The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 14, 1923, Page 13

rT Fro. APRIL 14, 1 3. NMEMINISCENCES service of Ucted today, % ready that in Vest a shart 1 employment ntry As Told to Leo Lou Cohen’s oe baseb all city of any s, like the tle’s famous st a cigar stand now stand: baseball, every day. at all times, It was here ington's days started c: It was here, room after the Cohen still mmossed in civic duties. nt by the boards. D-EDu “Home Plate” governors many big political men of early Washington | Le NM. Lassen Corner CHAPTER XCII size usually has a big hangout and was Lou Cohen's corner, where the Lowman building that a great many of W ashe | were first named, as ampaigns at Cohen's too, 's corner, 2 games were cver, has a place on First ave ‘The next chapter will appear Monday Gregg Is Beaten in MENTO, April 14.—Sacra- ‘mento took 2 nip-and-tuck battle item the visiting Seattle Indians yes- imiay. by @ count of 5 to 4, after lie muthpaw sharks, Vean Gregg Paul Fittery, had dueled with practically even for eight Betty Schang. Senator catcher, fa the last iden he doubted, and scored on a sacrifice bunt. eth hurlers were hit hard, Gregg f Ii safe blows and Fittery geen dozen. But the clouts were d, for the most part. By Lane, as per usual, led tn the sticking. Ho snagged four lass out of five parades to tho plate, adouble. His single failure, ‘Be struck out {mn the ninth, was j, however, as it doomed the In- chance for a win. Sacramento win evened the ms at two-all. half of the ninth, ANGELES, April 14.—Yes- 1y was a great day for Lyons, Angeles mound luminary, when fe hurled the Angels to a shu’out fing Tigers could convert none thelr four hits into a tally, while Angeles managed to put over ) April 14—Hitting See Oak pitchers hard, San Fran- > took an easy 9 to 1 win in ToughM ix! leeed the winning run for the home| took third on a} over the Vernon Tigers. The! dm the fifth frame. | Beayecc PACIFIO COAST LRAGUR Won, £ | Salt Lake |Yernon acramento ‘ nan wrensiace | Lon Angele ttle | Onkiana tae land. | RESULTS Sacramento 5. fi | Portiand € fait t Los Angeles 1. Vernon ¢ ] San Franctsco 9, Oakiand 1. HOW SERIES STAND on Won Benttie 2 Sacramento j Salt Lake 3 Portiana sat | San Francisco... 2 Oakland a2 Vernon sess 2 Low Angetes . 2 GAMES NEXT WEEK Los Angeles at Beattie. San Francisco at Portiand. Sacramento at Oakland. Salt Lake at Vernon, THE SCORE i ¢ Pai) De Vea ay Hemingway. 3) :.4 2 1 5 1 6 Sigiin, 3b ras Uns We eee ae ¢ Brown, ef cy ant leer eee a 9 Cochran, rt Tihs ak ae WR eae Mollwitz, 1b Ogee is Sot yee ag C. Rohwer, as es Bae does Yor ae 2. | Koehler, © AR BAe Fittery, p Bs i Sai eae a ter“ |Schang, © hohe ves Wee Sat MR Totals 4 618 87 9.8 O29100—~4 @niti1 imu Sacramento ...... Oe2001—s5 Hite 22010212 tant Summary: Rune responsible for—Greae Fittery 4. Struck out—Pittery 6, Gregg 2 Bases on baile—Grogg 2, Fittery 1 Stolen b: Three-base hit— aterday's game. Shea, in the box the winners, had an easy after.| allowing but five hits. The Scored their lone counter by) two hits in the fourth| R HE ¥. 8 1 6 : Shea and Agnew; Kre- ord Arlett and Thomas. | 3] o| ND Wins a 7 LAKE CITY, April 14.— taking beatings for three suc: fames, Portland turned on and trounced the Bees #3 in yesterday's fracas. Lev. and Middleton hurled silt. | 8 ball for the visitors. R H 7 *nz, Middleton andj| Duchalsky, McCabe aud TTLE MEN is ALLEY LEAD INGHAM, April 14.—geattle teams took the lead is the nt, % the Northwestern In Mal Bowling congress being held here when, Fri- » the E. N. Brooks team 1 with a score of 2,708 Candy was second, with ond he pees Cafe team MAYBE MOLLA |James W. Doubie play— 2,08, igiin to Moliwita. Tinte. of Umpires—Byron and Ward. came— DIDN’T CARE NEW YORK, April 14—Mrs, Mol- |la Mallory, American tenniy cham- pion, who returned yesterday from | | |Europe, declined again today to comment on her rather disastrous campaign on the French and Brit- ish courts. One of the friends of the champion said she did not take Into the matches for exercise, She | didn’t even take her racquets over, it was said. 'SEAVY TAKES SHOOT HONORS PORTLAND, Ore, April 14.