The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1922, Page 9

RSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1 922. Salt Lake First Sacker Pounding Ball at Terrific Clip Recently Former Seattle Tosser, Filling inat ors; Brick Eldred Is Leading Seattle Bin; First Base, Is Also Tied for Home Hun Hon- glers With the Nifty Average of .350; se Thieves; Lane Gains on Leaders in This Line ~ Cooper Is Still Leading B wD Salt Lake firs: cific Coast league. The latest averages include Sunday's games. Not only is also hammering it all over the various other lots in this loop. | And to think that Strand belonged to Seattle in 1920 and released him to Salt Lake outr Strand is fi accuses him of being a rival of George Sisler as a fielder, nevertheless |* he’s getting by and his hitting makes up for fielding deficiencies. Strand dese: pitcher some time ago and took up outfielding. He was as awkward as a hick in a Mack Sennett comedy trying to catch fly balls, but he kept on trying. He is pe. J! needs more men of type. FAST For MAN Bodie, the veteran Italian , made his first bow before | ie fans yesterday and made a fair Impression. Bole is far thru as a pastimer as some said. He can amble over the for s man of his weight and sa mean cut at the ball. He twice yeaterfay, but man-| to drive out one single that sent a tally, With High, Chad- ne, Bodie, Hawks and Schneider RIGHT, N, J. Aug. 3.—-Fur- | present net season, York, eliminated | Patterson, of Australia, in the 62, 63. | Hur’ ely dazzled the Aus | tralian with his speed and the force Of bis drives. Patterson's Australian mate, James | nderson,. bowed to the California | “William M. Johnston, 62, 1-6, @ hard-fought match. Anderson | ‘Fallied in the second set, but couldn't keep up the pace. R. Norris Williams defeated Go- | | bart, 17-15, 63, and Howard Kinsey, | 26, 64, 69. t .. Molla Mallory and May Sutton “Bundy moved into the sem! finals by wins. y Other favorites won in both dou- and singles. ANDELL MAY FIGHT LYNCH my Mandell of Chicago is being | d to start a campaign for the} tamweight championship. Man-| with the veteran Joe Burman. above the rather medicore field | contenders for Joe Lynch's laurel} ih. Mandeli bas beaten Pal} that stamps him as & ier. A ee | MARTIN NEARLY FLOPS | NEW YORK, Aug. 2 Pepper | Martin, New York featherweight, | @en « iZround decision from Kid} Bellivan. Martin was on the floor} twice and Sullivan was saved by the Thousands and trainers have found that a Lifebuoy bath—with the big lather thoroughly ASSAGING the stitched apricot for a mark of .408, Paul Strand, the husky | | Keity t sacker, is leading the parade among the hitters in the Pa- Strand bruising the pill in the Salt Lake cheese box, but he is| ight must almost make Seattle fans weep and moan. lling in at first base acceptably for the Bees. Altho no one rves a world of credit for his success. He burned out as a| now taking up first sack work and getting away with it in BY SEABURN BROWN This ta@ Dode Rercott has sinew and toughness of Jaw to become con siderable of a boxfighter if he gathers the necessary experience before) he is overmatched and ts ruined by « few sleep wallops. He stood up| nome wicked jolts in his go last night with Art Sorrento and earned a draw thru his stamina, With more knowledge of the game he should| soon be out of the curtain-raiser clasi Some of last night's refereeing was excructating In tt» crudeneas, After! | ripping thru three rounds on fairly even terms with Sailor Harry Fox, Ernie Daley popped the sailor on the button in the final canto and dropped him to the canvas three times, Fox's gameness enabled him to totter to his corner when the bell brought relief, but he was a badly beaten boy and practically out on his feet. Ad Schacht, who was calling ‘em, saw it! as a draw! 1 Robby