The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 25, 1920, Page 10

RAPIDLY HEADS FIELD OF BEST 20 PLAYERS ON LOCAL LINKS BY ALEX C, ROSE UT of Seattle's many hundreds of golfers the task of picking the “twenty’ best” is not so hard, but when it comes to rating them—well that is something different be- cause there is so little to! “choose between them that -only a very close scouting of the records reveal the an-| swer. At the top of the list comes “Dixie” Fleage®, who won the city title from | & very classy field last June. ‘FLEAGER IS CONSISTENT WINNER “Dixie” has also been carrying off Prizes and club championships from | the Seattle Golf club for many years and he is recognized around local Golf circles as Seattle's best golfer, | || Position Bteel—the Big Four from Beacon eee a nesses eeeees DOM Hill, These youngsters have been JACK BALLINGER. ...- Seattle Playing together for a long time and THERON RONGERUD.. -.. Jefferson in Northwest meets have always been well up in the running. At Spokane in 1919 Griswold beat Speirs in the finals, while this year “at Vancouver the latter went into ats Paul Ford has not been playing! )Much golf this year, but he is a ‘grand little player and without him @ big gap would be left in this 20. Man selection. Most of the names that complet ‘the list get their playing on the mu- nicipal course on Beacon Hill and) there are plenty more young stars) Out there that bid fair to give the) nie Jones and Jim Forde. The latter | bas “just as many shots in his G “ADVANCES Down at “No. 14” we find an| Russell, club captain of the Seattle ‘team. Since taking up the golf game ‘& few years ago Sam has made rapid the front and if he keeps improving he may yet reach the ul fe Both homers came in the first in- ning of each tilt, the second hom- AUTUMN PASTIMES No, 1—Gueasing Joe Waterman's nationality. No. 2—Trying to find out where CETICAGO, Sept. 3—Names of! sonie Austin buys his shirt, alleged “fixers” of world series games between Chicago and Cincin- Mati in 1919 have been obtained, H. H Brigham, foreman of the Cook county grand jury investigat- Ing baseball scandals intimated. “We have an idea who the “fixer” was and we think we are on his track,” Brigham said. There is no truth in the rumor that Clay Hite invited Nate Druximan out to lunch Wednes- day. One nice thing about Frank rme yer An- Arnold Rothstein, New York gam- ae 7 K. 0. Te wa ere Bier and part owner of the Havre| 47 aerson in Lacoma eo Grace race track; Abe Attell, other night was that Referee former featherweight champion; Bill! Schock wasn’t called on to Burns, former White Sox pitcher.| gine a decision. Frank car- -and Hal Chase, recently banishe! .- it ¢: le of, ‘ from baseball, were mentioned to-| Td it in his right mitt. day in connection with the alleged | plot to throw games. ‘The betting syndicate offered to Pay $100,000, according to reports here of the plot. Bets on the| games were placed thruout the country by the syndicate, it was said. TWO RING CIRCUS IN MAJOR BALL BY L. R. BLANCHARD dim Flynn isn’t going to leave Seattle for a while yet. He says he’s been here long enough to vote and he will vote here until he gets a headline fight if he has to wait until the 1952 presidenti>4 ‘election, Even if “Shorty” Shaw can beat ‘Win Gower at three-cushion billiards Gower can still go out to the ball game, Wonder if Bill Clymer is saying “I told you #0” as he watches Walt Mails ring up his wins for the Cleve- NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—A two-| land club. fing circus was on tap for fandom today. BIL, CLYMER HAS HIS Co- In Cleveland the Indians and) ‘White Sox were winding up their} three-game series, which has an! portant bearing on the American oe championship. In Brooklyn the Giants were starting a series “with the Dodgers which was ex- pected to decide the National leaguc pennant. When Walter Mails, the Brooklyn @utcast, held the White Sox to three LUMBUS TEAM GOING LIKE A HOUSE AFIRE IN THE AM) I- CAN ASSOCIATION THIS YEAR. NOW COAST CONTENDERS SAN CO, 6.