The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 27, 1920, Page 10

BY DEAN SNYDER What a long road it has been for the “Todasco Kid.” Norman Elberfeld has proven that if one wants a thing bad enough to keep trying, the ace card eventu ally shows, and you take the trick He has been in baseball for 28 years, including service as both player and manager of big league and minor league clubs, and he ts on his first championship team this fan. The Little Rock Travelers came @cross and helped him realise his ambition to boast of championship spangies. Back in 1902 and 1903 he was a fork Americans, where he served Doth as player and pilot. He has always been of a fighting temperament. That's how he ac /@uired the spicy name of the “To basco Kid.” Elberfeld hag been fined more money and spent more time out of 5 E i ql a Ff fi BoPe Ee! Ms Ue i gig? BBG i : vit _ Travie BOTH BOYS IN PRETT GOOD CONDITION ‘Travie David, the Pacific coast wel- terweight champion, is favored to beat Johnny Tillman, the St. Paul crack, in their fight here Wednesday might at the Arena. Davis is picked to win because of his effective left swing. Tillman, ao cording to reports, is an open fighter, and Travie’s port mit is liable to find an effective parking place. Both fighters are working strenu- ously at the Arena gym daily. Davis goes thru his paces at 330. Tillman does his working an hour before. ‘The rest of the card follows: Billy Wright vs. Phil Jensen, wel I Bont Romeo Hagen, Val Sontag vs. mid- dieweights. Eddie Jackson va lightweights. Filipino Kid Martin va. Jim Bro- Grid Results Eastern Games at Cambridge — Harvard & Holy Cross 9. At Springfield—Springfield college 21, Bowdoin 0 At New Brunswick—Rutgers 7, Ursinus 14. Young Zuzu, At Syracuse—Syracase 65, Hobart 1. At Pairmount—Weet Virginia 7, West Virginia Wesleyan 0. At Washington, Pa—Washington and Jefferson 28, Bethany 0 At State’ College—Penn State 27, Muhlenbure 7 At Fhiladelphia—Pennsylvanta 35, Del- aware 0 At Schenectady—Union 0, Middlebury @ Western Games At Bloomington—Indiana 41, Prank 6. At Cefar Rapide—Coe 10, Iowa State Teachers 0 At Des Motnes—Drake 64, Penn col- re 0. At Galesburg—Knox 6, (Davenport, Ia.) 0 Pacific Const At Onkland—Mare Island Navy Yard 4, Bt. Mary's college 0. At Berkeley—University of California 31, Olympic elud 6. St. Ambrose North got away to s bad start, but pulled up in time, and hurled the Caras fo @ 6-to-2 win over the © The Browns batted Caldwell out of the box and scored five runs in the first inning, Uble stopped them, however, and the Indians won, 7 to 5. Cleotte pegged a wild throw over first base, and deprived himself of a shutout aver the Tigers. Score: White Box 4, Detrott 1. y's hero: Aaron Ward. The third baseman banged out two ers, and secounted for wiz of the puns that beat the Senators, 9 to 6. The average woman would rather have a little flattery than a lot of ‘ his own after 28 years in base dians. with the umpires. THE SEATTLE STAR Look who helped win the first pennant Norman Elberfeld ever set eyes on and could call 1 Moses Yellowhorse and Chief Wano are Oklahoma In- and paid a reported price of $10,000 lowhorse ts a fullbloadied Pawnee fith has announced his intentions ot | going to court over the posession of the Dixie star. ANOTHER BENDER The three Indians are Moses for the Little Rock slugger. Grif. | Indian. He won 21 games and lost but 7, and this is his first year im professional baseball ‘Wano came to the Travelers as an outfielder, but Elberfeld made a first basernan out of him and did a. good job of it He ts also an Oklahoma Indian. The big chief le a tricky baserunner and very fast on his Brottem, the third reskin, f « catcher, The Pirates have annexed Calvo is a Cuban. They used to call “Bing” Miller an Indian, but he isn’t. ‘Bing’ looks like one, tho. And, oh, how he can sock! made Babe Ruth a Broadway star. The picture of the “Tabasco Kid” himself was taken\! when the little scrapper was taking an enforced vacation in the grandstand after a bout e uses the same English on his bat that |» him to pair with Yellowhorse, The Cuban, Calvo, is an outfielder. He can hit and has a reputation of being one of the fastest men on the bases in the league. ‘They're a great bunch—thene