The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1924, Page 4

PAGE 4 Behind the Home Plate BY BILLY EVANS S BASE running due for a reviv in baseba Wul snepry work on the bases play & Geciding part tn » major league this season? training that ba camps running was & ting « strong ple Manager John MoGraw went #0 far as to engage & coach to im struct his rookies and regulars the art of scien Ufically running in EVANS the bases Recently Rabbit Maranville of the Pittsburg Pirates offered conclusive Proof that base running fs still & factor in the national pastime. With two out and two strikes on the pitcher, Maranville in the 14th taning stole home with the run that decided the game. In the American league, Ty Cobb, Sreatest of al! modern base run early in the season, by twice tng home, proved there is Premium on brains and speed. Maranville’s feat in deciding theft such a At one veral years, not an uncommon ING home is one of the Prettiest plays in baseball. It) Pleasing to note that it is being revived. | is one of the big thrills of the| ‘Winning a contest in such | sends the fans away gos- It makes for more interest | baseball. ) @ rather Interesting fact that of im @ sense, calls less display of speed than is the player must hen be favored Getting a big lead ts Making the break the plate while the pitcher is plan on the part of| the runner, Incidentally he must be Speed helps determining factor. ‘The pitcher turns his head, sees) runner going and invariably the ball to the first baseman. | runner on third, having taken biz lead, starts for home as the throws the ball to first. Already the Athletics have threo times pulled the play successfully on | fome rookie pitcher, recently win-| ning a game against Washington by using the play. } second base and the crowd got on THE SEATTLE STAR ATURDAY INDIANS FACE TWO TOUGH WEEKS OF PLAY ON ROAD Vernon and Oakland on This Trip After Winding Up With Portland This Week- End, Team Travels BY LEO H, LASSEN NG the remal lett Portland on n e Ip the road for two weeks tn California And two tough weeks they prom. | ine to be First comes Oakland and then Ver. The Acorns have been going well of late and with the fine pitching they are bound to get from Kuna, threaten Mails and B they plenty of the Redskina. The Vern ra are the sensa Ub of the race so far They are playing fine ball and the Indians will have plenty of competition in | Los Angeles. After these two series the Indians return home to play Oakland and Vernon tn return games before an other road journey BOWMAN HITS LIKE WILLIAMS, SAYS STU “Altho Elmer Brown is a dead left | field hitter, I exject bim to hit weil In this league by what I have seen | of him so far,” says orge Stueland, Seattle's crack righthander. | “He hits just lke Cy Williams, of Philadephia, the only difference be AND The opposition teams switch thetr| defense 20 feet to the right field nide when Williams comes to bat, but! even then he hits line drives thru “Bowman has been hitting line Grives lately and they'll go safe no the matter where tioned.” defense Is ste There tun't a player in baseball who fights harder for a ball game than Frank Brazill, the Portland In- fielder. He gets a great kick out of | the national pastime. And he talks back to the bugs and they get a rise out of him without half trying. His arm {s badly shot, but what he lacks | in throwing skill he makes up for In hustle, And he can sock that ball, don't kid yourself about that. The! tougher the situation the better) Frank hits. Last year he was playing third in| & game here and Billy Lane was on third. Lane claimed that Brazil) held | him on the bag on a fly to the out-| field and the Rabbit was thrown out) at tho plate, They stormed at each} other thruout the game and the) crowd razzed Brazil! plenty. Along/ about the eighth inning Frank) smacked a homer Inside of tho lot) with a couple of mates on the sacks/| and when he came to the bench he took off his cap and made a pretty) bow to the stands, What a kick he got out of that! Thursday he kicked a couple at him. With the score tied in the eighth he amacked out the hit that put Portland ahead. Brazil's got| the right kind of nerve ina pinch. | ont oe POOLE BELONG “He's better right now than half of the first sackers in the big show. He | can sock that ball and he can field. 