The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1924, Page 12

PAGE 12 “CLIFF BRADY SHOWS UP AS CLASSY BASEBALL PER “Athletics Strengthened by Three New * ” THE ~ HARPER AND ROBERTS IN TITLE BOUT Repect ea «| to Aid Mack | This Season! Strand, Simmons and| Bishop All Hit Over) .300 in Minor Leagues BY JOE WILLIAM: ERY, March Place in the year mely and to-wit Paul Strand, who hit .394 for Lake. Al Simm Shrevepo: Same Simmons who hit Milwaukee. ~ Max Bi timore. Mack ig a curiosity among Tessue managers tn the Sout! = spring, in that he is not concent dag on the development of pitchers. ® It is batters that he needs, Last Year the Athletics had a team-hitting BYerage of and ranked seventh. | Joe Hauser, first baseman, was the Ronly regular to bat .300 or better. | Mauser made the grade by a seven-point margin. NEED GOOD BATSMEN In these days when the heavens fairly rain base hits. team that} Cannot flash a st five or six .300 hitters is leckled disadvantage. The Cleveland team, for example, Pean put nine .300 hitters, all regu- Jars, on the field at one time. Mack, | Meith his lone .300 hitter last year, Must have felt as lon #tatesman not prominent! SSS izea by the Teapot Dome ge ptrand, Bishop and Simmons will @li start the season as regulars. 3 Strand will go to center field; he is i big, strapping fellow and a right-| Go hand hitter. Ten years ago he w D @ left-handed pitcher with the Bos- =) ton Braves. He sat on the bench| 498 hop, who hit .333 for Bal-| big this ‘Athletic team of that year go tumb- | Hing to the turf. A prankish destiny mew sends him back to help restore eee the Mackian cause to its aa grandeur. Strand is a peculiar picture at th }) fat. Recalling how Heilmann, Ruth ‘end other physical giants swung, you {o see this 30-year-old rook! Spmash the ball to powder. Tastead | he takes an easy, three-quarter | swing and punches the ball accur- &tely thru the Infield or over the infielders’ heads. There 1s more sci énce than savagery in his technique. W ating re BOBBY HARPER This is the way Bobby Harper, Seattle welterweight, Tack in 1914 and watched the great | [ook to Eddie Roberts, the Tacoma pride, | tap of Timekeeper Len Dizard’s bell that will start them on their siz-round journey for the Coast welterweight title at tormer| the Crystal Pool Tuesday evening. ‘Welters in Big Battle on Tuesday) Good Card Supports the Coast Title Scrap; Oth-) er News of N, W. Rings BY TOM OLSEN Box HARPER, Seattle's lend fo ‘a box ing poss of a for Gong ontender . will ende: form of} nt, | tent Roberts, 1 oma welterwelg The Harper for the Pa champion Eddlo here Tobe ship. 1f Harper thing» plonship i ay nigh in billed welght const welter yead for him. A world’s with Pinkey ir welterwelght a inch for Walker, would 4 be om cha ut for the Apri world 8 ole! be the next battler anxi meet Harpe However ka bef t counting his yey incubate, putting everything he has to be in top shape for the Roberts at the Crystal Pool Tuesda nd up their strenu rday, and will go ay hard-socking a eff h boys we oun training ye thru light werkou Macarlo Flores Filipino, meets game battler Billy Morrow, in the six-round sem windup. It will be Flores’ first scrap here for three or four years. The special event will be between Frankie Britt and Young Sam Lang ford, featt Roth boyn are a 4 9 good be n te the that orweights. thane ty looked forw Roy Small, Tacoma meets Bus Barrie 0 [aecond bout, while Me Jimmy Reid tn the opene Nehtwelght, Lake in the Nerg boxes BERCOT TO BOX |AT ABERDEEN Dede Berco' nt, m 9 in the Abe ght, when he meet the rugged Princo O'Leary won from ttn | the other night in Tacoma, but the hed the deciafon on him. is a good boy, and is ilkely to plenty of appear ring ‘Tuesday wel will ko his will , as they await the He give the Monroe Bearcat CALLOW EXPECTED TO PICK “W” BY JACK HOHEN VBERG Just how many of the heroes of Mack enthuses