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EDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1922. ‘ k& : THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 11 Field batting average. Baseball is America’s national game, but the American tossers in the Coast league can well a ford to take Seattle's serappy little Cuban as an example of how to play the game for the game’s sake. ‘Manuel Cueto Is Human Pepper Box on Ball BY LEO H. LASSEN ANUBL CURTO, attle’s new third sacker, plays the game for the game's sake with more pepper than any ball er that has hit the Pacific Coast league years, Fans who thought that Sammy Bohne hustled with the Indians in 1920 and the followers of the game who rooted for Bill Kenworthy because he played super-baseball for the tribe last season are due for a revelation when BEI 1 glove and chased ground- ers around third base. If the balls were hit to the outfield he had Tub Spencer hit grounders to him until the next hitter got up to the plate. And all the while the Cuban was bounding around the they see Cueto in action, At least that is the impression he made in the practice session of the Indians out at the Rainier valley park yes- terday afternoon. And those who have seen him in action say he is a reg- ular dynamo thruout every inning of the game. The boys were going thru the regular hitting practice in Tuesday's workout. The little fel- low took his regular turn in the hitting practice and then grabbed his field like a rubber and chattering ously, Besides his pep, Cueto | is a good ball player. He’s | a good hitter, a heady man at the plate, a good | base runner and he cov- | ers a lot of ground G PRIED OFF OF BASEBALL SEASON HERE ‘Michaels 'vs. Burns ball continu- around third base, field- ing and throwing well. In these days of fren- zied finance in baseball it's a mighty relief to find a ball player who pastimes for the sake of the game without the dol- lar sign governing his ID IS BEI — Seattle’s Big Three 4 Battle |] On the left s “Jazz” Richardson, the peppery secretary of the local club; Ti the center is James R. Boldt, Seattle prexy, and on the right is the familiar igers N TODAY |Gordon McKay Has No [ The Statistics Trouble Winning Mix tis|Old Fox Too Smart for Marty Foley; Lightweights is| Put on Fast Bout in Semi-Windup; Other Results and Gossip in Fisitana ORDON McKAY, the old fox of the North- ; | Adams at Shortstop; te A pages Pe baa west rings, continued on his winning way at “ ne nee the Arena last night, defeating Marty Foley, mY RO H. LASSEN oF wrt pie: eas . MMEDIATELY following tomor.| “"4 Stanger; Boot and Agnew the Tacoman, without any trouble. McKay ODAY ts the day,! row nigh events in ‘Tacoma, * " - KY mates! / Bobby Michaels, New York light-| x BE} _The fight wasn’t spectacular, Or ‘At 2:48 this aft weight, either will be arranging | Pale 1 “4 : fighting his usual careful battle. Foley was ernoen Chier Sorry 4 a races te Broad. | thes cn yNobed vaeneion simply outclassed and outside of two stiff yalter McCre AY or wettling down for a Jong ram : ; r dig was due to page among Coast boxing centers, | 1’ons and Daly cite ng _ Pca round, he hardly laid a trot out his In-| Michaels will fight Oakland} glove on the Coast middleweight king. ians for the first Frankie Burne in the sixround main | Every round of the bout when to McKay, inspection by the [sym ¥ ne vane: show ea peed ty Sa arom ne : le who crowded Foley thruout the bout, which | of the Dead 1 c of of . ‘ Yl +. oP Leng ngs Ben | reyhonb lly hypenrarougaary sald ere Actolt wh Stebior; 24i4 | Prevented the Tacoman from swinging his K. O. wallop that valor muchdisputed question « hia|dieton and Elliott topped Rube Finn und Joe Martinsen here recently. short and unsatinfactory tangle with Some of the cream puff boys sitting in ringside seats were Joe Harrahan in Seattle hollering for Referee Rod Murphy to toss ’em out of the ring, but it wasn’t any fault ;}*————_____. 