The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 20, 1921, Page 11

, é ' > , sShorter Series y San Francisco shortstop, and one of the best diamond prospects in the THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1921, Is Better Plan Interest Drags in Long Series; Landis in Favor of Seven-Game Classic; The Judge Will Win in Mix With Ruth; Majors Bid for Caveney BY LEO H. LASSEN HIS year’s world series between the two New York teams proved beyond a doubt that a series of five out of nine games is too long to sustain real interest in the big elassic. The crowds during the first few games were big, but then the interest began to drag. | There is enough commercialism in base- ball without making the big series the super- commercial layout of the year, In commercializing sport there is always the danger that the dollar sign may talk louder than the sport spirit. | Judge Landis, baseball dictator, has sounded the first call in favor of returning to the shorter series, .in which the team winning four games first wins the title. The new system was first inaugurated in 1919 and has been in vogue since. me say the shorter series is not always won by the best team, but two more games won't go far in determining the best team by a long shot. A return to the old seven-game plan is the best thing that could be done to build up interest again in the series, which seemed woefully lacking this season. Judge Landis and “Babe” Ruth Speaking of Judge Landis there is no doubt but what he will win his battle with “Babe” Ruth, that is now holding the center of the trip Ruth won't play big league ball next year—and that’s a cinch. 4 ‘There has been a rule in baseball for some time that members of big/ fue world series’ teams could not barnstorm after the completion of the Landis didn't make the ruie, but as long as it's baseball law the fs bound to make Ruth live up to it or bar him, and he'll do just that ‘There is no doubt but what the rule ix not just, as Ruth has fulfilled his Contract with the New York Yankees, and he has just as much right to Make money barnstroming as Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, George Sisler nd Harry Heilman have of playing Mid-Winter ball in California. There should be no discrimination because Ruth happend! to play in the big others didn’t. pulled a big boner when he thought he could just because he is “Babe Ruth. Public sentiment would have been with Ruth had he lived up to baseball law until it was it is changed the venerable judge is master of the Majors Are Bidding for Caveney bidding of big league clubs for the sérvices of Ike Caveney, stellar leagues, has started. ‘ Fourteen clubs are dickering for the services of the Seal infield ace ‘The two St. Louis clubs are the only teams that have not put in a bid the Golden Gate ball hawk. ‘The Washington club has offered Olaf Erickson, a big pitcher who won 32 games with the Seals a few years ago, and Jim BroWer, a slugger who gtarred in the International league two seasons ago, but who couldn't quite dickerng for him. Bob Connery, of the New York Yanks, wants him for second base. ‘The Giants have also considered him as a possibility for playing secand b next year, which would give them Johnny Rawlins for utility * is doubtful if they make better fielders than Cavency, and he has demonstrated this season that he can hit. Even if ke didn't hit more than .240, his ig at shortstop would make him a big league “wW” Coaches Hoping for Best in 0. A. C. Battle taken on the trip. From early season appearances the O. A. C. game will be the turning consistently M's coaches are mighty pessimistic about the prospects for the opening “If we don't win the game it will be because every Washington man has to be carried off the field,” says point in the Sun Dodger season. This will probably be the hardest game the Washington eleven runs into un- ti} California and Penn State. 0, A. C. won from Willamette last Saturday by an overwhelming score and held the strong Multnomah club eleven to a 7-7 tle the week before. Coach Rutherford has eleven letter GRIDIRON STARS || Who SEATTLE STAR No. 3 Clarence “Ram” Morrison, famous Oklahoma punter and brother of California Morrison, star Golden Bear back of 1920, Nebraska Football Mentor Uses Mitts to Condition Team Another new feature was added to the long list of training stunts around the country a few days ago when Coach Dawson, of Ne braska, inaugurated boxing as a means of football conditioning. ‘The team members are supplied with the padded mitts, and he re quires all candidates to wallop one another every day asa part of their regular practice. “It develops speed and foot work,” says Dawhon, “as well as || tuning up the brain apd getting the men on thelr toes.” © Decisions Will Perk Up Boxers Board Makes Rule t All Local Bouts Must Have Verdicts HE new plan of refereeing! inaugurated | by the Seat-| tle ‘ring com- mission) whereby all) bouts must, have a decis-| ion is a good! stunt to make/ the boys box better and to! put their best efforts into the milling. This means that there will! be no more draw bouts at Se-| attle smokers and that the | referees will be forced to pick a winner. The only drawback would TOON his own giving the ball and it is cortal The Lumbermen, Seattle Times and the Postoffice are staging a pretty fight tn the Commercial league for first honors The handicap system of play, as tn yorue in the City league, is gaining in cues are both planning to use it the t of the season, Tom O'Donnell and his Boldt's Cafe team, figured at the start of the AN of the city bowling team#” wilt be In notion tonight with three hee on at the Imperial alleys, two et club and one at the Orpheum a Rippe’s Cafe five are going strone. resting im second place this week, right bebind the league-leading Marisiag Choc olate outfit. Drexman has strengthened’ longue team by signing re- Heneon. Harry hie Cit; Hable England Produces Greatest Golfers; It’s Temperament Strange as it may *seem, the greatest golfers of the world are British. In Engiand they are Dun- can, Mitchell, and the woman's champion, Cecil Leitch. Of the United States they are Jim Barnes, Hutchinson and Alexa Stirling, who are registered as American citizens, but came from the Isles. What is ®? Hasn't America as good courses as they find any- where in the world? Sure they have, but England is the home of the “elu- sive pill,” and race temperament has the most to do with it. The average American is a fast, nerv- BY ROY GROVE orcises, including swimming, vigor: | 115 bird who chirped “champions |OUsly. In 1921, she shattered world's are born, not made,” was talking |*Witaming marks oi tor another in his sleep Last April, in a New Jersey com And. you can easily prove it to| Petition, she made 50 yards with the yourself if you'll check over the lead | DACKatroke in 38 4.5. pecie Bl Ac ers of 1921 am they stand on the eve | “Ted the world record at that w z to :36, for 100 yards to 147 3-5 and} of the summer sporting season's bi r be _ Rerndtion for 150 yards to 210 1.6 | In the free style she ‘The best of them, you'll find, were lowered the | - world record for 300 MADE—made thru sheer determina |ang the American records for tion! r yards to 1:06 15, for 400 yards to! 15:44 and for the 440 yards to 6:10 4-5. | And you say th BORN? | . jo HUTCHISON was a caddy e in Scotland. Not any better than | the other caddies, and not any worse, | But constant application and ettort | on his part as he grew up in dhe United States enabled him to go back T WAS mad eat aller nine sex determination alone that Ethelda Bleibtrey*tt | nd swimmer that thi | ever developed | As @ girl Ethelda was thin and Jround-shouldered, Her’ health was But whe determined build | bad. herself up. She went at outdoor ex to Scotland last summer and win the British open olf championship againat the stars of the home of golf ‘And you say they were BORN? ore ABE RUTH with wasn't a great star shine expecially in the league, for hia batting average t was only .231, It wasn’t until he Baltimore He didn't National that he really began to get some place. And ridw? Well, two world records for home runs in two con secutive seasons is not so bad And you say they were BORN? ae on TOU'LL find it true of all the rest | of thone who head the survival of the sport fittest let. Long Jim Barnes, winner of the national open Big Grid Games on Saturday Penn State-Harvard Tiff Holding Center of Amer- ican Football Stage HE first real DI! prown and Springfield will meet at games of the in-| Providence this week, tercollegiate << ball season are in store for gridiron fans| thruout the jcorgia Tech will play host to Rot country Satur-| ors, at Atlanta, in one of the biggest aay |intersectional games this week Here are the} One of the lesser interseetional games Saturday will be played at Boston when the Boston college team tangles with Detroit. 1 team, which ran up the seasen last , will meet Col- eat Ithaca Saturday. Cornell doped to win. feam that up sgaint Vordham, at New York, Saturday ¢ Moly Crom and Georgetown ‘get to- | cinta Military Institute, ether Saturday at Worcester. Holy Crom held Harvard to @ 3-to-0 score, Indiana makes ite first “Big Ten” at Minnenpolis this week, with Minnesota furnishing the opposition, Pennsylvania will entertain the Vir- t Philadelphia, faturday, This team walloped the Peon clever last season. In the other games on the Coast, out- side of conference struggies, pinys at Pull Stanford Alto, and’ Corps, at Spokane. Contre College will mix with Tran- syivania wt Lexington. ‘The Navy goes on with West Virginia Werte at Annapolis, most important! — battles of the) day <nieago, at ——- Princeton; Penn State, at Harvard; Army, at) Yale; Syracuse, at Pittsburg; Nebras- ka, at Notre Dame; Ohio State, at Michigan; Wisconsin, at Tlinois; Washington, at Oregon Aggies; Ore- gon, at California; Dartmouth, at AHA, Oct. 20.—Gun powder is & better cosmetic than face Since the defeat of Princeton at gt is the hands of the Navy, last week, |POWder, says Mrs. W. C. Edmiston the big kick has been taken out of | She's woman's Mid-West trap-shoot- | the Chicago-Princeton scrap, but it/ ing champion, and one of the surest | should be a real battle. field shots in Nebraska, and she Chief interest of Seattle fans will’ urges women evetywhere to find) center on the Penn State-Harvard | health in hunting, | game, as Penn State comes here for| Mra. Edmiston's vitality Is so! A post-season game. }abounding, her face and Gigure #0) * ' the Coast,| Youthful, that people won't believe Bh deed bad eee tak te Oreson | her when she tells thern she's 40. Aggies and Oregon and California, | She appears less than 30. } pry the lid off the Coast conference}, She attributes her perfect healch | season. to her trusty fowling piece. “If women knew the delight of trudging over meadows, and thru cornfields where the prairie chickens | hide, of burrowing into the sand be NOT FOR SALE) maxs a duck ‘blind,’ or of trafling \CINNATI, Oct, 20—C |rabbits thru the winter a tle will have to look else | ‘hey'd label thein:-Rreneh-heeled slip, . pers ‘For dancing only,’ and would where for a major league franchise,| get out into the open,” she said, Garry Herman, president of the! “yaybe at first they couldn't walk Reds, said today. “Our club is not! 29 miles a day in boots, as I do, but for sale to Cohan or any one else,”| it wouldn't take them long to get in Herrman said, “We decided that | trim.” last summer when Cohan tried to| Mra, Edmiston, who lives in Oma- get an option on the Rede.” ha, will hunt ducks and prairie M. < Colgate, at Cornell, fe) CINCY REDS Gun Powder Better Than | Face Powder, Says Champ chickens in Nebraska In October, quail in Illinois, or perhaps the Ozarks in November, and wild tur- keys, coons and ‘possum in Missis- sippi in December, Said Champions Were Born and Not Made? |golf championship at Washington last never had an easy time with a mashie, He has chased cham matches for years, and never won, But in between he hunt ed up the keenest f competition an@ gradually built himself up until he copped. Dan Shea is inuch Uke Barnes, He | summer, | plonship rds to 4:11 25 |gan to put in a lot of deep study on| worked bard, here and there, at this 100 | the psychology of hitting home runs|and that and finally grabbed off the [championship of the decathlon, or |allaround track and field athlete | title. | It's the same with ‘em all—Mrs Molla Bjurstedt Mallory at tennis, | Jack Dempsey in the ring, or eves the trotter, Peter Manning, on the track | Champions are born, yes. But not born champions. Star Soccer Schedule Shifted for Sunday Big Game Is Set for Woodland Maple Leafs and West Se attle to Clash on North End Park Grounds CAUSE the soccor field at Line coln park is not the regulation aiyjlength the Maple Leaf Post-West Seattle game, which will be the big” game of Sunday's Star league tiffa, will be played on the upper grounds, at Woodland park at 245 p. m ‘This means that the Boeing Air craft club and the Woodland teams will get together on the same grounds at 1 p. m. instead of 320 — pb. m. 2 This shift in the schedule tates the playing of the Ben Billiards and the Ballard Junior bat+ tle on the Lower Woodland per grounds. They will get started 1 p. m. [ie The complete schedule for day's games for play, follows: In trap-shooting, she has held the | Iowa state championship two years, the Nebraska championship three, and the Mid-West championship since 1916, Incidentally, she is president of a suburban woman's club, is district chairman of conservation of the Ne- braska women's clubs, and ts active in Americanization work. COFFEY WINS NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Jim Coffey, the veteran Irish heavyweight, join- ed the list