The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1923, Page 17

THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928. SS Game of Concentration—That’s This Game o’ Golf a ROY GROVE ation. ¢ the national sporta, it contains the phystoal element and the ba THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 17 SomME wn to golfers, spotted as slow players, have been stances ts the best behaved crowd of spectators in the world As & general rule around trate on thelr game when expecting a cc shrhs to break The concentrat green. Jones on uple more go off eled and at the same tim rn und the distance and © would become walking away to come line up his putt t at any n ve value is most noted on the tee and most every tee would have te pped the fair throw thel ent and measure r opponents into screaming fitn ¢ there in any nolse of any kind t match it ts made by the officials f the ga are com unt) the crowd ste oh officials as they stand after he had taken hi and then looked * to where the con his Girection, his atten dire te for the ant ts about t off and shsh the crowds in ing object on the right and this would detract h ng oud thru huge mogaph These centration on the ball on mt about the time yer is # There is nothing more aggravating to ® golfer than to have anyone et: fing directly in back of the tee he is about to drive. This happened several is atc Hage stop at the of rage simply tain thru their oy ap a@ sure arefulne This kind sands ot » tournam: tes and ly is os hare m recognized as the « around the putting greg ere ner ‘ ‘ There is a certain English amateur who ts re ag 1ERE are for this of play, which he works more psychological effect on his partr The nerve-rack ® eventually ft the ent, throwing him powers, making his ni and burried fashion. wned or cle would be te few golfers whom nothing in the world ageravat or The toe seems to bother. le er on the mind ott his ¢ hot in an insane, th Hutcht- He n doing the rounds. he fi deer anche Hagen is one who can really concentrate. st promi * stuff. =ieare apt son's concentration is a different sort of thing. bexing and many popular sports vuscle may take as much deep et of the athlete, but the action s the rev ‘The rooting and yell. fans help to strengthen the player ous gAMes. mpletely t i Bes continually jexts With the crowd whe times to at Rye, of his detracted N several tournament at Inwood, L 1 a few more of the tem rking under @ strain, their stances in utter disgust occasions at Cruteksh: ust smiles when js himself in a bad He and | go at that, The contrast at Inwood was noticeable in the playoff of the tle; where Jones would become irritabie Cruick- shank would just stand up and let ‘er fly. recent national open ng island, Jones, Sarazen ramental golfers, who would walk away from They could not concen: Gene Sarazen in with Walter N. Y., and he wou drive, the stage where his attention had beer from the pill, Dur just as Sarazen was about to draw back and putt for the hole, a camera an a deliberately to N the first place, the tournament golfer ts han capped with a moving ing from tee to green gallery, dissolving and ¢ w ¢ the circum were the sare match Some Praise for Ruth Most Valuable in American G RAB IT ! So Says Farrell - AGES oars His Proof of His Contention cael -ceocutand lacigmanulled 3. hie! oer ea Jenkins, Salt BY HENRY L. FARRELL | Alte, Marne 16.—Babe Ruth got such a bad deal this year from Kelly. Ham ‘Francis to give him something good to cut at, that he nae i ¢ to e@ablish a new home run record. ie ers should lay them in the Babe's groove for iit the ball, but tt ts maintained that @ restrictio: on the intentional pasa. 4 who paid money to see the Babe crash br « pitchers were not giving him a chance} Kor makers of the game sought means to b the but mo remedy they have tried has bees Miss Wills in Feature Four Matches Today Will Sift Field Down to Best Play in National Women’s Tennis Championship Tourney; Mrs. ee to Play Miss Hooker Again REST HILLS, Y., Aug. 16.—Without having pro- duced anything That could approach an upset, the na- tional women’s tenr championships went into the round before the semi-finals today with three British and five American stars surviving. 4) Four matches on today’s card in the singles will produce ++| four losers after what should be the best and most exciting ii}\ tennis of the week. +«*| Miss Helen Wills, the 17-year-old California girl, who a*/ has had the crowd completely behind her since she started 8) sss lay, 8 booked for the cree ture match of the day with 4 Jack Works Miss Kathleen McKane, the 348 | | former tea room maid of for Battle London and the best player in England. With Firpo «= California girl Gefeated Miss icKane in one of the singles | CARA’ 3A, Y,, Aug: (kkk matches of the Wightman cup tour — Dempeey, werld's heatyousht eongat and since then she has | chamipon, is still in Nght training | °°? inka! phenigialle c, e for defense of his title against Luts| bad toaey vill owe Dec Soe Firpo, in New York, on September | 