The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1922, Page 8

Sardnaendalieebceecnapataate oncom INDIANS SPLIT DOUBLE BIL ve mh atk wt wh THE SEATTLE STAR WIT Centre’s anked in | Grid Men Afternoon) a Menace = Arlettt Hurls Shut- " out Ball, After Redmen Series in Morning Won, Lost, at | Bill * «*# 1921 Line Returns With a | Single Gap; Backfield Coach Moran's Problem ITH a football team that com pares favorably with the great ageregation that humbled the Crim eon of Harvard in 1921, Centre col | & real rival for pre |mier national honors for California, ‘| Penn State, Notre Dame and the Pet } N a}, {Other bright lights of the king of emai nb college sports, Hunky sehorr| It is very probable that when the slightly better | Centre college football team lines up than Herb Bren. |8s8inst Harvard at Cambridge on Oct. 21 the line of the Kentucky ither ten, and Behr | Cotenele will be \the enme ae Dest of them | Wins | year, with que exception. However, g008, C. B. Moran, the Southerners’ mon. morning eer tor, will have only one backfield of be neader |maNn who started in the me with double - header ' the Crimson, ogg 3| Of Centre's famous ends, James will be missing, but the more promi. | to ¢.and marked nent of the two, “Red” Roberta,| up its fifth win! stainelect and sll.american end out ee Miyed [8st year on Walter Camp's toam, cameos palye'l will be on hand. Roberts ts one of| a naa | th heaviest men on the team and| will enter fall training at a weight/ of about 210 pounds. James’ boots the hirelings of Jack Adame) at the othor wing position probably forced to accept a shutout bar will be filled by George Chinn or on the day's activl | Terry Snowday, a 176-pounder, who| bas proved himself a good end and| & valuable backfield man. Both Ben Cregor, a veteran of four years, and Minos Gordy, a freshman last year, who gained a place on the varsity, will hold down the tackl@ positions again with Frank Rubarth in reserve. Bill Shadoan and Buck Jones, who filled the berths at guard on the varsity Inst year, although new, showed up very well and will likely Sceupy the same places this fall Both players are husky, Shadoan’s Weight being 192 pounds and that of Jones 213. The other powerful de- tensive men who will make strong bids for varsity positions are Dick Gibson, an old man at guard, and Donald Beans. For the pivot job the logical choice is Edwin Hubal, the new but powerful center man. As for the backfield, the only man the week. the afternoon, Buzz Arie! | so puxaled with his slants Not only were the mounds ineffective, but fielders of both he cracked at critical moments. afternoon tilt was interesting etl the sixth Inning, with Seattle two runs. But the Oaks ‘oD two errors, a walk and a ; and in the seventh and Doosted the total to etx tallies. clouting put ho haga final soir 1 *) errea-cooePal ennoreeu~ 8 us P|stit avatiable who started agninst AP ETS 4s |Harvara to Tom Bafthtt, @ veteran ‘ 1 4 § lof several years at full and half. ‘ $ fF Fipack. If he takes the place of either : auf snoddy or Armstrong at half 4 DO sh oak “Hump” Tanner, the smashing full ‘ 2 2 2 Giback, probably will fill Bartlett's H 2 2 3 ¢)drogans. Should this be the case, 1 @ @ © ¢/Herbert Covington, the fast half i x 6 Sithat showed up so well during the Z 2 £8 Siintter part of the season and made|(YROVER CLEVELAND ALEX. ary 12 37 3@ «Sisuch an Impressive showing In the! ANDER’S mighty right aiath game with Harvard after replacing | win not last forever. Armstrong, probably will be Bart lett's mate. $c} | Cuitton Lemon, a new man, end pots Speedy Jimmy Green will be the re BA, sien [Derve tiem far the halthack jobs, Bob | 214 piecander’s manager. ‘Thomasson, « 170 and a new ("As director of the Chicago Cubs’ man, will emulate Tanner for the/| v - t position at full. destinies, Killefer ts looking into the Nobody knows this better than Bil} Killefer, who caught the Corn ‘husker’s mystifying shoots during |thetr youthful days and who's now Alexander. ‘2 ocho egg see di ollgg oem Of course pitchers of Alexander's bases ’ quality don’t grow on trees. jwhe ae ee eeny ink Colonela | last /"'18 quest of the great hurier’s sue arr Who scored the lone tewcl.