The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 26, 1923, Page 17

THURSDAY, JULY PAGE 17 “BILL ESSICK IS MAKING GENERAL SHAKEUP IN VERNON TEAM Fe Other Ball Teams Stymie and Steel Shaft Rulings Threaten U.S.G. A. Go to Other Ball Teams ILL ESSICK is making good his threat to shake up his} Vernon Tigers because of their failure to win this} season, ing more Or leas upon ft Last year Essick had his team in second place nearly | *" whether they all season fighting the San Francisco Seals for the flag en down to the last week or so of the year. | But the loss of Jesse Doyle and Ray French has seemed | to disrupt his club, And then veterans, counted upon to| “\y),) a a ‘ deliver as they had done in the past, flivvered, too, | ‘tétwoen thempelves ak the outa ot eriyean “Red” Smith, third sacker, has already been traded to} Los Angeles for Charley Deal. - of Bill James, the big pitcher, who was mighty effective| } Bide ap anette tell a aa bre ure last year, has been shipped to Mobile in the Southern} rues, permits tho use of stect shafts, there in ¢ nther league. violation, even tho such violation may be b on Weiser Dell, for six years a big winner with the Tigers, | °™™e" "ene is now pitching for Seattle. The veteran Ping Bodie is also on the market, while Dal- las Locker, the substitute first sacker, has already gone. | He left the other day for Wichita Falls, Kansas. Essick doesn’t believe in sentiment in baseball. It's de-| liver with William or make room for somebody else. ¢ Fast Track | _ Is Expected S the rs ago it is o have made © procure » 200,000 becomes tnereasingly that conditions in golf on th’ entative bod: rity of club Jo not 2,500 or thie shortage of bickor ute ne ation places racquet, b time goes on tt apparent it will whether for to want the best AN, of course rd cue, fishing rod or golf club, for such in th pleasure or bun more for thor us that ar. from the heart of the trees nearer the bark, is inclined ft. Altho of the usual tor be who indulge not even profit, Jt ft way of workmanahip ‘otees depend. can: will not Right now that ery ride he F of the subject tell in order are going and ‘ulath nine-tenths of the players them, except when compet strict compliance with » lutely compulsory. ol or tools, has b vested In a truly r must be something that the great m th ntry either do not understand approve, when It is remembered that out of the United Btates Golf n the there rules re ro obnoxious of ob aments VV ean and alwayn will err in playing any game, particularly golf, no matter how per fect the equipment, With dep able cluby ywever, #0 © the road to success is lined with fewer pitfall, Un 4 questionably too many when favored by sudden spurts of good fortune are inclined to become over-confident a tate which in its way is av bad as no confidence at al When anked once’ to give hints to the rising menern tion of golfers, James Braid, wno has been several times open champion of Great Britain, wrote that hin experience of golf was all “morals.” He proceeded to explain that by morals he meant self-control, care, thoughtfulness. Men were often tempted to imagine after a run of success in the game that golf had be come their second nature, and they lost sight of the some of them Incredibly small and wearisome, which they attained thelr run of sucdess; and #0 followed, had its fall, The right way was never to neglect or forget the smallest detall learned in practice, not even the pressure of a little never ng ne or elne im in where uid regulations is made abso. The ut cut from farth natural y a select few of those who do be any say there ts the best hickory comes tour out f nuntry elubs tn ximate with the ati no affiliation Furthermore, o long to the ruling of ite laws, aAnd ther fact, that three-quarters of all the golf and clubs In the land are located west of Pittsburg in ter ritory controlled by the Western Golf asnociation. In this last-named area, where the steel shaft js not only welcome, but is also in general une, and where the atymie is about as popular as the measies, they have become heartily sick of what they regard as unfair, to say nothing of senseless, legislation, 4 match not to Play stymies, they are not living up to the rules, yet this ignoring of the stymie is becoming more general sone of its original curve dy in the makir significant have Another false alarm has to do with t in for the beat ufacturers of the hit né new method of f ich might add ards to the Gfive, The possibility of this is so remote as not to be worth considering. The steel shaft is made from a flat piece of clock- spring stee] which has been bent cold in {ts present shape then electrically welded. The metal is the same thickness from handle to heel and is tempered after it is welded. Walter Hagen, who has held both national and Brit- ish open titles, has sald more than once that the steel shaft could not help but be serviceable when the going was rough y thoug county pom WINTON, turf expert and course architect, who came to this country from M Scotland, some woven y ago, partly | attributes the rapid strides made in the game on this side of the Atlantic to the tendency on the part of Americans to expert ment and try something new, There is a limit to the theory that what was good enough for our forefathers is good enough for us. finger. This humble self-control marked all Bra The better the quality and workmanship of a tennis golf, even thru that period of his greatness Sailors See | ss ee arma Great Show| BATTING AVERAGES| at Victoria) on Big Ship ron Batting Av | NDICATIONS point to a fast track By John W. Nelson mruee by: 'Y at Victoria, B, C, Saturday when | FISTIC sonata, beneath a pan | & week of horse racing will start. | oply of stars, with 2,000 cheer. | There will be seven races dally at| ing gobs as an accompaniment, was| waa Willows Park. rehearsed on the U. 8,8. Idaho Wed No races will be held Sunday, but| nesday night when the fleet smoker the ponies will do their stuff Mon-| was held. A few score invited civil day, Tuesday and Wednesdty, be-| {ans and a few thousand gobs were | sides the preceding Saturday. present at one of the most entertain- The weather conditions have been | ing numbers of the program that has ideal in: the Island city, and the | been arranged for fleet week. Wilhet, Wait Lahe track Is in the best of shape, racing | Picturesque in setting, with the | gchang, Sacram b: officials report. great 16-inch guns of the battleship | ¥ we. Ben Franc Ce, A splendid array of horses, from| hovering over, the brilliant uniforms | eTDMED, Beattie...» the best stables in the country, will| Of Raval officers and the bright | Hendricks, San Francisco . clash, dresses of thelr ladies forming | R, Murphy, Vernon splotches of color against the navy | Koehler, tacrainento .. The Victoria races are expected! bine pea jacket in the background, | p, Salt Lake to draw big crowds daily from Se-| ing smoker was also picturesque in Les Anquice Lar wacom, Portland end other | the variety of the combatants who Freres, cities. | fought for flett honors | =e the Victoria races. there | after the smoker the vistting ctvil- | sehnei4 a week's lay-off, and then | ians and navy men were entertained | JOHNSTON, Seatt ere wa at Hast | on the three decks of the battleship with refreshments and smokes, then naval launches, wide bottorned, notsy | craft, pulled over the moon-glistening | ,ene swells to Pier 1 to deposit the vinit- | s tors on shore after midnight. Kildutt, Sen The bouts were too numerous to) WRESH, Keattic sive in detail, but action was the | Pools, Portian keynote thruout, and occastonally a | Cather, Oakiand bit of comedy by the ringsters kept | Thomas Oakland the crowd pitched to the keen edge | Fredericks, #alt Lake Se aia wean ce ona f et at ER aS tymie Is won by Pimental, of the U. 8. 8. | Bodie, Vernon t Ra Pe Unpopular in Seattle New York. Saflor Reyes of the Idaho | Molwit, ay and Saflor O'Hara of the Tennessee Re BY ALEX C, ROSE “T)O we play stymies?” Thin ent four fast rounds to a draw | question, more than any other, | Saflor Rothenstrict of the Idaho} four: jand Sallor Picciana of the Misaissip- | |wan asked an players teed off o their first round matches in the re Chick Evans, who is defending his |®% drew, but Sailor Toomey of the title, plays Freddy Lamptecht "Obick Idaho, exhititing the class of the has won. the title weven times and |°¥e2im# in the 120-pound class, beat | - fs going well again. a | ailor Menta, a hard-swinging Fill | It was ideal golfing weather. Pino from the California. | i cont Pacific Northwest golf cham: plonship meet held at the Seattlo and Inglewood clubs. “Yes, you play stymies!™ came back the answer. And off they went Bilberg and Barr, the fleet song. | birds, entertained with some comedy | on their way. Before the week wag} over the stymle came in for some and harmony during an intermis- unmerciful pannings. ontrone, and Quce the demand for nteelwhafted clubs became #0 insistent, interests that have always been strong for wood, no matter where or how it was to be ob tained, have evidently become alarmed, and this doubt- lone recent statements to the effect that there bundance of hickory. If there was no. =F “Red? f Faber’s Baseball Career Like Fairy Tale BY BILLY EVANS Faber wag ordered to report and PPORTUNITY knocks at the [companied the team to the comm. (6) : wpe Mir In the exhibition games played en door in many different ways, | the exhibition eAmse PiAeO ine Making the grade to the DIS |\orainary. Prior to sailing the vet league ‘is the goal of every ball |erun pitcher, who once decided to player. To many the chance to cut the trip, made up his make good is brought about by to go. some freak happening. Jimmy Callahan, then managii¢ Take the case of Dickey Kerr, ltne Sox, told Faber that he would who for a number of years pitched |). proviaed with a ticket back to winning ball for the Chicago White | Dubuque, Iowa, the old home town, Sox. Season after season Kerr|posunately for Faber, McGraw was pitched good ball in various minor |none too strong on pitchers, so he leagues. His cherished ambition |, creea to take Faber, under come was that he would some day mak©|+ract to the Sox, as a member of the the majors. |Giants. Scouts attracted by his fine work! ime pitching of Faber on that in the bushes would invariably pass lio. was the outstanding feature jhim up a looking him over. tie beat the White Sox on every |Small of stature, his apparent lack | occasion that he faced them, except jof physical power made the scouts ong That was the final game of |feel that ho wouldn't be able toltne trip, played before the king of stand the strain of the majors. |ingiand, which was decided by « ts ates, by disaster pride COAST Week (ci Sports Pataman and Team— San Franc . Sacramento Jenkins, Balt Lake Alten, Vernon Strand, An a mpler, Halt Lake Anfinson, Balt Lake spades tha: tsensaiacaiietmakt ci abee nae THIRD ROUND IS STARTED AT MAYFIELD VELAND, July 26.—The third | round of play in the Western amateur golf championship tourney | got under way at the Mayfield Coun-| | try club here today when Jess| Sweetser, national champion, teed off with Dexter Cummings Cummings is the collegiate cham: | pion, but he faces Sweetser at top Los Angeles ramente mente x tiand YARYAN, Seattle . Migh, Brubaker, Jones, P Krag, 1 | Hannah, 303] 291] aoe 4 owt | Sutheriand Stumpf, Por | Penner, Sacramento Rhyne, Ban Francisco. ehSanunsnronnteSeciesae heh nee mee Navy Cutters in Race Today Thirteen navy cutters will be represented in the big race to be staged this afternoon over the two-mile course on Lake Wash- ington between Leschi and Madi. son park. The race is to start promptly at 5:30 o'clock. ‘ # 2 NET STARS TO DEDICATE BOWL | NEW YORK, July 26.