The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 15, 1923, Page 20

FRIDAY, JUNE IGIANTS AND YANKEES LOOK LIKE MAJOR WINNERS AGAIN~~¢ Champions Run Away | With Races ' Victories by Two New York Clubs Seem Al-| most Certain BY HENRY L. FARRELL NLESS a couple down upon th the Yanks should b figure how much mo ing to make out of feries before Septe on the wa) Both the champion clubs th id } of jinxes settle | a position to | em, the nts a favorites for their 4 nants, even if th In the uations aime @ cinch now that the the penn Job tremendou + the oppo: Pected to present predictions. The Pirates, form, looked like the Giants had fe they apparently thing some place The Reds were hd the Card: Ret no place ‘The Brooklyn I gational comeback Start, but they do not Gontending club. ILE the Yar club and f after a terrible look like ks haven't a team | to comp: h the Giants, | P they are running away with the American League pennant race. — | All of the western clubs failed | ) badly to live up to expectations. | The White Sox were the biggest | disappointment of the year. The Cleveland Indians fell down | Hand the loss of George Sisler ruined | the Browns | ‘Ty Cobb has been troubled with an Pinfield full of holes and his pitchers did not deliver as he expected them Connie Mack's Athletes were the Dig surprise of the early season. They | have a good young ball club that is| Boing some place in a couple of By Wut they are not ready to upset Yankees this year. | With very poor secondary defense, | the Yanks would be in a bad way if| Dany of the infielders ran into. some | Bad tuck. | “Mike McNally ‘and Ernie Johnson | re the only players Miller Huggins | to fall back on. McNally is a} d ball player, but he is not strong | ough to go thru a hard season. may be a good ball player, | every club in the league, with the ception of the Yanks, waived on Nn when the White Sox put him on ar the @® football and” baseball from Lehigh, hb: been signed the Yanks, and he might dom, but “Frisches” don’t | day. | ILE major league club owners are willing to pay fortunes for aying with | Rochester Internationals. “Merkle is batting over .400, and Tecently batted safely in. 32 utive games. He is a veteFan and a smart player, des that “boner” thing. | The St. Louis Browns are desper- | Svately in need of a first baseman ta George Sisler's place, and the ovenca Indians have not recovered from the mistdkes they made in let- “ting Stuffy McInnis go. Merkle would look good on either Me of those clubs. It say be, however, that Merkle is fied with his present position ind that he does not desire to go to big leagues again. It fs under- that this is the case. ‘Rochester is up in the pennant race | iid has a good chance for the honors id Merkle is the biggest part of the It seems that Rochester wants Merkle and Merkle likes Rochester. } has been “up” before, and he| # that there is little in it. 4H +3 ANOTHER world’s series in New York is being held up as a gr inger for baseball, but it is very robable that the parks will be open patronized just as much next on as they are this year, regard- of the teams that win the pen- nt. Baseball is too firmly established to in danger, as long as the mag- keep the game clean. When all “survived that 1919 thing, other New York world’s series will hurt the game ALEXA STERLING __ IN SEMI-FINAL RYE, N. Y¥., June 15—Miss Alexa ding won her semi-final match of ) the women’s Metropolitan golf cham- pionship here yesterday from Mrs. forma ‘Toerge, one up. Miss Sterling was hard pressed at times during the match and won gt = e when they halved the final hole. | SUDDEN SEEKS | A NEW RECORD ve rsity sprinter, will endeavor to es- tablish a new world’s record in the ‘Wib-yard dash at the annual Letter lers’ picnic, which will be held |S at Shell Mound park, San Francise- | 0, on July 1. a He Made Alibi _ Johnny Kilbane, former world’s | featherweight champion, denies that he started a story to the ef- [fect that he was counted out in “| the Eugene Criqui fight because could not hear the referee | counting. % “That's not #0," says Kilbane, ‘and if my friends started the for an alibi they were very jughtiess. I was knocked out fairly." af all | | | | Gana: Sudden, great Stanford uni- |! . OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN WHAT HA-HA» 1S ALL THIS NoNSeENsGe I WEAR ABoUT You ACCUSING MR. MEELER NEXT DOOR “TAKING YOUR CHICKEN AND YoU GoiNG “10 GUE HIM2. WELL, GET YoUR MIND AT EASE = YOUR HENS WERE NoT STOLEN!-I HAD MY MEAT MAN COME AND GET “THEM “TO PREPARE FoR NEXT SUNDAYS DINNER !« REMEMBER, T WARNED You WHAT T'D Do IF You DIDN'T FEED “HEM Richard Burr Wins Feature Match From Vander Las in Tennis Play ICHARD BURR, crack performer in The Star’s tennis tournaments, won the featured | championship yesterday from Dick Vander Las in a classy ent tennis, while Vander Las was ey- ma exhibition, 6. ratic at times. tch in the city tenr 2-6, 6-2. | LeRoy Foley, tournament manager, had Armand Marion, universi *-|other thrilling match, but the collegian came thru and took the ma | Marion had great difficulty in hand! Frank Star men's singles cup last year,| Koz\owski, winner of They sprung a big surprise when he de- feated the veteran, Grant Laizure,| 3-6, 13-11, 64. Don Waller, former college star, won from Art Langile, captain of the University of Wash ington tennis team, 6-2, 6-2. The crack doubles team of Leon | de Turrene and Harold Van Dyke | Johns, favored to win the champion- ship in that division, got off to a flying start in the firstogound by defeating C. O. Baxter And R. K Brown, 6-1, 6-0. Play in boys’ and junior | singles is scheduled to cpen today. Yesterday's results and today’s hedule follo YESTERDAY'S W MEN'S SINGLES Third Round Army Marion beat La Roy Foley, 6-3 4-6, 9-7: William W, boat Bob Miller Henry Van Dyke Johns be |, 64; Laon De Turer 3, 6-2; Rich the LTs Don Waller beat Art Langlie, 6-2, Frank Kozlowski beat Grant Lalzure, 3 19-11, 6-4, 6-2; 6, Second Round Leo Lagerstrom beat O. 6-4, 3-6, 6-6, 60. WOMEN’S SINGLES Second Round Harriett Franklin beat Mise Sara Liv ingstone, default; Mary Roy beat Mias . default; Miss Madelene Bogart beat Catherine Bell, default; Miss Mar garet Hennig beat Rita Myer, deta. Nellie Felger beat Ruth Marcus, defa ‘ First Round Miss Irene Stephens beat Miss Hortense Green, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2, JUNIOR SINGLES First Round Harry Shaw beat Staniey Allen, 6-3, 6-1 MEN'S DOUBLES irst Round nna and Henry Van Dyke | Johns 0, Baxter and R, K. | Brown, 6-1, 6-0; Pink Millet and Don Waller boat R. Williams and Wes Kennie, default; Art Langlie and Windy Langile 6-4, Bob Miller and William Warren Roy Foley and Leo Lagerstrom, i Bob Hesketh and Dick Vander Las beat George Rider and Clifford Wi Ham » $-6; N. Robinson and Joe Bauer and Paul Dyer, 6-8, 12-10, 8-6; N. Robinson and Joe Swartz beat Harold Culp and Pat O'Donnell, 6-1, Army Marion and Harry Shaw beat Earl White and Frank Kozlowski, 4-6, 6-1, 8-6; Grant Lalzure and Richard Burr beat Chet Duett and M. Robinson, 6-2, 6-3, TODAY'S SCHEDULE YS’ SINGLES Stephens, | | t. | Laon De Ti First Kound Dp. m.—Joe Phillips ya. Thumes Mor. Jack Jennelie va, Laponte Buckley; Newkirk vs, Don Victor. p. m—Howard Langllo va, winner of | kirk va, Victor match JUNIOR § Firw 1 p, m.—Dick Boris’ Jurin vs, Marion va. 2p. m Hams; Dan va. W. Swansort; Norman Whittet; Bud Howard Langile, Joe Phillips va. Harold Wil- Lewis v et Duett; ©. H, Morrison p.m, Clarence Nau winner of I Jurin va, Wh ner of Phillips vs. Williams SL Ponte vs, Miss ; Miss Virginia Ryan vn, Abby Ferris. Third Round 3 ~Miss Harriett Franklin Miss Mary Roy; Mixes Nellie Feige of Miss Da Ponte va. M Stephens match; Miss Thelma Wolft vs. Miss Margaret Hennig, 6p. m.—Miss Madalene Bogart va, win- ner of Miss Ryan va. Mint Ferris match. MEN'S SINGLES Fourth Round Leon De Turenne vs, Iehard Burr ya, Don Y Johna va, Prank Warren ys. Army va. 4 p,m Lagerstrom; Waller; He Kozlowski; Marion, Van William Semi-Final Round 5 p. m.—Winner of Turenne va. Lager strom mateh va, winner of Murr. va, ‘Waller match; winner of Johny va, Koz- lowski match ya, winner of Warren va, Maticn match, MEN'S DOUBLES Second Round 4p. m—Army Marion and Harry Shaw va, Grant Lalairo and Richard Burr; Bob Hesketh and Dick Vander Las yn, N. Robinson and Joo Swarts, Pp. Mo-Art Langlie and Windy Lang- Ho vs, Hob Miller and William Warren, 6p. m—Leon De Turenne and Henry Yan Dyke Johns va, Pink Miller and Don Waller, Burr pla | dred in 9 8-10. | VERNON CLUB oF Ss BUT MARTHA, MDEAR« DON'T Nou THINK Your AcTIONS WERE A BIT HAGTY 26 SURELY, I SHOULD WAVE BEEN CONSULTED FIRST, BEFORE SUCH A. RAGH PRoceeDuRE! d steady, cons ling Foley Charles R. Brookins of the} | University of Iowa track| team is the holder of the world’s 220-yard low hurdles title. His time is 283 seconds| Jlat. He also runs the hun- SACS WINNERS | IN LONG GAME! SACRAMENTO, June 15.