The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1923, Page 17

ae WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1928, Stove League Chatterings: Coveleskie’s Record, Averages Mean Little. Power of Dame Fate. BY BILLY EVANS TANLEY COVELESKIE, star pitcher of the Cleveland Indians, had a poor season in 1923, Had Coveleskie turned in his usual num ber of victories, the Indians would have finished a good gecond, and, in- eidentally, would have made it far more intévesting for the New York Yankees. 'Tho pitching ace of the Indians failed to reach the .500 mark, winning only 13 and losing 14 games, It was by far Coveles- kie's poorest year of his major league career, Despite his inability to win with consistent regularity, the American league pitching records reveal the fact that Coveleskic was the most effect. | 1923 season. ive twirler In tho organization from the angle of f corned runs, NOVELESKIE was the oi pitcher in the American leagu to hold the opposition to less than three runs per game. Usually it & pitcher ts effective enough to al: | low only three runs to be made off | jy his delivery, he is almost certain to be returned the victor, Yet Coveleskie, with such a record, fail: | ed to break even last season, and | his work 1s classed as decidedly dis. | appointing in the matter of games | won and lost. As pennants are enp- | tured by winning games, that stands as the final decision, on, psa | Ing of the lot On every ball club there Is | Mile. one pitcher who is regarded as the jinx twirler of the team. | When that pitcher works the batting is invariably light and when some player makes an or ror it usually costs the game. | WELESKIE has for years occu: | pied such an unenviable position on the Cleveland club. When Jim} Bagby was sharing pitching honors | Fi any better. Mrs EW YORK, Dee, the British championship: three American stars—Billy | and Vinnie Richards. Johnston and Hunter engaged in the final round and Johnston won the title that was held in 1922 by Gerald Pat- the former captain of the Australian Davis cup team, who did not defend his title. | Reviewing tnternational tennis for 1923 ls confined almost to a recitation | | of American triumphs and the following observations are the moat interest BY HENRY L. FARRELL with Coveleskie, Dame @ortune al-| Helen Wills Was Sénkation ways seemed to smile on Jim and! frown on “Covey.” When Jim piteh of he home soanc e vic ed, and tho opposition made six : 2 runs, Cleveland would make seven |‘°Fy of Helen Wills | ee cr more. The following day it |‘YO™n's champlonship. It really was Coveleskie allowed only two runs, the Indians would be In a batting slump, and elther be shut out or) score only one tally. | tle Hi Mallory, | The form shown by |young California girl enthused he } friends to the point where they aré) a to accept The old hoodoo has pursued Coveleskie relentlessly thruout his entire major league career. In a great majority of his games he has been forced to travel at top speed every in- ning to have a chanee. Seldom would his club make enough runs to give him an easy work- ing margin. N & winnl |{€ proof was ne get the | f WINNING pitcher mu | worta breaks regardiess of his effect- fveness. Last season Luque of the Cincinnat! club was the pitching | in the an event of national interest as won the title from Mrs, who had held it for championship, Bill Johnston a bad beating {n the eet round and he prov There were so m: 4 national that the victor migh “Lit nine the brilliant —Increasing power of the United States as a tennis nation and the advance of the American game to a position where it seems that this coun- try will be impregnable against foreign assault were by far | the outstanding features of tennis competition during the} With the exception of Mile, Suzanne Lenglen, whose reign | as the recognized world's champion player is even now | threatened, no foreign player was able to do a thing against) | American competitors. The classic tournament at Wimbledon, once recognized as} being for the world’s championship and now regarded only was completely overshadowed | Johnston, Francis T. Hunter Lenglon is sttil the world's greatest woman player, but sho hasn't| } long to reign, if Helon Wills, the California star, continues to Improve. Bill Tilden ts the greatest singles player of all times: ancls 'T. Hunter is the most promising of the young American players Vinnie Richards has reached the peak of his form and never will be} Billy Johnston has seen his best days and js on the decline Molla Mallary has collapsed completely and is thru. Decline of Johnston and the fallure of Richards to improve Present game makes the United States in anything but a secure position | to defend the Davis Cup successtuly for many years RHAPS tho outstanding events) for the world’s championship | With youth, t game over bis ndid physiay brillian is no reason to be- | t Mise Willa should not be | ie in | good enough In three years to win | the | w time rT as ® candidate the national me Bill Tilden gave ed to critics, that he ts by cexsary, r the greatest singles player in the foreign play: champlonships . nsation of the National league. In| j,imsei¢ the champion of the world, 1922 Luque had a very poor year jo the American o' 1s would of it. Yet no jes ae authority | ot support. such.