The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 15, 1921, Page 11

R 1 TUESDAY, NOVEMB 1921, ack’s Secret Public; Billy Evans Explains His Methods BY BILLY EVANS (Copyright, 1921, by The Seattle Star) carious job, Club owners pay considerable atten to the attitude of the fans, for they the freight. the club owner starts to look around his successor, even thinks of departing. For seven years have held undisputed possession of last place. Such a banished to one of the leagues under the sea. Connie Mack, however, co fans for his removal. Seven years of reverses have not dimmed the! ows Juster of his managerial record in) PUBLIC the mast. He is still regarded as/ Getting serious, of the wise men of t onnie Mack is truly the man of baseball.” RETAINS PRESTIGE Mack retains ‘the prestige he won Mack of the tired the pu Philadetphia “mystery | knows | When of club. ested jother great team. Philly has since been in his efforts popular. It sounds like a wild sta! than his pennant winners of 1914./ers in the major leagues. That is one reason why Connie con-| managers buy stars; tinues to smile, and can partake of|them. When the fans tire plenty of food without any fear of | teams, whether indigestion. Sympathy for Mr. Mack | winners or cellar champs, fs therefore wasted. Connie is per-/them new faces. lo matter ever, I do know that he yearns to win another pennant, have some phenom Connie good naturediy explains |—jn reserve his ability to retain his job, despite| “If the fans don't like your his, lead pipe cinch on last place, by| up, change it." That has saying: Mack's slogan in success and “{ just can't be fired. I hold the/|ure, and it seems to work controling interest in the balli ways. Of one thing Mack ts club.” tain, it gets the money at the You must constantly deliver the good: fandom starts yelling for your head. of His Sueeess _ After Many Years in Bireaeidt: Philly Leader Still) Holds His Job; He’s Smart Ball Man; Feels Pulse of ANAGING a big league ball club is a pre- tion pay That is why the life of the average major league manager is of short dura- tion. The moment he fails to get results, for Connie Mack stands out as the only exception to this rule in the history of major league base- Managers come and managers go, but Connie Mack never | Mack's clubs | rec- ord would be enough to cause the ordinary manager to be| There is no insistent demand on the part of the Philadelphia retains his he game.| prestige and popularity because he public. | his | champions, he sold the stars of bis inter- to’ rebuild an Several times he as a maker of championship teams. |has ecemed to be on the way to Stranger yet, his tailend teams are) his goal. To my way of thinking, lack knows more baseball than any | but the tailenders of 1921 | other man connected with the game made far more money for Mack | Mack is the only developer of play Other Mack makes of his they are pennant he gives how fectly at ease with the world. How- | poorly his club has been playing of }iate years, Mack always seemed to real or alleged | line been fail. both cer gate. phting Shades Handed How in ting a reguing series Of Upsets) Lien three titles. on its way to fistic fame in the East. | beating from Bert Colimas, the Los | the East with the best showing, Angeles Scrapper, in Gotham, in a 10-| ning all of his starts round fracas. out of Billy Shade, the light heavy-|they certainly won't Two Serious Ring Upsets ith Shade*family is get-| you know, kicked over every big fel igi 7 eh Australia, and came home Dave Shade, the welterweight of First George shade, the middie-|the California mitt-slinging trio, has weight of the family croup, took a| come out of his first few starts in| win | The defeats of George and Billy Then Harry Greb, the Pittsburg|don't mean that they're eliminated r mauler, comes along and licks the tar |from championship possibilities, Bre help their weight, with aspirations to take a| chances of getting high class bouts :a fall out of, Jack Dempsey. Billy |any from now on. 7 M2 : a — Ch. aes ~ a Wisconsin at Chicage Saturday. e — Los Angeles te the anoual U. of Southern California- Whittier clash this week-end. Syracuse and Dartmouth wilt maul each other around the chaiked arena for the benefit of New York football bugs Ohio State and lows, the Big Ten | Saturday. ! conference leaders, have soft opposition | for the rest of the season. Ohio State| The schedules of West Point and ‘will play Illinois at Columbus Saturday,| Agaapotis have let up in order to While Iowa has a stiffer proposition with! give them plenty of tme to tao Nebraska for the annanl Army-™i "y, oh in New York on ‘The Navy Captain Aldrich of Yale made himself a candidate for All-American considera- | tion by his educated toe work