The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 17, 1922, Page 11

DAY, AUGUST 17, a | Star of Age Is Making ft ashion i in Lake Michiga: ICAGO, Aug. 9 © at’s his 16-year-old brother, Peter. ile Johnny's away, ticing. | “Johnny admits freely that) s junior’s progress alarms) He says he's begged | te to “go easy” for a year) two, so that he, Johnny, remain champion for} that little bit longer. ‘0, sir,” Petie is quoted having answered, “I'm iw to getcha. We'll keep championship in the fam- tho.” Johnnie, Pete didn't learn to until quite late in life—not year ago, in fact. Johany out the same age when he first dip. The boys’ parents fraid they'd drown In Lake m, and kept them from the watefas long ax possible. “Ate also a coincidence that neither | ff the Weismuller boys had an tn- neter until after turning profes: | peal, What's more, both of them pam to take perfectly naturally to | \————— ety incomparable craw! | ‘They say Pete swam like a first time he hit the waves, him my secret of og ge Johnny, “and now Jet up for a while. He 9 en close to my records.” ¢ Johnny's recent return from where he outswam some cleverest human fish the ip had to offer, the “champ” that the only contender aquatic laurels he was afratd his brother. Pete says he'd be, “Because.” be adds, the secret, too.” | the “secret™ fs, however, j nor Pete has re! p anybody. GAME TO EON MORE , EN TERMS: UNIVERSITY, Cal, ‘36—For the first time tn years the, annual football bet: Stanford and Caltfor- @ season is expected to be on ) swimmers ? They won't tell. dinary balance in the water. is able to get himself. me «round their little lagoon for without moving arm or leg. : = 1 Saturday afternoon. eryn Brown, the crack C Others entering are Louise Richards, Evelyn Bris-| bane, Madeleine Pless and! Mrs. J. S. Waller. Jack Way, 192% winner, and Nick Zandis, who swam Elliott bay in 1914, head the men's division. | Spriggs Wascher, Lyna Prescott and Bob Smith will also enter the ‘These two races will be the bic feature of the finals of The Star football machine te be. | meet. d and, to add to the] The progwam Saturday will consist | the California eleven, {of the finals In the junior events and for two years, ix losing a |the regular fun of senior events. m line, from tackle to tackle.| The followMe seniors are eligible | sar California ends, Muller ant to compete in the ap events: since the rugby game , Sixteen- -Year-Old Brother of } Famous Johnny, Is Doing His Stuff in Great 17.—Johnny Welumaber, is-year-old human hydroplane, sone rival for his title as champion speed swimmer of the world. It appears, however, that it accounts for their extraor- higher out of the wet than anybody else, in these days, But they say the old Venetians knew this same “se- cret” about 1,000 years ago, and it enabled them to float The art was lost, and stayed lost for centuries. Seem- ingly the Weismullers have rediscovered it. Fourteen Swimmers to Compete in Mile Races : Nine Women and Five Men Enter Star Classic; Bie Stones, 9 Program Is Lined Up for Lake Washington Cana "" Good Time Brothers Have Secret of Balance Which Gives |'« n Their Great Speed ir in Water; Neither Learned to Swim at Early Age 0h fears only winning medals by the peck, young Pete sticks here at home \ , What’s Their Secret of Speed Swimming? HAT’S the “secret” the two Weismuller boys talk about, in explanation of their wonderful ability as Its effect is to lift them whole afternoons