The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 19, 1924, Page 5

emer . Ale, eile * Obtained by Los Angeles, must have | SATURDAY, APRIL 19, LONG BEACH EXPECTED TO @long Trip FIR Expensive | for Loop California City Ready for| Coast League Ball; Rec- | ord Crowd Here, Too | 7 T bes Lake's last 0. rised if this ts Salt year im the Coast The long jump to the Utah city Guts deeply into the treasuries of the @ther clubs in the league as they sel. dom figure to make @ dime on the tip across the desert. The crowds there aren't anything te brag ab and early spring weather in Salt Lake tan't fit for Taseball. There was snow in the park twice this week and Seattle lost two games thru bad weather. Long Beach, California, a city of 109,000 people now, ty angling for the | franchise. Long Beach has a ball park of Coast league class and it wouldn't be surprising to see Bill Lane move his Boos there next year, It's impossible to play good ball tm the small Salt Lake park and the rarified alr makes it tough on. the | players Lane claims he hasn't made a dime, but has lost some coin there years d is thought t Out of a bad fi Thera has years of shi it ts really His sale of Paul have pulled him jal hole last fall. | considerable talk | ing the franchise | out of Coast wouldn't be surprised to see the ifted to Long Beach soon. | @ voices the sentiment of many lt leaders in the West. SeNiNs | EXPECT RECORD | CROWD WEDNESDAY | Altho the Indians are getting away | to a bad start, the Seattle fans are) sticking by them if the advance sale of tickets for the opening game here Wednesday with Sacramento is any criterion. | Lockard says that nearly all of the | reserved seats have been sold, altho | there are still many good paste-/| boards left. Lockard ts confident, it} the weather {s good, that 15,000 peo- | ple will see the Indians in their | Seattle debut. | Sacramento has a fast, snappy ball | ub and with the Indians making their bow before the home folks and | on their home field for the first time, | the Tribe is expected to show well prith the visitors. |AMS TOO LENIENT Suspending Kenworthy and Mulll- gan one day and Waish two for their brawl in the San Francisco park last | week, Harry Williams, new president et the league, was a bit too lenient jth the boys. If he ts to uphold tie dignity of the game Williams will have to discourage rowdyism with sterner sentences than he imposed upon this trio. —_— | WEINERT SAID | TO BE FAST Ball players in the Coast league who have hit against Charley Wein- | new southpaw obtained by Los | ‘Angeles from the Philadelphia Na- | tionals, say that he is the fastest lefthander in baseball, not excepting | Walter Mails. If he can sink that apple into a catcher’s mitt faster | than the Great Walter, he'll have to | show us. ‘They also say that Weinert has a/ eorking good curve ball. There must have been something drastic the Matter with his pitching if he could | not make a go of {t with the Phillies, | the saddest team In the majors. DEAL IS PLAYING GREAT BALL Charley Deal ty playing the same kind of baseball for Vernon this spring that he did for Los Angeles | two years ago when he was one of} the best third sackers in the minors. Not only can Deal field, but he can} fock that ball. He has played an/| important part in the nifty work Gone by Vernon in the first two) Weeks of play. L. A. PICKS UP | GOOD PITCHER IN ROOT Thig baby Root, the new pitcher something. He has won three} straight, beating Seattle twice in the opening week and setting Vernon down with a brace of hits and a shut Ut the other day. Payne also looked | food in his few innings against Se atte. He was hurt sliding and hasn't been used since. ANCOUVER, B. C., April 19.— Bon stein, of Seattle, was the Medalist In the qualifying round of the British Columbia amateur golf ¢ehampionship tournament at Shaugh- essy Heights here yesterday. Stein was forced into extra holes Jack Fraser, local star, but the Seattle golfer won the three-hole Diayott, HAMMER THROW RECORD PASSED BRUNSWICK, Me. April 19.