The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 19, 1923, Page 13

MONDAY, FE ERNATION RUARY 19, 192 EMINISCENCES D-ED Le As Told to Leo H. Lassen $10,000 for Three Titles CHAPTER XLV, HE Seattle club won three championships in 1898, and I lost $10,000 helping the team do it. The season was a bust financially, It was almost impos- w sible to get the fans out, We had a 2,000 crowd one day—the big- gest gathering of the year. The average at- tendance was about 150. We played week days at the Y. M. C. A. park and Sundays out at the Madison street grounds. The Seattle team got off to too big a start in the first part of the season and the league made a split year of it. The Seattle gang ain cleaned up in the second half. Then Portland and Spokane withdrew and Seattle and Tacoma played an inter-city | series during the month of August and part of September, Seattle winning the majority of the game: | When Portland quit I tried to get Everett in the league, and when Spokane threw in the towel Belling- ham was sought as a Northwest club. ] But they weren't ripe yet for league ball. When these two towns fizzled to Frisco and arranged ries of games for the games fn all—for the championship of the Coast, as Weague was operating at the time. Duodale ut I pulled out of & California a amal We had been reading about the big crowds in San Francisco and we thought it would be a lifesaver for us financia » to Fr Big | crowds! I remember we drew around $100 a ga hare. That sunk our financial ship for fatr, | That was certainly a tough season—1898—and into it I put the savings of 15 years, losing every dime. Tuesday Dugdale will tell about some of the unusual Incidents of | the 189% playing season. | Al THE SEAT TLE STAR Hie OissiPATES SOME THING he VILLON } AT SY | E ve — iGreen \ ONLY Sy MORE | eee A Paw sraePs UNDEF eArE ‘Thefocer™ HE CAN SuRE Sock O CANAQIAN BANTAM -wkIGH 7 a BILL TILDENSHOWSHE——| IS “AS GOOD AS EVER”) BY HENRY L. FARRELL — | be goes about every stroke in hin W YORK, Feb, 19.—Bill Tilden, | repertoire with. perfect confidence world’s tennis champion, may be/The wound still hurts, he sald, but lacking a part of the’ finger, but Rone of his old game is miswing. Altho he lost a two-set match to Vincent Richards, both 11-9, in his | here since the oper MARK BROKEN | champion showed) newver, Fed. 19.—Hans Hansen he's good AS) professional ski Jumper, pashed the | Genesee mountain course record yes- jterday when he jumped 121% ft | Eight thousand «pectators witnessed the annual Interstate ski riding tour namont. MYATT WON’T QUIT INDIANS HOUSTON, Feb, 19.—Glenn Myatt, | $30,000 catcher, who threatened to| retire for private business, will be with the Cleveland Indians next sea- son, Tris Speake: he does not intend to humor it | first exhibition ation. criti the tall ‘s yesterday as bards meant nothing lost to his youthful ory protege before and most anyone will lose to youngster when he Might, as he was yesterday. Tilden showed everything that he has ever flashed on a court. His forehand and backhand were aa hard and accurate as he ever possessed. He served, chopped and sliced with ell the brilliance of form that car tied him to the world’s champion. In every way he seems to be missing not one bit,-with the end of this finger. He does not favor the finger and Lewis Loses His Temper | s announced. -and Varsity Is Trimmed T doesn’t pay to lose your temper in any line of endeavor. Whatever chance Washington had of beating O. A. C. in their big cage game} Saturday night took a sock on the chin when Captain Evan Lewis delibarately| pushed an Aggie man in the center of the floor while Bruce Hesketh had a short shot cinched under the basket late in the game. O. A. C. shot a foul on Lewis’ au us.diyton lost a basket. Those three points sented just the margin of difference between the when the game was over, as O. A. C. won, 28 to 25. The Aggies outplayed Washington thruout the altho some tough luck at the close of th shots under the basket cost| = Washington the game. | | | break repre- teams game, @ game on short Northern Seetion | Won Lost The Aggies led at 14 to 12 ati, , ¢ as Bin half time and held thelr lead thru-| washington ‘ : 871 out the game. ‘ eos am see Gill, crack O. A. C. forward, |W°E™, eile ed shot four sizzling goals from