The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1923, Page 13

EDUCATING NORTHWEST FANS a conversation the oth the University of Wa competition has kept back the avers sporting put But with the Washington crew making the wonderful showings that it st few seasons and with the Purple and Gold again going to s a grand chance oy bringing hon has in the p Poughkeepsie where it b beans, the people of the N Pitching Discussed by Evans Umpire Talks About Styles of Hurl- ing in Big Leagues BY BILLY EVANS (American League Umpire) ITCHING cycles When TI joined the American league 18 ago. pitched Famous runs in high, ng. Pitchers who nty of zip their fast which they kept shoulder high the successful twirler The fast ball, kept high in vogue some time before I joined the majors. It had a run of perhaps 10 years, like Cy had Then came the era of the spitball. Few deliveries have stirred up as much agitation pro and con as the spitball. Spithall pitchers early discovered that it was necessary to keep the spitball at the knee to be effective. It is a well-known fact in baseball that a spitball broken above the waist line loses much of its deceptiveness, COMING OF SPITBALL Spitbali pitching proved so effec- tive that a majority of the pitchers/| went to the delivery. Others who| didn't really use it faked the delivery | for the psychological effect. | The spitball changed entirely the | style of pitching from the high to the | low ball, as the most effective weapon | against the batter. Only the real vot- | erans stuck to the fast ball, high and inside, as their big threat. Cy Young eid to it to the very end, altho late in his career Cy developed @ pretty | fair curve that he used to advantage | by crossing the boys up. The spitball was the forerunner of | an era of freak deliveries. In an ef- | fort to retain supremacy over the| batsman, pitchers began to doctor the | ball to get an unusual break. VOGUE OF FREAK | DELIVERIES i One of the discoveries made by the} ever alert pitchers was that by Toughening the ball it was possible to make the ball sail or break down, according to where the purchase was placed on the ball. Freak deliveries to a certain extent brought back the! fast ball, high and inside, altho the low ball was used as much if not more. So great an advantage did the freak deliveries give the pitchers that they were legislated out of baseball, includ. | ing the spitter. It was the belief that | more hitting was desired, and that elimination of freak deliveries would bring it about. Likewise, in the desire to supply more hitting the ball was made more lively. A lively ball and no freak de- liveries made for more hitting. Already the lively ball has revolu-| ionized the art of pitching. A twirler who depends almost exclusively on speed, hasn't a chance in the majors today. A change of pace is most es- sential. NOW IT's THE KNUCKLE BALL In order to cope with the batsman, pitchers have found it necessary to be able to slow up. There can be no steady diet of any particular style, the pitcher must resort to every stock in trade, ‘The present season Is destined to see a majority of pitchers using the knuckle ball. The knuckle ball is de- livered with ordinary speed, just enough to throw the batter off his stride after looking at a fast one. Aside from supporting the much- desiréd change of pace the knuckle ball fairly shimmies up to the plate and is exceedingly difficult to hit any great distance. In all the games I have worked so far this year I have seen only two pitchers who failed to at least experi- ment with the knuckle ball. In baseball it's a survival of the fittest with the pitcher and batsman constantly fighting for supremacy. At present the batsmen have the edge. HIGHLAND A. C. AGAIN WINNER | The Highland Athletic club tossern surprised ball fans by trouncing the highly touted West Hill Merchants by a 17 to 1 score at Crown Hill Sunday. Snellingberg, on the mound for the winners, was the star of the | contest. He struck out 12 West Hill batsmen, allowed only two bingles and hit two doubles and a single out of four trips to the plate. Joe Quick- stadd and Wes Sundstrom also Played good ball for the winners. The score— R. H. E. Highland A. C.. West Hill ......-.. 