The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 4, 1922, Page 9

aa ai ee mentee SorenaeetneSirmenSacere men Bond an aN on . > = pe WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1992. THE SRATTLE STAR PAGE 9 Once upon a time not so many rs ago, there was a certain glamour about Harvard, Yale, Princeton to the scholas- tie student with athletic inclination The supe so-called “Big Th admitted in all branches |a preparatory school, had of athletics. When aia hard time deciding smaller college managed | Which of the “Big Three” to beat Yale, Harvard or $¢, Would attend. Very Princeton, it, was an occa- poe lee Bio aeyes yn : weet jority of one of the col- sion for much jubilation. |leges during the preced- Asstar athlete East,jing year, would be West, South or North,|basis for reaching a de- upon his graduation from cision. ority of the ree” was MEW YORK CLUBS CHA Times Change—“Big Three” the |: days, however,{rier of invincibility thatjof them have demonstrat-jmade thru the state of are over. The superior-| once existed. led their superiority over |Ohio by the Yale basket- ity of the “Big Three” is) The East, West, South | Yale, Harvardand Prince- |ball team. now a myth. The way and North now boast of|ton in a most decisive| The Yale team was de- \they have been slammed/many institutions of |manner, |foated every night for a labout in all branches of learning whose athletic} This has been brought |week by small Ohio col- sport by smaller colleges teams compare favorably |to the attention of the |leges, the names of which Those jduring the past five years, with the “Big Three” of |public during the Christ- |a lot of students at Yale /has broken down the bar-|jthe East. In fact, some |mas holidays by a trip |probably never heard of. | No doubt the Yale jalumni are all “het up” over the showjng of the Blue. It seems poor pol- icy for Yale to tour the country with an inferior team. Certainly it adds nothing to the athletie iprestige of that institu- ition, RGED WITH HURTING F e * * * Champions Jennings Says American Leaguer Seemed Big Deals What Pitcher Had the Most Speed? The Speed King | Str engthen ‘Billy Evans Names Walter daliiens, Star of Star Ice Racing Entries Are to Open on Saturday Entries for the third annual fe attle Btar races at the Arena will open Saturday, Preliminaries for the event will begin two weeks from tonight, between periods at he hockey gure. Pntries will be free, and will be Washington y Faster Than Rusie —- i BY BILLY EVANS Gotham Oe the pitchers who have starred in the major leagues which one had the most This question is always a subject for much discussion. It is, of course, merely a mat- ter of opinion, since there is no way to make an aceurate comparison between the stars and Can Afford to Buy Crack Players Clubs Make Coil of the past and present. I can speak for the pitchers of the Jast 20 years. Duri jof the modern stars in action. I have umpired for most o: RY SEABURN BROWN 4 PSHE two New York big league the MA) itnte soi the| that Walter Johnson, when in his prime, had just a little more speed than any of them. ‘ Yankees, are te| When a eget can go thru the American league for three ins Pert gp a fast ball he certainly must have had something on it. That was the experience of Walter Johnson, Enterin, when it was a very strong organization, Johnson breez sational style with a fast ball as his only asset. thruout the coun- try with doing a great deal of damage to the} national game by) their big player | deals that have) he baseball workd since the | Of the 1921 season, 2 Giants and Yanks staged the | ‘$ series in Gotham this year, : fact is no longer a secret. ‘lice then the owners of those two / @iths have stepped out and strength. Pied their teams for 1922, making tir clubs favorites to win dgnin. Believe me, it was some fast ‘ball. {who every now and then would have mo, blinking” be- cause Of his terrific speed. In thowe days batters didn’t div Dean of Umpires May Work Behind Plate on Coast he called a strike on jJohnson pitebing, A jot the good hitters ac reat many ually didn’t Both the Giants and the Yanks felies coming wp with Johnson ‘i fore money than any other pitching. in baseball last year and they JOHNSON GAM afford to step out with the coin VERSUS RUSIF @ buy players. The Heinle Gro Si Jim O'Connell deals wero the t@ transactions completed by the Gants, while the Yanks recently tamed over a big deal with the) Boston Red Sox that involved the} Qransfer of several stars. PESSIMISTIC on a third strike and had him turn afound and ask mé if it was over find whether it