The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1920, Page 12

ea THE WHAT IS SECRET OF GREAT HITTING IN BASEBALL NOW? BY DEAN SNYDER ‘We have reached the giddy stage in baseball. The scoreboard is no longer just a part of the American people, but it is a good 50 per Tt cloaks the emotions of a : try of 105,000,000 people “a a vapor mist. Where are we? Who Opinions differ quite as much as causes of our new love for the i this year as they did as to started the World war, Bs y Clubs are - drawing world series in mid-season, There ts talk Dullding bigger parks. The mag: are making more money than ever dreamed could pour thru @ box office, What's the answer? ic Bome believe the great wave of en- shown baseball is partially to a reaction from the tense days the war. The staid folk of pre days have learned to be emo and they now seek the ball 5 world loves a slugger, this happens to be the Ht i i a3 iF ij H ei g g3e383¢ i 3 cit siz Se 2 4 nse gs ! i i e 8 il il fast they haven't a chance to grab 1" he says. iG great hitting in the a — league is due to small, cracker- ball parks and not to live balls, ‘@ccording to Dick Hobiitzel of the Akron club, * Wild Bill Donovan lays the slug: wave to poor pitching. “Pitch: ‘@rs don’t get in condition as in for- years,” he says. “Pitchers have making freak deliveries take the place of good physical condition brains. With the ban on trick Balls some of them can't find their ‘way back to the first principles of with the result that batters @re getting the big advantage.” “UNSOILED” WHITE BALL Steve O'Neill, the great catcher of fhe Indians, advances one of the best @nswerp to the new problem. Steve gays that it is the “unsoiled” white ball that gives a batttr a chance to gee it come spinning toward the plate. Umpires throw out a ball as @oon as it js scuffed the slightest Dit, thus keeping a new bdlll in play practically ali the time, A ball doesn't -Femain in the game long enough to ‘lose its elastic qualities or to become Giscolored. Both leagues are using twice as Many balls this year as last, It’s| expensive, but the umpires are pur suing instructions to keep the pitch- @rs from taking advantage of the surface on the cover to threw is ike a shiner, ft, then, the livelier ball that ts @iusing all the fuse in hitting? It is possible, yet who will say that there are not @ score or more of Other reasons just as logical. GETS REWARD COLAIMBUS, Aug. 12,—George Me- Quillan, veteran pitcher of the Hena- ‘ors, war given his release by Mane- ger Tinker at his own request so he /eould accept a job as manager of the Rock Island club. IT DID NO GOOD ®T. LOUIS, Aug. 12.—Despite the fact that groundkeepers erected new _ green blinds on the outfield barriers of Sportsman's Park here, Rogers batted but « measiey .200 in t is, the controlling interest of our thoughts. HOMERS AND BRENTON’S HURLING BEATS BEAVERS BY ALEX C. ROSE With Herb Brenton pitching gilt edge ball and Sammy Bohne and Rod Murphy slamming out home runs off Elmer Ross’ delivery, the locals evened up the series with Portland by winning yeaterday’s al by a 3 to 0 score. Manager ting order and the changé seemed to be the right medicine, as the lads batted and fielded like a rea! ball team. Brenton’s assortment of shoots had McCredie’s clan handcuffed, two singles being the total number of hits gathered by the visitors for their afternoon's efforts. Seattle started their run-getting In the first inning when Capt. Bohne straightened one of southpaw Ross’! benders into the left field bleachers. | ‘ares shook up his bat: | Mi, Maisel’s grounder for the third out, leaving Kibby stranded. During the rest of the game Fren ton sent Nephew Walter McCredie’s Sluggers back to the water bucket 123 order. | miadieton. rt Rehne, ° Murphy, Bidred, Kenworthy, 2b f ounw Pole | ‘The clout had the true “Bohne” ring | 52" to it and the fans are hoping that Sam had again found his batting eye. Later on he added a brace of singles. In the eighth inning Murphy “Rabe Ruthed™ one over the right field wall scoring Middleton ahead of him. Onlysonce did the Reavers threat en to score. In the sixth Spranger get as far as the third station, but the Bobne- Murphy combination took care of n Won, Lost Pet. Salt Lake City 2.2.2... 