4 Snellingberg and Cooper; Davis, MeKenney, McGraw and Bergman. _y———_——— for Tickets The opening day at the Cincin- nati ball park drew a smile from Garry Hermann, the club pres- ident, But it also caused the good natured magnate to cuss a bit, Reason; Hermann invited a pair of friends to the park and when he applied for a couple of reserv- ed stubs from the secretary he was greeted with “None left,” Then Garry went out and visited the ticket speculator, It Js sald that he was forced to pay a sum in ¢xcess of $40 for a par of tho | bases filled, BY rer LEO H. LASSEN day with Russ Callow Shington, he pointed out tt the progress of the sport a lic here. orthwest are starting to perk game The tor it the coach of ufficient event with ad crew i major the pork and on the rowing STAR LEAGUE STARS No. 2. Vinnie Galer, star ers’ Dye Works Club. | | | | on} had been | pitcher for Three Broth- TWO HORSES | KENTUCKY’S _ DERBY HOPES OUISVILLE, Ky., May &—Ken- tucky holds a good hand in the} next Kentucky Derby deal, but it} lacks the real trumps of the effote| East's band of candidates for that} stake. | The strongest of the Western con-| tenders appears to be Bo McMillin and Donges. Bo is a sturdy youngater who won five races in 1923 and more than $11,- 000, while Donges, in whose veins) flows the blood of Bessie Melton, one! of the most famous of all Englist mares, and of other famous English racers, won the Cincinnati Trophy last year and five other races. Alto- gether he won more than $35,000. Ye, too, likes a distance and will carry weight. Other Kentucky horses which have a good chance in the Derby are Skee- zix, Sandy Hatch, Bright Tomorrow, Betty Beal, Prince K., and Aspiration. DR. WILLING © WINS MATCH IN ENGLAND DEAL, England, May 8—Ameri- can stars pulled safely thru the sec- ond round of the British amateur championship tournament here to- day. Francis Oulmet and Willing, relied upon among Americans as having the chance to go into the finals, their matches. Ouimet easily defeated B of Woking, three up and Dr. O. P. the best won Darwin, two to ert Grant, jr. of Princes, three and one, Game Chatter George Uhle let the Browns down with seven hits, hit two doubles and a single and scored three runs, the Indians winning, 12 to 3. Stengel, Giant outfielder, and Winert, Philly pitcher, were thrown out of the game for fighting, after Stengel had accused Winert of try- ing to bean him, The Giants won, 13 to 8. Fournier's sacrifice fly with the in the tenth inning, scored the run that gave the Rob- ins a 12 to 11 victory over the Braves. Grimm, Pittsburg first hase- man, hit a triple and two sin: gles and made it 20 games in which he has hit safely, The Pirates beat the Cards, 11 to 4. Ty Cobb's homer, with two on, pasteboards, helped the Tigers beat the White Box, 8 to 4, play, while Willing won from Rob- | ,, Star Chatter Star league teams should not Ret the plans for the finals year, The (wo teading teams in mech division elash, and the winners of these two meet in the finals in a (wo-owt-of-three game series. for- this The semi-finals will be played on new tral grounds, and the first two games of the finals will be home and home tite. In case @ third game is necessary to de cide the championship, it will be played on @ neutral field, Wert & Wheeler has strengthened ite already strong outfit by the addition of axio Bird. Hird is @ star diamond form nd will add a lot of class to the champions. Ne will be played in jright field. The Pugets have « corking good battery in Stroud and Barheris. Stroud is coming along fast an o twirler, while they say that Bar- heris ix all to the gravy behind the plate, Rodney Giibert, the scrappy West Shoo Shop outfielder, has developed into one of the best long distance hitters in the league. He Is one of The Star league veterans, Louie's French Dry Cleaners are steam Ing along at a tremens: have worked up a « this year, scoring 42 runa in two games, They are buliding up their club for the clash with Weat & Wheeler that will ¢ pretty close to deciding the champ of Division 1, The Ardeo Cubs are in sad need of battery strength, Any piteb oligible for The Star league t Ted Ahner and Al Barberis have given the Wasthngton Park team a moan of- fensive, Tho former Three Brothers stata are capable of playing some big leauge ball when the settle down to business, Henry Kono, crack Franklin athlete, iming with the Asahi Cuba, the Fremont making their Cyclones will be and of the lo with the & Wheeler team at South Park Sunday. If the Cyclones can get a good pitcher in the box, they may give the champions a mean fight, Monroe Dean, t of th mal clever third sacker