The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 2, 1922, Page 11

AY, NOVEMBER 2, 1922. Frisco to | ACEI) Keep Star | |W Southpaw Oliver Mitchell Won't Be, Recalled by Cincy Reds for Next Year BY LEO H. LASSEN we LIVER TWIst MITCHELL, the JHILE the bullding of the Onto Garaing 100018 sesen that the hie. universities were southpaw of the) xpecialiging in sport, such te San Francesco! tom the truth. on #g) won't be! ‘the heres! atudium at Obio Fecalled by th) gate in simply the center of Obi CN. NN Ee. a onitte an first reported." "Tne atopan toda ri thieti “ NE a ee trail caida eens rest many Instead of merely the Seals, turn-|* SW who have great proficiency in their particular tine of sport The horseshoe stadium which wil! seat close to 10,000 was built to take cure of the big spectacios, the var aity foothall progre However, varsity football and the stadium ts fust one of the many ath. letio notivities at State The others Appeal to those who desire exerct for pleasure, health and efficiene rather than the glory that goes to the college hero. A program has ween mapped out by the university which calls for the ing in a flock of vietories for the champions of the Coast league He came to the Seals in part pay ment for Jimmy Caveney | Mitchell wasn't rated very highly by other Coast league players, but he got by and that's what counts. He was a frequent worker and the big gest winner for the Bay City team It was thought that he would be recalled by the Reds to help out Eppa Rixey, the lanky Ohio portaider. ultimate construction of 100 ténnis Why he won't return to the die courts, 34 intramural diamonds, show hasn't been given out. Perhaps eight football fields and scores of horseshoe pitching courts. Russ Hall, Red scout on the coast, It was chiefly. for thin feature of didn't put his OK. on him BRENTON HAD college life that 92 ucren were set inte YEAR apart for the recreational unit TERRE around the stadium, which would Herb Brenton, Oakland right-hand er, had the worst season of his ca reer as a pitcher during 1922 He won but five games all year.and drop take care of every ture of college life. In thus centering the athiettc actty. ities it will be possible to eliminate phase of that few THE ATTLE STAR NEBRASKA RESENTS SELECTION OF PENN STAT A Sextet of Tigers Broadway is out of the high school'race, but the Tigers let the opposition know they have been in battle before admitting defeat. They have lost two games, both by close scores, winning another and tying their other start. six of the Broadway regulars: No.1, Ryan, end; No. 2, Hill, guard; No. 3, Waggoner, quarterback; No. 4, Stirrett, tackle; No. 5, English, halfback; No. 6, Capt. Roy Meiste: ped something like 25. Brenton has» a lot of natural stuff, but doesn't cover it up well enough, according to Coast league hitters. LAST CHANCE many of the ball fields, tennis courts and other branches of play that are | now scattered over the campus. | Rot only will thie add interest In athletios, but will give the oppor FOR HOMER tunity to further beautify — th Ike Wolfer, Portland dutfielder, |‘? ‘aay yt made only one homer in 1922, and “@PUs Ets venation in leat extp to thie plate » university in the country pays more attention to intramural ath In his closing game of the with Sacramento, the score was tled in the ninth. The Beaver pitcher reached first base and Wolfer stepped to the platter and kissed the ball over the garden wall, ending the game with a victory. «than Obio State And with the new conditions tt will far surpass all others. Steam-Up Being Made for Title Bout in Gotham ELDING Young Wrightstone, Philadelphia National league tnfielder, holds the NEW YORK, Nov. &—Intime- 4 for chances accepted in a ma-(| tions that Jack. Dempsey plans to Jor league game for 1922, with 15, || *° to London tn January are looked upon in fight ctreles nere as a “steam up” by Nis managers for a bout with Tommy Gibbons or an effort to get the boxing commission to perm!t him to face a eod or third sacker. If he gete a || %™* other contender besides a owe . be will shift Jimmy || Harry Wille here this winter . eae nw tes ween bag, and|| Stace Battling Sikt has an- 2 page coe ye player, he || Rounced that he ts coming here se will leave James at the hot corner. || — anepen, Bendy ‘ed thita ome penttion, the Ath: || T2™ @ 4 trip acroas for a a oo. well fixed foe infielders || Hout with him when he could get a letics a ahould be able || Ore money in this country, and “i bag hangs pager ably, || t WA% considered a cinch that np ee accep » || Dempsey never will flight Wills in vi? while Galloway ts said to be the most || i ondon ‘a! improved ball player in the Ameri. In some quarters, Dempsey’s ean league. || sudden announcement about a Bs |] trip was thought to be propa- ganda to spread the tmpresgion that Dempsey ts afraid of Gib- bons and thereby stir up more in- terest in the proposed match. BATTLEGROUND | STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 2.