13 ¢ Vernon . +1 om @ Batteries: Lewis and Agnew; and Bassler. AT SALT LAKE crrr— KR Bett Lake City . ’ MD spose Su 2 Batteries: Bromley aad Byler; and Cady. a1 4n7 432 an a2 “at as 308 York Boston 5, St. Law Philadelphia 22, Detroit 4 Chicago 2, Boston 1. Pet “3 no $53 515 Brooktya Cincinnati New York Pittsburg . Philadelphia Brookiyn New York St. Louis 1%, Philadelphia 9 Cincinnatl - Boston — postponed, weather. < SANTA CLARA’S GRID SCHEDULE The complete schedule of the Santa Clara college football team has been announced. The schedule, as arranged by Graduate Manager O'Connor, and approved by Father Joseph A. Sulll van, chairman of the board of con trol, is as follows: © eptember 9—Olympte Francisco. September 2$—Praetice Clara. October 2—Callfornia, October 16 Sante Clara, October 23—Stanford, at Santa Clara. November 6—Olympic club, at Santa Care. November 13—Gonzaga wniversity, at Bpokane. yj ‘Thankextving day—University of Ne- vada, at Ban Francisco, DEMPSEY WILL START TO TRAIN BENTON HARBOR, Mich. Aug baa club, at San game at Santa t Berkeley. Davis Farm (U. at 12.—Jack Dempsey will arrive here | the lattgr part of next week to begin training for his match with Billy Miske here on Labor day, according to an announcement made by Floyd Fitzsimmons, promoter of the match Dempsey will train in the big arena to accustom himself to the sun. He is bringing Bill Tate, Joe Gans and two other sparring partners to help| him get in condition. FRED FENNELLY DIES IN EAST Fred Fennelly, who played short- stop on the Cincinnati Reds 30 years ago, died suddenly recently in Old River, Mass. Fennelly was regarded as one of the game's greatest for 2 | adelphia, which th | toe 8 123 e108 Struck out—Dy Brenton 5, . off Rows 1. Two-base hit—tive liome rune—Bohon M Dow play—Wisterst! to Slatin to Hive rifles hit Time of game~1 40. jas Bohne got his eye on ‘em again? Wis three hits yesterday were real ones, and he sure mixed them up, one to left, one to center and one tn right, flosey fly catching tn High and Gry went Sammy Bohne's homer into the left field bisechera The half-way op & Righ ciass short patcher. Walter Me- Credie has aiready takea some of the rough edges off the iad. Murphy's one-handed catch of high fly cles te the was « “darby,” and the fame egpplneded loud and tong. ‘Today te boosters’ day, and ft looks tke Harry Gardner and “Sude" Suther- jand will be on the mound, ™ cE MAJORA ined on the leading Rede 2 Bronte Dougtas turned In fea, B tot to 2 on the Pirates. Spencers t bases crammed put the ¢ in the second game, ‘The Gia! and Robi | tn fron Fournter collected five of the Cardinals oS hite in the sume ateb with Phil- is won, 18 to 9. Pennock went t relief of Harper In the eighth, and ¢ a rally by the Browns, The Red Sox won, & to 6 Olson's two triples featured the first game of the Brookiyn-Chicago double header. Kerr pitched the White fox to their fourth consecutive victery over Wash- ington by Nine hits and four errors tn the ser- enth inning ¢ the Athletics 10 runs. They won from the Tigers, 13 to 4 Mays contributed a pair of doubles aiong with pitching the Yankees to « 10+ inning victory over the Indians, 7 to 4 OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 12.—Larry Jones was lucky to get a draw last night in the feature bout here with Bud Ridley. Many fans shouted their disapproval of the decision. Ridley easily won three rounds, and the fourth seemed even. Al Walker beat Danny Edwards, Allie Nack and Monk fowler fought a draw. Teddy O'Hare scored three knockdowns in the first round and won from Joe Leopold. Tommy Cel- lo and Bobby Ercie boxed a draw. Izzy Glaser won from Battling Carlo | and Joe Larson knocked out Ted Sil | va in the second round. U. OF N. WILL PLAY ISLANDERS HONOLULU, Aug. 11.