The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 8, 1923, Page 12

THE SEATTLE STAR j ACIFIC COAST NEEDS MINOR LEAGUE FARM FOR YO EMINISCENCES % D-EVuodate As Told to Leo H. Lassen MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1928. OR YOUNGSTERS No Small Bill Tilden has been ranked League in No. 1 for American tennis Far West jagain, the third Western League Car Fare time he has won the honor. Teo High i ‘oo High to Experiment Tilden is without a doubt the With Youths master of the tennis court cinemas BY LEO H. LASSEN HB Western league, @ Class A organisation, ia the only minor league of lower elasattioation within reasonable distance of the Const league and the Western cir cult « pretty \Calgary Has Good Defense Mets Face Prairie Tigers Here Wednesday in Big Game . straight H® going has not been any tooland he has earned his re- sweet for the Be attle Mets of late} ward, the highest honor in and the outlook | isn’t any bright: | tennis, TK ee Today the Beat je gang te tno ing Victoria in Vancouver, and the Cougars have been poison tor the opposition lately. | Wednesday the! Meta will be fao ing thetr second yrairle opponents n the als pa oo oft with the | ; Calgary Tigers, the best defensive | ate I remember catching against Chicago one day and Jim Whitney was /team on the prairie. | yy pitching for Kansas City—the club I was with at the time. ‘The Tigers come to the pmo Bae yh 4 Kelly was on first base and started with the pitch. I had a pretty fair) with & record of having had but) © much-nesded reat arm in those days, and Shortstop Myers was standing on the bag waiting |*" i 4 Fagg Mh oe The world’s champion ®t. Pate, of To | for him. Kelly started his slide about five feet out. He slid head first | tioir cians against, Vancouver the |\amea ie AviMe,® hard time getting for center field. Myers was dumbfounded, but came to his senses in|other night when they defeated the latest reports the ‘champions are riding time to tag Kelly’s left foot for the out. Kelly made a wild stab at the 1 to thetr | a nm bag with his foot and almost got away with it. Kelly was a great hitter, too. I remember one day when Stub Weidman is pitching for our club. In those days a pitcher could call for a high or low ball, and ly was a high bal} hitter. He had a lot of trouble hitting Weidman's drop. Weidman | ip onnreccenyg aaa ” : ——® made a wild pitch and Kelly| jumped up in the air and! socked the pill for a two-base hit. Kelty the piate. thing similar of His Day; Was Versatile Star CHAPTER IX KELLY was the Ty Cobb of eafly baseball ie The great Chicago and Boston star was the most magnetic player of his day. 7 Kelly could do everything. He was a tremendous hitter, a wonderful outfielder, and Sy —_——-—e ~r one of the best catchers in the business. And what a swell base runner that baby was! Slide, Kelly, slide!” That's a baseball expression stil! in use, and I can still hear the Chicago F fans yelling for Kelly to hit the dirt. ; It was a treat to watch him run the bases. ‘ brains in running the sac because he wasn't exceptionally fast. "2 was a wonderful slider, usually diving head firs # And Kelly had to use his He Jengue has no adequate farm for }ite youngsters. Clase B anf C leagues, farther East, oan’t afford to pay the carfare for youngsters on the coam because they may turn out to be bloomers. When the Western-International league went by the boards here last season ft just about sounded the, Geath knoll of Class B basebell in- these parts. Independent baschall fe Ge rage in California and there te Mitte chance of » Clase B league getting by down thera The San Joaquin Valley league, playing independent | Dall, does more harm than good |to the Coast loop, attracting star players from the coast ranks. Until a Cises B league is organ ized on the coast the P, C. teams are going to find {t pretty hard sledding to try to keep thelr young mers in line ther Wank ° play Count © on home toe. ‘The Vancouver de by Goal-tender Binney, best net guardians tn the business. His record spenks for tteelf, Gardiner and Dutton will be tale | Ing care of the defense here. Dut- ton Dempsey of the) ae Cook, forwar the league Gardiner ts had a peculiar stanch at| Tigers and one facing the pitcher, some: | prairte. | to Heinle Groh'’s Martingis the best of the Tt | method. |qer forward men. He's 4 wing man Kelly was one of the few right /and one of the leading shots in that flelders in the history of the game | ctroutt who played his batters so well that n, Olver, De he threw men out at firet base.