The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 10, 1922, Page 9

BY SEABURN BROWN | St. Lawis Star Likes Wee Willie Great George, After Mid-| Winter Season, Does) Some Talking LEO H. LASSEN LLIE KAMM fs} v a better. ald around ball play- er than eith Jimmy Caveney or “Babe” Pin oll, So says George Sisier, the great St. Louis Ameri can league first sacker, the pre mier player tn his position in the game today, upon his retura to the Missouri metropolis. Sisler, you will remember, piloted the winning Vernon club in the California Mid-Winter league and de saw plenty of all three players in action. Siler doesn't commit himself ether than stating that Kamm ts « better tail player, which is some boost, coming from Sisier. ‘The great George also sald Jim O'Connell, the New York Giants’ $75,000 beauty, has the makings of ® great hitter, but that be has a let to learn about first-base play. In conclusion Sisler let the St. Louis scribes know that he has no ambition to lead the Browns in|‘ the American league race and wer will have. He's interested in the printing business in St. Louis and after his basebal ys are over be plans to stick to that trade Fy E é 3 8 z of weight @uring the last two years. He will probably get his chance to 5° up after this year, Kamm is now about 22 years of age and has ple: if time to make his mark in tl big time. His hitting was a riot in the earty weeks of the 1921 season, but he fell off badly during the closing days of the race. Once HORNSBY SUCCEEDS WAGNER Rogers Hornsby is the just suc- or to Hans Wagner. of them. For the first time since the “Pty. | ing Dutchman” of the Pittsburg Pirates, stepped out of baseball, Wagner has a successor worthy of bis pame. O'CONNELL MAY Talk is strong in San Franciaco| AY, JANUARY 10, 1922. pitcher in the game. PLAY IN OUTFIELD {mane Carl Mays Effective Thru Freak Delivery; to Clash BY BILLY EVANS OW can he pitch that way? I heard that query scores of times during! the first game of the 1921 world series. Carl Mays was doing the pitching for the} Yankees. Many of those present were watch-|ing championships, They we re| to defend their honors tn the Crystal! ing Mays pitch for the first time. puzzled and astonished by his unusual style Poot show tonight, of delivery. If the fans, watching the game, easy to imagine how disconcerting his style | Daly ts » newcomer. peculiar delivery | won about five straight starts here is to the batter. His puzzled the Giants. Yankee Star Is the Only Under-Hand Moundsman in the Major Leagues; Uncanny Control and Queer Breaks of “Submarine Ball” Are a Mystery \S@e— Mitt Men at Pool | Two Titles at Stake Here! Tonight; Champs Are Favorites "eal McKAY and both Ingle, holding Coast box were favorites being staged |by the Cascade Athletic club. are| McKay defends bis middleweight puzzled as to how Mays pitches it is very | crown in » bout with Eddie Daly That was my one big} Ingle is taking on Joe Dunn, tho reason in doping that he had a chance to win| hardworking Portlander, Ingle's ex three games in the series. ‘ Mays unquestionably has the most unique style of any| He is an underhand pitcher almost ex- Occasionally he mixes in a gide-arm curve. threw just four such balls in the three games he worked | cortes He Pantiey and |pertente is figured to win for him One of the best bouts of the night should be staged by Frankie Eddie Nell, of Ana mir of bantams are This that Jim O’Connel) will play right) | against the Giants. Mays starts his delivery well below the|eventy matched, field for the Seals this year. OConnell is too make a good first awkward sacker to f- and, While he never has shown promise | the rest of the twirlers. knee. The lower he can get the more effective the ball. That is why Mays has to pay more attention to his waist line than Any extra weight around the waist of being much of a fielder, his hit-| makes it more difficult for Mays to get down low and thereby ting should carry him thru for an| takes some of the “zip” off the ball. outfield job. for the delivery of Johnny Couch, yt one of the peat fingers in the Const op for the past several seasons. Couch ts a good pitcher, having Plenty of stuff, speed, experience and should make a 0 of it in big league company. Cincinnati has Jimmy Caveney, from the Seals already obtained shortstop deluxe, | LYNCH BEATS Batters face over-hand and sidearm pitching constantly, but only one under-hand delivery When Mays pitehes the batter is Two rounds were Wallace's | jooxing at a style that Ix the decided PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10.