1 don’t see how Portland has kept him out here as long as they have. “Ho's the best looking first base- man I’ve seen in many years." SEALS WON'T WIN ON ROAD, SAYS KENWORTHY il clown} roe PUES CAMUHISEHUEE EEN pevnenineornttLEEt BASEBALL ORTLAND vs. SEATTLE GAME CALLED AT 2:30 BE aen- 0100 For TICKETS “San Francisco ia the hardest team lin the league to beat on their home| grounds,” says Bil Kenworthy, “but | you mark my words, I don’t think they'll hold up on the road, ‘They vent the pitching class, Outside | of Shea and Geary their pitching} staff doesn’t look very formidable. | ‘fVernon is the club to watch; they look dangerous to me.” | SEALS TAKE _| LEAD AGAIN| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. May 10—/} |The Seals went back into first place | in the Const race by defeating rnon 2 to 2 In 10 innings Friday |The Tigersscored one in the 10th, but the Seals came back with two for a victory. | The score: Vernon . |San Francisco | Christian, | | i | | | Battert Penner | Murphy; Shea and Yelle. ‘THIS SOUNDS | _ SALT LAKISH| SALT LAKE, Utah, May 10- .| Overcoming a nine-run lend, Salt Lake clubbed out a typical Utah | ory here, Friday, defeating | Sacramento 17 to 11. | were hit. The score: | Sacramento . Salt Lake Batteries: horse and Koehler; Kallio, Stroud, | | Mulchahy and Cook. | ‘THREE WINS | FOR OAKLAND 108 ANGELES, Cal, May 10— | Oakland made jt threo straight from | Los Angeles here, Friday, winning 5 to 1, | ‘The score: Oakland . Seven homer Krause and Read; | Meyers, Ramsey and Billings. | The Los Angeles stadium will hold | 100,000 people, or almost as many as a down-town street car during rust hours, ing that Williams hits to right field.) [ Star Loop | He Shows His Class Beis Flay - Junior Circuit Star junior base t hae in the second The be in act ar schedule f s r Advan club PITCHER STAR tion of the King county league outfield. And Welsh is showing the boys and girls plenty of class now that he has a chance to play. The kid is hitting and fielding like a veteran. If he keeps up his present pace they'll have a hard time putting him back on the bench. Roosevelt Nine Falls Before West Seattle ST SEATTLE trimmed Roose-, chin, Franklin finally kicked thra It 10 to & Friday in the feature | with a win by routing the Ballard fait Lake 17, figcramento 11 Onkiand 6, Les Angsies 1 San Francisco NOW THE SERIES STAND wi foattle Portiand ... Verner 2 Ban Francisco Oakland 4 Loe Ani Salt Lak 2 Sacramento .. GAMES TODAY Portiand at Seattia header). Oakland at Los Angeles. Vernon at San Francisco. on Sunday im Greenwood Improvement Club Decides to Quit IN FOSTER WIN Striking out 17 men and making places Foster in a tie with Auburn for first place in the southern por Vernon 2 (19 innings) Becramento at Salt Lake (Gouble- ACK in 1919 “Red” Ki pilot Kenworthy’s great battin Killefer thought he was thr But the Iron Duke refus And now he’s managing t best of it so far this week, pm > Arden Cubs <4 Georgetown at‘ — 4 Georgetown ol ground |Qxsrwetewn schoo! srounds at noon. | IT 9 ol ton pe g Dry Cleaners et 4 p.m. Grounds No, 2 HY Ss aan Win From | Weatern 1 | Walla at 4 \ Mare or Beavers | team dropped out and the | Three rothers Dye Works squad NEATTLE made it three out of four |will play the Beaver Athletié club by winning from Portland Fri at Columbia at 2 p.m. in a prac |day by a 3-2 tally, Vean Gregg and the «£ Walter Leverenz, veteran southpaws Fab