The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 9, 1922, Page 10

AUDREY GRIFFEN FILES FANS PREFER HOMERS TO SCIENTIFIC PLAY. Fissety COART Victorian — Ace Will Race Here : : ‘ So Claims Evans, Who Asserts That Slugging Game B. C. Girl Who Cleaned “Has Smashed All Attendance Records in Big Up P. N. A. Will Com-| Leagues; Some Gossip on Big Subject PActNic fan Francisco THe sCOnE swimming fans in Seattle will seo gome high-class competition. The entries are all in, but they} ‘won't be published until Thursday, ris Batted for Marriott in ninth. vy innings jon the art of base-running, one of the prettiest features of baseball? Do the fans prefer the slug ‘em out, home-run tactics) fas they must be segregated and filed. | rather than the old style game which called for much skill in | "*y; and this takes considerable time. | all departments of play? Manager Henry decided today that there will be no preliminaries tn any of the senior events, All junior tendance record at every park in the | #truex out Unquestionably most major league events in which more than five swim: | players are on a homerun jag. HMit-| American League cireult Hy pom ye Bed mera are entered will be held Satur-| ting home runs has become a mania Ability to hit heme rune haw en) ko uy day. Ability to hit home rune, to swat/abled Ruth to command the biggest) midrea, ¢ All swimmers living north of the Lake Washington canal must report @t North Green Lake bathing beach, atl p.m Saturday. All swimmers _ ving south of the cana! must report _ @t Madrona beach, at 3:30. SEATTLE NET PLAYERS WIN the ball higher and farther than any | salary ever paid 4 major league play | # other player in the history of the|er. By merely lending his name to mae an game, made Babe Ruth the baseball | various advertising schemes he has | yyy, Mot of the nation been able to make even more than Ruth because of his homerun | his baseball salary in side issues habit ie the biggest attraction m| No wonder all the other players baseball. ‘The New York club, as-/ began to take @ healthy cut at the/ sisted by Ruth, has broken the at.| ball, always shooting at home runs. | . . There ts no doubt but that the/ play fs « rarity. . By T can't remember home-run habit temporarily haa de-| seeing @ base runner pull 4 Gelnyed | | The eoore rh " . BIG MATCHES stroyed much of the aclence of the| steal. Trying to steal home, one of | Terme | | as game. Resorting to strategy to get| the most apectacular plays In base |“ i say and Hannah, Waibere a run over the plate is a rarity, One | ball, is passe COMA, Wash., Aug. 9—It_ took | "t mean much in the mod-| The ory of the home rune that ts/ Coleman and Elitott gs wads . ot ern game. A team must get them in| now being indulged in by both major | ,,7M* score . % bunches. leagues is not due to greater batting! 4: Los An : ‘ : skill on the part of the players. The ia big reason tn the baseball. It is nosed much better than the one used 10 oe or more ago that there is no room for comparison. ee the men, It must be the ball Players who five years ago were never regarded as homerun hitters are daily breaking Into print with the select list of the 10 leading home. - awin, The place hitter Is almoat extinct. Kune and Cook; Dumovien ‘The bunt is seldom used. The aacri- fice is not popular unless the game ts close. The hit and run ts the thing most of the time, The squeese It wouldn't be surprising if at least 10 players broke the record of 27 heme runs made by Ed Williamson in 1884. This record stood until 1919 when Ruth made 29. He has since AMERICAN LRAGUR oat Pee * oan 1 ‘The score n n n broken that mark twice. If it isn't run hitters, New York 1 ae At Detrott ERS He Wal teries Mars end Sebeng, Deuss Possibly the pitching of today in{takes, Playing them to the side 1) ana wassier. ™ poor polley, yet many an infielder’ ts using aafety-firet tactics the majors isn't what it was 10 years ago, yet the pitebing hasn't been so bad. No, you can’t blame the pitch-| Home-run hitting has cut down ing, so it must be the ball. base running to almost nothiug Infielders no longer play a ground | Why take a chance on stealing bases ball with the same sense of security, | when a player is liable to crack out & because of the