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THE MINISCENCES As Told to Leo H. Lassen BY BILLY lee ROMMEL 'S feat 4 games for a seventh in the America | Was unquestionably the pitching feat of the An Great Combinations of Earlier [Pec caie her in 1921 aw he v Baseball Included Few “Stars” ‘3 22008202" CHAPTER XII lit tee Gee ee isn’t always the greatest individual stars that make up the greatest combinations in see's hactall, #4 baseball. This has been true thruout the history of the game. t & confirmed The finest infield combination of the early days played for the St. Louis National |” years, Rommel t tories, In other " * league club. McKinnon, on first base, Dunlap on second, Denny at third etter and Glasscock at shortstop, made up the first “stonewall” infield of base- | jotios gin meee ball history, and I played against that quartet when they were at their best, and I'll say they dished up some wonderful performances. They were at the height of their form before gloves came into general | gist have x world . use among the infielders. jabout that knuckle Denny, I remember, never did become reconciled to using a finger mitt, | Rommel ¢ lowe a being one of the old school players. Denny had a remarkable pair of pared 7 poe or yee hands, huge paws, and the way he used to trap that apple with his pair ean ae, Shanon of hands was little short of miraculous. fir me since the Of the quartet, in my opinion, Dunlap, who covered second base, was — the most spectacular. He did some remarkable exhibition work of catch-|, - then gper er vd ing flies on the run and other stunts before games that was one of the | in a comfortable » big features of the St. Louis team’s play. |is probably imponnible 4 of a piter low Romme Rommel certainty SEATTL » winning am finishing n league race outstanding verioan league An good wns last year natead of last or te thin feb tuft? What ball? Would game with a These and el have been | © of the ‘ 4 knuckle ball, but non» that I r type of| have ever seen compares with th sitting Rommel the wtand, It] It is so difficult to handle that Cy for him to/ Perkins, one of the best catchers Glasseock and McKinnon were both strong players, but they never | eure why 3 ian't hit much | the game, drops ball after ball with harder, His spe reached the heights of baseball fame that such stars as Pop Anson and | giary, and his the other big fellows of that time. |he wants it to be ey Bennett, Buck Ewing and Mike Kelly were generally acclaimed as the best) Rommel! has good—b in the "80s, but the palm for the best catching staff goes to the Philadelphia |'n*—*?*e!. 1 venture 80 per cent of the Am ~—* quartet. In those day8| pitchers have a better fast ball than catchers didn’t have the pro-|tommel. His curve is tections they do today, and|®ot any better than three and four receivers had |S\2*" Keo? pitchers in to be carried by each club. [that rommel attained | and they were all good recetvers,|Other pitchers have altho none of them were reat | stars, seen any] In the second inning of that eame,| The three St. Louts hurlers—Hud Wi number of great|which Cincinnat! won by the score |#% Caruthers and Fotse—made up ets in pitching feats in A fine statt of pitchers. all the mors | world sertes| remarkable because they played a games. Derg and Schalk in succession over | outtield when not pitching of 6 to 0, Eller retired Gandil, Ris- Clemons, McQuire, Cusick and mmel boanta the rm Ganzel made up this Philly corps, | knuckle ball in the American leag Usua a good hitter up,|you have the formula for arn to be or} 1 el working. Some ther t when | never hit hin glove. Cy works on | the theory that the exsential thing to at not burn-|do is stop the ball rather than catch to may that /it erican iedgue| With most pitchers, the knuckle ball in a last resort, the delivery to appy, but/go to in the pinch. With R moet of the! the knuckle ba his chief at the majors. | trade. Thin in made possible |Why then the remarkable success|of the great control that a 18 y of not only the knuckle ball but oat deceptive |aiso hin fa developed — goes to work on him with Says This Ump CHICAG