kman will be idle Sun-| hooked up tn a duel and Gregg won | day the verdict Home team managers must not Here's how the runs were made fail to turn in tho results of thelr) Lane tripled to center to start the | games in writing at The Star Sun-| game for Seattle and scored on Cut- day night shaw's pop fly that fell over short stop. Welsh forced Cutshaw at seo. ond and went to third on Eldred’s single. Baldwin forced Eldred at sec- ond and Welsh scored. Poole tripled in the second for Portland and scored on Daly‘s single Lmtd F fg a gras — | Wolfer and Brasill simgled in the ee see an) oe See, ie third for Portland, the latter scoring school team, practically won his) iis « double killing was being made isn game from Renton high school via, send base. Friday on the Foster grounds. The) ‘palawin walked In the seventh and final score was 9 to 1. The win| went to second when Daly threw into right field trying to eatch him off of the bag. Gregg bunted him to third / and Baldwin scored when Poole In spite of the one-sided score, kicked Lane's grounder. the game was well played. Foster)" 00 4 (ie Sa looks ike one of the league leaders | nenton ee er Baa Se a for the rest of the season. 1 ae a Ge a R. 6 : ra e |Foster .. 9 8 Mig” Vee Cas | Renton 1 f4 eg HE Batteries: Foster, Wood and a} Dg atae \Knighton; Renton, K. Gaby a eens ‘ : 2 2 | Richards, McDonalds. eases | ries se | She is nu 4 | x BR. MH. PO, A | oz} i 1 7 ¢@ | Fi Oe ie em Yue te et Se 8 | Kia. f nsseves @ e : e ee | YACIFIC COAST LEAGUE 7. Belawin, bss $ 8 108 8 8 Won tat Pet. | nowman, 1b of 4 : o} 4 rH # eu . , oe oe i pecs win, ¢ «2 1 1 ‘ : ; : , o j OR 4G 0 | There wasn't any room for Jimmy Welsh on the Seattle} agape | TR or pape A a ball club with Bowman going good at first and with BL ng Rt Shi al Ml Rohwer, Lane and Eldred in the outfield, And then Ti | Beare ty innings gg Rohwer hit a batting slump. Trying anything to shake eee Le211031 1-13 the jinx, Killefer benched Rohwer and put Welsh into the mrsvLTs Beat teeeoeierms Beattio 8, Pertiand 4. Mit 410 10 | mene respenaisis tor 2 Struck out-—-Greee 2 | Mases on balle—Oreggs 4, Leverens 1 | Three base hite—Poole, Lane, Miller. wo-base hit—Bowman. Sacrifice hite— } Rune batted In—Daly, T. Baldwin. Caught Double playe—Cutshaw Distel to Benton to Umpires—Phyle and we 2, Levorens Leverens 2 SEATTLE IN game of the high school baseball|team at Ballard 17 to 7 Friday, ONAL ERAGUB POLO Y schedule at Hiawatha. - Ne T wen taek ik PLA Errors cost the Teddies the game. GARFIELD WINS New York . 5 ‘ Hi 'ANCOUVER; Wash., May 10.— Tho Roosevelt club outhit the win-| Garfield gave Queen Anno’s fing | “ineinnatt « oe Broadway trounced Lincoln in a| Desimon; Strout and Harper. lop-sided game at Broadway field The next games in the league aro Friday, 11 to 1. Reynolds had the| booked Tuesday with the following | Rallsplitters tamed at the plate | schedule gren, May and Gove Other games portponed; rain AMERICAN LEAGUE The score: R. H. B| Ballard at Queen Anne; Broadway Won Lest Lincoln .. socseeee 1 6 4} at Roomevelt; Garfield at Lincoln;| New York . 3 § Broadway POR Trai, © ie | | West Seattle at Franklin. ese : j Batteries: Tete, Placek and i ne tees’. : . Engstrom; Reynolds and Henry. | It is said that Carpentier fs broke | st ee a jand if he isn’t he must be cuckoo, | qn FRANKLIN FINALLY WINS | judging by his speedy acceptance of | pijascighia aes After taking many a sock on the (‘a match with Gibbons, All games postpon rain. The Seventh infantry team of Chie 10 MAJORS, SAYS BAGBY pees 16 to 1 but.lest:on boots, hopes an awful wallop Friday by'| iirc , Vancouver barracks today still held Jim Bagby served a long term in oe Souris Ht. Ii, I. | beating the Hill team 10 to 6 at/Pi * its Northwest polo title after de- the American league with the Clevo-| est ee ‘ 10 7 2) Walla Walla, The Bulldogn scored “al fending it successfully yesterday liand Americans and he ought to|Mqevell «i-crscse coe 8 26 4/ nine runs in the first two innings u Jagainst the Oregon Agricultural col- know what he’s talking about when Pay uae medics Tho score: RH. B| liege team in a wearing combat Alexander; Swi Syph 3 — R. nm. £. Weomes te beatae es y patton abbas scot acd eee SS | meme acts i4 a |marked by hard riding, brilitant “Jim Poole hasn't any business tn arfiold ..... 