The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1920, Page 12

PAGE 12 TRIBE PLAYS NINE GAMES WITH TIGERS IN SIX DAYS LYDE WARES and his tri tomahawk or two on their collective belts and went forth last night to scalp the Vernon Tigers, in their lair in Los Angeles, in a mighty effort to climb into second place in the Coast league race. Nine games in six days—that’s the assignment outlined for the tribe during their stay in Vernon. against the Tigers in a dou-} ble bill Wednesday and play two games on Sunday and) Monday, the double offering coming on Monday because that’s Labor day. After their stay in Vernon the locals play Oakland again in Oak- land and then tangle with Sacra-| mento and Salt Lake in the last series on the home lot. After this! pair of series the tribe invades/ Portiand, San Francisco and Los Angeles to wind up the season. NEED HURLER TO REPLACE BRENTON The tribe is in sad need of a food, steady pitcher right now to) replace Herb Brenton, the right-| hander who is on bis way to join) the Cincinnati Reds, The Reds promised to deliver a pitcher cap- able of winning in this company} immediately and it's up to the club/ Officials to see that the Reds kick thru. We got cheated on the! “Lefty” Thomas deal last year when the. St. Louis Cards promised to! send us a pitcher to replace him} and all we ever got was the said promise. With three double headers in one| week, the club ts bard up for pitchers. At the present time we) have six hurlers with Hunky Schorr, the main southpaw of the staff, partly laid up with a bum shoulder. He plans to let “Bone-| set | % 4a AR ‘| Throwing of pop botties agd cushions at Portiand RE 3 out Batteries: W. Mitchell and Murphy; cf yen, ,Testerday’s scores were to & Sutherland and Koehler. . irs Game AT sax fRancisco— no om F > 3 Prough and Cook; Mae-| Quaid and Agnew. Second Game nw ® facramento s . ai San Francisco . 2 , ‘ Batterios Fittery and Schang: Lewis, Cogeh and Yelle rst Game | AT LOS ANGELE Rr nt. yr ' Balt Lake City . 4 1s 2 Los Angeles ae oe Batteries: Gould. Levereng and Byler; Pertica, Thomas and Bassler. Second Game fait Lake City us oe it Lake ? rae Loa Angeles .. « 6 19 2 Batteries: Culiop, Baum and Byler: Keating and Bassler, Lapaa. AMERICAN LEAGUE Won. 1 7 Chicago... New York . Cleveland &t. Loute ¥ 607} 613 aT Detroit. . Philadelphia ‘Washington 3, York 4, 8 Dempsey VARSITY WILL HAVE POWERFUL | BACKFIELD When Washington's football “11” takes the field this year the Sun | Dodgers should baast of one of the | beat backfields on the Coast. There be of Siwashes tied an extra/ wit be host of veterans back for the forward line, but the backfield will be composed almost entirely of veterans if the formation of the team runs true to the present dope, | Only one of the 1919 backfleld regu jars will be lost to the local varaity Art Tieison, who started out the sea gon last year as an end only to wind up in the fullback berth, will have to be replaced. He graduated in June, Both Ray Eckmann and Ray But wer were considered two of the best halfbacks on the Coast last year. | And then Young Ray Francis! rxmann is playing his second year the other young southpaw on the| of varsity football and grid critics staff, is more or leas of 4 question. | 11, nave seen the little fellow in ac They will open setter” Spencer, of Los Angeles, fix him up when he reaches the South: | era hamlet. Local doctors say that a couple of Vertebrae are out of place in Schorrs’ back. Ray has leoked mighty sweet on ‘ hie twe tripe te the mound, but | Ue Predict great things for him. he will be under a big strain dur. | HITS SMALL ing the coming few weeks. If he| BUT SPEEDY comes thru as well as he has Eck” has natural speed andujs a demonstrate’ during the two starts|Teat open field runner. While’ he's Tmade here he will be pretty|small, weighing around the 150 he well fixed. ARY AND GARDNER KICK THRU Bob Geary has demonstrated 9 return to form and Harry Gardner is pitching a steady brand of ball. | Whether or rot “Socks” Seibold and | Al Demaree will be able to kick| thru with pair of good galnes in & week remains to be seen Ot course the pitchers will have Letier weather to work in down South than they have here The warm weather loosens up the hurt pound mark, he is solidly built. He's & 10-second man in the dashes and performed on the Washington track team last year, He has been working furniture store and has hardened his muscles by tossing around tables, chairs and other household brice Butler, who earned the name of in hitting the line, will be out for the other halfback job. He ix one of the best line plungers ever turned out at i the “U." He had a lot of trouble in ery’ sora’ aud they =e be able, fumbling line last year, but with to wor wice @ week. | the experience of a season behind him In order for the gang to stay tn the race for the Coast league pen-| "0 Sbould be a valuable man this! nant they must win at least half) of thelr games on this road trip.