« claim. than Manager Pat Moran of th Francis Hunter‘s fine form in the Reds insists that Luque pitched Just ¢hamptonship and in ag well in 1922 as he did oer Lsronk later s marked him as perhap: son. The difference in Fames wie | the most improved young player of beh due o vest hairs the tate |th® year and one from whom much pitching. hat has been the fate! can be expected in the future. nove! 0 ajor y Bt" Coveteaiie eta Be i seldom |. America needs young players to se a a ae eedora | build up a defending Davia Cup team Soe Bas wey. | Parnes van }for 1926 and 1927, and Hunter looks have simply been forced on him. 0 Coveleskie’s 1923 record is Vinnie unique in the annals of base- ball. While he topped the Amer- ican league pitchers in point of effectiveness, he was well down the list in the matter of games A MEAN 0° Some ball players are so grasping | team mand to know where the rest of the | however fence is. CEDAR CHESTS Regular prices $14.50 to $34.50; all best constructed; genuine Tennessee made of red cedar. A Big Saving When You Need It Most—} *,., 20% Off All Lamp | peal Bases and Silk Shades and Lamps Complete Buy upstairs. Make your. self a gift of the difference. 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Tilden Proves His Class the imprenst he imp to stay than that, s title from Mile Perhaps she will fi but haps on the theory the t st nome petition n the Dav get there and she might dev a player of the Tilden type In her that he ts uucceed In she ts sure lop In engien, lous to to in tennis where he is now, per that he will be day when the r than he have died out of com ston showed such national champion rs poor | hips | when McDONNELL TO he was defeated by Jim Anderson, | the Australian captain ma critios expresned the op that he jis thru, iy sad to consider, but it looks to Mra. Mallory champion, had re on and Ballard is the true influenz rt time bef! loss of the champlon , was due to nothing but the due pe a wh t her best game |American Team Defends Cup IDERING 1 4 ra the Bri well n ba f the gw on th n or Burn. hole the former American @ disastrous season in tact | could not stand singles at | the up against the nce of th shown by Miss . the the United State One of the big features of the ye was the first competition for Wightman Cup, offered for matches c n American and n wom ught that the superior h women at ed ———————= | _ Foreign teams are 10 im-| would make {t @ cinch for the Brit provement sufficien alarm |ish team, but instead the Amerigin |in this country, but at the same time| stars completely overwhelmed the American stars may slump 1n the | foreigners. (@) | wilt possible for a mediocre but! form shown in the 1 te ment well balanced team of challengers to| that the class of the woman's game ON ALL be able to take the cup away from| in the United States ts sinproving Prep Coaches Work for Perfection of Teamplay with V ng forward: is working his men om. the ne are the H the guar definit The Shi | we THE oe ARES Greatest K. O. Fighter Thru GEORGE CHANEY IS AT “THE END OF HIS STRING NE of tho greatest little punchers of all time, George “K, 0.” Chaney, of Baltimore, haa finally reached the end of his otring, The other night Chaney went against Ted Merchant, visiting English ghtweight, and was badly beaten. To save himself from a Knockout Chaney struck the Britisher low in tho third yound and was declared loser on a foul, Av the time Chaney was in a bad way, and had the progrensed, wowld probably been put to sleep. Chaney, a southp , Cirat at tracted attention as a feather. weight, piling up an am: of knockouts, He was matched with Johnny Kilbane, then cham- pion, and knocked out In three rounds. Chaney later came back as a lightwelgttt and proceeded to run up another astonishing string of knockouts, In later years Chaney scored most of hia kn with right hand. ntlally a left-handed fighter, Chaney found that most of his adversarion paid little attention to his right but were always set to block his left, It was then that he changed to slugging with his right and became more effec. tive than Chaney has been going back- ward’pt late and his inability to stand up in front of Merchant's attack indicaten that ho is about ready to pass into ¢ dows along with Willie Jackson, Char. ley White, Rocky Kansan and other atar lightwelghts who have slipped into xem!-obscurity THETA DELTS WALLOPED BY | VARSITY FIVE: Itho he was The Theta Delta Ch! fraternity basketball team want down to before the University of Wa: tee t nis five In @ pri lege gym las count The Theta Delta, who won the col lego the var by a 41 to 19 am title, equaled ral . but h | for varsity ing star of the un the out BOX BUDNICK | Jack MeDe to make good tn Kf John th t Morgan: hin first the clty ama s from Budnick Rott at the Crystal Pool Tuesday night GONZAGA HAS GRID PROBLEM |: Altho admitted Into the Northwest possib| wIdaho game DETROIT GETS OPEN TOURNEY ‘The 1924 natio’ rolt ety plonship will be h Hills club, Detrolt, announcement of chairman of the cham mittee of the United States sociation ere's a may m. |LAMSON WILL FIGHT FOLEY | Li Lhi ioorge nd hea FORBES TRIES RING COMEBACK MALLEY BEATS YOUNG WEBB GENARO WINS OVER CLIFFORD DETROIT I STRIBLING IS BOUT WINNER JOE BENJAMIN LOSES SCRAP SEAR EW YORK, Dec. 19.—Restor-)up and they tried to hedge. ‘Tho| If this Northwest duo hit their PORTLANDERS ation of the old system of hay-| result Was a surprising change in| stride both of their names will loom | ne decisions given by the| the odds and Dundee became the! up at, or close to, the top when|/[\HE West Seattle Athletic club jreferee may come w York as| favorite, The system of having the|the grand totals of that California | will play the Woodstock Athletic }@ result of the we tect don whic | decision given by the referee and|open championship are marked up| club eleven of Portland in the final gave Johnr De the junior|/two judges has n been suc -jon the scoreboard, and St |will be | game of the local grid season Satur- | Hight wet ¢ r Jack Bern- Be in New York because there the biggest boost that Northwest |day afternoon on Denny field. not enough competent offickals, Un-| golf ever received because) Arthur| The Woodstock Athletic club is t do any-| til recently the vote of the offi-/Havers, the British open cham-| substituting for the Astoria Amer- placed in a| t made public and the| pion; Jim Ockenden, the) French | {ican Legion team, which was to have an't pay refer: e but it ha missioners |in wrong The bad decision the opiate | ot most of the fight f was the |result of an error in judgment on |the part of the (Wo judges rather th a to swing ln the de Sole ae preg iat soap meas 0 to California, One is Johnny Farr, ard their. possess working | MOTOR DOWN the Oaklander, and the other {s ; with itanna natant 4 : Espinosa, accompanied by his wife, | Stewart McLean, the St. Paul boy, nds and when Seeking some re the com-| Will motor down and expects to|wno is making quite a hit in Los | was learned that he had made that|missiqn has asked the public leave here next Wednesday. Before | angeles. |weigh for the bettors! suggest improvements in the rules|Téturning to the Jake shore club,| \forgan will spend several days AnOOR. and it is likely that ere will be| the Il do @ lot of visiting in Cal-| with his mother at Chehalis after his @ tremendous per-jan overwhelming 4 to get) fornia, which ts thelr home state. |right with Georgie Sollis in Tacoma and most it Im) back to the old fashioned way of| The Aberdeen pair—yes, Mortie ts | December song the Italian labor given by the/| married and bis wt is going along didn't have a chance |—started on thelt fourney yesterday, GETTING TECHNICAL to ney until shortly be 1 system worked well be-|The Dutras, lise the Espinosas, The backbone of John Barleycorn Give fight. When piles of cane of doubt thejalso planning am doing a bit of vis-|is broken, announces a triumphant me ofter 4 on Dundes, the 1 would have trouble | iting among thetr home folks. dry crusader... . But the hip, ap- t something was! in no responsibil mez, ither family, however, has any | parently till unscathed. | onging to live in the Sunny (7) BIG LEAGUERS PERFORM AT | sour They like the Northwest, | arance ns s n, Ina Jer s had the habit of | On him mereilos inally he crawled thru the net nd when the him the any- ‘om- at the system He is a aate| UNITED STATES SHOWED GREAT TENNIS POWER THIS YEAR AL ESPINOSA WILL COMPETE IN CALIFORNIA OPEN EVENTS Bill Tilden Proved His Claim to World’s Title United States, However, With Bi With Bill Johnston Slipping, Must Look to Its Davis Cup Laurels During Next Few Seasons GE JORG EB “K. 0.” CHANE oY Bad DecisionMay Change Award System in N.Y. they were 1 ake. | ble Cruicksh One-half of the receipts of Satur- Until the tein fight| Wile Hunter, Joo | day's game will go to give Christmas most of t queer dec were | Kirkwood and a host of others, |cheer to the needy, it is announced. ainor fights at the small-| whose names are known to every a ubs and no great furore was) golf devotee, are going to take a éatined by jut when cham-|erack at this Inks battle TWO READY TO I od in peril the) pret y field to be gathered ‘ foey) retty MEET MORGAN 1 champion of the re BASKETBALL DURING WINTER 3ANY, N. Y., Dec. 19-—Another | threw it to them, saying, “Chew o gue baneball player is per-| that for a while.” It put an end to the New Yor Bas. | ; is the fourth major leagu tour teant Inte last seas | forward for Cohoes, Another play the old the ot Grima \d center. Grimstea under his old manager, at Mohawk N. ¥., Germans, is pla: Frank Some years a then the WHITMAN WILL [MUNSON WANTS ttle fight ¢ is bl forth ight nD Hand: Ted will ummateu tin Phale all in Colun « Fri it 8 « c t 1 ag of Au § Cy HASKELL REDS Vs. OLYMPICS |, fam will play STAGE SMOKER REFEREE WORK Dick M n, former >adway high ‘ahool and Univeral of Washington basketball star, is in ¢ : ’ coats sass | Gifts He Will Appreciate ted ‘official and Overcoats Collars Watch Chains Two-Pants Suits Arm Bands Stick Pins BANTIES HEAD Bath Robes Handkerchiefs. Silk Shirts PORTLAND CARD Mascott and Da headlining the smo’ rtland th a 10-roun ay night with Mike I t Francisco Olympic elub fn M down to Shoes Knit Ties Night Shirts Fr Christr é \ Caps Bow Ties Suspenders Slippers Garters Umbrellas ° e e Oxfords Belts Canes California Champions | Safety Razors Cuff Links Jewelry xt in line ¢ all made on fic lone aggre ullied g three Mich were mad mitted but Kan line via field goa Bo' wa tw by or , once Cre Incid Boston College And the Marque Marquette was Kanse The yation to go thru the campaign with an un- was an ranked third, allowing 1 13 points for enemy Tt $ over rth. tt n {| Best Defensive Eleven University of California, according to the records, had the best defensive eleve the country, among the major chool ut seven points were scored on the Bears in 23. Southern California was the team to turn the University with nine points, Jayhawkers stood out as the undefeated but ran into oints. Six of these 1922 the Wolverines per. ams, thus making only a two: stretch The Beaneater: , and the other the one-t In . ear were scored time Holy team to trip margin by only va oint safe from | open titleholde nows that sev-| impor. » to work in Nev orm in ithe| te jusketball league ~ 7 His teammate’ on the BIG POSITION Sav Cente Harry Riconda, is playing| Christy Matthewson, former Gi- Julia Curtis 1 Schenectady; Bucky Harris} ant star, now owner of, the Bos econd baseman for Washington, is| ton Braves 1s the only former ball Yet Deeley 8 eee holding down a guard position on| Player to be a member jof the di- Pantagescope the Glens Falls team, and Benny|Fectorate board of thq National|| “aarp HANNEFORD FAMILY Borgmann, who was taken by the | league. Red Sox from a Philadelphia ama-} , Is playing | er who saw service in e league has returned to He fs none other than who Is still rated PAGE 17 State Golf King Will Vie With Links Kings Wonderful Field Will Battle for Open Title in Prune State; Mortie Dutru, Aberdeen Professional, Also Will Go South BY ALEX C, ROSE rie eet is going to add a lot of spice to that very choice dish—the California open golf championship— that is to be set up in Los Angeles next month for the fans to feast their eyes on, Al Espinosa, the Inglewood Country club professional and holder of the state open title, is the young man who is going to sprinkle the spice in that all-star mixture that | will tee-off in the South, and there are none more capable of doing the job hereabouts. Not only is this broad- shouldered lad the best maker of golf shots in Seattle, but keen critics believe that he is also the finest golfer that ever located in the Pacific } Northwest. The announcement that the Ingle-| wood star would compete in the California event was made yester- | Charley White day, following a meeting of the| club directors at which he was Isn’t Thru Yet granted permission to make the trip | South, PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19.— |] Charlie White, Chicago lght- Another sterling young player|| “ 1 from the Northwest will also be|| Welsht, won trom Bobby Barrett among» those present when play|| 0 the sixth round when the starts in the big meet in the|| Philadelphia boxer was forced to Sunny South. || quit because of an injured spine. Dates the: tad! ¢, || 1a the semi-final Johnny Rose, Mortie Dutra ts the lads name, |) Canadian bantamwelght, received and he is the professional at the the judges’ decision over Martin Junge in 10 rounds. WEST SIDERS WILL BATTLE Grays Harbor Country club in, Aber- | deen. ‘This tall, swarthy youngster is a much better golfer than his |showing at the Pacific Northwest meet at the Seattle Golf club last July recorded. At that he just missed getting in the money by ‘one stroke, me Sarazgen, Bob- | met the local eleven. t her on these Pacific slopes, and it looks as tho it was going to be} a warm fight for the title. [ESPINOSA TO Two opponents are available for ht champion decides to go back and you can bet your last flime that | golfera in this section will be pulling | for Al and Mortle to arjnex that on| California open golf charhpionship, in Los Angeles, next month. |\MATTY HOLDS Mats Dally 2:30, Eve 7-9. ALLA AXIOM ‘The Psychic Sens: He of Two y J Sweaters Sports Coats Suit Cases Hand Bags Shaving Sets Poker Sets Gloves Ik Ties Dress Shirts Wool Shirts Underwear Pajamas e Hats eo RR rete one sie: Check items you are interested in and make your selections early, Store open Saturday and Monday evenings before Christmas, ap Between Pike and Union Streets _ MEN'S COATS