— Thits yesterday the Indians winning, scence er” ci og fourth =2 to 0, he sret bed ipe Linde ‘© | straight win over Los Angeles, Gra Mate and put his club oat of dan-| ram's Seals edged into second of being overtaken by Giea- 's crew today. % The Dodgers have onty to win two cames with the Glants to cinch | the pennant. RIDDLE NOW AT K. OF C. Stan Riddle has been appointed - physical director at the Knights of| Columbus club. He succeeds Frank Maxwell, who has resigned to go on @ farm. Riddle is a former Univer- of Washington athlete. He was house director at Peja play- the new posi- Place, four games behind the league- leading Vernon Tigers, Easick’s outfit suffered their first setback of the series with Oakland. The present series in Los Angeles has boosted the Seals from second division to pennant “contenders” while it has lowered the Angels from second position to fourth, a game ahead of the Bees. Seattle's double defeat of the Angels. Balt Lake them to begin their series, |was to have started Monday, which How Rose Ranks Golfers Jefferson Club in Lead Player 1. .ecees....H. A. “DIXIE” FLEAGER «+e+-CLARE GRISWOLD...... -CLARK SPEIRS «+-ee2-.BON STEIN... sEORGE TILDEN JIM FORDE....... --ROY CAMPBELL... --.-HARRY HJERT... -GORDON HAW -2.SAM RUSSELL WALLY RONGERUD. VICTOR M’KILLOP. JOHNNIE JONES. --DETMER ANDERSON JACK POMEROY. of Sac: | weight, ramento yesterday put the Siwashes | fireman, in third place, Just a point ahead Bremerton jast night in a four-round | and | go. Portland are still waiting for the | Puebloan’ weather in the Northwest to permit | showed that he was game by coming Club +... -Seattle .. Jefferson eeeee. Jefferson sees. Jefferson . Seattle e 2) Jefferson Seattle “Earlington .. Jefferson .. Jefferson - Jefferson ALL COLUMBUS WAS THE CELLAR sli aabidehieheienaeistietiens —*# MONEY WAS NO OBJECT Benny Moore, colored fighter | In Oakland, took several on the | | chin and flopped. He was told | that if he didn’t get up he wouldn't get any money. “Don’t | | meed the money that had,” re- | turned Benny, from the 1 mat. Which reminds us that Jim Davia, coloreé painter, who elected to bat tle Eddie Moore at Tacoma the other night, says he has decided to stick to} the paint business, Jim wag on the floor twice and he fitted just like rug both times. BILL CUNNINGHAM SAYS THE ONLY THING H WORRIES ABOUT SINCE PAUL JOINED THE IS THE FIRST AND THE FIFTEENTH. There |s also no truth in the rumor that Nate Druximan will name the next boy Clay. Joe Wopp says he never likes to see his name in the paper. Reports say that Bob Harper's title | as the handsomest boxer in Seattle is endangered. the village. Cornell is due for a big) year on the gridiron. Coach Dobie is starting his annual hard luck wail. WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE BUGS WHO WANTED TO MAKE * WARES _IN- STEAD OF CLYDE? ‘The Rippe family will NOT root for Brooklyn in the world’s series if Cleveland wins the American league pennant. HECTOR BEATS JIM FLYNN Young Hector, Bremerton heavy- handed Jim Flynn, another bad beating at Hector hit the almost at “persevering will Flynn back for more. Three thousand fans saw the bout THAT WAS LEFT BELOW, Romeo Hagen's back in| Pueblo | THE SEATTLE STAR COAST BOY TURNS IN SIXTH STRAIGHT | “| BY DEAN SNYDER | What a southpaw he ts—this Walter Mails, the Pacific comst spe clal delivery package which Tris Apeaker has added to his pennant | fighting braven, | Cleveland at last has a lefty who fits into the pitching staff of the Jim Bagby Stanley Covelenkie & Co. like @ postage stamp fits the upper right hand corner of an enve He hasn't taken a licking yet. Friday Mails turned in*his sixth straight win for the Indians, holding the Chicago White