The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 14, 1924, Page 10

Stove League Chatterings:| BY BILLY EVANS MMY DELAHANTY, former bls league star, who Is to umpire in the American association the com. Ing season, was always very popu Jar as a player, Jim may find it diffioult to retain that popularity, with the athletes now that ho is a Judge of play instead of one of them, During his career in the Amer. -fean league dim was mach in favor with the arbitrators, They liked his rough but always hon- est style, ELAHANTY was in his element when he could start a friendly Argument. He had a way of work: ing up & discussion and then drop: | ping entirely out of it when the going became heated. Often Jim Would mildly protest some decision, Just to see if he couldn't come out ‘on top in the battle of wits with the umpire, In particular, Jim Tiked to pick on the late ‘Tim Hurst, despite the fact that the two were the very best of friends. I never will forget an episode that took place in the old Amer- jean league park In New York, with Hurst and Delahanty as the central figures, eee ‘ACK CHESBRO, tho great spit. ball pitcher, then in his prime, was pitching for New York, Jack Kleilnow was the catcher. Dvela- hanty, with Washington at the time, jwas the batter. Chesebro had a ‘¥ery deceptive spltball that broke sharply in the last few feet it trav If an-umpire called {t too “quickly he was always in trouble. ‘With the count two balls and two strikes, Chesebro threw a spitter that Hurst ruled a ball. A couple of runners were on at the time and Chesebro and Kleinow raved at Hurst for not calling Delahanty Out on strikes, which would have Tetired the side. Jim was alway: @ dangerous hitter, hich!y respects: by the American league pitchers. In an effort to appease Chesebro nd Kleinow, Hurst got himself into trouble, “I say the ball was too low,” | said Hurst. “So sure am I that I | ain right I will leave it to Dela- hanty. What about it, Jim?” eee & matter-of-fact ‘way, convey: ing the impression that he was » bored at being drawn into the argu- ment, Deiahanty replied: “Why, You little bitnd bum, it was right thra the heart of the plate, ‘str inches above my knee." Delnhanty simply so replied to make Hurst Yave and he eucceeded. “Right thru the heart of the plate. Well what d@o you think of that? Get ready, Mr. Delahanty, and take a swing at the next one, it’s a strike no matter ‘where it Is." Chesebro and Klelnow, Knowing that Hurst never backed down, took a chance and threw a bign fast ball that was a foot over | Delahanty’s head. Delahanty started for first, believing he had been passed, only to hear the raucous “strike three” from Hurst. Then it was Delahanty’s turn to rave—and he did. see ABE RUTH was voted the most} valuable ball player in the American league last year. He was the unanimous choice of the baseball experts delegated to make the selec thn. 0. As Ruth goes, so go the Yan- | kees, has long been an American league slogan In sizing up the New York Americans. It worked out very well in 1923. cee UTH, prior to 1923, was the pre- miler slugger of the majoirs. In other departments of play he did not shine to such an extent. Then came “the big chance. Perfect physical con dition, plus a desire to come back after an ordinary year in 1922, made Ruth over entirely. Instead of being nerely a slugger, he blossomed out intoya great ball player in all depart. | ments. sae Very often a certain jealousy prevails among the stars in any profession. It is typical of the stage, and baseball is no excep tion. sae IRIS SPEAKER, famous manager | of the Cleveland Indians, is not that type of a star, Speaker's great success 28 a manager has largel: been due to his method of handi players. They all look He expects every man to do his best and no favors are shown of his team. alike to him: the star eae Run out the ball Is one of his pet theories. He lives up to it, for regardless of whether his ef. fort is a weak tap