The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1922, Page 12

_PAGE 12 * RR | | Big tar Sold to Major | BY LEO iH. had to have / Bex tm trying to get back in the! Braces of organized baseball he again appealed to Judge for reinstatement, but w down flat. Landis is the/ tribunal. Weaver and the rest € the Black Sox are just wasting breaths trying to talk their Back into baseball the hardest the St. Paul minors, pounded the the last year, hit American athietes favor the Olympic games being held in! countries because it gives) @ chance for a joyride to ‘Then, too, the American with its larger financial can afford to go abroad Feadily than the foreigners Afford to come here. But the teams should stage the f event in turn, as it has been Years since the United States inom this great athletic honor. straight bingles with Boston i Hendryx has had a varied to St. Paul. fe aa pounds, old. Lyle Bigbee Breaks His Shoulder te such a thing as being ERs good ta any line of ica f. The local Knights of Co- basketball team, with a rec Of 48 victories out of 61 games ia is having a hard time find- iS Opposition this year. Stan Rid- & powerful team again this and the club men should YLE BIGBEE, former Seattle pitcher, more recently tn the International league, and now the property of the Milwaukee associa tion team, i# Inid up in Milwaukee with @ broken "shoulder, sustained in & game between a Milwaukee club and Jim Thorpe's professionals. Bighee starred as an all-around ' roe RT FLETCHER is the latest; manager to be named for the Philadelphia Quakers, and fans thru- veteran shortstop, a pupil of Mo- As things stand now, | Graw, is getting plenty of dough for two crews compete for the | the job, as he will most likely get | title—Washington and Call-| the can at the end of the season, re. If three or four more crews | £ardiess of how well he dors, that | big hope ts that Stanford) Fletcher ts the regular MoGraw and there | type of player, never quitting until the dast man le out. But he won't be Otto Floto, Denver scribe, pays the following tribute to Stanley Ketchell: “Now that we are approaching the 12th anniversary of Stanley Ketchell's death, we want to say of him again—he was one of the few great champions of the world. He never selected his opponents as our worthies do today; ne always allowed others to choose them. He never sidestepped a bout, and #0 | called tough ones were welcomed to attend his little parties fust as were | the setups and soft ‘uns. They just all looked alike to him. How many champions can we say thie of? “Of the present lot only Jack Dempsey and Benny Leonard come under that heading. But the balance of the bunch—they've got to have a in May in a bout with Eu-|report from Bradtereet and Dun French titleholder, ac-|before they will consent to even! to Tom O'Rourke, matchmak- enter into negotiations for a bout Repubite Athletic club. with a tough bird.” or League Meetings Get Under Way Tuesday | HENRY L. FARRELL [noid « joint conference on Thurnday. YORK, Dec. 11——With just | With the annual meeting of the In- much noise and the prospects | ternational league here also today, little action as the minors | it will be quite a baseball weel fm last week in Louisville,| Trade and big sale talk is rife 1 league owners will hoid|arotnd town. The magnates like to ‘Qanual wind sessions here this | talk about million dollar sales ax long as they don't have to pay the price themselves. Many trades are also said to be in the afr and many will be completed if the club owners could get a good player without giv | ing one tn return. John A, Heydler, president of the National league, predicts a quiet sea | |son for his club owners. The Na tonal league has been at peace for | years and no trouble is in prospect Rather general objection of the club owners to barnstorming by the | players may result in some action | being taken to-further curb or en | tirely stop the practice. | Garry Herrmann, president of the | Cincinnati Reds, may suggest the |adoption of a contract calling for 12) | months’ service from the players: Ban Johnson still has his American | league well in hand and little doings |are expected wt the session of the younger cireuft moguls, The National league may kick up }@ little row with Ban by