The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 10, 1922, Page 12

Sink Hope | of Tigers? Leave It to Second Divi- BY LEO H. LASSEN EAVE tt for some second team the wrench in base ball dope. to throw Boston Red Sox | New York Yank: winning the sea- son's series from the Amertean Jeague champions and nearly cost ing them the pen- nant. And re member what hit n did to St. Louis, Well, it looks like Oakland has Messed up Verhon’s chances of fin- in front of San Francisco, games and Harry Krause Tigers lost a splendid pass Frisco, as the Seals Jost the series to Los Angeles, four three. final week of the season is @arting today, with Oukland mov. _ tories this week to break the Coast over to San Francisco and Angeles clashing ‘The Seals are sporting a two-game Jead and all the dope figures them to hold it. But don’t count on it, as you never can tell what will happen . Lake opens here this after. e final series of the season. is going at a fine pace while the Bees lost five out of seven to Portland last week. Seven straight ‘wins will put the Indians in fourth place for the season. MIDDLETON 15 POPULAR Jimmy Middieton, who is finishing up the season as manager of the Portland Beavers, is very pppular with the Beaver bugs and players. He will undoubtedly be given « chance to lead the team again next year if he wants the job. Middleton mays the team will have to be fixed up in several spots. The Beavers have the nucleus for a good club next year. They had fine prospects thie spring until the team w: wrecked by a change of manag every other week or so. Middleton has the Beavers playing snappy base- ball now. DANFORTH TOO GOOD FOR MINORS Dave Danforth wasn't quite good enough for theg8t. Louis Braves, but he has proved himself too good for a Class A minor league team since joining the Tulsa club in the West- ern loop. Danforth, a corking good southpaw, is said to tamper with the ball. However that may be, he can be expected to be a worker in a high- er grade league next year. Jake May has 43 wins to his credit for the season. He needs two vic Jeague record of 34 wins for a season set by Cack Henley of Frisco, sev-| eral years ago when 30 weeks con- stituted a season. If May can turn the trick it will be « big honor as he ‘was out of the lineup for several weeks and the season is only 28 weeks long now. Another mark may fall here this ‘week. Paul Strand, leading hitter of the league, has 276 hits to his credit for the season and needs but seven more to pass Jay Kirke's mark of 281 for & year, to be a new batting king. Strand is playing the outfield for the Salt Lake Bees who open here today. NEW OREGON COACH Se a gear aaa Beans monk¢Y! avoy, Baltimore catcher PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Won. Lost fan Franctece .. rt eT) a Vernon r 3 ert Loa Angeles « ue yea Balt Lake Seatth ave} * roe ea sen unt 2 ue > traveling 2 Portiand Bacr: No HOMER BREAKS UP BIG MELEE BALTIMORE, Oct. 10.—Crashing | division | the ball Into the right field bleachers | with three men on the paths, Me} broke up the fourth game of the junior world’s series with St. Paul here yesterday, Look what th@|the Orioles winning, T to 3 The teams will shift to St. Paul to nearly did to the | finish up the series, Baltimore lead: | rtare ing by thr t 0. A. C. LANDS WRESTLING STAR George Selfridge, holler of the| 1922 P. N. A. 158-pound wrestling title and a Multnomah ¢lub cham- pion, has registered at O. A. C. and wil try out for the Agste mat! squad. one, UNDERSTUDY OF | ALDRICH LOOMS | Newell Neidlinger is the man Picked to fil! Mal Aldrich's shoes on the Yale football tearm this fall. He ts starring in the preliminary gamea. He understudied Aldrich last year and had about as much chance as a sub shortstop with the New York Yanks. CALIFORNIANS TO MAKE TRIP St. Mary's college and Pomona college of California will play pick ed teams in Hawait after the clone of the Coast football season. Both o* the Golden State teams will play a pair of games there each. Oregon visited the islands last season. HAS HE GOT A