The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1923, Page 13

~ Scribblings: ATTLE STAR WALTER JOHNSON’S STRIKEOUT RECORD IS GREAT FEAT | [Flyweight Champ] British and Yankees to Clash Soon International Net Match for Women to Start Sat- urday on Eastern Courts BY HE NRY L, FARRELL JEW YORK, Aug r PANCHO VILLA Vill champion world’s who Amer- the near ted Villa weight meet F Genaro, tcan titleholder, future. in Genaro defea Star Swims to gh gaan ea BENTLEY IS DELIVERING FOR GIANTS Jack N Ye the 4 wh ail the sp exploded phe » high npriced lemon, m ts livir n ¢ ad sta He wag many n he joined eded more given him to Me than get ue were sad af ned as if M Critics were tn the also other big business NO YOUNG PITCHERS DE FOREST AND FIRPO FRIENDS NAPOLIS, wn hero In Balt! record shows games worked 4 his actiy has been Uned as KEYSTONE MEN LEAD IN STEALS 7—It fs OLYMPIC FUNDS a rather Yankees Pick Up Star Collegian oR expects great thi Lou G EHRIG New York Giants Come Thru Crucial Series on Road With Flying Colors Gh around lead Tue Chicago OF mpionship form. The Got home 0) been going Pouca a AT? cer Results WOLVES AE TrED LINGHAM, Aug. BURIEN 18 DRUBEY BEING RAISED |; a gt Victim of a Dope Plot? peianiiecceenccent be men: | 3 to press! the base- | iders. | is hot on antham for ors of the Sox, SEVEN JINX stony xo’ NUMBER FOR_ | CINCY STAR </TEAMS WILL STAGE GAME EXHIBITION local teams will tangle in an xhibition Jac game to be playe Upper Woodl ke at 12:30, | fostil, while Max} close on the ner of the hor run a long while Dio at ma have been working out diand field for two ks an the} play- . Bol 1 different one each | their will They ait make i ged under the | ment H. Slater, local | man, who first put bis idea in | to effect a month ago. f Luque to con. Luque {s and pend on of G tinue 2 far from some of y to #0| we stetate "|CAL, BEGINNING | BILL MULDOON | FOOTBALL TALK | NOT AS ACTIVE | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNI A, | expert the route Berkeley, Aug. 7-—-Already tho alr nning hum talk of | comers reach the | 1g and old-timer The chedule of the Golden Bears is be. unned and talk of the] The game 4 to with gather. od th f 1 the com: | ; Several arrests | bus, O., and other | pacer, who has been winning cently for the first time of a big day's Cleveland. firat ¢ fs heard. the alumni at the close of the] first week of practice nith fea of his s dering running in tela, [Probably will use his entire Hneup | of the |du me, in order to keep} from |hia men in the pink of condition for | Hater contents, California to Send Athletes The Unive be adequa ational A t which will be hela Chicago, under the Mlinola Athletic rur August 31 to September 4, subs and in his program at North Rahdall track, just outside | » have been made in Cleveland and Colum-| in S aerhton with the alleged doping of Single G.| grand. circuit favorites. races for 18 years, broke 1 | his name from the peculiar white “G” on his forehead. | reat guns | tournament, } New York Giants have come thru their two big series They won three out of five from Pittsburg and then turned and trounced Cincinnati four straight, m team still has two The cracking of the Reds giving the ¢ tough sin, lately at home. series yiants a six and a half game ahead at St. Louis and was a big upset as the I nevitabl e Changes Ae | Expected Among Coaches BY JACK HOHENBERG EVER AL changes are expected in Seattle high school! athletic circles for next year, when it became known this morning that the Seattle pense with assistant gymnasi schools. school board has voted to dis- um instructors in the various} The board’s action, an economy measure, will make it the duty of one man to handle the gymnasium work in all of the high school on the road in real world’s} Washington’ Has Passe BY BILLY E 8 Vilage d 3000 Mark VANS ‘ALTER JOHNSON, famous pitcher of the Washington American League club, recently passed the 3,000 mark in the matter of strikeouts. That is a remarkable pitct it will stand for a long time, A few weeks back in a game runners reached second and jscore at the time was 2 to hing record. Unquestionably perhaps forever. with the Cleveland elub, third with no one out. The in favoy of Washington. A jbase hit would put the Cleveland club out in front. Then to the consternation of the Cleveland fans, Johnson proceeded to strike the next two batters out. on seven pitched balls and caused the following batter to send a harmless fly to left field. of the hole. Back 10 years ago that was son. It was an every-day performance. Johnson had pitched himself out not an unusual feat for John- I can recall a num- ber of games in which I have seen him strike out the side with the bases filled. was a pitche lively 8 greatest asse than it is today That w. as in the old days when speed t, when the ball was far less Johnson Is Modest Fellow IALKING with Johnson after the Cleveland game, I remarked to him that he must © been right on edge. Hig reply was character. istic of the modesty of the great | pitcher | “I was lucky,” he replied. “A | fellow must be lucky to throw his fast ball by the batters these days. |I realized I had good speed and de |pémded entirely on my fast one |That {9 a dangerous system with |the lively ball. A batter doeen’t S6QTRIKEOUTS have — become more or less a secondary matter in baseball,” remarked John- eon. |to strike ‘em out. is making a grave mistake. The ively ball has taken |much of the punch owt of the stsikeot The wise pitcher is the w who mixes them up, makes tis opposition hit the ball, and never forgets that eight other fel- lows are out there to help him re. tire the side,” “I notice that Dazzy Vance of the Brooklyn club is striking out a lot TE Hellig ball team, which won , the San” Francisco amateur champlonsh!p, Journeyed to Broad- way playfield yesterday morning to play bajl. They came—they saw— but they didn’t conquer. The score?— A change in coaches is practically inevitable, as the a8-/on, a mere matter of a dozen runs si stant instructors usually Sone? in Last of Ninth Does Trick HONOLULU, T. Aug. 7 Honolulu paves “went down 1 7-6 defeat before the C baseball team when Pinch r Penny Russell smacked out » run in the with one on was acclain 4 tho hero r the university pitched a good COMMISSION WOULD OUST JOE LYNCH _| show ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 7. ‘The New Jersey boxing commission threatened to indefinitely suspend | atherweight Champion Joe Lynch ‘owing his obstinate refasal to box Al Gordon of Philadelphia or Ochs of Lancaster, Pa, in a ‘ound bout last night. Lynch would meet no one but Billy | Fitzpatrick, who could not be pro- cured last night. Edward Holland, state boxing commiasioner, said that| pend the champion for thru with his contract usand pointed, and were given thelr mon back fe elther Kea LEG BEAT WILL BE MODIFIED |. The Women's Swimming associa tlon of New York city and tho Ili-| s A, ( aquatic are the world's foremost organizations Indications point to an 8- or 10-leg beat, instead of the 6-beat, at present, the method of propulsion in the future. as Committee Let Contract Plan LOS ANGE Aug. 7—The golf committee of th Atheltic and Country club has let contracts recently for an irrigation ystem for the new course at Elst. nore, and alded by it expects to have the links ready for uso by February. — | sports, fans were disap-| jouthern California | in addition to their} regular work. he case of Broadway high school | shes a good example of the ef. }fects of the school board ruling. Coach Luther More, who watched over thw destinies of the Tiger track teams during the 1923 year, been a gym instructor at the Pine-| st. school for three years. Whibe his services could well be used at other high schools, Athletic Director Lich- tenberger of Broadway declares that} there is no other track coach than More who could satisfactorily fil the bill. Coach winner More did not turn out a last year, but he turned out such men as George Norton, crack half miler, and helped dis- cover Leo Hanson, the young phe- n, who went from Broadwa: n to Los Angeles and broke tho city record. More certainly deserves. to be given a chance to what ho really can do with |track at Broadway, declares the ath. letic director. Tho cane of the Broadway gym nasuim {s typical of at least two jother high schools. ‘The school board |must be given credit for a real en- | deavor to cut down taxes and make | the sledding easter for the small |property owner, but it certainly is |wreaking havoo in the athletic de- | partments. Director Pelton will | conside: have to do erable recommending when he comes before the school board on Wednesday afternoon, high sctiool coaches declare. The director said, in a short interview aver the tele- phone late Monday afternoon: | “I hope to bo able to get before | the school board Wednesday, but in- | dications are that they may post- | pone action on it until later.” Every day which the action Is | postponed will mean weeks of plan- ning later in the year for coaches | who are suddenly notified of their shift. Pelton thinks {t_advisable to keep all his recommendations to him- | self, declaring that publicity would not be a goc* thing at the present | moment. Final recommendations are sched- uled for Wednesday, but in case they do not fit in with the scheduled pro- gram much woo and grief will be evidenced in high school athletic ranks. TACOMA GIRL WINS TENNIS TOURNAMENT AT LONGVIEW LONGVIEW, Aug. 7—Miss Caro- lyn Barron of Tacoma was tho win- ner of tho ladies’. singles in the Southwestern Washington Tennis in tho, finals played off urts at Hotel Monti- Sunday on the |PLAY INN. W. | Single G., 16-year- ~olil| § | way career during the first heat) oiub grounc Thousands of dollars had been put up on him.