The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 3, 1920, Page 12

and there are chances that the Angels may promote a pair of toss- ers. Walter Malls, who waa sent up to ¢ land from Sac ramento, heads the list of important tomers sent Up to the big show, Just to men tion Walter's name is enough. What he did up there ts ancient history SEATTLE CONTRIBUTES PAIR OF STARS Beattio has contributed Herb Brenton, hurier, and Sammy Bohne, Third sacker de luxe. Both go to Cincinnati. Herb joined the Reds @bout the first of September, but he wasn't given a chance to show What he coukt do until the race was over. Cincy scribes put ther Siamp of approval on him. Bohne ranked as the best all @round ball player in the league Fast year. If he doesn't star with the Reds next year, wo lose our Portland contributes Lew Blus Mts brilliant first sacker. Blue Foes 6 Detroit. Reports have it that Heftman, another former » whe has been holding down first base berth for the Tigers. a change next year, If ‘Bimost a clear field for the job. ‘He wit make good if he learns how © > curd his temper. Blue is a © tomgh loser and unless everything everybody, Including him- ‘Belf, and it doesn’t do his playing is promoting Babe Ffoil Hing, a cool-headed young right hurler. He also foes to He has every chance in ‘World to make good as he has a of natural ability. plucks another Coaster from the San Francisco Seals in Jimmy Cavency, the versatile tn- fielder. Caveney is one of the best in the minors, If his hit- gels holds up he should make ‘fo of it. ‘Vernon will ship Willie Mitchell, equally brilliant sMortstop, to New York Yanks. Mitchell a chance in the world to fn at short for the Yanks Roger Peckinpaugh, another Coaster, breaks a leg oF ¢ But he may be fitted in one of the other Infield berths |) ep. Ernie Johnson, their great lop and manager, and Wally outfielder, are the pair of 5 to travel to the big time. goes to the Chicago Sox and if he plays any- near the kind of ball for the that he showed for the Bees should be playing alongside of Collins next sommer. goes back for another trial Brooklyn. He will have to 7 phow a lot of stuff to break in yn the Brooklyn outfit, even as a fielder. Brooklyn has a trio in Wheat, Myers and and a nifty utility man in in starting Les Angeles may complete deals the St. Louis Cardinals where- Bill Pertica, their star right- Thander, and Johnny Bassler, their e catcher,’ get trials next spring. r are a lot poorer pitchers in | the big show than Pertica and the @ame goes for Bassler in the catch Mug line. ‘There aren't so many Const Jeague graduates this year, but there i a lot of class to the boys up. ‘Baseball fans should more of some of them, if not all, when the big time circuits swing into action next season. BROWN TO ATTEND MEET Bob Brown, the crimson-headed leader of the Vancouver team in the Pacific International league, will Tepresent that body in the annual Minor league meeting at Kansas City November 9. ——— Ulster line of imported Gorvees sar ee ve | is coming. Are you prepared for it? We are. Kenneth Durward Ulsters made with belt or half-belt are ideal for this climate. Warmth Without Weight They’re Snaps at 25% Off KING BROS. CO. BRILLIANT CORPS OF COAST TOSSERS GRADUATE TO BIG LEAGUE CLUBS OAST league baseball fans can well be proud talent shipped to the big leagues for trials under the big top. ; Every team in the circuit but Los Angeles has sent up men*this year | STANFORD South confident of a | tilt. graduate manager. MANAGER IS | FAR FROM | CONFIDENT | BY TOM OLSE: ‘ HE Stanford football team is not coming up from the Martin arrived in Seattle yesterday with Walter Ames, former graduate manager at the southern institution, to com- is let out Blue should have) plete arrangements with Darwin Meisnest, the Washington | Cun second baseman, noticed Mer of the array of diamond FOOTBALL win over Washington,” said ‘Graduate Manager Edward Martin yesterday, when asked for his opinion of the Cardinal's chances in the coming big | “The coach and players think that they are going up jagainst a better team, and will fight, altho a Cardinal vic-) coca to |) Breaks just right for him he starts tory js not anticipated,” Martin went on. The boys have had) second with the bail EVERS TO MANAGE MERKLE IN 1921 HY DEAN SNYDER Scene shifting in the baseball show plays strange tricks of cotncidence pometimen. Noxt year Fred Merkle wil be playing under the man who capital | ined his copyrighted bonshead