The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 12, 1923, Page 22

THE SEATTLE STAR FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1923. LOOMING IN AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR THIS SEASON | SEATTLE’S BIG THREE Three big stars have been uncovered in the Seattle Amateur Hockey league. The Star GREAT RACE EMINISCENCES Four Teams Dangerous as Season Approaches Yanks, Browns, White Sox and Tigers Will Have Powerful Outfits, With Athletics and Indians in the Running; Boston and Washington Thought Weak cameraman caught them together and presents them for the approval of the fans. On the left is Peterson, the great forward of the crack Pirate five. In the center is McKenzie, the best defense player in the loop. He plays for the Washington team. On the right is Kerr, the star goalie of the Pirate outfit. The amateur circuit dishes || up a double header at the Arena every Monday night. As Told to Leo H. Lassen CHAPTER XIII GKING an allstar team for any | er who never was given credit that | Detroit team | aport ts simply the Judgement of } Man and a matter of personal TI offer this selection of Who were leaders in base fm the ‘80s, from personal ex with them on the ball a two best catchers of their day undoubtedly Charley Bennett. wtul Detroit receiver, and Ewing, the New York Were easily the class of the of those days, Bennett A particularly graceful catcher Ewing was an Hoss’ Radbourne, the Provi Setar, and John Clarkson, the player, wore the outstand Both had pitchers star.) Of all-around | gt Ferguson, of Boston, waa a pitch} he deserved. He was one of the! | hardest men to hit tn the big time jand he was a wonderful hitter him one of the best drop McCormick, of Chi joago, and K of New York, the | inventor of slow ball, make up the rest of my star staff. | the first sackers, four great Delehanty, of Phil of Detroit; An Comiskey, of Buffington, ball pitchers: stars stood out adeiphia; Brouthers, of Chicago, and Lou The first three were the harder hitters with Comiskey being the best fielder and base runner In myopinion Delhanty’s tremen- dous hitting gives him the edge for the position altho Anson and Brouth- ers were no weaklings at the plate. Fred Dunlay was the best second son, | Williarnson, of Chicago, was the best ancker of the time, playing with the orry Denay gets the call at third bane, Of the shortstops of the time, Hd all-around player ‘There was so many great outfield- era in the 80s that ft ts almost im pick the best three Jimmy Gogerty, of Philadelphia, Sam Thompson, of Detriot; Elmer Foster of New York; Curtis Welch, of the Athletics; Dick Johnson, of Boston; Tommy MoCarthy, of St. Louls, and Mike Kelly, of Chicago, were all great players and any three of them could be picked without weakening pousible to the team, Saturday Dugdale will tell about the writing of “Casey at the Bat,” the us baseball poem. .9—THE FREAKIEST BASERUNNING I EVER SAW! pia AP : 'Dode Bercot and Pat Wil- always create diy. Baseball abounds in Eddie Alnsmith goes of pulling the freakiest bit 1 have ever seen, th, who is now catching for Louis club, of the National ‘was a member of the Wash- team when he put over his Ing extraordinaire. hia was playing at Wash. and bad the home team bad- a Chief Bender was doing for the Athletics. Alnsmith singled, in the two were out, the score like 13 to 2, In favor am ‘Phe first ball pitched, Atnsmith without any opposition. attention to him. The ‘Was a strike, making the balls and a strike. wag in the grand all the trouble by yell- don’t you steal home, decided to do that very I baxeball fs In need of change for the converse mt the game is getting en- re are too many professional in baseball today and to sacrifice personal gain Dest interests of the team. je handshakers, by their obse. tactics, are robbing baseball te of its fundamental charms, is team spirit and fight don’t battle on the field of B today like they did years ago. rhen is something at | do they collectively exert them ‘whole-souled players who| thing. As Bender started his wind Up, Ainamith dashed for the plate run meant nothing tn the game, | Bender, seeing the humor of the @Ruation, decided to let Atnamith get away With the play When Alnsmith slid over the plate in Safety, Bender wae still winding | up. Alnsmith had gotten to his feet, | brushed off his uniform, and