— Seavy, of Portland, cap: tured high honors in the first day's shoot Friday of the Rose City Hun- dred No, 4 trap shoot, in competi- tion with crack guns from four Coast states and British Columbia. Seavy averaged 148 out of a posal- ble 150 for the day, Frank M. Tem- pleton, also of Portland, was second high gun, with 147, CHAMP BEATEN FALL RIVER, Mass., April 14.— Johnny Buff, former flyweight and bantamweight champion, lost a ten- round decision to George Murray, New Bedford. Vote for LOR GAGNON, of Kalama- #9, Mich. ts 4 pugilist, And ll pugiiists he enjoys to Tow and then vf what the tgeed for him ‘n the ring. other night Sailor had a ‘ Ab in fact, it was y order of a nightmare. Gagnon Was scheduled to go 10 oly Chuck Wiggins of In the third round him from a kayo found the canvas In the middle of the wee however, Wiggins ‘& vleep-producing punch. € Think Chuck Took An Unfair Advantage And as Sailor was being carried to his dressing room he rallied somewhat and glancing up into the face of his manager, ho said: thought Mr. Wiggins was to be hore tonight.” “He was here,” said the man- ager. “But 1 didn't see him,” whis- pered the fighter, “Why he was right in the ring with you,” was thé reply. “Then he must have been hid- ing behind all those glover ‘cause I never saw him,” #aid Gagnon with a aigh as he sank back on the stretcher to dream some more. in the old Peoria} In the early days of Northwestern Teach real fan in Seattle could be| found at Cohen's place some time during the The gossip of the game was on MP | that penriants were won model. nd lost by the fans before the games were | W8Y- ; Fa ever play ed, and it was the official crying | Krache did, is no slouch with his dukes. to the contrary, li but he is a member of the city council and is | &¥™ There isn’t a real baseball stand cleverest ge today like Cohen’s was in the old day: and when | jugglers " a real diamond institution of the Northwest | lightweight ranks have in- Seattio— ABT. HPO. A KE. Lane, if ose oe sonasten, ib oee ns 0 oes @ 8 eee @ 6 ries Ont 0 ae Oo 8 RH 8 es Se Ge Mia | ed ah es ae >1¢ 46 pat hem fee an Lae ee ce ea | spectacle, that of seeing a foreign »|champion Honized, while the home- fight. | A it seriously, and that she just went jsion to Mike MeTighue, as to the methods of conducting the {game in New York, THE SEATTLE Logger PacksKick and | | Gotham B |Krache Will Face H Biggest Test When He Goes | | Into Ring With Seeman in Arena Bout Tuesday; | | Other Fight Gossip BY SEAEU N signing “C Seeman for weekly Arer Tue up men who ing styles. Both are and their r game have lines. ness and his punch. He is a A fisticuffer who can Seeman, artillery, but admits—and der that he is one of the and fastest the Northwest's} cluded since Johnny Clinton pulled stakes last summer es returned to Gotham. Krache possesses a worthwhile asnet in his fighting heart |preme confidence in himself reports of Seeman'’s foxy boxing }and speed mean little in the | Hoquiam logger’s life as does Nate | Druxinman’s dazzling spring over coat KRACHE TALKS “Billy Wright's aa clever a boy as the Pacific coast boasts of. When and su The as 1 spar with Wright I hit him--not| often, but still I connect once in a] while. If I can hit Wright, I'll] hit this New York bind; and w | I do something is likely to drop.” Krache delivered himself of this brief speech this morning. At the same time, there is no doubt fn Seeman’s mind that he will give the rugged Wertern youngster & boxing lesson during @ pleasant/| 18-minute workout. From a neutral point of view, the| test for Krache will be the stiffest he has met to date, with the pos- nible exception of the Josephs bat- de, Seeman will give away about five pounds of weight, yet this dis- parity In poundage may merely ac centuate the difference in the speed of the two men. SOME “IF” TALK If Krache can move fast enough and shoot his right hand accurately he has a chance to hang !t over | Seeman. A win for the local boy would establish him as the leading lightweight of the Northwest, It all remaina to be seen. ‘The rest of the five-bout card is still in the making, the promoters announced today, V HEN a fighter