the pike obs | sidelines that were pips. They| Northwest Conference turned the tide | : Pet The best Washington can hope |. A.C... Ps for now in the conference race in|;j,1> ‘ the Coast division ts a tie if Idaho Oregon 2 beats O. A. C. next Saturday. | Whitman 5 Should O. A. C. win, the Agsles| vontana ; clinch the title. The Oregon Farm- | Pacitic ‘ ers must also beat W. 8. C. at| Willamette persce: 1 Pullman Wednesday : : GAMES THIS WEEK Oregon winds up the season here Wutcks L Grks W. ko) Ccenes Saturday. at Idaho. In the meantime Oregon plays!) woanesday—O. A. C. at Idaho; Oregon at Idaho tonight and at W. 8. C.jat w. 8 ©; Stanford at California Friday A.C. at Whitman; © Wednesday, antord; Pactfic OPPORTUNITY est. intnatin ‘sini “™* ** Star Want Ads| W. §. G, at Idaho, which does not count at Will doe in conference standings.) VAN HEUSEN the Worlds Smartest COLLAR The VAN HEUSEN ts the first collar in history woven on a curve—and therefore the first collar woven to Van Ince A VAN HEUSEN collar of medium height. niliips-Jones Corporation, Makers PHIgss Broadway, New York Ban Francisco Office, 206 Pacific Hide. | | engages Star in unior Baseball Pilots to Hold First Meet at Star Tonight ONIGHT'S the night for the first meeting of The Star Junior baseball league mana- gers at The Star office. The junior pilots will get together in their initial organization session of the season at|** and University sts. at 8 p.m. this newspaper's office at The rules and regulations f }will be in order tonight, and as there is much business to be done it is important that every manager be in attend ance on time. CONTRACTS READY SOON Contracts are not yet ready for dis tribution to the managers, but they will ba available soon. The contracts must be turned In to The one week before the first game of the season. ENTRIES OPEN TONIGHT Entries for The Star league open with tonight's m ic. All that a team needs to ¢ Is to have to a ative at to represer [night's meeting and get ita contract tn on time. And all teams plann: to enter must not forget that eve team must uniformed MOLLA NOT ON MISSION OF NET WAR ARIS, Feb, 19.—Still refusing to reply to the verbal shots fired be P at her by Suzanne Lenglen, the world’s champion, Mra. Molla Mal lory, American champlon, left today for Monte Carlo. While Mes. Mallory refused even to notice newapapermen, her hus band, Franklin Mallory, said it is undecided whether Mra, Mallory will compete in tennix tournaments. | | It all depends on her health. She is feeling much better now and she may be able to play “Mrs. Mallory did France on any kind wion,” her husband plays tennis not but he to mie not of war raid core to ne’ because in prepared it tournaments will be to play anyone she {s called upon to meet.” BENDER WILL COACH MIDDIES Chief Bender will coach the piteh ers on the Naval academy team at Annapolis this year. He may catch on a8 manager of some minor league team Hoon. Hikes any John J, McCloskey, former Tacoma ner in the old Northwestern league, has disposed of his franchise ut Salina In the Southwestern league. Crack Scorer WILLIAM MILLER Willam Miller, Michigan's crack cage forward, scored #7 points ina single game against Ohio State re- cently, nter the cireult | eventh ave. between Union or the season and other bus | HOPPE SHOTS NO, I—CAROM SHOT Alm at object ball full, Strike |ball above center, no english, medium. |low draw. |TIGER PUCK TEAM PANNED |. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Yale Athletic association novers criticived Princeton for rough work} "in the hockey game which Yale won, “The idea 1 to 0, Saturday night. fair play is predominant among all Yale coaches. After the came bert | the situation rests entirely with t |playern Not so with Harvard Princeton,” a statement read. FROSH MAY — NEW YORK, Feb. 19,—Propowal bar freshmen from partiofpation tho Inter-collegiate track and fie | tion next month. YOUNGSTERS > were to report at the training cam today. The Seals go to Boyes Sprin, and the Oaks to Myrtledale, YOUNG GETS» in the Bastern league I} Stroke TOMORROW — Three-cushion fol- BE BARRED championships will be offered again at the annual meeting of the associn- REPORTING PHILLY GATE pected to catch on with New Haven iness pertaining to the circuit Victoria | Opening Big Trip FUCK STANDINGS a Pte. Vancouve: Beattie GAMA THs WEEK Tontght—-Kdamonton at Vancouver; Vie toris at Reg | Wednesday— Vancouver at Seattle; Vie- teria at Baskatoon. Friday—Seattio ve ICTORIA’S hockey team ts open- ing Ita all-important trip to the prairie tonight In a game with the | powerful Regina team at Rogina, The |Caps have successfully walloped every Coast team at home thin sea- son and have lost but one game to Coast teams so far, that to Vancou- | ver at Vancouver, | If the Victorians can clean up on the prairie they still have a sweet |chanes of beating Seattle out of sec. }ond place in the league race. While Victoria is on the prairie Be. attlo muet battle Vancouver three | times and the champtons have been Vancouver at Vie | polson to the Mets lately. They play Seattle here Wednesday, in Victoria Friday, and in Vancouver Monday, PREP GAMES ARE SLATED Whar all accounts the postponed high school basketball games of Friday will be played tomorrow. | cision on the schedule was to be made today and It was understood that five Jout of «ix coaches favored playing ty of| the games Tuesday, If they are played the Lincoln- na|Broadway and Roosevelt-Ballard games will be In the spotlight. A Linchin win at Broadway will just about cinch a tie for first place for the Northenders, Roorevelt must trim Ballard order to stay in the face, In the other gamen of the day West ; Seattle Is playing at Queen Anne and | Garfield is tangling with Franklin at | Franklin. THREE TIE FOR SHOOTING LEAD KANSAS CITY, Feb, 19—Three mon tied with scores of $1 at the close of the international amateur wing shoot here yesterday. he or to in pld BAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 19.— Only 12 of the 25 entrants fin- Youngsters on the Oakland and San/ished, Tho three high men wore Francisco Coast league ball squads! Frank Troeh, Vancouver, Wash.; C. pa 8 J, Moss and J, &. Crawford, of Kan- sas City, LYNCH WILL RISK TITLE NEW YORK, Feb, 19.—Joo Lynch, Pep Young, v an inflelder, haa} bantam champlon, has decided to de- been given his unconditional release |fend his title, He will meet Pete by the Philly Athletics, He js ex] Husic in Harrisburg, on Fobruary 26, and will engage Joe Mondo tn a no- sion bout in Philadelphia March 5, blew aa the magnates gathered Col, Jacob Ruppert by hia partner, Col checkbook, were on hand to make from the White Box, HILADHLPHIA, Feb, 19.—The American league moguls m here today to transact thelr annu apring business, such ae publishin the schedule and making a few la trades and talking over the comin seanon. Rumors that Wddie Collins, Wht fox second sicker, would be sold the Yanks, were revived In hotel lob: accompanied Huston and his last desperate drive to obtain Collins AMERICAN LEAGUE MAGS ARE MEETING IN PHILLY ‘The only comments the magnates ot | would male wan that {t was cold, al ie Clark Griffith, Washington owner, was running around the hotel corrt. ng |1OP% looking for a right-handed "| piteher, The “old fox” had little to to | MAY. but appeared to be hunting hard 1, | for players Connie Mack, pilot of the Athlet- Jon, auld he expected the “White Mle phante” to finish nearer the top this nenson Incidentally, seven other managers or owners intimated that they ex. pected to win the pennant, A | FOR TUESDAY) De- | Question | of Rights and Lefts [Can Buell’s Right Hand | Beat Foley’s Crack Left in Pool Bout? BY LEO H, LAS N his three prev fous battles Ir Beattle Sailor Kaddie Buell has been spreading dynamite with bis right hat. leading and countering al most entirely | with his star board mitten. Whether he jew. fed enn his iright be sxeinat a@ and strong fighter like Vic F will be j #ettled tomorrow night when this efack pair of bantamwelghts elim thru the for thelr six-round | bout at the Cr ital Pool. Foley } n k in both mitts. It's | ring ax 2 that a good left hand | a & good rij ny day in the | wee If Rue ! in at F with his right he's apt to get nacked considerably with Foley's left chop. Both millers rong fellown for wuch weight th me 1 are expected under 1 is to th Joe Wilson va. Sailor Joe Ritc Soldier Woods vs, Joe Sarapin. Barney Goddard vs. Sailor Garcia. | \oDOWD 18 | KNOCKED OUT | Young O'Dowd subbed for Harry | Anderson in Portland Saturday night wt Johnny Trambitas and the Nghtweight member of the