The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 18, 1921, Page 17

ROMMEL | DEVELOPS | . KNUCKLE BALL Travel Around Big / League Training _|Camps With Snyder e , With all of the big league ball BH ictuts in training, it won't be Bhiong before the long grind of Pf the major leacw ason will be Biunder way. The baseball bugs — Pare hot on the trail of news of Hhthe bie time clubs and Seattle fans wil! have a chance to take a trip around the , with Dean ot The Star f With Rob de luxe ig photoy taking im all of the camps in the South land and his dope on the teams and players will be from day to day in The RY DEAN SNYDER | AKE CHARLES. la Mareh 18 Pitcher Ed 4 Rommel, star! é cs’ mound that fools em | cyvarsz) RECORDS the wise . Cleveland = Im 2) nt SMASHED at he was call * a thet Se Cry LEAGUE Rommel uses it as his slow ball! Bg fooler [hte Not ty te (.ta8 The ball is held with the thumd/™ %. | rm nu sat @nd knuckles so that when it floats —, po ss jp to the plate it turns but very lit-| F te. It looks as big as a house to a bat ter Is HARD ph [Onensty’e | Ragios Riks No Controlling the knuckle ball is the Most difficult part In mastering it HK “I have been experimenting with ft | team, for four years,” says Rommel | last night. “Tt has as sharp a break as the soe wal. lot the Pi “T can't tell which way ft will) score. Break. I've got so I can be certain tt single game. jill break over some portion of the Plate. It may be the outside © the inside corner or over the mibdle. quit from the F SPIT BALL | spit ball. I msed to fool with it some)? made a Until they told me spitters would be} *' Fuled out of the majors some day. | “I'm trying to get sufficient con trol of the knuckle ball so I can piteh it into a knot hole if I wish. “Babe Ruth touched me up for but fone home run last year. Sara” Ralph Perkins, who catches Rom-| EHel's slow ball, sayy it is the best Dall) pring Being thrown by any American th the Un The E. N t ly scores, “Tt ts very bard to catch,” says te | “Usually I fust try to knock ft “Rommel @oesn’t often use it when men like Sam Rice and George G@isler are on the patha. “It ts more effective than the spit “When Rommel mixes {t up with fitts fast one the batter has a hard job tt out of the infield” IN AMERICAN Many wondered why Rommel was @ effective against the Indians last | year as well as against other clubs. | ‘The answer to it is that Rommel has the, best knuckle ball in the Ameri league. MARAE 9 2 ge EX AMINA- TION FRER Lenses Duplicated tor Lows |) SUSSMAN OFTICAL CO. ke Place Market os Pt ace Mn: Below Rotary Bekery SHE WORRIES NO LONGER “why do you worry so, Mrs. Smith, about Tommy? Let him romp and play to his heart's content. | Hes quite a big lad now, and/ you've got to expect him to come in looking disty and torn up a bit It'll all come out in the wash.” “That goes for the dirt, my dear, But not for the clothes. Where are | they coming from? It takes all my ready cash to buy food and shoes and absolute necessities, without— “You're right, Mra. Smith—that’s es it should be. Keep your ready cash for just such things that you can't buy on credit, but not for Durntoré « clothes for Tommy. Take him to! wasey Cherry's. You can’t do better any-| Schoupe where. They give two pairs of | Butte pants with each suit and a long| time to pay for it. You'll never| notice a tiny bit each month out/ of your household allowance. Try| mansett Hovey ‘Their store is at 207 Rialto Bide, Vere -. ever the Pig'n Whistle, on Second | piyerne ave., between Madison and Spring Handicap Advertisement Haodicap cen Handicat Yours for service— Seattle Taxi Co. MAIN 6500 te ) BICYCLES ISIC an unusually season record of 695, held by Winning His last game's 9, also set a new record for lo Cigars clean | of three from the y's and Orpneum t There were a number of 600 Stewart Tt was bie | Housdorf, Do [im the select circle. Hedenstrom of the Etks* broke two City League records His three-game total, high « 0. BE. No. sweep Tail ook", F and Rippe's Cafe teams took tw am bb and H Moyer, ar No. 1 136, broke the Following Hedenstrom's example. | his team mates also ran wild, total | ting 5,159 and taking the entire series 1 ‘The Pato Cigars also white-washed “["'m glad now I didn’t stick to the| he Lumbermen, while the Elks’ No. of their series Ruber’s Cafe out No, 3, Cheas reapective Kinnie, untoon bein: one ss The Boore CDicare Ann. HPO. A Finck. rt meet ae Hollocher, as a OG, Us ae SS OTE apes BE Ge Oe Pe ACE Papepraccadl Ge IG ie Br ae | |Pritere. cf sccse8 1 4 4 8 8 | Deal th tea ae Wie Bae | Whelan, ib Oe os ae yok | Daly cee ar at OSS tee ee Vauehn. » ey ae ee ee fae \Cheeves, ps Te ee oes : Totals weee.3? 