1" Teenh, With he ae ef that she will meet Mrs. Molla Mab Morning road work, a few rounds | [0% American mnie, ae of boxing and some bag punching | "7 per fax re ee oe have been the routine of the c 0 ee ee 4 @ routine of the cham-| matches, the most absorbing topie pion, and he has been swimming, | of discussion has been about the. boating and fishing in his spare mo-| California girl's chances of becom: Real work probably will be |{ng the next champion and if pub # in the training camp on/lic wishes could “crown her Shey George Godfrey, Jack | would be a cinch for the title. @ and Jules Rioux | Mallory plays against Biss | rived and will act as sparring part-| Helen Hooker, the Greenwich girl, | hers. Rioux iy a huge woodsman | who advanced thru the fourth round ‘om the North,and he has arough,/when Mra. Geraldine Beamish, one wkward style of hitting, much like/of the best British players, wae Firpo, He probably will do most of |forced thru Illness to default. Mra the heavy work with the champion.| Hooker ts the 10th ranking player Dempsey sald today that he does|among the Americans and she cal |not need mu work to get down|barily hope to do much against to his £ . but that be American champion. wanted pl ra Mrs. Leslie Bancroft, the left HART & HART |cte" erat WILL MEET HUGH BAIRD fe yvered-court champion and she |may have the battle of ‘her life to ART & HART won the second haif of the split in | survive. rd league and the right to mest Hugh Baird nine, first half, PACIFIC COAST Individual batting averages, incl = (Compiled by U, & Sports Servi ayed Sunday, San Francie a “ AD ies 13} 664 1 168 85 1 48 16 48 1) 393 om 166 - 137 + 100 2B. * “o “ 1B. HR. 6Y 2 a1 RK Bit a f us a 16 uu 1° herenece Lake . Ww YORK, Aug. rn * Ange alt Lake : Ban Francisco , Ban Fran ELDRED, Seattle wis, Salt Lake . sil, Portia Pranciace Portland o a4 ar rr “ ” s. Wa Crumpler but the part pf managerial strategy to let « danger. | practice of passing a heavy hitter tn a pinch Babe came into prominence. It has become | & custom, however, since Ruth started to change the style of play tn the| dig leagues. Lee Fohl lost his job as manager of the Cleveland Indians because he} her to pitch to Ruth in a pineh several years ago, and some other managerial heads might be cut off if the same thing were done now with a lot at stake on one game, but when a team is hopelessly beaten it le not strategy to pass the Babe when even a clout for the four bases| would not have a vit t on the game. Pitchers, when there fe not too mu h at stake, should try to get the ng the eaxy way out of it and giving him a pass.| d like to do ft. It doesn't make a game| ageous to admit his inferfority by letting him ¢o down on four wide ones, but most of them have to do what the bench} decides. | igh, Portiana MEARKLE, Seattle |}fannan, Vernon | Courtney, San Francisco Fools, Portland KR. Marphy, Vernon |Amnew, fan Franceco alt Lake ooo “ Kntehe, overtone Mulligan, fan Francisop . Molwita, Sacramento Myatt, Vernon « eaves meee Abourne, Vernon cance swone fer, J MeCann, Port | Rohwer, Sacramer r,’ Onkiand m, Onkiand Oakiand Ban Frané bran, Sacramento o Oakian UTH has laurels enough to live on, and instead of decreasing his value as a player and a drawing card, the practice of making It hard for him has only served to make the Babe bigger than ever and a better ball player than he ever was. | The netd his style this season, with the result that he has a fime chance to lead the American league tn batting. Ho still tries Knock homers, first two strikes. When he gets two on c a for just a common, ordinary hit, and he ul at it has two out of three chances to do his stuff ¢ his new system ts sound, practically and anti * You can get ’em like this, “FISHING” with Morris Ackerman, nationally known authority and writer on the great out-of- doors, who’s been signed up by The Star to con- tribute a series of seasonal s on fishing and hunting. too, if you'll go he fs at the bat, matically. 1 aod is most sincere in his ambition to become the batting champion the league. He has always taken as much pride tn hin ability as an allaround player as he has in the glory that attended him as the greatest distance hitter of all times. He always resented the inference soon as his home run h g slumped he would be thru. lendidiy, hitting so well that he may finish the season as the r and home run hitter, running the bases with the best of them, baseba iy thing tn his life, Ruth ha assumed the role this season st and most valuable player in Dasedal With Am ELS, Seattle . KRONWER, Seattle... YARYAN, Seattle Daker, Oak Krug. Los See et Pre et Pett peer! fn ret et ttt) fe ett etter ltr as the great Go Winkle, “FISHING” Starting Friday Larayata IN THE STAR Loe Ane snibabenhndnaantnshanseansisanansnananid nansnsen arroll, Loe Angeles of b Seattle Bacrn sler out of the game, his position at the top of all of them tn the on be questioned, and there are no players in the snal league who can do #0 many things as well as the Babe can, ORR, Senttie futherland, Por M . AST winter, at the well-remembered dinner for the sport writers, when Senator Jim ded him of the duty he had toward the “dirtytaced k Ruth promis devote the the 1923 sea. at he would confine B. C. Covell, the third sar J ing British player, will oppose E Goss, the New York who has been playing some very good tennis, ‘'POOR SCRAPS AT PORTLAND © PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 16.—Foure | } round boxing received a sad welcome ” bere last night when a small crowd | COMISKEY IS |on: the “featureliee- oust yaaa 64 YEARS OLD | Seine, local youth, meeting Joe Pow: ell, of California, in the so-called] | CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—Charles A-/ main event, gained a decision But” Comiskey, White Sox owner, today} failed to work for it. None of thie [began his 47th year In baseball fol-| numbers possessed action, and | lowing celebration of his 64th birth-|one pair of contestants was thrown ay. De in condi ‘ | on and off 1g season F the | | | se ornnecoteuneuneu winners in the champlo s. Wm. L. Hughson finish in last. half Hart & Hart won the final game from the Queen City Motors, n view of his conduct in the past, was accepted by base of e attitude: “We shall wait and see.” He ts living clean he ts saving nis] ge how much it benefited him to keep his promise tht there is littie doubt that Ruth will have to take a reso! jon vente Sects stat inch th : Harry Greb Is Confident of Winning Ring Tiles BY BILLY EVANS 1S bast GREB, who aspires to the middleweight title, is} } an unusual young man. He is, perhaps, the only fighter et | p| | 9 to| ew contract to talk over this winter and, since his reformation vital factor in bringing the whole Yar team around to! game this season, there In little doub Jake Ruppert} a mood to listen and agree if the Babe shou k for a ralen, Ruth, playing as he has been this season, is worth every cent of hin $50,000 co By his example, his spirit and his work on the fleld, he has done more than anyone else to make the Yanks a runaway in the ‘ S ~ an jeague nt vace: and, a prerite autos’ in the ininecas new} i) +00. SAME who doesn’t draw the weight limit. 1 be worth twice his salary to his boss. On August 31, Greb meets Middleweight Champion| ¥ abe Ruth a debt it can never pay. If he did nothing else.| Johnny Wilson at the Polo Grounds in New York. As far ' i £ 2 ri Kearns, saved baseball when it was on the rocks, after the 1919/44 Greb is cancerned, that fight is in. Had a chat with) crea y relative to it. were no Ruth feats of batting the following year to talk about| him the other da He spoke thusly | have been talking about something else. | “lll be sporting that middleweight title sure on Sep-|levsress, 2 tember 1. Wilson has dodged me for a couple of years, | Myers, fait Take VU. OF W. FAILS TO PLACE | Only the fact that he must fight me if he is to do any|ronts,’seuttte” IN NATIONAL NET RANKING! “T know a lot of people think I can’t make the weight for| Cec orcconescorecccoe sono unou be practicai scandal If there the fans mi out of the ring. SEATTLE BOY TOBIN, Seattle more fighting, has caused him to frankly risk his title. Aug. 16.—Carl s a mistake. M. & Sucramento « © Philadelphia Col- athy has been ranked intercollegiate singles | Lewis White and mer of the University ag the No. 1 doubles ercolle just ade lege of Osteo No. bh and Louis Th team in for the announceme azon Norris cham by R e col ja national standpoint, was a was not considered. The task ranking the players, especially from par ticularly hard one, as many of the }colleges and untversities, who have excetient tennis players among their | dergraduates, did not reply to let ters from the ranking committee of the United States Lawn Tennis as- jation, requesting the list of team matches played in all parts of the country. The average of the tennis played year. | “Frank T An versity; Phil ford un’ respec singles. Wi Neer and Betten. four Columh university Texas are next { each, while and Prir Williams, Un and the Unt each one. fornia In announ: Chairman legiate that the been solely on the college tearm and the intercollegiate ¢ ing ame 1 the selections, ot the committee intercol- states based ra matches mplonship nament play $125 Worth of Eaxtras ONL $525 ROWL AND. yr CLARK “GLI” B. Pike St, it OORG at the intercollegiate championshi; Mr. W! high those was extremely of it ma states, and the playing ability competing so equal that was a very difficult entiate in the arrangement and order of the ranking. The complete order for the 3 intercollegiate singles ranking is as follows: C. H. Fisher, Philadelphia College of Os. teoapthy; F. T. Anderson, Columbia university; Phil Neer, Leland Stan. ford university; Lucien B. Williams, Yale university; P. Bettens, Untver- sity of California; J. Emerson, & university; W. W. In- Harvard university; Lewis , University of Texas; Wallace University of California; M. Harvard university; Jerome Columbia university; Arnold Yale university; James Davies, Leland Stanford university; Wheeler, Yale university; K. 8, Pfaffman, Harvard university; Louis Thalheimer, University of Texas; Chapin, Williams; C. Merkel, Univer. sity of Michigan; A. Morgan, Univer sity of Pennsylvania. | The assignment of doubies teams is as follows: Lewis White-Louls |University of Texas | Lucien E, Willianis-Arnold Jones, Yale university. Phil NeerJames Davies, Leland Stanford university Wallace Bates-P. sity of California. | F. 7. Anderson-C, Emerson, Col- |umbia university, W. W. Ingraham-M. Duane, vard university. Howard-Taylor, Princeton college, tes, Duane, |Lang, Jones, Thatheimer, Bettens, Univer. Har. ot | task to differ: | Wilson and be strong. Th: | with my street clothes. That jmeans I scale about 160. I will weigh about 156 or 157 when I meet Wilson. “T am positive I will beat Wilson I know that his left-handed style is but 1 think will find ig even more a Wilson fter getting thru with am going after Tunney in. I beat him once, and in the in which he regained the cham- pionship, the very worst I should have had was a draw. I'am sure the accounts of all the fight experts at the ringside that evening will bear out such a claim, “By the first of the year I hope to have both th middleweight and light heavyweight titles to my credit “It may cause a lot of people to laugh, but if successful in my plans 1 wouldn't be at all averse to meet ing Jack Dempsey. That may #01 like big talk from a fellow of weight, but I am more than w to meet the champion {f some one thinks enough of my chances to pro mote the bout. “I beat Tommy Gibbons far more decisively than did Dempsey. In meeting Dempsey I haye only ono thing to fear—n knockout punch. If Dempsey failed to land such a blow, 1am sure I would win the decision. I know that I can outbox and out maneuver him. The old kayo punch {y all that 1 would have to fear | The coming meeting between Wil. son and Greb for the middleweight title is of long standing. Wilson, after signing with Gre’ decided that he wanted Inone of the Pittsburger. He refused h, the con ot. Then came a meeting with Bryan Downey at Cleveland. Wilson |marded It as easy money. He wn \euaranteed $6,000. For six or seven | jrounds it was all Wilson, ‘Then Downey put over a wild swing that |nent Wilson to the floor for a long count. The stunt was repeated a| couple of times cial referee gave the bout to bout my for a bout to go on re hampion Later W. Thirty Acres. ‘fiivver.” Wilson's a foul. share son and Dempsey met at The fight was of the| I weigh | only 167 167} gate was held up because of his poor | The n niract to got his mc about suc showing. w mo him his q ireb. ment he forgot all Wilson was # state in pended mitted for his failure to rn He returns to the ring ly of idieni the other t has constantly. cert bas a gr the middleweight on G y was pald to} to live up to| boxti The mo- he again a match, by nearly | ng ts pers et Grob. after prac ens. Greb, been fight. eat chance title. Major Talk et, "GH Ka 4) ing ¢ Angel oked @ “Laie amplon, kn! iret game, Dutch Reuther Firpo with bite in the ph the Cards, T to 1. Traynor’s sock for four bases tn the eighth Inning produced the r the Pirates a 4-to-3 Phila, Brooklyn Robina defeated ettin® ante at Luque, Even, te-header 4-2 the homer in the was ns tight as inches, and the un that gave vietory over the Tobby Veach clouted one for the cireult with two on bases, Tigers bent the Athlette ‘Tris Bpeaker « nd «homer, Stuffy MoInnl down in the ni the run thi gled th inning, gave the The Senators nd the Whit won Babe Ruth hit his 80th, by went under to the Browns, and the with two and drove Braves @ one game. on the other, ut the Yanks 3-6, MANY MEMBERS The National Billiard Association Then Wilson's spe-|of the United States is now repre the sented by 161,927 members, to} | | heavyweights, probably, Jack | | | FIRPO’S FEET MIGHT NOT BE QUITE SO BIG) IRPO is said to have the biggost hands of any present-day heavy- weight. They must be some hands If they are bigger than Willard’s. Willard | can take an official major league baseball in oneshand and #0 conf. pletely cover it that the ball can't be seen at all, But wonder what size feet Firpo | has? The biggest feet of all the| are those of Johnson. Jack's feet are regu- lar canal boats. Gunboat Smith 1s another who has |ér Washington star, big feet. Most persons always thought he was called “Gunboat” by DISCUSSES STAR “Bud” Houser, former Broadway high school boy, and now the Uni versity of Southern Californ strong man, recently heaved the iscus 150 feet in practice. He will compete in the A. A. U. meet in Chi cago with the hopes of smashing the record made by Gus Pope, the form- FUND FOR PLAYERS | The American League ts setting aside $50,000 as a fund to take care of disabled ball players and their famille: cause he was in the navy. He acquired the nickname In the navy, all right, but because of his | et, which look like a pair of gun-| te | Bands —Why? Most troubles in collars are due to bands. 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