The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 2, 1923, Page 13

SATURDAY A ; PA MAJOR MINOR WAR COST SALT LAKE BEES TWO CRACK TOSSERS BETWEEN INNINGS OBSERVATIONS or 4 BASEBALL, DE: BY DE.DUGDALE Two Stars Coming on Thurston Pitcher and Shortstop) Were Slated to Join Bees on Player Deal BY LEO H. LASSEN Wer the clared war aft 3 ne jors and minor the option » a thereby cu for the bis the player league wer market Coast as od it players eagues Salt Lake might have made them pennant win s had already turned a big tstop Meinie Sar Piteher who now nks of ia get Ss neve good hu ald dangerous clt strength we ™ hitting It i who worked for t the ‘om the n turned over t shut Sout row club fn out a her turned o aw pitcher, rookie infie! so men weren't y particular good, | but they figure to help the ers who need men to replace Ray French and Jesse Doyle, set free by Judge Landis. Don Ra was playing | shortstop for the Vernon outfit, but too erractic to do B Es- sick any good. other day San Fr je Alten, Flashkamper, to the Tigers doing the Seals 80) PETERS BOOSTS AUL STRAND John Peters, the big Salt Lake! catcher, says there are a doazen or|crew and her baseball team East thi As far as baseball is concerned Washington will probably more outfielders playing regularly in| the National league who couldn't be a bat boy for Paul Strand, the Salt) Lake slugger. “Strand has showed me plenty of | hitting ability,” says Peters, “and he would get by in the National league. He may not be any Tria Speaker in the outfield, but he would get by on his hitting. They told me he could-| n't throw, but I can't see anything wrong with his wing.” INDIANS GO ON ROAD AGAIN The Indians wind up thelr present | home stay with the games scheduled | for Sunday and then they go on the| road again for a two weeks’ trip be-| fore returning to the home heath| for another series of games here.| | | They will play Vernon at Los An-|trip consuming about two months./ern people. geles and Oakland at Oakland before | coming home again. | Pepy’s Diary Has Rival in Umps’ Account) ‘OE BECKER, one of the new| Coast league umpires,” carries | around with him a small notegjbook that contains much of interesty Leg Sbly written in this daily diary is a series of unusual diamond ‘vents transpiring in Becker’s career. One page contains this unvar- nished account: annibal, Mo. Called a runner out today for leaving third base before a fly was caught. It was the ninth inning and the home team needed that run to tle. The outfielder made a bad throw home and the runne scored easily. He was sitting on the bench when the third baseman hol- lered for the ball and touched third. I had to call the runner out. Bottles, rocks and cushions rained on the field. One rock h.c me behind the ear. The entire left side of my head became paralyzed. I went to see a doctor and he told me he would| have to perform a mastoid operation It cost me exactly $1,300. I was right! in my decision. This on another page. Danville, Ill. Called a runner out | on a close decision. | on the field and mobbed me. tore all the clothes off of me. to buy a whole new outfit. right in my decision. Becket can smile now when he looks back on those days, but wasn't any laughing matter at the time. He still carries behind his teft ear the scar of his $1,300 operation. EJECT BOXERS IN S. F. RING SAN FRANCISCO, June 2.—~ Young McGovern and Red Cole, both of Los Angeles, were ejected from the Dreamland ring last night when Referee Toby Irwin beame nvinced the men were stalling. The bout declared a “no con- test” affair. Irwin allowed the “fight” to go four rounds and then stopped it. BRISTOW, Eng. June 2,—Miss Elizabeth Ryan of California defeat- ed Mrs, Craddock of England, 8-6, 6-2, in the finals of the Women's West of Mngland champlonships this afternoon. J.D, P, Wheatley and Miss Ryan won the mixed doubles finals, defeat- ing ¥, L, Riseley and Mrs, Crad- dock, 6-5, 15. They I had I was |teams | gon The fans came | ¢ it|P San Francisco Scribe. Likes W ashingto (Editor's Note. sport writer, Morse who is in New York « ing story. Morse, it it and dasedall teams in action d in the San Francis Brick” ms, crew publishe : o¢ save.) BY “BRICK” MORSE EW YORK, June 2.