— Fred ‘Tootle, Bowdoin star, and the American intercollegiate hammer throw champion, broke the world’s Feeord in practice when he hurled the iron ball 190 feet, 7% Inches, record does not stand, however, @@ it was not made in offictal com- Petition. The former record was 189 feet, % inches, made by Pat Pyan {1 POLO TEAM TO PLAY Six teams, comyriaing the pick of the polo players of the Northwest, Will participate In the second annual Pacific Northwest international polo tournament to be held at Vancouver Barracks, May 9-15, 1924. ST SW IM MEET THE SEAT LAND TLE STAR Shot Stars in Ol Showing great form, Capt. F. V. Berger, of Camp Lewis, was one of the leadi pic team trials being held and Saturday. ng rifle shots in the Olym- at Fort Lawton on Friday John Levi Is Hailed as the Indian Athlete Since Jim Thorpe ¥ full-blooded Arapahoe Indian, by competing for Haskell Indian institute of La’ rence, Kas., in, four major sports this season will go far toward proving the ver-| dict delivered by Jim Thorpe last fall, who predicted Levi would be the greatest all-round | OHN LEV Indian athlete of all time. Thorpe saw Levi in action in the football game which Haskell lost to Minnesota univer-, In that game Levi took the opening kickoff of the| and ran 85 yards thru the entire Gopher team for a touchdown. Levi has had bids to join the Yankee baseball club this spring but has about decided | that he will finish his school work at Haskell and take on another year of football before | | trying out with the major league team. Big Jawn p sity, 12 to second half at Minneapolis last fall. lg to send the boats East has started |: Crew drive headquarters have been established at the Stuart building and a city-wide and state-wide campaign for coin ts being inaugurated. The varsity and junior varsity eightsare to be sent to the Hudson classic, the latter replacing the fresh Drive for Crew Funds Is On in Earnest; Program Is Set With the program for the Washington crows definitely decided upon for two shells to be sent to Poughkeepsie, the alumni drive for funds { | in earnest. hmen, who were sent a year ago, Prep Ball | T ossers to Play Again BY JACK HOHENBERG ST SEATTLE will meet Broad- | way at Broadway in the fenture | bali tilt next Tuesday, when the | eight high school squads resume play | after the Easter vacation. In the| other tilts of the day, Ballard meets Roosevelt at Ballard, Garfield plays | Franklin at Franklin and Lincoin tangles with Queen Anne at Lower Woodland. From the standpoint of Interest in team development, the Quay-Lincoln battle will have it.on the rest of the program. Coach Johnny Corbaley’s tossers have been developing and are proving to be first class competition. It would not be a surprise to see one of tho leaders take a tumble at the hands of the Hilltop men. Garfield should wallop Franklin. Roosevelt should have little difficulty with Ballard, even tho the Beavers | are playing before their home crowd. | Broadway 1s going to look a whole lot better against West Seattle than she did against Roosevelt. That Roosevelt game was a terrible affair | and all hands up at Pine st. are glad it’s over. The West Siders aro favor- ites, however. The high school league struggle t* tightening up considerably, Alrekdy two teams are out of the running, Lincoln. and Franklin. The next week's play will decide whether or not Garfield or Ballard stand any de- cided chance, Friday, the eight squads will wind up the week with four more con- tests. West Seattle meets Ballard at Hiawatha. Broadway clashes with Garfield at Garfield. Franklin and Queen Anno meet at Franklin, while Lincoln and Roosevelt settle difficul- ties at Roosevelt. NORTHWEST BALL LOOP WILL OPEN LAY in the Northwestern Wash- ington baseball league will start Sunday when threo games will be run off. The Bellingham Elks journey to Everett to meet the Ev- erett club. Stanwood and Mount Vernon will cross bats af Mount Vernon. Bloedel-Donovan will enter- tain Sedro-Wooley at Bellingham, The Stanwood-Mount Vernon game is expected to be the feature contest of the day. Former Washington and Washington State men are playing on both teams. It should be a tough ‘struggle. Bloedel-Donovan is strong and many think it will have little dift culty in copping from the Sedro- L Diamond Dust | | Denses of the park. The Metjt, baseball nine will be the leading attraction tn semi-pro ranks for Saturday and Sunday. The ‘Japanese will play the City fash and Door at the League parks Haturday. Admis- sion will be charged to defray the ex- Sanday the Oriental ehamplons will hook up with the Nippon as well as Japanese turn out, The Greenwood Improvement clab and the Reilly Cigar company play at Upper | Woodland from Green- on their) hands as the Reilly outfit is a henvy| alugging