The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 4

Beavers, Solons and Seals on Tribe Trip - Coming Journey Will Test Real Mettle of Indians; Sacramento Is Beginning to Show; Seals Danger- ous Club on Their Home Field; Other Ball Gossip BY LTHO fir LEO H. LASSEN — the Nc eattle Indi three-week road trip an are / the Vernon Tige e that will test their mettle and, Sacramento and San Francisco s the route mapped out for the Killifer clan before they return home They come back th ist Los en for a two-week stand aga An geles and San Francisco before going on the * road ag ‘ Portland has been mopping up on Oakland this week and ‘ sit may be that the Beavers are finding themselves again & The Rose City aggregation is a hard-hitting crew and if ~ they get any kind of pitching they hard to beat in that Portland park macramer ping at t s beginning to climb and the Solons are snap: the cellar be now riding in heels They Beavers’ ave nd, and — ; th place. ley Pick has 5 Scout is HERE en getting better pitching + ree San Francisco is the best home _ |ENGLE VISITOR| cv so George Engle, Washington] liiem on th wn lot Ue visitor i eae. even: breth ingle is looking over t! Coast m th a v league boys and will be in the | /succe West for some time Joe Devine, Pittsburg scout, ts || BRADY IS “MAKING” Also in Seattle. The local ball || SEATTLE CLUB PFvard is becoming quite a haven |} There are a number of ve tor the ivory hunters. valuable players on the Seattle club and they would be hard to re | place if they should be lost to the Local Golfers. |= Preparing for a red and his big bat; Sam of the best short in the minors; Ted Baldwin, | ng third aacker; Billy Lane, Vean Gregg. ri Bald | stor | the hust! the steady centerfielder: . the pitching ace, and I itle M eet! win, a steady fe! behind the log, a © team men-—but giving every BY ALEX C, ROSE aon O ue, -, {it must be admitted that Cuf BATTLE golfers, at least 150 of |. 5. the haif-pint second sacker, them, are beginning to pack theltli, the fellow who has “made” the trunks, so to speak, to get in readi- | 71 10°. / Himess to make the journey to Van-| "AAU 1 cugced up the weak-| abode fim ber acta i in the Seattle defense, Not rere in the an. [oDly. can he execute plays, fleiding e well and throwing with a lot of are tid 8 | but he has brains and ts Northwest Golf | Power association's |the pivot o ¢ hamplonships |! Smart at f the whole infield, Brady the plate, too, and rthwest. Art is a forme University of ing players of the city, and Howard is the Seattk holder. Art is pictured on the left, Howard in the center, and “Windy” on the right. { ft - wett Ripa The Langlie Boys, Seattle’s Famous Tennis Brothers The most famou family tennis team in Seattle is the Langlie trio—Art, “Windy” and Howard. They rank with the best racquet wielders in this section and can hold their own in the be “Windy” is one of the rank- champ and Northwest junior title- t compar Washington ¢ high schoc iptain, i i in ~ RERoxvanvsd i a meet, June 20 to 28, Inclusive. Whether or not any titles will be won by any of crowd remains 4 A to be seen, but ROSE certain it ts that * Seattle will have the largest out-of- jown delegation present at that greatest of all golfing carnivals. Amongst those of Seattle's lead- ing linksmen who will be missing from the Vancouver arena are Lee Steil, last year’s runner-up in the =mateur field, and Gordon Haw, the Jefferson park champion, who leaves within the next few days to compete in the national public links cham- pionship in Dayton, Ohio. Steil may + be able to make the trip, but at the present writing he Starter. » Aside from this pair, however, all "the local stars will be on hand to “take a crack at the open, amateur and women’s titles. Final detafis and arrangements for » the handling of the tournament will | be made at a meeting of the direct Ors to be held in Vancouver today. Several members of the profession- al body have been asked to act as Scorers and starters in the amateur, Women and handicap events, which is a departure from that of previous