The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 9, 1923, Page 12

E-M Re MINISC -EDu As Told to Leo H. Lassen I velier Ball Gives Ruth Edge Over Sluggers of Early School RUTH is the home run king of all time. CHAPTER X ENCES © gdate The records alone show that. But I, for one, don’t think that Ruth hits the ball harder than any man that ever gets more distance than any man who ever played the game, but for power I don’t think anybody has ever hit with the same power of Ed Delhanty, the old Philadelphia star. I have seen Ruth hit, and I have caught behind Delhanty, and I think the difference between Ruth's record and Delhanty’s mark is that Ruth is favored by a Delhanty was the most confident cuss in the world. Ruth and he had better bat- | Of course, Delhanty didn't score the runs that Ruth doe: ness. He didn ting marks, livelier ball. 't strike out as frequently as He had no weak- but he was hitting a deader ball and didn't make the home runs, And yet, I remember the day when Delhanty smashed out four home runs and a single in one game. able to equal. That's some’ thing Ruth has never been There was a young pitcher breaking in on the Detroit team when Del- hanty was at t I remember it. of the Philadelphia players and their batting weaknesses. the list until he came to Delhanty’s name and opposite was written: “Al he height of his form. He was one of the Smith family, as The manager of the Detroit team had given him a list over the plate and duck.” nty hit more ground balls than Ruth did. EULLSEYES # WAS Ya — EVOOT by nea ee 6:FREAKIEST HOME RUN I EVER SAW HEN batters are in a slump they seek every pos- sible means to kilt off the s0- called jinx that is purtuing them. | Some _ batters) worry terribly, slump in hitting. Others Peevish. A few take the} good-naturedly, accepting part of the game, knowing a the end the breaks are about that befalls a player often. He seemed to be the bell pretty well, but get it safe. Always, drive would go directly - ¢ Dy Diy Evans into the hands of some waiting fielder. Instead of getting discouraged, Collins accepted the break with a smile, yet kept on trying to get back into his stride, With two down in the ninth Inning of the game I have in mind, Colinas! came to the bat with the Sox « run! behind. As he walked past me on his way to the plate he remarked. “Well, I have tried every bat in the bag and haven't been able to hit for & week, so I am now going to use this light fungo stick.” He hit the first ball pitched Into the right-fleld bleachers at Chicago. ‘The fact that Collins Is anything but & home-run hitter made the feat all the more unusual. The Sox won out In extra innings, That season, Collins made onty two home runs ‘That apparently broke the stump. ‘The next day Collins got three hits, and kept on getting them the rest of the season. Tt certainly was a most extraor-| 5 dinary manner in which to kil! off the jinx, as slumps are known in ike Schaefer Is Leading toger Conti Is Cue Match GO, Jan. 9—Roger Conti, | French billiard feham- stopped in the first block | itch with Jake Schaefer, for. “World's champion, here last! Schaefer won easily, 500 to more blocks will be played match ix to determine who will Willie Hoppe for the world’s | title. FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 9.— Me Kamm is one baliplayer hopes the deal that New York to make for Eddie Collins to go thru. | Kamm, be it known, is the | for whom the Chicago) Ihite Sox paid San Francisco the | m of $100,000. ’ is really a great Ballplayer. phas a fine pair of hands, and dur- last two years has come fast hitter. No player ever went to majors with greater promise. is Kamm’'s reason for hoping remains with the White Sox: League players tell me that is a great fellow with the ‘They say that he goes out ‘way to help them. I am posi- I will make good for Chicago, ‘feel that Collins would greatly ‘me on the road to success. to be selfish, but I will be thty well pleased if New Yor to land him. | | | Conti at no time was a menace, | while Jake displayed nearly perfect | ( billiards, Schaefer showed wonderful contro! | from the start, and his opening run | was 132. Up to the fifth Inning, | when Jake had Conti 289 to 46, it| looked