Tram. w family knocked O'Dowd kick in the first round of their nied 10-round fight. By th |way, there's her possible op-| ponent for Dode Bercot—this John ny Trambitas pernon. ANDERSON MAY NOT BE READY Harry Anderron i# suffering from ja heavy ccld und he not be ready to t Dode Bercot at Everett in their &-round tiff Friday. It behooves the veteran to be in jexcetiont shape for the logger be caure clght rounds is a long time to travel Bearcat. with the bardsocking Medal Champ | George T. Smith, wearing his 27 gold and sitver medals won while a member of the Maryville high school team at Maryville, Missouri, He also has four loving cups to his credit, ENGLEN WINS CANNES MEET CANNES, Feb. 19.—Suzanne Leng- lon, world’s tennis champion, again won the Cannes tournament cham- Pionship when she defeated Misa Blizabeth Ryan, American girl, 6-3 and 6-1, In the final round, FARMER WILL BATTLE GETZ Frank Farmer is going to step back into the fistlo spotlight again. The veteran Tacoma heavyweight will battle Rob Gets, the youngster from Akron, Ohio, in the main 10. round go at Portland Thursday night. TACOMA AFTER RETURN BOUT George Shanklin, Tacoma pro. moter, Ix trying to line up Dode Ber. cot to fight Joe Black again at Ta coma a week from Thursday, Ber cot kicked the tar out of Blaok last wook, ts 990000000000000000 Take Luncheon here and enjoy your relaxation with a game! The ZERO 214 Jefferson St. Junt back of L, C, Smith Bldg. Card Tables, Pool, Clears, Candios, Soft Drinks, Fountain Lunches Pay Checks Cashed 000000000000000000 F is lo vorth- Weat title 4 as he's undefeated he has a just « The title will be at stake day REST OF |CARD COMPLETE The rest the smoker card for! Tuesday night is completa. The i! neu follows: Georg Burns ve, Owen Roberts. PAGE 1% WORLD'S SERIES IS ON BASEBALL HO HORIZON Tourists Bring Back 4 News of Orient Ball panese Are Rapidly Learning the Game, According | to Herb Hunter’s All-Star Big Leaguers on Their Return Ja | FRANCISCO, Feb. 19—The “Interna tional World Series” is scheduled to be the baseball classic of the future. That’s the word brought back from the Orient by Herbie Hunter’s all-star aggre gation of globe-trotting baseball batn- stormers. What they found in Japan opened the eyes of the diamond stars of the American big leagues. They found: 1—A mob of baseball fans rivaling any- CLnived States can produce. That the Japanese have developed in a comparatively tie ng iort time some of the snappiest players to be found anye |where, Didn't Herbie Hunter personally coach some of ’em at Waseda university? 2 3 That the Japanese youngsters have forgotten the jnative game of ‘“duck-on-the-rock” and taken up “one ol’ |cat.” | 4—And strangest of all- jno baseball slang of jown, have learned the Ameri- can fan’s vernacular. They| shorty’ Kanahara. They're @ Iitle shout in “pidgin” English: |short on heavy pitchers yet, but they “Knock-um home run!” |#re coming up. Remember, they aré “Speedum up, kid!” “Putum|Pretty new at the game. When soinb A, of thelr youngsters have developed over plate. |they'll have a real team. This wasn't that Japanese rooters, having their | ——— ttle outfielder, who's & wonder. And a shortatop, ‘Tris Yanaoki, merely a funket,”| “Did they appreciate the coming ares Hunter, who managed the|of real big leaguers? We'll say allstar tour, “I had been In the|they did. At Shanghal we played to 4,500 people—the biggest crowd Orient before teaching the boys th game. we |that ever turned out In the Orient” And the day will come when|for a game. In Tokyo we had m can expect @ real international |gate of 61,000 yen. It's something” game that will be a great contest.|we're going to develop, for it will Furthermore, the matter of interna-|teaa to big things In baseball.” tional friendship thru| ‘The reception the American plays jtbis sport ts mot to be lightly con-lers received was such as only roye. | sidered jalty or great offictaldom have em We found that some real play: | joyed. : had been developed over there.| The American game, It would aD. were beaten by a bunch|pear from thelr reports, may do_ 1 the Mito team—all graduates|more to cement friendship than Keloto university, They had a|half the round tables of diplomats What Is Danforth’s Standing? {T. LOUIS, Feb, 1%—Dave Dan-) The incident not only caused Dans forth will again be a member of | forth to be suspended, but drove him Louls pitching staff {n the|'® the minors. Sent to Tulsa, in they coming campaign, for a tme at least.| wopr™ Measue, he finished in fing! style. Dave Danforth is the mystery man Danforth has been brought back of baseball, an eyesore to every|to the big show because the Browns American league umpire need a southpaw. What will be his American league umpires credit fate? a Danforth with being able todo more} Danforth has good speed, Re | tricks with @ baseball than Willie Possessed It, and lately has developed. Hoppe can do with the Ivories. Inja fair curve and @ good slow ball’ other words, Danforth, In the eyes of | He really has enough stuff to get by” Ban Johnson's staff, is always trying | on without resorting to trickery, but to fool the umpires as well as the| Dave at times can’t seo It that Ways 2 batters, Last season he pitched a number? Last year Danforth was suspended | of games in which the umpires gave” for 10 days on complaint of Umpire| him a clean bill of health, but hal” “Brick” Owens, who caught Dave was unable to stand prosperity and! doctoring the ball, so It is alleged. | soon went back to his old pat 3 Sox Youngster Should Shine HICAGO, Feb. 19—Unquestion-) sult of knocking out one of the ably one of the pitching finds/ Blankenship stopped ‘em dead. M of last season tn the majors was Ted | cago tied up the game, but the Frew, Blankenship of the Chicago White | crult twirler was defeated in extra | Sox. | innings, a While Blankenship didn't draw| Near the Close of the season many headlines om the sport sheet,|retary Grabiner of the White and didn’t bask in the limelight of ajenthused over the fine work no-hit game, as did Robertson, still) Blankenship, asked him {f he knew Kid Gleason regards him as the most| of any pitchers in Texas who might; ral established Ye of the promising recruit on the Sox staff.) have a chance, Blankenship hails from Bonham, Tex. That town gave “Reb” Russell to the White Sox. It ts kald that the same fellow who recommended Rus- sell tipped the Sox off to Bianken- ship. No pitcher ever made a more sen- sational debut than the youngster. Sent Into a game In which Detroit had a four or five-run lead, as a re- “The only other one I could mend ts my brother. He js a ml i better pitcher than me.” Thereupon Grabiner burned up the _ wires until he had the youtatel a Blankenship signed. That is how the! | White Sox happen to have the Blankenship boys on the pitching | staff. Both look like stars of the future, i O’Doul Will Get His Chance OSTON, Feb. 19. anager Frank | used in the outfield a few times by Chance of the Red Sox has posi-| New York. However, he expressed @ tively announced that “Lefty” desire to get a chance to pitch when. O'Doul will get his cherished wish—| the deal with Boston was made ana! fa chance to make good as a pitcher.| he is to get it ¥ Carried for three or four years by| “Pennock will help the Yanks! the Yankees, with the exception of| says Chance. “He ts & steady pitches a year spent in the Coast league, | er who should win many games with — O'Doul has been a bench warmor|a strong club like New York, | practically all the time, “I wanted McMillan for third, tha. His great work on the Coast, where|is why I permitted Pennock to get! he won 25 ball games, caused the/away. In addition I am told that Yanks to bring him back to the bix|O'Doul has a great deal more stuft show. He was counted on as having} and only needs the opportunity to finally arrived. A bad start caused | make good. him to be again relegated to the bench. Then came the trade to Bos. ton, O'Doul is fast and can hit, and was REIGER NOW WITH SACS Elmer Reiger, veteran right-hand ed pitcher, has caught on with the Sacramento club. Relger has now served with Vernon, Seattle and Salt Lake, “He Is going to get it He will either be a star or a filvver at the’ close of the season because he will be much used.” MR. BUSINESS MAN: Take advantage monthly club rate sult looking fresh Cleaners and @. ris 4 rs of ev. thing. Batistactio ‘ood. Dally service, ae PACIFIC DYE WORKS D. ie, Marr, " Phone West 0349. Since 1913 8) n New Arlington Hotel FREE GARAGH FRED BUS FRED TELEPHONE Main 2769, RP. 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