nine. Mercer Athietio club and the Rainier | y Stare tangle at Columbia tn one | of the feature tlits, Sunday,’ They play | from 2-4. Mercer A. C, Is conceded {0 | be the stronger of the two on paper, | The Pantorium Dye Works Is playing the Orioles, fast seini-pro nine, at Lower | Woodland from #4 Suntay, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph tackle Interbay at Walla Walle Sunday’ from | The wire pullers are good hands) At baseball and should win the game, The Seacttio Eagles will play an inter- city gamo with the Whoeler-Osgood team of Tacoma at Broadway. The game starts | at noon. © Hagies have been winning thelr games steadily, Sunset Hill I. ©. and the Washington Iron Works met at Hiawatha from 4-6. It should be @ good gamo, ‘The Three Brothers Dye Works and | gnottes will settle things at road. | ately following the Three Brothers, | it league champs last year, are strong: | tr and should have an guay’ time. | The Wandering All Stars, enptained by Alec Bhults, will Journey to Pearson to play the home team, Sunday, Tho Wan- derers have @ nice assortment of talent in its rank. HICKMAN HA GIVEN IT UP Jimmy Hickman, for years on out- fielder with Brooklyn, hag decided to quit the game. Ho was sent to the Eastern league this spring by the Dodgers, but has asked that his name be placed on the volun- tarily retired list. BROWN FAILS IN TWO TRIALS Myrl Brown has failed to make the grade in the majors. Two years ago ho was bought by Pitts- burg from Reading for a fancy fig- ure and failed to make a go of it. This spring he flopped with the St, Louls Cards. BATES PLAYS TURENNE HERE Wallace Bates, crack University of California tennis player for several Wooley team. The Bellingham Elks are not as strong as they were last year and will meet decided opposition in the Byerett team, feasons, was scheduled to play an exhibition match with Leon do Tu. first base for Haskell when the | five or six baskets to his credit -|low hurdles, 25.2 seconds. j Lawrence on the «tadium track of |much and he is rated as one of the ympic Tryouts Greatest diamond sport is on and he} has height and reach that} will cover anything within a} radius of nine feet of the first sack. The other two spdrta in which Levi participates are basketball and | track. In basketball he holds down center and every box score shows MAKES TRACK DEBUT In track Levi is just developing. Last season was his first cinder aod field competition and he scored a} notable achievement when he fin- ished as high point man tn a dual meet with Nebraska university, the outdoor champion in track of the Missourt Valley conference. Levi's point score in that moet was 15%. His best records in track to date are: 16-pound shot put, 43 feet | 7% inches; discus throw, 136 feet 8) inches, high Jump, 6 feet; 120-yard high hurdles, 15.3 seconde; 220-yardj| What Levi will be able to do in track in his second season, now open- ing is problematical, but consistent development will cause Coach Frank | W. McDonald to enter Levi in the Midwestern Olymple tryouts, which fortunately are to be held right in the University of liansas. Levi is in his early twenties and | is 6 feet 2 inches tall. His home ts Geary, Okla. His greatest ‘performances to date have been in football, probably be- cause he hag beer playing the grid- iron game for several seasons, His 200 pounds and speed count for hardest line plungers in the game. RECORD FORWARD PASS At forward passing he is a marvel. His longest pass completed in a game Is recorded at 58 yards, but In exhibition passing at Minneapolis and San Antonio last fall before news. paper men Big Jawn flung tho pig- skin 83 yards, He is also an exceptional punter. His longest boot the past season was for 72 yards in the gume Haskell played on Christmas day with the Olympic club eloven at Los Angeles, And that punt was so high that the fast Haskell ends were able to bo down to nail the receiver in his tracks, despite the exceptional dis- tance down the chalklines, GEHRIG GOES TO HARTFORD| Lou Gehrig, the great Columbia university hitting prospect, has been sent to the Hartford club of tho Eastern league by the New York Yankees for experience. He's an outfielder. / A, L. CLUBS SWAP PLAYERS The Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns have swapped in- fielders, Norman MeMillan going to the Browns for Homer Ezzell. Refuses Raise One of the few members of the seventh place Braves who got a raise this year was Frank Gibson, second string catcher. Gibson didn't catch many games but he did well in those which he did catch, so the management decided to Increase his pay And then, lo and behold: Mr. Gibson returns his contract with the following remarks: “Your money is all right, but what I want is work, Unless I can get assurances that I will catch at least half the games this year I won't report.” The assurance not being forth. coming, Mr, Gibson kept his word and refused to report. 