The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1920, Page 12

_BRESSLER MAY BE HURLER DUE TO COME HERE IN BRENTON DEAL EATTLE has five Class AA ball players due in part pay- ment on the deal that sends Herb Brenton, local pitcher, 2 ow gg ped Bohne, Siwash third sacker, to the Cincinnati Besides this the club a Quite a deal, ccumulates $20,000 in cash for we the tossers. say. ‘ut who are the players that we will obtain from the Reds? Who are available for the Reds to send? The Na- league champions have promised to deliver a pitcher ble of winning in this league right away to replace nton. This is the most nt issue right now. doesn’t really need of the pitching depart- it, which will be weak- considerably thru the “Joss of Brenton, who leaves ; the east Friday. | The best bet on the Reds’ pitch: staff at the present time avail for Seattle right now is “Rube” , the big southpaw who has out of the game for some time an injured ankle, broken early year. Bressler, who is a cork: good hitter and outfielder in ad- to being a Class AA pitcher, have a hard time being waived of the National league. Russ Cincinnati scout, is the author the last statement. ‘WOULD WIN SAYS HALL “Bressier would win tn this com- without a doubt.” says Hall, it's doubtful if he can be Br out of the big show. He be a good man for Seattle if ta obtainable.” “ is about the only Class Pitcher that the Reds have on now that the locals could _When Bohne goes up we will need another third baseman. The Reds have young Crane and Schreiber, both shortstops. Crane is now with the Indianapolis team in the Ameri ean association. Hall thinks well of both players and saye that Crane ts the better fielder of the two altho he doesn't amount to much as @ hitter, REDS MAY SEND SEE Then the Reds have a young out fielder by the name of See, who led last year, He was purchased by the Ohio clud ‘at the fag end of last season, but hasn't done much regular playing with the champions, He has a hard time breaking into the Duncan, Néale, Rousch combi: nation, Another player who may come to Seattle is young Sicking, an Infield. er, who has been playing second base for the Reds considerably lately. It is doubtful if young Cueto, the Cuban utility player, who was sup- posed to have reported to the locals at the start of the season, will re port after all. It was announced from local baseball headquarters when the Brenton deal was first made that Cueto would report but Klepper is very skeptic over Cueto's reporting now. MARTY FARRELL JOINS JACK DEMPSEY’S CAM BENTON BENTON HARBOR, Mich, Aug. jack Dempsey’s smile broadened with the arrival of Marty Far. New York light heavyweight. will act as sparring partner) the champion thunderbolt. It was announced he probably will par- in the preliminaries here La- day as the opponent of Harry the Pittsburger. Annoyed by a fake report that he been in an automobile accident would prevent his showing all P AT HARBOR | his goods Labor day Jack ripped into | his sparring partners yesterday as if to show his good health. Two negro boxers who have been taking the | Punishment hoped no more false ru- mors would blossom. Dempsey was to do some more slugging today. Homer Smith will join the Billy Miske camp Saturday, it was an- nounced today. Yesterday's workout by the challenger saw Jack Heinen | and Jimmy Delaney take their usual! | lacing. CLEVELAND LOSES AGAIN; 4 of BY L. R. BLANCRARD. * CHICAGO, Aug. 26.—The wise ga Babos say even the tiniest creatures ive an important part in nature’s The part played by the phia Athletics may be to some team from winning a pen. Rant, The Athletics stepped in and ° from Cleveland yesterday. Any lost now by either Chicago, ind or the New York Yankees y be the one that loses the pen- it. _ With Cleveland losing to the Mack Chicago and New York sat tight the result that the Sox are all more firmly fixed in the first) oe, with ‘the Yanks now within king distance of second place, ‘And the best thing the Yanks do is to s#trike—and hit. ‘The National league race remained unchanged as to leadership, Brook The “Cigar that nakes YOUR NICKEL and a ‘enny worth MORE than a BIT” 15 tor 300 For Sale Everywhere Woolley & Co., Inc. Sole Importers 1109 Third Ave. Seattle . SOX VS. YANKS TODAY lyn, Cincinnati and New York all winning. History can be made tn the series starting today. The Sox and Yan kees hook up in New York, coming | a8 close to a crucial series as will be permitted at present. this