The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 17, 1923, Page 12

INISCENCES OF D-EDucdale.>'| As Told to Leo H. Lassen One Bad Move to First Base Made Broken Giant of Amos Rusie CHAPTER XVII false move in throwing to first base made Tess than a thin dime. He was pitching for the New York club against Chicago near the end of the season, and Bill Lange, was on first. Rusie realized that he had to keep Lange throwing the ball to the first sacker. Amos Rusie's wonderful arm worth in a tight game in New York, the great Chicago baserunner, close to the bag, and he kept Lange took an exceptionally long lead, and Rusie had to twist himself to throw to f worth a hill of beans after that. Oldtime: t, and he wrenched his shoulder. His great arm wasn't still talk about Rusie’s speed, and they claim his fast one had more zip than even Walter Johnson's, when the present Washington ace was at the top of his form. I think Rusie’s greatest delivery, the fastest curve I ever looked at. it looked like a pea and it broke right over however, He sent it up to the plate so fast that was his curve ball, He had the dish. He usually started the hook right at the batter, and if it didn’t break the batter had to do some tall ducking. Rusie nearly killed Hughie Jennings one bd expected another curve, but the ball didn’t break and Jennings was out for two da: "s unfortunate accident to his arm was pitiful, . ree Stars Started Out as Shortstoppers 'T 18 a rather peculiar coincidence that three players now starring at poaitions began their major league careers at shortatop—Eddie Joe Dugan and Johnny McInnes, came to Mack from Columbia university, He was tried at third and right field before being switched to second, where he ne ‘one of the greatest players in the history of the game. Melt ame to Mack from high schoo! at Haverhill, Maas. He had troubles at shortstop. The world laughed when Mack tried #0 short at first, but the success attained by McInnes proved Mack knew he was doing. ‘Dugan came to the Athletics from Holy Cross college, and for a ‘Seemed destined to start at short. Later it was found that third } Was his proper position. ° ts rated the best second sacker in either league. Joe Dugan ads the American league at third base. There are few better at first ) than McInnes. x lvett Won't Arrive in Paul, and Johnny Mack, the promis. ing featherweight from Pittsburg, who stopped Young Fosseo here re- cently, meet in Tuesday's special has won three| event. |BURK HEADS RING BOARD NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Ruchard ‘T. Burk, New Orleans, was elected boxing show | President of the National Boxing as- Young Papke” beat Eddie | sociation at the final sesston of the convention. Gutzon Borglum, Lat- |rote Cogswell, Frank Russell, C. P. NAMED | Campau and W. H. Rocap were elect B 4 vice presidents and Tex O'Rourke ~ Wis. t COACH ( named secretary-treasurer. fant to Fielding Yost at meaty of ctens cour EBBETTS SET a FOR BIG SALE n ty of Wisconsin. ee. NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Charies H. ¢ Bbbetts, owner of the Brooklyn Base- DODMAN WINS ball club, will dispose of his inter. DOTHAM MELEE (ect in tne cid if ne can got his YORK, Jan. 17. — Charley | price, it was said at his office today. in, New York featherweight, |It was pointed out that he has been 12-round decision from Packey |ready to retire for several years if ty, New York. ihe could get satisfactory terms. a | “A Friend in Time of Need” WESTINGHOUSE Warming Pad comes to the rescue with its sooth- ing heat, instantly available and evenly main- tained. Have you counted the times you wished for one? Provide for the time of need now. For »a limited time Westinghouse Warming Pads are fran at only Four Dollars and Seventy-five hooks at Jennings and then threw a straight one that went wild. day. He threw a couple of Jen- it hit him right over the tem- as it made a broken giant out of Phim. Rusie was a huge fel- low and he had so much stuff that he didn’t have to do; much figuring on the hitters. For years Rusle worked tn Seattle | as @ gas fitter and T had him take Uckets for me for several seasons while I headed the Northwestern league team here. to John MoeGraw about Ruste and soon afterwards McGraw offered Ruste « lifetime job as as superintendent of the Polo Grounds. He ts there today. | They do things right in New York | for old players, and McGraw, in par. |tHeular, never forgets the old stars jot yestertay who are in need of | help today, because they gave thetr younger days to baseball and weren't #0 successful tn following other lines ot work after their playing days | were over I wrote sistant Thursday Dugdale will tell adout Bill Lange, the famous Chicago star, and one of the greatest players ever developed in the Northweet, JOHNSON AND GIBBONS TO BATTLE SOON) sa". BY HENRY L, FARRELL YORK. Jan. 17. — When young Floyd Johnson, of Califor nia, starts out to go some place he has all the hesitancy and laasttude of a Barney Oldfield or a Jimmy Murphy. Just a couple of months ago John. son announced that he was sitting out after the world’s heavyweight championship and that he expected to get there by all the short cuts tn record time. First he cleared one of the hartent obstacles on the road in the person of old Bill Brennan. Now he has picked the one that Fistinna in gen |eral was unanimous in saying a few days ago that he should avoid—Tom- my Gibbons. Jess Willard, Harry Wills, Late Firpo and Jack Dempsey are th next steps, Johnson's handlers say, and they mean it Charley Cook, who handles the young Westerner, evidently believes | the only way to test metal ts to! | shove it into the fire and give it a| good pounding. Cook knows also} that It doesn’t hurt some young fel-| lows to realize that they have ¢o/ keop working hard. j Johnson and Gibbons were signed) to go 16 rounds in Madison Square Garden gn March 19 for the Milk fund, oné of New York's big chart-| ties. The boys are not fighting for | charity, however, cash terms pre- jhome runs and |wame and Ed Pfeffer in the seoond. | ‘YANK POLOISTS Is Russell | Real Rival | for Ruth? Former Pitcher Comes Back as Home Run Slug- ger With Pirates LY EVANS ABE RUTH, at « time when he regarded ae south, wan the loadin paw of the Amer league, tching ¢ the outfield Ruth there upon developed Into the greatest slugger in. the of bane came Louts Browns from the Univer nity of M he won the rig f the bent letth league. Jas one vders in the Amer toa Sisler, @ great hitter and very fast, as minsed by the Browns when aot pit pitching at the top of his game to play first base, Sisler has developed into the great He quit ont first eacker of all time and one of the most remarkable batsman the game } Now ¢ pitcher to Founsell Unlike aid ny mer win battir of the Pittaburg Nationals. Ruth and Slaler, Russell sive up pltehing at the height of his career, An injury to itching arm caused him to be ditionally released. He drifted back to the minors, Joe Cantillon gave him ® chance at Minneapolis. Russel! ed to poke them high and far. No one paid much atten tion to his fielding blunders. Carry ing almost as muctf avoirtupote a» Babe Ruth, naturally “Reb” was not in George Burns’ class as an out fielder. But he could hit; he could swat home-run swatting majors Thus “Reb” losing the sting to the left whip, swatted his way back to the majors. Pittsbure bought him from Minneapolis, Many of the experts inaint if Babe Ruth's record of 69 homers ts eur Passed, Kussell will turn the trick Figures (ell part of Russell's abil ity to hit ‘em. He was second to | Rogers Hornsby in batting with an average of 868, double. Here te what he 4i4 i the | double heater. FIRST GAME Fourth inning—Hit over the right. Meld fence. Sixth Inning—Hit over the right field fence. Eighth tnning—Hit the right-field wall on the line for a double, miss: ing hia third homerun by @ foot. Ninth tnning—Singled to center. SECOND GAME Second inning—Bingled to Mft. Fourth inning—Hit over the right- field tence. Sixth Inning—Singted to center. The streak stopped in the seventh Inning when he grounded to Topor cer at short. Pitchers of experience | were the victims, Bill Doak and Bill | Pertion doing the hurling in the first | PASS UP PARIS) NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Expecting the necensity of defending the inter. national cup in 1924 against chal- lengers from England and South America, the United States Polo as tion has decided not to send a | team to the Paris Olymplo gamers. COLUMBUS, Jan. 1 Zbysrko, Chicago wrestler and former titleholder, won two out of | three falls against Cliff Binkler here | lant night. Btaninta vailing. | PVR Or A OLIVE run I ever saw ina major game, struck not over 10 feet in front 6 After so striking | in fair territory, it took a reverse Eng- | ltish, came into contact with one of lthe players in the field, and finally wttled on foul territory close to the | grandstand. Incidentally, 1t was the | first home run I ever saw made by | hitting the ball in the wrong direo- | ton. Perhaps it would be more correct | to say a play in which the batsman managed to make the circuit rather ‘than hit a home run. | The contest was taaged at Wash- | ington about 16 years ago. 1 well! recall the fact that Howard Wake- | field was doing the catching for| Washington. He had been seoured in @ trade with Cleveland. | Likewise I well remember that \Tim Hurst and myself were doing |the umpiring. | ‘Two runners were on the bases at the time, when the batemean hit a fly ball that for altitude records com. pared favorably with those now hit by Babe Ruth. | A high wind was blowing, n |the Judging of fly balls a very diffi- leult matter, When the ball was first hit it seemed that it would drop ULISEYES + FRASERALL NO. 13—SHORTEST HOME RUN I EVER SAW HE shortest home| some place back of the pitcher's box | the major leagues, but he, no doubt,| faith, and used him in winning a of the home plate. |! ‘Tim was working the|the Washington club that Hurst had plate; I was stationed on the bases.|ruled {t a fair ball, everybody had By Diy Evans —a fly ball that would be bandied league ball| either by the shortstop or second | minors. baseman. The wind got hold of the ball and | w it back in the direction of the| plate, Catcher Wakefield finally de. | ciding that he would make the play He circled under the ball but missed | it entirely. It struck, perhaps, 10 feet in front of the plate and about threo feet in front of Wakefleld. As it hit the ground it took a re- verse English and bounded back at i, who tried to get the ball. He claimed he didn’t touch tt, but Hurst insisted he did, This, of course, E BERCOT AND KID JOHNSON FIGHT GREAT DRAW A Coming Hockey Star Frank Boucher, the young Vancouver forward, is playing some sweet hockey in his first year in fast company. He shows promise of developing into one of the real stars of the puck game. Vancouver Maroons to Battle Seattle Squad HE Seattle Mets must down the Vancouver! Maroons in their tiff at the Arena tonight if they want to keep pace with the leaders. The Maroons took the leadership Monday by beating the Calgary team. A win for Seattle tonight ties the Mets with the champs, _ After the Vancouver Seattle for its swing around the prairie, which means that Vancouver and Victoria will fur- oon the hockey opposition here next Wednes- Seattle stops first at Calgary, playing - there Friday. Monday finds the Mets in Edmonton, Wedn in Regina and Priday in Saskatoon. Hew the Mets come home to play Saskatoon here Wednes- jay. It will be a busy hockey assignment for the Mets. HOLMES GOING GREAT Hap Holmes has shut out the opposition for two full games without » score, turning back Victoria and ¢ ry in turn, which means he hasn't been scored upon in 120 minutes of play. He went 187 minutes inst year without @ score being notched against him HECTIC TIME FOR MAROONS The Vancouver team had a hectic time on the prairie, breaking even in four games. The extreme cold weather in Canada at thin time of the year undoubtedly affects the piay of the visitors while the warmer climate of the Coast tends to slow up the play of the invading prairie teams. HARRIS MAY BE OUT Smokey Harris broke a finger on the prairte in one of the games, and he may be missing from the Vancouver lineup tonight. PETTY POLITICS FIGURE IN RUBE BENTON CASE BY HENRY L, FARRELL R' BE BENTTON ts not good enough of both mercerary and personal mo- tives, Since Garry Herrmann, as to pitch ball in the American|chairman of the old national com league, by An official mandate of Ban | mission, handed down the decision Johnson. |that George Sisler was the property Benton ian't wanted In the Nation-|of the St. Louis Browns, Instead of al league because John Heydier,|the Pittsburg Pirates, Dreyfuss has president of the league, and Barney been after the Red president, and Dreyfuss, owner of the Pittsburg | now he finds himself in the position Pirates, think he isn't good enough. | of continuing an agitation that may But Benton is good enough for the | deprive his enemy of a fine pitcher. American association, and he prob-| Barney knows also that one good ably will return to St. Paul, if or-| ©xperienced pitcher on the Red staff ganized baseball will not lt him play|!* the margin by which Herrmann with the Cincinnati Reds. may get another National league This is one of the inconsistencies |Pennant, and give Pittsburg another that makes a Joke out of organized | *wallow of disappointment baseball—that exposes its mercenary and its petty little jealousies. ‘ational and American leagues belong to organized baseball, and #0 does the American association Benton may not be able to play In| St. The St. Paul club, as well as Ben ton, suffers by the underground cam paign which Is used so much in big |league baseball Paul bought Benton In good will be allowed to continue in the| Pennant last season. Benton became | marketable at a good price, and then What does organized baseball |the dirt throwing started. The club at owners who couldn't get him were If Benton has done anything that lke the well known dog in the feed an « major | box should b Unless Benton ts cleared, St makes him undesirable league bail player, he thrown out of baseball, If ho is inno. | Will ha cent of the charges and whispers |4 pitcher made against him, his accusers ought to be thrown out of the game. | Paul to dispose of him or work under Ban Johnson bases hin objection to the admission of Benton to the American league on the story that made it a fair ball ‘The ball, after eluding Wakefield, | rolled to the stand, Wakefield at| first argued the matter at length | with Hurst, and then finally decided | ‘ to get the ball, ‘Two were out at| the time and the batter and base- | runners kept going. I recall that when the ball struck the ground the batter was well on his way to seo- ond, #0 high had tt been hit, By the time it became apparent to scored. Benton knew the 1919 feries had been fixed, and that he bet and won $1,600 on it Benton admits winning $1 ‘omes back with the answer that he was a National league pla that he bet on the Nation team, as many other play 500, but Lonnie ® tour where kings in the four-round game are codingly good. prove the and | 1 league 8 did, Heydler'n objection to Renton te more of a secret. It probably has| 8 something to do with the row be-l} tween the former Giant pitcher and Charley Herzog, in which each ac cused the other of making overtures from the Bast atate that Dave the welterweight » ie weighing around 8 in fighting trim now Reroot will undoubtedly headline the amoker at Seattle « « from Tuesday if @ suitable opponent can be obtained Then the argument broke out] again with Hurst playing the leading It certainly the shortest circuit swat for length, | aking | not altitu | TOMORROW—The most amusing situation I over saw. to throw a game. Heydler unofficial. | for him. ly whitewashed Benton of those charges by allowing him to ‘remain in the league, while Herzog went on one decision from elyewhere, ede r start recently. winning beat- nt. he continued his n the other nif Denver light ‘Tho objections of Barney Dreytuss| Tee Kra to the return of Benton are the result ing Joe Dine Y BATTLE Olympia Lightie Puts Up Game Ring Showing Johnson Gives “Bearcat” Bercot His Hardest Fight in the Best Six-Round Scrap Ever Seen in the Cap- ital City BY LEO H. LASSEN ID JOHNSON, not figured to stay sfx rounds, gave Dode Bercot, the sensational Monroe logger, his hardest battle of the 15 fights he has had in the Northwest, in Olympia last night. This pair of lightweights stood toe to toe and slugged for six rounds, with Bercot fin- ishing much the stronger and Johnson get- ting a draw for his game showing. Johnson was in splendid condition and assimilated a a world of punishment. His right hand plain- ly bothered Bercot thruout the fight. Johnson had an edge in the first and third rounds, with Bercot taking the second, fourth and fifth. The sixth lround found each boy hitting up a terrific speed for the |pace they had set in the other five sessions. Chances are this pair will be re-matched again for some Northwest ring in the near future. Mickey Hannon, Seattle lightweight, was the aggressor thruout his scrap with Art Serano in the semi-windup, and was given the decision. Serano had an edge in a couple of rounds, but marred his work by continual clinching. Eddie McCarthy was in too good condition for Babe Con- ners, and the Olympia featherweight knocked the Tacoma | boy down a couple of times in the fourth round, getting the call, Babe Foote, of Aberdeen, turned out the Nghts for Mor- ris Revels, of Camp Lewis, in the second round. They're bantamweights. Joe Shugrue, of Camp Lewis, won a decision from Georgie Patnude, of Olympia, in the opener. Si Gotchy and Frank Farmer refereed. BABE RUTH [Big Crowd ON AGAIN) Expected for _Game EW YORK, Jan. 17—Deserting his “training farm” near Boston for a few hours, Babe Ruth, swat king, came back to his old haunts today and had a slight operation per- formed at St. Vincent's hospital. | His family physician lanced an abscess on his left arm that has been bothering him for more than | year. It was just a slight operation and 414 not hurt enough to keep him [trom wleeping “We're going back to the farm this afternoon,” Mra Ruth said at their Big Gallery HE record heuse of the season tx expected when the University of Idahe and the Washington var- sity quintet clash im their basket- 1923 conference of the Pacific Coast Baseball league today was but ‘& memory to Coast sport fans. strongest in the W. To the prihctpals in Tuesday's | 8me is expected snappy battle, now en route to the! Idaho has been various homes, the memory was one |!" the early season he gens etary ite important road trip of the J. Cal Ewing of Oakland, who tea) With, ® Practice game ts Spok: hie “irreconcilables” forces from the | Wo sungion Oresea, O. A. a tees meeting yesterday undet a smo! sesrhad Sadia, Sate screen of anger, is expected to make | PORSrtN’ teams in turn. the next move in the draft tangle|, The Vandels are bringing @ won- and Loa Angeles-Vernon controversy |2¢Fful team to Seattle, @ team of as “a matter of principle.” veterans with eight men from the With the aid of the ballots cast | *duad that won the Coast champlon- by President William H, McCarthy, | **P last year. the league opposed the Landis draft,| Th? big man of the team ts Capt. net a 25-player limit for each club,| Alex Fox, who is holding down « and gave Vernon equal concessional | Fward berth. He is one of the best ghts in Los Angele with the An-|Scorers to hit the conference in sey- | oot erty Seanad eeonallanann leral seasons. Fox, however, will run Ewing is known to believe that|!Mto @ great pair of guards in had it not been for McCarthy all | “Windy” Crawford and Jimmy Bryan. this would never have happened,| Neither coach has announced a | Ewing accused McCarthy of at.|4@finite lineup, altho Washington is |tempting to run the Cogst league's expected to start Lewis and Frayn affairs without due authority, and) &t forwards, Frankland at center and toting the same way. The entire|Bryan and Crawford at guards | matter of McCarthy's activities may| There ts a chance that Coach Ed- |go to Landis, and the Los Angeles.|mundson may start Bob Hesketh at | Vernon dispute i# expected to go to| center. | The Idaho team will reach Beattie tomorrow morning and the Idaho coach may announce his definite starting five then. Tomorrow night's game ts sched- | uled to get under way at 7:30 p.m. | Gates will be opened a half an hour Catching in Coast League Will Be Good Again, Mates ATCHING in the Coast league;son, a pair of veterans beng ob this year will be about the eame|tatncd to do the heavy work for standard that it was last year, and|the Acorns, Del Baker, who «pent the catching in this league in 1922/ last season in the Southern beague was of very high caliber. will return, an@ Chet Thomas, for Several new faces will be seen be-|mer big league star who has deen hind the plate in Bill McCarthy's ctr. | doing independent work in Califor cuit, with Portland, Seattle, Salt| Ma of recent years, will also get Lake and Oakland making the big-/>@ck into Organized baseball, gest catching changes. Sacramento has four catchers on cverett Yaryan, obtained from the|the roster, Art Koehler, with the Chicago White Sox, is slated to be | Oaks last year; Oscar Stanage, Les \tirst string catcher with the Red-/Cook and Bob Schang. It ts hardly |ekins, Frank Tobin, Pete Ritchte| !!kely that the Oaks will carry more and Spike Maloney will also be/ than three of them, | taken to training camp. Sait Lake bas & good man tn Frank Peters, with the Philadelphia Yaryan is said to be a terrific minor league hitter, a man slow on | Quakers in 19 He comes to the He the hoof, but a hard worker and a| Bees on the Heinte Sands deal fair receiver. His hitting is expected | !% Said to be a whale of a hitter to make up for fielding deficiencies. |!" Minor league company and he Portland is making a drastic/Should go big in the Salt Lake change. They have lined up Buitch | “hese box. Byler, who was with the Sait Lake| Los Angeles expects to land an- team for several years, They giso| ther catcher to replace Tom Daly have young King and Furhman, | the veteran fsn’t very anxious altho chances are that neither of '® remain on the Coast another sea. this pair will stick, It is understood S99 The Angels also have Tony that the Beavers are in line for an-, Reso and Red Baldwin, other high class mask man, figuring Byler to act as second string man. San Francisco will sit tight on | their mask corps of the past two sea |sons, which means that Archie Yelle and Sam Agnew, a capable pair of | veterans, will handle this work | |again, Yelle came to the front last year, and was regurded by many as |the best catcher in the league. | Vernon is another team that is ex pected to stick by its 1922 catchers. |Track Hannah is a wonderful minor | |league performer, and Murphy is @) | good understudy Oakland will present an entirely | new lineup of mask men this sea- Hi ies | | | Zero Is Always Warm! Come in,and enjoy the com: panionship of good fellows. Fhe ZERO 214 Jefferson st. Just back of L. C, Smith Bldg, Card Tables, Pool, Cigars, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fountain Lunches Pay Checks Cashed ere bP 5 ARTE