1 a, N "S RESULTS of McKay’s that Foley wasn’t | Aa. sean wae Saete Fo in his class. Decision, } PACINIC COAST LRAGUR Won, Lost eG | | picture of Walter McCredie, the new chief of the tribe. These three men are r ~ fellows behind the guns of Seattle baseball, which gets under way here lay. | | | | | Crack Lightweights EN Serax in Six-Round Go ssecramento Th 4 At Low Angeles Balt Lake and At AMERICAN LEAGUE Won, Loat. ’ 6 About all he showed here was & | cievetna reed knockout wallop--which, to be sure, |New York jis quite a bit in iteelf, Harrahan | Philadelphia was fouled, the commision ruled, but | Chiears the punch that floored him carried «| Washington ling the game, the usual fes- | ‘were in order with the down- | ley, four rounds, Harry Sutton drew Joe Black, parade under way at 12 noon fates at the park were to be at 12:90 and the game to start ther Harry Gardner or Elmer was scheduled to mount the fehing knoll for the tribe today, th either Jake May or Bill James for the Tigers. s out Indians went thru their paces practice session yesterday after: and showed a world of pepper. field was in fine shape, and the had a good workout. Cueto, the dashing little caught the eye of every fan ‘the small group that watched the work. Frank Schulte, former Cub star; Spencer Adama, Connolly, all were watched clone- Ba they were figured to start to- ‘Adams was slated to play short in place of Bill Stumpf, who has hittine his mid-season form « early this year. \t tribe was expected to start) Murphy on first, Connolly on Cueto on third and Adams its infield combination. Lane tn Eldred in center, Schulte in with Barney for utility will up the ontfield patrol. Adams was due to catchh, with the not decided. U lernon was expected to toke the with Hyatt on first. Sawyer on & It gives me player is figh' i ors, to have a | | | | | (From Jim Boldt to is Team it pleasure to see that in our team prevails such harmony. to win, and we want all Seattle, as well as the officers and direct- interest in the club. Our club looks mighty good, and I am satis- fied that with the proper support of the fans we will be up at the top in a short time. Every team in the Pacific Coast League is stronger than it was last year. is considerably stronger, and the prospects are that the Coast, as well as Seattle, are to have their most successful year. (Favored to ‘Trim Bears Dodger s\Heat Hits -|Varsity St. Louis | Men Hard wicked kick, Still, the Harp roughed the newcomer a}i around the arena In the first six minutes, and as Harra- han isn't a boxing master, it has been generally deduced that Michaels would be a mediocre performer with out his unusually heavy artillery, Burns will give him a real test over the stxround route. Oakland Frankie tx an old hand at the game, and Michaels will have to demon: | strate a little more of boxing relence to drop the veteran with one punch. urna is no weakling on the offen sive himself, If he gets to Michaels’ jaw an easily an did Harrahan, the referee will have to jerk the watch and remember his arithmetic. out Every Rethel a beating in the sem! windup. The veteran Farmer in on the down grade. but it ia hardly he sitpped far enough to lone to Bethel. Jimmy Rivers, whose meteoric ca Teer wan knocked Into a cocked hat by hig recent one-round reverse at the hands of Frankie Burns, . will start his comeback in the four-round special event, with Bud Pitererald in the other corner Rivers has ev erything @ fighter needs but expert enes, and should win his bout Two four-round preliminaries fill the ecard Seattle ponnible JAMES R. BOLDT. Season Frank Parmer tx billed to give Bill | The semi-windup wes a plppen of & battle with honors being even be tween Harry Sutton, the navy cham pion, and Joe Black, the Tacoma lightweight. Black nad an edge, but © | no slight that the 60-60 verdict was Henry | well received. and | Reston | Detroit @ | gE At Cleveland |8t. Loule . | Cleveland | Batteries land Severed, Nunamaker. Bayne, Uble Kolp, Collins; | rn 10 (16 At Boston— New York Horton s ou Hatteries: Push. Jones and Schang; Karr, Ferguson, Myers and Ruel. At Chicago— RnR Detroit Chicago Ratterien: and Schalk. At Washington E Hadelphia Washington Batterien Naylor and Johnaon, Francis, MeGrew, Courtney and Picinich NATIONAL LEAGUTE four rounds, Young four round Boy McCasslin beat Thunder- bolt