J il—In Bill Joe Wood, now]| the strikeout route. As for the outfield Pe sinn| 4.0 From oer Pg one Rien baseball coach at In the third inning he repeated 1 give the edge to the Chicago ee | Yale , performed|the performance of the previous ses-| gregation—CGore, Dalrymple, Kelly | first game of the series of| The spell was broken when the| Amertoan league last fall, the ma jors have another umpire who in The late Silk O'Loughlin always wan a dinctpie of that theory. With & masterpiece in| sion by getting Willams, Liebold/and Sunday were the best balanced | ] Gists thee ose'he Gate : the final inning | and Eddie Collins tn order. outfit among the big tossers. | a ar . * L vagy } | Between the Boston Red Sox| seventh man to face him grounded | Friday Dugdale will pick bis safe. There was never such a York Giants. Jout to the infield, Eller had per ; AllStar team of the players als Stage Great Battle || *!'* 'oreener was either out oF ibe last of the ninth, with the| formed the extraordinary feat of re-| jn the big time in the "8s Standing 4 to 3 in favor of|tiring six of the hard-hitting White Pe acta Ne Wood faced a desperate sit-' Sox in succession on strikes. Only with New York runners on|a few of the strikes were called In| BLOUIN HAS and third and only one out.| most cases the batsman took Team Here With Visiting Hockey | thing as @ close play. If he thought #0, he failed to admit it Guthrie works along the same Inte of reasoning aa Silk am to the TEAM STANDINGS sechinds oa Menabe emigie aie hit meant the dal! game. healthy swing and missed by a wide PERFECT PIN Fo a Lam Tea Pte|| matter of double 5 aa hg who appeared to be weak-| margin. Me answer to such @ query | put every ounce of his re-| Some of the luster of the perform. strength on’ each batilance wan taken any by the oct] GAME RECORD}! the same. There are no close plays: they Mand furnished a nerve-rack-| that Eiler used a trick delivery. He! YHICAGO, Jan, 11—For the eat MOWING more} | 2f* tither “din” or “dat.” With to a thrilling game by|s0 roughened the bail by use of! 4) time in the history of champion-| tig out Fletcher and Crandall. }emery paper, said to be: concealed) ship matches Jimmy Blouin, world ha & remarkable exhibition of| under his shirt, that he was able to} champion bowler, knocked the pine | Pitching. Wood had been| make the ball take all kinds of pe-| tor « pertect game here in his match att to go at top speed thruout|culiar twints alk Sua Silence. at Seow: wink as shown by the fact that} At that time trick pitching was! tonin smothered the New York pin Giants went out on strikes. | permitted, so there really should be in my opinion. to Hod|no taint attached to the perform. with the Cincinnats club,|ance. The following year trick | fp honors for the most re-| pitching was barred. Eller, who de-| piouin pulled the sensations? 300} 2 5 streak of pitching I have| pended on that style entirely, drifted |1m'the fourth game and memesouad tno | It was a great gam a® & world series game. | to the minors |& 258. He rolled seven consecutive | wide open, femmorable gent came in| cog 78 strikes, Hin total for the 10 gamen| “ game of the 1919 series| Tomorrow—The freakiest baserwn-| is 2443 against 2.009 tor Pelence gen Chicago and Cincinnati. ning I ever sa | ‘The Bive Island pin wizard was at | aa top form yesterday and only once — fell below the 200 mark, bringing bis a average for the 20 games up to spiiier in the third block of their 40. nn me match and went into the final Y Ar games with a lead of 817 pins, | by cooler nights tn th Seattio kept the Tigers from | colum weeks, the Se! the hooks Into! the Calgary)! hin life, an did Silk. With Guth the “din” he raises the hand to indicate out; with the “dat” he lowers the palm of the hand to In dicate sate sthrie, however, does not ar gus that he never missed one In bt than they! ve for several! je Mets wunk | » at the! | rie it in always a question of how ena last night!) | many he didn’t mins. & 410-0 score ‘or two periods, A then the Prairie leaguers cracked — _ is, and put the game in the| WINNER OVER Hap Meine haa sg) ot hie good ROGER CONTI the scoring Agra: Jan, 11.