The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 1, 1921, Page 11

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1921. BASSLER SHOULD GOOD WITH ‘DETROIT TIGERS; ER BALL GOSSIP, OHNNY BASSLER, the Los Angeles catch-| er, who will have his chance to show his} wares in the big show with the Detroit Ti- gers this season, will have a better oppor- tunity for making good than most minor league catchers do in their frst year up there. When Bassler breaks in there will be no! star catcher.on the job to keep him on the bench. Take the young fellows trying to break in behind the plate on a Cleveland er Chicago White Sox club, for example. What a fat chance they have of taking the place of a Steve O'Neill or a Ray Schalk unless those celebrities break a leg or worse. im Detroit this particular sea-| ger Kenworthy for a trial at Pomo. | We different. Bassier comes to! ma. His name is Langhardt, and he with the passage of Ovcar | |s said to be a big fellow, fast and a who has been chief of the good hitter, [He was recommended to Mask men for many seasons.|<he local club by Brakke, the b ‘other rival for the catching | pitcher who will hurl for Yakim Ainsnilth, and Bassler is | this season, Be @ better receiver than the —_—_ ran Exidic, BALDWIN MAX BE MISSING When Prexy Klepper sent “Red™ Raidwin his contract, there was a cut in the salary offered the Seattle jeateher for this year, Klepper feels | that Baldwin did not play good enough ball last year for the money that he was paying him, With Jack Adams and young Tobin to take care Ee CALLING of the catching, the local club isn’t INE AN OLD MAN expected to worry much whether 7 from stories being printed | Baldwin plays ball with Seattle this seasok or DOK y rs hitting wil! go a long way Keeping him in the lineup day. Johnny has always been timely hitter in the Coast and he ought to be a pretty sticker up there, And, what's he's a heady man behind the a East about Sammy Hohne, Se third esacker last year, who yy with the Cincy Reds this| SUTHERLAND MAY they must think that he's an | STICK WITH PORTLAND | man with white whiskers.) Unless Detroit can detiver players } New York scribe says Sammy | *itisfactory to Portland, the deal four og five years with Mil whereby “Suds” Sutherland, Port . in the. American association, | land heaver, was to o the Tigers, ig the hunk, as he pastimed | may be called off by The MoCredies. « season in the A. A ee owes Pordand three players Birthday will be No. 26 him, | in the deal, he has a lot of years of good | H left in his system. Uniess BOB MEUSEL SAYS our guess, Sammy ought to| HE'LL QUIT rice that Cincinnati paid| Bob Meusel, the young «furger) work during the cur | sent up to the New York Yanks from | accidents, of | the Vernon Tigers two years ago, mays he'll quit the game before he'll play for the Yanks aguin upleas they | boost his pay check to $10! a year.) Meusel ts working tn grocery store In Columbas, O, this winter, JUDGE IS ON MARKET NN TO WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Joe Judge EDMONTON is up for trada Outside of George) be Gleichmanm, who used to play | Sister, th Washington star is the for Seattle, will manage De#t first baseman ia the American team, in the Western | league. Jeague, next season. Gus| The other str clubs qould af ase over to the Portland club | Judge to advantage. deal, but evidently| The Yankees have offered Wally had no use for him. ee ae ee ee — Py * The Indians would swap “Dec” wa Johnston ahd George Burns tn ex- wins the American | change for Judge, it in suid. next summer, Mana-| The Red Sox with Stuffy McInnis) will owe the Coast league a 2re O. K. Stuffy i» just as valuable thanks. Bassler, catcher; ‘© a club right now as Judge, but is , Oldham and Hol- setting old. a meen, outfielder, icone a — Griffin, a g00¢ baseman, have all | Selder but a poor or. oe “4 Heilmann of Detroit t not mm Judge's clase, The White Sox will treak tn Shee- ley, a recruit, this year, Kenworthy, @iamena| Griffith has two reasons for putting Weft for California last night, | Judge on the market. His star wants) ‘Be wil go on a hunting trip|* fat salary increase, Then Griffith of weeks before calling |8A# another good first baseman in| to San Bernardino, Calj| Brower, a home run hitter. First | will boil out before going base is the only position he can play. for the regular month’s| There's not room for two good first Baseman on one elub. fe pretty well satietied with | ‘The club that lands Judge will get as it stands right now, and | sugar ball player. fouple of more players ned | Poni RRR TRAE from Cincinnati ‘and one DELANEY IS San Francisco, the Duke KNOCKED OUT Bek forward to a hunting trip -—salargiguad CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. L—Cal