The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 23, 1922, Page 10

PAGE 10 Frisco Writer Tells of New Indian Chief Tom Laird, of San Francisco News, Is Great Booster for New Seattle Leader; Wolverton Has Good Rec- ord as Manager in Baseball; Only One Bad Year Eéitor’s Note: At the request of The Star, Tom Laird, sporting editor of the San Francisco News, one of the leading baseball writers in the Par West, tells Seattle fans about Harry Wolverton, new leader of the Indians for 1993. Laird was the first writer to see future greatness in Jim Caveney, Jim O'Connell and Willy Kamm, the great Frisco trio. BY TOM LAIRD AN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov, 23—San Fran- cisco, the town in which Wolverton made baseball history is happy over Wolverton 8) appointment by Jim Boldt, but sorry be- cause it must wait so long before it can show Wolverton how it loves him. What a reception he will get when he brings his) team into Recreation Park next —. Boldt is doing himself a t favor in signing Wolverton. He couldn't get a) better manager. Wolverton ranks with John McGraw Wolverton is a baseball genius. He knows the game} as few men know it. The same can be said about his knowl-} edge of players and besides he has a world of personality and class. In a gathering of baseball men Wolverton stands out like a lighthouse on a foggy night; in fact, the others are} like the fog when he is around. Bole Wolverton may not win the pennant next season with | Boldt’s team; he may not even finish in the first division; but his team will show the other seven teams the proper ‘way to play ball. His team will make few mistakes and pull! More smart stuff than the others, rest assured of that. And his team also wil! show the other teams how to fight. A two fisted individual, neither asking nor yielding any favors on the field, Wolverton is of that rare type of man- _ ager that can finesse as well as fight. He knows when to ad at ‘em roughshod; he knows when to employ other} Picturesque, indeed, is Wolverton, gray wolf of the _ Western baseball he of the old school with the silver ae, the gold who B coming back next season. : indicated and commanding the respect of all, idolized _ by his friends, feared by his enemies, and prepared to dem- onstrate how a ball club should be managed. ’ Kenyon College, Ohio, is Wolverton’s alma mater. He was an athletic hero at that institution. He left it exactly twenty-four years ago for baseball. Signing as a pitcher with the Columbus club of the _ American iation in 1898, he joined Chicago's Nation- als later in the season as a third baseman. __ Wolverton remained with the Windy City team for an- ‘other season and then was traded to Philadelphia in the There he came into his own. For five years HARRY WOLVER ¢ Charley Newark -verton below the .800 mark. to Botkonrs Nationals. He re- Pa., club of the Tristate club of the International club! supporter will anewer in the affirma | The next year found him an out- as manager in 1908. His team finished | tive. "Then Wolverton crossed the Rockies, signing to man-|° age the Oaks. The Oaks finished second under him in 1910} in the second. repeated in 1911 and Wolverton's reputation knew noj| Then a mix ‘The majors reached out for him again and he succeeded Frank Chance as manager of New York’s Yankees. Wol- experienced the worst luck that ever fell to the lot of | the time Buell left the game Har a agg 7H in the majors and the Yankees finished in eighth cs him ond : 1914 he invested his another jinx for was due to unfortunate ‘is failure et ae He didn’t mar his reputation out West, however, | tc, in the Sacramento savi franchise it from Atkin. “That was the year of eens, Field. olverton lost his roll and the Sacramento} characterizes was transferred to Salt Lake Ci : Henry Berry signed him in 1915 and of the strongest teams ever in the P. C. L., if not the strong- est. He won the pennant pulled up. The year 1916 proved | iron. ‘olverton, who experienced the same line | m#ke the other players do the exe 4 organized one injury TON IS CALIFORNIA SHOULD