play in 1908 and beat the Glants out} back of the pennant. The quick-thinking brain of John. ny vers whieh figured out that bin-| torte play like a flash will be ¢ Merkie’s thinking for him in 1921, COSTLY PLAY But we womler ff the author of the famous boner has any more like them in his ystem and if one will crop out at some inopportune time cheat the new Cub pilot out of ney series. ing am | Merkle’s failure to touch second tn that game 12 years ago cont each and every t approximately $1,000, The Merkle boner of 1908 came late in the season when the Giants and Cubs were dashing down the nt stretch neck and neck, it ENED In the eroctal game two were out tm the ninth Inning. The score was Ged. Merkle was on firet. safely to the outfield, The crowd swarmed acrons the field. McCormick cromed the plate. Merkle started yward second, stopped and ran to the clubhouse. Eyvers, then the great kle's omission to touch second and complete the play. He shouted to Schulte to tomg him the ball. Evers the umpire and touched The umpire hardly time to recover from pounds, 24 years old and @ letter | declared Merkle forced for the final the Oregon game last Satur- day, and as they leave Palo Alto Wednesday for here, I don’t expect that they will be in excellent shape for the big | game Saturday.” Stanford has played five gamer already this season, losing two, In the first game of the season the | Cards beat St. Marys 47 to 0. They liost to the Olympic club of San | Pranciseo in their second tilt by @ 10 to 7 score, and went down be fore the University of Southern California in the next game by «& 10 to 0 count. The Cards beat Santa |Clara by a@ 21 to 7 score and beat |Oregon last Saturday by a 10 to @ | score. | SECOND YEAR AT GAME Too much cannot from the Cards as this is only their second year at American football, and the men still show symptoms of the old Rugby game in the ames, ‘The team will arrive tn Seattle Salt Lake {is sending two playe™s| Friday morning at 7:15 and a big) jerowd of Stanford supporters will |be om hand to greet the Southern gridders and coaches. The following players will make the trip North: CAPTAIN 18 HALFBACK Captain Art Wilcox, a halfback, | weighing 165 pounds and his first year on the team Wilcox is 2 years old Bobby Peloaze, end, weighing 155 pounds, @ letterman, and 23 yeart of age. Rab Shiaudeman, end, 175 pounds, 20 years old and a letterman. Bob Shiaudeman, | quarter, Lincoln and Qu Coast league ball jroo, 7 was some talk of shifting |the game to Thursday tm order not to conflict with the Stanford-Washington go, but the offic oldn't see their | way clear to make the shift Ivan Jones, the clever Franklin quar terback, is making « strong bid for the All-City pivot berth. “Tonghey” Hallet, Lincoln captain and star halfback, will be eligible to piay with the North-enders for the rest of the season. ana for the ‘® playing an Time | Our Where ‘etans be expected | | Bob ¢ _\eral famous families of ian } | Paul Campbef, nalfoack, 174 |pounds, 24 years old and @ letter.| ieee Howard Deema, guard, 198 pounds, years old and first year on the on. Buss Woollomes, fullback, 168 pounds, 22 years old and firet year on the team. | Red McAlptoe, tackle, 174 pounds. 24 years old and first year on the team. TACKLE WEIGHS 1s@ POUNDS | G. Meteer, tackle, 190 pounds, 20 | Years old and first year on the team. Dud DeGroot, center, 180 pounds, 20 years old and first year on the team. Dick Pervhing, tackle, 171 pounds, }20 years old and « letterman. Dick Arnett, halfback, 155 pounds, | 24 years old and first year on the team, | L. Rice, center, 199 pounda, 20 years old and first year on the team. Dave Levy, guard, 183 pounds, 24 |¥ears of age and a letterman. Fred Adama, end, 180 pounds, 21 years of age and a letterman. ANOTHER BIG LINESMAN | avons, guard, 180 pounds, 21 years old and first year on the team, Jack Patrick, fullback, 176 pounds, | 21 years old and @ letterman. | “Swede" Righter, center, 196 |Poundas, 23 years old and « letter man. “Dink” Templeton, halfback, 160 pounds, 23 years years old and a/ letterman. | The average weight of the Cardi jnal team is 149 pounds, MAN-0-WAR| SHOULD REALLY WORRY! 