Sox at bay, win Se ning 2 to 0, It was the best game lthat he has pitched so far for the tribe, He showed that he had the |nerve when he struck out two men with the bases filled in the fifth in ning Manager Spoke showed him off on |Labor day against the Browns. Jimmy Burke's swatters gleaned a |coupla runs off him, but the Indians salvaged seven, BEATS ATHLETICS His next turn came against Con nie Mack's kids, He also made them look foolish and turned in a 6-to-? victory for the Redskins On the third start Malle was righter than @ rabbit. He blanked the Nats 1 to 0, That game stamp ed him as one of the best south paw packets that has ever been dropped into the big league mail | anek., ‘ To win against the Washington club he was opposing a pitcher in |Zachary, who was making the In }dians wave thelr shillalahs in vain, He was called upon to whow a reat heart, a lot of brains and a : —— shoot that had a little something extra on its sigzag. HAS THE HOP Such crities ax Umpire milly Evans, Jimmy McAleer and Hughey Duffy say that the Sacramento re eruit has the most stuff they've looked over since the days of Doc White, Rube Waddell and Eddie Plank. He has so much speed that the ball burns thru the air with an odd hop at the finish. He'll win more games, That's a pipe. The Indians only need a few more to canter home to the tape With Bagby and Covey still holding up under the terrific strain which they have been under all summer the newcomer is the big cheese at the Indians’ banquet. * WALTER Personally Mails has a big phy nique, capable of standing a lot of | work. He's very sociable, too. They joalled him “Chatty” Mails out West He is keen to be on a pennant winning team so that he can rub it in on Your Uncle Wilbert Rob inson in the world’s series, Robbie had him once, but mistook him for a poor portal card and mailed him back to the const. Matis has hit the calcium lights in an opportune time, He will play « big part in the Indians’ war dance the next few days. The coaster ix the Iatest wtar to hit the big league white way, and, | BY ROSS TENNEY (Special to The Star) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept Walter Mails practically clinched the American league pennant for the Indians Friday when he won his sixth straight victory for Cleveland by bits and trimming them 2 to 0, That gives the Indians a margin “DIXIE” FLEAGER IS NO. 1 IN SEATTLE GO SEATTLE GOLF CLUB STAR Mails holding the White Sox to three * LF RANKING FOR 192¢ Is Shining Along Big League White Way| ‘Chatty’ Southpaw Makes Good * BLANKS WHITE SOX IN CRUCIAL GAME |Holds Indians in League Lead ' MAILS SHOWS RARE FORM IN HURLING CLEVELAND TO WIN OVER CHICAGO a Louls Seagraves, the former star tackle of om hand yesterday the Washington team, wae opinion that the men Idoked ae geod folks, he's sure burning a bright lit-| Of three less defents than the White) se any Washington team that he had sagen | Sox, with only nine more games to] MOE O™ play, while the Sox have six. I fF «i ALTE PT aN / | Mails looked like a million doliarn,| other veteran football man out to look | allowing one hit each to Eddie Gol-|%* "8Ach over, | ins, Joe Jackson and Hap Felsch.| toute tia Pray. former star end at | Everybody else was helpless and! nrosdway. in conching the prep school | Mails wound up his pitching per-,/ineemen turning out for the Tiger squad i | formance by retiring the Sox in one, - Wi a ; two, three order in the last four in vole tate iat Joe Waterman, manager | carto Flores, | weight, | | | Only twice was ne im danger, In | the fourth the Sox bunched two. sin he fused to allow Flores to be- | gles after one was down and Shano | low @ main event here, but that he | Collins cracked @ liner that sent @ tee ae fixe &,feet rest | chill thru the fans’ hearts. But lit Sempnien of homie. | Pleven will be je Joey Sewell leaped over, made a , place | shoe-top catch