was! half-way to the bench, doffing his| jeap to the mock applause of the crowd, before Bender finally de livered the bail. All would have been well tt the! | bataman didn’t offer at the pitch, but | he elected to swing, and filed out to/ |left field, retiring the side. | ‘Most of the fans left the park be | |Meving Atnsmith had stolen home, | When, as a matter of fact, the run | didn’t count. Alnsmith’s steal start. | ,stcond ball he stale third. No| ed with the windup, which ended In | Pretty fair boy with the padded mit. the batter fying out for the final | out, and no runs ean score on a| play in which the batsman fallg to reach first for the third out, as was the case tn this play. Selfish motives, to a great extent, dominate the average player today, and in a measure he cannot be cen-| sured. Conditions that should be| changed are responsible. Baseball averages constitute the evil. Smart baseball men know that | the averages are not @ true criterion | of @ player's ability: but, at the same | jtime, a good average is a distinct | selling point for a player, just as a] poor average iy a powerful weapon | lfor a club owner to wield when a player asks for more salary. | The result of this is that baseball | lis crowded today with players who tare known as “average ball players: \that is, players who protect their) jown average irrespective of what ef- | | fect It may have on the team. | This condition brings on hand |shaking, and the latter mitigat Jagainst esprit de corps. | Why managers will tolerate this on ltheir ball clubs is an impenetrabie mystery. JAPANESE PRINCE e Chichibu of Japan is shown here leading the platoon} he assumed command when he became a lieutenant. | jfor distance, and the Yakima 100. [failure of the Gotham club to pro. |ing Seattle s¢ |MICHIGAN HAS Everett to See Crack Go Tonight liams Tangle in Eight- Round Session VERETT mitt A} tune will ait in Ba good scrap to night when Dode Bercot, the sensa- tional Monroe logger, and Pat Williams, =the wiry Seattle mill er, battle eight rounds Roth men are tn wonderful con- dition for thelr melee. Bercot, tn particular, has been going at a terrific club, while Williams, who t# no wonder, but a tena, is tn prime condition. Bercot, who ts coming fast, still has lot of ring tricks to learn yet, but with his natural ability and his fine build he shows great promisn Tonight's bout will either make or break Williams. The lanky Seattle kid has been fighting for some time and if he gets by with Bereot he will be in line for some better matches, After the Everett go tonight Ber. cot jumps down to Olympla, where he tangles with Kid Jobnaon in a stx-round melee Tuesday. ‘WALLA WALLA WILL STAGE | GUN TOURNEY ‘ALLA WALLA, Wash.. Jan. 12.| —American Trapshooters’ asso- | elation will hold their state tourna ment in this city on May 14, 15 and| |16, according to an announcement made today by Charles W. McLean, president of the local Rod and Gun club, The event ts the most tmportant Bumber on the Washington scatter gun calendar for 1922. Experta from all parts of the Pacific Northwest are drawn to this city to compete against and be entertained by their Walla Walla hosts Cash prizes approximating $2,400 will be contested for. In addition three gold medals and 22 trophies will be pinned on the breasts of or adorn | the case of some exceptional claybird | Gestroyer. Some of the special events planned are: Ladies’ championship; state championship, 200 targets at 16 yards; state doubles championship 5 pairs of target; state handicap | ESSICK MAY__—isf} KEEP HURLER| Unless Bill Essick gets the players | he wants in retarn for Jake May, his stellar southpaw, rest assured that the Vernon pilot will keep May on his payroll next season. Negotiations with the New York Yanks are just about off for wood because of the duce the players Kssick demanded for his pitcher. GILLUM WILL BATTLE MISKE| Harry Gillum is fighting 15 rounds! with Billy Miske in Omaha, Neb., to-| night. Gillum is now boxing under! the name of Harry Foley He has been around New Orleans since leav. i seasons ago | WALKER CALLS OFF TRIP HERE Ugo Frigerio, Italian walking champion, has called off his proposed trip to America this month because Of the death of his father. ONE MAT VET Captain Brown, a middleweight, in the only veteran on the University of Michigan wrestling team this season. BUCKNELL MAY BUILD FIELD | Bucknell may be the sity to have a sta started a drive f next univer Alumni have 000 field. ROME, Jan. 12.