| Anderson make up Kelly was a wonder at this and /forward crew saved many a base hit In another game which I saw in| PRICES Chicago, Anson's club was playing | CUT Detroit, and Dan Brouthers, the} Price in Jack rule Kimon tom club. the manager of tne] _ w« the test shows | VODILLA WINS STRENGTH MIX ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 6 Vodilia, appointed to the emy from rhe ranks of the marine corps. he strongest midshipman jat the academy. He won the all-| [around test with @ total of 1,345 | petnte. | * Bill Tilden Heads American Net Ranking Again; Jonhston Second i."i2 25.2 allory Cinches Lead in Women’s Division, With Arnold Jones and Helen | MEETING ne Wills Taking Junior Honors; Armand Marion Only Seattle Player Ranked, Coming in No. 9 in Junior Division ous oop wit be beet ‘= Porton, January 15, when the schedule for the 1923 season wil be adopted and EW YORK, Jan. 8.—Very few changes in rating of American tennis stars appear| °°” "utes taken up. on the 1922 ranking list announced by the United States Lawn Tennis association. William T. Tilden, holder of the unofficial world’s championship title, again heads} CASEYS WIN is again the! ANOTHER GO WOLVERTON ARRIVES Harry Wolverton, new manager of the Seattle club, arrived in Be atte Sunday and will stay here until time to open spring training at San Jose fr March. He is en- thusiastic about the Indiana” chances. Wolverton ts « keen looking fel low and gives out the Impression that he knows his business. It |looks Mke Wolverton will be the GREATEST PINCH PITCHING I EVER SAW HERE is no more |threw was a deceptive splitter, The diffiewt job In/three batters who faced him swung baseball than|wildly at seven of the pitches and acting as relief |minsed, two strikes I called, and the pitcher tn some jother pitch I ruled @ ball. eh mi A ath |plucktag « have aver sven. pens great Detroit slugger, was hitting. |the rest then a pitcher |be hard to figure @ tougher situa-| He #wung from the plok and the trimmed with the Chi¢ago | tion, also difficult to imagine a pitch. |>8!! went on a line to right field For the rest Brouthers had swung so hard that goes (er erasing It completely on 10 pitched White Sox, bead me arene pa / turned completely around and Fisher and the rest of the * * for the Beattie games “a ot the have twen | the Seattle manage. | ment ¢ the year the| top price for the better seate wt'l be | $1.50, which reduction of 26 er There will be @ redudtion of | i * was catching, called 60 cents on the end seats with the! Piaonp rg targg ee ee eee | eoet ball” and threw off bie mask, |exception of the first row in the| was the last real pitching he ever |°>4rsing Into the grandstand. The |talcony. Several hundred seats will Molla M: stands were in a commotion and|be on mie for $1 | Brouthers evidently thought they were yelling for Kelly to catch the FREDERICKSON ball. He picked up his bat and|STAR OF LEAGUB walked back to the plate. He final-| Mrank Frederickson, the great ty came out of It when the coacher | Victoria canter, ts easily the big star dashed up to him and wild him to|of the Const league right now. Mo run. He just made « single on what |‘s tn the lead for Individual seoring should have been a home run. and t» playing good hockay. A few seasons inter Kelly was fold to the Boston club for $10,000 |/LALONDE LEADS —& record price In those days. With |IN SCORING mwanon