The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 5, 1923, Page 12

@ | AGE 12 2. — EMINISCENCES O D-EDugdate As Told to Leo H. Lasson '} Joe McGinnity Was Great Star CHAPTER XXXII McGINNITY is the champion iron man pitcher of all time. When he was with the New York Giants I think he seer pitched and won more doubleheaders than | * any other hurler the game has known. | And just to think that in 1898, the year | after he broke in, McGinnity, just a young- ster, was declared thru as a pitcher because of an injury to his arm, McGinnity broke in with Montgomery the} year I was with Mobile in the Southern league. He was a slender youngster and} had a great drop ball. He pitched this con- Beil FIVE CANDIDATES LOO tinuously and strained his shoulder. | The next year I was with Washington, in the National league, and we stopped off to play an exhibition game in Lincoln, Ne-| braska, on a Western trip. McGinnity pitched for the home club and we beat ‘em with about 18 runs. McGinnity was still ed with a sore arm. The next year he started pitching curve balls, caught on | the Peoria team, and pitched that club into the pen-| He went to Baltimore, where he starred for several | and then wound up a glorious career in the majors | Several seasons in New York. y tater came out to the Northwestern league, where he pitched Bnd managed a couple of teams. He still retained a lot of his skill won a flock of games. he was a file as a manager because he was too much of a MoGinnity was such a smart baseball head himself that he stand dumb players around him. He had a cutting tongue and ad Ralf of his players always sore at him. He couldn't get winning ‘with such tactics. uty is still pitching, altho he's over the 50-year mark. He hurled year with great success for an independent team in Tilinos, also & while for the Danville Central league outfit. nity had a wonderful spin on his curve ball and threw three @ short breaking, a long breaking and a drop curve. He mixed Up and with uncanny contro! Joe kept the hitters popping the ball the alr. he pitched in the Northwestern league he rarely used signals eatchers, pitching curves continuously. He was one of the ‘Workers the old league ever knew. Dugdale will telf about the famous Detroit wrecking crew if the "80s, hil Douglas Will Hurl! Star Hornell Team N. Y, Feb. 5.—An- pent that Shufflin’ Phit Danished spitballer of the Giants, will be one of the staff of the Hornell team naturally focuses at- 1 On what fans say is the real * baseball town of the coun- lah Rist BRE AB si 1 ts a thorn In the aide of Farrell, the minor league for {t is an “outlaw” town give a rap who knows it. 3 Farrell forbid all league Bs from playing with Hornell that played against Hor. . But Hornell didn't mind and it out and won the independent tlay championship of the ‘Douglas is not the first star | with Hornell. Scott Perry, Connie Mack's pitching ace, in Hornell for two years, there in 1921. He won 27 31 games he pitched last sum- While “Bugs” Hersche, formerly leaguer, won 20 of the Harris, erstwhile of the Cleve-! played in Hornell in ‘Harris has since been rein- by Judge Landis. Pitler, who jumped the Pitts. Pirates, is playing manager of SHUFFLIN’ PHIL DOUGLAS Hornell team is supported by F subscription in addition to heavy gate receipts. It hag no ry limit and pays as high as Mets Face a reac fore men it ante Hard Week up by beating the famous | nt club at Shamokin, Pa. of Hockey n walloping George Textor’s HE Seattle Mets are facing a big |Greb, which cost Gibbons at | bility. lub at Massillon, Ohio, in sev- hockey week. of 10 games played. St tas Ce an Of only| "Tonight the Meta tangle with the | strong Vancouver club, in the British fl because of the big league of Columbia city, and Wednesday they jump back home to play here. - Fri- day the locals go to Victoria to en- gage the Cougars, The following week the Edmonton Eskimos, one of the strongest teams on the prairie, will swing around tho Coast circuit, The Coast race is breezing right along and is now in the home (stretch, with all three teams closely | bunched. The Mets probably will have | Frank Foyston ready for duty again this week, the blond center being out of the lineup last week because of a bad cold. Roy Rickey, however, who has been out with a sore leg, probably will spend some more time on the | hospital lst before being ready for action, |HEISMAN HAS LONG RECORD John Heisman, new grid coach at Washington and Jefferson, has been coaching for 256 years. He served three years at Pennsylvania, 16 years at Georgia Tech and his earlier coaching days were spent at Clem- |son, CUBS CUTTING BALL PRICES Baseball prices for games at the Chicago National wague park have been cut for this season, The new prices will be: Box seats, $1.60; grandstand, $1, and bleachers, 60 cents. MARKLE GOES TO ST. PAUL Cuff Markle, former Salt Lake O'flinger, who has teen werving with © |the Cincinnatl Reds for the past two © ‘seasons, ins been shifted to the St. & Paul club in the American associa 8:30 P. M. Sharp Admission $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 3 (Tax included) All seats reserved. For reserva- ns call Main 2493, Aruna office, 0 Fifth ave. iy, February 9th, University British Columbia vs. U. of W. ey Club. Skating after game p.m. “Just back of L, C. mith Bldg. Card Tables, Pool, Cigars, i Candies, Soft Drinks, Fountain Lunches Five Men Figured in Dope) Willard, Gick: Gibbons, Wills and Johnson in Heavy Spotlight BY BILLY EVANS HO will Dempasecy's opponent? Wil Harry Wills, admittedly the best of the colored — fighters, | get the firat crack ‘\ at the champion?! What about) Floyd Johnson? Did hia win over BY Brennan ce him In line for consideration? Should any attention be paid to the demand on the part of Jeas| Willard for a return bout? Dempsey won the championship from Wil- lard, and usually @ defeated fighter always receives consideration when | seeking @ return engagement Then there iy Tommy Gibbons, What about Sir Thomas? A year ago Gibbons was consid. ered @ certainty for a Dempsey meeting. | Then came the upset by Harry | leant | $100,000, He could have easily de manded and received such a sum had it not been for his wetback at| the hands of Greb. GREB BOUT COSTLY Despite his defeat on points tn the! Greb bout, Gibbons certainly looma| Jack next P MING ‘Two Great THE SEATTLE STAR MONDA Y, FEBRUARY 5, 1923. FOR CHANCE WITH JACK DEMPSEY Big Five in Dempsey Ring Spotlight JESS WILLARD FLOYD JOHNSON HARRY WILLS TOMMY GIBBONS HARRY GREB YANK FIELD IS EASY FOR B Ring Stars Are Carded Dode Bercot and Vic Fo- ley to Perform in Pool Show Tuesday up as worthy of a chance, Dempsey fought Brennan, Carpentier and Miske in championship bouts, and none of the trio had any more to recommend themselves as contenders than has Gibbons. Harry Greb is the most difficult fighter in the world to fathom. He will outpoint most any fighter tn the business who fails to land a sleep-producing punch, Prior to the bout with Gibbons I a talk with Harry before he stepped into the ring. I asked him how he felt about the outcome. “Nothing to tt unless Gibbons slips one over and stops mo, He will see @ million or more boxing gloves if the bout goes the limit,” That is just what happened. Greb Hever let Gibbons set, showed him| a million gloves and won aa he pleased GREB VERSUS DEMPSEY If Greb fought Dempsey and Jack PAIR of the best mitt tom- ers in the Northwest will do battle on the weekly ring card to be dished up at the Crystal Pool tomorrow night. Dode Bercot, the husky Mon- roe logger, and Jack Nostman, the tough little Vancouver light- weight, will mix In one sixround tussle and Vic Foley, the pow- erful little Vancouver bantam- weight, will box Frankle Green, the loeal colored star, Bercot made much « big hit last week when he nearly stopped Kid Johnson, that the fans are expected to jam the Pool again tomorrow night to watch the logger go thru hin ring tricks with Nettman, STAYED was unable to knock him out, it is just possible that Dempesy would look as bad in defeat as did Gib bona. All of which makes ft seem that possibly the public and the pro moters are attaching entirely too much importance to Gibbona’ defeat by Greb. When the mention ef a bout be tween Gibbons and Dempsey is made, the question of size ts always raised. Some of the ring experts fect that phrsicaily Gibbons ts not / a big enough man to have a chance with Dempsey. Only recently the! New York boxing commission vetoed & Dempsey-Gibbons bout for that) reason. | Such talk is ridiculous, Working| along that line of reanoning it was! cruelty to let Dempsey step into the| ring with Willard, Jesse towered over Dempsey in every way. There) fs no such difference between the Physique of Dempsey and Gibbons, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall." The late Bob Fitzsim-| mons coined that expression. Many a time he proved the truth of it. | Dempsey, In hig bout with Will-| ard, bore out the wisdom of lanky Bob's now famous speech. “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” Gibbons is entitied to considera- tion, as are number of other heavyweights who are clamoring for @ chance, While Floyd Johnson didn’t stop Bill Brennan, his victory over the trial horse of the heavyweight divi- sion makes him a promising possl- ‘With Monty Snider, Perey Holstad, Kenneth Hlingsby and Bob Nelson play- ing the brand of basketball they have been, it's going to be a aweet Job picking the best pair of the All-City five, Bob Nelson, the Broadway captain, and & corking good player, considers Bob Mortis the beat official in the league your, Morris is gaining valuable perience in high achool circies, and ia looming as varsity timber. He knows the games, basketball and football being his spectaition, and ho is young, fast, followa the play and keops the games moving at top speed. Something should be done to re- move the smoothness from the new Hoonevelt floor, if possible, before the next game there, The floor was slippery enough to make the going Precarious in the Queen Anne-Hoose- volt tiff last week, Ballard may have two record breakers in track this year In Nardine in the pole yault and Indreson in the quarter. Both are oxpooted to do great thin, ANGELS MAIL OUT CONTRACTS Contracts have been mailed out by the Los Angeles club and no players on tho roster last ygar will receive salary cuts, while several will be in- creased, Charrey Deal, crack third. sacker, has signed @ two-year oon- tract already, STAR JOCKEY IS ONLY 18 Lester Mark Fator, American premier jockey, is only 18 years old. He rides at 100 pounds and waa re- cently sold to Bam Hildreth for $15, 000, He recently won hia 187th race at Tijuana, SIX ROUNDS Nevtman and Johnwon are the onty two millers to stand up under Ber cot's walloping for «ix rounds, Nest- man turning the trick tn Taodma He took ene stxcount knockdown, dat finished the fight tn pretty good shape. Bercot will be a heavy favorite to win again tomorrow night. Foley ts meeting a clever kid in Green, who has picked up « lot of ring tricks in his past. years expe rience. Foley is @ stronger fellow than Green and this will give him | an edge because he is a clever ring | general, too. Foley, along with Bercot, ranks as a promising Northwest ring product. He has a lot more boxing class than Bervot, altho he doesn’t pack the Bearcat’s terrific punching ability, One of the best scraps on tomor- row night's bill should be the four. | round special event between Eddie | Nell, the clever Everett kid, and| Sailor Eddie Buell, who shaded Green inst week. TWO OTHER PRELIMINARIES Kid O'Kane, a newcomer, mects Owen Roberts, Seattle lghtweight, and Frankie Donovan and Filipino Pat Colima tangle in the other pair of four-round preliminaries. Lonnie Austin and Dan Salt are staging Tuenday's fisticuffs, Cards Are Leading in Cage Race ITANFORD university {s looming | as the champion basketball quin- tet of the southern division of the Coast conference race. The Cardinals, however, have yet to play the California Bears four games. This above statement in based on tht showings of the Northern California inatitutions against the University of Southern California. U. 8. C. broke even with Callfor- nia at Low Angeles while Jans at Palo Alto last week, winning two games. t Tonight and tomorrow the UV. 8. C. team and California play again at Berkeley, while Stanford goes to Loa Angeles at the end of the week for a two-game sertos with the L. A. outfit. _The northern race will see consid- erable tightening up soon, Washington's biggest road game looms Friday when the Purple and Gold tangles with the Idaho crew tn the Moscow gym. The Vandals are polson on their home floor, where the ceiling 1s low and the long shots of the enemy are of no avail, Washington State is swinging thru Oregon thin week, meeting Oregon Monday, O. A. C. Tusnday, Willam- ette Wednesday and jumping over to Whitman Friday, 4 Washington will stop off at Gon- zara for @ game Friday, Friday and Saturday O, A, ©, and Oregon will play another two-game sorties at Hugene, 0. A. C, winning both gamen Inst week at Corvallis, RICKEY SIGNS LONG CONTRACT Branch Rickey has been signed to lead the St. Louis Cardinals in the National league fof five more years. His three-year contract expired in December, Ho is nald to be next. to Stanford |iargost event had no trouble defeating the Tro- staged within {ts bounds. BY LEO #4. HAT should a capable universtt: biggest game of the peasont That's a moot question since Sta: Officials on the Pacific coant, turned back the check tendered him for LASSEN osc y basketball referees be paid for the nley Riddle, one of the best varsity Right Field Than at P ABE RUTH Is Shorter olo Grounds Business of Making Home Runs to Be Made Easier for Bambino; Ruth Was Bust in Series and Must Come Back, or He’s Thru as Big Leaguer BY LEO H. LASSEN Offictating in the biggest game of Washington's home season—the Idaho melee here two weeks ago. The University sent him « check for $7 and Fuddle nent It back. We don't blame him, an It was litt Riddle worked the game alone, wi trooper. The gym was packed to the je short of an insult, thout an umpire, and worked like # rafters with a capacity house. league has ever known from the spirit is entering the home stretch | 1% greatest high school basketball race that the Seattle high school » polnt of real interest and fighting this week, Four tearne—Roosevelt, Queen Anne, Lincoin and Ballard—arw tied for the leadership at the half. way mark. The other four teams, Seattle, have quintets which are ‘The teams are showing the right kind of spirit and it certain: of & season, with the possible exception of West t to upset the dope at any minute, yea whale | held under tho aunpices of the University of Washington } will bring the cream of the varsity net wielders of the coast to Seattle. | As the present varsity tennis courts | Arrangement for such a big tournament first class courts are available, and would not be @ bad idea for the championships to be ntaged at the Beattie |, Tennis club, where the facilities for in the Northwest. ONNIE AUSTIN ts tn a fine predicament regarding future matohes for Dode Beroot, Austin dosant want him pushed too fast and yet the fans will soon want to see him pitted against rivals who have chance of forcing him. The Kid Johnsons, Jack Ne: of thone preliminary boys never have an equal when they go with the season over two months Thirty-wix teams are expected tn the team will carry about 15 players and in Junior baseball under organized regime. Seattle Coast league club, realizes the importance of the development of Junior tossers, and he in acting as honorary president of the league. A/ capable boar of directors, with representatives from all divisions of base-| ball, Is being made up and they are watiafactorily decided by the league should bring out a big representation and all persons tnterested, whether they plan to play or be represented hand to lend their support. 9,000 BOWLERS SLATED TO ROLL ILWAUKEE, Feb 6, — Nine thousand bowlers from all parts of the United States are expected in Milwaukee between March 1 and April 8, in competition for prizes which will exceed $65,000, In the American Bowling congress tourna. ment. According to Becretary A. L. Lang- try, the entries are coming In rap- idly from all parts of the United States and Canada, Entries have been received from Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal, In Canada, and several teams from the Southland have also sent in entry blanks, The chamber of commerce of Lon Angoles ts to send two teams to the tournament, together with a oarload of California oranges, which the Poppy State bowlers will distribute at the tournament. Two teams have entered from Jacksonville, Fla, a yearly happen- ing, according to Secretary Langtry, who stated the Southern boys make the trip North for the annual pin event. Milwaukes, the city with several thousand bowlers, is just beginning to wake up to the fact that the in bowling will be A drive CRACK PITCHER NEEDED LUCK FO ‘TXHE showing of Hd Rommel ‘in winning 27 games for a club that finished seventh in the American league is one of the greatest pitching feats ever recorded, Any time a major league pitcher wins 26 games or more, he must not only pitch good ball but he must also be favored by the breaks, It seoms the good pitchers usually get the breaks. Good pitchers are often callod upon by their manager in a pinch, When -there isa chance of winning & gamo or holding @ lead the star pitcher ts invariably called upon. That was the case with Rommel last year. With the score tled and the pitcher wavering or having been removed for a pinch hitter, Rommel was the man Mack always called upon, In perhaps 9 of the 27 victories scored by Rommet, he was returned the vietor in games in which ho pitched only from one to three in« nings. oe If the Athletion tied the score in John McGraw in the matter of man. agerial salary in the National league, the eighth or nine, Rommel would be the choice for relief work, and on be can on the chin. week from Friday.the firet meeting of The Star Junior Baseball league, the largest organization of tts kind in the Northwest, will be held and, Judging from the amount of Interest dimpinyed by teams already, Thin event | now stand, they are not « big league| Unions adequate stands and} if the conference rulings permit, tt] ntaging tournaments are unequaled wtimens, Pat Willams, Young in the ring. Their ring ability and but they haven't the punch nor the a card. Austin must use care in «ive him « fight or Beroot’s value away, a banner year is due again. loop this year. This means that each that nearly 600 players will take part/ Jim Boldt, president of the to nettle all disputes that cannot be manager, The first league meoting in the ciroult or not, should be on AT MILWAUKEE) has been started for 500 Milwaukee! bowlers to enter the national event! and according to early Indications, | the 500 mark will be passed without much trouble. From cities outside of Wisconsin, | Chicago will lead the van with ‘an entry ist of about 300 teams. Many of the Middle Western cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Paul and Minne- apolis will enter from 20 to 76 teams, In order to make ft am cheap as possible for all bowlers to travel, raliroads have granted fare and one- half for the round trip to Milwaukee and this item will save the bowlers several thousand dollars, The tournament last year, staged at Toledo, drew an entry list of 1,126 teams and the prise lst amounted to $51,000, while this year, with the national event being staged in the hotbed of bowling enthusiasm, the entry list will easily exceed 1,500 teams, according to Secretary Lang- With more than 1,500 teams taking part in an event for prizes amounting to more than $65,000, this tournament will be perhaps the greatest athletic carnival of tho year, R 27 VICTORIES many occassions the Athletics would go right out and get the winning run for Ed tn the very next inning, which, of course, would give him credit for the victory, WHAT’S IN A NAME? NOT MUCH RESENTING the two new Amer- foan League umpires, Clarence Rowland and Emmett Ormsby. Clarence and Emmett are rathor tame names for big league umpires, Fortunately tew players know them by such @ handle, In the majors and minors Rowland {is known by the name of “Pants,” derivation unknown, while Ormaby answors to the shout of “Red,” As a manager Rowland was a good fighter, He got into many an argu- ment with the umpires, If he doos ‘48 well as an umpire ho will got along all right. Ormaby can take care of himsolf. He was with the Marines in France for two years and has @ tine war record, “THO Babe R these palmy the easy for the The right uth made 35 home runs last year, a mark not to be sneezed at even in hitting days, the Bambino was such a bust in the world’s series with xiants that everything is being made Sultan of Swat to crash home runs in the new Yankee stadium. field stands in the old Polo grounds, where Ruth has played a couple of seasons or so, are notoriously short. Many flies that Ruth hit on that field would have been caught on other grounds. ‘The new tight field barricade which Ruth will have to 118 spring the Coast Intercollegiate tennis championships are to be/shoot at in Gotham this summer will be 20 feet shorter than the old Polo grounds because the stands swing out onto the playing field in such a mai distance for his homers, There’s no denying but wh of home runs the game has ever known, or at least he was two years ago. But after the 1923 workt’s series, when the Giant pitchers had him completely tamed, Ruth hee his work cut out for him. Two year ago Ruth had the pitchers scared to death Maybe now the shoe ls on the other foot and Ruth, in overanxiety to hit homers, may soon pass out of the big league picture. ‘The records show Babe can hit, but the critics my he is « terrible flelder. If he stops hitting homers his big league career is just about finished. COLTRIN 18 MADE MANAGER Rotund Bobby Coltrin, a familiar figure in old Northwestern league baseball circles, has at last broken into the managerial class. Coltrin will pilot the Moline club in the Three-I league this season. Coltrin played shortstop for a number of teams in the N, W. circuit. He has been in the Three-I league for about five years now, SCHULTE FOR SISLER SUB John Schulte, a catcher who led the Southern league in hitting, with the Mobile club last year, is being Pegged as the understudy to George Sisler, the famous St. Louis Amer- joan league first sacker. Schulte has had considerable experience play- ing first base and the outfield in the minors, and his hitting ability may win him this position. Sisler was hurt last fall, his right shoulder being on the blink for some time, and for the first time since he be- came a Brown the St. Louis club is to have an understudy for him this year, PROVIDENCE MAY RETURN One of the few cities in the Unit- ed States of its size without organ- ized baseball, Providence, Rhode Island, may take over the Reading franchise In the International league, according to baseball gossip in the East. Providence was formerly a member of the International loop, ACH STILL IN FLORIDA Tommy Leach, one of the great baseball stars of a dozen years ago with the Pittsburg Pirates, is still in nner as to give Ruth a shorter at Ruth is the greatest hitter | banebant, The veteran will manage the Lakeland club in the Florida the Players’ union, but he has de. clined with thanks, according to gos- sip from Cincy. He has written to jthe Cincy club that while he’s a member of the union he’s not so sure that he’s in sympathy with it. That's | that, Last reports trom that Babe the hockey, in leading league’ in scoring The Eastern race ts mighty close thie year, with all four teams eyenly bal- anced. The Bt, Pats are riding in third place, Hamilton first, Ottawa second and Les Canadiens lam year, Bob Rowe is playing the game of his life on the defenes for Seattle, and will make a strong bid for All-Coast honors this year, in spite of the wonderful work |deing done by Lioyd Cook and Art Dun- can, of Vancouver, work pick! three forwards on the Const this yea with Foyston, Frederickson Mackay dishing up the hockey they have been playing all season. Irvine's experience in Vic- toria Friday, when he was nearly mobbed by home fans for allowing the winning Vancouver goal, and the goofy work turned in here by Skinner Poulin, Prai- rie league official, Coast fans should be pretty well satisfied from now on with Mickey Ton, | Van Ince A VAN HEUSEN collar of medium t. the Worlds The VAN HEUSEN needs no iron to create the fold, no starch to imitate correctness, no bands to pretend rigidity, mArew Re Smartest COLLAR PHRILLAFS JONG CORPORATION, Matra 1119 BROADWAY, I, 4 &