false hops the ball home run @t any time? . . thrill producer because It ts the hardest thing to do from a batting standpoint. It calle for perfect timing and a healthy wallop. It is the last word in hitting. Home runs are becoming common. | Once they get too common the game Natteries: Zacha Pructt and Coitt The scare PRiladciphia At Chicage Ratteriee: Heimach aed Perkins orieon and Yaryan. Spokane won from St. L. K. Velrey H. W. Green of Vancouver, Cc. in another bitterly fought Vancouver players gave racquet wielders from scare of their lives. Bailey were to fight It McCollum and Gordon this for the right to meet the stars in tho finals for the doubles title and the right to repre- gent this district in national meet. Boys’ singles and junior singies be staged as today’s feature on courts, L. Brophy, of Spokan: Into the finale by smothering Knott, of Victoria, Tuesday. Langlie wielded his way to Rov. home-run hitting ts the fnet that the fans seem to like it, All attendance records have been amashed in the last three years. Habe Ruth and hie homerun making has been the big feature. The home run for the time being | has increased the thrills and the box | is going to suffer office receipts, The fans seem to be| However, for three years the fans strong for the era of swat that is|have shown a preference for swat now holding the boarda. over science. So naturally they are The home run has always been a! being fed on such a diet ———_$__ ARE GIANTS TRYING T0 TOSS — i : The sore : Jee Roste: ALO § § i " Rawar g § de and NATIONAL LEAGeS Won. Leet a « i Pet ‘ | Brooklyn Phitadeiphia Boston The score n 1 finals by a dazzling triumph Cincinnatt ” . Monday. Wednesday will decide At New York an champion, ag they will meet in open . competition. tad Pe came x ® ‘Marion of Seattle and Westerman 7 round | ar if GE Portland will fight it out today for] BY HENRY L. FARRELL — | Some of the stories going around | 4 sed ‘ante one are far-fetched, One of them being oo paased out now is that the Pirates | 1 . blew the pennant last year so that | py | the Giants could get into the big | Ps | money from an all-New York series, | tere and that a promise was made to al EW YORK, Aug. 9%—Rather strange movements have been made during the last week among the boys who wear the loud clothes and the big rocks. While most of the fans are picking the junior title, both reaching the finals. Westerman’s win over Beards. Vey Merrill, of Spokane, was a sur- Prise, while Marion's defeat of Sid Smith was looked for. Wallace Scott of Tacoma continued | . Bmith and Men r ®. e : 1 and Sehmidt; Win Morrien Smtth and Mentine ‘Dis triumphant tennis play, defeat: | ;, - " " ] " ’ New York or St, Louis to win the Nw | low the Pirates to have it this year ing E4 Murphy in straight sets, and) tional league pennant, many of the pA fr diets sd the Glanta Ue then eliminating D. M. Gordon from | poe! °F yp Bein h Bat | dig gamblers are taking the short | they jooked like a world-beater and arrel the singles event. Leon De Turenne ‘went into the semi-finals for the sin- “ gles championship by eliminating st. | ?!*Y 1" the world’s series. L. K. Verley. He meets Rogers Mc|_ Five days ago a tip sent out of Veagh today. He beat Verley 6-2 | Pittsburs into New York carried the 6-4, 6-1. “l information that the Pirates would No upsets in the first round of | W!D 15 straight games, take the lead jend that the Pittsburg Pirates will! tne cinay of the league, and they atill | }look good, They have been within | striking distance of the lead all sea. | M WINS fon, and they are still in a position | BIG CUP HEAT to atep out and win with a spurt The tipaters say that Pittaburg can | | BALBOA Harbor, Cal., Newport tinuing to win. The doubles will get| ready won 10 straight makes the under way Thursday. story interesting, to say the least. | gin to move amoothly this xeason un- | [til a new manager was on the job | yester ay 10% minutes ond, the Angela third and the Call fornia fourth, | No. 5—Batting out of turn ISTAKES due to batting out of order are always confusing. Asa rule, such plays are brought WANTED For Shops and Roundhouse RATES about thru carelessness. In the blame rests entirely with one or two players. Howe two of the most unusual