The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 7, 1922, Page 12

_ Great Record Hung Up by Master of Hitters Baltimore Oriole Star Went Thru Season of 1896 Without Fanning; League Had Some Great Stars in| Those Days; “Wee Willie” Tells of Feat BY “WEE WILLIE” KEELER Famous Baseball Star mean anything to me. excellent teamwork, not individual play. league I also knew that I I — the number 700 because the day after I struck in which he used the wr es _ The N: stars. whiffed. ‘ational league had boasted of Clarke stars he deserved it. I was a hard man to strike out because I was a chop hitter. I never took a free swing at a ball, =. It is to strike out. In addition, I had a good cold remember one of the sporting editors came out with figures 700 in big, black type. said before, I never paid any attention to records. I “Never even kept track, because naturally I had no idea how Jong I would go before striking out. ‘was well on my way to a record before I knew it. Some editor dug up the dope from the National league I was as much surprised as anyone. over my scrap books, I find that I went a num- in the fag end of 1895, the entire season of Dra siuter of games in the spring of 1897 before As a matter of fact, 1 some pretty good pitchers ir days. Cleveland had Cy Young and Nig Cuppy as Cincinnati had a fine staff in Frank Dwyer, Frank Foreman, Red Ehret and Rhines, and Klobedanz were Boston's best bets. ichols, Stivetts Griffith, Briggs, Friend and T was always} the free swingers, fellows like Ruth, who are easy | eye and seldom hit at a bad ball. The pitchers had to get them over for me, and 1 greed on the cripple. ae to I also resorted to the bunt} an't hit them over the fielder’s head so I tried to place | Merlin Fadden and Anna Mayhall Will Be Among, Missing This Year Anna Mayhall, last season's feminine star, turned profes- sional, and the chances for Merlin Fadden competing this summer ¢ tremely doubtful, the Crystal Pool swimming team is in urgent need of & couple of first-class recruits. ‘The 1922 team will be built around Mitrie Konowaloff, distance swim Mer, who won the national amateur mile swim in 1921. Lambert Stern- Dergh and the Hawaiian eprint star, Krueger, who ts expected to com- pete for the local club this summer, will take care of the dash events for the local club. Beth Langiey looks like the ext | feminine bet since the loss of Anna Mayhall. She has developed un- ‘usual form in the plunge from dis-| tance. Coach Don Vickers has been/ traveling down the Coast in the interests of local swimming, and has meets with O. A. C. and the Mult momah athletic club cinched. Other meets are still un Gecided, but as the club will hold its first business meeting of the year fim April, and the first meet will not be held until in May, at the earliest, the club is in no hurry to close en gagements. Replacing of Fadden in the diving practically | “71 WM Li " iS i PO ee Hopes of Vernon signing Ed Koneteh for. first base duty The’ veteran National to play with. Te association, He was a free agent. Brooklyn Dodgers this year, the over from shortstop ied at short by Sammy Crans, obtained from the Cincy Reds. ‘The Southern league hae set their player limit at 16 players . | Joe McGinnity, the tren man ef the old New York Giants, and well remem teher with Victoria tn ha | past fe | REMAIN IN | _ CAGE SERIES IVE teams are left in the run ning for the Class B champioy- ship in The Star Junior basketba‘l| league. The Pirates, Washington Park, the Imperials, Wilson's Modern Busi | club at Fort Lawton. ge and Stacy Showns are | nese col the squads that will battle ‘it out for the honors. | Tomorrow night at Coflins play- | field the Pirates will tangle with | Washington Park at 7 p. m, and the Stacy Showns and Imperial events is the biggest problem of| fives will get together at 8 p. m. the Crystal Pool management, and,| The winner of the first game will altho the name is withheld, the| enter the finals while Wileon’s Mod Management reported today that alern Business college will play the New man is in sight who will be|winner of the second game HEN I was playing baseball records didn’t The old Baltimore Orioles won ball games because of their good pitching and When I was asked for some informa- tion on the record I made by my ability to keep pitchers from striking me out I really wasn't able to give any correct dope offhand. I knew that I had gone thru one entire season in the National striking out. generally credited with having gone to 700 times in the National league before