Grey hit Roy McCasstin with everything but Nate Druxinman's cane in the fourround semiwindup. In the first three rounds Gyey hit the Boy about $7 times on the potnt of the chin, using his left hand when tHe staTTLe STAR AUL STRAND IS LEADING COAST HITTERS BATTING AVERAGES oO An FR, BY. 98 on, ’ ‘ i Bateman and Team i n. om, OD. FF Strand, Salt Lake « Sa a | 5 1 1 « 4 « Agnew Kldred, seat Wan Franc Brasti, Portiand Rigiln, Balt Lake Deal, Les A ” Moliwits « Lafayette, Oukland ... Kopp, Becramente , Wilhalt, Salt Lake Hohaelder eltbrr, Sea! Compton, Wistereil, & Mood, Seatt Miah, Portland , Baroey, Seattle Hyatt, V MeGabe, Los Angeles 4 it. Miller, Han Franctece ... Jenks Bohinkle, ee et erent ete et et Onkiand |. Toe Angeles... Oakland ...... Locker, Vernon «.-sss 5. Adame, Beattie .... nem jarriot, Oakland Crane, Beattie Hyler, Salt Lake . French, Vernon * 84. Zee his right grew tired. In the final period McCanalin rallied and made fairly interesting finieh, altho Grey was atill beating a cantata on his iron jaw. Schacht decided that this, too, was a draw, Pat Williams earned a draw in his return go with Sailor Kid Silv thru his aggressiveness, It looked in the third round like Pat was on bis way out when Silver connected with his right cros and set him on hie haunches, but the rangy Irishman weathered the storm. Pete Moe deliv ered the verdict. Soldieg Woods rid himself of the wildness he has cred up tince nia! last appearance here. Al Gower had the weight, the punch and the eye on Woods, but couldn't do much with the rabid Soldier. Bobby Grey, by the way, looks about ready for a whirl at the matn-event game. He has the wallop, the ringcraft and usex his head for something else than « hatrack. Me appears to be a bit bulky for a welterweight,| however. Many of the customers were dineatintied with the way the matneventers jousted, but with both men trying to win with differedt styles, Davis wanting to stand off and bex and Sacco bending every effort to Infight, the ttit couldn't show as much action as if both fighters tried the same atyle Draws in All Bouts at Arena Davis and Sacco Put on Ken Williams Hits Another Home Run Passes R. Hornsby YESTERDAY'S HOME-RUN HITTERS Ken Williams, Browns, 1 Bing Miller, Athletics, 1 Bob Meusel, Yanks, 1-—10. Hauser, Athletics, 1—5. MoGowan, Athletics, 1—1, Mokan, Phillies, 1—~1. T. 18. | ber in Main Event Hornsby, Cardinal Walker, Athletics, 24. Ruth, Yanks, 18. Cy Willams, Philites, 17. Hellman, Tigers, 16 Miller, Athletics, 15. ENGLISH LIKE WALTER HAGEN When in England, Walter Hagen | got more than a generous share of the newspaper columns, The winner of the British open golf championship was a good copy source for the Eng lish newspaper man. They even went 80 far as to comment on the psycho | logical effect of his clothes. BY LEO H. LASSEN N ONLY rounds of six stanzas Travie Da Jimmy Sacco open up and fight at the Arena last night. In fourth and sixth frames they actu ally fought, but in the other four rounds it was song and two their aid sand dance Saceo was giving away consider able weight, and is fighting again to morrow night in Vancouver, #0 he didn’t take any chances, while Davis found it exceedingly hard to hit the clever Italian. This was Sacco's third appearance Where, and he continued to show! Claas, a5 he is @ flashy worker. But| the fans should be given a chance to nee him fight lightweights, as be has taken on welters in every one of his starts and hasn't had @ real chance to open up. All of the bouts were called draws Jant night by Referees Ad Schacht and Pete Moe, Schacht pulled a Ben of athletes Song and Dance Num-!