2nd Seniee for Major Leagues On BY HENRY L. FARRELL N W YORK, April 19—-After com- pleting the opening series, the major league baseball clubs will do their first shift of the season today. In tho first series just clesed the two Chicago clubs had the best re- sults. Both won three out of their first four games, which were enough to place the White Sox momentarily on top in the American league and the Cubs in second place in the Na- tional league. The Giants took two out of three games from the Robina and the Cin- cinnat! Reds behaved acceptably In taking two out of three from the formidable Pirates. Tho shift today brings the Boston yes to New York and sends the to Cincinnat!, The breaks will still be in favor of the Giants. The Braves will not have the pitching to throw at the champions that the Robins did, and no team in the league can fight New York like the Brook- lyn club. After disposing of the Pirates, the Reds may have more trouble in handling the Cubs, who are traveling under great momentum with a lot of hitting’ and good pitching. Detroit, Boston and out of thelr first three gumes, and are tied for second place behind the surprising White Sox. New York, Washington, Cleveland and St. Louis have only one vittory to their credit. Tho Yanks move to Washington today, while St. Louls goes to De- troit and Cleveland invades Chicago. The Yanks have been unable to get started and the Browns are not yet up on thelr game. Detroit should have less trouble with George Sis- ler’s club than they had with the Indians and Cleveland finds the White Sox in a winning mood. The Yanks are in Washington. GREB TO BOX JACK DELANEY NEW YORK, April 19.—Harry Greb, world's middleweight cham. pion, will sign articles within a few days to meet Jeck Delaney, Bridge- port, in a championship match, his manager, Jimmy Mason, sald here Friday. Mason intimated that the contest would be held in one of the ball parks if the promoter could get Delaney to sign, LONGEST FIST MATCH One of the longest pugilistic matches on record took place near Melbourne in 1855, when Australian Kelly defeated Jonathan Smith in a contest that lasted § hours and 16 minutes. ONEY MELODY and Hugo Kelly, two of the great middleweights of 20 years ago, were fighting in Boston, Just before their in- renno at the Seattle Tennis club Sat. urday afternoon, troduction Joe Walcott, then welterweight king, jumped Philadelphia won *two| Will Stage Trials for Local Club Water Fans to See First | Competition of Season | at Crystol Pool April 25 | BY TOM OLSEN | QEATTLE swimming fans wil © the first water competition the season at the Crystal pool ne Friday night, when the trials { places on the Crystal Swim tub team will be staged. y Daughters, the new Cry coach, has far too m , jants for positions than is a to take care of, and decided ye day on the elimination Daughters declares that everyone must compete in the trials, no mat |ter if they should be veteran star members of the club. | ‘The competition on Friday nig’ | promises to be close, as the Crysta }elub is going to be made up of the best swimmers pons! and the membership will be se ct, There are several water perfor: ers who have proved thetr who will be among those tha pete in the Crystal club trials on night. | Mlin “Blackie” Fadden re- ded as @ cinch for a diving job. | Fadden is also making « strenuous jeffort to land a job on the Ameri can Olympic team, and is ded j by ¢ diving critics as the lead jing high and fancy diver of this section. | Lambert Sternbergh, veteran and f the club for many | star member | seasons, will again be out. Stern- |bergh has shown remarkable form }this season in the sprints. He ts also working on the plunge for dis- tance. Roy O'Neil is another diver of merit. O'Neil will be out for his hold fob. | Ors in the breast stroke, as will Gust Jarvie, Hester Eastman, the girl stroke luminary, will be competition this year. | Madaleine Pless, ‘Pacific coast women's breast-stroke champion, will compete again this year, Coach Daughters is expecting big things | from her. Two other girl swimmers who are expected to be heard from are Ag: nes Speldel and Neva Brownfield. |Both have developed rapidly in the past year, Harry Speldel and Spriggs Waescher, youthful backstroke per- |formers, and George Stevens, crawi-stroke expert, also wili be in the competition. A hewcomer, Ed Spang’ from the East with quite a reputa- tion. He won the Inter-Allied swim- |ming honors during the war and ts |said to be a capable performer. Others will be in the meet, and {t ia considered likely that some new swimming talent will be uncovered. RIFLEMEN TRY FOR OLYMPIAD |FTWHE Olympic rifle shooting try- out fér this {staged at Fort Lawton, was to come to a close this afternoon. Big crowds were at the range Fri- ay afternoon and Saturday morn. ing, and unsual interest was being shown In the competition. Capt. F. D. Berger, of Camp Lew- fs, led tho field yesterday and was continuing in remarkable form Sat. urday morning. The winners will go Bast to com- pete in the national Olympic trials later in the spring. NEWARK MAN HOLDS RECORD Carl Christenson of tho Newark (N. J.) Athletic club holds the new world’s record in the 60-yard high hurdles. His timo ts 7 3-5 seconds, ‘The former record of § seconds was mado by Robert F, Kelly of the Uni- jversity of Southern California in 1919, |ANOTHER GRID STAR “TRIES” | Red Barron ts the latest football jstar to take up the diamond game, |The famous Georgia Tech backfield man fs trying out with the Jackson team of the Mississipp! Valley league team. SPECIAL TRAIN TO DERBY RACE A special train, known as the Broadway Derby Special, has been chartered to take New York city turf fans to and from Derby at Churchill ville, May 17. back, Downs, Louis- The New York Giants and the St. Louis Cards are seeking Jack Blott, catcher and captain of the University of Michigan team. AGGIES WIN MEET CORVALLIS, Ore., April 0. A. CG. swimming team last night defeated the’ Oregon team, 89 to 2y, in an interesting meet. into ‘the ring to challenge the winner. Blacker than the proverbial ace of spades, Walcott seemed even darker under the bright are light. A hush fell over the audience as the announcer AND THE KEEPER CAME AND GOT HIM raised his hand for silence to introduce the Black Ter- ror. Far back in the gallery a bass voice boomed out: “Who ordered that ton of coal?” or} | Bob Smith will seek further hon- | in active | district, being | the Kentucky | AFTER CATCHER | SALT LAKE FRANCHISE SOON OF SEASON HERE NEXT FRIDAY (_ | | | | WALTER Speed King eS Starting his 18th season with the Washington Senators this week, Walter Johnson, veteran speed king, turned in la 4-0 victory over the strong Philadelphia Athletics and showed that he is in for another great year. PAGE 5 } Still Master JOHNSON | ALTHO only two players broke 80 in the qualifying round for thi Jefferson Park Golf club champion. ship, played on the municipal cougee, Just week-end, the brand of golf dis- played was far above the average, and the result was that 15 of the |family of 16 names that comprise |the draw for the elimination match play, turned in cards of 84 or better. | Detmer Anderson led the field with @ fine round of 73, five strokes bet- ter than Gordon Haw, the title-hold- er. ‘These were the only entrants in the 70's, but Leo Gaskell, Lee Hewitt, | Jack Scott and B. W. Greenway just ; missed that mark, each scoring an |80 card. Pretty good shooting, eh! | Fred Murphy broke away from his | Metropolitan indoor course and reg- |istered an 81, which was one stroke better than that of Bill Doran's, last jyear’s runner-up. Fred Dolphin, | Rennie Watts, Hi Follrich and M. H. | Herrick landed in the charmed cir- jcle, each having 83 scores. | The 84 cards were furnished by H. |D, Kippen, M. Johnson and Uttle | Harry Cornell, : That brings the list up to 15. Who j will qualify for the last place? This question will be answered when H, D, Folsom, Jr., Bennie Le- vine, Lou Holter, Elmer Kendrick, | Bert Kellam, W, R, McDonald and |C. Krackenberg settle a tie which | was created when each medaled an 85. in the qualification play. That “tle” |must be untied before tomorrow jnight, says Dr. Roy Dawes, the Jef- lferson Park captain, | The defeated six in this play-off, | together with the rest of the