The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1923, Page 22

PAGE 22 THE VICTORIA ALMOST COUNTED OUT OF COAST SEATTLE STAR RIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1923, HOCKEY PLAYOFF 4 RMNEc CES 0 D-E: As Told to Leo JRASEBALL : strength. should be Le H, Lassen the Intentional Pass CHAPTER XXX something more than brute} vil ‘The fans like the boys who can wallop the pill for a or who can run fast, throw far, or pitchers who can ™ strike everybody out. | But it’s the player who combines natural | ability with brains who stays in the game the longest. Take Ty Cobb, Eddie Collins, Christy |} Matthewson, Hans Wagner, Larry Jajoie. They were great natural players, but their brains made them the stars that they turned out to be, Look at Babe Ruth, then, for example. Nobody claims Ruth is a brainy player. He's a slugger. When he was breaking his home run record he was a hero, When he stopped hitting "em he was a bum, and they’re talk- ing about him being thru unless he hits more homers this coming season. This is all the intentional pass. leading up to the question see where agitation is betng started in the East for the drastic rules against the intentional pass. I am for the pass, always have been, and think it is a great defensive . It is a strategic move and strategy has won more al in big-time baseball than brawn alone. the fans can’t see it that way, ty of them cant. ning games, however, ts the im pro & team or you get the air. half of the time, or at least a great thing, They can talk about good Daseball, but it's all the bunk. You have to win if you're ‘@ game tn Peoria one summer with Omaha and I was 6 name to 2 4 hitters tm the league, was up, of Hanson. It was the first of the Two men were on bases and Billy I passed him. ‘The fans cheered themselves hoarse, we forgot all about the Jeers of a few minutes we had won the game. and Omaha would have won I would have the thing and always will be in pro baseball. 1r ‘Wins, then strategy ts the thing, and fandom would rob the of pass from the its greatest defensive strategic moves if they force the y Dugdale will tell about Charley Bastien’s freak home run. suell and Neil Will Scrap It Out Tuesday [LOR EDDIE BUELL, the hard-socking gob, and Ed- die Neil, the clever Everett bantamweight, will try to their fistic argument in the six-round Pool Tuesday night. ll shaded Neil last tm hie firet start, ‘& Deating from California Jos ‘The other night he was knocked by Teddy Stlva, but the ref- ‘ a, almost had ut the militia Gets, the 0., who Prank rat fs some talk of Bob it from Akron, But Referee Ted semi-final at the and was really entitled to itman saw it otherwise, and called it 60.60, thus raising a voluminous squawk. Buell has made a @istinct hit with his aggressive battling in his two Starts here, whfle the fans know what Nell can do with the padded mittens. The sailor has a corking good right hand and does most of his punching with this mitt Heinle Schuman and Travie Da- vis, who are carded to fight in the six-round main event, are doing their heavy training for the scrap. Davis is working out every after- noon at Austin & Salt's gym on Firat ave, while Schuman {8 working in Tacoma. Schuman ts expected to ar- rive here tomorrow to finish up work for the bout. Owen Roberts and Mickey Han- Ron, local lightwelghts, have been matched for the four-round special event, Two other preliminaries are to be added, BROWNING IS STAR HOOPER OF MISSOURI UPgeen of his team tn scoring for five straight years, two as member of the Central high school, champions of Kanans City, and three with the Missourl university quin- tet, always a champtonship con- tender in the Missourt Valley Conte ‘nce, ts the record of Arthur “Bu; Browning. Browning 1s captain of the Unt versity of Missouri five for 1923, and at present the leading point getter of the entire conference, which In- cludes Nebraska, Kansas, Washing- ton, Drake, Oklahoma, Grinnell and Missourt universities, and the Iowa and Kansas Aggies To date this year Browning has averaged 19 