The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 8, 1922, Page 17

DAY, SEPTEMBER, 1922, / Vean Gregg Saw Tyrus Cobb Score From First BY VEAN GREGG Base on an Infield Out , ,(A8 Told to Leo H. Lassen) COBB was full of tricks when I was in the American league, and with his at speed he was a terror on the b,.ases. Many times I saw him score from n an infield out at first. Any time the ball was thrown to third on such play when Cobb rounded the hot corner, it was a cinch that Cobb would break for the plate, and he usually made it. 4 Cobb was, and still is, a wonderful base runner, but the greatest stunt I ever i | PHILADELPHIA, Sept. tennis stars from Austral National Tennis Meet Is Under Way Today 8—-The world’s greatest ia, Spain, Japan and the |} United States start in the annual championship at the } Germantown Cricket club téday for the American na- tional singles championship. William T. Tilden, the present title holder, is defend- ing his championship, and Gerald Patterson, winner of the world title at Wimbledon, probably will meet him. Manuel Alonzo is to carry the colors of Spain and Yenzo Shimidzu is the representative of Japan. s Put ‘on Stuff for Fans Crack Over Eight Runs in Great Finish Thursday . (E Seals made Garrison's finish | look like a bush league stunt y when they copped the first of the eertes from the Indians & tremendous rally in the ninth that routed three Seattle Here are the sad detalle: ] O'Connell opened with a single 4 Rhyne fanned. Kilduff walked and Yelle slammed double to right field, scoring onneil. © Jacobs was sent in to piteh and went in to hit for Scott. See purposely walked, filling the) Kelly caromed a double off of the ward in right field and two} were in. Bxit Jake. Enter Berger. ‘alsh walked, Kamm singled and her run was over. ng! | When Ellison quit running he had | home run marked up to his credit three more were over the dish. ‘The ball chased Eldred to the cen- field fence. j Click! ij | O'Connell singled to right. Rhyne! cei him at second and Kilduff | o ending the agony. | Vean Gregg had outpitched Jim until the ninth. Friseo broke thru in the third Kilduff singled and Yelle sent around to third on another sin Eldred booting the ball and lle goiric to second. Greag wild Kilduff home. The Seals ‘t score again until the ninth. Seattle tied in the sixth when and Eldred walked on eight it balls. Both moved up on felle’s wild heave to second. Bar. hit to Kilduff and all the run- were between the bases. Kil ‘Mutt finally throwing to Rhyne in “8m effort to snare Eldred. Brick ‘Tan out of the line between third Sd second end when Rhyne tried to tag him Hood tt out for home ‘nd beat the throw. Gregg singled to open the seventh was bunted along. Gregg went third when Seott threw wildly tryin to catch him. Orr singled to Tight certer and Gregg registered. . Eldred tripled to left to open the ‘Meght and scored on Barney's fly to tenter. McWheeney finished the game on the knoll for the Seals without « Man reaching first i | 4 BY HENRY L. FARRELL D NJEWARK, N. J, Sept. §—With 4 the exception of the speed king, “Charivy Paddock, all the Americans F who won glory and medals at the 1920 Olympic games are to compete in the three-day A. A. U. carnival, Marting here this afternoon. The junior and senior national track and field championships are to be decided by one of the biggest and Most widely distributed fields that tver competed for the titles. Because the meet Is held prac- tieally in ita “back yard,” the New York Athletic club is expected to take the crown from the 1921 cham Dions, the Los Angeles A. C The Illinois Athletic club of Chi- *ag0 in making its s#trongest and Most serious bid of yearn for the title. The Chicago club has enlisted the assistance of practically all of Western conference champions. Fee eaacorbrook club of Philade the Boston A A. also have Dewertul x The $s Vernon ‘ . Loe Anageies Galt Lake Oaxtand . Beattie Sacramento Portiand an a “ee THE sco! fan Francisco AB. R Ketty, wf 1 Walsh, rt . Kamm, 2 Eliteon, 1b O'Com oom! unaneonwe? ‘ .¢ ‘ ‘ | ‘ 2 ‘ : . ° 7 AB . . , 2 2 ‘ ‘ 2 : . ° 1 eovereun Hits batted obs 1, eff Kent 19. irene 2. off Jacobs 2, Seort 2 Beott 1 —By Gre y Seott 1, by MeWeeney i. Bases Om balle—Off Seott 2, off Gress 3, off Jacobse 1, off Burger 1, off Me~ Weeney 1. Wild pitch—Gregg. ftolen base—Kamm. Home run—Ellison, Thr base Lit—Kidred, Two-base hite—Kelly, eile, Sacrifice hite—Orr, J. Adama, Lane, Barney, Rune batted in—Orr, Barn Youle, Kelly 2. y stealing — Kilduff, unassisted: Rhye Eiltson Time of The score— Cleveinnd At Chie y > Ratteries: Morton, Winn and O's Faber, T. Blankenship and Behalk, yaa. Yar 4 Perkins; Rn ee ‘ Perkins, uM Fergy Batteries: = Rommel Piercy and Chaplin. AMERICAN LEAGUE w Loat. “ re) “ “T “ m1 Hn. eum 12 6 Thurston and Byler; Doyle At Vernon . Batteries and Murphy " ‘ ee Thomas 4 King, Dumovieh, Walla ‘rumpler RH. ws sms Som «3 Kremer B At Oakland .. ees Batter Fittery and Schang; and Koehler. NATIONAL LEAG! Won. T 7 cK T ‘4 1 New Tork .. Pitwebura ..