The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 3, 1923, Page 12

THE SEATT LE STAR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1923. Y WRIGHT MAKES NIFTY SHOWING IN COMEBACK BATTLE “Red” Roberts, Centre’s Great Athlete EMINISCE NCES OF D-EDuodale As Told to Leo H. Lassen Une Wallop on Chin That Dugdale Non’t Ever Forget; Some Gun Play EB LL in the old days Playing without gloves and without the high cls real punishment as the balls were hit just as hard and the pitchers threw just as well as now. CHAPTER V, was no game for a weakling. s equipment of today the men | It was more of a game in the old days than the commercial enterprise | that it is tods teams was of I'll never fo ay, and the rivalry, particularly between the smaller town) the keenest sort. : | rget one wallop on the molars that I took in a game be-} ) tween Green Bay and Marionette, in Wisconsin, as long as I live. } I was catch ing for Green Bay and the game was being played in the} ) enemy's camp. | Those were the days when Wisconsin was the biggest logging center in| the country, and the rivalry between these two big logging towns was of the deadly variety. The umpire on the field. Fairchild, president of the Marionette club, when bang! runaway train playing trim, feet and I lit some distance from where I had been standing. called a close one in favor of our club and everybody surged | I walked out of the dugout and was talking with Charley! I thought a) had smacked me on the teeth. I weighed 190 pounds in and that wallop lifted me clear off the ground a couple of it for ages, it seemed, and after a time I came out of it. | boy came around after I had started playing again and asked me if I wanted to| with the bird that had cracked me on the teeth. Well, they say discretion is the| TEN it comes to remarkable bits af base running, you just have to hand the laure! wreath to Ty Cobb, T have seen bb pull off ‘so ch sensational tuff on the bases hat it is a rather difticult matter ‘one best bet in the Cobb was really think- ‘& Wee bit faster than the and thereby creating the breaks of the game, always referred to as en the Detroit club went to 1 I was with the team as Cobb's fame had preceded story appeared in a Havana the only sure way to was to throw the ball one of the one to which he written in a humorous three or four times I saw do that very thing to Cobb. p of the best bits of base run- ever seen Cobb turn in j early in bis career. De ‘Was playing St. Louis at De- @ropped a Texas leaguer field which was fielded . Hemphill. As Cobb first at a jog he noticed *better part of valor, and I} didn’t have any desire to get kicked by that mule again. | So I declined with thanks. The kid pointed out the fellow that had cracked me He was sit ting in the stands, and Il! say he} was the biggest man He weighed about 265 pounds, and was In fighting trim. He was the official bouncer of the local logging camp and was hired to clean house whenever the hired help got rest- leas. "U never forget that fellow Ham itton and that punch as long as I! I ever saw live I saw some exciting days in Den ver in the S05, when I caught for the Western league team there for) & couple of years. Colorado was} wide open at the time and there! was a lot of betting on the games, Tt was nothing unusual to ee | plenty of gun play at the games Ball players in the early days cer to love the game to play sticks, because they had more to put up with in the way of uch atunts than the present gen eration of tonsers do, There was no handshaking among . |players then. The visiting club| joame the field in omnibuses jdressed for the game and they| [didn't pal around with their oppon: | ents afterwards like they do now. In the big leagues, of course, there was a decided difference. But the | Hemphiit lobthe ball toward second | He immediately dashed for that | base at full speed. The bail took a | false hop and got away from thi lwecond bareman. Seeing this at a | glance, Cobb continued on to third. everybody took their baseball more seriously. | The player, backing up, threw low |to third as Cobb slid into that base, ithe ball getting away from the third sacker, On his feet in an instant, Cobb was off for the plate. ‘The throw to the plate had him beaten a yard, but by one of his marvelous slides he managed to Avoid the touch and was safe. | It certainty was smart baseball. On a dinky little fly to short center [Cobb completed the ctreuit, simply jDecause he could grasp the possi- {bilities at each base. |, Tomorrow: The most batting record I ever saw. unusual Bush Was Mean Player With Cards and Ivory be rather interesting to note attitude Donie Bush will Ke on the gambling question, now iat he is a major