to the pitcher or a drive off the fences he al ways travels {at top speed. “- “67 AST ease remarked 8p home-run king. “ marvel in the mech uth was one of the ers of all time, pects of the game but his play waa mentally flaw 4. Not once during the e re season. did he make the slightes error in playing for our batters in the outfield. He beat us at least a half dozen games by superb play in the field, which was largely made esible by his proper shifting on the of the Cle eee Some compliment coming from so great an outfielder as Tris Speaker, who is a past master in playing opposing batters. PHILLIES HOLD UP MAY TRADE The Philadelphia Nationals are holding up the Jakfe May deal be tween Cincinnatt and Vernon, re fusing to waive on Walter Kimmict shortstop, who was to be sent te the Const league club as part pay ment The Reds, however, are confident that the deal will be fixed up all right, ! | but THE SEATTLE STAR Point Makers Lincoln Is’ | in Basketball Dark Horse of Cagers North End Te Team Makes Unexpected Stand Against Roosevelt Five TNOOLN fs tho dark horse of the high school barxetball race, The thrilling battle the North End team put up against the powerful Roose- velt’ five won't be forgotten in a} hurry by those who gaw tt. And with | the smoothness that will come by | actual play the Rallsplitters: may bo | even more dangerous, They lost to| | | Roosevelt 22 to £0, thelr great fight putting them within ap ace of trim: ming the favorites, Lincoln faced a big test Friday at | Ballard as the Beavers showed a| world of power in beating Franklin | in the opener last week, | Queen Anno plays at Broadway and the Quays, while favored, have always had a hand time with Broad: | way on the Pine at. flor, West Seattle, another dark horse | entry, plays Garfield at Garfield, and} Roosevelt tangles with Franklin at] Roosevelt in the other games at the! end of the week. | FRUSH WILL RETURN TO U. S. SOON, ONDON, Jan. 14—Danny Frush, | who has been in the throes of a new winning streak here, plans to return to America before spring and| Out of bounde—34,261° resume his quest for the feather} No. 4251—Center tips ball to weight championship. jright guard at B, who passes to Frush still insists he was {ll the|Jeft guard at C, who passes to day he fought Johnny Dundee and) center at D, who passes to left for- was knocked. out. ‘The Britisher| Ward at E, who shoots thinks he would have knocked out| Ne b1—Right guard passes to Johnny Kilbane if the Clevelander |T#ht forward A, who returns pass hadn't deliberately fouled him. }to right guard at B, and the play Frush's knockout at the hands of | Continue sa on the Upoft. Dundee was one of the surprises of | NO 34281%-Right guard passes from out of bounds to right for the ring. for Dundee 1s & notoriously | ard A, who return to right weak hitter and Frush in notably, “ard, 4. who returns pass to righ guard at B, and play continues as rugged. Had there been any betting | Poe, would CODE BALL PLAY ot variation. ++++tereretnettenth RAY od PLAYER. recewing bill-=<———-== PLAY NO. 9 From the tipett i Out of bounds»—3426: at all on the fight the outcom have been viewed with suspl Hittle attention a no betting was dono. Frush hasn‘t changed much in hia fighting style since he was Ia the States; he still » very erec and carries his guard low, A good|T O8 A straight hitter has no trou Califor ing his jaw, and his jaw toughest In the world at that } Frush has been winning regularly here, but it Is no great feat to win | at regularly in the lish feather. weight division as it now s Frush hopes to get a bout with dee as soon as he lands in America. practic ally a oF as drawn more f any other Coast opened her les Country club 0 teo off n the last year were g of the first day ers table entrants Spalding’s guide book of champions, Some of the looks ra) ELEVEN IS om. LOSER, Lt janes HIE Maple Leaf and Carbonado fea sig fe eics soccer elevens won the games in kena ites orthwest league played yeater.