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% aa ag Ae Sac Prexy Puts Club on Market Vernon and Portland Also Expected to Change; Other Diamond News BY LEO H. LASSEN changes in ownership of Pacific Coast league clubs may be made before the 1922 season gets under way, accord- ing to talk i the has already buying out John Powers in mag eet gossip has it at ip has that Lou Moreing, boss of the - Sacramento club, is willing to This re- port comes from Los Angeles. According to the report, Moreing finishes in front this season, interest fa the California capital will lng. they have to keep the interest ‘at a high pitch there, because they the large number of people from that the other Coast ‘cities have. He figures a new owner ‘would eupply that intere: Dame Rumor also has the Vernon ‘lub up for sale, altho Ed Mater, of the destinies of the refubed an offer from Frank former big league man day after Wrigley bought Les Angeles franchise, Chance was ley club. But Wrigley’s entrance at Los Angeles seems to have revived new interest in Maier. ‘Whether or not the McCredies will they have placed no definite price on their club, it is understood that they ‘are holding out for $150,000. ‘Portland is anxious for a new own- ‘ership, because baseball is dying out under the present regime of it baseball, and new blood is to revive the game. good spring, but they never delivered one. failure shoved the Beavets far- into the basement than ever, Bnd now the Cubs are after Herman , McCredie’s promising pitch Walter has said nothing do as he is off the Cubs for life. since Heinie Groh came back to the Reds, is due to be shifted back to third again next year. Groh refuses to play with the Reds again after the end of this season, and says he will quit the game before he will play in @ Cincinnati uniform again. Bohne should be a worthy successor to Groh. Sammy is just hitting the stride that made him the star of the Coast league last year. RUETHER PINES FOR REDVILLE On the other hand, Walter Rue- ther, another former Coaster, pines to return to the Cincinnati fold. Wal- ter, who was a star for the Reds in 1919, when they finished in front in the National league, couldn't keep to the straight and narrow in 1920, and ‘was of practically no use to the Cin cy team, He was traded to Brook lyn. Walter has been hurling fair ball for the Dodgers, but he says he EVERAL! been made, William Wrigley | feels that unless the Sacramento club | | would rather play bali in Cincinnati | than any place else, and he is trying | to get Garry Herrmann to buy him back again. the greatest players in the game if he would stick to training rules, as he hag all the ability necessary to make a star, MAY STAGE POST. SEASON SERIES HERE The Seattle Indians may play a post-season series here against a picked team from the Portland, Los Angeles and San Francisco clubs, ac cording to baseball chatter in San Francisco, where the local ciub Played last week, Nothing has been went out from local baseball head- quarters regerding the geries. Walter would be one of | THE Cleve'and baseball fans are depending a lot upon Walter Mails, the big Pacific Coast southpaw, in their fight with the New York Americans for the American league flag. The Indian pitching staff has been the big weakness of the world's champions this season and now Stan Coveleski, their ace, is out of the game with a strained side. Last year Mails came to the tribe at the fag end of the season and won stven straight games, prac- tically cinching the pennant for the Ohioans. And then he performed nobly in the world’s | ¥; But this year Walter hasn't quite lived up to expectations and he has been out quite series. a while with an injured side. But he is O. K. again and the Indian bugs are stacking their chances on Walter's good left arm. Cobb May Lead Bat Men Again Famous Ty Gains on Heil- man in American; Hornsby Tops National Y COBB may not be as young as he used to be, he may be burdened with the trials and = tribulations of managing «a second = division ball club in the big show, and he may be hand capped by an in- jury to one of his eyes, but nevertheless the Georgia Peach is rapidly closing in on Harry Heilman, his own outfielder, in the fight for the premier batting honors of the American league. Hellman, who has been hitting over the 400 mark most of the sea- son, has finally slipped to .398, « cording to the last averages made public, while Cobb has climbed to .395 during the past week. “Rade” Ruth is elogging along a 384 pace with George Sisler, 1920 champion, and Tris Speaker tied for fourth with a .373 average each. ers Hornsby, the St. Louis ace, samtnn to lead the Nationad league and ts practically a cinch to finish in front for the second straight time. The present averages list him at 415, ILLINOIS GRID STAR ISLOST Hutchinson Plays Barnes for World Golf Supremacy With the world’s golf cham plonship at stake, Jim Barnes, American open champlon, and Jock Hutchinaon (American), Brit ish open champion, were to meet today In a special 36-hole match on the course of the Soundview Country club at Long Neck, N. Y. A purse of $2,000 was to be aplit, $1,600 to the winner and $500 to BO Bi gwen With the Davis cup, certain to stay in the United States for another year, the final two matches of the international net classic between America and Japan were to be played here today just because the cup rules require it, America cinched the big tennis se ries Saturday when Richard Norris Williams and Watson Washburn won the lone doubles match from Ichiya Kumagae and Zenzo Shimideu 62, 7 76. It was the third American victory, William Johnston and William Tilden having defeated Shimideu and Kumagae in the sin. gles on Friday. In today’s matches ,Tilden was slated to Oppose Kumagae while Jobnaton was scheduled to meet Shi midau. STATE WATER MEET IS ON The V meet w: hington state swimming being held this afternoon the University of Illinois football | pices of the Garrison Athietlc club, team, and placed on Walter Camp's AlkAmerican team, is out of the game for good. He had an opera. tion recently on bis right knee as a result of an injury jn a game last fall when a ligament was torn loose, DIETZ FACE BIG PROBLEM “Lone Star” Dietz, former Pullman football coach, faces a tough job at Purdue university. The Indiana school has been the doormat of the conference so long that the school may be dropped this year from the “Big Ten” unless they win a game or two. There is a dearth of good gridiron material there, OPEN PRACTICE PORTLAND, Sept. 5—~The firat grid practice of the Multnomah Ath- letic club will be staged next Sunday. The practice program, announced by Coach George Philbrook, will constat of a turnout Sunday morning and on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. EDDIE MAHAN TO AID AT HARVARD Eddie Mahan, former Harvard unt versity grid star, will act ax assist ant coach under Bob Fisher this year, Mahan has acted as assistant football coach of the University of California under Andy Smith, Eighteen members of the Crystal Swimming club left Seattle for American Lake this morning where they were to compete in the meet. The meet will start at 2:40 p. m. HORSES RACE champion trotter, will be purely a match race, and both will run a mile against time. Single G has made the best time of the two, making the mile in 1:59, while Peter Manning's best time is two minutes. The race is booked for Hartford, Conn. A purse of $5,000 goes to the winner. Big Pin Dates Set April 10 to 16 have been set as the date for the 1922 Inter. natlonal Bowling Congress to be rolled at Spokane this year, An effort is being made by Spo kane pin men to obtain reduced ralirond rates for bowlers plan- ning to go to Spokane for the big pin classic. YALE SWIMMERS LOSE BUT PAIR The Yale swimming team, {ntercol- legiate champions, won 10 swims and lost two in its recent tour of the United States and Hawall. The Chicago A, C, Honolulu bested them, Albert Hansen Jeweler and Silversmith NOW LOCATED 1518 Second Ave. The Zbyszkos are touring South America, Stanislaus is the world's heavyweight wrestler, while his brother Wladek is famed at the wrestling game, Entries for the City Bowling league close tomorrow night and they must be turned in at the Ideal alleys not later than 6 p. m. One of the biggest neanons AT AMERICAN and Hui Makani of} Oregon Invites Centre Webfooters, Refused by With Kentuckians AILING to tine up foot ball game with the University of Washington at the Wash- ington stadium for Dee. 3, Jack Tenefiel, the en- terprising grad. uate manager of University of Oregon athiet fos, has wired an invitation to the famous Centre college eleven, of Danville, Ky. to ¥ play Oregon at Portland on that date ‘The Centre team came into promi. nence two years ago when It ran up big scores in all of its games and went thru the season without a re Verse. It's list of victories