asking him to prove or retract his insinuations inst Rube Benton, former pitcher |for the New York Giants, who. is |About to become a member of the incinnat! Reds, COUVER vs. SEATTLE) Wednesday, Dec. 13th 8:30 P. M. Sharp enten—61.10, $1.40, $1.75 (Tax included) | from ** ZERO 214 Jefferson St. Just back of L. C. Smith Bldg. Card Tables, Pool, Cigars, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fountain Launches Pay Checks Cashed Reserved seats now on sale at Arena Office, 1210 Fifth Ave. Main 2492, ICE SKATING Byery afternoon and evening Wednesdays and Sun- i also skating on Thursday and Saturday mornings. Every! | Plays | | ‘COACH BAGSHAW APPEJ 'Hard- Hitting Star Is Purchased From Saints Right-Handed Outfielder Purchased to Replace | Hendryx Has Alw Hard Slugger; Out of Game Some Time Last Year HE San Francisco Seals realized that they | the war club of Jimmy O'Connell, who will WEAVER has been the cavort with the New York Giants next Persistent of the Black year. So the Seals stepped out the other day and purchased Tim Hendryx, one of hitters Hendryx has always been a star in the slugging being his American He first came into fame in the Southern| league in 1915, when he led the league in hitting. He pounded |"**st of the brand of football of |against the strong West Virginia|s the onion for 11 straight hits that year. Cleveland, New York, St. Louis and Boston Americans and with the Louisville American association club before coming The new Frisco flychaser is a big fellow, weighing 180 Favored as |More difficult to get a line on the |not figure in their batting averages | Eckert, right-handed flinger, ** | Been a! LASSEN | a regular slugger to replace in the minors, from} American association club, forte. He pill for a mark of .8380 for association's champions} ting .840 the year before. He made eight n 1920, experience, playing with the He hits and throws righthanded and is 30 Years | athlete at the University of Oregon before going in for professional base ball He staged out with Seattle in 1919 | and then was sold to the Philadel phia Athletics, but didn’t lngt long tn | the majors | The report of Bigby’s injury didn't say whether his pitching shoulder was the one injured or not able to do much In Philadelphia an lens there ta @ general housecleaning. as there is too much dead timber en the Quaker roster to make ft possible out the country are hoping that th®/ for any manager to get any ‘piace |tored | with that outfit And Raker ian't the type to open the purse strings to buy new talent, | he being of the Harry Frazee school develop stars and sell ‘om aa fast as you can. It's this type of owners that hurt the national game and give the com- mercial side their onty considera | tion. Florida Is Ball Camp. Eight Major Cluss to Train There for 1923. Season BY BILLY EVANS IGHT major league clubs have already selected Florida as @| spring training camp, Others may follow sult. It would seem that the sight clubs who have already decided on Florida had made a very wise move. | ‘There are any number of benefits| to be obtained due to so many clubs training in the same state. | The climate t certain to suit even the most exacting club owner. 1 have never seen bad weather im Florida in the early spring. True, every now and you will bump Into a few but on the whole, the weather ts always ideal for spring training for the major league clubs. Then there ts the financial in: ducements. With eight clubs camped in neighboring towns, it will be a very easy matter to ar range a great number of exhibition games. The natives and the tour. ists will welcome the chance to see major league games, far re- moved from the big league circuit. Perhaps of even greater value to the major league club own- ers and managers will be the opportunity to get a real line | on their talent, the recruits in | particular, | It in @ certainty that most of the pitching in these exhibition games| will be done by the “rookies.” It in recruit pitchers than any of the [other newcomers. Big leaguers like | their base hits as well in the spring | as midsummer, even tho they do { | 1 The National league veterang will |show no mercy to the American league youngsters. The same goon, for the regulars in the American |league ranks, ‘Thus these