The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 13, 1922, Page 11

J THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1922 Billy Evans Questions Value of Golf to Ball Players THE SEATTLE STAR BY BILLY EVANS S GOLF a good thing for a ball player dur- ing the regular season? Can golfing be over- done by a ball player, thereby greatly affecting his work? In the past 10 years golf has taken a strong hold among the major _league players. In the past five years it has increased to such a degree that golf sticks are a regular part of most big leaguers’ para- phernalia. Connie Mack is strong for golf, Plays a lot of it himself during the sum- mer. However, Connie has his doubts as to its value for a ball Player. At one time the golf- | ing craze hit the Phila- delphia Athletics so strongly that Mack put up the bars on the game, and issued an order that no player should golf on | days a game was sched- uled. Mack at that time ex- | pressed the opinion that | = ) Player could do 18 | holes of golf and not lose much of his “pepper,” to use the parlance of the ball field. Now it seems that golf has been added to the troubles of Manager Mill- er Huggins of the Yan- kees. Huggins has had one sweet time handling his temperamental ath- letes without having a F andom Is Greatest Woman Athlete in World Strong for Betty Schenkel Is Versatile, Playing Nearly Every Game, and Engaging in Nearly | Every Sport in the Book; She Has Hung Up Some Great Records; She Writes” on the Value of Athletics for ¢ Girls HILADELPHIA, April 12. —Out of an 1 ambition to equal the athletic deeds of her two] younger brothers, Betty Schenkel of Philadelphia has developed into probably the most versatile and accomplished all-around athlete in the world, | Miss Schenkel is a bright, attractive little brunet, who just naturally and without any) artifices whatever completely conceals her extraordinary athletic prowess. Now it may be true for mere man, that if he is a “jack of all trades” * but this axiom certainly does not apply to the girls and women exemplified by of none," this remarkable Philadelphia girl athlete. She excels in 17 branches of sport. While none of her feats stand out as records, still Major League Away; Champions Beaten =<." i hic BY HENRY L. FARRELL EW YORK, April 13.—Opening day and early season games) don't amount to a whole lot, but! they «are interesting. The 1923 debut proved not only that the fotks are still interested in the game, but! that the boys have toki a lot of things that are not so. One of the most important dis coveries wag that even a million dollar infield can look sometimes val The New York Giants opened) up this little secret. The world! champions also confessed that they/ haven't forgotten thru the winter) how they dislike a southpaw. The Yanks, doing their part of) Tevelations, demonstrated that a/ millian<tollar pitching combination has days when it looks like “not s0 much.” The American league champions also made it very clear/the Boston Braves to four hits in the | alg, badges and certificates to| carrie that they have a terrible outfield| opening mame here yesterday, Phil | establish z seum. and that Rabe Ruth and Bob Meu-| sel are going to be missed. Cleveland showed that the Indian} pitching staff isn't ready for the} scrap heap yet and the Cubs look/ like they ought to win at lrast 20) games or #0 as long as Alex the Great ts around. AMERICAN LEAGUE Won. Lest. Pet 1.008 ° ° ° Peed © L008) i 1 000 | i i ‘ooo | eee | Chicago SENATORS DOWN YANKS | WASHINGTON, D. Cy April 13! Washington outhit New York fm the opening game of the American league season bere yesterday, win- | ning 6 to’ 5. Mogridge, on the) mound far the Senators, an¢ Jones, heavily in the earlier periods, but h settled down. The score: R KE) New York . & 9 1 Washington 6m 3 Rattertex Schang; Mogridge and Gharrity. AKER BEATS CORB CLEVELAND, ©., April, 14.