—Win- minx four of the eight rounds in his 0 with aisy Wallace here last 4 night, Joe Lynch won a referee's de- | cision PAL MOORE IS WINNER IN GO| MEMPHIS, Tenn. Jan. 10—Pal Moo For the second time Rogers has| led the National league in hitting | and is the greatest star in the| } senior major. j He not only hits, but he can/ field, rum and think with the best COUCH MAY GO i TO CINCINNATI The latest deal that Cincinnat! May swing with San Francisco is Critics have labeled Mays’ delivery the “subway ball.” It has been well | named, because \trom down below. What makes the ball so grey That is another question that is |put to me hundreds of times every There. are a number of rea | brains and| sons why Mays is a hard man to| I will try to explain a few ot| the night and trimed the Canucks to the} | year, j bit. | them. Perhaps the very best reason fo! the effectiveness of Mays’ delivery is is entirely different. |is no other pitcher in either major that [there is jexception | puzzling. In eddition Mays is bless: led with fine control and is generally able to keep the ball where he de-| wires it. The under-hand ball must te kept low to be effective ability to keep pitching at the knee it certainly starts BY HAROLD MARQUIS ASHINGTON skated American Legion sextet r|tune of 10 to 3 in the opening of the 8. A. H. A. series. Th There last two periods, and the Sun the Legion made one. Louis Coupes came back wit time form for the varsity and | four of the points: more, and Don Mackenzie and don Allen tallied one apiece Mays and one that reason it is form, Little, in goal, ber of possible tallies. Hender scored 4 pair of gon the Maple Leaf six, y\rang up the other tally saved a Mays’ circles around the Maple Leaf post of | last gare ne Le | mion defense looked like a sieve in the | Dodg ers slipped in eight counters while |* a h old made Goff took four 1 Gor. Macken ie failed to show the style of last | season, except in flashes of regular | pum ls for and Mitchell A fourth | goal by the Legion was disallowea, low: Cooker | was a ‘ded eight-round deciaon 6 ao tae CCramatin a is really uncanny. In the first game | ## time was up for the period. Seveland, here last night. Moore |of the world series, he threw only| The lineup and summary fol ADA1 little trouble in outpointing the |#hree balls above the waistline, In-| | 1), of W a Am. Legion Cleveland man: | cidentally, Mays never leta a batter | py cy by Nee , crowd the plate and get a toe hold.|J. Mackenzie D. ; WALKER WINS GO |The hin under-hand ball | Rowlands Wes vregs NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Mickey lacts differently adda much to hin ef- | G00P** w Walker, contender for Jack Britton’s | fectivenesm. One atyle keeps raising| seore by periods welterweight title, outpointed Johnny | slightly and curves out, the other |U. of Wash 2 S10 Griffiths, of Akron, Ohio, last night! style breaks down much after the |4™ lesion PERF CRY mS eee iny12 Last rounds at Jersey City. manner of the spitball. First perlod—American Legion, Hender, Varsity Hockey Seven _ Beats Maple Leafs Sailor Colsay meets Jogpny Cor gins and Young Wilde: boxes Sailor Joe Dunn in the other two bouts. ‘The first tiff will get under way at 8:20, as usual 4:88; 0. of We | Coupes, '0 20; ‘ fo Gort, 6 U. of Ww. an Legion, Hender, ff, 0:15 of W., Coupes, 6 » Mitchell, 1:68; U. ef Am Allen Third U, of Ww, 2:05; U Gott, 118 | Couper, 0:45; U. of W., Gott, 6:22; U. of . Coupes. Penalties | Wiest pertod—Cody (American Legion), period-—Mender (American La. gion), 3 minutes;Mackensie (U of W.), 3 | minutes KENT FIVE IS Joe Harn, manager of the Kent | basketball team, is after games with fast city teams. The Kent five is leading the Northwest hoop league, and hag played «o far this season without'a defeat Teams interested can arrange games thru writing Harn at Orilla, Wash |SEALS SIGN SAC BUSHER San Franc has signed a bush er from Sacramento named Mickey Doyle, for a tryout this spring, The Seals seems to have good luck with recruits from the California eapitol, Jimmy O'Connell is one of them, ro George | McKay has) AFTER GAMES ‘Champions | Take Puck LeadAgain | Vancouver ‘Beats Victoria, 4-0, Shoving Mets Far- ther Into Coast Cellar ANCOUVER, B. ©, Jan, 10.—The Vancouver Mil onaires battled thempelves into first piace In the P. C. H. A. mee last night whea) they blanked Law ter Patrick's Vic toria squad, 4 to 6, The fiercest and roughest H hockey seen on local ice = for many moons was dished up to the huge throng of spectators. The last two periods saw an almost steady stream of players to and from the bench, these not ordered off by Referee lon goink of their own ao cord, the pace being @ little too strong for the leg-weary athletes. Thrills gulore and bangup hockey wan nerved up in the first period, but in the second and third sea sions the players cut loose with jall the rough stuff in their reper toire. A total of 44 minutes in) penalties were banded out by Mickey fon, each team drawing a like number of minutes | Karly Mackay & mixup and each minutes. war horse of who had made his ot the season locally In the second) period, then eprang into the lime light when he took Fowler's place; in goal. Minus goal pads, the olf boy stopped everything the locats could shoot at him until @ minute and Hee Fowler got into behind were chased off for 10) Lester Patrick, the oid the Coast league.) before Fowler's time was up, a tricky shot from Jack Adama eluded him. ADAMS STARS Jack Adama was the big noise in the Vancouver attack. The pudgy center enared three goals all by himself while Frederickson and of nome Pretty work. Art Duncan scored the third goal in the last period. and Jack wound up the eve ning’s scoring with a drive pas Patrick. In the last period Van lccuver was awarded another free} shot, but Adams failed to his average Harry Meeking and Sim Fialder- son came in for special treatment | by the locals, They bumped the} Victoria pair all over the ice and the latter were a very thankful pair of puck-chasers when the final whistle biew. Lioyd Cook suffered a nasty gash under the right eye, the result of an aceldental jab from Halderson's stick Medica! attention was neces nary to atop the flow of blood. C. LOUGHLIN. LEADS VICTORIANS Clem Loughlin was probably the pick of the visiting team. His work was giltedged all evening Fred. erickson was checked up too close to be effective. The Vancouver team wag good from goal out, each 4 every man holding up his po nin fine style. Lehman played| brilliant hockey, but he did not have the shots Wes called upon to save. Victoria Fowler ©. Loughiin ++ Jon Meeking kon Frede Datman Halderson Fir 1, Vancouver, Adame, 5:22 Kecond perlod—2, Vancouver, Adame, pertod er, Duncan, 10:49, Parkes for reon for W. or, Parkes Skinner for Adams, Adai Tobin for Skinner; Victoria, for Dunderdale trick for Jobnaon, for * for Hal Dunderdale for Fred Patrick Loughlin for Dunderdale Penalties First period—Vapcouver awarded pen- alty mht (converted) period=Adama, 2 minutes nutes: Harris, 3 minutes; Vredertckson, Meeking, 9 | mii 2 min ten; Skinner, 3 nutes; Vancouver awarded penalty hot Rofereg—Ton. oni ATED BUGE 10.—-Univer sity of Or n basketball team, play ing ar ed game, were trampled on by the Nght Whitman college five ‘here last night to a ‘The two teams meet again tonight in the last of a two-game wrics, 1-to-22 score fatten | c to stop that Fowler |? 10 minutes; | {gridders had been lined up} California grid enthusiasts to}win in advance by getting} who scored almost unassis djvery well against © sidestep a Class-A op-|for San Diego, the ‘Kentucky| have Centre take on Notre! married on the a. m. of Janu-| upon mighty Harvard; “Red’’| scores, which show that Me-| set. ponent in favor of a set-| school developed a bad case;Dame in: a second Western! ary the day set for the Roberts, the greatest end) Millan's eye was way off on Knowing football and real- up—and then have the/of cold feet and, with the ex-/ tilt; but all suggestions fell| football massacre; and then|ever developed south of the| throwing passes, and that izing their platy ltenitationss obstreperously knock you for jeuse that they would meet/on deaf ears as far as Dan-|led his blue-blooded hench-| Mason-Dixie line; Armstrong, | Roberts always seemed to be|the Colonels feared to take a row of Bolshevik war med-| only far-Western team, ville, Ky., was concerned.|men from the blue-grass|the stellar bac and eight covered whenever he tried to}the chance of winding up als, is a tough way to end a picked on the feeble little Instead, they chose another|country to a 28 to 14—/other Sowthern gentlemen ot|receive one of McMillin’s| their most successful year by football season, Any Centre| University of Arizona, from weak sister, the Texas A, and| DEFEAT. scarcely less note, must be 4) heaves, jan inglorious defeat at the colleg football player will) whom they won a one-sided) M, college, for a New Year's! To be sure, something was better team than the obscure) Centre, one of the best hands of one of the best, if testify to this, j but empty victory, piling up, game. |wrong somewhere, Surely, little Texas squad, advertised football schools ot|not the best, team in the [ After a game between thea 38 to 0 count. It sure looked soft. “Bo”|Centre’s great team, with the Maybe so. But arguments the past three seasons,’ has| Middle West and East. Colonels | and Notre Dame} _Feelers w were » thrown: out by! Me Millin celebrated the easy|“immortal” “Bo” MecMillin,|and statistics don’t stand up| received and is deserving ot The streak showed — and victories. Had they met Coach Rockne’s. squad q won, Centre college would have finished the season im a blaze of glory. Had they lost, there would have been © no disgrace in bowing to the great Notre Dame eleven. tabulated) little sympathy for their up-|has received more advertise= iment than As it is, loped, and dese of Centre's all Centre was wale ved it, it. Jim Thorpe Gets Challenge From Canadian Star Jim Thorpe, champion all around athlete of the universe, has @ challenger for his world’s Kn honors in Walter of Canada, former professional all- Ground champion, Knox has challenged Thorpe to @ dual track meet, with the title at stake, to include a,100-yard dash, 16-pound shotput, 66pound ham. mer throw, running broad jump, running high jump, pole vault, 120-yard hurdles, discus throw, javdin throw, standing high jump, standing broad jump, three standing jumps and the standing hop, skip and jump. Knox specifies that half the events be decided in Cleveland and half in Toronto, Changes Made in Schedule Two Switches Made Star Cage Games Thi: Week; One Canceled. TERP have bees two changes 1 The Star Basketball league sched ule for this week. The Ben Paris Bi lard tearm will clash with the Dand: Baking Co. Columbus at 7 p. m, Wednesda in the third period Mickey| night instead of Thursday, and the | ;, Rattery same hour Wednenday nitated bec Thursday the Stacy Show first appearance |‘eam plays an outoftown game Wednesday. The Dandy Baking Co.Yesler A. C..game has been shifted from Wed- nesday to Saturday night. ‘The Ballard Cubs and the Yeater Collins | fleld house Wednesday night at 6:30 Athletic club will meet at five at the Knights of | C and Stacy Shown team | that the Victoria goa!