players |who turned in cards, but failed to get into the championship draw, will be placed in flights according to their qualifying scores, -Here {s the championship draw, the first round of which must be played on or before Sunday, April 27: Anderson vs. Dalpbin; Kippen vs. Scott; Murphy vs. Cornell. Herrick . Gaskill; Hewitt vs. Watts; winner of 16th place tie vs. Doran; Green- way vs. Johnson; Follrich vs. Haw. |FP\HE first of the season's events which carries a state title will be held on Tuesday, April 29, when the 12 clubs belonging to the Wash- lington State Women’s Golf associa- \tion compete in a handicap-match- |play-against-par competition. Each Jelub will place an eight-voman team on the field, atid play will be on the respective home courses, The squad that fares best against that tough opponent, Mr. Par, will receive a handsome silyer bowl. ‘The chances of the all-star Ingle- wood team to annex the silverware have been greatly lessened within |the pust fow days, because several of the new grass tees have been lopened to play, which adds several yards to the length of the lake shore course. But this is a mere trifle compared to what confronts the sisterhood of the Tacoma Country club, whose course. is now being remodeled and closed for play. Nor is {t expected to be opened in time to ailow the club team to compete for this tele- graphic-match-play-against-par cham- pionship. All handicaps must be in tho hands of Mrs. J. C. Bridgman, the © Jassociation's secretary, and captain of the Inglewood team, by next Tuesday. HE fair-sex golfers of the Seattle Golf club will tee-off in the qualifying round for the club cham- plonship next Tuesday, April 22, and Mrs, R. Knox Roberts, the eap- tain, {s expecting & large number of entrants to be on hand. Mrs. D. H. Moss will defend her champlonship title, which she won last yoar, defeating the present cap- tain in the final mateh, Theldental- ly, this was the second successive time that Mrs, R. K, Roberts had dates from 1710, | | | jto be content with the “runner-up” honors. She hopes to 6° a step jhigher this year. Who knows? The third time may be lucky! At least two of the club's top- notchers, namely, Helen Farrell and |Phoebe Nell Tidmarsh, will not com |pete for the crown, An injury re- celved in California several weeks ago will keep the former off the fairways for at least a month yet, The latter ts now sojourning in China, and ig not expected to return home before the end of May. The low 16 scorers in ‘s |play will comprise the draw for the champlonship match play test. Flights will be provided for the rest jot the starters in the qualification — |round. Pa «a E club's biggest social event of the season,” is what Charlie Harden says about the next monthly — dance of thy Rainier Golf and Coun- try club, to be held at the clubhouse next Thursday, April 24, 5 Being chairman of the entertain. ment committee, Charlie ought to know what he {fs talking about, but he and his assistants will have to Ko some next Thursday, to outshine thelr past efforts. They were the best ever. SBR ae GzoRce FOWLER and his $5. man team from the Grays Har. — bor Country club, in Aberdeen, will oppose the Rainier team, led by Ed- gar Crider, on the Des Moines high- Way links, this afternoon. ‘his match will mark the first part of a — double-header for the Black Cats jfrom Aberdeen. The second half will find them pitted against Frank At-— Kins’ slickers on the Earlington links tomorrow morning. Hl apie cup competition will get under way at the Seattle Golf club today when the North Enders engage in an 18-hole qualifying round to determine the players who make up the draw for match pla: CLUB GIVEN MAINTENANT NEW YORK, April 19.—Joseph Widener, Philadelphia turfman, has presented the noted French stallion, Maintenant, to the breeding bureau _ of the Jockey club. The stallion W be turned over to the New York state constabulary for service at the state breeding farm, : SUBMERSIBLE REPORTED DEA NEW YORK, April 19.—Subn ble, fine thorobred, regarded as most valuable mount in the stable that was to have been sent Paris for the Olympic games, died Fort Meyer, Va., according to received by the Jockey club. HOLD BIG RACE ON AUGUST 1 One of England's greatest tra _ ditional rowing events, which still holds an important place on the British Isles’ athletic calendar, ay the Thames’ watermen’s race, event, held annually on August