De-| pm: laney, Cleveland's tron man of the we ring for the last ten years, fell be | for the «ledge hammer swats of pp oheiead onpenan George ("Knockout”) Chaney, Balti yo oa more lightweight, in the third round eoeadlgeed feague meeting of their ten-round bout hero last a>” | night. ; —~semglaling Mad te omar It was Chaney’s ninth knockout in club, but ‘for some reason or the Seattle chief didn't make Ort to land the Oaklander, "ANS ning bee at basehan head. Monday, the talk drifted to Of infielders that the San Dreamland. ‘The Birmingham, Ai, baneball | ctub has signed 38 ball players and the managers are still in search of | {more talent, a row, and Delaney’s first trip to . THE More Proof of Jack’s Condition Camera Shows Dempsey in Pink Here’s further proof that J of condition, Cameras don't SEATTLE STAR OAKLAND, Feb, 1.—Otto Ziegter in winning the biggest race of hin life. bleyele rider, holder at one time of | ited specialists, Four years ago he every world’s, record in that sport,| had spent practically hts last dollar and for 14 yours perhaps the best| ‘Then he gave up hope of ever re Ienown racer in the world, has been| covering hia sight, and entered the competing with a relentless opponent. |Home for Adult Blind in Oakland, He's in the lead now, and on | Cal the last lap. The prize, if he During the past few months he wins—his eyesight and the abil- has been under the care of Dr. Thom ity to see ns other men see; If [an Dysart, who has been able (6 re he loses—total darlinens. lieve the pressure on the optic nerve. destroyed by @ fall in Seattle, Ziegior,! imagined. ' His progress in ns Ray Eckmann ack Dempsey is in the “pink” usually lie, and we can’t see| much excess fat on the champion in this picture, one of the latest taken of the heavipeeight king. DEMPSEY IN “PINK,” SAYS WATERMAN While it's no secret that Jack | Dempeey ls considered the champion | of champions of the ring today, the | question of his condition, which was | the big riddle after his failure to} stop Bill Brennan befor the 12th round I¢ of mont Interest to ring fans | rings now. Dempsey faces two tough fights, one with Jexs Willard in New York in March and the other with Georges Carpentier “somewhere,” in in bis bout with Brennan, Demp- sey was said to be overtrained and looked drawn, and also that he didn’t have the snap that he showed | in bie fight with Billy Miaka But if the experienced eye of Joe Waterman, one of the leading fight managers in the Northwest today, counts for anything Dempsey ts “right” today. Waterman eaw Dempsey for the first time tn three or four years when the champion worked in an exhib} tion In Portland laxt week, and Joe myn ho ts in the “pink” today, “Dempeey worked like @ big bear with Terry Kellar,” says Joe, “and be looked Uke he was in the best of condition.” Waterman has been handling and training fighters for a long time, and his word counts for a great deal, KEARNS I8 MONEY BLIND Jack Kearns, and not Dempsey. || should be blamed for the failure of Armory Saturday night. Dempsey wan willing to come, but Kearns wouldn't let him because the committes in charge wouldn't “guarantee” Dempecy $5,000 or so for dotng #0. If Kearna insists on following such tactics it won't be long before the gztes will be clomed against Dempery thruout the country, may be. Kearns haa evidently been inflicted with that disease known as Money blindness. If Dempeey is to be the popular champion that his great ability and own personality should make him Kearns will have to chango his present course, KILBANE-CHANEY IS NEXT TITLE GO ‘The next title fight tn order te the Johnny Kilbane-Andy Chaney scrap. Kilbane wants a lot of dough to risk the crown that has been on his brow Tor the past nine yearn. “Chaney is a young fellow who ts willing to box the champ for train Ing expenses. He's said to posses a K. 0. wallop. Kilbane can't go on forever, and Chaney may be the next man to wear that featherweight crown. IS ODOWD HOLDING UP WILSON'S MATCH? Is Mike O’Dowd’s demand for 0 per cont of the gate holding up bis re) gardicss of what kind of a fighter he| Benton Harbor Promoter Is Aiming High RENTON HARBOR, Mich. Feb. l-——Floy4 Fitzsimmons may wing bouts to his arena that New York, London and Parts have passed up. Fits owns an openalr arene at Renton Harbor that seats nearly 60 000, Hie fight Gates are Decoration day, the Fourth of July and La- His flstic bow! t# within 10 houre’ ride of 10,000,000 people. Floyd Grew $135,000 for the Dempsey -Miske fight last Labor day, Hew shooting BI town promoter Chicago, only three hours away, le back of him to the last cinder. for = small Verne Searey, the Wenatehen witfte wright, packs an awful wallop. We bits hard and straight with that right mitt. put the erushe: 2-4 S8 chane, Seet Dies, B the Past. wreck when he ot Farmer, “Frightened” thre a 16-round hugging mateh In Pordand inst week with « bird named Devers. According to Billy of the Portiand News, the Bout was | prise hugging match ef the Portiand amon, must have omen Sam Langtor€ somewhere in the bousa Hetnte Rchumann and Frenkte Mayne ate bouked to headline Tacomas next smoker, which will be beld February 10. MARTIN STOPS BURKE NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb 1-— Rob Martin, Akron, A. E. F. cham- plon, knocked out Martin Burke, | New Orleans, in the fifth round of a scheduled M-round bout here last | might. present champion? It seems so, Wil son says he is willing to fight, but as champion rightfully demands the biggest part of the purse. If O'Dowd is an anxious to fight Wilson again as he says he is he should be willing |to fight for almost nothing for the right to prove that he is the real | proposed bout with Johnny Wilson, | champion. sem lub has on hand for next Beattle fans heard a lot brook, the Western league % who joined the Seals! season, after the Seals their last trip North. Ken W, for one, doesn’t think much bok hag a habit of keeping Off the bag until he catches and then he gropes bitndly cushion,” says William. “One days he's gaing to be hooked L runner's spike, and he won't Hl ball for some time” IF SIGNS young kid outfielder from As ‘Ore., hag been signed by Mana. | EN NNT Re oe TRUSS TORTURE | eliminated by wearing the Rupture Support, We give rove its superiority. ‘a. ‘LENDEERG 00. Third Avenue =——“(‘é ct Invite you to dance with them every Friday night. Queen Anne Hall (Formerly Redding’s) Wednesday, Feb. 2, 8:30 P. M. Sharp Admission $1.10, $140, $1.75 (Tax Included) Reserved seats on sale at the Arena Box Office, 1210 4 o'clock Wednesday will be caneried and resold. ACE DANCING CLUB] : Safety tw the first requis your savings. ite in choosing @ place for SUPERVISION association is conducted under State Super vision and auditing. securities, Our funds are invested It is also the depository for our INVESTMENT in first mortgages on tm proved income property on the basis ef one-half of its valu AVAILA! BILITY Accounts are gubject to withdrawal after three months. Farnings paid each six months or may be added to principal and compounded. $1.00 to $5,000 accepted and all money recetved on or before the 6th of the month earn: is from the first. SEATTLE SAVINGS and LOAN ASSsoOc —i=i—5 ASQO0UHSNOALOUNEEUOOUAASEUESHTEAE ETL IATION 32 AVE. VAAVOEUENVOUTAOUTOUATONOOOETAY NAA | CAGE CHAMPIONS Is Versatile Athlete Ray Kckmann, captainelect of the University of Washington football team, In a vermtile ath The handioap of lack of ht and #maliners in sine has made Ray falter, Tewides |} starring at football ever since he was in grammar sehool, Ray has been & shining light on the cinder paths and in basketball, At the present time Ray is keeping in condition for the coming track neason by playing guard on the an Furaiture Co, five, in the City league. He's also man ager of the team. On the cinder paths he’s a dash man, and he ranks as one of the fastest men || Foresd to piny overtime, the Mac in the “U." Dougall-fouthwick cage five were given their first close rub in two years of play in the City league last night, before finally dofeaung the University Commercial Club. The | final score was 26 to 23, after five minutes’ extra play. ret. | The MacDougall team maintained 619 |@ Stight lead thruout the game until 41! | the final minutes of the second alf, a0 | when some tal) shooting by Ward Tell, at forward, tied the score for ane! the “U" five, The score at the end 4n4 | Of the regular playing time wan 20-20, tt! In the overtime session Ralph | Smith caged two pretty baskets for the champions, and Dick Frayn rang 49 | Up another, while the best the “U" 74 | team could do was @ field goal and a corverted foul, "BOWLING" BON MARCHE LEAGUE Played, Won, Lowe ‘ 3 1 rt rt ui Plasterer een 4 WEIK® qeeraneveces 194 162 56 Northern Life Insurance Co. | swamped the Elks’ club under a 37 to 13 score | Biriker WUMSMS eeewnneeee 17H 1h (2) for Pieroe for lL. La Pray; Overton for G. La Fray For & P,Q B—Nene i 2 Berggren eee. 19) 196 RICKARD TO PROMOTE BIG BOUT ALONE | NEW YORK, Fed. 1—Shorn of {much of its gilt trimming, the Demp- |) sey Carpentier thing ts tucked in tho | ov pocket of Tex Rickard . 161960 MacD.-Bouth. ¢71 U. Com. Clad (28) ‘ Viccccs-senp BON CS) ; Lor Yor MacDougall-sou'h for f Fi for Rennie for Wiliams; Williams for Wood ‘there will be nothing like the $500,- 000 puree tn the original agreement. Rickard intimated today that both principals In the “battle of the age” would work on @ percentage ar rangement, Jack Kearns practioalty has agreed | to thin change for Dempaey, and a| similar attitude ts expected of Car pentier and Descampa Your Byes Examined ond Glasses Vilted—Broken Lenses Duplicated Before You See Any Optician Visit the Eversole ; Optical Co. Youll teh afl your friends and relatives the reason why after you bave been bere. Our Rates Are Most Reasonable tomers. a Yor nine years thin once famed | totally blind. Bor five years he vis-| Bince 1912, when his eyesight waa) Ziegler’s new happiness can onty be| HAVE REAL In tho firet game of the night the | team) FORMER CYCLE CHAMP IS PEDALING GREAT mate and fellow star, O. L, Stevies, Ziegler made many of| | with whom hin records, Korn in 1876 tn Detroit, Mich. egler was only 19 when he became world’s champion bicyele racer tn 1894, At various times in his re-| markable career he held every reo ord from the quarter-mile up to 26 miles, He was the star of the f }mons Morgan-Wright team, wh jincluded Gardner, Stevie and Floyd McFarland | And now that he is in the lead tn \his biggest race, the first thing he Clubs Will Have to Grow Stars The professional baseball player market Is sold out! i} There are no embryo Ty Cobbs, Roger Hornbys, Georg wale College nines have been raided They amayed but little, Jobn McGraw secretly conduct od a baseball kindergarten at the Polo grounds last season, Out of the he hag nelected three to go South with the team. They may fizzle, I¢ not, they'll probably 68 farmed out for sew noning. While MeGraw’s baseball schoot didn’t yield much for a starter, it has the germ of a good idea, Fred Mitchell, of the Braves, says in a few years all big league clubs wlil be conducting their play er kindergartens. Bo there y’are If they can't buy have to grow ‘em. |LINCOLN CAGE | FIVE. TO ‘em, they'll Lincoln and Ballard will furnish ithe big game on the prep school | asketball league schedule Friday. | ‘They tangie at Lincoin, The Rail of Pill Savage, star guard. Balard’s| team is strong, and there's always a| chance that they may slip one over on the Green Lakers, The successor named yet. | Broadway. meets Franklin at | Franklin in the other big game of the day. The Broadway team ts | favored to win. } to win their struggte Friday. It's with West Seatth, and will be played in the Queen Anne gym. LEWIS WINS WITHOUT LOCK BOSTON, Feb. 1—E4 (“Strangier) Lewis reversed his usual tactics in defeating Renato Gardini here last night. With the headlock barred, he used a toe hold, flopping his man in one hour and 68 minutes, (PLAY BALLARD}: | splitters will be without the services | ut, to Savage at guard bas not been/| Queen Anne will also be a favorite | EST RACE the first man to make a mile in 1, closely watched by his old team | wants to see when he crosses the minute and 60 w#econda, has been | finish line ts an airpidne, He has never seen one, and his last remem of the automobile ts the rough-riding models of 1910, with the backs projecting high above the body lines. Little by Nttle his sight ta return ing. He in now able to distinguish yutlines, and to a slight degree, color, As soon aw he is pronounced cured he will return to San Jone, Cal, the home of bis brot where be has been offered the management of one of the theatres. brance | SEATTLE | METS | BACK IN PUCK LEAD STANDING OF THE TEAMS Won. Lost, Pet. Aeattle Var Vie VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 1—Be uttle finally defeated Vancouver on local ice and the Mets are now ing the Coast puck race again. The final score here last night was 4 to 3 for Seat Lineup and Summary Beattie. J w. Desireau Substitute yum () Seattle, Poygton, Cook, 4:23, Meattie, Watker, Morris from Riley, First a7. ¢ 60, (4) Beattie, Third pertog: saz. 8) Mackay, 6:26, from Mackay Substituth Pirst Tobin for Morris, Vancouver, J. Adams for Mackay, Second period—None, Third for Tavior: | Penalties: First period—None Seo- jond period—None. ‘Third period—Van- jcouver, Skinner, 3 minutes Seattle Foysion, 3 minutes, Victoria will furnish the oppo vgs tion to the locals at the Arena | morrow night. The last time © ¢he | Aristocrats were here they d'vygnig furnish much opposition for “tne | Meta, as the Muldoon puck gien | handed them a 9-to-3 beating. ~ poe Victoria copped a win from | geattig Friday night in Victoria, an. g they — figure to give the locals & ‘gmeger fight tomorrow night. MOORE SHA'DES KELLY over Jimmy Kelly, of © Sicago, 16-round bout here last sight. *% Cheastys™ ~_ “Honest-to-Goodness”’ — SALE - The unequaled values given dur- ing our Removal Sale have caused many odd rémarks by satisfied cus- Saturday a man returned to Cheasty’s to confirm a selection after visiting several other sales. 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