The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 15, 1923, Page 12

THE STAR MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1923. ARE IN SESSION AT PORTLAND TODAY Big Meetin of Coast A_REAL CHAMPION Ball Men in Rose City Adoption of Schedule and Consideration of Major League Optional Player Limit Raise Will Be Big Business of Portland Session BY LEO HL. OGULS the eight clubs are meeting today of the most important ses cuit in recent years. The big bi s of the session is the atti- tude the league will take on the recent ac- tion of the major leagues in refusing to send out players to non-draft leagues unless they ft them back for the same price as » sold for. ident McCarthy has already sounded the protest of the Coast league, altho Judge Landis has sanctioned the change. McCarthy charges that the raise is viola- tion of the major-minor agreement eritered into for a three-year period and still in effec The International and American Association leagues wil! be watching the Coast meeting, and a break between majors and minors is thought to be impending. Other big business of the meeting will be the adoption the schedule for the year Several deals may be turned by the Coast league clubs, Vernon, in particular, having jmen on the market SEATTLE COAST LEAGUE MOGULS EMINISCENCES -EDuodatle ,, As Told to Leo H. Lassen Baseball Team Greater Than Famous Baltimore Oriole Squad CHAPTER XV. D say which is the greatest team in the history of baseball would be but an opinion. has been great teams, but I think I can safely say that there never has 4 and doubtless never will be, a team better than the old Baltimore Orioles What a collection of stars there was on that outfit! Take their infield, for example: Jack Doyle, a big, husky fellow, was and Kid Gleason took care of second, and Hughie Jennings played shortstop. For ability, brains, aggressiveness and real baseball playing, no infield, in my opinion, not even the great Athletic quartet of 1914——Mclnnis, Col- | lins, Baker and Barry——can compare with that outfit In the outfield were Joe Kelly, Walter Brodie and Willie Keeler. is undoubtedly the most famous of this trio, altho Kelly and Br great players. Behind the bat were Wilbert Robinson and Robinson was the star receiver of the two. McMahon, Horner and Esper were the three best pitchers of the lot. Strange to say, the pitchers attained the least fame of any of that won- derful team. _— Ned Hanlon managed the club and 8 of the outfit. est aggregation would hi have made any manager great. 4 LASS He vee Joe Fal hampton of the alleys ently Coast league basebal in Portland in one sions of the Cir of defeated Jimmy Bmith and caro in special matches. He made a 00 game aged £4 ain the latter and aver @ new world’s record. base, Heinie Reitz played third base playing first John MeGraw Keeler odie were of cavort with merican He had o a fair lub at Was! gion as man ager last year and made just a fair | showing, all that could be expectes of euch a layout | ‘Thus tt is in | Third Race Outlook Not as 's Good for Coast League as Last Season | sisal | Willie Kamm Will Be Missed and Red Smith May Quit; Seattle and Portland; Without Regulars at Present Writing; How Guardians of the Look-in Corner |« Shape Up Now a fellow named Clarke. | AL DEVORMER TO BOSTON CLUB— Al Devormer, former Vernon! RIT’, SPEAS eatoher has been traded by the New Joins NOMADS ork Yanks to the Boston Red Sox! pi) Speas is one of the nomads o © Harvey Hendricks, an outfield-| p,.. yall, Last year found the 1 George Pipgras, a pitcher, William in the Mississtppt Valles Devormer never has had a real league, where he piloted the Cedar: chance with the Yanks, as Wally| Rapids team to @ pennant, incl |Schang does most of the receiving.| dentally hitting around .380 himself — Speas has seen action tn a lot | CLYDE MILAN jeagues and many baseball mer LET OUT [think that he has the ability an¢ Clyde Milan, after 15 disposition to be leading a club ir the Washington Americ Const league—his formes | passed out of the majc ground—one of these days Important Coast League Meeting Is Under Way ORTLAND, Jan. 16, — Paetfic) Const jeague club owners went r baseball. | became famous by handling the Their aggressiveness and brainy baseball the et of their team success. | It was hard to score on the Ort- oles. Doyle, on first, and McGraw third, always held the tnside fing Titles Were a Unsettled Last Y ear ||". 