and converted the Sir deegnre’ Stter October 29, e078 | smash into a lightning double play In the fifth inning Mails pitched Jee Gorman wit! be © bury ringman| An inning that is probably without Hiaira — po ew parallel in a crucial big league game. oop tye | walking three batters and fanning F hod three out of six men that faced him Baird and he may not be in He first whiffed Swede Risberg, then of shape for two hard fights. | suddenly lost control and passed : | Schalk, Faber and Strunk in succes sion, Tris Speaker called the game and raced in to say to Mails, “You've shifted too much to the sidearm de It Gene Tunney, who ts at Camp Lewis claiming is the real A. E. ¥. tweight champion, really was in he claims he is, he fight rr + Tepite’t fe flehting anything mat | livery. Get back to your overhead been | 8tuff.” Mails followed the sugges: mane of the pre- | tion and fanned Buck Weaver and Eddie Collins, the latter rated as the greatest money player in baseball to. day, It was a*game exhibition. Malls has clinched his place as a regular hurler for the Indiand and will cer. tainly get. his turn with Coveleskie bout with Young Zuau in Tacoma the Jother night. Mason is a rooting, tooting sort of fighter who should be popular | here, wee: | and Bagby, in the world’s series, He Tiny Herman, Tacoma heavyweight, | CVO? ers inst eying gard will box Bam Langford, the Boston Tar| WhO has up till now been one of the | baby, in Portland, October 6. | Indians’ slab mainstays this season EDDIE PINKMAN PICKS __ DAVIS TO BEAT TILLMAN Eddie Pinkman, former Seattle; fowever, it must be admitted that Ughtle, who has long laid aside the| Tillman has advanced in the ring | Levinsons for good, arises to remark | game since he fought Pinkman, and that he thinks that Travie Davis, |is now rated as one of the best wel the Everett welter champion, will | terweights in the game, Portland beat Johnny Tillman when they | nei ribos thought well of him when he meet at the Arena Wedn y. jfought a 10-round draw with Alex As Eddie has fought both of ‘em,|‘Trambitas the other day in Milwau he should be able give the fans | kie, Ore. @ bit of “low down" on the mill. | ‘Tillman, used to the 10-round Radice fought a draw with Tillman| game, will be up against the handi here when the St. Paul boy was alcap of the speed in a lightweight and stopped = ‘Travie| four session scrap, ustom, Davis in a punch a few years bac ed to the four-round game, will have But still die thinks that Davis| that edge, will win because Tillman, according Both boys are working out daily to the Shrinking Violet, is a mark|at the Arena, Four other bouts will complete the card for a good left hand, which is Davis’ best bet, sc ag | da ineligible year. me wit ate tn ‘Club Sport Programs NO. 3—Y. W. C. A. | to play ot Franklin this Everett heh schoo! ie trying to line up h the Salt Lake high school the weason Seattle women and girls, who seek recreation thru) gymnasium work ind competitive sports, will find a big program of such Young Womén's Christian asso- activities at elation this winter Here's at the Y, the w gymnasium schedule Cc. As Beginners’ class at 6 p.m. on Mon- days and Thursdays. Advanced class at 7 p. m. on same days, Dancing from 7 to & classes of same days (Interpretive dances), Beginners’ class at 8 p. m. Thurs: Danging Thursday classes Tuesday and mornings. Beginners’ class Monday and Tues- day at 10: Women up for 30, \ and girls wishing to ‘sign these gym and dancing classes can do so by registering with Elizabeth Dickerson, in’ charge of the department, Sarah Maxwell is aiding Miss Dickerson in this instruc. tion. SWIMMING INSTRUCTION And then there are the swimming classes organized each month with Anne Borstell and Katherine Baxter in charge. Join these Miss Dickerson, ming classes every day. | at hours designated at the club, are open to th Swimmers wishing clas to also