The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1923, Page 17

FF 3 k: oper hy log Bs 7 ly at toa stor did =| — | FRIDAY, FEBRUAR D-EDu Aa Told to Leo The Importance o CHAPTE ATCHERS are the directiy move in the game. ’ ; to find. get along with Take Bill Ja The former went up with season in 1914. ‘ parts. Dupdels Matt Stanley tle team, was another great he wise head and he knew how to I think that Truck Hannah, anybody except Bert Whaling. CES le H. Lassen f Catchers R XLIUL, ig general of every defensive A good catcher is worth his weight in gold to a major * league club, and real good catchers hard only certain receivers, mes for example. Seattle star couldn't pitch to Whaling James to'the Boston Braves, and he caught Bill when he had that big But when James passed out of the big league picture with a sore arm the next year, Whaling minors, James and Whaling were about the greatest battery also drifted back to the ever y, the old receiver of the Seat- lp to his pitchers. He was a get the best out of his hurlers. the big Vernon catcher, had a lot to do with the success of Jake May last summer, May's big weakness before had alw steadied him down and May & pitcher ever turned in for a Archie Yelle, the Frisco receiv: her. Sam Agnew, generally con 8 been wildness, but Hannah d one of the biggest years Coast league team. is another catcher who can steady eded one of the best in the mi ora, {* & smart catcher, but he hasn't the effect on a pitcher that Yelle has. Yello is by far the smoother worker I remember George Van Ha’ the old caro club, that Tom D: work with because Daly knew just what to do all the time. big target to throw at and he knew Jack Adams, the former Seattle mask man, is another good head behind | an the plate for a young pitcher. Know’ that the catcher takes in the game. of the ¥ was the onty cat Daly was a the batters, Saturday Dugdale will tell about his arrival in Seattle in 1898, WHO SAID THERE WASN'T ANY SENTIMENT IN GAME ? HO sald there wasn't any senti- ment in baseball? BUI Killifer, now manager of the Chicago Cubs, made his major debut in 1907 with the St, Louis Browns. The Browns of that year was com-| posed largely of veteran players. Kil- Mfer didn't get much of a chance and but little advice from the vets There was one exception in the squad, Bobby Wallace, star shortsop of the Browns Wallace took a real interest In Killifer and tutored him fm many ways, That was back In 12907. Afew months ago Bill Killifer Yearned that Bobby Wallace was without a job for 1923. Killifer {m- mediately signed him asa scout with- out quidbling over salary. ‘The Cubs’ manager figured the Player who looked after him in 1907 was just the fellow to tutor his young players. The addition of Wal- lace should work to the advantage of all concerned. Wallace, who spent 24 years In the Majors, broke tn as a pitcher and| won fame at third, became one of the greatest shortstops in the history of the game and could play a fine game at second, was a versatile ath- lete. Recently, when asked if he noticed Any difference between the stars of “City De Luxe” ||| Light in weight, dark in finish; long, slen- der stem, assuring a cool emoke. Just the bipe you want for service and attract- iveneas. | pring Cigar Co. INC, | 707 First Ave. 418 Pike St. | O10 Pike St. 1406 Fourth Ave. | Wholesale, 1200 Western Ave. | AMUSEMENTS | TWKE memo THEATRES Orpheum Circuit es VAUDEVILLE 3%: Allan Rogers and Leonora Allen BERT in “Umphs Ville” CARLISLE AND 1 MAL — CSENSATIONAL VALE! MAX AND MORITZ Matinees, 2:30 = Night CYCLONIC EVA TANGUAY America’s Greatest Eccentric Comedienne RERT WALTON j OKLAHOMA FOUR GRACE AND EDDIE PARKS LaDORA AND BECKMAN VANTAGESCOPE Fal Adminsion ; Gen: Matinees, 250 Nights, the present and the old days, he re- plied: “It Is not my intention to criticise | Merris the ball player of today, but the im-| portant change as I see it is that tt has become a one-poaition profession By that I mean the player decides that he is sulted for one position and stops right there, only In rare cases. “I remember when I reported to the Cleveland Spiders. I pitched thruout 1894 and to the 1895 On the bench one day Tebeau gave me the catching paraphernalia |? and said: “ "Hey, kid, I understand you did a bit of catching over at Franklin, Pa Well, you're going to catch for us today.’ “And I caught, too, without trying to argue with Tebeau. “In the spring of 1996 we were down In Loulsville, Tebean called me over to hin seat on the bench 10 min- utes before the game started and told me that Chippy McGarr had a lame arm. ° "He your glove; fo out to third base today,’ were the words from Pat. I did not pitch another fame, and I was at third base until the spring of 1899. My next im- portant conference with Tebeau was like the one of 1994. Ed McKean had contracted a sore arm and could not throw. I saw Pat eyeing around the bench. He spotted me. “Do you remember, Bob, how you filled in an @ catcher, relieved Mo- Aleer in the outfield and then sent McGarr into retirement? snapped Pat. ‘Well, I have another job for you today. Go in at short for Mc- Kean." “I went without hes:iating. The result was that all of an were pretty handy at everything. You don't see that nowadays. I saw the change coming when the American league was organized, for I started and fin- ished at shortstop for the Browns “It might be that baseball has be- come more efficient where a man can be an artist In only one trade.” BIG BOUT IN DOUBT ST. MORITZ, Feb. 16.—Bad hands will prevent Georges Carpentier meeting Battling Siki for months, the former European champion sald here. Doubt that he ever will meet his conqueror was expressed in his statement that “there isn't much in: |terest in another bout with him.” CHICAGO, Feb. 16—Grenda and Koekler and Brocco and Egg util) led the field today in the six-day inter. national bleycle race. The two teams covered 1,716 miles and three laps in 99 hours, SURPRISED? $1,850-—$100—$15 At the price, payment down and monthly figure? Some of the many things you get is a well bullt home; %-acre garden soil; good trasportation, the reason we are selling ‘em #0 fast by calling for our free booklet. H. ©, PETERS, 726 Third Avenuc Do you lack the punch and vigor of strong manhood? Why? Do not remain in this condition. see our Specialist FREE, and have him TELL YOU HOW TO GET WELL, Hourn: 10-12, 3-6. Sunday: 1112 a. tn. Lincoln Memorial Clinic 1927 3d Ave. Opposite P. 0. ‘Mets Lose It’s odd, too, how some star pitchers can | developed in these | telling ma, when he was pitching for | r he could | cha: ing the weaknesses of the opposing hitters, getting the confidence | of the pitchers, and shifting the fielders all play big parts tn the role|bour were the outs middle of | Fast Game {Edmonton Eskimos Get Jump on Locals and Win Out by One Tally In @ bitterly contented game, fom jtared by dozens of sensational plays, st Hockey anno- elation team went down to defeat Thursday night before the Edmonton Eskimos of the Prairie league, The score was 4 to 3 Tho game was played one day late, as the visitors were snowbound en route, but the delay only served to |wpur on the players and the contest }was a fight from start to fintsh. Seattle was first to ncore, but its de fense crumpled mom tly shortly afterward and the Kakimos turned the tables, scoring twice in as many minutes, the first er closing the score 2 | Both te slowed up period. The Sea: oe to pleces during the utes of play, and Edmon he net twice, making the count 4 to 1, Matters were nearly evened shortly afterward, how Foyston and Walker both | With Edmonton leading by one }meal, both teams began to play dos | |Derately then and they kept going} Jat top speed thruout the reat of the |mecond period and all of the third able to score, | y part of the game was | terized by us ually ng, but the boys started to things up in the final chapter, | Trapp uke | all took compul Keats-Duke, [but neither side wa The ea clean | play ro and Keats D ry vacations | Simpson and Ar | stars | among and Walker did the heavy work for Seat: | |tle, and both goal tenders performed admirably the winners. Foyston TH Lonrcr + Goa Laft Defer Walker. | Briden .. ¥ 1 Third period First period —None a 2 