Smith, one round. K, O. Kid La Rose bea Eddie Moore, four rounds, Ducision, to Smith's jaw and the lights went out for the colored boy. He got up ;at the count of nine, but he was so krogry that the finishing punch was just part of the act. Kid 14 Rose won another start in the first bout, carrying the fight to Eddie Moore and winning the vere dict. Rod Murphy, Seattle’s popular first sacker, who is captain of the Indians this year, acted as the third man in the ring and he calle4 his de- cisions well and got a lot of fight out. of the boys. The card, staged by the Cascade A. C., was another thriller for the boys who like action, with the main event, because of its onesideness, rather tame. | i} 1} 1] | }] Black was in wlightly better condi- tion and forced mont of the firhting, x, | But the gob fought back nnd Mur 7 /PhY_ couldn't pick a winner and so 5 he called it even-Stephen | Young Gardeau was a bit too big and strong for Al Biddle, the game jlittle Anacortes welterweight, and g,|Gardeau won the call after four 1 i 2 | Seeressive rounds, Biddle weathered 5 - 2 |" Pretty rough storm in the second Cole and Bassler; Hodge | T0UR4, but Gardeau couldn't put over the sleep potion. Thunderbolt Smith, a dark-skinned [miller from the Sunny South, start 2\ed out lke he was going to live up 7 3\to his reputation, knocking Boy Mc- Perkins; ;Casslin about the ring. Then Me- |Casslin shifted his style and started to use his left hand with effect. Near the end of the first round the | Bremerton boy uncorked a left hook es Won Lost. College Nine The name of Cobb in the near f the traditions of Princeton. Pr r Cimeinnats At Bt. Chicago 1 St. Louis 5 1363 ton. He aspires to shine as a pitch’ Gets Ty, Jr. ‘uture will probably help to uphold Ty Cobb, Jr., son of the great and only Tyrus, plans to enter Prince- er. Patteries: Aldridge, Freeman and | Pfeffer, North, Benton, If a base runner is called out for| Bailey, Goodwin and Ainsmith, Clem: | running out of iime or for interfer. | ons. ence, ansixta should be credited to - every player who handled the ball| At Cincinnal— Smith on third and French ‘shortstop. High was to be in left ‘This will be good news to the Tiger athletic authorities, as a Cobb in raxeball means something, His ambition to so shine is not surprising, vince Ty, Sr., always worked out at pitching In practice and says he should have tried twirling instead of outfielding. Blood wil) tell, and it looks as if the Blue of Yale and the Crimson of Harvard will have something to worry about when Cobb is announced as the Princeton pitcher. | Washington Has Lost but Big Reason “Why Browns| Washington and Oregon Three Races Since Crew; and Cards Don’t Win Ball Nines Clash at Den- Was Introduced Here Big League Flags ny Field Tomorrow By H Id i BY SEABURN BROWN By Har old Marquis j,|Prior to the umpire ruling the run. | Pittsbure } lea. ttendance ITH a record of nine victories in IK years baseball re tt ~~ ING bog on the Nene, ner out Only one anaist ts» giver | Cincinnati focve 7 ry 3 pect: 'g | : ee eo Se: oe ea how hel Piatteries: Carlson, Hamilton and| 1 the Pacific have wondered what jinx has) “ each player, no matter often ‘ Conary =m toapely were Aa te | Coast league, baseball fans will 6% andies the ball Gooch; Markle, Couch and Wingo. Reardon aid ‘Fed McGrew | const'tn the last 1¢ yours, Wasting. | wae the pennant hopes of the St-/ 1h. first game of the Pacific coast |= bee ilo AIL the decisions this week ton's crew is facing the annual re-| Louls clubs, year after year, with) intercollegiate baseball race Thure| I C fans were due to see reversal) tty with California determined to| monotonous reularity. Seldom do/ duy afternoon on Denny field, With ‘Wiges in the Lory the ysvakermd| win. The Purple and Gold has lost | tither the Cardinals or Browns fin. | @ bras band accompaniment, mare Die widened » more vinta but three races since crew was intro-| ish in second division, yet they never Hugh Caldwell will pitch the finw in use. This will speed up le im the West, the 1912 and 1915 sf | ball to open a twogame series be ee eis athe iene ne tween Washington and Oregon regattas to -_ i Both teams invariably slump Dean F. M. Padelford will be the BY HENRY L. FARRELL crew race be.