wo the list of men’s singles stars, while Molla Mallory, the world champion, leader in her class. Tilden O'Day, Veteran Ump, Praise for Wee Willie “Keeler used « short bat and gripped It almost in the center when John Clarkson, Kelly made up cne of the finest batteries tn earty base-| ball, | Kelly was popular because he was jalways doing the unusual and wus [the big favorite of the Chicago and | Boston clubs. Tuesday Dugdale will com- and Vincent Richards head the Iist in men's doubles. Arnold W. Jones of Provi- dence is first in the junior doubles. David O'Loughlin, Pittsburg, is first in the lboys’ singles. Newsy Lalonde, the big star of the Saskatoon club, fs up to hin old tricks. The veteran star is leading the Prairie league tn scoring. He's just about the whole works as for an this team is concerned. WINNIPEG 18 AFTER FRANCHISE Lssac Jase fea BE | Mase 3—Mise Helen Witla, Dorkeley, Cal. +—Mre. Marion Z Jessup, Wiimingten, —e : Ingraham, Je, Weonsscket, 10—James Van Ryn, Mast Orangs, M. J. BLES Del +—Mra May Sutton Bundy, Loe Angeion, Cat (Miss Martha Bayard, Short Hille Mise ifsten Gtlienudenu, Mamaroneck, x. M Lott a Chicago, 1 #—Miss Molle D. Thayer, Philadelphia, nd Clyde Rosen- AT ORTING & game featured by rough play the Knights of Columbus five of Seattle defeated the Orting Cardi- nals In a return game on their |home floor Saturday. It was the first time that the Cardinals | | pare Babe Ruth with the fe mous sluggers of the "BOs. Winnipeg, one of the big hockey centers of Canada, in without pro- jfeesional hockey and the big city may land the Saskatoon franchise, he faced the pitcher. His hpiding of ra the bat was in some wayn as freak ish as the style of Heine Groh. jhave been defeated on their own floor, The crowd surged on the floor a who has been looking over Weague stars for nearly two regards Willie Keeler, berger, $—Weller Hvane and Kenneth Appel, Kast Orange, N. J BOYS SINGLES 1--David O'Loughiln, Pittsburg, Pa. | Armand Marion, No. 9 in}; |the junior boy division, is the |, he % Just back of L. C. Smith Bldg. “T've seen them all, Wagner, Cobb, Ruth and the rest of the great hit ters, but never have I seen a batter with so keen an eye as Keeler.” FIVE “REGS” FAIL TO HIT HOMER SWATS AST season 623 home runs were made in the American League. Fifty-nine players participated tn |10 or more games during the sea- son. Such players are regarded as | the regulars. New Year's Day, as the bataman to fool that ever umpired for. certainly was a wonder,” in discussing Keeler. “T I ever saw him offer at Keeler was at the bat, was a cinch. It was al- to call anything a bail that failed to offer at. was a wonderful bunter better place-hitter ever faced . light of stature, Keeler hit @ ball hard. Opposing in- ‘and outfields played him per- ly. yet so uncanny was Keeler’ in hitting the ball that he @ invariably outguess the opposi.| Most of the home rune made were leontributed by the 59 regulars, yet have often heard Keeler shout |five of them failed to break into the he opposing third taseman to |Ciroult-*wat column "weedy, that he was going to| This quintet included Ernie John- it very ‘Then he would proceed to do |#0n of the White Sox; “Muddy” Ruel, thing, and in a majority | Boston; Bill Wambaganas, Cleveland; ieaees would beat the play. Bassler, Detroit, and Mulligan of Chicago. The first |took part in over 140 battles, while Bassler totled in 121, and Mulligan 108. | Not only did Bassler fail to lace Jout @ single four-ply swat all season but he didn't even get a triple. The lonly extra base pokes the Cobb back | stop wecured were 14 doubles. Rutl | wasn't much better, either, the Red | Hox catcher compiling but one three |bagger, and 15 two-base hits, Beasler, jtho, was tht only one of the five to| bat over .200. | Of the “big fellows,” Eddie Collins, | Chicago star, and “Stuffy” Meinni | Cleveland, Just escaped the ignomy jof not getting a home ry |the season. Each knock | “round-the-base’ BLOUIN WILL BOWL FALCARO CHICAGO, Ja —Jimuny Blouin, world champion ler, will begin & 40.game, match with the sensa- tional Eastern star, Joe Falearo, here this afternoon, The series will continue datly until Thursday, 10 |games being rolled each day. 