—Get ting to Oldham and Olsen of 12 base hits, the Clevelane opened the season here yesterday by winning from Ty Cobb's Tigers, 7 4. Cold weather made the going tough for the pitchers. ‘The score: rR 4 5 4 a total ndians Detroit Cleveland Batte Bassler; Oldha and Morton and Nunamaker. mn, Olsen FIRST ONE | 13 CHISOX LOSE CHICAGO, April fact that “Red” Faber, league's leading pitcher, mound for Chicago, held Louis Browns to three hits itors won the opening game here yes terday 3 to 2. Faber was wild and lost thru issuing three passes to fir base. The score R. H. E Louis . bessaue M31 «0 KE Pe is ae. Shocker and Severeid; Schaik Despite the| American the on the the vi Batteries: and Faber April 12.—Taking ad-| of errors by the home team the Philadel in the phia At “seventh inning letics staged a rally and won ner from the Red Sox here 3 to 2 1 The Philadelphia . Batteries mac 4 1221-Third Ave “COR UNIVERSITY j Clubs Get NATIONAL LEAGUE ft. Louie Wen tow. rt-| she does not winter in Flori-| | ent i 1 See | da or summer in Newport. | Phiiadsiphia os ee | On the conttary, she works | Cyeeannas , 78 Bee **¢! for a living and is busy every New Terk 3 day from 9 to 5. She is a} gorau — Ale jclerk in the office of the CARDS SLAUGHTER PIRATES | superintendent of car service "\"" ST. LOUIS, April 13-—The Cardi of the Pennsylvania railroad nals staged a batting orgie at the «: | pense of the Pittsburgh Pirates in as if it came from the notion coum |t.. opening game here yesterday, | - be it} terested in athletics since al winning 10 to 1. Rogers Hornsby h he is “master ——Jall her accomplishments com- pare very favorably with the girls’ preparatory and colle- aE records. fere is another remark- able fact about this athletic iter of wealthy parents, and *|in Philadelphia. | Miss Schenkel has been in- ahome run. The sore: R. H. E.| child. She starred in school! Pittsburgh .. «1 7 1 : a howl <... Ke to 11 1 athletics, and when she grad- Ratteries: Cooper and Gooch; uated from high school and Sherdell and Clemons. PHILLIES TAKE FIRST PHILADELPHIA, April 11—Ab |tight pitching of Lee Meadows deiphia winning, $ to L The score— Boston . ... : Philadelphia . . Batteries: Orcheger pe Frid Meadows and Henline. ) n ALEXANDER TAMES REDS CING ATI, April day. Rixey. box In the seventh inning. The score. R Chicago 7 iW Cincinnati 3 7 Batteries——Alexander and Hartnet;) Rixey, Couch, Gillespie and Wingo, McGRAW LOSES OPENPR NEW YORK, April 12 Brooklyn defeating the Giants, 4 to! must be ‘catty,” and that she can't 3, Nehf's support was shaky at times. | be a good sport. The score. R H. E| Well, I have taken part in all Brooklyn 4 8 2) kinds of games, in which boys and New York .. 3 9 3) giris and men and women participat Ratteries—Reuther and Deberry;|ed, and I speak from experience when oe Shea and Sn +o AO ‘UNCLE ROBBIE jer, IS FACETIOUS Alexander pitched the C! mlenge Cubs) [to a 7 to 3 victory over Pat Moran's Reds, in the initia) game here yester. starting in the box for| eee | the home club, was batted out of i BE | health as medicine or nothing else Reuther bested Nehf in a left-handed pitching | pitching for the Yankees, were both | duel in the opening game yesterday j Went to work she kept up her athletic activities in | In her home Miss Schenkel has enough silver cups, med-| a first-class mu-) * BETTY SAYS | ATHLETICS BY BETTY SCHENKEL VERY girl should take part in some kind of athietica First of all, it will bulid up her 0| can do. Second, it is good tun Third, it selves—and the whole world for that shows the girte them-| matter—that girls can be, and are, | As men. | & lot of people think | just because she is a girl, | | Just. ax “good sports You know, that a «irl |I say that the “sportamanship* of |etris and women ts just as fine and fair ae that of the bore and men | For myvelf, activities | [have been a big and important fac-| jtor in building up my own health my athie The Brooklyn pitchers have been| Three years ago I was il! with In-| having such an easy time with t luenza, and for a lone time 1 suf-| Yankees on the training trip that | [cred from the aftereffects of that} President Ebbetts says he intends to| 1 doctored all the time, and I guens pitch old Nap Rucker, now @ scout |I was making some progress, But it for the club. That seems to be rub-| ¥44 not until I got back into the bas-| bing it in. ‘YEA, HE ALSO WEARS A CAP": Detroit haa a recruit, vy name Herman, who swings a baseball by. and naturally 1 wanted