The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1922, Page 18

EMINISCENCES ©! Ze . D-EDugdate As Told to Leo H. L en Peoria City Championship Game of | 1883 Started Dug Out as Catcher : CHAPTER I. didn’t have any high-faluting baseball paraphernalia for the deciding game of the F Peoria, Illinois, city championship in the summer of 18 a piece of the curbstone for home plate. he only had a fingerless glove of thin leathe! Oh, yes! start this story out right. catcher. I had been playing shortstop, but the regular receiver split a finger and |» that we 83. I can remember Nobody except the catcher used gloves, and | fieat r over both hands. Of course, my team, the Double Browns, won, or it wouldn't} wnich to «e: It was in that game that I got my start a5 & | Dempsey there wasn't anybody else to catch, so I tried it. | We stood back for the pitches except on the third strike, and except! THE SEATTLE STAR BILL ESSICK IS HOLDING UP JAKE MAY DEAL WITH YANKEES Willard Is | Simply on Exhibition Toys Aven" With Frank Farmer in Tacoma; Don't Expect Much BY LEO H, ys T Willard when he LASS expect too much of Jess woos on exhi bition here at the Crystal Pool Tue jay night, boys, because the Okla |homa oil king te far from being in condition Willard doesn't eb class condition no that he needs five or aix mont in shape for exhibition Willarg merely on aid oma with Frank Parmer « hin exhibiting stuff tn last 1 and he flounced around the ring with men on bases, catching the ball on the first bounce when standing |®»d horred @ bit with the Orting back. Tom Kennedy, who later helped pitch one inte the championship, was hurling for our he could throw that ball with plenty of sw “Don't catch if you want to keep your hea’ taking up my receiving duties. Kennedy was right. hit that curbstone plate and crashed into m by the wholesale and putting me on Queer t in those ve no one considered quitting as long as it was possible to stand up| h the bal! hed the game and we won the championship, and I game started me on my baseball career as a catche as a receiver for¢———-—— ——— t the country. Dugdale will tell yw Harry Decker, his catchi ; ‘on the Peoria team ~~ a, the catching im use today. WAS AD KICKER KIPKE, Michigan's bril- Tilden's accident. The Lenglen-Mallory feud. BY HENRY L. FARRELL NJIURY to “Big Bil" Tilden, which may remove from the court the champion of champions and the greatest player of all-time players, as the outstanding incident of 1922 ‘in tenmis, Rather fortunately, if such an ac cident can be considered as such, it | asa not happen until the end of a/ |season, in which he convinced all | skeptics that he was the greatest player in the world. In an exhibition game tate tn the! | fall, Tilden seratched the middie sot | fer of his right hand om the wire of | & backstop, and blood potson result ed. Two operations were necessary, and the finger was removed at the second joint. With the exception of the forehand and backhand strokes, Tilden wil! have to revise ali of his defensive and offensive weapons, and he says he will consider himself lucky if he is able to land tn the first ten next year. ‘Tilden has such a “tremendous, heart,” tho, that his courage on the Jeourt may be enough to pull him i 4 > sriventiia: He can do ev- back should do. However, tation is founded on ability, and that will be | to those who saw Kip- punt last year. Not alone below the average, but kicker. ‘was Michigan's punter the advantage of kicking and set about to train i all: of Michigan's games _ Few of his punts were were out | PD ESUMPTION of the feud between id not go Mile. Suzanne Lengien and Mrs 8° beta Mallory was the feature of the We troublé} early season. The American cham- pion went to Wimbledon and worked her way thru the British champion. ship to the final round against the French girl, Mile. Lengiend played the greatest tennis of her life, and, | in routing the American champion, showed that she was the real queen of the world’s court. 'HEN Mra, Maflory got to the American woman champion. ships, she dernonstrated her supertor- IN COIN | ity over all the American girls. | The form shown by Helen Wills, paid well at Yale {his | the California youngster, was a warn say arprid ae | ing, however, to the queen that she was twice, 77.-) hasn't long to veign. cramming the stands for! game and again for the! tussle. #0 unquestionably on the top of {the tennis world for several year: ou don’t know anything about it.” The first time I stood up close to catch, the ball Fanning With Farrell Reviewing 1922 tennis season. F AMERICA had not been sitting | of Pop Anson's Chicago teams | side that day, and, baby! but ift. Ith,” Tom warned me before | y mouth, knocking out teeth | street. felt well repaid for it. r, after which I was s to Serve the victory the cup challenge round would have been of the American team over Australians In the Davis one of the biggest events of the year id and Johnston | nie Richards, of course, was duly ap- | prectated, but ft was rather a matter of form, as it way almost a pi |dained fact that the Americans would win. KE work of the two Bille-—Tilden and young Vin or LDEN’S injury will not work to the harm of the Davis cup clasates, altho it may be the cause of another trip by the classic cup. American supremacy ast present and for the immediate future in so / soundly established that other na tions are thinking It poor business to aptnd so much money for a seem. ingly impoanibie chance of winning the cup for several years., | Bill Tiiden has done more for ten nis than any other person in the game. and even in misfortune he may be doing the same good, | | mR several years, some tennis| {ns have been of the opinion | that Bilt Johnston was the real king of American tennis, and that in 1920 and 1921 Tilden won because the physically inferfor Johnston had been over-tennised "a4 In the championships this year, however, Tilden should have con- vinced all those who thought little of him that he is the greatest player in the world. He beat Patterson, winner of the Pritish championship, easily, and when he beat Johnston, he defeated | one who Is only « hair away from be. | ing the best in the world. CENTRE TEAM RECEIVES BID Altho dropped from Harvard'’s| [schedule next year, Centre college is in demand by big-time football teams for next year. Pennsylvania, Penn State, Army, Michigan, Col gate and Alabama have requested | sanies for next year. | | UM WILL “BOX TUNNEY | , formerly known as oe se these parts, is! to box Gene Tunney in) danny %. Gillum has been Orleans for several seasons. Up Great TADIUMS have come to be a fea ture of the athletic life of every big university. University of Illinois, always to the front in athletics, does not intend to be outdone in this respect. The Illinois stadium now under way will serve as a themorial to George Huff, an outstanding figure in college athletics, It was fitting that Huff should break ground for the stadium, which is being rapidly Pushed to completion, For the present the Ilinois stadium will have seats only on the siden of the gridiron. The two ends will be open. ‘The east and west stands will have & seating capacity of 67,000. It is believed that the demand for seats for the big games will be so great that it will become necessary to fin- ish one of the ends, bringing the ea- pactty to 92,000. With both ends completed, it will be possible to seat | emake hee bese signee peas fe 2 Heist, crack center of the thall team, is turning out tor ye wrestling squad. ine roses coaching contract calls luere fire} lure Smith to an in two years if the Gold Gon't kick thru with more jack. Ilinois in Line to Put Athletic Field 120,000 people. Chicago will open the stadium on November 2, 1938. The selection of the Maroons was logical, because of the time-honored football with the Illini, The two universities have played football every year since 1492 with the exception of a lapse of three years, 1898, 1899 and 1900. But the stadium will not be com- | pleted next fall—just seats on the east and west stands. The present eantract does not call for the com: | pleted stadium, with its outside walls of red brick and Bedford stone, the noble memorial columns and other | beautiful features, until the summer of 1924 This will disappoint thousands of alumni who plan to return for the lopening, and want to see the stadium complete. There is a fighting chan |that if enough old-timers anticipate |their pledge payments, the structure will be completed next fall jof a man | whether or not he can ever }with Willard relations | logwer with 16 ar one-minute ounce gloves for f They didn't b mand rounds x any, Just played The formor not and ‘or a man of hin The big boy paunch that Garvey's girtish remarkably agile nize. however, is sporting Virgil | tn almost rivals Willar question figure. no youngster, and it's a that superfluous weight GOOD CARD | LINED Ur The night tion Druxinman, show, are putting topping ning’s entertainment Billy Wright Willard will only be Austin & who exhibition Nate the card ove are on staging a regular off the who has heen doing ne tall comeback work in Eastern Washington, is down to meet Oak land Billy Harms, a newcomer here. who has had pretty good muceens in several main events in Everett. SHOWS CLASS Another newcomer Ix on the boards for Tuesday in Chuck Helman, a clover little kid from Portland. Hel man will meet Frankie Green, the local colored bantam. Helman stop ped Ludwig Jones in the sixth re at Tacoma, last night, and showed ali kinds of clase for a youngster He boxes well, in in great condition and packs @ punch. TWO OTHER PRELIMINARIES Mickey Hannon wil! mix Frank Hoff, another Portland r One other preliminary for the show | \@ stilt in the making. with er Vets Deliver for Jim Bagby may prove to be a mighty good man for the Pitts burg team for a year or two. The former Cleveland pitcher certainly knows how to piteh, and his peculiar style for a time may prove most troublesome to the National leaguers. Pittsburg was the only club at all anxious to take a chance on Bagby, otherwise Jim might have drifted to the minors, When someone asked Barney Dreyfus the reason, he simply replied “Didn't Babe Adams and Ear! Hamilton win a lot of games for me ‘after every other club had passed them up as all in?’ | |NINE RIDERS IN BIG EVENT Nine riders are entered in the an nual endurance motorcycle Wugene, Ore. Monday. Araner, Fletcher, Davis, Humphrey Vaughn, Rentie, Parks and Burnside are the men entered. Illinois Pilot ] NCH CLAIMS FIRST HOME-RUN TITLE Colo., Dec, 29.—Henry Finch claims to be the orig Nebraska won the championship that year. Finch played for Nebras-| ka and his home run turned the trick. Played the national pastime Wright brothers, who after- i Baseball created by a home run than that one,” Finch said, “and I don’t bar any of those that Babe Ruth has made at the Polo Grounds before 40,000 people. “In thone days no one ever thought of knocking those punk balls we used then for a hom@run, [t was an un- known happening. “In the ninth inning, with the “There never was more excitement | Missouri team leading, 6 to 5, and one man on, I swung on one that went Into the trees that bordered the outfield and we both made the eir. | | Jp to that time no one had ever hit a ball that far out our way, 1 did not realize then that 1 had hit what would later be the greatest thrill in baseball, a home run,” Finch was presented with a rose: wood bat and a silver ball for per. forming the unheard-of feat, and still treasures the gift He is now 76 years old, @ retired farmer, Captain-clect McMillen of the Ili. nots football team is one of the big- gest playera in the country, sporting some 220 pounds of beef. He waa considered the beat guard of the Rig Ten season, He ta also champion heavyweight wrestler of the confe' ence. of mday | race at} Roberts, | | JESS WILLARD | Frank Boucher Showing | Well With Champions Young Hockey Player Developing Into Good Man | me With Vancouver Maroons; He Comes From Hockey |; Family; Other News N Frank Boucher Vancouver most promising youngsters league in years. This young fellow. has a world of speed under those steel to connider has uncovered one of the to break into the Coast hockey blades and he is a darn good stickhandler. In this, his first year in fast company, Boucher is doing mighty well, and he bears watching. He is playing in some sweet company with such ve enniane: Balt jas Harris and Mackay,| jand the rest of the Maroons |to help him out, | Boucher comes from a hockey fam iy. |the Eastern league, one with Ottawa , {and the other with Torortto a} VICTORIA VS. VANCOUVER TONIGHT Victoria and Vancouver will clash ltonight in Victoria, The Victorians | evust start to win or they'll be count He has two brothers playing in Len you'll have to show us They have played together for several years and they're at the t of thelr form, The Maroons will be mighty bard to beat from bere in. VANCOUV TO IINVADE PRAIRIES The Vancouver |firet Coast squad invade They go there next week, opening against Calgary Wednepday Then they play Edmonton, Saska toon and Regina tn turn | prairie ed out earlier than usual thin season, | MAROONS HAVE CRACK DEFENSE Vancouver has fenne in. hockey. This may be stretching things a hit, but If there ix any other better detense than Cook, Duncan and the greatest de- VICTORIA HERE NENT WERK Seattle tw resting thin week and | won't play until Wednesday, when | Victoria will be here again. The Mets are in the throes of an awful stump, lowing four straight, and the work's Test jeet_ may help | Corvallis High Prepares ' for Big Game With Scott Dec. 29.-—-Coach his Corvallis IRVALLIS, Ore, Keane tx putting high school team thru Its final prac tlee sessions In preparation for the post-season game with Scott high school of Toledo here Monday While the jocal high school eleven beat every opponent it went up against, rolling up 4 total of 276 points in eight games and being scored against only once for seven points. it is extremely light welght. The team average is 162% pounds, the line averages 151 pounds jand the backfield 158 pounds. | In apite of thie lack of poundgge the boys have met and defeated teams that outweighed them 20 pounds to the man and they expect there will be at least that much advantage in favor of the East erners. To make up for what they lack in | weight, however, they are as fast perhaps as any team in the country and they play in unison. Their fighting spirit is the mainspring of {a versatile attack, which includes every kind of trick play Denman, midget quarterback, field general of rare judgment and 2 real triple threat. Me has aver aged 35 yards in his punts thru the entire season and his kicks are ac curately aimed and timed. Probably | | in| {no Interscholastic football player in| the country can place the ball with | the same degree of precision in any part of the field. Most of his punts are driven so that they intersect the sidelines at the point where they attain the greatest possible dis. tance and where he is obliged to Kick so that the ball falls on the; field of play, The punts are of the high spiral type that do not drop till the ends have gotten under them and they are hard for an opposing safety to catch. Carl Daniels, left end, has run 100 yards frequently in 102.5 seconds or better and he has that uncanny knack of following the ball and diagnosing the direction of an attack against his team instantancously. He excels at grabbing long forward and is a deadly tackler. Dan in probably the fastest high school man in the state Edwards, right half, ts hundred in 10-2, He is one of the most elusive broken-field runners that has ever been seen on an Ore | gon gridiron. The Corvallis line, tho of slight texture, is a unit that has always |otten the jump on its rivals fast charging of the forwards has been one of the main factors th the team’s unusual success this year. Knute Rockne Facing Hard Schedule Again ARVEY town, O., was leaptain of Notre jteam for 1923 In Knute has coaches In all the history of Notre Dame football, no captain or coach has ever been called upon to face a harder task than that which con. fronts Brown, Notre Dame had a hard schedule during the season just closed. How. ever, It hardly compares with that of next season Notre Dame will meet the Princeton and Georgia Tech on suc cessive Saturdays, The Army be met October 14, Princeton, Oct 20, and Georgia Tech, October 27 Both the Army and Ge were on the Notre Dame schedule of this year. The Army was held ton scoreless tle, while Georgia Tech was defeated, 13 to 0 The injecting of the Princeton game in between these two impor. tant contests will come as a surprise Princeton, given first ranking in the East in 1922, figures on an even stronger team next year Coach Knute Rockne of Notre | Dame has practically bis entire team \back for next year, Rockne is an advocate of a hard schedule, He feels that It brings out better foot. ball. BROWN, of recently Damo's Youngs elected football Rockne Notre T of football's greatest \rmy, rey will | Teoh | darvey Brown Bin Pr ulong the same line of reasoning. of which works All why Princeton Roper of neeton explains and Notre Dame will get together, It should prove a great g will be a meeting ers. Princeton and Notre Dame Have the reputation of producing teams that never quit It team with be the! thre | another | speedster who has clipped off the! This | FRIDAY, Essick Is Shrewd Man, and ERNON has a New York Ya value to the T sick, the shre team, is too s tar like Jake Essick went non owner, to he couldn't co action with tl Yanks haven't paw prospect The Yankees need a southpa sidewheeler being one of the hands of the Giants in the wor | May showed on the Coast th \thing a great southpaw shoul jstrength and real baseball¢ brains. He pitched super-| ball all summer. } Essick wants a flock }good men in return for Ma __jand altho the Yanks have first call because of their agree- | ment, leave it to Essick to get | all he can before turning | May over to the Gotham club. of| Lewis TRI PROMOTE STE In ot nd in only AND fact that Paul 28 years old and led ast league with a tremendous averoge this year, making a 4 for hits, Duffy Lewis t land him with « big league eb ithe tried to at Louisville Big league managers remember that | Strand was in the big show about {10 years ago and figure bim too old Paul is far trom being spite the he an old man. (SINGLETON JUST FAIR HURL lake didn't land anything in Pitcher Singleton, who ou Heinte Sands deal |with Philadelphia. Singleton, accord ing to reports, is just a fair pitcher, jwho may get by with a Coast league club, altho nothing great is expect: | ed of him j wonderfu KELLY AND VALLA AS REGULARS San Francisco has a wealth great outfield material for next sea- | fon, but you can count on it that} Joe Kelly and Gene Valla will be} regulars, Kelly had a great season | in 1922 and Valla will be groomed for a big league sale of | Harry Wolverton will come Beattie soon after the first of the ear for a visit before going South training camp at San Jone in March. Wolverton still has a couple of infield deals pending and he may add an outfielder. HOW ABOUT ODOUL? Coast league fans are wondering what Frank Chance will do with Lefty O'Doul, former Seal south- |paw, who was never given a chance jwith the New York Yanks. O'Doul showed real stuff on the Coast and Chance is expected to give him every jopportunity of showing bis real stuff |this coming season. PIRATES PUT. SCHMIDT ON MARKET Walter Schmidt is undoubtedly « great catcher, but he has always had a pretty good idea of his own value. | He was a longtime holdout last jyear. Manager McKecknie has put him on the open market and some of the bids that Pittsburg got will un- | doubtediy do much good for Mr. |Schmidt. MecKecknie tried to land Horace Ford, the great young Bos- ton infielder for Schmidt, but Man- | | jamer Mite het} said nix. DECEMBER 29, 1922. Vernon Manager Wants Valuable Men for Star He Knows Value of May to Yankee Team; Deal Has Not Been Consummated Yet; Trade Will Make Vernon Team working agreement with the nkees that has been of great igers in the past, but Bill Es- wd pilot of the Los Angeles mart a fellow to swap off a May for nothing. last with Ed Maier, the Ver- the Louisville convention, but me to terms over the trans- Yankee owners and so the landed May, the best south- in the minors. aw sadly, their lack of a good reasons for their rout at the rld’s series. is summer that he has every- id have—stuff, control, speed, 1 Major Leaguers Have Pilots and Camps All Ready Here are the managers and the spring training camps of the 1€ major league clubs AMERICAN LEAGUE Miller Hugeine, ¢ Fobl bb, peaker Bill Gleason n Bash Mack Chances. NATIONAL | LEA At Hot Aprings, ame At Seguin, Tex Philadelphia—At Montgomery, NATIONAL LEAGUE New York—-At San Boston—At St Brookiyo Chtese tas Catalan Island, Cal. St, Louls—At Bradentown, Fla. nati—At Orlando, Fla, adeiphia—At Leesburg, Ma, Danny Kramer Gorman for thelr 10-round serap im the | ity Monday, Lackey Morrow, former Seattle is now doing his ring act in Los Ai ee For reasons best known to the moters, the Bill Tate-Fred has okit ean for Milwaukie, Or, seem, WE With Jimmy Rivers and Ted Krache tneeting in one bout and Dede and Jack Neseman in the other, hes lined up @ strong card for Thuraday. BIG THREE IS Naa O8 ANGELES, Cal, Dee, With the coming of the Year, the “big three” in Pacific collegiate sports will become a ity. A 10-year playing agreement ig tween Stanford, University of Call- fornia and University of California has been drawn up, it Is declared, and will be ratified here New Year's eve by Warner, representing Stanford; Coach Andy Smith of California and 29.— New Ty Cobb figures his pitching statt has Dauss, Pilette, Fran- Johnson, Cole and Per- tea lined up. Col, Ruppert, white welling out, te Pe nual equawk Over Miller H Wilbert Robinson, wut | for it ! for put a crimp tn nite Dick Kerr and Eddie Collings to th club for « flock of playe simply sald that Kerr is ineligible and that's that. uotll June je year, a later than formerly, ‘Twenty- five players is the present limit, t Salt Lake realized | deal with Philadel four players. DRASTIC RULE FOR FOULING The New York boxing commis sion has made a drastic ruling against fouls in the ring, forfeiting all purse money for fighters losing on foul blows. Dave Rosenberg was the first victim, losing wad of coin for fouling Mike O'Dowd, |PHIL INFIELD IS ALL READY new Philadelphia National is made up. Holke, first base; Parkinson, second base; Rapp, third base; San shortstop, and Wrightstone, utility, CUTSHAW THRU AS A REGULAR Yeorge Cutshaw, veteran second | sacker, retires from active playing, The infield Me will act as coach for Ty Cobb at Detroit this coming season, | Martin in a 15. Coach Elmer Henderson of U. 8, C, The program is to be made with- © out regard to the Pacific Coast con- | ference, it is said. Henderson today returned from Palo Alto, where he — a Coach “Pop? } has been in consultation with wer ner, OTTO MILLER TO ATLANTA Otto Miller has definitely decided to go to Atlanta to manage the jouthern league team there, This quiets the rumor that the former Brooklyn catcher was to act as coach for the Kansas City Blues, oe * RING REPORT NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Panche Villa, flyweight champion, emphatl- cally denied that his ankle which wag strained recently in practice, will | Present him from meeting Terry -round bout in Madt- son Bauare Garden tonight, Johnny Evers Picks Indians) Fanny how even the wise of baseball go wrong, j At the start of the 1922 cam. paign in the American league, Johnny Evers made his debut. in | that organization, His previous major league experience had bees confined to the National, After he had seen all the Amer: jean league teams in action, he was asked his opinion of the ‘Verw rious teams, “Cleveland plays the most base. | ball, New York has the brute strength, St, sistent game, Detroit is danger: ous. “Because I always favor teams that play smart baseball, 1 ike Cleveland. If brute strength is te win, but I doubt it, the Yankees will repeat."" tig Louls plays a con |