is the first time that we've heard of James taking the loeg count, Bart Patra, fe been considered Northwest, pro featherweight by making 12 & recent fight in the South. Karl has been giving away @ lot of weight, but he has decided to stick to the featherweight class after this, miller, who hae Fiud Ridley, another Meattle feather- weight, who has been boxing at a tre clip in Californii | dently needs tt, stale in his recen and his bride are in fan Fra ciseo, The little Hone City boy won the over Harry Pelsinger the Lon Angeles feather- tn the 0 that considered the Coast bantam in, Const welterweight cham- to Idaho, He expects to K00d condition and will box considerably during the coming fall pe: son. (Clay Hite, take notice!) BURRILL LOSES IN NET MEET SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y., Aug. 26 ~—Ralph H. Burdick of Chicago easily defeated William Burrill of |Tacoma in the third round of the Meadow club cup tennis singles |here yesterday. The semi-finals will be played off today. | A pound of self-reliance is worth @ ton of expectation. the International league tn hitting | a F Rod Murphy Changes Running Style SEATTLE FIRST SACKER LEADS THE PROCESSION Bohne and Wares Show Pati walls f ROD MURPHY partment for the 1920 season, Murphy says he has changed his standing style while waiting off of first base. 4 dance atrelabior and has ave of a spring, while before he crouched and lost a fraction of a second getting away. A@ then, too, Rod says he is running in a st which adds the necessary second fractions needed to make the theft g i : “Sammy Bohne and Clyde Wares showed me that I was starting wrong in ing train- ing,” declares Roderick, “and thruout the season my new style of start has ‘ Since I started stealing more bases than usual | have studied the different pitchers’ deliv- IN STOLEN BASES Him “How” With over 50 stolen bases already to his credit and far in the van of other base thieves in the Coast league, Rod Murphy, Seattle first sacker, bids fair to lead the league in this de- ee line this year, Iped a lot. leries more, which is also a big asset in the base stealing business.” M’CARTHY GIVEN HAIRLINE DECISION OVER ALEX TRAMBITAS There wasn't much to choose between. Johnny McCarthy, the terrible motorman from San Francisco, and Alex Tram- | bitas, the Portland welter, after their torrid four rounds at) the Arena last night, but Referee Ad Schacht was seeing ‘em awful close and handed McCarthy the palm. There) were a lot of customers! present who thought that maybe Ad had a Christmas tree concealed about his per- son because the fight looked like a pretty even affair. The first three rounds were as even as one and one, but In the final round McCarthy hooked a | Meht on Trambitas’ jaw that shook the Rose City gladiator from stem to stern. MeCarthy quickly fol lowed it up with a rush of swing }ing rights and lefts for the body and drove Trambitas to the ropes, but the Portlander finally broke away ond held his own for the rest of the round. This was the unly real shade in the fight. | TRAMBITAS USED LEFT WELL Trambitas did his most damage | during the night with his left hand. He used his port side mitt well thruout the mill, a left hook to the head and a straight jab bothering McCarthy considerably. Trambitas carried plenty of steam | behind his blows because McCarthy | stopped dead in his tracks several | times. At that McCarthy landed the harder blows, altho Trambitas made him miss a lot. The Oregon younw ster boxed more accurately whilo the Golden Gate street car pilot was over anxious at fimes to sink his opponent. At any rate, It was a whale of a fight ax beth Trambitas and M> Carthy always give the fans a run for thelr money. It was the best main event of recent months, |4ONES BEATS | SONTAG Frankie Jones had too many left | handed foolers for Val Sontag and |the San Francisco welterweight |easily outhoxed the local butcher Val should have brought along couple of his meat axes to throw at Jones because he couldn't hit the visitor with his duet of boxing gloves It must be anid in Val's defense that he doesn't have as much op: portunity to hex as Jones does Val is the proprietor of a big meat shop here and only gets a little | boxing in his treining for his bouts, Sontag, who outweighed his op. ponent at least 10 pounds, seemed slow and Jones won an edge in "| every round, particularly in the last canto, FLORES STOPS JACKSON Young Marcario Flores, one of the famous