years. a Another departure from the old system may develop this yeur. If the amateur field continues to grow, and present indications point that Way, the qualifying round of the Women’s championship is likely to he played on the Burnaby links, the home of the Vancouver Country club, Which is going to assist in the han- @iing of the Northwest handicap eld. Anyway, it's going to be a gre: Show, is this 1924 golf meet at Van Couver June 20 to 28, inclusive. EING-OFF at 10 o'clock to- morrow morning, Jack West Tand, the defending champion, and Harold Niemeyer will start off on 36-hole match, the result of which will determine who's who at the Inglewood Country club links. Both of these youngsters have been play- ing remarkably fine golf lately and tomorrow's match should be well worth following. The flights finals, which will also nole route, will follow the championship match and will bring together Claude Stanley and W. J. “Bill Benton in the first Slight; Theo Leman and Archie Taft, in the second and Charlie Sherriff und F. 8. yley in the third. HEY just can’t seem to get along without Frank Atkins at F ington. The big skipper was out of fown last week-end and the tomb stone competition scheduled for last Sunday was not played. When the hoss is gone the cards aro not dealt Not at arlington. Wonder why? However, there's going to plenty of thin, Jads to slioot ut and for, tomorrow ptain Atkins is again in our midst und will be on hand to seo that the qualifying round of the club cham pionship, competition (full ndleap wance) and that tomb lone event Js played off. Three big acts in one day is quite a program Capt be WEISMULLER WINS INDIANAPOLIS, June 6.—Johnny Weismuller, winning the 100 meters freestyle swim in the final Olympic tryouts, broke the Olymple record by one second, Duke Kahanamoku, who made the record at Antwerp in 1920, was second and his fam, third, brother, this) is a doubtful} for the Black river| a big factor In the Indians’ offens ive. Right now Brady {s the most valuable man on the Seattle pa roll. SHELLENBACK | DESERVES CREDIT Frank Shellenback belongs tn }baseball’s hall of fame. The Vernon righthander went thru |two painful operations in order to save his pitching arm. Ho had an {Injured bone removed from his elbow and when the hand |went bad on him, Shellenback had another operation performed in hich a nerve was transplan n his elbow. He had to spend over alx months with electric treatment to re vitalize his throwing arm after the second operation Now he's as good as ever and | reaping the rewards of patience Friday's game over Vernon, it wasn’ wonderful 19-Inning the first | MURPHY IS HIGH CLASS CATCE Danny Murphy 1s coming into his own with the Vernon Tigers. For & couple of seasons he caught food t any means ball, but “Truck” Hannah had al.| Back in 1920 he lost a 17-inning ways received all of the publicity |duel while pitching for Vernon and overshadowed Murphy in the|against Seattle, Socks Siebold beat- leyes of the bugs. But Murphy to- lday is every bit as good a catcheras a |Hannah, which {s saying something, |, Asin in 1922 he worked tn a 17- jas Hannah is a pretty sweet receiver, Poning gumne, beating Pat in Murphy fs like Archie Yelle at San | S@" Francisco 2-1. | Francisco. For a couple of years| And Friday he pitched hin greatest Sam Agnew got all of the catching | ©xtra-inning contest, the battle going leredit, but Yelle has come into his | 19 frames CADORE, in jown and ts now ranked as one of the | best receivers in the minors L the longest game on big league records, is a member of the present jing him 3-1, Shea SON who worked | Neither Murphy nor Yelle are the acular figures that Hannah and Agnew are, and yet they're mighty 3 | vernon tear jvaluable men doing their work be. | *°7P° ‘eam | spe hind the log and that’s what counts,| 0" May 1, 1920 Cadore pitched ee ie innings against Boston to a 1-1 th | Joe Oeachger, now with the Ne ms York Giants, hurled the entire div | y For three days 1 couldn’ my arm after that game," Open Title dore. “We played four hours, the 1 gamo