'BIG BILLIARD STARS TO PLAY CHICAGO, Jan. %—Battling for the right to meet Willie Hoppe for the world’s billiard Jake Schaeffer and Roger Conti will | start a 1,500-point match here night. They will play 500 points on each of three nights. |ALL RACING MARKS BEATEN NEW YORK, Jan. &—With a to. tal entry of 1,184 for the 1923 fu. turity, all records have been broken, acoording to the Westchester Rac. ing association. Harry Pay Whit ney, with 99 ontries, heads the list, out one rash Ist row in Balcony, duced from $1.75 to. SIDE SEATS ‘These Prices Include Tax Reserved Seats Now on Sale at The Arena Office 4210 FIFTH AVENUE Phone Main 2493 Are You Out | 8 Good Time Tonight? Drop tn at tte Card Tables, Pool, Cigars, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fountain Lunches “ Pay Checks Cashed DOOQOO000000000 three named | thruout | championship, | to- | ‘The revival of the anneal mar athon swim tn Honsiala harbor, Inet held im 1917, took place recently, and brought a startling surprise, Wil- Mam Harris, Olympic star, Hawallan champion, and the man saiscted to visit Australia this winter, met most unexpected and conclusl teat. ‘The distance mensures approrimate ly one mile, and Chester Sima, an | 10 senonds for the course, | Minvielle wae a close third. Whil the marathon for men was under way, there was run «half-mile swim for women, also in the harvor, and Mise Mariechon Wehselau won It by 25 yards from Miss Constance Davis, runner-up, while Mins Lille Howner followed, nearly as tar be- | hind the Intter,” The time wae 16 minutes 23 2-5 seconds, | Nitan Amateur championa — fo in the 80-foot, p omen’s Bwim week and for iris of the Wolnen’s Swim. ]ming association. Gertrude) Ederie, the marvel, won the 20-yard free style swim wnpressed im 3 minutes {61 2-6 meconds, clipping 4-6 of « second |from the American 60-foot pool record by Margaret Wi of Detrott, and | in a} at the nwright, the former fur long ohamplon, did not defend her laur- sin and the places were earned by Alleon Riggen and Ethel MeGary, as named. In |the plunge the victor was pushed hard |by G and Dorothy Delany, who } nd third within 16 |tnehes of her and ‘The opening engagement of the | yearly tournament for the team | champtonship of the Intercollegiate | Swimming association took place in the pool of the Citly College club, of New York, with the home con- ent and Pennaylvanin university an the opponents, The Quakers won easily in ewimming, returning © one sided soore of 42 to 20, hut they lont water polo mateh by B1 to ® re of the moet wns the texting me of Ahe new pro- dopted by the Kaat- | | changes proved popular with No particular goed perform= | ances marked the competition, but the water polo game furnished evi- dence thet Pennsylvania has usually good material th and may he | If the necewan oped. | ‘ellently nck the tial in Wetsmuller added to his achievements At ® recent water carnival in Cleveland, Competing in the 60-foot pool of the Cleveland Athleth he dropped the for 60-yard back-ntroke swim: 1 minute 44 2-5 meconds, At uger, fo iy t of Chioaga, ntroke stand: sevonds. lub a ming to f Hono | red the 0 to 2 minutes 66 | VANCOUVER PLAYS lonly Seattle player ranked. Offictal rankings are MEN'S SINGLES 1—Wittiam T. Tilden, 11, Phitadeiphia, as the latter place ten't supporting tts team any too well. W.J. Holmes, who owns one of the finest rinks in Canada, is after the franchise and may land it before the season ts ver Pa S—Willlam M. Johnston, fan Francisco, Cat &—Vineent Richard, Yonkera, ™. Y. . IL, Bryn Mawr, SASKATOON TODAY | Vancouver is playing the third/ game of ite prairie invasion today In Saskatoon. So far the Maroons have broken even on the trip, losing to Calgary and winning from Ed nonton. The Maroons play Regina Monflay and then return to coast neteco, Toe! v6. uu rr} Mianiey W, Pare the |is Hugh @, M. Kelleher, New York, Wills B. Davis, fan Francieoo, Cal Nathaniel W. Niles, Mase. A Moward Veshell, Kew Gardens, Lt Herbert L. Rowman, New York, N. ¥. Aelichiro Kashio, Tokyo, Japan. ari Fischer, Cynwyd, Pa -Wray Brown, Ht. Louls, Mo. MEN'S DOUBLES William T. Ttlden, T1., and Vincent Richards “Robert Kinsey and Howard Kinsey Watson Washburn and It. Norrie Wil Hama, 11 Jonn Hennessey and Walter Philadelphia, Pa. ¥. EVANS SWAPPED FOR NAT STAR CLEVELAND, Jan. §.