| AT : The Maple Leafs hung up a 4/" °F Pacific over Renton, wh 3 Willie I bonado administered a sound 7 to 1 cdl jan op Hui thrash to the West Seatt 1 + In third game played the powerful T: team to a 1 to 1 score by the dockers. | BODE BERCOT BREAKS HAND WILLS HASN’T REFUSED OFFER ‘ NEW YORK, Jan, 14.—Offers Dode Bercot will be out of the ring| made by Tex kard to Harry for a month or more laid up with a| Wills for bouts with Louls Firpo fractured hand, injured in his bout/and Jack Dempsey, sald to total with Johnny Jordan in Tacoma ist! $200,000, have not been rejected week. He broke the thumb on his|and “probably wil! be accepted,” left mitt. He had been matched with | Paddy Mullins, manager of Wills, Young Dudley for the ¢ 1 Pool | said today for a week from Tuesday, but the a match had to be called off. GOOZEMAN TO It is believed the lost tribe of BOX TONIGHT Israel has been found and ff th®) CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—Ernle Gooze. la so there's no Ww many Ly and Geor, new middl have to 10 rounds watch this yea as here tonight Jerome Is Dead After Hard Bout “Bronx Spider” Passes Away Sunday Night, After Bud Taylor Fight BY HENRY L. FARRELL N= YORK, Jan. 14.—While the | body of Frankie Jerome, young | bantamweight boxer, was being re: | moved today to the home of hin| widow mother, the youngster who | may bo ‘held reaponsible for ‘his | h wan sleeping peacefully xt his | apartment, | Bud ‘Taylor, a blonde, youngster from Terre Haute, Ind, with his bride, has been living in the clouds sinco last Friday night, |with the feeling that he had do |livered in New York and a fortune was thetra, | -UP untit a late hour this morn: | jing he did not know that tragedy | went along in step with him when he arose to the top of his clasd in the big money of New Yprk skinny | "I don't know how I'l tell him. |Ho doean't know it yet," Eddie | Long, his manager, said. ‘His voice | Was heavy and it wan apparent that hin heart wan alno, | Tant Friday night tn Madison | | Saunare Gardens young Taylor got | [hin “tient shot at the Dig money | when he went inte thé ring with 24-| year-old . Frank erty, who had | made good in the fing wnder the name of rankle Jeroms. | Three pounds heavier and more | experienced by far, Jérome was the | favorite, but he was beaten down | and he collapsed in the 12th round | when the contest had only a little more than a minute to go. His seconds could not revive him, and he was rushed to Bellevue ty pital. It was thought at first was merely axhausted an t _Tex Ric but an “operation ~ yesterday and he did a | There was a general ten official circles toddy to absolve jor of responsibility, Tex We Mind grieved because it wa) the tality that had happened tn a bout | under hid direction, sald that Taylor 9 | i} kard “.| Pacific Coast Player Limit May Be Trimmed of the important things that will be brought up}, gtr when the Coast league moguls meet at Oakland |was not to blame, and that war Just an unfortunate incident t Police are waiting today tor a cor-|Will be the p r limit for 1924. oner’s investigation before they take It is thought that the limit any actions be 20 men, eliminating the; EE TD | five rookies that were carried ‘ LEAVENWORTH a veur aso. FIVE WINNER |, f="! Jan. 14.-—— The Al-Stars hung wer the Hall's ree five here ur the Const clubs lost 1923 and will have men make ¥ hool of Comn enough squad for the P. day night. Nicholson, of Halt i ack pica pe res the high point man of the game, |{U""s the regular grin ie coun 13 points - MAILS WILL STAY i ON COAST LANDIS TURNS Word from. ¢ DOWN McINNIS s,s Commissioner Landi« bi Gakinng 8 refuned a demand of Stuffy against the Boston Red Sox for $10,000 & salary. vd ding our pitching says Del How - UMPIRES. “ARE 5 contented to stay | BiGhED UP) & mr K. former Wester® | BURGER COUNTED ed bY/AS SEAL REGUL AR Frar > anting MINNIS IS FAMOUS a round of ¢ x Country ¢ the I route. oe him ae c r pitchers for tho