The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 4, 1922, Page 17

pray, AUGUST 4, 1922. VERNON TIGERS PLAYING SPLENDID BASE ‘Migers Must Keep Step With Seal } Club; Visitors Play Super-Ball Another Close-Game From Seattle in Pitchers’ Duel Between Bill and Vean Gregg, by 2 to 1 Tally; Seattle Makes Another Thrilling Ninth- Stand, but Can’t Deliver Punch; Other Gossip and News of Big Series ; ae BY LEO H, LASSEN 7 EALIZING that they must keep step with the San Francisco Seals, the Ver- non Tigers are playing super-baseball in their series with Seattle this week. At least they have dished up a great brand of the national nuisance in| the two games checked in so far. | With Big Bill James and Vean Gregg hurling big league baseball Thurs- day, the Tigers broke thru in the ninth inning and copped another one-run verdict, the final tally being 2 to 1. S Seattle jumped into the lead yesterday, but after they had scored one run} P\g,| the scoring ceased. Barney singled, Eldred bunted him up a station and| 7En} Wisterzil brought him over with a single. 4 A Bill Essick’s club evened up the count in the seventh inning when Ray & French was safe on Sammy Crane’s high heave to first. Murphy bunted =~ him along and French went to third on Crane's wonderful stop of James’; drive over second. Crane flagged the pitcher with a great throw. But the ¢ Chester Chadbourne doubled to right and over came French. scored what proved to be the winning tally in the ninth. He opened with a single and Murphy again bunted him along. James combed a single across the key- sk and the winning marker was over, i showed fight in their half of the frame when French bobbled two chances away, putting Crane on second and Pinchhitter Schorr on first. Cueto ran and Hood was sent |. = P pated Sritcoi| Star Swim Entry Blank up on a) Tama moved But Hood fouled’ and it was all) | | — Fegular member of the A. A. U. and wish to enter the eveots in The Star swimming meet marked with X; MEN'S EVENTS Juntors and Nevices— (Under 14 years old) orang free atyle. is using a triple mi) pitchers he uses | ‘on first base, Chicken | field and Hughie | } jeft. Against left-handed | er pa Rad n can use Pete Schneider | beck stroke. breast stroke, diving, 19.foot board. WOMEN’S EVENTS dnviors and Neviews— (i under 14 years ol4) In the outfield, and | and James, the only two | Phitters on the club, be-| was heaving for Seattle, two tallies that won rd free style. rd breast stroke, ¥ bact: Oke igh diving, Mile marathon. rd free style ~ race, | : | } rot yore breast stroke. Fancy diving, 10-foot board Entries Close August 8 { seeeenee SO ROP DOr nen eee eeeneenereeenes | } (Phone) Outfielders Must Shift for Each Player in Turn Such Is Biggest Advice Billy Lane Gives Seattle Play- ers in Telling Them How to Field; Catching Fly Balls and Judging Them Solely Matter of Practice | “CTUDY your batters and shift for each hitter. That's Billy Lane’s first tip to young outfielders in| telling them how to play the orchard. Played second base in| “Nearly every hitter cracks the agate consistently to the fame s far, the veteran, | same fields and their weaknesses are soon learned if you use elder, covering the second! your bean,” says the Seattle flychaser. Lane gives no particular advice as to how a ball should be caught, saying that the player should catch a ball naturally} and only practice can make him perfect in this respect. | Judgment in running for flies is also developed only by ex- perience and practice, says Lane. When playing in the sun field Lane uses smoked glasses. Some fielders depend upon their glove for protection against| the sun’s rays, but glasses are much more dependable. to the plate. He for two walks in four the game with a Schneider's drive to left-field bleachers. and bugle corps of the lean Veterans was on up the game “doing rer, the Vernon funny jgome of his tricks on the mening and got over big. It’ Ge rat time that he's really