The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 13, 1920, Page 16

COURAGE, IT MAY © BE WORSE-| BUT HOW? BY LEO H. LASSEN ‘What a fine pair of ball teams Se | ‘attle can boast of these days. There) ‘was hope that the local club in the Pacific International league would be & relief, but they haven't won a game since the season started, losing their sixth straight start yesterday Spokane trounced them in the open ing game, 17 to 7, and walked off With the mcond melee yesterday — B4to 6. While the Giants were taking their | @aily walloping the Stwashes were ‘taking thelr 10th straight beating Byidently the boys can’t get going. | ‘We've tried to lay off the old ham ‘mer until the team gets strength | ened up a bit. It doesn't do any Food telling ‘om what rotten ball ‘they are playing, the scores speak | themselves. Yesterday's count) San Francisco 3 What's the use? We're going to forget there ts such as a Seattle ball team until| show that they can play ball. way the pair of squads have froing is no longer funny, it's tragedy and a bum ad for the city 8, Seattle Ou Boy" LAST NIGHT PARTEE “E Some PARTY Sone PULL OF The Daily Murder Cheer up, folks, Spokane has scored onty 41 runs in the first two games of the seasen on the Seattle day’s count was 24 to 6, and the first day's score was 17 to 7 { the slaughter are beyond us; the score tells the weird tale, tails International league squad. Vester More de And then down South the Stwashes, Seattle's Coast league squad, bowed before the Seals by an 8 to 3 count, More details than the score are beyond our telling defeat. say that Pitegerald, Seal outfielder, lected seven hits between them, F Nixon, Seattle's cub outfielder, crashed the pill for only sign of life.on the local club, Read it and weep with us Raatt!=— Wares, rb Kopp, i Hohne, ab Murphy, 1B. 5... Wolter, rf, ef)... Kenworthy, rt Martford, mm .... Baldwin, © Breaton, p ee Nixon, rf, ef ... Soot, Totals ie Score by insings Reattie San Francisco Summary bane hit orhan reoer 11 Home run Nixon Fitegerald. Two-base Koerner, Sacrifice } t charge defeat to Hren ~ and Causey viotory te Scott It was their tenth straight Enough to and Koerner, Seal first sacker, col * getting four and Koerner three. @ round trip for the Salt Lake Oty 9 2 Dattarion, Kremer, Winn and Spell man; Stourd and Jenkins LEAGUE Lest. PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL Wor ' 1 n n ES SS Cunningham; n ‘ Morton and th and Cadman Kitiean, Talley an@ Anta app and Patterson, NATIONAL LEAGUE Wen, Leet 16 M4 19 6 PreTeRURG. May tt Mixer and Witherow: Cart Hamilton and Behmidt MICAG Rrooktye-Citeage postponed May ein. ST. LOUIM, May 1 came postponed, rain Destonit Loute AMERICAN LEAGUR Won. Laat Tevetand : pad TWAT HoocH SURE HAD A Ki INIT! fy HEAD PEELS LIke ELECTRIC FAN ———a CLEOPATRA SA ro | | Thornton Martin “IT SURE WAS A TWS PROHIBITION 13 4 FoR WH CADARETS - f SX DRINKS Cost us 4} LARGE EVENING GREAT THING KET BOOK! 4, BUT AS eo NOW FOR HONE AND TH DEAR WFP! ON BOY, ITS GONNA BE SOME ye ait! CA ail TAR PORT MIXED BLOOD IS - REAL SUCCESS OF YANK PROWESS, SAYS JIM THORPE As Told to Dean Snyder * BY JIM THORPE AKRON, O., May 1 | somethin It is « No one has ever given it a American athletes seem fo have on their foreign brothers. combination of strength and speed and dash. nam@® Whatever that certain something is it makes the athletes of this country hit the tape at the finish line a little fof challengers. It skims them It gives them the power to snap the farther on the field, etcetera. over the timbers a bit fa weights out a trifle se Jim Thorpe has it figured out. | His ideas sound like the real goods. And he ought to know something about it. — | For Jim Thorpe, the Carlisle Indian University product, is the best all-round athlete who ever put on a track suit, the greatest individual star, who ever carried a football | down the field, a big league baseball player for six years | —basketball, lacrosse, hockey, a dead shot with the rifle— he exeelled in all of them, “Mixed the answer to America’s in the Olympic | cams | races is he says. is the mixing of trength and put skill on it” Tharpe speaks in a laconic, stoic fashion. There is/a faraway look n hin eyes, Yet he is not the type! | of fellow to me over the past. America’s superman of the grid. iron—greatest athlete of all times jis without doubt the best example of his own analysis of