4 i Little kink of controversy be tween English and American. | bred horses crops up in the case | of = Man-o’-War—America’'s horse. | British authorities will the son of Fair Piay a place in their official turf registry because of the Lexington cross in his pedigrees, Eng rities only deem horses | worthy of registry in their records | that show a clear title from the Eng the American stud book. GREE ‘ORDS LOST Spendthrift, the great-grand-sire of Man-o'-War, cannot be proven to be a thorobred owing to los of pedi gree records rly records of sev American horses were not carefully compiled and academically it detracts from their standard But for all that, if America’s won der horse were to be entered in the| English derbies, most of the racing and breed enthusiasts of the U. 8. A. would stake the Fair Play colt to win, American-bred hornes have won a fair, percentage of thelr races thorobred or not Iroquois,-a horse bred in America, won the British derby. MAY BAR HIM, BUT— And Mano'-War, tho barred from the “400 fan of English horses by a slip in the records, would be the next if given a chance, most every one believes Man.o’-W won @ That's wonder not give r should place nuff. "FRANKLIN worry! in American He's | history. }and the Cubs won out, count. The the gume was played over later the pennant go- ing with it EVERS" RECORD That's how amart Johany Pvers was 12 years ago. He was one of the celebrated trio of the “Tinker to Evers to Chance” play. The Cubs won four pennants while he was « member of the fast clicking machine. He went to Boston in 1914 and the Braves copped that year During the war he served abroad as baseball director for the Knights of Columbua, HELPED GIANTS This year, when Christy Mathew son's health failed, McGraw cniled Evers to couch the faltering Giants ‘The rapid rise of the MeGrawites at tor he begun to adorn their coaching box Was stil very much alive Evers gave McCraw all the creat, | the dash | however. “I simply put and pepper in the boys,” he said Everyone assumed that McGraw's mantle Would fall on the midget pep perbox. Rut the team whi helped make so powerful as « player has called him to take the place of] Fred Mitchell. MERKLE'S JINX Merkle ordinarfy fs a good ball player. money ball player. His failure to go after a high foul off Tris Speaker's bat In the world series between the ante and Red Sox in 1912 kicked New York out of a world’s cham- pionship that year. He seems to be jinxed as a goat player in a crisis. Will he unburden himself of anoth- er boner under the alert master mind | of the Cub's new leader? We shall ae. MUELLER IS TURNED BACK Art Mueller, Western leaguer, who filled tn at firet base for a while for | Mike the Vernon Tigers, has been turned |! bask to the Weatern of the Hyatt, the veteran slugger, to take care of the first pillow next year. CUE ENTRIES CLOSE CHICAGO, Nov. 3.—Twelve play ers are entered in the national three cushion billiard elimination tourney whith cloned here Tuesday. Play be gins Noveraber 12. The first three men to finish will play a series with + Cannefax for the Wichita club in circuit Manager Basick the THIS GAME Seattle football fans will be watch ing the outcome of the Dartmouth Cornell gridiron tussle with more than ordinary interest Saturday in emuch as Doble ts ¢ hing the Cornell team and that Dartmouth plays the University of Washington team here in the final game of the season BENJAMIN VS. R. MITCHELL Joe Benjamin of Portland will take on Richie Mitchell in the windup at Milwaukee, Wis., Novem ber 12. It will be a 10-round bout. Billy Wright, Seattle weiter, meets a rugged customer tomorrow night in Vancouver, B. C., whe Frankie Denny, the Oakland w Denny boxes Steve Dalton here Tues. day MAY TRY AERIAL ATTACK | With two fleet’ ends in Cole and{ Wise and a good passer in Jones, the| Franklin high school men can be counted upon to use an aerial attack ainst Broadway when they meet in eir annual struggle Fri The Green and Black warriors are | confident that they have a chance for the first time in the history of the schools to lower Broadway's col ors on the gridiron. Broadway is preparing carefully for the game, with Coach Powers and hin staff of assistants, trying to elim inate weaknesses in the defense and trying to build up the Tiger attack for Frids A loss for Broadway Friday would n that they would have to defeat rd the following week, and. it should about the race would be tied up into a pretty menu. Lincoln and Queen Anne meet Sat urday. small chance for a tle for the Ue come McCormick oceupied third and, Bridwell hit! and McCormick's run did not owed that the Evers’ brain | » he once | But he seems jinxed as a! Tigers i» banking on Ham | { The winner will still have aj will Jack Davie, Oskland mm Darcy boxes Kid Ole Anderson tangles 1% lightweight. Paimer and with Leo Cres in twe other round tlle best bore of hie Mh Sammy Good, former Coast borer, fe now in the Bast. He's # stable mate of Fete Merman, bantamweight champion, colored Neht- heavy. 