The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 7, 1923, Page 12

PAGE 12 SEATTLE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1928. REFEREE WHITMAN MINISCENCES OF) RE Auto Cl D-BDugdate Memoria "HE STAR PS BERCOT-NESTMAN FIGHT IN SIXTH ay Split Indiana Legion Go by Boards S10 assic M * * * | Day Race May tle it Logger Awarded Melee With Nestman Helpless Bout Turns Out Just as Expected, With Nestman Try- ing to Stick the Limit; Foley Knocks Out Green at the Pool As Told to Leo H. Lassen NDIANAPOLIS, Feb. patriotic to watch the world’s greatest automobile drivers spin 4 a speedway at 90 miles an A Famous Home-Run Bunt CHAPTER XXXV. IR many years after the sacrifice bunt was introduced | into the game it was one of the most unpopular plays} in baseball. It was tough on the managers then trying to} STF arc bour? Thruout Indiana the question ts Deing debated bitterly as a bill pends in the state legislature that would get the players to carry out orders to bunt.) wipe out the famous Indianapolis The fans have always liked the hitters.| motor speedway a ; arity 5 troduced and pushed thru the That accounts for the popularity of Babe} |! nt te squint fm Ruth when he was at the height of his} gona cons, a colonel in the world war, home-run activities. Be on request of officials of the 5 diana ~ e 8 ar that the fans| department of the American Legton, It became. a0 unpopul gis | the G, A. TL, and Bons of Veterans, wanted it ruled out of the fame. | the bill became a storm center when But team play gradually took a more prominent place in baseball and it was nec-| BY LEO H, L. was leading the lamb to sl Joe Nestman against Dode rcot again, but Lonnie Austin and Dan Salt did just that thing at the Crystal Pool t night and the result was never in doubt after the first round. 3ercot hammered . r to send Nestman all over the ring, Referee Ted Whitman stopping the bout in the sixth round with tman standing against the ropes and Bercot pounding like he would a punching }it wae passed by the house, “It hag been impractical in Indian- (he essary in the manufacturing of runs in close | 4polls to have any proper observance games. T'll never forget the famous bunt home | tne race,” run of Tom Thomas, a big pitcher on the} must to Peoria club in 1895, as long as I live. It was coln and a Second with none aw Peoria 8 tol and we between Lin- score stood on first and close game and the had men Tt was a critical situation and Thomas was next at the Thomas up to bunt Bext pitch Thomas swung far into left field. Deacon V The first pitch was a strike. at with ‘an Buren, his might and the ball later a star in the Coant all ‘Was playing left field, and he must have run a half mile before pot the ball. The field was a race track and the onion roll @idnt stop running when he crossed the plate, but to me on the bench and with his tongue hanging out of his mouth | pleaded: the sprint around the bags, he fine, Dug, I tried to bunt. to bunt all the time.” T could have passed out to the infield Thomas was Were in an uproar, didn't have the heart to fine Thomas that time, ‘the managerial game longer I would have because th> cheering of the! 1 plenty. dashed “Oh, please dont soak me I don’t know how I hit the ball When the ball The stands happy right then. still pleading with me. but if I had been of the oted with of Memorial Day hurrah and confusion cc sald Moorhe smortal Day or the race, I may lone the race.” Opponents answered in a full-page advertisement | “The most impressive memorial ceremony in America ia held at the speedway before the race. Law and jorder are preserved before, during, and after the race by soldiers tn | Amertoean uniform “After the Memorial mony, live Americans, for approxt- jmately atx hours, laugh at danger | and show the same stuff that Amert- jeans showed at Valley forse, Gettrs. jburg and the Argonne. | “The best way to do homage to| America’s dead is to keep their spirit alive.” Skidmore-Dean Post, American Legion, Indianapolis, adopted a reso- lution opposing tho bill, Perry Faulkner, Shelbyville, Ind. grocer, a Private In the late war, and state commander of the legion, immediate- | ly