against the Tiger Saturday. to death Saturday. and 0. A. ©. will settle For the first time in years Cornell Sat |tooke ike the best bet in their inva of Pennayivenia U, in Philadelphia a | week from Saturday 3 Marquette will try to slow up Catholic | Giants when Notre Dame visite Milwau q Harvard. didn’t 100k 90 good nina | Kee thin week-end a Brown Saturday, but the tricky - Fisher kept bie firet string stars 13 o ; the lineup. |KEISER TO HAVE h } x Looks \ike the calitornia pear wit} OTHER CHANCE % have little trouble chewing up ® crew! A New York di “4 . ‘ & i | 3 ork dispatch says that a é She Toe Cacdinel stadium Betucdsn "| return bout with Young Bob Fitz the new Cardinal stadium Saturday The Bagshaw quietly” Saturday, and gather ap the remnants of the team the California Bruins sto up, for 0 stand againet the Cougars on Thanksgiving day. Brown and Colgate settle thelr annual | Pigskin debate at Providence Saturday. clan will “rest \by one of the Newark clubs. |EAST SIDE PUG | NEW YORK, Nov. 15,—Abe Gold Georgia vs. Ainbama tx the main grid-| stein, East Side boxer, will meet | fron attraction in the Sunny South for Joe Meade, Philadelphia glove sling. i in the city of the w. k. Brother- Alonzo Stagg’s Maroons entertain iy. Love tonight I wish to enter the. (Name Team) in The Star Junior Basketball league. Our team is from the.. (Name District) (Manager) (Phone) The Star Wednesday NOTE-—Teams represented at Need to fill out this blank. night do attic ground of |about getting that last ball, or what | simmons is being arranged for Fay Keiser, the Cumberland heavyweight, TAKES ON MEADE Star Junior Cage Entry ».team ++. district. not Juniors to | Feature in Soccer Mix: South Park and Ballard! | -Get Together in Big} | Game This Week WO of the leading Junior teama| } will clash in The Star Soccer | league nday when South Park Ballard get together at South Park, Both teams have lost a game each and have both tied one start The junior divition of the league is staging one of the'closest rac ever held in the history of the game in Seattle. All of the teams will be in action as usual Sunday, The complete schedule follows i TOR GAMES West oing Alreraft at Park at Upper Woodiand Maple Haas-Kokarts at Upper Woodland park at 2/46 p. m. JUN : South Park Hard Juniors South Park at 1 p. Cowas on A. ©. at Lower | Woodland park at 1p, m | Allen Athletic association vs Haw thorne Juniors at 1 pm. Loute’s French Dry Cleaners ve. Paris Hiltiards at Walla W Washmgton Park team Ben will be idle ntinues to lead his cellar champs. | beeasse of the default of the Highiand | POrt® that Washington: is playing kK Loar. nagers of the following teams must | nee the caretakers of their fields tmamne- | dint lo obtain permits for the pimy- | ing Alroraft, W and Park, | South Par | . Ben grounds can't be obtained ere should inform The Star NANG Ny KAW ely) Pirtnce flint Ulf am yy Witney Ay Mise Cecil Leitch, bailed as the | . former California ama- defeated in the sec ka r stepped out holes and the Joe Novak. Spokane Country club pro: fessional, will not go Mouth to spend the accepted a berth with company of Spo! where be will remain until the apr! golfing season open: ‘The Terkeley Country club golfers were forced to carry thelr own club cently when 50 caddies struck at a duction in the fee from £6 cents to 20 cents, The strike was settiod when other cn idion secured by the club, The campaign of the 0. 8. 0 clube now consists of over 100 two clubs were admitted during 1921 Fifty tion Is componed of 17 clubs and eight may be admitted at the coming meeting NIX ON HERO STUFF, SAYS GIANT STAR “Nix, nix on that hero stuff. I'm Just the second-rate second baseman that the wise ones said wouldn't amount to anything in the world’s series. I never thought anything ft meant if it got by,” said Johnny Rawlings, when somebody tried to make a hero out of him as he sat in ja Cincinnati hotel. He had stopped joff in Cincinnati en route to Califor nia, “It was just a ball, hit in my gen eral direction, and it was part of my day's work to get it. Afterwards, when they were ing such a fuss about me, I ducked for cover. I know it doésn't sound romantic. 1 suppose I ought to say that ‘as the ball came whizzing past, I realized that the great series hung upon that single play. Exceeding anything I ever did before in speed and akill, I Would pass me? For {swooped down upon that ball. P get it? Would it one instant I saw red’—ta it red they always see, or i# it green?—'and there was the nolse of a thousand cataracts in my ears.’ Something thudded against my palms. I rose, with the ball gripped in my hands; I threw. Kelly caught it and that's all there was to it. “I've been in the fast company a long while, Started with the Reds, you remember, But this was my first cut-in at the big money, and I surely enjoyed the sensation. My plans for the winter? Gotng to Cali jfornia. No, I don’t suppose I can |play any ball. Not after Babe Ruth's |flivver. Just take it easy for the |winter and go back to work in the spring.” “BRICK” MULLER | LEFT IN COLD! | PALO ALTO, Cal 15 | "Brick” Muller, star California end, will not be included in the list of All-American football material being | prepared by Walter Powell, Stanford grid coach, for Walter Camp. Muller was injured early in the sea- son, and has not played in enough games to warrant mention, accord ing to Powell COBB APPROVES LEAGUE BONUS SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15,—Ty Cobb grew a bit loquacious regard ing the 20,000 seeds the Coast mag- nates have rung up for their base ball birelings to scramble for next season Fine idea; but the bonus should THE ATTLE TELEPHONE LEAD HELD BY 3 TEAMS Cage Men to Meet HIE standing of the »hone league teams was all ee to and put togeth again struction Office, Division Plant downed maton, and the Con Star Cage League to Hold) struction bowlers won trom the Ke . peatermen Th th winners are Big Junior Session; to ren ree ee ie Start at 8 P. M. place, while the Repeatermen took @ long, hard fall from the top of UNIOR basketball pilots! the heap to the fourth floor The Don't forget the big meeting |Commercial boys won three straight of The Star league booked for The from the Motor Vehicle team. The Star tomorrow night at & p.m. {Construction took two out of the I's mighty important that every | regular three from the Installation junior club planning to play this| sphere rollers, A new record of 988 geason give The Star plana the|for a single game and 2,736 for once over bef passing it up. three games, was hung up by the Rules and regulations for the sea-| Mainteng bowlers for the boys | son will be gone over and other|to shoot at business of vital importance will] In a@ special match, Boldt's Cafe also be discussed at this time out-bowled the Commercial league Tomorrow night, § p. m, at The | alletars. Star! Telephone League He sure and be there! ‘Totale— | Repeatermen 136 | M Construction 814 | Transmission 685 704 604-1993 FROM “W BALL TEAM, Motor Vehicle. 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Lao mo paps a Tact = Rugs and Drugs. 60 Bob Harper, Seattle lightweight, o # since last r » his 01 rhe all | Shoe 685 631 573-1789 | Bele bs : i. rg sh, nme “0 ne oan Shoe Fitters Billy MeCann, the Cleveland light ne o ‘aseda. ‘apiguchti, ve € n po t a seda’s crack moundsaman, has been Special Match ve ~ yong ss pee hee to a too much for Tiny Leonard in all|Com. League puplé of ts the | bis games. Frank Setzer has the| All-Stars 970 965 968 scaling: Mad ie dade sa he best record for Washington, with | Boldt'’s Cafe, 5 |* booked for some engagements in an unbroken string of victories City League. .1066 1007 9945 | Denver, from where he hopes to| plate Son bows: sadehina for the hop to New York and move into the esl MAUPOME IS |i 2 off his game nearly all trip. Me { _— - Mahon and Gardner are leading the ER IN GEORGE WAGNER hitters, with Dick Welts starring {LAID UP in the infield. T BLOCK George Wagner, the battler who Matsumoto, Waseda’s crack piteh- broke his arm in his bout with er when they played in Seattle, is| INNING is 60-point bloek | now playing left field for the Nip-| FLUNNING out his 50 in 65 innings, Pierre Maupome | R GEORGE INGLE AND FRANKIE FARREN TO CLASH TONIGHT Davis Is I Hurt; Ingle Substitutes Old Man Jinx Has Hold| on Champ; Ingle, Luck-| ily, in Great Shape | Travie Davis see to have 49 “injury jinx” these days. He sprained his ankle yesterday in training, and George Ingle has been secured to take his pl ainet Frankle Farren at the Pavilion tonight Davis will be unable to fight for a week or two, according to the doe. Ingle in in shape to fight, hav ing given Harry Casey a neat bbing a few nights ago. He hop a rattier and headed for Se attle immediately upon being noti. fied that his pugilistic ability was needed in Seattle tonight The reet of the card follows Gordon McKay ve. Red Henry, middleweights Bull Mitchell vs. light-heavyweights. Joe Martinson, Soldier Woods recently, is having a tough time, He had to have the arm broken over several times. It will be a month or more before George will be able to use his in- jured arm again BREMERTON.