over Simmons, who | Poughkeepsie will be good enough to fs a mere kid. Simmons will go to! Jett ficld, replacing the veteran Tilly Walker of homerun note. “Sim mons can hit, field and throw,” Mack tells you. “He will be the talk of the ‘American league this yea ‘Mack had another kid outfielder wh eas the talk of the league last year, | “Sparky” Matthews, but he blew with a deafening bang. SIMMONS 1S. h Mention that to Mack and he an. make the Washington year? setting local crew circles Tho time ts narrowing for the big regatta on Lake Was California, and Coach F rowed at Poughkeepsie are split between the first two shells. Whette for not they will at Coach Callow knows. crew this That is the question which is buzzing. | naa not yet given out first shell At the present time, th up divided, on This much trouble Bercot meets Gene Cline in coma a week from next Thursday Waterman and Pepe, who are ptag: ing the Tacoma show, announce that |they are going to use Freddy Mack | fin the semi-windup CREW SOON FLOYD JOHNSON TO BOX THURSDAY Floyd Johnson, thweat yweight, meets Frank Farmer, the well known veteran, in the main event of George Shanklin’s Tacoma ‘Thursday night It will be Johnson's fir ance in a Northwest ring won fame thruout the count di cause of his game showing against The United , will be repre peeerg men ae Jess Willard and Jack | rented at the Olymple eames by alx | Re Se ie adanound kaout marathon runners [eee acc: samp atahuntlo 12 eats | Shanklin will have a good support ing card. elongated seven on the fresh: man boat last year, rowing at three Al Ulbrickson and Dow Walling are | close as a couple of sweet n the race for stroke. y will be watched with inter the next two weeks as final rations for the big atruggle are ng along in real earnest show, New Attendance} JATT and is|* haren't LE STAR MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1924 FORMER DONOVAN OLORDEL-DONOVAN SEDRO-WOOLLEY . STANWOOD .. evenert ‘Six Taatis Enter New Ball Loop ITH the Northwest ague W ba On that Sedro-W with the B m games Sunday lubs in the league are yvan Lumber ‘The six edel- Ds |lingh baseball le pron and the managern of the ave & good a and the coming season. schedule ferent teama thelr tal at work The complete 10 is publ CALIFORNIA. RAIN HALTS ‘TRIBE WORK RDINO, skies halted the ‘een the Shell Oll team Angeles a Indians here 68 trimmed Pomona co! urday and looked t A home run over the st with two men on be Baldwin in the fourth inning gave the game to the Redskins, The boys hit Daily between n squads be 4 week for ahe: xt left fel gamen will the rousi in Stoekton. to and W. open & six-ge: LOS ANGELES, March 2%. Tigers and Kansas City omorrow, playing both tn ing park here and 3 r LOS ANGELES, March t4—Manager Marty Krug is bory trying to book some strong local teams for contests for th Angels have nothing on the books for the week and need the prac: Sluggers Schedule in New Northwestern Baseball League Is Announced BT aupT WOOLLY VERNON CLUB IS LIKELY Tribe’s New Tosser Will Be Valuable Second Sacker Obtained From East Shows All Kinds of Promise BY LEO H. LASSEN (Sport Editor of The Seattle Stay OB A Li big as He's smart anc dle himself Brady te. | ie. MAKE THINGS HOT IELES IL" ear The in Coast league entry be is an experiment and of atead a sprit the © for the other clubs, partic in the spring. ‘The question of a club stand th ind without cracking? Tigers will prese infield with Rod Murpt an per and Jimmy McDowell Veatern league a Gorman and We: Ing at second, wi trout @ rebu: Gr ffin are wor the latter favore the Western circuit Jack Warner, who made i at third for Ver year, has been shifted t where he 1 nat Walter Kim obtained tstop with nic nflelder fr nat! Ri DEAL WILL PLAY THIRD Charley Deal, neems to have late a strangichold ou! 1 be three new M fenoskey, Al pie and Jim Blakesley will pastim in the orchard. Menonkey is