was a fast one or 4 curve. It woukin't be in the form jof & protest either as the player |would often finish by sayifie: | 1 don't Know what it was of where it was, I really didn’t see it.” Having settled the fact that Jobu- the heavy spree of fling- huge gobs of coin around the} UB A. for ball players, a peas. | Mitic note is creeping thru feports fem Eastern baseball dopesters. The general business depression @4 not hit major league gate re- SHpts until about the middle of the Bl season, and the interest in the i faces between the New York clubs and Pittsburg and Cleve. overcame the natural reluct Miice of the fans to part with their Mindling cash resources at the box @fices. linet 20 years the argument comes lup, “wns he faster than Ruste?’ konéraily rewarded am the peer of | the old-timers, speed aicne consid ered | Never having seen Faste tn ac tien, 1 do not feel competent to |Qraw any conclusions Gr make any |comparisons between Rusie and Jolson. | Hughey Jennings, former Detroit anager, now assistant to John Mo- w at New York, was a stir yet when Rusie was in bis prime | Ho batted agaifat him many times Orcs he waa hit on the head by 4 7 After many years of indicator sere. thrown ball from Rusie, and almast tural for Huggins to hook 8) ic in the National league Hank died ag a result of the accident er, but the dismantling of the|G-pay, dean of the umpires, has| Jennings was manager of the De- fox by unloading Piercy, Quinn | q.ced for his release, He ia expected troit club when Waiter Johnson en Collins, second. and third-raters, | 14 work in the Coast league this year. tered the American league It bs pent for Bush and Jones, two of | ailing health has caused him to| rather interesting that t hurlers in the league, and breaks away from the East. Me thinks |\{aced the Detroit club im the first Wing Peckinpauzh for Everett that climatic conditions on the Pa-\ wajot Imgue game he ever worked = hes or. been a sad mls | civic Coast will be a fountain of Youth WHAT HUGHE aoe mottos © Part with the |/0F, Mm O'Day ts atilt considered one| JENNINGS SAYS of the beat wmpires in the butiness, | + wirtick me that mo person If } If the Yankees take a long lead in B Be American circuit and hold it, G@eily, the bleacher gods will be con- | Picuots by their absence. It was! enary Harry Frazee, who has patos is sD | ‘ ically ile interest in the/ besteball was in @ better position Di in if Boston. The Yank to pass judgment on Johnson and les powered ball club may win the) pweoion thru the deal, but neither | : nor any other club will draw| | More than a corporal’s guard at Fen- May park next season. Y TWO a COMPETITION Cleveland and St. Louls are the ily clube who figure on paper to e the Yanks penftiant competition. | Indians have been strengthened @ first with the aéquisition of Washington Park Plays Rufty McInnis, and have the class Mikad at Hiawatt |e hnson in off the side. Bfield of the leagué, but their fail- ns - Other Tiffe at Collins “It is atwaye tiuch tore difficult Ife to bolster up their hurling corps iB likely to leave it up to the Browns} 4 Ketbatt | to follow the fast ball of @ sidearm |piteher than ah ovérhand twirter W make the pennant fight a real IREE Stir Junior Pas | league tilts are slated for to Toad As last year, the Browns are thé/night, while the Ben Paris Billiard irk horse of the league. Davenport |hasketeers will meet Weat Seattle on Man uncertain quantity. If be |the Knights of Columibus floor tomor: | mes thru as expected St. Louis row at 7 p. m. } ne pene oe hos pean ‘The Stacy Shown team will try to el Rupert's am ‘uston's n- | - t ake ita third st t start from the Mat-buying stunt, and compel the | Cojing Cuth this ning. The tite|>¥ the two made Johnson ‘ae, rest of the bugs. will be fought at Collins playfield at ates, Deaemee of the greater auer Jn the National, the burder alsol¢ pm. ‘The Stacys have « wicked |‘vity in following sidearm ball lis upon St. Louis. The Cardinals |team, and tieht now look like a| “I #uppose 8 draw decision woud Mad the beet-working outfit in the | ne avy bet to finish high in the cir-| et better, as a lad ~~ a ra Wague at the clone of the season, |ouit, j old-timers, who have alway oly the miserable showing of the! In the @eeond hoop mix on the | #arded Rude fa the peer of all jeubject with bim. This was his | pitchers fh the hixtofy of the game. “it in bard for me to say which pitcher had the most speed. Both | Fess very fast when in their prime. OnTonight They were simost unhitabie. “The two pitchér used an entire Ruste while ly different style of delivery >| war over-hand all the tithe, For reason Johnwon alwayn amid. “I am not saying that he acctunt ly was faster. 