inctuded & win over the University of Weat Virginia which ranked as one of the strong grid machines in the East in 1919, Last season the “Praying Colo. nels,” a9 they are known thruout the country, once more came into fame by their wonderful showing at Har vard. Altho defeated they were the a heroes of the day. Bo MieMillan, star, is easily the and was picked for t berth by a host of Eastern grid ex perts. He will wind up his college vareer this year. of the outfit, | The Oregon athletic manager ex | Charles R. Carney, crack end on|at American Lake under the aus-| pects an answer to the Invitation in| | a day or two, | SOLONS TAKE TWO | SACRAMENTO, Sept. 6. ‘The | Solons gained a half a game on the |San Francisco Seals by winning a | brace from Oukiand, here, yesterday, | while the Seals were breaking even | " ' ‘ Kremer, Alten and Mites wh and Cook | o Krause, Ariett and Koo r, Kune and Cook | ANGELS ANNEX TWO { 108 ANGELES, Sept. 6.—Ham mering Portland pitchers hard, Los Angeles took another pair from the | Beavers here Sunday, | First game Portin: BEES WIN DOUBLE BILL SALT LAKE, Sept. 5.—Piling up a flock of runs in both games, Salt Lake took both ends of a double bill from the Vernon Tigers here Sun day First game | Vernon Lake Batterie and Hann Becond Vernon FOREIGN PIN MEN MAY ENTER Germany and Sweden are expected to wend bowling teams to the 1922 A, B. C. tourney , LING ENTRIES CLOSE in the history of the pin game in looked for in Seattle. Twelve teams have already filed entry blanks and (wo more are expect ed. The league will operate on @ handicap basis again and han- SEATTLE Washington, Seek Tilt |i; their quarterback | "?)"% {| Philadelphia | atiee, STAR Seals and Indians Split Two Indians Break Even With Leaders on Sunday Bill; Series Now Four-All S atte and San Francisco evened u their big series at four games each, Seattle took the morning game a Oakland by bringing two rune ovel in the tenth inning, winning 7 to 6. Ban Francisco came back in thi afternoon tu and finished front by aS to 8 margin. ning 4 to @ooreeors? @110101016 Demaree 3, Scott 2, Dalle: Francis; charge @ Umpires—MoGrew sn to MeQuaid. Carey AN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.—Divid ing @ double bill here Sunday, Be in Seattle took Saturday's game, win- ‘Two more games will be played here Monday, winding up the series. fummary: Home run—tehick, Three base bite-—Aohick 2 Two-base hits Hates, rifles hits Middleton 2 CLUBS EXPECTED 10 CHANGE OWNERS Fans Take bas the w. k settling their middleweight dispute Pi} because of the t r| © |] side, But Wilson wouldn't concede Cleveland to a free gate to decide land fans paid to see decided? Not by a long shot, Don’t blame Rickard. ‘KK. ©. and Rickard Makes "Em Like It 1 have to hand it to Tex Rickard for being the master mind of the fight promoters. maxima by the barrel on the Jack Dempsey-Georges Car pentier brawl and today he is hearing the sweet music of the turn- stiles at Jersey City, where Johnny Wilson and Bryan Downey are the public takes another on the chin, and seems to ike it The public was bilked at the first WilsonDowney mix at Cleveland weak kneed Cleveland boxing board allowed Wilson to bring a hand-picked referee, who spolled an otherwise excellent fight and officially saved the champion’s crown after it had been somewhat trampled on and bent. fight by a clean knockout, according to the fight experts at the ring- Did anyone suggest putting on a necond scrap between the paid at sey City to the scrap that hundreds of Cleve- day, in th same rin Instead Rickard steps in and makes the match where Jack for hin fight lot in Jersey City and today he is coining dough, good round dollars, on the fight, made possible by the Cleveland mixup. Give him credit for know- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER, 5, 1921. Three Ring Crowns up in Jersey@ * Another 4 rs [ Wilson, Buff and Gans to Defend Titles Today; He wins the Unoleum stickpin He coined : The turnstiles sing for Tex and commission. The ring Downey won that it and clung to his clouded title. arene Dempsey knocked out Georges | Carpentier two months ago. Johnny Wilson, _ alles middleweight champion, an Bryan Downey, who was robs! Not one, but 10 are H Gs a ing that Barnum was wrong. FY eo 1 0 born every minute. Kenworthy, tb... 1 | ee ae Middleton, if .. 3 85, 0. 