Cyclones, in undoubtedly the best at his positoin inthe loop, Ferd Abel is pitching good ball for the Three Brothers Dye Works, With Vinnie Gnlet to work with him, Abel gives the Dye Workers a good pitching staff, Stanley Malkowakl, who usually plays firnt base, stopped into the pitcher's box Sunday and twirled the Fahey-Brockman team to a victory over the Lincoln Park Piraten, It wan hia first experience as a pitcher, Glendon’s Son Navy: Coach ICHARD GLENDON, former pledge couch at the Naval academy, is now head coach at the Annapolis institution, He succeeds his father, who tutored the Middies to a victory at Pough- keepuie Jast year and many years before. He is following the same system established by hi« father, The impo cre folks know picks thi f crew ho of following the the erage sport f does football, baseba iner point work, difficulty ible for it The finesse of the game is a mystery to the fans because adequate way for them to find out what it’s all about what good rowing form is man for stroke, another f Interest Runs High | in Tourney Star Amateur Mitt Events Will Begin Friday; City Titles Staked in ar to the effect that the pro heavyweight championship tournament wa announcement saturday posed city amateur championship affair for all weights and divisions, has brought forth # food of entries at ull welghts. majority of the entries that n yesterday and this morning in the heavyweight class, sooner had the heavyweight tourn: ment been called off than the beefy ut up from ndiators began to spre D However, th n be eaall € plained. No pr jonals wil al lowed to compete in the coming tour- nament to be held in the Austin & Salt gym under the direction of Lon nie Austin and Dan Balt. Whe the original Star heayyweight tourney was broached it was worded so that it ed all heaviea, amateurs o; profension. This scared all the . out Ww Willle Keel Roy } and rent of the ” e left out in the cold t ply thelr trade on regular profession- ards, our nimon pure inchy h batter n Om, al amateur heavy weights put in thelr appearance at the Austin & Salt gym yesterday to sign up. Two 128-pounders and al lighter youngster among the flock that put in thelr ap pearance ready to begin training battle for the various city title firmt series of eligtination matches will be held Friday night and the public will be welcome at ail of them. The now $35,000 gym, recently opened by Dan Balt and Lonnie Aus tin, will seat 600 fans as it stands Accommodations can made for hundred more. Between seven } and ten bouts will be on next Friday night's p The boya are fight ing for the glory of the thing, so some red-hot battles can be looked for, A nu looking boxe pearance all of his ove |the boys free of charge. nber of really promising # have put in thelr ap- to be chiinged into a} wever, are t to the hells in training on the water an to take ll and other average in the practice s¢ port ther collegiate Very know why oon, They They don't or No. 6, and kno the TO THE FINESSE O anything, abc pecta Th traini on La attle of coacl § readers in en ons of thing ie Star da Wa eral r ei ake s no pace fine art c F crew balance, of strc assigned Torn Ols¢ with ( hington Coact ( all technique tertaining Watch PAGE 123 pe of the up for appear PI THE FIGHTING ICEMAN| "4" Guessing on Outcome of Scrap When’s he’s not parkir ig his two leather-cased mitts against opponent’s jaw, Jimmy Marcus is packing ice, The Star « doing the ice act at t 12th av tends to stick around he doesn’t want to lose frozen cubes. Arena tonight. Note: Incide Travie Davis will think a couple of these hit him on the chin when they get together at the samera man caught James he Ice Delivery plant, at nd E. Cherry st., Monday. Jimmy in- Seattle this summer, and the knack of packing the ntally, Jimmy that blocks This one in the picture weighs a mere 300 pounds, Lonnie Austin {s devoting | ing time to instructing So hurry up, you ambitious leather pushers, Here's your chance to win & champlonahip, even if it x only a/ city title, The entry Star city amateur tournament are open. |to Lonnie Austin or go up to the |mym in person. It is located at Ninth and Olive sta, and Ix open from 8 in | the morning until 12 at night. SEATTLE TO ' FACE STRONG ‘ SEAL SQUAD CATTLE is playing its first series of the season in San Francisco |this week, opening there today. The Indians, badly trimmed in Portland, will meet even stronger opposition in the Golden Gate, The