The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1922, Page 11

MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, SEATTLE ** POOR GLOVE | | } FANNING FARRELL Ty Cobb's dispute hit. | Another amusing yarn, Sympathy for Fletcher. BY HENRY L. FARRELL PFW COBL'S entrance into the 400 batting class this year by an of- ficial edict from Ban Johnson recalls @everal incidents of the past, when ‘the quest for a fow additional points | in the averages caused more or leew tricky maneuvers, ] The famous contest between Nap Lajole and Cobb several years nao, when an automobile was offered for the batting leader in both leagues, ty one of the most quoted. In one of the games late in the season when they were running neck and nock, Lajole got a flock of hits en bunts down the third base line. The guar-| dian of the hot corner was playing way back in left feld © Nepecoetsed amusing story ts told | of the race this year tn the Na-| tional league Rogers Hornsby, the | St. Louis star, was anxious to get! into the .400 class and the St. Louis) writers traveling with the team tn Chicago were just as anxious to have | their favorite make the mark j Before the last game in Chicago, ene of the St. Louis writers ap- proached the official scorekeeper and | in a round about way refreshed his/ memory on the rule that the batter | should be favored tn case of doubt, | that Rogers was a nice boy and that he wanted to bat .400, etc. The official scorer admitted that Hornsby was entitled to considera- The first time up Rogers knocked the third baseman over with a drive. ‘The second time he smashed a lner to center and the third time he doubled, whereup the official scorer remarked to the St. Louis woribe: “Who in the —— told you that Dird needed any help? big the American league president | fears that the judgment of port | writer as an official scorer might be | influenced by personal feeling or par- | tisanship, it might not be a bad idea) to have his umptres give the dect- sion on @ questionable bit RE CHARLEY EBBETS learned since the close of the sea- team, and Neil Flynn, captain the hockey team. Twelve other om the squad won letters in Castner had several offers for baseball last decided to continue SAN DIEGO, Dec. 25.—Win or lose, this is a great day for Coach Dorais of Gonzaga college. He just received word from his home in Spokane of the birth of @ fine eight-pound boy to Mre. Dorais. He \# considering nam ing the lad “San Diego.” | jhave plenty of potential etrength. 1922, METS. RUNNIN E DROVE S ” * G INT THE SEAT » * * Q SIRENG AMMY HALE FROM BIG SHOW 2 YEARS AGO Small Mitt Cost Him — TLE STAR ** THENE * * Denneny and Duncan to Cowboy Padgett Is Colorful Fighter Bolster Up Puck Kings Forward Line Will Be Fast; Mets Skidding, Losing Two Straight; Vancouver Plays Here Again Wednesday; Other Hockey Gossip BY LEO H. LASSEN HE Vancouver Maroons will present a much stronger front to Seattle in their Christmas noon, The champions will have the services of tained from the St. Pats, and Art Duncan, giant defense man, who has been out with injuries. The Mets got off to a wonderful start, but have been skidding lately, losing to Victoria and Regina in succession. The Mets lost both games by one-score margins, however, and the defeats are no sign that the Mets have cracked. Vancouver will have one of the strongest clubs in hockey from now on. With Lehman, Cook and Duncan for the de- fense, and with MacKay, Denneny, Skinner, Parks, Harris So Boucher for the forward line, they present a powerful ront. Changes Due at Victoria _ OME radical changes are tn order | Patrick will have to make some in Victoria if the Cougars are ever | changes to be factors in the Coast race. For| The Cougars have a good hockey years the Island city team has fin lelub and play hard enough, but the iehed in the ruck, and if interest is to be kept up in Cougars, Lester led most. Regina Showed Fight 1E Regina club showed Its guts}are great back-checkers and never when ft came back and walloped | (uit. Barney Stanley, the veteran forward, showed the Coast boys rome Seattle and Victoria after taking ® | ponigotting ability 4 bad beating in the first Coast game| And they say that Edmonton with Vancouver, Calgary are both stronger than Ke The Regina team tacks the polish | gina this year, At that rate the of the Const league squads, but they | Coast teams have some tough sled ding with the prairie teams in the re- and they have lots of fight. They ‘maining Inter-league garmes. feet inside the boundary lines. CHOICE team # entitled to three “time out" | termined? It is always customary for the vis iting team } have the choloe of baskets in the first half. In the