season. = "PRIMA DONNA; BOSTON SCRIBES STAR newapapermen’s golf axsociation in|rnoONY KAUFMAN of the Chice ne bers more than 100 players, many of fn thq National league has whom fre capable of qualifying in|) ¢ r future the major championship. | . peramental, The ball players aro getting ready | ¢ efficient. Whe : to go South to boil out t umpire han missed ¢ will be A however, before the ¢ of his teammat fans really get steamed up a pinch, it doesn’t im. | w (OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY ARERN) Zi (as “SZ HAW, BY Jove, BUSTER M'LAD, ~ THAT 15 MERELY A PUPPY x HEY MATOR, LooK WERE WHAT YouUR A Scroor DID Oo MY a HOUSE SLIPPER J- PRANK v= 1 AM SURE a Took IT FoR ACHocoLATE| 7 | “MOGUL MEANT No HARM= EctaiR an’ cHEwep I BELIEVE, IF You FOUR SIZES Our oF IT! UNDERSTOOD “He IDIOSWICRASIES ae WIGH BLOODED CANINE! AS WELL AS L, You WOULD OVERLOOK THIS NGTANCE TLL LEAVE ITO You NOW," SEE THAT [ Ger b ANEW 4, You ‘kulow! Mn thee hh) s cierto MUCK ABOUT DOGS, AS A ‘MUD TURTLE DOES SY CLAY! OF YOURS r Killefi ALGo G Hio7eeTH hi A WALTZ ON OK i oars | WY New nt T Movi mer WE ves JE ‘o win "MOGUL" T i site a Ar Umpire He Tony proc and the hur va bawl the umpire {red was no more HANDED AIR}* uffer toda on cribes will on ors, and that gue officials d om fit issued for publfcation. /ANZACS FILE pa FOR CUP PLAY | of 1924, Th America mathe up to NEHF ALMOST THREE Despite his great k in the 1d series, Mat MeGr EDISON WINS | om, whi ‘SCRIBES ARE ‘near t Oakland | some f has an-| the OLD-TIMER IN HICAGO, Jan. 14.—Harry Gil! mplon of Canada 40 year gave an exhibition bout here to to his champion battle Jack McAuliffe, 5 ago. Gilmore will be’ 70 old Maret A week ngo ft wag too warm fo oe 2 Jumper Ne wo fead it | cold for then ski t only in the rotogravure se narkablo thing about tt as. ot ( , that none th 1 w ir 1 th Cupld Bags Big Le for the regular season will Diamond Dust Jor Witholt, veteran Salt Lake ont- tng about retirement. He ® business ventu te think Klwert Wirt, young catcher, has been to the Beaumont (Texas) ie b by the Chicago Cubs as part pay ent for players nent up by the Texans. Jae Angeles will train at Long Beach, |desperate situations. there | foes, thelr permanent |open in | fashion. Angels with t to make it p. Al Devormer, former Vernon eatcher, expected to set the Mobile club fo Devormer was Minneapolis Is dickering for Heb Tus- tfelder back to the atood, however, that ty team RING CARD COMPLETED Bobby Johnny head Nate Druxman has mpleted his fh program fot wesduy night at the Crystal Pool, rest of the card follows Roy Small, Morrow vs. light- hts. Jack McDonnell ys. Bil Madsen, bit vs, Stan Willis, | art vs. Sewell Dean, rambi are battling the Northwost m to th pound division Nght ambitas clear ¢ honors ANOTHER TILT EDISON, Jan, 14.—ti gue game of the nm basketball eam ¢ n and he ason the Edi ated the fast to 15. Sulll arred for Ed. and Pearson Anacortes, Both nyed fast ball ‘ond ed best for Ams y | defeated the ond team, 23 manager, H game with} acoma team A game with} ‘osh would be welcome | Edison, thru its February 22 or U. of V Januar r February 2 RING EXHIBIT | usually gifted manner Tex will real | ize |the game in New York longer just a promoter; he is some- | don. | notiace championship fights but the | public | wether in a }ard. |flung Nevada | Dempsey: | public ———— | su) | | ——— | that Rickard must go. The first shot | { {state legininture has urged ling outright, tol FOR POOL’ ° WwW out ae lining the card, POLITICIANS ARE SEEKING TEX RICKARD’S SCALP NOW Famous Ring Promoter Is Object | of Big Attack Rickard Doesn’t Fall in Line With Politicians; He Become Institution in New York; Has Near- Monopoly on Championship Fights in Manhattan » BY JOE WILLIAMS dente RICKARD thought he had seen everything. Tex has lived life as is privileged few of the mortals, Jack London would have found him a made-to-order charac- ter for one of his Western thrillers. A cow puncher in