becomes a cham- | pion immediately a lot of folks |begin pulling for someone to defeat jhim. | It ts @ very easy matter for a champion to make some slight mis- take that causes a lot of fight fans to get out their hammers and start the old anvil chorus, When Carpentier met Dempsey a |majority of the immense crowd present was pulling for the French. man to win, It was an unusual bred received only a lukewarm re- ception Carpentier’s war record, which had been widely exploited in the pa- pers, made him the popular hero, Dempa#ey's deeds were drab in com- parison, ‘T present several titleholders are rather unpopular. Some be cause of their refusal to fight, others of the manner in which they lot of fight fans ore hoping certain champions are early ren. dered unconscious the first time they step into the ring. Upsetting the dope i the favorite pastime in the fight game at pres. ent. Few years in the annals of the sport have witnessed so many reversals as 1922. LREADY It seems that 1923 will run 1922 a close race for upset- ting the dope. In 1922 Johnny Buff lost both the flywelght and bantam titles; Harr Greb won the American light heavy, weight championship from Gene Tunney. Batuing Siki beat Carpen- tler for the world light-heavy title. The veteran Jack Britton handed over the welter honors to Mickey Walker. Altho 1923 is only three months on the way, three champions have alrendy been dethroned, Gene Tunney, in a return match, defeated Greb, while Frankie Gen- aro took down the decision over Villa. Battling Siki waa knocked back to nowhere when he lost a close deol. In justice to Greb and Villa, it must be said that the decisions that deprived them of their titles failed to meet with popular favor, and caused much unfavorable criticism THE heavyweight class, Louls | | sion, | Firpo, in his bout with Bill Bren. nan, which ended in a knockout vic- | look ike the best bets in that divi N I Firpo, the Argentine fighter, and Floyd Jolinson, the Towa youngster, tory, showed punch Not only was Brennan knocked out of the ring, but also right into a hospital. He spent over a a weak re cuperating from the effects of the that he packs y evening, mitt} oy Is Clever RN BROWN ashin’” Ted Krache and Sol the 6-round main go of the} na boxing extravaganza next Austin & Salt have lined typify the extremes in fight- youthful ring men, each has been boxing something less than two years, y climbs in the different | nective speed been along entirely Krache is well known in the Northwest for his aggressive- slugger, of the give-and-take At that, Krache is fairly clever, in an unorthodox make Jack Josephs miss, as} ys no claim to bone-bending monstrates convincingly in the | SOL SEEMAN | BERCOT WINS EVERETT MIX OFF TRACEY ODE BERCOT, the Monroe logger, won another fight In Everett lant night, defeating the veteran Ben Tracey of Australia in a six-round bout at the armory. Bercot was too strong and aggreasive for the veter- an, altho Tracey’s gameness won him a home with Everett fans Bercot scored a knockdown early in the fight, but Tracey was too tough and too smart for Bercot to knock out. He made Dode mins considerably and rocked the Monroe boy with a terrific punch early in the going that shook him from stem to stern, The result of the bout was never in doubt because it was evident from the start that. Bercot was too strong) for Tracey. Hercot looked @ bit fast- er last night than he has for some| time. Art Serrano and Eddie Jackson | fought a draw in the som{-windup, It was just a fair fight. MARINES WILL PLAY OIL MEN The Bremerton diamond season 19 getting under way, The next clash | for the Bremerton ath'etic park | 2 o'clock, when the Marine Bar- racks nine crosses bats with the Union Oil Co, squad of Seattle, O'HAGEN WINS CALL ERIE, April 14.—Jimmy O'Hagen, Albany, N. Y., won easily from Johnny Klesch, Cleveland, 12 rounds, Jimmy Kats, Cleveland, won from Young Xeny, Pittsburg, eight rounds, Young Modzy won) from Tony Bill, Cleveland, six rounds, HARVARD FENCERS WIN NEW YORK, April 14.—Harvard fencers won the intercolleginte foils with a total of 17 Victories out of 27 bouts, It was tho first time Harvard hag won the title since 1899, MITCHELL 18 VICTOR MILWAUKEE, April 14.