- Cincinnatt Chicago at. Loule . 67 n. Pa At Phitadetphia $ 4 a Batteries; Seott and Snyder; Weinert G. Smith, Winters, Pinto and Henline, Peters. Chicago oe. ++ At Pittsburg nm HM. . Pres as) ‘ati 10 18 Batteries: Barfoot and Ainsmith, Clem ons; Kixey add Wingo Beven runs scored tn the fourth tn ning gave the Reds # 10 to 6 victory over the Cards and increased their hold on third piace. Yaryan's home run in the 1th Inning wave the White Box & @ to & Victory over the Indians, Pet Ww on a diamond was when the Detroit star scored all the way from first on an infield out. It was in Cleveland and |Kahler was pitching for our) Cobb was on first base. | slow] ‘club, 'The batter hit a |grounder to the first sacker jand the pitcher covered first. The hit and run sign had beer’ up and Cobb had start- ed with the pitch. Kahler | took the throw and made the ‘out at first, running a few steps beyond the bag. ! A great shout went up ifrom the stands and Kahler turned just in time to see Cobb make one of those wonderful slides of his into the plate. I'll never forget that speed. Cobb had ‘em all cheated o) the bases. Mascot of Browns Is Sensation 14-Year Bat Boy Plays Infield Like Veteran; Plans Major Career BY BOB DORMAN BOY of 14 already promises to rival Nick Altrock as « diamond attraction. Not with a line ef comic stunts, such as have made Nick famous, but by the all-round excelience of his performance when he gets out on the field in practice before the gare He te Joe Ryan from Terre Haute, Ind., the little mascot of the pen | nantchasiag St. Louls Browns. Jo@ playa second or first, scooping | 4p hard-hit grounders with the grace and ease of a veteran in elth- ler of the big leagues. He throws to first or second with the machine ike precision of the finished ball In the outfield he judges ike Tris Speaker | | player and catches files bimeeit. The Browns hit or throw to Joo| just as they would to one of them: | selves. Sometimes a ball turns the | diminutive mascot clear around, —he hangs onto that ball. Some. | times, between innings, when the} catcher fen't ready, Joe steps be. | ihind the plate and warms up the boxman. ‘That fans is shown by follows pvery move he makes But he hasn't » spoiled by being & big league attraction. How ever, he'd rather talk about the Browns than any other ono thing “Of course,” he says, “I'm going to| be a big league player when I grow up. Baseball's the only game in the world, and I'll be regularly in it as soon as I'm thru school.” | he's made a hit with the} the applause which | NEW AMATEUR GOLFING KING FOR AMERICA ROOKLINE, Mass., Sept. 8—/ America’s new amateur golf! champion was in the making here to- day when four stars entered the | semL-final round of the championship | tournuament, Jesse Gullford, 1921 champion, was | |eliminated yesterday, and for his| jcrown “Bobby” Jones, the Atlanta youngster, and Jesse Bweetzer, the Metropolitan champion, were to meet in one half, while the veteran West: | ern etar, “Chick” FE na, and Rudy | Knepper were to oppose each other in the other feature match Cooler weather prevailed today, | and the course was said to be in ideal | condition for golf. | Experts who have figured since | spring that this was Bobby Jones’ | year figured that he would beat | Sweetzer, and on the sensational | form he has been showing all thru | the tournament, Knepper was tho choice over Evans. IDAVIS AND. CLINTON TO HEAD CARD) 4 eY are still coming, these East.) ern welterweights. each one just a bit tougher than his predeces. sor, and Travie via ia still bDithely taking them on. On next week's card, | which Austin and Salt are engineer Clinton will fight the weight Champion Benny Leonard to | his credit, and has also held Lew | Tendier even The newcomer believes in getting the ground and into early. He was working out this aft ernoon at the promoters’ gymnast um, at 2 ocho on condition E LOST T0 G THE SEATTLE STAR | Prince Hal Chase, Baseball’s Tragedy | * * * BY LEO H. LASSEN HE Polo grounds were packed with humanity. The New York Giants were battling tooth and nail for first place. A visiting runner was on second, no one} was out and the Giants were leading in a! crucial game, 2 to 1. A sacrifice play was a cinch. The visitors simply had to get that runner to third on) the next play so he would be in a position | to score. That run meant the