league manager. _As & mere ball player, one of poker to kill the time. At goif he also shook a mean of ivories. ‘Not only ts Bush good card play- he is also looked on as a very individual, They do say that 0 year Bush made a regular clean. & member of the Detroit team. Year African golf was in high with the Tigers, and the only Bush knew were seven and ‘The next year Owner Navin s ‘ban on the dice game. | Very often when a player who likes becomes manager, he immoe- ly shuts down on the card game high stakes, at least. He knows the ili-feeling it can make. Bither Bush will go along as he did as a player—mix with the boys as if ‘were one of them, and continue in he card games—or else he will put ban on gambling for anything than small stakes, which, in a , Usually kilis it off. "It is @ well known fact that ball “Wiubs that play but little cards are ly winning teams. There was card playing on Mack's pennant- elubs. a cards merely as an amuse-| 00000000000000000 Are You Out QZ eror » Good Time Tonight? S Drop in at ‘The ZERO 214 Jefferson St. Just back of L. C. Smith Bldg. Card Tables, Pool, Cigars, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fountain Lunches Pay Checks Cashed 000000000000 favorite amusements was) | ment fn all right, but when the stakes | eet so big that the players feel the | losses suffered. then gambling works | to the detriment of a team’s success | by stirring up Ill-feeling and enmity. ILLINOIS IS CHAMPION OF | TWO SPORT. RBANA, Ml, Jan. 3.—University Thursday Dugdale will do scribe Billy Sunday, the great evangelist, who was @ star with Anson's old Chicago team. JOIE RAY’S HIDE SAVED BY PAYMENT BY JACKSON V. SCHOLZ EW YORK, Jan. %—Jole Ray, iren-bound option on the national) one-mile title, has not only saved] | his own amateur hide, but has ren. |dered a great services to the entire thietic world by coming thru at {the last minuve with the $100 which | the A. A. U. claimed he had received | lover and above his regular expenses to an Eastern meet last year | Jole was probably under the tm-| Pression that the A. A. U. was only | having its little Joka and his 11th| | hour action was most likely inspired | by some hard-headed advice from a| friend or well-wisher. There is not} Ran RAN Ran LERING ‘Re | Game Wit en d” Roberts May Take Up Mat h Gridiron Career Over Famous Centre College Athlete Thinking of Becoming Wrestler; Jim McMillen, ba of Illinois, Great Gridder and Wrestler; Strangler Lewis May Coach Roberts Le in His Venture IM McMILLEN of the University of Illinois was the outstanding forward in “Big Ten” football during the past season. : MeMillen is unquestionably the best guard the West has produced in years. jentitled to All-America consideration. Recently he was elect ed captain of Illinois for 1923. Wrestling, according to McMillen, had much to do with his success on the gridiron this year. A year ago he was good but not a great player. At the close of the football season last year, McMillen took up wrestling and developed into the college champion. Jim says he did everything but actually hold. He greatly outplayed every man he faced. So much for McMillen and wrestling. “Red” Roberts of Centre College has for three years been one of the most-talked-about athletes in college football. Last season marked the close of his football days. During his career at Centre, Roberts has been showered with about every honor that can possibly come the way of an athlete. He has been an All-American selection, ” Roberts, famous college football player, to become in the country. It is now the ambition of “Red rs : a professional wrestler. Will football ability make Roberts a great wrestler as wrestling has made McMillen a great football player? It i possibile that upon his gradu- ation from college, Roberts will be taken In hand by Ed “Stranger” Lewin, the heavyweight champion. Lewis, who & a Kentuckian, knows Roberta well, has wrestied In private with the Centre star, and has this to say of “Red ambi- tion Roberta might make « man, He has the weight, speed and courage. In addition, he has a fair idea of the wrestling art “A twisted bone in his ieft fore arm might possibly handicap him. ‘The arm was broken playing foot good who has more or less of an|ball and apparentiy set improperly. | “Roberta says the injury doesn't bother him, that the broken arm is as strong as the good one, so It might not interfere with him on the mat. “I hope Roberts definitely decides to take up the game. The advent of the college athlete into the sport is certain to elevate it.” RACE TO STAY THREE MILES) NEW YORK, Jan, 3—The distance He has been in the headlines of every paper The Official “ Lowdown” Wright Hits Better Than lard Shows Off His Litt