1 am simply stating hers in the first 20 games of the |cojiting floor, the Aeahi Juniors and | fastball pitehtrs.” La tes na | sang moses ww 880] PANY DALY BOUT SLATED FOR TUESDAY nd North are a fair| ‘Phe other game of thie evening, | hing staff, and if in form at the between Washifieton park and the| (yoRboR M'KAY'S fight with Kid Palmer, scheduled for January Opening, should help the Cards does, will get under way at/ pM et off with a jump. |Hiawatha playfield at 945 p. m. | 15 at OklahotHa City, has been post | poned until January 30 'M HARMONY The teama appear fairly evenly {WILL GO OVER | As @ result, McKay will stick In “ 4 Ee PITTSBURG matched, and the games should 4 Rumors of lack of harmony on the | good. | te team in ¢ that the pen Me MN chances of Pittsburg will fiv OB Me cartier next season that last " freyt ; } Seattle a few « longer, and will nes and Gfbeon have teen try-| LINE TO FIGHT | iets “ino weekiy Pavilion smoker to make some trades to promote) car exico, Jan. 4-~Attange-| Tuesday night with Eddie Daly, a nr ee ine Det third, | nents to stage 20-round boxing | newcomét from Milwaukee, Wi Pafliny possible deals are still up in ME Mr, with nothing in sight at Ste nt. It sums np that the St. Louis clubs @ Cleveland will have to deliver, in Oder to keep both major me matches at Algondones, Lower Cali- | | fornia, just south of the “lihe,” até | fast ih the lightweight ranks of lat lunder way, according to ldcal pro| will gét the acid test when he clam- moter. It is planned to stage thé | befw’ into the roped arena with the first bouts over the long route, A veteran George Ingle in thé opposite ‘ni ch also ned by Joe| corner Z Bites from flivvering, and an. epi.| 28h match also ts om flivvering, and an epi. |‘ ma | cort 4 - jorman, promoter, according tg re-| 7 Wemic of fiat purses from afflicting | aa ' magnates. | ui —_— - —— ar Ce ee ee ” — Jack McAuliffe, Mark Shauneasy’s ay a e heavyweight find, wh ill meet ea | , wound up his trai today at TITLE AMBISH| the Cascade Athietle clus, and ill of ray tarricoy and Seok Pecry,| NW YORK, Jan, 4.—Johnny Wilson, middleweight champion, and his manager, |!*Y* ‘mertw for Tae B Toronto, Cant Perry ie reportea| Marty Killilea, have been indefinitely suspended from New York rings by the state HBAVY CHAMP WINS ih, a Tad & young tough bird with con boxing commission for running out of their match with Harry Greb. Wilson is also KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 4 on rt ee rp in that country.) barred by the boxing commissions of New Jersey and Ohio. The Wilson-Greb fight 8 cal me aitae ehh Sie ‘Tod Lewin it he stows the| had been scheduled for Madison Square Garden and would have been fought this jj nignty taking two straight! and burg boy away. month. Later, of course, he acquired a curve, a fair slow ball and was he more successful than when he relied on his fast ball. He is the only pitcher I have ever worked behind pute the umpire very much when! them with! | Often 1 have called @ batter out son waa the fastest piteher of the!’ Jonnwon | fy, | | hree Star | Ruste than Jennidgs. — During tne] recent world serien I disounned the | b4 | viewpoint | oOo ] ts | “Fusie and Johnson are unquew | 25, tionably the two beet fastball sewmed a tifies faster to me than} that the style of delivery employed) Kid Jéhheon, who has been coming | 4 rest of the card has not been | ing that time I have seen all f them. I feel safe in saying| years using nothing but} the American league in 1907, thru for ‘three years in sen- o a change of pace, but never Billy Evans Says: Ie it worth while te ahred of epertemanshig In alt probability “Pepper” Martin of nr nh whe id femarded as & com 2 nigh tor the featherweight tlie, leager thinks a0, 2 iy | Mletary ae 18 winutes before Dw sciatica could leave the ring, When Martin jumped dyer thi being declared the Winner Soccer Classic Sunday West Seattle and Maple Leafs Clash at Wood- land Park in Big Game EST SEATTLE and the Maple si bie clubs will meet in their third isaseg | MOCCer battle of the year at Woodland food | Dark Sunday, playing oa the upper a Sy | @tounds : we for Wom Of)” At the proment time these téearne te neck and neck for high honors, ott | Maple Leite leading bedause they * | have played more games. The Leafs have won eight, lost one and tied ltwo for 18 poifita, while Billy Me Grath’s entry has won eight, lost had the new? fone and tied one ‘The first game between this pair | Woe a 22 tie, but the Weet