10 11 6)F 13 1 \team work and horsemanship. The the Coast league,’ says Bagby TIGERS WIN Battroles: Brittain, Johnson and and) core ended 12 in favor of to 7 Vancouver barracks, | Lieut. J. G. Christiansen of the | Aggies was unhorsed and three ex- jclted animals stumbled over him, |but he escaped without serious in- 1 | jury, continuing in the game. ’ s0| ‘The second contest of the tourney 1800 | will be played at 3 p. m. today be wag 349 ae tween Boise and Seattle. OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN VS BUS, OL’ HAM~~ IF YOURE GOING APTER YOUR LAUNDRY, wILt NiGET MNNEZ =, TELL HOP HI To EMPTY WS TUB AN’ SEE IF MY DINK SHIRT IS AT TH BOTTOM. ITS BEEN MISSING FOR A MONTH! & You'LL BE COMING BACK BY “TH DRUG STORE,~ DROP WW al! BUY ME ATURE Y| OF SHAVING CREAM = \F 1 EVER GETELECED GOVERNOR, AN’ YouRE DOING A STRETCH FOR LIFE, TLL CUT YouUR SAIL SENTENCE IN HALES © ey OF YOU HAVE A DATE wrth TH’ DENTIST, HAVE Nou? — \F You DiD, I \| THOUGHT ID “TAKE YouR PLACE AN! GET A FEW TEETH PULLED OUT FOR WAR > a MING THE WALTZ ON BUSTER ——- TILDEN PLAYS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, May 10—Several |conferences between William Tilden Jand the club factions which are | backing him in the controversy with the tennis association of the “player- | writer’? issue, are expected to be held here over the week end, Tilden will be here for three exhibition matches Saturday and Sunday and tt {s under- | stood that his supporters will ask him to confer with them on cam. paign plans. SARAZEN WINS DRIVING MEET Gene Sarazen, former open cham- pion, won a driving contest at the rassy Sprain club In the Metropoll- lan district recently with a swat measuring 255 yards. Jim Barnes’ best effort was only 226 yards, SPORTS RAY TO RACE WATSON SOON Jole Ray, one of the world's great- est milers, is in training for the Olympic games. He will run a spe- clal race against Ray Watson, Iili- nois A, C. star, at Lincoln, Neb., May 24, U. S. SOCCER — CLUB TO SAIL ‘The United States Soccer club sails Saturday for Paris and the Olympic games, Nineteen men are being tak- en on the trip and play begins May 26. } ROBERTS IN DRAW SAN JOSE, Cal, May 9.—Young Hank Roberts, of San Jose, fought a draw with Tim Callaghan of Portland, Ore, in the main event here last night. ‘They are welter. weights. Al Smith is to be the wets’ presi- dential candidate. ... It goes with. b | Y was playing for the Lo Seattle and had two of the greatest years of his career right here in former pupil is matching wits TA) TATE LPIA SU arr to Ke Ou DSL WYN GA » j ARPT =) er tied the can to Bill Kenworthy when the I Du Angeles team, then m saged by the present att g eye was dimmed by a growth in one of his opt j 1 ed to quit. He had the growth removed *ortland club in the same leagu h K with the former boss. And the boss ha. chalk up three wins to one for the ener he | IAT much-talkedof model nine hole links of the Rainler Golf and Country club will swing open to play at 12:20 this afternoon, with the club president, Nelson Troyer, driving the |. first ball off the tee The opening of this new nine gives Rainier a full 18-hole course mark that has been almed at ever since ¢ club organized in 1920. While all the members have of course done their bit toward the put ting over of the 18-hole scheme, it |would be amiss at this opportune time not to say @ little something about the men behind the guns. First of all comes