|Will play at the same time at the! instead of | ‘The change was neces- last year. his old position. Lewis, who a hefty mark to live up to this year. Merlin Kopp 1s considered a cinch to hold down his old job at Sacra-| mento, The same goes for “Dixie” | Carroll at Los Angeles. Carroll 'g|cAme to the Coast loop from the Southern Jeague and he made a fine record, ranking high in the base stealing marks and leading the in| league by a wide margin in the d-| matter of three-base clouts. | San Francixeo ts up. in the air Ylabout a left fielder. Morry Shick |may te a member of the Seals ¥ | again and then he may not. Shick ® good mechanical player and lets Kim out. Bert Elliso | Played that position’ in the closing woeks of the season and did a good |Job of it. He may be shifted to/ infield duty for 19: Oakland is without @ regular left fielder at the present time and they | will have a hard time to replace Hack Miller, the strongman slugger. Ted Cathers is the only extra out fielder on the Acorns’ roster at the present time. mn} ord BIG SOCCER GAMES SET FOR JUNIOR: INIOR games will hold first Edwin Goebel to Play Left Field for Loca | Billy Lane Is Due to Be Shifted to Center Field “Brick” Eldred to Right; Frisco and Oakland certain About Left Fielder BY LEO H. LASSEN ROM all accounts Seattle will have a new ke fielder this season in Edwin Goebel, the new tosser obtained from the Washing Senators on the Ray Francis tra cti The present outlay has Billy Lane shifted ¢ center field and “Brick” Eldred to right. Goebel played with the Reading club the International league and ranked the best in the league in all departm Most of the other clubs in the cireuit s pretty well fixed for left field guardians. Duffy Lewis, manager of the Salt Lake Bees, rated @ the best left fielder in the league last year, will be back f Portland. Charles comes te | hit .403 last season, will have |For oop from the Aaeriaiii ciation, where be made @ good last year. ors in The Star Soccer Sunday with all of the leaders ing. The big games will be @ Washington Park-Cowan Cigar tt and the Hawthorne-South Park ment The complete schedule for follows: SENIOR GAMES Boemg Aircraft Club va. Maple at South Park at 2:50 pom Lemon. Postoffice va, Weet Beatty, at Park at ip. m_ Referee, Billy i JUNIOR GAMES Batiard vs. Ben Paris Biili per Woodland park at 3 p.m Pp. m. This game has been shifted| Hughey High ts a cinch to be) Hoe! from Saturday night because the| back at Vernon while either Ike|* Cubs had an out-of-town game, Wolfer or Charley High, Hughey's| The complete echedule follows: WEDNESDAY Rallard Cubs ve club at Collins at 6:30 p.m. Ben Parte Billiards va Co, at the Knig my Mackay, the goal scoring leaders,|”'coline Cute va Washington Park at went scoreless, Consequently, Jack | Collins at #49 p in but one point behind the pace . - Shaner & Wolff at makers. Adams scored his first) Beattic at Hiawatha counte: t seasion from | ‘counter in the first # . oniwanbawe jm penalty shot. His next came! se-y mown ve Battery © ot Kal in the second and was the result! of Columbus at 7 p. m SATURDAY Wilson's Modern Rusiness cotere va Stacy Showns at Knights of Columbus at 20 p,m Battery C ve Both the Ballard Cabs and West Seattle teams paid the pen- alty for not having their first string men on hand last week and took ings. The Cubs didn’t have Me- while Keyes w up for West the The Armstrong brothers. Urban. Ralph _The Btacy Shown ne, one of thelr star guards, m has lost ¢ frouh squad, Ralph Tarhox, former Queen Anne player, has been signed by the Bat- tery © team. ‘The Pallard Cubs will play the Moran school bridge. team Bat day night at Bain Yesler Athletic | ay Raking | of Columbus at 7| Imperiale at Elke’ elub ctud ve Collie Cubs at Kune | has made the University of Washington | ~ ROSLY Tiere will be no signs in regist Sunset 1360. fe any CONTINENTAL FUEL en th division clash for t tre play. their, elimination, they must ff FREMONT FUEL ©0., finish the season with the ea that played im their CASEYS TRIM seventh games, GONZAGA FIVE) 29 to 23, the} Defeating Gonzaga Knights of Columbus basketba quintet won their third straight game | in Bastern Washington last nigh wires the manager of the Cas Close checking and hooting on the part of the winner was too much for the collegians, Sun Substitutes-—K onney for Ri¢ die, Harris for Bonney; Gonzaga, Huet ter for Ashmore (4), Hattrup for rd ice hockey team which be bet ¥, to 0, in their re- cont mi ren, Switreriand, wan made us et Uenetinn caper ¢ Mineup spectacular } 8 Malloy FAIRMOUNT FUL mL, ©O., K » Pier IL ny t, | | MONKS & MILLER, INC NORTHW ‘egit FUEL & 8! 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