The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 16, 1923, Page 12

TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928. Star Catchers Hold Up Youngsters Coast Prexy Declares pr Kk im ee ae | War on Major Leagues Breaks 4-4 Deadlock es Draft Question and Votes for War Against Majors; Also Decides Issue on Raising of Player Limit BY BILLY STEPP ORTLAND, Jan. 16.—The first round of the Pacific Coast league meeting staged in the Imperial are’ Monday was won by Pres- ident McCarthy. Th prexy smothered the four opposing magnates in right- handed attacks in two drastic measures of the day. A motion was made by Charley Graham, of the seals, which carried the following message: Resolved, that no club in the Pacific Coast league shall accept, contract for or with, or employ any player who is 1 whe cages subject to selection or optional agreement, those days “with the Athletics going | by either of the major leagues, provided, however, that this Soham fe : |poorly, Mack needed ai his strength |rule shall not apply to any contract entered prior to Janu- idedly in the lineup datly, That called for|ary 15, 1923, ete oe ek oN Mheaukes ina{ “Any club violating this foregoing rule shall be fined not " Peerage weeten: 06 deal for First Baseman Hauser, Get |to exceed the sum of $500 for each and every game in from a 1 ting in the gar which such player participates, and such nes must be basen gaia gate | declared forfeit to opposing clubs, and in addition thereto dye such player shall be declared| minors. Cleveland ¥v forced to|ineligible to play with or be} . e |etve four players and plenty of essh,|connected with any club in by & player not rated _— enous |any capacity whatsoever. o Arya exo! aes od econ: ‘And be it further resolved that Pittsburg missed Catcher | dent and secretary of the| At By - national association, as members of At Washington Iddie Gharrity |actual competition. Sitting the | Se in the spring, his failure to lin, navisory council, be requested to| Del Howard, Oakland baseball diplomat, springs the good news has been the old war-horse, Cy Per-|bench means nothing to @ catcher the Pirates @ chance 0 | te forthwith with the advisory coun kinn has been the mainstay of the after he gets so far in his calling. & great young catcher | oa ‘formal pi iat the So Athletics back of the bat, while for|He can only perfect Nin atyle by ex-|the team had In Gooe contemplated of the major: | several years Behmidt has been | pertence tn competitive play. | Every manager hates to break UP | minor leagues in agreement by the| Pittabury ne best bet ‘Then again it is asking too much|a winning Jon, wants HIS) mator leagues in arbitrarily raisipg While « star catcher much lof any player to expect him, after |bert catcher to work regularly, y¢t/the number of optional players and to « team’s strength, it ts a question | sitting the for ns that can be | in providing a new form of sales and that Biff Schaller, former Beaver outfielder, is now one of the most promising umpires in the country. Biff is calling ‘em every week in the worst part of California baseball. The old boy, according to Del, is just the same 2 EMINISCENCES 0! D-EDuodatle As Told to Leo H. Lassen ‘Continuous Play Keeps Star Oriole Players Are Among _ Big Powers in Ball World Today CHAPTER XVI. is no greater proof of the class of the Baltimore Oriole performers than the Success which the various members of the team made in basebal! later as managers scouts, as John McGraw today has the reputation of being the greatest field gen- eral in the history of the sport.. He stands in line to become president of the New York Giants when President Stoneham retires. Hugh Jennings served many years as manager of the Detroit Tigers, winning three pennants for the Michigan city. He is now McGraw’s as- sistant and stands in line to succeed McGraw when he quits. Wilbert Robinson is pilot of the Brooklyn nationals, and is one of the brainiest leaders of them all. Jack Doyle is considered the finest scout in the game, and draws pay from the Chicago Cubs. Kid Gleason is manager of the Chicago White Sox, and has built up a fine club. Joe Kelly managed Cincinnati for some time and was scout for years/ for the White Sox. The rest of the club never landed in the managerial