—The | the Eastern bee in her bonnet. California has had to bear the brunt of the task of show- ing the Easterners up and assistance of the Huskies. W: not do much showing up, bu should win a good percentage of the games. I saw the Northwest teams pla but I’m not prepared to say whether or not those teams would be able to hold California or Stanford even in a series of games. Washington thinks she has one of the best} in her history. Hence the trip East. Washington and the Ore: Aggies are about a standoft| in the Northwest baseball circuit Washington State beat Oregon two| games. So did the Aggies. Then} the Aggies beat Washington State | two games. Washington holds a two game decision over Washing ton State. The Huskies will play} coliegess all thru the East, the CREW HAS |GOOD CHANCE As far as the Washington crew} is concerned the Huskies have very excellent chance of cleaning |‘fews of that university | : up back there and thus bringing| glory and honor to the Pacific) coast. The Navy crew will not be in the Poughkeepsie affair this year, | so that makes it exclusively a col- lege affair. I never did believe that Navy crew should be al lowed in the intercollegiate regatta The Annapolis fellows are training for the water. It is to be their life. In a certain sense they are professionals. Among the crews with reputations which ‘Washington will have fo face are Columbia, Cornell, Syracuse and Pennsylvania It's six of one and half a dozen of the other. Any crew might win, so it might as well be the Huskies: SAW TRIANGULAR RACE HER! Those Washington fellows certain. ly look the goods, if I am any judge of rowing, which I am not. I saw them in a triangular race with the Washington freshmen and the Port- a Rowing club on The | ‘ourse was two miles, Lake | Washington and up a narrow canal | on the edge of the campus, where the spectators on both nks could | get a close-up of the crev worked. It is contrary to good form for the varsity to compete against the shmen, but an exception was made in this case. The freshmen had beaten the varsity over the two- | mile course in practice spins and | waxed exceedingly ‘cocky. They Jed with Coach Caliow to be al lowed to show the varsity up in the presence of a big crowd. The var. sity thought it was time the babes CLAIMS JESS COULD STOP | FLOYD SOONER Ree ARCHER, the pal and man- ager of Jess Willard, left Los Angeles the other day for New York Before he left, Archer informed the | newspaper men that Willard, had he wanted to, could have stopped Floyd Johnson in the first round, “But,'! said Archer, "had he done that he would have le doubt in the minds of the people as to wheth- or he could fight 12 or 16 rounds without blowing up. “Every time Willard returned to his corner he was smiling. He knew | he could finish his job in any part of any round, “Then, when he came back to his corner at the end of the 11th round, he told mo he had better get it over with. “I told him to go ahgad.” Cline I: Living Up to Name “Tiger” Is Real Tiger in Ring; Boxes Davis Here on ‘Tuesday Record Breaker \EATTLE be far OOHNNY THROWS A WICKED Glove, Harry Smith, *|San Diego (Cal.) high school he did 12 feet, 11%, inches in the pole vault, chalking up a new world record for prep schools. This surpas by four inches the former high mark set by S. Landers of Minneapolis. FIRPO QUICK TO LEARN AS YANKEES DO FIRPO ts Ma and other scrap. When known as exception. | whipping McAuliffe, Both Davis and Jimmy DeForrest $1,000. ability to box had stepp Williams at Au teacht m yesterday. His ion to the boys. I t afraid about bring week before the fight no one erying the blues chances with hard to beat, but Clir 19-year-old recently 68 up and fronr tt whic did the AND HANGS ' OUT To DRY thir unusual for Jimmy ho Cline does wny fancy boxer enough to beat Farrell, w not claim he Mary Gene Cline, to be was Aly urs way } ng Ltr y he was paid pers, who are vo they say, bh |a © mauler Cline possess the | well fight rounds with Pat handed DeF months an} four | tin : rrest expended several .“s Cline everything which « Firpo Galts ¢ ‘ he didn’t know about boxing a revels a lot What was Mexicans n Crew Razz Rival wcomsie | Of Firpo Mundo Opens Cam- paign Against Firpo- Hibbard Scrap in Mex. fexicc 2. Firpo-Jim by which wi man was Cline here jand there ‘ i * asked DeFor. | Davis & » has prow present, t« the writer of the rd the L ty of Wash this spring gives his opint San slammed the table You ming to mw, eForrest down what | }I quit.” money pay as good a chance as any has ever fought him here Four matches for next night been soml-windup popular Tacoma ing Mysterious ortland, Benny ne who | niver + Tuenday ne clinched to find he have wi was amicably set words passed be and teacher be m But the w r angry fighter ted. tween fore it That's tweight, me Billy 8mith Jr. of St of Salt Lake, not Ed will meet Billy Kid John son of Olympia, while Leonard Mal ody of Salt Lake will box Pat Wil her four rounder. Jniversity of Wa It. is wi iington b Il. Hitherto on usually the way. Only one » CITY, June Serious to Hibbard fight the | Shannon. lin tions the proposed who is grateful, the Bears will welcome the ashington will send both her summer, |SHELBY LIQUOR TO BE SCARCE | SHELBY, Mont, June 2 has jams in an rained Mundo, campaign Against the contest with a three-col mn story, pointing out Hibbard as |a. “set-up.” MONTANA WILL HAVE BIG YEAR | newspaper El opened a t she has a good team and | June - It Yankee | greatest for your | ing. me a while does one find a fighter! -Here’s | ball club out there. of the present day remember pitche out hitting more fame for riing e for agu ig days of his caree he tern le in 1918 remember K ing him ret stri i f NHE « ing bases nd to omet ne e head and think of - ir average present-day fans fre Jaugh n coasting on when he ed of the games. The he into third same way in the open. It Lake at Fre was so astonished that « player ix a be They erett ot his boi Yary other |second in one |tell me that Oscar Vitt th ling wit nd | forgot | But |ners in the | first ti 4 EB om the day game Vitt to tag him. ne of the greatest baserun game today slides head Frankie Frisch, the Fordham slides that way In the old most of the baserunners did| headfirst. Mike Kelly, the baserunner of early bas | ball, slid headfirst. And speaking of fat men stealing ses reminds mo of Dave Orr, the| great American association star who | was so fat that when he hit the! ground he would half, spin from the | impact of hitting the dirt, in: he “ d | | | FTE Seattle team $s back in its stride and {is playing the ball| that the Indians are capable of play: | They looked good at home be- | they took that disastrous trip.} And your fickle fans! What an odd | lot they I heard more than| one fellow say during the Indians’ | slump that they would never go near |the ball park again, and I noticed | most of them are back in their jcustomed seats since the boys have j started to win in, | fore ETTING behind the home elub in| a city like Seattle will do more | good for the Indians than anything |that the fans could do, Everybody |makes mistakes and if the average jfan was as ready with a boost as he is with the knock the boys would |play a lot harder. We have a good It needs fixing | ness 6, the big Salt Lake a lot of Larry cinnatl star, bee an a great Peters behind that He looks e best catch- he learns 1 the style minds me hitter after more T NEY tell me tha e or Seattle Coast men and milies, ball, 1 llow tends to busl- e knows that he me the pork chops and the youngsters, »s a man in condition because the boys who 200 in the caberet leagues don't get very far on the diamond, The morals of the Seattle club this year is almost perfect und the ef @ fect of this will be seen in the play ™ of the team thruout the season. b married mo: This think more w bring h Missus k seball, has to for the Home for x THINK the biggest single factor 7 in the return to form of the In- dians was the injection of Ted Bald: win into the infield. This young | fellow has a world of pepper and he © plays a mean game around that hot | orner. It gives the Tribe a good man at second base is Sam Crane and tightens up the whole infield. COAST MEET IS SLATED AT PULLMAN ULLMAN, June 2.—Everything if 7 in readiness for the Pacific § Coast conference track meet which | is to be staged on Rogers’ field here” this afternoon. The Golden Bears of California, competing in the first conference . meet for three years, are strongly favored to win today, altho the Unie versity of Washington representa: tives should make a good showing. were taught a Nsson and also plend: ed for a chance the kids how to behave. to show It waa suggested that Hibbard be fe <1 to fight Sam Langford, Mexican champion, before he be the | ja tip for those who thing Shelby ts Jin a few places, admittedly, but as |wide open, and that liquor can be /long as they are hustling give them |had out of the town pump: If you|credit. It takes a real sport to stick are coming to see Tom Gibbons and|with a loser. Anybody can kick a SHELBY, Mont., looks like a big year in this section jof Montana, The weather has been against the farmers for several STANFORD PAIR permitted to engage Firpo, Langford, it ix claimed, right