| NYBW YORK, April 19.—Lew Ten | wash pam epeuting |> "ier, the Philadelphia southpaw.) iu: wyns, a Belgian, holds the|Anne nosed out Broadway, Ballard | says he i# the new lightweight) puropean featherweight title and it|easily beat champion and he is going to be «| seems that he won't fight Criqui.| slaughtered Franklin, of the title holder by meeting all| The Frenchman, following the letter |home teams lost “os Lyng Sand celta July and August and sprint valiantly | recetver jof international law, challengod} Queen Anne outhit Broadway and fn center and either or Schneider in right field, Hannah as the probabie/ Rr. -s 13 record crowd of the boys and wag expected. and with a good Queen Anne, Garfield and 4 Ballard Win Prep Starts | JZRRORS played a big part in the tempt, as Bugene Criqul, the French | fortunes of Seattle's prep base. | featherweight champion, did recently pestatday; whan Chae | in Shoes repaired by us last longer. Liberty Shoe Repair, next Liberty theater.—Advertisement, REAL Coach EA Leader, while boosting |i. tne closing weeks of the season.) Washington wil) play Thursday the strength of his crew as they line/ (icy Mathewson probably hit|and Saturday, leaving Friday after | up for the final contest, is doubtful | Joon the reason when he blamed the| noon free for the whether the erratic form of the oar® | srrect of the hot midsummer weath-|tween Washington and California men will carry them to victory.| 4. y oon the Southern clubs’ hurling| The first game will be called at Washington is conceded to have far) aa r¢q, | 3:20 and the second at 2:36. | more power in the drive than the) «4 s+ Louis club,” Mathewson is) Oregon is “not rated as a strong crew of last year, but the combina) sited with saying, “would have to|contender in coast Lincoln, and Garfield All | re conference | T*#! \eTON.—Pursy Martin, San Fran poet necked vat Louie Hamlin in the round. PUPFALO.—Herman od Bobby Tracy. Buftalo, in 18 Smith Butftaio. _ amateur bering ROSTON-—New _ ometcer tinal of , 173; John Williams, Son heavyweight. é DMAHA—Dave Shade 19-round decision over ha. Roy Conley, Ca fem Archie Ammons, M 16 rounds. California, Bud I or, Wyo shailtown, ” In, LES. —Hpec Ramies defeated > unde here last < They weigh 118 pounds MONDT WINS BAN FRANCISCO, April loots” Mondt won his teh with Max Orlando last night h straight falls, the first in one r, seven minutes, the second in minutes 35 seconds. 19— 51000 REWARD For proof that Insect Powde terminate roach ehicken lice It is odorle people, and roven by ex aneh shington, D. ( It is most worthy of world-wide Wistribution, and owing to its nitary, economical and depend- Able results, will find ite place in millions of homes, hotels apartments and restaurants throughout the nation. Pound ackage $1.00 by parcel post, or genuine original rection” be coin or stamps, for ‘aking at home at haif the pric % ny “Pertection™ mnt kill and ex- . bedbugs, an and harmless to been teated and erts in warehouses, bakeries, ete, in + Slattery, the or- only ributor, Seattle, Wash. inator and 1% First ave. W tion is one of inexperienced men, land has not been tried in combat. California has another green crew, of which little is known, and Coach | Ben Wallis is spreading thick gloom. to win al be 30 per cent stronger pennant than would the mame outfit with one of the Northern cities as headquarters.” ‘This year the superb early season | | ton in expected to land well at the) | top comern. Benny Leonard, on the books as in the pennant race. The/ene pest of the 135-pounders, is still Lemon-Yellow nine haa none of its veteran twirlers back this season | *7OU but circles this season while Washing: | nd and all that, he seems | Wyns six months ago, and when six took advantage of 11 Tiger errors in |months had rolled around without | Winning the initial tilt, 8 to 7. Gay | getting any response, Criqui went to|ler was slugged out of the box by a newspaper office, weighed in and|the Tigers in the eighth frame. R. H to an E wrestling | The two crews are almost equally | form of the Cardinal pitehers may in | matched in weight and strength, the | some measure make up for the slump | Washingtonians having three pounds | lurking 4 few weeks ahead. Sherdell, advantage on the scales. Two veter-| Doak and Haines are in winning ans—McMillan and Brown—are row.