The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 23, 1923, Page 12

BY LEO H. LASSEN ; FTER a layoff of several months the knights of the padded mittens will practice their calling in weekly _ shows at the Crystal Pool. ‘The Seattle boxing commission has been formed again, and it looks as if the game is back on its feet in big league style. | The fans welcome back the sport as long as it is con- ‘ducted along the right lines. interested in the squabbles that take place on the inside They aren't very much PPEMINISCENCES © D-EDu Le As Told to Leo H. Lassen * ’ Motion Was Young’s Secret CHAPTER XXII : isn’t much to tell about Cy Young, as he wasn’t the colorful figure during ‘ such stars as John McGraw, Mike Ke period were. tinuous ser 22 years Young was a moose of a man, his long regime in baseball lly and the others Young has the longest record for con-) tice of any pitcher in the game | -closing his career about 1908. weighing 190 pounds, or so, while in condition, and the reason for his long term as a pitcher | was his natural pitching delivery. Coming up from a farm, Young had a lot of experience with an axe and the swinging of this good old farm implement was the same shoulder motion that he used in his baseball delivery. : F Freak deliveries never hurt a_pitcher’s arm if the delivery is sent up to the plate with a natural motion. They say the spitball hurts a pitcher's | Look at Harry Gardner, the Seattle arm. He has been throwing the moist ball for years and an arm like rubber. ‘same goes for Walter Johnson, the Washington fast tcher. He has nearly the same amount of speed to- he had 10 years ago, all because he puts no strain arm with unnatural delivery. we almost perf he couldn't throw the ball to the plate. “Chief” Skeels, the Indian who pitched for about 10 years ago? Skeels was an example of what with an unnatural delivery does for an arm. ect game in Portland one day and the He And ‘mever any good afterwards. Dugdale will tell about Sockaleris, the famous Indian with Cleveland in the 90s, Iseyes of Baseball @. 18—The freakiest ball game I ever saw. ‘With one down be | right-field wall. Left Fielder |a spitball that failed to break. Never a fly to One of the greatest throws cut him down at the ffm inning, with runners ahd second and no one out. batsrnan should have been retired. Fifteen hits by Brooklyn, two er- Fors by Cleveland, and a wild pitch by Bagby, yet Brooklyn made only of the game. What they want are real matche SEATTLE STAR They pay their good coin to be entertained. The veteran boxing firm tin is staging the first show and these promoters are ge’ putting on a good card, Cowhe Billy Wright in the main of Dan Salt and Lonnie Aus- under the new regime tonight tting off on the right foot by y Padgett, the Colorado welterweight, who boxes event, is nationally known a miller and a good drawing card wherever he goes, The rest of the card also shapes up well, the bouts being made up of boys who Cowboy are experienced and who have Padgett Raymond P icking Crane as Third Base Fixture |“ [‘EALEY RAYMOND, a wise baseball tosser in his day,|up to form, figures to beat Jack | been training faithfully for their matches. There is plenty of good material in the Northwest right now for good smokers, both liminary bouts. Ted Krach of Monroe; Vie Foley, of non, in Portland; Danny Nu Vancouv for main event and for pre- e, of Hoquiam; Dode Bercot, , B. C.; Eddie Shan ines, also in the Rose city these and many more boxers in the Northwest are avail- able, here won't be any excuse es for poor matches, not even in the preliminaries from now on. The game is back again ¢ Cowboy to He Stole More Bases Box Wright} Than Whole Phil Club] in Pool Go Western Debut With Local Vet Tonight BY LEO H, LASSEN . OWBOY PADG- eT, of the mont colorful fighters in game, will make his far- Western debut tonight et the Crystal Pool when he tonses the Lavinesons with Billy tle veteran, who doing @ big lengue comeback Padgett is a tough oustomer. 16 |i# m royal member of the tin ear society and has had a rough career In the squared circle. But he can fight, from all accounts, and he fix ures to make the clever Wright fight at top speed. Padgett is making an ring tour and swings east to Youngstown, Ohlo, after tonight's serap, where he boxes Johnny Jones, February 2 The newoomer ts a welterweight, more used to fighting 10 and 13 | founds than the short game on the it Six rounds, however, give the Colorado boy plenty time In which to do his stuff. extensive ot He He will have to show plenty to beat Wright in six rounds, as the loca! veteran in looking better with every day's work. Wright has been |training hard for several weeks. Two new middieweights meet in the stxround semi-windup, Fred Zwickey and Oakiand Billy Harms. This pair fought two hard bouts at Everett, Harme getting the call both } times Johnny Mack, who will make a big hit with the bugs ff he fights passes a few words along regarding the third-base|1«w'. the newoomer from St. Pant, situation on the Seattle team. “Don’t overlook this fellow Sammy Crane,” mond. says Ray- unless Lewis shows more class than he has tn the gym workouts. Mack packs & mean wallop and he has If he can recover sufficiently from his winter ill-| been working ike « trooper. Lewis, one run, and really should have been ness in the East I think he will make a bear of a third|to% bas been working hard, but sacker for Seattle. His big weakness iast year was on slow- shut out. Now for another freaky angie. Ia the very first inning Cleveland filled the bases with no one out, and Elmer Smith, Cleveland's home-run hitter, up. ‘The making of a home run always carries a thri ful on hard chances. third base. hit balls to shortstop and second base. He looked wonder- He will get more hard chances at “Crane is much like Sammy Bohne in this respect. Bohne! If {t comes with the} looked like a dub at shortstop, but when shifted to third} bases filled, there is just that much) base, where he didn’t have a chance to let the ball play more punch to it. If it happens in a world series game, oh, boy? ‘Well, that is just what happened. ‘With Burieigh Grimes, leading piteh- hurling, Smith hit the ball over the Grimes says it was have I seen a home run carry a big- ger thrill with it than Smith's world series wallop of 1920 with the bases filled. Pitchers seldom make home runs ‘Warmsbeganss, of at any time, yet Jim Bagby contrib- i, made his now famous triple | uted one in this world series contest. that retired the sid: In the fielding line Wambeganss’ (eighth inning, on a hit-and-| unassisted triple play was the out- Mitchell, who had hit the that resulted in Wambs- play, broke up a rally into a double play. Brooklyn run was the re Doe Johnston's failure to ‘& ground ball that was scored ‘altho it seemed as if the standing feature. Never have I seen, nor do I expect to see, a game that will equal the fifth game of the 1920 world series for freaky happenings and big thrills. TOMORROW—The greatest pitch- ing I ever saw. HAD UNIQUE RULE FOR GRIDIRON FUMBLES BY BILLY EVANS recent meeting of the foot- coaches in New York, Earle who last season was in of the Washington and squad, offered a unique was in favor of a change to fumbles and intercepted passes, His idea was that should be allowed on @ bled ball or intercepted forward | ss. The ball should merely go to $ team recovering at the spot fumbled. Ht fs an easy matter to judge it some of the coaches thought Neale’s suggestion, prominent them being Bill Roper of Princeton team of last year more thru fumbles than any other eleven in the Coach Roper’s theory of your eye on the ball results. Neale's suggestion ts inter. ‘and would eliminate many touchdowns, yet it is a ques-| ft isn’t the uncertainty of ‘sport that helps make football } popular. Neale’s motion was | down. A majority of . seemed willing to take the of profiting by recovering a or intercepting a pass. =i games have been won or; yt thru the medium of a fumbled ‘And ofttimes it’s the inferior that turns the trick, and from 4 game victorious @ far better eleven. fumbling can do more to spill | the) and ran 45 yards for a touchdown the dope and offset the tireless efforts of a team's coaching staff than can any other factor that may crop out during the course of hos- tiltties. Not only does the failure of a player to “hang on” to the ball often give the foo a rather unearned tally but on many occasions places it in an exceptional scoring position. It also works as a detriment to the team as a whole in that fumbling will disrupt an aggregation and throw it off its stride quicker than anything else. In other words the psychological effect is apparent. The confidence of the players in each other is shaken and team-play becomes de: moralized. Back in 1911, Sam White of Princeton won an everlasting place jin the Tiger hall of fame when he beat both Harvard and Yale prac tically single-handed by picking up “loose” balls, and cantering for touchdowns. Ability to follow the bail and re. cover fumbles enabled Princeton to be rated the leading eleven in the East. In the game with Chicago, Gray of Princeton recovered a fumble Princeton won that game by a m: gin of three points, In the Ha 1 game, Baker re covered a fumble and in few plays Princeton went over for a touchdown. ‘That score was the margin of victory. In the game between Northwent- ern and Minnesota, the former team, rated much the weaker eleven, obtained a tie when Palmer of Northwestern grabbed a fumble and raced the length of the field for a touchdown. Fumbles are the bane of every football coach. Like a base on balls fn baseball, fumbles invariably prove costly, base much. word for it, Crane will be a big star at third. “Seattle's team looks much bet. ter than It did a year ago at this time. The infield in well lined up ‘Dee’ Johnston, Harold Janvrin, Billy Orr, Jack Martin and Sammy Crane are all good infielders. Vien you stop to think that had four shortstops in the at one time last year— at first, Adams at second, short and Crane at third look at this gang—well, Indians as a first divis |Orr at and then figure the fon team.” ENGLE STRONG FOR DAY! George Engle, Seattle scout, t* certainly strong for Bud Davin, the young Fremont third sacker, who | will be taken to training camp. “Davis will be in the big time in jthree years if he comes as he | should,” says Engle. “The kid ts a natural player, and with the coach. INGLAND seems to be fast low ing its hold as a leader in sports. This fact is becoming ap- parent to the Britons, At one time a great many of the world records were held by Britons. Hardly a year passed without of them breaking one or more rec- one ordn. A perusal of the latest sport rec ords discloses the paucity of world's records held by Britons, In all sport they seem to the de cline. The argue that be on British, in explanation, often the American ts a spe | cialist in sports almost to the verge of professionalism. Such a state ment is quickly shattered by glance ing at the Olymplo records in the Pentathlon and Decathlon. In those events the American and Scandi navian athletes predominate, Why the athletes of Britain slipping? F. A. M. Webster one of the leading writers of Great Britain, offers some very convincing reasons for the failure of Great Britain to hold its own in the ath- letic world. Here are some of the conclusions drawn by Webster: “The main difference between ritish and foreign sportamen ts that the Intter are content to prac tion patiently for years to attain proficiency; we, remembering our established reputation for sporting supremacy, want immediate results without the bother of working for them “In Scandinavia, whence come BRITONS ARE RAPIDLY SLIPPING IN SPORTDOM Great | him, he looked like the star that he is. | “Crane will cover a world of ground at third base, and) he hits better than his average shows. He is always hitting} er of the National league, doing the| behind the runner and they don’t double Sammy up at first) Just take my! nse ing he will got from the Seattle vet- erans, just wateh him go. The youngster has a lot to learn, but he has the knack, and ti half the battle. “What he needs In to play every day tor @ season or 90. If he can’t make the grade with Seattle I think he should be farmed out to a amailer league for the experience that can be obtained only by actual playing.” (JACOBS LOOKING FIT KIGHT Now | Filmer Jacobs, Seattle's star right hander, is one of the few Seattle |tonsers wintering here, Jacobs is |raring to go to training camp and is anxious for the league grind to start. He Is looking fit right now, and as Jake takes wonderful of himself it won't take him long to get off to a start this With © club behind be will cc mighty cle to winning 90 games with the Red skins this season care good many of the world's finest perform. ers in sport nowadays, boys very conceivable sort of game that will harden them and make them quick; at about 1% years of they pick a group of allied ev in which they ome pastmasters. “We y hazard; th ptice sporting events hap. foreigners study them, as witness their extensive use of slow-motion films for instructional purposes, their lectures and admir- ably educated instructors, most of whom come from the United States, Sweden or Norway ‘The foreigner goes in for the sport he takes up prepared to walt and work for two, thr tive rs for the best r as I say, want immediate If they do not come attention to som time. or even jults; we, results, we turn our more easy pas: “Again, we are far too conserva tive in sport. Other nations willing to learn from us. A: willing to learn from them? “In lawn t we stick to old, while the rising genera until ft is old enough (too old, ac cording to the lights of our op- ponents) for international honors. “As far as the team games are concerned we hold the foreigners too cheaply. We do not trouble to pre- Pare our men properly, nor do we always put our best teams in the field. “and are we No! nig and other our old stagers, pn waits there you why have the whole have ceased to or even hold records, w e lost the art of taking trouble and we can't play a waiting game,” we piny | sports | Mack looks like the winner, Kid Hoffman, hailed as a second Dode HBercot, comes from Wooden ville to battle Frankie Green, the }loeal colored boy. Green ts no champion, but Hoffman will have to show a lot to keep away from Frankie's clever left hand. | Soldier Woods will furnish the |comedy im the other preliminary with Jack Lockhart, the Port Town- send weiter. promptly at 8:20. LAST NIGHT'S FIG | smRSKY CITY, — Harry | American light heavrw | PITTSRURG,—Coddy de Marco out | od Bernie Mahn, Wheeling, tn unde CINCINNATI—-Billy Ryan, Cinetn- nati, eatpointed Anthony Downey, Columbus, in 10 hard-fought roands here Inet night. DETROIT.—Jonnny Mendelsohn, waukee lightweight, and Sid Rarbarian, local boy, fought a slow 10-round draw. THEY WERE ALWAYS OUT WITH HURST all probability baseball will never produce another quaint character like Tim Hurst. As umpire, Tim did things on the ball field that no other umpire would dare do. What is more, Tim got away with it Old-time players will tell you that ‘Tim always called a player out who jalid into first when trying to beat out a hit. “What am I out for?” the players would shout when Tim #0 ruled on a. close play. ‘or sliding,” was always curt reply, and he meant It. ‘Players invariably slide into first on close plays. Their idea is not to limprove thetr chances, as sliding slows up most players, but to rajse duat, ave the play and confuse the umpire, That ts why they are always out with me,” was Hurst's viewpoint. And Tim never failed to carry out his opinion. Tim's obs LOS ANGELES, (“Chicken”) Hawk er of the Verne Jan. 2%.--Nelson utility outfield Coast league club, wns sold today to the St. Paul team of the American assciation, deal was for cash. REGINA, Jan. 28—Rogina is lead- ing the Prairie league standings again today, following their 2 to 1 victory over Saskatoon here last night. PUEBLA, Colo., Jan, 23.—Baseball fans of Pueblo were given until Sat |urday to raise an additional $15,000 to bring A Western league club here this year by President Al Tearney of the league, ‘Padgett Will Make Far-| The first bout will get under way | eit | und the ringside patrons will | | the} Wright, the Beat | | | | | should | is sald to be quite a body puncher. | j Maz Carey TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1923. Seattle Boxing Fans Are Entitled to Good Mitt Shows do their part if the promoters tend to their knitting and do theirs. Not only is it up to the pro the boxing commission to sé promoters are allowed to stag ion should check up on each even one and that the fighters If the boxers, the promoters in harmony, instez mon use for several seasons, t fans shouldn’t be given good, c' Given Boost Dave Shade, whom many fistic experts figure to relieve Mickey Walker of the welterweight crown, has fought practically every good man at his weight, proved his superiority, yet i» still without a title. In commenting on the tm- portant fights he has taken part in, Bhade ploks Cowboy Padgett as the toughest fellow he ever fought. ! Podgett boxes Bilty Wright ‘| here tonight. ‘Two Teams | Will Lead | Prep Rac iQ' EEN ANNE'S powerful high | qf school basketball quintet should hold ite place at the top of the prep | race after the game with the weaker | West Seattle five In the Indian gym | this afternoon. speedy organization that will make # strong bid for the ttle again. The winner of the Ballard-Roose | velt game at Raliard stands in line lto be tied with the Quays after to- |day’s game. Both teams won their first two starts, | Lincoln and Broadway—two strong | teams—meet today, too, clashing in |the Broadway gym. The other game of the day finds the Franklin and Garfield fives meet- Ing in the Franklin gym. ATHLETICS © LED LOOP IN HOMERS TP jimting, the eaaue in| making | home runs in any consolation to & seventh place team, then the Phil adelphia Athletics have rightful elatm to that rather meager honor. For Connie Mack's gang topped the American loop in circuit smashes in 1922, compiling 111 of these blows. “Tillie” Walker and “Bing” Miller were the pace setters for the Quaker town entry, the former crashing out |87 four-ply knocks, and the latter 21 |'Then followed Dykes with 12, Welch 11, Hauser 9, Galloway 6, Perkins 6, Scheer 4, and Hasty, Naylor, Young, Johnston and McGowan with 1 each Of this cluster, Walker ranked sec ond to Kenneth Williams for the league premiership, and Miller tied with Hellmann for fourth place. Dykes came in eighth, dividing the honors with Burns, of Boston, and Falk, of the White Sox. The St. Louis Browns landed in second place in the home-run depart ment, accruing 97 such blows, while New York, aided and abetted by “Babe” Ruth and Bob Meusel, was third with 95. Cleveland brought up the rear, making 3% “around-the sacks” smashes, of which Tris Speak er got over one-third, or 11 of them Much of the success of the Athlet fos in driving out circuit smashes is due to the layout of the park. Left field is rather short, and the low bar |rier in front of the bleachers: made |home-run wallop only an ordinary hit This fault, however, is being rem The wall in front of the left field stands is being made some four feet higher, It will take a much longer drive to drop into the left field bleachers at Philly this year, ¥ sUGGS KS NEW YORK, Jan. 23. Suggs, young southpaw pitcher, has been secured by ‘the New York Yanks in @ deal with the Atlanta Southern Association club, ‘The Yanks are to turn over several play- ery, It was said, The Quays have aj} jou Mets Are’ | Victors in North STANDING OF THE TEAMS | ‘Won Lost Tied Pts, Vancouver 1 foattio Fry pew IDMONTON, Jan. 23—Taking the Edmonton Eskimos down the line, 3 to 2, here Inet night, the | Seattle Mets won the second straight | game of their prairie invasion. With | the score tied at 2 to 2, Archie Bri- den shot the winning goal. The summary follows: Beattie [}otmes Rowe Inickey \Poyston « Morrie Riley. pees Briden Walker Vraser eee Scoring: | Wiret Keats fram 20 is Edmonton Winkler + Simpson + Trapp : Kean + Gagne Arbour Newell Brandow Morrison 1 period - Rimpaos, 12:40; . Riley, 4:03, Second period — Seattle, Walker, 12:44; Edmonton, Morrison, 2:16; | Seattie, Briden, 3:00, Third period—No; woore { VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan, 23.—| | Vancouver trimmed Victoria here | |last night, 4 to 1. These same teams [clash in Seattle Wednesday night. | The summary follows: | Va Vietoria | Lehman Fowler Duncan Halderson |Moucher ‘Bud Bub. period Second period Anderson y. Loughiin toria, | Frederickson from 10:34, Third period—Vancouver, from Boucher, $:62; Vancouver, #228, Penaltion: — First minutes; Meeking, 2 minutes: son, 2 minutes; Cook, ond period—Skinner f Meeking ‘ded Victoria. minutes. period Skinner, Frederic! ute Sec- 2 minutes; Meek 2 utes, pena’ shot « « Third period. C. Loughit IDAHO WINS FROM O. A. C. CORVALLIS, Jan. 23.—Nosing out the Oregon Aggies, 23 to 22, here last | night, the Idaho Vandals won their first big game of the season and com- pleted their important road trip. With the score 22-22 10 seconds be- ) fore time, Alex Fox put the gamo in the cooler with a free throw, McALISTER WINS NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—Bob Me- Alister, New York copper, won the Metropolitan indoor championship for 100 yards and equaled the cham- plonship record by covering the dis- tance in 10 seconds here last night. TAKE OLIVETTES And Begin the Day Right | Olive Ot! is nature's system cleans er; does not gripe nor frritate the most delicate stomach or bowels like strong, harsh salts, calome) or pur gative waters, Olivettes are Olive capsules, tasteless and easy to take. They are @ natural, healthy laxative for the bowels; stimulate | the liver and remove all impurities from the system. Olivettes contair pepsin, and your family physician will tell you that ft ig the best medicine to relieve gas on the stomach, tndigestion, heartburn and sour stomach. Ask your drug. | gist to show you Olivettes. 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All druggists nell Olivettes, or send $1,00 to Olivette Dries Co, BeattlarnAdvertiweuent, d of using the tactic: |The best moters, but it is also up to e to it that only qualified e the sho The commis- bout to that it is an are in condition, s and the commission work that were in com here is no reason why the lean sport see Carey Has Wonderful Sack Mark Steals 51 Bases in 53 Tries in National Diamond O steal 61 bases during a p season is consid ered more than feat in an ordina these days when ok upon as 8 of a But to cush ions ot 68 attempts is @ most remarkable accomplishment just what Max rey, sterling outfielder Pittwburg National League 4i4 in the 1922 pennant chase, on but two occasions was the oted Pirate nipped in trying ance @ base by the thievery swiping i looked more or 1 lost art purloin 61 t club, for flee to route Carey, incidentally, was the cham pilferer of the old circuit, lead ing his nearest rival, Frank Frisch of the Giants, by 20 st the Ford ham flash grabbing 31 racks out of 48 tries, Oddly enough, the positions of the two pace-setters were just the reverse of those of 1921. Carey with 37 burglaries running second in that campaign to Frisch, who piled up 48. Not only 414 Carey top the field. but he stole more bases than the en- tire Philadelphia team put together. the Phillies could do in this department was 48 thefts, which placed them at the bottom of | the heap in obth leagues. ] The most “caught” stealer was | Pl Charlie Hollocher of the Cubs, who was nabbed on 29 out of 48 at jtempts. Duncan, Cincinnat!, was right behind, being tossed out on 28 | occasions. In the American League, George Sisler of the Browns showed the way with 61 steals, the mme as Carey bung up. Sisler, tho, was re- |tired on 19 attempted swipes, as | waa his teammate, Kenneth Wil- |liams, runner-up, who grabbed 37 hassocks. A notable feature in the base- Stealing end of play was the low mark compiled by ‘Ty Cobb, who a few seasons ago was considered the greatest base-runner in the game. In 1922, Cobb stole but nine sacks in 22 efforts. Surely a far different record than the Georgian used to boast, especially when compared to that of 1915 when he snagged 98 bases, the game's modern high mark. | NOTICE BOXING FANS Season Opens TONIGHT CRYSTAL POOL Second and Lenora 5--Big All-Star Bouts--5 Auspic of Austin & Salt, Inc. COWBOY PADGETT Kantas ay olterweight vs. BILLY WRIGHT of Seattle OTHER CRACKER- JACK BOUTS TICKETS ON SALE AT GREEN'S CIGAR STORE 1406 Third Ave. JOB DIZARD Oceidental and ¥ JIM PURSLE! 1120 Second Ave. KEIRTER & BERNBAUM Hotel Savoy Bidg, COMPTON & FALLIS 1222 Third Ave. RINGSIDE SEATS, $2.20 RESERVED SEATS, $1.65 GENERAL ADMISSION, $1.00 Boat Schedules: Travel by sfeamer TACOMA SAFTY - SPEED- FC 4 4 ler DAILY 11 A. Mu 1, 3, 6 7) © P, BM 48e FOR SINGLE TRIP 0c FOR ROUND TRIP VICTORIA, B.C Port ANGELES - STRAIT POINTS, DAILY, 18000 Midnight joes Net rough te Victoria it Trip) SAN JUN ISLAND POINT Con'et stra, from Anacortes or Belli am, Ly, Seattle dally ex. 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