any pitcher Was ever able to strike me out. without was Thornton. At Pittsburg Frank Killen and Pink Hawley} ‘were the stars. The rest of the clubs had staffs in keeping | vith the names I have mentioned. When a player made a base hit against that bunch of advantage. ‘was what was known as a place hitter in those days. 1| an Olson will play second base for| Hel who nt ball for the 'S*! boxers of the Flores type, however early | Stanislaus Zzyerko, THE SEAT TLE STAR | Great Batting Feats 12 years in succession Ty Cobb led the American Jetitue tn Dat ting. This record covered a period of years extending from 1907 to 1919. , Honne Wagner for 17 consecutive years, 1897 to 1912, hit 200.0r bet ter inthe, National league. Willie Keeler for right consecutive years in the National league made. 200, hits or more, reaching the high water mark for that orgaiization in 1897 with 242 “Babe™ Ruth In three seasons In the American league, 1919, 1970 and 1921, made 142 home runs His mark of 69 homers ta 192) stands a4 the record “Btuffy” McInnes during the searon of 1921 played the entire erason at firet base and only made one error. That one was very querlonabir George Gibson in 190? caught 140 consecutive games for Pitteburs His team won the National league pennant that year, Fa Walsh in 1905 worked In 66 games for the Chicago White Sox. Jie maved many games a9 ® relief pitober and was credited with 49 vie tortes himself. | In 1920 George Slaler of the St. Louis Browns made 257 base hits, |] Dreaking the record in that reapect for both major leaeues. In 1588 Harry Stovey stole 156 bases, a record that hag never been approached by any of the modern day runners. “Old Hoss” Radbourne tn 1984 pitched in 72 games for the Prov. dence club, of which he wou 60, Hie worked in 27 games ta eoccemsion that season. “Wee Wille” Keeler while with the Raltimore Orioles went thro an entire season in the National lrague without striking out. Ho was at bat 700 times before he was retired on strikes, Hard- Hitting Lighties Headline Pavilion Card Flores, the is as good as his reo F Macario lightweight, Filipino | Morgan Jones He wades in and doen most of his damage in the 'n ord, the doughty Joe Harraban is in i ae EE ae vet | for @ royal battle when the tw monkey of Freddy Kelly last week | meet in the headliner of the North. | is billed to meet the hardy Hoy M west Athletic club's show at the Cassin in the semiwindup. M Pavilion tonight. Casslin ts built with shoulders and Flores was spoken of quite re arms like a heavyweleht, altho he spectfully in local lightweight cir cles, following his kayo wins over Frank Pete and Eddie Jackson, on his last trip to the Northwest. | Harrahan is the sort of miller makes the going tough for is a legitimate welter; but he'll ha to do a lot of jeading to land on th rangy Gardeau. Red Gallagher and Rube Finn are billed for the third encounter Harraban, while not a boxing mas ter himself, isn't bothered much by the boys with the acience, as was iustrated in his last bout here with pretty well in his last Pavilion Bob Barnes ys. Alvin Landon and a preliminary complete thé card [DANES AFTER : TENNIS CUP bouts at the HAYLOR TAKES TRAPS PRIZE Dropping 49 out of a ponsible 50 birds, L. A. Taylor led thr field at Sunday's shoot of the Seattle Gun D. Reid stood Denmark | York report. So far seven n, have officially chs jenged the Amer tion until year’s subscription to an outing mag: | March 15 azine. [RED OUTLOOK NEW MAT KING Finn | has been doing most of his fighting | out-of town of lata, but was golag | has challenged for the} Davis tennis cup, according to a New| ns ican cup holders to tilta this summer second with 47 hits out of 50. Taylor | Challenges will be received by the also won a prize of a compass and a/| United States Lawn Tennin associa eoere Cane. to wat TOO Sr33 3 vor. an wr OT Harold Marquis Idaho's championship basket. ball team is competing in the national intercollegiate basket bail championship series at In dianapolis this season. The Van- dalp ere ganked an the strongest five Goth on the Coast and in the Northwest conferences. They will be strong contenders for national honors. Washington State track men are werkiae ouLin thegymnanium no far idle Season On aftount of the bad Detroit Will Millionaires Win Puck Title in 1 to O Game ancouver’s Seven-Man Defense Holds Seattle Score. less, While Jack Adams Fools Holmes Only Goal; Winners to Meet Regina Wednesday Great Outfield Trio Hit Around .350; Infield Is Not Very Strong {OR years the Detroit Tigers have depended