The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 28, 1923, Page 15

\ wEDNESDAY MARCH 28, 19: THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 15 OAST LOOP HAS LOST EXCEPTIONAL MANAGER IN KILLIFER Ridley Is Ty Cobb Is Depending Upon Hi Piloting Ability of Winner in | Collection of Detroit Rookies| “Red” Will Be Missed Gorman Go! Former Angel Field General Will Be Valuable in New ~ Position With Seattle Club, However; Other Gossig Unexpected Wallop Ends| of Wolverton’s Tossers Clash in Second Round; | BY LEO H. I Gorman Disqualified As Told to Leo H. Lassen ', Art of Base-Running CHAPTER LXXVIL. ANKY HAP MYERS, the Spokane first sacker, was the James of the Northwestern league base-runners. that baby could stretch those long legs between the SSE rch When AN JOSE, Cal., M fer settles into the Red Kille- sacks! 4 { ‘ . it in a season you stop to co! Myers stole over 100 bases—109 as I re-| call it—one season with Spekane, and he did | of 150 games or so. When msider that the catching was good and that 50 games is considered a good bas is all the more His ability by his tactic base. He got -running feat now, Myers’ record remarkable, as a base-runner was doubled in getting a lead off of first the longest lead I ever saw a runner get, not excepting Billy Lane either Ye was a long-legged bird and he could | *” step off the distance between the bases in | jig time. i majors as well as minors. Lane is a sweet base st better battery "Bag iti =FEZ az § a E le sack before hurlin baser Ralph } and got a nice lead, bt to teach him how to slid his neck. after that. Stovey and Mike Ke! were certainly wonders. put a kick in the game # Se ii Hi 2 Fa¥ At gas : Hi i A i Ny, the Kelly, a 48 a z iy &3¢ § i a of the best features of j i a i aad & i | game. all. Myers played with the Boston Braves for several seasons and ranked as a good player |, thief himself, and Lane has y work than Myers did. A pends upon the pitcher in keeping the runner |,, S- the old Seattle catcher, rary couldn't slide. and one day he dove head first wa He nearly broke {t, and nobody could talk Ralph dest base-runners of old time base im particular, with baseball. idem, too, the pitchers are given too much liberty with the balk | Referee Ad here are too many half-balk motions which make it hard on | Beerunning is one of the arts of baseball and shouldn't be eliminated Thornday Dugdale will tell about Bill Leard, the scrappiest of HE FOURNIER IS OUTLAW } CTRALIA, Ill, March 23.— Tuncheon Tues i: first baseman traded | in, to Brooklyn, made good | sci ‘ireat to retire from the major | by signing to manage a sem} dud here. | legal lin order to ee conn me 3) \ Pool, Cigars, | Soft Drinks, =] Fountain Lunches S| | MeCARTHY SAN FRANCISCO, Because Oscar ing Wi Wri to give President W of the Coast league the today SSTIGATES March 23.— w, represent Jr, H the records of MeCarthy iam refused McCarthy Los Angeies declared he would use every means to secu earn purchased COMMISH SPEAKS NEW YORK, March 28.—After & boxing champion has been legitl. mately challenged by a bona fide con: tender, he cannot engage in any oth- r contest until he has accepted the challenge and set the date, according to & new ruling of the New York box- ing commission. 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At all dealers, $1 outfit complete with strop and blades—other sets up to $25, ma sare Sharpens itself trop Razor his wonderful | BY SEABURN BROWN VTER of one uffering fortune for three quarte that mar rounds Water manag quired sev gray his hairs, was to have t the Gorman was ling up ardest smashes that a man of F one of ey's welght } of thin neck t all timber, The unexpec ax came after Gor ett hand was vibrating beads of per Jorated Waterm: the blonde t Ridley gusto th piration 4 h's neck, had rushed Into a corner swung from the floor o spill nt, inj man ¢ canvas, latter, after taking a short co’ gk the present lively ball and the hitting is gradually killing base. | **Ussled to his fost, but dropped | promise jagain before ¥ dey hacht could hit him very properly | disqualified Gorman, and the most | trying six-minute period of Water man’s life was a thing of the past The thrills short The tilt was packed with wound of the opening | belt had hardly died when ¢ man red a clean ko er 1 ley with a feft that landed flush the hinge-plece. Bud was badly up, but weathered the round out undue trouble. kdown to look like lights ou ond He toob r left in the first halt uld have floored a jens Chan perfect condition t end n his ch left that we be nd wa whe ce came and looned the hook that ended the battle, While nothing short Jengagement will settle [ments th {out the A “4 over the supremacy of |the battlers, it is practically certain that Ridley would have put Gorman away had the Portlander stayed on hie feet when he arose. He was far from out, but too groggy to protect fa return the himeelf from a slugger of genset | { clans, | BLACK ROBBED (OF DECISION | Another that so freq smokers was jin the semi-w | Burns was de his aix-round battl Burns ra outpunched ot weird decisions punctuate local d the winner in with Joo Black period, outfought th ver boy, and Schacht evident got that the previous five rounds should also be figured in making up a verdict. Burns took the sixth ses sion, the first and second wore fitty fifty propositions, while Black won and fifth rounds, Black beat Burns thruout at the tland lightweight’s favorite style of milling—infighting. Roth men took severe punishment Black's left ear swelled out to a prominence parallel with that of Nate Druxinman's new overcoat, and a badly cut eye bothered Burns after the second round. GRANDETTE TAKES BASY VICTORY Frankie Grandette, Portland's handsome 110-pounder, took an easy four-round decision over Filipino Tommy Yolas in the special event Yolas sort of upset the dope by shading the “shelk” In tho initial stanza, but the fight was all Gran- dette’s the rest of the way. Presenting a stomach that the terrific socks of Boy Met like a patented ‘Scarlet Red’ took Hin shock-absorber, Campbell, the one- Boy in the second bout of the eve. |ning. McCaslin socked his way into the lead in the first round, but Campbell shaded him from then on. Frankie Green won three of the four rounds of the curtain raiser from Ludwig Jones, but the white boy camo back so strongly in the last, period that he was given a draw. Green was all at sea when the final bell clanged. ‘The show, engineered by the Na- tional Athletic club, waa the best that has been pur on in a local ring this season, announced from the ring Krache and Jack Josephs line the next Arena glove |menu to be staged Tuesday by Aus- tin & Salt SEMI-SOFT COLLARS Will not wilt, crease, curl or fray, Appear stiff, are soft, Launder easily. 35¢ wach, 3 for $1 Madeby themahkersof ArrowCollars ciasitudes | argu: | immediately buzzed thru: | by clear margins in the third, fourth | | string violinist of Everett, beat the} job of secretary-treasurer | of the Seattle Indians, one of the best man- agers that the Coast league er had passes out of the managerial picture. Killefer came here a few days ago fully expecting to tz over the reins of the club from Harr verton, but after he had a conference with Charley Lockhard, the probable president of the-club, and saw for himself what splendid co-ordination there was between Harry Wol- verton and his players, Killefer decided to let t Gray | Wolf stay on the job. | Don’t think it wasn’t a sacrifice for Killefer to step aside. | Red is one of the players of the od baseball school who would do ‘anything short of murder to win a ball Killefer could step out today and play a pretty good out Here are three of Manager Cobb's twinkling youngsters. They are, left right; | field, altho his throwing wing is just about gone, Kil Kenneth Holloway, pitcher; Johnny Kerr, utility infielder, and Cliff Brady, also a utility|was one of the best leadoff men the league ever knew, infielder taking risky chances of getting beaned by trying to get hit =e with pitched balls—anything to get to that first sack. BY BILLY EVANS Killefer will undoubtedly play a role in Seattle similar UGUBTA n to that of Charley Graham of San Francisco. Killefer natural ability tt P th na Holloway look | should be invaluable in this new office. ip young Killefer and Lockhard have every ; are| Vested in the Seattle team, they assert, i; ee jtheir families to Seattle for permane’ y t to [the Detr to t ping 10 pit Joubt, t quire fur Da ed practically axsured carried for infield ut spite his very Kerr ts at this much 5 ngster has im until t he wil limited experier ng CaDIy dime they own in- and both are moving t residence th n wa t in| sters be pro every now on, de-| Neun, « first ce having t SARE SS SE Sa SS OLDHAM AND STANAGE JOIN VISALIA ed Oldham, former Portland ana rojt pitcher, and Oscar S: the veteran réecetver, have join natural ball player th f » few of the many » who tht ar, but re has time « spring omine an did Te Ww A great play in youn per Reign that can come from experience ts what most of them n continued Cobt One has only to wateh the recruits go thru their daily wor to | be. reall hat Manager Cobb ts decided: | | certain nine, tuth's name came d Everett Yaryan if he thought that Ruth would have good this year. Y: with the Chicago White Sox last season and saw Ruth in plenty of} | gamer, sh only | last year 4en One considers what runs and r Rigney has de up. Bom isan easy matter to nee what ble youngster Kerr to eloped retained © of the roo WALT HAGEN _ ISBARNES’ jc ron mau GOLF JINX 2s: ‘3 series?” asked Yaryan He hit 35 homers as it was and he was jout of the game from suspensions |nearly #ix or seven w He had better average per game pla for hgmers than Roger Hornsb; jeader, did. “And 4 think that he can’t bust that agate. I saw him hit the scoreboard in the White Sox park over 400 feet from home plate, with a line drive. How he larrups that pill.” nip a as Steen’s Visalia team in the independ ent San Joaquin league in Both are now out of or- ganized league ball. searon te af valley Instead of 10 pitch that Cobb w imtt of © Kerr nin a big, rang mont ern it te als California. y¥ correct in his estimate. wet Three of the recruits at infielder; Manus! ual th wa prize in ect ment of play As ar recruits run along th they are either outfielders, inf Kerr an out oe TESAR HAS NICE DELIVERY John T fielder her ram see z , the hurler from the ¥ pitcher hus a cer lub that fs his jinx. Like. star bataman has some o is hard for him to hit pitcher to py uxt an or a neers to bh branch of sport league, looks like he might He ts with a good delivery ani er s to quite a pit ky fellow natural st Under | mpidly Ja department of p: | Tyeer fault Of co pitchers or cat developing KERR LOOKS PROMISING Thin chap rc tn doping out t sore. 4 n't and le. He has a good cuder saw he was a tr * fast one and a fair curve ball, judg With expected to good Perhaps onounced’ case of jinx in hat Wa K hag plans a ‘ ing from his workouts so far, reo there ten't t pr the most p Manuah good coaching he is field at jably he will prove to break into t hi golfdc Hager Barnes Hag ; m is the spell show real promise. pre rity Jim P BLAKE HAS A SHINER Fred Blake, one of the new pitch ers, has been sporting a whale of aj shiner in camp the last few days.| ry | He was hit In the eye with a ball |thrown by Spike Maloney the other “Hagen furt seems to have my/|day and his right optic looks like a goat. Any time I play him I expect |train instead of a baseball hit it to get trimmed and I'm seldom dis | But it hasn't held Blake's workouts appointed,” 1s the way Barnes ex-|back any as he is still working hard, plains it. ishiner and all. TOBIN WILL BE READY S00N Frank Tobin {s gradually getting back his strength after an enforced jlayoft due to a heavy cold. He }should be in first class condition again in a week or so. Chances are that Everett Yaryan and Pete Ritchie will do the recefving for the first coupl® of weeks of the season until Tobe has fully recovered. the close of the seas und B greatest golfers Barnes ts a} rnes are two of the the yet | the easiest kind of picking for Hagen, Against the Brit |ish open champion .Barnes never looks better than @ very ordi player, out of ¢ noup | LIKELY RECRUIT | PITCHER | ay ile a six-footer, who weighs 185 pounds and is showing an assortment of stuff that makes | Cobb believe the youngster Is ready to make his major league debut and} deliver. The addition of this most prom in ne Yannigans Clean Up on Tribe BY LEO H. LASSEN AN JOSE, Cal, March 23—WIth « regular battery working for their | club the Yannigan | [into the regulars tn the threw the hooks] ally prac- tice battle by a 10 to 2 tally Tuesday Spud Gardner worked the full nine Innings for the Yanns and Frank | Tobin officiated behind the log | Gardner has his spitter working to | perfection and let the regulars down | mix bingles; Cari Willams |nerved duty on the mound for the regulars and he didn't get off to a very good start, Clyde Merakle hit- Ung the second ball pitched to left center for a home run. Then tho deluge started and before Carl could get the aide out Merakle had hit again and a total of six juicy runs ver the plate. ns settled down somewhat after that, howe and allowed only four runs the rest of the game. He was wild and constantly in the hole Ray Rohwer also hit a bomer, a clout | over the right field fence that would | have cleared the Seattle boards many feet. Harry Wolverton inserted himself asa pinch hitter for Williams in the| ninth and with the count three and| two slapped a sharp single into left} field, Another practice game Is due for today and anotNer tomorrow before the two bi ios with the Chicago Cubs here Friday and Saturday, Sunday the gang will wind up tho training season with another game against the Santa Clara college nine here, They leave that same night for Fresno, where they will work Monday preparatory to opening the season With Salt Lake there the next afternoon. Who smokes Cinco? Survey No. 16, City of Norfolk. A section of the Cinco National Census. Male population 60,018. Cinco sales over 1,835,000 per year. 625 stores distribute Cinco, Map of Norfolk giving idea of widespread distribution of Cinco Growth of Cinco sales since 1851 } pesiibascaseen aac Oos aa WHAT! WILL JESS RENIG AFTER ALL? 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SISLER STILL ILL ST, LOUIS, March 28,—Suffering from a sinus infection that followed an attack of flu, George sis , the great Brown star, will not be able-to |Join the team on April 2, aw he plan ned, Physicians say they cannot tell whon he will be able to play, MADRID, March 28, Twenty | thousand Spanish soldiers, returning from Morocoo, have notified the goy ernment that they muat have work immediately,