—Pinkey Mitchell outpointed Harvey Thorpe, Lyneh, New York, from Tommy Floyd Johnson ta the Amertcan walloping Firpo handed him. Bron. nan will testify that Firpo ean hit. pattory with the Wost & Wheeler club inat will be staged Sunday afternoon ut |wore other Star league team this year, and Jean be reached by calling Mitshell at the Whiton Hardware Co, pitcher last year, fs tn line to hurl for jthe Western league, keen blow to the Washington outfit, not forget that they are responsible for gotting the scores to The Btar office the night of the turned in, with @ short account of the name, team championship here last night ‘ FLAGSTEAD MAY Detrott battery in the opening game against the St, ager Ty Cobb announced before the STAR 2 * se & Not only will California's best golfers take part in the 1923 annval championships meet of the Pacific Northwest Golf association, te be held at the Reattle Golf and Country club July 6 to 14, lnelusive, but the largest delegation that ever rc,.»sented the Sunny South will be present when the arena ts opened for play! word brought back by A. 8. Kerry, president of the who returned this week from a four weeks’ trip to Oal- nines to be the biggest and best golfing event In Pacific Coast golf history—the P, N. G. A.’s annual meet in Seattle, July 6 to 14, Just how many Native Sons will come not say, but there will be quite a er or, Fred Wright, Jack Roger Lapham. Miss Dorreen Kavanaugh, and af least six other star lady golfers from California, have promised to try for the Northwest blueribbon in July, |) An ifornia, where he went t North President Kerry could wd, including such cracks as Neville, “Scotty” Armstrong, Lee Stell and Fred Ayer, with » 157-1245 seore, won the qualify ing round in the best-balland-aggregate tournament, played at the Seattle Golf club last Saturday, The 32 qualifying pairs make up the match play draw: Upper Halt— W. W. Miller, A Dann, Hd. Hibbard vs. 1 vs. J. H. Ballinger, 8. A. Hoag. ©, P. Woo T, Jennings; W. Clingan. Lower Half—R, A. Hutbert, W. P. Cameron va. P. FE. Sands, ©. P. Constantine: 8, H. Hedges, E. 1. Skeel vs. T. Owens, E. A, Strout, jr: PF. F, Fey, A. N. Gillespie ys. M, M. MeFilwatne, B. EB. Stein: F, M. Freeman, B. Shorts vs. Tt. F. Blair, W. H. Payne; A. W. Tidmarsh, F. Shorroek vs. §. TL. Russell, RoE. Campbell; M. Boleom, G. F. Thompson vs. 8 ©. Beckwith, A. Parry: R. Gillespie, H. B. Perine vs. HM. Caldwell, G. V. Learned; L. Schwager, J, Sobey vs. C. B. Ford, J, N, Ivey, C. Ayer, Dicke: ‘etter vs. 1. W. Stell va, W. 8. Finn, C. Walker; nm vs. RT, Stefford, G. H, Terrell; A. 1, Shannon, H. B. Plank; L. Terrell, H. C. P. Burnett, E. V3 Todd A. Fleager; F. W. Alexander, A. Schofield vs. y: HJ, Ramsey, M. Gilliam vs, R. H. Evans, MeMicken, V. MeKillop vs, 8. T. Crowe, T. 8. a Pattallo, J. 8, Sterratt; ©. Displaying os fine = bit of golf as hax ever been played on the ‘West Side Tinks, Mra. E. V. Argersinger this week won the club championship, defeating Mrs, 8. T. Hills in the finals, four up and three to play. Both players were at their best, but the deadly work of Mr«. Argersinger around the greens proved too good for her strong opponent Incidentally, Mrs. Hills, In the semifinals, eliminated Mrs. R. T. Byers, who hins held the club title for the past three years. It was the best match of the tournament, the result being In doubt until the home green was reached, Mrs. A. EF. Ayers In her semi-final mix with Mrs. Argersinger, put up a game fight before being defeated. Club Champion Mrs. %. V. Argersinger is also ladies’ captain of the West Side club. Clark Spelrs, the Jefferson Park ctuh champlon, bad a close call from being ellminated tn this year’s titular battle when he scored an 86 In the qualifying round of play last week-end on the Beacon Hill course. That 86 put him tn a tle with Walter Wand, Archie Stuart, Elser Kendricks and Lee Hewitt for the last three places in the championship flight of sixteen. The tying quintet had their meal last Wednesday evening and Speirs, Ward and Stuart won the call. Detmer Anderson, sith a card of 77, led the field of starters tn that qualifying round. Following ts the champtonship draw. with the qualifying scores of the players included: Anderson (77) vs. Doran (82); Peterson (84) vs. Stevenson (81); Haakons (81) vs. Wand (86); Scarlett (84) ws, Lewis (79); Greenway (79) vs. West (84); Stuart (86) vs. Ash (8%); Haw (81) vs. Speirs (80); Froude (84) vs. Hert (78). There are three flights as offshoot of the championship, All first-round matches must be played by Sunday night, April 29. The Inglewood 25man team, captained by Gene Hatton, will be the guests of Frank Atkins’ troupe of slickers In the first half of @ homeand-home team match at Earlington tomorrow. Play will start at 9 o'clock. Mrs. E. F. Ristine and R. 8. Whaley took first honors tn the mixed foursomes tournament at Inglewood last Sunday, with a net 79. Mrs. Ro Patterson and T. Leman finished second with an 81 net. Mrs. H. 0. Young and J. Blake, Mrs. F, Jackson and J, Horner, and Miss Pearl Harold and Dr. ©. B, Ford tied for third prize, each couple netting 82's, Play In the Chapin cap competition starts today, when members of the Seattle Golf club teeoff in the qualifying roug’ The regular monthly medal play on handicap is also scheduled- North End links for today. Scoring a "3" on No. 2, = “6" on No, 6, and = “6” on No, 8, Mrs. C. M. Gresham won the blind-holes competition from a field of 20 starters at the Earlington course last Wednesday. Figure This Out Yourself W. P. Fick, former editor of a veterans’ weekly newspaper, was fined $10 {n superior court Fri- day by Judge Mitchell Gilliam for promoting a lottery Fick was tried on a test case, altho the formal charge against him was made last summer when he was publishing @ weekly baseball lot- tery circular, Attorney Philip Tworoger argued that betting on a ball game was not gambling, but an exercise of Judgment. “You can't tell what the umps will do, or what transpired to the pitcher the night before a game, can you?” Judgw Gilliam queried, In levying the fine. Washington Park will play prac- toe game with the Fort Lawton sol- dier team at Washington park at 2 P m. tomorrow. Charley Harden and Walter Mitchell, year, would like to hook up with Bill Atitts, erack Washington Park fectric team, in the city this year. His lows will be @ The manager of the Arden club should send in his lineup for pub- eation, FOUL BARS RYAN OMAHA, April 14.—Billy Ryan, Cincinnat!, was barred for six months and his share of the purse given to charity when he fouled Morrie Schlaifer, Omaha, three times fn the third round last night. FERNS DRAWS WwW. ALLACE Home team managers next week should ame | TAMPA, April 14, — Fearless will play «practi rey Se Hutt he] Fern. Atianta lightweight, and morrow Young — Wallace, fought 10 rounds to a draw here last night. HOMER DOWNS CUBS KANSAS CITY, April 14.—A home run in the ninth scored three LOSE HIS JOB Tra Flagstead, Olympia boy, may Kansas City challenger for the|!o8e his fob as utility outfielder with |rung and aided the sas City junior welterweight championships, | A aia Mrocabvancouoane Blues to defeat the Chicago Cubs ergill and ving UP\here, & to 7. in 10 rounds here last night, BAN Wal aE ene Tate ths a, CURTIN TRIMS LYNCH Sia Ah MURPHY KAYORS SINEY FREEPORT, Ill, April 14, —« PILLETTE TO START PALM BEACH, April 14.—Mike Johnny Curtin, Jersey City, bantam-| MEMPHIS, Tonn., April 14.—| Murphy, welterweight, Macon, Ga, weight, won a 12round decision|Pillette and Woodall’ will be the knooked out Kaddie Briney, of St. Louis, fn the sixth round, McGOVERN SHADES ASHMORE Louls Browns, Man- hope in the battleship class, A|team left for Cincinnatl to engago| LOS ANGELS, April 14.—Young knockout of Bob Martin, a decision |in @ series with the Reds MoGovern took a decision in four over Bill Brennan, and a knockout re rounds from Sailor Ashmore here of ay Smith are high spots in RETAINS CROWN last night, Johnson's career R, April MEd ('Stran- ————--~ Johnson is tmproving every time ‘) Lewis retained the world's VET PITCRER DIES out. He has the physique, the| heavyweight wrestling championship) DWTROIT, April 14.—Bugene fighting spirit, and at present lacky| here last night when ho threw Jack|Krapp, former Cleveland Indian only experience to make a worthy| Turner, North Dakota champion, in| pitcher, dled here last night follow. opponent for Dempsoy, two struight falls, ing & long illness, . ee ee BOXER MEETS FIGHTER WHEN SEEMAN AND KRACHE DO BATTLE Hurler Will Other Gossip HOULD Fr Vernon twirler, The Schellenback gerous. w muscle in his hand. his unconditional release by that he was thru. But evident tho it seemed, He strength. He pitched slowly his old-time skill before the season opened. He won a game cisco during from Ban Fran opening week of jthe season and he turned in a win jover Los Angeles the othe: day. He |was formerly a spitball piteher, but |they say that he has abandoned the the |wet delivery and is sticking to a curve and a fast one, | With Weiner Dell, Jesse Doyle, Jokie May, Bill James and a few lesser lig! Schellenback will com- |plete one of the best hurling staffs jin the minors. ‘Ted Baldwin made a boot in | yesterday's game with Sacramento, | jit was the first boot that the Indian | tnira sacker has made this season. He has had a flock of chances in the games’ played to date, and he challenges all of the bad hops. He covers a lot of ground and is ly & pip of a fielder, GREGG'S JINX FOLLOWS HIM Vean Gregg in the tough pitcher of the league, Yesterday in Sacramento he lost an@ther game by one run, getting beat out in the ninth | inning. He struck out nine men Last year Gregg lost more games by one run than any other piteher in the league. JACOBS DUE TO WORK SOON Elmer Jacobs has worked tn onty ® part of a gumoe since the season startet. The Ozark twirler is just about due to do his stuff on the hill again {f he ts.in condition to pitch, Jake was bothered with a cold for some time In spring train- BY LEO H. LAS nk Schellenback, luck | ° 3 PAGE sCHELLEN BACK’ S RETURN TO F ORM MAKES VERN ON DANGEROUS Put Tiger Machine in Race Again Wins His First Two Starts of CoS ee Was Out Last Year; Indians May Come Home in First Division; E haired ent pace he the bronz keep up his p will make the Tigers dangerous contenders for the Coast league flag. Tigers finished second last year, and ill make them doubly dan- 4 ' Schellenback was out of the game last year with an injured throwing arm. growth removed from his right elbow and it affected a He couldn’t grip a ball. He had a He was given Vernon when it was evident Schellenback refused to quit. exercised the injured hand and restored its former this spring and rounded into ing, and he wasn’t quite right when |the gong sounded to start the sea son. When he is right Juke is one of the hardest pitchers in the league to bent YARYAN CAN BUST THAT APPLE Everett Yaryan can bust that onion. He picked up two doubles yesterday» which came in’ mighty handy. That big fellow will do @ lot | of hitting before this season is over |and hitting in No, 8 slot he ts going |to give @ lot of strength to the tail end of the batting order, LANE IS RIGHT IN FORM “‘Rabbit"’ Lane “had another one of his big days in Sacramento Friday, |picking up four straight hits and knocking in several runs tesides stealing a pair of bases, And steal. ing two bags in one afternoon off of an artist like Paul Fittery is going some. SALT LAKE DUE TO CRACK Salt Lake is playing at top speed right now and ts leading the league jat this writing. But the Bees don’t figure as contenders, and if they finish among the first four there will be a lot of surprised baseball men on | the Pacific Coast. They have a dan- serous hitting’ club, but the Bees f@ren"t any too smart on’ the dia- mond, and they don’t shape up 2s & very classy outfit. SEASON OPENS HERE |ON WEDNESDAY Reserved seas are going right and left for the opening game here Wednesday with Los ALgeles, nearly every pasteboard being sold. A sell- out for the opener is assured. All Entries for Star League Are Due Today At entries for The Star J unior Baseball league for this season must be turned in at The Star before 6 p. m. to- day, Entries will be accepted by the sporting department until that hour. They can be sent in by"phone call. minute entries should not be | Absolutely no teams will be schedule for the season is to b published in all editions of The Star Monday. Any teams of those listed here that do not Intend to start the sea- son April 23 should, without fail, in- form The Star today: The Arden Cubs, the Pugets, Loule’s French Dry Cleaners, Lincoln Park Pirates, ‘Three Brothers Dye Works, Tailored} Ready, Best Shoe Shop, Fremont Cyclones, West & Wheeler, Wabh- ington Park, Asahi Cubs, Hillman Merchants, Fahey-Brockmian and the Y. M. H. A. When the schedule ts published Monday home team managers should lose no time in obtaining permits ‘from the caretakers of thelr play- fields for the games, Managers Last eft to the mails. accepted after tonight as the e made up Sunday and will be Another Pair Enter League Two more teams entered The Star Junior baseball Jeague late Friday night. Fahey-Brockman and the Y. M. H.-A. filing teams. This brings the entry’ list up to 14, should then check up by phone or call with this department concerning the hours. All contracts of players are due at the office tonight, but in the cases of teams coming in late will be accepted up until Tuesday of next week. W hy Rickey Thinks His Team Good RE aro some of the reasons why Manager Branch Rickey of the St, Louis Cardinais belleves his team has a chance for the penfant: Fred Toney 1s physically in the best condition of his career, He re- ported 20 pounds lighter than at any time during the last five years. The addition of “Hi” Myers, who will play center field, and fill the big gap caused by the death of Mo- Henry, Tho certainty that Bill Doak will be a vast improvement over last year when his inability to win with any | degroo of regularity greatly hurt) the New Orleans, Cardinals’ pennant chances. ‘The fact that Dr. Lavan is much improved in health, and should be capable of playing his usual high- class game, The assurance that Holm will be able to fill the bill at short {f Lavan should falter. The bellef that Jim Bottomly will play a much improved game both at the bat and in the field, regardless of the fine showing he made as a rookie. ‘Tho knowledge that the Cardinals’ secondary defense has improved. A ball club {s no stronger than {ts substitutes, Rickey suf- fered last year for the want of high- clasy subs. Ho seems to have cor- nered a number gf them for the com- ing season. ‘The feoling that on the whole his Pitching, so essential to a pennant, will show to better advantage. Thereby taking advantage of the batting strength of the Cardinals. Rickey's team admittedly being one of the strongest clubs on the of- been much | | Despite the fact that the uniforms of the Seattle amateur nines are still — smelling of mothballs, the warm April afternoons are crowding the playfields, and Spalding’s bookings for Sunday total nine amateur tilts, The Asaht Cubs and the West & Wheeler tossers, a brace #f Star league Aggregations, are billed to play at Liberty park at 2:30, The Asahis are new to the loop, and thelr meeting with the 1924 champions will give the fans a line on how the ilttle brown players will stack up in the race, Rainier Reach has been reserved for a practice clash between the Sbattle Ath- letic club and the Rainier Beach squad at 2 o'clock, ‘The Alki Athletic club representa- tives will entertain the West Woeod- land Merchants at Alk@at 2 o'clock, A fast t{lt fs looked for when the Ral. lard Merchants play the Interbay baseball club at Adams playfield at 1 o'clock. ‘The other Kames scheduled ara; Green- wood Improvement club ys, the Highland Athletic club, at Crows Hilt playfield; Cove: ht nollas (field to be : Washington Parke v3 2 o'olock, at hington park. ton, A circult to be called the Ford Dealers’ league hus arranged @ sched- ule, to include clubs of the follow- Ing firms: Wim 1, Hagson, Canal Motor company, Wm, 0, McKay, Lamping-McDonald, Wilson & Kreit- tle, Mart 2 Mart and Hugh Baird, The Ford loop will be divided In two sections, according to announcement of Nudelman, prosidont, title Wil be decided when the aders moot at ihe clome of tho jon, ‘The fense In the National league circuit, championship game will feature the ams nual Yord dealers’ picnic, a epenpcprer SL ee