pen- nantwinning Travelers—with their many nationalities But they had the stride to come in under the wire in a bot finish And the “To- basco Kid” supplied the wisdom and the old ginger thag made them hit on all cylinders. Davis Is Favorite to Beat Tillman COMPLETE’ BALL GAMBLING INVESTIGATION IS DUE CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—Complete ine) by officials, who said gamblers who vestigation of every scandal of base-| wagered on the last world series ball In recent years by the Cook | were located thruout the country, county grand jury was indicated to | On the theory that these gamblers day with the preparation of more| may have tried to fix the local| than 20 subpoenas for witnesses to! games, it was believed investigations | appear before jurors when sessions | may be made in other major league are resumed here Tucsda; ‘The world’s series of 19 the White Sox and Reds and Ameri. can and National league games this! series last year, he sald. year will be bared, according to As between | White Sox, Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the suspected “something” | after the first game of the world| Comiskey waid he voiced his suspicions to Pret sistant United States Attorney Hart-| dent Heydler, of the National league. ley Replogle. ‘That the spread to other cities was indicated Heydier, here today as a witness be investigation may be fore the grand jury, confirmed Com inkey's statement. ~ WASHINGTON FROSH GRID CANDIDATES TURN OUT BY TOM OLSEN week, after which he will put their! Dreshnes grid candidates for the | noses to the grindstone. Ben Tidball, | Valvesiy varsity, turn out for the first time this afternoon. ‘Thirty-seven yearlings called for sults of Washington *frosh |th® former varsity Linesman stay, | will assist Wick team into shape. Those who called for muita for the frosh team Saturday afternoon were: in whipping the) them were many prominent former |ley, Art Sutton, Mel McCoy, Tommy local hi#h school stars, Over 100|Murphine, Vernon Bellman, Vie Lee, | are expected out. Altho no schedule has been made) Kesor, out for the frosh so far this /“~,|wood, Len Henderson, Percy it is always customary for the Lee! year men to play most of the leading high school teams of the state. It may be possible that they will play frosh teams from Pullman, Uni- versity of Oregon and other confer. ence schools. Head Coach Sandy Wick plans to field, work the men easily for the first Martin Lanier and Larry Craatte, BOX HERE OCTOBER 13 Dan Salt, matchmaker of the Austin and Salt combination, begs to announce that Sam Langford, the Boston Tar Baby, will meet | Frank Farmer, the Tacoma, Wash., heavyweight, In the main event of their show October 13. Dan forgot to announce ust where the big go will be staged. The Crystal Pool, the usual acene of ‘an Austin and Salt program, will be open for such use after Oc- tober 3, when It closes for swim- ming for the season Frank {9 a surprise boy. He fooled the patrons of boxing in the LEONARD BEATS PAL MORAN EAST CHICAGO, Ind4., Sept. 27— Benny Leonard, champion light weight of the world, easily outfought Pal Moran of New Orieans here Sat- urday night. rush of hin old teammates when he pitched the Robina to a 4-to.2 victory over the Giants ene game of the pennant, Rube Marquard blocked the pennant | nd put Brooklys within | cha | stra |Charley Adams, Phil Glen, Arral Harold Sinclair, Louie Pit- law, Walt Jule, Arnie Snomila, Walt | Cameron, Thad Byrne, Sinclair Nich- | leson, Ed Hedwall, Ray Hell, Clay: | ton Rudberry, Alvin Morgan, Buster | Burnett, Dick Feek, Joe Dyke, Bill | could not be considered a football! Walker, Homer Ryan, Cecil Carlson, Joe Cook, Taylor Huston, Bob Scho- Rufus Carman, W. J. Abel, City of Destiny tast week. when he knocked out Andre Anderson of Chicago in one minute and” twenty | seconds. He seems to be a good ex ample of the old saying that goos along something lke this: “The older they are the better they get." Langford, who is one of the best known heavyweights of the ring, is one of the real veterans of the mitt game who can still fight, ac: cording to press reports from the East, where he t# boxing regularly. He starts his Northwest invasion October 6 when he boxes Tiny Her- man 10 rounds at Portland, JACOBS MAY COME HERE ST. LOUIS, Sept. 27.