per. and the fans got a big of his line. ee rs “aout , the dean of Coast ‘chasers, is little less than ‘When it comes to hounding | He turned in two that were big fac- the game. h one away tn! hit a short fly but Chad got over in }ahare the pill. min the seventh. with two ‘was on second, and Jack a fly to the right field Chad pulled down the ball (In the third and last story in this series, Billy Lane will give young Seattle tossers a few pointers on how to run the bases.) around bouquets, Ed Barney. veteran is really play- Pall for the Redskins. He Seonsistent 300 hitter, and BY SEABURN BROWN FS yen LEONARD says the ambition of himself and his mother tn to see him retired as undefeated lightweight champion of the world. He had better hurry up. When a champion gets punched groggy as late ox [ f# pickin the eighth round of a championship battle and can't feaze his opponent, he Me? aed is up. should see the “beginning of the end,” as a famous bird once said when| twice, singled once. | making wise cracks about Napoleon's career shortly before Nap met] only run, stole two | wetlington. Pobbed Bodie of a hit by | the pill right off the right-| It is doubtful if Leonard will fight Lew Tendler again, unless in a short | battle on a no-decision basis. The champion evidently was no sap when he dodged the Philadelphia southpaw for so many years. | : 2 —— ANE COVERS mor Crane showed the boys and & shortstop should cover | Met He made & marvelous one. Mop, back-handed, with his The Seattle boxing commission could do the local game some good by! more strict regulation of weight. Some of the boys who box at the| Arena as welters would have to train’ down to get on as middies in some cities. ; £6 ot Lockers ‘Travie Davia i again putting Everett on the map as a producer of FM tart, but dian rave eet | something other than high achool football teams in the athletic line. A j & chance | tow months ago he was spoken of as a boy who “used to be good.” Ho's . His Pe oe in the | redeemed himself since his return from Cullfornia. wd - the big pitcher, was one efpiat sensational plays of the : Whe could only hit consiatent- Mewould never be in this lodp, His willingness to cut loone and fight puts Davis over with the fann,| When he doesn't show well it is usually because he ta tied up with some infighting shark such as Bobby Harper or Jimmy Sacco. There isn't al welter on the Coast who can stand toe to toe with Davis and outfight him Austin & Salt will put on the next Arena smoker on August 2%. Just | now, with the heavyweight and middleweight classes practically defunct in BEB James ie one of the mont | thin section of the globe, and good lightweights anything but numerous, in the league right | another welter title battle between Travie Davis and Oakland Jimmy | 4M spite of hin wildness he | Duffy (Hymle Gold) would sell the little pasteboards ad seven 1 ve - ait wd pick “ne eee a | Dutty's rapler-tke left hand would probably give him an edge on pbints, i DOWN. Hin wildnens sakes (@8 It id in their bout here In which the title changed hands. Still, Davis | because when he |i* the harder hitter, and Duffy is certainly not a glutton for punishment, | the ball over las was demonstrated on his brief Eastern tour. The winner would have} the hitters | IntoAt with the same con- is be named after the fight. | Bo 80 seninnt other men 7% —— a Lew Tendler’s seven-round knockout of Duffy was somewhat cloudy, as Grant | Dufty’s claim that the left-hand sock that put him out was foul was never the only president who | definitely cleared up. But, Bobby Barrett, who isn't even a near-champlon er of West Point Mili-| had the Oaklander languishing on the rosin In four rounds, with nothing and none have been | fluky about the affair, | from Apnapotin | reve | — | Floyd Fitzsimmons ix burdening the mails with publicity matter on the | Ind, | a “i | Benny Leonard-Ever Hammer lightweight title go at Michigan City, |tomorrow. The fight needs it. Leonard must feel delighted that he is | going ‘on with the Scandinavian siugger instead of Lew Tendler or Charley ‘White. | a |\WE’RE SURE BEN MYERS TOSSES | BEAT LEW NOW! WALT MILLER | James J. Corbett, as per usual, dif.) 108 ANGE Aug. 4.