to play as heavy as that of Babe Ruth jeball, swim and do everything There ends the comparison, eine ae well as they did, I feel that I succeeded Sure, I dance, and 1 like it, and 108 DEFEAT RED SOX | _ jketball cage and resumed my other| athletic work that I really began feel ing my self How again did I become interested In so y different kinds of sports ul 1 was the only girt mar n our family, and I had two broth but it certainty isn’t the equal of out- HANDED BRAIN 00° atnieticn 1 Mays is right-handed, which! Nowadays, you know, the girls in disproves the long accepte!] theory "her and college and the big that only southpaw pitchers are DU*iNes» and industrial concerns, go temperamental in for athlet thoroly and scien _ | tifies: an the sand men ee a ae eae ee one p t I ha | Fremont-Canal Is | (07. 2 py, sinletion an T know Favored Course that health and happiness depend on : ing plenty of sleep and reat. for Big Regatta |) sy wivice to every iri In to get A course from the Vremont ||imto some branch of good, clean bridge to the Lake Washington || healthy athlet the more outdoor] Al, thru Jake Union, wii ||WOTk the better, and she will be probably be the crew course || *tToneer, happier and have no end or| finally selected, according to Dar || **?uine fun | Metsnest,_ graduate m: ger of esses | set for Friday, April 21, with the | option of rowing urday if the IS GIVEN OKEH day im not favorable. The race will be rowed at 4:30 p. m. The Crystal Pool is given a clean} Officials for the Wasnington- || bill of health in a report just sub- | California regatta will be che mitted M. T. Stevens, sanitary on from former crew men of the || gineer for the city department of| East and will be the best available || health and sanitation, on a bacterio om the coast, according to Meis || logical analysis of samples of wat nest The Fremont-c al ceurse taken from various sections on the} has not b absolutely picked, |{ opening da | but with favorable weather will be All sections of the pool show a re. | the one used, The commit markably low bacteria count, accord which selected the course was ||ing to the report, and the test for| composed of Meisnest. Lesite ||typhoid germs was negative in all Ayer, faculty manager; Howard || cases. No gas or acid was found in| Middleton, student manager; Cap- || any of the samples, either, tain Mike Murphy, Dean J. T. || It was explained that all water con Condon and former Captain || tains some bacteria, but that the bac Russell Callow. teria found in the pool were not of @ dangerous character, Big Walter, |Famous Johnson Has Out- de Chance to Perform in Big Baseball Classic BY SEABU BN BROWN JOUN youngster, For league in effec tivenens, pitching mat were never hin own in clann, club bas always lacked the punch to win a pennant 4d the Yet Johnson Carl Mays quit never the complained Red Sox and nearly wrecked the national game because that team didn't have « chance to finish first, Johnson's club, until this year, has never been na ‘erhape thin in why, chance with the peer lean mpeed-ball king growing old in the Senator livery, ington given an ut New York, Cleveland and st and with Wash Louis for the American league pen nant country over are pulling for Walter Je come under the wire abead of the flashicr aggregations The end, of Johnson's career tn | close. He in tilt a great pitcher, but hin fast one hasn't quite the sipp it a few seasons back, He in still great enough, however, to tame any national league club in a couple ot ean come thru this year, Washington will have to upset the! They aren't figured as dope to win in the money, but if they should come thru, Johnson's athletic “color will make therm the mort popular world’s champions since the Boston | Braves beat Connie Mack's invincibie Athletics, in 1914. JONES MAY GO AFTER HONORS Robby Jones, Atlanta golf star rated as one of the greatest amateur players In the world, ig completing hin course at Geargia Tech this jepring. He may enter the interco! legiate championships this season. | He would probably have bis strong ext opposition from Rudy Knepper Sioux City, who is attending Princeton |GANS-McKAY GO IS CANCELED Panama Joe Gans, colored