| rubbed in, has all the ad- vantages of a ‘rub-down. It wakes up the.skin. It makes the whole man glow with vigor and fitness, The big RED cake. Wake up your skin! Turpin tn one of ‘em, while Moe went cock-eyed In another, the others be: ing good draws. Bobby Gray shaded Boy McCaaslin in the semi-windup, both boys swing Ing freely Pat Williams tried hard enough go with Kid Silver, but Sfiver did }all the damaging punching with his right hand and deserved the verdict Moe played Santa Claus for Williams. Soldier Woods was in a classy wild mood last night and fought a tre mendous draw with Al Gower, Both boys mixed it freely, and the custom ers got a big boot put of the pro ceedings. For three rounds Harry Fox out |smarted Ernie Dailey, and then the latter copped the satlor on the hinge plece for three knockdowns and should have heen given the fight, but Schacht was burdened with too kind a heart when he handed out the de inion and called tt even Dode Bercott and Art opened the show with another 50 Sorento 50. BASEBALL PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE VERNON VS. SEATTLE Double-Header Sunday, 1:90 children (ander 12) selling for sate y and - day nt 3102 Arcade Bidg. Wi- i 2566, and forced most of the fighting in bis | eSiewn King Anfinesn, Halt Waleh, #an Fram r rs Brenton, Oakland “0am, Seattle Vortiand / etre. et re ie rr rs MeGaffigan, Hacramento Mtumpt, Seattio Tobin, Semite Henman, Ver Rirubaker, Oak! ‘ hebier, Onkiand . | | eereret reese +eesenhesenes | | Kearns, Halt Lake Dumovich, Loe Angeles . Lyons, Low Angeles Leverena, Portiand . | Light, eit Lake Cook, Fa eee eeeunes eet ia ween pesere PLAYERS BATTING TIPS theif you hit down the list you have |more of a chance to bat with the| firet bit of advice that | leaders: of the keenest-eyed| “Learn to bunt #0 you can croas| hitters in the Coast league, gives to} up the enemy, Keep ‘em guessing. | | young ball players. “And don't forget to run out “Don't try guess whether the every batted ball; you don't know! next pitch is a curve or « fast on when the opposition ts going to boot | Just go up to that| that old apple old platter and watch that pitcher| “Well, that’s about all I can tell like a hawk from the moment he|‘em about batting,” concludes Lane, lays his hands on the leather votil| “but Just impress upon the young it comes sailing over the plate. fellows that they shouldn't be over- “The minute you take your eye/anxious and practice never hurt off of that ball you're ruined anybody. If they watch these few | “Take a short stride, a long stride| pointers they should improve their/ throws you off balance and makes|hitting if they have any natural you @ succor for a curve ball. Ad+|ability at all.” just your swing to your strength. “If you're @ leadoff hitter you're in there to make the pitcher piteh and you're always trying to get on. ONT try outguens “ | That's th | Billy Lane to warns William (Tomorrow Billy Lane will give the young players a few tips about how to play the outfield) F rench Davis Cup Team Is Well-Balanced Trio BY BOB DORMAN EW YORK, Aug. 3.—The French Davis Cup team which N is to play the Australian team for the right to meet the American cup defenders form a well-balanced trio. Andre Gobert, one of its) The third member of the French | members, has had the Euro-/|trio is Henry Cochet, the 20 year-old | pean courts gasping with the! star, who was the sensation of the | brillianc y of his game. imeet at Wimbledon, Dean Mathey, | He is comparatively an unknown! the American tennis star who took | |player, but his of recent! part in the Wimbledon tournament, | months stamps him as a dangerous! way enthusiastic In his praise of} competitor. } } | ct Borotra,’ the second member Young Cochet on his return from | log the team, 1# a well-known figure |Europe, calling him the “Vincent } lon the European courts, | Richards of Europe.” Ho ts a streak He is supreme at tne net, volleying|on the courts, volleys well, and his) sharply and being a wizard at re-|back-court