Seals are much stronger than when they play: ed here two weeks ago. Hddie Muli |qun, regular third sacker; Joo Kelly, outfielder, and Hal Rhyne, shortstop, ¢ all back in the fray, Everett Yuryan, out for a few days with an injured knee, is expected to |take his place again behind the log for Seattle Portland plays at Los Angeles, Vor- non at Salt Lake and Oakland at Sacramento in the other games of the week. champlonahip Send all entries LOS ANGELES LOSES FINAL SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 —The Seals defeated Los Angeles in the final game of the series yesterday by a 5 to 4 count. The locals had two |men out in the ninth with the score 4 to 2 against them when a thrilling rally was ntaged which netted three runs, The score: Los Angeles 11 San Francisco ......+. 4 Jones, Thomas and Daly; Buckley, McWeeney and Agnew. WHITMAN BESTS W. S. C. TOSSERS PULLM fay 8.—Whitman col- lege defeated Washington State Col- lege on the local diamond here yes- terday by a 6 to 2 score. The « R. Whit 5 | R. 4 H. EB. 2 x 2 +6 2 Bas 6 4 ‘ . b Bec § lters; Heighton and Bray. TUNNEY WINNER FROM CLIFFORD I Peepelies light heavyweight cham- pion, scored a technical knockout over Jack Clifford of St. Paul last night. Clifford was forced to stop at the end of the eighth round with a bad cut over his eye. PORTLAND SHEIK BEATS JOE LEVY PORTLAND, May &—Frankle Grandetta, the flyweight sheik, won from Joe Levy after ten rounds of boxing here last night. Harry Druxman, with his brother, Leo, have opened a ciger store, pool halt, ecard room and luneh counter in the spacious quarters at 1426% Fifth ave, Harry is the father of the box- ing game in the Grays Harbor coun- try and ts well known In local fistic circles, Brother Nate is the local promoter, 8 ROIT, May §—Gene Tunney, | lists of The} | | | \HE University of Washington ball | club, to Invade Eastern college | diamonds late in this month, will | probably not be in the best of shape |for the trip, The varsity tossers are |the victims of a bad schedule this | season, and have been idle since the | Idaho weries, two w », and will | be until they meet Oregon May 21. | Coach “Tubby” Graves is striving to line up some sort of competition |for his men. Even that won't do | much good, for the local players are jnever really up on their toes unless they are engaged in some important college contest. Besides games with Yale, Penn State and other big schools in the East, Washington is slated to meet |the crack Brooklyn Athletic club nine. While in Brooklyn, they will stop at the famous Brooklyn Golf and Country club, | QIXTEEN varsity track men will | accompany Coach Edmundson |to Pullman the last of this week to jmeet the Washington Staters, in a duel meet Saturday, The varsity's | chances in thix meet.are good, prin- jcipally for the reason that the Cou- |wars can have only 16 men in the |competition, also, The Pacific Coast Conference offictals, at a recent moet- ing, passed a ruling that to conserve on finances it would be necessary to set a definite number of athletes to compete in the Coast Conference meet at Pullman on June 2 the receiving problem can be practically overlooked by Coach Graves for the next few years, “Boaner” Walby, a sophomore, 1s now receiving for the Varsity, and is good for two more years. But the Frosh have a youngster named Lind say, doing the receiving work, who looks like he has the stuff, Lindsay hallx from Olympia, where some good ball material has been developed. The | Frosh catcher expects to complete his scholastic work at Washington, He can be considered a very likely pros- pect for the Varsity any time. IG league son's play than do play workers. miscues In the American league. cepted 765 chances and Sewell 757. is right in the center of the inne must be executed hurriedly, Some shortfielders accrue more But his fielding average will be a Mens ITH two star catclers in school, | MAJOR LEAGUE SHORTSTOPS LEAD ALL IN MAKING ERRORS Why do shortstops pile up the most miscues? short fielder will, as a rule, have about half again as a eeason as wil! the third baseman. defense, There are thrown balls to handle and be put on attempted base s BY TOM OLSEN | ANY telegrams of congratulation | were sent from the local eam: pus to Ed Leader at Yale for his splendid victory over the Columbia jand Pennsylvania crews Saturday. | Yale wax not considered a favorite by | the Eastern critics, and Columbia was |expected to walk away with the hon- jors. However, the former Washing- ton tutor crossed the boys up, and showed them that he knows a little jabout rowing. | The victory must have tickled Yale students and alumni. ‘They were get- ting mighty disgusted with the re- peated defeats ndministered to the | Bulldogs in athletic competition, Mike Murphy, Washington stroke and captain last year, shouldn't be |forgotten, He is assisting Leader in coaching Yale, 1 T, the football city, will | probably have a representative |on tho University of California eleven next fail. Glen “Scoop” Carlson, |former Everett quarterback, starred |for the Blue and Gold Frosh last | yeur, and is expected to slide into the [berth left vacant by the great Char- }ley Erb, who graduates. Carlson won't make the quarterback Erb was, |but he should be able to get along Jail right under the competent coach- jing of Andy Smith, | TWILIGHT BALL | IN CENTRALIA Centralia’s Twilight baseball league will swing into action on May 28, Two games will be played weekly during the months of June, July and August. The Elks, Eagles, Kiwanis | club and Model Laundry all have ag- | gregations entered. |AS BALL COACH Louls Guisto, baseball star, now first-sacker for the Cleveland Indians, has been appoint- ed coach of the baseball pla: his alma mater for the coming shortstops make more errors during the course of a sea. # in any of the other positions, they make on the average about twice as many as do their various co. In fact, Last year, Emory Rigney, of the Detroit Tigers, turned in the most He made 60, one more than tho total hung up by Joe Sewell of the Cleveland Indians, All told, Rigney ac. One reason is that a many chances in second-sacker, he double plays that from tho catcher Along with the There are lers, “boots” than do others, Especially is this true of a fast mun, because he can cover more ground and ix consequently apt to make moro errors, for he takes more chances, 8 correspondingly high as a slower player afoot, for he will aceept more chances, Donle Bush, when’ with the Retrolt Tigers, was this type of shortstop, Bush went after everything possible, figures were always high, tho he made up for this by cutting off many base hite which other fielders wouldn't have got. Consequently, his error column |GUISTO ENGAGED | former St. Mary’s| Travie Davis and Jimmy Contest This Evening at Marcus Are Primed for Arena; California Boy Is in Much Better Condition Than in Former Meet PECULATION runnir probable outcome of toni Arena between Socking Jimm: Travie Davis, the When Seattle fans at the Arena two weeks ago t more or less of a one-punch fi was to the at the ig rife yesterday ght’s six-round as h y Marcus of Los Angeles and srett welterweight kingpin. w Marcus in action against Davis hey what appeared to be ighte i That they pictured Marcus as a boy with a terrific wallop, waiting for just one punch to put him over a winner. But they mistaken. fighter. He is a many-pun battler was far from being i were Marcus is not a one-punch ch scrapper. The California n any kind of real condition for his first go with Davis, therefore the one-punch part. He naturally was war: , it being his first fight of more than four rounds duration, and sought to plant a haymaker. enwater, the young tcher who had several San Vranciseo, bas been | found wanting by Nashville, in the | Southern league, and he has been | shipped back to the Seals. ran spitball | 1 in the gap ng staff by th Doyle r Retger h the Tigers again, | cork | ik In the Southern league, and most of the work behind | the log for the Pelicans, | | the Easter y Jub, ‘The; y he Is a wonder at shortstop when II mes to the fielding end of the game. y t former Portland and ho waa bunted out of the not to quit the reported to the American asso- | clation, Babe Dye, the great Toronto hockey | forward, is playing ball again for Bul- |falo, In the International, holding down |the lead-off position in the batting order, [and taking care of the left fielder’s job | Maorice Archdeacon, the fastest | Funner in baseball, didn’ et his trial | with Detroit this year, after all. Ty Cobb decided to take Bob Fothersill, the heavyweight star, in preference, and Archdescon will ‘pastime in the | miners with Kechester another year. | Tony Brottem, used to catch in thi |old Northwestern league for Vancouver, is wearing the big mitt for the Louisville | jelub, in the American elation. He jwas in the Southern league for several years, and was then given a trial with Washington, in the American league, but | was found wanting. | Hub Perdue, the old Toston Brave |hurler, ban joined the nom: ball. “Having failed in the |'Te as leagues, he has finally | with Charlotte, in the South Atlantic) | clreuit, FOUR PREP» GAMES ON BILL TODAY | JOUR prep baseball contests are | billed for this afternoon, The | high school tossers have reached the |hai¢é way mark in the diamond race, and no one school can yet |be picked as a favorite for the | honors. Lincoln plays West Seattle and Hiawatha in an important game. Roosevelt, and Franklin meet at {Columbia and Broadway and Queen Anne will wrangle on Mercer field. In the other contest, Ballard and |Garfield will have it our on Walla Walla field, ' |BRENNAN STARTS ‘BIG LIBEL SUIT W YORK, May 8.—William J. “Bill” Brennan, heavyweight boxer, yesterday instituted a suit for $100, 000 damages against the Mail Ex- press Co., publishers of the Evening Mail, for an article published en- Utled, “Evening Mail jmous in Declaring Firpo-Brennan | Fight Queer.” The story in question was published after Brenrfin had been knocked out by Luis Angel Firpo, SEVEN YANKS SURVIVE PLAY DEAL, Eng, May 8.—Seven Americans were successful In. sur viving the first day's play in the British amatour golf championships here yesterday. §, Davison Herron and Dr, O. F. Willing, also Yankees, drew byes and will not start play until today OREGON FROSH TRACK WINNERS PORTLAND, May 8—The Uni- versity of Oregon Frosh track team easily defeated the Columbia uni- versity athletes here Saturday, The} final score was 91% to 29%, CENTRALIA IS WINNER, 4-3, CENTRALIA, May 8.—~ Centralia) And he did plant one that al- most put Travie Davis into fistic oblivion, in the fourth round. Marcus wa. Eddie Rol He was t first gong to the punches from every will use those ton himself in his fight rts in Tacoma last geressor thruout hed in from the last, sending in angle. Jimmy ics against Davis Davis likes to fight an ag- sive boy and always appears at his best against a fighter who will lead to him, And Marcus is not the with jonly one of the two who can punch, | Davis is quite some socker himself. With Marcus vowing to carry the fight to him Dayis is all set to un- some home runs this evening. Davis Is in the best of shape, which 8 something new for him. Travie usually takes things easy, figuring on his ability to carry him thru. ler of the card is far above the usual run of preliminaries. Main-eventers are studded in it all along the line from the second bout up to the semi-final. Mike Paulson, rugged Minneapolis veteran, who is angling for a match with the winner of the Marcus-Davis fight, tangles with Oakland Billy Harms in the six- round semi-final. Harms in his sey- ~~ ral starts in Seattle made excellent | showings. Lee Morrissey, anuther veteran of the roped arena, who has fought the best of thém in the lightweight and welterweight ranks, makes his debut against Jimmy Storey, in the special event. It was not so long ago since | ~ Storey was boxing top-line goes here. Brownie Villon, the promising lool ing Filipino bantam, and Ludwig Jones, are down for a four-rounder, as are Frankie Green and Sailor Ara- gon, another pair of bantams. Everett boxing fans will be on” hand en masse to pull for Travie Da- vis and Oakland Billy Harms, two of their favorites, making their homes in Everett. Nate Druximan will announce the election returns from the ringside to- night, Sider PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Portland ernon ‘ San Francisco . Oakland Los Angeles San Francisco 5, Los Angeles 4, Other teams traveling. HOW SERIES ENDED Won, Portland . Sacramento Vernon San Francti 6 Seattle +4 Salt Lal 4 Oakland . - 5 Los Angeles . GAMES THIS WEEK Seattle at San Francisco. Portland at alos Angeles. Vernon at Salt Lake. Oakland at Sacraments. NATIONAL LEAGUE ‘Won, Lost. New York 15 & Boston . Pittsburg . Chicago St, Louis Cincinnati Brooklyn ... Philadelphia Pittsburg 1 Brooklyn 12, Boston 11 (10 innings). New York 13, Philadelphia 8, Only games scheduled. Louis 4. New York Detrolt Cleveland . Staff Unani- | py Washington St. Louls Chicago Detroit &, Chicago 4. Only games scheduled. AARATEX §EM1 COLLARS Will not wilt, sag or shrink, and are very easy to launder high school settled its diamond diffi. culty with Chehalis Saturday by wins! 35¢ each ning @ hotly contested game, 4 to 3,