exhibitior mes are certain to be real con tests in which the young pitchers will be tested to the limit. , These interleague affairs are sure to bring out every fault of the reeruit pitchers. These faults probably would not have been brought to the surface in exhibition games against minor league clubs. It will also give the managers » chance to cor- rect any number of these evils before the season opens, Last but not least, these games should be the means of sending the clubs North in the bést of condition. Keon competition, such as these ¥ hibition games should produce, league. club ready for big campaign. PORTLAND, Dec. the 11, — Charles hes been turned over to the Beavers for 1923 by the Philadelphia Athletica as part payment for Sammy Hale. é |qualifed to stand with any elev tin the country [a varied attack and the ~ THE SEATT * HRI LE STAR + % California to Stage Three Big Intersectional Gridiron Melees intersectional football clashes will attract the attention of the football fans of the country during the year. ond holiday season. 4 These games will be interesting in that they will serve to give a comparison of the foot- ball as played on the Atlantic coast and that of the Pacific coast and Northwest. December 30, Pittsburg vs. Stanford at Palo Alto; Christmas The games scheduled are: day, Gonzaga college of Spokane vs. University of West Virginia at San Diego, and Ne Year's day, Penn State college vs. U: ow ‘of Southern California at Pasadena. PITTSBURG SHOULD WIN \GONZAGA IS FACING BIG \U. S. C. HAS , STRONG TEAM FROM CARDS GRID ELEVEN THIS SEASON 110 Pald Alto, December 80, ia not ing to be a good teat of the relative Stanford-Pittsburg game at the two sections of the country Stanford lacks the clams of the other top notch teams of the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate conferen but nevertheless the coming of Glenn | Warner with his Panthers will te of much Interest to the California grid: | followerg, inasmuch as Warner | tren assume charge of the Stanford eleven in 1934 For years Warner was rated an the | craftieht football coach in the East His atyle of play revolutionized foot ball im the Northwest when Bil Dieta made hie debut at the Wash- ington State college ‘Thin year Pittaburg did not meet with the success of past seasons, tat | even at that Warner's team tn the cloxing weeks of the season wan The Panthers ha’ defense 1: strong. The game will be interesting In that both teams will use the mame | style of play Btanford’s eleven, which is men Andy Kerr and Tiny Thorn hill, who played under Warner, showed improvement as*the season progreased ‘The season's teams Pittebure 37-—Cineinnatt record of the | Stanfora— * two | NZAGA UNIVERSITY may | surprine the followers of football jelreles of the coast in the game | teat jonzaga wan made after the Pacific Coast confer The selection of lence voted Friday to sanction Ore |gon playing the Virginians at San |Diewo. Gonzaga user the Notre | Dame atyle of play, and it te hard to} keop the Gonzaga 414 not go thru the sea son without « defeat an did Went | Virginia, but gave ite opponents |plenty of thrills, It held the Wash. ington Atate college team to a 10 to weore at the outset of the season. Axgainnt strong Multnomah the Bpokaneites scored three ouchdowna in leas time than It takes to relate the fact and scored « vic tory over the University of Idaho team in seven inutes of play ‘The Turteeis played 10 football mmen during the season, scoring «| otal of 346 points. In the 10 games only 21 polnta were registered by tts opponents, the strong Washington and Lee team soortng two touch | downs and tying the Tarheols Pittsburg was defeated by Weat | Virginia, § to @ The Washington jand Jefferson team, whic? a scorelens tie with , Year's day, was beaten “fighting Irishmen.” the | team, | 14 to © ‘The records of the tearm: | Weet Virginie Marietta W. Va. Wee Washington and Les UGO BEZDEK, who seven years ago piloted the famous 1916 Unt vernity of Oregon team to Pasadena and defeated the strong University of "onnsylvania team, now invades the California city at the head of—well, we'll may, an enemy team—the Penn Stato college eleven | Bezdek will pit his Penn Staters| Against the University of Southern California on New Year's day. Bexiek’n team this year does not }rank with his team of 1921, which |defeated Washington by a score of 121 to but nevertheless Bez has a |atrong team and one that will gt the Pacific standard of football « jread tent ‘The Penn Btaters lost three games lente neason, Navy, Pennsylvania and | Pittsburg, and was held to a score lena tie by the Syracuse team University of Southern California lost one game and that to the Unt versity of Californi the Count conference, 12 to 0 Elmer Henderson, coach of the ‘Trojans, has @ well-tmlanced team that pomnesses a atrong defensive and |a fair offensive | This game will te more of a teat of the standard of the football in the two sections than either of the other two post-season games Penn Btate scored a total of 129 points against 48 for it@ opponents, while they rolled up a total of 202 points, and held tts nine opponents to '¥ | 38 pointe. ‘The scores of the two elevens Penn State William and Mary Gettyebure ¢ Lebanon Middlebury Fyracone Navy | | California Oceidental Northern Ice Teams Battle Coaches Praise Work of Bethany Grid Star| BETHANY, W. Va, Dec. 11.—"If that fellow was on Princeton hi would be the talk of the Bast, If he was on any of the Big Ten teams the Western critics would be lauding him to the skies.” The player under coftsideration wan Captain Harry Randolph of the Bethany, W. Va., college. The speak- er was Pat Page, former star athlete of the University of Chicago, now coach at Butler, Ind., college. Page so expressed himeelf after Bethany had beaten Butler 29, to 7. Randolph almost single-handed had brought about the defeat. It will be recalled that Butler earlier in the season won from University of Jt noi. a Dave Morrow, who coached Wash- ington and Jefferson when that col- lege had one of the most-talked-about elevens in the Country, is now in charge at Bethany. He has an even. better opinion of Randolph than Pat WHATCOM HIGH CONSIDER BID BELLINGHAM, Dec. 11.— What com high school of Bellingham ts cofitidering a bid to play Seott high school of Thiedo at the Stadium in| Seattle Christmas day, |K. C. TO STAGE CAGE TOURNEY The National A. A. U. basketball tournament will be staged by the Kansas City Athletic club in March. ‘ HARRY RANDOLPH Page, and feels the Bethany star is entitled to All-America consideration, PREXY TALKS ON OLYMPIAD LAUSANNB, Deo. 11.—~ Further |Americanization of the games and the admittance of Ger Suggested here in an address by Baron De Coubertin, president of the International Olympic committee. BANBURY, Eng, Dec. (-—Lord North, who is 86 years old, ts still an ardent huntsman and follows the hounds at every hunt Olympic | | many! ax ‘a competing nation were| ‘Champions | Coming to Fore Fast Maroons Hitting Stride, With Hugh Lehmann) Back in Nets ANCOUVER seems to be hit- ting Ite stride) again since Hugh | Lehman, old | Eagle Eye him- | self, is back in front of the twine, With Leh- | man out of the game during the first | few games of the season the Maroons | seemed discouraged and couldn't got | started, but when Lehman jointed | the ranks again they perked up im-/ mediately, They tied the St. Pata! last Monday and beat Victoria on | Friday. Tonight the champions are playing Victoria again on Vancouver ice and then the Maroons jump down to | Seattle for their second bow of the | season. The Vancouver team ts still weak- lened by the loss of Duncan and | | Skinner, but with Lehman back and with Patrick and Taylor filling in} they promise plenty of trouble for the spnonition. EDMONTON, Dec free-scoring game |hockey club defeated the world’s champion St. Pats of Toronto, 11 to 7, here Saturday 11.—In another the Edmonton champions of | MONDAY, HENDRYX BOUGHT TO REPLACE O’CONNELL AT SAN FRANCISCO + # ALS TO ALUMNI FOR NEW GRID MATERIAL Football Banquet; Wee BY LEO ft OACH ENOCH peal for the Washington tution, provi necessary, ar ington to bu The Washing “I can count on the fingers | Washington who have actual) lof bringing football material about it,” said Bagshaw. “The coaching staff can’t d spend some of our time work have here. I think I have dec | But I can’t do it all, the alum: the scholastic of Washington are the ones to seek out and bring to the school for the gridiron le, now acting governor of Washington, a famous quarter back in his day, approved Bagshaw's appeal for material and declared that the Alumni association should jdefinitely organize work for the jalumni to do to bring new men here Dr. Don Palmer, another famous alumnus, also maid it was up to the alumni to do something definite. WASHINGTON TO PLAY IN TACOMA ball game in Tacoma next year, meet ing the College of Puget Sound. in one of the early games in the Tacoma Stadium to get the Tacoma prep students in- tertsted in the Washington eleven. The Puget Sound eleven didn’t show much strength this year, and may not even be a good workout for the | Washington team next year, but the game may work up a world of in- | terest tn Tacoma for the Purple and Gold. t STANFORD HELD UP MEETING It was Stanford that held up the parade in making the schedule for the Coast conference here Saturday, the Cardinals refusing to come North »| to play Washington or to play the | Purple and Gold at Palo Alto. It can't be that the Cardinals fre afraid of the Huskies after that 12-to beating this year, knowing that most of the Huskies will be back next year, can it? Use your own judgment, 10 GAMES ON 1923 SCHEDULE achedule for Washington for next year, booking five conference and five non-conference struggles. One of the navy teams, Willamette, Whitman, U. 8. C., C Montana, California, W, 8. C. and | recon come in order on the Wash- ington schedule next year. O. A. C. will be played at Corvallis, C. P. 8 jat Tacoma, California at Berkeley. |The rest of the weven games will be | played on the toon) lot. | CONCERNING | GONZAGA Representatives in the Northwest jconference questioned Saturday were rather reticent about saying! | why Gonzaga university was refused admittance to the league and Pacific untversity admitted. Meisnest and Jack Benofiel, of Oregon, said that several things had to be straightened out at Gonzaga before the Spokane institution woud be admitted. Gonzaga had a power- ful football team this year, defeating Idaho and Montana, both Northwest conference teams. BILL ROPER TO QUIT TIGERS | YORK, Deo, 11.— Reports here have it that Bil Roper, Prince: ton coach, will quit after this season | to settle down to political lite in Philadelphia |Fox Hunt Ended in Woman’s Home| PARIS, Deo, 11.—Residents of the suburb of Berey participated tm an | exciting fox hunt when it was found the animal was destroying their poul- | try. The “kill” was in a woman's | kitchen where the fox took refuge. CRANBORUR, Eng. Dec. 11.—| Poachers have abandoned the old- | fashioned snares and now hunt with | rifle and motor car. Several have! __been caught and fined. | AMERICAN WOMEN HOLD 21 SPORT MARKS ‘EW YORK, Dec, 11.—Amert- can women athletes hold 21 of the 49 world’s records recog: niged by the International Wom- en's Sports federation for track and field events, according to the official list Issued recently in Paris and which has just reached athletic authorities here. Besides marking the first time that so comprehensive a record of feminine performances has been put. on the atheltic books, the lat re- flecta the rapid growth, especially in the last year, of women's activ. ity in track and field sports, Twen- ty-nine of the records were estab- Ushed in 1922, a majority of these at the fisst women’s Olympic meet, held in Paris last August and won by England. with America second. | ({ZECHO-SLOVAKIA ranks next to the United States in the num ber of individual and team record. holders, with 19. England has nine, France eight and Finland one, List- 4 separately by the federation are five world's records credited to Ger- man women athletes, three of which represent better performanges than those recognized on the list which excludes Germany. Three of the world’s records on the federation’s list, which included performances up to September 1, 1922, have since been broken by American stars In competition in this country, & fact which observers cite as proof of the rapidly developing ude of feminine contestants in teeck und field sports, Miss Camelia Sabio of Newark, N. J., one of the stars of the Amer foan international team, broke two of the marks, lowering the 60-yard high hurdle standard from 9 to 8 46 | seconds and setting a new distance of 8 feet 8% inches for the standing broad jump, as compared with the | Previous best mark of 2.60 meters (about 8 feet 2 inches), Miss Eleanor Churehill of Exeter, N. H., account: | ed for the other new record by| throwing the baseball 224 feet 2% inches, as compared with the old) mark of 66,57 meters (about 218 feet). Analysis of the record list reveals | the superiority of American girls in hurdle racing and jumping. Four of | the five hurdle records, and five of six marks for broad and high jumps, pole vaulting and hop, step and jump are held by the representa- tives of the United States. England and France hold a majority of reo; ords for relays and ning, Grecho-Slovakia, in Mile. B. Melzlikova, possesses a holder of| four sprint records, FECAL most of the events have been adapted to fem. | inine competition few of the per- formances can be compared with those made by men. The wom- en's standard for the 100-yard is 11 2-5 seconds while the best time for men is 9 3-5 seconds, In the high jump, the women’s record of 1.45 meters (about 4 feet 9 inches) is nearly two feet less than the man's record of 6 Inches, distance rut. | fect 7 5-16 ‘Washington Football Coach Asks for Men Sounds Call for Alumni to Make It Possible for Grid- ders to Earn Way Thru School Here, at Annual capable football material to the local insti- the annual Washington football banquet at the Hotel Washington Saturc |men to Washington in the two years that I have been here. “Students who can play football, but who can 1 also make requirements® Washington will play its first foot-| The idea of the game ta) Darwin Meisnest made up a good! P. 8, 0, A. C.| DECEMBER 11, 1922. Coyle Supports His Appeal i. LASSEN BAGSHAW sounded the ap- alumni of the University of to make real efforts to bring’ de them with decent jobs, if id make it possible for Wash- a uild up a real gridiron team, = rton coach made his appeal at lay night. of three hands the alumni of y dome something in the way to Washington besides talking lo all of this work, as we must ing with the material that we one my share in bringing new ni must help. —fincecteniiil Weaver Denied Reinstatement CHICAGO, Dec. 11.— Judge K. M. Landis today refused to reinstate in organized baseball “Buck” Weaver, star third baseman for the Chicago White Sox pre- vious to the 1919 world series scandal. Weaver, whose name was mentioned in connec- tion with the alleged conspiracy of a group of White Sox players to throw the series to Cin- cinnati, declared that no evidence had been pro- duced to support the claim and asked that his name be cleared. His ap- plication was denied. CASEYS WIN CAGE MELEE HEN the two Knights of Colum- bus teams met on the Everett floor Saturday night the Seattle burlth showed that they still know how to play basketball. The Seattle five won by @ score of 42 to 18. The score, however, does not show the in- tense fight shown by both teams, as the game was full of fight thruout. | Bonney, Clemenson and Riddle did most of the scoring for the winners, ~ white Myers of the Everett five was about the only man to score for his | team. | The Knights have won four games so far this year, making a total of |51 games played in the Jast three | seasons, with two games lost, and if their team sticks together this season it looks very much as tho they would [enjoy another successful season. They |have a bunch of experienced players and can always be depended upon to give a good account of ti The Camp Lewis five tus Sal is said to be much stronger than the — Officers’ five, which represented the camp last year, and they are to come to Seattle to play the — K. of C. five next Wednesday night on the local floor, The game will be called by Referee Thomas at 8 o'clock |MORE TROUBLE IN N. Y. RING” NEW YORK, Dec, 11—On sth picion that Phil O'Dowd, bantam” weight, was drugged before he was knocked out recently by Danny Les, the boxing commission has suspend jed Harry Segal, Lee's manager, and Mickey Curran, O'Dowd's manager. MAY LIMIT BIG GAME TICKETS NEW HAVEN, Dec, 11.—Harvand and Yale alumni may be limited to one ticket each for the Yale-Harvand football game next fall, according to Yale autherities. The game will bey played in Harvard stadium, which” | Has 30,000 less seating capacity than j the *¥ale bow! 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