GLASS FOOT? C. Wells, brother of Bombardier ‘Wells, Engiand’s Count of Ten, is in San Francisco. He's quite a soccer player and is a member of the Bar- barians there. STAR BATTLERS TO FIGHT SOON Fay Keiser and Happy Littleton have been matched to box 15 rounds in New Orleans October 16. They | are two of the best big fellows fight: | ing in the East now. HAYNES LANDS CLUB POSITION Teddy Hayes, Jack Dempney's trainer for the Carpentier fiasco, is now athletic director of the Holly. wood Athletic club in Los Angeles, THE SENEGALESE —IN— Latest News Shots of the New 11:20, A. M., 12:55, 2:45, 4:35, 6:10, 8:00 and 9:50 P. M. | Earl Widmer, former assistant wrestling coach at Columbia untver- aity, New York, has charge of the Oregon mat squad this season, of the acid test. the Giants. every chance to hit. in five games. THE SEATTLE STAR BY LEO H.LASSEN HE test of real greatness is the man who can deliver in the Babe Ruth, champion home run hitter of all time, fizzled in the face inch. The home run king made just two hits in the world series games with The Giant pitchers didn’t pass him purposely and he had His contribution to the series was just two hits, a single and a double, Perhaps Ruth was trying too hard to deliver, but the cold fact is that he was tried and found wanting. ‘New Haven Is Given Spotlight Yale and lowa Battle in| Big Game of College Football Saturday OCUS the football spotlight on New Haven Saturday One of the ont pions, goes East to batule Yale. The lowans have lost two of th greatest stars in Aubrey Devine, the master quarterback, and Bob Slater, the giant colored tackle, But Yale has also lost Mal Aldrich, one of the Kreatest backs (that ever wore a Blue jersey Another intersectional game will be played by the Army, the Cadets tangling with Alabama Poly. Michigan goes South to play Van orbit at Nashville in the third big intersectional battle Saturday PULL SATU The Washington State Cougars will be making their debut of the eason Saturday, tangling with Gon ace at Spokane. The Staters have heen jumgling their lineup around considerably this year, Coach Welch faces o big task in replacing several Je by sraduation, chief among whom were Mike Moran, the Slant fulllack, and “Dutch” Dunlap, the class of Coast centers for three years. MAN STARTS RDAY WEAKENED The University of Idaho has been has been declared ineligible by the Coast conference. He played in the Rocky Mountain conference last year and can’t play for the Vandals until 1923, It was his boot that beat Whitman 3 to © Saturday. His in- eligibility may cost Idaho the game if Whitman protest, It was a Northwestern conference battle. IDAHO HERE SATURDAY Idaho, coached ty “Matty” Math wn, Washington frosh coach last searon, plays Washington here for the first tinme In several years, Mathews knows his stuff as « foot ball coach and he can be counted upon to have a well drilled team Idaho replaced Whitman on Wash- Ington'’s schedule this fall LAST WEEK TO DECIDE FLAG RACE AN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10.--This week will decide whether Ver- non or San Francisco wil! finish as pennant winner in the Coast league race for baseball honors. Rain today greeted the firmt game of the final series for the Seals, scheduled to be played here with Oakland as an opponent. While more encournging weather reports came from Lon Angeles, where Ver- non and the Angels will do their fighting. The Seals go into the concluding nerien with a two-game lead over Vernon, for which much thanks may be due to the Oaks, who trim med the Vernonites five out of seven games last week. THREE GOLFING STARS STUDY Three of the leading amateur golf stars of the nation are university students. Jenne Sweetaer ts a junior at Yale; Bobby Jones is a junior at Harvard, and Rudy Knepper is a senior at Princeton. William Wrigley is going to build la new park in Lon Angeles, and he anys there will be no ‘signs on the fences of the Angels’ new home. Maybe they'll be covered with Spear mint vines and julcy fruit. GENE SARAZEN LOSES DOUGH NEW YORK, Oct. 