-—— President Rickey, of the Nationals, announced here today that Elmer Jacobs, a pitcher, may finish the present sea- son with Seattle. Jacobs does want to come to the Coast as there are only a few more games left, r, the Red y jer, pulled jonas out of Kame to by beating the Pirates, § to Nay “W” GRID DEFENSE SHOWS WEAKNESS BY TOM OLSEN A weak defense may put the Unt versity of Washington gridders at a big disadvantage this coming sea son, The defense put up by the men tn) scrimmage is bothering both Coaches Allison and Solon more than any- thing else that has confronted them so far this seakon. With the Whitman game less than the Varsity wilb| two weeks away, have to show some radical improve ments on the defense if they hope to! « hold the down, From Walla Walla, the training ground of the Whitman bunch, comes crack Missionary team | word that one of the best looking Saturday afternoon. Among | Lioyd McInne, Wayne Hall, Jim Les | bunches that have ever turned out for football are out this year, The ruling prohibiting freshmen from playing on @ varsity team does not prevail there, which puta them at a big advantage over conference teams. Whitman took @ terrible beating from Washington last year. The final score was 120 to 0, The bunch Whitman sent over as opposition team in any sense of the word Washington and California met in Berkeley a few years ago and Wash- ington walloped them by the score of 72 to 0. The next week they played in Seattle and Washington just barely won by a 13 to 7 score. This only goes to show the reverses in football. The coaches are doing their bert to keep the men from feeling that they are going to have a cinch with Whitman. Every man on the team has been told of the might of the team from the little school at Walla Walla, TO LAY BIG SERIES PLANS CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—Arrange ments for the world series were to be made here today, at a meeting of the national baseball commission. John Heydler, president of the Nationa) league, arrived last night for the meeting. Ban Johnson, president of the American league, and the only other member of the commission, recently returned from New York. Appointment of the third member of the commission may be considered today,, Johnson and Heydler said, The vcandals of baseball being in vestigated by the Cook county grand jury will not be considered, aseara ing to Johnsor SACS HAND SIW ASHES DOUBLE SHUTOUT wonderful —_ offer which carried them into second place Saturday failed dismally Sur day and the Sacramento Solons turned in two shutouts, copping th firet struggle 4 to 0 and the second 1 to 0. The tribe in just clinging to third place today. Paul Fittery, southpaw deceiver, and Faeth, @ righthander, were the | pitehers who slapped the whitewash paint on the locals before the 16,000 fans present. If we don't win the baseball pennant this year we're bound to slip in under the wire first in the financial pursuit SACS WIN BOTH IN FIRST FRAME The Saca won both games in the firwt inning. Joe Dalley was sent to the hill in the firwt battle for the locals and wag knicked for three runs right off the bat Schang walked, Kopp bunted and beat if out, Mollwits tripled past Cunnning- ham in right and Compton singled infield. Result three counters, They added another run in the fifth on Moliwits’ single and a bad throw to second by Zamlock when Dailey had Mollwita picked off of first and Ryan's single to right Fittery pitched swell ball thruout and had the locals well in hand at All stages of the game FAETH GETS GOOD SUPPORT In the second fracas the visitors gave Faeth some classy support Both Geary and Faeth pitched good ball, allowing four hits each. The Solons did the dirty work in the first frame again. Behang dropped a @ouble into lest field thal Strand and Eldred got all mixed up| on and he scored a couple of min-| utes later on Ryan's bounding single over shortatop a 8 soe ee ee ee oe oe 2 @ a6 6 a ° 31 e} ro. A EB es Se . 6. a 46% a ee ey ee | Biiowt, we see | Adama, © «16 0 > ee *Baldwin . ee Cooper, B wnesnces . ee 1Warea wc 18 ee Totals ......82 0 * 3 *Matted for Dailey tn the eighth. {Matted for Elliott In the ninth feore by innings facramento ..... 