The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1922, Page 14

am at ee reenter enn RR Ngee REGINA CLUB BATTLES JESS WILLARD SHOWS BOXING SKILL IN PORTLAND Benton coming back. Cincy is young team. BY HENRY L. FARRELL neighborhood next fall,” & z if : i : i = boys’ be back in this | } | BILLY: EVANS TE New Washington Pilot _ Introduced by Umpire ‘Evans, Who Has Worked Many Games in Which Bush That one sentence team. Just prior to the opening of the 1922 campaign Bush was suspended by Owner Clark Griffith for what was termed insubordination. Bush falled to report for spring training. operation on one of his eyes. That was the real cause. Owner Griffith, however, believed that Bush was merely trying to tkip epring training. The Washington club had scheduled a number of Nothing ts more irksome to the veteran Griffith thought Bush was trying to dodge the tasue. Bush was suspended without pay until {n condition to play alty imposed by Griffith caused @ verbal combat between the two that |] for a time waxed warm. |] Perhaps the fighting «ptrit Bush showed tn the clash with Griffith was In naming him manager Griffith praises his one-day stands thru the South player. & good thing for him. fighting eptrit. i i i | E fi i itl t F : Fe fighter. they Ifke him. C iS ly manner. i ah ae : gq z i : : H 5 ig te HE : z i ie league debut than Bush. slow up. and dot the goods. iver the at that position for the association. A deal USH at that time was probably 25 pounds lighter than he ts to- @ay and lightning fast. Hi» debut was made to order. He pulled at Jeast a half dozen sensational plays Three of his stops he made on the base side of the diamond. a next Mee fighting better than any other sport. He will talk fight and baseball ae jong aa any- Body wili Maten. I don't believe I will ever forget = little argument we had at the plate when he was with the Detroit club. Cleveland was playing at Detrott, Bush was on third with one out, and Detroit trailing by a single tally. Bush at that time was mighty fast. The bateman hit a fly to rather deep center field. Speaker made 'USH coined an expression that ia still a byword with the ball players. It is customary for all major league clubs to hold a meeting prior to starting each ball game. ‘The idea of the meeting is to discuns the weakness and the strength of the opposition. interesting for the Giants, Donahue, about the best in baseball, waa out ‘Weeks also with a bad arm. CK GRANEY _ GIVEN GATE Graney, former Cleveland » didn’t make much of a at managing the Des Moines n league team this year, and hag been succeeded by Johnny ates HOW TO BE HAPPY _ Though Married— Play “Rummy” at The ZERO 214 defferson St. One afternoon as the Detroit team wee filing into the clubhouse, some one asked Bush where he waa going. “Skull practice,” answered Bush. “What do you do in there?” “Teacher tells us how to score IHICAGO, TIL, Deo. 206-——-IFilling the shoes vacated by the famous Frank Chance—well, it tsn’t done more than once in a decade or more. Frank Chance was the idol of Chicago, @ star league, a successful manager and an artist ae a first baseman. And when Frank Chance packed his grip to depart from the scene of action there were many who mourned, Where was his successor? leant, one of his ability. Look how long the Pirates toured to get a duplicate of Honus Wag- ner? And from 1911 when Chance re alized that his playing days were over the Chicago Cubs toured for 10 years for a first baseman. They came in all ages and sizes. In the pring of 1921 a gawky, awkward kid named Raymond Oscar Grimes ‘was purchased. Another edition of Frank Chance hes arrived tn Grimes. Grimes in @ dead-ringer for Chance in everything with the exception of At in the National) REAL CLIMAX FOR BUSH ROM the suspended list to major league manager in lows than @ year. ‘on up the climax to the career of the veteran shorstop, Owen ("Dente") Bush, of the Washington American league BY BILLY EVANS ONIE BUSH, new manager of the Washin ton team of the American Has Played, Tells of His Characteristics; Bush Is a Fighter and Has a Keen Sense of Humor He gave as his reason an The pen. league, is a Bush is the direct opposite of Clyde Milan, who handled the club last year. Milan is the quiet, methodical chap who weighs matters carefully. gressive type, who jumps at