|Cess0r, oF of pitchers who promise rn ot the Contre@arverd geane |e come within a mile or two of him, 4 “ae Killefer ts “prepping” certain young- | storm. Uaneball experts believe he bar |two worthy candidates in Virgil * | Cheeves and Anthony Stueland ‘| ‘This fe Cheeves’ second season with the Cubs. Stucland arrived Iit- |tle more than @ month ago. If Cheeves ten’t careful he not only will be classed as an Alexander No. 2, but he may also find himself cov. sted by John J, McGraw. BAMBINO HAS Game AB. R H. PO A o2¢ 8 lennerenvepel lenanSecoed is the real incentive. Lowls Batback, of the New York ath- fe club, former national taney diving won the Metropollian A. A. U foot springboard title by On # game for game basis, Babe Ruth is the leading home run hitter of the major leagues for the present is |season to date. While Ken Williams s\of the Browns, Roger Hornsby ot 4s clu | the Cardinals and Tillie Walker of me dice nied th lthe Athletics are leading him, the Bambino has played in fewer games nd his ratio per game is higher. He has an average of slightly ~s * and. - & ore of 141.6 potnt, Ie Prime, Aiiicht 2, Gardner, Koehler, Bac: | close call with « total of 14 ite —Wiste Behulte, “Ariett 3 piay—Chavez to Cather to Knight. John Kellt!, formerly of the stub, of Honoly more than one circuit bingle for ev- ‘ jery three games he has played; Wil. in New rt jery thr ANTS STILL Pusass"A. Cot © Mamas’ ratio is one homer for every three and one-half games,t while Hornsby and Walker have made the grade at a rate of about one round trip in four game ‘oney I | SIGN HURLERS |" <0" i, IDO, ©., Aug. 28.—Carmen right-handed pitcher of Indian- lis, was purchased today by the York Giants. He was former. With Pittsburg and was sus- ; for playing outlaw ball. He Will Join the Giants at once. BRAVES” IS RIGHT NAME! CINCINNATI, 0., Aug. 28—Wal bs , Boston Brave outfield if Married here yesterday to MI Torrey of Evansville, Ind. feremony took place in the of the Reds. INDEE FIGHTS FOR HIS TITLE) RISBERG SUED FOR DIVORCE SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28.—Not The Pacific City club, of Pacific City, [only is “Swede” Risberg, former Cal, has taken | shortstop for the Chicago White Sox, bag *\an outcast from organized baseball, but {ft appears likely that he will soon be barred from matrimony—at least temporarily. His wife has start. ed suit against him here for divorce. her addition tion o squad are Gertrude team ling retay quartet, for on Linn McKenzie. The Spokane Interstate fair will of. |fictally open September 4 (Labor bay), and will continue six days and nights. will be Herb the |give its freshmen football teams |more intensive training, in the belief jthat future varsity clubs will reap the benefit, the directions swimming ot * * & * * * Killifer Seeks CAN CHEEVES BEST RECORD) Harvard university 1s planning to! Successsor to Virgil Cheeves and (inset) Anthony Stueland In one recent series between the arm | Cubs and the Giants Virgil perform. | vidual beat him twice tn four days. ed the feat of beating the New York. ers in the first and fourth games. In thome 18 innings he allowed the | world’s champions only two runs and jelght hits. He won the first game, 3-3, with four hits, and the second, . with four more. With Phil Douglas already tn the | Barnes growing wrinkles, McGraw, like other major league managers, ts looking for youth Mis attention turned immediately OR STUELAND DELIVER? GROWING OLD Alex the Great Sea ahi aa sol Sart be Rose City Strong for Kayo Davis Too Heavy, mayor of Port land if the pon. tion appeals to him—tft the Rose City box ing scribes volee the sentiments of the populace In thelr remarks concerning the recent little glove joust in which the aforesald Mr. Jovephs was knocked for a row of rowbonts by the pugnacious Kayo Davis, of Everett Jimmy Bacco and mingle in the 10-row Friday's card down there; and altho it is admitted that Josephs m “grave mistake” in taking issue with Davis, the outcome hasn't in any measure lensened bis popularity Josephs was far outweighed—in fact, went out of his weight clans al: together in taking on the huge Trav- ie, and his defeat wag to be expected, is their verdict Davis ts 9 fair-eized welter, but this man Jonephe gave the general im pression when in Seattle that he |toward Mr. Cheeves when that ind!- | Cheeves ts capable of these tron }man stunts. He is built along the lines of Ed Walsh, which speaks for itoelf. Stucland, living mostly tn the bull pen and.on the bench, broke into the National league season with a pop. | | He opposed the St. Louls Cardinals Coach Moran’s greatest problem ts |ttur-—ne ta looking for another | discard and Fred Toney and Jenwe|in his first game, beat them 6.0 and strung six strikes Hornaby's neck jthe league's faced him. around Rogers the first two times premier son of swat BY BILLY EVANS | Is there considerable bunk to the | generally necepted theory that a ma [jority of the left-handed batters are |weak against southpaw pitching? I have always believed #0, because the reaily great lefthanded never experience any great difficulty in hitting southpaws, However, tt te tradition tn baseball that left-handed batters are weak against left-handed pitching. Most | major league managers work on that |theory. Some managers even go to the ex tent of having Weft and right-handed shifts, which they use to meet the selections of the opposing manager. In some cases this stunt works out nicely because most right-handed batters do like to hit against south |paws. I can natne a dozen major leaguers who are right-handed bat ters and who are not in the .300 class, yet against left-handers they are dangerous batsmen. The use of the shift is more or leas modern practiced to any great |years ago, ‘This shift has been a bad feature for the left-handed hitter who Is not inthe Cobb-Sisler clans. Tt tends to jdestroy confidence, Knowning that |he will probably be taken out when a left-hander is the pitching selec tion of the opposition, he loses his fight, and succumbs to the generally accepted belief that most left-handers cannot hit southpaws. During a recent series that I um |pired between the Washington and Detroit clubs some-very unusual fea |tures of the theory that I have teen expounding cropped out. In baseball It was not Is Southpaw’s Power Over Left-Hand Batter “Bunk”? batters | extent 20] Manager Milan of the Washington club very often uses @ shift in his Uneup, according to whether the op. posing pitcher is a right or left hander. In one of the games, in order to gain any possible advantage, Man. ager Cobb of Detroit had Ehmke, a right-hander, work the first inning against the Washington club. Cole, ja left-hander, warmed up In secret | under the grandstand. | Milan, when he saw that Ehmke| (Waa to be the opposing pitcher, used | all his left-handers tn the lineup. At the start of the second inning, Man. ager Cobb sent-Cole, his left-hander, to the mound If Milan elected to use his right handers it meant that the left-hand. ers he had injected into the Mneup would have to be withdrawn, and be of no use during the rest of the game. | Possibly Milan was peeved at | Cobb's strategy. Anyway, he made | no change in his lineup. In one in- ning Washington made alx runs off | Cole and won the game by a lop-sided | score. The following day Cobb selected | Oldham, a left-hander, to work. | Manager Milan of Washington, be. use of the success his left-handers ha against Cole, tempted fate and sent in the same lneup. | Oldham was knocked out of the box in the early innings. Dauns, a| right-hander, succeeded him and had | the Washingtonians at his mercy, All of which made me think there} was considerable bunk to the theory | |that left-handed hitters are den [against southpaw pitching, | cap either would have to go without his break | fast for m few mornings in order to step on ® palr of acales net at 140 pounds and not have the indicator do & balloon act. Appearances are some. times decelving. Josephs ts of # rangy build and may be lighter than he looks, but no great weight handt was apparent when way the battlers squared off at the Arena |‘ last Wednesday One thing is certain: artillery Davis packs too heavy caliber for Jo- |sephs to cope with, and the Snobo. mixh county miller is a 3 to 1 hot to wallop the Eastetn boy any time they start a tlt of more than four rounds. The sixround tilt between Davis and Sacco, at the Arena, a few weeks ago, wan indecisive and disappoint- ing. Sacco hung on and infoughttoo much to allow much action, and De vis failed to get his right hand go- ing. Sacco is the amallest member of the Harper-Davie-Josephs-Sacco quartet, and ts under a poundage handicap whenever he miges with the other boys. Numbers of the local railbirds have expresed a hope of seeing them rematehed here, Davis is certain to jar Sacco to his heels every time he connects on the hinge-piece, but the | young guy from Boston has a etyle that seems to puzzle the stronger boy, Robby Harper's star In fading here. abouts. When the Seattle welter opens up and fights, he looks as bril- Mant™as the tower of jewels, His present method of doing his work close in and avoiding the long-range hanges would doubtless be effec tive over the 15 and 20-round routes, but it is wearing on the patience of the customers in the short bouts in vogue in this section, Jimmy Rivers, who had such a me jteoric rise in Northwest lightweight cireles, le about thru, according to re- ports from his native village of Ta- coma. His stock took a long drop in Seattle when Pat Williams gave him a sound trimming in their go down the Sound, In hin starts here, Riv- érs showed at his best when his oppo- nent carried the fight to him. He didn't look #0 flashy when leading. TRIBE SIGNS BIG PITCHER Signing of a new right-handed hurler, Williams by name, who has won 16 games and lost but four with the Bristol club of the Appalachian league this season, In reported by the Seattle Baseball club, The newest Indian towers a couple of inches over six feet in the air and scales 185 pounds, says Jim Boldt, NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Jack Kearns, manager of Jack Dempsey, denied that he had received an offer of $500,000 to put the champion in the ring with Jack Johnson tn Mex- leo City. Will Select Crew Coach at Thureday Meeting of Board After several postponements, due to a failure to get a quorum of board of control members, that body of the University of Wash- Ington will definitely decide on a crew coach for 1923 atm meeting in Commerce hall, room 106, Thursday evening, at 7:30, it was announced today, Contrary to general belief, the meeting will not be held behind locked doors, but will be open to the public, SEW YORK, Aug. 28—Johnny f) Junior lightweight cham. and Pepper Martin, meet here in a l5-round bout for the BY MORRIS ACKERMAN EW YORK, Aug. 28.--The hunt ing season breaks soon! It looks like the best in years! With the coming of September migratory waterfowl enter the open list and other game follows in suc. cession. Recent mild winters, game sane tuaries and refuges, restocking, bet- ter game laws and more faithful ob. servance of those laws will make 1922 the greatest of hunting years, While Johnny ts awny wi medals by the peck stays at home in © Johnny admits Lead With 32nd YESTERDAY'S HOME RUN HITTERS Hornsby, _ Grimes, Cubs, 1; total, 12, Young, Giants, 1; total, 7. = rdinals, sir,” Bete ls ted ae having 9 Won tate hs oeetanthig wes i in w aw 1; total, Musller, Cardinals, 1; total, 8. || Discussion as to whether Tut| Migratory waterfowl, due to the Behultz, Cardinals, 1; total, 2. jzackeon, negro heavyweight pugilist, | Canadian enabling act, are sure to be * ae {s to fight Harry Wills at New | more plentiful this fall than in years, HOME RUN LEADERS [York on Tuesday, is a set-up for the possibly in 25 years, This should jbring joy to the hearts of the duck hunters, Of big game the Virginia deer, the white- tail, 1s on the rapid increase, In Canada moowe hunting will be a9 good as ft has been in tho last 10 years. Grouse are plentiful and Williams, Browns, 32. Hornsby, Cards, 32 Walker, Athletics, 31. Ruth, Yanks, 26, Heiiman, Tigers, 21 Williams, Philies, 19. Black Panther. Jackwon claims # |record of 46 knockouts out of 49 |fights, and looks like a real battler, but some eritics think he is only an jevent in the campaign to “amoke up” [rece for @ battle with Champion Jack Dempuey. As, 4% hunting conditions look most favor- able. I've been knocking around quite a bit on this hunting stuff and I re. fuse to join those calamity howlers who tell you that hunting Is on the well-known wane and that the only piace it can be done tn “five,” or any other term of years “will be in a nat ural history museum.” There are too many hunters in Amerlen who are sportsmen to permit this great coun- try of ours to become gameless, Last year there were upward of 200,000 deer killed in the United States. In Canada the number prob: ably was greater, Does that look as if the deer crop were going out of business? It does not. Deer are on the Increane in many places, to such an extent that the situation tn gre ing more or leas alarming. Hapecial ly is this true in New Brunswick and New England. Last year there were 10,000 bear killed in the United States and prob: ably double that number in Canada, the United States 8,000 elk were | killed. Does that indicate that big | Kame hunting ts getting on the bliin’ || Big game conditions are getting better and outside of the elk and antelope problems the situation is all to the tobasco, Some states that were “cleaned out" of game several years ago, states where deer were a curiosity, now have loads of game and condl- tions are getting better, New York and Pennsylvania have come rapidly to the front in this re. spect. In Michigan and Wisconsin jthe hunters bagged 40,000 deer last jfall, California and Wyoming con | tributed about 15,000 ench and New York state another 10,000, Additional thousands were bagged in Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Vermont, Colo- rado, South Dakota, Oregon, New hunting y ing your guide, Coming Gane Season Looms as Greatest Jersey, Massachusetts Hampshire, Florida, Mississtppt and other Southern states wontributed quite a number of deer and black bear, Over )0 black bear were killed in Pennsyl- vania and more than a thousand in Oregon, In Montana 5,500 elk were ‘led. Louisiana and Tennessece gave tokthe sportsmen quite a number of deer and bear. Virginia, the mother and New of the white-tafl deer, offers excellent deer hunting, likewise a fair share of black bear, especially in the Dismal Swamp region. Game commissions In every state predict that this will be the best ever. Now is the time to plan your trip, to clean up old Betsy, line your sights and fit your ammunition, If you are going big game hunting, above all things, do not delay in mag er | immediate arrangements J. Josephs can be the next | Jonephs are to} main event of |< de a! MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1922. H OAKS AND TAKE EF efety RESULTS Firet game— am © fan Vranciseo » i Tee At Lake SE | Batteries jn ? ro Is Explanation; Har- per’s Star Wanes Here BY SEABURN BROW Jend Cook. —— ACK JOBEPHS caseenee rapoeniead ry " ¥. ° ' ‘and Fubrman y and Hennah NATIONAL LEAGUE w Lost. nm F. s . hoa 4 Mentine; Osborne, and O'Farrell, n 1 : Brookiyn postponed ; The score New York ... At Bt. Louie nM SE ow 8 ‘= and . Trex ; Keck, Gilles AMERICAN LEAOUR Won. Lost. Pet. at fame postponed New York—st rain. Louls-New York n. 12 Rr. 2 SERIES New York Is Sure of One Flag Only Unexpected § Can Beat the Gicean? Have Seven-Game Lead BY HENRY Ll. FARRELL, BW YORK, Aug. 24—New i» just about sure of one end of the world series. The Giants are coming home prag tically “in” as the National league champions. ‘Two weeks ago McGraw took the team on the road with « lead of game and a half over the St. Louis Ca On the trip the Giants won nine out of eleven games, and they with a nice lead of « over the Cubs, who are fn second place, with a half now game lead over the Cards, The Giants have 34 more games to play, 22 at home and 12 away, The big thing ts that 26 of the re | maining games are to be played 2 | against Brooklyn, Boston and Phila deiphia, and McGraw is not the type Of jeader who will let his players tettle on their heels. Either the New York Yanks or | the St. Louls Browns will win the | American league pennant. Lee Foh! and his Browns have it figured that if they can get back home for the last stand with in one game of the Yanks they will win the pennant. The Yanks are now leading by one-half game and the Browns can't be back farther than a game and half when they go back home. Figuring what the managers of both teams had to work with all season and what they have done with their material, the Browns seem to be a slight favorite for the pennant. MACK’S AFTER COLLEGE MAN PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 28.-— Connie Mack has offered a con- | tract to Clyde Merkle, former Penn State infielder, who has been play- ing in a semi-pro league. At Washington Batteries: Pt loway and Wood: rity, No other games —_— Johnson Sinks Hooks In Yanks, Sox for Stalling IHIICAGO, Aug. 28.--Miller Hug: gins, manager of the New York Yankees, was fined $100 and seven other New York and Chicago players each fined $25 for a “dingraceful ex- hibition of stalling” during the game with the White Sox here August 1, league. The game was called in New York's half of the fifth inning be cause of a heavy downpour of rain with the score & to 1 in favor of th White Box. Manager Gleason of the Gor ab leged the New York players stalled jin an effort to prolong the game | until rain forced the umpires to end | the contest. | Others fined were: Bob | Everett Scott, Waite Hoyt, |of the Sox. | Johnson also announced that a repetition of the occurrence would carzy an automatic suspension of 19 days. Mr. Athlete— Thousands of athletes and trainers have found" that a Lifebuoy bath— with the big lather thoroughly rubbed in, has all the advantages of a rub-down. It wakes up the skin. It makes the whole man glow with | vigor and fitness, Wake up your skin! LIFEBUOY | HEALTH SOAP it was announced today by Ban Schang of the Yanks, and Ray Johnson, president of the American | Schalk, Bib Falk and Urban Faber ‘ oA t ie ral piecti fork