| Only a few weeks ago he paced the mile in 2:02%4. He gets) waiker of ‘Tacoma, former junior TOURNEY BEGUN TACOMA, Aug. 7,—Starting with rounds in the men's singles di: , the 39rd annual Pacific North: anis Champtonships got under the ‘Tacoma Lawn Tennis yesterday. Knaign W. I. Dole of the U. 8 ‘Tennessee furnished the one upset of the day when ho defeated Ired waa t at s. intersectional champion, cello, There were 60 contestants in the event, which was tho first ath- lotic contest in Longview, which drew a state-wide entry, Bruce Duncan of Longview was winner in the men's singles, defeating Vincent O'Dowd, also of Longview. Miss Barron won her victory over Miss Dorothy Dick- son of Napayine. Both girls played splendid tennis, Judge Andrews made tho. present- ation address. Bruce Duncan and Marvon Cornwell won tho doubles from 8. W. Ayres and M. Mickel- waite of Longview. Mr. Roberson and Miss Barron won the mixed doubles from Mr. and Mrs, Adolph Green- baum of Salem, Among the towns represented were ‘Tacoma, Seattle, Portland, Centralia, Chehalis, Napayine, Kelso, Kalama, Salem, Winlock and Westport, 1 has | tutor at least one branch of|to three, the Spark Plugs doing the | damage. As ball players, the Heflig bunch | would make good doctors. That's jwhat they needed after the game, | anyway. | “Casualties were Don Smith, catch- er, broken fingernail. | Will Hayes, fielder, wrenched back. Will King, score keeper, writer's | cramp. j The game started out to be a hot affair, the Heiligites betng retired | without a murmur. When Lew Dun- | bar, pitcher for the losers, started to |rolt ‘em over, the Plugs masticated $ 45° Shoes, Forbush & Co, and other high quality Oxfords and curable at this low figure. $980 2! HP Shoes, ‘The modern pitcher who tries} of batters in the National: league. | This group contains Bostonians, and represents values seldgm pro- jhave to meet the ball very good | these days to make it travel.” The conversation then drifted to the strikeout topic, for in that game Johnson had passed the 3,000 mark. It is a rather remarkable fact that Johnson really never tried to set any strikeout records, despite the fact that he holds most of them in the majors. Hig whiffing feats can simply be traced to the remarkable ability he possesses, in which his fast ball is hig best asset. Pitcher Raps Lively Ball Vance is a fast-ball pitcher. No Pitcher without a good fast ball ever ges very far in the matter of strikeouts. But he pitcher who |keeps handing the’ batters a fast |ball these days is constantly court: ing danger. Any time the batter connects there is trouble. ek “Just so long as the ball contin ues lively I don't believe many pitchers are going to hang up @ |better than 3,000 strikebut mark for thelr major league careers. Natur: ally I'm proud of my record and hope {t stands. Walter said something. THEATRICAL BALL TEAM GIVEN HARD TROUNCING his offerings with glee. As a result” of the constant dropping of pop flies, Lewis, He then threw up the job and went home for some sleep. Lorenzo took up the burden, but. he had nothing but the good luck ring on his finger. They touched Buster for eight runs. was one of the leading pitchers in the ama- teur league, once. it might have been. The lineup for the Heilig, was Smith, catcher; Dunbar, Ditech Gardner, first base; Lorenzo, seco base; Hayes, third base; | RobSEEE shortstop. Pierce, Frahm and McKee were the fielders. ‘The Heilig team, is looking for more games. Any desiring contests iKee at tHe theater. OXFORDS ad SHOES Final Clean-Up Short lines of fine Oxfords and including many Johnny Walkers and similar high quality Men's Shoes. : equally Shoes, $7% roup is composed almost . entirely of NETTLETON’S Shoes of Worth—in both Oxfords and in many desirable lasts. ' MAIN FLOOR Second and Madison the opposition made four runs off © At that, the game wasn't as bad as _ should communicate with Chas. Mc-”