The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1924, Page 12

PAGE 12 THE SE Tris Speaker, Wonder Outfielder, Lectures on Art BY TRIS SPEAKER fe the ball to the proper base. Many ball games re Famous Outfielder, Cleveland Indians because a fielder throw to A hy ATTAIN success as an outfielder, t a runner at the plate or third and thereby enables putatior & batamar The fielder who plays short is in a position to grab many a fly ball and line drive that would go safe if he are lost makes a foolish out the player mus first be a sure catch. It should be the unusua a runner to advance to second who should have been made a practice of playing all batters deep. when a good outfielder muffs a fly ball held at first. This puts the ru r on sécond in a po! In the course of a season three times as many balls to ge quick start on the bal! and acquiring tion to score on a hit, otherwise a couple of hits might fall safe in front of a Ider than are driven over his to catch a ball while running at full speed be needed to drive es around : , head t } ij rarefu of ur batters. ry to fin — i i yming in or going out or taking the ball to eithe Make a careful study of your ba’ p 4 , ; side, is Sane at al to what fields they are likely to hit and then shift ( NE bit of advice that I want to give on playing the Handling ground balls is a feature of play that too accordingly outfield has to do with the throwing of the ball with many outfielders neglect. Make it sure when there is Likewise it is well to know whether they are long the winning or tying run on the bases. Throwing the ball to the wrong base is a mistake that major leaguers constantly pull thruout the season. To illustrate, we will assume that it is the last half of the ninth inning, two out, the score 8 to 2 in favor of the home team and there is a runner on second—the tying run, distance hitters, or hitters of the short fly or line-drive variety, so as to know whether to play a short or deep field on them no possible play. With runners on and a play ahead, the fielder should be able to come in fast, handle the ball like an infielder and cut it loose with the same motion ; Learning to properly play ground balls is more diffi- a fielder can go out for a ball as easily as he can cult by far than the mere catching of fly balls. It come in, I am in favor of that fielder playing a short requires much more practice field with the ordinary batter up, who has no particular & - ~ - . | to t t « ¢ th ‘ore on | that f the wise play is not to try t cut er down at home, but rather keep the man from reaching second, where h ould be tion to score the wit g run on another h Should e runner on second be 4 | man and the fielde aware of it, that is i reason for aking a play to a dangerous Study ctice your batters, practice balls a every situation, is the gist of ; Indians Facing Real Test Before a cane Home Rooters Next Three Weeks BY BILLY EVANS “Srversers Homing! Racing Pigeons oes a ied Bad Start on Road Doesn't Mean That Seattle Entry in Coast Lea gue Is Flop; | Season Opens Here Tomorrow, With Sacramento Solons Furnishing the First Opposition natal sc BY LEO H. LASSEN HE Indians are coming home tomorrow badly sunk in last place after playing the two * opening weeks on the road. Handicapped by poor training conditions at San Ber- nardino and with the pitchir taff very wobbly, the Redskins will be making their initial bow of the season before the home folks. : : They open with the speedy Sacramento Solons tomorrow, and weather being good, a crowd of some 12,000 fans is expected to crash the turnsti The first two weeks don’t decide the Coast league race by any means, knockers who are busy with the hammers should giv Red” Killifer and his a world of stuff is a worth- PD while asset, yet a hal head ki perhaps more ess¢ les and those Indians 4 Crees Ye. eno rent rer , sg rap to open on the road and the * cur :| fairer chance of getting started. It’s always a handicap to of a elas hing eles wand 4 jets a se —-- Indians will have a better & ‘hen : Agu Tact ss chance of showing what they On the nd, some 10 ] mm ° jean do on the home field in| 7, — * a“ bag ne eae ea 8 Diamond Dust the coming three weeks. Sac- lll ariably can bet aced | ee ramento, Salt Lake and Port- ee yoann. Inverts selerday® hero—Hank De Berry. The i in turn. weeks land play he of those three Filed for |. a daxtter becouse: ther if the Indians don't show improve fails to deliver because there is made and with his offerings runs scored in Salt Lake they must Proven Put it efub, Loule'’s French Dry ~ | Wilson's Businass Col.