BY LEO Ff back bout Trouble Defeating Oakland Billy Harms Seattle Welterweight Wins in Every Round Formerly and Has Little Jess Wil- Je Self in Bouncing Exhibit 1. LASSEN ILLY WRIGHT’S nifty showing in his come- at the Crystal Pool was the brightest spot of the first smoker of 1923 Seattle season. Wright sho and won eve! Oakland Billy on the verge stages of the wed a lot of his old-time class y one of the six rounds with “Harms, having the neweomer of a knockout in the latter mil}. Wright fought a particularly clean fight, |which made a big hit with the old boxing skill, he hit more | and besides showing his and discarded the dane- » bugs freely ing tactics of his former showings. Harms is no champion, but he’s a big hus y fellow who jswings hard with both hands, but he was no match for Wright. Mickey Hannon made his fi emi-windup before Seattle fz the second round, stopping a fellow named Joe Owens, who subbed for Joe Hoff of Port- land, who was taken ill |fore the bout Hannon hag taken on weight flied and st more © har and packs wallop, He made good use of his b , hooking it nicely | HELMAN GOES {OVER BIG | Chuck Helr | bant advance 1 an, the Jitt rtland lived up all his loan and put up the best serap of the card in a draw go with Frankie Green, the Seattle colored They threw caution to the winds and battled all the way Young Mack, a new Seattle feath- orweight ed @ terrible kick fn both ds when of Everett in a couple of Mack slapped right and left es with the mule kick in each ve Ht Fosse in the second session, Jand the lights went | Kverett jad. | Young Siki, 2 gentleman of color, fought a draw with Joo Separno, a | local boy, In the opener it wasae Seas Will showed pound frame to the boys and girlx and flounced around with ard j off hin r Ps | Fred Zwickey and Willie Keeler for | The art of wrestling learned McMillen how to use his arms, !« teow minutes legs and body to their greatest advantage. = : This fall, McMillen brought wrestling tactics into play on the gridiron. Willard ts no nearer licking Jack Dempsey than he was in the third round at Toledo in 1919. One of the boys in the gallery «x dia his Toledo tumbling act. ‘Ted Whitman, Abe Kubey and Ad Schacht refereed the bouts. A fair house of fans witnessed the fintio ceremonies, EVERETT TO MIX WITH Everett Knights of Columbu: lage be-| out for the | Pressed the sentiment of the fans when he asked Jess to show how he irst bow in a long time in the ans and he won by a K. O. in Billy Wright see saree renee emcee he stopped Joe | CASEYS HERE ¢ trying to put a team on the on Players in Big Deal FFICIAL pitching averages of/only hurlers who passed 100 or more the American league furnish an | brtemen. interesting sidelight to the argument) Ehmke worked tn 45 games, win. ‘on the trade that Detroit and Boston | ning 17 and losing the same number, put thru at the close of the seanon, | for & total of 34, altho he ts credited and which takes Howard Ehmke to|with pitching but 13 complete games. Roston and brings “Hip” Collins to| Collins pitched in 32 games, won 14, Detroit. lost 11, and had 15 completed games. Collins and Ehmke lead the league! Collings allowed an average number [in passing batamen. Collins walked|of 3.75 earned runs per game and |103 and Ehmke passed 101. Collins|Ehmke allowed 4.21 han a wider edge on Ehmke than the! Collins won elght of his last nine figures indicate, for he pitched leas| amen, and scored six victories in |eamen, Theae two pitchers are the | succession. MITT MEN GET _|CITY BASKET SUSPENSIONS | LOOP OPENS PITTSBURG, Jan. 3.—Harry Gred,| | The Washington supervarsity beat |light-heavyweight champion, and Bob | the ¥. # C. A. White Sox, 81 to 20, | Roper have been suspended by the |and the Knights of the Moon fell be Pittaburg boxing commission for|fore the Spalding five, 43 to 22, at jthetr fiasco on New Year's day./the “Y" last night in the opening | Both fighters indulged in horse play, | gamew of th according to Referee Henninger, and refused to stop fighting at the end of the ninth and tenth rounds. 22. Glove company meets sity of Washington frosh ty league game at the tonight city basketball lehgue. | P. much doubt but that a failure to/ for the varsity crew race at the 1923 pay would have resulted in the fare. | Poushkeepsio regatta will be kept at well of the marvelous little runner; | three miles, in spite of agitation for 80 sport lovers in general heaved | four-mile race, according to Charles & big sigh of relief to learn that| © Tremaine, Cornell's representative Joie’n chest would be much in evi.