game possesses great | |turning overhead shots, One fault |jength and accuracy, | [that militates against his game ts| Tennis experts in this country foot | the slicing of his forehand and back-|that {f the Australians win the) hand shots. He is a Basque, and| match between the two countries tt | alw wears @ little, round, blue cap | will be because they played super. on the courts record { | WAKEFIELD’S BILLIARDS Twenty-six Bil Twenty Card Tables Six Barber Feu estaurant Joshua Green Bullding urth and Pike WE SELL BASEBALL TICKETS Stealing First Is Big Job Arnold Statz Finds It Can’t Be Done Against Major Infielders BY BILLY EVANS VEN the speed of @ reindeer can not change the course of na ture, Arnold Statz, the $50,000 prize of the Chicago Cubs, gave it a trial and discov- ered that it was not the advan- tage of four feet or more, the dit ference o° »wing- ing from the left wide of the plate and th right which created .200 batting av- erages in the National league, Statz came into the world a right- hander, Sle balanced the milk bottle during his tender years with his right mitt, therefore he laced the wlove on the left hand and batted from the right side when he entered his baseball career, Btatz wan first advised to bat left- handed by “Hed” Killifer, when with Los Angeles last year, and altho he beat out lots of hits and ranked as & 200 aticker when the year wag over, he lacked the power that he had had when he batted from the starboard aide of the plate. State was a speed demon. Enter. ing the National league this spring, | Arnold immediately was advised to continue hitting left-handed. TOOK WITH MARK PAGE 9 OF .408 MARK New Swim |Dame Fate . Events in | Hands Out Star Meet} Rude Jolt Boys Under 16 to Race 50 Indians Lose to Tigers, but ards and Relay Race} Come Within Ace of Is Carded Tying Game BRZCAUSE of the demand at the/ BY LEO H. LASSEN municipal beaches for an event — = Kh eight innings for junior boys between 14 and 16) Welser Dell years of age « 60-yard dash for boys turned back the under 16 has been added to The! Redskins in om Star's city ewimming meet program. | derly tashion Boys wishing to enter this event! Wednesday and should use the same entry blanks! when the Inst of |now in vogue, crossing out the 1%-| the ninth opane@) jyear clause and marking in “under the Vernon Tige 16 years.” ere were leading Requests for this event have come the parade 3 to 0, |from Green Lake, Madrona and Mt. Then Dame Fate Baker, gave the tribe a. Because of this addition at the touch of the last moment entries will not close bright lights only to slip a flock of until Tuesday night. ae banana peelings under the dasi A wpecial relay event for boys un-| Indians before the count could be der 16 yearns of age has been added | tied. # to The Star's finals program that) Billy Lane opened the ninth with — will be staged tn the Lake Washing-|a single and Spencer Adams hit into ton canal August 19. Mr, Baker,| double play, Dell to French to — Madrona and two Green Lake teams | Ifyatt. Barney walked, but nobody are expected to compete, got excited. Brick Bidred wi omnia the mightiest wallop of the day, & “Dad” Henry reports that @iving | home run drive that fell just facilities at the public beaches aren’t|the bleachers, It put Seattle in of the best at the present time,| same again. which fs handicapping them. Henry| Tex Wisterzil kept up the took a trip around the beaches the| work by singling, but Dum D other day and says that the spring-| Stumpf, who had a decided off-day, boards are in poor shape and only | forced the Texas person at the key. North Green Lake and Madrona| stone sack, Zeider to French, aod have real standard towers. “| was all over, — Four compulsory dives must be) TIGERS GET made by each contestant in The Star | ALLL BREAKS meet. They are; Running