register with There are swim Daily dips, © women wishing to swim at 25 cents a “dip.” Besides Miss season of Dickerson this kind of recreation, is planning a big competitive athletics, A women's basketball league is to be organized after holidays, the Christmas It is hoped to have teams IATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1920. + + & * & VARSITY | SIWASHES GRIDDERS | WIN PAIR SHOWING FROM FORM SACS BY TOM OLS! PACIFIC COAST | LEAGUB Altho no predictions ve been | vernon . OES fo made by the coaches, the University |#an Francisce soses- on’s chances of copping | Seattle of Washington's chances of copping | feats 1 the opening game with Whitman | Kah Wake ciuy ltwo weeks from today are good, | Oakiand Coach Allison put the men thru | Pertiand Sacramento their first actual scrimmage at last night's practice, The men did well,| With the rain man taking a wellde and with two weeks left, should| served layoff yesterday, the round into fair condition to meet) washes stepped out and captured the husky Whitman team | brace of games from the visiting ¥! Injuries are causing the coaches! pers from Sacramento by 64 and plenty of worry. There has been no | scores. serious injury so far this weason,| Long Joe Dailey was the laa but scrimmaging is lable to nip off was responsible for the first vieto some star any time. when his scorching «ingle sent C Dame Rumor has spread a story| ter Elliott home with the wim “Tramp” Mur } tally in the ninth. |Dhy, star at Washington during the| Joe got into the game In the nind |seasons of 1916, 17 and 18, would| frame, after reginter at the University this week, | twobane cl | Because of the measure passed dur-|¢Ty, 4nd he looked like “the ing the war this would make him | 4d sent Pinch Hitter Buddy Ri jeligible to play this season, He) back to the bench via the strike-o@t | would probably be used in the line |Foute for the third out, or at fullback. Buddy and Grover tried The scrimmaging lasted yesterday | *aueeze play on the second for only @ half hour, Signals were | Pitched. Peo ger Se — peal missed @ ir, Grov c lays were practiced, | “TM gattooted by Catcher Baldwig, The b ‘* were put thru their| For six innings Gardner worked first tackling practice, Ervin Dailey | reat style, but the Sacs, with t stil remains the luminary star in| id of Umps McGraw’s weird calli the backfield practice work. Ray | behind the plate, found him in am Eckman did some good dodging and| ‘losing sessions, but Joe stopped open field running, “Tubby” Norris | before further damage was done, still shows the effect of lack of| Bill Prough and Bob Geary Practice, but is expected to round | Mme fast and flossy twirling in @ into form shortly. payee gree Rahat i pres The line candidates are getting | Ped Onto Bill's delivery in t along well under the critical eye of | !2Ming for four hits, which produad Head Coach Allison. Allison shows| ‘three runs. Bohne’s triple sent the men that it's not altogether the | Ver, and Murphy came up and brawn that counts even in the line.| “pled, Sammy walking home, eee Geary allowed but*four hits, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25.—The| The game was played in one Coast football season got started to.| and 10 minutes, Today ts day with three games scheduled. day,” in honor of the poplin, At California field, Berkeley, thes baseman, and, weather p University of California was sched-| there will be a double header, uled to go up against the Olympic club, of San Francisco, for its initial game. At Reno the University of Nevada 4nd the California Farm school team from Davis will play. A third game was scheduled for Oakland, where St, Mary's college will meet the Mare Island navy yard. ‘The University of California-Olym- pic club contest drew the most in- terest, as it will give the first chance |” to see just what the California team, which is expected to figure heavily in the season's play on the Coast, looks like, It will be another week or two be- fore Oregon, Washington and South. ern California teams get started. % A lon the campus thet “ ce | > ‘7 Fd = 3 % Sheehan, compton, cf numooneuP er ccuneenumee Bl eccccnwwnn sun i Kenworthy, 2b... Strand, if | Elliott, as . oe eum noccenn? Fal eoccousecccons} leconountved | Heeconreoult 5 Sl emvomene CHICAGO, Sept, —_ 25,—(United Press.)