Charlie Reynojds, | father of the organization and first president, who set the wheels in mo- tion for this golf rendezvous, | An entrance feo of $2. will be And then there was Evart Lamp-| charged, and all entries must be in ing and Ray Ogden, past presidents |the hands of Mrs. R. Knox Roberts and very active members of the pres-| Seattle Golf club, on or before &. ent directorate, who pulled the club | urday, May 24. over a very rocky road and into the| Assisting in the handling of the straight before turning the reins over | tournament with Capt. Mrs. Roberts to Nelson Troyer, the man who p!-|are four well known figures in local loted it under the wire—a winner. | golfdom, namely: Mra. H. D. Moss, Insofar ap the real construction | Miss Helen Farrell, Mrs. R. Stafford work of the new nine is concerned, | 994 Mrs. H. M. Pease. namely, Dr. O. J. West, | whose discoveries of water springs Because of the fact that only pe . to Gate, the prowoman tournament tem for the entire course at a small) | scheduled to be played at the Grays m1 c of soll} expense, and whose knowledge of sol Couatiy’ tut, | Auecdeie: and grasses helped to give the Rain- | #4rbor lerites the real article; Bob Johnstone, retinal reli Pend He haa been the veteran professional of the Seattle |", pb arnt phos re : Golf club, who planned the course; |).4.0 pene ‘as ari te at yes A. Veron Macan, the well known Vic-| 4,00), is & mecting of the | direct: toria amateur golfer and links archi. | {rectors of the Washington State | Women’s Golf : tect, who supervised the construction | s+. cine the association, which is work of this model layout; Frank | Noble, the club’s professional, and |Greenskeeper Fred Counter. This|nouncement of the change of dat latter pair have been right on the Job | yesterday, : from the start and are well worthy | enough ’ of special mention at this time when champlonship is golng to be staged with all the frills and finish of a state meet, play. | Miss Helen Farrell, the associa- jtion’s president, in making the an- nthosiasm would be in- Jected into the various clubs in the Seattle is asking the question Of! Northwest within the next few “Who is responsible for the bulld-Idays to insure a very strong and ing of that beautiful new nine at the |representative list of entries to be Rainier Golf and Country club?” on hand at Aberdeen, June 7, Doubtless we have failed to men-| The trophies have been purchased tion many hard workers, but what isj/and everything Is In readiness to most important is the fact that the|stage this golf test, which will be | dream of the Rainier Golf and Coun-jthe first of its kind ever held on try club comes true, today, with the |@ny golf links, anywhere opening of the nine holes, giving its} Everett, Bellingham, Aberdeen and members a full 18-hole travel. Olympia are the clubs entered, but President Helen Farrell is going to start burning up the wires in an effort to get every club in the North- west on the field. 0 EATTLE'S fair sex golfers are now turning their attention to the second annual city championship tournament, to be held on the Seattle Golf club links May 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31, and from the present outlook, a large nutnber of entrants will teeoff. Mrs, R. Knox Roberts, captain of busy one for the members of the Inglewood Country club, as it will mark the official opening of . : ts, cal the season at the lake shore links the North Jind women's Oivishon 381 coy Capt. Jim dBlake will eel te 4 f working hard to make this affair 8! iads off on match play competi. huge success, and no stone will be| left unturned to gather together a] ionutnine pose” today. Driving, field that will rival in class that of |Win be held this ereneny Content & sectional links test. Tomorrow's feature event will be Play will open with the regulation jing jeap year foursome tournament