| Hits by Duncan, Hargrave and Pinelt | be pulting the ground-keeper, the fin an ‘ gata gran iy clube were represented | at PB arin |made quickly, because “Red” Kill Pe MILI a ay arm : ps hag icra epee Fp "rhe | a fer i# the type of managtr who ; cent head jStar last night. ‘The turnout war- | i the Draves| won't have ball players around who | % That is a baseball adage that} ranted the demand for the organiza: tean‘t deliver, B Gates back almost to the inception of| tion and the league will go thru Ate Bit ub teke ould. be Judind j oe mae twelve ‘clits eatery: 90 ree |by a twoweek showing. And that ere i! t some pite . i : ol sabe in hacia tration neon Walla ¢ Junior Advan ay 64 _ Lake park is apt to make a t dled ts gore ner club, Georgetown Pirates, Three |19 #9 the limit, wes = oe ree mr ’ ’ jooks good wh = ; a ath bon §, Warming up, with no runners on the reget ouy, chit unset, Hilt |, wits Renee Sak.» hemes By Maetee | cme goed thea with lens han: 10 a or no batsmen to take liberties | trorovement clud, Greenwood Im-lthe Cards beat out the Pirates 11 te 9. | to the test in S| : | Speed and curves of spring training |), Oth inning counted the run that card boym and the ticket ss nable to} | the Reds a 3 to 1 victory over|® ee) dim nothing, if 0 is soe feed There is still room for many more | {re Cue |takers in the lineup, ieee et the ball over, falls to wate a clubs. Any other junior teams wish-| inten Seattle fans are anxious to see ese runntrs and falters in theli.e to enter should file their entry | Ea Rommelt tet the Med Sox down|some of the newcomers that they s pinch. eee with The Star by mail or phone, or] ith five hits and the Athletics Wem) have heard so much about—Ciiff with Beaner Walby at Spalding’s, by Brady and Eimer Bowman, the new Saturday at the latest |infielders, in particular Play will begin one week trom| MITCHELL TO | The club is playing good s lay, oO acl ie c ha itaide oO: h pitchers, a th sk eat “|. BOX SIMONICH [tale sm mics tate published next Monday. PORTLAND, April 22—Pinkey /time. With the coming of warner Never was good pitching more essential to put over a winner than with the present lively ball in use. local ate oe ‘The regular rules and regulations WS fact was made evident to/that have governed the league in the | Mitchell, of Milwa and St-| weather the veterans on the staff Rs Manager Join McGraw of the | past will be in force again monich, of Butte, t in the 10-jare expected to show better, Giants after the 1923 world series./ The Star trophy, a perpetual one,jround main event here Friday| Sacramento is bringing about the His pitching failed him. } now held by the Three Brothers Dye |night. Th ve met befcre in ajsame club that represented the If he was to win his fourth con. secutive pennant he realized that Must bolster up his pitching staff. Hardly had the series closed be- @ fore he began to make pufchases § right and left of every minor league Pitching star who seemed to have al the} watch thes | Works, will be in competition again There will be the usual prelim. inary season, with the finals for the | winners of the various sections. The comers of note. | number of teams entered will acter), DANDY DILLON Wednesday there will be the ne . sua er 4 4 permeates wxoal TO BOX GARCIA |olecors pte wisi } jclal feature will be a large Tadoma | columns for furthe VANCOUVER, B. C, April 22.— | delegation. no-decision but Mitch ia} Capital City last year. sald to have had a shade. js outfielder, and Ch n pitcher, are the Art Smith, rley Hall, chance to make the grade in Mayor Brown will throw they have the stuff to make ANCOUVER, B. C., April 22.