—When he sailed to feport for duty as official”in city JORTLAND, Ore, Nov, 15,—Fri \M°2 SAX, quarterback, halfback day night, November 18, the Mil-| and all-around star of the Wash- waukie arena and the fistic fans of |ington State college, proved that he the Rose ¢ will come into their|was 100 per cent better than any own when the greatest fight ever|man that Coach Welsh had pereds staged in the Northwest takea pla lating upon the bench, while the othe J between Harry Wills, th world ers were playing regular 4 champion colored heavyweight, and) Welch kept Sax out of the Call the gothic giant of former days,|fornia struggle in Portland on a@ © Denver Ed Martin, in a 10-round de-|count of reasons unknown to the $ | cision affair for the championship of | writer, but heard offhand that the jing it on the line that Wills will flop |heavy hitters, and when either lands Jon the jhe PAGF 11 Sport Chatter From Portland By Billy Stepp The Martin-Wilis battle. Oregon vs. 0. A.C. Concerning Portland's manager. the universe. any of the wise ones, ’ of the ring game, frat troubles were brewing. Sax showed up the whole bunch at orvailis last Friday when he played | the entire two | Without the | game the Ag or rather are lay oon idol in less than 8 at the most the former rounds, or thr ee es Wills on paper looks like a cinch | '"° “ougar When talking abont sat Martin, but then both are} to beat Martin, bul | victory, Jest snark i) emaneee clean-cut “show-up” by Moe Sax that all the Pullman tribe needed was pep and someone to deal it out, which Sax did Uke a general, would have the Cougar button the silver-lined over coats will be in order. Martin is ready to fight Wills or | Dempsey, and is confident that he will win in the Friday night affair.) Should the f th over | RO8* BEAVER, nould the former great lay over! I) or the Portls the winning punches nd@®hing in the| ne Portland Baseball club, — | world will stop him from a fight with | phar bed o, ree bk pee his old ring enemy. Jack Johnson, | teria City telling the folks what Ig ight that would be as great as the si Carpentier Dempsey fight to the fis-|)))% reyes 60.up ia doar Oe tina fans. ¥ On the other hand, the “wise ones” | Bill, of course, hasn't given anye are wondering why Wills, so great ;0m® 4 tumble for the pilot job, but” and supposed to be the only man in| has three men ready to accept the the world that has a chance of beat-| Position: Bert Nethoff, former Los” ing Dempsey, ix coming to Portland |Angeles infielder; Joe Devine, of | to fight. The reason is simple: East-|Ctleury, and “Duke” Ken ern promoters don't like to stage a| The first two are wide open to match with Wills on the card, as|0F turn down, while the latter is they really can't get the right mate.|® member of the Indians of Seattle, | rial on the receiving end to stand the| A dark horse ts looming into ‘onal grind. If Harry was white he'd be| field, and a man that Portland in big demand. The only way that | would be tickled pink to see give can get a fight with the world’s|the batting order. Billy Speas is the | champion would be to get a coat of|dark horse candidate for the post. whitewash and then promise not to| Should Klepper and his K. K. hurt the champ, and then Kearns|select Speas they couldn't make would give him a tumble, better cheice, as the entire 1925 _— City is for Billy to the last diteh, TE annual struggle for the Ore-| peas is about the most gon football championship will be| man that ever drove a spike into t on the menu the latter part of this| Coast league circuit. Every town week at Eugene, when the lemon-|the circuit likes Bill and every yellow invites the alumni to their| player that ever worked with “home coming” stunts, and as a mag-| against Speas will always say the nate oe the Te vs. O. A. he is a gentleman and a great game on Haywa: eld. the Coast or Northwest titles, as the! What would you do if you Bears have cinced the former honors f and the Cougars the latter, but the ple apg fo cat se Webfoot crown is still at stake. On paper Oregon figures to beat the Beavers, but the Cow College will William Klepper, VANCOUVER, B. GC. — election, searchers find Harry Me: pons, Otherwise the lineup tw the} I same as in the games here. The |t0% @ lead of prone ype ger | Babe Ruth of Japan, who hung up | Bisaillon in last night | such ® record here, ts not hitting at; 2Tewn & Hulen aig tid all in the series in the Far East. Bisailion — pla. exce ards, and took an early lead, ml ; “ h | couldn't stand the pace set by t H. GREB MAY Mexican wizard, who is spotting | the Portland cuelst, 160 to 130. TRY NORTHWEST) ‘tne secona round of the three This light-heavyweight glove sling. | block match will be played this er, Harry Gueb is a regular goget-jevening at § o'clock. tum fightin’ fool, according to Bobby Evans, former matchmaker | of the Portland Boxing comminsion, who saw Greb murder Charley Wein- LEONARD AFTER WELTER CROWN art and Valley Trambitas in the NEW YORK, Nov, 15.