upon hitting to carry them to the top and this year wil be no exception. The powerful attack of the Tiger outfield is the biggest punch that the Tigers have lined up tor the 1922 season, Ty Cobb, himself, will be back in enter field, Harry Heilman, wh lead the league in hitting last year will be in right field and Bob Veach. one of the hardest hitters In the game, will be back in left, unless he is traded to some other club Every one of these fly chasers will hit around .360. INFIELD 18 NO STRONGER The infield, the bie weakness of the club last year, imn't any etrong:/ er. Lew Blue will be back at firet He had @ good year in 1921, his first season under the big tent, hit |ting around 310. He should im prove this season. The veteran National leaguer, George Cutabaw, ia slated to suc ceed Pep Young at second. Young has had trouble with bis throwing arm Shortstop i open with Elmer Rigney as the chief candidate He's & neweomer that nobody seems to know much about, but reports from Fordviile ® that he's a comer. Bobby Jones, who had a big year | in 1921 be back for third base. The former San Francisco tosser has developed into a great felder. BASSLER BEHIND PLATE AGAIN Joheny Bassler wM take care of! the catching, This Coast league aduate made « big hit last year, * firet time under the big tent. s for the pitching staff, five former Consters are counted as reg- ulare Herman jette and Sylves- ter Johnson, Portiand grads, “Lefty” Weather, which prevents outside traiping. There are 12 veterans on the Gquad.of 20 men i Schools are haadisapped Work. by the unfayprabie jConditions, which prevent early sea hon Workouts Coach Ben Wallis has added fun day workouss to the sixday schedule Jot his crew squad at Califosnia, in} preparation for Lae big Const fegutta lake Washington Apri 22. Hota varsity and frosh eights ere included extra avind whieh Wallace has | Several promising track are reporting in the frosts at Washington this year. Kevedt, formerty hekter vity honors at Broadway, | for the weights and broad Sump. Oregon win bolt an Interstate relay inert April weeks before the all coamt at Washington. | | Five Oregon. colleges — Willamette, | Heed, Pacific, ¢ and the Uni-l REE to He Your Friends and Neighbors Will Be Glad TO MEET JURKA Ea ‘atigier’ Lewis, who won the heavyweight wrentling title from will defend his fully as valuable to the team as| next week for the other finals’ pl ace | title agninat Jack Jurka,, mat cham ‘was Fadden. |some time next week The pool will probably be filled| will be wound up with and ready for use about April 8. game some time late next week. Harry Frazee’s offer of $350, 000 to Jack Dempsey to fight Harry Wills for the heavy. weight championship “is inter. esting,” says Jack Kearns, man- ager of the champion. Six months ago, Kearns and Demp- sey both held up their hands in holy horror at the mention of a ne bout; but now their view is reversed. Dempsey's smart pilot intimates that he is willing to consider the| bout now because of the scarcity of white contenders. Kearns can throw @l toro farther than any Spanish toreador that ever lived. It's just this: Six months ago Wills looked like a tough baby who might knock Dempsey for + row of little sha today, the New Orleans panther looks like a bum. The champlon ean line up a white opponent in a few weeks if he hae fee; | the patience. Jing mix decisive |clamor for the winner to meet much coin as a Dempsey-Wills fight After seeing Wills fight Nor- folk, Dempsey knows he can | drop the big black fighter in a few rounds, and he's not so cer. tain that he can beat Gibbons, Dempsey would be # three to one shot to beat Gibbons, to be sure, as he has an impressive edge in weight, strength and | punching power. But, while | Dempsey himself is willing to fight anybody on the planet, Kearns prefers to play safe with his main meal ticket and | send him against Wills, These champions are queer birda. When there are no formidable fight ora in sight, every title holder is The season| pion of Australia, at St the final! March 13, according to an Eastern Looking Thru the Ropes With Seaburn Brown If either Tommy Gib-| always rea@y to meet anybody or | bons or Harry Greb wins their com.