4 Ham Langtord io Han Fr doe up ® fy Deri weit Bod Al opponent yet to be Warvey ter, whe born « 4 Davie bere, is in San Prenciece look- ing for matches, Johnny MeCarthy, the terrthte motor Hin two oliidren are fever. Tillie Herman, Coast welter, has heen indefinitely suspended for al- leget foul tactios in his recent bout with Marty Cross. ek Miritton, world’s welter kine © Jack Perry 12 rounds in Louk . Ky., November §. FIRST CAGE MEET SOON One week from tonight the first |meeting of The Star basketball fice. Plans for the season will be discussed and the rules will be gone over, Mu rs of teams planning to enter the circuit should fill out an application blank and send it to The Star immediately in order to give us an idea of how the circuit will line up for the year, Kast Saturday. rite to win, Yale tangles with Brown, ate entertains the strong Ne- Syraense tangles with Washington and Jefferson in another game that Id be worth watching. ith Ohio State pla . and Llinola and Chicago Kot together WILL DECIDE COAST TITLE? Cemstggoc all eriticn are almost unanim®@s in the opinion that the winner of the California-Stantord tussle in Berkeley next Saturday Just about decide the Coast conference championship, latest vietim le Karl Baird, Beattie! man, I# Out of the ring game for awhile. | Mi wit woariet | jleaxue will be held at The Star of-| They Figured in Most Famous Bonehead Play Here are the principals of the most famous bonehead play of our baseball. When Fred Merkle failed to touch second in that memorable game between the Giants and Cuba, 12 years ago, Johnny Evers had a brain storm which cost the New York Giants the pennant, The Merkle “boner” made him the | baseball goat for years, but his showing since then has made fans partly forget it—that is as much as it will ever be for- gotten, Plays of the Merkle kind make baseball history. “The Brown and Silver’s ED BY TODAY. to ask why it was that boring commisstoner, DEFEATS | NEW YORK, Nov. 3. 28 to © count on day. firet the second and score in tight defense of the | prevented a tally ABERDE final. | | JOE WOPP SAYS CAN’T UNDERSTAND HOW THE MAN WHO COUNTED THE ELEC-| TION VOTE COULD HAVE SO MANY COU Sid Brunn called up this morning Dan didn’t run stronger for sheriff. Elmo Jones, the southpaw veneaend | _ NEBRASKA RUTGERS Piling up ® Rutgers the Ne braska university gridders won their firet game in the East here Tues ‘The visitors got the jomp right off the bat and proved their super jority from the first whistle, | The visitors broke thru for their quarter | then added three more touch-| downs before the game was over. ' Rutgers had the best of the play jin the third quarter when only the Cornhuskers | MOORE GETS | DRAW VERDICT Basketball League Entry Blank I HEREBY wish to apply for a franchise for the + a0 coee cece cocesocwenconess Cememeees cocscececes TAM in The Star City Basketball League. weeee called this morning. He wanted to know who is teaching Virgil Garvey how to play the Victrola. VIRGIL If ONE OF THE MOST | FAMOUS VICTROLA PLAYERS IN 'THE WORLD, AD he does is break recorda Gene Hatton, the w. kh haberdasher, would have ' been a total abstainer if he st had only known it was tea, GOOD NIGHT! r ICE | SEASON gp OPENS | HERE By ALEX C. ROSE ‘With their steel blades sharpened | several hundred of Seattle's lovers of ice skating ushered in the opening of the local season at the Arena last | night, > we This event should wake up the \ hockey fans, but not until after the annual meeting of the league diree tors, which will be held in Vancou- ver on November 19, will there be : . Nov, 3.—-Eddie Moore, | any announcement as to the opening SeatTice bantam, boxed a -six-round | date of the league race. draw with Allie Taylor of Portland | in the main event here last night Phil Jensen of San Francisco and|won the pennant last year. Frank Crftes of Portiand also went to/ an even verdict in the six-round semi- The Mets’ lineup for the coming J |weason will be much the same as Mugs Murray is not expected to return, but his place will be well | taken care of by Bernie Morris, out in front!” Spur’s colors—brown and ~ silver—the colors of a sure winner! Spur is there with that good old tobacco taste. 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