conclusions and then fights for them. Bush is the ag- a ball game by American league umpires, Donie and I have often disagreed on de- cisions, but his slate is clean with me. ave never put him out of a ball game. been on the ragged edge several times. Umpires like Bush because he starts every ball game anew. He never carries over a grievance. If an umpire chases Donie for kicking too strenuously, it never stirs up any hatred in his system for the arbitrator. The next day he is the first to greet the umpire in a friend- | I However, he has Every game is a new one with Bush. I doubt if any player ever made a more sensational major It was back in 1908. The Detroit club was waging a bit- , | ter fight for the American league pennant. Charley O'Leary, | — the veteran shortstop, was ailing. The late Herman Schae- fer, then playing second for Detroit, was beginning to Tigers needed a shortstop who could step right in Bush was playing a brilliant game Indianapolis club of the American was made that secured his immediate services for the fag end of the season. Bush's work at short made possible the winning of the pennant by Detroit that year. He Made Sensational Debut & beautiful catch and followed it up with an even more remarkable throw. I called Bush out. It wase balr-line dectaton. ‘The play was so clone it merited ® kick. Bush began to question my eyenight. [old me I would pave never made such@ decision three or four years back. Advised that I bet- ter consult @ specialiat Realizing Danie was peeved at being called out, I took the verbal Darrage with @ amile and when he had finished I remarked: “Three or four years ago 1 wouldn't have had to make a de cision on such @ play, you would have beaten the throw a couple of steps. It's a crime the way you are slowing up, Donte.” That remark nettied tt. “Guess you're right,” he said an he brushed the dust from his unt- form. “Well, I suppose I ought to be @iad that guy out there In center field ian’t a pitcher,” he remarked, shifting the conversation. “Why so?” I anked. “Why, that atiff Speaker can throw strikes from the outfield.” Coins Baseball Expression runs without making base hite,” re piled Bush. He referred to Hughey Jennings when speaking of teacher. The skull practioe sessions to all ball players are known as meetings where you learn to score runs with- out making base hits “Donie” Bush knows baseball, He has the fighting spirit. Under him the Washington club tm certain to be an aggressive aggregation. Hin success or fallure as manager will hinge on his ability to handle play- ere and get the best out of them. RAY GRIMES BLOSSOMS OUT AS REAL CUB STAR long-distance hitting. He is just as powerful in build, plays the bag as Chance did, but soaks farther than Chance. The official averages of the Na tional league for the 1922 season Present Grimes’ qualities. He ta reo ond to Rogers Hornsby in hitting with an average of .354, possesses a total base record of 291 and had 46 doubles, 12 triples and 14 home runs, Chance didn’t hit ‘em lke that M’LARRY GETS SCENE CHANGE Polly MoLarry, veteran first sack: or, who has served a lot of time tn the Southern league, has been sold by Memphix to Des Moines, of the Wostern league Ray Bates, ex-Seattle first sacker, will cavort in Class AA company again, after a year in the Western league. He has been purchased by the Reading International league club from Oklahoma City ‘em miles | THE SEATTLE soe #8 * * os Ray Rohwer, the young action. | While Bush has been chased from many | Broadcasting | Beckett Bhould Bea Dream. Prauah in London Tommy Burne Talks BLL, bless me silly old soull Give « little listen, mates, London is broadcasting: Basil G. D. Rudd, star of the South African Olympic team and famous in America for his races in the East as a member of the new secretary, thank you, please, sir, to his worship Earl Birken head, the lord chancellor. Top- ping post it Is, too, sir. cle e Tommy Burns, former heavy weight champion, proclaims Roland Todd the greatest defensive boxer of the day, the equal of Jack John- son at his best. Todd went 20 rounds with Ted Kid Lewis and lost | the decision because he was always | defending. Neither laid a heavy| hand on the other all night. Todd was privately tutored in defensive boxing by Professor Newton, dean of the boxing college in Marylebone | Road, who advertises: “The Knock out Blow; Learn How to Avoid It.” eee Major Arnold Wilson, the prize. fight entrepreneur, the Tex Rickard of London, is trying to arrange an. other tumble for Joe Beckett. Wil son alma to get Carpentier for Hort. zontal Joey as soon as Carpentier’s broken fists get better. Strewth! "BE does! eee Danny Frush, the “Beckett of the featherweights,” 1s in Lon- don, right in line for a bout with Eugene Criqui, the European | feather champion, who recently knocked out Billy Mathews, the | British champlon. eee Soldier Jones, wno fought Billy Miske, a preliminary to the Demp.- | ney-Carpentier spectacle, is ono of the numerous American colony tn London, Bartley Madden, Joss Wil- | lard’s old sparring partner, ts Ike | wise getting by as a first-class Nght | heavyweight | eee j Well, toodie-co! | ‘The walver price in the Southern league hae been raised from $400 to $500, BIL Jackson, former Beattie ft er, who has managed Peorta’s team for years, has #hifted to J ning ton,/ of the same league, the Three-1 cirowlt. \ rookies must play on each Bouth- | Cards $50,000 for top Baltimore, but it was tiene Bush led ue with 26 wins and ninth tn the list the Amertoan defeats, he feotivensss, ile to him. cher, Jobn peau and Coveleskic Yachary, ahead Rest orn ones LLS ABOUT DON New Seattle Fielder Harry Wolverton is lining up a flock of new talent for the Seattle club, and The Star pictures here the Pittsburg Pirates on the Spencer Adams trans- SEATTLE STAR IN| NTER-LEAGUE PU ** * ” * EDNESDAY, EX Ib BUSH outfielder obtained from Mutehioon, famous & Western tour, and lor these parte December Clyde mith has been mamed cap- tain of the Missouri feetball team ment eemson, orenee, left ond, has been ale ft the 197% Georgetown nly The University of Southern California will enter teama tn the Penn and Drake relay events next spring CUB PARK TO BE BIG ONE) CHICAGO, Deo, 20.—Construction of the largest baseball stand In the country will start at the Natfonal league park here, within a days. Altho other parks have a greater seating capacity, the Cubs’ new stand will have the greatest area be- cause of the single-deck construction. SOTHORON GOES TO LOUISVILLE Allan Sothoron, former Portland, St. Louls and Cleveland pitcher, has been signed by the Louisville Colo. nels for next reason Get Your Christmas Handsome Models Incloude racer, roadster, moto- bike, junior’ roadster and juvenile models for boys and girls, The World’s Finest Bicycle Ia selling now at the lowest prices in 44 years of expert bleyele building. $40.50 to $48.50 Conventent Terms Arranged. no7-t The Sporting Goods Store «| youngster any more, and Dye may | . | FLAATER Prairie Men vs. | Locals Regina Given Bad Licking by Vancouver, but Should Strike Stride BY LEO H. LASSEN LTHO noouver | threw the hookn into Regina by a 10 t 8 tally Monday, the Prairie league champions will be greatly strengthened for tonight's game with the Seattle Mets at the lo cal Arena, The visitors will have the servioes of Mo- ran tonight « crack defense man, who has been out of two games because he took @ poke at Referee Poulin recently on the prairie. The, return of Moran to the game means that Stanley can go back to the for ward line, which will give the Capt tals Hay, Irvin and Stanley on the line, one of the best squads in hockey Traub will be on the defense with Moran, and McCiusker will be tn the! nete. Seattle will line up with full strength tonight, altho Roy Rickey’s injured thumb ft» stil) weak Bernie Morris will be back, ready | to go the distance. He started tn Victorian Friday, after being out two | weeks with polsoning. VANCOUVER | STRENGTHENED | With Corbett Denneny coming to strengthen the Vancouver Maroons, and with Alf Skinner and Art Dun can almost ready for action again, the Maroons look itke @ great hockey club again. The return of Hugh Lah man to the note has been a boon to Vancouver. With Harris, Denneny, | MeKay, Boucher and Skinner on the forward line, and Cook, Duncan and! Lehman on the defense, the Maroons look tke a championship aggregation again, WALKER TALKS ON SHOOTING “Babe Dye showed the boys « pow- erful shot when the St, Patw were | here,” says Jack Walker, local hook “| check artist, “but his team mate, | | Harry Cameron, packed the hardest shot I ever saw