— | junior lightweight champion, was de Gregory’s Aviary on Trial Spin of Maj. se > —Photos by Frank Jacobs, Star Btaff Photographer | is running lik |CARPENTIER TO Harry «Jones, of Vancouver, |feated here last night by Rocky | won the amateur golf champ'onship | Kans local lightweight. Kansas | | . ° of British Columbia here yesterday, | sh aded the champion all of the way. | ee esl Bill Tilden Bentley, Star when he de ted Jack Frascr, al No titles involved. bout in Berlin before ithdraws | Pinch Hitter sailing for of this city, in the 36-hole os nes America to take on Gene Tunney Match at the Shaughnessy Heigh and, poasibly, Tommy Gibbons. The Despite the fact that Jack Bent: Frenchman has signed to meut ley of the New York Giants {s club, The match ended 6 up and 5 RIDEY | CIGARS: WIN)’. < | | baseball | gampaon Koerner, German-American | Fro Play the most unorthodox batsman in of the big league games to de- termine whether or not they have the heads. eS Tig ‘ | good. It will take the acid test i H were to play. The Riley Cigar store Mrs. H. G. Hutchings, of Winni-|t¢2™m made it two straight victories | stoker on transatlantic Mners, early the National league, he is peg, won the B. C. women'n title |byY !ts defeat of the Greenwood|in Muy. Carpentier was at thé ring the major's most connistent hit PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE When she won from Mrs. 8. C.|Improvement club by a 2 to 2/nide the nicht the stoker won the) NEW YORK, April 22.—I¢ Bill Til-|] tere fan Francisco Won low Pet; | Sweeney, of Jericho, 5 up to 4 to|scoro Sunday, Johnny Budnick} heavyweight title of Germany, and! aen does not care to play in the Olym. © San Francise Last season Bentley led the Na- tional league in batting with a mark of 427, In the world series he also was high man with a .600 average, During the National league sea- son Bentley was used 20 times as scored play. OUR BOARDING HOUS the winning run. Balt Lake .. doubtless knows what to expect. Los Angeles « i BY AHERN E pic games or in the Davis Cup mateh- the United tennis team } will have to get along without him. This will be the attitude of the States United States Lawn Tennig associa Tilden's an- LZ tion, resulting f ‘ e ry RST jtion, res ig from a pinch hitter and a, ee es rk A BONS,~ I want ~ FORTHE FI “IME; nouncement in Philadelphia last || 40 occasions with Regess gah ” } Sacramento at Seattle. A You + >, “THEIR TONGUES “TRIP night that he had resigned from the A mark of .600 as a pinch hit Biapeae Laks a5 Foruaed. ov “TO MEE DELIGHTFUL ?~ {ON THE Low BURDLES © |Olymple and Davis cup teams, it/| ter over the entire season ty wema [fan Francisco at Vernon. MISS MILDRED I pips Kwow i jas Jenrned t30Ay. record. Few big leaguers have Tilden sald 6 had no other course} — . AMERICAN LEAGUE =| LEE, ~~ Kiow THERE WERE Jopen after tho report of the amateur |} °"r, Ph sileaoe igh leds Santioy iiccco ys 7 a ede “THAT YoU wILL ANY YOUNG | ule committee had been made public|| equated the teat, Cate ete Detroit . coat MAKE HER | Saturday night. in which he was re-| |} : fat ore Ue Sate, Boston 2 4 MEN LIVING |ferred to as being an “evil influence’ || Pit Jenn in a pinch, he made one Philadel $3 STAY WITH Us, lon the game because of his Journatis.|] Nt, for & .500 average, Washington Bae & | tather an imposing start for a or 4 PLEASA | tie activities. | Beevetand i 5 Ao f | No offictal comment was made by | Sone making his big league — pe i | the association but significance was) (1°?Ut Philadelphia 4, Boston 6. jattached to the statement of Hol-| _ RENE RIET New York 4, Washington 2. TINKLE OF |combe Ward, chairman of the ma | Other games postponed, tain A SILVER teur rule committee that— “I'm HURLEY MAY NATIONAL LEAGUE BELL = sorry that Tilden has reached this New York By at SANs | ‘The champion said tha ‘i Gincinnati Ps gat Se | ‘The champion said that untess tho} Chicago acts Z association ruled that he was an CK HERE Brooklyn’; ns KK. Jamateur he would not play in the Bt. Louis « Bie ie Olymple or Davis cup matches and|\7IC HURLEY, for three years tho Boston ...... ee bys leatid ohiyad Philadeiphia - Sed TAM | | ational cx yee tle sin the star sprinter of the University . 4 . 