side routed the Cankdians by @ 10-tod tally at Weat Seattle in the second | Meeting Sunday's fare tn expected to mo ng way toward deciding the title. The complete schedule for day's gasties, with the assignment of | tefereea, follow fresting that Martin w | for ed Wo tinton to an he welded his way | to Une deeasing room. Martin, as ie customary with box- | ees, extended te | Dwyer in @ spirit Dwyer took the prof hand, and the twe shesk hands ae an indicn- (don that neither bere any Ul-feeling. | Rana ‘The action of Martin In extend: na 0 it | pr the boxers, Bearcely Alea anappy left ¢ | bad not hed | took the coun | 28 wns sharp practice on the part | of Martin. While there be nothing | in the rules that definitely cover | such an met, it is always io the prov. 0 referee to use his own have made him feel uncomfortable, ~ Roving Alreraft ‘The action of Martin in taking ad- | ¢iuh, at Routh Park, at 218 pm Rete vantage of Dwyer reeaile to mind | efee, Johnny F the bent between Kid MeCoy ani JUNIOR GAMES Herr Fincke, McCoy was outweighed Alton A. A Hallard Juniors, at | by 60 pounds. For two rounds Me- |apper Woodland park, at 1 p.m. Ref | Coy did nothing but dodge punches, eres, Pred Douglas | | Lewles Rrench Dry Cleaners ¥# | McCoy then decided to use a iittle |Cowan Claar Co. at Walla Walla, at 12 Jetratrgy. As Placke started to rush at {foon, Referee, Bob Lemon, Medes, the ‘1 | Mawthoria ‘Juntort vs,’ Wanhington OF ral Park, at Columbia, at 1? noon, Referee, Pincke stopped in his track | Billy Weer, |& startled look at his foots Routh Fark ve. Ben Parte Miitarde, af f |did so MeCey hit him a right-hand |South Park at 1 p. mi. Referee, George Punch on the chin that knocked Placke | Moefiing. |ASPER USUAL _|KNIGHT SQUAD ip BOUTS ARE OFF After their game with the Kent CHICAGO, Jan. 4.—Lightweight| American Legion tonight, on the lo Champion Benny Leonard was on|eal floor, the erack Knights of Co- his way to New York today, after|!umbus basketball team plans a tout |deciaring the bout with hony |@round the state for a week, leaving | Dundee, announced for Milwaukee) ¥ ay. Games Will bé played at January. 12, had been called off. Leavenworth, Spokane, Toppenish | Tenny wants this fight staged in|and Yakiina. At Spokane, Gonzaga the East jand the Spokane Athletic club teams Meanwhile, | will take on the Caseys. the Wisconsin boxing commission — h ordered Pinkéy Mitchell to app for investigation neat week, following cancellation of hig bout with Leonard last Monday \M’AULIFEE IS falis. y Sun. | PRIMED FOR GO} CHIE! the other side, here | Charles Ledoux, Harrahan Wins Over Holliday ‘ sind Seattle Boy Too Strong for Vancouver Entry i Headline Pavilion HARRAHAN wae too strong and rough for Len Holliday in the mutin event at the Pavilion amoker last night, the Se atte Harp win hing the verdict efter four fairly interesting rounds. Harraban won the last fighting the Vancouver, B. ©. entry In the ¢linches and at long range. | Harrahan forced most of the fight jing, using his head considerably in butting Holliday, opening euts over | both of Holliday's eyes. | In the semi-windup Alvin Landin Put up & game scrap with Kid Johnaton, but the Aberdeen boy was too strong Afid @xperienced for the green Seattle youngster, Johnston wMining easily. Jonnston did most of the Heading, but Landin fought back and not until the fourth round did he really back ground. John- ston had ali the best of the last sension. | Pat Williams won & close verdict over Owen Roberta in @ fair mill Neither showed very much Class. Freddie Kelly won the verdict over Noodles Knox in the second bout on the cara wh Willie Mackie beat Silent Martin th the oppner, PT ‘ot many fans turned out for the cw |, the smallest crowd of the | sea’ on being on hand, TiLLL FRED IS SPEAKING UP Fred Fulton is hanging around | Gotham, bemoaning the fate that \ keeps him from meeting Jack Demp- | sey for the championship again, ac cording to a New York wire. Fulton says he is the logical man to meet Jack, as he has tmproved in ring craft and strength since they first met, and Dempsey knockéd him kicking in the first canto. BUFF TO SAIL ON THE 15TH NEW YORK, Jan. 4—Johnny Buft and Jaber White have arranged deft. nitely to ail for London on Januaryy White will work with the ban tarh champion in exhibition bouts on Buff plans to meet Tommy Harrison Jimmy Wilde, the flyweight champion of the world. Wine yacercunennnne nae siaGve | be three) ble, founds easily, out- | League. Proving that you can never | open to all amateur skaters in Seattle, All that is necessary to enter is to send your name and address to the sporting editor of ‘The Star. TATE AND _ WILLS MIX ON FRIDAY PORTLAND, Jan. 4.