being called in the 26th inning From Jones because of darkness, It took the life out of my pitching and I'v 7 June 7. na- | Never felt the same since. It is ask | golf title is back |!" too much of a pitcher to work jthat long, but you don’t think of | runty lide. New | tat when you're out there on; the | Jersey : , who emigrated | Mil from England 10 years ago, proved | best a field of 84 in two days’ R° MURPHY, now with Vernon play at Oakland Hills, and wrested ag playing in a Seattle uniform from Bobby Jones the crown which | in the longest game a Seattle Coast that young man waged quite @ bat-| league team ever played in, It was tle to defend. in 1921, during the first week of the Jones, an amateur, was second in| season at Los Angeles, Seattle won this year’s open, losing by three|in 22 innings, scoring five runs in trokes the title he won at Inwood|the 22nd, Murphy hitting a triple | last year, |with three on, Hunky Schorr pitch- Walker, * at Engle-|ed most of that game for tho In wood, Jones was|dians, The remarkable feature was second followed by Bill|that both teams scored in the 17tls | Mehlhorn, . Louls “pro,” with 361, and Walter Hagen, MacDonald |rryiiy freakiest extrainning game |Smith and Bobby Cruikshank, with 304. | 1 over played in Seattle was a 17 |inning battle with Oakland a couple for sentimental reasons the gallery would, have. iiked te coe | of years ago. ‘They battled along on young Bobby Jones auccesatuily ae,|even terms until tho 17th frame, fend hin title this year, Walker's | When Joe Dalley blew up and Oak. | victory is m nource of satisfaction |M#M4 scored five runs, including to his friends among the profeasion.|2OM® run sock by Denny Wille. als, Victory for Jones would have Seattle came Ke with four runs meant nothing but the honor oe x TTY 7 | Ke Walker, in fees and prizes Canfield Twirls which the open champion can pick ‘ | up thr country, ff means One-Hit Contest} He Eek ptt th toae ee | LOB ANGELES, June 7%—Carroll Walker, » diminutive that he | Canfield, crack Sacramento twirler, | himself had feared his 120 pounds |came within an ace of pitching a bey not give him the strength to|no-hit, norun game here yesterday | wrest vi from the long, hard | when he allowed Los Angolos but course at Oakland Hills, won despite |one it. ‘The Solons won thelr his feara and spite the fast that | fourth straight game, 2 to 0. Hood he way in such a position in the | made the only hit off Canfield. | field that he al s knew tho worst | he acore nm '—knew what his op) ents had ac. | Sa hig jento 10 complished, and the mark he had to |*Aqnitin nd icstivty: dostne,. thy shoot at vich and Jenkins, Wheezer Dell Has Been in Three Long Battles HEN Wheerer Dell triumphed In in | long mound battle that he had been | 'Salt Lake Loses to New Pitcher FRANCISCO, Mar Where Star SAN June ty Griffin, new Seal twirler ned back Salt Lake bh yeate ‘ to 2, in his first Coast jeague game The score RM 2 Tossers Are “to Do Stuff SATI Dell Bests Vernon Ace in Thriller Pénner Defeated by Seat- tle Veteran in Longest Coast League Game Wwures DELL, the Coast league pitchers, pit J ttle into second place in the I race Vride he ou! Ken Penner, aco of the Vernor in the longest Coast league game ever staged here Beattle and Vernon traveled 19 in nings before the Indians broke thru |with the run that guye the locals a | 43 verdict The game was th its lineup during the remarkable feature t neither team Beattle scored two r ond frame when Jimr over the right field wall, scoring Brick Eldred ahead of him THIRD RON | UNEARNED | Seattle de othe n the next nning when Jack Warner kicked an leasy chance with the bases full, Dell | scoring. From there until the 19th Penner jehut the Indians out | Vernon's three tying runs came jover in the seventh. Warner and Griffin singled and McDowell tripled |past Lane, Brady kicked a chance at second and McDowell singled. A Gouble play finally pulled Dell out Three times during the afternoon, | Penner had walked E pinch to get at Ted Baldwin and each time |it worked, But in the 18th Penner | tried it once too often and the scrap: py third eacked kicked thru with the hit that scored Lane with the win run, Lane had walked and successive sacrifices had placed him on third, Eldred was passed and Baldwin singled to center ending the xame. CHADBOURNE MAKES WONDERFUL CATCH Chet Chadbourne, the premier cen terfielder of the league, turned in one of the greatest catches ever seen in the Rainier valley ball yard that saved the Tigers trouble tn the sixth. Welsh was on third and Dell hit a sinker to center that curved away from Chadbourne. It was about 60 miles per hour and “Chad” caught the ball with his gloved hand Just above the ground. Both sides threatened in the extra frames. Vernon had two men on bases in the 13th, 15th and 17th, but couldn't score. BRADY NEARLY TALLIES | Welsh tripled in the 11th with none out, Crane filed out, Red Bald win was parsed. Dell fanned and Lane was retired on an infield out In the third Brady walked, Rohwer bunted him along and Eldred was passed. Baldwin hit to Warner, Eld. red was forced and Brady broke for plate, but was doubled at the the plate, Griffin, to McDowell to Mur-/ phy It was the game of the year and |by winning it the Indiang took sec- fond place in the flag race ‘The box score of the record-break- er follows: going | RDAY. JUNI REDSKINS ARE FACING THREE TOUGH WEEKS OF PLAYING ON ROAD Seattle Indians Win 19-Inning Game By 4-3 Score About Fights jand Fighters BY LEO H. LASSEN i hig eed fight fans w be in for something new a week from today wher Dan Salt and Lon Aust stage the first ternoc open air show ball park. ing the summer ti 1 the New York ball 5 are all the rage in the East and have been for some time The Dempsey-Firpo tangle wes put on in the Polo Grounds in the afternoon, The ring for the Seattle amoker will be erected over the home a single press row arow | All of the rest of the seats » |in the stands which will insure ¢ bugs of protection in case of ra The smoker will start at Dp. m. an been complet of the first prelim: ve. Marcaric va, Joe Gor y Titus Fred Cullen va. Mel Berg, and one bout to be a Titus is th 'y newcomer on the fistic menu and he comes with & good reputation from Los Angeles Russ Pierce Is \Going Big Russ Pierce, the human sla | Diego, Francisco. sistently Th he weighs around 138 pounds now Pierce, in spite of his comic build |can sock and box and knows how t | fight. He may be lined up some time this summer to fight Bob Harper ! |Big Open Air | Show in Aberdeen Aberdeen is to try an ope |show July 4, with Ted/Krache fi ing Eddie Roberts six rounds. Rob erts beat Krache badly last * and Krache has been after ano chance ever since. It will be card in Aberdeen. | Grote-Rankins _ Leading League The Grote-Rankin baseball by winning its sixth straight gam Thursday from the Piper & Ts nine, 4 to 3, retained Its lead in r | Commercial league. | Lowry pitched a nicé game for the tean itw half of the Inni c Vernon PO, the ty Saye on frit Kane Sho ana < HE Star League teams will be in| che 4B, RY. PO. Ay E./ winners, str ; fh ada Wie saliva action Sunday with the following oe ‘ : whois tnt Late a he si as retir rs seyeee > 0 ‘ ¢| h inning that brought the 4 0 2 tally Peters ES GRIFFIN, Vernon second Oakland Wins Georgetown Cubs vs. Sunset Hill : § : starred at the bat tor tine Seas aicbac ks laying or UME Grer Portland Improvement club at Adams at 10) Warne EEE ECR ¢| Brandt and Langlie played nice in the Western league last year and) ponTLAND, June 7 asst Sees ‘ eens vey oy $e toe, Seaport wont Sea In m game with St. Joo both teams | tyrce, ca Ne e's 7 ‘Oakland Western Union vs. Ballard Bull. | Penner, p ..-ee-0. 8 _"|team. The score: R #H counted five times tn the 16th inning. | surned, om ole yesterday after. | dogs at Adams at 4 p. m. “31 1 | Grote-Rankin . .4n : z re “g gis Phat the Beavers, 16 Rg ‘s Syave'y vs. South Take} | AB % br Tel ees & Taft. ~3 @ 2 ‘ = 2 nas a at Mercer at noon. | atteries—Lowry and Loudermilk NDOUBTEDLY the most thrill.