of ring comebacks by de- feating Ermine Spallo in a 12-round bout here last night. Men’s and Boys’ Clothing RESOURCES” JUNIOR GAMES Ben Paris Billiards vs, Ballard | at Lower Woodland park at 1 p. mm Fai va. Louk Walla at 2:45 p. mm. . A. vs. Highland Park at ey Le atip. m th Columble playfield ett p. mas nee The referees have been as follows: Fred Douglas at Walla Walla; Waller first game at Upper land park, and ‘Alex C. Rose, Lower land park; Bill Bloomen at C bia playfield; George Hoefling Hiawatha, and Bob Bonner at ington park. ‘ Full course dinner, T5c, at Served 5 to 8 p. m.. a ti . ous, impatient sort of player, and the sooner he can get on and off, the better he likes it, while the English golfers play that slow, concentrative game which leads to the mastering in the end, * Captain Ray Eckmann. | men on his squad, including such ‘The Sun Dodgers are out to fight |stars as Mcenna, Powell and Kas- all the time, but are seriously han- | berger. | dicapped by lack of experience un-| Reports from the south show that der the new coach. the California Bears are in a badly h Bagshaw will take at least |crippled condition. Captain Brick f° 25 Players on the trip to Corvallis, | Muller is out for the season with a IV ieaving tonight. Assistant Coach | broken leg and Englebretsen, the Matthews, Trainer Edmundson, Man-|other end, is temporarily injured. ’ ager Gene Olwell and Graduate Man- |Charlée Erbe, star halfback, is out of q Ager Darwin Meisnest will make the |the game with bad eyes and several f Ip with the team. be in the case of a hairline} decision in which a defeat would hurt a boxer’s record while he may have fought just as well as the other fel- low, only the referee, forced to give a verdict, handed it to his opponent. There are never any draw| bouts in amateur scraps and| the rule has worked well, so| there's no reason why it shouldn't work for regular | ring men. | Real Painless Extraction Free Daily There were 1,170 fatal industrial aceidents in Canada in 1920. jother minor injuries make the squad “Bagshaw has several men who are|go through practice on crutches. i ightly crippled on the squad, and| Washington State showed a re take a full quota to ineure|versal of form last week and! Plenty of: substitutes. The Wash-|swamped Gonzaga. The Cougars! ington mentor used thirteen substi-|tangle with Idaho this week, while | fates in the Montana game. A num-|Oregon and California play in Ber. Ber of supervarsity men who have |keley. TO BEAT TIGER SQUAD FEW seasons ago the West Seat- Broadway—Brassfield, left end; tle football team was looked {Andrews, left tackle; Sterrett, left n ag a trial horse for the other | guard; Burnett, center; Groger, right ds in the local prep league. To) guard; Swale, right tackle; Moyer, ntion Broadway and West Seattle (right end; Ward or Talbot, quarter; fm the same conversation meant talk | Erickson, left half; Garber, right of 40 or 50 points with the Tigers |half; Meister, fullback, on the long end West Seattle—Shag This year it's different. These | Keeling, right tackle; ‘two teams tangle tomorrow after |fuard; Bonamy, center , left noon at Denny field and for the first|#uard; Schmitz, left Me. time in the history of the two schools | Naught, left end; Shattuck, quarter; the West Siders are given a chance | Baldwin, right half; Byers, left half; to win. Forester, fullback. The Indians will outweigh the coca Tigers by some four pounds to the MARTIN WINS THIRD BOUT man, averaging 164 pounds, while IRTLAND, Ore,, Oct. 20.—(United Broadway averages 160. Both teams lost their first game, Press.}—Denver Ed Martin, sen- | © sational negro battler, outweighed @ the loser tomorrow will be count and outfought Setgt. Ray Smith at, ed out of the prep race. ‘The teams are expected to line up Pi -k- | Pecommended b: Milwaukie arena last night, knock | Sen whose work ing the aspiring white lad out in the good satisfaction. third round. om ers, boa neve u Martin punished Smith all the way | Yyuare in the right and only once was in danger. That | this ad with you, was when Smith, angered at being | knocked to the floor twice with but OHI Cut-Rate WL Amr is & Sur oer a few seconds mm between falls, A caught Martin on the chin with a| Dentists FUGET SOUND NAVIGATION. 207 UNIVERSITY ST. Pmone Opposite Fraser-Paterson Co, RLEY-DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLES ma BICYCLES . WES Dray co IOI E Den't forget the Public Auction Sale of the new town of PORT OLYMPIC lots, October 27, 1921, 1 p. m. sharp, Tacoma thneairc, Tacoma, Wash. 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