—San| Francisco and Sacramento battled 14 |innings here yesterday, the Solons | ett. | emerging victors by a\4-to-3 score, The score— San Francisco . Sacramento . Mitchell, Buckley, Mc Agnew; Hughes, Thompson and Koehler. RH. 3 11 4 10 Weeney and| Yellowhorse, | DROPS BATTLE LOS AD June 16.—Port- land broke Tigers’ winning streak here yesterday and won the game The score Portland Vernon . 5 1 2 Leverenz, Yarrison and Daly; Al ten, James, Gilder and Hannah. SALT LAKE IS AGAIN WINNER SALT LAKE CITY, June 15.—Salt ake took the third consecutive game from Los Angeles here yester- day, 11 to 8, The score— Los Angeles . Salt Lake . I Prohde a8 Lyons, Jones, Hanna and Byler; Crumpler and Jenkins. R. HL 1 16 rR HW, 8 13 ( OREGON SCHOOL GETS RATHBUN Guy L, Rathbun, who has been assistant to Rutherford, the Oregon Aggie athletic tutor, has accepted the position ag head coach at Wil. lamette university, Fight S Every special train that leaves Lo: fight at Shelby will carry two proh Agont TH, H. Dolley, of Lox Ange! Assign his men, ‘Two special trains have vicinity. alroady ' TURNED TH! GOP SIGNAL LAW-SurT!. pecials from L. A, to Have Booze dee, tes, euT TH’ LAUGH 1S ON US LIKE FRESH PAINT! We'LL HAVE To EAT THOSE CRouS) SO SHE J ‘) y star, point set in an- ch, 6-3, 4-6, 9-7. Mails Wins * Over Tribe | at Oakland AKLAND, June 15.—Walter Mails was throwing great ball for Oak- land yesterday afternoon and expert- enced little difffoulty in holding the Seattle Indians to a 4-to-1 score. The visitors dropped {nto last place and | the Acorns moved up into seventh as a result of the contest. Oakland collected three tallies tn} the eighth and had made ono pre- | viously. Seattle's lone counter came in the third seasion. TUR SCORE AD. Kt. ML PO. Totals .. Oak Sooper, Whitm: Knight, Lataye Thomas, © Smith, ss Maderas, 3b Malls, p $ rlett, rf .. Totala .... Score by Innings Seattle . 5 Hite. Onkiand Ibe a9 coh Innings pitched: feat to Tesar, ‘ ° o +01 3 Tenar 7%. Charge de Runs responsible for— Malls 1, Tosar 1. Struck out—Malis 6, Tenar 6’, Bases on balls—Matia 2 1, Stolen bases—Lane, Johnaton, Two-base hite—Johnaton, Sacrifice hite-—Mearkley — Mails, Smith, Whitinan, Double plays—Yaryan Moarkle:; Maderas to Knight to La fayette, ‘Time—1:50. Umpires—Ward San Francisco ... onto Oakland . Seattle New York ..., Pittsburg . Philadelphia Cincthnatt Clongo 9, ladeiphia Cleveland Detroit , St. Louis Boston , Washington Chicago... RESULTS Detorlt 4, Boston 1 st 1 » New York Philadelphia 4, Clavel Chicago 1, Washington Agents on Board i Angeles for thy Dempsey-Gibbony ibition enforcement officers. Chiet lew, has just reevived order to so |of the agreement. Suspicious of National League Ball For several seasons, with Babe Ruth in the lead, the American league has stolen most of the home-run thunder of the big show leaguer Nats | , but the younger major totaled more circuit wa f Iie J ye swatted almost twice as many as the Americans, and now the scribes and critics of the East st year, of course, Rogers Hornsby led in home’ d ( Hops in all than the National did. and he’s a National This year the are hinting that the National ball is livelier and has been doctored somewhat, so that they may get ahead of the circuit wallopers of their rivals. Heady Men Finalists in of Tho Star baseball the juntor ng the finals league when Loute's Cleaners and Three Upper French Dry trothers Dyers get together h in first Woodland ol thelr game a park, Sunday at ip. m Granville Egan, the captain of the Loule Cleaners, is a Star league vet nd he knows his stuff behind He has a world of pepper and is a husky fellow and a good target for his pitchers, He throws fairly well and in a dangerous hitter in the pinches: Harold Good, the Dyers’ recetver, is | new man to 8 ague circles, but in the few that he hs caught for the Th looked like @ heady receiver, Good is the more experienced of the two, playing with the Univer sity of Washington squad this spring The Cleaners have a great reserve strength behind the bat as Kendall can be brought in from right field for mask duty Nick Del Duca t* a capable sub for Good for the Dyers. Links Talk BY ALEX nose of at least 40 of the leading . take part # golf | 4 ~ of Beattie wit b jr | ine rust be in the hands of All entris re The draw for the qualifying I} appear in these columns He mination play eh day, which match to be decided at th or will bring the fin on Friday repert that Miss Helen Parrett, Mra. C. r. ry and M Jackson, t in the city Inglewood's 44-f0-24 win against the North Enders last Saturday was ® surprise to many of the local golf fans. It's a hard thing to beat a 23-man team of players whose handicaps range from 2 to 12. That's the lineup that faced the Seattle Golf club lads at Inglewood, Feeling quite frisky over thelr over- wheiming victory against the Yakima club, on the Hlack river links, Jast Bun- the Earlington 20-man team will urney to Mount Vernon tomorrow to ltackle the Skagit Country club squad. Jeeed to Bellingham, where they ‘are scheduled to match thelr wkill with tne | golfers of that city on Sunda 'SIKI SIGNED FOR M’TIGUE IN IRELAND BABYLON, N. ¥., Juny 15—Pa- pera were signed here late today for a return match between Mike Mce- Tigue and Battling Siki, French light-heavyweight championship by MeTigue in Dublin last March. Tho match is to be held in Croke park, Dublin, September 8, for a purse of $100,000. Tho fight will be put on by Dr. Patrick McCartan, Dublin fight pro- moter, who was one of the signers MecCartan said Siki has already signed to meet Me- Tigue. Diamond Dust ) Tete Lapan, former Seattle catcher, couldn't make the American league grade with Washington, Me has been shipped back to the Southern league, playing with Memphis at present, Speaking of the Southern league, Jimmy Hamilton, well known in Seattle baseball ctrelon, # leading hix Nashville team out in front at p Larry Doyle, York Giant A AW manager team tn Glenn Falls, nine been slaned by the » of the Interna. » Ho In expected to ins of that elty forget all k Bentley, now with tho this spring, has Baltimore tional Ie make thi bout tn, iflelder who fallod ith Salt Lake, has Bloomington, in the Rob Kinsella, to make the grade caught on with ‘Three I league, 4 WISCONSIN scrapper, who was deprived of his} ~‘4| Arthur Havers Wins British Conqueror of | Catch for | | Brothers he| Mrs. Mallory This is the latest action picture of Miss Mabel McKane, considered England's foremost woman tennis player. She re- Open Title Hagen Is Runnerup to Champ ROON, June 15—Arthur Hayers, British won the 1923 British open golf championship from a field of 8% British and foreign nt ho competed here over 72 hursday and today pro, wt turned in, He shot three perfect rounds, finishing with a 76 championship, under unfavorable weather conditions Walter Hagen, last year’s cham pion, was o bebind Havers, C. A. Whitcombe, youthful British | pro, who was but one stroke behind Havers at the end of the third round, with 220, blew up completely on his final round, took an 82, and finished far behind, with 202, Whit- combe had an excellent chance to win the title when he set out this afternoon, as Havers had taken a 76 and a 74, which would have giv- en the youngster the championship. |Inclement weather and a driving wind, which swept the course, helped rob Whitcombe of victory, The final standing of the leading cently overwhelmed Mrs, Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, American | contestants was: champ. Huskies Are ‘Trounced in Fast Battle B OSTON, June 15.—The University ot went down to defeat here today be |fore the strong Boston college nine, |6 to 4, in a thrilling exhibition, A big crowd viewed the contest The Washington team left last night | |for Ann Arbor, Mich., where they | |meet the University of Michigan| team fn a two-game series today. | The score— RH E} U. of W é 46 1) Boston College . 89 2] Gardner and Walby; Kelly, Ma loney and Phillips. CREWS TO _ CLASH AT Washington baseball Ma2!80%: Wis, June 15.