back In 19 with the Toronto team, Cameron, skating at top speed and shooting, would | | send the rubber so hard and fast that {t waa in the twine before the |foalie saw it. Cameron isn't a shoot harder now, but I give the! palm to Cameron for having the/| hardest shot of all time.” © | | COOK SHOOTS Bernie Morris, who ts quite @ shot himself, says that Lioyd Cook. the | Vancouvver defense man, has one of | jthe meanest long shots inthe game. | | It floate thru the afr and drops sud: | denly, Uke a spithall, says Morris, making it doubly hard to atop. KEATS IS TRICKY | Perhaps the greatest star on the | prairie now is Duke Keats, the great center of the Edmonton team. In | the exhibition game with the St. Pats | recently, Keats shot six goals. Roy | Rickey says he ta one of the trick | feet forwards In the game, and Keats jis the man to stop when Seattle ian the Eskimos, | aged prof sional of the Detroit Coantry club, succeeding Davey Robertson, who has necepted » berth with the Red- ford Country elub. George Richie won the Olympic club | golf championship recently, defeating Sam Donlan, 3 up and 3, in the finals of (the 1929 champtenship event. | A contract has just been awarded for | the construction of the building to house the Congressional Country club, located nine miles from Washington, at a cost of | ‘$800,000. President Harding and promi- | nent officials of the government are | members, An 18-hole golf course will be Iald out, A golfer in Washington, D. 0., o M. Alvord, ts expertmenting with a new kind of wooden club. The head is made from @ resilient wood found in Louisiana Known as bols dare, of wood of the ark, | and te encased tn aluminum bands It 044 looking contrivance, but Alvord r gots and driver. tioal, it may be hickory, on thi find. | | ‘The women’s Western got cham- will be played over the | ‘ourse of the Exmoor Country club, | in Chicago, The tournament likely begin August 26. i | president of the Pro- | Asaoolation, staten that George Sargent, fonsional Golfcrs’ the whole-hearted co-operation and loy- | aity'of each and every member of the | organisation in necessary if the body control of the game and mbera trom the entangling oe of the part of sporting goods companies, which have tied down some clubs #0 that their membere can purchase only one brand of golf supplies, | BIG CUE PLAY | FOR CHICAGO| CHICAGO, Dec. 20.The chal: | lenge match at 18.2 balkline billiards between Jake Schaefer, Chicago, and Roger Conti, of france, will be held bere January & 9 and 10, ‘ | Milwaukee, Blouln won permanent | jYora football game here, December (GETS REWARD) Otto Miller After 10 years in the big) show with the Brooklyn Dodgers, catching most of| their games, Otto Miller has} been rewarded for faithful service. The veteran will man-| age the Atlanta team in the Southern league next season. McQUILLAN MAY BE OUT | OF BASEBALL N*’ YORK, Dec. 20.—Hugh Mo- Quillan, star pitcher, for whom the Giants paid the Boston Braves $75,000 jast season, may never be able to pitch again. Details of « sehi- ous injury to hig arm and side, re- catved it mobile accident last © arned when MeQuil- ber | lan sued Mins Mildred Taylor, daugh- ter of a broker and a prominent soci- ety girl, for $50,000 damages. As the second plaintiff in the case is Mrs, Margaret Farley, his mother- in-law, who was injured at the same time. The plaintiffs seek damages on the allegation that Miss Taylor was re sponsible for the colliston on the Jeri cho turnpike, which resulted tn thelr injuries. | McQuillan hag been under medical treatment since then, and his arm is responding slowly. The Giant office Maid today it would be impossible to tell until spring if he would be able to use his arm. ' ! CHICAGO SEES TWO BIG TEAMS CHICAGO, Dec. 26-~Two of the | Baatern teams which play Pacific coast elevens during the holidays passed thru Chicago today on their way West. | The Virginia squad, which meets Gonzaga Christmas day at San Di- ego, arrived at § a. m. and left two | hours later, A loyal group of alumni | ot West Virginia gave the Bastern. | ers | warm reception. | Penn State arrived during the! morning algo and planned to leave to- nysht. | CHANCE WANTS BUD M’MILLAN | NEW YORK, Deo. 20.—Frank | Chance, new manager of the Boston | Red Sox, wants McMillan, young | Yankee player, for third base, but he} laaid he had nothing to offer the | | Yanks for him. Chance ts on his way back to California, to close up | nome business affairs, ARMY FOOTBALL BOOKINGS MADE WEST POINT, Dec. 20.—Three| Southern and one Middle Western teams are on the Army's 1923 foot: ball card. Starting September 29, on successive Saturdays, the cadets will play Tennessee, Florida, Notre Dame, Auburn, Lebanon Valley, Yale and Bethany. The Navy date has not yet been set. JIMMY BLOUIN KEEPS TITLE CHICAGO, Dec, 20.—Jimmy Blou- in, Chicago, was still king of the bowling world today, as a result of hig close defeat of Jimmy Smith, of possession of the world’s classic $500 | medal by his victory in the 60-game | match. CARDS GET BIG COIN FOR RAIN STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal. Dec, 20.—Thirty thousand dollars in- surance against rain was taken out today, covering the Pittsburg-Stan- 30. quality. intelligently. 707 First Ave, CK GAM *"* * HIBITION © o | had figured out his 10-spot. |lard had not pulled that punch Bor Cigars for Christmas Wwitx choosi ent, it is well to depend upon the person thoroughly familiar with cigar Our many years’ experience in pur- chasing cigars that would meet popu- lar approval enables us to advise you Without question we recommend: CHARLES THE GREAT DON JULIAN GIRARD DETROIT HAND MADE These cigars may be purchased from your regular dealer or from = Spring Cigar Co., Inc. 910 Second Ave, DECEMB Ex-Champ Still Far | Too Heavy | Willard Weighs 265; Toys With Couple of Rose City Men ORTLAND, Deo, weight pugtlis, and one-time heavy weight champion of the world, took on @ couple of the bors st Milwaw kie arena last night and showed them « iittie something about boxing. Professor Willard measured punches in the firet tworound exzht | bition “scrap” with Beotty Messer, lof Tillamook. Willard weighed about 265, counting everything, ena Mee ser 188. Memer seemed content te handle his end of the bout by radio, but Willard finally caught up with him in Messer’s own corner and opened his jaw. Messer, thus in- vited, proceeded to whang away at the bie Kansan, while said big Kan san's stil] rotund stomach shook with suppressed laughter. Every now an@ then Willard would close tn and play- fully tap Messer where it wouldnt hurt, pulling every punch. In the second two-round exhibition | Jim Borden relieved Messer and Wil lard forgot himeelf for @ moment jend Borden hit the canvas. Willard cracked Borden « hefty wallop be- hind the ear, and the lighter man took a long and comfortable count.» Time was called before the refer: it Wi den probably would have eworn the New Year was in when he awoke. Willard seemed content to show the crowd that his footwérk had suffered little by his absence in the of} flelds. The big fellow wae still overweight, but light on his feet. ‘The general opinion among fans was that mentally Willard is champion- ship stuff, but not quite in that class phyatcally. TOSS UP If the referee is unable to mine which player touched the before it went out of bounds, ts the proper way of continuing The referee should put the play by selecting a spot about feet within the court at right to where the ball crossed and toss It up as if putting in play in the center, EXTRA PERIOD When the score is tied at the close of the regular playing time, what fe a Proper procedure to break the je" Without any delay the referee shall continue play for another five-minute period, or as many such five-minute periods as is necessary to break the tie. The teams shall continue to use the same baskets with which they started the second half. The bail shall be put into play at the center at the start of each period. REFEREE Who decides whether of not a goal has been properly made? Who de cides when the ball is dead? Both plays come under the jurie diction of the referee. cntseberh RIGHTS When the ball is awarded te o player to be put into play after hav ing gone out of bounds, what are the rights of that player? If the player holds the ball for more than five seconds before put- ting it into play, the ball goes to am opponent out of bounds. DOUBLE FOUL How ts a double foul made? A double foul is made when bot? teams have a foul called against them at the same time. . ng a cigar for a pres- 418 Pike St, 1406 Fourth Ave, 20-—Jeas Wi! Kan hee