Texas, a gold miner in Klondike, a faro gambler in Goldfield, a soldier of fortune in South America, land, finally, a sports promoter at once powerful and pic+ turesque, Rickard has had an eventful, stirring career, But he errs when he thinks he has seen everything. He | hasn't seen the intricate inher mechanism of New York | politics. The boys are just = | lahat ready to show him. And if they go about It in their Collegiate | Hoop Race O pens Here ITH Whitman furnishing the op- position the Washington baskets Inotity. | Dall team wil! make its first confers ‘an-| ence bow of the season here tonight. Whitman hasn't a very strong five, remains unresponsive. | Let | according to its early season games, Rickard bring two burly brutes to-; but it will bring out the real strength title battle and the|in the Washington aggregation. turnstiles erack under the strain. Dick Welts will probably start at ‘The public has confidence in Rick-| forward in place of Bruce Hesketh, His record shows few busts.|for Washington, the latter being out All of his fights, from the first|with an injured leg. Otherwise the Gans-Nelson struggle on the far-|/"W" regulars will start. STRENGTHEN MET SQUAD ‘That's why the ITH Big Jim Riley back on the forward line Wednesday night the Seattle Mets wiil present a much stronger scoring front. This will give the Mets Walker, Foyston and that cleaning out a Nevada saloon with whining bullets was a mere incident in his life, “TOO BIC FOR THE GAME Rickard has grown too big for He in no things that Other approaches an promoters may on the square. a straight shooter, is for him, Realizing the security of his pont- tion, Rickard, it i» maid, has not red the politicians in the ex- travagdnt manner to which they are accustomed. Very little graft has rolled out of the Madison Square | treasury into “the gnarled. fists of the ward heelers. Even in the mat ter of complimentaries a strict and|Harris, all experienced men, for for- laudable economy has been prac-} ward duty. tced. Riley has reported, and is said ta 70. RUN be in condition ready for play. __. TEX OUT Calgary 1s opening its second }( of the Coast in Vancouver tonigth” | The Tigers trounced the Mets in in the campaign of/effacement has | wild game on thelr other spaiiek been fired. A gifted ormtor in {hel here, making six goals in one period. that pe | Archie Briden, who has been per- forming in the livery of the Mets, Wherefore the boys have decided | maximum | admission price il: prevail at ll Tature champion: |). been released by Manager Pete nip fights, If this goes thru Rick-| sttiacon to the Victoria, Corgare ard's spectacular career will auto-|” With the coming of Ji ger ni natically end. And if {t doesn't ral me, Rs Muldoon deemed it as unnecessary to keep Briden in the fold. PROMINENT RING MEN TAKEN ILL Joo Waterman, Tacoma promoter, and “Doc” Hanley of the Seattic box- |ing commission, have been confined Politicians, we are told, look with|to their beds with severe colds, the disfavor upon this vulgar, primitive | former being in Tacoma, while Han- practice, and if the public's favorite|ley is at the Providence hospital. romoter gets anything better than|Hanley’s case developed into pneu- go thru the boys jntend to introduce another bill designed to kill box- Rickard in his younger days—he’s 53 now—fought himself out of many Most of his fought out in the upstanding, man-to-man however, raw deal in hig present difficulty | monta and he has been seriously iil. it will be because someone made a LOST MSI SANTANA, “aVELSES eat ADE: BILLY GIBSON * PREP CARNIVAL GREAT SUCCESS) manager of Benny Leonard 3S, Jan. 14—The carni-| Gene Turney, left for Grand Rap. ‘Anacortes high school |!ds today after visiting Chicago fight night netted more than | Promoters. @ school’s athletic as: gnes Vanderhoof, | pretty fr stiches,” was the winner of the popularity contest and was queen of the carnival. 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