a vet eran from the big sho still 4 plenty fast, Gillespie t anon with the Tige good style, while Blakesley he fiel a with He's also | tre a such a slugging Angeles. lo of a hitter league and hag hit training Bebt veteran: uty n the Westerr well in spring 4 the bat, and Vernon has two youngster for Harry Hannah and Murphy jo the bulk of the catehin; being pler ortunity to develop MAY MUST BE REPLACED The pitching staff Jake May, he of the mi er, is gone to the big leagues and co Will be a mighty hard o a like fl FRENCH TALK WAS BUNK—KILLEFER The talk of Ray French being ob tained from Brooklyn by San Fran cisco to fill Hay Rhyne's shortstop shoes is the bunk, according to Red Killefer, The Radient One seema tg getting French scare gone! trying to force hyne nto line. it seems Rhyne has married a rich yo and he doesn't care whether the base: ball school keeps or not. If that's the the Seals will be better with’ m, p 1 Of the holdovers, Frank Schellen back and young Gilder are well | known to Seattle diamond bugs, Sel Keck, the former from the league and the latter from Reds, are capable righ ii lars West the Cincy handers. Penner, who used to ramento, is now sport y and he may be 1 under the Tiger banner Besides this quintet of exp men, Bill Easick has two good sters in Kit Carson Reppe. The Tigers are negoti major league pitchers and if they are obtained the Vernon club, with ite youth and pepper, be a hard a8 the Vernon ore effective tence | - BOWMAN TAKES TERRIFIC CUT Seattle fans will lk man. The big fellow Indians from New Haven’ takes @ terrific cut at the ball. He looke something like Babe Ruth in appear ance and sizes up about t the Bambino. He's a hitter and while he's h slow by any means, 4 {base he looks like he kn | about, altho he won't cha it o comes to the may “ the best Vernon {s an ex- periment that may prove trouble. some in the spring, but {t's doubt ful if this kind of a club can stand gaff of the long Coast league Killefer Will Write for Star Wade Kilefer, manager of the Seattle Indiana, will w a Me ries of articles for readers of The Star on the Tribe's pros- pects for the coming acason, he firat of the series till ap- pear on the aport page of Tuea- day's Star. Watch for it, and the dope straight from the popular ved-topped manager of the Indians, ‘TROJANS LOSE CINDER MEET BERKELEY, March 24.— Defeat Ing the University of Southern Call track team on a muddy field, the California cinder men reore CG Saturday, jllved up to expectations. The | was 65 5-12 to 617-12, Dye, U. 8 2, aay: around the bag like “Doc” Joh | ? 4 did last year. He's the first free Todd s Win swinger that Seattle bas had since | Charley Swain was in his prime, Big Soccer T 1 tl e T il t | dunttae wie wa ee |was killed in that train wreck last | winter,” says Bowman. “I played un- | der him for two years at New Have and he was a fine fellow and a great /help to young players.”* ,DONOV. RE DEATH EFORE a crowd of 6,000 persons, | the Todd Shipbuilding Co. soccer | | eleven defeated the Maple Leafs yes- | | terday afternoon, 1 to 0, at Woodland | | park, and won the 1924 championship. | OSBOR: Young Osborne, |tained from N the outfielder! Haven along w hasn't had a chance ta make much of an impression yet, but | in the early workouts his arm doesn’t | seem any too good. He throws side. @ arm in practice, Perhaps he will |show better throwing form when his | arm rounds into condition. Fears were expressed about his throwing’ |to whistle, and looked to be a draw until, Just the contest was about | powman, to end, George Buck converted a | penalty shot which won the game. The Maple Leafs had two penalty shots, and only great goal keeping by | Mickey MePhillips prevented both from being jotted down In the scoring | column jwhen he was purchased by the Tribe. ‘BALL CAPTAIN IS APPOINTED Duffy Gerlach has been appointed captain of the University of Califor nia baseball team as a result of the ineligibility of Captain Thompson. Coach Carl Zamloch says that | Thompson was barred, but did not lose hig amateur standing. The losers outplayed their rivals In the first half, but In the second nes sion the winners came back strong. NO LEADERS DISPLACED CHICAGO, March en individuals and |teams rolled Into the money of the singles and doubles at the A. B. C.