middle. weight boxer, is out of the ring for two or three weeks with an injured| hand, hurt in a recent bout in De trot. ording to word received here this morning by Jimmy Malone, local | promoter. This cancels the GansGordon Mo Kay bout set for Tuesday at the Pa vilion. one i# trying to Une up another main event today. PUDDLE COSTS SOX ONE GAME |: All the water hazards are not on golf courses, Some of the ball fields in the have Falk of the Whit one the other day and lost a ball game to the Giants, WHAT IF RUTH uth tem DON’T KNOW IT) It meme that a great ers are basing their hopes to do a lcomeback on the theory that the lively ball will be missing in 1922, Certainly would be tough if the ball makers crossed them up. STADIUM On reconsid NEW OLYMPIC PARIS, April 13 tion, the French Olympic tee has turned down Pershing for the 1924 Olympic will bulid a new stadium near r track mit ata dium games and the Colom! MISSOURL VS. CALIFORNIA BERKELEY, Cal, April 13.—The University of Missouri track ter wns to arrive here today for Sat urday'’s meet with the University of California. NEW YORK, April 13.—Outdoor | boxing this summer will be confined afternoons com to holidays and Saturday thru a ruling of the boxing mission that bouts cannot be con night. The main bout vited at | must go on not later than 6 o'clock Montreal's boxing commission will be componed of five membors. NOW OPEN— GREEN BUILDID FOUNTAIN LUNCH AT THE RINGSIDE | new evil present itself to stir up argument, It is said that golf was the indirect cause of the controversy between Pitcher Mays and Man- ager Huggins, which end- ed by Huggins plastering a fine of $200 on his star pitcher. It seems that about a dozen of the Yankee players are devotees of BY WANDA VON KETTLER Having been present last night at the first boxing bouts I've ever had the misery of witness ing, I've come the conclusion that: Fighters are to be pitied rather than condemned. Look at the way they get beat up. years he led the but hin outside chance to that the nonpartiaan fans the won and the Washington club to series gamen, if the Senators Bib Sox tumbled into | Portiand yany pitch-| WAKEFIELDS—BILLIARDS G—FOURTH AND PIKE these esthetic 40 pitching| Some of dancers | ace of the Wash. | observe a few boxers for ington Aw pointers on original steps. You cans, has been | *BOW, those henitation steps occur- with that ebay '%s Just before the nasty thump. since he broke oonene into the major| The first rcrap was the best. Not leagues as a that I remember how it turned out, or anything like that—but Eddie Moore's lavender silk trunks and Kid Hare's green satins were centainly the best looking of all those on dis play during the evening. Deputy Pronccutor Ga A Raichelor composes portry at the fights, That is, 1 think he dors, He's that bliswfully pre-oo- cupled and soulful, Maybe, tho, golf, among them being | Ruth, Hoyt, Mays and | Schang. me of the | baseball experts with the Yankees claim that the team has paid more at- tention to golf than base- ball on the spring train- ing trip. The story goes that Huggins has requested his pitchers not to play golf on the days they ay are WITH OUR WANDA | he's just interested in somo thing. Deputy Prosecutor J. T. Carmody has @ new cigaret holder. It's mot ted. He dinplayed it last night in the front row of the ringside If fighters didn’t spend eo much |time bumping into each other they'd get around a bot faster, | ‘The show must have been tame for Sheriff Matt Starwich, He got up and yawned betwoen the first and second rounds of the third altercation, Frank Pyle aidn’t yawn. The jus tlee court bailiff, seated in the front row, reserved hig energies for sud. den little outbursts of “Bring & up, Eddie,” “Knock’ em, Joe.” Others did likewise, Even at that, tho, 1 suspect that the fighters themselves got more of a wallop out of the scrap than the spectators —, ‘The Premeat Cyclones have made an importaat addition te their team, siening wp Kenneth Johnson, emp: tain of the Lincoln high school eqnad, Johnacn ix & smart outtielt~ or and & goed bitter and rated one of the fastest prep players in the ety. | Btanley Ratkowsk! has been transferred from the fam