qualifying round on May 27, and the} with the fair nex doing the cone 16 low qualifiers will continue on at ling or, lest we be mlaindarsheok ie match elimmation play. Aside from |selecting of their male partners for the championship circle, three flights |this particular game of golf, Quite will also be provided, and this latter} 4 novelty, Skipper Blake, and one plan will undoubtedly be the means/that should be player oftenes before of adding many more starters to the }the season {¢ over. - tournament. Nor has the junior division at In- Some time within the next few/giewood been forgotten in the mak- days Capt. Mrs. Roberts will send out |ing up of this season's opening pro- posters and entry blanks to the va-|gram of évents. The juntors will rious clubs in the city. Oh, yes, this}engage in a handicap metal play second annual women’s city golf|competition tomorrow afternoon. \MONTANA IS | BEATEN BY | Game Chatter HUSKY NINE) s.'isi.oce8 test organ restestar, ue bore the Jinx the Beavers had on ASHINGTON's bail club hung/against the Pertiandes se ise) om up a 7 to 8 victory over the University of Montana nine in a Northwest conference gamé_ played on Denny fleld here yesterday aft. ernoon, | It was a loose» contest, The jWwnd-swept dusst, which, at times, |hia the players from view from |the stands, was partially: responsible for the poor brand of ball offered by the collegians. The students of the universily would do well to wet the field down a little before future contests, Morgan went the entire route for Washington, while O'Connor stuck {t out for the Grizzlies, The two teams were to play again this afternoon, Both Gregg and Leverenz were in Plenty of trouble several times yesterday, but smart pitching in the pinches kept the score down, Twice Portland hitters popped skiers above Sammy Crane's dome, and both of Bragll hit one, and was oh it into a double. ‘When he alld into the ne to He was badly hoy bag. Bowman hit two yesterday, beating out « roller and crashing a double down the third base line, ‘The usually reliable Poole kicked the easiost kind of & chance in the seventh, that let in the winning run, Clift Brady was on the side lines with an Injured foot. Cutshaw filled in second daso acceptadly, Tom Daly had a big day Friday, col: The score— R. H. BE, | lecting three singles and a walk, Montana s...s.secseseees 8 5 8) aetcke attired got two. bingles, and Washington seeeee T 8 4) chalked up the day asa success, Batteries: O'Connor and Long; Morgan and Boyd. EAGLES PLAY EVERETT NINE Tho crack Seattle Eagles baseball club will journey to Everett Sunday to play the strong Everett Independ- ents. The game will be played at Eliott park there at 2:16 o'clock, Everett hag a fast club, having de feated some fast Seattle teams, while the Eagles have won five of the si games played this season, The following local players will leave the Eagles club Sunday morn- WILLIAMS’ TEAM WINS FIRST GO Nick Williams, former business manager of the Seattle Indains, led his Eureka team to a 3-1 victory over Arcata on his home field in the open- ing game of the Humboldt league in California recently. Williams’ team is a farm for young San Francisco recruits, WELLS GETS OVER Billy Wells, the clever English welterweight, has done very well in his California stay, losing but one out saying that the party slogan will be free sliver flasks ing at 10 o'clock; Roy Rounds, verdict—that to Jimmy Di Cloary Pleasance, "Red" Kemp, | Oakland, And it’a ne disgrace 2 love etty” Colcarro, Bill McKinley,|t> the ‘Oakland Shadow in four Red” McNamee, “Yoolle” Hannah, | rounds, Wells. has beaten Bart Luther Chambers, Del. Harper, Hu-! Colima, Ray Long and Johnny bert Mitchell, Pike McClellan, Barl/G*Donnoll in Los Angeles, He also Wyatt and Bly Caston ‘ [fought a draw with Dufty, ; expressed the beef thaty:? * es TTPHIS week-end lis going to be a”: ©