| form. Doak is in the poorest condi ling for California, and three letter|tion of the three at present, altho men—Ingram, Murphy and Shaw—| league hurlers in lare in the Washington boat in 1921, Hie rough Pacific treatment at the hands of the Chi. cago Cuba in yesterday's game came Won '7 | as a shock to the St. Louis hopefuls ond. Tenathe.| 1¢ thene three can keep the Cards | ston swamped. lin the vanguard for the first six * | weeks, careful handling of the staff may tide the club over the hot sea zon, and in the home stretch the #t Louisanes will give the cocksure} Jawn McGraw the battle of his life| for the old gonfalon ‘The outlook in the Browns’ camp ia not #0 bright The cinb is on a par with the other American league leadera in every department except ning; but the surprising early m strength ‘of Cl and, m practically counted out by experts during the tr has thrown a scare into the Wash-| ington, St. Loula and New York mpa, and Tris Speaker and his | tribe seem destined to furnish gen: | uine competition to the three favor. | ites. The Browns didn't look like a championvhip club after the In dians finished with them yesterday but the cream of the loeers’ pitching wtaff waan't celled into the fray Ite wines 1907 . const | champions ington Stanford ington California ington Cailfornia fornia... Washington Vreshman Keoulte Won by | Length i the ning season, Firet Becond Washington California No race litornia.. Washington ington California ington California Washington Crew Coaches Years 1907-1917—Coach Connibear, Years 1919-1922—C a % | | | PHILOMATH, Or—Death takes Bishop Nicholas tle, of the United | Brethren in Christ church. M’GRAW IS CHAMP TRADER Connie Mack is a developer of ball | moat traded ball player. | players. Connie is alno fairly strong} In 1909 he traded Herzog to Hoxton lon selling them for real cash. |for Beals Becker. In 1911 he John McGraw, of the Giants, is a| Bridwell and Hank Gowdy to Boston “go-get'em” manager. When he|for Herzog. In 1914 he traded Her | wants to strengthen his ball club he| zoe and Catcher Hartley to Cincin | puts over a trade. nati for Bob Bescher. In 1917 he de McGraw is generally regarded as| cided he again needed Herzog to bol the champion trader of all times.|ster up his infield, and sent Roush, No less than 92 ball players have|McKechnie and Mathewson to Cin been involved in his so-called big|cineinnati for Herzog. In 1918 he| deals. | traded Herzox to Boston for Larry Charley Herzog has been McGraw’s | Doyle and Jesse Barnes and cash. | | | went | be | the Cubs beat the and many of the other players are inexperienced men Strength in the hitting fleld will be the primary consideration Mat- thew will consider in picking his| team for the opener. While no} lineup has been announced, it in| expected that Setzer or Harper will pitch and Maloney receive. Barrett, Weits, Torrance and Bakke will deo- orate the infield and Gardner, Me-| Mahon and Lewis or Marriott wiil| in the outfield, knocked Walter Johnson got 18 bite for 24 basen and beat Washington 17 to 2. Three Brown pitchers were wild. the Cleveland Indiana had no winning, 17 to 2 and trouvie ‘The Keds knocked Carlson eat of the box and were rough with Mamil- », but the Pirates won, ® te 4, mak- 1K & Bweep of the series. Freeman Aldridge to the rescus after If into trouble, and rds 7 to & Cole wobbled at eritical tim: box aed the White Sox tr Tigers 6 to in the d the Youterday's home run—Fournler of t REGINA, Sask After serving three years for placing ties acrows railroad track, Anton Kancirra is re- leased from Prince Albert prison when another man confesses to the uct. | went empty boxing | that night. When the morning }eame around and Wyns had not appeared, Criqui claimed the title. Wyns protested that he didn’t |know anything about it and Criqui was prevailed on by his friends to j«ive the title back