Areea team to the Mt | Maker Cigar Co. 1. Gideon Das been wlene@ by the Sam Arena team and Marry Comeli hae been aropyed. management of the Hillman Mer- | | Fienent Liedtke has taken ever the | chants, Kail Lakeman, former pilot, has been dropped from the team. Oncar Collins, whe starred for the Georgetown Cubs last year, hae been |siened by the West & can piteh oF p | pected to fui th Important additic terday, signing i a » in a crack cateher, Land ls @ bew- relew. prep * |ovmer to Star leaxue | ‘The Green Lake team has dropped | Clibert Dewan, Haiph Heuser and Phil Nordstrom te make room for the new players signed. | Lame Sandstrom and Rob Lewts have been signed by the Hillman Merchants. Manager Lambert of the West @ | Wheeler team is willing to trade Chartey | Hardie, pitcher, to any ether club in the v league for a se acker, | ‘The revined schedule for Sunday's games will not be ready for pablice then until Friday, All players an managers should wi for this schedule, because several have been made | 2 Wittia Jacobun hai Aded to the | Paicom A. C. roster | ye. Tokuda and Inno Nitmt have been signed by the Asahi Cubs STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Won, Lost. Pet Lon Angeles ... 6 756 |Gamtand . sae , ae wee Lake 2 2 bee te 2 6 ° en oe TENDLER SUSF DED NEW YORK, April 13.—Lew Tender, Ph Jelphia lightweight }and his manager, Phil Glassman. have been suspended = indefinitely by the boxing commission be ase |}Glaseman abused the refere who ed ‘en r to lose a recent bout on a foul | BOR AND BABE GET BID NEW YORK, April Babe Ruth and Bob |, suspended | Yanks, have been invited by Charles | Stoneham, president of the Giants, |to work out every day with the Giants. Ruth is with the Yanks in Washington and Meusel is in |New York Attention, Elks! | LEST YOU FORGET! Elks’ Night at Loew's Palace Hip Theater Thursday, April 13, at 9:00 Secure Tickets at Box Office er from the Secretary W. W. BANE EW HOME OF BARBER SHOr tithe thorobreds, i Canine Exhibit on Today |“Totem Chief” Favored to trants at Pavilion Show | | M°r= than 50 breeds are repre sented at the second annual dog show of the Puget Sound Kennel club, which opened this morning at the Pavilion, Third aye. and Univer. |sity st. The show will continue thru Saturday. W. H. Woodhull, Pacific coast manager of Spratt’s, Limited, will | have personal charge of the care of| and every possible ‘precaution to prevent loas of any of the valuable canines will be taken. All animal, have been previously ex- |amined, to prevent the entry of any animals with contagious diseases. | Handling of the exhibit and the °| Judging will be under strict Amert- lean Kennel club rules, with Dan Shuttleworth as judge, Approximately 350 animals will fill the space the Pavilion affords. “Totem's Chief,” Boston bull, be- longing to Mra. W. A. Fishbaugh, is | favored to lead the field. Results of Last nciy A Night’s Boxing Bouts at Arena Robby Michaels defeated Joe Har an. K. O. Three rounds. Marty Foley defeated Joe Mar- tisen. K. 0. Two rounds, y Gardeay defeated Roy Decision. Four Owen Roberts defeated Alvin Landon. K. O, Two round’. Kid La Rose defeated Frankie Green, Decision, Four rounds. “idle Moore defeated Kid Hart, K. ©. Four rounds. ee Taste is a matter of tobacco quality We state it as our honest belief that the tobaccos used in Chesterfield are of finer quality (and hence of better taste) than in any other cigarette at the price. Leggett & Myers Tebacce Co. Lower Prices 20 now 18c 10 now 9c (Two 10'e—18c) Lead Field of 350 En-| | to pitch, After advising Mays that he was to pitch a certain exhibition game against Brooklyn, is said to have played 18 holes of golf, That afternoon Mays was hit hard by Brook- lyn and taken out of the box by Huggins, Mays resented his re- moval from — the game BOBBY MICHAELS STOPS JOE HARRAHAN IN. THIRD SESSIOI Philadelphia Girl Is Said to Be Filled With Action BY LEO E INKING his left hand into a K. O. in his first start in last night. ing the view. Harrahan was examined, but no foul was al- lowed. Michaels hits hard with his left }hand, but he hasn't any boxing class at all. At least he didn’t) show it last night. He's tall and) hae long