front,| The breaks in the luck deciée backward dive, running forward | Close games and the Tigers got jack-knife and back jack-knife, with | the breaks yesterday. *ix voluntary dives in addition to the}, Stumpf got gummed up on Cl THE TIP “You'll beat out every infield roller you bit," was the advice Arnold re ceived when he reported to the Cubs in the pring. ‘The rewult wag that Stats accepted the Up'and started out as « left-hand. ed swinger with Bill Killefer’s club whon the season opened, However, Stata soon discovered that it was tmponsible to steal first base, Likewise he saw Milton Stock, Rogers Hornsby, Rabbit Maranyilie, Pie" Traynor, Dave Bancroft, Frankie Frisch, Sammy Bohne, “Babe” Pinelll, Horace Ford, Tony Boeckel, Jimmy Jéhnston, Ivan Ol- son, Art Fletcher, “Goldie” Rapp ana other Nationa! league infielders re- tire him by many steps on his infield rollers. BATTING AVERAGE .216 Turning into the early days ef May, this human reindeer was drag- Sing his feet of apeed along the cir- cult with a batting average of 210. Outfielders belong to the fence busting brigade, and as Arnold is an outfielder, he moon realized that to retain his job, to live up to the repu. tation of @ $50,000 prize, he had to get an far an first base in one out of every three trips to the plate. Then and there Statz decided that speed ofthe reindeer could not ange the courne of nature, with the remult that he went back to naturi went back as a right-handed hitter. 19 CONSECUTIVE GAMES ‘What, was the result? The first day he started a batting streak which saw him hit safely in 19 consecutive games, Stopped by Hugh MoQuillan, of the Braves, for a single day, Statz put on another spurt which carried him thru 14 someon as a base-hit author. Statz now sticks to the right-hand ed style, and does not shift accord ing to the atyle of pitching, In the major circult there are batters who turn around with success, such as Max Carey, Dave Bancroft, Goldie Rapp. Pep Young, Lew Blue, Walter Holke, Frankie Frisch and others, but Arnold Stats now is willing to sacrifice that running advantage for the power which nature gave him. Billy Lane Day Celebrated at Park This P. M. Today was “Billy Lane” day at the Seattle ball park, with Lane, Seattle's star leftfielder, being the honored man of the day, Mayor Brown was to be master of ceremonies, while Howard W. Jones was the honor fan of the afternoon, The Vernon-Seattle game was to get under way at 245 p.m. as usual, th |bourne’s blow in the sixth and fi regulation list. ly decided to let Adams field it, When Adams reached the ball tossed to Stumpf, but Baltimore Bill missed the sack and the e Chadbourne was safe. High sacrificed and Smith flew Preliminaries in all events except the mile Marathon, in which more ‘than five entries are listed will be | staged at Madrona end Green Rake | beaches August 12. Two will qualify} rane, Pi t! for each event for the finals at the | gish ana oneness a ta Lake Washington canal the follow: | shortstop, scoring Chadbourne. ing week. made a great throw to the plate, a } the fleet Chad beat it tn. ze Fisety and Chet was safe. Once more the grounder and Smith ersed over. < Trouble in the eighth alse PACIFIC COAST LEAGUY Hughie member of the High That tells all about the rung tered around first base. Chadi a hit a roller to Stumpf and Gardner didn't cover in time. When he did | reach the bag Stumpf tossed high — family — Pet.|bunted him along. Smith kicked m _ n Francisee 23 | powerful grounder thru shortstop pore eeithg, ‘s27)#2a over came Chester, sae Seeee * fanned. but Stumpf booted Hyatt’s _ o Vertiand Sacramento ‘The ecore— Sacramento STARS : maak re dene a drab of g@ © game G eld yesterday, making | 4,l0t of nice catches and throws, His stab of Dell's liner with a runner at o}the look-in station with two away i] was little jess than robbery, Billy algo contributed a hit. ¢| DELL NEAR NO-HIT ?|GAME WEDNESDAY For stx innings Dell turned back the hum town taleat with nary a bingle. The veteran righthander wag bearing down and he had the Seattle _ stickers at his mercy. Ed Barney” went a lazy single to right to break a3{the Ice in the seventh. Crane con- 1@| tributed a single in the eighth and ;| three blows were chalked up in the ninth, jerlen: Coumbe and Agi The score— Or ee At Portiand .. 00. s.see06 ' Batteries: Kiley and Koehler, Miller Crumpler, Middleton and Eiliott. n a ia | At Los Angeles . PONS Myers and Anfisson; Lyot AMERICAN LEAGUE ‘Won, “4 oae8 ®.|GARDNER HAD {| PLENTY OF STUFF Harry Gardner had plenty of stuff. yesterday, fanning six. He would have won if he had been given any: ¢|>reaks at all, He was lifted in the eight to let Hunky Schorr hit for him and Stubby Mack pitched the final frame. r ‘ 4 0 Rommetl and nd Collins, Per- | New Tork jatc Ba SOME GOOFY BASEBALL The visitors nearly tallied in the first Inning when Eldred misjudged High's fly and it went for three % | bases. High could have scored if he hadn't turned around and watched the ball while rounding second. ‘Then he was caught off of third when Smith | missed a strike on the hit and ron +| play, but Tobin threw wildly and he was safe at third again. Smith hit to Wisterzil and after the throw to first High beat the throw from Stumpf, but missed the plate in alid- ing and was tagged out. ‘ New York |B. Louts Chteago Cinetnnatt | Pittebure | Mrookiyn Philadeip: hia. Boaton ......+. Bosh stopped the Indians with two hite—« single by "Wamby In ‘the ninth, and’ the vamby Yanks won, 5 to 1. TODAY 18 LANE DAY Ken Williame Dit his 28th homer, but the Athietice, with the help of homers by | Miller, Heuser and McGowan, beat the Lane was voted the honor of being the most valuable player tn the Coast league by Seattle fans in a recent balloting conducted by The Star. MALONE WALLOPS WALKER BOSTON, Aug. 3.—Jock Malone, St. Paul middleweight, won 10- round decision from Mickey Walker, Lilizabeth, let the White Sox ttered hits and the Walter Jonnsoi down with four Senatore won, ¢ an Infield out, and went 16 innings with the Phila, before darkness stopped the *, oT. Star Swim Entry Blank Tam @ regular member of the A. A. U. and wish to enter the events in The Star swimming meet marked with X: MEN'S EVENTS Juniors and Novices— (Under 14 years old) 50-yard free style. (Under 18 years old) 100-yard free style. 50-yaré back stroke. 50-yard breast stroke, Fancy diving, 10foot board. WOMEN’S EVENTS Senlors—- 100-yard free style, 100-yard breast stroke, 100-vyard back stroke, High diving. Mile marathon. 50-yard free style Novice race. 50-yard baci af diving, Mile marathon. 50-yard free style. troke. Novice race, 10.foot board Entries Close August & INAME) as eravecsnar es Demerreaeeeeer eres eDeUMpeeersrenseeeteeeaeeoes (ADAP CRE). 6. co cess ses memed dete ceseetereressecss (PROM. r..000 sees ees Today was to see Billy Lane the honored player of the afternoon and it will mark the resumption of ac- tivities between the Tigers and In- dians, Either Jake May or Bill James was due to pitch for Vernon, while Elmer Jacobs and Art Berger were both ready to hurl for the In- dians, ™ Lo momn nme S| wwwwavened +2 | wonwnomoo™ Seeoowed ae crew nneune ntl an leceecceruse% a! occosostvon® lecene wl ecorenocece"o! oseesccool Fl eotwenesosos hth, le 208 2 or in ele @ooee oe 1 Innings pitched—-By Gard- Charge defeat to Gardner. At bat Gardner 28. Hits batted—Oft Runs scored—Oft Gardner 4, Gardner }, Delt 2 . by Delt ner 8, ~oft | Garaner 7. Runa reaponsible for Struck oute=B: es on bale Home rum High. Sacrifice hite—High French, Runs batted in— Bod Hyatt. Double playe-——Wisterall t to French to Hyatt, Umpires—Carrell and Toman.