Flores brothers of the | Philippine islands, sprung the big surprise of the night when he rap- ped Eddie Jackson on the molars with a couple of hard «wings In the second round and Jackson hit the mat. Jackson, almost knocked loose from his shoes, lost his head and struggled to his fect, wobbling badly. Another right crusher on | the chin put him out for keeps Jackson only waited for the count of four and didn't give his head lime to clear. In the first round the dark- akinned visitor started swinging his Punches and he rocked Eddie badly, but before the round was over Jackson had parked a right cross and a straight left on Flores’ head that counted, But the second round brought the end of the battle ax hereinbefore deseribed, JENSEN AND MADDEN DRAW A young fellow named Phil Jensen, who hails from San Francisco, shad- ed “Battling” Lioyd Madden, local Wopp and Ciacco Last Night? There were a jot of ring not ables with us at the Arena last night Just before the main event First came Gene Tunney, A. B F., light heavyweight champion, who Is now at Camp Lewis. Gene kot a big hand from the fans and then queered it by making a speech. Then Frank Farmer climbed into the ring and Clay Hite an nounced that Tunney and Farmer would fight next month hete and some friend of Frank's In the gal lery yelled out, “Have some pity on the old boy! (Not meaning Tunney) Then loud giggtes accentuated by boos, catcalia, whistles and much other noim, broke forth The reason? Young Hector, the well-known Bremerton heavy weight, climbed Into the ring. Tob Harper, the handsome young lghtweight, and Billy Wright, exwelterweight cham- pion, hopped into the ring for in. troduction, and we met ‘em all over again. Clay Hite had a large evening at the announcing business, Joe Wopp and Patsey Claco being about the only members of the |] local order of the knights of the padded mitt who were among the minsing welter, In another hard four-round tiff, The visitor had a good defense jagainst Lloyd's attack on his body Jensen won an edge by using hin left well and throwing over a right cross | with effect. Lioyd staged one of his jUsual ninth inning rallies that caught the eye of Referee Schacht, | who called the affair a draw, In the opener Steve Reynolds won the concrete clothesline when Fred Kent, the next to the worst heavy. | weight in the world, knocked him {down for the count of nine in the jfourth round. The big fellows tried | hard enough and battered each other |around considerably, Reynolds, los }ing @ decision to a miller like Kent, is just about thru, altho no one has |recently accused him of anything else. Billie Schacht as the third man in the ring The smoker, which was staged by |Clay Hite, was the best all-around | bill that the fans have sat in on for | nome weeks. Managers of the Felix club and |Mount Baker teams meet at The Star office tonight to make final prepa rations for the second game of the city junior title series, The two teams play the second fame of the series at Columbia field Sunday at 1 p. m. Mount Raker won the first title game last Sunday at Walla Walla field, A win in this coming game cinches the city junior title and The Star championship trophy for Mount Baker Three valuable men have been barred from the lineup of the Felix club because of alleged misconduct in the recent Felix club-Tallored Ready game, Catcher Miller, Second Baseman Ahner and Left Fielder Boyer have been ruled off public Burke alternated with Ad) rome, eight of the vie jore by the “K” meathed MMe slipped ever at inast four strikeouts with « curve ball, the umps calling the lest eon Jack Knight was hitting the ol apple x Wednesday ie f dour ah bite om the. first Boum field bigache oe Jack Miller got firet clean bit be i i i i - i | Reattio pitchers bh ron-—wnearned at th ‘me the last 46 innings, Which Ian't #0 worse. Bill Cunningham and Hack Miller, rival left fielders, beth turned tm sterling catches yesterday. Bill made a nifty catch of Alten's line drive in the third, and Miller's ranging ent of Kenworthy's clout in tne seound frame was high ele: Beattio had wonderful chance to oe with the bow store in the he locale filled the bases | it, but Adame hit into Knight Dorman and Geary popped out Murphy turned In a wondert the fourth when he trapped hard drive down the Oret base « hind the baw, gd tossed to Geary for the out while daylag eprawied all over the ground. tm ‘ul play Cooper's Nut Geary at Alten, too, so the danger wae over, Hack Miller, the big Oat outfielder, won't #0 Howard. * Cubs we the players that and the deal was o dnt kick thru with |_ BOUTS LINED _UP FOR CHAMP AND BENJAMIN NEW YORK, Aug. | Leonard, lightweight champion, has |pard 12 rounds at Jersey City, Sep. tember 7, it was announced today. Joe Benjamin of San Francisco will fight Willie Jackson of New York in | a semi-windup bout on this card. ELMER LEADS PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 26.—R. P. Eimer of Wayne, Pa., still leads the field in the 40th annual national championship tournament given by the National Archery association of the United States, Elmer is the pres- ent title holder. FELIX CLUB AND MT. BAKER PILOTS TO MEET playfields by members of the park board Ahner, Boyer and Miller would be eligible to play in the third game park If the Felix club grab this tilt it means that a third game will be neo essary, The deciding game would probably played at the Pacific Coast league ball park, September 6. Bob ‘Thorburn will _ probably work on the hill for the Felix club boys. Wes Sheedy is slated to do the mound work for Mount Baker The Felix club have a good reserve pitcher fn long, lean Red Swift. Swift started the season pitching fer the club boys, but left town after the third game. He is plugging up one of the outfield holes now, Now he} ot Ne! */the ball that killed Ray Chapman, wanted right now, | 26.—Benny | j been matched to fight Tommy Shep- | it it was played at the Coast league | —! GIANTS AND REDS OPEN BIG SERIES ney McGraw and his clan of New York Giants do or die during the next three days in thelr purnult of the National league bunting, The Giants, who were in the second di vision most of the season, are now in third place, six games behind the Cincinnati Neds, who are leading the proceasion, The Giants invade Cincinnatt Fri day for a three-game series with the world’s champions, A clean sweep for the Reds will just about ruin‘the Giants for the rest of the present) seanon, while @ clean sweep for the | Giants will put them very much in| the pennant pursuit. Just about @ year ago the Reds tn: | vaded New York and swept the| Giants off of their feet and grabbed | four games out of six in three days This Victory put the Reds far in front and knocked the Giants out of |the race, What the teams will do | this year is a puzzle GIANTS ADD YOUNG BLOOD The Giants have @ lot of young blood on their roster at the present |time. George Kelly at first base and Frank Frisch at third are both youngsters in big league play. The aequinition of Dave Bancroft for the shortstop berth has pepped up the Giants play. Larry Doyle im ntill playing the keystone bag, hin expert ence rounding out a good infield. In the outer gardens yousg King has replaced Benny Kauff with Rons | Young and George Burna, stars of the firet degree, playing the other outfield bertha, Snyder and Smith are doing the catching. Doth are good receivers, Snyder ranking with the best in the National league. The real succes of the Giants lately, however, can be attributed to the recovery of the pitching staff. ee — the fastest man in the Coast league going down We. "aee base? Some say that Merlin Kopp, who started out the season with the Seattle club only to be traded to Sacramento, is the speediest. But just watch this bird Cooper, of the Oaks, go down to first on a hit ball if you go out to the ball park this week. How he does tear! But then, like Kopp, he loses his value as a base runner in spite of his great speed. Neither amount to much as a base runner, There are several reasons for this. In the first place, neither is an aggressive ball player and then there’s a knack of getting a lead off and starting. Jack Smith, former Seattle outfielder, now with the St. Louis Cards, is one of the fastest men in the world going down to first, but he’s a bum base runner for the same reas@ns. Cooper's lack of sggressivencss Is about the only thing that keeps him out of the big show. He can hit, field, run and throw, but he isn’t one bit aggressive. He hardly opens his mouth on the ball field, If he was Sammy Bohne’s type of player there wouldn't be any Claude Cooper in the Coast league. Too much aggressiveness has kept Dennie Wille, one of the beat flychasers in the Coast league, out of the big leagues. Funny, but it's true. Dennie has a terrible temper and gives way to bis feelings when things break wrong and then he’s thm for the day. He's after bis base hits so hard that when he's robiad out of ‘em by a sensational catch or by @ bum decision or the likes he rants and raves and gets so peeved that he can't see straight. He gave an example of this in the first game of the neries when Umpire Holmes called a third strike om him. Wilie talked about that all afternoon, threw his bat at the grand. | wtand and went generally wild. Outside of this fault Wille ls a gran@ | ball player, but that fault keeps him in the Coast league Close followers of baseball are wondering why Tom Turner, the Vhiladelphia American league scout who was here looking over Bohne |and Brenton, didn’t line them up for the Athletics after lauding them as big league timber. The real reason seems to be that the Athletics weren't willing to meet the price set by the local club. The Philly squad is Inet in the American league. race and so far behind that they |aren’t making any dough and can’t afford to pay the money that |the Cincy Reds could. The Reds are having another great season and are making enough jack to pay real coin for players, which explaing Toney has been heaving good bane. ball with Douglas, Kenton, Nehf and Barnes doing good work. The Reds are lining up pretty much the same ae they did during the 1919 campaign, They present Daubert on first, Rath on second, Groh at third and Kopf at short with Duncan, Rousch and Neale doing outfield duty. The punch i» there, but the Red regulars have suffered somewhat from “stuck upltis,” according to Eastern critics, that has almost knocked them out of the race this year, They have come jout of it. however, and are once | more running out in front RED PITCHERS FALTER The great Cincinnati pitching staff of last year ts having its troubles, altho Ring, Ruether, Eller, Luque and Salles still present a pretty strong front tn the pitching line. Wingo and Rariden are doing the catching again for the champions with Wingo's work in particular be- ing very good. In the meantime the Brooklyn Dodgers are threatening both the Reds and the Giants and if these two teama break even in their coming -|neries, the Dodgers may kick thru with some wins and grab off that [Old lead for themnelvem They've been |riht up in the race since the start of the season and may have a lot to |nay about where the 1920 National league bunting will fy in October. BROWNS NOT TO PLAY IF MAYS DOES BOSTON, Aug. 26.—Membera of the St. Louls American league base jball club have agreed not to take part in any game in which Carl Mays, Yankee twirler, who pitched ‘leveland shortetop, ts assigned work, it was learned today The agreement was reached at a meeting of players in the Red Box clubhoune, The St. Louis players also de. clared. they have received letters from members of #ix other clubs of |the league declaring they will not play if Mays is on the mound. | The fact that Mays pitched a shutout game since the accident has | only increased the feeling against him, the players declared. The St, Louts team is here for a series with the Boston Red! Sox. SISLER LEADS IN AMERICAN NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—George Sis- ler of the St. Louis Browns leads the sluggers in the American league with the tremendous clip of 406, according to figures announced here today, ! which include play up until Saturday. Tris Speaker of Cleveland is next on the list with .292 In the National league Rogers Hornaby leads the way with the aver- age of .372, | YOUNG GRAHAM WINS AGAIN Jack Graham, Jr., won another) catboat race for the John Graham bay, Just off the new home of the Seattle Yaeht club. Young Graham is 12 years olf and ig one of the most skillful catboat skippers in Seattle, He pilots his father's boat, “Dormouse,” MOUNT VERNON WINS FAST ONE Charley Mullen’s Mount Vernon | team won from the fast Sedro-Wool ley team yesterday at Mount Ver: non by @ 21 score. The game was witnessed by 2,000 fans. Lawson, the Mount Vernon twirler, allowed only two hits and sent back 14 of the opposition by the strikeout | method. ARLINGTON WINS GAME Arlington of the “Big Six” league won an exhibition game: from @lear4 Lake at Arlington yesterday by a 12-t0-0 count. McKee, pitching for Arlington, al- lowed only two hits, while Arling- why the local club made the deal with the National league champions, SEATTLE BEATS OAKLAND ] TO 0 AND CLIMBS INTO |cup yesterday afternoon on Portage | § THIRD Bob Geary hurled the Siwashes into third place Wednesday in one jof the best played battles of the year, The loca! righthander was in [fine fettle and shut out the Oaks 1 |to 0 ina swell pitchers’ battle with | young Alten, the youthful southpaw of the Acorns. It was the second straight win for the locals over the Howard crew, While Seattle was winning from the Oakland club the Sacramento crew'was administering @ beating to the Ban Francisco Seals and conse quently we climbed into third place. The Seattle crew is now just seven gamen behind the league leaders, and |the season has seven cae to jrun. Fans are already fj ing how |many games we have to win to turn [the trick, Figure it out yourself, there's more of a kick to it. BOHNE COUNTS ONLY RUN Well, back to the old ball game of Wednesday, The winning—and only —run of the matinee was counted by one Samuel Bohne in the eighth frame, when Seattle's third sacker did some tall base running. With two away Bohne hopped the cpple jon a bad bounce down the third base line, and while Jack Knight man- } | | 9 Hecowsennd Oakiand— Lane, tb Wille, Cooper, Her, Gulate, " Knight, 3b Brubaker, a=. Dorman, © Alten, p cconnncoes | commorcnorte | | Cunningham, Stu wowenoncers| uuuduncconh “yeh Geary, +l ecccccouets! cocccccces I Totals | foore by innings ee eS a ? weno ecco Struck out—-Ry Geary §, by Alten 1. Bases on balle—Oft Geary 1, off | Alten 2. Two-base hite—Knight 2, Cun- ningham, Guisto, Bohne. Double plays— Knight to Dorman to Guisto; Bohne to Murphy. Sacrifice hit—Stumpf. Stolen o—Knight. Rune responsible for—| en 1, Geary 0 Time of game—1:40. ppires—Casey and Holm PACIFIC COAST LEAGUR Yon, Lost Pet. Ty 2 L880 $55 / 811 Summary » A Um Salt Lake City Ver & Ss +607 497 4s PLACE aged to get his hooks on it he couldn't stop it and Sammy streaked. for second, sliding into the bag safe lly. Then Alten walked Murphy, ad Eldred slapped the apricot thru shortstop for one base and Bohne came home in a walk. Brubaker |managed to get to the ball, but couldn't hold on to it. Both pitchers were stingy with hits, some great fielding on both sides holding down the number of bingles, Three times the Oaks got men te second base without any out, but each time Geary pitched himself out | of the hole. |GEARY PULLS SMART PLAY Geary himself turned the fielding trick that saved a lot of trouble. In the sixth Lane led off with an infield” offering to Stumph, and Bill heat the apple over Murphy's head first, Wilie walked. Then © |tried to bunt and popped a fly to ward Geary, and Bob hooked the onion out of the air with his meat jhand and doubled Wille off of first, It was a beautiful play. Murphy, Cunningham, Miller and Cooper all turned in swell playa, cutting off hits, during the engage AT LOS ANGEL! Los Angeles . Salt Lake City . “8 Batteries: Keating and Bassler; top, Thurston, Gould and Byler, AT PORTLAN' Vernon Portland Batteries Devormer; a ES— 2 cule AT SAN FRA? Sacramei San Francisco . ° Batteries: Kunts and Sch: Quaid and Yelle. AMERICAN Chicago . Cleveland New York . St. Louis Roston .... Washington . Detroit Philadetphia Cinctnnatt . Brooklyn .. New York Pittsburg Chicage St Louls Poston .. Philadelphia at Cincinnati §, Phitadel, Brooklyn 4, Pittsburg New York @ St. Louls & Chicago 4, Boston 0, phia kL a YANK MAT BY HENRY L. FARRELL, ANTWERP, Aug. 26,— American wrestlers won all but one of their elimination bouts in the catch-as eatch-can Olympic tournament last night and took two of their ‘three matches in the quarter finals. The American featherweights, C. D, Ackerly of Cornell and G. N. Ger son of Pennsylvania, won two bouts | each ¥ Following are the results: Featherweights—Ackerly Mialetes, Greece; Gerson McKinnon, wland, Lightweights —- Svenson, defeated G. Metropoulos, Gary, Ind. Miad ights —~ McDonald, Amer fea, defeated Sophonen, Canada. Light heavyweights—W. 8, Maurer, United States navy, defeated Ledran, defeated Sweden, ton's batsmen pounded out 14 hits, France; Redmond, United States navy, defeated Wilson, England. f defeated |% — MEN TAKE LEAD AT ANTWERP Heavyweights—F. H. Meyer, Chh { cago, defeated Mason, England. Quarter finals: Featherweights — Gerson defeated + Barthou, France; Ackerly defeated Kaiser, Switzerland, Lightweights—Antilla, Finland, de ~ feated J, Shimaon, New York. } OAKLAND, Aug. 26,—Jimmy Duf- | Oakland lightweight, won the de- jon over Willie Hunefeld, the Los Angeles boy, in their four-round bout here last night PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE BASEBAL Rainier OAKLAD as IVE CLASS AA TOSSERSS a ; Fi . a