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Peis te _ Great Third Sacker and Outfielder Will Be Main Ob- jects of San Francisco's Visit, Which Begins at Ri nier Valley Park Today BY LEO H. LASSEN HE Seattle Indians are coming home today | after a terrible road trip in which they lost| 11 out of 18 starts to Los Angeles land. like jumping fire. But when that have ever been and both of them wi under the big tent in 's sale set the record price the Chicago White Sox paid ‘And turned over two play- the Seals, O'Connell was pur by the New York Giants 209 and a player considera. affect the playing of the two feliows. It has—they're both Detter bail than ever. i still the wonder kid at and be has been murder. kinds of pitching this spring, in as many runs as any Player in the league. MN has been shifted to the and he's simply slaughter. league pitching, batting Du! es feliow lacked pepper at Jast year, but he's show. iy on this pair this week, Mf they deliver as expected, the A should see some great v &@ emart bitter like Dix Cox, Portiand rarggaaas says +that More stuff than Penal pitcher this “season, it something. ‘Scott, according Cox, ts throwing more siow bulle ‘neason. RHYNE DOING Now | Hal Rhyne faced the toughest job /@my pastimer in the Coast league the 1923 gong rang. He w: upon to fill the shoes of Jimmy + One of the finest shortstops ‘that ever spiked a Coast league dia “mond. _ He was a miserable fatlure at first, & bushel of errors every He couldn't hit either. ‘Then ali of a sudden he began to ‘Derk up in his work. The wailing fer & shortstop in San Francisco ‘@eased and Rhyne is going about his Work in good fashion and he’ smal am. is making his Seattle debut Seals here this week. hitting Cari Sawyer showed the Seattle fans some neat second base play When the Vernon Tigers were here, but the paim goes to Pete Kilduff When it comes to working around the second base piliow. So say Reribes thruout the loop who have Watched him play Kilduff is another Seal who is niak. fing his first bow before Seattle fans week. He played with Brooklyn joining San Francisco the ELAASON FORCED MILLER TO BENCH Bert Filison, ¢ blacksmith, is around a bail He can play first, second or the outfield, and, mamma, mamma, how that big Oscar can hit! ‘They started Ellison off at hort stop, and he kicked everything but | his own chin. Then they tried him Mt first base and he hit the bail at ®uch a terrific rate that he has been Playing the bag regularly and Miller has been on the bench since WALSH IS GREAT SUBSTITUTE ‘They say no team is stronger than its substitutes. If that is the case then the Seals | are well fortified with such a clasey Utility man around as Dee Walsh In his two years of service in the! Coast league, Waish has proved to be a versatile utility man, filling in ‘well in every infield and outfield po- sition. And bexides he can hit FORMER INDIANS WITH SEALS Three former Indiang are pastim ing with the Seals this week Pete Compton, the slugging ont fielder, Bob Geary, the fant ball piteh- week, Willie Kamm, their great young third sacker, and Jim O'Connell, mm and O'Connell have been sold for the greatest the Seal star with a! in Sportlight Glare and as Today they were scheduled to tangle with | } the powerful San Francisco Seals, and it was from the frying pan into the} The Seals are going at a break-neck speed, | giving the Vernon Tigers a big league battle for first place. the Seals perform here this their slugging id for minor league ball play- er, and Charley Sea See played the outfield for Seattle awhile Inst year, and did some tall hitting. This year he started out playing in the orchard again, but he has been pitching lately and has been getting away well with it Geary and See were turned over to a Francisco via Cincinnati and the ey and Couch deals playing here, was obtained by ing Justin Fitegerald NEW SOUTHPAWS DELIVER trad / Three new southpaws form a big part of the Frisco pitching depart Oliver Mitcheti and Lefty Alten, former Oakland de. ceiver, ones for the Seals, Mitchell is the Most impressive of the lot, turning in 10 wins to two detente Favorites of Ring in Hard Luck* ES Wise Money G Goes Wrong With Surprising Fre- quency OU never can tell—always has been