—Harry Wills, negro heavyweight champion, and Bill = Tate, weight, will fight a 10-round decision fight at Milwaukie, near here, Fri- day night After their fiasco of Monday night, in whith Tate was given a decision on & questionable foul, the boxing comminsion refused to allow the men their money for the fight unless they went over the route again. There is said to be bad blood be tween the two men, and that both are anxious to have it out, and greet the dectaion of the commission with Joy. OUTLOOK JAKE IN CINCINNATI ‘The Cincinnat) Reds are planning to start unusually enriy this «pring for their training grotinds at Mineral Springs. Garry Herrmann is said to in great good humor over the smoothness with which things are lined up on his ball club, even if he |hasn't an outfit that looks Ike « | pennant winner. ‘The only holdout at Present in Eddie Roush, Ciney’s pre mier gardener. Roush has wen po litely informed that he can sign or not, just a# hé pleases, according to reports, and it is expected that he will come to terms in good season, as per usual, BAGGY DIGS UP ONE HEFTY GUY In his ardent search for beef for his 1922 grid varwity, Barty has dug Up quite a pléasing person, so far ax bulk goes, in Charles Crawford, of Hoqulam, who welrhs 265 pounds, and will enter the university in the fall. Crawford has had high schoo! and American Legion football ex- pertence. LEW BLUE WAS BEST NEWCOMER Lew Bite was unquestionably the best looking player to be developed in the American League last year. in| He played & bang-up game at first | base for Detroit. It waa feared he wouldn't be able to hit. However, his hitting was on a par with his sensational work in the field, yoy NEVER CAN ELL IN SPORT Waddie Ainsmith is slated to do most of the catching for the St. Louis Cardinals next year, accord. ing to Manager Rickey. Hete i a catcher who was waived out of the American League without any trou- yet stars in the National tel) in basébail MICKEY BROWN LOSES OMAHA, Néb, Jan. 4.—Mickey Prown of Portland, Oregon, lost a decision to Harry Boyle, Duluth lightweight, here last night. Chicago negro heavy:| NATIONAL GAME ‘Win Will Give Mets Puck Lead ‘Local Ice Squad Has « | Chance to Pass Vancou- ver in Game Tonight — WIN for the Se attle hockey eta® tonight over View torla at the Arena, will the Métropol- tans back in the lead tn the 4 Under the new system now vogue in the Coast loop, Vancouver has 10 points, Seattle 9 and Vie |toria 7. Wing counting two points jand a tie one, Seattle would have 11 points with a win and 16 with tie, while the best Victoria can 46 is to te Seattle with @ victory to night. The Mets have been groggy ever jsince Roy Rickey was put on the shelf two weeks ago in Victoria | with an injured knee. | Fraser has filled-in eapably, but bis lack of experience is telling, The Victorians, favorites for (he | title a few games previous, are fighting with their backs to the w. k. wall to keep out of the base i mnent. The clube are expected to start tonight's game with the same ling | Ups they used in their last starta | They follow: ‘ PITTSBURG TO HOLD PRO MEET PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan 4—The annval tourney of the Profemstonal Golfers association will be held Pittsburg next fall, association of- ficials announced today. The links of the Oakmont Country club will be used for the match play. Backs Favored for Captaincy of Grid Teams Backfield men are in Bight favor for the captainey of the college elevens. Line players outnumber back- |] field men by @ ratio of 7 to 4 |} yet no such ratio exists in the |] selection of captains for the sea- |] son of 192%. Halfback Gilroy wi captain Princeton, Quarterback Buell will || lead Harvard and Halfback Jor || dan will be in charge at Yale || next season. The leaders of the || “big three” ere all backfield ‘} men. Of the 50 colleges who have elected captains for 1922, 21 are |] backfield players and 29 are line men. addy, Boldt's Large Loaves Bread now 10 cents." —Advertisement, John Ru BY WILT R We would have to double the price, if we didn’t make them by the millions and sell HAND CIG skir - x everywhere. They are rich, mellow, free and even burning. The Havana tobacco used is the choicest grown. Buy two John Ruskins today, the best and biggest cigar, at 2 for 1Sc. Tomorrow you'll \ buy more. SOLD BY LIVE DEALERS EVERYWHERE ee Scents each 1. Lewis Cigar Manufacturing Co NEWARK, N. 3. BOURG & NEW, Inc. 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