the | was discunsing. ITHORPE HAS MIXED BLOOD | ‘The blood of both the Sac and blood that the edge of subject | emmaernrcaaeats MRE HE) Thorpe Dopes Out Olympic Games ‘The Star is publishing the first on the Olympic games by Thorpe today. The second by the famous Indian ath- one of the greatest stars in the athletic world, will appear to- morrow. in The Star, Thorpe dopes oft how the national teams w finish in the big Antwerp event. Don't miss this yarn. HECTOR MUST FIGHT TO BEAT VET If Young Hector, the big fellow from Bremerton," steps out and bat tles at the Arena tomorrow night he +4 should beat Frank Farmer. In the first Hector, can handle his story place, | the Fox tribes flows in his veins, His father was half Irish and halt Indian—his mother, half French and half Indian. It was eight years ago that the | king of Sweden called Jim to his palace, gave him a bronze bust his own likeness and said: | “Thorpe, you are the greatest Sweet daddy, how he steps over the sticks! 3! He's Thornton Martin, captain of the Broadway high s¢hool track team, who has been ««| negotiating the 220-yard low hurdles in 26 seconds in practice this year. He's out to lower) iS his own state record of 25.3 in the high school track ee which opens Saturday with) "| the Broadway-Lincoln dual meet at the University of Washington. ; id | fait Lake cng i ; | Martin can also make pretty good time in the high hurdle. He has done the high sticks | vomaee i : eae rons Sy 38 * lin 16.1 this year, which is as fast as any Coast college performer has done this year. He peng od » i fl) runs the century dagh in 10:1. : E featle' te, yun, Thoraahion ‘hacker |. Jf he shows enough speed in the city prep meets, he plans to enter the Northwest Olympic} | trials at Portland, June 12. 2 Fleeing: Martin is 18 years old, and gradpates from Broadway in June. He plans to enter the) inion = | University of Pennsylvania, famous for its track teams, nert fall. ‘ i hands better than Farmer can, hag: | the advantage in reach gpd weight and hits harder. The trouble with Hector when he |fou@ht Farmer in Tacoma @ short time ago, when Farmer won the | dict, wax that Hector didn’t enough. He let Farmer beat hifi (0 athlete the world has ever, |the punch, and then Frank would ." | grab him for dear life “1 Just won both the pen-| When Hector knocked Frank om and the dec-|his ear at the Crystal Pool here & at the 1912) few months ago he stepped out andy an accom-| let his right go for the chin and San Franctseo . the chunky re of the Oaks last year, is evi attending to business in lyn this year, as he is making with a bang with the Dodgers. it im @ good cateber, but he Jim b At SACRAMENTO. | Vernon Sacramento teries events) events) Stockholm, PHILADELPHIA, May 12.- n H Hmaliwood and Devormer, Loate ‘ ners ‘@idn’t take any too good care of him Self in this league last year. He's doing most of the backstopping for 1 “Bis club this season. HOLLING AND PERTICA GO STRONG Babe Holling, the Oakland hurting ace, and Bill Pertica, the big righthander of the Los An- geles club, have been twirling some neat baseball since the start of the season, and if they show that kind of class they will be major leaguers next year sure. won seven straight games before losing a start this @ year. Pertica hasn't lost a game since the opening cun of the sea- som, and has credit for about six victories in succession. AL GOULD WI BE DY SOON / Al Gould, the star righthander of the Salt Lake Bees, will soon be Ready for regular mound work for the Utah club. He has been out of the game since the start of the sea on With some sort of injury or other that has kept him out of the lineup. He was a mighty effective hurler Jast year, and threw a mean «pitbal! Gould wili win a jot of eames for the Bees if he gets going right. j Aleoek; Penner and Cook. AT 1 ELES " 5 3 10 Juney and Koehler 2 AT SALT Dak land LAKE Rogers’ Early After Bat Championship The only Rogers tional tng that Hornsby league batting champion the past two, years was his slow starts ¥ had trouble getting his batting eye on the ball in the spring games. This year it is different. He was the first of the Cards to report, and has been inging the ball at a 451 clip. of the Reds is coming has the kept m Na sb Rig Joe Guyon, the husky Indian who starred on the gridiron for the Georgia also & pretty fair baseball tosser. He's ‘ fechocker, Rurwe Higbee and " aod Sew reine. an ROWTON, May 13 ey and Keohane PREP BAI SQUADS T PLAY FRIDAY West Seattle, Broadway and Lin. coln, the three leaders in the high school diamond race. all meet second division teams in the games billed {for Friday | West Stattle tangles with Frank lin at Columbia playfield, Unieas the dope is given an awful jolt the In dians should win padway should have so trouble oping Queen Anne when they at Mercer field And Lincoln should come off with s win over Ballard when they tackle the Shingleweavers in Ballard. If the leaders all win the narrows down to three teams Lin coln plays Broadway at Woodland park Tuesday and a win for the Green Lake boys will eliminate Broadway and the Lincoln-West Se atte game on a week from Friday will decide the title, If Broadway | beats Lincoln and Lincoln wallaps | Went Seattle there will be a triple | tie for the title. | wai meet race | OUT PROSPECTS | Washington's present frosh clans | playing in the outfield for the Atianta | Promises to turn out some good ath . FRIDAY NIGHT— Is the Arena “smoker” at which time our old friends “Young Hector” and Frank Farmer come together. Outside of being the fea ture bout of the evening. the fons will see several more interesting matches that will surely be worth ‘ the money. Yes, we have tickets for sale. Piper a Toft Incf} SECOND AVE, © Routhern league and is doing Tommy Lukanovi hurled for the Patt the local wan given « Const cireutt, of ball for the ern cireutt. 6 kid piteher who son-MeDonald team shipyard league and who trial by Portland tn the in twirling & nloe brand obile elnb in the South He lost a tough game to Bir her day by 2-to 2 is second im a ° the league Memphia leading the cir-| Jack Farmer, who played in the league outfield for several seasons, is collecting his bane Dlows for the shville club in the same league. Me's batting clean-up nod is one of the leading hitters in the early average given a trial by Seattle tn league Inat year and later shipped to the Western Canada league by Hill Clymer, in! row with the ern league, Gibson made much a good showing in the Western Canada cireuit just year that he was given @ trial with Connie Mack's Philly Athi thin spring, but he evidently needed more seasoning Joplin club in the Weat -NO SLACKERS NEW YORK.—In order to get full support for the Walker boxing bill the International Sporting club prom ised that no war-time slacker ever would be allowed to box in New York state. DOBIE. AY WORK ITHACA, N. ¥.—Spring football practice has begun at Cornell univer- sity. Training will include everything except actual scrimmage, Like Moak ley, Courtney and Henry, Coach Gil letes for varsity teams next fall. } Young Hurley, a sprinter, and Hatha |way, a 440-yard dash man, are show jing great form in track | Harper, a husky halfback, and Bry- ain and Pittlekau, Mnesmen, should |make a good fight for varsity grid | berths. | Lewis, who played a sterling game at forward, will make a strong bid jfor a berth on the varsity basketball TACOMA BILLS LAST SMOKER When Frank Farmer and ‘Tiny Koch meet in a six-round go in Ta oma next Thursday it will mark the close of the Tacoma ring season for the year. There will be no smokers in the up-Sound elty until next Sep tember after Thursday's event. The | big fellows fought a 10-round draw in Portland recently and Tacoma | fans are anxious to sed the two big home-town fellows in action. | BARNYARD GOLFERS AKRON, Ohio—The Buckeye Horseshoe Pitehers’ asnociation in getting ready to drive the stakes for a national tournament to be held here the week of August 8 Over 200 barnyard golfers will compete, BOXING CURES INSANE PUEBLO, Colo.—James Tillman, director of the Colorado State Hos. pital for the Insane, has conclusively proven that boxing will cure certain forms of insanity. Six of Tillman's patients have shown marked mental improvement since taking up boxing, Coast Oval Marks Expe Babe Ruth Hits Another Homer Crashes Three Circuit Swats in-Two Days It Is His Fifth This Year No fooling, this bird “Babe” Ruth has surely started with his big black bat. The New York ®ankee outfielder crashed another for four bases yesterday in the game with the Chicago White Sox, making it |] three home runs in two days. He now has five for the season and is || going strong. It looked at the start of the season that Kuth was going to be the prize fizale of the year, but the big boy is evidently “there’ and has “arrived.” Watch out for the Yanks from now on in the American league race. | STAR LEAGUE PILOTS, | ATTENTION! | Star league managers, attention! | te your team playing on your home grounds this Sunday? If that's the cane be sure and obtain the grounds | ltor play from the groundkeeper and let the sporting editor of The Star \now what time the grounds are to! lbe had. ‘The schedule for Sunday | ltollows, with the home team being | | named last nT | | Howard Allen, AlL-City high schoot outfielder last year, an a member of the Broadway prep team, is playing | « baneup came of ball for the Tailored Ready squad. He's an in fleider, and is hitting the ball right on the nos. Star league ta ailered Ready va. Alki Janiors, at | 1 Hiawatha fieid. Georgetown Merchants vs. Felix club, ‘st Walla Walla field. ' | Heath Seattle Merchants vs. Sham- | che game the Interbay rock Athletic club, at Woodland | juniors at Woodland park Sunday ‘The Interbay team, by the way, is | at W. and Grand bivd., Friday nik Admission will he 75 conta per couple, The money raised in to be used for paying the expeames of | the team. ay Juniors vs. Royal Arcanum, park. Mitaghta Jantore, at Columbte fold, Mt, Haker Juniors vs. City Cubs, at Wale "will Jeniore vs Cotemble Slickers, at Columbia fietd. | The lists of the games with the) ltime of play will be publihed in Sat | urday’s iasue. | | Managers should not forget to in-! form the sporting editor of The Star about changes in registration. Any team playing unregistered players forfeit all the games said players | take part in, #0 this rule must be ob- | served. | inisieietleatinantalieh TWO OF A KIND NEW YORK.—The ‘Cann brothers of this city are Olympic candids Ted holds both swimming and track records, Howard is an all-round track man, excelling especially with the weights. ‘The Madison Park Juniors are looking for backing. Any con house that wants m fast ball represent them on the fleld th ot in touch with Manager ing Kast 7062, ett | rolal Two undefeated teama Walla Walla field Sunday when the Felix club and Georgetown Merchants Ket together, The game in wet for 2p m. on grounds No, 2. | clash at he Sonth Seattle Merchants da big pitcher to thelr by |the name of Louis Abraham, Manager Komman expects to use him in the game | against the Shamrock Athletic club at Woodiand park sunday MAKES FAST TIME LOS ANGELES, May 13.—Miss Ethelda Bleibtry of New York won the 60-yard swimming event for women at the Los Angeles Athletic Jelub last night in 291.5 coming within one-fifth of of the world’s record—annexing the | title of champion woman swimmer of the United States for the 60-yard course, ‘Thelma Los Angeles Athletic club, was ond; Francesco Wells-Sghroth, San Francisco, third, and CHfrlotte Boyle of New York, fourth, GOES TO FARM PRINCE ALBERT, Canada—Tom | Longboat, former star distance run. ner, has applied for a soldier's set Uement land grant. have | DE PALMA, U. S. A. BROOKLYN.—Ralph de Palma, spaghett! speed king, has made final application for his citizenship papers | here. The noted automobile race driver says he is glad to adopt the country which made hirh famous and wealthy. onda second LEAGUE OF NATION WASHINGTON.—Thoe United States government will have one league, anyway, It will be a league of nation—not the one President Wil son is still trying to break across the inside corner. Teams are made up from the departments at Washing. ton, Sixty games will be played. cted to Fal ‘GOLDEN BEAR TEAM SHOULD WIN MEET Records are expected to fall Sat when the eream of the Coast track men compete in the annual Pa cific coast conference meet at Palo Alto. California, Stanford, A. C., Washington and W. 8. C. wif! enter teams California is favored to win the meet on the advance dope with Stanford a close second and the others trailing. ‘The posmibie record breakers are Kirksey, of Stanford, in the dashes Sprott, of California, in the half mile; Smith, of W . in the two. mile event; Jenne, of W. S.C. in the pole vault; Pope, of Washing. ton, in the discus Kirksey has been showing wonder ful form in the dashes, century in 94-5 in practice, Foster, of Oregon, should give him a close rub as should Eckmann, of Washing ton. Jenne has been pole vaulting over 12 feet In practice and he expects to bring home a new mark in this event Pope now holds the record of 140 feet, 11 inches in may better this heave. Washington's team, ured to finish about third is made up of Captain Dailey and Eckmann in the sprints; Pratt and Perkins in the quarter mile; Douglas in half mile; Taylor in the two-mile; Goodner in the broad jump and pole vault; Beall in the half mile and mile; Pope in the weights; Frank jand in the high hurdles and high mp. The Washington team meets the Pullman squad in Pullman one week from Saturday in the last meet o' the 1920 season, AFTER BECKETT MINNEAPOLIS.