a good line athletic competition, and none the least In boxing. Just before a series of ring championships are to be decided this summer it might be a good idea to look back and see how the dope has been upset in several contests with in the iast few years Harry Greb was pitied when he was pitted against the supposedly | | bons, who had been figured out a sure shot opponent for the world’s light heavyweinght championship. The betting was four to one on Gibbona And what happend? Greb slapped Gib all around the ring and back again, winning by a couple of miles Charley White was also a four to one choice to cop the decision in a bout with Johnny Dundee, and the little Scotch Wop. who showed in his recent bout with Lew Tendler that he was a legitimate feather weight, came through in front, separ. | ating the smart guys from their coin, Tendler was a three-to-one odds on favorite to take a fall out of Rocky Kansas in their New York | tilt, but Lew finished on the short pone of the verdict. Of cour n Was said that Tendler did not box up to his usual standard that night in the garden; nevertheless, there j was litle question that the Philadel | Phian had been defeated. ! Previous to the Tendler-Kansas | match the Rocky person participat: ed in a punch fest with Willle Jack. fon and the latter had two-to.one wagers riding on him. Once more the longshot boys had to pay off hafter the deciston had heen rendered, | What appeared to he the biggest upset of recent championship bouts | was that betwen Johnny Buff, the | 93-year-old lad from Jersey City. and Pete Herman, when the New | Orleans Italian was dethroned. Five to one were the prevailing odds that | Herman would not lose Jack Dempsey and Renny Leon. | | ard were supposed to have outclassed thelr respective rivals, Bill Brennan nd Kansas, b such margins that wo-to-one In each case wan wagered the title holders would score knock outs, the Manasea Mauler within | seven rounds, Brennan went along until the twelfth and Rocky stayed | the limit with Benny. Another upset was that in which | Joe Lynch, at three-to-one, failed to retain his bantam crown against Herman, the latter previously hav. | | ing lost his laurels to the New York | Irishman | All of which goes to prove that | | those who flirt with the goddess of | chance will have to watch their step | when Leonard meets Tendler, and Lynch meets Buff and in any of the | other big battles that may be decided | | before the snow falls again Ladies’ Day: Thursday BASEBALL PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE SAN FRANCISCO VS. SEATTLE Wedneaday, June 28, 2:45 DOUBLE-HEADER SUNDAY 1,30 Reserved Seats for Saturday and Sunday Now Selling 4102 Arcade Buikiing. AEB SS faster Acta ead Children’s Day: Friday Phone Elliott 2866 nantes iorntestesteit Compton, | vernon PTE ‘was thought that the sale sidun bon Sham with. Mooramsente cinan ieee 7 and Frits, At Vere re pitehing benders and mals || “Deacon John,” New Pilot of Seattle Tribe | | COAST LEAOGUR yon. Lot rr walt The seo: Salt Dake one AMERICAN LEAGU Won. toute o ae ae as om bse Nass ~ ree ans Me me Philadelphia er ee Boston . a u ane) fee ecore— Rr ". 5. | A a & At Detroit ae coon i e3 fehupp. Modge and Scbais io and Hassler Tiret game— rn it Yr Roaton Taek Rie At Phi pia ‘ Da Pennock, Fullerton and Ruel; Remmet! end Perkina. Second game- _ m Posten ‘ u Pluladeiphia er | Batteries: Ferguson and Ruel, Heimacn, Naylor, Rommeli and Perkine, | The score— nH St) Leute 7 : land ios) Dae a: Wright and Severed ~ GHANCE TO MAKE GOOD |eeeded Walter jlately in local and Los Angeles baseball circles the veteran \ organized baseball and one who did THE SEATTLE STAR | ADAMS DESERVES HIS New Pilot, Succeeding Walter McCredie as Skipper of the Indians, Is Smart Receiver and Well Liked by His Team Mates BY LEO H. LAS! OR the third time a player has been taken out of the ranks to be made manager of the Seattle Coast league} | ball club. | Jack Adams, the brainy receiver of the Indians, has one} McCredie as pilot of the tribe. | Adams has been a popular player with the local club for | |the past two seasons, and he should be, and will be, given every chance to make good. Clyde Wares was taken from the ranks and made man-| ager in 1920. He led