batting-out-oforder playa in the majors, had two of the game's bright- jest managers aa the offenders tm most cases, | | | | | the St. Louis Cardinals, pulled fone of the stunts, while the great Jand only Tyrus Raymond Cobb was lr mnsible for the other | Rickey offended when he was lead Machinists Blacksmiths Bheet Metal Workers Electricians 10 per hour 20e per hour 70 per Hour r : jof the st ouls Browns in the Stationary Engi ‘arious rates American ue, In the regular Stationary Firemen. . te Various rates lineup of the Browns, Wallace had been hitting sixth and Austin elgbth. |In this game, which was played at | Washington, Rickey decided to shift Boilermakers Passenger Car Men.. Freight Car Men.. Helpers, all classes... 4++++ 200 to 70%e per hour 700 per hour .680 per hour Ale per hour sixth and Wallace to | dropping elahth Mechanics and helpers are allowed time and onehalf for time | Rickey #0 notified the umpires worked in excess of eight hours per day, jana gave them his official lineup. | But ho failed to tell the players of the change. For eight innings Wal- lace batted sixth and Austin eighth, altho the official batting order called for just the reverse In the ninth Inning, Rickey de cided to send a pinch hitter in for his catcher, who was batting seventh, Wallace led off with a double, Then Rickey sent in his pinch hitter, At this stage, John Henry, catching for APPLY ROOM 3028 ARCADE BUILDING SEATTLE THE SEATTLE STAR pete in Seattle : AM He MPO. A. BY BILLY EVANS sso eg 8 poole ampenaag vat rgd on > RE a majority of the major league players on SPAS ec 2g Tuesday for The Star's third ‘a home-run jag? |< RS tied LB e@nnua) swimming meet, the name of Has the era of swat which has enveloped | peer te Andrey Gritten, crack woman swim: the national pastime destroyed much of the |} abe ag mer of Victoria, B. C., was among} i science of the game? jst ; : s¢ ¢ 9 ° those registered. “Dad” Henry, | Is the orgy of home runs now going on in| gg glee bog say the major leagues due to greater bat skill 2 ee » ir aoe en ‘vienncin. oak weak te aI on the part of the players or a lively ball? _ an A e248 tend the P. N. A. outdoor champion: Is the incre: hitting due to an inferior | ) tian 88 ships, in which Miss Griffen was «| brand of pitching in both the American and | *" Fee Oe: ae big star. XS the National leagues? lOve, tb fet va oe He 4 en nae ane ta] Do the infielders play a ground ball with|Swmme gst $b 2 3 Star's mile Marathon, and as she is s : yas a 2 Adaane the tae rated the best long-distance cold-wa- | @ same sense 0! securl y ey once id y jaeten > ES ae is SR ae ter swimmer in the Northwest, the} What effect have the slugging tactics now so widely in use, pee . a ‘>| tal move, socording to Rule 12 + | plate. , | single, and over came Cooper. ‘o| With three runt Burger opened with the Pacific Northwest singlee for|'n the race and cinch the pennant by | cover up by blaming last year’s re. |AUs. 9—With Ted saat othe stel Men and women occurred during the | the middle of September. lverse on the management and by |'*F Ca ro pesge tage % rat te b pred completion of play, the favorites con-| The fact that the Pirates have al-| pointing out that the club didn't be ive . " 14 Coma age Bary ira! as 4 sherwood trophy: for poats here | /BASEBALL BONERS | hin batting order, sending Austin to | Howard Guesses } | Oaks Have Chance to Tie! | in Ninth, but Oak Pilot Is Outsmarted ) | BY LEO H, LASSEN N the battle of think tanks at the Beattie baseball corral Tuesday Jack Adame outguessed Ivan How jard and the Indians walked off with the opening game of the seri ven | tallies to six | ‘The Redsking were leading, 7 to 4, when the ninth opened. Ted Cather poled his second consecutive triple to right center and perched on third bane, with but one man retired, Two | Oaks scampered over on Theodore's wallop. | “Lefty” Burger was wobbling bad. | ly, It was Ted Marriott's turn to hit | next, and he had turned in « perfect | jday at the plate against Burger, banging out four straight singles Hut he swings from the left side of the platter and Howard followed rule No. 9, on “How not to play bave- | ; ball.” by jerking Marriott and send: | | ing Knight in to hit, : BURGER 18 | YANKED ‘Thon the battle of wits vegan. Ad / ama yanked Burger and shoved Et mer Jacobs into the breach. Ther upon Howard proved to be Ivan the| Terrible by picking up a mace and striding to the plate, Now, Ivan hits lefthanded and Jake heaves right panded. It was the proper manager. But) | | [something went wrong, beqause | Jacobs violated all the rules of Mr Howard's Uttle book by flopping bim | on strikes, With two away, Jake got | Brubaker on an easy roller, Jake! And the ball game was over, It was a sad mixture of base hits, | boots, ete. that the Oaks and Indi-| ans dished up for the patrons yes terday. Neither Herb Brenton nor Lefty Burger fooled anybody all aft ernoon. The beat way to get Mile yarn over with is to tell how the runs were | seored, and let it go at that. Jtere/ | corn | OAKS: | START KARLY Brown singled to open the game land Schulte bunted past Burger, jboth hands being safe. Cooper | walked, filling the sacks, Lafayette was put out at first and Brown | scored. Cather forced Schulte at the Marriott kicked thru with « Beattic got one back In its Tat. when Lane singled to start and stole second, Marney walked. Hood bunt- ed them along. Lane came over on Eldred’s infield out Seattle took the jead In the third j& single and went to second on Rrown's muff. Lane bunted him to third. Barney singled to right, scor-: ing Burger, Hood singled thru Mar riott Midred = =walked. Rarney scored when Brenton threw the ball away, trying to pick him off third Hood went to third on a wild pitch. jat t! | Wisterail walked and w Orr, Hood scoring and Eldred going | | to third. | ANOTHER FOR | OAKLAND | bunted them along, on an infield out. | Three more, the last for the Indi ans, put Seattle farther in th | the next frame. | Hood singled | mighty triple to left center and two | the were in and Eldred tallied | ‘The Oaks broke thru again tn the Barney walked and scoring on Marriott's fourth single | In the ninth Schulte walked, Coop. ler singled and was forced by Lafay. j ete Cather tripled again and the | Onks were within one of knotting the count. But then Ivan pulled his da | the record book | WANT NET TITLE MATCH BOSTON, Aug. 9.—Suggestion that | the world's singles tennis champion |ship be decided annually in the coun. | third Wood, team, member the Australian [Um hitters rx jelghth, Cather tripling to left and that does in H *, and he stands closer to the plate than any other clubber tn this loop. In doing so he takes a lot of chances of being beane: with pitched t Charley Pick of Sacramento, “Red” } ‘Tex W Loop; He’, Nee |) he plate Wisterzil was given his chance again and he is forced by doing remarkable work. ‘ ues Wisterzil doesn’t claim to be a Kamm at fielding. isn’t as fast on his pins as he once was. ‘old warhorse and he is covering a goodly amount of ground. | poreon is doing his van I | ing next to Brick Eidred*as the most timely hitter on the club. Eldred” slammed 4 | ting well over 200 and is hitting In pinches Wintersil singled to center | counts ‘Tex chokes his bat, one of the few in strategy stuff and the game was in| Smith of Vernon, Ch Los Angelos, Oscar Vitt of Salt Lake | and Ted Marrtott of Oakland are all good third sackers. | While Kamm will have the edge, | the voting is bound to be keen for) rack The Seattle boat ted the field by |try where the Davia Cup matches are | The Star calls for votes on its t ‘The Patricia was sec: |held has been made by Pat O'Hara | @mnual polling to pick the of used his glov o MN land a short WEDNESDAY, AUGU! STAR’S BIG SWIMMING ME TEX IS STARRIN Tex Wisterzil, Seattle's third baseman, who is doing fine comeback at hot corner for Indians. Ranks Him With Best Look-In Guard Hitting That Old Apricot, T. BY LEO H. LASSEN ORE classy third sackers are holding down jobs in the Coast league this year \than ever before. Head Seals. it comes to fi But among tle guardian o And this spri nie Cueto at t #] Cather and Mariott singled for|He owns a good throwing | — | Oakland in the fourth and Brubaker arm and is playing a good de-| Sather scoring | fengive game. } Rut it’s at the plate that the Texas tuft. He is rank He is hit that's what really other league run this or any these mad home and he is hit a lot rey Deal of when hird All-Star thin year honors Coast Jeague team at the end of this seanon |ARLETT NOT WITH OAKLAND Bugz Ariott, the pitching ace of the Oakland club, Jon this road trip ix not with the Acorns The big fellow for a powder rag on foGrew's amelier in Ouk time ago and he was; | fined $100 and suspended 10 days for Washington, noticed that who had hit sixth and doubled, was listed wighth in the official lineup. to the fact, and he called out the | week proper batsman, who wa Austin Wallace, who had doubled when he | Wallace, | the act hing staff is a pretty sick affair jaitho Ray Kremer and Harry Krause Vv Without Ariett the Oakland The umpire’s attention was called | may give the boys some trouble this OAKS MARK batted out of order, was removed | FOR SOUTHPAWS ‘ | from second, The pinch hitter then With Lafayette, Marriott, W! |hit for the catcher. Then Wallace, | Cooper and Schulte all hitting from where two players have batted out of order a number of times without being detected. Had not a pinch hit left side of the plate the Oakland who had previously doubled when | tt jranch Rickey, now the manager |he batted out of order, hit in his | teem Is a mark for southpaw pitch \ proper position, eighth ling. They will seo plenty of it this |} It me oO ; soon | week with Gregg and Schorr ready Toe ee ee ne few instances | fr duty and with Burger coming | buck again on Saturday or Sunday, | ter been «ent in, the “boot” probably | WILIE'S GREAT | would have escaped notice. BON! yd | Lant on, Hellmann usually hit | | i ans oer eget Bed third and Veach fourt ° aon siines: a mete h fourth, in the De. fenses, But every time the Oaks jtrolt lineup. On this day, Cobb de jelded to reverse conditions, but | failed to tell the players after noti- fying the umpire, ‘The game also was played at Washington, In the opening inning Hellmann came up third, when the IMneup jcalled for him to hit fourth. Tt was jthe trony of fate that he should drive the ball into the old left-field bleachers at Washington, one of the longest hits ever made in the park Immediately Manager Milan of Washington complained that he had batted out of order, nothing for the umpire to do but call out the proper batsman, Veach, and erase Hellmann's home run. the for a no m but whi Oakland, come to the city bugs of the time the Terrible ‘Tem pered Mr that he heaved the ball against the center field fence, thinking the side | was retired out and three runners dashed around paths classic when It comes to boners, lon; There was | finger, which he had amputated ot h it reminds Wille was so dingusted But only two men wore It’s the Coast league KNIGHT I8 OUT WITH INJURY Jack Knight was out of the game a time with an injured He got back in uniform was spiked in the foot in It will be some time, per- isterzil Pla: s Fine Ball for Kamm, the boy wonder of the Kamm is in a class by himself when onion at a .350 rate at the plate. Seattle | ing the list, of course, is Willie elding and he’s smothering the kers the all the other third sac’ remarkable comeback of Tex Wisterzil, Seat- f the look-in corner, places him high in the ranking. % Wisterzil couldn't get off a dime last year. ng he had to give way to Man- hird. But when Cueto fliv¥ered He But he is a steady Three Men Make Double Killings in Home-Run Race YESTERDAY'S HOME RUN HITTERS . Giants, 2; to! 1, 12. Kell, jans, 2; total, 10. utes, 2; total, 5. Reds, 1; total, 4 es, 1; total, 3 Nehf, Giants, 1; total, 1 jerdiny's hero—Tierney hit two double and five singles, ping the Pirates win a double- ier from the Phils, at 19 to 8 Tes. ! Tris Speaker hit two hon *, but bie wt to the Red Sox, 15 to 6 the tenth inning double, @ wild | thre fly gave the Rede to 2 win over the Giants, Pipp’s single and Ward's double won, 2 to 1, | Metmach, athletic hurler, nit a double i two singles and drove In three runs, 6 to 4 ut the White Sox won, | With Zachary pitching alrtight ball tn Pi ches, the Senators beat the a tot The Cubs scored three rune in the fourth Inning beat the Robins, 4 to 1 ps, before Knight ts ready for duty gain | CRANE IS | PAST | Sammy Crane ts certainly fast on jhis feet. He is playing wonderful baseball in the field for the Redskins now and he’s showing Seattle fans why Bill Stumpf wouldn't do at that Yesterday Sammy hit a |\iner past first base and ambled pund to second on the hit, doing a ular Charley Paddock. He Is go. jing to make a great bail player for jthe Indians when he learns the | league better. position a | DEL 18 “HORNSWAGGLED" Del Howard, brother of the Oak. land manager, who now is content with counting the tickets after the boys and girls click the turnstiles, can't figure out the Stubby Mack sale that Seattle put over with the White Sox. Howard figures that Mack hasn't enough experience nor enough stuff te make good. He likes Burger much better as a big league prospect. a radian first ednet from purely arrive the # je at § for | the f are © iy. Th and | alour the the nea. mac ‘Califor ly clea few © Inside _ Martin Sto | | > {Heavy Contender’s | 1 § Eyes Made His Punch Target | tient OR MAR right heavyw for a wi he's back and sees thi ahead as an ever, This is true story tin's dedi the heat division. F was « time he was considered the logical meet Jack Dempsey—the who had @ chance to down Mauier, Then, after beating | Moran so decisively, Martin t | Fay Keiser, a mediocre light | weight of Cumberland, Md., jceived as neat a licking pugilist ever stood up under. It wan noticed on that ni tember 6, 1921, in Balti: Martin's chin was pointed u and Keiser hit him “on the again 4nd again. Martin show thing—that he could take a Ii The licking that he took revere that he spent the next in bed. When he got out of b started for the next room and into the door. His manager, J) | Bronson, was worried. “What's wrong with you, Can't you see?” he asked. “I don't seem to be able to straight ahead,” said Bob. down and up, but not on a lev EYE DOCTOR PUZZLED 4 Bronson hustled him off ts) ocullst. The oculist worked on for three months with indif success. Finally Bronson thought Another flyer with Bob and him to come on to New Yo his home in West Virginia. way to catch a night t stopped at a little town in# ern Maryland. He drove his roadster out that afternoon over @ bank and into a tree. they lifted the car off dQ thought he was dead. But he] yet taken the count. He hospital two weeks and then up in bed and anid: “I can see all right again” BACK IN PLACE His manager put him thy tents and it really proved th had shaken his eyesight place. ae on } Pees se5 sa B! t always was afflicted In measure. Many critics berat because he held bis chin high. | He buries his chin on hi and lets his eyes slant stead of tilting his chin and down at an opponent. It will be harder to hit him @ chin now. He's corrected his§ est fault. IS TURF STAR FOR 9 Y English turf results indicate Steve Donohue, leader of the jockeys for the past eight will repeat for the ninth tin year. He has 4 record of 1,022 f | over English and Scotch cou | Harry Wills, colored negro he | weight champion, claims that Jackson famliy is bothering him, [is to fight “Tut” Jackson om At | 29 and Buddy Jackson a few | before. Still, there is no ev’ WILL LEAGUE FIRE LEAD Rumors have originated in land to the effect that Wil McCarthy is nearing the end career as president of the Coast league, The reason that the prexy favors certain against others and allows his dices to color hié decision in club disputes, MENDELL BEATS M’COY MEMPHIS, Aug. 9.—Sammy dell, Chicago featherweight, outp ed Johnny McCoy, Cleveland, eight-round bout here yesterday. iy 233226) LOS ANGELES BOY W! ATLANTA, Aug. 9.—Frankie cla, Los Angeles, won a decision @ {Jackie Sanders, Indiana, in @ round bout here last night, SHIFT FIGHT SITE NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Opposttl of Indiana offic! and the ity of a poor gate at Michigan G may cause the transfer of the D sey-Brennan fight to New York, is reported. Mi LEONARD TO BOX WHITE ® NEW YORK, Aug. 9. — Bei u Cor 5 Leonard and Charley Whit agreed to terms for a lightw championship fight and the bout m be the opener of the Madison Sq Garden winter season. TO BAN MID-SEASON TRADE CHICAGO, Aug. 9—Ban- Jol sald that the American league take action to step mid-season t next year, regardless of what the tional league does about it. Pacific Coast League OAKLAND ys. SEATTLE TODAY 2:45 Double-Header Sunday 1:30 Ladies and girls admitted to randstand and boys under 12 to floachers free every day excep! Saturday, Sunday and