—Jake Schaefer defeating Roger Conti, young Hlarence Rowland May | 222 2.5 68° 0" (isons sao «ert samo tr C0 seating Rowe Cot ag the M nd playe Blouin’s scores in the sensath | and played @ big part in int mateh here, earned Get Taste of Own Line| =: pS i ry texm played gteat de-| ‘a, tiht to take another fing at fensive hockey, using th to great advantage Clarence Rowland el “Well, what's the matter? Why McGRAW NOT | played wonderful hocke a jon't you go on your way?” shouted for two periods, | Manager of the Chicago White r two periods, he often disagreed with the um. | | alee. ; SATISFIED 4 ap eepors “Merely disappointed.” replied star. None of the visitors showed up he hook check! “young Jake rwhelmed Contt Bill Binney | in the third biock of their match here y in the goal/iast night, counting 600 to the Frenchman's 131 Conti's play was ragged thruont the final innings, and his showing an offensive | Jha Most strenuous manner. | Rowland. “I knew I was going to WITH TEAM) | Well on the shooting end of the game. | during the entire match was any ‘ has given up the mana} yer put out of many a ball game. he men o' Muldoon opened the thing but championitke. game for that of umpire. He | hue 1 never looked for you to pick N"™, YORK, Jon. 11 eat alban in the first period, when Gor nefer, on the other hand, re et = chance to work in the! on me. I felt sure we bushers would Nh league next season. Won | wee along very well.” hhe will lke it when the ath- |no matter how strong his team may| Who shot from a difficu "ui tore “whie"sox|SAPAN WILL sopear on, paper [rat 'wing. he puck It ts sald that McGraw, while sat.|of Binney" pads and hi MoGraw of the New York Gt.| don Fraser carried the rubber down d championship form. He av jants Is never content to stand pat|the ice and passed to Bernie Morris, | eraged 3498-43 for the match, and It angle from| had a high run of 209, altho at no punced off | ti the game was he hard it the twine, 4 to win er, tried umpiring last year. He | Se Ned Re poy her yr athyrmrbed bgl-epecbel yonkws pone arb Salts it sella Snishaibican up 385 that it was all jeers and no, Japan has unofficially announced department could stand nome | front ney's feet its {ntention to challenge for the | strengthening. | minutes play in the i seven years ago the baseball Davis cup for the season of 1923.| Having that in mind ft is gaid/and the rubber got away from the| th was startled by the annource-| 114 national association has arranged | McGraw has designs on three Na-| visiting le, going te that Clarence Rowland, a bush eee: ene: tend + |. Eddie Roush of Cincinnati would| the came with a beaut gg jPiayers to this country early next/et in nicely in the Giants’ outfield ifight, ¢ his major league career, | season. This group, which will be| according to McGraw. Roush would | ton d won @ pennant and a world | headeq by Ichiya Kumagae, four| probably welcome @ change to New| See Chicago. ‘That was in 1917.| sees ranked in the top 10 of this| York | boards from behind the § passed out of the major league | ‘Always strong for Pitcher Lee}. The final goal of the gammy came fm 1918. Since then he hax| country, and Seeichiro Kashio. The| ss o0dow, of the Phillies, Mecienw ts|2" fore the last ge d clubs in Milwaukee and Co-| latter was @ member of the Jap-| said to be aguin angling for the be.|* with varying success anese team of challengers for the| spectacied star twirler, Jof Silver Mountain Rowland broke into the} navis cup in 1921, Both returned| Now that Pittsburg has placea| Wine to 4s the “busher* by the | this year, Graw would not be averse to pur- and umpires, ——_—_—_—— [chasing him, However, Barney Dick Nallin was the first NO SUNDAY CONFLICTS Dreyfus may pass up any propos! fo Put him out of a game-| sew YORK, Jan, 11—No Sunday | tion that will strengthen the Giants, area been inthe Vague s| nicts between. the New York | t ee tec iealiin goed ty and the Yanks will appear on| SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 11-—~John ‘his exit. f i ~ the 1923 baseball schedule, according | ny Buff, who has held for brief peri - to John Heydler, National league | odg both the flyweight and the ban president. The National league opens | tamwetght boxing titles, was in San ae sarmer, avickner April 17, with the Giants in Boston, | Francisco today. He would “like AND CHEAPEST ROUTH TO the Philites in Brooklyn, the Pirates | three or four of these four-round |, tn ry in Chicago and the Cards tn Cincin-| fights,” according to Lew Diamond, Re TACOMA ‘ his manager. we, 6/10; Seattle $3 Firat pertod Third period —t LEAVE COLMAN DOCK etiitaia to's ic ~~ JOHNson in Their Battle pai 1 iJ 45e) Round Tr oa St Sound Navigation Co. | BY HENRY L. FARRELL {4 s004 fighter and he may be ancouver off its feet here lant night Dunn of the Orioles included Four | potential champion, but a boxer ‘apitals snared 4 who has been hurled into the top|6 to 2 In thelr int nes Mew Yorkers are. makite! sank by a printing press after nine | gs here Inet nig more than an ordinary scrap out| | | fights with seco and third ‘aters | team held the jead thruc ] of tho meeting here Friday night| wilt have to do. mace then wane | eam hel j between Floyd Johnson, the highly) Brennan to have a chance with| Cook ....--++- jadvertised heavyweight from the| hemney, lk 3 | Pacific coast, and Bill Brennan,| Gays of 7 to 6 are being laid that LIARDS whose chief claim to fame is stay-| Brennan wins because of his greater | tarts BIL! ing longer with Dempsey than any| exp rience and his known ability to) Parkes SEATTLY’S LEADING other human. |take a tremendous wallop to the | Denenny RECKEATION PARLORS | Madison Square Garden ts sold out! jaw. | Aseltine jalready. New Yorkers, always gul If Johnson does beat Brennan,| Virat period—1, Re |lible, have been steamed up to be-| whether he knocks him out or wing | Hay. 4:14) 2. Rewina | lieve it amounts to something. & decision, it will not mean any-| 0%." tomtna ee | Johnson, if he should happen to|thing more than a rather nice-look-| McVeigh thom ctrant end Pike} 2804 SENECA I beat Brennan, will be boosted as the| ing victim for the record hooks |e from Duncan, 3 Brewed Hates [| loeical opponent for a bout with | Johnson has more in his way before! 7) He ay, ene r He | Dempsey next summer, He may be he can aspire to the championship, t Meleree—skinuer Poulin BW YORK, Jan. 11.—New York inten; Fraser, 2 min-| phe outfield, pitching staff and catching} Moy bounced the dinc in » for a title match immediat after seven| According to all reports, Hoppe third period, | willing to meet “Young Jake. » match probably wil! be held soon or a score, |in New York o| for sending @ formidable team of tional league stars, ored the third marker of . — ful diaplay of | RINCETON VS. NAVY king the puck off of the} ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 11.—Princeton Calgary goal|and the Navy football teams will and ng from a hard ang’ play in the new Baltimore stadium next fall, on Octe & when Foy we Walker and the Mayor the knuckle ball Then it is that proves any er HOW ROMMEL HOLDS HIS FAMOUS KNUCKLE BALL hree knuch hin for Romm sande Star — te on even terms with the batter With the call thr strikes, Rommel invariably the knuckle bal control, ple ability to field, « succens, No inf an handle grour When he » have five ickle bal » and xy Rommel's gaine) ‘quar tet. two ps up 1928 Third Sack ace Missouri Team Is Weak at Third Base, and Deal Showed Enough Class in Coast League to Warrant Another Big League Trial BY LEO H. LASSEN «ness on the St. Louis American ue team last year was third base, Neither Frank Ellerbe nor Jimmy Austin could plug the gap satisfactorily. Now rumor has it that the Browns are dickering With Los Angeles for Charley Deal, the former National league hot cor- ner star, who played such remarkable ball for the Angels this past Deal was one of the best hitt in the league in g and led the league in fielding at his position. Common gossip had it that Deal was railroaded out of the big leagues for some. | reason other. For many years he was the class of the |fielders in the National circuit at the hot corner and a dan- gerous hitter. Deal is anxious to get back into major league play and if the Browns can make a satisfactory transaction with the | Angels, Deal may cover third base for ie Mo » red for th Mound City | Charley Deal If Deal played the same| brand of seball for St.| |Louis that he did for Los Angeles in 1922 the Browns would present one of the greatest infields in the game. | jSisler, first base; MeManus, | #004 | second, and Gerber, shortstop, | Jers game, Add to this a keen m ‘inel’s success a At the dand (No Close Ones, |Cage Play Officially Under Way. |make up the rest of the | | JACOBS SIGNS } HIS CONTRACT Elmer noobs came into the base | bat fold early this r. ‘The - | onde Missourian signed on the! of the highest-priced players in the Coast league. FITZGERALD QUITS GAME Justin Fitzgerald haa quit baseball | for good | The former San Francisco outfield | TAKE HALE | MAKE Goop? There's strong doubt as to wheth- er Sammy Hale will make good with star was with Sacramento a whi t year and then wound up the Varsity and Prep Teams |* season with one of the San Joaquin | +s. pniy Athietics, becauwe the feet Swing Into Action With Games Friday Whitman ¢ » tearm has been running nts in the at the Whi | shod over its opp practice games, b TH the Univer. | sity of Washing ton varsity tet playing Gret regular gamo of the nea-| Whit son with man and wit eight high school tion, nters on the Wash-| Wash. roug team is figured to give the and Gold a hard b h Edmundson and “Lewis center and E gua proved to be his be He ha and ter. nd vd serve guards and Fr Its for sub ly Frayne Hesketh at 1 Crawford and We quin valley league teams, er Portlande w But ¥ ays he is thru for good | MA Portiander isn't any Willie | Kamm when it comes to fielding at Ree BOE WE SOME 20 busi |the het corner. Hale was no wild [ peas success as a third sacker in this jleague and the major grade of in- PETE COMPTON | tledding is @. hop or eo better than TO BEES? this cireuit. Hale's hitting may its} The Seals have so much classy|carry him by, however, as he cal oft the a ketball | seanon wil outfield talent for this year that Pete | sock the apple. mpton is due for the afr. But ee Compton is too good « hitter to get| NEED THIRD out of this league, and gossip has | SACKER it that he hag been dickering with| The big need of the: Seattle club Balt Lake. With Maury Shick sold right now ts third sacker. Harry jto New Orleans Duffy Lewis could| Wolverton says the Indians have jtxe Compton. Compton ought to hit | lines out for a hot corner guardian, well over .300 in that Salt Lakej}but no announcements are in order cheese box jas yet. MAY KEEP GRIC | CRANE MAY BE AS PINCH HITTER COUNTED OUT early| Art Griggs is such a sweet hitter! Never strong physically, even in Purple f t combination Gardner ude, th for: Not much i# known of the Whit Rich, erack for. ward, in the star of the outfit outfit. Sabin Gurian and Harold York are other forwards. © | Ralph Knudson alterna with Arthur Douglas, Milfred Franks, taking and Capt. Walter larke Penney Schroeder care of the defensive work This gam sche der way at 7:30 and th meet again Saturday night viet interest in the high centers on aw game h Bell has bu |team to replace the the Queen at Queen ears In the other pre urfield at West Seattle » games Franklit allard and at West se Six Big League Clubs league he was always re-}to Jaj during the early part of | Catcher midt on the market, Mc-| The summary follows: | ~ate|| Wanted Jack Fournier or St LOUIS, Jan. 10.—Recause six Martin major league clubs have refused to allow Jucques Fournier to drift back to the minors, Manager Branch | Rickey of the Cardinals gone 4linto conference with himself. :| It was Rickey’s opinion, several pe None. | months », that Fournier's batting | 4 ‘trea | sw getting dim, the throwing arm weak and the ankles squeaky Riley min- | When Fournier dropped from a vor, 2 min- | 994 in 1922 the manager of the Car jenson, 2 min-|@ piece of material for a trad » opportunity arrived when ne. | gotiations were recently opened with tho Baltimore Orioles for Jim Boley exina played | rhe first request from Manager Jack the Maroons | nier, and Rickey immediately nodd gue hockey | the head. The Regina! he waiver Tequest on Fournter put the game. | ——— | :' LICENSES FOR CANADA SHOWS)! Starting the new year, the boxing! y|commission of Canada will issue} Hatteli | Heenses to regularly organized clubs | thruout Ontario, whose business will | be to conduct boxing and wrestling | The licenses will be lim ities according to popula with three or p ibly four in} nto, on in Hamilton, o in Ottawa, one in Windsor. ‘A fee of $1,000 will be charged clubs, tag vans ast Jacques Fournier Jack the and at center vied to get un. teams will school Anne-| Anne new championship Queen Anne outfit, while way will have one Rroad. of the strongest Linc was flashed around the cireult and Rickey believed, tha it would only require the officlal form and process in obtaining the release agreement of the other managers. But to his great were six claims for Fournier, And that isn’t all—the clubs post- | tively refused to | for Fournier Unable to give the Or baseman to suc the negotiations between the C withdraw wal claiming that they surprise there their had room ples a. first d Jack Rentley dl nals and Baltimore for Shortstop Boley wore immediately blocked. in this company that Red Killefer | good condition, Sammy Crane, Seat- may keep him for pinch hitting duty | tle infielder, is a doubtful quantity f he can't make @ deal for the vet-|for this season. Crane is slowly re- eran, Walter Govlin, being a faster | covering from pneumonia in the Bast man than Griggs, is salted to re-jand it is very doubtful if he will play place him as the regular L. A. first/any baseball this summer. This nacker, but Griggs may keep es the shortstop job open to him on qhe payroll | Orr for the present at least Last Work Before Go 'Dode Bercot and Pat Wil- liams Wind Up Train- ing for Everett Mix ODE BERCOTT, the Monree Bearcat, and Pat Williams, Seat- tle lightweight, both wound up their heavy training for their eight-round bout, billed for Everett, Friday, Austin & ult's gym yes terday of his sudden Jump into Northwest fistic fame, at- | tracted a big gallery, and he worked two rounds with his manager, Lon |nie Austin, veteran boxing instruc (<== |tor, and then went several fast ses- Dode Bercot watoustediy has a tot | sions with Billy W right. to learn, but the Monroe y we art 0 Share, ee tong 4 Both Williams and Bercot are in ite icaeer thea ancet dine toe tip-top condition for their Everett ike in ahead of him. Bercot I scrap, and quite a crowd of Seattle a smart thing working with, and’ in’ expected to te like Billy Wright, because Wright | {DS IS expected to take in the smoke is n clever cuss, and he's willing to |¢F at the Northern city, teach Beroot what he knows about Rercot will have an advantage in boxing weight over Williams of about five ‘ pounds. Bercot we ed in at 137 Danny Kramer te, without « Soure Aue | pounds after his Wednesday ae Los Angeles the | out, while Williams’ we ight is said to © removed the last obstacie | be about 132 pounds Pte ne Part Ot the country. | After the Williams tussle, Bercot dous wallop. He expecta to Ko Bast | Jumps down to Olympia, to box Kid afver «match with Johnny Kilbane goon, | Johnston six rounds ‘Tuesday, * { Your ysel_ is down to tangle Rube Finn, former Seattle middie- | with Maddie Neil in the semi-windup Ian't getting on very Well, He joat two &t Everett, tomorrow night, while tob- | Truman Davis will meet | Young | Gans, of Vancouver, B. C,, in the oth | er bout, eattle Knights of Columbus another basketball victory to long string last night, defeat | ing the strong Toppenish five at the | Casey gym, 5 Stan Riddle was high-point man, with 29 tallies, for a match with Danny Kramer soon. | Grip TKAMS HOME SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11.—The GENNERT SUCCEEDS ROPER | football teams of St. Marve ance ue NEW YORK, Jan, 11—Bill Roper | Pomona college were back home to- Will retire ax resident football couch | day, after having made holiday em: at Princeton, and he will be succeed: | cursions to Honolulu, where St ed by “Re Gennert, freshman | Mary's won one game und lost one coach, according to a report, land Pomona was defeated twig