CINCH TITLE SATUR THE SEATT LE STAR The Brains of the Crimson Loss Hurt Crimson in Tiger Mix Harvard Quarter Put Out BY BILLY EVANS LD the lone of Quarterback Husl! D greatly handicap the Harvard eleven tn the Princeton game? Tt fe @ cineh that every Harvard With Buell in the game, Harvard outplayed Princeon in the first pert | and was continuing the program up, after Buell had tossed a forward pass, resulted In an to Harvard's quarter that caused his removai from the game. It ig & mattor of record that from vard seemed like a different tear. It lacked the coordination so neces between the line and the backs. HARVARD STYLE Jack Atkin, then owner of the Sacramento club, signed | pirrins as his manager in 1913. He led the Senators into sec- the highest they had ever finished. ‘The Harvard style of football is a bit different from that employed by any of the other big clevens. It hag proved itself very successful, yet it ueually lacks the dash that the play of other teams. Harvard regards the quarterback as supre He is the field general of the Crimson forces on the grid It is hig duty to direct, but —s> Buell Harvard Cog TENS Ber, OUTS om “Thee hee thy than BY LEO 4. LASSEN HEN it comes to picking the All-Coast football team this fall ite going to be @ tough Job naming the fullback for this outfit, Duke Morrison and Archie Nisbet, both Golden Bears, are the leading eandl- dates for the position, but the question in to pick the better man. Nisbet fa one of the greatest kickers in the game, but Morrison t# a good kicker himeeif, a better line plunger and « better defensive man. It looks like | the Duke will get the call because of this edme. EATTLE fane are wondering what next can be expected with Harry | Wolverton as manager of the Indiana, Wolverton is « fellow who | builds op an expensive ball club in that he goes after players that he needa regardiess of price That's what he did in 1817 to give San Fran. cleco & pennant. Jim Bojdt says Beattle is to have a winner no matter | what It costa Se many extensive changes can be expected with Wol- verton on the job. 18 hardly likely that Jack Adame will be retained as « player with | 4 the Indians, as he has been let out of the managerial position. Adame [ta a pretty eweet catcher yet, and he ought to bring Seattle @ good man im exchange, Adams chould have no trouble making @ deal for himoeslft with one of the Southern clubs. He bas had an honorable career of |service here and local fans wil hate to eee him go beoause Adams was ® hard worker and a smart catcher ORTLAND ts lining up « bout that should prove to be one of the best ring attractions on the Coast in years. Harry Greb, the famous Pittaburg windmill, is to box Bert Colimas, the Los Angeles star, in the Rose City soon, The Rose City fans should certainly oragh the gate for oe attraction of this scrt. | For the first time tn several seagone the football championship of the Seattle high hoola will binge on the Broadway-Lincoin game Saturday. This has always been tho Yale-Harvard or Army-Navy battle [of batties for the prep season and for years these two teama were the class of the city. This year Lincoln oan cinch the title by winning Sat- | arday while Broadway can knock the Ralisplitters out of the title with |@ victory, giving the Utle to Franklin. A tie game means that Franklin, 1971 champions, will retain the honors. International of breaks he encountered with the Yankees in 1912. Even|°“t!° ‘ ie aie ' so, his team came under the wire in the first division. cree Gee ence tea tally” Asa And then Harry came back. He whipped together an-| rule, quarterbacks are feet of foot, _ other powerful aggregation so strong that it threatened to|n4 their seatee vo gor pr Nig win the pennant by September, but Wolverton, popular as| ix ‘eature i> nelly ery itter: ever a ae omy in the big Western circuit never saw) ent—the quarterback in instructed September wi is team. to signal for a fair eatch on a punt. Henry Berry exploded a bombshell and just about} The signaling for « fair gate, ot wrote finis across his own career in baseball, incidentally, | Cw, *!ininates any ponibility 0 rs * : returning the ball, but it does pre. rd releasing him in June or when bis team had a command-| {int the quarter trom being roughly g lead. handled. Now Wolverton is coming back unquestionably the out- QUARTER DIRECTS stan i aseb: p PLAY raat te ces rady ee “ all world. He should he the duty of the Harvard quar terback to think his team to victory, Bay teldom come back in any after once being labeled “at in” Jack Wolfe, the clever little ban- tam fighter, is one of the few excep- tions. Wolfe is once more basking in the pugtlistic spotlight. Last December Jack Wolfe, Cleve- ‘and veteran of 12 years of ring cam- cigning, was slated for the pugilis- «© graveyard. He had been horribly vangied in an automobile accident, »4 surgeons opined that he would be a ripple for life—tf he lived. As ior boxing again, such a thing was too preposterous to consider. But Wolfe has fooled everybody. . ‘Three months after he left the hos- pital Jack started training for a comeback, After engaging in a half dozen minor contesta, the little Cleve- WAKEFIELD’S BILLIARDS SEATTLY’S LEADIN RECKRATION PARLORS 2 ROOMS Ath ané Pike) 2ND_& SENECA Green Bn. | nrown & Hulen Jack Wolfe Is Doing Comeback in Eastern Great Rings lander was matched to box Frankie Jerome, Billy Gibson's unbeaten ban- tam, at Tex Rickard’s Velodrome in New York. Jerome got the jump on Jack and dropped him repeatedly in the first round. Wolfe gamely strug- fled to his feet without taking a count after each knockdown, but when he staggered to his corner at the end of the round, the outlook! was mightly dreary for him. How- ever, the Iittle gamester stuck thru the 12 rounds, and finished stronger than Jerome. | Jack wan far greater in defeat than he could possibly have been in vic- tory, He made such @ decided hit that Rickard matched him to box Pal | Moore, the Memphis enigma, two weeks later. The judges called the affair a draw, altho a majority of the ringside critics favored Wolfe. One week later Wolfe and Jerome battled again. One of the greatest fights ever seen in Uttle old Manhat- tan resulted, with Wolfe winning all the way. Wolfe wes then matched to box Joe Lynch, the bantamweight cham- pion, at the Madison Square Garden. Jack handled the sharpshooters quite & jolt when he won 18 rounds of the bout, and was awarded the decision. However, the bantam title didn't go | with the award, for Lynch had been | foresighted enough to insist that hin | be hard hit championship would not be at stake in the contest. rather than actually turn the trick. Coach Fisher, of Harvard, works on the theory that a quarterback can not be buffeted around and retain hia ability to think clearly and quick ly. It is pretty good logic, at that. However, the apectacie of seeing a quarterback making @ fair catch on every punt removes much of the thrill from the game. It also exas- perates members of the team that are down on the punt, ready to tackle the receiver of the ball Every now and then #ome conch instructs hig men to crash into the Harvard quarter and be penalized, feeling that the tackle may prove of greater value than the penalty dis. tance gained by the opposition. Unless Buell is able to play against Yale, the chances of the Crimson will Buell ts certainly the rudder of the Harvard eleven JOHNSON TALKS; COBBHITS .400 CHICAGO, Nov, 238.—Ry an order of Ban Johnson, president of the American league, Ty Cobb haw been made a 400 hitter for 1922. John. #on ruled that a fumble by Everett Scott in a game in New York last May should have been credited as ® hit instead of an error. Cobb has now hit .400 three tines and tied the record held by Jean Burkett. GREB BOXES TUNNEY SOON NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—Harry Greb, American light-heavyweight champion, will defend hin title in Madison Squa Garden, December 29, against Gene Tunney, former champion, ‘Tex Rickard announced, Yost Has Good Word | for Guard Work of Illinois Guard in Wisconsin Game FTER Fielding H. Yost of Micht Jim MeMillen ia a big lad of 200 pounds, who