arms. He paws around with his right hand, usually pivots and then hits with his left. He carries a kick in his right mitt The New Yorker looked awkward last night. In the first round Harrahan and won the session easily. Michaels kept complaining to Referee Charley Givens of Harrahan's butting, but Givens let it go. In the second round Michaels began punishing Joe with his left hand and the round was fairly even, When the New Yorker crashed his left on the sleep button Har rahan doubled up and claimed a |foul. Givens ran around the ring for at least 15 seconds before he | started counting, not knowing what jto do. He finally counted Harra- han out Oakland Frankie Harper is Burns and Bob & question following his | showing last night, altho a lot of |the customers thought that the visitor's style and punch will bother any man of his weight. He fights j Burns in Tacoma a week from to- j night and tackles Harper in Van- couver, B. ©, on April 26. Marty Foley is doing a nice come jback in the ring, The veteran Ta- coman hung a terrific punch on Joe Martinson’s chin in the first round jof their bout and Joe finally took K. O. Is Questioned, but Referee Givens Wouldn't Ale low Foul Claim; Foley Stops Martisen; Smoker 1, LASSEN | third round, Bobby Michaels, New York miller, won b Irish Joe claimed that he was hit low and far be it f Yours Truly to settle the argument as Joe collapsed on # far side of the ring from the writer and Michaels was b roughed Michaels all over the ring) How Michaelis will stack up with| PAGE 11 and to prove it threw the ball over the grandstand, For which Huggins fined him $200. All of which makes it seem that golf isn’t the best thing in the world for a ball player during _ the regular season, It wouldn't be surpris- ing if the major league ~ club cwners tried to curb the so-called solf evil, "3 evil. Joe Harrahan’s tummy in the Northwest at the the nine count. weathered the second round, | his left eye was cut and he in a bad way so the bout waa ped. They weighed 165 Foley has won two straight |here by the K. O. route, | Rube Finn here a couple of ago. Young Gardean and Boy lin put up another hard bout, |former winning the verdict the Bremerton welter. G won the first two rounds, the third, which went to . lin, but came back and wom @ |fourth round and the decision, Owen Roberts, who showed of promise in the cht division @ year ago, only to looked better last night tl has for a long time, He Alvin Landon in the second with a right on the chin, It wa 4 hard right on the molars. | | La Rose, claimant of the | weight championship of G |beat Frankie Green, local jboy. La Rose was showed a fair punch and ness. He made Green miss siderably and the fang took ably to his style In the opening bout Eddie local bantie, was too smart for Hari, a game little Filipino, the bout was stopped in the Hari took a bad beating. Charlie Givens and Ad aiternated as third man im @ ring. A goodly house watched bouts, which were staged by Castade Athletic club, and smoker was filled with action 4 well worth seeing. Hurler, JAKE MAY, Vernon’s new hits and no runs. In his first game he held Salt Lake to two hits and one run. If he keeps up that kind of work he will |go a long ways towards put- \ting Vernon in the pennant | race. Los Angeles follows: AKLAND continued to be the/ surprise of the opening chapter | in the Coast league seascn. The Acorns whaled San Francisco again yesterday, 6 to 0. Five runs in the he sterfield CIGAR of Turkish and Domestic tobaccos—blended, Jake May, New Vernon off the Coast league season The former St. Louis Cardinal yesterday, turning back the Los Angeles champions with ff | The score of yesterdays game at | Rm &F. | Low Angeles ...csce+00 ee er | Vernon idensatnene.. O:) St teres: Lyon and Daly; May and Hannah. i Is Real southpaw pitcher, is sta ith the well known twirled another swell | Kremer had one of his good |the mound and shut out the =7 > a8 Sooit “and Y and Kobier, als Seba and Sacramento play yesterday at § wet grounds postponing game. the RTLAND continued on its ing way yesterday, Salt throwing the hooks into the City team, 9 to 3. Five runs in sixth frame broke up the = and ETTES