—It ts ru Rast recently, mored in fistic circles that Benny Evans thinks that Greb could! teonard is to meet Jack Britton, the easily be persuaded to visit the | weiter king, soon, if the promoters orthwest for a series of bouts, and that he would be a great drawing card. planning to stage bouts in the state armory can get the signatures of these gents, which shonid not be difficult. WESTERN CLUBS CAN USE KRUG Oklahoma City wants Marty Krug, HEAVY BOUT NOW BREWING aid captain 4 second wmcker of the NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—A match meating of the Gouthers | 1931 Pi nd club, to amble back | between Joe Beckett, heavyweight on wilt be held ~ ¢ 17, ‘The aeso-|to the realm where he used to wear|champion of England, and Bill | ine spiked shoes before he migrated Weat, and manage their Western | «led for by Tex Rickard. Rickard league bareball team. plans to stage the bout In Madison Marty was formerly a Western ‘Square Garden late in December or league manager and was 4 popular) early in January. pilot with the genus fan. It is not —— considered likely that he can obtain WHITE sox WILL TRAIN IN TEXAS his release from the Coast circuit, CHICAGO, Nov. 15.—The Chicago White Sox will go thru their spring Welker Cochrane Defeats Conti training stunts at Sequin, Tex. An excellent baseball diamond and good CHICAGO, Nov, 15.—Welker Coch- rane drew first blood for America in| hotel accommodations are available the first round of the championship | there for Kid Gleason's pale hoved 18.2 balkline billiard tournament, suatriors, when he defeated Roger Conti, cham- ac glider og Bp Mr ga! WHO'S CHAMP IF [LITTLETON WINS? led thru the first six innings, but | NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 15 Cochrane ran away from his foreign | Bryan Downey, Cleveland claimant Brennan, of Chicago, is being an rival in the later stages of the con test. Cochrane's high run was 172;/o¢ the middleweight crown, will bat Conti's, 48. M 2 tle “Happy” Littlejohn, local boy, yRsRG ed here, tonight, over the 15-round Plestina Wins 361 ‘MIKE WANTS TO LICK TED AGAIN NEW YORK, Nov, 15.—Mike Gib. From Nebraskan NEW YORK, ‘ov. M in| Piestina was awarded a decision in his wrestling match with John Penek, of Nebraxka, on fouls, The men are|bons is on his way to England to heavyweights take on the English welterweight - — champion, Ted (Kid) Lewis, in @ PHILADELPHIA, Nov. —|27-round fistic argument, set for | Lightweight Champion Benny Leon- November 17 ard and Sailor Friedman are train- ing for their 15round bout here November 22. U. S. and G. B. Will Colombia produces the finest emer. alds W SHINGTON, Nov. 15.—While | rector the United States and Great| training Britain are seeking to reach an un-| navy, derstanding on limitation of arma-| He was army ment, representatives of both na-| weight boxing tions will pit their skill at arms|services sabre against one another in a series of} 1919, army bayonet fencing matches this month, pion 1921, and The first two or three interna |at the Olympic games this year. tional bouts will be held at the| Twelve men will serve on each Racket club here, November 18 and] of the two teams. Four will wield 19. The third will be held at the|the foil, four the saber and four Hotel Astor, New York, November /the rapier. 24, Rapier, foil and sabre will be} Major F. W. Honeycutt, used. of the American team, This year's bouts are the first of|fencing is dying out as a sport. a series of British-American fenc-| “It's true that the sword is used ing meets which will be held every|hardly at all in warfare,” he says, four years in the future, taking|“and even the cavalry has aban place between the Olympic games. | doned its traditional saber as a wea- Major F. W. Honeycutt, of the But that hasn't killed fene- war department, will act as cap: tain of the American fencing team, Remaining members of the team have not yet been announced. Colonel Ronald B, Campbell, the Gordon Highlanders, will the British team, Campbell of 1 and British physic in the recreational army and and navy champion 1905-8, eneing champion fencing cham: won fencing honors middle. captain denies that ‘Nowadays fencing has become purely a sport, like baseball and football, instead of real training for combat as it used to be in the days of duelling and hand-to-hand war- fare.” of lead die is have been division clubs, seven,” opined the Georgia confined to the* first instead of the first Peach. Hold Fencing Tourney Intyre’s body in Pound apartment. fight to beat her real rival of the gridiron. Mickey, 7, killed when hit by driven by Low Quon. s stenticlal CIGARETTES With acknowledgments to K. Cm IT BEATS the band. THE WAY this thing. DEPENDABLE SATISFACTIONS, eee oF EVERYDAY living. eee AND IT seema, THAT SATISFACTION. COMES CLOSE to being. THE LONG sought. 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