The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1923, Page 13

000000000 WEDNESDAY, AUGI Fate BY BILLY EVANS W YORK, A « Fate y : v d that Waite . t pit a \ Job h pent } the Washing ing ae t has b * bad * pitch in a w y ~ = h hitters extraordinary, don't tadium 6 Detre the last half of ch stuff. New won | Many Good Trades Went | Haywire in Big Leagues Detroit-Boston Swap for Pitchers Left Tigers in Rut; | Browns Allowed McInnis to Get Aw Other Examples BY HENRY L. FARRELL EW YORK, Aug. 22.—After having guessed good and| wrong, several major league managers are prepared to} argue that there are no brains, science or judgment in trad-! ing and it is just a question of luck in getting the good break | on a swap. The only consolation in discarding a worn-out king that} fills a straight in another man’s hand is that others have} done it before, and the old kasebal! alibi covers the offense :| “How can you beat it?” | The most outstanding example of a good trade that went | wrong happened in the case of Ty Cobb and the failure of | a deal to turn out as the Tiger leader had reason to expect | it, blew what was generally regarded as a good chance for| Detroit to win the pennant or be way up there. Howard Ehmke wasn't doing much good with the Tigers. | Cobb didn’t like him, and the Detroit fans figured that the| club could get along without him, Cobb made then what looked like a slick move when he | traded Ehmke and; Hollings |}-——— to the Boston Red Sox for|the deal was made, and critics all Del Pratt and Rip Collins around the h return for wimt 4} Rind of b as excess baggage, second baseman, whom he expec a the to a.big hole and make the infie’ And in Rip Collins a as ho was slipping with quired a pitcher af abiilty, who|e Robins, but Fournier started ry Ebbets to tinued to slt looked to be just about ready for| Playing the gamo of his life and gc | eset Ag spree that has kept him ith the shigaing leadere all cea As Detroit figured that Codb has| o> * Musee leaders all wen-) secured all the best of the deal. so] | the Boston fans thought that they | Even Wilbert Fails had ree Harry last overt act in bre: ball club just to dook. It wasn't long changed. Pratt fell down at base and Col a terrible as a pitcher. The Tigers ce and fell out of the runnin On the other hand, Ehmke pulled & ssostional reversal of form with |The Case of ‘Tierney the Red Sox and turned into one of | ‘ ved | the ) } ped | lite wi a winning pitcher. 7 [were the « ications of Browns Lost McInnis Hes eran & oeteace Geneon ae EN there was the case of the eo chief traded him to Cleveland Indians, who turned “Stuffty” McInnis loose Was thought not worth called for in his cont environ shine. It Tierney started er, as th red Jobe had Guisto ready c ngs in the deal, and Ra base and he was judged to be wor ty a high-class, reliable hall player more in “Stuff's” place than in a seat meine on the bench. Guisto was given the} A Question of If regular assignment and he proved | Tr Cobb now had Ehmke, if the Cin “bust.” His health went bad ait Rada Oe the Iniléne had Speaker had to shift Brower, an ow’ > Mareen! fielder, to first. MeInnis also was instrument making the management fudgment. "The on ity ot CALIFORNIA HAS IT ALL | Fournie |} And that’ n that George Sisler be able to play and need an experienced hey made out a sound egesperts | co to be re (Grecia Maat baseba expect Frank Ch Braves, the Brown management had to take a castoff rookie from Brook-| leased by the Boston Red Sox soon lyn to fill the Sizzler’s place jand then he will move over to Wash- | | ington, 1. where Donle Bush Robinson Cleans Up | hasn't exactly been a riot as a leader | NCLE WILBERT ROBIN | thls, year. fat boss of the Brooklyn| Lee Fo Robina, stands a: wise swapper of had some extra o . rumor has It, Is a cinch season. | Chance y fielders| Nobody can do anything with that) and he needed a first baseman, as| Red Sox outfit until they get some} Schmandt had failed to deliver, and | ball players. he wasn’t ¥ keen about experi enting with Schiiebner, a rookie. a7 pr ie Hy Myers, one of the | FIRPO GETS most popular players on the team the St. Louls Browns for Jack Four- | nier, a “worn-out” first baseman,| Luis Angel Firpo is to get a who had been benched by Branch | centage of the gate receipts w Rickey in favor of Bottor young player. |14. 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Don't walt! | |) Come in at once and see our | CLARK JEWEL AND RELIABLE GAS RANGES SEATTLE LIGHTING CO. | | 1308 Fourth Avenue Main 6767 | | THE GAS COMPANY | Pictures Snapped at Star Mile Swim Situation Is Critical for New York | Giants as Lead Slowly Filters Away ireult wondered what| pnotism Rickey had used | | him to] | to the Cards and con-| s snapped during The Star mile marathon swims staged Tues- » Washington canal. No. 1 is Hester Eastman of the C rystal|™* who finished third in the women's Konowaloff, set what is believed to be a new Pacific Coaat record. also of the Crystal club, No. 4, is last year’s men’s champion, and sec the victor yesterday, bettered his last yea 2 da y, Blanche & ie afternoon in the imming club, brtek on the Pirates, | * who copped the men’ COLIMA WINS rina seh ho is doing much to encourage Filipion tnter- No. 3 is Katheryn Brown, | BY KNOCK OUT) ests in athletics. t year, who finished second. Jack Torney,| tog aNGELES ile champion, r of the race minutes. And last, but not|‘Blackic” Rice of Los Angeles, in the heroine ° eae Swimming club, w city y women GREEN LAKE SWIMMERS TC TO STAGE MEET ON pope syaiad ee sam “DOPED” ouT » "tt « ta - |PREP STAR TO SANTA CLARA | Da Clara, He is a g man 4 assistance to Coach Ed Kien ood shape. ‘The price 1s held at the West ¢ Sewell, | recting the meet. One of the races » best and about'to move in at Boston to replace), t r EW YORK, Aug. 22.—With their lead filtered away to three and a half games, the New York Giants are again in that position which might be called critical. Yesterday they dropped the final game of the series to the pesky Pittsburg Pirates and it gave the Pirates a grand total of two out of thre The Cincinnati Reds won and came back again within jabbing distance of the leaders All the noble work that the world’s champions did on their last victorious sw ep thru the West has gone for noth- - annette ing. The lead they acquired by knocking the Pirates grog- gy and putting the Reds on the floor has faded ay thru one of the worst slur ps the team has had this son. Filipino Boy Is Sure ‘ Some Speedy Sprinter maule As lon able to even when th ing with them, but the batters have with the pitchers re all in a bad fix » the hole aw can have no n, John McG py thoughts over the coming| seri¢s with the St. Lonis Cardinals, work his offense around to some d of an effec ¢ attack on the enemy. i Just a week ago It looked as if the Giants: were a cinch for the |pennant. The Cincinnat! Reds had |been terribly battered in a five game series that was their big op portunity to get the lead » Reds ooked as if they were but Perhaps nt have had an idea that the Giants wero bound, as all ball the rest of the s¢ Moran kept them p he jubs are, to get into an occasional siump. w switched his batting or nd Mneup in the final game with the Pirat He shoved Jimmy I $75,000 beauty, who duty, back owed Casey the shade, He roft up to the . put Frisch second’ order and placed it worked no bef ter than his r combinations, | McGraw felt that the Reds and 49 tase Pirates would fade away after tak-| # 3 ’ Dapdpdihiweadiet de fl shoe Fortunato Catalon, Filipino sprinter (left), is receiving = bie ga a lee trip ot the|the congratulations of his majesty, Prinee Chichibu, after npions, but they have not faded | the swarthy little islander finished the 100-yard dash in they are still in there fighting. |9 4-5 seconds at the Far Eastern Olympic Games. In the center is Camilo Osias, president of the. National University o'Conne has been into the gam Stenge moved Dave lead-off posit lin the bat | Young third, the race two years | apan, Aug, 22.—Running| honor greatly coveted. n 9 4-5 seconds at the re. ‘s backers predict he will games got | lower his record at the coming Olym- k Filipino) pic games, in Paris, which he, will rouble. jattend. They insist he ran an unof- his remarkable race, | ficial practice 100 yards recently in r Eastern. record,|% 2-5 seconds. ‘That's one-fifth under second son of the|Paddock’s world record of 9 3-5 sec- emperor of Japan, bestowed a royal | onds. dshake and congratulations.| Catalon, who is 24, {s a senior In ywhere Fortunato goes he's|the Ticloban high school, province Japanese who want tojof Leyte. His ability as a sprinter shake the hand that shook thg hand| was discovered as a player of base. of the Jap pr ng. |ball, formeriy his favorite sport, Tt By shaking vith him they|was found that, given any start at feel that they are indirectly shaking | all, few throwers could get the ball the mitt of the emperor himself—an to a base ahead of him. Aug. 22.—Bert knocked out Torney, altho not)colima, middlewoig the first round of a newsboys* benefit smoker last night who made a big himself aw an athlete at of Southe a the t Califor. raity of eat back: Looks like new car; cord rms very easy. 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