—The Unt versity of Nevada grid team will journey ,here during the Christmas holidays and play a two-came series with the newly instituted University of Hawaii football team. The ex- penses of the trip, which ts not ex- pected to amount to over $5,000, will be paid out of the gate r pta of the game. It is expected that one game alone will draw enough of a crowd to finance the team, Each December from now on a Western college football team will be invited to play a two-game series with the Hawailan university team, HAP VERSUS TRIS CHICAGO, Aug. 12.—Yankee play ers declare that Hap Felsch is great: er than Tris Speaker when it comes to a matter of straightaway fielding [2nd getting the jump on the ball. | Californian had bh Umpires—Byron | | men's singles, Sam Russell, th the} THE SEATTLE STAR ASEBALL! BUT IS IT? THUNSDAY, AUGUPT 12, 1929, WOULD BAR PUGS WHO DIDN’T GO. TO WAR NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Col. H.B. Dickerson, commander in chief of the American Loyalty league, has announced that he is planning to introduce in congress a bill that will prevent boxers who did not take in the late war from boxing. He declared he has received encouragement from a number of congressmen. 60 Golfers Enter Championship Flights at Toledom NEER IS VICTOR OVER GRIFFIN Phil Neer, the Portland tennis phe nom, and Elmer Griffin, bi the great tennis stars, “Peck, Clarence Griffin, played in the feat: ure match of the third day's play tn the Washington state tennis tourney at the courts of the Seattle Tennis club. Neer won after three hard- tou; Neer had his California opponent 41 in the first set when Griffin came | up from behind and grabbed five} straight games and won the set. The next set @pnt to Neer. The opponent 54 and) point match at two different times, | but Neer steadied down and pulled) the set out of the fire. In the decid ing set Griffin didn't play bis usual steady game, and"the Portlander had little trouble winning by a 61 score, All three sets were featured by bril- Mant drives and good backhand work, TYLER WINS PAIR Joe Tyler took Van der Weyde into) camp by the score of 61, 60, and! then beat Grant Lalsure 69, 76 an hour later, Lalzure played a good) game in the second set of his ogerd | with Tyler and nearly had the set at) different Umes. Gertrude Schreiner lowt to Sara Livingstone in three hard-fought matches. The score was 62, 5-7, 61. Mixa Livingstone played a more ac- curate game than ber opponent, All the other favorites wen thetr Howard Kinsey, the California} favorite, meets Wallace Beott today | in one of the feature matches of the local veteran, meets Phil Neer, the Port- land shark, in another good match in the men's singles Richard Burr meets Joe Tyler tn another good match. Long Bruce Hesketh tangies with petite Irving Weinstein in another feature match. ‘The winners of there men's singles reach the sem! finals ‘The feature match of the men's doubles is the team of Spiedel and) Griffin vs. Weinstein and Kinsey. | Mayme MacDonald and Miss Camp- | dell will dish up the feature match in| the women's singles. | Several good matches are on tap in the mixed doubles. i BILL RUMLER TAKES LIMELIGHT IN SCANDAL SAN FRANCISCD, Aug. 12 "Bi" Rumler, Salt Lake outfielder and| leading batsman of the league, was) in the limelight today in new devel-| opments of & rensational nature in| connection with the alleged scheme | to purchase the 1919 Coast league pennant President W. H. McCarthy of the league today was awaiting a atate- | ment from Rumler explaining « Lon) Angeles bank draft sald to have been | forwarded to the Beo slugger. Me Carthy wired him last night, In alleged substantiation of “Babe” | Rorton's charges that money changed hands in connection with the Ver- TENNIS SCOREBOARD WEDNEADAY'A REAULTS © singles — Tyler beat Vander Moward Kinsey beat ‘Tyler beat Taleure * Aoubles—Russel and Trier beat Gray and Green, 4-1, GL; Neer and Beott beat Vander Las and Walle: Theton beat Miss Bohreiner, 6-2, Mixed doubles—Mise Lambuth o ren Pollock and Gray, ‘ Donald and Griffin beat Mre Mrs Rourque and Swimming Entry Blank I am a regular registered member of the American Amateur Union and wish to enter in the following meet marked with a cross: events of The Star city swimming $0-yard Gash (back stroke Under 14 Years §0-yard Gash (free style). w beck Blanks must be in The Star office by August 12. Entrants under 16 years do not Lee, @-1, Mise Kor heat Mrs. C ris and ° and Beott beat Mise 3, G2 Kinsey ve. Heott. Rousse) Neer. Miss Hortense Green ve Mise Pording. Mise MacDonald ve Miss Campbell. oo Fr, M. inetetn, maphell ang Mise Ferding va Mine Longley and Mise Marcuse, Mise Hortense Green and Mise Pollack va Mra. fithfford apd Miss Lambuth. Mra. Bragdon and Miss Livingstone va Mice Anthouy and Mrs Foster. ‘ Foley and Kaibach ve Crawford and Medrick. Griffin and Gpeidel wa Kinsey and Weinstein. Kuseeii ana Tyler ve Bemis end Brownell Mrs. Cushing ve, Mra Rorqua Mire Lambuth and Mr. Coffin va Mise Livingstone er Mise ¢ M. Turt and Meageth va winner Potey and ford and Hedrick. end Mr Kinsey va Mre Bourque and Dr. Apetdet Mise Campbell and Mr Vander Las ve Mise Machenald and Mr Griffin Mire fohreiner and Mr Keott ve win- ner Mist Lambuth and Mr. Griffin ve Mire Livingston: partner, r. M. Mine Fording Heaketh va Mra RUTH MAY PLAY TODAY CLEVELAND, Aug. 12.—Predio tion that Babe Ruth, homerun king of the New York Yanks, will be able to piny bali this afternoon, was made today by Dr. M. HL Castle, Cleveland ball club physician, who ts looking after Babe's injured right knee. An X-ray photograph shows there was no injury to the bona. “The injury was merely a wrench.” sustained in sliding toa base,” said) Dr, Castle. non club's pennant aspirations, a Los Angeles banker declared that drafts for $200 and 8500, respectively, were sent to Rumler and Jean Dale, who = i i 2 FF ag rt Ei H sis i | HH 52 iE Li = Z z iH E 22 35 i i 3 i [ : ? bas i i I ? | | iF; 3 i iH iH i HEE i i i : F i 3 } a & H ? j F if f ; i i pitched for the Rees last season, McCarthy also made public state- ments attributed to Rod Murphy, | Seattle firnt sacker, mentioning Nate Raymond, Seattle sportaman, who has been barred from all parks of the league, Murphy is said by Mo-| Carthy to have declared Raymond attempted to bribe him, aneerting that it was Raymond who supplied the cash which Borton alleged was paid te players of other clubs to per-| mit Vernon to win, DEMPSEY VS. BRENNAN OCT. 12? NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Champion | Jack Dempsey will probably fight Bill Brennan on October 12 at the Polo grounds in New York, accord-| ing to reports today. Articles of the fight were signed yesterday by the managers of the two heavyweights, | the place and date of the bout re-| maining to be chosen. | The International Sporting club/| Will be given the opportunity of stag ing the bout In case the New York state law governing, boxing matches | is effective by that time. BIG BASEBALL | MEET TONIGHT The executive committes®or The! Star league meets at The Star of. fice at 6:30 tonight to decide once} and for all the fuss between the Ballard Beavers and the Mount Baker Juniors, The committee consists of A. EF Pelton, Len Allison and Ernie Wells. Roth Ballard and Mount Baker will bo represented at the meeting. WALSH IS NOW MAHONEY MANAGER Eddie Mahoney, the California lightweight, is under the manage. ment of Tommy Walsh, to whom he was turned over by Jack Kearns Walsh immediately challenged Char. ley White, the Chicago lightweight, and posted $1,000 for appearance and to allow It,to go as a side bet on the fight. OLYMPIC GAMES AUGUST 15-23 The Antwerp Olympic track and field games will begin at 9 o'clock in