1¢ —Lald up for nix weeks as @ resuit of an operation, Gene Sarazen, America's greatest golfer, will loge $2,000 in matches als will fill the dates Sarazen had to cancel, “BASEBALL Pacific Coast League SALT LAKE va. SEATTLE DOUBLE-HEADER 1 O'CLOCK Y, 245 Second, Near Pike reat: | Inter sectional | fame: the seanor in booked for the historic Bulldog bowl when Towa, | 1971 Big Ten cham: | weakened considerably by the loss of | Hob Fitske, crack dropkicker, who | Walter Hagen and other profession: | ACTION | || New Man Slated to Star as Back | for Bear Eleven Coming up as the best man of the 1921 frosh team, Bpud Bpalding t4| fod with the California football team. He will be one of the players seen in action with the against Washington on November 11. FROSH GRID TEAMS START ON SATURDAY| ASHINGTON’S frosh teams will play their firet football games of the season Saturday, the first tit being scheduled for Denny field with the Naval Apprentice school, at 10:0, and the second with Bt. Martin's Golden Beara} making @ stromy did for a halfback | Cleveland. college, at 1:90 Coaches Kekmann | @ritiea for the opposition. last year being well represented. BIG BASEBALL Ruth had done marvelously well in the season’s play, figuring that he Another | Champ 9 for P. C. Danny Kramer, L. A. Ban- tam, Is Showing Good Class ILL the = Paelfie Coast produce an other world’s ring champion in Danny Kramer? ‘That's what Low aport think of south paw bantam weight, who is the king of the fourround game in California at Kramer, built lke « village black smith, is one of the hardest hitters the bantamweight division has ever seen. He is winning regularly in L. A, now Kramer recently had bids to go Fast, but he has been making such g00d dough in L. A. that he can’t see hin way clear to go East for the long er fights at present. The southpaw miller did make one trip Kast and his biggest victory was fiveround K. 0. of Kid Wolfe of Bince then Wolfe has de feated Joe Lynch, but he didn’t make the weight and Lynch kept the title, Naturally Wolfe's victory put Kramer in the limelight JOSEPHS VS. M. JONES Morgan Jones ts growing out of the Hhtweight clans. The Tacoma youngster meeta Jack Josephs in the up-Bound city Thurs day in & six-round engagement, | SHOULD SHOW WINNER HERE Two of the best little battlers tn the Northwest, Vic Foley and Mike Ballarino, have never shown their wares in Beattie, They are both ag- and Smith | gressive millers and are great main haven't had their men out for prac-| event material. They fought a draw tice very Jong, and they face @ aweet|in Tacoma a week ago and are | task In having two teams picked and | matched again for a 10-round session \in Vancouyer, B. C., Friday. The frowh material is strong this | promoters ought to give Seattle some qeason again. with the cream of the new faces and bringing the winner of Seattle and Northwest prep men of this bout here soon would do that Local litte thing. BOB 18 “THRU” DEAL RUMORED | nev Marun, a. £. ¥. champion, « NEW YORK, Oct. 10-—Rumors in| Dattler with a great heart but no | baseball cireles report that eddie Col. |Sbility, Is just about done. }itns and Dick Kerr will came to the Yankees from the W Sox this winter, in exchange for Carl M: Norman MeMillan and Erin Ward, | Collins to become manager of the Yanks, |DAVE SHADE IS BEATEN IN EAST BOSTON, Oct Boston welterweight, won a California, 10.—Eddie Sheviin, | Floyd Johnaon stopped him recently, and Johnson in no world benter, At least he didn't look it in Seattle when [he beat Willie Meehan here. | TENDLER HAS |BAD HANDS Lew Tender may never again reach the peak of ring greatness. He is Inid up at present with bad hands, injuring his mitts in training, In a recent fight with Ever Ham 10-\ mer, Tender hurt his hands so bad. |round decision from Dave Shade.jiy that he had to call off several bouts. Te years ago the Bt. Louls Browns were in desperate straits for a second baseman to fill |the shoes of Joe Gedeon, who had been dismissed because he bet on a | world’s series he knew was crooked. Marty McManun looked like he never would do. Bobby Quinn, of the Browns, #ent out calls for help, and among those to whom he appealed was Ray Ryan, then managing the Virginia league. “What sort of a second baseman do you want?’ Ryan asked. “Any sort who can field a ground ball and start @ double play,” an- swered Quinn “Luke Hart can do that,” answered “Luke Stuart can do that,” an- xwered Ryan, “He's been playing ball in the minorse for five or six St. Louis Browns Bought Player for Just One Buck Billy Gleason had fallen down, and| life, but if you want a man fust to field around second base, he's the bo: “Name the price,” said Quinn. “Name it yourself,” said Ryan. “If he's worth a dollar to you, send it to me tn postage stamps.” Stuart waa “bought.” The day he reported to the Browns, Marty Mo- Manus suddenly came to and looked Uke the best second baseman in the world—and kept It-up. Stuart never fot his chance, but was shipped to ‘Tulsa. Out there in the Western league he ts hitting about .3: say he has McMan‘ ied to @ port when It comes to fielding around nec. ond base. Last winter, settling up, Quinn sent Ryan a check for $2,000 in payment for Stuart. Luké Stuart could not be bought from Tulsa to. years, and never hit over .240 in hin|day for $20,000, Idaho Must Make Shift to ‘OBCOW, Idaho, Oct. 10.—With no injuries to impede practice, |the Vandals are starting to strength- jen their football machine prepara- tory to the invasion of Huskie terrt- | “ory Saturday. It was quite apparent that Idaho |coaches were highly concerned with injuries which might result from a clash with such a veteran squad an Whitman's, but only a tew minor in- Juries were recorded. Upon the team's return from Whitman Coach Mathews did not mive indication that any changes were planned or would take place, but the recent action of the Pacific Const Conference committee in plac: ing Bob Fitzke, star halfback, on the ineligible list will make some sort of an emergency shift necessary. Fitzke won against Whitman with his 30-yard dropkick, He booted an other over from midfield, but it was spoiled by Idaho offsides, Fill Bob Fitzke’s Place Captain Babe Brown, who kicked considerably during the latter part of season, may be pulled from nd berth into the backfield. Babe is a consistent punter, but his toe lacks the high educational qualities which characterizes Fitzke's perform: ances, This shift will not hazard the end position, for Mathews seems to have ® legitimate supply of end Umber. Idaho's big problem at Whitman was similar to that encountered by any other team playing together for the first time, and serious ef: fort will be made to ol) the machine during the next few days, Of the entire squad only six are left-overs from Kelly's squad of Inst year, Of these only four were reg |ular players, ‘The other two mak- ing their letters by substitution Washington's easy victory over the Montana Grizzlies makes prospects somewhat doubtful, vandal | was out of the lineu game. ager, Miller Huggins. John McGraw’s tactics! If it wasn’t for Ruth’s hittin, minor league because he’s a terrible fielder and baserunner. Ruth isn’t bigger than the game—the game made Ruth, and they played baseball before he came on the scene with his big bat, and they’ll still be playing baseball when he eras z Morrie Lax is in Ban Prancteco, | where he will meet Oskiand Jimmy | Dutty shortiy, ‘They must be « | Mike De F | he raed fram o | _ dohuny Dundes, the veteran New Yorker, wetahe only 124% pounds, aed yet he ts seoking @ bout with y Darey and med up to will meet acoording Rows City HARVARD AND 'Y ALE COMING BACK ON GRID | BY HENRY L. FART IAJEW YORK, Oct. 10 the | AN present year at leant Eastern football seems to have returned |the glory of Harvard and Yale The two ancient members of the “big three” have started on season that should produce | establinhe another fairly ttle for one of them. Princeton, badly wrecked j@raduation and house cleaning, hasn't the bright prospects of her fellow members of the trio that ured to rule the gridiron of the Fant without dispute, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Cor nell, Dartmouth, @yrneuse and the jArmy and Navy have a |amooth course laid out in front of them. Every coach tn the East te work ing at the development of drop kickers and the present season may bring out one of the greatest ar raya of booting stars in history. As the Western conference does janet get under way for another week, | it ts hard to forecast what the Mid. die Went wil! develop, Next Satur \tave game between Yale and Iowa, Jeonference champion of 1921, will give a good line on both teams, an it is the firts important game of the seanon, GIANTS WON’T MAKE JOURNEY NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Upon the advice of John McGraw, manager of the Giants, Art Nehf, Irish Meusel and George Kelly will decline the In- vitation to go to Japan with a spe- clally picked team, it is understood. LUIS FIRPO TO RETURN TO U. S. BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 10.—Luis Firpo, heavyweight champion of | South America, who knocked out Jim Tracey Sunday, t* planning to re. turn to the United States. He may engage in several more bouts here before leaving. WE DON’T BLAME HIM Asa rule, a champion tries to get the goat of an opponent by trying to over six weeks b; t But Ruth’s big mistake is that he thinks he is bigger than the game. Be- cause of his prowess as a home-run hitter Ruth has taken up the writing In his resume of the series Ruth had the crust to criticise his man- It is this lack of team co-operation that the Yankee prima donnas refuse their manager that cost them the series. 3 Imagine Ruth or any other player on a Giant team publicly panning fairty | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1922, Babe Ruth Fizzled in Face of Greatest Test suspensions. has hit his last homer. Many Baseball Records Broken in 1922 Season. Home Run Records Were Smashed; Ty Cobb Ties Stick Records; Fight for Pennants Was Mighty Close; Billy Evans Reviews Major Seasons BY BILLY EVANS HE 1922 baseball season, just closed, stan out as one of the most remarkable in maj league history. % The unexpected has happened, records” have been broken, thrills galore have been produced. of the season. Third place which carries | whic that De' \advance of Chicago. In the National League, second in the race were not decided until the final day of the sea- son. Cincinnatl, by winning a double | header from Pittsburg, took second place from that club. An even split | would have insured the Pittsburg club the runner-up position. 8t | Louls, by defeating Chicago, worked itself into a tle with Pittsburg for third place honors, HOMER HABIT CONTINUES The homerun habit, |years back, continued thruout the 1922 season. As a result, home run totals were shattered. Last reason the American league |teame made 477 home runs, the Na- tonal 460, @ total of 937 circuit clouts, In the campaign just closed the National league made 529 homers, the American 625, a total of 1,054. A new home-run king war crowned in the person of Rogers Hornsby. With 42 home runs to hie credit he dethroned the erstwhile “Sultan of Swat.” Babe Ruth. Last season Hornsby made only 21 home runs. In the American league, Ken Wil- Hams, of St. Louis, and Tilly Walk- er, of Philadelphia, nosed out Babe Ruth. A late start of eight weeks cut Ruth's figure to 35 for the sea- son, Williams made 39, Walker 37. NEW HOMER LEADER Horneby, in making 42 home runs, eet a new National league figure. In 1984 Ed Williamson made 27 home runs. That mark has stood the test of all the great hitters un- {) Hornsby came thru. Ken Williams, of the Browns, and Walter Henline of the Phillies, in making three home runs in one game, pulled the unusual. Walker, of the Athietios, and Hornsby, of the St. Louis Cardi- nals, on five occasions during the season, made two home runs in a gamp. Coanie Mack's team, after holding | Undisputed possession of last place look him down when they get inte |" the American league since 1914, the ring, or by making some slight. |°™ereed from that damp, dark hole ing remark when the referee is giv. ing them instructions, Tut Jackson tried to bluff Harry Wills when the referee was telin: them how they were to fight “shall I go back to my corner when he's down?” Jackson asked Wills laughed out joud CHANEY WINS PHILAD! MIA, Oct. 10. George Chaney, Baltimore light, weight, won an eight-round de. cision from Shamus O’Brien, New | York. NEW BEDFORD, Oct. 10.— Bobby Dyson defeated Teddy Joyce, Canadian bantam, in 10 rounds, Full Line steds in the new- 1315 Third Ave. ovrositea osrerncs jin favor of the Boston Red Sox. The winning of 27 games by Ed }@ie Rommel, with the Athletics, stands out as one of the greatest jpitching performances in years |The Athletics won 65 games, Rom- mel winning nearly half of them. COBB PLAYS HIS PART Ty Cobb, as usual, played a prom. ~jinent part in the unusual happen- ings of 1922. Three major league batting rec. ords were tied by Cobb, By batting better than .300, Cobb equaled the record of Hans Wagner, who, for 17 seasons, topped that figure. ability he wouldn’t even be in a high class The American League pennant winner was not decided until a day before the close” world series, also hung in the balance until a day before the close of the race. : Some idea of the battle for third place was won by Detroit, can be gleaned from the fact troit finished one game ahead of Cleveland, the: fourth place team, and the Indians were just one game in 2 started two} ca RAE I 4 in the Ameriean league race, with it a juicy cut in the ¢ LS 8 and third place position In making more than 200 base” hita, he equaled the record of Wik lle Keeler, who, for eight a4 beat that mark. , By batting better than .400, Co equaled the feat of Jesse Burki who, for three seasons, recorded @ 400 or better average, & MORE REMARKABLE Cobb's record, in a way, is remarkable than Burkett's, st the foul strike rule was not in fect when Burkett was in the gi However, the ball today is n | livelier than the one Burkett hit Rogers Hornaby, by getting hits in five times at bat in the game, finished the season a better than .400, Not since 1899 has any Na’ league player batted over .400. that year Ed Delahanty with Philadelphia Nationals had a no of 408. ONLY EIGHT IN ELECT Only eight National league ers since the inception of that ganization have batted better 400. The showing of the Boston Sox against the New York Yank during 1922, ts proof positive of tl uncertainties of the National time. ‘ New York won the pennant inthe — Amfrican league, Boston finish last, yet the Red Sox team was only club to win the series fron the American league pennant wind | ners, Boston taking 13 of the 2: games. Joe Bush, who, by his great pitch- ing, materially assisted New York in winning the American league pennant, also has a grievance against the Red Sox. YoU CAN NEVER TELL Bush won 26 games and lost only, 7, yet five of the seven games that 7 he lost were won by Boston. Another unusual series was the one etaged between the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox, | Inabitity to beat Chicago was one of the big reasons why the Detroit club had to be content with third place. Chicago won 17 out of the — 22 games played with the Tigers. Another incident decidedly out of | the ordinary was the feat of the | young college pitcher, Pruett, of th St. Louis wns, who struck out) Babe Ruth fhine times during the season. The in which the Chic Cubs beat the Phillies 26 to 23 will | live long in the records of baseball © as one of the greatest of slugfests. evesizokictokiceicl’ + sabaotvedel Seven teams bave entered the pro fessional Mhio: Baskethall league fo! the 1922-23 season. Play will start the first week in December. and si year. substitute when VAN ‘HEUSEN. Hi there isn’t any. . VAN HEUSEN the Worlds Smartest COLLAR HE foremost indi- cation of good taste in dress three hundred five days a Buy your collars of a reputable retailer, He won't offer you a you ask fora knows PHILLIPS.JONES CORPORATION, Melers, 1228 BROADWAY, NEW YORK Bok eddieroll aves Your Shirts