| tourney Sunday, but none of the in any division was dis- swers: “Simmons js no flash. He couples ‘ability with stability. He abundance of fine oarsmen who are won't blow.” crowding the lettermen to the wu Simmons Is everything that Strand, | most the other new outfielder, isn't. He) Callow changes his lineup nearly ; )34 only 20 years old, a midget and ry night, but fs expected to an B & terrific swinger. Ruth doesn't! pounce a final crew during the next "swing any harder. You find your: | gow 4, ‘The oarsmen are taking self wondering what would happen |; wonderful long conditioning 4o the ball if Simmons had Strand’s | runs at a low stroke both morning F build, or Strand Simmons’ swing. (and afternoon during vacation. They Bishop. with five years of service | gon't consider wasting any time Fon the Baltimore Orioles, is some-| Harry John Dutton, seven at) | what beyond the rookie classification. | pougnkeepsie Iast year, has been | Bishop replaces Jimmy Dykes at sec- | wwitcheo to bow, with Harrison Stan evident. Washington has a super. MONILE, Ala., March 24—The Browne |'CARP mP_ MAY BE beat the Mootle ears, € to 2. The Bi IN BIG RACE |** tan tt 0nd Se Drowns eerees” | chase, an unknown Bear runner, Carpentier, famous | _ NEW ORLEANS, March %4—The| copped the quarter from the best polyiens anke won ‘o 2, victory over New| ro i French fighter and flying ace, may Bloor on an 11 to 3.vietory over New| California and U. 8, C. talent. ldrive in the international 500-mile | single | race at Indianapolis, May 30. Car- pentier has been talking of taking | _ auch a step, but ig not certain of} ¢ ‘his final conclusion +” ot boning Jost the high hurdles, ‘which he was thought to ha 8 OOd as won. Record Is Made Attendance records were shat- tered at the Muncipal Golf course at Beacon Hill yesterday, tehen 985 players drew cards to play. The previous May 39, 1983, was 91}. The first players teed off at 6 a W. end thd Heady provision CAPTAIN ELECTED Stanford 1s favored to cop the na- was not ended until the sun wag || Richard Taman, a junior from | tional track title from California this low in the western skies. | Pinedale, Wyo, was elected captain | year, according to reports from the | basketball team, the beet awe | Bud | Babe Ruth gor e double end 4! tiouser lost both weight events. | ay record, set legat play| NEW YORK, March 24.—Carl Tre- holiday, | maine, Cleveland bantamweight, was | \ the first challenger of Abe Goldstein, STANFORD FAVORED |new bantam champ. the Portland Bi a m of the Ya | South, ond base. Dykes is the same“player | Cobb said would make the Tigers a championship club. Bishop gets the reference beeause he is thought to he the better hitter of the two, and “Just as capable a fielder. “If these three come | within 20 points of their eae league averages my team will be in the Bce all the way,” predicts Mack. ‘The 1924 Athletics, otherwise, are fan unaltered lot. YARRISON IS MAKING GOOD. Rube Yarrison, former Portland | pitcher, is making good with the | Brooklyn National league team, ac- cording to advices received from | Clearwater, Fla. The Rube's fast | underhand ball has been meeting with considerable approval in Man- ager Robinson's eyes. IN BALANCE The Prep league soccer champlon- ship {is still in the air as a resuit of the 1-1 tle game played Satur- day between the Allen Athletic club and the Rainiers. The champion. ship will be played off at an early date. . 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