| The seore— R HM. ® | Junior Advance club vs, South | t ° ° ¢ | Brandt and Sullivan, ing extr ning contest ever 4 3 1 | Lake a at 10 a. m. | ps ee °| dished up for ttle diamond bugs Eckert, I Mercer vs. Arden Cubs at Ae Pk °| was that famous Service-Shipyard South Park at noon. bei 4 game In 1918, the Shipyard boys win: The Fahey-Brockman and Three 6 0 ° ning 2-1 in 21 innings. Walter Mails fh of the | Brothers Dye Works game booked Ad ud} allowed but even hits and fanned home |for Columbla, has been postponed.| 4.41, @ 4 48 BF here Friday in the h the White ing. The b 19 In that men were fl the battle game, No less than 14 ged at the plate during sporting editor of The Star today BY AHERN DONT LET Him BLOW ANN oF THAT STEAM ON Nou, LAWSON! TLL Stow You How-to PITCH A CURVE “THAT 1 CALLED “TH’ “coRNER LOAFER” * ALL —TH' BATTER DOES, IS STAND ATH’ PLATE WITH His HANDS IN HIS POCKETS! | OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY DOVE Lawson, MILAD™ SOME DAV T WILL “TEACH You How “To PricH A Few OF THE CURVES THAT MADE ME. FAMOUS IN MY DAY AG A“TWIRLER! ONE IN PARTICULAR, WAG “THE “BOOMERANG BALL*”«<I DIDNT NEED A CATCHER FoR THAT ONE, «+ IT GYRATED BACK “TO ME, AFTER HE BATEMAN | MI VT Paw ISSED IT! nA L PricH Que Z BETTER “THAN THAT Now !< I CALL IT TH “BOOTLEG BALL'S I THROW 1T FROM “TH HIP, AN! rT GOES UNDER “TH BATTERS! NOSE = THREE WHIFFS, AN’ HES | | | WINDMILLS 1h he AcTION — ; ha | The manager of the Fahey-Brockman team should get in touch with the *Two out when winning run aco: Score by innings Vern, 0000002000000009000- Hitao1t 02100102100 1— Seat 1 00000000000 1— Hite.022 110100000102—15 Runs responsible for—Penner 3, Dell out—Penner 9, Dell 4. Bases o} balls—Penner 7, Deil 6. Hit by pitch ball—Menoeke: Stolen bases—Eldred, Brady, Home run—W Three-base hite—MeDowell, Welsh, ritlce hits Brady, Crane, Deal, Rohwer, key. hadbourne MeDowell 2, Brady to! Runa batted tn Double plays: Crane to Welsh; W |to Brady to Welsh, to McDowell; Murph to Griffin to Mi » Seattle 17, 15. Umpires: Ish, to Murphy, Vernon 17. Time— | Becker and Guthrie ‘| Game Chatter i} Ted Baldwin turned in another ono of | his great backhanded robbed Charley first inning, It wi is work, Seattle made no leas {han five double plays during the game, four of the pivoting around second base and W. catches when 1 of a double tn ti & maryelous ptece | making one unassisted. Vernon mi three, Yrid ne was murder to some of | | the athletes’ batting sen. Rohwer | went to tho plate seven times without | |e hit and Menoskey elght. | Dell saved his game tn the ninth, G } fin singled for starter, 3 | Ing to bunt, fanned. | terfully to him. He threw the first by high and inside and {t fouled off of d | Dowell's bat. The next pitch was sweoping curve that McDowell missed completely and the third, Wheerer bus Jed thru for a strike, If McDowell had |bunted tt Would have: put Griffin. in | Porition vo score ax Penner followed with a singlo againat the right field fence ick wanted (0 take Penner ont | 18th for Vines, fearing that he would hurt his arm, but Penner w to stick it out As | | | Tane led the Seattle hitters with four | singles } | Grifi(n and Dakesiey both singles for Vernon. hit tour Blakesley singled int | y ningled in the 1hth | | Baldwin ploked him off of tiret with e| | Donutiful throw, tis apectatty, [Brookirn . | Oineinnatt LEAGU! on Los Pittsburg .... Boston .... Bt. Louis. Philadelphia ..... Chicago at New York postponed Pittsburg at Brooklyn postponed Eg. At Boston— Ri Incinnatt 2 8 e 13 Ben! Genewich At Philadelphia— - Louis . North, “Doak, Gonzales; Ring and Wilson. AMERICAN LEAGUE Won w York .. Ne: Be Ww st Louls Chicago... Philadelphia... Cleyeland At Chicago— few, York . Chicago tsts see! Ratteries—Jones, Pennock and Schanss MeWeeny and Crouse, Burns mF. At Detroit Washington Detroit ry 4 : Ratterios—Johnaon and Ruel; Waite Nall, Ludolph and Bassler n At Cleveland Fe. Philadelphia Clevoland Ratteriew Perkinw n Moeker Smith, Ras Morton and I. 8 BASEBALL VERNON vs. SEATTLE GAME OALLED AT 2:30 Welsh led in total bases with eight. | lite smacked &@ homer, triple and single. BE acn. 0169 For TICKETS