—/The dog presented to the Queen of It ly by Qu K beth when the Italian royal couple recently visited Belgium is dead. ' ye Vernon Only Coast Club Not Set _ at First Base; Three Newcomers Tigers Expect to Land Man on Jake May Deal, but Have Rod Murphy and Ham 7k in Line; Seattle, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Will Present New Men at is Position. /ERNON is the only club in the Coast league that hasn’t a regular first sacker on its roster yet. Bill Essick has Rod Murphy and Ham Hyatt on his club, but neither is figured as a lar. Essick plans to dispose of sp May, and his star southpaw should bring him a corking good first sacker. Every other club in the league has the first base question settled. Alto- syne outside of Vernon, three new first sackers are sure to be in the league, _ Seattle will have the veteran “Doc” Johnston, former American and National league player, for the initial cushion. Johnston is a good hitter, a great fielder and a fine team man, from all accounts. Another new man will be Walter Golvin, who will replace the veteran Art Griggs at Los Angeles. Golvin comes to the L. A. club thru the Chicago : Cubs. Golvin pastimed with the champion St. Paul team in the American association last year and was claimed to be the best fielder in the loop. He won't hit with Griggs, however. The third newcomer will be Roy Leslie, former Philly Quaker, who will play for Salt Lake. He comes to the Utah team on the deal that sent Heinie Sand to the big time. Mark for Frank Guigni Fanned 24 in One Day heres All in all he should get by, altho nobody expects him RANK GUIGNI holds the strikeout record for one day's to set the league on fire. Veterans wil] take care of the first performance At least so claims Nick Will ing and Williams small town teams. Gutgni one Sunday pitched a game in the morning and fanned 24 and hurl. catehing for lent, because of his blinding speed, took a turn at pitching once in awhile. He and Will barn storming togeth Can sack job with the other four clubs in the circuit Fritz Mollwitz, the best man at his He has wveral seasons of fast base. ball left in his lanky frame. fama, Seattle baseball secretary, ed again in the afternoon and There was some gossip a short igni will be remembered asa whiffed 18. me ago that Bert Ellison wanted third sacker in the old Northwest “Guigni used an emery ball, and says |) “ ball Williams, “We didn’t use any || 58m Francisco have {t that the slug: signals, because every delivery || ger will be back on the pillow for was the emery ball and the vil. || the Frisco Seals. He started the season out in a blaze of the well- Guigni is now playing bush ball adian bush in 1919, Guigni pitch around Butte, Mont George Lafayette, who blossomed out a8 @ real star with Oakland, ——— | will play his second season for the Acorns position in the Coast circuit last to play in the American association ern league He had one of th the apple raised a good six lagers had a terrible time trying known glory last spring, but didn’t . | Jim Poole, the slugging Portland. Donie Bush Has Able _ |\«.sl 00 scant Som year, will play for Sacramento again strongest throwing arma in base- inches coming up to me," tale season,: but Fooent reports tres to hit the ball.” |fintsh the year so well | pletes the list Lieutenant in Gibson} «="«' Salt Lake and Los An present stronger fronts base this year, while Ver. bound to strengthen. The ASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 12.—)to handle the Pittsburg Pirates, | Sesrieks retained: Uy the othap Clarke Griffith, owner of the| In hia first year asa major league | CMDS are all good men, ‘The first Washington team, is certain that he | manager bwon for a time was the! play in the Coast league thie made a ten strike when he added | mont talked about leader in baseball won. should be several dogr the veteran catcher, George Gibson, ptember he had a| better than it was a year ago to the Nationals 4 for first place, but a eggs “ ted reverses at the ants killed his pen their annual thermore, if one of wants to use a Gibson will act as an assistant to baseball hands of the Bush, aside from having complete | \iiu" Of f charge of the twirling staff, It is said that Bush intends to leave the | Against a college outside of this tri- development of the pitchers entirely umvirate the written permission of up to Gibson th must first be obtained The Washington club has several Th against the spitball are promising youngsters on its pitching | not quite so stringent in profes staff, ne recruits, howev 4 leagu he National and lacked the coaching of a . n leagues have an agree: buckstop, familiar with all the tricks ment barring the use of the ball by of tha’ teade,” 0. Gitenn, Ceittitn neweomers, but allowing its use by feels that he has the man who will pitchers who were throwing it in add much strength to the Nationals the major leagues prior to adoption pitching staff, because of his capable of: the & is nO such Riveution exception in th pted by the big th Hic were, the big spitball Fur three college rules Gibson in his day best was one of (he the National league, He made an enviable record with the Pittsburg club e iv an adept at the use of the spitter and the new rule } will hit his coll hardest, But a From Pitts: | this form of delivery has never n burg he went to Toronto, in the In-| very popular on an | popular on any Jeague, and managed) Harvard, Then came chance! agreed not catchers in ternational Yale and Princeton have| and it will ne on with success. it will not be greatly to use the spitball tn' the big three, pitcher | college campus | missed inj tield BY HENRY HERE is a gi L, FARRELL eneral inclination in baseball circles to consider rather lightly the New York Yankees as factors in the next pen- nant race. Why Because no strength has been added to the club. A team that should forcements, when it is a fairly young club. nkees are while the club has not secured any more rins club ought to be stronger in 1923. pennants The Y. new stars, the Hug The pitchers can't be an chances are they will be im Babe Ruth will be another strict attention to his busine: the club, Bob Meusel, too, after bein jof small importance on the pep, the lack of which has prevented him from becom- ing a wonderful ball player. eee With the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox in the race with them, the Yankees will have no run away. The St. Louis Browns are dangerous and the Cleveland Indians are building The like the strongest contenders Ty Cobb has gathered bimeelf a great team. Del Pratt at second base and Rip Collins added to his pitching staff will mean much. Much depends, however, on the re- covery of Harry Heilman, the great batting outfielder, who broke his shoulder late last season. It was reported recently that the bone was not knitting properly and that physicians had told Hellman able to swing @ bat again. eee ing team of White Kamm, the $100,000 from the Pacific Coast league, deliv- ers according to expectations. Kamm or no Kamm, the Sox look fine as they are, but a sensational hitting and fielding infielder may be the difference between the pennant and the contender. Kid Gleason deserves to be rated as one of the greqfent managers in the game. After the housecleaning of 1920 he had nothing left but @ seo- | ond baseman, a catcher and @ pitcher i that later deserted him, In two years time he collected a team that inn't far removed from the championship class and might get there next season. In the same class with Gleason as a builder, is the Hon. Sir Patrick Moran, of the Cincinnati! Reds. . Pat had @ pennant winner and a world's champion outfit in 1919, but the glory went to the heads of the Calgary Faces Sox if Willie third baseman igers and the White Sox look! they were not sure that he would be | Kid Gleason will have a sweet look- two successive need of rein- has not won be in not an old team and y worse r and the iproved. person and when he is paying s, he will be a great help to next ye ng shown that he {s a person team, might work up some Wagner Hard for Big Six EW YORK, Jan. 12-—During his recent visit to New York in behalf of the Red Cross drive on tuberculosis, Christy Mathew ron was asked what bateman was hardest for him to pitch to during his long career in the National league “I had to work carefully on all the good hitters,” was Matty’s modest reply, “but Hans Wagner was my biggest troublemaker. 1 always breathed a sigh of relief when we got rid of Honus.” The National league records certainly bear out the impression that Mathewson had of Wagner. Covering 4 period of 16 sea- sons, Wagner went to bat 327 times against Matty and made 106 base hits for an average of 320. Wagner's mark against the pitcher generally regarded as the eet twirler of all time is thing to be proud of. t boys and F canned almost the whole team. Of the 1919 champions only Dau- bert, Roush, Ducan, Wingo and Luque remain. In three years, Moran has as- assembled a team that looks like the one that has to be beaten for the next National league pennant, eee Despite the frequence with which his structures have crashed under the weight of mid-season burdens. Connie Mack Is a builder himself and his Athletics are going to get there— not next season, but not many after that. Mack has started to spend money and he doesn't need much more to get a fighting first division team. Victoria in Island City Tonight scrappy Calgary Tigers will make the second start of their Coast invasion in Victoria tonight, facing the Victoria Cougars. The Calgary team showed a brilliant and hard-working defense against Seat tle, but that let them out. The Calgary team is fast and young, but lacks offensive stars. The Tigers have their work cut out for them tonight, however, in Getting Un TUTE eight Seattle high school A basketball teams were starting their annual hoop season today. Queen Anne and Broadway were furnishing the big battle of the day in the Queen Anne gym. In the other games scheduled for this afternoon Ballard and Gar. that they must stop Frank Frederick. son, the great scoring ace of the Cougar team. Victoria has been going mighty well jately, running up their winning streak to five straight games before bowing to defeat Monday to Seattle by a 2 to 0 score in Vancouver. Calgary will wind up its Coast in- vasion with @ game in Vancouver with the Maroons Monday. Prep Basketball Season der Way Today field were playing at Ballard, Frank- lin and Roosevelt at Franklin, and Lincoln and West Seattle at West Seattle. ‘The games were to get under way at 3:30 in each gym with the sec: ond teams of the respective schools getting under way first. 2ACH “HECK” EDMUNDSON will trot out hig 1923 University of Washington basketball five in his first Northwest conference game of the season tonight with the Whitman five furnishing the opposition. The Washington five figures to clean up on the Walla Walla quintet in their game tonight and their Sat urday battle, but the Whitman boys should force the Huskies to show their real stuff for the first time this season, The varsity boys have been Washington and Whitman Hoop Fives Meet Tonight running roughshod over their prac tice opponents. Edmundson figures on starting his regular team, with Frayne and Lew. 1s at forwards, Hesketh at center and Crawford and Bryan at guards, Whitman hasn't announced a defi nite Ineup for the start of the game. but has Rich, Gurian and York for forwards, Penney and Knudson for centers and Douglas, Franks and Schroeder for guards. he game gets under way at 7:30. CHANCE HAS TOUGH JOB AT BOSTON | JWOSTON,. Mass, Jan. 12.—In as. | suming the management of the | Boston Red Sox, Frank Chance ac out the toughest assignment i eda ll. As the Red Sox team now stands it is Just a fair minor league club, There is only taking charge Sox that ix to the advantage of Chance; the fact that the elub finished a bad last in 1928. Any position in the than it place will be re ded as a step of progress, Chance has said that he will be satisfied with noth ing worse than sixth in his first year and would like to head the second division. Chance's bigge As a mat y infield, feature about race t probl r of fact, he hasn't There are # lot of in | field candidates in the Boston roster | but few of them stand out as | capable regulars ting together an infield will be Chance's first big task, then comes polishing up the pitching staff, the patchers and the outfield, Boxing Will Be Restored Again in Seattle Soon Seattle boxing fans will have heir weekly sport again, follow |] Ins the report of the King county |} xeand jury ‘Thursday, decfaring that the six-round exhibitions jn Seattle have not been in violation of the state prige fighting code Mayor Brown stated late ‘Thurs that the game will be con ducted under « commission, but he was ready to make no definite boxing announcement until afte: 4 conference with the sheriff and k uting offices, eed day eye geese