points a game. He plays Youngster, |forward. He was born in Kansas IICAGO BRINGS \N LONG WAYS 6 Chicago White Sox are bring- cher all the way from Hon- ) try out. His name ts Neti who starred for the St. |. He tn 4 to join the Sox until City and his home still ts there, HIGH SCHOOL HOOPERS ARE MIXING TODAY Ww Queen Anne and Broadway furnishing the chief opposition the high school basketball league race will start the last half of the lerctl this afternoon, en Anne and Broadway were clashing at Brondway, Roosevelt was playing Franklin at home, West Seattle was performing at Lincoln and Ballard and Garfield were mixing at Ballard, WASHINGTON HOOPERS WIN EASY BATTLE ALLA WALLA, Feb, 9.—The University of — Washington basketball five swamped Whitman here last night, 44 to 14. Bob Hes- keth, Washington center, starred with elght field goals, b| Whitman (14) ri "y York (4) Yonney (2) Hosketh (16) Crawford (7) Behrood Bryan Subatitutionn:”WashtnigionPolere Crh for Brayne, Wolt (2) for Lewin Fru and "GY “tor Meskoths Gundlach tor Bryan, Gardiner (4) for Crawford; Whit- man—urian for York. Tatton tor Fey, Kmudaen tor Yonney, Praviee tor Renee: Bee Doane 166 When penta ay tae gocanctora § ont of 7, out of 4, Rich ® out Inn none out of 4, Cah pad Young Texan Made Good This Year NE of the most Coast league club in the fag end of the 1922 season was Car! Williams, the husky Texas hurler, who was obtained from a small league in North Carolina by the Seattle Indians. Williams certainly looked the goods in the ‘Carl Williams Looks Like Coming Pitcher Impre: t likely layers turned up by a few games that he worked for the Indians, He handled nh his business-li ously on top of the batter. pect uncovered here since the Harry Wolverton will keep a mean eye on Williams tn training camp this year becuse the Seattle team needs @ couple of young hurlers to help out Eimer Jacobs, and Harry Gardner, the big veterans. three SMITH CHANGES HIS MIND Red Smith will be back cavorting around third base for the Vernon Ti. re this year, which assures the Ti- re of somo nifty play at the hot corner, Smith doesn’t have to take & back seat for any third.base player in the minors. He was planning to retire and stick to electrical en- Gineering this summer, but the call of the Giamond was too strong and Smith's contract was one of the first to reach the Vernon offics, HOFFMAN STRONG FOR PETERS “Doc” Carl Hoffman, one of Se- attlo’s veteran fans, aaw John Peters catch for Philadelphia tn a National league game at Chicago last year and he's mighty strong for the big re. celver. “Peters is big and strong and he can hit and throw,” says Hoffman, “and I don't see how Salt Lake got him out of the big time Walter Henlino ts the big star of the Quaker recelvers, however, and that may ac- count for it, Seattle fang will like Peters.” BILLY BY BILLY EVANS TD you ever put a ball player out of a game and then change your mind and let him remain tn the contest?” At m fanning bee recently that question was asked me. Probably no more foolish question could be asked an umpire, yot it so happened that once in my career as an umpire I did that very thing. When an umptre puts a ball player out of a game, the ejection, which ts invaiibly merited, wtands, Regard. leas of the outconre of the decision, it goes. Often the umpire knows that his action means a@ rict at the close of the game, but that never re- colves the slightest consideration. ‘Who was the player I put out and then reinstated? None other than the great Larry Lajole. Funny thing, but I met Larry the other day, we discussed the incident and both had & good laugh. Because of injuries, the Cleveland Infield at the time was all broken up. George Perring, @ recruit, was at third, and an injury to Terry Turner had forced Lajole to shift to short- stop, there being no other infielder on.the club who could play that po- aition. Late In the game, with the score & tle and two out, the batter hit safely and by fast sprinting went all the way to third on the hit, Th: QUITS BANK FOR JOB AS A. A. UMP ‘ANBAS CITY, Feb. 9—Few um- pires wait until they have reached the thirty-fifth milestone on Mfo’s Journey to break tnto the pro- fesstonal ranks, It's something almost entirely new to the national pastime, but this ts Just what Pat Boyle of Kansas City has done in deserting tho life of « modest, retiring bank clerk, to enter the service of the American associa. tion for the season of 1923, Pat's appointment recently was an- nounced by Thomas J. Hickey and the appointment was a big surprise, as no one outside of the semt-pro ranks in his home town had ever heard of Boyle, ‘Thus it was peculiar that Hickey signed him, but the A. A. prexy had heard many glowing tales of the ability of Boyle as a semt-pro and took chance. He has made no mis take, as Boyle is a splendid arbiter, Boyle has hed professional offers beforo, but preferred to remain in his clerical Job with the Commerce Trunt company of Kansas City and handle tho semi-pros at home. ‘Tho reason: Boyle ts a family man and would rather be at homo with Mra, Pat and the kiddies. He has umplred the spring exhibition games between the Kansas City Blues and major league clubs for years and all visiting managers havo praised his work. The offer to enter tho A. As was too flattering for him to turn down, Boyle Js a big, good-natured fellow and his friends predict hin succons from the jump. They believe he will find his way into the major leagues in one year, CLEVELAND IS FIRST ONE OUT CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 9—Clove- land started the major league train- ing wenson ‘Thursday when a squad of Indians under the leadership of Juck MeAllistor, assistant manager, net out for Hot Springs to spend three weaks, hustling every minute. stuff and plenty of nerve. He had plenty of himself like a veteran and there wasn’t any of the usual marks of the busher about his pitching. Williams made a great impression with ke methods, He was continu- D. E. Dugdale considers Williams the best pitching pros- days of Bill James, PROUGH MAY QUIT SOLONS Old Bul Prough, the dean of Bao “| ramento pitchers, may not be with the Solons this year. Prough, tt ts said, bas been given a good offer from the Bakersfield team to play tn the Ban Joaquin Valley league this year, Prough has been a big figure tn Coast league baseball for about 10 years, and he would be missed. Prough can still pitch @ nasty game. WILLIAMS STRONG FOR BECKER Nick Willlama, Seattle business manager, is strong for Umpire Becker, the new offictal signed by the Coast league, Williams, tn his travels for the San Francisco elub last year, saw Becker work @ came in the Central league at Terre Haute and recommended him highly, HARRY CHEEK BOOSTS WOLVERTON Harry Cheek, the former North- western league catcher, has a good word for Harry Wolverton, Seattle's new manager, “Seattle fans will Uke Wolverton, as he certainly ts a big league fel- low,” says Cheek, “and he knows baseball. If he gets off to a good start he'll take this old burg by storm, and then some.” “TALKING SHOP” WITH EVANS, UMPIRE throw beat him there, but Perring, who wns a youngster, was badly fooled by a deceptive slide on the part of the runner and missed touch- ing him by @ good yard. He should have been an easy out and when he was declared safe it was only natural that Larry should have been peeved over the failure of Perring to make the touch. Hardly had I made my dectston of sate when a glove whissed by thru the alr, I turned around quickly and noticed that Larry was the only infielder on the club minus his glove. Walking past him, I quietly re: marked, “You are thru for the day, you can follow the glove to the club house.” “Why, Bil, I didnt throw the glove at you,” replied Larry. “Say, & blind man could have seen that Perring miaged the runner. That glove wns hurled tn Porring’s direc lon—not yours." I could soo that Larry was honest in his remarks. Incidentally, when Larry had a kick to make he put it over without showing up the umpire. “Go get the glove, you aro back in the game!’ I sald. No one knew I had put Larry out or sent him back in, ‘The next batter hit safely and the ball game was over. I am told Larry threw a lot of words at Perring in the club house, Lambert Is After Good Star Team “QNOOBE” LAMBERT, manager of the champion West & Wheeler ball club of The Star league last year, is in the field to lead an- other club in the circuit this season. Lambert is an enthusiastic booster for junior baseball and he wants to take charge of some team needing a capable manager this season, ‘Tho former West & Whecler leader is @ hustler and one of the hardest workers that the league had last year, Teams wishing to get in touch with him can do so by calling the sporting editor of The Star, Lambert will attend the first meet- ing of the league to be held next Friday at The Star. PENN IS OUT FOR 3 MILES PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb, 9.— Pennsylvania is opposed to the #u; gested change from three to four miley as the distance for the annual intercollegiate rowing championship. Pennsylvania representatives. who fare to attend the meoting of the as: sociation in New York next week wore instructed to hold out for three miles, ZOLLA_ TO PLAY FOR BAY CITY “Chuck” Zolla, former Broadway high school pitcher, will hurl for Bay City in the Michigan-Ontario league, next summer, the same team Spencer Harris, a former teammato of Zolin’ WRESTLING SUIT CHICAGO, Feb, 9.—Suit to recov: or a $1,600 bet on a wrestling match wns started here today by A. B, Spencer, of Sioux City, Iowa, Spen- oor alleged he wagered the sum on 4 bout between Johnny Moyers and Ralph Phareaut last April, Meyers won and Spencer charged the matoh was “fixed” ion Last Fall With | His Work; May Be Regular Hurler on Indian Staff Bobby Jones * % % _Big Golf Feat of 1922 o 8 & Turned In Great Round Last Year BY BILLY EVANS wae was the most remarkable round of golf in 1922? In a year filled with sensational performances that is a rather difficult question to answer. I have put that question to a score of golf professionals. During the national amateur at Boston I inquired of as|%™,*™ many of the country’s leading amateurs, Naturally there is a difference of opinion, yet a majority of the game's greatest play- ers were willing to concede the honor to Bobby Jones of Atlanta, Ga. On September 16, 1923, playing the East Lake course at Atlanta, rated as the toughest championship courne of Southland, Jones scored a marvelous 62, ‘When one considers that the East Lake course ta ts a par 72, the remarkable feat of Bobby Jones tn playing the course tm 63 ts at once apparent. Here ts Jones’ card with par: Par, out...43 43 6—36 Jones, out.3 2 Par, in....48 Jones, in..43 Nine birdies. Nine holes tn par, Certainly a most remarkable round of golf, one that seems sure to stand for years to come, “Never played an easier round,” was the way Bobby answered me 4668 aaa 4460 3484 70 yards tong and) Mt, during a lull tn play at the na tional amatetr at Brookline last September, “Things broke beautifully, as they must in order th make such a low score. Not until the last hole was I really worried. “It was getting @ bit dark as I teed off and I wns afraid something might go wrong with that shot. But it didn’t, “I was on my game and tn addi. tion was lucky, You just got to be that way.” There you have Bobby Jones’ mod- est explanation of one of the great- est rounds in the history of golf ‘2}on as long and hard @ course at East Lake, Seven times Jones has broken the record at Enst Lake. In 1916, he shot a 77; came thru with a 74 in 1916; followed {t up with a 10 in 1918, a 69 In 1919, also a 68 in 1919, and a 66 in 1920. Then came his when I asked him to tell me about! remarkable 63 In 1922, SPENCER HARRIS, WHO. IS CLIMBING LADDER Going to the Shreveport (Texas) league team this year, Spencer Harris, former Broadway high school star, is climb-| in ing the baseball ladder. It’s a Class A league. He ooh, City in the Mint league fielder, was with last year, Harris is an out- . ° Bobby Jones, Who Did | Cougars Still Facing Trip to Prairie Loop | Vancouver and Seattle Favored to Tangle in Playoff for Coast Hockey Title, as Usual, This Year; Other Hockey Gossip BY LEO H. Li SSEN ILTHO Victoria can't be absolutely counted out yet, there d of the Cou, playoff this ye ars sl@ping into th doesn’t seem to be much chance e Coast hockey ar. At the present time, with only three weeks of the season riding in the still face the h: remaining, the Cougars are Coast hockey cellar and they ard trip to the prairie, the last Coast team to swing around the Canadian league. Seattle and tenders in the looks like these championship /ancouver cracks badly. There is something missin has too many off nights. W | able game the other night. Eddie Oatman, the veteran Clem Loughlin. Wilf Lough- lin has been a failure. Tommy Dunderdale {s about thru and neither Jocko Anderson nor Diedell are very classy subs. Harry Meeking is just an a erage hockey Ng tak , Frederickson is the only big league star of the outfit. Lester Patrick is a great hockey man, and it's too bad that he has to flounder tn the Const cellar every neuron. But unless he cleans house and gets some new blood, the Cougars will have a hard row to hos. Beattie is playing the Victorians in Victoria tonight and a Seattle vi tory will make the road of the Cougars even tougher to travel. RICKEY OUT TWO WEEKS YET Roy Rickey, Seattle's veteran de fenseo man wil] be out of the game for two wieeks yet. Tuckey jas been out of the lineup for some ‘ime with an Injury to his log and he just started skating Thursday after « long Iayoft., Pete Muldoon expects to have him ready for tho final drive of the season, MORRIS’ ONE WEAK? ESS Berns Morris is playing @ sweet fame at right wing for Seattle, shoot- ing well and back-checking like a demon. But Morris has one weakness on the offense that keeps him from be- ing one of the most effective men in ‘That is that Morris atways swings to the right side, down the boards when carrying the puck towards the goal. ‘Tho writer hasn't seen Morris vary this attack once this reason. It makes him easter to cover than ho would be otherwise. Of course Mor- ris sa right-handed shot, but Foy- ston ts @ southpaw sticker and ho varios his attack which makes him more effective, It Morris would swing out to center ice, varying hig play once in | their goal guardian, is too erratic for a winning tea Frank| Vancouver have been the con- final playoff for years and it me teams will settle the again, unless either Seattle or g in Victoria. Heck Fowler, . He hen he is good he ranks with \the best twine guardians in the game. He dished up a miser- forward, {s slipping rapidly. Victoria has a pretty good defense in Slim Halderson and & while his crease 60 per ci | DMONTON COMING TO COAST Edmonton, the last prairie team to visit the coast, will be turn i the lopposition for coast leaguers next | Week. They open in Vancouver Mon- day, play here Wednesday and clowe in Victoria Friday. The Eskimoes |are bringing a powerful team. They rank second in the prairie circuit, jone point behind the league-leading Regina outfit. veness would in- DUKE KEATS 18 BIG ESKIMO STAR Duke Keats, one of the most fa- mous center ice men of hockey, is the big star of the Edmonton team. Ho 1s still a comparatively young player, having played the game since 1914. He is « ble fellow and they say ho is a marvel when {t comes to getting goals. FRASER TO MEET TRAPP AGAIN Gordon Fruser, Seattle’s » great young defense player, will renew acquaintance with Bob Trapp again |next Wednesday. Fraser and Trapp played together as kids in Pem- broke, Ontario. Trapp is now play- ing a defense berth with the Edmon- ton club, SIMPSON IS FAST STARTER ‘They say that Joe Simpson, the star Edmonton defense player, is the fastest breaker in hockey. Pete Mul ® doon brings word that he's a faster skater than Clem Loughlin, consid- ered the best skater in the Coast league, RILEY TO PLAY ON DEFENSE With Rickey out of the game,“Bob Rowe and Gordon Fraser will take care of the defense work. When either Rowe or Fraser go to the fence, Jim Riley wil! drop back to the defense. Riley turned in some g00d work the other night. What he lacks In defensive finesse he makes ‘up for in eize and fight. BY HENRY L. FARRELL ‘W YORK, Feb. 9.—Babe Ruth, the swat king, ts back in his town house for a week, shopping. Ho feels fine after his long spell of training on a New England farm. He had to come to the city to “do some shopping before I take off for Hot Springs to finish the process of getting In shape,” Ruth said, Tho big bam looks as if he didn’t have much more to do to get into real condition. In full wintor re galia, with a big, heavy overcoat on, he was strikingly less girthy than he was when he was missing them @ milo in the world's series last fall, “L feel fine now, but It will not do me any harm to take off some more weight,” Ruth said. He did not announce his poundage, but he did say he was “way below” what he was last year. DEMPSEY, SR., IS VERY ILL SALT LAKE CITY, Feb, 9.—Suf- fering a relapse, Hiram Dempsey, father of the world’s champion, Jack Dempsey, was anid to be critical condition at a hospital hére Thurs. day. Hohad been laid up for some time with stomach trouble, The champion fs on his way here from New York. HOYT IN GOTHAM NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—All of the players who made tho trip to Japan had a fine time and they all re- turned in splendid condition, accord ing to Waite Hoyt, the first of the barnstormers to return to Ni York. Hoyt announced he wasn't anxious to be traded from the Yanks to the White Sox. pasta id ance SO BENTLEY SPEAKS BALTIMORB, Feb. 9. — If the Baltimore Orioles do not give him part of tho $65,000 which the Giants paid for him, his new own- ers will have to give him $5,000 before ho will sign a contract, Jack Bentley, star pitcher and first base. man, announced, fe erm Tia DEMPSEY TALKS CHICAGO, Feb. 9,—'The heavy Weight champlonship will bo at stake ft least twico during the summer, Jack Dempsey, champion, declared here en route to Salt Lake City, Where his fathor is dangerously ill, ————$— BILL TALKS LEWISTON, Me. Feb, 9.—"Noth: ~ to It." BIN Carrigan, former man: Ager of the Boston Red Sox, sald in commenting on a report that he was trying to buy the franchino Boston Bravea, ae BABE RUTH LOOKS LIKE HE’S READY FOR SEASON The Babo looked over the new Yankee stadium and said he couldn't see how they could say the park was made for him or built to beat him. “Looks Ifke.a regular park to me. The right field stands are a. little closer than the Polo grounds right on the foul line, but the stands on the Giants’ field cut in deeper to the playing field.” he said. “There were a lot of pop files that went for home runs last year on the Polo grounds, but I don't be- Meve the ones I got could be called pop files. A drive into the upper stands at the Polo grounds would be a home run on any field," Ruth said, The swat king docs not think it brings good luck to make predic tions, He thinks that he can make a new record on the theory that he couldn't if he thought otherwise. EBBETTS TALKS NEW YORK, Feb. 9,—Charies Ebbetts, owner of the Brooklyn Robins, returned from a tour of Europe and announced that “Zach Wheat has beon in Brooklyn too long; that he will sell the club if he gets his price, and that the ball players’ union is awful.” NO FOR BENTLEY NEW YORK, Feb, 9—Notice was served today by the New York Giants that they will not grant @ onus of $5,00 to Jack Bentley, 865+ 000 pitcher bought from Baltimore, for signing a contract, NEW HORSE PRICE NEW YORK, Feb, 9.—W. P. Coe prominent breeder and turfman, made a new record for the sale of, an Amoricandred stock horse when he paid John B. Madden $110,000 for the 1l-yearold stallion, “The Finn.” i PIRATES SIGN PITCHER: PITTSBURG, Feb. 9, — Pitcher George Oeschger, of Ferndale, Cal, has been signed by the Pirates, Oeschger, a right-hander, pitched ia Pittsburg all last Keason, CUBS START SOON CHICAGO, Feb, 9, — Pitchers, catchers and the Infield of the Chi ‘cago Cubs wil start on thelr Journey for Catalina {sland for spring trate ing a week from Saturday,