|0M the board of dence at all the biggest meets of} the coming year. Whatever influ ence was brought to bear was cer. j tainly exerted in a worthy cause. | To lose as colorful and as able jan athlete as Joie Ray, while still running at the top of his form and | taking them all as they come, would |not only be @ jolt to his admirers, [but distinct disappointment to the | promoters of meets who are plan- {ning to make expenses by exploit ing the famous miler in match races with the best men in the country. [In fact, plans have already ‘been| | made to enter him in certain meets stewards. SPEARS STICKS AT W. VIRGINIA MORGANTOWN, W. Va, Jan, 3 Despite rumors that Pacific coast teams had heen trying to “ateal” Head Coach Doc Bpears of Weat Vir finia, Director Stansbury announced Spears will sign here again in 1923, SCOTT BOYS ON WAY HOME PORTLAND, Jan, 3.—Scott high | of Iilinol# athletes gave a good) and his reinstatement as an ama-|schoo! football warriors, who trim: |Ten” sport world in 1922 | Ilinois won the “Big Ten” confer. | tour | track major sports—baseball and | The victory of Tilinois in baseball | was the second straight win Coach Cari Lundgren’s team. was the third year in a row Coach Harry Gill's track men uered the conference “The greatest Wlini track perform. ance of the year was the feat of | the four-mile relay team in the races at Drake, where a new world rec- ord of 17:45 was established. ‘The former record wag 17:61 2.5, for It that con Specialist Stomach blew and iy Greon, 14% - Pik Main 6663, And 116 Yesier Way. Main 4398 Sete ancruyec ROR EID ev jence championships in two of the| |leus of a New Year'n present to| track and field athletics, BY JEAN FREDERIC |QAN FRANCISCO, Cal, College men detest the “holier than thou” attitude as much as any other group of individuals anywhere. But there 1s no objection to viewing with a feeling of satisfaction the cleanliness of one’s own houne, Pacific coant colleges and untver- sities were much interested in Inst week's metting of the National Col- logiate Athietlo association, an or | ganization which tries to fostor clean, high-grade intercollegiate comp tion, among the !mportant action LOBA Jan. 3 ‘of one resolution of 10 sections urg- mint of themselves in the “Big|teur in good standing is more or|med Corvallis, 82 to 0, Monday, are on their way home to Toledo to- day. Coast Colleges Have ing that colleges take definite stands in opposition to a number of recog: nived evila. Pacific coast college authorities, who are known for their devotion to clean intercollegiate athletics, have expressed pride in the fact that the Institutions of this region are almost entirely free from the evila the reno- lution 1s designed to combat, The freshman rule, modified so as not to work hardships on the smallest col leges, 1* in force in the Pacific coast, Southern California and jorthwest Conferences, There are aud. 1600 4th Ave, [taken by this body was the passage |known to be a few, but very few, ‘tramp” athletes competing for coast coaccnatiae HALLS BOOK GAMES Hall's Business college five plays West Seattle at Hiawatha tonight| and meets Preston at Preston Fri-| day. } CHICAGO, Jan, 3—/The Cubs’ bat tery men will go into training at Catalina island, California, — twe weeks eariler than had been planned, | reporting February 17. Outfielder Turner Barber of the Cubs will wear a Brooklyn uniform| next year, He was released in ex:| change for Outfielder Hood, who| will report to Los Angeles as part| of the deal which gave the Cubs| Pitcher Dumoviteh. Bill Brennan and Floyd Johnson} |meet in the most important heavy: | weight go of the season at New York January 12, fighting 12 rounds. It will be tho first big test for Johnson. fu | Inatitutions, ‘The three.year rule ts) almost universal and only recently | resulted in the elimination from competition after this year of Royal “Bullet” Baker, U. 8. C.'a star halt. back, who contributed #0 largely to the Trojan vietory over Penn State Monday. No graduate students are permitted to compete by any of the collegon of the three conferences mentioned There is virtual, if not specified, faoulty control of college sports in most colleges on the const, despite the fact that the faculty super: vision is not considered, in many quarters, an unmixed blessing. Const colleges do not require tho ” trimmed Ray Clean Record DUFFY AFTER JOSEPHS NOW OAKLAND, Jan. Jimmy Duffy ts gunning for a return match with Jack Josephs, who beat him in Los Angeles last week. Dufty Long here Monday and is now ready to meet Josephs again. SPRINT STARS ENTER EVENTS NEW YORK, Jan, 3—Bob McAl- Lister, Eddie Farrell, Alfred Lecaney, | Loren Murchinson, Sol Butler, Boots Lever and Jackson Scholz, some of the best sprinters of the day, wil! compete in the 75, 90 and 100-yard sprint features to be staged by the Fordham College Indoor Athletic as