at a time INE women and five men will swim in the two-mile! A Marathon races to be staged as the climax of The Star swimming meet in the Lake Washington, canal Saturday | vend. 1 Lane The women entries are headed by Audrey Griffen, the Vie toria, B. C., star; Hester Eastman, 1921 winner, and Kath-! sensne. « ae Pool star. ercedes Lewis, Phyllis Pu tnam, WOMENS RVEN TS 100-yera @ tree style—Iester Fast man, Katheryn Hr 100-yard breast stroke & Waller ne, Auaitey 00 yard beck stroke daeh—- Ment man, Katherya Brows, Geraidine Cramer, Madeleine o-yard free | #ty betes audio Cramer, K 2 Brown, Mester Hast | man $¢-yard dash. for wi moe, Evelyn Groene, F Rese, Kine le Neve odes Lewis, Geralds “There event in will “be 1 the women’s division | caune Bo one enternd } The list of junior events with the |, names of the juniors eligible to com: | te will be wblished in Friday's * yar . e nner. | § Nene Brats Sachi Lioyd Smith, Spriggs Wascher, Robert) ‘The order of events, as they are ghee bee ay —_ es or, [Prive yard breast stroke dash—Mertin |t be run off Saturday, is being ithe master of mana oe Pade: dona Winsen Smith, | made up by Manager “Dad” Henry eity. handling the Soon aiek Soria today, and will nino be publ pg a < * Friday slong with the tat of of g this year and are ex. | Smith. con ‘whip ane C ier bea ~glagen tsar my High diviee—Meriin Padden, Milan 0.) The junior boys’ relny race has ; wo yacleylordl ant beg caren been eliminated from the program bea r ere Se eee? be se only one raft will be avai | wascher, Milan Mever / 7 one i be ‘veterans of the 1921 eleven ested erngpaegoor tor wh | | ‘coming back, but. most of them |...” Jack te her have to fight for their positions, Alexander, Jack Torney, Waiter Rhodes, is a number of strong play- jare ‘Thomas, Milan Meyer Were on lant year's fresh- igible for the Boater | ‘De Groot will captain the from the center position. | i veterans returning are Art! Bx, Favilie, Doughty, Campbell, Mertz, Woodward, Sproule, | Stice and Larson. To fill} ‘Patrick's shoes at fullback, | “ . bo ie Cuddeteck, a member of last EW YORK, Ays. 17 Big league | s frosh tear. baseball atmosphere was per Hartranft, Stanford's cham. | ceptbly cleared today by the action BY HENRY L. FARRELL ! ‘man and sprinter, prob |t#ken by the officials in the Phil} ny, | Douglas case iM be used end this year, here naga 4 Determination to root out every | bis speed and weight will eer ay worked |*Ussestion of shady work in Ameri- guar ca’s premier sport was made evident | id cnge llbis bey Soho by the promptness with which Com-| Game case he throws a|Missioner Landis and John Heydier, De Wi te @ stur at forward President of the National league, |wupported Manager McGraw in plac ling Douglas forever beyond the place | of recognition in professional base ball. | President Heydler ts in Cincinnati! jin conference with Garry Herrmann, | president of the Cincinnati Reds and lformer chairman of the National | commission. Additional developments hmay come out of that meeting. | In revealing the most essential de- | tails of the case, the directors of} | professional baseball removed any | | suspicion that they might be inclined | oe | lifornia game this | the played in the Stanford November 25. | to cover up crooked work in the} | game. | |” In the Chase, Zimmerman and! Casey Stone a the officials were critt c ty in. | Kauft cases, he es aie Giants | cined for not taking the fans into} The first event