revoked the post's charter becatune Day cere Lower left: Senator Robert Moorhead; center, home stretch in Indianapolis speedway; upper right, Perry Faulkner, commander, Indiana American Legion, | Faulkner revoked the charter of the) disrmantie the two-and-s-half-mtle Ht. Miblel-Loer Post. Only one post | brick oval and stands whe: favored the bill. Post officials called Faulkner “czar.” All Indiana jumped tnto the fracas, and the wallop tn the pinch isn’t as Important as system and fol | Pouring petitions for and against to of orders. T remember Walter McCredie fining a fellow 50 smacks one time for | If Thomas had struck out 1 would have been blamed. | the lestalators ‘Ping Bodie, the Vernon slugger, that amounts to the same, Ping get fined « big sum for hitting a home run when he had been ordered Tp the long run one-man system wins the most games, and the sooner young players learn to follow the orders of the manager, the better all concerned, for the manager ng of his team. Thursday Dugdale will tell about George Tebean, is responsible to the fans for the veteran player, Manager and club owner, who died the other day. League Swaps Are More or Less Gamble MAJOR league swap can be 2 classed as a blindfolded lottery thout libeling anybody. It ts legul in baseball business, but ‘to the winner and the loser—well, ‘W6 a snatch-grab exchange, with fhe ultimate result, success or failure, ‘Mot known until months later. Bch Rickey, manager of the St. Cardinals, today 1s laughing {sniffing at Charles E. Ebbets and ir Robinson of the Brooklyn erb And why not? Rickey exchange Ferdinand pp ahd Harold Janvrin for Ed eifer during the summer of 1921? course he did! d didn’t Pfeffer have one of the Prosperous seasons of his long with the Cardinals during ‘And at the same time move your around the list of National Players and try to locate and Janvrin. It can't be shupp now is located with Kansas City, im the American association, while Janvrin recently was released Seattle club. fer was the winning pitcher on )Cardinals’ staff in 1922, winning ‘and losing 12 games, while with M earned run average of 3.58 he sur- ed stich artists as Alexander, McQuillan and Grimes. course there are other trades that are not on the right side of Branch Rickey’s ledger. There was one of several years ago with the Phillies, when the Cardinals parted with Lee Meadows, Gene Paulette and a wad of coin for Elmer Jacobs, Frank Woodward and Douglas Baird. Rickey drew dead timber from the Phillies, while Meadows today ts rated In the $60,000 class. BROWNS SHOW WAY WHEN IT COMES TO CLOUTING E were just five players in the century mark in driving ins during the 1922 campaign. | strangely enough four of them ted in St. Louis Browns’ unt he quintet was composed of Wil- McManus, Sisler and Jacob- B of the Foh! crew, and Bobby ch of the Detroit Tigers. Wil was the leader with 155, while had 12% to his credit; Me- 109; Sissler, 106, and Jacot of Detroit and “Tillie” of the Athletics just missed ‘select circle with 99. Ruth of the was responsible for 96 cers, while Heilmann, Detrott, Joe Wood, Cleveland, were well th 92. att was Boston's best, sending § scores, and Judge led Washing- ton with 81. Sheely and Hooper of the White Sox did the heavy work for Gleason's tribe, having 80 each. In the National wheel but four men passed the three-figure mark, two of them being Giants. Hornsby, Cardinal star, showed the way with 162; Emil Meusel, Nev York, was second with 133; Wheat, Brooklyn, third, 113, and Kelly, New York, fourth, 107. Grimes, Chicago, and Bighes, Pittsburg, each had 99, with Duncan, Cincinnati, and Williams, Phillies, leading their clubs with 94 and 92 respectively. The Boston Braves were way down the list In this re spect—Horace Ford being high man with but 60 runs batted In. In regard to the Fohl quartet tt ig Interesting to note that of the 867 runs scored by the Browns during the season, Williams, McManus, Sisler and Jacobson were responsible for over half of them, or 469 all told. WITH BAGS FULL WAS SISLER’S “THRILL” ORGE SISLER, voted the most valuable player in the American Jast year, has had a career d with thrills, is