like a runaway, The French-| man appeared nervous in the early He read down He didn’t get the lift to his smashes that Ruth does. O'Neill, Brouthers, Anson, Thomp son, Kelly, Browning and the reat of the old school, were all tremend ous hitters, but Delhanty the hardest slugger of the time I saw Ruth pickle the Chicago several years axo wax playing with Boston the longest «mash I ever fell foul by a few feet the right field barri But if Delhanty had been crash ing the lively ball that Ruth and his feflow players are hitting now big Ed would have given ‘em all a run for their money was apple in when he It naw It cleared jo & mile. Wednesday Dugdale will tell of Charley Comiskey, famous first sacker of his day, and pres. ent owner of Chicago White Sox, mm of basketball players f Will play on Pacific coast cen. month. They will * io Ban Francisco January 12. Collegiate polo tourney ts being played 9% & scratch basia. 11 ie composed of Weet Point, Norwick, Yale, Princeton, Pennayivania and Virginia M. 1 Coach Joe Wright, of University Pennsylvania crews will be assisted by Ed Marsh, Vesper crewman, in developing oarsmen next season. ot Thahamont, a 19¢-p member of the M und In- ts of dian, A team of ericket players from the West Indies w neason will open wt Cambridge May 19. Notr: tem: pr Penn state stages. He missed several easy shots |“ | and apparently lacked confidence, In | the sixth inning Conti managed to run 93 and in the eighth gathered in | 115, which was his best run of the night. This left him within 61 points of Schaefer, and the Chicago boy | missed his next try. i] Conti, however, falled to get the! balls together, and missed a three. | cushion shot after scoring four. The, score by innings. Schaefer—132, 2, 32, 61, 62, 17, 0, 0, | 1, 76, 27, 29, 0, 24, 38-600. Average. | 33 5-15. Conti—0, 13, 4, 28, 1, 92, 1, 115, 4! 43, 33, 1, 0, 1-837. ‘Average, 241-14. YOKEL WILL MEET THYE Mike Yokel, former middleweight champion wrestler of the world, will meet Ted Thye, crack Portlander, in| a match in the Rose City January 17. MICHIGAN ADDS | FOUR SPORTS | Michigan has added golf, hockey wimming and wrestling to its minor sport program, In believe they have @ promising Paris wil id meet May ane & world’s track and 5, 4 and & next Chess is the only sport permitted in the British house of commons, Boston Ath’ no outatandi. New York expecta to license 260,000 Passenger autos this yoar. Rowing tania cost University 298.29 in 1922, of Pennsy! The & Canada m of Seottish wady for play. curlers are in Camden, 4, €., will enjoy polo play until Aprit 7. Harvard has no equipment to foster awimming JIMMY SACCO_ TO BOX PAPKE Young Papke, who has fought 14 straight main events in San Fran. cisco, is scheduled to box Jimmy Sacco there four rounds January 17. ILLIE KEPLER ts dead. In his day Willie Keeler stood ut @@ prominent as Ty Cobb of to- greater compliment could be the veteran. ‘Many batting records are credited Keeler. Hin a has bit safely in 40 straight “games, George Sisler in 41. “Until 1922 his record of 243 hits in one weason stood as a record in the ti league, - Last year Rogers Hornsby sur- it with 260. _ For eight years, from 1894 to 1901, "Keeler established two unique rec- by making more than 100 runs more than 200 hits each season, feat of hitting safely in 44 five garmes still stands. Ty ag These are just a few of the re markable feats that Keeler per- formed at the bat, Which ome of them did Keeler re- gard as the greatest? A few years ago 1 wrote Keeler asking him to tell me what feat of batting he regarded as his greatest performance. Keeler didn’t mention one of the feats that I have enumerated. Here is his letter: “Records didn't mean much to me in baseball. Winning ball games was my first thought. “The record book credits me with @ great many batting feats, but fail to mention what I regard as the real feature of my career in baseball, “While my memory is a trifle hazy as to actual feats, I went to bat 700 consecutive times in the National league, covering parts of three nea- Willie Keeler Made Many Bat Marks sons, before I was ‘struck out, Every baseball fan knows how easy it is for @ star batter to strike out. That is why I regard that performance as record the fag end of the season of 1 went thru the entire season of 1896 without whiffing, and played a num ber of games in the spring of 1897 before I was retired over the strike. out route, “The National good pitchers in thowe days, Cy Young, Cuppy, Forem Klobe danz, Ehret, Rhines, Nichols, Clarke Griffith, Killem, Hawley and a host of others “While I prize all my records, go: ing to bat 700 times without striking out is easily the best, in my opin- fon,” league had some sheer play their fret middlewstaht, SEATTLE STAR | | BY BILLY EVANS | HIER is always a discussion re| garding the difficulties present: | Ih tx on this point e4 in various sports heard | many argume Ball ball players maintain that in the difficult | players put a claim in for their | sport; tennis stars say that you find courts; handball players | have the most diffi | and along come the ox way that every that rowing =m it on the are sure they cult one men wrong. first place | In view of this vast difference of opinion, the thought expressed by | Nate 1, Hall interesting. His opinion should count Mall |is one of the mont versatiio men I Jever heart of. He has been more long of @ succes in rowing, foot | ball, baseball ketball, swimming, boxing, golf, bowling, billiards, ten nis and yachting, Surely there ts Versatility and variety Hall was a good He was used at end ar |the Harvard varsity in } 1908. That in Dan day | People shadowy Yale | while but Hal, and is tball player. | quarter by 1906 and was Hurley's rave about Hinkey, “the/ end,” who played end for | and played it extremely well ver weighing more than 160. Playing the same position quarter for Harvard, | hed never more than 145 and it piful if the great Hinkey ever dan low ax that | Aside from football, Hall also starred in several sports ‘at Harvard, baseball, boxing and «wim ming ' | After graduating from Harvard, Hall took up rowing and ¥ th on one of the leading ama lelshts in the East. Since | college he bay also added golf and billiards to his attainments | In billiards he fame, forin 1917 national amateur [18.2 badictine A man with the versatility of Hall | should be able to give some informa tion on the subject under discursion jand here it is | “HNiards ix other won hin greatest he captured the championship at the cruclest of all sports op the player because it de mands the most perfect dina tion of the physical and mental fac ulti "Lf there are 1,000 touches ing billiards, in play & player must be able 428 exactly or fil, If je Big Jake Has Best Natural With Him; Wolverton Is Baseball Gossip |mand on a player BASKET BALL DEMANDS THE GREATEST PHYSICAL TEST BILLIARDS 1S THE CRUELEST OF ALL SPORTS BASE « , a) BALL MAKES LESS PHYSICAL DEMAND OM @ PLAYET? there in an element of moral cour. age in « billiards makes the hest demand upon it, 1 used to © out of important billiard ma with my hes wringing wet with perspiration. nnd to billiards tn thi perfect ordination ere not many shots in golf as there are in billiards. Also, there is a chance for oat between shots in golf. Baseball makes jess physical de any other the most ands co than sport and basketball Nothing approaches basketball for physical demands, It asks more fr jungs and lege than Any of the others, I would say that football is the next hardest, but at that football not tax the Physique any more than rowing.” doen Elmer Jacobs Should Be Big Star Under Harry Wolverton This Year Stuff in Lea gue, but Lets Temperament Get Away Type of Man That Will Bring Best Out in Jake; Other this year. | jland twice in a week and then lost two games to Los An- geles, both by 2 to 1 scores, which would have been vic- tories if he had had any help from his mates. Personally, Jake is one of the fin est men in the league, and when he etn of Wolverton, Wolverton is the win ning, aggressive type of manager, and Jake, with the rest of the 1923 Indians, is bound to catch that spirit. the spirit he's | bound to win. LOCKHART Wou FOSTER FARMS Charley Lockhart, business mana- ker of the Log Angeles club, realizes | the need of the Const league for an | adequate farm for the Coast young: | sters. Lockhart ls an idea of hav. | ing a Clase D league in southern California, with San Pedro, San Die. go, Long Beach and Glendale, with a| similar league in Northern Califor. nia, He may foster such a plan at the Coast league meeting, in Port. | land, soon. THIRD SACKER | 18 BIG NEED | Third base is a glaring hole on the | Indian roster at the present time. | The Indians have lines out for a man | eplace Tex Wisterzil, but noth. ing definite is ready for announce. | ment yet, } SMITH MAY ASK FOR LONG TERM Andy Smith, California football coach, may ask a five-year contract when his agreement runs out at the end of the 1923 season. ONLY PAIR OF SPORTS PAID Only football and basketball of the 19 sports fostered by the University of Pennsylvania this past year were paying propositions: MACOMBER HAS DERBY ENTRIES} A. K. Macomber, the California | turf king, who has stables in Paris and England, as well as this country, as 14 entries in the next renewal of the English derby, | Wolverton is building up a great club jhind him, Jacobs should be a big winner. Jacobs was at his best on the road late in August last season. BY LEO H. LASSEN ! OURS TRULY is glad, for one that Seattle didn’t swap Elmer Jacobs to) Los Angeles for Art Griggs and Doc Crandall last fall, when talk of such | ‘8 #Te#t showing in 1922, and the a deal was rife. Under Harry Wolverton, Jacobs will be one of the best pitchers in the minors this season or we lose our guess. Jacobs has more natural stuff than two-thirds of the pitchers in the Class AA leagues, but his big fault has been that he beats himself too much. When things have gone wrong time and time again, Jacobs has given up the ghost too easily, Jacobs, under Wolverton, who gives the impression of being a swell fel- low to work for, should just about be the ranking hurler of the circuit for Seattle, and with something like a team be- He shut out Oak- On the Inside With Evans Girl coaches satisfied. Concerning tie games. Neale’s suggestion. M12 football coaches of the coun try seem pretty well isfied with the gridiron game, and well they should be. Last year foothall greatest season. Capacity viewed every big game scheduled The public, by its attendance, showed Its approval of the game as played At the recent meeting of the lead. ing football coaches in New York, not one drastic change was made in the playing rules. Some decided re. forms were suggested, but all of them were quickly voted down. The coaches showed much wisdom in de- elding not to tinker with the rules in ite crowds enjoyed jany way, E games in football or any other sport are far from satisfactory. Buck O'Neil, who coached for Colum: bin last y suggested that in case TINTERLEAGUE HOCKEY CALGARY vs. SEATTLE WED DAY, JAN, 10 8:30 P. M. SHAR BIG REDUCTION IN OF THE SKASO) GENERAL ADMISSIO: ALL END 8BA‘ Ist row in duced from $1.76 to. ALL SIDE SEATS eight rows and Ist two cony) desees - $1.50 These Prices Include Tax Reserved Seats Now on Sale at The Arena Office 1210 FIFTH AVENUR Phone Main 2493 (at downstairs, rows Bal jot @ te game, the team making the most first downs should be regarded jas the victor. The advantage in |downs should be the deciding factor in all tle games, Nothing doing, said the coaches Coach Heisman of Pennsylvania offered a most ingenious suggestion 48 a means of eliminating tie games in football, It was his plan to allow both teams to have the ball on the j offensive for three downs from mid field after the finish of the game ‘Teams were to be allowed to pass, |kick or run. The team advancing the ball furthest in the throe tries should be given the extra point, and consequently the game. While the coaches listened with |much attention to the unusual sug |westion of the Pennsylvania mentor, [it failed to receive the slightest en couragement from any of them. | @ yee NEAL of Washington and 4 Jefferson offered a suggestion |that was turned down with a bang |It t* very easy to imagine what {Coach Bill Roper of Princeton thought of Neale’s suggestion. Neale was for eliminating tho ele. ment of uncertainty that now exists. He argued that touchdowns made on |recovered fumbles or passes were flukes pure and simple and should not be allowed, Instead | Neale believed that the ball, on a re jcovered fumble or intercepted pass, should merely go to the recovering side as 4 first down at the point re. covered The hopped all over Neale's suggestion, and it died out | the moment the W, & jSeated, ‘The coaches are wise in| figuring the game as played is good enough coaches PHILLY TO BE | WITHOUT TRACK Philadelphia, for the first tinve in 100 years, will not have a mile track | for high class harness racing because |the famous Belmont driving park at Narbeth js to be turned Into « half mile path and used for fair grounds. 1 il So Says Famous Versatile Star son and the run of the tide intercepted | Today last season. The argument advanced by average college orasmen. “The flood condition of the Hud were in a of fant “Under ordinary conditions favor time year,” nays « w h time as the Navy crew made last year would be impossible, “I rowed in a four-mile race my aif on the Hudson and it’s a long grind. You can tell them for me that three miles is enough to decide mu- macy.” ‘The faculty crew represenative of Cornell is opposed to changing the ace to four miles, ‘ording to press reports from the East p too, FIRST TURNOUT | THIS AFTERNOON The first regular varsity spring | crew turout will be held this after-| noon, according to Callow. “Some of the boys were out yes terday,” says the “but they | just arranged for lockers and didn’t | «0 out on the water, We will get down to the grind today.” PLENTY OF VETERANS Coach Callow has plenty of veter ans to work with for the big with California. His varsity boat to. day will line up with the following | men | Nels Anderson, Spubn, 7; Capt Charles Dunn, 6; Wright Parkins, Ed Cushman, 3; Max Luft, 2; Tidmarsh, bow; Don Grant, Of this gang, Spuhn, Shaw, race stroke; Sam Shaw, and the others are veterans of the second Varsity gang. DATE NOT SET AS YET The date of the coast championship race with California hasn't been defi- nitely settled as yet The tentative date is April 21 and the race is booked for the Oakland Estuary. Coach Callow expects a definite decision to be reached by the athletic authorities of the two institutions shortly, NEW CREW QUARTERS NEXT WEEK New crew quarters for the Wash- ington varsity men will be ready next week, if Callow’s plans don't miscarry. Washington has real crew prestige to uphold this present coaching staff isn't leaving a stone unturned in its preparations for the 1923 races. COACH TALKS ABOUT STARS IN COLLEGES Bore. Jan. %.—Jack Slattery, who for several ha coached @y Harvard baseball teams with success, is the authority for the statement that mighty few college ballplayers have the ability to step right Into the majors and make good. “Players like Sisler and Frisch are | rare exceptions in the college ranks,” says Slattery. “Sisler came to the | Browns from Michigan and Frisch jto the Giants from Fordham, and both were stars from the start. They are a couple of rare birds in college baseball lost college players find the pitching in the majors so far better ‘than the college brand that they are lost at the plate. “Good college pitchers can make a great coach out of their mentor. That is one reason why I look for Joe Wood of Cleveland to be very successful at Yale. ‘Wood, a great pitcher tn his day, should be able to develop a good staff of twirlers, A college coach is all set for a prosperous season with good pitching. The fact that Wood was a big league pitcher is certain to work years job.” RIDL VS. KRAMER Bud Ridley is boxing Danny Kra- mer in a four-round bout in Los An- eles tonight. saw action on the Hudson last June,| greatly to his advantage tn his new | t Varsity Coach. Not in Favor of Longer Race Callow Against Lengthening of Event on Hudson River; First Spring Turnout of Crew Is Being Held HERE has been strong talk from the East in favor of lengthening the annual crew classic on the Hudson river to four miles this year, instead of the three-mile race staged Eastern crew men is that last year’s race lasted only a little more than 13 minutes and that it was too short for such an event, But Russell Callow, Washington coach, is opposed to the change and says that under ordinary condition | race is long enough strain for¢-—— th the shorter Mets Hand Blank to Victorians Locals Break Long Losing Streak by Beating Cou- gars, 2-0 TEAM STANDINGS Won Lost Tied Pte. Vancouver - s 0 16 Be . . Se Victoria r 1.0 om GAMES THIS WEEK Wednesday—Calgary at Beatle; uver at Regina. Fridsy—Calgary at Victoria, Van- ANCOUVER, B. C. Jan. 9.— After losing six straight games, the Seattle Mets snapped into things and Victoria here last night, 2 to 0. The defeat also broke Victoria’s winging streak, which had reached five games. Gordon Fraser opened the scoring for Seattle after 50 minutes of score- less hockey, and Jim Riley shot an- other goal shortly afterward. Dieldah ing period — None. [rr Bub... First_pertod—gNeone. Third period — Beattie, Seattle, Riley, 4:23. period — Ril min~ jekson, 2 minutes; Oatman, 2 aiderson, 2 minutes; Fréder ates: W. Loughiin, 2 mil 2 minutes; Rile: period—Rowe, 2 minutes: | Penalty shot for v SASKATOON, Jan. 9.—Vancouver trimmed Saskatoon here in an inter- league game last night, 3 to 0. The great play of Hugh Lehman in the Vancouver nets featured the game, BENJAMIN MAY BOX J. SACCO Joe Benjamin and Jimmy Sacco will box 10 rounds in Portland Jan- uary 30, providing that Benjamin doesn't call the bout off again, year, after! GOLFERS SETTLE TIE SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9.—Joo Kirkwood, of Australia, and MacDon- ald Smith, of San Francisco, were to tee off at the San Francisen Golf and Country club links this after: noon to decide the state open cham- pionship. BLOUIN LEADS CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—Jimmy Blouin, world’s bowling champion, today had an I1-point lead over Joe Falcro, of New York, after the first block of their 40-game match here. Blouin to- taled 2,108 pins to Falero's 2,097, DAVE SHADE GETS EDGE PITTSBURG, Jan. 9.—Dave Shad Coast welterweight, was given the | newspaper verdict over Jimmy Jones after a slow 10-round bout here last night. LIGHTIES REMATCHED Morgan Jones has lost two verdicts |to Ted Krache, and he will try to break into the win column a week |from ‘Thursday, when he meets Krache again in a six-round serap in Tacoma, | WASHINGTON VS. ST. MARTINS The University of Washington |cage five plays St. Martin's college tonight in the last practice game be- fore the tiffs with Whitman here, Friday and Saturday. ROOSEVELT WINS Roosevelt high school nosed out Garfield in a practice game on the Teddies’ floor yesterday, 17 to 16. The Teddy second team also won, Eddie Shannon and Danny Nunes are clashing in a 10-round bout at Portland tonight, BY HENRY L, FARRELL WW YORK, Jan, 9—Action in the heavyweight ranks started by the transcontinental trip of Jess Willard, looking for trouble, will be increased today by the arrival of| Tommy Gibbons, the St. Paul heavy- weight, and challenger of the cham: | pion | Gibbons announced today that he | was on his way to “see what all the | J, coach was | doin's was about” in New York and | geig. if there were any fights to be passed | to get In on one or two, Tommy usually allows Hddie Kane | to do all the talking, but he has been | “het up" to the conversational stage | by his failure to get any action out! of his challenges and he has this to| nay i “I must get a shot at Dempsey’s | title this summer, We have chal-| lenged him twice and two clubs have made him good offers to meet me, but he hasn't even answered them. When is he going to box? I not | nan Jess Willard and Tommy — Gibbons Both in Gotham only want a Dempsey match, but a contest with any of the other con- tenders. “The New York boxing commie sion asked me to fight Bill Bren- but Floyd Johnson got tha match.” Gibbons and Kane are heading in to talk to Tex Rickard and to sit in on the BrennanJohnson match, Fri- day night, which is drawing all the celebrities but the champion him. Jess Willard fs now in town with a double chin and his huge chest, a waistline like a politician and 268 pounds of flesh. Sige he'was here the last time, the @rmer champion has lost four years, “Where do they get that stuff that T'm 40 years old? I'm only $6, and I got @ birth certificate to show for it,” he said, Willard said he didn’t intena to do much talking until he had a chat | with Tex Rickard, who is to return to New York tomorrow, ILE VARSITY CREW RACE LONG ENOUGH, SAYS CALLOW : Billiards Most Difficult Spor SORES pa 2: