The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 4, 1923, Page 20

ving men the com the 0 ex jump wn, p out de rices those, that their get iry om, py fdn't Dust. big re d by his & of FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928. Veterans Peevish Over Krug Being Made Pilot Deal, Griggs and Crandall Had Optics Primed f Job When Red Killifer Pulled Stakes ia South; Other Gossip BY LEO H. LA ARTY KRUG has one of in the Coast jeague this Ny SSEN the toughest managerial jobs year, Not only is he succeeding Red Killifer, who had never fin- ished lower than third place, but he is also inheriting a ga of prima donn as. When Killifer pulled stakes in Moviedom to come North | ang to the Seattle club, Art Griggs, Doe Crandall and Charley Deal had their respective optics all focused on that pilotship. And then when Marty Kru cago Cubs and put in charge, things are reported to be sit-| ting far from pretty with the three fellows in question. It's no in Lee Angeles baseball headquarters that those three fellows the team. And when Krug benched Deal for @ few days in Portland last week the reports grew stronger, altho Krug gave it out that Deal wasn’t hitting and that Benched. Then Krug broke a finger and secret each wanted to lead was why he was he'll be out of the lineup for about | five or six weeks. Marty will man age the club from the bench in the meantime With ‘all of his attention on his team instead of having to play and lead his men, able to straigh: too, Krug may be m things out is a pretty smart leader and has had experience before with men, having won the pennant for Omaha in the Western league in Dennle Wille has led the league for a number of years in assists from the outfield. The other day in Oakland there & runner on first base and the hitter lined out to Jack Knight at second base. Knight had a world of time to make the play at first base, and so he threw the ball to Wille In right field and Wille completed the play at the bag. It gave him an un- earned assist. There is nothing in the rule book that gives the official scorer the right to omit the assist from the records. Such tactics make joke out the game, and the scorers should have the right to strike the assist from the records Chief Yellowhorse, the Pawnee In- @ian, hurling for Sacramento, has lost three games in the toughest kind of fuck, one in the ninth and two extra- inning games. The fast-ball hurler thinks he's jinxed. Once he starts to getting the breaks he may be the man to pitch Sacramento into the first division. Detroit has an outfielder named Fothergill Playing left field, who is Bew to most baseball fans out this way. He playéd with Rochester in the International league and led the | ‘ league in hitting last year with a mark around 400. He's a heavy- weight, weighing around 200 pounds. He has replaced Bobby Veach in the ‘Tiger outfield for the present, and as Veach is one of the best in the ma- Jors some sort of a line on the new. comer’s ability can be obtained from this. Of the three players Salt Lake ob- tained from Phila@@iphia on thinks John Singleton, the right- banded flinger, is the best. Williams was scouting for San Francisco last year and saw Singleton pitch a couple of games for the Quakers. Williams says he seemed to have a lot of stuff. Word comes from Oakland that Outfielder Wetzel is out for the sea- fon with a fractured leg. He came to the Oaks from the Texas league a he was hitting the ball pretty Vernon's chances for the pennant have taken an awful sock on the chin thru the release of Ray French, shortstop, and Jesse Doyle, right- handed pitcher. French has devel- oped into quite an infielder, while Doyle was a good pitcher, if not a sensational one, It breaks up Ver- non’s infield and doesn’t do the pitching staff any good, LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 4.— Ray French, former shortstop of the Vernon Pacific Const league team, made a free agent by Judge Landis, today accepted terms with the Brooklyn tional league team for the remainder of the season, French Was given a bonus of $10,000 on signing with the Dodgers. Del Howard, business manager of the Oakland team, acted a# agent for the Easterners in signing French, French will be used as a regular, it is said. He will leave for Brooklyn next week. ROBERTS AND MARCUS DRAW TACOMA, May 4.—Jiromy Marcus, Los Angeles welterweight, and Ed- die Roberta, of Tacoma fought # sixround draw here last night, The decision was not popular, most of the fans thinking Marcus was en- titled to the verdict. Rocco Strama- galia, Italian heavyweight champ claimant, was kayoed ia the fifth Tound of the semi-windup by Marty Foley of Tacoma, } Krug 6, | & was obtained from the Chi- Seattle 44 Is Again Defeated Portland Advances Into League Lead After 4 to 3 Victory Thursday RTLAND, May 4.—The Portland Beavers are topping the Coast league as a result of the third consecutive victory over the Seattle Indians. The score was 4 to 3, the locals grabbing the game after a now thrilling finish in their half of the| ninth The scorp stood 3 to 2, with the locals behind, when they went to bat tn the last of the ninth, Poole, the first man up, singled to right. Gres ocked @ neat Texas leaguer Billy Orr's head, Cox. xt man up, bunted down third base and Blake, who twirled for the Indians, | was on the ball and forced Poole out at third, Brusilj singled to left and Eldred made a perfect throw home. beating Greasett in. Catcher Yaryan had the man out and the umpire had called the decision when the ball] trickled between the receiver's hands, Yaryan was spiked and was forced | out of the game in favor of Tobin Blake walked Jones, loading the sacks, Onslow, next up, had the count three and two on him when Blake let the next one loose, It was & ball, and the game was over, The winning run had been walked in THE SCORE AB RH. Po. Seattle % 14 ° e ° ° THE SEATTLE STAR Ed Barney Look "Em Over The king of pinch hitters, Ed Barney, was caught by The Star camera man while taking a drink of Cedar river before going up to the plate to hit for one of his team-mates, are few better at the art in baseball. | the | Heinle Sands deal Nick Williams| Pingh hitting is Ed’s big business, and there ‘Marcus Is | Hard Man | Figure Gibbons I: Too Light tor Champ for Davis Layoff Won’t Affect Jack Dempsey Much, Is Gossip; Big Crowd Expected From Seattle if Scrap Goes \Everett Welterweight Has Thru for Shelby, Mont. Always Had Things BY LEO H. LASSEN Pretty Weil His Way GPATrILEs ring f ity thinks that Tom Gibbons will IPWAVIB DAVIS, erstwhile North-|/7 be a setup fe Dempsey if the Shelby, Montana, west welterweight champion, has| fight goes thru been getting a bit careicas of late.| Lhe boys who follow the knights of the leather mittens Travie hu» always found it so easy |4re laying the coin of the realm on the line that Gibbons to beat anyone that could be import- | Won't answer the bell for the sixth round. 6 for him that he began to hola} They figure that Dempsey’s two-year layoff from the everyone cheaply, regardless of their |Ting Won't affect his punching ability much, if any, as he reputation. But the other night| Will have nearly two months to get into condition. Demp- Travie learned his leason.* sey is a comparatively young fellow yet and should be able There are fow welterweights in| to be at the height of his ability again July 4. the country with any class on Davis, They also have it doped out that Gibbons is too light to’ especially in @ short distance fight.| stand up under Dempsey’s terrific punches, as the St. Paul man will scale around 1 bons, too, is about 34 ye inst He showed this in his mills « Jack Britton, Harvey Thorp, Johnny ars Tillman, Alex Trambitas, Jack Jo-jof age, which will give sephs, Tilly Herman and many | Dempsey another advantage. others, When Davis is in shape and Of the two Gibbons Is the more ex- right he is mighty bard to beat. But RE getting Davis in shape is usually need, as he has fought longer hard fights than The champion fought only quite an effort and has had more But one thing can be taken for|r Davis will be mpsey granted. in shOP6 | bums until he licked Jess Willard, when he faces Jimmy Marcus next! ang since then he has fought only Tuesday night in Nate Druxman’s | three times, licking Miske, Brennan |topline fracas, Davis came within one second of biting the dust on the Jast occasion that he tangled with the husky Los Angeles pocker. For the first time in his life Travie and Carpentier. ‘The press boys back East tried to build up Gibbons as a “puncher” when he was sent against a flock of second-raters about @ year or s0 is doing road work, watching his cat-| hur his long string of knockouts ing and taking care of himself in| aiant mean anything. In trying to every way. There will be no monkey |4evelop @ wallop Gibbons ‘Jost a lot | business for the Everett blond this| or nis cleverness, his biggest stock in time, Davis can't afford to lone any |trade. And when he wus pitted matches at this stage of the game, jauinst Harry Greb, the Pittsburg | and especially to Marcua, who Is just ] coming to the front. | Druximan promises a lineup of preliminaries to his red hot main go that have beat anything he ha backed show up with this season. windmill made him look bad. The Gibbons fight will undoubtedly be the first of a series of bouts that Dempsey will engage in. There's Willard, Johnson, iffe and Firpo, with the latter being |the big prize for the champion if he gets over the rest as he should. The boys are no doubt cooking | things up so Firpo and Dempsey will | mix it m Buenos Aires, where Firpo VARSITY NET | TEAM MEETS jis an idol and where the gate The varsity tennis team will make |7°"* i 4 {ts debut Saturday afternoon against’, Heeardless of the fact that Gib- ; Dons ma: <i Dempsey, |the Seattle Tennis club aggregation, 0OM* may be a setup for T lon the club's courts. Altho the fans from the Northwest are ex- , m Aitho the! pected to flock to Shelby, if the fight |varstty net wielders have not yet | POC to tm os they ‘want to see | been definitely selected, it tx expected | ag et file act |that Coach Jimmy Arbuthnot will| Dempsey Ip act Radoo Bai have Capt, Art Langile, Bruce Hes. | {8 heavyweight championship fight |keth, Armand Marion, Chet Vincent | ‘hat the West has seen for many ma eer} pees aed represent the Purple | Dempeny's. wallop will tring the | a aoe boys to Montana from every part of O eorcpeomaseraay oases the United States a ae | If the thing is worked np right an- | other million-dollar gate may be realized by the promoters. Babe Orders eae 12 New Bats rt at 2:20 ‘PREP ATHLETES | COMPETE TODAY for the fresh- | men-sophomore track meet will be held this afternoon in the University ago,| pounds when in condition. Gib Will Race on Hi udson Faculty Permission Grant- ed to Send Both Frosh and Varsity ITH faculty permission granted last evening, both the Univer: of Washington varsity and frosh crews are free to go to Poughkeepsie to compete in the na tional rowing classic there in June, The only obstacle now to over is the raising of $12,000 to two sets of oarsmen to row sity a 8 dt McAuj-|2 the Hudson, Ward Kumm, varsity rowing vet eran and captain of the 1915 crew, is the head of the “On to Pough- keepsie” drive. ‘The drive will open Monday, May 14. Headquarters will oe maintain re. |ed in the Central building. The Washington Alumni wil meet this evening for a dinner at the College club with Kumm to com sider further plans for the drive, All members are urged to attend WISCONSIN BIDS VARSITY TO ROW The University of Washington crew has been invited to race the University of Wisconsin, on Lake Mendota, on June 16, according to a wire from T. E. Jones, athletic di- rector for the Badgers, received at noon today by Darwin Meisnest, graduate manager here. Jones also sent congratulations on the victory over the University of California — “The invitation came unsolicited,” Meisnest stated, “and we are very delighted to receive such a bid Coach Callow and the board of stew- ards will meet tomorrow to consider — it” cae of Washington stadium. About 40 athletes who | compete this afternoon will meet in | the finals of the meet starting at the tomorrow Special Sunday evenings “for loy- ers,” at which the men were 4o smoke, were a recent experiment Totale 2.404. 08 4 caaee et Portland AB. RK. 1 PO. A. ©. Ta 8 é W hi ’ S ° G id 2 || Babe Ruth, king of the swat, ee 3 |] has placed an order for a dozen The preliminaries rt ashington’s Spring Gridiron Men || oe ore cee eee ae asd il C Ss ° k N Fach stick is to be the natural Will Close Spring Work Next Week | :3 2s sofia’ tna" | washington ad : BY TOM OLSEN explains that he will hold the it : PRING football practice at the University of Washington will close early next week.