| mrank Townsend, former Franklin Pe ge aga be we = — | high school star, has the best chance e -7 sor of making good. He did some stellar Lake around at home it’s only a| miracle that will keep them out Fr bat hekipe. the Hine teat sence, first place. “Ham™ Green and a a young fellow named Harper, a pair of backs from the frosh team last year, will also have to be watched. Greene, who is one of the few colored stars to be considered as football matertad at Washington, has shown in his work on the gridiron at Broadway high school and on the frosh team that he has the makings of a great open field runner. Harper is a fine line plunger Johnny Wilson, another 1919 frosh Pet. | backfield man, is being talked of as $25 | first toam matertal. ssa | Hyndemann and Waechter, second 468 string fullbacks of the 1919 varsity, NATIONAL LEAGUE Laat ty Pittsbure Chicago... St. Louis. Boston eee Philadetphia ..... Chicago 4, Brook! New York 4 Cinetunat! 1 St. Louis §. Philadelphia 2 ROUND COAST LEAGUE BASES ‘Vernon leads the Coast league today as & result of Sunday's double victory over the Beavers and Sait Lake's loes of two to the Angela, ‘The Tigers took the first game 5 to 3, and the second ¢ to 1 H | back position. Both showed a lot of 495 | promine last season. Bob Abel is back for his old berth at quarterback. He ran the team in heady style last year and {t will take a mighty good man to beat him out of his job. Coach Allison has sounded the cal! for first practice for the afternoon of September 15. NATIONAL NET MEET OPENS TODAY Eyes of tennis fans thruout the) country are centered on the national | singles championships, which open today at Forest Hills, N. Y. With such stare as William Tilden, Clarence Griffen, Willie Johnston, Norris Williams, Garland and an un usually large field of state represen- tatives, some of the best tennis play of the season is looked for. Seattle will be represented in the big meet by Marshall Allen, the beat Se ne india cece uingtt with [Of the local racquet wielders. Wil y baif of|Uam Burrill, of Tacoma, is also en tered. Umpire Eason featured the last gama By winning both games, Loe A took the series from the Rees, fi ‘The Senators had an easy time taking two from the Seals by scores of 4 to 3 and § to 3. They eaptured the morning game in the Lith Inning by scoring two runs without making « hit, derricked the next | up Inte second piace, the bases full in the Se ninth broke a 2-to-2 tie, --~ | The Cubs made the third home team to win out in the ninth, Terry's double, with Tyler on second, upset the Robina, CANADIAN NET at PLAY OPENS hits, and the Gla The Canadian tennis champion of the series by ¥ fetory brought them to within a point of the Reds, and one game behind the leading Robina. | ships get under way on the courts of jthe Vancouver Tennis club today Gertrude Schreiner and = Mrs. Bourque are Seattle's entries in the British Columbia tourney, ffective in the pinches, won from Philadelphia, § got four hits out of four MISKE AND DEMPSEY END TRAINING FRIDAY BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Aug.) 30.—With one more week before| their championship fight here, Jack | Dempsey and Billy Miske today | saw an end to their training. Both | camps reported themselves satisfied | with the development of the scrap-| pers and prospects were that the! heavy work would be ended Fri- day. Miske had expected to loaf Sun day but 500 fans tavaded his camp and the challenger crawled into} ving togs to show what he can do. He roughed his partners for six rounds and went thru his stunts Dempsey sloshed around a ring made slippery by heavy rains, but he entertained the fans, Demps clouts were landing hard, launch-| ing out from his swaying crouch in| the old familiar way Promoters of the big battle an- Nounced all their plans completed POWDER PUFFS, EH! | AKRON.—There are women trom} entered in the Buckeye} national championship | Powder puffs will not| shoe tournament, be barred, [us NEFF IS IN LOS ANGELES Chet Neff, Seattle lightweight, han returned to Los Angeles, where he | is expected to be in line for some wan re-| big matches noon. Neff won the | Canadian title not long ago when he defeated Charley McCarthy at Prince Rupert. HUGGINS’ GUESS NEW YORK.—-Miller Huggins be today. The ticket sale ported satisfactory. EW YORK, Aug. 30.—Ted Lewis, giish welterweight champion and former world title holder, will engage | In his first match since his return from England when he hooks up with Young Nell, of Allentown, Pa.,> at Philadelphia, September 15. They will box eight *rounds, American league next October will be the one that gets the breaks from now on It is said that chivalry is an out- growth of feudalism. Large gobs of rain hung a K. O. on the second game of the r , will be played next Sunday, at Columbia field. If the Mount Baker team wins, the series is over, the third game will be played at the Coast league park September 12. hard during the summer in his dad's | | “Bullet” last year by his great work | year. Of the first team veterans last year | jare doped to fight it out for the full-| |the Philadelphia Barge club second} | and» Norway | | eves the team which will lead the! THE SEATTLE STAR and Billy Miske M “The Harley of the Coast” * * * * * * * * WASHINGTON HALFBACK IS 10-SECOND MAN Ray Eckmann Expected to Star RAIN HALTS STAR JUNIOR BASEBALL SERIES ker-Felix club junior title series for The Star’s baseball trophy Sunday. ees Oe de tein as they won the first game, but if the Felix ‘club want |’ FIRST TIME JACK | WILL RISK HIS TITLE One week from today Jack Demp- ney, world’s heavyweight champion, will defend his title for the first time, when he climbs into the ring for his 10-round encounter with Billy Miske, the St. Paul heavyweight, at Benton Harbor, Mich. While there isn't a seribe in the country who gives Miske a chance to beat the champion, everybody ts interested in the showing that Demp- sey will make, It will be the first real bout that Dempsey has had since he won the title from Jens Wil lard at Toledo a year ago July 4. Miske, who suffered from curva ture of the spi about @ year ago. in maid to be a “new man,” but like one writer aptly expresses it, “Miske will probably have curvature of the chin when Dempsey cracks him.” Minke has held his own with Demp- sey in two nodeciston bouts, one a 10-round affair and one over the six: round routs, both bouts being before Dempaey won the ttle. But with Miske’s condition more or leas of a big riddle and Dempsey reported to be In the same fine fettle Fast RAY ECKMANN “The Chick Harley of the Pacific Coast.” That's the rating given Ray Eckmann, the midget half- back of the University of Washington grid squad last year, | who is expected to be one of the star backfield men on the coast this season. Football practice will get under way at the local institution jin about two weeks, Coach Allison calling first practice for | the afternoon of September 15. YANKS CLEAN UP IN OLYMPIC WATER SPORTS BY HENRY L. FARRELL BRUSSELS, Aug. 20.—America added to its rowing laurels by win- ning three of their four events yesterday and finishing second in the other. The most popular races were the tight oar, which the navy crew won, and the single scull, which went to Jack Kelly of Philadelphia. The United States naval academy crew established a new world rec- ord for 2,000 meters in six minutes, five seconds, defeating the Leander | crew of British starn by half a length. Be) free stylo swim at Antwerp He won the Onal in one minute, one and two-fifths seconds, bettering the old mark by one second. Kealoha and Harria, both of Honolulu, were second and third, and Merald, Aus- tralia, fourth. Another new mark was made in the $00-meter relay, which the American team won in 10 minutes, 4 2-5 seconds, compared with the! old record of 10 minutes, 10 1-8 neconda Australia was second, England third and Sweden fourth. ‘The 200-meter breast stroke went| to Matmroth, Sweden, with Hen- ning, Sweden, second; Aaltouen, Kelly's time in the single sculls! iniand, third, and J. Howell, Onk-| was seven minutes, 35 seconds.|iand, Cal, fourth, in 3 minutes) Both he and the Englishman, Beres-|4 2.5 neconds. ford, were exhausted at the finish.| Pinkston, San Francisco, won the| In the double Wainwright, New York, second, and | Thelma Payne, Portland, third. In the 100-meter ladies’ team! race, America waa first, with Eng- land second and Sweden third America was defeated for second place in water polo by Belgium. 7 to 2 third, In the two-oared race, with cox- swain, in which America had noj| entry, Italy was first, France sec- ond and Switzerland third Duke Kahanamoku, Honolulu, set an Olympic record in the 100-meter Sports Told im a Line Seattle wins series from Oaks, four games to one. Vincent Richards wins Meadow club tennis cup, Kittitas county closes season on blue grouse. Albert Ivins wins grand American trap tourney at Cleveland, Portland boxing commission plans big ring season. No smoker for Seattle fans this week, New attendance record made in New York—39,000. Norman Ross annexes big honors in Olympic swimming. “Babe” Ruth bit by insect. Will be out 10 days. C. E. McKelvey heads shoot at Seattle Gun club, National net singles opens at Forest Hills, N. Y. Art Griffen, of Memphis, bought by Giants, Guy Céoper, of Vancouver, hurler, bought by Seattle. Seattle leads Coast league in hitting at .297. Vardon and Ray defeat Cuthbert and Gillespie, Sir Barton smashes record for mile and 3-16, TO BUILD YACHT RACER VANNITIE’S GHOST MONTREAL, Aug. 30.