second half the team changes ba» kets, wo there fa really no advan tage. ‘ SUBSTITUTE When a substitute into the fame what formality it he go thru? He must report to the scorers and be recognized by the referee. He “leannot communicate with any play er until play has been resumed DEAD BALL, If in making a throw for the ba» ket the ball becomes lodged tn the supports how must the ball be put In play, under the basket or in the center circle? ‘The ball shall be put in play in the center circle. Ie the ball considered in play after a doubie foul has been called by the referee? When a double foul ts called, “time out” is taken, and after the second free throw the ball is put in play at the center. It is not In play until the game is so resumed by the ref- ree. BIACKING What ts blocking? Blocking is impeding the progress of an opponent who has not the ball LIMITED SPACE If, because of the limited space of the playing floor, a player getting the bait out of bounds hasn't enough room to properly place the ball In play, what is the correct pro~ cedure? In all such cases when a player gets the ball out of bounds, no player of either team shall be rer than three feet to the player out of bounds. The referee on all . such floors is aided by having a thin white line drawn in the court three Perfect Weather for Big Grid Game at San Diego California within a week, and Inter. est in the contest was at fever heat The Gonzaga warriors, looked upon an the “under dog” because of West Virginia's fine record, were deter mined to give a good account of themselves, In Stockton, their great halfback, they have a star who ranks second only to Morrison of California in points scored thie year. FOULS What ts the difference between « technical and a personal foul? A technical foul does not involve personal contact, while a personal foul fs committed when a player holds, blocks, trins, pushes or in dulges in any other form of un necessary roughness. AN DIEGO, Dec. 25,—With per tect weather and football enthunt- asm such as the city haa never be- fore experienced, Gonzaga college lined up at the stadium here today with the undefeated Mountaineers of Wert Virginia. It was the first of three intersec- tional football games to be played in i LATMBUS, O., Dec, 26—~For 38 years Dr. Charles B. Morrey Waited to receive his varsity “O” at Ohio State university, But he is Row its proud possessor, The Ohio Mate Athictic board has just award ed him his letter this fall at the Gove. of the football season along with 24 others. Dr. Morrey, who ts a member of the inatructions! force of the de- partment of bacteriology, pitched and played the outfield on the first Ohio State baschall team in 199% and 1889. He also played on the first Seariet and Gray football eleven in ite first con’ in May—slightly @ut of searon~ 1890. Later, he left hia palfback post. tion to serve a» manager and assiat- ant ph When the first athletic hoard was formed at the university Im 1890, he was elected to that. According to Morrey, word wig: Beles were weed in the Buckeyes’ first grid games. Soccer was the amang the students until the form of context wes intro imto the university just pre- to the orn ts 38 Yeats for Ohio Varsity Letter ‘West Virginia, with such stars as Captain Meredith and Setron, was | Just as certain of upholding the hon jors of the East. Early indications were for a huge crowd at the ata dium, which comfortably seat# 40,000. THE LINEUPS Woet Virginia Graham Howard Hetron Pocey Manan | Mereattn Tallman ‘daced \x Martin | wkbers Simon Gasrity |SPENCER ON WITH BUFFS the former New Vernon Spencer, i | York Giant outfielder, who fiivvered | mer, hag caught on with Buffalo, in | the International league. He was @ | big star in that circult a few years | ago, going to the Giants when Ben | ny Kauff was sent to the minors. day game in the B. C. metropolis this after-) Corbet Denneny, the speedy forward ob-! , punch ts missing Just when it's need: | with the Log Angeles club last sum: | | BY BILLY EVANS 472) IDE him, Cowboy,” te no longer the college yell of the plains. “Drop him, Cowboy," has sup planted the old-time war cry, at least, | so tar as “Cowboy” Padgett ts con cerned Not #o many yearn ako, broncho- busting wes the favorite diversion of |one Padgett, He w mean horse | man and @ bear with a rope When not busy with his duties f @ regular, honestto.God cowhoy movie cowboys take notice —Pad | Rett spent many of his leisure hours in boxing Kegurdiess of how tired he might be, putting on the gloves and step: | ping @ couple of rounds with one ef | bin pals wax always Padgett’s idea of having @ good time. | Padgett hails from Daojores, Coto. | Spurred on by some of his