minutes minutes; Keats, 2 minutes Mickey Ton, ‘STAR HOOPER DRAGS DOWN BIG SALARY VERY branch of sport has mado rapid strides of progress tn the last five years, A big crowd of five years ago in a slim gathering today Not #0 tong ago, $12,000 was con- sidered a top-notch salary for a big | Yeague baseball player. In fact there | were few men who were commanding | stipends of those proportions wider then the case of one John- ny Beckman, sensational forward and guard of the New York Celtics, world champion basketball team. Beckman fs said to draw down th amount mentioned above for his | nervices on the courts thin season. In |cidentally, he ts the highest paid] Player in the game today And that’s some salary when tt is considered that the Indoor pastime covers but five months or #o at the most, with from five to six games being played weekly, and each con- test lasting but 40 minutes. In other words, Beckman gets about $100 for every game in which he participates Stmmered down, !t means something like three bucks a minute. A fairly food recompense in any branch of endeavor. fecona Third period Trapp, 2 minutes; BIG CAGE GO IS ON BOARD FOR HUSKIES 1H University of Washington and 0. A. C. play in the biggest game for them this season at the Washington gym tomorrow night. The Huskies aren't tn the best of condition for the game, hecause of | the long delay in snow-bound Cle Klum. ‘They arrived yesterday, aftor two days in the snow. If Washington wins, it can clinch |the Northwest honors by a victory over Oregon the following week. It it lowes, the Huskies still have a chance to tie foPfirst place. Washington's ineup for tomorrow night is uncertain, but Coach Ed mundson {ps expected to play his reg ular Iineup of Lewis and Frayne at forward, Hesketh at center and Crawford and Bryan at guards, O. A, C. is expected to play Rid ings and Gill at forwards, Hyelte at center, and McMullen and Steele at guards, ‘The doors open at 6:45 and play starts at 7:30. N ‘Ss wir BOSTON, —ballor Fried cbt, won a 10-round de Willle Har , who had won 90 straight yio~ tories, PROVIDE: R. L—Terry Martin, Providence bantam, won @ 12-round de elaion from Dan y Edwards of California, —Clving away dotnny Karr, Cleveland, In 12 rounds Inet night, wolght Hngland night when he was defeated on points by Toland ‘Todd in # 20-round bout, a little tn ANOTHER NAME GOES ON ROSTER OF BERCO EMINISCE THE NAILS ON HIS $1OQ000 HAND OUT SHINe “The BALL Hopen's goth mown’ Fook UKE ow Jerreecs HOPPE. ' ACTION BY BILLY EVANS ] HOPPE famous billiard & champton, ¢ ¥ inc He not only plays but looks Hopr © game of bil-| ay ho reign for « long, long I have known Willle ‘opps years. He i. he was 20 yoars ago, when he was first startling the billiard world a» the “boy wonder,” Success has not changed him tn the least. Hoppe fa one of the most popular champions in the history of all porta. Affable, always the gentle- man, Hoppe makes friends the mo. ment he steps up to the green table to start @ match or exhibition, His clean-cut manner immediately wi you over, for the mame Hoppe today TA Willie Hoppe Popular Champ at Arenaans Get Run for Their Money cass S| pick Mix AH-HAAAA- THE CHAMPION MISSES A BILLARD While every champion tn any branch of sport sooner or later is de- throned, the defeat of Hoppe by Schaefer @ year ago was a huge sur- prise. The «sympathy of every lover of billiards went to Hoppe in defeat. The glad hand was extonded by just “9 many when he regained his title ing Schaefer me Schaefer happened to Willie?” I asked. old mental hazard turned the © replied. “Early in the mateh I fa shots that I should have executed. I began to think that I wa# off my that I couldn't make them, The old mental hazard was constant- ly in front of me. Rarely have I ever been no afflicted. I had @ halt dozen big chances, but failed to take advantage of them. Championship polse was lacking in that match There you have the reason for my dofeat.” stroke, | tries to give the fans « run for their money. He takes every exhibition seriously, plays bis v disappointed when he fails to do |nomething unusual, something the | fans really expect a champion to per- form. It ts really surprising what a little a will dy with a champion's ma Rec 1 saw Hoppe per- rim in Cleveland at the Cleveland lub, After practicing for a w minutes he came back and sat down beride me, saying “The crowd is going to see poor billiards this afternoon. That table is just like asking @ big league ball player to perform on a skinned dia- nd. The cushions are livelier than nity Jake Schaefer with any He has greatest re & hacter's re r > narkable abil ity, but feels that bh will be able to retain the title ability he: ra are nearly equal tn breaks the means everything,” rked Hoppe to me! the ball they used in the big league recently tn tg the coming| last year.” match for the champtonship, | Hoppe was right It required a “It Is Imponatble to describe Just | Mock of innings to complete the after- what 1 mean by the breaka There|poon'’s play. In the evening the ® #0 many little things that can| cushions were changed, and Hoppe te part in the final re-| demonstrated why he is champion, ner they break for or/by running out his $00 points In two ‘ou. Any fellow who han|innings, getting 204 and an unfin- lged in any brand of sport| ished run of 96. jerstand just what I mean Hoppe ts playing tm fine form at when I mako reference to the tm-| present. Four times since regaining portant part the broak of the game | his title, he has run out blocks of plays.” 300 points in exhibition matches. SOUTH IS GRID MENACE TLANTA, Ga., te gage them in Heretofore 1923 campaign, East will find themselves involuntarily bracing themselves against the at- tk of powerful elevens that will go thundering up from the South to en- Feb. 16.—When the gridiron hosts swing into action for the major leaguers of the football world in the North and warfare. the in ion of the squads from Dixie has met with varied success, but has been sufficiently noteworthy to make the leading colleges of the country seek return dates with the best of the southern institutions to such an ex Advancement of football in the South has been so material in recent years that the big universities of other sections have found a real danger tent that there is now a keen rivalry for the choice dates. in the uuual pilgrimages of the various teams to their domains. The feat of Centre college in 1921, when they beat Harvard at Cambridge, attracted at- tention to the “wonder team,” others, and the victory of Alabama over the “thin red line” from Tusca-| loosa on the map. | Intersectional competition first reached a high stagn between the North and East teams and the South back in the days when Dan McGugin firet started turning out wonderful machines at Vanderbilt. It will be recalled that in 1906 the Vanderbilt Commodores defeated the great Carlisle Indians, then at the peak of their glory, by a score of 4 to 0, and In 1910 the Commodores | held Yale to a scoreless tie in New Haven. | Two years later the Vanderbilt team held a great Harvard eleven to & 9 to 8 ncore, and from time to time achleved singular success In interned tional competition. Only last season McGugin's fine combination held} Michigan to a scoreless the, A survoy of tho tentative schedules for 1923 revenia the fact that many Dixto teams will invade the North for games that should rank among the best of the season. There in a touch of color to these clashes be- tween the greatest teams of the country and the cream of the south- ern grids that cannot be matched even In “Big ‘Three or “Big Ten" play, Bitter rivalry of 1861, that swept thru the war nes of Leo and Grant, has been laid to rest, but from it has grown a modern form of | athletic competition that knows no bounds. While the South offered stern op- position last soagon, Alabama was the only eleven to put over a big win, Alabama's defeat of Pennayl- vania, after that team had defented the Navy, was one of the upsets of the season, ‘This year the South feels confident that it will turn the North and Enst back neveral times, In fact, is hope- ful of getting an even split in the in- tersectional games scheduled. WIS WINS KANSAS CITY, Feb, 6.—Stranglor Lowls successfully defended his championship by taking two out of three falls in a wrestling match here with Joo Mondt, Colorado cowboy, last night, Mondt won only tho first fall CHL BOUTS OFF CHICAGO, Feb, 16.—Toward gymnasium proprietor, was arr for charging admi, show, Tht bouts wore stopp orders Jauued to police officers slop all publlo boxing matches, jon to his boxing the world's best sprinter, in New York. Altho a youngster who has still much to learn about the sprint game, he hay already stopped 100 yards in 9 9-10 seconds, while the strong fight put up by Georgia Tech, Auburn and University of Pennsylvania also put the Southern Elevens Schedule Eight Intersectional Games BEADING football teams of the South have already scheduled eight important games with rivals in the North and East. Virginia for the first timo in 10 years fails to play an eastern team. It Is possible that Virginia may yot be placed on somo big eastern elev. en's schedule. Many of the leading coll’ -.s of the South expect to have greatly tm- Proved olevens over 1922, and the world knows the South boasted of some mighty fine teams Inst year. Here ts the lst of big gamos already on tap for football fans: Georgia Tech vs. Notre Damo at South Bend, Ind. Georgia Tech va, Penn State at State College, Pa. University of Georgia va, Yale at New Haven, Conn Vanderbilt vs, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich. Contre vs, University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, University of Alabama vs, Syracuse at Syracuse, N. Y. North Carolina va. Yale at New Haven, Conn, Leading track conchos predict that Francis Hussey has the makings of Hussey is a student at & uyvesant high school T’S RING d weveral times to make| Hoppe ts one champion who always | « y best and ts! High Praise for Hornsby ST. LOUIS, Fet Banet ot Rogers Horn: Branch Rickey of the use Hornsby ts s®eh a wonderful hitter, the fans fail t |] @pprec his fielding a || stye Rickey | I know many of pnt agree with me Hornsby one of tent fielding second base men of all time “I have watched Lajole, Co! line, Evers, Ritchey and other || reate in action, but I will take Hornaby for mi | ‘All things considered, Horns. |] by ts the great the most val uable second baseman in the his. || tory of the game.” vel pldoute Are Given | New Threat BY HENRY L, FARRELL | mas | mered EW YORK, have or Feb. 16 such @ serious g the world's cham- pion Giants that John McGraw h been forced to do something he hasn't done in 20 yeara. Notices were in the mails today to 1 Giants who have not signed con- The tuation am tr }San Antonio until they have put paper. |icy of the Glanta. In the past Mc Graw has always allowed the players and talk {t over, The threat, however, may fafl tn its purpose, The only reply the clut received from the more beauty. he couldn't report until he had kigned and be answered that he had not in- tended to report and thanked them for their trouble There are three exceptions In the edict—Goorge Kel Casey Stengel, fairly fourth. who were with the Orient. They will be obliged to work| for a for two weeks at the camp, and show | that the trip didn’t hurt them before they will be offered a contract. While Frisch, Groh and Young are |the only regular Glants on paper, the situation is almost as bad with the Yankees, Babe Ruth and Carl loose, contracts, and Everett Scott is the only player who has signed a new contract. Wallle Schang “came to terms,” but he did not sign. Action of the Giants and a pre round ively. in the Jin the National } club owners may have decided on this | draw, policy of bringing their athletes to} The time. nearly ring. towel. edge. easily. punch show. William Muldoon, chair- man on the New York State Boxing commission, may be removed from office in the shakeup which is expected to take place soon. BIG BANTAM BOUT IS ON NEW YORK, Feb. 16—Joe Lynch's successor as the world’s jbantam champion, is expected to be produced tonight, after a 15-round bout In Madison Square Garden, be- tween Irish Johnny Curtin, Jersey City, and Carl Tremaine, Cleveland. The winner has been promised a title bout with Lynch, and New York experts believe that either one of them can beat the present cham- A MEDIUM WIDTH, CLOSE MEETING, SMART LOOKING Bercot Is =| Winner in Bearcat of Monroe Slugs His Way to Win Over Tough Denver Boy Loe BY LEO H. LASSEN Black gave Bercot the hardest fight he has had yet in his short, but sem | sational ring career. thing Bercot had to dish out, and | . it was plenty. everything but Lonnie Austin's rub- 7 -Holdouts | bers, but Black refused to drop, sion, Black forcing Bercot to break | ground a couple of times with sharp 7) Jolts to the wind and by two hard | Uppercuts to the chin. But Bercot jl came right back, fighting as hard as § ever, and won the round. N ta that they will not be allowed| In the sixth, Black wavered under |to report at Marlin Springs or at) the terrific head punches and nearly flopped, but managed to stick out jtheir names at the bottom of the/the round, Bercot received his first | bad out in that fifth round when he This 1s considered a most drastic | bumped heads with Black, a gash be move from a club of the liberal pol-|ing cut over his right eye. It isn’t erious. Bercot’s next start will be a week who were dissatisfied with the club's! trom tonight, when he takes on the ffer to report to the training camp | veteran Harry Anderson in an eight Johnny Mack, the Pittsburg feath« erwelght, beat Bully Young, the Vam ultimatum wes \couver boy, {rpm Seattle to Pitts- from Jack Bentley, the $65,000 Balt!-| burg and back, but Referee Leo The Gents told him | Hartnett did a Ben Turpin and called it even. The first four rounds were edge tn the second and Mack im the . Mack did most of the fore- ing In these sessions, Young counter y, Irish Meusel and| ing effectively, i But Mack socked Young on the barnstormers on the trip to the/chin in the fifth and dropped him couple of times again when he got up and Young held on for dear life, Referee Hartnett tried to pry Youngs tried to move Mount Rainier from its moorings. ence for Young, and it looked like Mays are working under hold-over|the Vancouver boy would floor Mack as he had a perfect football tackle | around Mack's legs. vious announcement of the Broklyn|the wrestling in that torrid club to the same effect indicates that} Was an even round. And 4 1, at least, the| Climax {t all, Hartnett called it approval of Mack when he left the Joe Martinson, now fighting from Cle Elum, turned out the lights for Clem Zukowski, of Ruston, but the bell sounded at the count of nine, This was in the first round. After being revived Zukowski tossed in the Eddie weight, was on the losing end of an | interesting bout with Ludwig Jones, | Tacoma miller. rounds, with Jones havin; Billy Sheridan, a Tacoma Mght weight, made a good impression in his first start by beating Red Luhr A capacity house sat in on Ey NAVY YARD tC] Deck | $700,000 State Insurance Com- Stand Behind the Policies of Title Insurance Issued by This Modern, Date Title Insurance Com=- Of this sum, $150,000 tn ‘overnment irgt mort, proved real waye kept on deposit with the state treasurer as a permanent guaranty fund, wi opinion on your title, when we guaranty, protecting you against forgery or other fatal defects of title, and also againat coat of Mtge: tion { WASHINGTON TITLE INSURANCE ASSETS MORE THAN ICTIMS | d ACOMA, Feb. 16. 9 —Joe Black stood 7 up under one of the most terrific © hammerings that | any battler ever 7 took in a Tacoma | ring, last night, jj refusing to drop | under the terrific 7 punts h ment meted out by Dode Bercot, the Monroe logget. He took everys | his face and cracked him with fifth round was a great sem even, with Young taking an nine count. He hit him a but he might as well have Hartnett ran interfere It was a wild and Young was beaten Young came back sixth, while Mack fans bo cracked the roof with their Moore, Seattle It went the four ig & slight Sheridan showed a good | and worked like a veteran. the Main 3908 ROUTE 3003 MORE THAN IN ASSETS APPROVED BY THE missioner Up-to- pany onds and ges on im= estate is al= hy be content with an issue an absolute title is attacked? COMPANY nder State Supervision”