ball game. The batter dumped the ball along the first base line, a perfect bunt. Like a flash the first sacker dashed along the chalked line, picked the ball up with his bare hand, tagged the runner going to first and with a ter- rific throw to third caught the runner sliding into the look- in corner. if " etd er. The cr The P approval. throws out of the dirt. He'd be a star yet if he had played square.” And then the Stove league play-| ers prepared for the second inning eee mister, can I have a was panned grounds thundered tts ‘The scene shifts ‘The secgnd act of this base- bail tragedy is the corner store at Adair, Just one of those small upstate New York towns, the main street but & portion of the read flanked with @ building or two, the customary country bank and the drug store. The big steve in the center of the general store blazed a defi to the winter weather out- side, The “Stove league” season Was at fits hefght, | “He's the best first encker that} fever walked on a ball field.” the day when “Say, bet A little red-headed kid in over- alls, freckled and barefooted, thus addressed Charley Graham, manager of the San Francisco Seals, last year when he was batting balls around the San Jone infield in California prior to = game with the San Jose club. “What team do you play with,” asked Charley, in all seriousnens gttting quite a kick out of the youngster “ don't play with any team; 1 help the fellow on the scoreboard |} “Remember be saved the Giants the pennant with OLDEN BE | representations to the his great work. Purple cider, broth but that baby could field Yes, and didn’t he look le out there, making yn look easy.” “Too bad that such a ball player couldn't tend to his knitting on the Straight and Narrow, What a prince he seemed to be, digging bad er. like a ga those pla ‘Combining Thinking With Tennis Has “Made” Tilden HINKING tennis has placed Wil lam T. Thden among the world’s nuper-greata. Mental tennis is his game, Tackett, net and cool clay are only his material tools. When you're to Tilden you're engnged in a match of wit» not a me About bails if tween W. A. Larned and J.C. at the jermantown Cricket ¢ Philadeiphia. A few years same boy went to Wimbledon, land, and defeated the very Parke while royalty looked on Today Bill Tilden is on his way to defending his third successive cham: plonship. He has disposed of all the prelim inary formaliti with the excesition of defeating William Johnston, of California, and thie may be attended to during national championship week itself, beginning September 8 Tilden all the more a great player for being a very generous one, as shown in his tutoring of the young marvel, Vincent Richards, who shares honors with Big Bill in court go a ntim boy ran is cup match be Parke the Da and he asked me to get a ball from |one of the players.” | Charley gave him a ball and | at the end of the game, when he walked out across the field to | the exit, he looked up at the | the bottom of it, In a cheap sult of clothes, fond. ling a baseball. | | | | | | defending the Davis cup. Another his proteges is little Sandy | er, who, Bilt hopes, will be as at or greater than Richards him. lot w ® welt By reason of this willingness to help others, Tilden may be said to have founded a school of tennis of his own, so that his game will live after him." i ne people,” he says, “attribute | my success to my style of service. Others give the credit to my back hand. But the truth is, I haven't a stroke that Isn't done better by other “What I do 19 to co-ordinate all my strokes and select a particular | style, and my judgment in the use| of these strokes is what makes my | game. “T have atudied tennis since T was | years old. For 20 years I plodded san ordinary played. Then my experience began to tell. “It's a ecience. “I never try to figure out a game beforehand ‘roak services are useless “Be accurate, and then put on | speed. 6 along | | ny BARS he. Pete Kilduff played » whale of @ ne at second base for the he Kainier valley park yesterday, His only one when he me when he had toned to two Senttl 6. Hood « chance to break plate from third and Hood scored. Otherwixe Kilduff gave one of the best fielding exhibitions seen hereabouts this season, a Archie Yelle made th® apple groan yeaterday, the Frisco catcher ponding out four hits in four trips Rob Geary was due to pitch for the Heals today with Eimer Jacobs getting linton has two draws with Light-|the probable nasianment from Seattle, |ing show here Brick Eldred got his first hy been in stride no, but he « hat one yeaterday, w the tainly Billy Orr played a nice stip yesterday. ‘The big fellow t# junt finding himeelf again as he has played | every position on the club except the batteries since the st Bonttle lont a swell chance to amother | in th when Jack | lo play with the) away | LANGFORD AND | FORBES DRAW OLYMPIA, Wash, Sept. 8.—Bert Forbes and Young Sam Langford | | boxed six torrid rounds to a draw tn | | the main event of last night's box Langford, a tearing in fighter, forced the going, but | Forbes'’s cleverness easily evened the verdict wrbes's showing was #0 impres. sive that he was immediately signed |to meet Archie Stoy In the opening |show of the Aberdeen ring season, at short-| set for Sept. 18, ‘Orr Has Hard Job on Hands If He Leads Team to Ha- ds, Becaus: BILLY leads = his Star team Coast leage P to th Hawatian t i thin or A r rn thru then sto ped off at Hon lula with «hh player therm minor leaguers. According to Charley Graham. the club, who is her thin week advertised Don R former nd player, now 1 as Ty Cobb ¢ made other mi and fans. San Francoise I P Texas leagy 4 Do: fer, the ham also * rt Well, he After phe of people A there bal didn't get aw t game, only pt out t cording to Graham, have to hustle all the time whi and it will take some tall baw to make the peop! forget about Doyle Hawaiian s visit Graham Do: ball far ways such tactics c's were a bad knock to bas an it en ig the Honolulu. are ‘way over f Many of the players got dingusted with Doyle and left him flat tn th Orient Doyle Willard tages cirouit and ts in California a present is now “managing” J Orr expects definite word soon an | to whether or not arrangements wil be completed for the trip aie 3 i YESTERDAY'S HOME RUNNERS Athletics Walker, {| Meusel Lee, Phila oe Yaryan, White Sox 4 1 1 1 15 1 2 x Mousel's homer and os by Young helped the Giante ® 13 to € victory over the Phils AR ot fall, he faces a tough Japan » mont of of Gra handful them play Orr's team hurt the confidence of the ‘The latter is on the Pan triple and four Star Field in A. A.U. | 1922 Meet Jackson Scholz, Famous Sprinter, to Cover Bi Newark Event BY JACKSON Y. SCHOLZ WARK, N, J., Sept, 8—The en- try lst for the national A. A. U | ie Mu 16 ° championships, starting here today, | ts |contestants many anxious moments formidable enough to cause the before their events are called, and to! afford the fans @ good ot natin ltwction in the antictpation of exhibt {| tions of speed, strength and endur ance The quarter mile, | Saturday ure of ® | standpoint . competition, to be run on looks now to be the feat the meet, both from the of fast time and keen and will probably be |chalked up as one of the track his-| tory The talent in this he initiate | | 6 great racer | event is inspiring to } for it is seldom that a coterie of stare n brought together on one track, all of whose records are of such championship caliber. Fiv of the starters are credited |with time well under 60 seconds and | it's no rash statement to say they} wil finish ine within! 10 feet of each other The following men have records of 482.6 seconds for the distance, and} it in @ toss-up which of the five will] attain the coveted title: | Jake Driscoll, Boston A. A; Allen | Woodring, Meadowbrook lub; Billy |Stevenson, of Princeton; Larry Brown, of Penn, and Schiller, Los Angeles A. C. | Paddock’s absence from the sprints | is re but it ts doubtful if his presence would make the result any more certain, Such even time men as Leconey, McAllister, Murcht, von, Jones, Farrell, Paulin and Hays would give the present title-holder |n busy 10 seconds | Leconey at another time of the! 1 |season would be the choice In this event —the 220-yard dash — judging |from past recent performances, but m|in the national A, A. 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PAGE 17 vAD Pilot Has Sore Eyes From War Californi 2 Quarterback- Captain Is Troubled With Eyes, Says Orr BY LEO H. LASSEN ALIFORNTA may be without «the services of Charley Bb, captain - elect and erack quar terback of the Golden Beara, Eye trouble, contracted when he waaned in France, may keep Erb on the sidelines this year. The information as to Erb’s optics being on the bum comes from Billy Orr, Seattle shortstop, who is a doss friend of the California star, Erb's eyes were bad this spring, says Orr, and bothered him considers ably in baseball. He is troubled with granulated lids and has to wear VY glasses: b ts considered one of the great est fi ganerals In football. He selk dom carries the ball, but is in there just to direct the attack of his team, If Erb ts unable to play it will be a big blow to California as it takes experience to become a big league football general Orr says that the last time he saw Erb, a few weeks ago, he hoped thas his eyes would be O. 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