to meet Firpo. The city government Is to form a boxing commission to supervise the and it is probable the new n will action to pre the Firpo-Hibbard fight. | years, but prospects of good crops |Jack Dempsey whale eash other on year are excellent. The heavy | July 4, and you need something be- |rainfalls the last week in May | sides Montana air to hold your pep, brought cheer to the grain raiser, it|bring it Shelby is very well isn't often that this section gots | behaved. in a while a boot- The upshot of it t the freshmen got theirs. varsity Pulled across the finish line three lengths to the good. However, t babes did pretty well at that. They beat the Portland feliows four | "POT engths, The course was nearly two miles and a quarter and tho time was 9:56, very fast rowing, they say was thi The has the ; One it has done the freshly planted seed | other city in the country, but what & lot of good, It also helps the cat-|rum running-is done is very much Ue men to the north, sub rosa. comn ake vent moisture at this time of year, and |legger is pinched, just like in any|The fans in that city never get be- man when he's down. but it takes a real guy to help him back up again, | Take the city of Washington, D. C, It {s full of transient people. |hind thelr ball club, and second place is the highest they have ever reached, WILL GO EAST Jim Davies and Phil Neer, Stal ford University tennis stars holders of the intercollegiate donb! championship, have been gi permission to defend their title’ a the Intercollegiate Law Tennis am sociation tournament at Haverfol Pa., June 25. Old-time crew followers rtanding around the finish line proclaimed the varsity crew the best ever seen | in action on Lake Washington. That | sounds like bad news for the East- MANAGER OF WILLS AGAIN | IN THE NEWS ADDY MULLINS, manager for] Harry Wills, appeared before the | |New York boxing commission and} frevhman | j.Ked that the check for $2,600 that | |he posted for a fight with Dempsey | be returned to him. v addy breaks into the news a second time. The other time was| when he posted the check. Fight men wonder why Wills sticks with Paddy, If Wills had a manager who could talk a little he| | would have found out a long time! ago whether Dempsey intends to| fight him or ts simply stalling him. Because he has no manager to| speak of, Wills has to remain idle and seo smal] men like Carpentier and Gibbons get matches for the | world’s championship to which they | are not entitled | Wonder if there are any cans in| |New York that Wills could tle to | Paddy? |\HAWAIIAN STAR WITH GLEASON EERE: Neil Blaisdell, southpaw pitcher from Honolulu and a graduate of NEW PROMOTER | the University of Hawaii, has re ENTERS FIELD | porte to Manager Gleason of the Chicago White Sox. Both varsity and freshman, crews will be taken East. On the way here they will stop at Wisconsin and row against the varsity and ANNUAL PREP TRACK MEET HERE TODAY IGHT Seattle high school track teams were the to in annual AILCity meet at the Stadium compete starting at 2 o'clock this afternoon A great crowd is expected to see the the competition, rival athletes in annual | Ballard enterg the meet a strong favorite to take the honors. Keen interest has been shown in the in dividual competition between Brice Taylor of Franklin and Ed Jenkins of Ballard, two great colored ath- letes, Every A new promoter of big fights en- sri : . ters the field. His name is Simon am uherty. Ho is the man who is STAR GIVEN HONOR range a fight between| ©. N. Workman, former quarter. and Harry Wills in New| back star on the Ohio State univer: y football team, and a member of it York He states that the day Dempsey disposes of Gibbons he will place in the hand of Jack Kearns a check for $50,000 to bind the match Flaherty meanwhile is busy with the ‘ew York commission, He has demanded of that official body that it show cause why Wills should not be permitted to fight Dempsey. “And if the commission can #how me one good reason why the fight should not be allowed I will gladly withdraw,” states Filahe Ty it can't, I will expect the necessary permission to go ahead with the mateh,” HURRY! the base @ Big Ten schol bined excellence scholarship, has been awarded hip medal for com: | * in athletics and | Here’s How to Get Yours Without Spending a Penny: Just get five people who are not now having The Star delivered to their homes to agree to take the paper for three months. 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