game, but those who did went so far that they have kept the fame of the famous Orioles | in the spotlight to this day ‘will be noticed that the four infielders and the chief catcher of the old Orioles were ‘famed men to reach the pinnacle of fame as game leaders, and they were the big a “a guns of the club when it was | > + FRASERALL O'NEILL O'PAPUUELL, * ‘onnie Mack would 1 that be tar young in ¢ fellow Myatt rec Cleveinns for | | BY BILLY EVANS & great catcher, ( | I° it w mistake In baseball to work i had 0 veal | Myatt. Thin been purchased by one catcher to the exclusion of a!) others? ently [hw For a number of years Ray Schalk a jhas done practionl atching |for the White Hox, As a result Chi om y all the yatt never got muc to show while with th in without a ntring catcher, When hurt, the White Sox are de up agninat it O'Neil! jyears has be capable second Steve six or neven regularly he devel thw clone of the on he has been the in the Cleveland catching stand int. A glutton for work, O'Neill has been used day in and out, except when some injury foreed him out of | the game. During the past two years O'Nel!! has suffered bad Injuries which kept him out of the game for weeks. None of the substitutes quite filled the bill Bi eatoher RAY SCHALK neveral could be advanced for such @ system. In the first place onty | be developed by getting » chance in| atcher on A ache: combi adda bench peveral on there are many reaso be wiser advanced to prove the fallacy of the tonally tcher, no matter ioe ts going at isa and to ove use nynten the to the devel on the club Wednesday Dugdale will tell about Amos Rusie and how his great pitching arm was made helpless by one false throw. 'HUGGINS HAS | | LOOKED OUT FOR HURLER EW YORK, Jan Pitcher When @ manager makes substitu. tions he dopes out what batter or pitcher has the best chance to come | thru, and then sits tight on his judg- ment, In one game, with the Athletics leading, 5 to 2, im the first half of the ly, and play a/ninth, with two on the bases, Cobb part in winning} sent Clarke in to pinch hit. He hit the first ball pitched for a home run, tying up the game. It ended tn a tie, The next day Veach was sent in as oe serge ton te 1 gig ogra Jake May, who may be a mem. | scored the tying run. won) =, ! ous tas eae a, ber of the New York Yankees the ‘The next day, with the Athletics | Coming season, In a protege of Man Jimmy Smith Only New Man Lined Up for Position So Far; He Succeeds Heinie| Sands, at Salt Lake; Oakland Only Club That Hasn’t Definite Man Signed; | Veterans Return to Other Clubs President McCarthy of the P. C. L. could easily make over $10,000 as a model in @ man’s clothing store. The big fellow is certainly one Beau Brummeil of baseball. He carries on the work of the meetings in business fashion and gives the magnates plenty of time to argue the question BY LEO H. LASSEN ; SOUT the same shortstops that pastimed in the Coast league in 1922 will hold down this important post this season. en baseball, but the eeponees didn’t | wrether or not tt wouldr months, to step into action and show optional agreements with the select win the games for the Orioles, the | for @ manager real major league form. T! ive privilege Incorporated therein.” ‘ They were the exception to how well bia first eb again tn both major leagues tard pment of the other! Oui wing, gray-hatred owner of} —_ Mule that great stars banded There are several reasoi it ¢ rkins bad not been such | back the Oakland club, arose ike the sun team. They were great players and rr i ae ec Ra aMee & 8 rt lke the! COVES OA IE By Duy Evans few brief words, sat down like the auroras Sg Not M Ch s Are Expected (i2cnea%e""’e"™ ro) any ange p cilia HEN a manager! Portland Balt Lake. los Angeles mak substitu: up he i always indicator tempting fate. It wi deadlock President Me- ont there wi the hor asm re | he was chasing the lonesome flies Carthy sat in his steam roller and g@ineer on old 77, as she rumbled down the dell, rallroaded the old mo It carried. “Dad” Ewing was up and raving lke the well-known lion. His he beat a tattoo right on the back of Jim Boldt’s left ear. It was for- regulars won therm themselves. his necond string condition that happens time Unquestionably a sthr catcher re] phate what started the battle. gether seldom make ai winning ~ on the tern horizon and, after a 12—THE GREATEST PINCH-HITTING I EVER SAW same afternoon, ° ° kiand voted nay. San Fran- tions in the line In Lineup of Coast Shortstops , Sacramento and Vernon stood pulled his lever; and, like the en- =o src ae tion over like so much pple sauce. fiste flew faster than Joe Gorman's; tunate if Jim escaped without « some pt have seen many a pinch @ tense situation and F Washington can stop Al Fox,| captain and crack | forward of the! Idaho Vandals, | here Thursday, | the Husky five stands in line to; trim the 1922] conference cage kings. | Fox ix one of! the best scorers! in the history of and he's said to be A Zi ts @ great foul shooter. ts swinging around the cireult on its big road the year, meeting Wash- Oregon and 0. A. C. in Yesing only Richard Fox from| ft year’s crack five, the Idaho: m will give their opponents of trouble. Tatham, the big fellow who fullback on the University football team last fall basketball again, holding the center berth on the and Green five. His height) him a dangerous man. He! Play the cage game two| ‘ago. The Oregon team gained | of experience last year and) Latham at center they may_ ‘to beat. } | looks like Chuck Frankland 1s) to start at center against) jo for Washington Thursday. | ach Edmundson use him most| the second game against Whit- He jumps slighty better | Bruce Hesketh and can stand ie heavy gaff better. O’Doul Crav yo as Pitcher With Sox FRANCISCO, Jan. 16, } “Letty” O/Doul, recerftly traded y the New York Americans to the 0 Red Sox, doesn’t take kindly the reports that he 1s to play the (Dou! is a southpaw of no mean ty. In his last year on the Coast won something like 25 games. he returned to the Yankees ‘Was counted on as a regular. Vail- to show well in his first few) he was relegated to the bench, | ‘seldom got a chance to do any- other than pinch hit, after the O'Doul deal was -|was one. On three consecutive days to the A: leading by a run tn the eighth, Fiag ager Miller Hugging. May got his stead, a pinch hitter, swatted a home rst big league trial with Huggins ee ue ae fe Detroit then handling the St. Lous It certainly was a remarkable ox. | dinals. hibition of pinch hitting if there ever! The following year Huggins shifted merican league, taking Pinch hitters verified Cobb's judg-| charge of the Yankees. May had © Car ‘CUE STARS TO ow hs aed mache alr | IN U. S. NOW The value of golf courses in the United States—1,834 in number— is eatimated at $145,000,000. This does not include the investment of the players tn clubs, bags, cloth- ing and shoes. ‘This is far greater than the amount Invested in basebail. Following are the number of courses In each state New York Mtinote .... Pannayivania ‘Washington North Carolina . South Dakota Miswineippt Oregon South Carolina Rhode Island Louisiana West Virginia North Dako’ BE HERE SOON Jake Schaefer, who will play Willie Hoppe for the world’s bil lard title soon, and Raph Green- eat, pocket billiard champion, will be in Seattle soon, according to an announce t mude today by the Brunswick-Balke-Collander Co., na- tional billiard firm. Both are bring: ing crack exhibition partners. Tho date for their showing in Seattle hasn't been announced as yet. es Trial made, Frank Chance, new manager of the Red Sox, announced thit he intended to make an outfielder out of “Lefty” and use him regularly be: cause of hin speed and hitting. “I want a chance to pitch for Bon. ton, 1 feel that I can deliver in the majors if given a real opportunity. I never got It in New York, The firat thing Iam going to tell Chance when I see him is that T want to pitch for | Boston, and not play the outfield. “If after being given a chance on the rubber and failing to make good, I will be more than willing to take @ whirl at the outfield.” rather erractic career with the Car after Huggins departed, and finally sent back to the minors bought eo Texas ably @ record for 1922. Incidentally, iE led the league in strikeouts with 238. | Despite the fact that he was out jfor thege weeks with an injured | shoulder, Way was the fron man of |the league, working 362 innin | STECHER WINS | CHICAGO, Jan. 16—Joe Stecher, |Towa mat artist, had-an easy time [with Youssif Hussan, the “terrible | Turk,” taking two stright falls {here last night. Both falls rewulted | from @ body scissors. The first camo jafter 1:03:45 of wrestling, while | Stecher gained the second in 16:10. AMATEUR HOCKEY | The American Legion team trim- med the University of Washington team, 2 to 0, and the Pirates wal / loped the Wanderers, 3 to 1, ia} the amateur hockey games at the Arena last night. BERCOTT VS. JOHNSTON Dede Hercott, the sensational Monroe Nehtweight, boxes Kid Johnston in Olympia in a s#ix-round)| battle tonight. Mickey Hannon, also of Seattle, and Art Seranto box the wer!-final. i PADGETT DUE THURSDAY “Cowboy” Padgett, the crack Middie-Western boxer who battles Billy Wright here Tuesday, is due in Seattle Thursday and will work here at Austin & Salt's until the day of the bout. 1 BURMAN BEATS SMITH — |g shutout game against the Tigers. DETROIT, Jan. 16—Joo Berman, Chicago, won a newspaper decision over Midget Sinith, New York, in| 10 rounds. H at Reduced Prices VANCOUVERVs. SEATTLE Wednewlay, January 17 $30 P. M. Sharp All Seats Reserved Admission, $1.00, $1.25, §| (Tax included) Reserved seats now on sale at the Arena Office, 1210 Fifth Ave, Phone Main 2494 ‘ext game—don't miss this one “Vancouver and Victoria will play in Seattle on January 24. Oakland is the only team that hasn't a shortfielder lined up, while Salt Lake is the only club that has a new man signed It Lake will have Jimmy Smith, former big leaguer, on the jab, re- placing Heinie Sands, who will cavort with the Philly Nationals this year. Billy Orr and Sammy Crane are on the Seattle roster, and the way things shape up now the Seattle club is counting upon them to fill the position. Portland will have Frank McCann back O'Rourke, obtained from Philadelphia, to be considered. third base and may fit in at the hot corner. © has Hal Rhyne returning, and he should be a much im- Rhyne showed well last year, pagers brn of in the clos- ‘ting wee! Es Jj also San proved ball player this year. Chicago-Philadelphia Game Wins Iron Candy HAT was the most remarkable game of 1922 from purely a stand. point of slugcing? In a season featured by batting, the game between Chicago and Phila. deiphia, staged at Chicago on August 36, stands out as tho slugtest of the year. Chicago beat Philadetphia by the score of 26 to 2%. The winners made 26 hite and the losers 26, In addition to being hit hard, all the pitohers were wild, Iswutng 21 bases on balls. In the second inning Chicago scored 10 runa, tn the fourth inning 14 crossed the plate and six in the'ninth In the fourth inning Outfielder Callaghan equaled a world’s record by facing « pitcher three times in one inning. He made two hits and struck || out on his other appearance. ‘The total runs of the two teams, 49, is the biggest mark ever registered in the majors, the previous record being 43 Shutout —(JIMMy bt HAS BOOST Handed | FOR CORBETT Calgary | A 8K Jimmy Dunn, Vancouver Trims Prairie Philadelphia made eight runs in the eighth sension || *| | famoun Cleve on its coast land maker of champions, w will be the next bantamweight title holder, and he will reply: “Carl Tremaine if Joe Lynch ever gets into the same ring with him.” In Dunn's stable of boxers there 4-0, i + lis another youngster who ts pressing Team, , in Game in ‘Tremaine hard for the bantamweight B. C. City |honore—Al Cortett | —- A finer looking boy than Corbett | VANCOUVER, B. . Jan, 16—/never donned a glove. He looks far | For the third straight time, Calgary |™ore like a high school athlete than | |a boxer who ranks among the best | went down to defeat bantams in the country. | invasion, by a 6 to 0 tally, when| Corbett is a clever boy, yet packs the Vancouver Maroons turned in|@ punch, as prove his record, | which shows 18 knockouts in his last | | 34 fights, Seattle and Victoria trimmed the! Dunn {s bringing Corbett along | visitors by the same score. | lowly, due to the fact that the more Calgary didn't score a single tally |¢xperienced ‘Tremaine represents the Dunn stable at the same weight. on. its ‘eonst tsip. “Corbett has the makings of a Charley Reid, who tended nets! cnampion,” is the way Dunn tates! for Vancouver in the early part of|the youngster the season, in front of the} twine for the Tigers last night. Bill Binney, regular goalie still being jer the weather. was ancouver Lehman sesseee es. Onleary Reid Mackay . Skinner years ago the in the Harold | most Ameri FOUR o sive Z “Muddy” Ruel, atcher was talked from | can league, ancouver, Skinner from| Ruel was then a member of the| one. na| New York ¥ ® very flashy —Denenny, 4 | performer, by the crities as the of the major league catchers “NOTHING BUT TROUBLES A second Ray Schalk, was the PARIS, Jan. 16.--"Troubles, | comparison often made by the base troubles, all I has is troubles,” Bat-| pall experts in discussing the future | tling Siki, - titleless champion of lor Ruel | urope, might be chanting today.| ¥ didn't go to the head of the ‘ollowing the « incement of the | youngster. On the contrary, he went nch Boxing federation that noth: | along like the ordinary recruit who could be 1 to support | «till has to make good. In the win statement of Siki that the Car: | ter time instead of idling hig hours pentior-Siki fight had been fixe Ruel attended the law of Georges and his manager said they | Washington university at St, Louis would sue to clear their fair names! “1 may not come as fast as some about wt rlod ‘one, Third period d_ pieke pming star discover and then there is Frank O’Rourke can of the season. Ray French will return to Vernon and “Flies” McAuley will be pas timing again for Los Angeles. Both are good men. From all accounts Charley Pearce ‘a the only shortstop candidate at Sacramento Rhyne was the outstanding estar of the position last year with Bands running him a close second. How ever, the class of shortstop play ir the Coast league won't be anything remarkable this season unless some unexpected talent is uncovered. ROWLAND AN UMP CHICAGC Jan 16.—-Clarence Rowland, former manager of the White Sox, t# now an American lea, umpire. He was appointed by Ban John» DRAW BOUT EAST CHICAGO, Jan. Taylor of Terre Haute, Moore, Memphis, to @ draw, 16,~ and fought 10 rounds Bud College Billiard Title Tourney Is Looming in East A pocket billiard and billiard tornament among New England colleges is in prospect as a result of the great interest manifested in the tourney among Harvard stu- dents which was completed re- cently rick W. Moore, graduate t urer of atheleticy at Harvard, comments favorably on the proposal, declaring that altho such a tournament would re- quire a considerable length of time to progress to the finals, ar. rangements could probably be made so that it would not inter- fere with the students’ work, In the finals of the Harvard tourney E. W. Wilson, of Boston, became the champion of the university at both pocket billiards and billiards. Wilson captured the pocket bil- Hard title from Louts Blatt of Maynard, Mass, and the Dilltard title from H. W, Chang, a Chi- nese student : ““Muddy’”’ Ruel Is Now ep SS | Full-Fledged Lawyer of the experts predict and I want to have a profession to fall back on when Iam thru with baseball,” was Ruel’s explanation of why he was studying law Ruel certainly had the right dope While a very capable performer, he never quite reached the heights at- tained by Ray Schatk, Several times injuries greatly. handicapped him just as he was getting into his stride Ruel, still a youngster, has at least 10 years more of baseball be- fore him if he cares to stick, In all probability Ruel will quit the game n he passes out of the majors. And he will have a profession to fall back on, Only recently he cauliflower ear. “Mr. President, bow dare you take a vote. You're fine; just great. You will probably send out the news to pro and con. Yes, sir, right there in the left hand corner of the room sat William H. “Bald Bill* Klepper and in the other corner of the room sat hif per- sonal friend of long friendship, Prexy Paul | |players may be experienced, while}the Oakland lub. Boldt, of Seattla They exchanged slances and that’s about all. It was harmony when they kept ‘em apart. ‘The only time Boldt said anything was about the Fresno week with Sait plate prexy, of the “Big Four” sort of smiled be- tween their teeth, The second slap in the face came a moment later when Lou Moreing, of the Sacramento club, presented a motion raising the player limit from! when it comes to making playing 20 players to 25 players between May | schedules the cat's whiskers must be 1 and September 1. Twenty such | given to little Herble MacFarlane, of Herbie handed the remaining number must be raw] each magnate a copy of his 1923 material. schedule and before President Mo This was the second motion given | Carthy could ask for a vote it was the R. R. by the high-powered paw | adopted. After adopting the sched which was concealed under a velvet | ule the boys all voted Mac a bonus glove. The same four magnates op-| of $100 for his brainy work, posed the motion, while the same four voted yes, making It a tie. Of] y¢ looks like Seattle and Portland course his highness took the deciding | wit) play Salt Lake at Fresno, Cal., vote. In fact, the McCarthy league| tne first two weeks of the season. of organized baseball had a perfect | president William Lane, of the Bees, average for the matinee, |asked the two managers to play the The meeting adjourned while legal! first two series in the Raisin City advice was being secured to hash| ang forget all about the icebergs of out the Los Angeles-Vernon terri-/ tne Mormon City for the openers torial rights issue, which will take | 4 tor « few ifs and ands the idea was | place Tuesday morning at 10:30 at! voteq upon as O. K. by both Boldt |the same arena, with McCarthy fig-| ang Rivers. passed the bar examinations in st Louis and is almost a full-fledged lawyer, ured as smoker. the main event of the As a special training for the overweight members of the mag- nates, Del Howard, Alfie Put- man, Jim Boldt, Charley Lock- hart and “Boots” Weber, Pres- ident McCarthy made a motion that the above mentioned walk up and down the stairs instead of riding the elevators. The boys all went to it in grand style, with Howard winning the first heat and Putman a close second. eee PORTLAND, Jan conference of the Pacific Coast | Baseball league broke up here to-| day when adjournment was taken) shortly after Vernon was given! equal territorial rights with Los An: | geles, and Cal Ewing, owner of the| Oakland club, followed by Portland, | Los Angeles and Salt Lake left the meeting in a huff. WINS PITTSBU Jan. 16.—Harry Greb, American light heavyweight, won the newspaper decision from Tommy Loughran, Philadelphia, in 10 rounds, 16.—The 1923] iB | Howard Lorenz, secretary of the | Vernon Tigers, had little to say, but jonee he edged in a word about the |Jakie May deal. “We could have sold May to the majors for a big sum, but we wanted players that would give Vernon a pennant contender, and not a stack of greenbacks, just to rid ourselves of a real left-handed pitcher.” “Twas all Howard would say. Jan. Cincinnati, Rogers 16.—Speedy knocked Indian out in the sixth Sparks, Charley The P. K. Twins, “Boots” Weber and Charley Lockhart, of L. A., were on the floor from bell to bell, No matter what happened the P. K.'s were ready to do their bit. After }luncheon a sample of Uncle Wrig- ley's latest wrinkle to the jaw bone music was handed out to all of the magnates. NEW YORK, ing, Chicago, cision from York, Jan, 16. won a 1 Bert Joe Well round de. Spencer, New WALKER WINS BY K. 0. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.— Mickey Walker, world’s welter. weight champton, knocked out Steve Latzo in the third round. ae, GRAD ‘The Pacific const track and ti meet will be held at Pullman May 24, ‘The second half of the double. header held at 2 p.m. was the jorter of the day. Prexy ’ and Cal Ewing, the gray-haired veteran of many a battle, were the features, The former winning the — decision while the latter applauded loud- ly, It was a real kick, It Was plain to see that the af fairs of the league were hashed over long before January 15, Four club: stood for and four against the draft, with MeCarthy casting the fina Boston enjoys indoor Roston enjoys F soccer football 8 | Voie, the big Commonwealth Armory. A banquet was given in the eve jing by William H. Kiepper to the Tom Kiteheock and Rodma Wana-|Magnates, They all ate plenty, with maker If are competing in the Cannes | many holding off until the final tes polo tourney to decide on the demmitasse issue Cal Ewing became so exeited that he drank from the finger bowl, Charles Paddock will compete in Penn's relay carnival in April, Moston A. years ol@, and is near it mit of bers, ea Veal— Fa M