—Charles E.| NEW YORK.—AIl that remains| Nicholson, designer of the Shamrock | o¢ the once gay Vanit IV, challenger of the American yacht- > ey venues te the) ing trophy recently, will design ala barca hull, It is beached at City Maple Leaf, Canadian challenger, ac-| Island, where her bronze makes a} cording to A. C, Ross, promoter of| tempting morsel for bidding junk the Canadian challenger Imen QUANTITY, NOT QUALITY, WON BY J. H. DUCKWORTH and Marathon events. (Special Cable) Our victory was largely due to ANTWERP, Aug. 40,—Altho|the fact that we had big teams in| America won the Olympic games| all events, thus enabling us to! she was badly beaten on flat events.| score points with men running in The great lesson we must learn,| third, fourth, fifth and sixth places. according to Head Coach Jack} Hven thone victorios were not ax Moakley, 1s to get busy and develop! clean as Coach Moakley would have our runners. liked, We are still mpreme in the} In the hundred meters they got sprint but the other nations excel|a bad start, owing to marksmen in the 400 and 10,000 meters!talking to an unknown competitor. that he was when he fought Willard these two bouts mean nothing, The big thing ts to get Dempsey started in actual fighting, and then, too, Dempaey needs the coin, as the legal battle with Uncle Bam and the Prevailing prices of silk shirts, tooth- some grub and much soaring in the clouds, the Dempsey coffers must be replenished. TEX RICKARD TO PROMOTE ALL SPORTS here is one man tn the sport world who usually gets what he wants He is Tex Rickard Tox mayen 3 There is nothing definite In the report that Mickey MacKay, the brilliant rover of the Vancouver hockey team of a few years ago, would rejoin the Millionaires this season. This was the statement of | Frank Patrick, owner of the British Columbia team, who is a Seattle visitor. sculls, without | finals of the fancy diving. Adler, . * coxswain, Kelly and Paul Costello| sweden, was second and Priest, Los|, ‘MacKay didn't play last ~ won in 7 minutes, 9 seconds, with| Angeles, third he wae wettecing 2 Seas Italy second and France third America made a “slam” in the| wre’, im A collision w “ess Switzerland won the four-oared| ladies’ xpfingboard diving. Aileen! patrick waen't sure if “Cyclone” race in 6 minutes, 54 seconds, with | Riggin, New York, was first; Helen < Taylor, the veteran center, would be playing again this year or not. Tay lor has a good position with the Cana. dian government and may stay re tired. The Vancouver prexy brought word that Pete Muldoon, Seattle puck pilot, was at last making good in the lacrosse game in Vancouver. There are only two teams in the British Columbia metropoiis, but the games are drawing big in spite of the lack of varied competition, MAILS WILL “DO” Forest Cady, Sacramento catcher, and former big league performer, be- lieves that Walter Mails will get by with the Cleveland Indians. veteran of the Boston Red Sox, who has been catching Mails all season, | thinks he has enough stuff and speed | to make a go of it. Seattle fans are particularly anxious to see what kind of a showing Mails makes with the Indians because Walter has done most of his pitching in the Queen City PLAN JUNIOR TENNIS MEET Plans are under way for an inter. city junior tennis tourney bi the junior net players of t jand ‘Tacoma tennia clubs. The meet may be held next week. Armand Marion, Washington state junior champion, is making the necessary arranger ts for the Seattle team. | When the pistol went off Edwards/ures in flat events Albert Hill, of England and others were caught|the London clerk, was winner of relaxed. In the 200 meters Ed-|the 800 and 1,500 meter events and| | wards sprained his thigh in the] Rudd was first in the 400 and third | sem! -final, Jin the 800 meter run, We got second with Earl Eby in| The great mistake we make in the 00 meters, third with Shields | distance races is to depend solely jin the 1,500 meters, All our men|upon stars to win |dropped out in the 56,000 meters! For instance, we counted upon | while one Yankee survived the hot| Joie Ray in the 1,500 meters, yet pace set in the 10,000 meters Ray was beaten hopelessly, Shields There were two outstanding fig- with third actually beating our GAMES FOR UNITED STATES American one-mile champlon, It was Woodring, a second-string man who captured for us the 200 meters. If we wish to recover the laurels lost at the next Olympiad we must look for new materials, We must go beyond the colleges and few crack athletic clubs and discover and develop likely boys in our pub- lie and high schools, More local meetings must be held for youths from 16 to 18 years old Cady, a} MONDAY, On BY LEO #. LASSEN wr the finals in The Star’s city junior baseball Series well under way the summer program of local instigated by this newspaper will come to a close soon, Dur. | ing the past few months three big events were staged— |The Star Woodland Park tennis meet, the city swimming jchampionships and the junior baseball league. Each has |been successful in fts own field and the participants have |demonstrated by their fine co-operation that they welcome ja chance to help the program along. The Star can |giving these sports publicity, but it remains for the | viduals to furnish the competition. This is the first program of local sports ever attempted in Seattle, and be jcause of the success of each in its own field, plans are al | ready being daid for next year. Experience in handlii events this season will help in making such efforts |future more successful. In the end we hope to give individ. uals the chance to become sport participants as well as Spec tators, The winter program to be attempted by The revival of the city basketball league, this year and plans will soon be under way for organization, | tennis player, has taken enough interest in Marshall Allen, net prodigy, to give him lessons over a two weeks’ period should interest to Seattle tennis veterans. There are several promising in Beattie who need instruction before they can better their | veteran players can do much for the game by teaching these same young: : ‘The announcement that Willlam Tilden, Teeognized world’s a stern all they know about the finer points of tennis. The California players carried off a host of Washington state net ships iwn't to be bragged about by Seattle. Improving the play youngsters who will noon be playing in the state and Coast of the means of keeping the state titles if Washington, Advertising for Seattle thru athletics is of the city. Take the case of Gus Pope for The summer boxing in Seattle. The inclement weather had caused the postponement of the Wednesday means that the fall season is about to open, operating here we should ve summer cards have been good at = ment in the talent used, at that. Clay Hite gave us a pretty goad) of an all-round card at the Arena Wednesday. The i200 SalSeneni ae shows if the class is there, but them no from some of the bouts that we've =f Fait men have visited that .: on out and grabbed the Piper . q t “beat display 3 fii a south fork of the Snoqualmie suring 18% and pounds. The fish was on & Taft's early thfs week. | The King County Game commission: | has a fisn trap located at the bay locks of the government ‘expect to take a large number of te | “eea-run" cut-throats which yearly come | up Into the fresh water to spawn, hes | G3 |are also completed at Lake the Eastern brook trout are run very soon, from which source ple of million eggs are to be | Continuing the plan of handling | this county we will soon be able te fe stock the streams and lakes to the <@ everybody, “Lefty” Hughes is rated as the premier first sacker of The Star Jun- jor league. He plays with the Felix club. Here's “Lefty” going after a wild heave, COX TO ENTER RING SOON Dick Cox, the Portland Coast league right fielder, plans to enter | the ring this year, according to re- It begins to look like D. ©. Dore) ant would cop the grand JONES ON WAY TO OLD ELI Tad Jones, Seattle shipbuilder, who season, and Bryant, with & weighing 5 pounds LIne Sear "ssa Sut, S| THYE TO TEACH Haven, He will callout the Bulidos| “WRASTLERS grid candidates for the first practice September 7, | MORAN BEATS Ted Thye, recognized mid mat champion of the world, has D6 appointed to teach wrestling at (i? Multnomah club in Portland, Or CHICAGO, Aug. 20, — Charley PAN THE REDS Be White, Chicago lightweight, lost al NEW YORK.—Gotham fans 10-round decision to Pal Moran, the| the Reds are done as pennant 0m New Orleans boy, here Saturday.! tenders. They are panning Moran was too aggressive for the| temperamental players for local miller, ; cold in recent games when beni | ports from the Rose City, He's a| largest bass displayed during the sesame welterweight Piper @ Taft are giving a $27.60 a reel to the fellow who produces $% largest fish of this speckle during, funces, ts Tei, September 15th is the closing date mumeaoetaeanadtdaee Suter 28078 da pmdAe ers ane Ar e ¥ bwadewmenee > maeusnwea Mu@aszenawaenanx<dw