—Johnny Myers last night bolstered his claim | 6 in pick jtered with everybody else in picking |i. much.disputed world's middle yg MS ithe winner of the Leonard-Tendler | weight wrestling championship by Served seats tor atur. fight. Corbett never has picked ®/ downing Walter Miller, local claim Somes now sell . , ht 4d now it|ant, The only fall from eateh Arends Building, Bitott winner before @ fight, an: came after one hour and 40 minutes of vigorous contortions seems that he can't see straight | lafter one is over! | who swam acrows Elliott b | vor on the beaches. }15 years old figured they didn’t have| | expected 60-yard dash for all youngsters under | THE SEATTLE STAR Star Mile Swimmer Is Listed Nick Zanidis, Conqueror of Elliott Bay, to Swim in Star Meet ACK WAY wants to be In tip-top The Star the Lake shape when he enters mile Washington canal August 19 That's the warning handed out by Walter Roseburg, swimming instrue tor at Mt. Baker. For the past week or so Roseburg Nick Zanidis, a fellow y in 1914 Baker, and i water marathon swim in reports that is in training at Mt showing great form in the “I never saw a longer-winded tel. tow in my life,” says the enthustantio Walter, “and you can take my word for it that there will be a real race if he shows the sume class in the race that he does in training Entries for the mile #wim are rath or slow in arriving at The Star. They must nll be on hand by Tuesday night at 6 o'clock NEW EVENTS MEET WITH FAVOR The two new events added to The Star program have ‘The boys 14 and chance with fellows two years A wo they haven't entered as So there will be a special 16. They should fil) in this event in writing on the blanks before turning them in. The other event-—the 200-yard re. lay race for boys under 16 attracting a lot of interest. Louls Pitwood says that a Seward team will be entered while Mt. Baker, Ma drona and two Green Lake teame are to compete. BIG MERT AT VICTORIA A big meet will be held at Victoria temorrow when the annual outdoor P, N. A. championships are to be held tn the Island city. The Crystal Pool swimming team ia expected to| clean up again. PICTURE SCHEDULE The Star camera man tx to snap the ¥. W. C. A. awimmors entered in The Star meet Saturday at 10 4. m, at the “Y.” Monday Loule Pitwood's Seward bunch will be enapped at 1! Pp m. and a trip will be made to Mt Raker for more pictures there at 2| pm LE OM American Checker Champion Hailing From Cedar Point Newell W. Banks Walker Gains On Homer Leaders; Bangs Out 25th YESTERDAY HOME KUN HITTERS Walker, Athletics, 1; total, 26 Heilman, Tigers, 1; total, 17. Spenker, Cleveland, 1; total, & enline, Phils, 1; total, ung, Giants, 1; total Jacobson, Browns, 2; total, ngel, Giants, 1; totdl, 6 ling, Browns, 1; total, 4 Mogridge, Senators, 1; tote with big fa | is also! pails Ever Hammer, Who Will Battle With Leonard Saturday a | | | dake May or Jease Doyle were slated to work for Vernon this after- noon, with Stubby Mack, Rimer ; er and Hunky Schorr 4 to hener Billy Rollie Heider te playing @ pretty good fame of ball st second for Vernon, but ent haywire temporartly between the We yesterday when be tried to steal i base with V « 9 Om the piten! | opi Pete Schneider had « terrible time trying to hit Gregg yesterday, fan- ning Usrice. Althe he makes bie share of the boots, French continues te play geod base i} at short for the Tigers. Under Bill ek French developed rapidly Ed Baroey Priled » delayed steak fim the sixth w ith Lane om third, Murphy's high foul early In the game On hie next two tripe Murphy wae called }te bunt bis man slong and he French scoring after both sncrifice ‘One Champ ‘Who Seeks Opponents \Newell Banks, Checker King, Always