pala, who believed he ponseimed real ability, wett began to dabble in the box ing game in a minor way tn hie seo tion of the country, He was @ bit from the start, on he found that boxing was a mpaying proposition than cow punching and broncho-busting, S80 he 4 d the maddie and rope for | the padded ring and boxing gloves. In three years Padgett hax made rapid strides, Thin colorful fighter | from out Colorado way t# now rated } contender for the welter ticket held by Mickey Walker Only recently Padgett made the pugilintic world ait up and start to talk about him by stopping s»turdy | K. O, Loughlin in five rounds, When the match was arranged it was re garded as @ voft spot for Loughlin It so proved, but the soft spot was on the floor A draw with the skillful Dave) Tilden to Injured Finger Will Shade ts another bright «pot In Pad. | Kett's record. Recently he earned a| deolsion over Billy Ryan of Cincin a mighty good boy. In & Oareer extending over three natt in 120 battles and b decisions Britton, s lost only four One of them was to Jack then welterweight champion. Colorado Boxer Never Knocked Down COWBOY PADGETT Padgett's victory over K. O. He has never been knocked down for | Loughlin ts certain to win him much ny kind of a count Learn New | New Shots on Paper Now BY JOSEPH WASNE recognition in the Bast. Force Bill Tennis Play Champion Must Change Strokes Because of Amputated Joint on Racquet Hand; Plans to Practice Game During Indoor Season in January; He’s Working Out, How is the cholce of baskets de HILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 25.—William T. “Big Bill” Tilden, 2nd, world’s tennis cham- pion, expects to start practicing on indoor courts early in January to offset the handi- cap caused by the amputation of the upper portion of the middle finger of his right hand. Undaunted by the fact that his finger has become very stiff, Bill has decided to build up an entirely new grip to conform with the limitations of his maimed hand. I am now certain that what is left of my middle right finger will be so stiff it will be virtually useless in gripping the racquet,” Tilden told the writer, “This means I will have to re model my game on orthodox lines much to my game will be a total loss. My backhand drive and my forehand drives probably will be the only strokes that will not be affect ed by my injury.” Tilden's finger waa injured In « tennis match early in the autumn when he ran into @ wire netting The finger was slightly seratched and Infection spread 9o that he lost the finger from the distal joint In diagnosing his own game Til fon claims he will retain the two great offensive strokes that carried him thru matches to the cham: plonship. * jie retaining these two shots, absolutely all my other strokes with the posnible exception of my ser vice, will have to be changed. And, with regard to the service, I can’t see how the finger is going to af- fect my high bounding delivery on which I depend principally in match pinay,” the champion continued. “I know that the volley shots and the delicate little cut shots that I have depended on #0 much are lost to me, for I make all those plays with my fingers. “What I have to regain now ts confidence In my play, In the last fiye years I have really never lost confidence in my ability to return @ ball that I could reach. In the |reverned, but I may be able to jovercome this in time, Just now this is bothering me more than the mere matter of stroking.” “As to my game next summer T | will be lucky to get into the first ten for 1923, and T mean it. “However, I am of the opinion that each succeeding champion has the right to the crown by winning in a match and if I am playing tennis of a calibre that warrants competition I will be more than willing to defend the champion ship.” Meanwhile “Big BM" ts working out bis game on paper, He tm) ‘studying just what plays he will make when he starts playing again, There is ati!l a chance the cham- pion may have to undergo another operation on his injured finger, His physicians, however, are trying to avoid thin CARMEN HILL and the trick shote that have meant) future I know this ls going to be) have said and will repeat it, that T/ BERT R. ISBELL, the Univer sity of Michigan's cross-country champion, has clearly shown this year that great size and build are not necensarily essential to a sucessful athlete. j | Isbell, when in running trim, | weighs but 116 pounds, and ts a slight youth, who, by grim determi. nation and vigorous training, has de- veloped into the greatest harrier in [the West thie year. ' r | He was placed first tn every run he has entered at Michigan, and besides shattering all hig home school records, he