to the Belgian | after he had won his moral victory | If Leonard had won his title un der the New York rules, Tender uld get some place with a claim for default, as the Walker law re. {quires that a champion winning a | title under its rules must defend | his title once every six months when |he is challenged by a bona fide con- tender to have lost the decision on the tele graph wires Leonard dislikes Tendler so much he won't even fight with him and it is a safe bet that he won't counter the verbal sleep-producers of his Quakertown rival Tendler is good ana mad because Leonard failed to inelude him in the list of invitations that w nent out to help him «well hiv bank roll at Michigan City next July, He says some mean things about the thumb that Leonard has veral times when a@ pro: bout to get him in th ring, and he goes so far as to open ly assert that Leonard is afraid of bin. Tendier i vietim f the aloof attitude that the United States taken regarding the Interna Boxing f ration. If Une would join the aus 8 v pean body which is running th fight business Lew could claim the title and grab the crown with a few vicious words He might not get the title, but he would have some fun in the at WILLIAMS AND BILLINGS WIN Pat Williams and Eddie Billings | went to Belling mn night and boxed for the Elks’ club, Pat beat Joe Nesan n of Vancouver in four rounds, winning the refe deel sion and in the final round knocked Neseman down for the count of nine, Eddie Billings tb Noodles Knox way. Knocking Knox down in the first round for the count and again had him reeling in the third round, while the erowd yelled to have the fight stopped. that has tional Sam The regular weekly changes in registration in The Star Junior Ball league are due toni The Wheeler Ross Giants Liberty and the West & will clash at 3 p.m. If pow Managers of h teams should uch with the sporting editor Thursday morning #0 arrangements can be completed The complete achedule for Sunda gamom with the changes will be pubii ed in Friday's Star ent x the ve been rolled and new benches creens for the fans and » new top are up. depart Antendin, h re backs Home teams must send In thelr soores on Sundays more promptly, Last wee several of the results weren't phoned ender {ti after 7 p.m. Ti multe #hou render [phoned between 6 and 6:90, a# soon after 6 48 possible By shaving their heads Basque women of Spain think they mayclyes beautiful, arena | At Broadway-— | Queen Anne Broadway . .. aCe | Batteries—Galer, Britten and Me: Kenaie; Staley and Burnsed. BALLARD HURLER HOLDS LINCOLN | Pitching of Fox, who held the makeshift Lincoln lineup to five safe bingles, was largely responsible for the Shingleweavers’ win over the Railsplitters. The teams totaled jerrors. Lincoln's early lead was shat |tered by a Ballard stick rally in the fifth, 8 10 2 R. 8 H. B. Ballard. ... 8 6 Lincoln . ... nbs 8 8 Ratteries—Fox and Fowler; Wal ingtord and Turnaciift. ARFIELD SLUGS WAY TO VICTORY Scoring 13 runs on 12 hits and 10 errors, Garfield, the new sister in the | high school loop, walloped Franklin | on the Quakers’ lot, 13 to 5. Grazu lus held the Franklin sticksmiths to| hits, The winners broke up a| e in the ninth by an avalanche of > clouts, At Franklin Garfield nklin Batteries—Grazulus and Williams and Davis, Putnam. seve ba nH 13 7 10 Horton; 13 5 Announcement of Swimming Plans Not Ready Yet Plans were gone over for the organization of The Star Junior Swimming club last night, but no representative of the Crystal Pool was in attendance at the meeting, so the plans cannot be published until sanctioned by the Pool, The announcements will be made within a day or two. 14} PAINLESS EXTRACTIONS Whale Bone (Rubber) Set of Teeth | Crowns +e Bridgework, per tooth. Amalgam Filling ..... All work guaranteed for 15 years, Examination and advice free. B e the Test of Time Most of our present patron recommended by our early custene ers, whose work is still giving good atisfaction, Ask our customers, who have tested our work. When coming to our office, be sure you jare in the right place Bring this ad with you. 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