came from Grays Lake, a little town in Northern Iiinota, He managed to win his letter on the Illinois varsity in 1921, but didn't wet the world on fire. This year Jim came out deter mined to make good or know the Town, when the fighting [ilinois Played the conquerors of Yale to & standstill, was little less than sensa. tional, Time and time again he broke thru the Haw! line ana tackled Locke Parkin in their tracks, Against Wisconsin he was often the nemesis of the fleet Rollie Williams. MeMillen often beats the ends down the field on punts, He's a fighter from start to finish and never |has to leave @ game before the final whistle LITTLE HOPE. "FOR McHENRY CINCINNATI, Nov, 28.—Little hope is held out for Auatin Mo- Henry, star St, Louis Cardinal out fielder who was operated upon the other day for tumor on the brain, He has been removed to his home at Mt, Oreb, Ohio. last night, defeating Young Gardeau easily in @ six-round bout, gan had seon Jim MoMillen, 1 'linols’ left guard, perform against | Wisconsin in the famous game| whe y Iiinota tomahawked the Badgers 3 to 0, he mid this: | “McMillen is certainly the best guard in the conference-—-and prob- ably the best one in the United States.” reason why. His performance againnt | WALLA WALLA, Nov, 28.-<Billy | Wright, Seattle welterweight, made {good in his come k effort here} Stars to Play Here on Friday Waiter Hagen and Joe Kirk wood, famous international golf. |] ere, will play their recond exhibi tion match in Seattle Friday at |] the Beattie Golf and Country |] club. This time they will meet Ron Stein and Low Stell, two of the best amateurs in the Far |] West. Tho pinay begins at 12:80 |] After the match Kirkwood will |] «ive bis famous exhibition of trick shots JOE WOOD IS | IN LINE FOR HEAD COACH HW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 23 Joe Wood, of the Ceveland American league team, who has been | sien to coach the Yale pitchers, | Will eventually have entire charge of baseball at that institution Yale, at the present time, is not using the professional system of coaching in baseball, Tommers, who coached the Yale team last year, was While Yale |@ former varsity player. jhade excellent success under his ai rection, it 1# understood that his bus. iness demands are such that he can- | not give so much time to Yale ath. | letion. | It is understood that Yale is de. sirous of having a high class profes sie athlete take charge of baseball, as Bill Clarke at Princeton, Jack Slattery at Harvard and Jeff Tosreau at Dartmouth. This trio of former big leaguo stars have met with great success, Bill Clarke has been in charge of baseball at Princeton fot about 20 years. Yale feels that Joe Wood ts just the type of player desired, and that he will fill the bill, Report has it that Wood has signed a three-year con: tract to coach the pitcher’. It would ocoasion no great surprise if before that contract expired he was appoint: ed head coach TACOMA CARD IS ON TONIGHT Joe Gorman and George Burns fight six rounds in Tacoma tonight, with Harry Casey meeting Johnny ‘Trambitas in the mi-windup, Bears to Mix With Cardinals Berkeley Team Figures 42 Points Stronger Than Palo Alto Eleven | BY LEO H. LA Ue EN there is hquake, or "i Saturday, the jolden Bears hould take their Conant hip champion without M1, GAL. 8%) « they Btanford at slo Alto in the val big game. Washington the Bears trimmed Washington be field 12 Cc. 12 The 45 to 7, and Cards on their own |The Hears walldped t ©, while the best t with Htanfer The working we fon to doubt that win and will win by a big score | The Golden Bears figure to be at t neven touchdowns bet ;the Cards, which would give them la 4Dpoint edge 8. Cc hine of Andy Smith and there ts no rea will California r than WASHINGTON SET FOR OREGON Washington the Oregon fame | title, fos : last big test of the season in here Turkey day, The will decide the Northwest as neither team har lost a conference ga. Ore played any California bein med team to date 7IEL, AS ALA-COAST MALFBACK MATERIAL Leonard Ziel has « sweet chance of being selected an All-Coast half back this year. The big fellow was the big factor in winning the O. A C., W. S.C. and Stanford games for Washington. He has played some wonderful football. Don Nichoy, of California, ts the best half on the Const, which leaves the other berth open. Vern Hickey in a great player, but the Washington State mtar has been out with tn- juries © great deal. “Spud" Spaid Ing, of California, ts also a great player, a# ts Chapman, of Oregon, but they haven't done the fine all around work of Ziel FEW GAMES _ LEFT Only @ few Coast games are left. Stanfard and California close their weasones = Saturday Oregon and Washington finish their schedules here next week. Washington State hes two tough games left, playing lo. A. G. at Pullman Saturday and lthen jumping down to Low Angeles to play U. 8. C. Thursday EDGE TAKEN OFF | HARVARD-YALE, MIX The defeats handed Harvard and Yale by Princeton this year has taken all the edge off of the Harv ard-Yale game at New Haven Sat urday as far as the general fans lof the mation are concerned. Harv: |ard also lont to Brown and Yale to lowa, which ought to make quite an impression on the “Big Three” who, jat times, seem to think they repre sent all that's high and mighty in | football | REAL FIND; STAR GUARD ALTER BELLMAN. the husky guard developed by Coach Bag- aw, is proving to be one of the finds of the neason. Hellman in another sophomore on ;the club, which gives Baggle an- other strong link in his line for the team he ts butiding for Washington for the next two seasons The Washington line will bear |the brunt against Oregon here next | week in the game that decides the | Northwest championship. The Ore. gon backfield is the strong point of | the Webfooter lineup and the Wash. ington forwards must stop ‘em Bagshaw will have his strongest lineup in the game with Oregon, as he has a whole week to point for the tussle, Oregon, too, will have plenty of rest and will be In tip-top |xhape. It will be « fitting climax to the season, YANKS RETURN TO LOUISIANA NEW YORK, Nov, 23. leans has been chosen again by the New York Yanks as their training camp next season. Work will be started about March 1. The Yanks and the Brooklyn Robins will do thelr usual double act on the way | north for the opening of the season. FRENCH RING PARIS, the light Nov. 28.—Challengers for heavyweight champion ship of Fra vacated by Battling Siki, must their applications be- fore November 80, the French box- ing commission announced, An elim. ination series will be started in mid-December, HOW COIN WENT TO CUE STARS NBW YORK, Nov, 28%—Wiille Hoppe got $6,680 and a $1,000 medal for winning the world’s billiard championship; Jake Schaeffer looted $8,340; Roger Conti, $2,200; Wdouard Horemans, $1,710; Welker Cochrane, $570. The gross receipts were $17,000 and the expenses $9,000, vol third straight} h of « strug) ew Or-| BOARD BUSY’ THURSDAY, JOHN MCGRAW OF WESTERN BASEBALL DAY Shocker Picking Browns and Reds to Win Next Year | | | | | | | Urban Bhocker, famous Bt. Louis American league pitcher, is ploking the Browns and the Cincinnati Reda | to fintsh im front im the big leagues [next y Both clubs came in sec ond this year. | The anti-defense rule made by the Const lenges to make the game more | open this season waan't enforced at | ail by Mickey Lon inet night. The Murcows ini back om the defense be on the de- forwards Met rush down the toe with Mickey MacKay efter wii. beitiiant Walker made a je ear trrimg to it wae & wonderful piece Ohariey Reid, Vancow goalie, played ‘the best shown since jotning the Maroons. used hie knees and hands mostly ping the shote He caught « « ber of them, fer more than the ve uewally do. eubstit ute young Newell, bis new forward, with = diving salt. Newell was on his car mest of the diving inte lerman aces and spades and still wie. The Arena band learned another new piece last week and played it between periods Inet night, FOUR TEAMS | IN PAIR OF BIG GAMES BY HENRY L. FARRELL EW YORK, Nov. 23.—Two of the season's most out- standing football events are to be staged Saturday when the Army and the Navy engage in their annus! battle at Philadel. phia and Yale plays Harvard at New Haven. For once, Yale and Harvard will play second fiddle as far as the general public is con- cerned. Princeton has already won the “big three” champion- ship, Harvard has been beaten twiee and so has Valk. West Point and Annapolis always furnish the real spectacie of the @eason, and if the weather ts at all decent the battle between the jcadets and middies should be even more brilliant from @ picture stand- point in the sew Franklin field sta- | dium, | Both have exceptionally fine | tame. The army cleven has not been defeated, altho the games with | Yale and Notre Dame ended in ties. ‘The Navy has only a rather fuky defeat at the hands of Pennsylvania to blot its season's record. Against Notre Dame and Yale, the cadets looked somewhat sluggish above the shoulders, and they will have to play smarter football if they are to beat the midshipmen. Yale is being made the favorite jover Harvard, VICTORIA, B. C., Nov ter Hagen and Joe |feated Willy Black and Phil Taylor 4 and 3 here yesterday, | 23. Prices Lowest in 40 Years $29.50 Up Place your order for XMAS NOW! LIBERAL TERMS CARLOAD OF EXCELSIORS Just Arrived Columbia Dealers Excelsior Motorcycle and Bicycle Co. 301 E. Pine St. Kl, 0907 (Largest RETAIL Cycle House) DR. EDWIN 4. BROWN'S | DENTAL OFFICES 106 Columbia St. | Seattle's | Leading Dentist for More Than 21 Years. | ‘Wal Kirkwood de.) NOVEMBER 2%, 1922. Mets Lose First Mix of Season Vancouver Men Snare Arena Puck Melee by 5-2 Count; Rickey Hurt Roy Rickey, Seattle defense star, and Art Duncan, Vancouver de- fense player, may be on the sidelines for some time. Rickey wrenched | the tendons of one of his knees in the early part of last night’s game with Vancouver. Duncan fell heavily on the base of his spine late in the game. Seattle to Start Road Trip Friday; Lead to Be Staked Seattie’s hockey team leaves Friday morning for ite first real road trip of the season. The Metropolitans play tn Victorta tomorrow night, jump to Van- couver Monday and return to play Victoria here Wednesday The lead will be at stake in Vie. torla tomorrow night, as the Mets and Cougars are now tied for first place. The standing of the teams fol- Victoria Vancouver HR Mets took thetr first one on the chin last night when the Vancouver Ma- their licking at the Arena. Not to di dit the y victory, it not stretch. ing things to say that the were sadly off form. The loss ‘of Roy Rickey on the defense early | in the game, due to @ twisted knee, broke up the defense combination The visitors piled up a big iad, Making two goals in the first pe ried and another pair in the second, Alf Skinner and Lioyd Cook snared two tallies each and young Boucher added the fifth in the last session The Mets tallied twice in the last Period, Briden scoring one and Mor: ris and Briden pulling a brilliant combination rush down the ice for | the other. Beattie Holmes . Rowe | Rickey .. | Foyston Briden | Riley ... Walker . Morrie Fraser e itor is vis. Boore | seatte Vancouver bese Scoring: Vancouver, Skinner from Newell. . 10028. Second perted—Cook, 2°42; ‘Skinner, 2:69. Third pertod—Boucher from Cook, 12:44 [Seattle firet period — None. ‘Second period—Briden from Riley, 12:17. Third | Pegiod Merrie trom, Briden, 0:24. Penalties: Vancourer—Newell, Skin- ner, Seattle—Fraser, Briden. | Referee—ton. | Bal be EY EY EY Ev ET | | ‘Take Past Steamers at Colman Dock 24, O22 | “Except Sui 5:18 p.m, nday. Saturday and Sum | U] weanesday. Friday, Saturday Sunday, 11:30 p.m. AUTOMOBILE FERRY Seattle to Bremerton Dally 116, 11:80 a om, 35 pm. Extra trip Sat. & Sun, 9:20 p. m. Passenger Fare 80¢ Round Trip Navy Yard Route Colman Dock Main 3993 [Ea Bi Ei EY FY Fy | ! t ! Boat: Schedules: SAVE MONEY= TACOMA SAFTY DAILY A, BC TO PORT ANGELES - STRAIT POINTS BAR igre, Varseas ° a to on Saturday Night Trip) JUAN ISLAND POINT Snacort i SAN BELLINGHAM - ANACORTES PORT TOWNSEND RAIL CONNECTION AND MILL PORTS HOOD CANAL POINTS NEAH Bay & Way Port ff PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION ( AAN DOK