- ton today. where they are to meet the Navy eleven in American league ball park Friday afternoon. Coach Hugo Bezdek is not over op- timiatic. “We have to play against one of the toughest lines in the East | and the defeat sustained by the Navy | ASEBALL always has and al- Against Penn last week will make ways will provide them a much more dangerous oppo- | twisty Detroit got Eddie Ainamith nent than they have been this sa- ay te waa from Washington and he proved a | valuable backstop for a few years, | playing better ball for Detroit than jhe ever played for Washington | VOTES ROWING. 6aAinamitn ona att American seat | Rowing has been voted a major|“lU>S Waived. The St. Louis Na sport at Reed college, in Portiand.| ‘nals claimed him. He played re- It {= now on even footing there with|™&Tkable bal! for the Curdinals al | basesall, footbal and track. An eight-oared crew will be put on the wat«r next «pring. most from the day he joined them| as one of the and has been regarded main factors in the #u ee Bt. Louis Nationals, He | and ts listed am ss sluggers of the league. Lafayette Pilot TE Watiohel league clube. waltes on George Cutshaw last autumn. Is Crack Guard; |! detroit got him Cutshaw haw had 8 + [more to do with the success of the All American Man [Tigers than any indtvtdual member of the club with the possible excep. | tion of Johnny Bassler Cutshaw never played am well for Pittsburg as for Detroit Trying to explain Cutshaw's exce)-| lent work the past season a base ball man recently said that it wax because of management and own- ership, Cutshaw would undoubtedly havé the same explanation. But there is Ainamith! He went back} under the same management and} ownership under w ih Cutehaw be. came a powerful factor. ‘There ts @ great deal in baseball that defies explanation |JOHNSON IS __ BENEDICT NOW Sylvester Johnson, Portland grad. | uate, who made good with a bang | hurling for Detroit this year, has joined the benedicta. Ruth Heite. man, an Oregon sweetheart, is now Mrs, Johnson. BIKE RIDER HURT CHICAGO, — Nov 2.—Alfonso Speissens, riding in the Belgian team at the six-day bicycle race here, was probably fatally hurt when he was thrown from the track today, Speissens was riding hard during the early morning sprints when he collided with Albert Oll- veri. He was thrown clear of the track to the coliseum floor, a fall| of “about elght feet. At the hows) pital ft was said he had conous wion of the brain and peasibly a fractured skull GRATITUDE ST. LOUIS, Nov of the\for the fine showing in the pennant race, the owners of the St, Loni! Hrowns gave their players $26,000. It was sald the shares varied from $200 to $1,000 each. s a bonus aptain Schwab, captain Tafayette team this year, was an All merican guard last year, and he ia Playing 4 biy role in the success of the team ayuin thin year, a blanket over him. r, fullback. Welterweight Title Changes Hands in 15-Round Bout in New York; Champion’ 's Ring Craft Is Only Thing That Saved Him From Knockout; Story of Fight BY HENRY L. FARRELL NEW YORK, Nov, 2.—Youth, to make good the old, old legend, has been waiting a Mickey Walker. The 20-year-old Jersey boy it. aqueerilast night and took the welterweight championship of the world away from the ring-aged Jack Britton. Walker won decisively after and it was only the shrewd brain and the stout heart of 42-year-old Britton that} enabled him to slip out mel under the crown on his feet. Walker won graciously, and Brit-| ton lost gallantly, as he has fought! for 20 years. With not a sign of emotion on his characteristic poker face, with the exception of @ rather wistful look: in hig tired eyes, Britton walked to Walker when the decision was an-| nced, and said You're a good kid, Mickey. you hold it a« long as I aid.” ‘There was nothing to the fight for five rounds, The master of the ring, | the marvelous boxing Britton, smoth: | cred the rushing tactics of the youth- ful challenger as if he had thrown Walker was aiming for a spot on the jaw that was never there when the glove ar- rived | In the #ixth round, In response to | wise words from his corner, Walk or switched his tactics and started | for the champion’s body, Britton | was immediately in a bad way, In ath round the champion was tired and going along on Hope | ly his brain Britton tarted talking in the ninth round, but Walker only smiled at “Old Stuff" and kept rushing in. In the tenth round Walker got over several hard lefts to the jaw and the veteran's knees sagged Britton was on the floor from a right ta the jaw when the bell rang Tired as he was, Britton came back in the 11th and started to} pound Walker all over the ring. From the exertion and the atiff| punches in his stomach, Britton was | hardly able to stand, but he kept go- | ing | A terrific right to the body put Britton down for nine in the 13th round, and practically finished him Thru the rest of the fight he was fn | there just to avold a knockout, and | @ smart fight from the brain that | held out until the last enabled him | to lowe without the humiliation of a| knockout Britton was never more admirable in victofy than he was in dofent last | night. Everyone in the crowd that ked the garden to the lat seat w it Way Just a question of youth | “go when a toast was proposed the end of the fight—"'To the mest and Grandest Champion Who Kver Lost’—the mob nearly brought down the house, jin 1918 oF 1919, the former year-be- long time for someone like arrived in answer to the call 15 rounds of furious fighting JUNIOR MEN SPLIT EVEN ON SUCCESS) ITH Baltimore winning this) year's junior world’s series from St, Paul by the margin of five games to two, the International league and the American Associa- tion are now on even terms for cap. turing the highest honors of minor leaguedom, each league boasting ot) two victories in the four series) played. Tho first series between the pen- nant winners of the two league was played in 1917 with Toronto and | Indianapolis as the contenders, and was won by the Association team. | There were no post-season games! between the two class AA clroulte| cause of the early closing date due to the war, and the latter becaune St. Paul, winner in the Association, | refused to play Baltimore, prefer: | ring to go to Vernon to play the! Pacific coast champions, and losing | that series five games to four, Tn 1920 both Bt. Paul and Baitt- more again won their flags and the neries was resumed, the Orioles de. feating the Saints by winning five! games out of six. Last year Louis. ville and Baltimore met and the Association flag winner was vic- torious five games to three, LEE KING GOES TO A. A. CLUB| Portland's chanoes of landing Out- fielder Lee King from the New York | Giants in the Rube Walberg sale have been blasted, King goes to In dianapolis as part payment for the return of Ralph Shinners to the Giants. ” IOWA DEFERS DECISION CHICAGO, Nov. 2—Jowa's ac ceptanoe of an invitation to play Yale again next fail is something for the faculty committee to decide at ft» December meeting, according to Major Griffith, commissioner of | athletics In the Western conference: LONG JOK WINS NEW YORK, Nov. 2-—-In_ the) first bout of the wrestling season, | Joe Stecher Charley Cutler, | ‘th a scissors hold in two straight | fallin, | take Y Wis, YWYHA Me Jack Britton Dethroned |Mct Stars | by Young Mick Walker Limbering ¥ | Up Today Arena Ice “Thrown Open to Skaters; Practice Starts Monday 1 Arena ice was thrown open to the Seattle skat ers last night for the 1922-28 nea- son. ‘This afternoon several regulars were expected to go thru some skating stunts to limber up for the practice grind that starts Mon- day Rowe, Foyston, Walker, Fraggr, Bride, Holmen jand possibly Riley were to be on hand today. Morris and Rickey aren't ex- pected to report until next week ‘The season starts Nov. 18, which will give Manager Muldoon but @ week's time in which to prepare the gang for the opening of the season. The Mets play two gamen in three days to start the season, opening at Vancouver on @ Monday and jump- ing back to Seattle to pry the lid oft of the local season with Victoria here, Vancouver follows Victoria to Se attle and then the Bt. Pats, world’s champions of Toronto, will be here the following week for an exhibition tunale, LOS ANGELES SPRING PLANS ‘The Low Angeles Const league olub will train as Elsinore, Cal, again next spring. Manager Killefer that after the Chicago Cubs break camp at Catalina inlands his team will be stationed there for two weeks. MORE BAD LUCK NEW YORK, Nov, 2.