|| S#tura! side up under certain sun || toe fale of the meet pees - The 30 candidates have been going thru strenuous workouts under the watchful eye | morning. *One out ning run scored. Batted for Crumpler in eighth. te Score by innings Beattie... 22... 1@11 0000 0—2 |. Mite... Priseess 1s Portland ........0610000106 2—<4 |} Hite ... 19100110 3—7 Innings pitched—Crumpler §, Pillette 1 | Winning pitcher—Pilletts, Runs respon- | aidle for—Biake 2. Struck out—Crumpler 6, Blake 5, Bases on balle— Crumpler dases— Poole, Two-b: Dow to Yaryan, Time a, PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Won. Low. Pet. Portland seccsermaveee 18 11 431 Vernon... prereegs Ci ta 7) Salt Lake 1% 18 Bt | an Francisco 16 1 ba | Sacramento 4K Seattle 1b 446 Oakland is 1479 Loe Angeles Me Portland 4, Seattio 2. Sacramento 17, Salt Lake 4. 14, Vernon 3. ncisco 6, Los Angeles « (10 Brooklyn ... RESULTS St. Louls 4, Chicago 2. Pittsburg 2, Cincinnati 1 Brooklyn 11, New York & Philadelphia 6, Boston 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE Loat. Pet. 488 867 Won. iL 19 Detroit . New York Cleveland Philadelph Boston , Washingt &t. Lows Chicago New York 3, Washington 2 At. Louls 6, Chicago 4, Detroit 6, Cleveland 6. Boston 3, Philadelphia 1. Paddock Smashes Record PARIS, May 4.—Chariey Paddock, world's sprint champion, established @ new world’s record for 75 meters Jat the University of Paris games this afternoon when he covered the distance in 8 1-5 seconds. Paddock equaled the world's record when he tan 150 meters in 16 seconds during the teiuls of the University of Paris gamer. His time for the triais In the 100 meters dash was 11 seconds, When notified that he had been suspended by, the A. A. U. for com: peting yesterday, Paddock said he expected it, but that he felt he was right beeause the A. A, U. has no |jurisdiction over him when he com: petes as a college athlete, Paiiock won his heat in the hun- dred meters semi-finals in 10 4-6 Les Sherman, George Wils |shaw expects them back in | | time to be able to try out for) the grid squad in the fall. | The aspirants who are going thru the spring paces haven't found things very easy, Scrimmage, tack. ling the dummy and everything j that the grid men do in the fall have been experienced by the candi dates this spring. Fall practice will atart at the! university on September 15, as| usual. Bagshaw won't have any| }time to lose for the first big game} | will be on October 20 with Elmer | Henderson's University of Southern California eleven. This is the first time in a number of years that a big and important contest has come so early in the season for the locals. University does not start until early in October, and getting the men together in the middie of September doonn't come very easy. A game will be played at the Stadium on September 29 with some | Navy eleven, Bagshaw announced. Les Sherman, varsity fullback last season, 18 now a member of the Everett fire department, having passed the civil service examination @ month ago. Considerable doubt is expressed as to whether he will be back. Rumor has it that Sher. man and Dan Cupid are having a little bout. Everett high achool, as a source for University of Washington grid men, js fading into the background for the time being, at least. With one or two exceptions, the former champs are sending no men down that look like varsity timber, Andy Guttormaen, brother of the frosh quarter last year, and Everett Clark, a linesman, appear to be the beat bets from the City of Smokestacks this June PREP GAMES ARE BILLED HERE TODAY Queen Anne and West Seattle meet in an Important prep school contest this afternoon on Hiawatha field, Franklin and Broadway are slated to tangle at Lincoln playfield and Bal- lard and Lincoln play on Lower Woodland. All contests are slated to start at 3:45. Roosevelt and Garfield, the two new schools, played their game yes- terday, the Teddies winning 14 to 10. It was a poor exhibition of baseball. LETTER WINNERS PASS RESOLUTION EUGENE, May 4.—The order of “O," University of Oregon organiza. tion of athletic emblem winners, has passed a resolution whereby yell leaders and managers would not be awarded Jotters, ‘The organiza tion is also strongly opposed to any woman, except the wife of a mem- on and Norman lot Head Coach Enoch Bagshaw and Wayne Sutton, frosh grid tutor. “I haven't uncovered anything startling during the spring practice,” jclared yesterday, “but I feel that it has been a success. |keeping them all together because of the numb: We've had a of spring sports.” ngling are among the formidable candi- |dates for the 1928 varsity who are not at the university this quarter. Bagshaw de little trouble However, Bag- Portland Man Loses to Ouimet ANDWICH, England, May 4.— Francis Ouimet, Brookline, Mass,, amateur, won the St. George challenge cup today, defeating Dr. O. P, Willing, Portland, Ore, on the playoft of thelr tie for first honors) | yeuterday, The score was: Oulmet, 77; Will- ing, 78. The weather was extremely hot for England, and an unrelenting sun beat down on the two Americans as they fought between themselves over the 18-hole course for a British title, Ouimet took the jump early, veri fying the house of those who made him a favorite in the match, and was one up at the end of the first nine holes. He gained another at the 14th, and returned winner by a safe margin, The course wns crowded with English critics, who swarmed to Sandwich to see these two Amert- cans, who outclassed the British golfers in the preliminary matches and stole the St, George cup for thelr own—the first time this has been accomplished by a forelgner since the play was inauguarted, in 1887, British golf critics heaped none too gentle criticism upon the head of Joas Sweetser, American amateur golf star, today, for his action in the final round of the St. George challonge play at Sandwich. Sweetser waa far off his game and noglected to turn in his card, The ‘British thought it unsport manlike and “quite temperamental,” discussing It frankly as part of the American play, MAJOR STUFF Cy Williams hit his sixth homer in the venth Inning with one on, and the Phils defeated the British aviator, 6 to 4. Heventoon hite pounded off four Giant pitchers enabled the Robins to win their {let game from the champtone, 11 to 3, Sensational support behind the pitching of “Old Babe" the Pirates to be Rabo Ruth pulled a spectacular throw from deep raht and nipped a Waahing- ton rally in the ninth, the Yanks winning, 5 to 2 ‘Two singles by Bottomley drove in threo runs, and the Cards defeated the Cubs, 9 to 2. ‘Two errors by Galloway and Hale, fol- lowed by a single by Burns, scored two rune in the third innings, and the Ath~ lotion lont to the Rod Sox, 4 to 1, Detroit knocked. Unie out of the hox and abused Metevier, and jumped into firat place by beating the Indians, 6 to 6. ber of the Order of "O" from wear. ing an athletic emblem won by a Dave Danforth pitched in fin while Mankenahip wae being nick: the Browns beat the White Hox, 6 to 8, Washington Park Team Is Feature Strong Star Club to Play Best Shoe Shop Outfit in Big Game HE feature battle of Sunday's games in The Star Junior base- ball loop will be Walla field. It will mark the first appearance of the powerful outfit, They meet in order, Washington Park was supposed to have opened the season last Sunday, but the Tailored Ready team failed to show up. The Best Shoe Shop ning handed the Clothiers a bad beat ing the Sunday before and just about knocked them right out of the league. Bill Stitta, one of the best young pitchers in the city, ‘will do the hurl- ing for Washington Park, while the Shoe boys have a new pitcher from the East named George Renner who will toil on the hiti. Washington Park has a flock of fellows who have starred for several Star seasons in the fold this year, in- cluding Ted Ahner, Al Barbaris, Buss White and Bin Griffiths. They also have Chick Folk, former Lincoln high school infielder, lined up. The Best Shoe Shop has a fighting aggregation built around Ora Brack- en, Rodney Gilbert, Lyle Knowjes, Dick Breen and several other Star leaguo performers of other seasons. This game will get under way at noon on Walla Walla No. 2 grounds. | The rest of the schedule for Sun. day follows: LEAGUE NO. 1 West & Wheeler va, Asahi Cubs, at Broadway field; Fahey-Brockman vs. Lincoln Park Pirates, at Broad- way field; Louie's French Dry Clean ers ys. Arden Cubs, at South Seattle at noon, Fremont Cyctones, idle. LEAGUE NO, 2 Pugets vs. Three Brothers Dye Works, at Columbia; Rainier Valley Merchants vs, Y. M. H. A., at Walia Walla; Washington Park va. Beat Shoe Shop, at Walla Walla. Tailored Ready, dle. 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