—Willlam | T, Tilden and Willlam M. Johnston {have been invited to play a special lexhibition mateh when the new stadium at Forest Hills is opened, jon August 10, A special team match between American and Brit also be 'HUGHSON IS HORSE| TROUNCED IN | Ka | 1G, F RACES |, FORD TUSSLE “oc HE Hart & Hart Ball club won a | CRANE, seattle. "4 ; Swimming Entry I am a registered momber of the A, A. U. and wish to enter The Star's mile swimming mara- thon. if ty i/ Stymie has many of them ‘\ i) woman players will Men's Mile. 1. os coes escascoseeess — _ beautiful game from the Wm, | TOMIN, Seattle VICTORIA, B. C. SATURDAY, July 28, to August 4, Inc. 7 Running Races Daily Rain or Shine R. <7 HE. 060 . ; ’ After a particularly good season|home run by Tommy Daly. In Here’s Bobby Jones, new national open golf champ, dig-|witn the Milwaukee club of the|that game Faber showed his worth of . ; . ling ultimatum to the owners of the| Faber got his big chance by his. the Scottish professional. Championship success finally had} oi, great Work against. his own. teu come to the plucky little American, his word the Milwaukee club set out |several years. to make a deal. The Chicago White| In the series of 1917, between the idee, took him with the Giants. In that Kerr made possible his own op-|series Faber won three games from ' BY Oa, preechoe Spe of the Chicago club is in many {that Clarence Rowland,!'the man BOY, WOK s Deavy eee lways more unusual than that of |who recommended Faber to Com- ao | et early in September. guid eae nt anmotunced last night |eeeue umpire, made it possible for GORDON McKAY Tex Rickard announced last night) poner to get his big chance. |sion. Sailor White of the Idaho and Kearns and Firpo, but he did not | Noha name the date or the place for the | uae. White’ Box made ‘around |the world, the Sox were shy a weight, knocked out Gordon McKay, Bre ihe Pein keg red of Seattle, in the second round of|,4-. . ; ‘ ; . | The stymie In American golf ts ad: | to the Sox, suggested to Owner Jimmy O'Hagen took a decision over| +6 Taaho in the second round. Comiskey that he be taken on the McKay. Battling Ortega, San Fran- cat fcnhae tarh te Harry Duarte, former lightweight objectionable phase was given IN BIG SWIM lthe gailery that followed one of the |Sox to get @ line on Faber, even SUSUAL Interest is being shown | better than in spring training. Irish Rose” from the Arizona, got a decision over Vasquez of the Mary- MADE KNOWN A . 271| #ix stymies in a single 18-hole round. | wil) be staged in the Lake Wash-| 240] Naturally, the chap who has to try| ington canal on August 11. Many) NEW YORK, July 26.—Benny 3 fought an exhibition bout with Wind- mill Hendricks, all-navy middio- id Jexiats as to the superiority of the! Entries for the big event are lightweight championship, accord- 304] opponent, but to lose ax the result! now open. The diank 8 appearing ing to promoters’ report. The re while Joe Fisher, for eight years all- navy lightweight champ, annaunced 1] A few years ago the stymle/entrants be rogularily registered| I ltnreatened to split the Enst and| members of the Amateur Athletic lUnlted States Golf association, after | feo is required. much persuaston, induced the West ‘aap | ‘xox |wtay and annoy. Mr league as a result of the 7-to-4 vic- tory. Peek of the losers misjudged for a homer, and Cochran, Hemp: | hil, LaFray and Miller each hit Wm. L. Hughson i Gy fa Batteries: Atelson, Uleric, Coch- are on the other side of the Atlantic ocean, Harry Vardon, the famous [British veteran, ts violently opposed Ito the elimination of the stymie, “1 Joan't understand why the Amer. Jicans should have cut out this, one of the shots In the gamo of golf,” the six timés open champion, after the U, 8. G. A. had Iplaced the ban on it three years ago, “Taking the stymle out is one |of the worst mistakes ever made, in yrettiest sald | leh Women’s } | staged. NAM + scsccesnceses Address. ..+ . | ‘ ‘ AUBURN, N. HOPPE IN DRAW r OAKLAND, July 26.