99901009 6-4 Hite eee P1LOOT1O1 OT eeoeeere eo :LOeeOL LL IH—s Bammary: Struck out— Dy Dalley & by Fittery 4 Bases on balle—Off Dalley 2, off Fittery 3. Two-base hit-—trand Three-base hit-—Molwits fehang to Grover i na response Time of game—1;32, Umpiree—MoGrew and Anderson heron a Racramento— AB KR HPO. A Ke Schang, % 1 1 a's wt. ° see its, 1 oeenre Ryan, rf... 8 8 8 8 Compte ees 0 @ | eoe1 @ | 6. 225-25 Oe eS ee 14 0 ot A R MPO A 1. an 10 6 ow 6 6 Eldred, eeceove | Kenworthy, 716 6 Mtrand, if. o 3 Se Eliott. a © 23 0 Baldwin, es ee Geary, > oe 1 6 ‘ | Summary: Struck out—By Geary 3, by Paeth 4 Nase on dalle Off Paeth 2 | Two-base hite—Schang, Bohne Doubie | ptays—Kenworthy to Eiliott to Murphy Bacrifice hit orthy. Stolen Fillott. Ryne responsitte for—0 1. | Faeth 6 Time of 1:34. Umpires Anderson and Mo‘ Morning Game | Murphy; Alten and Devorm Afternoon Game RH FR Oakiand - <6 8 4 | Vernon GR TR Vatterten: Arlett and Mitso; Piercy | and Devormer. First Game | | LAT PORTLAND— Rm BI shit Lake City xt oat Porttand ‘ a Fe Battertes alliop and Byer; Suther land and Baker. Rn EF | fat Lake City . 6s w e Portland 1 6 1 | Batteries: | Bt Jenking; John son and | pecan | ar Los aNGELESs— rn mw BP | Los Angeles . -1 1 ‘ San Francisco. oa ae Rattories Hughes and Lapan; Love and Agnew, (16 Innings.) AMERICAN LEAGUE Lost, Cleveland 8 Chieago . oe New York + be Bt. Louis ™ 80 | 80 | 90 +, 47 100 Cleveland 7, St. Louis 6 Chicago #, Detroit 1. New York 9%, Washington & NATIONAL LEAGUE ‘on, Ls Brooklyn -- 90 60 New York a 04 ‘ "49 P 7 1 < m8 Bt Ls 2% Toaton 59 OG adelphia. oe Hrooklyn 4, New York % St. Louls 6, Chicago 3. Cincinnati & Pittebure & Woe notice that Fred Windsor, publicity man de luxe, lost his moal ticket when Bud Ridley, $e attle bantam, came to his senses and cut loose from him for the Kast. Wonder what kind of @ job Wind sor’s looking for in gloomy Gotham. Nate Druxinman ian’t selling cigars to Clay Hite any more. Romeo Hagen says he doosn't | claim to be handsome, He's just | mriking looking. OLLIE LEQGUE US ESPEA 3 THE WINTER ‘ 78 A CINCH FOR A GOOD JoB AS A ROMAN SENATOR WIT AT SET OF VOCAL CHORDS, IF ¢ EVER LOSES HIS JOB IN THE COAST CIRCUIT, ANDERSON, COAST y , OUGHT TO STUDY KEAN J Brooklyn Needs One More Win? BOB ROWE SIGNS FOR HOCKEY TEAM Bobby” Rowe, the crack defense man for the Seattle Meta, has affixed his signature to a@ contract which calls for hin playing for Seattle again this coming reason, This is Rowe's sixth year as a member of the Mets and his*tenth year in Pacific coast hockey circles. He is one of the best known hockey players on the coast. Bob has been selling ties, shirts, socks, etc, at Hatton & Oliver's Second ave. store this eummer. Pete Muldoon, the Met skipper, sailed in from Vancouver, B. C., and it was just @ matter of time before Bob got his Waterman to working. ‘Bhe following players will be sent contracts, Jim Riley, Muss Murray, Charley Totin, Frank Foyston, Ber nie Morris, Happy Holmes, Roy Wickey and Jagk Walker. Muldoon expects to hear from most of them some Ume this week. THORPE TO BOX ALEX TRAMBITAS PORTLAND, Sept. 27-—Harvey Thorpe, the Kansas City weiter ~~ | weight, meets Alex Trambitas in the main event of the amoker here next | Wednesday night Thorpe fought Morrie Lux a whirl. wind draw in Kansas City a few months ago, Lux at that time wax) the Pacific coast champion welter weight. Harry Casey, Seattle and Willie St. Clair, Portland, meet in the semi- windup. SCHOOL SOCCER LEAGUE OPENS Fifty-five grammar schools of the city will tangle for the city soccer championship. The first game will be played next Saturday. ‘The league is divided into a Class A and Class B divisions. Thirty-four are in the A clase while 21 will fight it out for the B championship. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1990. SACRAMENTO CLUB HALTS SEATTLE PENNANT RUSH. Three Indians, Cuban and “Bing” Help Give “Tabasco Kid” His:First Pennant Clay Hite won't name the next boy Nathar either, It's dented around town that Lioyd Tindall in to be Clay Hite’s prews agent, Tindall ranks as the one real ly great editors, Wonder why Ted Falk, Univer sity of Washington football cap- tain, will never pose for a ple- ture with his headgear missing. They say Ted has # very high forehead, |* How will Fred Windsor get his _ | name in all the papers since Bud Rid ley has left him? HOW WILL HE EAT? Dan Salt 1s jealous, He says we ought to find out where he buys his | shirts, They're just as funny as Lon | nie’s, | Charley White, Chicago lightie, in going to g@t another chance at Bem ny Leonard's crown, He muat have” sotne wort of & “pull” with the title holder, because he gets matches that the other leading Ughties of the coum try can't obtain Or maybe It's the way he takes ‘em on the chin, Pal Moran, New Orteans lightie, takes a licking from Ben ny Leonard, Moran licks White, Leonard knocks out What chance under the sun docs | the dope give White to win if they meet again? | Maybe Johnny Wilson, the new middleweight champion, is too proud to fight, Joe Wopp says he isn't. Hel defend | his title any time, The only trouble with Wopp is that he has to find @ title first. here recently, while down in Porth the fans are hardly paying expenses. } Paul Fittery, | had somethin tribe this week | He whut them winning the eix- me ened the series by | the Kaisomine route, and repeating Sun aay, i Bacramento nm th tw southpaw. | inn | Bob Schang, who canght for Seattle while last year! is de win int wlar third sacker, He is playt bali, fielding well, throwing like . and then, tod, he's hitting and running the bases Ryan is certainiy cracking Me banged out three hits | } Woday the apple, banday. Grover, Bac second basem od in & swell one-handed catch thi bed Middieton of @ hit In the seco n |dattie He Jumped high In the air and wht the liner down with one mitt. Bob Geary continued his hitting. He banged out two singles in the second came Molwits ts playing « bear ef @ game at first for the Senators, Brick Eldred turned in @ nifty etad of Sechang’s liner in the first game, in the fourth inning, that saved, a lot of trouble, It was the third out, and would | have scored at least one run if he had | mulasied it BATES AND FRANCIS “OUT” Ray Bates and Ray Francis, of the Seatue Pacific Coast league thll club, | bave been suspended from baseball for the period of five years. Secretry Farrell, of the National Paseball commission, sent the “glad tidings” to Bill Klepper. They suf- fered the penalty for playing outlaw ball, YANK GIRL IS TITLE WINNER HAMILTON, Ont. Sept. 26.— | Alexa Sterling of Atlanta, Georgia, the United States women's golf champton, won the meer Canadian golf championship here yesterday. | She beat Kate Robertson of’ Mon- |treal, 6 and 8. GIANTS CAN STILL TIE DODGERS _ BY HENRY R. FARRELL +e NEW YORK, Sept. 27—Brooktya” stands today an almost pennant wine ner in the National league. Wilbert Robinson's “funny” Dodgers have to win only one game out of the re maining four on their schedule to carry the National colors into the world series. a If the Dodgers lose all four starts — the Giants can do no better than fim — ish In a tle with their townmates, The situation remained un . in the American league, with one half game separating the Indians and the White Sox. The dians have seven more games to and the White Sox are within f gaines of the finish. If the White Sox win all thetr remaining games they would with 98 won and 56 lost for a centage of .646. To beat them out the pennant Speaker would face t | task of winning five out of his seven ; RIDLEY QUITS WINDSOR: NEW YORK, Sept, 27.—Bud Rid ley, the Pacific coast ban: on a fight campaign here, from his manager, Fred Winsor, as a result of a dispute, Ridley has fought 39' fights January 1, 1920, losing only ong, Ridley is on his way to Seattle, while his former manager is around town for another meal ticks LEONARD MAY, © BOX WHITE _ CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—Benny Leom - afd, champion lightweight of 4 world, will fight a return : |ship match with Charley White of Chicago. =f The pair met July 5 at the r Harbor arena. White was -¥ out in the ninth round. Leonard Month-End Specials } In MacDougall-Southwick’s Men’s Shop: Fiannelette Nightshirts $1.95 Sizes 15 to 19 Black Cashmere Sox 65c—3 for $1.75 Sizes 91 to 11%. Wool Shirts $4.65 Navy, green, gray. Sizes 142 to 17. 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