only natural that a player with Sisler’s remarkable fielding abil- | ity should pull many seemingiy {m- f plays. Incidentally,'4o great batter gets many a chance to shine ut the bat. wa he season of 1922 waa the biggest ler has enjoyed since his debut as asked to name the biggest thrill the year from his point of view, Med: + mat enny, for the biggest thrill hot only the season, but of my a8 well, was staged in 1922, “No doubt tho fans enjoy a home- "tin wallop, but no fan ever pnjoyed a bit more than I did the one ! Eads against Washirgion last “Mla the sixth inning the wore was 6 to 1 against us. With Johnson pitching his best the game seemed lost. Johnson suddenly lost control, filling the bases, and was derricked. “With two runs in, making tho score 6 to 3, the banes filled, two out, I was up, I hit the first ball Erickson pitched over the right-field fence. That made the score 7 to 6 in our favor, The game ended that way. “I'll remember that hit when I am gray and in retirement. It's the big thrill of my career,” CORVALLIS, Feb, 7.—Spilling the Washington State tive under a 24 to 24 tally, the Oregon Aggies took tho lead in the Northwest conference race by winning its seventh game in eight starts, The victory tied O. A, CG. and Washington in the northern division of the Coast race. Eleven other lovertime om resolutions and T Indianapolis posts| “Pop” Myers, veteran speedway man-| Legion for indorsement, but no reply Up a game under simile; circumstances, and they tell a story | Jed the Skidmore-Dean boys and ager, announced the owners Would had been received. The threatened “rump” legion If out any more Civic and to form a Yaulkner kicked nustness clubs worked a in 125,000 | people gathered last Memorial Day, if the bill paseed. Detroit, Kansas City, Cleveland, Chicago and Toledo were reported making bids for ft Faulkner appealed to National Commaniar’ Alvin M. Owsley of the Victoria and | Seattle and Victoria square clashing tonight at the Arena Friday. If Seattle can win bo! With the Coast hockey r each game is counting he: Seattle Hockey Teams Clashing race entering the final stages | avily in the tight race. off in two games this week, and meeting again in Victoria ith games the Mets will be sit- ting pretty as the Victorians still face the hard trip around the prairie league. e Mets are expected to NN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 7—How good must a player be to sup-| plant Harry Kipke, University of| Michigan star, and All-American gridder, on the basketball floor? No | Goudt all those who have sean tho Lansing youth in action will may, | “pretty good,” | “Well, that's Just how brilliant a| basketer is George Haggerty, scintil- | lating forward on this year’s Maize} and Blue quintet. For that in a nut-| shell is what George has done—beat | Kipke out of a regular berth—despite | the fact that Harry was one of the shining lights on the 1922 team which | made such a sensational finish tn the Big Ten race. In Haggerty, Michigan figures ft }season. And the diminutive tosser | is fust that, for tho performing} |for the Wolverines for the first time| | this year he has been largely respon. | \sible for the success the Mather ag- |FOLSOM HEADS JEFFERSONIANS H. D. Folsom was elected presi: dent of the Jefferson Park golfers at the annua} banquet of the municipal golfers held at the College club last night. Other officers elected were T. 8. Lippy, vice-president; Edgar L. Crider, secretary-treasurer; Dr. D. H Huston, C. F. Bridge, M. J. Gal- braith, Frank Hanlon, Lee Hewitt and Russell Scarlet, trustees, EARLY CALL FOR BEAVERS PORTLAND, Feb. 7.—Pitohers and catchers of the Portland team of the Pacific Coast jeague will report February 19, at Hanford, Cal., to start spring training. The rematn- ing members of the team will report February 26. Thirty-four players will compone the spring squad, it was announced by the Portland offictals today. JUDGES FOR © PORTLANDERS PORTLAND, Feb, 7.~The Port- land boxing commission announced today that the “judge system" would be inaugurated in boxing in Port. land. Instead of leaving decisions solely to the referee, ax heretofore, two judges will aswist him in reach. ing his decision, it wag sald, CALIFORNIA IS BASKET WINNER BERKELEY, Feb. 7,.—-The Unt- versity of California turned the tables on the University of Southern California here last night by beating the Trojans, 36 to 15. The two cage teams have broken even in their four games played this season. HARRIS TO BE AT SHREVEPORT Spencer Harris, former Broadway high school diamond star, will play \for the Shreveport Texas league team this season. He paatimed for Bay City, in the Mint league, Inat year, hitting .240, Harris moves up night, while the same holds good for Victoria. Roy who is on the shelf, is hardly expected to The Arena tussle gets under way at 8:3 YOUNGSTER BEATS KIPKE OUT OF CAGE TEAM JOB start their usual Hn to- ‘Rickey, Need tonight. gregation has enjoyed on the courts. Haggerty, tho alight of build, and email in stature, belng one of the | smallest men in Western Conference circles, is a veritable sensation at the indoor pastime, Ho is fast, an ac curate passer, a clever dtibbler, and, above all, is the greatest shot the Michiganders have had in somo nea- sons. In fact, George ts an uncanny Danket ahooter, dropping them in at all angles with surprising regularity. And many there are who conaid cred Haggerty a much greater player than Bil Miller, who cavorta at the other forward post, and who last rea- non wna picked an one of the beat! all-round men tn the conference. Haggerty also stars on the base poasenues one of the “finds” of the| ball diamond where he plays either! at short or third base, and should make a valuable player for Coach Ray Fisher. Haggerty is a sopho- more and comes from Ypsilanti, Mich. BOXING MEN EXONERATED NEW YORK, Feb, 1—Dociaton that the death of Andy Thomas, wel terweight boxer, during a bout in Brooklyn Monday night with Johnny Clinton was not the result of crimi- Jal negligence, was announced by the district attorney's office, and Clinton and the promoters were ex onerated, MIDDLEWEIGHTS FIGHT TO DRAW NEW YORK, Feb. 7—Itallan Joe Gans, New York middleweight, out- pointed Panama Joe Gans, negro middieweight champion, in a 12- round bout hore last night. DUNDEE LOSES BOSTON MELEE BOSTON, Feb, 7-—Johnny Dundee, Junior lightweight champion, lost a 10-round decision to Tony Jullan, of Brockton, Mass, last night. Dun. dee's title was not at stake, KNIGHTS PLAY CRACK QUINTET The powerful Knights of Columbus five 1s meeting the Goldendale aggro. gation at the Casey gym tonight. The b NEBRASKA MEN TO MEET BEARS BERKELEY, Feb. 7—The Univer- sity of Nebraska track team will meet the University of California squad here In a dual meet April 7, JIMMY D. IS HELD EVEN ALBANY, N. Y., Feb, 7.—Jimmy O'Hagan, Albany, was awarded a draw by judges in his 12-round go with Jimmy Darcy, Pactfic coast middleweight, here last night, SAN PRHDRO, Cal, Feb, 7.—Sallor Mernardo beat Joe Stiers, fleet ban tamwelght champton, here last night and will meet the Atlantic fleet a notch this year, na the,Texas loop fa & Class A organization, champion at Panama for the all: navy i" Schamtondnetants eoeuemtrerteetie re eT wy Robert H. Tyndall, Indianapolis, national Legion treasurer, opposed the bill. He was a colonel in the Rain- dummy. Nestman protested entirely right in stopping it. Sercot found Nestman just It was the same kind of a fi occasional sally, but for the w holding against Bercot's scored a knockdown near the Nestman had absolutely no bout started last night, that. Bercot will lose his vy card unless he is matched with boys who at least have a chance with him. The fans will stand for no more exhi- bitions such as last night's scrap was. Bercot gained neither experience nor pres- tige from beating Nestman again. In the sermn!-windup between Frankie Green and Vic Foley, Green wes outclassed It thoroly was bow division. Speedway owners asked public sup- | | port on the ground the property was turned over to the government free! as an aviation repair depot, and $40,-| 00 worth of hangars donated during * the war, Bob Rowe, Great Defense Star Seattle’s | thought be would have some kind of | ® chance, but the towel was tossed in the ring for Green in the third round after Foley had knocked him down several times. FOLEY SHOWS LOTS OF CLASS Foley showed a world of class. He has had about the same number of fighta as Bereot, and of the two, Foley has by far the more finished atyle. He chopped Green with a left hook in the first round and sent Green to |the floor, the colored boy catching himeelf and pulling himself back up- Tight. Foley could have finished him then, as Green couldn't protect him- self, but he didn’t for gome reason The fans would Itke to see someone fight Foley who has a chance with him. Green has improved a lot late- ly, but be isn’t strong enough to fight a man of Foley's caliber. For the second straight week Sailor Eddie Buell has been robbed of a rightfully won decision. Last night he really beat Eddie Neil of Everett, winning the last three rounds after Neil sbaded the satlor in the opene! week before he beat Frankie Grecn, only to have it called 50-50. Ted Whitman was the erring official last night. Buell showed the same terrific punch In his right hand and he used it plenty, punching both to the body and head. He clearly beat Neil. Owen Roberts won a techmical knockout in the third round. from Mickey O'Kane, a long-¢ ma- rine. O'Kane was a game baby, tak- ing three knockdowns and coming back for more each time Referee Pete Moe stopped it in the third. Roberts showed a good kick in his right matt. The opener was a mauling battle between Filipino Pat Colima and Frank Donovan in which the latter was given the verdict by Referee Whitman. A draw wouldn't have hurt either boy. It was a gory tussle, Another capacity house sat in on last night's show. EXPECTED IN 1923 SEASON BY HENRY L, FARRELL EW YORK, Feb. 1.—Two or three of the world’s greatest sprinters will compete in, a series of match races this summer which will be the feature of the outdoor track season, according to plans being considered here. Charley Paddock, the sensational California sprinter, who claims a flock of records, Is coming Fast to represent the Unlverstty of Southern California at the Penn re lays and the intercollegiate cham- pionships. In both he will 1 among others, Alfred Leconey and Allen, Woodring, two of the fastest men in tho Haat, Paddock ts reported to have said that he would be willing to engage in any special match races that might be arranged for him, ‘That several of these matches will be arranged seems sure. New York is interested, and Philadelphia and Boston, whore great interest 19 at tached to track and field nporta, also may want to see the famous California boy in action, because It fs felt he will be at his very best when he shows here, MAY SEND STAR TO MEET CHAMP AT. PAUL, Feb. Plans to send Art Staff, Chicago, national profes. alonal skating champion, to Norway to meet Oncar Mathlosen for the world's title were boing dixeumned to. day, Staff won the national title at the close of the tournament last nigit with 200 points, nee eelabenres thor Travels Far to Play Ball John Shine, a youngster from the South Seas, has come nearly 8,000 miles to try for a lace with the Seattle Coast league club, He arrived from Auckland, N. Z., this morning and will be taken to training camp, Shine is 21 years old, a right handed hitter and thrower and a well-set-up youngster, EVANS PUTS UP DEFENSE FOR GIBBONS BY BILLY EVANS MMY GIBBONS ts too small to fight Jack Dempsey. Bo de. crees Chairman Wiillam Muldoon of the New York State Boxing commis. sion, Dempsey wasn’t too amatl to fight Willard, Bob Fitzsimmons wasn't too small for Jeffries, and so on down tho line, Old Joe Wolcott used to fight opponents 60 pounds heavier and a foot taller, and still hand them a lacing. Persvnal reasons must enter tnto such a decision, A glanve at the sta tiation of the two fighters is ample proof, Dempacy wolghs only about 20 pounds more than Gibbons, The champion’s height ts six feet one Inch, while Gibbons ™% a quarter of an tnoh shorter, In all other measurements Gibbons compared very favorably with Domp- soy. ‘Tho figures cortainly don't bear out the justice of the deciston that prevents Gibbons from @ chance at the title TIGER CLUB IS MADE UP FROM MINORS Serpe and trading ball players has grown to be quite a business. Especially is this true in the major leagues, where many purchases and exchanges annually take place be. tween the various teams, Indeed, the sale and barter list is a long one, and for the most part is used quite frequently by all clubs in an effort to bolster their outfits. However, tn the personnel of the two big circuits last season there was, one club whose playing roster showed but two players who were obtained by such deals. Tho chub in question was the Detroit Tigers, which, outside of George Cutshaw, purchased from Pittsburg, and Roy Moore, got from the Athletics late | 4 in the campaign, didn't have a man but what came to the outfit direct from the minors, Look over the list; all and Manion, Oldham, Ehmke, Cole, Stoner, Stewart and Olsen, pitchers; Blue, firat base; Clark, sec: ond base; Rigney, shortstop; Jones and Haney, third base; Cobb, Hell. mann, Voach, Flagstead and Foth. orgill, outflolders, Surely a most ‘unique record, On the other hand, consider the Inyout of the New York Yankees, which club haa obtatned practically all of Its players on “buys or trades.” There are MoNally, Baker, Dugan, Scott, Witt, Ruth, Smith, Schang, Bush, Hoyt, Jones, Shawkey, Mays, and others, Recently, Cobb, in an effort to plug Up tho hole at second and bolster hin pitching staff, acquired Derrill Pratt ” Collins trom Boston, Bassler, Wood. catchers; Dauss, and “Riv the ring, but he wasn’t fighting back an terrific the ' Pillette, Johnson, | % and had to be dragged from and Whitman was as tough as he did in Tacoma, ght with Nestman making an 10st part covering hims d belly punches end of the left swing, the bell stopping the count. chance of coma sh alue Youngster Star With Tron Shoe 'T. PE BUF Feb. horseshoe »w demonstrating together as a dra Fla ent t, Harold Falor d of Akron nt entry he fifth annt ional “barnyard gol nament to be 4 here during the |week of February 19. | The boy marvel finished high ia |the mid-summer meet, held in Des | Moines last August, topping several |stars of national prominence, includ jing C. C. Davis, who won leading |honors here last February. Young Falor is after the national |title this winter and hopes to wrest |the championship crown now being |worn by Frank Lundin of New Lom don, Ia. The boy is working out daily at Orlando, Fla., where his |father has opened a training camp ‘for the knickerbockered athlete. In a recent exhibition match, Falor trounced Davis, the former champion, 60 to 42, both contestants totaling 93 ringers in the nipan& tuck exhibition. Falor has a lazy revolving shoe that opens perfectly at the iron up right, sliding on a ringer. He wears a canvas glove on his pitching hané and this cute the turn of his horse shoe down to a one-and-quarter revo tution. RAY WILLING TO STICK TO CINDER PATH EW YORK, Feb. 7—Jole Ray's latest. decision to forego the riches to be gathered In the roped jarena for the poverty and glory of the cinder path does not come in the nature of a surprise to those who know Jole Ray. When the flect-footed Chicagoan announced he was going to take up Professional boxing as a livelihood, jhe didn’t know in what a blaze of glory his Eastern trip this win }ter would atart. Now, finding himself stil able to smash records and apparently able to go on winning: indefinitely, running as well, if not better, than ever before, Ray certainly has taken a ste) to bis credit and to the advantage of the sporting world at large by deciding to remain a simon pure runner. DEMPSEY GOES HOME TO UTAH NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Jack Demp- sey, world's heavyweight champion, left today for Salt Lake City, for the bedside of his father, who ts serk Mm with stomach trouble. Dempsey appeared in an exhibition last night for the Ridgefield, N. J, Knights of Columbus. O., is the most in t ously A MEDIUM WIDTH, CLOSE MEETING, SMART LOOKING 900000000000000000 Come and Meet “Lady Luck” at The ZERO 214 Jefferson St. Just back of L. C, Smith Bldg Card Tables, Pool, Cigars, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fountain Lunches Pay Checks Cashed 0000000000000000: