The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 28, 1923, Page 13

ena th er ning In Pet. a oes ulecconconeM.| cocccccan” be 6 5 1S iat : : yd ‘Americans Are Prey |GENARO WINS RDAY, JULY SATI ROGERS AND HARRY ARE GREATEST RIGHT-HAND BAT WIELDERS Hornsby and Heilmann Still Refuse to Yield to That San Francisco Seals to Appear Here With Tribe | Champions Slated to Pastime With Indians Here Next Week, To Be Followed by the Los Angeles | Celestials | AX TER three weeks on the road the Seattle Redskins will return to their home heath next week to do battle with the champion San Francisco Seal In spite of the blowup on the road of the Tribe during |“ days the Seal: the past few always draw ‘plenty of bugs, because they have real class, The last time the Seals were here they took the odd game of the series because the locals blew up in a Sunday - apr ep age: and Hellmann showed the way in double header that was simply slaughter, after outplaying x ‘4 E the champs. thruout the! - the American with @ .394 total, these sy tie i : if ——ey /tWO great right-handed batters p oe || Tex Rickard Has} |‘"«": y } } med the unusual in baseba Bert Ellison will be at the}| 4@X NICKar as farce sat A | helm of the Seal outfit when| (@) M En LEAGUES they t succeeding digas es CMY || ihe records reveal tt that . cee ammany Young, a New York ma oe Ht Jack aS quit haracter, who hadi ambit te 1904 had two right-handed eba’ | health ant “One-Eyed Connolly” in led the major leagues in the 28 ger than ng his way into big tights year, When Hornsby and He wh 0 mae y paying, had his ambitions || mann turned the trick in 1 wa multe s chopped off at the recent Firpo- |i the tirst time it had happe ral he in ca went When it come | on Square Ga: wait ¥ leagues in batting, t around the side entrance for # have decided edge. In the ours until Tex Rickard T yeare Harry H 4 the ame out on his way to dinner only right-handed batter to top the He walked right up and i r an league Averages, Left dr 4 the promoter. “Mr. Rick Jed batters like Ty Cobb, Tris urd,” he & T am Tamma Speaker, George Sisler Young. I never pay to see a f Stone have carried off ading the league 12 times, nine | handers and I want to see Willard and Fir. || hitting honors a ana Us kigbaneial, a Ty Cobb has hogs ague the right-| ickard shot his brushed past you won't answ fidn't pay didn't eee the 4 now he's threatening kard run out of New RACES START | SATURDAY AT VICTORIA, B. C. SPOKANE BOY re IS STAR OF 3 BIKE RACES GRISBY HURT IN BALL TILT | the Chia who ie CHICAGO GETS Teme | NET TOURNEY | t Beaumont| The annual Western tennis cha is feared that his | pion which were awarded ‘o {on this year l be p off on 24 hard courts of mth | Side Tennis clut RAY TO JOIN NEWARK CLUB DAVE SHADE Te: the. wine LOSES CALL) rs of the Illinois} BOSTON, July 28 Este er. | the we of European Crooks | F AST SCRAP BURKE STOPPED BY LUIS FIRPO Spaniard pe ANGELES, Ju Will adel BILLY WELLS MILWAUK was unable fand Roy Con for the July come up lost to Billy delphia challenger, championship from night handicap, caught them a few moments before the e Tendler staggered into a clinch and. hung on, almost out. las making hi. tand in an unsuccessful ‘Evans and HAV n., July 28 Gen New York f won a 12-round bout from| GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, July 25 i South American Tilden to Play 4 out Joe Burke,| vyweight, in the second BEATS CONLEY | Wells, | First Picture of Fight This night picture, taken at the Vénkee stadium, New York, shoi Benny Leonard as 60,000 persons looked on. The camera, under the BY BILLY EV ANS wre the greatest bataman in baseball vig anded anus tlonably that } rs Horr nals and Har tween ot ry He of the Detroit Tigers A vote of the pitchers in the two major organizations would probably eveal the fact that there is little to choose between th Hornsby and Hellmann are two right-handed batters who have re to yield to the general belief that the lefthanded hitter ts su pfeme In 1921, when Hornsby led the Na nal league with an average of .3 Criqui Threw Away Small Partuae in Dundee Bout Before UGENE CRIQUI, is thru. ATTI | have it being world’s featherweight champion for only a few weeks, threw away a small fortune by taking the Johnny ‘Dundee fight before returning to France, A world’s fight title in these hectic financial days is something to be nursed along and taken care of if the holder expects to get enough bank notes in the old sock before he t+¥ AND HEILMA RIGHT- HAND BATTE HITT! AROUND 400 AGAIN THIS YEAR. in the shme made length of time) due t a much better showing, | batter, ubout a 60-50 pi ition, | rival » the showing of that great Hans Wagner, and his close Rogers Hornsby Big Tennis Going Home Meet Opens | in Chicago (iiticado. July 28,—The 37th an- ‘nual We tern tennis tournament 4 opens here Saturday at the Bout Your average fighter must make his money before he is 30 or he isn’t going to make Sc : : nag y ie; tt ie . re, 2 oin, it’s pretty to sledding starting all over | "°° “OUr's WD sopdbanysun 4 mod mush, and after that age, unl he has coin, it’s pretty tough sl g Ing country entered in the singles. in some other occupation. Criqui beat Johnny Kilbane June 2 and then lost his title Thursday night to Johnny He picked the toughest man in his division in his first start. Dundee. the big money in the movies or the stage a play at all. If he had beat it back to France and capitalized the title was just like all the rest. But he would at least have got thing that salves over whatever wounds idle conversation c: y’re all doing it these days . They had him going and comin Ain’t people strange? | Gardner in lt re Play) and Hami! =| Jner teed off at Mayfield Coun ay in the finals of| umat onship defending his title for He defeated Jens | time nal amateur cham pion, yest i the semi-finals It was ture match and the greatest battle of the Chick came out on top at of the 38th hole Liverpool, O former Ohio champion, four and three. The was soaked today following all-night rain and the sky was it overcast BURMAN-LYNCH BOUT SEPT. 14 ia ate date was set for the propo-ed bantamweight be tween Joe Burman, of Chicago, and Joe Lynch, the champlon. The palr |will meet at the Madison Square | Garden, in New York, for 15 rounds Jon Septersyer 14 | Harry Wills, can lick Jack Dempsey easily. day. He wants to be | sents to meet him. But now that he’s defeated they call him a sap for not making the coin that he could. | pT PE le CNT NPR EE PERTAINS STILL AFTER JACK’S CROWN | giant negro heavyweight, lin a quiet little farmhouse, he’s training strenuously every | in readines Doubles for both men and women start on Wednesday. Women’ He didn’t give| sib stalet Gk Ad bnee gt Jolt canuetin | fect and if the Reds falter or fail Leighton, Chicago, dedending tho | MeKiechile’s; thisn: cosy: tee Ea the bugs would say that he} tine j |fight against the Giants. the dough, and that’s some-! Jo an make. Hennessey, holde s singles against Axel Gra ifornia; T, J. Man. n, Washington; Paul Bennett, Canada; Walter Westbrook, Detroit; ‘ray Brown, St. Louis, and other stars Altho men’s singles matches start) today, out-of-town men will not play | until Monday HENRY WILL ENTER STARS IN MARATHON G6T)AD" HE of the Ne ie club at # grooming several of h mile marathon swims thi be staged for both and women by The Star in Lake Washington canal t 11 auth coach ptur Lake tars for mr men the Av Da: swimming the best known in the North- young comers make the rest if they have west, ha who, he seve! ays, will of the field step out any hopes of winning | With but two weeks before the event, distance swimmers in all parts of the Northwest are training hard, The entries will close on Wednesday, August 8. Swimming Entry I am a registered member of the A. A. U. and wish to enter The § s mile swimming mara- thon ‘ Men's Hile Women's Mile NGmie iit es sues ssagas canine seas Address still believes he Far from gay old Broadway, | whenever Dempsey con-| | VAULTING DUEL IN A. A. U. MEET When the Natio’ A. U, jun ior and senior track and field cham pionships are held on Stagg field in Chicago, August 31, September 1 and 3, under the auspices of the Mlinols Athletic club, a great high jumping duel ix expected to result | when Brown, ‘of Dartmouth, and | Harold Osborne, of the I. A. C., get | |into the finals |MORVICH WILL RACE ’EM ALL An open challenge to pit Morvich, | | champion 2-year-old of 1921 and Ken- tucky derby winner of 1922, against Jany horse in the world, in a sprint lof three-quarters of a mile, has been | issued by Benjamin Block, owner of }the horse, after Morvich had been timed in 1:12 4-6 in a trial workout near New York |JORDAN WINS OVER TIERNEY | SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 | Jonnny Jordan shaded Jack ‘Tierney ot Los Angeles, in the Dreamland! 