Ready for Matches Co POINT, ©, Aug. 4 |\/ There's one American champion whd doesn't require prodding from a commission to induce him to defend his title, Hel stake ft anywhere, time, against anybody who ts | } any worth Tr of a chance. champ ta BALL is holding te Jack Adama made a pretty cateh of aid. Hammer Earned Chance Chicago Lightie Licks Mitchell and White Be- | fore Leonard Bout ICHIGAN Ind, Aug. 4 Doing the unex. | pected gave Ev: | er Hammer, Chi cago light weight, a whack at Benny Leon: | ard’s orown when Benjamin | ‘wasn't even con. | sidering outside | Tendler Hammer gets Leonard in a 10-/ round, nodecision contest at Mich! fan City, Ind, on August 6, making | the champion’s fourth battle tn 49 | dayn He hammered out a victory over Richie Mitchell at Milwaukee. Richie | spent most of his evening on the padded carpet Then Hammer hooked his star! onto White's wagon for a match at | Aurora, Ill, White took the bout | lightly, boxing Johnny Dundes and | winning decisively four days previ- | pusly, Instead of finding Hammer | the ghost of what he once was, he | found the Viking battler more fero: clous than a young wildcat. tae Hammer crossed the dope. He matched the famous Charley White | left hook with another just aa dan. | eerous, In the ninth round he clipped Charley on the button Charley dropped. He was up before the referee could start counting, but | | there was a sag in big trim lege | | White stumbled and wax almost on j the canvas a second time before ek-day crowds of | Deine able to hang ©n and weather the round in a elineh, ‘That knockdown gave the bristling | blonde the newspaper decision. CHAMP’S EYE IS HANDICAP i ICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Aug. 4.— Ever lenger, and Hammer, Chicago chal-| Benny Leonard, light | ht champion, were all set today for the gong which will start their) 10-round championship tomorrow. Hammer finished off his training | with seven hard rounds against his sparring partners. Leonard is taking It easy. Because | fot a bruised right eye Henny is do | ing no boxing. He put on the last touches with a fivemile hike along |the country roads and some fancy shadow boxing 'SEARS-ROEBUCK VS. B. F. DAY) | The Sears-Roebuck indoor baseball |team hax accepted the challenge of | the B. F. Day club to a two-game) series, both game of which will be! | played at the Day grounds, The first | game will be played at 6 p. m. Mon- jday and the second some time later next week, ‘FAVORITES TO PLAY FOR CUP SEABRIGHT, Aug. 4,— Richard! Norris Williams and William John ston are to fight it out for the Sea. | bright honors tn the men's/ |ningles, Williams eliminating Francia | tennis well W. Ranks, of Hunter yesterday and Johnston elim!- | Detre Checkers fa his game. He (Mating Robert Kinsey will be here August > 12, for the | Mrs. Mallory will tangle with Les-/ checker tourney, whic one of the |e Bancroft for the women's title, | annua atures in the Cedar Point | 3 summer colon Alfred Jordan, for mer champ, may be here, too. Ranks has held the title since 191% He last winter for the w hip by Robert stew t h town of GI Stewart won tw Lye, of the City club, Cleve. j r the auspices of which will arrange a title |match with Banks for anyone whe ean show himself to be in the cham plonship clase, Ranks plays only for purses, aw he strongly disap. proves of side-betting and Its attend: | ant evil YANKEES HAVE INDIANS’ GOAT JESS’ NOODLE ISN’T TOO FAT Jess Willard says he wants a long jtraining period before fighting Jack Dempsey again, and puts the earliest date in October, Funny that Jeas| never thinks of taking on a few soft ones first to get into trim. Harry Wills or Billy Miske might accommo. date the big boy—and might kill the gold mine that fight’ll prove to be he Cleveland 4 cans, " ie Mand Americans, who ar Yesterday's hero—McMillan, Yank aoing good at this period of the sum-| peokie, hit_a double on a pinch in fter & poor start, seem to be! the