the morning and continue until 5 in the afternoon during the week of Au. gust 15 to 23, The swimming races will also occur in the afternoon, fin. ishing with water polo, In the eve- ning In the Zoological garden's am- phitheatre the wrestling and boxing matches will take place, 3 JAPS KICKED OUT OF PARK Prexy Bill Kiepper continued his | fight on gamblers in the local park | here yesterday. Three Japs were! kicked out of the park yesterday for alleged gambling. Two white people | followed the Japs thru the gates on the same charges, with another white | barred from the park. Those who will not have the pleas ure of seeing Coast league bal! games for a while are James Ball, Lou Finnessey, Shorty Shaw, T. Yo. shisaki, T. Oto and M. Taneda. DETROIT, Aug. 12.—Tiger fans threatened to go to the box office and demand their money back be cause Altrock refused to speak his “piece” when the Nats played here. Only Olympic Event at Start ; ‘bal: have to be registered, JONES DOESN'T SHOW MUCH ‘Whoever told Travie Daytis, the Everett welterweight, to steer clear of Frankie Jones, the California boy, because he was a tough nut to crack, must have been telling Sir Travie a group of fairy tales. At any rate, that’s the conclusion that we arrived at after watching Jones fight a draw with Harry Caney, the windmill miller, at the Arena last night. It's an old tale now that Davis, recognized Coast champion, is al. leged to have run out on his bout with Jones because he heard that he ‘was & rugged customer. Jones is fairly clever, but he didn't hit hard enough to stop Casey in the least. The bout Was a good draw, but wasn't v exciting. Casey landed time and time again with his wild swings on the face, while Jones’ best work was in the clinches, It was the concensus of opinion after the scrap last it that Davis wouldn't have had least trouble in beating the Californian if Jones can't show any more power and speed than he demonstrated during the entertainment with . The Seattle boy missed « lot swings, but Harry would miss Smith building if he had to at it more than three times in a row, Eddie Jackson and Frank Pete, two of the best of the local light- weights, fought a tame draw in the semi-windup, Joe Wilson, the colored “battler,” was robbed in his bout with Young Zuzu, the Filipino, Referee Burke calling the bout @ draw. Wilson parked some terrific wallops on the brown boy's chin in the first round and floored him for the count of four. In the third session Wilson had Zuzu reeling on the ropes from @ series of terrific wallops. Wilson did his best work at long range box- ing, while Zuzu, who really won the last round, did @ lot of damage at |infighting. Wilson had a big edge in | the first three rounds. Ray Scribner, a bantamweight from Anacortes, introduced Ludwig Jones, of Tacoma, to a piledriver wallop in the second round that put Ludwig out for the count. Scribner packs @ real punch for a little fellow. | Jones was never in the running at jall last night. Scribner would make & good match for Mike De Pinto, P@die O'Neill, another Anacortes |bantam, put up a whale of a fight | with Eddie Moore, the newsie bat- jtler, in the best bout of the night. ) O'Neill took a lot of punishment in the second round but he came back jin the third round and knocked Moore down. It was @ good draw. The fans want to eee more of O'Neill becaure he looks like a “comer.” ‘Will Fitzgerald and a fellow named | Lewis, & pair of welters, tugged each other around the ring in the opener jto @ draw verdict It was a poor \excuse for a fight. CHICAGO © STAR IS LEADING FIELD | TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 12. | American golf pros, two prof cracks from England and eight teurs, including one from Seo were off today in the 72-hole ch | pionship flight of the national o tournament over the Inverness li | Jock Hutchinson, Chicago, tu jin the low qualifying mark, a 14! | core, yesterday, in the last 1$ of tt 36-hole journey. His mark of jestablished @ record for the In | Meas course. Jack Bourke, St. Paul, was run up with 146. Eight finished 160, Walter Hagen, open ch finjshed with 155, as did 1 Ray, Engiand. Harry Vardon, E land, and Jim Barnes turned in a of 153. The amateurs who were pla: ‘today in the title flight are: Chey Evans, Chicago; Bobby Jones, Atlan ta; Howard Lee, Detroit; Jis Johi Toledo; John And New York; Rudy Knepper, City; W. C. Fownes, Pittsburg, Tom Armour, Scotland. The field of 70 playing today clude all who finished with 167 better. Barnes is the favorite and expected to take the measure of V don and Ray. * Hutchinson also has many ers, whose only fear is that he not be able to stand up un strain of the 72-hole journey ends on Friday night. ‘Indian Team for! Marathon runner—P. D. gule. é Marathon runner—S. V. Datar. | Marathon runnerzH. P. K kid. Sprinter—P. C, Banerjee. Middleweight wrestler—K. Navale. it wrestler—D. Shinde, Kaikid! has ran 26 miles 4 longs in 2:58. Datar has done The team was selected at a mest- ing in Poona in April. CLOSE AUG. 19 Swimming entries in The Star swimming meet close Thursday ning, August 19, at 6 p. m. Many swimmers and divers made out their blanks but they have found their way to The Star fice, where they must be entered. Bianks appear daily on this aml can be procured at Spaidh Piper & Tafts, Cryvtal Pool, cub, Y. M.C. A, ¥. W.C A. and the city bathing beaches. GUARD GALLERIES — TOLEDG, Aug. 12.—Golfers } temperaments at the National opem) here will be protected. The most tricate rules ever regulating a nament will be in vogue. AVOIDS SOUTHPAWS NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Ve Spencer, fast becoming a hero the Giants, plays the bench when tl opposing team sends southpaw h ers to the hillock. BABE LIKES KIDS CHICAGO, Aug. 12.—The kids Chicago think Babe is great. the Yanks were here Bambino tributed a few balls over in section of the stand. | Billy Burke and Ad Schacht ref- ereed. FAVORITES IN OLYMPIC GAMES BY HENRY L, FARRELL. United Press Staff it. ANTWERP, Aug, 12.—The huge stadium here, where the Olympic games will be staged was closed to day in order that final preparations might be made for the dedication ceremonies. The games the @tadium will probably start on Sunday, Jabk Moakley, head coach of the Amer- ican athletes, said today that he was uncertain whom he would pick to start in each event. The Americans have six entries for each event, while only four will be allowed to start. Moakley said he would make the final selections just previous to the contest. Representatives of the other na tions have been greatly interested in the workout by the Americans and were greatly impressed by . their snappy performances, “The Americans are unbeatable,” Ernie Hjertzberg, coach of the Swed. ish team, said, “We will finish sec: ond, but America has left a better team at home than any other of the competitors have on the groynd.” The French are hopeful of winning a few seconds in the track events. Coach L. Schroeder of the French athletes, said he had two good men in the long distance and ih the Pen- tathion events. The British athletes sald they were PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12.—Lew Tendier’s income from boxing dur- ing the last six months exceeds $50,- 000, more than Benny Leonard, the champion, has put away. not supported at home, and consider their chances poor. team. who is an American, believes he has a fair chance for victory in several events, a Platt Adams, coach of the Italian NEW SUBMARINE CHICAGO, Aug. 12.4-The Cu have signed a new subn ne pite His name is Joe@: He nearly touches the ground wA® his hand fore delivering the CHICAGQ u fouled . on out of je time at bat ‘The balls ne ve Boldt’s z ves you money to use this class of tobacco instead of the ordinary man who uses the CUT is a short-cud, tobacco W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco