The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 12, 1923, Page 13

—. "God defenstve team. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1928. P WASHINGTON FACES ERRATIC PULLMAN BASKET FIVE TONIGHT EMINISCENCES 0 Varsity Must Win to. Le Stick in Title Race |Defeat at Hands of Idaho Saturday Night Means That) Purple and Gold Must Win Remaining Games to Cinch Title oe As Told to Leo H, Lassen Frazee Has Wrong Idea CHAPTER XXXIX, ‘ARRY FRAZEE, one of the richest owners in base-! ball and a wonderfully successful show man, was al 4youngster in Peoria, Illinois, when I w ommemm team in the '80s, Frazee is a great character and a money maker and a winner in the theatrical’ busi- ness, but for some reason or other doesn't seem to be able to get by BY LEO H. L EN as playing with that [ROEEING that all-important game to Idaho Saturday) night by a 40-to-26 tally, Washington must win the re-| maining games on the conference schedule to stay in the | race for the Northwest and Coast basketball titles. he} Tonight the Huskie tangle with the Pullman five, the most € in base-| erratic team in the conference, at Pullman. | ball. He is out after the dollars, evidently Washington State looked bad he but stepped down to} and doesn’t take into consideration the Oregon and trimmed the Webfooters the next week. difference between show patrons and base-| The Cougars also have a victory over Idaho, but then ball fans, | turned right around and lost to the weak Whitman team. _ Frazee, along with Baker in Philadelphia, | You can’t figure the Cougars this year, is undoubtediy the most unpopular magnate| Washington State will have the floor advantage tonight, in the majors, jand that’s what undoubtedly played havoc again with Wash- Boston fans take their baseball seriously, | ington at Idaho Saturday, Washington plays a lot of long} They have made baseball an institution| shots on the Husky floor and the low ceiling makes this im- there and the game is considered differently | possible at Idaho. there than in any city in the country. For| If Washington wins tonight the Purpk Dugdale years the Boston Red Sox were their pride| Mighty engagements left, both with the O and joy until Frazee came along and sold most of the stars, | Oregon squad is still dangerous, as the two wins over O. A Ruth, Bush, Hoyt, Scott, Speaker, Hooper, Mays, Pen-| C- last week show. 0, A. C. is now tied with Washington nock, Schang, Smith, Dugan—some of the greatest names | for first place in both conference races in baseball, all of which one time graced Boston's rosters,|_. But Washington will be playing at home, which will give have been sold. No wonder Frazee is in Dutch. | the Huskies a slight edge. They’re pretty hard to beat on But Frazee always did know how to put on the dog. their home floor. He used to hang around the ball players at the “Home Plate," the resort! where the diamond performers used to patronize after the ball games in| Pps Peoria. Bi and Gold has two g Varsity Smoker Planned T remember when he was “call boy” back stage there. Finally he went! (\NE of the biggest suokers ever, ©. A. C. has a powerful wrestling Out on the road with a show and came home with his first roll. | @Maged at t University of] team this y 4 it will Just about He came into the “Home Plate” and ordered beers for the crowd. He| Washington is being planned by Jim-| dectde Northwest honors when these pulled out a stack of bills that would have choked a horse and peeled off! my Arbuthnot for F uary That | teams get toge & ten-spot to pay for them. [night the finals of the intramural) ‘The Farmer feated Or D inst Later the owner of the piace told me that Harry eame around to him| boxing championships will be held| weok by a 38to-0 count, which ives and redeemed the $10 with $1 bills and that he had @ wooden peg in the| and the wrestling meet between the | some indication of thelr stre neth, al. voll to make it look bigger. Frazee had about $40 in hie pile and made| Washington and O. A. C. grapplers|tho Oregon has a weak team ‘this the players believe he had a fortune. ts will complete the program. yoar I lost track of him when I left Peoria and the next I heard of him he Mes ‘was the owner of a couple of road shows. He brought some of therm to} 2, °. b+ Seattle after I had located here. One was “The Gamblers Daughter" ana|G@00d Pitching for Washington another was “Si! Slocum.” They were so rotten that they were funny, but } IGHT pitching decides Intercol-, Spike Maloney, leginte baseball championships, | three years, But he has young Gene Frazee made money on them. It wasn't long before he broke into Broad: | way, bought a couple of show houses and then landed in baseball. Walby, a great young receiver, to W's too bad. that he doesn’t get the right idea about baseball, because |** th hitting on college nines te usu-| 10). 705, 1 koma’ jaune see ff he could only see the light and treat the Boston fans right Frazee would ge light. | regular catcher for veteran hurlers he has a good dia. ‘Be one of the most popular owners in the gume instead of the unpopular) “Tubby” Graves, Washington's new | mond outlook. ‘one he ts today. baseball coach, is lucky in having| Besides this gang, he has a veteran eneees. [three experienced moundsmen this| infield and several vets In the out-; Tuesday Dugdale will tell about “Peekaboo” Veach's champlonship. | year in Ob Gardner, Ed Liston and| field to complete his team. Elbert Harper, He has lost Tiny/ should come close to copping the si | Leonard, the ace of the staff, and! Northwest honors again this seapon. Edmonton {Golfers Watch Wednesday wateh with interest the showing ot Gene Sarazen and Walter RIA and Vancouver will be | furnishing the opposition tn raves | Edmundson Faces Track Problems DACH EDMUNDSON— has his)in the high sticks and In the high work cut out for Kim when it] jump, ‘There's 25 points that Wash comes to turning out a winning track | ington must make up somehow. m this year. Oregon will have @ grand team tht The varsity may lose Vie Hurley. | year, according to reports from Eu crack sprinter, and has lost Chuck| ene, where the veteran Bill Hay Frankland, crack jumper, by gradua-| ward ts waxing enthuslastic over his tion. Hurley was good for 15 potnts| chances. He had a 1S-point man in in nearly every meet, cleaning up In| Spenrow in the jamps and pole vault with Kirkwood are meeting Sar |/the sprints and in the low hurdles.| while Larson looms as the best azen and Hutchinson at stated In. | | | while Frankland was almost a cinch ‘sprinter if Hurley drops out. this exhibitton comes || tevale—these four players now wee Sheeran club, the last Prairie || “NS on a tour of that #oction. |] One of the big surprises inst Se eee mare thaitowe your wan the Gefeat of: Hagen ty | “Bent for the champloenhip in their || &% the world series of golf. league with the Regina club. | Despite Sarazen'’s victory in Built around Duke Keats, one of || th? U. 8. open, the general tm- the best center ice men in the game, || Presion prevailed that Hagen was a better money player. Sar. Br cere Rave a 00d scorine | Cos tent Hagen after the British |} open champion had gotten away to a flying start on Sarazen's home course In the first four-ball match played on the coast, Hagen beat the best ball of both his oppon- ents, Sarazen and Hutchison, Hagen, in so doing, broke the Olympic club course record at San Francisco with a 68. Hagen tn the various big tourna ments this year, Already the pair are at it on the Pacific Coast. Hagen paired Coast rivals | Tight Tennis Competition 'ASHINGTON will have the best | lands positions ioaghins varetty bom | this year as only four men are car- lomagerter tly Sondahegctirbcel em wer Stiaeagrenp tend this year and should force Stanford), and Marion, Bob Hesketh, Windy and California to the limit to win the Langile, Byron Scott, Joo Livengood [Coast honors this year, altho the —all familiar namen in Seattle ten- |Southern colleges will have thelr| nis, will fight It out for the right to usual edge. represent Washington on the courts It will be a great fight to me who | BILL BYRON — _ WINS CAKE; | SGP Ups READ THIS BYRON, former National} the Pacific Coast loague, is ‘nothing | if not original Byron is known as the most tech }nical man in basebdil, not excepting Tommy Connolly, of the American| league, who is fussy about the minor features of the gare. In baseball, arguments galore can | come up relative to ground mules. There always seems to be p. differ- ence of. opinion, largely caused be- cause the rival managers seek to gain the edge in agreeing on certain rules that will cover situations that may arise with spectators on the field. | In every ball game certain yround | Tules exist, but to ill Byron xoes the credit of formulating the first and only aerial rules that have crept into the national pastime. During a game at the Polo grounds several years ago, an aviator persist. | ed in flying very low over the playing field. It was a foolhardy stunt that endangered the lives of thousands of spectators, The actions of the aviator were taking on a serious aspect when Byron, in dramatic fashion, stopped the game, and in all seriousness yelled to McGraw “Aerial rules, Johnny. Two bases if the ball hits the machine or ts con- cealed in any part of it." ‘Then in just as dramatic fashion he resumed the game, It wow done in all seriousness, but set players and crowd to laughing, and really made a majority forget the danger that ex- inted. INDOOR NET PLAY READY Seventy-two players will take part in the second annual indoor tennis tournament here which opens at the Armory tomorrow night. The play- ers have been divided in nine divis- ions of eight players each, each play- er to meet each man in his section, The winners then clash for the title in an elimination series. The cream of the local talent ts entered, They open their invasion in Seat tle Wednesday night, playing the Mets at the Arena. They gave the Mets a terrific battle on the prairie, | losing out 3 to 3. Rochester golfers who play over the Genesee Valley park course wil! pay $3 ‘Wer the use of the municipal links, Ten- ‘is players will pay $1 for use of the Stars for West Seattle MacDonald Smith, San Francisco golfer, who has held the Metropolitan and Weat- | ern open champtonabips and who tied with Joe Kirkwood in the California state cpen title Inet month, will seek the Brit- ish open honors this spring. The Southorn Calftornia women's golf | championship tournament will be played over the course of the Pasadena Golf club during the week of May 7. Mise Doreen women’ mi Kavanaugh, champion, und Miss Margaret recently defeated Miss Marion Holling, former national title holder, am Mrs. F.C. Latte in an 1s-hole match, 2 and 1. Calitornta | Northwestern uni %, has slevated olf to major spor i. North Hilla Country club, of Bt. Loute, has equipped @ nine-hole golf course for night play. SOTHORON SAYS HE IS ALL THRU Allan Sothoron, the wild-heaving pitcher, says he won't report to the Louisville, Ky., club, where he was sent by the Cleveland indians. Sothoron saya he will stick to his business in St, Louls, whatever tt may be. Cy Barger, an old big league pitch: ing star with Cleveland years ago, has been signed to coach the Univer. alty of Kentucky nino this spring. HOCKEY ‘The Fastest ‘Team in the West Iy Coming Edmonton Eskimos vs. Seattle Wednesday, Fébrunry 14 8:30 P. M. Sharp FOYSTON HAS TOUGH LUCK Frank Foyston, the blonde center of the Seattle hockey team, had his nose broken in a clash with Slim ‘Haldorson in Victoria Friday, It will not keep him out of the game with|{ Regular prices. This Is the Big Edmonton here Wednesday, however. || Game of the Season, Phono rou- i ervations Arena Office, Phone KRACHE AND Main 2493. MANURL SHA NSBY JONES SCRAP SKATERS, ATTENTION! UUAd the Wat Hentila Indiana ard 4 sheir weal place at| ted Krasho und. aorvan »sonen|| wget eae teens on, Monta the Of tie. hah achool basketball “race, Manuel) mort in thelr fourth encountor tn by b ti . layir y Aberdeen tonight in # six-round go. fons Hid, GUBIEESe And gutela of an one of their best bets, is playin, Puget Sound Light & MP good yume for) Krache won tho first two starts and ae. SO Uitte AMA Rahn Tones the lant one, | Moor this year TL TAR Another New Bee John Singleton is expected to take the flinging job on the Salt Lake club left open by Hollis American league Louis in the Thurston, sold to St Singleton comea from the Philadelphia Nationals on the deal that sent Ueinie Sands to that club. ‘Percy Bolstad Speed King, Declares Coach BY LEO H. LASSEN ASTER than Jesse Douglas, Spencer Harris, | Don Ripley and the rest of the speed demons| npn 1g who have played in the Seattle high school! nustteR basketball league for the past several sea- sons. That's what Walter Queen Anne team, thinks of Percy Bolstad, the Queen Anne Phantom, who is playing a wonderful brand of basketball & Bell, coach of in his first year as a prep regular, Bolstad gave a demonstration of speed in | the recent game with Broadway that hasn't been equaled in years. His floor work was something to marvel at. “Bolstad is still a youngste: says Bell, “and he has a lot learn, He isn’t the finished floor man by any means that. Douglas or Harris was when they played their best game. Douglas was a general on the floor and a better shot than Istad, but none of them have shown me Bolstad’s speed. ext season should find him one of the best players Se- attle high schools have ever known. He should take on considerable weight, as he is growing rapidly and will be just that much stronger. will weigh about 150 pound: in condition. With this year’s experience he should make a real star,” Bolstad 1s playing hia third neason | of basketball this year, having played | with Queen Anne's frosh and nopho- more squads. BALLARD-LINCOL |GAME TUESDAY One of the leaders will drop in the high school basketball race tomorrow wher Ballard and Lincoln tangle at Ballard, The Beavers took tho first game from Lincoln by a 16-to-13 count at Lincoln earlier in the nea- son. Playing on their home floor the Beavers must be conceded a alight edge. The wonderful shooting of Sey- mour and Clarke on the Ballard has done much to keop the Beavers in the race. Dutt, the star Lincoln center, ts the boy that ‘the Beavers must stop. OTHER GAMES BOOKED Queen Anne should have no trou- ble in smothering Garfield tomorrow at Queen Anno, West Seattle plays at Roosevelt and Franklin and Broadway meet at Franklin, VAN BUREN TO COACH SQUAD “Deacon” Van Buren, famous as 0 pitcher and an outfielder in the old big league days and with the Const league clubs Jater, has been signed to act ns coach for the Vernon Tigers. He} pTETD Tentative Net Dates Are Set Following is the tentative sched- ule for 1923 tennis in the Pacific Northwest: laho state champlonship, Pot- latch A. A. club, Potlatch, Idaho, June 27-30. Inland Empire championship, Spokane, Spokane A. A. club, July 2-7. Willamette valley champton- ship, Salem Lawn Tennis club, Salem, July 8-7, Oregon = state champtonship, Multnomah A. A. club, Portland, July 9-14. Pacific Northwest sectional championship, Multnomah A, A. club, Portland, July 9-14 Pacific Northwest boys and Junior championships, Multnomah A. A, club, Portland, July 9-14, Washington state champtonship, Seattle Lawn Tennis club, Seattle, Tuly 16-31, Main land of British Columbia championship, Vancouver Lawn Tennis club, Vancouver, B. C., Tuly 23-28. Championships of British Co- lumbla, Victoria Lawn Tennis club, Victoria, B. ©, July $0. August 4, Open Pacific Northwent cham- plonship, ‘Tacoma Lawn Tennis club, Tacoma, August 6-11, British Columbia clay court championship, Laurel Lawn Ten- nis club, Vancouver, B. C., August 18-18, BOXING MARNE IS QUIET TODAY; NO NEW BULLETIN 'OTHING has developed today in the Seattle boxing situation. Nate Druxinman and members of the commission say the show will so on as scheduled at the Crystal Pool tomorrow night. Jimmy Malone, former promoter, Who threatened the arrest of Druxin- man If the show is staged, has issued no further war bulletins, Druxinman and the commission claim that no laws are being violated, as the grand jury found the sport being conducted along legal lines here, ‘The hearing of the warrant charg- ing Druxinman with being about to commit a crime will be heard Friday before Judge Dalton, Druxinman, it ts rumored, will swear out a warrant for Malono's ar- WHALING GOES TO IOWA CLUB Bort Whaling, former geattio enteher, who jumped into fame ay the receiver of Bill James here and in Boston, will catch for the Des Moines team, in the Western leaguo, ete nanann rest If Druxinman himself is arrest- ed tomorrow night, charging Malona| with also breaking the law by stag- ing previous smokers here last sea: son. Tho card, as set for night, is: ‘Travie Davis vs, Heinle Schuman. Sailor Buell vs, Eddie Neil, tomorrow Owen Roberts vs, Mickey Hannon. | Sailor Garcia vs. Hrnie Dailey, Ludwig Jones vs, Henry Geysel. ANDERSON HAS BUSY SCHEDULE Harry Anderson, veteran Seattle Ughtweight, boxes Johnny Trambitay in Portland in a 10-round go tonight and tangles with Dode Bercot in a six-round session in Hverett a week from Friday. LEON AMES IS GIVEN RELEASE After more than 20 years in base. ball, Leon Amos, the veteran pitcher, hag boon given his unconditional re. lease by tho Kansas City Blues, He may catch on as a manager in one of the lower minor leagues, PAGE 13 Stacy Shown to Reward Most Valuable Redskin Contest Limited to Seattle Is Hustler; Burger Will ball Gossip HIS season the by the fans rewarded by hi league park league watch | Seattle Last yéar S) ducted by roster was tle players this Last season justly earned it by his wonder: Tribe thruout the season, Seattle fans want to bear| this contest in mind thruout the summer, so the player most deserving of it will be honored, Popularity should not decide the vote, but value should. It isn’t always the most popular player who is of the most value to the team.| Speaking of La abbit undoubtedly be stationed in center field again, With his speed and throw ing arm Lane mukes an ideal ce fielder, Brick Eldred fits in better in right field. It’s up to Ray Rohwer and Ed Barney to fill left field. will HAVE | TLE DOWN Wally Hood can play ball when he wants to. He played cireus too much with the Seattle club last year and there were no tears shed when he was recalied by Brooklyn. This sea- son he will play for Red Killefer, and the carrot-topped Angel boss will make Wally play ball or he'll be shy when payday comes around. Killefer | doesn't monkey much with players who don’t tend to their knitting. | Hood is @ good hitter and he should | be @ valuable player under Killefer’s wing. John Tesar, the pitcher picked up by George Engle in the Western] |league for the Seattle club last year, | didn’t set the world afire by his hurl. ‘ing for Sioux City, but Engle says |he 1s a hustler and that he is a big boy with plenty of chances of de- veloping. That's what Seattle fans want, some birds who will hustle, BURGER WILL BE WATCHED George Burger, who showed so much promise as a hurler with the Indians in the spring Inst year, only to have his arm go dead on him at jthe end of the season, will be | watched closely by big league scouts this year. Burger ts a young fellow yet and he showed plenty of stuff in his first year out, He has a lot |of nerve and if his arm comes back, as it should after a winter's rest, he will be due for a trip to the majors. | Burger pitched a wonderful three-hit |shutout game against Frisco in July and he wasn't worth a thin dime after that, his arm going dead on him. |LOSS OF MAISEL | HURT ANGELS The Los Angeles club was count- ing heavily on George Malsel being the regular center fielder this se Son. But Malsel, given permission to make a deal for himself, picked the International league, as he want- ed to-be nearer his home and famil Malsel hit well enough with the Chi- cago Cubs, but he didn't take care of his assignment with the Bruins as well as Coast league critics thought he would after his big sea- son with the Portland Beavers In 1920, OAKS WITHOUT : SHORTSTOP Oakland 1s without a shortstop yet and training camps will open in about three weeks, Tho Acorns have a sick-looking in- field and never will get out of the second division unless they perk up. They have good pitching, a good outfield and fair catching, buf no team can expect to win with ai in field like the Oaks have at present. A poor second base combination can wreck any ball team, the Seattle keynstone weakness for a couple of seasons proving that. The open thinks it better to limit the cont tle outfielder, was jall of Seattle; Players This Year; Tesar Be Watched; Other Base- most valuable player on the Seattle club, according to a poll to be taken in the closing wee will be aving his “day” at the Coast and he will be given a big’ by Stacy Shown, the dean of fandom. hown fostered a contest con= Star and the whole league's for the contest. Shown st to Seat- season and so it will be. Billy Lane, Seattle’s great lite rded the honor and he ful all-around playing for the ad efferson Again With Golf Body BY ALEX C. ROSE INGS of great joy The Jefferson Park Golf dub of the Pacific ation! bes @ member rthwest Golf assoc This adcasted at the co t Joint meeting of the director board” and the handicap committee of the © P. N. G. A, held in this elty om Bate urday. com posed of Dr, D. H. Houston, E. L. Crider and 8. Lippy, represented the local mitt nicipal inks organization. % It has always been more or less bit of welcor A committe | a mystery why the Jefferson P were quietly dropped from tion membership in 1921. However, they are back in the fold again; ally of which means that the entry ist i the annual P. N. G. A. championships 4 to be payed here July 9-14, in will be considerably lengthened, as @ least 40 players from the hill coun will be entered In the yarlous evem! ‘The Calkins handicapping : which is based on the average of the three best scores of a player, in 4 tion to the par of the course, adopted. < The 1923 program, which was al adopted at Saturday's meetin almost identical to the one u the 1921 Portiand meet, except the men's bogey and two-ball fi somes, special events, have bee eliminated. All amateur and Pac Northwest handicap matches, the first round, will be at 36 the women’s matches at 18 ‘The Davis Cup match will be on Tuesday afternoon, as usual. men’s and women’s medal han events will be played on Thursda and the mixed foursomes on F The windup of the big week’ will be the driving and appro contests on Saturday afternoon. A loss of diststhce only for a out of bounds and a loss of sti and distance for a lost ball ani playable lle are two of the most | portant rules that will be in foree the 1923 meet. Those present at the meeting A. 8. Kerry, president; Dr. ©, Ford, secretary, and S. L. R Walter B. chairman of the standardtz handicap committee of Wa’ Dr. Thomas W. Wat Demarest, Tacoma. AMATEUR ICE ‘The usual doubleheader will b tap tonight at the Arena in the log amateur hockey league with Wanderers and the University, Washington meeting at 7 p. m. # the Pirates and the American tangling in the other game. 200000000000000000 Come and Meet _ “Lady Luck” at 214 Jefferson St. oy Just back of L, C. Smith Bld Miss “Glenna Collett, winner of the women’s national title, plans to enter the British championships thix summer, | tourney wiil be played at Son fs woven able. In Phitlipe-Joues Corps 208 Pa soft collars it is therefore transitory. VAN HEUSEN | Van Ince A VAN HEUSEN collar of medium height. ‘The curvein the VAN HEUSEN therefore inevit- ordinary stiff and pressed in, ferent the World Smartest COLLAR oration, Maker fle Bldg, San Fran