tenth inning drove in the champions until they stack up| Tem thet beat the Indiana, 10 to 9, against the Yankees, ugsins’ @ i coompnghige Ag Ph lonp BANK) Young and Stengel hit homers that j#eems to have the rabbit's foot work: | neiped the Giants bent the Cubs, 8 to 0, ing whenever Coveleskie, Bagby, |atter they had lost five straight Mails, Morton or Unie is pitching to — ‘them. BASEBALL BONERS No. 1—-Bancroft nearly joins select class. \| AV ANCROPF'T, brilliant short- stop of the New York Giants, is rated as m smart ball players Hughey Jennings, now acting as Aasintant to John MeGraw in direct ing the neroft is that the brains of the New York club Only recently, in a game in the National league, Bancroft puled a play that might have given him high rating in the list of “bones,” had not the umpire come to hig assistance With a runner on third base,.Ban croft lifted # fly hall to the outfield It was # hard-hit ball and the fielder | was compelled to go deep to make the play It so happened that the runner on third was a very fast man, also that the fielder making the catch had a rather poor throwing arm, These two things tended to save the day for Bancroft The runner on third held his base until the fly was caught, The mo ment it struck the hands of the field. er he dashed for the plate, | The fielder realizing that the was with he weak arm, too deep to have any chance of cutting the run ner down at the plate, returned the ball leisurely to the Infield Bancroft, playing proper baseball, had run out his hit to the limit and was between first and second when lay came back into the infield Banny couldn't resist the temptation to field the ball and toss it to some other player of the team in the field The team in the field contended that in fielding the ball, Rancroft had killed a chance for a play at the plate, and for such interference the runner who had scored should be de: 1 out The umpire at the plate, ruled that the the r olar however, man had croesed the plate before Bancroft even touched the ball, nd that the act of the New York shortstop in no way prevented 1 play, since was no play pos sible... It was a close call for the (brainy Bancroft, there The Tigers beat the Red Sox in a dou- header, 7 to 0 and 7 to 4. Pillette lowed only two hite th the firet and |Hetiman hit hie 17th homer In tho see- ond Raby Doll Jacobson hit two homers | and helped the Browns trounce the Athiction, 9 to 9 clout cored the only 4 the Cards won from Hentine's four rum off Haine the Phils, 7 t 1 | Rurletah Grimes tet with four hits, |to 0 the Reds down and the Robins won, 4 Glamer allowed only four hits drove in two runs, the Pirates winning from the Braves, 5 to 1. Mogridge let the White Sox have only four hite and hit @ homer, Washington | winning, 2 to 0. | . |Telephone Chief Is Visitor in City N. T. Guernsey, vice president of the Bell Telephone System, who ia in | Seattle today on his way to a meet- jing of the American Bar association at San Franch spoke before a cathering of the local branch em- | ployes at 1 o'clock in the afternoon He commented upon the efficiency of the & ttle organization and ex- sed satisfaction with the way they are “keeping abreast of the rapid strides Seattle organiagtions' are making in all lines, IN TRAINING fummary 1, Ji rou Shea and Yo The score At Cole The score Balt Lal At Le Bat Boston At Chicago Patter Biankenship, First game— Boston At Detroit Rattorion Piette Detroit Batteries The score— New York . At Clew Hatter! and The score Chie At or Cincinnati At Brookiyn Batteries owdy 10 rounds night — ‘The seore— n, Ovschger, The Fi THE wconr uble plays Zolder Hie, Philadeiphia ..., 4 Pletntet; Nod, atk, Yaryan. nH EB seven ae 8 8 ee Plerey, Milliken and Wal and Woodal, ne RK HH EB s ie are el ee ee 5 na Mitze nd Kiltett, Seattle Au. KOM, BH Lane, It 29 6 CITY, |® Adame, ab 266 aney, rf ‘. & Eldred, ef i Bee Wisteratl, 8b a0 2 tumpt, ib s 0 6 Crane, 46 4 J. Adama, 70 6 ay ae ey Bee | Oe Se oo 6 Totats Te Vernon ABR Chaar o4 48 Amith, eo < 7 0 0 ies 40 6 French + ee a Murphy, ¢ 16 6 James, p eae, i for Adams iv ninth ed for Gregg in ninth for Be ninth Seore by inn Ver nit Beart Hite Murphy Locker Locker to French. ‘oman to nr PACIVIC COAST LEAOUB Won, Loat fan Francisco 7 4 Vernon 10 bo Low Angeles ant) Belt Lake “1 660 Oakland 0 68 Honttio {ee Portiana 6 oot Bacramento o H. 3 12 and Cook, Sehang IN FIGHT FOR Sety Pet Car Russell, Karr and Ruel Oldham, EBhmke and Manton, R 19 ’ Mays, Hoyt, Mails, Lindsay, Sewell and Rixey, Gilles Grimes and Miller McNamara and 1s 16 rR HK. EB ae @ Hots Big ie and Wingo H. 1 ‘ Wat- ei, The score— R Pittabore Es At Boston 1 Batteries: Glasner and Mattox: oO SACCO BOXES TONIGHT dimmy Sacco will box Jack Josepha 2 Shawkey and Edwards Pet 602 698 < . | family, who go 1 and gr zB. ° ‘ in Vancouver, B. C, to- PAGE 17 FLAG Football — Bugs Are Buzzing Gridiron Fans Are Doping Out Washington For- ward Line for Season HE football bug ts buzzing early this year Already Wash- ington’s line from tackle to tackle is being doped out by gridiron fans to look something like this: Ingram and Grim, tackles. Bryan an@ Kuhn, guards, Walters, center. Ingram, captain-elect, is the only regular man from the 1921 forwards conceded a cinch for a position. Grimm, who played tackle as well for Washington a few seasons ago an the position has ever been played, returns for his last fling at the pig- skin game. Bryan didn't turn out last year be cause of an injured knee which he was afraid would keep him out of basketball—his specialty. Kuhn and Walters are frosh grad- uates, both starring on the crack trosh team last year. Coach Bagshaw is still looking for his assistant coaches First conference practice will start September 16, FITTERY HAS PERFECTED A REAL DEFENSE EARLY eéVery pitcher in the business of baseball has some weakness In covering up his inten. tion as to whether he will pitch to the plate or hurl to the bases with runners on the bags. But Paul Fittery, the Sacramento southpaw, is said to be the perfect pitcher in this respect. Baserunners |in the Coast league are a smart lot, but they are unanimous in saying that Fittery has no weakness. Lefty Thomas, the Los Angeles sidewheeler, is another hard man to outsmart. Both of these pitchers, being south- paws, have the advantage over the righthanded flingers with men on first base because they don’t have to turn around to throw. BALL CLUB BUILT OF BROTHERS ATSONVILLE, Cal., Aug. 4— ‘The Skillicorn baseball team, of this city, is all in the family, “Pop” Skillicorn raised these nine brothers on the bat, as it were. A baseball fan of many years’ standing, | “Pop” decided that it was not mere accident that Fate had decreed him nine boys. It's said to be the only lall-brother team in the West. And | they're all grown up, except-Elmer, | 11, who plays right field. When in a | few years, he's old enought to be a real figure, the Skillicorn brothers | will be a combination hard. to beat. | The team consists of William, 33; | George, 30; Charles, 29; James, 26; lArchie, 24; Eddie, 20; Kenenth, 18; | Amos, 17, and Harry, 11. | Also, there are four girls In the ng as rocters, DON’T BROWNS NEED WINS NOW? | Just when the St. Louis manage- |ment had a good alibt framed to ex- ‘Ainamith, | plain Ken Williams’ home-run slump jhe recovered his eye and now is | pasting the ball out of all the lots th the league. Wiillams began to hit |wingles in order to help the club win ball games, the report said. 'FREEMAN NOW IN THREE-I Buck Freeman, the young right- |nander, who started with the Port- land Beavers this spring, has caught on with the Decatur team in the Three I league. He was shipped to Portiand on Tom Turner's recom- mendation by the Philly Athletics, Another 150-pair shipment of these or Light-weight Work Shoes on sale, SPECIAL, Saturday only, pair Men’s sizes 6 to 10 ideal Hiking $1.95 | € ¢ ] ? | PE aE xe eT eae