Saturday will start | promptly at 2:20 Firing of Douglas Nips | Another Scandal in Bud " but there was rea their confidence | |non to believe their statements that nelusive evi | they did not have the dence that was unearthed in the Dougias case. | The attitude taken by the New| York club is particularly to be com mended. Douglas might have bees | eased off the team without giving the real reasons for his release and | the facty might never have been dis. | covered ‘There ts nothing In this compare it with the 1919 scandal nothing has been brought out show that more than one player was | involved | Douglas, it ts 1s quit the team to ing wan brought cane to as to 4, offered only to 0 fishing.” Noth ut in the evidence | that he had offered to have games “thrown” and this i# an indication | at had no fellow conspirators on the Giants, a» he couldn't guar antee to “throw” help of two or three tearm mates Douglas was the best of the Giant games without the pitchers » of the best in the major le Hin loss will be a | blow to McGraw in his fight for the | pennant | and saved the doy the let in the run that ; Ge Aihietice'n 10 to 9 win over 1 to 2, the second | BY L. J. CURRAN ' PITTSBURG, Aug. 17.—"Shufflin’ | IPpnil’ Douglas, famous pitcher, lays; |the blame for his permanent disbar- | | ment from organized baxeball at the | door of John J. McGraw, fiery mana- | | ger of the Giants. “ never threw a game in my life,” Dougias told the United Press corre: |ppondent in an interview, “and Mo | | Graw knows me well enough to know | | that Inever would do such a thing.” Douglas was found in his room at) I the Schenley hotel bere, waiting for | someone to “loan him enough jack” hto leave the city. | what makes me so mad,” said Douglas, weeping, “is that Mac won't | even give me my pay. 1 don’t know how I'm going to get oth of here un: | leas 1 get some money, and I'm) ashamed to wire my wife.” Asked concerning the letter which Mcond base the Cin¢y Reds |league officials declare he wrote to} Played Louis Fonseca at that|a member of another club, offering 8nd the opera winger has done | to desert the Giants, Douglas waid: Swell work with the willow| “Let's forget it, All I want to do in the field that Bohne may |is to get out of her @ hard time breaking back in| He alleged that McGraw “had it in AY Senin, for him.” Tach Wheat Theat smacked a homer and Hee otis es tos vlctory over Hix rune scored in the n fourth toning wid the Cubs to beat the Braves, T¥0 rune score off fimith In the ftest Puig” 8 eds a 3 to 1 win over Jones Wit x homer in the ninth Ng oy and the Tigers beat the Bra Ret ox beat the White Box, 6 to 8. AMMY BOHNE .MAY LOSE OUT | Bammy Bohne has been put out the game with a sore arm, hurt cliding. During his absence fa f E k DOUGLAS CLAIMS INNOCENCE loutfield for the Friseo Seals, is} busy lining up a « of big league All-Star teams to tour the Orient this | fail. “I knew all along he we ng to throw me out,” he said, “H lam without a cent, with everybody spot: | ting me as a traitor and a deserter jand all that sort of bunk. I'm as| |innocent as a child.” ‘HERB HUNTER | IS PROMOTER |: Herb Hunter, who used to play the | pf ONES e. 5 Josephs Wins Verdict Over Bobby Harper PORTLAND, Aug. 17-—-Fight resulta here last night were Jack Josephs, Minneapolis, beat Zobby Harper, Seattle, 10 rounds, Billy Gardeau t Leo Dillon, six rounds. at Williams beat six rounds. Jimmy Riv | or }Rtrand, Halt Lake ui Cather, Owk Lacwer (Green | Kerweant | participant THE SEATT OHNNY WEISMULLER’S BROTHER IS SHOWING SWIMMING CLASS | roung Brother of Greatest Water | Rateman and Club | Miller, San Pranctaco Myers, fait Lake Hetts, Halt Lake Pp rand “it Lake Hith, Vernon View Bate anew, Kan Fran non, Ran Prer Lafayette, Oakian Valle, Han F devant Winterset, Mo Meh Rohinkte, Kilduff, Wille Dinner, Crandalt, Le Howard, Oakland Sebick, Ralt Lake Fryan, Be oe Angeles Murphy, Rac Lane, Renttie Mack. hat Racramento | shee Coe pfinson Butheriand, Portiend Walsh, Ban Francisce Naltwin, Low A Kite Geary MeCann, ¥ Adams, Seattle Sacremento Vernon Portiand Aner | parte ~~ May Call O to Halt Title Battle na Governor Puts Foot Down on Proposed Bren- nan-Dempsey Bout on Labor Day at Michigan City; |BATTING AVERAGES LE STAR | PAGE 11 PRATT OIL Ruth Celebrates | Return to Game With 22nd Homer \Billy Lane baie Large anal Lant HH, 20, 10 WR. (BM, BM, Pet, Week | 2 RUN ¢ oat @ 807 326) ur j PACIYIO COAST LEAGUE 36 ee | Pe ee Ruth, Yank, } Won, Laat oes Gare | 10 38 * flan Francisco . "7 rene ‘ 7 » ” Falk, White Box, 1; 10, | Loe Angeles 46 © te 1 eo Tet , Pipp, Yanks, 1; 6 * ° ost | pe a ee Russell, Pirates, 1; 6 7 470 +8 ae ee Jones, Tigers, 1 2 | Seattle Outfielder Beats oe s49 Harris, Senators, 1; 2. Bacramento 4) Portland Almost Single- ann eee Sar?) TY serail ie } 7 7 38 ae cat cate || Olbeom, Me ; THe KCOKK | Handed on Wednesday ob se 8 en Soe ck, Bens Portiand AUK MPO. AL BY 1 8 20 18 (940 88 Johnson, Senators, 1; 1 (Wolter, it ar ie ay ar ae Seige Bet Be Con, of ee aka Sie st Oe, BY TL EO H. LASSEN Pe + ls A d Sgt oe at TEE T was Billy Lane > 8 16 Ob iaa8 aS eee day at the Seattle tot it's ithe soe 1 3 6 onion orchard 4 lan "eee . ee 40.8 $ ariage Wednesday, the Bae oe ; 30 6 6 3 Of Beattie outfielder Su ae 16 6 6 6 @| being the ble ‘ . a we ’ 7 16 7% «18 4 star of Seattie ¢ ef (8 am os AB. RK. MPO, A Be] $2 win Over ihe ay Pee te = AKMONT COUNTRY CLUB, Mil . Figs ah See Portiand. ‘ 6 Adume, 3b ° ttle ee | a3 ton Pa, Aug. 17—With the | Hood Bec RAG: Oe enntietdae Ee fe» | fleld narrowed down to four surviv: | » UE I eee Ae was to trounee * 1 2% 49! ors, play was resumed today in the Bb ee gr eeee the pill for a@ 4, sibene non | | 19s. £8 m ier inet) 11 | semi-finals of the professional Golf: | ie Be He ee ES home run inside Pah ages 2 Hf lers’ association match play tourna: | eh Be GR i aw — tes ee, SS 409 | ment. + 0 a7 8 a] ee ey ae er on the bags, rep ‘ ari 00 Three of the four remaining play- f a triple against 6 Bee ere—CGiene Sarazen, American open f 100001 s\the right field wall, steal home, a fa champion; John Golden, Tuxedo, and | . ie 11203414 0-19) work the pitcher for a walk and 4 4 ett French, Youngstown, O., are | *stte a serhee score three runs. i ek. reds, The other survivor, | & " Portland opened the scorin; ; a Bobby Cruikshank, of Shackamaxon, | 2 third when Pees singled nu Gan - ; ts an imported professional doubled to right. ‘ Se oe Today Sarazen will oppose Robby é Bite. 506 Cruikshank, former Scottish cham. Flan opened the third for Rest eae eee | pion, who has been golng at a sensa- | 2. ate ‘playe=—Wolser | Co ise ene. Tees ee » ier eae tional pace during the tournament, | 4 hh eg Fg Med powny, J Roos right tel and Greasy aaa ae dee while French wil) play Golden. | on and Finney. out 4 bunt down the third base line. £ ei a Ane ae - si | @ Lane kisved the pill between Wolfer ‘ H ® ‘ “ RESULTS é and Cox and the merry-go-round : 1 : | Sacramento 4. Halt Lake @. started. Lane almost caught G: a pers oe . > 1, Vernoi ‘| bing REE ales Ma ‘SEMI-FINALS a weones By before the lanky portsider had cross Hot te PLAY ON NEXT) ona a the plate, 1 ey ae AMERICAN LEAGUE i ; a> :. as Lane tripled in the fifth with two sR ee. FOREST HILLS; N, ¥., Aug. 17— Won, Lont. away and stclé homs Po Peer | With only doubles matches scheduled | 8t- Leute . ‘ 2 | |New York Brazil lofted a home run over the | Ne ee a |teday in the fourth day of the wom: | Deco right field wall for an unmolested Sa) 2h t/en's national tennis championships, Chicago jelineey arenad. thd. cache GEE Oe a: AB i jchiet Interest centered in the nemi- | Cleveland poeta agton y ee 29 jest found of the singles, to be | Paitedetphie Lane walked to start the eighth ” *| pl omorro: “4 8 4 B ses |" snes -aeiaon we [Boston for the Redskins. Spencer Adams | Minx Helen Wills, the sensational) ' ” ’ ' | bunted him along. Hood was out, Pe Comet ca | +1 | 16yearold California girl, who de. - short to first, Lane moving ! Bae » ws |feated Mra, Marion Z, Jessup, Amer Re Eldred singled and Lane counted, Tan ieee Pee ies ae | *lica’s third best player, yesterday, 5 ey oo 4. Wi bes ae th Bie ; Si wil play against Mrs, May Sutton|_ #t. Louls ington 2 (first game) ldred om seven isterait of i Pas ee Soade. werecum Ratiehintatas, analt: 140° ington 11 (second gama). | singled and Eldred went to third te ae ae the winner will go into the final NATIONAL LEAGUE ad eerga naar Rerney 8 eee. Beit 7 round for the title against Mra. Won, Lost, ret. | Walked. Crane oe "ong ae ee H |Molla Mallory, the defending cham. |%¢*™ Terk . +] {center and two checked in, but wal cis 3 } #t. Louis “ out trying to stretch his hit on the : ° $ H ? pion, a relay - Se a Pi ~” rd 1s H > r «| Prt Vean Greggs was hit freely, but rf ? 7 we r6 os & "i i) S CARDS OBTAIN | " ? . : ad so @ ? 1 1 oe Crane and Adams around | ‘ ® ; H - HURLER TONEY | | RESULTS killed off rallies ip the seventh OSS ee ae iT. LOUIS, Aug. 17-—Manag New York 7, Pittsburg 6 eighth. e a 0% Branch Rickey of the Cardinal pmo a genre A ANY 1 ‘ } Jneinuati 2, Phiiadeiphia 4 ® ® . announ today that he obtained Brookiyn 3, 8t. Louis 2. . ss Pitcher of the Hoxton Braves 2 eeete 7 ; 4 M4 ey. recently traded to Boston by | ~ les Ae A the Giants in the deal for Pitcher 4. Hugh McQuillan, refused to report > A EB ae to the Brav A telegram from at eee OY | ae | President Grant announced that he} 1 . ° : ° had epted the offer from the 9 ft Sly AER. BE Cardinals for Toney. be ae ae oe. 6 ce ate woe j ee es oe INDIANS HAVE Nomacer Adame played secand, tn ' . « : . : | Place of HU Grr, yesterday for the 1 $ ¢ + $3 S:) GOOD RESERVES, ot de aaything ae ’ . i 6 . ” “hal up one ¥ 7 | be worked In two . . o ‘ . ‘ alk Li e thing in ‘favor of Mahtniog double killiegs with Crane 1 e ’ a se) the Indians this year. | ‘sevend that saved o ict of it ; e ™ te s cay ‘The Kedskins have the most! ie ee { TE [versatile collection of pinch hitters ae ee Sie pase 2h } in the league 2 & 8 % % Bi 4664 ‘There's Erne Schorr, Tub Spencer, | ae ae $$ 38h Eft) Ba Barney and Bil Stumpf, who Ce ee Se ee “e 1 delivered this year when | {mpi ‘fous petking PO he 2: $e Biel eatet tose 0 Perform in pinch Wit-| ining and chin air when he Inve } tee lee Sas (eee By ° | Bidred was robbed of w hit by @ pretty ¥ | _No other clud tn the Coast loop |eatcn by Wolter tm lett field in ihe third ut Troops His Nibs