—Officials of the Cleveland American league baseball club announced today that Joe Evann, outfielder, has been trad: | 4 to Washington for Milton Brow: er, also an outfielder | JOE MOORE IS. SKATING KING NEW YORK, Jan, 8.—Joe Moore, New York, won his second skating | title in a week by taking the Metro- politan championship with a total of 100 points. wee Burdick. Howard tian and Ralph Ht. Mardy and 8. \ | ne and Cari Fischer. WOMEN'S SINGLES Molla B. Mallory, New York, ¥ Mrs. N. Pittsburg Club Puts Schmidt on ‘‘Market’’ JITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. &—Walter Schmidt, first-string catcher of the Pittsburg team, is on the market Any club that will give Barney Drey: fus @ reasonable return for his star catcher can have him. Schmidt seems to have brought about his own undoing the Pirates. Last spring, inability to get along with Manager Gibson, then in charge of the Pirates, caused Schmidt to refuse to report. The trouble, it noema, started over the salary ques tion on When Gibson retired, and was suc: | ceeded by Bill MeKeohnie, the first thing the new manager did was fix things up with hmidt, and he fin- ished out the season. | Failure of Schmidt to report in the spring forced Pittaburg to use young catchers. Given the opportunity to work regularly, both recruits, Goodh and Mattox, made good Evidently Bill MeKechnie ts satis. fied the club can get along without Schmidt and profit thereby, for he has been placed on the market, Schmidt is a great backstop, It was believed he would be immedi. ately gobbled up by some club, but|as a surprise to Dreyfus and prob- as yet nothing doing. This has come ably an even greater ane to Schmidt, WALTER SCHMIDT Malcolm Hill, Boston, Mase. BM Whitbeck, 4—Milton Hofkin, Phi P Myer, Philadelphia, Pa. nder 1. (Bandy) Wiener, Phil- pris, Pa. L. (Bobby) Sellers, Jr. | 1—Miee Margaret x. ¥. |14—Mrrs. I. V. Lynch, New Tork, N. | \b—Mise Marton Leighton, Chicago, Til. 1$—Mise Helen Hooker, Greenwion, Conn, ‘Mise Phylite Walsh, Overbrook, Pa. it—-Mies Anne B, Townsend, Overbrook, | Pa jayness, Jr. New York, N. ¥. %—John Millen, New York, N. Y, S-ES BR Heth, Panaastenin, Be. Donald Strachan, Philadelphia, Pa. 20-——Mise Cores Taker, Kast Orange, N. J. JUNION SINGLES d—Arnold W. Jones, Providence, RL d—Lewis W, White, Austin, T li—Loule Heilbron, |12—Byron Donaldson, 1s—B. J. Pare, Chics 14—-Loule Brophy, Spokane, . |16—A. C. Ingraham, Providenc: 1¢—Selwyn Oroutt, New York. \t—Berkely Bell, Austin, Tex |18—Paul Shumaker, Indianpaolis, Ind Richard Chase, Providence, R. 1 + | 10—Gllmore Bpencer, New York, N. ¥. BOYS’ DOUBLES 4—-Malootm Hill and H. J. Johnson, Jr, Borton, Mass, I—Belwyn Orcutt, New York, and David } O'Loughlin, Pittebure %—Milton Hofkin Milton Sherman Lockwood, San Francisco, | Philadelphia, Pa. i Cal. 4—Stuart Gayness and Joho Miller, New Weller Kvans, Bast Orang York, N. ¥. —Frank Donovan, Detrott, SA. L. (Bandy) Wiener and Donald Kenneth Appel, Kast Orangs, N. J. Strachan, Philadelphia, Pa. Allan Sothoron Victim of Nerves; Had Stuff |Big League Pitcher “Couldn’t Stand Gaff, and He’s Passed on to Minors; Billy Evans Tells of His F: ure to Make Good BY BILLY EVANS LLAN SOTHORON, recently given his unconditional release by Cleve- land, should have been one of the greatest pitchers the gamo ever produced Sothoron, to use the slang of the ball field, has everything—«peed, curves and a change of pace, Those were his axsets, | In addition, Sothoron has a temperament. That has Hability Sothoron'’s temperament would crop out fn divers ways during a game— slways, it seemed, at a moat crucial moment. When Sothoron fir#t came to the American league he could field bunts as well a# the average pitcher. Like all pitchers, Sothoron had his bad days. On one of them, after fielding @ couple of bunts, he threw wildly to first base, | Myer, | been his great good many times during the game. LINEUPS K. of C. ¢ Riddie, 11 Nickelson, Boumelia, Clemeneon, # Myers, 4. \GOLFERS TIE FOR HONORS IN BIG MEET AN FRANCISCO, Jan, 8.—Joe Kirkwood, the Australian, and MacDonald Smith, the local star, tied for first honors in the Callfornia open golf championship, with an ag- gregate of 299 for the 72 holes’ play on thé local Ingleside course, Joe Novak, former Spokane pro; , Walter Hagen, Hutt Martin and Ed- die Loos, all well-known links tied for third money, behind the leaders. Jock Hutchi and his touring partner, Gene ren, finished seventh and eighth, rp» spectively. Al Espinosa, the Seattle Inglewd od pro, who was well up in the race at the half-way mark, fell down be dly in yesterday's 36 holes of play, ¥ cor: ing an 83-80-1683, which was ‘nine strokes worse than ‘hig Friday card. The Smith-Kirkwood tie will foe de- cided on an 18-hole play-off 4in the Ingleside links, next Tuesday after noon, ILLARD IS DUE IN NEW YORK TODAY BY HENRY L. FAIRRELL NEW YORK, Jan. 8.~-On a mis. sion to show ‘em all thag he is fit, if fat, at 45, Jess Willard, the big Kan- san of many callings, iy due in town today, in tow of his forgaer pilot, Ray Archer, Some player, because of that exhibition, got the impression that Sothoron was weak on bunts. That player told some other player. The word was passed down the line, Soon the entire league held the thought that Soth. oron was weak on bunts. In due time every club would start to bunt the moment Sothoron stepped on the rubber to start a game, It made no difference if he handled the first two or three attempts perfectly, the opposition would keep firing away The bunting system got on Sothoron’s nerves, It was only a matter of time before he fel] a victim to the thought entertained by every player in the league. Th moment that Sothoron made up his mind that he really was weak on bunts, he sealed hid doom as a big leaguer, Sothoron's temperament would break out in other ways, If his team would get him @ commanding Wad, instead of going along in the even tenor of his way, Sothoron would start to experiment. He would bring into play in a champtonship game some of the newfangled fdeas he had been work: ing on while warming up. Changing his style of delivery would cause him to lose contro! and that | is usually fatal, I have seen Sothoron taken out of many a game iaimply because he was on the verge of throwing away his commanding lead by some fool experiment, Sothoron knew his filing, He would fight tt as best he could, byt invari. ably he would lose out The passing of Sothoron marks the failure of @ great basebrll career! because of a temperament, Willard ts headed fof a confab with ‘Tex Rickard, and whfn anyone jours neys from the Paciff.c coast to tall with Rickard, it's aYout a fight. The former word's heavyweight champion still watts another fight with Jack Dempsey, The world may believe that he hasn't a chance with the mauler who wiauled him down at Toledo, but Jess thinks he has. Riekard’s offige today said that he was not in the city—out in Ohio, some place—tert that he would tall to Willard wien he returned, the middle of the tweek, Before leafing, Rickard said he was not so anxious to talk to t former charApton ag he was to geta good look wt him, “Unless Willard looks like he ts in good condition, our conversation will be limited, I'm willing to match him with Dermpsey for a bout in Jersey City 1 We can show that he is able to put mp @ good fight. nothing doing,” he said,