—Keen | | interest 1s being shown here in| |the outcome of the University of | | Washington-University of Wisconsin | crew race on Lake Mendota on Sat- | urday afternoon. | | Altho Washington's crew is a slight | | favorite to win, the local eight has |power and should give the sturdy | | Westerners something to worry | | about. | ‘The Washington crew, immediately | after the race, will depart for Pough- Following this tit the locate vill pro- | keepsie, where they will pitch camp |¥* Wiiton & for the big annual regatta to be rowed on the Hudson, June 28. Besides the varsity race on Satur- day afternoon, the University of Washington Frosh eight meets the | Wisconsin second varsity and the/ Washington subs clash with another | Wisconsin crew. The race will be over’ " two-and- one-half-mile course, JAMES HOGE FIGURES IN BALL CASE Le ANGELES, June 15.—Follow. | ing the taking of depositions here in connection with the suit of the Seattle ball club to force Presi- dent Wm. H. McCarthy to seat Chas, Lockhard as a Coast league director, an order to take the depo- sitions of James Hoge, Seattle bank- er, and Wm. Wrigley, Jr. will be obtained, McCarthy said today, McCarthy said he would ask the federal court in San Francisco for an order to have Hoge's deposition taken in Seattle and Wrigley's taken in Chicago, Search for telegrams sent in con- nection with the purchase of the Seattle club by Lockhard and Wado Killefer, alleged to have been fl. nanced by Wrigley, was continued today. The actual hearing ig sched. uled for tomorrow. JESS WILLARD ANXIOUS TO GO Jess Willard states that when he finishes Luis Pirpo, in Jersey City, in July, he will ask Tex Rickard to match him in the ring with Jack Dempsey in August, if he can, “But [ suppose,” remarks Jess, “that if Gibbons wing at Shelby, 1 won't get a crack at the new club |r |w | Natio | Amateur INDIANS VICTORS MOCLIPS, June 15.—The dians won fr the quarter-mile a by Wi mile. The ms meet in a return game Jac! Goffin, PATE: PATENOE, loose game from Winthrop bh score of 1 made by t The scor Wint Pate Me RM. * ou 17,13 Vander Pool. © and Ervin, E Ty . Brown MIKADO REDS LOSE Mucu Athletic club defeated the > Reds on Mercer playfield by of 18 to 3. The feature of the © was the pliching of Hunter, who struck out 17, and the hitting of West, who collected a homer, triple and two singlés out of five trips to the plate. FORD DEALERS LEAGUE Won. Lost ; ae Pet. 1.000 87 £00 00 Hogh Baird Hart & Hart nal Motor Lammping-McDonald Wilson & Kreittle Queen City Motors 1. Hugson 1 Wm. 0. MeKay ie susk®. Hugh Balrd won from Mart to ©, Wednesday, when the gama was forfeited. The remaining games were poatponed. Next “Wednesday's schedule, which winds up the first halt of the se son, ie as foll Lamping-McDonald reittie, at Columbia; Canal Wm. lL. Hughson, at’ Walla Mart “& Wart va. Queen City at Georgetown, 26 383 200 000 Hart, 9 Motors va. Walla; Motors, BANKERS LEAGUE Won, 1 Washington Mutual . al Bank of Com, Seattle Title Trust Marine National Bank Bank of California Seattle National . Union National Metropolitan National ® 000 The Union National Bank nine was shut out by the National Bank of Com- merce tomers, § to 0, Burns twirled nice game for the winners, allowing but four hits, 5 . Editorial Color in athletics, that almost indefinable something that at tracts the mob to feats of strength and skill, is a wonder- ful thing, That's what Dode Bercot, the young Monroe log- ger has, color. Two weeks be- fore his fight with Ted Krache he took a beating from Jimmy Sacco and yet when he went into the ring with the Hoquiam boy the biggest crowd that ever sat in on a smoker in Seattle was‘on hand. Color was the answer, Of the two fighters Bercot has the magnetic per: sonality and attracts attention where the stole Krache just tends to his knitting and fights. He lacks the fire of personality that draws people to Bercot, The Monroe boy is about 25 per cent ability, per cent pub- licity and 50 per cent person ality, the Jatter element in a large part accounting for the reams of things written about him, A clean living young fel- low like Bercot, with his fight: ing heart and willingness to learn, is certainly a refreshing addition to the Northwest box: champ, He'll think I'm too big.’ ing game, ers, Britaln—73, 73, , 76. Walter Hagen, United States— 6. Smith, United States 2, 8. R. Fernie, Britain—T3, 78, 300. Hagen’s total for the four rounds that made up the championship play was 296, his 75 champicnship being one too many to permit him to tie |Arthur Havers, who had 295. Hagen started the day right; he was one under par going out on |this morning’s round. Coming home, he took a six on the 420-yard 10th and found a bunker on the 16th, a 39 making him 74 for the round, the American getting his iron shots away in magnificent style and put- ting with deadly accuracy. The championship furnished art uphill fight all the way for the American, who met the test game- ly. He had started disastrously in \the first qualifying round Monday, \taking an 82. On Tuesday he was a little better, a 77 just letting him slip into the ranks of the qualifiers without a stroke to spare. - When play started yesterday, Hagen, followed by the largest of the galleries that swarmed over the course, was again an Improvement over his previous form, but stilt was far from the perfect golf of which he was capable. He took a 76 in the morning and was headed by half a dozen players. On Thursday afternoor, however, Hagen turned in a magnificent 71. This put him in second place. This morning Hagen fell back a stroke, requiring 74 for the third round, In the afternoon, with Havers home in 295, which Walter could beat by shooting a par round, he looked a winner. But a high wind came up, sweeping over the course, presenting a severe handicap to the titleholder as he started home on his fourth round. This proved too great a handi- cap for the American, who took 75 for his final round. Of the five others from the Unit- ed States, including in that number Joe Kirkwood, the Australian, the best show was that of MacDonald Smith of California, Smith started poorly with an 80 for his Thursday morning round; he came back with a par 73 that put him among the leaders, First out this morning, Smith | smashed to smithereens the record of the old course, established Mon- day by Whitcombe, turning in a 69. The Californian's friends hoped he might yet prove the “dark horse”’ they had predicted him to be, but this afternoon Smith required 75, finishing with the creditable aggre- gate of 297. Joe Kirkwood was ag erratic as ever; he started with a 72, one un- der par; in the afternoon he ‘took 79, This morning the Australian duplicated Smith's feat of going around in 69, but in the afternoon he was again off his game, shooting a 78 for a total of 298. Johnny Farrell, New York, had 79, 79, for an aggregate of 306. George Aulbach of Boston, was a disappointment, At the end of Thursday’s play, he was last, with the exception of one man, who re- tired, The Bostonian turned in a 75 this morning, but his score 85, 89, 75, 80 for 329 was not of cham- pionship caliber. T. R, Fernie finished with a total of 300, taking a 75 on the last round, George Duncan shot a 75 for a total of 302. S. Wingate took 75 for 304, 73, 75, 118 is going to be a tough year on the free swingers in the major leagues, Players who take a healthy cut at the ball, a la Babe Ruth or Bobby v ) Are certain to find it a more difficult matter to get thom safo, heen arranged for Los Angeles and Already Bobby Veach is doing bench duty at Detroit, presumably for Inability to hit consistently, While Ruth will hardly be benched, it is a cine! ers) much this year, The great success attained by the pitcher of the New York Giunta in slowing Up on Ruth hus caused the American twirlers to adopt. such tactics in pitching to the big fellow. Low and outside, with plenty oft half speed and slow balls, ix the dict that Ruth ts being fed on, hh he will find the piteh. more difficult to solve Not only is this practice being employed onthe yoterans but res eruit hitters as well, In the Amer: fean League last season Goslin of the Washington clubsand Hauser of the Athletics made much trouble for the pitchers, Both Goslin and Hauser ave left handers, who ure known as. free swingers, batters who take the same healthy cut at a slow one ay a fast TOUGH YEAR AHEAD FOR FREE SWINGERS IN MAJORS This spring the pitchers have been slowing up on both these youngsters with much — success, Neither takes kindly to tho slow ball or change of pace. The lively ball has made it neces: sary for the pitchers to take fewer chances with the free swingers, The slowing up process seems to @olve the solution, ball,