1 4 Y} | Natio! champional 8. v | Pittebure feats | Hh | P P of Washington, may be matched Pew ork 2, poston f, (i Y| | EPHONE MEN Active |*#%8t Charley Paddock, world's Brooklyn 7, P St. Louis 11, Pitted PRO TENNIS IS ON HORIZON NOW Vincent Richards, one of América’s | greatest tennis stars, thinks profes-| sional tennis would meet with just and be just as in- elph| ~~ | py Tennis ts one more sport in which|*#stest human, in the 100.yant dash |the. telephone employes of Seattle|at the Washington relay carnival, plan to develop a team to compete|May 4. in tournaments, ‘This announce-| _ turloy: » who . ment was made last night at the! jane PMA hee meeting of the Telephone Employcs'|!"* t© come West in time to com. Athletic association. Attention was|Pete i the relays, flo called to tho annual interdi.|,,7wtdeck runs In the Drake events jvision bowling tournament next |" {oWa the coming Saturday. |Tuesday night between teams of tel ashington expects to enter Bill Beck in’ tho century dash, with SSS SSS = SS SSNS SSH = 4 1 an : ‘ f S =) _ 48 much success + teresting as professional golf. “Ti Sy eat eegcta7 ephone men playing simult le | dition ts the only handicap it face We HH a Seattle, Borilaniy BEART Clarke and Slade ax alternnies, Bp ee i fhe Weer Airy Peafilicdl and toe Ausslec nal. Davis of Idaho, Gerhart of 0, J ; a eee, first ‘Twilight Commercial teague|yce Maseetet ie en Mi felted { | Veh Ha (ay baseball game in which the tole). bataliaaa { N E Y We y vhone team will participate wit! LOANED ON x Taye: : spines au 1 with the Stewart! Interbay hung a 13 to 4 defeat ‘ ait olmes team. jon the Pacific Telephone and 1 { | wy ay 7 graph Co, nine ht Walla W. : I I AMONDS \ MICKEY WALKER WINS | Sunday j } PHILADELPHIA, — April —| Tho score: ‘ | American Jewelry Co. Mickey Walker, world's welterweight | ‘Telephone Co... ey Mi eecOND AVE: champion, won tho decision over | Interbay teveeeld 17 21 SECOND Johnny Gil of York, Pa., in a fast] Batterlen: Martin’ and Catvell; 10-round bout here |; it night Burnett and Weeks, ‘Woodland | Net Team | Is Forme | yoortaxn PARK has organized | @ tennis team and is open to {Meet any net team in tho city on ; Saturday afternoons or Sundays. Frank Kozlowski, Melvin Dranga, |C. C. Williams and Earl White make | up the team, and matches can be ar- | ranged by elther calling at the park jafter 5 p. m. each day or by getting jin touch with one of the members Jof the club by phone, The Park club is anxious to ar- range a match with the Seattle Ten- |nis club four-man team, and if the | Woodland racquet wielders are ell- |gible to compete for the Starr-Rey- |folds-Starr trophy they will chal: lenge the local club, present holders. |BILLY GIBSON TAKES ACTION tion maybe started at once in In- Gibson said. tr here in June, Gibson said that his contract did not prevent the Irench- Gibson holds a con+ man from accepting another date before his, but that he had been told he had a good case, LEONARD TO TRY MOVIES NEW YORK, April 22—Benny Leonard, lightweight champion, has signed a $100,000 contract for a ries of motion pictures. He will rt on the work soon, but ho will be able to defend his title this sum: mer, it was said, MERCER A. C, WE The Mercer Athletic club took a fast pitchers’ duel from the Rainier Merchants Sunday at Columbia, 4 to Hunter of the winners and Me. Gilvery of Rainier struck out six and allowed seven hits each. Morely and Carulli folded well, while West starred behind the bat The score— Mercer A. C. ., »4 Rainier Merchants . .3 Hunter and West; McGilvery and Gowers, bie h Fa asin yrounders NEW YORK, April 22—Legal ac-| diana to enjoin Georges Carpentier | from boxing Tommy Gibbons, Billy | ct for a Carpentier-Tunney match | ESDAY, APRII ‘ the plate. Ordir constantly to perfect and keep your h my sermon on outfiel Z Pigeon Racing Popular Hundreds of Trained Homing Pigeons Com- | pete in Weekly Events eon fanciers, Thirty avi a a resented § acing associat that ¢ ts week The bi ipped t giv | point by express, are and are clocked by sea jed watches. The bird showing th |best average flight per yard win The dista f rac Some weeks the starting point ec sometimes Leaver sometimes points 4c Idaho and Montar Tho homing pige with wonderful instinct f rection, |trained by taking them on i Journeys every few days, lengthor the distance each time age speed of the }i4geon under good weather condi- ions runs about 1,500 feet per |minute. Wind affects their flight, of course oe One of | 7 hom: the largest | homing pigeons in the Northwey jis owned by Maj. K. & Gregory, He bas 150 pedigreed birds b aries of lofts. The trained pigeons are very tame, and they take trial spl around Gregory's home in the nort end of the city, sometimes fyi about for hours for exercise, Hawks bother in Beattie, the pigeons some according to Gregory, | because they come upon the pigeons sometimes unawares | Gregory owns several famous jbirds. Some of them are descend- ants of birds used in the war for jcarrying measages. Gregory, thru j his connection with the army, has |recelved many fine birds no longer j used in war work. The birds vary in coloring—gray @ pinkish gray and gray with Diack markings predominating. PREP TRACK big. show. news of the junior toasers |Dandy Dillon, Minneapolis bantam: |the first ball, Sheriff Starwich will | ATHLETES IN ® The manager of the Giants spent} Alecctinnaedipeapeons atlind weight, boxe Frankie Garcia, of|miss it, providing, of course, that | | close to $200,000 for four rookie Los Angeles, in the 10-round main|Batter Wee Coyle doesn’t connect | GREAT FORM f pitchers. Ernest Maun, Howart| FT ARRY: JONES event of tho smoker here Friday |tor a hit. | Baldwin, Wayland Dean and Joe |night. The game is to be called at 2:30. | YVHEN the high school track Bradshaw. | IS NEW B Cc oe Beans Reardon and Ed Finney : i pry . s : |... Sauads swing into action, April & What will the harvest be? dd JOHNNY DUNDE: Jare the blind men who will umpire,| Coming to their home lofts after a irial spin, the racing pigeons of Maj. L. S. Gregory “i fome star performers will grace a ware | GOLF CHAMP) BUFFALO, April Johnny | ee ee | pr sent a beautiful spectacle as they flutter to their aviary. There are 150 birds in Mel soe ays Reports from the South show | Dundee, world's featherweight and} | lofts. ‘nea the Ballard luminary, ea streak and is con- | Sidered sure to win at least 15 points [fe his team during every meet, in- sluding the all-city. George Norton, | Broadway, is running the 880 in fast Ume and will cop that event ags this year. Jim Drumheller, also of Broadway | has left his old love, the broad jump jand is running the dashes. Jim i | likely to give Jenkins pretty good | Competition, | Out at Roosevelt, Bull Martin jtossing the weights around in nic | fashion. A little extra coaching wi |make Martin a star. Johnny Turne jQueon Anne, is running the dashes |{n good form and’ should place well up this year. The high school squads have been | cticing thruout vacation and are primed for the gun. Ballard looks | best with Broadway and Queen Anne | following, n FAMED SHOES FOR PIRATE ROOK TO FILL [At season Glenn Wright, crack Shortstop of the Kansas City club, was the sensation of the Amer- ican association, This year Glenn Wright makes his big league debut with the Pittsburg The crisis is just ahead for Wright was pruchased a year ago Barney Dreyfus for immediate de- jlivery, He made a request that be permitted to play one more “@ in the minors, that he didn’t beliew he was quite ready, That was unusual. Most players {Jump at the chance to make the big show, The request was granted. Wright helped Kansas City win a pennant, and the world series of the minors! in defeating Baltimore, champions of the International league. The learned scouts have pro- nounced Wright ready for the mu- | dors. Ho is regarded as tho most | promising recruit to come to the big show in 1924, Yot, it is questionable if any youngster ever faced a tougher than doos Wright Pittsburg fans in ranking shi stops always draw comparisons with the great Hans Wagner, That 4 {hardly fair, but it’s a way the fans j have, Wright has beon so highly touted, #0 strongly spress-agented, that hi has one big task ahead to come uy to all the nice things that have been sald about him,