—Tommy Gibbons" main id meet a la Carpentier Carpentier urda Oregon, ©. which is fig: Beckett and put him away And then he wants running the} the discus and | the | n sailing for London is to! athlete had ever | pli c Jearned a czar of Russia presented’ the Indian with the prize Viking ship miniature. The A. A. U. showered | him with costly medals The world recognized him as the super-man of! jall ages It has been nearly elght years since Thorpe gave back his | rich trophy lore. | HOW HE Lost | | TROPHIES | A few months after his world triumpp his amateur standing It was found he | a-week job as a | ball player in a North Carolina | bush league prior to the Olym. | piad. It put the skids under his prizes and medals. It erased his | tfame from America’s victory. | But it did not and can never | take from his those wonder rec- | ords which are still his, Many believe that Thorpe's case was one in which he was more sinned against than sinning. All that doesn’t matter now. | “I gave back all the medals,” he |eaid, “but they can’t take away my | records." He did not speak with regret jhas a strong mind as well strong body. His strength chief delight. CAN'T UNDERSTAND “AMATEURISM” The word amateurism is still a | thing he cannot understand as it is | interpreted by the A. A. U. I do not think anyone is strictly n amateur athlete, tho, unless he! pays his own expenses—every titem, railway fare, meals, hotel bills, | everything—while he is competing.” ‘Thorpe is 33 years old now. He hasn't been inside a track suit | since his world triumph. But the Indian is still the athlete. He hasn't changed. Looking after his oil lands near | Yale, Okla, raising a family and |playing professional baseball and football keep him young and busy | i* nough. EXTEND RACE MEET SAN DINGO, Cal., May 12.—James | Coffroth announced today that the| Tia Juana race meet will be extended | o May 31, This is an extension of j eight days o the original 100-day | | meeting. The winter meeting will | start next Thanksgiving f' He as a is his Including Medicines Don't wait until you mast call money. a doctor! Save his time and your Go to him at first warning. DR. WHITEAKER’S DISPENSARY 906 THIRD AVE, NEAR MARION ST. how v | Shade ea Farmer flopped, but the Tacoman draw when Hector didn’t] yw up his gdvantage The bout should decide for once F and for all the supremacy, and Hee tor shold win—if he fights! Four other bouts complete the card. fo! Na . “GOLDEN BEARS WIN BALL TITLE BERKELEY, Cal, May 13.—Wal- loping Washington for the second straight time the University of Cali. 4 ornia baselffi squad cinched the Youst diamond title here yesterday. The Golden Bears outclassed Wash- on yesterday, running up a count of 10 to 3.on the ortherners, bunch- ing hits with some ragged playing on the part of the visitors. Williams, of Washington and F . of Califor. nia, walloped homers during the mill, The scare R. H. BE. hington -3 6 8 California 0 9 0 Batteries—Rode, Foran and Land; Shepherd and Toomey, RIDLEY ‘ DRAWS JIMMY DUNDEE OAKLAND, May 13.—Bud Ridley and Jimmy Dundee fought four rounds to a draw here in the main / event last night, Ridley had a shade | in the first two rounds and the last two were Dundee’s by a slight sin® The draw decision was well’ celved by the crowd. Frankie Burns ‘left-handed his way ta a victory over Joe Miller, George ily whipped Frankie Denny. OLYMPIA WINS NINE OLYMPIA, May 13.—Nine straight wins! That's the record of the Olym- ple High school diamond squad. They won their ninth melee yesterday, tak- ing the Puyallup High school tossers into camp by a score of 2 to 1. Rey-* nolds of Olympia and Clen@nt of Puyallup hooked ‘up ina pretty piteh- ing duel. Olympia bunched their bite for their pair of rupa, CanadianPacific “THE TRANS-CANADA LIMITED” Resumed Sunday, 3:00 p ® To Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. “Princess” Steamships. 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