—Willie Hune » remainder of Yational thrill the fans in a four-round draw last night, Ge Cline beat Kid PITCHER GETS | STIFF PENALTY pitcher for of the association iss iy N Y. July the El York-Penn: Ntw the ‘ for assaulting |my opinion. Why not gp the lmit | |while about it, abolish sand traps and bunkers and, incidentally, sub: tract all the zest from the game?” have Harry Vardon's Buceump in a torrid mateh. an umpire. ging one put of a bunker in his tie match with Bobby Cruik- | American association, which it seem-!by retiring Speaker and Crawford shank at Inwood, L. I. The next day, when it came to play-jed would be entirely erecpied by Jon strikes {n one inning in which ling off the tie, the Atlanta amateur completely annihilated |the scouts, Kerr issued the follaw: ithe bases were filled with one gus “Sell me to a major league club|mates. Had not McGraw included annaean or I am going to quit baseball.” |Faber as a Giant, his trip to the e Knowing that Kerr was a man of |big leagues might have been delayed Tex Rickard |Sox was the only club willing to|Giants and White Sox for the world — H |gamble on the “half pint” pitcher |champtonship, Faber probably made ays e 1S Mir Kerr was known because of hin|McGraw more than sorry thet, Baul Made Match ir wi pope The cam of Pitcher “Red” Faber| It seemed a fitting coincidence — pion, and Luis Angel Firpo, South [77 okey,’ ahoula’” Be iat JAmerican giant, will meet in’ New| anaging the Tine te decide the champlonship| Clarence Rowland, former hig |White Sox that year. | league manager, now an American that he had made the match, that . : the artidles had been signed by Vaek| S70" to the, start “of. the. tip KNOCKED OUT | Oswald of the Tennessee fought « which the New York Giants and | draw, while Peterson of the Califor- LOS ANGELES, July 26—"Sunny ‘ “4 3 ¥ | nia, a husky 145-pounder, won a de - . a is Di iddle- J eee rete near, middle " pitcher, due to the decision of one of the veterans not to go. -Row- ., M “ the'windup at Madison Square Gar. | cox o” Kine of tie Maryland, and INTEREST IS land, who had recommended Faber Gen last night. The night before| Catrornia knocked out McMullen of mittedly unpopular; as unpopular as | vaca, the official taboo on the steel shaft BEING SHOWN Some idea of the unfairness of trip, since a pitcher was needed. He cisco middleweight, knocked out| nampion of the mosquito fleet, argued that this would enable the Bere Brown tn the third roan fought a draw with Brabant of the OF ust aalay sonda o0 ass Maryland, and McGowan, the ‘Wild Leagegndiantinpedhe ads Miigion | 341/amateur championship, where one) \) in ‘The Star mile marathon | ~~ RECEIPTS ARE iit Tan lala an opponent no leas thaa|ewime for mon and women, which| land. The pride of the navy, Sailor Fia-| vin, light heavyweight champion, | {i} | and negotiate theso feels that the) inquiries regarding the big event| Leonard and Lew Tendler drew 58,- ‘Pi | fates are against him. One C49) were telephoned in to The Star yes- 522 to the Yank stadium Monday 261/ stand a trimming when no doubt! toraay, Right when they fought for the| weight titleholder. | The decisions of the judges all thru | the card met with prompt approval, | Ge lof accidents, unfair breaks of th¢| qaiy on the sport page of The ceipts were $452,648, of which Leon- $/ game and so on, invariably B0C8) star, | ard received $134,662 and Tendler, against the grain. The only requirement Is that the! $57,712. * [the bouts. Lieut. Jack Kennedy of 7 the Mississipp! refereed the conteats. | © 6 | 22) West into warring factions. At-|union. Registering with the A. A. 263/tempta at a modified stymie gnvé|U, can bo arranged thru Earl A.| it} |iittie satisfaction, and finally the|Fry, of Piper & Taft's, A 25-cent |to restore this generally regurded ob: 246 |jectionable phase. And there, like 244/44 thorn in the side, it continues to | 1. Hughson nine Wednesday and | — — =— <| Of ‘courne, steppéd into the lead of the Ford admirtra, but the majority la long fly, which let in two runs, and cost his team the game. Me-| Cullough, for the losers, connected | triples. The score Hart & Hart }ran and Hemphill; Hovey and Torge- son, | In the Sport Mail (Daditor’s Note: Letters addressed to the sporting editor of The Star wit de published in thts column, providing they are on some tinely sudject, brief and signed. No unsigned letters will de considered.) Hugh Baird dropped another game s ; to the Lamping-McDonald team by " There a score of 6 to 2, O'Connell of the rsion of the stymie. We are won: } losers connected for a home run dering !f he would chango it some. The score—~ R. H. B. | what if he found himself confronted | jwith six of them on 18 putting Hugh Baird ...., 2 85418 Lamping-McDonald +6 6 2 greens and it he would, as the re. | a f , sult of these “obstacles,” not thon | Sporting Bditor, Seattle Star: | Batteries: Rossman and Hen- | ey ead , 1 | dricks; Harper and Henry, come to the éonclusion that there | Doar Sir Thru the courtesy of The Star T will now be able to get a | Wak’ tdd "ohudh bat In Cite wend, fow things off my ches}, providing you see fit to give them space, which every Ringer MNGi A }1 hope you may, very Player should bo given an} 1h the first place {t scems to me these heavywelght bouts are arranged equal chance to putt for the hole! | padty When the stymle rule ts abolished | Why not hang up a puree to be split threeandone, in favor of the that chance will come. winner, of course, There would be some incentive, then, to get in and fight to & finish, GRAY WOLF IS As it has beon, the loger's end fs too attractive to any éne that can NOT TO QUIT get “steamed up. Willard never expected or tried to win. SAN FRANCISCO, July 26— | Harry Wolyerton, former manager winning, but what did he care? Hoe got nearly as much out of it as Dempsey. He wouldn't lot the public seo his stuff while training for the very good reason he knew there would be no fight if he did. As of thé Seattle team of the Pacific|/jong as the do gets such a big cut whenever tho sledding gets a little |Const league, fy not thru with bave: | tough, they will quit, as it has been proven in a number of recent bouts, ball. The “Gray Wolf believes! - Of course, Tommy Gibbons was after publicity, which he got by hang there js @ job waiting® for him|ing on and running away. And when he gets that cashed in on his somewhere, He would be glad to| vaudeville tour, he will start yelping for another match with Dempsey. finish out the season with somo! As a matter of fact, he couldn't have held on anotter round at Shelby, team but says he can walt. Harry But, of course, the dear public is soft enough to give him a big bunch was pald off for the rest of the | of money to start him in business, I don't knew if he can be blamed for season when Wade Killefer and Charles Lockard released him from Seattle, you s | A new record ts believed to have |beon established in Seattle ama- |teur ball circles when the Queen | City Co, tossers shut out the Canal | Motors by @ 20-to.0 score, Sand. |strum pitched great ball for the jwinners, allowing but two hits and |etriking out 10 men. His team: mates slammed the ball to all cor- ners of the lot. The score— Queen City 2... .sevene: Canal Motors , Batteries: Sandstrum and Burns; | Maley and Sullivan Carpentior had no idea of There are some mighty fine Used Cars in to- night’s Want Ads. A small payment down and small monthly -pay- ments make the car your car. r . When Bobby Jones returned to Atlanta, Ga., after win- ning the national open golf championship he found a great throng at the depot to grect him. Here admirers carry him on their shoulders to the auto that carried him in the parade behind a brass band, omens Ph Bs ROPER WINS ATLANTA, July 26,—Bob Roper, | heavyweight, last night won a ref: eree's decision over Hugh Walker, | of Kansas City, in the 10round bout here, Consolidated Cigar Corporation, New York Distributed Sonttle, ewlay : accepting it, I thank you. by Allon & Lewin 1 Washes Hiranch ot atten tz CHARLES CARSON, 2218 Biliott Ave. SSKEne, CROSS