6 14 96 8 3] Ed Rommel, Athletic hurler, in action. He showed Bob osteattien: n a 8 Dorman, Star photographer, how he holds his floater knuckle | win" et ball, and Dorman snapped it. “4 beg ‘ s 6 Sattott , rar) Apencer, © , 8 The Prep Ball Outlook = [5=2": aoe Gardner, » - " ee lo, 9—Line Geary, » i e 6 No. 2—Lincoln a , ar If Lincotn high school baseball the Went Seattle team last year, | Miscietos. rf ; ae squad can develop @ good pitcher, | ¥ lay short for the Lincoln team ‘strasa ..-—— ‘ ee ea 1080 meen chemnoione have 4|Uma ee) mae & witty Celeie ~< - ee ae Soe Dean Boyle, who was put out of Totals Ce mee! mighty good chance of repeating this ;),. running early last year by bum *Matted for id i spring ankles, ia slated to play third. He's| feore by Inn Outaide of the pitching department a speedy fielder and a good hitter, | 5 the Rallsplitters will have veterans; John Farley and Hugh Walling as for nearly every position. At the|ford, vet outfielders, are e#till in Noms rune rw . present time it looks like 1 Nollan, | school. There is a vacancy open for | + who pitched part of the © and one berth in the orchard. | bats played in the outfield mc ot the Aubrey Carlson, who played utifty S is about the best pit ¢ bet | rofee last season, looks ve the best at the Green Lake school bet for the vacant outfield powition The N ders have been out| Gene Kunz, who did all of Lan only a few days, and it's pretty earty |cotn's catching last season, wil be!’ | SIWASHES HAND | CUBS LICKING POMONA, March 18.--The Seattle Siwashes handed the Chicago Cubs a thoro lacing afternoon to | yesterday the tune of 13 to 6 in @ game replete j with many features, much swatting and a wpldndia comeback on Seattle's | part The Cubs started by grabbing one run in the first fra two in the third and two in the fourth | Not until the latter inning did the | | tribe get a thing; t they grabbed | |two with four passes in thelr favor | Vaughn, piteher for the Cubs, was in the air by this time and allowed | three runs in the fifth while the Cubs got none. Then Cheeven went to mound for the Cubs and allowed 12 men to face him, and gave Seattle § more runs in | the seventh, eight and ninth innings. Wistersil and Tobin made the only | Cireuit clouts, the latter bringing in | three with his homer Geran Nd» Spencer opened for! Seattle ary went In the box in the fourth and Tobin relieved Spencer Jin the fifth Francis relieved seventh for balance of game. | Alexander and © 414 not play | Three hundred and fifty fans saw the | came | Geary the in the} ern grt much of a » thelr ma |back on the job again this season, |; erial, but it's going be tough go and ls counted upon to take care of ing for newcomer to dislodge the mask work again whe veterans Jack Pickering, who was the best 4 looks like Lincoln's best pitching bet in the league last sea They will have vets in every son, ts still in pech but he's over the u He in expected to * Maswford, captain of the heip Coach Soukup in training the} 1 down first base unpions j FOR SPEED ° former. The Lincoln team is taking things Bru th, AILCity second easily for a few days until the candi-| LAKE CHARLES, La, March 18 wacker will be out for the dates get their arms loosened up. Sines 1914 Connie Mack has seen keystone job again. practice is slated to get under Way more than 200 aspiring young ball Fritz Hagist, AllCity shortstop on | next week . MINN. TEAM WINS WIRE PIN MEET ‘The final returna of the Industrial Telegra bowling which was held thruout States and Canada last mon ated, and give first to the George A. Horne! Co., © tin, Minn., with 2.046 tourname! The Puget Sound Light & Power Seattle, finished 40th in the | ers the Brunswick. Balke-Col i and the Pa Co. of Net, while ve drew 42 & Te one egraph ¢ oth and the Crescent Manu urine Co. ist a nke-Morse Co, of Von Cc. couven,' B. the Unit won a case of tangle nt Washington's Will leave Beattie om the wight of M 9 for Oakland, giv the the men oe days over ihe South comer ball towrnamcet beat time mate 1| Kameas City te holding » besket- this week termine the national championship tn which many college fives will parthet- Nevada and the Lov Angeles the only Western teams ae over the three thin sem CONCENTRATION HELPS GREENLEAF Shooting fast and concentration has made Ralph Greenleaf world's pocket billiard champion. " I shoot better 1 make, " says Greenieal, “I'm steadier when making rapid fire shots, “If one goes i his mind conce doing he'll fare well . ‘en tho his faster the too. the mame with don what he's| | | nee steady if he can concen | trate he's going to roll the balls | tato, the pocke | “Sometimes traveling upsets me for a game “If 1 have to carry my grips for! a short distance the exertion on my arm often throws me off my ntroke “P the speed shooting that I'm best at “If 1 deliberated over my shots 1 would be almost sure to play poorly.” Greenleaf is a veteran with the ene, altho he's but 21 mile course by the varsity crew foot fly paper for finishing last . 4:87 for the ; boat te STECHER WINS freshman shell made last season CHICAGO, March 14 Joe Stecher, former world's heavyweight wrestling PLENTY OF ROTHS champion, threw Renato G ni, of NEW YORK. The New York Chicago, in a onefall match here last Yankees have three Rothe In the night Btecher won the contest after crew. Mark is club secretary, Bobby | 1 hour and 42 minutes of grappling plays the outfield, and Frank with a half-nelson and body scissors. SOX VS. GIANTS WAXAHACHIE, Texas, March ~The White Sox will meet the » ond atring forces of the New Y Giants here today ROBINS VS. YANKS 922 982 928—2004 154 184— 598 14170 189 47, 177 172 1 1m ge cas hs GE "n= tos on 497 M9—2754 Cate 4 200 188 674 185 268 198 598 177 198 176-— 646 147 17e 398 13 6 i B12 sts ts 3e— 108 #81 1099 9272847 Palo Clear te 19 191 iat 193 LEY-I DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLES HIRSCH 303 £ this year, ant “0 511 454 468 ie ATTENTION! ~iGfienite You don't buy a suit by say- BARBOUR BACK HOME ips. “Ob. any one will do CHICAGO,—The Chicago White You should exercine the ff Louis C. 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Lal. | COLEGE STARS UP | PHTLADELPHIA—Two bareball ern who are getting a try in the big league with the St. Louis Cardinals this season, hail from Girard college in Philadelphia; Jack Gflham and Joe Kiefer | MANY WOMEN GOLFERS LONDON.-With more than |golf clubs affiliated with the Ladies’ |Golf Union, ft is figured that there are more than 50,000 women players jin England and Wales. | The schoolboy who gets a pass to see Babe Ruth is eatisfied—even hero strikes out Take 1 of ¢ Lessons STEVENS’ 43, °° Tenching | If you value time end money | Little Cost. Private Malls Day and Evening. Young Lady A 4th and Pike, Ma Danced tn leading places f New York City Member Teacher# Aman. | — MAIN SPRINGS, $1.50 Other Repairs in Proportion H. S. ANDREWS Watchmaker M411 FOURTH AVE) | five bowlers to the Hove the stroke may be | ° 2 a) a — vec Ss, = hy Manny wonton jeneue In certainly developing tate © ides tome, "cod tae Interest in © with every game, Home of the boys had never bowled before when the league started, about two months ago, but they are knocking them over in big league style now. ‘The Tele ©. pre. 1 of the league bhwlers with ‘gold pin his week, and great boaters for the sport, rebel league have wtr hat they are a# strc squads. They are al ere turning in 90 _FAdle Crovaman, secretary of the has been teyl He ways that he will doubles aod singles at Too bad that Seattle hasn't like Kddie ia the rate more boosters bowling game. PREP BALL SCHEDULE ‘DRAWN ‘The Seattle high school baseball jeague will get under way Aprfl 19 The complete schedule framed by the cotiches of the schools follows: The Behedule April 1%—Broadway at Ballard, Prank ) at Lincoln, Queen Anne at Wem Be Avett ti West Beattie at ¥ Lincoln at Queen Anne, Ballard ad *t Queen Anne Prankiin at West | Lincoln, Queer Weet Seattle at May 26—Queen Anne at eatile at Franklin, Ballard Bronfway at Franklin Lincoln, Queen Anne " at lows in the world They | tumble to the idea that they aren the real champions CONNIE MACK PICKS’EM AND SNAP | players in review before h fox enap. pase even ° pi ks nn the powt-aeason series of one of Portiand’s best pin emadh ttle and bas signed k ke-« Ane He snot 646 his firs Broadway at Prank West Be Wert at Rastler» mre the most cocky fel- never i in them for speed and ‘The basis of picking any ball player is that he must first be an | athlete,” | “If he hasn't a good body | be can control, he can never become great diamond estar mys the ¢ must be light | on hia feet, have lote of snap and be willing to learn ee into the big leagues is lke a school system. I'm the teach er; the rookies are the school kjds ‘In picking pitchers I look for |wellbullt fellows, They should have | plenty of speed “L can t ball and how | “I keep or y the good ones.” Mack says that ball players hav difference in atti shown a marked tude towa’ They « mays. this sprin ying better mat emoving the shadow jgambling from baseball has “give! m more confidence.” The Greatest Sport in the Angling game. Big fellows running in the Dungeness, Elwha, White, Green and many other streams of the Northwest. Steelhead Tackle Of the quality necessary to land the big ones, _ RDS Hardy “Perfect” Milward’s “Test” HARDY LEONARD DIVINE rs 5 hady Brook” “De LINES FISHING DOPE Where and when you can fish, and condition of streams and lakes, Step in and ask us. “TE SPORTING GODS: S ‘Ss RE" ‘No? 1109 Second.Ave | Philadelphia that h them to throw a slow to field thelr position he ©! ft n {| Lynn Van Goraer, a newcomer at| hit low many trmes and was cai — WILSON RETAINS MIDDLE CROWN REC! 1APTS “Or BIG Go ROOKIE. Directory *% ATHLETICS FRAN = BRAZIL,—Infielder Weighs 17 Stands 6 feet 11 inches ts left. Throws right. Plays any | ti NEW YORK, March 18— infield. Gra nad! a yg ong Gate receipta for the Wilsom Detow * Square last = night, Home, Spangler, a amounted to $107,523.90, from 15,306 spectators, Wilson received $42,500 as hia | JOHN SLAPPEY. fouthpaw | pitcher, Weighs 16%, Stands 6 feet 2 inches Has sharp breaking curve a while O'Dowd got an even, Never played professional ball 000 Home, Bertram, Tex state drew $4,387 ag tte | see ©. M. EDEN—Outfielder. Weiehs | Br Lye 190. Stands & feet 11 incher. Foats| BY HENRY L, FARRELL eft. ‘Throws right. First day out] NEW YORK, March 18—Jobnmy kot four homers, Never played pro-| Wilson may not be a champion, but fessional ball. Home, Bertram,|he stil! holds the middleweight tile Texas, The Boston Italian may rate his see sobriquet of “cheese champion,” bat FRED HEIMA C H—Southpaw | he’s the best in the division it Mike itands 6 feet Purchased Raleigh, North Carolina league. | O'Dowd is tne next best After 15 rounds of milling around Home, Camden, N. J |in Madison Square Garden last -_.8:.9 | night, the judges disagreed and the K. EMETT M’CANN— Shortstop. | referee, Johnny McAvoy, decided Weighs 160. Bats and throws right. | that the champion ts better than the Purchased from Jersey City, Inter-| former champion. pational league Akron club last sea} Wilson hardly got a hand when he son. Home, Toylon, IL first came into the ring, and lem CHARLES ECKERT—Pitcher when he climbed out between the ropes with the title and a check for Weighs 110. Peppery. Heaves right | $40,000 in his bathrobe pocket, hand twist ball. Purchased frgm| While it was considered a fair eo Suffolk, Virginia league Home,| cision, no one was wildly pleased Philadelphia. over it, but @ handful of cultured | - 2.0 | Bostonese PAUL JOH NSO N—Owthe) r. A left that kept boring Into his Throws and bats ring-handed. Has! stomach like the driving rod of a= earmarks of comer, Good hitter. Ob | locomotive, and a right jab that waa tained from Worcester. Home, North | forever pushing him back when he Grosvenordale, Conn. ° came in were all that kept the St ] —— ——— | Paul Irishman from getting back his ] PLAN BIG ICE MEET feet aN o ‘ r ‘i HLADELPHIA.—Seven profes body punching of the Italiam: Ponies foo nkaters have been Fnvites | Waa 8o forceful that the cheat and of the former champion were black and blue, He took them all, however, and the only visible ef to participate in a special set of | *tomach of mweepstake events to be held in Philadelphia the week of March 21 26. They are Art Staff, Norval! {ct was a slowing up after the 1th Baptie, Bobby McLean, Eémauna | Pound Lany, EB McGowan, Morris; Wilson apparently forgot that — Wood and Renny O'Sickey O'Dowd had a jaw, Beyond brush ~ ing it with a light right jab the dull moments, the champion fined his attention to the mid-one tion. Evidently believing some of the tales about the Irishman's dissipa- | tion and poor condition, he went att er his stomach from the etart He waa so intent on his purpose that he LETTER BANQUET Broadway first, second and midget basketball letters will be awarded at | a banquet to be given at the school tonight NET CHAMPS HERE Rroadway, is «aid to be the junior| tioned by the referee. i | tennis champion of Ohio. He is slat-| Beyond looking a bit drawn ed to strengthen the Tiger tennis| making the weight, O'Dowd was tearm considerably. good condition. The former cham pion carried the fight to the from the start, but Wilson drew on, beat him to the punches and rocked him back to his heels with ‘i To REVIVE RACING NEWARK, N. J—The Newark Stadium Co. whic is building a $300,000 sports stadium in Newark, is| rights and lefta, planning a general revivial of am- ateur bicycle racing. 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