The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 29, 1923, Page 14

. PAGE 14 SACRAM EMINISCENCES 0 D-EDuodale As Told to Leo H, Lassan “Dummy” Hoy’s Famous Catch CHAPTER wen Willie Keeler died the other day I saw a story in $ the papers telling about a famous catch that he made one day when wards and Carr reminded me that he was} in Oskosh, Wisconsin, in 1887 when Frank Selee, later a famous big league manager, was handling that team. won the pennant that year. in Buffalo that season, but came West the} following year and played against, the same outfit. Carr was talking about Keeler’s catch and said that it didn’t have anything on a stab he saw “Dummy” Hoy make in the Oskosh} outfield one day: Dugdale Hoy was pls days they had “parking places” for horses and carriages in the right field grounds. A hitter crashed a long fly to right field and Hoy got on the wrong side of a horse for the catch, the ap) short of his judgment. Hoy jumped into the air and reached over the horse’s back and caught the ball with one hand. : That particular catch made Hoy famous from that time on, as it was published thruout the country. -Hoy later went to the big time, where he was a star for “Dummy” Taylor was another famous mute of the time, and in spite of their handicaps both played sterling baseball. They received their information as to the decisions of the umpires on close verdicts from the coachers and man- Tuesday Dugdale will tell about famous Herman Long Kid Johnson | Johnson DUNDEE WILL MEET FLORES, NEW YORK, Jan, 29.—Johnny Dundee and Elino Flores will box ef 45 rounds here Friday. TOBIN SIGNS HIS CONTRACT ‘The signed contract of Frank To- bin, Seattle's second-string catcher, ‘Wes received at baseball headquar- ters this morning. AREGON VS. 0. A. C. ¥ece, They also meet Saturday In a Northwest conference game that will ‘Third Game of the Big Inter- league Series— SASKATOON VS. SEATTLE Wed., Jan, 31st, 8:30 p,m. Sharp REDUCED PRICES Admission: $1, $1.25, $1.50 (Tax inetuded) Call Main 2492—Tho Arena Office for Reserved Seats, ICE SKATING Every afternoon and evening except Wed. and Sundays. Zero Is Always Warm! Come in and enjoy the com: panionship of good “cllows, The ZERO 214 Jefferson St. Just tack of L. C. Smith Bldg, Card Tables, Pool, Cigars, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fountain Lunches THE SEATT he reached thru a wire screen and caught the ball, scratching up his hands in order to reach the flying pill. I was talking with Lieut C. G. Carr of| the Seattle police department soon after- |Ro claims to being such. | Vil. The Oskosh club} I was playing ing right field, and in those} falling Will Put | Up Fight Bercot Has No Cinch in| Bout With Olympian) Here Tomorrow Night | ODE BuLRCOT, the Monroe) lightweight, 1s, ct course, the} big drawing) ecard of tho smoker to be dished up for Seattio fans at the Crystal Poot tomorrow night. But don't overlook Kid Johnean, the) husky Olympia battler, who will fur- nish the opposition in the fistic head- liner of the entertainment. Johnson ts no champion and lays He has fought often, won many times, and lost several other starts, But the Olympia boy is dangerous in that he packs a punch and any- body will dive if hit on the button, Berevt {9 sure to carry the fight to Johrisen. He did tn Olympia and that’s always been Bercot's style of fighting. But Johnson has a dangerous right hand and he counters with {t pretty well. He hit Bercot plenty of times with his right mitt tn Olympia. Bercot figures to win Tuesday's melee, but don’t think that Johnsen Won't give him a battle, because he will. Johnson doesn't look so good against a clever and fast fellow jike Jimmy Rivers, but a fellow like Bor. cot, who will swing punches at him, makes Johnson look a lot better. Harry Anderson's comeback effort in the aix-round semi-windup with Young O'Dowd is attracting conslder- able attention. The winner of thia bout is tn line to box Bercot here soon If Bercot gets over Johnson, Johnny Mack, the hard-hitting Pittsburg featherweight, faces a good battler in Eddie McCarthy, another | Olympia youngster. McCarthy beat | Babe Conners, the Tacoma boy, in a bout at Olympia on the Johnson. Bercot card, and looked mighty good. They appear to be evenly matched, Franke Green, tho fast-coming col ored bantamweight, meet, a new- comer named Eddie Buell, a sailor from the U. 8. 8. Connecticut, in the second bout. If Buell can step he will find plenty of opposition, as Green 1s developing well. { The opener will be a titt between | Pat Colina and Sailor Cortez, a pair} of Filipino featherweight, | Indications are that tho house will be wold out for Tuesday's mitt menu Lincoin's chances for finishing up In front in the basketball race have big boost by Leonard Kay Krueger, # LAnooln football center, will soon leave for a trip to Deas mark, where he will ive @ year or two with an un Harry Speldel, Krankiin’s great taok! mny be tom to thy U! aity of Wasi ington grid team, a» he has joined the benediota the midget ar, will be a hard to beat in the city prep net this year, Lincoln should have & pretty good waned, with Virot Beott and Chester Duett, both of whom played good tennis ut W. land park last suminer, Howerd 1 The cellar championship for the prea- fant will be at stake at Wont Souttie to- morrow in the cage loop when Went He- attic wnd Garfield mix. Hoth have lost atralght gunman, JOHN BALL STARRING; | second place. BY BILLY EVANS NOLF is a mocker of time. XT In baseball a player is a vet eran at 30, a decrepit old man at 40. Hans Wagner, famous National league star, managed to keop going until he was 43, fans, however, | & rare bird, the decided exception Tn the fight game, the boxer is youna gt 18, old at 25, and usually thru at 30, Jack Britton managed to win a title at the Sl-yoarold mark, and hold ft two years before being de throned. Tho fight game, however boasts few Jack Brittons. College football players reosh star dom at 20, Usually at 25 they have graduated and passed tp the stren uoun game of football for all time. Jim Thorpe is one exception to the rule. Out of Carlisle Indian school, where Jim first gained fame on the gridiron, for a dozen or more years, Thorpe continucs to shine in a pro} fenstonal way on the gridiron. | well on the way to 40. But golf—well, that different sport, with = vw“ Husky Five cradle to the & 9 18 no age Ts Holding Slim Lead Mmit to starting or stopping. That ts why gelf is certain to continue in popularity, with a constaat increase in Its devotees. True, last year youth was served in Northern Section golfing circles. Gone Sarazen, dt 21, Wea won the national open, Jesse 8 Lt hington , 4 jo A € Idaho ' i f HANS WAGNER was THROUGH AT #0 Jim is {a an entirely woot: ser, at 20, captured the national ama teur, while Glenna Collett, only was supreme among the golfers. The theory that youth must be served doesn't hold good in golf, de-|. 8. © spite the success that youth enjoyed in 1922. jrPUue University of Washington Gene Sarazen, In winning the na-| basketball five is back from its tional open, Mnished only one stroke! Oregon trip still holding @ alim better than John Black, who ts 43|in the Northwest lead. and a grandfather, The varsity trimmed Willamette In 1920 Ted Ray won the national and Oreg 4 then fell before ©. Open at 43, while Harry Vardon, 61/A. C. by a 25 to 28 count Saturday Years of age, finished tn a tle for| Tho latter game was rough and it |was reported in the Portland papers Back in 1888 John Ball, Jr, won|that tho refereeing wasn't any too the British open. He kept on win. ning them at various times, eo that] 24 yearn Inter he won tho title of/ington ¢ British open champion for the elghth | ton be time. What other sport could pos-| sibly produce such a happening? | men t In the United States we have Wal-| work ter Truvis to offer as runnerup to/ fame her the feats of John B | Friday night ‘Travia began playing golf at the! rs age of 35. At the age of 60 he no| LOS ANGELES, After gotiated the Palm Beach course tn 68, | lowing the f game by & big score In a pace covering 15 yearn golf| Friday, tho University of Southern has increased its nun t of players | California basketball team staged a from @ mere 10,000 to ov 2,000,000, | cot Saturday and beat the It ta played by more people than any | University of California cages, 24 to other sport except baneball, if we] 19. can take the word of statisticians, women California . dy” Crawford, the ntar Wash- ard, was the best Washing resting: down to b wit? hack MOSCOW, Jan. 29.—After loning the first game Friday to W. 8, C., the Idaho Vandals came back here Saturday nt and trimmed the Wash ate 28 to 19 Stanford wil} make its Coast bow Friday and Saturday in a two-game series, with Lew Turners U. 8. C. gang, at Palo Alto. ton St GARFIELD’S BEST BET Handicapped by Having to Play All Their Games on For- | eign Floors Until Their School Is Finished, Garfield Is Up Against It in Basketball This Season. Art Duffy, a Forward, Is the Best Bet of the Babes So Far. TMT Saba y) Po MOCKER OF TIME Solon Pitching Looks +h VETERAN hin| \ten to Dan Salt regarding matches. LE STAR JACK. BRITTON Was DEFERATEO AT 57 Quays Have Floor Edge in Big Mix | | alight favorite to hold the leadership of the high schoo! basketball league. The Quays’ edge will be purely a | floor one as the game will be played lin the Queen Anne gym the Quays always must be conceded an edge on their own floor because of its smallness and end zones Neither Ballard nor Queen Anne has met defeat yet, leading the league with three straight wins each. So much {s at stake tomorrow t |the officials rhould make every |fort to keep the playing floor abso- }iutely clear of fans, particularly jnear the doors Ballard will have a slight advan- tage in size; having a heavier team. Ballard has a good pair of scoring guards and they should be danger- ous in the short Quay gym. Queen Anne wil bly start ite regular combination, with Bolwtad and Butler at forwards, Schlenker at center and Brown and Cady at guards. foach i har Austin avail able for center duty and Franklin as & BRITISH OPEN - AND 24 YEARS LaTer | WON IT AGAIN | Saskatoon Will Play Vancouver S SKATOON will play Vancouver in the B, C. metropolis tonight} 4nd then the Crescents will fump| n to Seattio Wednesday to closs their| forwards, Nardine at center coast tour. Clarke and Seymour at guards. | Roosevelt and Broadway clash at When they play Seattle here! prosaway in what should be a bard- | Weduenday it will mark the return|¢ouent game. |to the home Ice of the Seattle guns.) Garfield plays West Seattle at The Mets won threo out of four] west Seattle and Franklin entertains jUffs from the prairie leaguers, low-| Lincoln in the other games of the jing the final came to Regina. prol and | | LEONARD VS. KRACHE The Hoquiam promoters plan to go thru with the “Wild- cat” Leonard-Ted Krache six-round mill at the Grays Har- bor city tonight from all reports. Leonard is in no shape to fight a tough customer like Krache as he showed in his bout with Soldier Woods in Everett Friday. Leonard is apt to get seriously hurt. PORTLAND CARD TONIGHT Jimmy Sacco and Frankie Britt, featherweights, are \fighting 10 rounds in Portland tonight. This Britt is not the \fellow from Tacoma, but an Eastern boy. |)FOLEY MAY SHOW HERE Vic Foley, Vancouver bantamweight, is expected to show here soon with Dandy Dillon, Minneapolis boy, now in Cali- fornia. Dillon is a brother of Jack Josephs, the welter- weight. RIDLEY TO HEAD NORTH Bud Ridley, who has been fighting considerably in Los | Angeles, is just about due to head North soon. He has writ- Ridley will undoubtedly fight severa! times in the Northwest if he comes, as Tacoma Portland, Everett and Seattle would use him. SIMONICH REPLACES SCHUMAN Joe Simonich will replace Heinie Schuman on the Tacoma card Thursday, meeting Eddie Roberts in the six-round main event. Schuman has been injured in training. TEX RICKARD HAS PLANS FOR FOUR BIG BATTLES BY HENRY L. FARRELL | will be mentioned, it being up to the Als EW YORK Jan mex Rick- tion of Rickard to select the opponents, ard has decided on his summer | "PY" ey sald today boxing program and he's now N:| oxnected to have Dempacy in the Laat anh hes A IAM elt 1| Fling three times in major engage ‘our big outdoor ‘bouts are tll! monty “before the enow flies agin.” that Rickard is planning, as he bas) y15 gaia he would work for any pro- decided to abandon his former prac-| moter that put the “cash on the tice of weekly shows. table.” ‘There's no money PORTLAND GO They lost about $25,000 In their ven ture at the Brooklyn ball local Knights of Columous the strong Arleta summer and I didn't 6 club in Portland Saturday by a 65 mone: Rickard wants to use Jack Demp to 28 tally, Heinle Seilk, with 15 flold Stan Riddle, sey in two of his star contests and points, were high scorers for the that he In it," Rickard k last much The team defeated Benny Leonard in the other patr Altho it seema reasonibly sure at the present time that he ts figuring on Jess Willard and the South American, Luts Kirpo, for Dempsey, Rickard will not say for certain, He is willing to say, however, that Low Tendler and Charkey White will be Leonard's opponents. Nckard hasn't signed Jack Demp- soy, but that is @ mere formality that will be as delayed and as formal a# possible for publicity pur. power, foals, and with local team. FRANK SCHULTE IS GIVEN GATE Frank Schulte, veteran outfielder, for a time with Seattle last spring has been released by Oakland. Tox and tho champion have agreed | TWO TIED IN on terms and all that ts necessary BIG TEN RACE Wisconsin and Towa are leading the Big Ten conference basketball race with four straight wins each, fre the signatures Dempsey i* willing to meet anyone selected by Rickard and when the agrooment is made public no names ous ANNE will go into tomor- | row’s big game with Ballard a| rd in expected to start Slings | by and elther Kitcoon or Wells at MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1923. Good; Hitting Is Weax | Fritz Mollwitz and Charley Outfit; Buddy Ryan May Has Good Pitchers Pick Only Hard Hitters on Pass Out as Regular; Pick BY LEO H. LASSEN F Charley Pick’s Sacramento Solons expect to climb out of th son they will strength than writing. Pick took ch and after finis e Coast league cellar this sea- have to have more hitting they possess at the present arge of the club last spring hing second under Bill Rodg- ers’ management the Solons dropped into the basement, Of course the Sacramento aggregation was hard hit by injuries, Pick himself being out for most of the season With a broken ankle, but nevertheles plate. suddy 8s they lacked power at the tyan, Pick and Fritz Mollwitz are the only real. |.300 hitters on the team. Ryan is getting along in years and |May pa witz, the best first sacker in t another big year. For the ke; who pastimed in the Western |Pearce. Hemmingway has be |may cover the hot corner for jthe Solons if Pick wants to jmove over to second. Pearce is just a fair shortstop. Neither Pearce or Hemmingway jwill break any ing records bacteriological Chemist, showed | In the Pick has Merlin | Kopp, a g00d second place hitter, a fine bunter and fast. But Kopp * no slugger by any means. For center field he has young| | McNeely, who iy fast, and a fellow named £ n who played in the |Mint league last summer, Neither man ts noted for his hitting ability. | Ryan is Ryan in right field Behind the plate he has Koehler, | with O1 t summer, a fair) clouter; § . Cook and Schang, | none of whom will make the pitch- ers love much sleep. But let it be said that Pick is lin- jing up a fine pitching corps. He! |hax Yellowhorse, the Indian sar, | Southpaw Thompson and Hughes m Pittsburg, and then he has |young Peters, developed durir days of the 192. won. Peters showed the boys a real curve | | | B this gang he erans Prough, Fitter: |Shea, tho | man. The Solons have plenty of pitch- ers, fair catching, a start for a fine infield, and just a mediocre out- field. This club needs considerable punch, particularly in the outfield, to figure in the race, OLDRING WILL LEAD WILSON Rube Oldring will manage the Wil- son team in the Virginia league this year, Last season he piloted the Richmond club, but got the air for trying olit too many impossible play- ern Dave Robertson, former New York Giant, will replace him at Rich- mond. TWO CLUBS ARE SEEKING DEAL Both the St.Louis and Detroit clubs of the American league are now re- ported to Ye after Chuck Deal of Los Angeles for third base next season. Deal played sweet baseball for the Angels last year and his demotion to the Coast loop was one of the big mysteries of the season, a the vet Penner and bespectacled mounds- FRANK BAKER NOT THRU YET NEW YORK, Jan. 29. — Frank Baker hasn't notified the Yankees of his intention to retire this spring, Ed Barrow, secretary, said today. It was reported that the former home run king was in poor health, tired of barcse and would not play next season. AMATEUR ICE TEAMS TO MIX Two games will be played as usual tonight in the Seattle Ama- teur hockey league at the Arena, with the league-leading Pirates playing the University of Washington and the Wanderers clashing with the American Legion. | The first game starts at 7 p, m. out of the picture as a regular this sez on. Moll- he league in 1922, should have stone combination Pick has Bill Hemmingway, league last year, and Charley en playing third base and he Walter Mails has signed his con- tract with Oukiand. Pitchers Davis and Gillenwater have jbeen farmed out to Jimmy Hamilton's Nashville club, in the Southern league, | Ben Francisco. It {8 reported that the Brookiya Dodgers sre after Oliver Mitchell, the crack southpaw pitcher of the Beals. Arthur Conlon, eruck shi of the Harvard university ball nine last year, has signed for « trial with the Boston National league club, Pueblo business men have practically completed their canvass for funds to form @ stock company to purchase the Sioux City franchise of the Western league, Harry Hoffman, former Athletic scout, has been signed to manage the Montreal club im the Eastern, Canada league. sy baseball will be played in Ten- sgain, the state senate defeating & bill proposed to stop baseball on Sun- day, 16 to 16, MILLERS HAVE GOOD OUTFIELD Minneapolis will have one of the finest outfields in the minors this year for the American Association race. Tha Millers have lined up Clyde Milan, the Washington, D. C, ace for years; Carl East, the home. Tun king of the Western league last year; Henri Rondeau, a star for years in the A. A.; Roy Massey, ob tained from Louisville, and Bart Smith, also obtained from Washing- } ton. NEALE LANDS VIRGINIA JOB easy” Neale has quit baseball for football. He will give all of his time to directing athletics at the University of Virginia in the future, He has been given his uncondi- tional release by the Cincinnati Reds. He came into football by his coaching work with the Washing: ton & Jeffer son team. SOUTHERN UMPS ARE SELECTED William Brennan, Dan Pfenninger, Harry Johnson, Tex Irwin, Louis Jorda, William McGowan, William Guthrie and Timothy Dolan will um- pire in the Southern league this year THREE TIED IN SUNDAY SHOOT Alvin Schwager, R. W. Kinzer and C. J. Solid tied for high honors with 46 each out of 50 in the reg: ular Sunday shoot of the Seattle Gun club Sunday. HOLLAND COACH . IS APPOINTED Ernie Hijertberg, whoever he may be, will couch the Holland entries in the Olympic games next year at Paris. “ec OLLY" GRAY pitched the wierdest game I have ever seen in major league circles, Gray was a southpaw, and a pret- ty good one, He came to Washing-| ton from the Coast and spent his| major league career with the’ Na- tionals. Gray turned In his unusual per- formance against the Chicago White Sox on August 28, 1909, at Chicago, | allowed only one hit~a very stionable one~—yet he was beaten Not an error was made by his supporting cast. How come, you say? 1 umptred the game, and can re- call the happenings of the unusual contest as vividly as if they were Just being staged. In the second inning Chicago scored six runs thru the medium of one scratch hit and 4 wild streak on the part of Gray, j{t is questionable if there is any. thing to equal it in the history of major league ball, tray retired the Sox in the first inning, pitching perfectly, In the second Inning things began to hap- {pe Pat Dougherty led off with a high bounder to Gob Unglaud, play- ing first base for Washington, Un- glaub Jumped after it, the ball attuck the top of his glove and was oflected into right fleld, It vy f as a hit, but T have alwa thought that Unglaub should he easily handled the ball, After Dougherty had vouched first base, Gray developed a siroak of Bullseyes of Baseball No. 283—The Weirdest Pitching I Ever Saw | wildness—tho most unusutl streak I have ever seen. He walked seven men in succession, forcing in five runs. The count was three and two on practically every batter, A couple of outs and another base on balls was responsible for the sixth run of the inning, Joe Cantillon, managing the Wash- ington club, was short on pitchers: at the time and let Gray take his medicine. Tn the next inning Gray: recovered control and for the rest of the game held the Sox runlese and hitless. Washington staged sev- eral maullies and Chicago had & hard time winning 6 to 4, ‘That game stands out in my mem. ory as the most peculiar ball game: T ever worked, Gray, who really pitched a no-hit game, was beaten, 6 to 4, becwusy he developed a streak of wildness in which he gave elght bases on balls in one inning, seven of them in Succession—forcing five runs over the plate, ‘Tle it if you can for being out of the ordinary, Tomorrow—The costliest pinch hit T ever saw, i ——<———— <= ig! DR. WO Pm CHINESE DooTo! ohn Nature Chinese Terbs 2 Remedies vy) Me Wee Wo Chinese a on i) ie. 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