3} eemeeiteren enemas ——— Spencer, 6 1.05: 6 a1 6 ° 1 ‘ i 3:3 | MOCCer ° *o1e¢ e cera ever M Lb ke eeting oe ae ae e acee Billed ee ioe ¢ ¢ ¢ § 3/Star Football Men to Meet H ‘| at Star Wednesday; & | Nine Teams Enter ‘Tota! o* » Ss 41 98 30 ‘ - *Ratted tor Demaree in eighth, ANAGERS of soccer teams that By Ha have entered The Star league and pilots of teams interested in the cireult, as well as players who wish to line up with teams, should not forget the big meeting of the league which is billed for The Star office Wednesday, The session will get un- gg 4 der way promptly at 8 p. m. r iter 3" pion Brawele. &, At this meeting plans for the sea- Quaid 1. Biruck out—By 'Demaree 1. by) son will be gone over and rules will cia’ 1. Double playe—Cavensy Biconneti, to Kamm: bane to, Mates; |e made up. Spencer to Waren Rune re-| Entries are still open and there Yl are no charges. j{ and four junior teams have entered with a ninth team that has not sig- nified ita division, | apm HPO 4 ™| No rules have been laid down for “ft $F Fb 8 Slene junior division as yet, but pres 2 6 © © 1 lent plans call for an age limit and a 2 1 2 2 8 Slweight limit. These will be set Kenworthy, tb ’ i e ‘ ' Wedn ftump?, es seen f ee 2 oJ e enday. |Middieton, rfc... 2 @ @ 3 © €] Teams wishing to enter the league | 2 3 2 JF ¢ §] should inform the sporting editor of * 8 3 $$ Slane star immediately so that fur- © @ © @ 1 @/ther plans may be made for the or- @ © & © ¢ 8) ganization, ° ee e a) oe ae aes Alex C, Rone, ‘The Star's soccer MS € 24 12 0] expert, wil! be tn charge of the meet Ran ABR MPO. A. El ing Wednesday. febiek, 1 ee bee 8 8 pus taster ne | Rerh, eo Bee 85% |O@coneele tb ..2s 8 a eae ruise rao & t 6 & 8|| to Hit Home Run a e : ' 1 e |Srempier, p23 $8 ttl] Over Brave Fence La an i 144s Braves’ field, Boston, home of tabepadiy A 3h — = = —|| the National’ league’ baseball Tetale 36 * 37 14 21) team, has been in use six years, shatted for Murphy | - and Walter Crutse, Boston left- fielder, is the only player who ever hit the ball on the fly over the right field wall. He has done it twice, once some years ago with the Cardinals and recently with the Braves, ‘obi . Gardner, Recrifice hite—O Middleton, Kam, Kelty. TY otf Gardner 8. traci ler §, by Gardner 3. Hi worthy. Double plays thy to Tal yh to O'Connell; Kenworthy ¢ Hates, Walsh to Btumpt to Bates bie for—-Gardner & Umpiree—Casey and McGrew net, PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE w | man Francieco ....5 * a hal « er “ " Vernon = (t 1 Lake ” Portiand .. 116 NATIONAL LEAGUE | Picteabur |New ¥ at. Louis Hoaton. ooklyn neinnati Chteago The score— Poston At_New York 3 Batteries: Ovschger and Gowdy, Neh Causey and Smith. Rn u nl and Daly; 6h } and Clemons, | AMERICAN LEAGUE w [Malt Lake * RM EB re Chica, cker, arrest | Batteries: Love and Murphy; Kallio | St Houle... sees ee Lh ie : at Tene 5 thi: ‘ and Lynn. a 13 ajed in Bayne, Van Glider and Sey. | —— ompeon, Hodge. MoWeeney : Kerr and Sehalk. rn aor ‘ 4 O'Neill dicaps will be set Wednesday by the handicap committee. Scratch will be an average of 185 pins, Ss se 9% last season, Play cine in the city circuit Sep- tember 15, Kelly Rath, joes on baile Time of game mm, Lost, Pet * gr SEATTLE FLY | CHASERS OUT Both Charley See and Brick Eid. «| red, Seattle outfielders, are out of the game with injured thumbs, Eld- red hurt his right thumb while slid- ing into second base Friday, while See fractured his right thumb when he fell while chasing a fly ball with Bill Kenworthy. ‘This puts the team rather hard up for outfielders. WOMEN LINKS STARS TO MIX MONTREAE, Sept. 5.—Alexia Sterling, American woman golf champion, and Cecil Leitch, British champion, will meet for the first time on the North American conti- nent in the Canadian championship here Sept. 19. Miss Leitch defeated the American champion in England. Miss Leitch is now on her way to Canada BALLARD GRAD LEADS WHITMAN f, * mb = meena. sand Hen-} en Comrada, a Seattle boy, ts eee oe captain of the Whitman college HM. 8.|football team this year, He is a ae wy ®lgraduate of Ballard high school, eaten 6 Brottem’ | Where he starred n football and bas. Luque and Win, ketball, He played a a for Whitman at tackle last y Sond aaa R HM. © | will lead the Missionaries against °§ 714 ¢} Washington at the Stadium in the O’Farret!; | first game of the season here Oct. 8. b, non Sean ot wi MN. B. Rt ot Laie i $/RUTH SLAMS Batteries an, York, Cheever OUT NO. 50 NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Sending the ball into the right field stands on the Polo grounds in the third in- ning, with Courtney pitching for Washington, “Babe” Ruth hit his 50th home run of the season, Charged with trans- CHICAGO. porting liquor, Louis Swift, Jr. son Read my article in bext Saturday's Star, | of playing—Sept. 915—to decide the So far four senior! ciude William M. Johnston of Call- fron enter, One of the big foreign stars wilt bed out of the title by Wil| son’s hand-picked referee in| Cleveland recently after Downey had knocked him | out, were to furnish the main go, Johnny Buff, American weight champion, was to fend his crown against Indian sell. Panama Joe Gans, colored weight champion, was to meet | McTigue, champion of Ireland Star Net Field in e National Cream of World Tennis Players to Compete in Big Meet in Philly HILADELPHIA, Sept. &—This has been the biggest year ever in tennis, and the climax of the sea son will be reached in the seven days fe! Mus } Downey, who is’ the champion in Ohio, knocked cold in the seventh round of ti bout at Cleveland, but the ¢ Wilson « long count and awarded Wilson the fight on @ m fF Y singles championship. All told, there will be 128 contestants for the tennis crown, representing not only the cream of America, but of the entire world. In addition to Champ William T. Tilden, the American entries will in- fornia, the former champion: Rich- ard Norris Williams II, another for- mer national champion; Wallace F. Johnson, Watson Washburn, Charles 8. Garland, 8. Howard Voshell, Walter M. Hall, Dean Ma- they, Willis E. Davis, Robert Howard Kinsey, Bates and Levey, of the University of California, and Neer of Leland Stanford, and last and many would not be surprised if he came out first—Vincent Richards, the 18-year-old marvel. RESENTED All told, 10 countries will be rep- resented in the tournament—the United States, England, France, Denmark, Canada, Japan, India, Australasia, Mexico and South Africa, Great Britain will be represented by the veteran F. G. Lowe, Maxwell) 4 J. B. Gilbert, who won the All- England plate at Wimbledon this i Zenzo Shimidsu and Ichiya Kum- agae and Selichiro Kashio will represent Japan. Australasia will be represented by one, possibly two, of the following players who came to this country for the Davis cup matches: Norman Peach, E. ©. Anderson, J. He i TO ENTER Gobert, the noted French player, will be on hand, as will be the three Danish stars—Tegnoe, Inger- slev and Henrikson. Jacob Sleem Deane and Fyzee, who represented India in the Davis cup matches, are also expected to when he boxes Dan O'Dowd in Bend, Ind. It's over the route. Gibbons is due to ges Carpentier in New Yi month. be B. I. C. Norton, the brilliant young South African, who forced Tilden to five sets in the challenge round of the world's championship at Wimbledon tn June. FANS WATCHING EDDIE PINKMAN ‘ Seattle fans will be watching | work of Eddie Pinkman, lightie, who is planning a o next week, with more than interest. Pinkman has been ont the game now for a couple of but he has been training for 601 time and is all set for his o effort. His opponent has not be named yet. Pinkman always big card in Seattle because of ability to hit with his right hand, — TACOMA STAGES CYCLE PROGRAM Five motorcycle races were to be the feature of the big program at the ‘Tacoma Speedway today. A field of riders, stars of many races, have entered and the big num- ber of Seattle enthusiasts who made the trip to the Speedway are assured of plenty of excitement. Raw Material or Finished Product? Which the more valuable to you, the wool or the cloth? The abstract, with its lengthy recital of legal technicalities which the layman does not understand, and over which lawyers often differ, or the finished product, the Title In- surance Policy? The Title Policy guarantees to you that your title is good, or you get your money back, and that if the title is attacked it will be defended by lawyers employed by this company, without cost to you. Had you thought of it in that light? WASHINGTON TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY “Under State Supervision” Assets More Than $650,000 ¢ a Altho Elmo Jones, secreti 4 Seattle boxing commission, told Star that The Star's letter asking fer a financial statement of the boxti commission to show why the had not been paid on time, would taken up with the commission at th meeting Friday, nothing bas been. ceived by The Star et. F ‘After the show, we'll go to Advertisement.