8 Lew Te ndler, Phila- » lightweight| main event lust night, In the semi: | effort to win the lightweig final, the best serap on the ras] Juck MePartland, lightweight ama nd of the 16th round, when teur champion of the Pacific coast, beat Kddie Doody. -|MISSOURI IS RIFLE WINNER The University of Missouri cadet took high honors, represented by | three medals for marksmanship and eventh army ec C, field day exer ups, R. O. ~~ | 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 |]| Myth About the Southpaw Swat Kings | Hornsby 6 ain. Indianapolis, | will attempt to} on} PAGE 13 HITTING 100 NOW AROUND \ mi : Yanks Have hich the right | Near Cinch be another sea handers would 4 Hel vraag of ti aon et ko! QO Pennant they will repeat thelr feat of 1921, in having two right-handed batters lead |New York American the major leagues. | Home Safe After Tough he atyle of Hornsby and Hell! Te On Road mann at the bat is somewhat similar, | 4 4 Bern BANE) & tennene ke 8) BY HENRY L, FARRELL thy: aw he. ball, - Pitoher New YORK, July 28.—After 4 ae spapest! pune Stents 6 their second trip of the season, he ner? fat ar hieed up on thewe| rampage thru enemy territory two great hitte nome e4 er rs 29 lthat swept everything before them, ‘True, a slow ball at times seems te york ‘Yanks ace bei the New York a cl Hi bother both of the yet if the next is rl taeda “5: next) nome with the American league f pitch is the name # ) the i pennant ually and tical; may knock it over the fenc penn virtual and: Pee pf ‘ clinched { ONLY ONE ‘There are chances, of course, that DIFFERENCE 14-game lead now held by the Be it In only one feature of batting does| yanks might be swept away but the Bs appear to be much difference | chi re very remote. The op Bai tt und that is in conalat Hell. | position is none too formidable and ar: iF ¢ so strong that they the Yanks 4 mann has arrived with a vengeance ze ; or been sweeping everything or only about the last four years in front of them’ Wwithaae while Horneby for perhaps twice that full strength. time ‘has been one of the stellar bats-| Paying by far the best ball in men of th the major league, the Yanks went Both are now * a thrilling|thru the West and grabbed 16 out | vattle for suprem: their respect-|of 22 games. They have a chance to equal or at least come close to the great record of the Chicago Cubs, who won 116 ont of their games in 1906 for a percentage live leagues, In each organization a bunch of crack left-handers are at tempting to oust them. Perhaps it | would be well to render a draw de-|15 cision on the pair and permit ther |of .760. averages at the clove of the season| pack home to speak for themselves as to 8U-|yanky should |ptemacy among the right-handers for a long stay, the gain more ground. The Athletes of Miller Huggins are . jee sound-minded this year to loaf ‘Schliebner 2-210 are Delivering | | for Fohl ball Getting back more on their stride, the Giants are about holding their own in the National league and are maintaining @ slight advantage over the Cincinnati Reds and the | Pittsburg Pirates, | The chances of the Reds depend lentirely on Luque, Donohue and |Rixey and Moran admits if any- jthing happens to his trio of star |pitchers, the chances will be | blown | | The Pirates are back on thelr | The Giants will be a better bail club when Dave Bancroft gets back jinto the game. Their star short |stop is a power on the defense. |He is the brains of the whole team Jand he is also a factor on the (Navy Ball Title at Stake Today HE teams of the U. 8. 8, Cak ifornia and the U. 8. 8. Ida. ho will battle this afternoon for the championship of the United States navy on the Woodland park field A great crowd is expected to view the title contest. To. have the championship baseball team of the navy from one’s ship is no small honor, and the gobs from each of the big crafts will be on hand to cheer thelr plays ers on. from Brooklyn as a last resort. He was the only first sucker available. | Unable to hit in the National, he had been relegated to the bench. National league critics rated Schliebner a fair fielder and not much better than a .200 hitter in the majors. A fasi ball inside was said to be his weakness, : | Manager Fohl took a chance, In- side of a week he had changed Schliebner’s style at bat and the | “DUTCH” SCHLIEBNER averages show that he is hitting: IT, LOUIS, July 28.—George Sis-| Close to 800. S ler was voted the most valuable| _ Had it not been for the Browns |dire need of a first baseman, Schiieb- |ner would now be back in the |minors, despite the fact that he has | proved he ts of big league caliber, Schliebner had the ability but needed much coaching, which he re- ceived under Fohl. His showing as Sisler's understudy has won him a place with the Browns even if Sis- ler should return to the game, er in the American league in e trouble has kept the game this year, is acting as Sisler out Dutch” his under- Louis It ts the toughest assign- of Schliebner study at first base for the St. | Browns. | mont in baseball hliebner was grabbed by Fohl