—Jock Soott, pitching hero of the world series, threw his knee out in an exhibition game against a colored team here last Sunday and may be of no use next season, according to informa- tion reaching the office of the New York Giants, Scott is said to have rescived $40 for playing. NEW HAVEN Agreement of the “big three” not to long trips for tntersectional football games does not mean that other teams cannot make trips to Yale, Harvard or Princeton for gaines, the “Yale News” sald offi cially, explaining the much-disouss- ed stand on intersectional games. ‘The veteran, Jake Daubert, showed that he can still play a game of ball or two by taking part in every one of the 156 games played by the Cin. cinnatl Reds this year. So did the veteran outfielder, George Burns, Here are | Mid-West Steam Roller Piays Syracuse Saturday, dena Outlook; Cornhuskers Have One of the Strongest Teams in History of University and a Victory Saturday Would Make Rose Selection Smell Bad dena, Californi. game. aration for th im Los Angele: would have accepted the bid t Has Scott Cr S Everett Scott, star shortstop of the New Vork Yankees, overdoing the continuous record stunt for games played? Unless the records err, Seott has played 946 consecutive major league gar without a miss. That is indeed # most remark- able performance Some idea of Scott's unusual rec ord can be gleaned from the fact that @ weanon'’s play in the majors: consists of 154 games. Figures | show us that Scott has played al- | most neven full seasons without mins | ing a ball game. | | Late in September of the season Just closed Scott had a close call on having bis string of lgames shuttered However use of w taxicab, and the ture of about $40, he keep his record clean consecutive by the expendi managed to So, naturally, § Strain of Game Record? E BY PASADENA Cniitasicers, With Strong Team, | Would Have Accepted Invitation and Result May Change Pasa- BY LEO H. LASSEN ASHINGTON has an outside chance of representing the West at Pasa- ia, New Year's day in the attle grid fans hav e big game. Penn State, the team that trimmed Washington here last year, has already been invited to represent the East, and the Nittany Lions have accepted the invitation. The first rumble in protest to the selection of Penn State has sounded Minor, footoal! official in the Movie city and for- mer University of Nebraska moleskin star, declares that Nebraska has the strongest team in the country this s. Harr yea 0 Pasadena. Nebraska has a wonderful team, without a doubt, if their scores so far t the Missouri valley conference are any indication of strength. Saturday the Cornhuskers travel to Syracuse, N. Y., to play the beefy Syracuse club. acked Under The New York club jumped t |Chicago from that city to open the fina) invaston of the West. Havin) an off day, Scott spent it at his hom Indiana, His train was delaye ase of engine trouble on the da: of the opening game Discovering that in he was just get @ taxi in the small town fi ‘which the train was held up, and by 4 wild ride arrived in time to get in| left half; Lewellen, right half; Cap 4 the closing innings of the game. Scott is a rather slight fellow, and the impression is gaining that the strain of his perform- ance is telling on him and that an occasional rest would greatly help his work, Last season he was just on ordinary shortstop and in the world series he played away below par. “Lockstep” Shift Is Used by Centre in Harvard Gam VEN in defeat, Centre College keeps the football tans talking and affords copy for the scribes In going down to defeat before Harvard, Centre came thru with something new in football, a lockstep formation, already known as the “Bing Sing” shift The “lockstep” Centre in the Harvard game, made the fans stare tn amazement, and equally bewildered the eleven, for a time at least After Centre had gained 50 con- secutive yards by the use of the play |and was in @ position to score, Har | vard finally was able to solve It, and surprise feature of the play. It is possible that the shift was overworked, and that Centre would have profited had they varied the atyle of play after getting within scoring distance. In the Harvard game, four variations for the freak stunt ‘entre used of the entire team. and, with a lockstep, marched calmly and deliberately to either the right lor left, according to the signal, Un like most shifts, there was no burry to it, no attempt to get the oppost tion off its balance with a quick maneuver and a quicker thrust, Always the shift left one of the perfect a defense that nullified the | ends far to one side—and It was he | who passed the ball diagonally to| gridiron teams will clash in one of the back at the apex of a diamond /the classics of the season in New Robert was the|York Saturday when Washington formation. Capt man who usually received the ball. Sometimes the shift called for just one movement to the right or left. | Sometimes it called for a march to shift, as used by | the right and a return to the left, or | vice versa. tion before the play is ntre'’s new stunt, shift call for per raised about C The “Sing Sing’ fect timing. It play. Its value lies largely in the fact that ft upsets the opposition, ince it offers possibilities for @ \s tion. Charley Moran, | step simply said: “A similar play to the one that Centro used against Harvard was in use as far back as 1891, before any of the players who took part in the Centre-Harvard game were born. | sets of the year. The Penn team |The play is #o old it is new. ‘That ian.” Rowdotn and Maine will meet in England foot- ‘The Califernia-Washington state fe the big battle booked for th this week. They meet at Berk | Colgate and Lehigh clash Beturday tn t should be a hard-fought game be- m two evenly Gi} Doble’s Cornell team should have no trouble defeating Columbia at Ithice Katurday, ae it seems as if the Columbia team has cracked. | Dartmouth and Boston university will t together in a big melee at Hanover this week. After two intersectional games, Geor- ‘Teoh will settle down to complete Bouthern achedule, The Golden Tor- ‘40 meste Olemaon Saturday at Atlan- | | Tilinots and Northwestern get together Jin their annual party this week-end at Urbana. Centre's Kentucky Colonels meet the University ef Kentucky at Lex- ington Saturday. Minnesota and Wisconsin mix at Min- nd the loser will be pract nated from the Big Ten race. nen pol ty elimi in the Smoky City. The Stanford Cardinals play Ne- yada at Palo Alto. The Nevadans held U. 8. ©. to @ 6-0 score two weeks ase. nderbilt Tennessee and tangle one of the Dig gam mingle at Knoxville. Gloomy Gus Henderson's U. 8. that made such a good showing a | California last week, takes on Occidental | Saturday. JOHNSON IS STILL KING OF “SPEED” HAT American league pitcher has the moat speed? If that question was put’ to the American league umpires a major. tty of them would be certain to re ply, Walter Johnson | Buch being the case, why fe It) Johnson no longer strikes out #0! many men and finds {t difficult to! win with any degree of consistency? | “The reason is onsy,” remarked | Jone of Ban Johnson's umpires in| | discussing the speed king's status, | While Johnson still is as fast as lany pitcher ia the American league, {he is far from being as fast as he) once was, The players know this, and no longer need fear the terrific pitching. free, they get a toe hold, te use the slang of the ball field, and take a healthy swing. It's just that slight difference that gives the batsman the added confidence that mea BO much.” Chicago Would Like to Battle . ‘ Princeton Again CHICAGO, Nov. 2.--Any pro- posal from Princeton to continue football relations will be favor- ably considered, A. A. Stagg, di- rector of athletics at the Univer- sity of Chicago, declares, Yale's invitation to Towa to play again next fall was taken In the West to mean that the “big three” has not adopted a policy against intersectional games and Stage’s suggestion was likewlse tnterpre- ted as an indication that the weat- ern conference has not ruled against East-West contests here. SHREVEPORT | CLUB BOUGHT | | SHREVEPORT, La, Nov, 2. — Ire apeed that once featured Johnson's | Thomas, former catcher for the Phtla- Instead of having one foet|delphia Athletios, at the head of a syndicate of business men, has pur- | chased the franchise and the par of the Shreveport Texas league club. Purchase price was sald to be manage the Ty 000, Thomas will team next year, oy miles from Chicago he managed to There seema to be no question Harvard | about the legality of the sbift. With | other shifts there is always an argu- | ment about the players being in mo- actually started. Wo such question can be a lazy-looking | plung, run or pass from the forma National league umpire and coach of Centre College, The shift galled for a lateral march | laughs at the thought of the “lock shift being something new. The players faced the side lines, | Asked for an explanation of it, he has an easy game this week, in| of the South. They | m | Well as anyone could with the ma- PAGE 11 annual Tournament of Roses e plenty of interest in the prep- x and that the Cornhuskers “4 his season in _ a {A Nebraska victory |bear out the contention of |Minor that an inferior club jhad been chosen. | The Cornhuskers have one of tie — lheaviest teams in the country, the line averaging 197 pounds, and the whole team averaging 188 pounds, And yet Weller, the giant 33% Pound tackle, can run 100 yards under 11 seconds! The Nebraska eleven ts lining up aa follows: Schoeppel, left end; Wenke, left tackle; Bassett, left guard; Peter son, center; Berquist, right guards Weller, right tackle; Scherer, right | end; Preston, quarterback; Dewity | o = . a! y a tain Hartley, fullback, RUNS IN | FAMILY Z Football ability runs in the Neale family. “Greasy” Neale is one of \the best football coaches of the lcountry, touring the Washington & Jefferson Presidents thru @ success- ful season last year. “Whitey* Neale, his younger brother, is the big star of the Yale team this sea- son. Neale saved the Army game by his all-around work, plunging over for the Bulldogs’ only touch- — down that tied the score. j |BIG GAME FOR 2a | PRESIDENTS 2 Two small colleges with mighty _ & Jefferson meets Lafayette. Net ~~ ther team has tasted defeat stner 1920. Both clubs have had success: ful seasons this year and @ great game is looked for when they get together. BIG THREE EASE UP Yale has the hardest battle of the Big Three Saturday, the Bulldog | meeting the stron ~ Brown team. The Rhode Island eleven is showing @ world of strength this season. Har. |vard meets Florida, of unknown quality, and Princeton should have no trouble with Swathmore. The Harvard-Princeton-Yale melees are just in the offing, and the Big Three are pointing to those games now. BIG GAMES FOR PENNSYLVANIA The University of Pennsylvania grid team was thought to be one of the weak sisters of Eastern football this year. But Coach Heisman j im the The victory of Penn — |to have come into his own wit | Red and Blu | over the Navy was one of the big up- _ four games left on the Soe meeting Alabama, Pi Penn State and Cornell fn turn. I¢ they pass those tests, they will have @ very good reason to talk about cham» pionships. — v j BUELL LEADING QUARTERBACK Capt. Buell, of Harvard, ts un- doubtedly the leading quarterback of the East this year, according to re Ports of his work. He fs a fine field |foal kicker and a great general. There aren't the outstanding quar terbacks of last year, when Devine, McMillan and Killinger performed. WASHINGTON DUE TO GIVE MILAN GATE 'N ALL probability two new man- agers will be seen in the Amen ican league next season. It is said that changes are contemplated at Washington and Boston, While Clyde Milan did about as t= terial at Washington ft would occa sion no surprise if @ change wag made. ‘ The showing of the Washington team was a distinct disappointment. |The club finished fourth tn 193%, Several changes were made that it seemed would certainly strengthen | the club, yet it dropped to sixth last season. When things are breaking badly |in baseball new faces always arouse interest. For that reason a change in the Washington management is |more than a mere possibility, Boston finished last in the Amer can league. Duffy, ike Milan, did as well as anybody could, yet to fim ish last ts no boost. That fs why Jimmy Burke is being picked to sup- plant Duffy. WAKEFIELD’S BILLIARDS SPATTLE’S LEADING RECREATION PARLORS 2 ROOMS 4th and Pike| 2ND_& SENECA Green Bis. | urewn @ Halen