the team into second place. Then} Duke Kenworthy was made pilot in 1921 and he brought) ¢ the club home in the first division, If Adams makes good for the rest of this season he! should be given a chance to lead the club again in 1923. |Constant changing of managers is never going to bring |! a pennant to this city: McCredie was given every opportunity to make good, but} 7 judging by some of the weird tales that went the rounds no longer had control over his men. A change was impera- tive. McCredie’s strategy on the ball field was good, but he didn't get results. iP Adams was to take charge of the club for the first time! this afternoon in the opening game of the series with San} Francisco. McCredie will continue on the Seattle payroll, acting as) scout for the tribe. | * "/McVey Knocked Baseball Gambler for Long Loop F the pension the National Ie ue lmoved to San Francisco, and he has Votan to Cal MeVey is enough to] been In California ever since. Keep him comfortably in his dectin-| He was only 30 years old at that ing years, the league will onty be| time and was at his best as a ball doing what \« partly due a man who| player, He was getting $3,000 a| was of the real founders of | year, which was just about the big: | fest salary peld any player in the! country made the mining deal turned hiv head and he left baseball Mat Cal was running « cigar | Third and Fotsom, streets one bis full share toward keeping game out of the clutches of gamblers. Only one gambler approached McVey personally, he was hit so hard on the jaw the the but that easy money ever and that tore at] he forgot all about baseball and|time of the big fire in 1906. His| everything tise for a while. | wife was hurt in the disaster and. | This gunbler was a friend of Cal/after a lingering illness of two and the two were playing billiards | years, she died. Cal says the light one day in Boston when the proposi-| of his life went out when his wife made, The sock on the jaw | died, for they had been married 16 ended the game and their friendship. | years and they were alwi the MoVey was captain and manager | best of pals, ot the Cincinnati team in 1879 and| In his prime McVey was five feat brought the team to San Francisco| nine finches tall and weighed 195 after the clone of the season. Cal . and he was a slugger of the suspected two men on his team of | pe, He says he drove at being too friendly with gamblers. | one ball over every fence In Rut he could not prove anything on and that] them, nor could he get the owner Of the clud to fire them. So he wax lant the National league cirouit, despite the fact that his fingers were so bent and twisted from eatehing knockout punching of Tommy Gib- |™ | doubies at Los Angeles ie and O'Neil, Khinavit | dieu ted that full because hie tearm | bare-banded that he had trouble grip " 4id not win the pennant when he! NAL a | racer tee gee ae |thought it had the clans to do wo. MeVey and Anson were room 41 9s 484i] He took @ flyer in mining stock | mates on the old Chicago club, and m4 : *** | while here and was unlucky enough |!t was McVey who taught Anson OS Eb] to win, wetting $4200 on an inves. |how to hit to right field, thereby = By see | Mept of $700 in a few hours. That| adding great! to his effectivences. 2 a 484 | settled tt > more baseball for him. | Both were right-handed hitters, and ye rr | He was cut out for a mining broker | Old Cap was a dead left-field hitter | an | He sold his stuff in Cincinnati 1 and | until McVey changed hin style | n ty, ae: orm: Lite | ‘ iarhic’ cad Mere . Ptetter and Ain- ‘| New York Still Wondering " ' About Leonard-Britton Mix EW YORK, June 28. | iw still trying to find out what} {induced Benny Leonard to throw! Stories in defense of Leonard have i away the welterweight championship |!t that the lightweight champion jthe other night by walking around | was worked into a frenzy by the ver the referee and pasting Jack Britton | bal shots of Britton during the fight when he was down and that he had shown signs of being | Philadelphia At New York " ~—New York, going up and down Broadway about funny business’ in the 13th round. *—Ruethe Fillingim, McNa Oareh era and Gowdy First game ROW F var pens ‘ 4 ¢ 9 6] Friends of Leonard and Britton | *attled several times earlie 112 Zi become indignant at even a hint Gooper and Gooch; Cheer carmen Gevshs Cheeres lence yt might have deen a prear-| Bob Harper Is me R. M. EK. ranged bit of acting to pave the way 7 12 i/tor another meeting at some future | Victor in Eighth Ratteries—-Giasner, Carison and Gooch; | date PORTLAND, Ore, June 28 Alexander, Kaufman and Wirts Leonard still stoutly maintains that | Bobby Harper floored Joe Rivers five | | Britton was not officially on the| times in the eighth round at the} NET SEASON floor when he hit him, and others of | Armory last night, winning by al the lightweight champions following | knockout bout between the] defend him by young lightw claiming he lost his ght and the Mexican | Was slow enough to be uninteresting. Apparently the New York boxing | commission has no doubt out the | Veaterday's here Jamieson tripled ENNIS all over the country is|fight being on the up and up. ‘The| [jhe sleith with the bases filled now at the height of its season Leon-| over the St, The Pacific Coast singles champion. |ard, the Champion's second, for jump: ships have already been decided with | ing in the ring and making it a Bill Johnston the, winner. Seve | double foul, but the solons didn’t pay other important western tourna-|the slightest attention to the stories ments are coming up, as follows ee = —— AT HEIGHT THRU WEST commission suspended Charley Lou June 24—-Inland Empire champion ships at Spokane, Wash June 28—Utah championships at Salt Lake City, Utah. July = 1—California sectional | July 3—Open tournament, Pot ch. Idaho. Comfor July 6—Willamgtte valley cham table, | pionships, Salem, Ore. | 4 } July 10—Oregon state champion conservative, | ships, Portland H t | July 17—Washington state cham correct: ] pionships, Seattle | July 21—Southern California cham. pionships, Los Angeles July 31—British Columbia cham pionships, Victoria, B. C. HIS new shirt has an exclusive and exceedingly August 7—Intermountain cham fe plonships and sectional doubles at convenient feature—the cuff can be reversed Balt Lake City easily, norm without a ridge or a wrinkle. Both August 7—Pacific Northwest | sides of the fine soft fabric are alike and both sides } o han jonships at Tacoma, Wash, — | are the right side, Because the fabric of the cuff is | Bi by 14—Open tournament, durable, it doubles the life of the shirt; and because j August 14—British Columbia c it can be reversed it saves laundry bills and refunds | its purchase price long before it wears out. Made like the VAN HEUSEN Collar, of a single-ply fabric that will not wilt, well-dressed men say that it is comfortable, conservative and correct. The PHILLIPS CUFF Shirt at AmmLIED 08 Seven Styles — Prices $2.50 to $7.50 court championships at Vancouver, B.C Banquet for Star Champions Is Set for Next Week Jim Holdt's banquet for the West & Wheeler club, champions of The Star Junior Baseball iakest, “wells nak ua wud wane oes PHILLIPS-JONES CORPORATION, Makers + 1225 Broadway 1 New York day, July 7 ——____ | when he was releaned to Kansas City | pion, STAR LEAGUE BATTING AVERAGKS Player ARK Mth. 88. Mh SH, 6B, TR. Leathe, Merehants ry ‘ahh eles eee a | Miller “DW ite 88 Re Bee MacDonald, Fremont Cyel 4.3 ee Phe ee eee W. Griffith, Washington. ¥ Siti s Oe ee. aoe Mert, Washington Park “OR Gis faa See aed Sap 0 Jarvis, Hillman Merchants i6 Sage Ee Qt y Willie, Weet & Whe te £8 Se a ent ae Went & Wheeler 4 a ee ia ae aed jLa Chance, West & Wheeler ODE? 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In the four games he played) 233 !in Miller drove out 10 safe hits in F #07116 trips to the p doo | Of .635 200 /the rest were singles | MacDonald, Fremont outfielder, @ Will Griffiths, Washington ¢ | shortstop, hitting at a 571 gait ferent games. | went Wh Don pitcher, to ler Burke, Burke West | player in the finals |home runs. to make ay two. FIELD WORK sssscs Kansas | City Hurler Passes 20th Year of Box Service IWENTY years in baseball That's effectiveness over such a the record of Leon Ames. , period. He does not use much en Ames, who ix with the Kansas! ergy City Blues, admits that 36 summers} The anclent and honorable Leon have passed since b Afhes hax had « Hurling for Ion in the New York | State league in 1903, by the New ¥ first saw light. | is an inhabitant of Warren, O., colorful career, he is not playing ball. he was bought | during the off-season. Mathewson, “Iron Man" Joe Me-| hunting trips. Ginnity and Hooks Wiltse were do-| é , WINNER IN Standing characters in the national | game who were with the Glants ait the time were Roger Bresnahan, Dan | McGann, Moose McCormick and Mike. Donlin, The veteran was with the ‘apt WIMBLEDO! in 1905 when Christy Mathewson Suzanne Lenglen won shut out the Philadelphia Americans | tennis match at in three gemen to win the world's defeating Mrs. championship for his mates. Ames| A. B, Graven, remained with the team until 19 Rhodes schlar when he was «hifted to Cincim 1. | Oxford university He was sent to St he stayed with the Cards until 1920, Une , £0, 60. Geraid Patterson, Autralian in the next rounsl long when He ts a ma chinist and often works at the trade He loves to rk Giants and came! hunt and reaps the benefit of the ate the} to the club as a youth when Christy | great outdoors on winter days with . England, June 28. her first | Wimbledon today, ; of San Francisco, a and captain of the! team, defeated A. | Louts in 1915, and C. Watson In four sets and will meet cham: WINS MEETS | field event men. | scores of California in these meets jally been in field events. and has scored a points. total of LE BALL FANS WILL BE WATCHING KAMM AND O'CONNELL RALPH MILLER ANNEXES THE STAR JUNIOR BATTING LEADERSHI Makes 10 ~ “| Safe Hits! a1 Brother catcher, goes the hitting honorsy The slugging honors of the league @ doubled | thrice, tripled once and was the only § two | No player made more than one sacrifice hit, while Att Butler of | They will be published within a day Gj in the last ten years shows that Call- fornia’s strength really has gener: California has competed six times in this meet in the last ten years 136% Of thesé the track events have netted 38 points, whereas the field events have netted almost three | Only | in the meets of 1920, when Califor.” times as many, or 981% points. nia placed fifth, and 1921, when won, have the track men outscored | the 1920 track men’ [netting 11 points to 744, and last | year the track men netted 17 to 10% In the meet this heay- | the’ field men, by the field men. year the field men were the it fext scorers, and the track men net- of 40% points by Calffornia. ted only three points out of a total With Stanford, on the other hand, | though it has competed only four ” j times since 1913, the track men have | done the most scoring. In these four Even in the closing years of his major leagu stay, while he was | sets. s for third in 1916, placed sixth In with the Cards, be turned in some| America scored its first victory | 1920, fifth in 1921, and, third this wonderful exhibitions. when Mies Elizabeth Ryan, Califor-| year, for « total of 78% points, o¢ Ames has a free delivery, which | nia star, survived the first round by} which 49 were scored in the track has helped him in maintaining his fd ting Miss Head, 6-3, 6-0 events and 29% in the field events, Cri GAR Mild as a May Morning — and = ie five beautiful sizes of Mozart is an uncommonly mild cigar of Havana fra- grance. Look them over and select the size that suits you Seattle Worn, A promise of pleasant ours A AAAAACAARAAAAN EAA EERE RARER A rare tobacco treat site © Beautifully Propor- tioned—fine and mellow oh ANAAYLAXARARLARAVAARA RRR RLERALERERERLALERL EE | Three Brothers Catcher” in} ¢ for an average | He made one home run and Two were tled for runner-up, Allan | nd Park Mace | »| Donald made four hits twice in diff™ | West & Wheeler's led the base steal- i ; ers with five thefts, ~| The freiding averages and pitching t|marks haven't been finished yet, % FOR BEARS | ‘CH has been written on the fact © that the University of Califor- nia track team won the intercoilegi- | ate track and field championships | this year on the superiority of its The same has been | said of practically every eastern in- tercollegiate meet in which Califor- nia has competed. Analysis of the Drugnon eliminated Alonzo In tour | meets Stanford tied with California % Do oo geet wee Ee os a3 33 or geo 399 9 > S 5p P B Ge n s ce 3 v

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