out a af cee Cee roomy wearecen Waster J MALL DEPARTMENT new experiment in Boston, It has the playing prowess of his athieton, who] There are letters on the sporting opened a night schoo! in golf with | yesterday were again defeated by the lol editor's desk for Joe Farrell, Seattle | Donald Vinton in charge. The ind cal Count league chib, 2 to 1. Jim Boot | fund held the Cubs to two bi Tier White Hox star, turned the trick | BOXer, and for Ralph Douglas, of the| course ts well lighted and proving| itm Veterans’ Athletic associatinn successful, “HAN 15 A GOY CELLAR Fron His WIFE, AFTER BEING OUT 3 IN THE : Pa: Seattle Boy Uses Left Other Bouts Small Crowd Sees Smoker: at Antlered Herd Club; Pete Draws Gage 44 BY ALEX C. ROSE | Pobbie Harper received a well earned decision over Joe “the lad who has fought ‘em all,” im) the main event of Elks’ club smoker last night The New Orleans was not in the best of condition, when Harper was not poking with his left he was playing @ t on Jole’s midsection. Both boys started to mix |right from the start and there no let-up until the final gong ed. Mandot looked best in the ling round, being especially clever infighting, but Harper straight-le his way to the front in the round and held the advantage till t finish, altho Mandot tried hard land a K. O. on the shifty boy in the closing session. Only four bouts were on the gram, but there was plenty of in every one of them and Nate Druxinman's bill of fare have received better attention, only small crowd being present. The ¢ was advertised for Elks’ only. Mike Pete, subbing for Jones, who broke his arm while t jing, and “Red” Gage put up a fight in the semi-windup, that called a draw, altho the red-h lad seemed to have a decided his long, lean, left landing on By face with telling effect. Keeping clear of “Soldier” Woo wild swings and using right and |jabs that worried the wild |Frenehie Vaise got the verdict four rounds of slam-bang fighting. Harry Bishop and Chris D lopened the show with a lively | the former slamming bis way to verdict. Adolph Schact officiated as and with Dr. Ashton and Bill Sm: as judges rendered the decisions, SMITH TO BOX | FRED FULTON ‘Gunboat” Smith, the ‘ | heavyweight, has finally decided box Fred Fulton, the Minnesota p terer, after all, They meet in a |round go at Milwaukie, Ore, Wi nesday. The “Gunner” is due for) | reat walloping if he isn't any b | than he was when fle boxed | Farmer here, and if Frederick | still stepping at the rate he sho | with Young Hector at the Arena | SCHUMANN VS. ALLIE NACK | Heinie Schumann, the ° lightweight, who has been travelli at rate lately, meets All |N vent New York boy, in the acoma Thursday night Schumann wins, he will be given | bout by Clay Hite here, with Chi White, the Chicago lightweight, | the next Arena show. Lackey Mo jrow and Joe Harrahan, feath weights come together in the sen | windup of the Tacoma program, POOL OPENS APRIL ef One week from tc swimmers will paddle in the t | Pool for the first time. The natatorium plans a big swimm |season, with special stunt mig and plenty of racing and diving petition during the year, The 8 will stake two city meets, the ff jevent being billed for next month. | | HAPPY—HEALTHY YOUNGSTERS Aside from being a great sport the “kids,” riding a bike is the best exercise they can get, You can make the youngster happy with an Indian or Dayton Bioycle, Terms if you want them. for |