fooiation meet January 20 faculties to grant permission to col lege athletes who desire to compete on other teams than college teams. It ts felt that such action would be an infringement on the personal rights of the athletes who, as long an they koep free from professional: ism, may oompete when and where they will, subject always to the A. A. U. rules and regulations, It 1s a point of pride among coast colleges that they can win their share of intersectional contests while w ning the applause of the critios for floor that will be able to outshine the record of the Seattle K. of C. Altho early In the season the Ever- ett quintet fell at the hands of the Seattle five, since that time they have strengthened considerably and now feel that they will be able to sive the Seattle bunch a good game. | ‘Things around the Seattle K. of Cc. gym look rather gloomy when they think of losing Bonney, David. at Arena On Tonight ron and Spencer Harrin, three of| Victoria and Seattle the best forwards tn the city, as| Squared Away; Puck | Well as Moriarty, who has held down | Lead Staked one of the guard positions for the | “ |last two seasons. | Pole Riddle is doing his best to re-| mould what is left of last year’s | play championship five with his new ma-| league hocke: rena terial and the Knights can be de. eth, Pended upon to put a five on tre |tmight. ‘The Seattle sang can jump floor that will be aggressive and out |b#°k In the Jead with a win, there fighting all of the time. | Victoria has been chming strong, ‘| winning two straight from Vaneouw: Victoria and Seattle are booked to one of their regular Coast Moa | Ridaie Myers Seattle has dropped four games in n/a row and the railbirds figure that 3 | the Mets are due to hop out of thelr (stump. On the Inside With Managers’ biggest worries, Harmony and discipline count. Evans . " §.—Onkiand | Pitching has edge. I\ATHAT ts the most difficult task | ¥¥ that confronts the manager of ja ball club? It is reasonable to suppose that all baseball managers, whether the leader of a big league team or an amateur aggregation, meet with the same obstacles. ‘To get the major league viewpoint on what ts the toughest assignment managers are up against in an ef. jfort to turn out a winner, I put the question to a half dozen big league managers last summer, %TO doubt the question of preserv- 3 ng harmony on a club will strike ny as the big issue. True, har- mony on @ ball club ts vital to suc cess, yet harmony isn't the answer. Discipline also looms up as a very necessary quality, Regardiess of the |greatness of any baseball aggrega |tion, Iack of discipline, which also means lack of céndition, is fatal This fact has been proved of a recent date in major league circles. While the various managers with whom I discusseg the question of the greatest task of a manager, touched on discipline and harmony as very necessary, none of them rated either as the most vital asset to a great ball club, pre in the greatest worry of every major league ball club if you are willing to take the word of the men who are directing the their sportsmanship, their ability and at the same time have not the slightest cloud cast on their schol- autlo or eligibilin destinies of the major league clubs, “You must have the pitching if you are to get anywhere in baseball,” rewarked one managen “If the pitching strength is there, you call always patch up some of the other apparent weaknesses. Without piteh+ ing, however, you are lost, Nothing! position get more, Wasting of rut jand hits that should win the onfine |ary game Is one of the most demoral |izing features in baseball.’ | “Pitching 1 the thing,” sala an. jother leader, “and it's another thing to make proper use of the pitching that you bave on hand. Selection of pitchers is the hardest task after you have acquired the pitchers, One |day you select a pitcher who holds the opposition to two runs, but your team gets only one, A fine exhibk day your team gets a half dozen runs, but your pitching is unable te jhold the opposition in check. At jonce you wish you had started the pitchers the other way.” Y observations agree with the opinion of the managers. Pitch+ ing is the big thing, and proper use of the pitching on hand is just necessary, I can well recall one major league manager who started the season with what I considered the best staff in the American league only to have tt burned out by August. Indisertminate use of requ lar pitchers tn relief roles caused the trouble. By such a system, the manager jstayed out in front until "Auguat. ‘Then his pitching wilted and he was lucky to remain in is more discouraging than to get six or seven runs, and then have the op tion of pitching is wasted, The next ”