| anything and expatiates In a stage , the public will| | Dempsey, and the bout will draw as| man | Louis, on wire IS BRIGHTER Holdout troubles of the Cincinna baseball club are « Louis Fe 1922 contract Eddie Rousch, Reds, nati, rently clearin Jer. yesterday, late an was reported to be in Cinc conferring with | fictals. wigned hi start outfielder of th in the club of him cold an@ clear out of the ring. Whether Leonard was legitimately Knocked ont is an undecided question to thiy day; but his seconds shoved him back the ring, long after the 10. nd period had expired, and the referee let the bout go on. Leonard outfought White from whisper that he doesn’t want his particular title unless he im the best | in the world at his weight Benny Leonard is one of thene; but isn't it a bit odd that neither the| urge of public opinion or the lure| of money has ever induced Leonard | to meet Lew Tendler to give| that on and kayoed the Chi- Charlie White another chance after} cagoan a few cantos later, their first meeting? - Since that day, or - White has tried On their respective records, the | every time-honored method to force Ughtweight cha should beat| Leonard to meet him again. When Tendler. Rocke as beat Tend-| Benny announced his campaign to ler and Leo monkey of| lick all the leading contenders and Kansas; but Tendler is wicked | retire, White bobbed up and forced battler and a dangerous hazard for) himself on Leonard by giving the | any lightweight to tackle | classy Willie Jackson the beating of | |his life. Leonard and White wer Charley White fought Leonard | then matched Now Benny ha Jnst once, last year at Benton | ehurt his hand tn training,” just as Harbor, In one of the early he did when matched with Lew rounds, White landed on the | ‘Tendier; and Charlie White is still | champion’s chin and knocked outside looking tn. } sng A Boy's Profession . al League Unbre to every boy who only Two New Su to The Seattle Sta L able Hickory Bat GIVE COLLECT NO Cole, fan Francisco, Cart Holling, Detroit, and “F land, are all counted as regulars Hub Leonard and Georg make up the rest of the staff, cording to the present layout. Middle West the nines are begin ning to brave the last of the winter weather in daily workouts. Pictures of Washington's firet nine football teams have been collected and presented to the untversity by | Rebert T. McDonald, graduated tn 09. They are now to be seen on * Oldham of Port | Dauss | Bank Again on Hitters’ |minute of | weakened by the lons of I'red Harris, WILLE | KEELER BATTED 700 TIMES BEFORE STRIKING OUTL ANCOL YY ea? in Game; VET, | were awarded « penalty shot whe, Towe wan downed near the Vancom Playing &|\ver goal Briden shot for Beatty strictly defensive | but the eagleeyed Lehman saw «4m thruout, | coming. B. C, March 7} Vancouver won neouver will meet Teging the second fume Prairie hockey league champion, of the hockey for the Western title, The first ae championship will be played here Wedn playoff here last night. night, 1 to 0, and SUMMARY annexed the), e. Coast Hockey as | Cook sociation title for the second suc cennive season. Adams rang up the only goal of After that, with a two-oal jead' tn | the Utle race and but one period laft to play, the Vancouver club lay back on the defense, all seven men clos ing up im front of Lehman like « foothall line. Long shots, sending the puck to the other end of the ioe in order to waste time, featured | every offensive play of the Million aires. The Mets fought denperatety to tie the low core, constantly substh tuting to keep the team fresh every the game. Vancouver, bad their strongest possible lineup on the joe, and did not dare chance | mubstitutions to give the men rest. In the last period, both Rowe and | Skinner were penalized, and Seattle | staged a final rally to score during | the absence of Skinner. Once they broke thru and only superb work on the part of Hughie Lehman at goal mved a score. In the pecond semsion, the Mets Driden for Morris, Morris for Riley, fer Merria’ Bridew for. ickay, Fownition Fire pertes—Filiey, 3 minutes, Faron’ period Hnaitie ewerted, ‘Th 1 minutes the tlt. Just before the whistle! fece: period b ended the second period, the veteran | 19:46. 4 | fought hin way thru the entire Beat-| Fé ported we enere. | re tle team and beat Holmes by &| iret pertot——Priden far Mera, : hair. Recon’ pertod-—Morris tor Tivifien, ‘ hi j Oriden, 2 minute rd periot—Reowe, 2 snimaten; Junior Tennis Residence Rule Not Announced ¥ rule was not represented at the big nament at Boston, being about the only section in the country not rep- resented. After last years meet, The Star the lower Goor of Commerce hall, on | endeavored to have the Northwert the campe Ip You ak- secures bscriptions rr. _——- Professional Seubber Center: Here’s How Tennis association adopt a residence BOYS! BOYS! 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