established the best time that hag been made in the past 10 years in the Western conference meet, Ishell easily led the field of 60 entries over the hard Purdue course, and, running in the face of a strong wind, finished nearly as fresh as when he started. Isbell and hig five team mates won jthe Western conference champion |whip this year, which is the first | time Coach Farrell's men have car- ried off the honors since Michigan | has entered teams in the meet, Michigan Runner Is Great Track Athlete walty of Californian cam- England's wtadium at Wembly, w 126,000, covers twice the gro ‘ale ‘bow! Joe Benjamin and Jim Aacoo will tight 10 rounds im Portiand January 10, Harvard ite lee hockey sea- son with Berente. ‘at Cambeldge | January 4, McGraw will take 18 pitchers to train- ing camp in the apring The 1094 Regiment of Pngineere city, will be the scene | Penn may bring IS SENT BACK | Carmen Hill, the bespectacled pitcher of the New York Giants, has been shipped back to the Indianapo- Iie club, in the American association He waa brought up f the minors to fill in as relief hurler during tho cloning days of the National flag race, when the Giants were a wee | bit shy of pitchers IRA TOWNSEND TO BEAUMONT Pitcher Ira Townsend hy been iment to the minors by the Braves, going to Beaumont, in the Texas league, His deposition ix just | one of the moves to strengthen the [Braves for next year, ' Jegiate relay team val in April field stadium eats 63,000, ‘There is 6 of an Aus- tratian cricket eleven visiting the Kast Indies in 19nd, Are compalgning ipal stadium for Atour The propored structure will eeat | ) Metropolitan om, with partioip weekly matohen y treck meets and a has- butld a $50, winner's field a fow stage tourneys during the win | port | mitting © champion, has been competing 22 years. . Mervard has twin brothers tte | Bus, will cont $1,000,000 “and will lrencing sauad ‘Bverett Lane te, caps have it ready for football In 1923, bre one ty wen einer tps Ban Francisco and Los Angeles soo- cor leagues plan an intercity contest at Los Angeles in January, Picked clevens will display their prowess at the kicking style of football, Some members of the astern Can- ada Rugby union favor introducing the forward pass into the ri by game, Loyola wm ty of New Ori dium next ye with Queene ‘ollewe of Montr jogiate rugby obi in 18 years, untversity Mést of Notre Dame's football players this year are sophomores, which means they will be mvullable for piny two more years. Vedado Tennis club of Havana will rr. Allegheny college of Mendville, Pa, ing this yeu niveraitios w phyateal education by per- te for thie matr ri «of 1M week! ——s ethall tourney to determine the , Mra. Matlory's fortune waa an odd one, Sepeeoes of She pr oer — | Suzanne Lengien trounced her, but she } Bh ie a eo busy loame right back home and hammered ram “gery iviaed | [Cyerybody. At inst reports Su The state ie heen ded off the courts for life, so m Walter Rut, the German bicycle ou will take th title a second 4 the satist of au official soore D MAROO e | | | Cana-| 29, has been fon for | | TURNER BARBER | elub. | try club, 5—Adolph Haas, Eastmoreland Goit club. |BROWN SHOULD | by in the Coast league, according to | . | Spencer Harris, former Broadway | NS Position With Tigers — Portland Infielder Wouldn't Follow Ty Cobb’s Ad4 vice, and So He Was Sent to Minors in Spite of His Hitting Ability balls badly and ly than not. Finally Cobb was too small. it felt more comfortable. to get Herman Pillette and} Sylvester Johnson from the Portland club last winter for $40,000 cash and five players, | Hale became one of the five that Portland got and it is) this same player whom Con- nie Mack has bought for his Athletics at a fancy figure. Since going to the coast he has developed into a good fielder and continues to slug the ball It might also be added that after leaving Detroit Hale became a con vert to the large Joose-fitting mitt. LESLIE BOUGHT BY SALT LAKE Roy Leslie, who played regularly at first base for the Philadelphia Nationals last year with fair success, has been bought by Salt Lake for next season. This must mean that the Bees don't plan to experiment with Jim Riley next year. The Quakers obtained Walter Holke from the Boston Braves and it meant Lew lie'’s pansing from the big show. Lesile played with New Orleans In } 1921 SCHUPP BACK TO BLUES Ferdie Schupp, the southpaw ‘who proved to be a rank failure with the Redskins, has been bought by the Kansas City Blues in the American axsociation from the Chicago White fox. The price is sald to be $4,500. If he doesn’t show any more next year than he did with the tribe here the “Kansag City Blues” ts right BEAVERS LAND | O'ROURKE Portland has landed a new short- stop for next season from the Boston Red Sox, a mick named O'Rourke, who played good ball for the Bean team last season, Nick Williangs, Beattle scout, speaks highly of ni MAY COME WEST Turner Barber, a hard-socking out- fielder, may join Los Angeles, along with George Maisel, according to re ports from the East, Barber is said to have everything but the necessary hustle to make a big league star. | make him hustle. 7" * ETROIT, Mich., Dec. 256.—When Tyrus Cobb became manager of the Detroit team in the spring of 1921 there reported to him in San Antonio, Sammy Hale, an infielder. Cobb liked Hale because he could hit, but Hale’s fielding was the first big worry of the new manager. anything but sure. He played ground-hit able to field because the glove he wore | to adopt a large, loose-fitting fielder’s glove, but Hale stuck to his little brown one, claiming that — Hale did not change gloves, his fielding failed to improve and Detroit released him soon after the start of the season. Detroit still has a claim on Hale, but when a chance came ern to pilot the Charleston team, in South Atlantic under Jimmy Hamilton, won the flag last | Nashville, in the Southern league, the coming year. San Francisco last year, has signed by Reading, in the I tional league. by, “Pants” Rowland, former White 803 manager, will be the new the American league next series with the White Gox in OLDHAM SWAPPED FOR PERTICA in a big player «wap the other when Detroit shipped Red © the St. Louis Cards for Bill Both of these men were big stars the Coast circuit, but neither devel oped as expected. FRANCIS TO DETROIT er, will work for Detrolt next son. ington to the Michigan team Shortstop Chick Gagnon. u Here's betting that Red Killefer cah | broke In as a regular with the Nal | Barber ts a .300| last year, and altho he didn’t hitter in the big time, and he led | many games, he pitched good | the Cubs with the willow in the city | ball in his first year in the big PAGE 14 TODAY Tex., training camp, Hale’s hands were he fumbled more frequent decided that Hale was un- He tried to induce Hale After several failures in the American league, George Boehl- er, veteran Tulsa pitcher, is to get a chance in the National, with the Pittsburg Pirates. former We has 1 Jack Coffey, league manager, 1 Hamilton is leading league. Cha: year. The Southern and Texas leagues have decided that in the — future their respective pennant winners will play postseason games only in “Dixie” series, Ralph Miller, utility player Howard Holmes and Owen of the Western league, % tee ‘Two former Coast leaguers fi 4 Ray Francis, former Seattle He hag been traded by Dr. Willing Ranked No.1 — for Oregon Golf D® 0. F. WILLING has been ranked No. 1 for Oregon golfdom for the year by George Bertz, sport- ing editor of the Oregon Journal. Rudolph Wilhelm is ranked second, and Claire Griswold, former Seattle golfer, is No. 3%. The complete rankings follow: 1—Dr. O, F. Willing, Waverley Country club, 2—Rudolph Wilhelm, Portland Golf club. 3—-Clare Griswold, Portland Golf 4—Russell Smith, Waverley Coun- 6—Ercel Kay, Portland Golf club. 7—Johnny Rebstock, Eastmore- Jand Golf club, | §&—KFrank Dolp, Bastmoreland Golf club, } | %—Walter Mackie, Eastmoreland Golf club. 10—Jack Straight, Waverley Coun- try club. HEAVY BOUT IS POSTPONED NOW PORTLAND, Ore, Dec, 25.—The | bout between Fill Tate and Fred Ful- lton, scheduled for the Milwa: jarena, here, Friday night, December called off, Promoter Frank Kendall announced today, Neither of the two heavies was able to reach Portland tn time for the mix, Negotiations have not been dropped, it was learned, and an ef- fort will be made to bring the two men together here at some later date, | probably some time in January, GET BY WELL Outfielder Brown, obtained by Sac: | ramento thru Pittsburg, should get high school star, who played with | him in the Mint league last summer. | “Brown is fast,” says Harris, “and | he showed lots of ability with the Fitnt team.” ! Jimmy Murphy, famous automobile racing driver, is te appear in the mo les, club. Country club. Country club. Arena Box Offi Phone Main 24% 1l—Roy Moe, Eastmoreland 2—Edwin Neustadter, 0000000000000000 A Merry Christmas And a Warm Welcome to You to ‘ The ZERO 214 Jefferson St. Just back of L. C. Smith Bldg, | Card Tables, Pool, Cigars, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fountain Lunches Pay Checks Cashed Wednesday, Dec. 27 8:30 P. M. Sharp } Admission $1.10, $1.40, $1.75 (Tax included) Reserved seats on sale at 1210 Fifth Ice Skating During the Holidays the Are will be open for tee skating morning, afternoon and except Wednesday and