0". ee waa nearly impos stretch hits on them. } I considered Jennin the best man in the infield. No shortstop bas ever covered more ground than Hughie did. Ho was a wonder |position in 1923, McGraw was a fellow, but Los Ang will have Charley Deal, another wonderful performer, back again, unless | confed re ne be pas made/the St. Louis Browns land him, a aathel Sue on tne apuek | Salt Lake will have the veteran Oscar Vitt at the look-in corner. I remember one day a big fetiow| As for the other clubs the outlook isn’t half so settled. named Cartwright. who was playing Seattle hasn't a regular for the position as yet, altho lines are out for a good man first for the Washington club in Portland hasn't announced the successor to Sammy Hale yet. Metre ee ne mind to “eet” Oakland has Ray Brubaker, but he may have to play shortstop. Vernon presents an unsettled problem, ed Smith wants to quit the game, and he ay not y again this year. into third intentional feet firet, but the throw was wild and Me o Nan’ n Nn ihe pony © tase tae iit he does the Tigers will be to reach some decision regarding the | him, the chances are thts league pres aa aie hel’ x. ode |well fixed at the hot corner. | iescue's ofricial attitude toward the | dent will have 100 per cent backina ornery: Ginpoaition and the other Sacramento will be jake if|moaitiea dratt pian approved by| Should he care to carry the draft players didn't exactly love him. Bill Hemingway makes good, | Judge Landis, baseball czar, fight higher, Whether he will con Robinson was a great catcher tn but will be better in line if| President William H. McCarthy | tinue this fight will, no doubt. depend those Gays, and wes a star at was the central figure at the annual | largely upon decisions reached at the Docking runners at the plate, Charley Pick is in shape and |riecting, because of his recent fiery |nession today. Meslen, the greatest acluntifie hi can cover the bag. He Was jreply to Judge Landis, denouncing | Shortly prior to the meeting, litte ter who ever played the game, was the best man in the league the draft and all and sundry connect-| knots of league and club officials ‘&@ hard man to pitch to because of two years ago ed with it, and because he is expect-| who had been having scattered and Si aidekepe, and te tee on te a 4 e4 to have a hard fight on his hands | strictly private conferences of thet) bares most cf the tans °@ %*| BERCOT VS. JOHNSON Last year the Coast league | jining up Coast clubs to support his | own ended thetr sesisons, but refused Po Dode Bercot, the Monroe Bearcat, battles again tomorrow |had wonderful strength at|own draft stand to way what they had been talking * was ie areenet enpe third t but unl lot| MoCarth 4 thi ing the|about’ Judge MoCredi ird base, but unless a lo foCarthy said this morning the | about. Judge McCredie, once owner of classy talent is imported |Co™st Ipsgue’s precedent of voting | of the Portland club, welcomed the Wy ettiewrin. against the draft, established tn for: | league owners to Portland, and the the hot corner play won't be | mer annual meetings, probabl up to the swell 1922 level. | be continued at this meeting. topic of discussion was whether the Basketball of the sacrifice play, I think, ra night when he faces Kid Johnson, the husky Olympia boy, |that time. He could lay a bunt/in a six-round fracas. Bercot put another tough babe away conference got under way. The first Support of McCarthy this year de-| conference should be open or closed Pendy upon the attitude toward him'| to both public and pres New Menace NEW YORK, Jan, 13.—Hasket- down 99 times out of 100, and that’s in Everett the other night when he stopped Pat Williams. ball during the winter is becem. Heth acre gp _ient | game uta under way again. here as soon as the boxing} Odd Shif t May Result Sar 00 Me 0 sate So tho ee From This Big Trade run play to perfection, hard: | os en ave HERE’S A LAUGH barnstorming. trade between ( BY LEO H. LASSEN HE third base situation in the Coast league for this year, as much up in the air as the keystone position. Only three clubs are sure what men will play that berth for them. San Francisco will have Ed Mulligan, who succeeds Willie Kamm, the best man at his} tnatde, wes at the present writing, is years with and wil 4 the Pacific | again cap- | by defeating Von Bim, who won Northwest title in 1 tured that honor in 1 san fateresting fact that, with | Bronson Stein, one up. every sectional title| The play of Gene Sarazen was un- consequence in the United |queationably the feature of the hands in 1922. year. In winning two national ‘Fivans was the most promt. titles, the open and the professional | to repeat a win of 1921.| golfers’ championship, Sarazen Evans won the W estern turned a trick that has not been ac ir title. He came thru again complished since 1916, when Chick f George Von Elm by 5 Evans won the amateur and open championships In women's circles, Glenna Col ‘who lost to Evans in the lett, by taking the national and East | amateur, was the other ern women’s championships, set a golfer to repeat in a | high mark for other feminine golfers Of consequence. | to shoot at, YES crowns certainly rest) ly on the heads of the| mtamp of the Portland, Los Angeles, Salt Lake and Oakland clubs, with whom McCarthy, during the past year, har had w erful dealings of one sort or another, If these clubs support to nme afternoon p rather sigular that George hy executive session shortly 10 o'clock this morning, determined cooveor EE, By Bay Evans IE TIMELIEST HOME RUN I EVER SAW N baseball there ts; and allowed only five hits nothing more prec- fous than a timely hit when @ couple of runs are needed The Athictics evened up the count | by taking the second game, $ to 1. A home run by Baker in the sixth to win and the|tnning, scoring Collins ahead of him, bases are loaded. | decided that game. Marquard was y would the At such times a! ‘ The Baltimore outfit had some! | pitching for New York. He pitched “ . . V , ‘geen pi api a low and inside to Baker on the ball soir ea Millage A is pathetic. He tries to kid people into thinking that he's Ibet. However, there 1s a|he hit over the fence. Such pitching Orioles won four flags to a row,|25, Years old. First he was 39, and now in New York to Baker is usually accompanied by | Which proved thetr class. ee s 36. tet | KRACHE VS, JONES the glamour to the home- that ties or wins the old| gatai results. ca. baie ike famous Oriole | Ted Krache, the promising Hoquiam battler, will be meet- | During the series, Marquard and! mors Mathewson, star pitchers of the| |. oe Giants, were also writing daily ac-, ‘“"™- team, was a Jess Willard was funny at first and now the big fellow A number of major league play. something about the home supplies one of the big recent e- Evans so that he could use a right or ‘of baseball. It is the one fea- the pastime that makes per- People throw away per- hats. 20 years of baseball, 1 have number of timely home- I have seen games won ninth with the sacks filled Tuns needed to win, when drove the ball over the have seen extra-tnning of them slugfests, others -|inning he enjoyed Collins, the first man up, was re- ‘Mred and things looked mighty rosy d by Frank Baker tn the of the 1911 world sertes. ‘York had won the first came 2 to 1, despite the fact Bender struck out 11 men Wednesday, January 17 All Seats Reserved $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 (Tax included) Reserved seats now on pale at ‘Arena Office, 1210 Fifth Ave. Main 2493. game—don't miss this one u and Victoria will 10000000000000000 Is Always Warm! & back of L. C. Smith Bidg. | Card Tables, Pool, Cigars, papers. in his story of the defeat, took Ma! quard to task for pitching in Baker “groove"—low and inside. The ticle caused much comment. third game. 1 to © for a Giant victory. Then the unexpected happened. balls and a strike, unfortunate enough to get a ball, inside and low. For Mathewson’s great control him for he certainly intended pitch to be low and outside Baker hit the ball into the right- counts of the gamo for the news- Probably the players never saw what was written. The day fol- lowing the second game, Mathewson, Mathewson, who pitched the first game for the Giants and won, was MecGraw’s pitchipg selection for the Going into the ninth lead. With Baker up and the count two Mathewson was slow once, | failed the | field stands at the Polo Grounds for | |@ home run and the score was tied | The Athletics won out tn |eleventh, 3 to 2. | winning four games to two. | TOMORROW—The greatest pinch | hitting I ever saw. SANTA CLARA. SIGNS COACH} Eadie | Keinholtz, coach of the Long Beach, LOB ANGE 8, Jan. 15 al, | years, high schoo} team for several “Dave Bancroft of the New York Giants is one of the brain fest shortstops in the history of the game Hughey Jen nings, now assistant to John Me. Graw at w York In his day Jennings had no su || perior shortstop and knows | whereof he speaks. ‘Most of the modern short stops play a stationary position,” continues Jennings. “That ts a’ fatal mistake, for often a step in either direction prior to the pitch, makes possible a play on the bali that would otherwise go as a base hit. “No club gets very far with out @ great shortstop. While the New York team has a brilliant in field, that combination would be greatly slowed down by having an inferior player at shortstop. has been appointed coach ot| ‘a university grié team | the That one pitch was | the break of the series, the Athletics | | | jnight when Vancouver ley riple Threat The triple threat player in base. ball is the very latest thing ‘That ts the title conferred on Jack Bentley, former Baltimore star, who in to get his big chance this year with the New York Giants. Bentley can do well—pitch, play first base and bat. He was the leading pitcher in the International league, win ning 12 out of 12 start. He also played first base when not pitching in mighty clever style, As a batsman he was re. garded as one of the most danger. ous in the league. McGraw will be in a position to use Bentley an pitcher, first base man or pinch hitter as he sees fit CALGARY IS PLAYING IN VANCOUVER ALGARY 1s closing tts Coast hockey invasion tonight in Van couver, meeting the Vancouver Ma Toons, The Tigers have had a ha time on the Coast, losing two games Ti three things | by 4-0 scores. The Tigers have been hard bit » injuries, losing Goal-tender Bin and defense star Gardiner. The Cal gary team beat Vancouver 1-0 on th prairte Seattle is resting until Wednesday comes here. ‘Then the Meta take the swing around the Prairie league METROPOLITAN TONIGHT Second Artist of the TTLE ARTIST SERIES Katherine Rice, Manager 200 Seats on Stage Now Selling Mischa Elman Celebrated Russian Violinist — A FEW SBATS LEFT ~ ing Morgan Jones for the third time when they tangle in Tacoma in their six-round scrap Thursday. Krache stopped him once in three rounds and won the decision in their other | meeting. PADGETT COMING Cowboy Padgett, the rugged Denver welterweight, will be} brought to Seattle to box Billy Wright next week. WILL LIKE MACK Johnny Mack, Matt Matthews’ coming featherweight, is another boy who will be seen in action here as soon as the} game gets started. The bugs will like him because he fights and can sock. Prep Fives Play Again | on Friday | 10 GRID TIFFS | FOR CATHOLICS | The University of Notre Dame football team will play the Princeton at Princeton next Oct Knute K. Rockne director of athletics at Notre Dame, announced The 10 games, fe September Dame; October 6, me; October New York city, ton, at Princeton; October gia Tech, at Notre Dame; November 3, Purdue, at Notre Dame; Novem ber 10, Nebraska, at Lincoln Neb.; November 17, Butler November 24, Carni burg; November 28 Louls HUNTINGTON NOT SIGNED Ore, J “Sh: hasn't ober the.one r contract offered him by the | University of Oregon to conch the 1923 football team as yet, He has been offered $4,000 for on, the same as he recet It Is understood that H been ober 20, schedule, Three Tight Games Sched- uled for High School Cage Games 12, West Point October 20, Pri at TH the teams so venly balanced # they are this ar, the great st race in th of the igh school bas etball league is nder way Friday will see rree teht strug les with Ballard nd Lincoln, th only two unde meeting, holding the spotlight. ‘They clash at Lincoln Garfield should giye the fast n Anne five a r battle, as | Bat right Jalong. They mt Queen Anni Broadway Franklin, both |ynrm tow torvite "eames. nove AMATEUR ICE | TEAMS CLASH play, get together at Broadway. Roosevelt figures to have an easy n ‘ University of Washington time with West Seattle, altho the|mects the American Legion team at ndians may strengthen for the|7 p, m, and the Pirates and the hae melee, They play at Roose-| Wanderers clash an hour later in vel the two amateur hockey games | booked,tor the Arena tonight /KRACHE TO BOX BLACK HOQUIAM, Jan pd Krac crack local battler, and Joe Black, according to Denver lightweight, box six rounds ived by Rickard, here tonight, Louls, at St istory EUGEN Huntington fected tea! the a last ntington has year s are imp meet and stitutions The CARNS TO GOTHAM YORK Jan. 16. Kearns will los Angeles for New York the middie of week to talk terms with Tex Rickard for two appearances of Jack Dempsey in the ring next summer, @ telegram re Jac leave which provides for Kalamazoo, at Notre Lombard, at Notre | at Notre Dame; | Tech, at Pitts: | ven better offers by other in-| Ic apartm) bullet ¥ two other {apartment | were intoxicated ers are playing professional bas. ketball during the winter. ‘This is particularly true in the East, where professional basketball has @ large following. Basketball is a strenuous sport The impression prevails that a ‘a winter of basketball is far from good for a big league ball Basketball takes a jot out of the athlete and hardly him in shape for a six-months’ grind on the diamond. At pr club owners have no jurisdiction over their players relative to basketball and an only ask the players to re. frain from indulging. Since the compensation is worth while most of the players ignore the request that they give up the game. WASHINGTON FIVE READY player the FOR IDAHO) ITH two games on the right side of the ledger, due to a pair of Whitman Friday and the ot Washington basketball team is now preparing for the biggest games of the season—that with the Idaho Ve The Idi losing champior beatings handed Saturday, University one of ndals here Thursday x from their Idaho, r schedule only Richard F hip 19 this ye The Washington team is in fine condition for the Idaho game, and one of the best tiffs of recent years in expected Thursday OLLIE CHILL IS MIXED UP IN SHOOTING LEVELAND, Jan, 16 ie Chill, American league umpire were g que today in nection with the fatal shooting of Bdward J, MeGregor. McGregor was found dead in his nt Saturday night with four nds in his chest, Chill and men were found in Officers say all three Ohio, A chauffeur told police that he the four to several ter which he took them to Chill and the remember is rs apartment y all they hearing two shots fired, mpanions | the | ta Joe the land and Washington, whereby | ans, of the Nationals unusual situation, Joe Evans came to the Cleveland | club as @ third baseman. That where Manager Donie Bush, Washington, intends to use him. After being with Cleeviand for sev- eral years, and playing infield utilit of | | ington, roles, Tris Speaker converted Evans | him to break tnto the lineup. left-handed hitter in left field to sutt Indians, goes to! the pitching selection of the opposi and Frank Brower | tion becomes an Indian, presents a rather | was Jamieson, a left-handed hitter, used against right-handers | Evans Is a right-handed batsman, Now Evans is to be made back inte is | an infielder. Brower came to the Washington club as a first baseman. With Joe Judge playing that position for Wash there was little chance for rif. into an outfielder, and a mighty good | fith made an outfielder out of Brower. one. Possibly Speaker is going to prep Speaker made an outfielder out of | Brower to succeed McInnes at first © AMPBET L ur STANFORD Jan, 15.—John RDS SITY, Cal. (Seotchy) Campbell, second string quarterback of this year’s Stanford ‘varsity, but who di- rected the team in nearly all of its now famous bursts of foolball, has been named 1923 foot- ball captain. NEW YORK, Jan, 15.—Gene Sar azen, world champion golfer, may not be permitted by the Briarcliff club to compete in the British open championship next spring. Directors of the club who recently signed Sarazen for two years, will meet to: day to decide on @ leave of absence for him. Married Life Is Asset to Gridder, Says Star Coach Married life, in the opinion of Pat Pa, athletic director of Butler college, is an asset to a football player, In proof of this he points to the new record of the Butler eleven in the season just closed, Qut of the 10 games played, the team won eight. On the eleven that established this new record for the college were tive married players "A fellow usually takes ¢ himself better at home,” Page. “He is not tempted to eat heavy foods and pastries and his sleeping hours are regular, We owe a great debt to wives and mothers of, the boys on the foot- ball and other teams for keeping the players in condition. Good condition does a lot toward win- ning games.’ As regards the splendid condi tion of the Butler football eleven, Page points to the fact that mem. hers of the team did no take time out or st in the first seven played. Only one man was injured in the with De Pauw and one gamo with Notre D: © of injurie: games contest in the | sensational | | | —— | base. It's a funny shift all around AMUSEMENTS Matinees: 2:30 Nights: 7 bait 7 E HEATHER ~ PALO & PALET The Richardson ' Twins OPE NOODLES FAGAN AND _ ELSIE Matinees Nights 400 ont VAUDEVILLE" me, Hermes Circus ek La Vier i MARC MacDERMOTT | “1 HAVE IME” 1 #83) Valand Gamble | °#* TA OF mt: ESTERDAY” ‘A Mrenth of 014 Times? Huret and Vogt Hithet Parker and Al (108i Allen } Se THIS WEEK maIN OTT TWKE DalLy | 230L8 S180 nao B19 oe aun aus 4iai