Issues Statement prevent the Michigan Cit that I Friday, nouncing he If Sheriff Anstiss of La Pe jfail to cancel the bout by to would act. NDIANAPOLIS, will be brought into play if necessary to! “I promised the boys wouldn't Gov. in demanding that the fight be stopped « a violation of the law. Aug. 17,—Full state powers scheduled 10-round figttt be- tween Jack Dempsey and Bill Brennan at y, Labor day. do anything until McCray declared today, an- had not changed his position rte county and other officials morrow, the governor said he Two courses are open under the law—appeal for an in- junction in the La Porte cir tional guardsmen to the scen exist. leveryone attending it and liable $50 to $500. is a to a fine of | There is no likelihood that) |troops would be sent into the town, but the possibility was pointed out. McCray b that the bout ts prize fight, anf lute violation of the an ach is state law “I don't think it is an exhibition | bout, with seats ranging as high as | $27 apiece,” he said ople don’t | trave} far and spend that much for a! seat at a tea party “Those fellows wouldn't do all that training they've done, elther, just for n exhibition bout. They're going at thig in earnest.” /HAROLD JONES TO MEET VET! Harold Jones, Tacoma lightweight meets the Bitter Root Kid in a 10. jround bout at Missoula, Mont. Fri day. The Bitter Root Kid will be re- |membered by Seattle fans as t veteran Montanan who boxed several | |times here a couple of years ago. |HUEDOPOHL AT SEASIDE Paul Huedopoh!, former swimming is | Boley tutor at the Seattle Y. now in charge of swimm: natatorium, at Seaside, M. ©. A. zat Oates’ or Technically a prize fight is a riot under the law | [straight was as dead as the T-bone| [steak that once sold for The good old quality, cuit court or e, declaring a state of riot to} a Spike Carney Bad Manning are slated to bex four rounds in Wenatchee early next week. and return bout t and Ka Vrankie weight, wh: wiley, Seattle bantam- had ‘a big season last | retired from the mitt ealer's and benefit by it. Ask | kame, ‘nnd wilt devote all of bis time Wm. Penn. to bin garage, TE.—There is only one price Lonnie has added another | for a Wm, Penn—-Se straight—$5 a| heavyweight hundred—$50 a@ thousand. 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The General {Cigar Company, with its immense resources and distributing facilities, found the way—step in your favor. has anything on this quartet, IN NEBRASKA Jimmy Marquis, former Broadway | high school pitcher, te now. hurling | for the Beatrice team in the Ne.| ska state jeague and is being | ted highly by Nebraska scribes. | was with Vancouver, B. C., in Western International league until the circuit tossed up the sponge | SIR TOM IS THIRD AGAIN ~ LOS AN cond #tr ttle yac mile race b terday in t for “R” be Men of it Ladies 3102 grandstand an to bleachers free every Sunday ELES. night ht ny the was he spec nate memory Advertisement and ay, Arcade Aug. 17. time ‘alife ial challenge races Tie Lady second and the Sir Tom third SOME MEN SAID WE WOULD NEVER SEE IT AGAIN BASEBALL Pacific Coast League PORTLAND vs. SEATTLE irls admitted to boys (under 12) For the the Sir Tom, efeated in the 18. nia here yes: jay was sald the S-cent & quarter. | the good old day ex- and. holi- Didg Hood was on first, and he lit oat for sec- on the blow, He was doubled off of re he could get back to the ba, the cateh. 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