—Football kicked off today with a rather feeble boot in the Mid-kest. With the exception of @ few unimportant local games, the opening of the season saw little activity. Nearly all big 10 coaches were keeping their hopefuls under jcover for the big show, which iene a week from today. Indiana, which made a great | showing toward the close of last | season, especially in its game with Syracuse, was to meet its ancient | Hoosier rival, Franklin college, at Bloomington today. Jumbo Steihm was the one big ten mentor to show his hand today. A line on the strength of the Michigan Aggies can be obtained | from the size of the score they are able to accumulate In their game with Kalamazoo at East Lansing. Other gumes in the Mid-West include: Coe and lowa Teachers at Cedar Rapids; Western Reserye and Toledo at Cleveland; St. Louis and | Cape Giradeau at St. Louis, and | Haskell Institute and Baker at Law. | rence. dy to Molwitz to Cady, —Gardner, hth with Ri on base? tery %, runs 6, hits bat out in eighth with 3 on Prous at bat ©: Gardner 5 plus, at bat 30. Credit t | Dailey; charge defeat to Niehaus tt | responmibie for—Facth 2, Fittery @, Gard= her 2, Niehaus 1. Time of game—1iiy Umpires—MecGrew and Anderson, Second Sheehan, rf. Compton, ef .. Orr, ae... Grover, Cook. © | enmuwewow Middleton, rf . | Bohne, 3b Murphy, enworthy, Strand, if . Eliott, ss Adams, ¢ Geary, p | eoresrinsetnmsesiilh Tad Jones, coach at Yale, has enough material out for 11 squads. eas *Eldred out, |. Score by innings: Sacramento " hits—Bohne, Murphy, Double from the various hospitals, five Y. ms to Elitott to Kenworthy, W. C. A. clubs, two teams from | Frederick & Nelson's and about four other squads yet to be named. An athletic club is to be formed which will include the basketball league privileges, During the winter “once-a-month” hikes, to the Y. W. C. A. camp on Bainbridge island, are also planned HORSEBACK RIDING CLASS } Horseback riding will also be fea tured at the “Y. W.” This instruc- on will be given once a week in co operation with the Sullivan Riding school. This class will not begin for a few weeks yet. A volley ball league is to be or ganized, too. Play will start in this | game soon. Every Friday night the gym is open for roller skating. Swimming demonstrations will be given on October 29 when a big tank carnival will be held at the “Y. W." pool. ASK FOR A. A. U, SWIM MEET ‘There has been an application made to the P. N. A. to hold the Northwest A. A. U. swimming cham- pionships for women to be held at the local club's pool. ‘This gives a pretty fair summary of some of the recreation work in classes and games that women and girls will have at the Y. W. C. A this year, Those not wishing, or not phy. sically able, to take part in class or group work or play can have in- dividual instruction by making ar. rangements with Miss Dickerson, Prough 3, Geary 1, Time of ee Umpires—Anderson and McGrew, At San Francisco— Vernon land . | “Battert Vormer; Krause At Los Angeles— San Francisco. Los Angel Batteries Scott and Bassler. At Portland—Rain. + AMERICAN LEAGUE Won, Last. Cleveland foago ... ew York . St, Louis Boston Washington Detroit Philadelphia. Cleveland New York Philadelptiia 10, Boston % NATIONAL LEAGUE Won, Rrooktyn New York Cinetnnatt + Pittaburg Chicago. St. Louls Borton Philadelphia Pittsburg Philadelphi Boston PACIFIC COAST LEAGUB BASEBAL Ral Pork TODAY—TW0O GAMES—13.30 P. ‘Take Fourth Ave. Car. ee ee eee Ce eee ee