The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 12, 1924, Page 8

Vean Gregg Ambitious to Return to Big Show) Veteran Pitcher Thinks ELLISON GETS BREAKS IN STRATEGY; SEALS WIN} He Could Win in Majors Gregg Points Out That Joe Martina and Elmer Jacobs Star League Class B Finals Will Begin Sunday Went Back, and They Have Been Winni They Aren't Kids, Either; Go EAN GREGG is ambitious. Thirty-nine years young, Gre ck to the big show! The tall lefthander, who is the best south paw pitcher in this man’ gue, ing to take a whirl in t ball's fastest com- pany again. Some 138 years ago, when most of his present am mates were grammar hool, Gregg was the greatest lefthander in baseball. Billy Evans, the best umpire the game, says that Gregg had the finest curve ball he ever saw. And after a few seasons of super-success, Gregg’s left arm lost some of its magic. They said it was too many curve balls that did it. Gregg Will Be Pci Hprtnadleghgr ey Honored Sunday ||", QIUNDAY will be Vean Gregg’s e big left ha effective pitchers in ng, and wants to go econds, | manager, Lonnie Austin has a yearn- He tried comeback Seatti¢, and thi ear wet the | T mos gue t of the games he lost will be hone t them were lost by one run Je fans HE “ARRIVED” It had been or nally plann THIS SPRING to hold it Fri- last year he did better, but this] day, but it was|/season the Old Master bas pitched qstponed as} |marvelous baseball, and it has been Red” Killefer}/his flinging that has been largely is figuring ||responsible for putting the Indians upon pitching ||in the pennant fight Gregg Sunday, And with his success has come | Winning 10]/the ambition to return to baseball straight games |/ fastest company, | for the Indians|} “Joe Martina, well along in his} this spring, ||30s, was bought by Washington, Greggs turned |/and he's winning,” says Gregg, “and Elmer Jacobs ie no kid, elther, but in the best pitching feat |/he's winning for the Chicago Cubs. | that any Seat- | CURVE BALL BETTER, | te hurler has \aey Gk eisai done in years, I may not be as fast as I once GREGG Not only isthe |} was, but I am having better suc ig veteran a great pitcher, but |/cess with the old hook than I have » has mado himself solid with |/for years," declares the big left- attle fans by his willingness to || hander,” and I would certainly lke oitch “at any time and his fine |/a chance to pitch a few games for spirit, winning or losing. one of the big league teams.” D. Dugdale, dean of seat- |] Gregg, in spite of his long service He's baseball men, will presenc ||!" the game, is wonderfully active, } regs with a remembrance from |/®0d he takes such good cara of him. Stacy Shown, the dean of Sect. ||¢lf that he has a lot of baseball Tahitans jleft in that long left arm. | He would be particularly valuable | for a relief man in the dig time be- | jeause he can certainly bear down }for a few innings, and there are} & | mighty pitchers in baseball who | | io eae oc throw 2 x ° Park Tennis 3 fis, Sse": Final Training } Thirt fh c 0 anc bf L Will Uiouy t go to the De laenat | for Boxers on eague Will “vai e,2 tens tae Of course there will be flowers nd the usual trimmings | baseball's 's fountain of youth! Ba Tuesday Card Open Season Bree | Boze* HARPER and Dode Bercot, | D the main eyenter Tuesday's LAY was to begin today in the | Bri tishers Defeat bodlag. shows EL the Paaitis. < Star-Woodland park tennis league | Yankee Links Stars }league park, were winding up their tk : with matches booked for today and | ; Prat enmal tart ¥ ‘DON, July 12.—Abe Mitchell | k Saturday in out-of-town resorts Sunday. Hatper ia at Be agi and Gee © rT arit. | arper wa. ‘ c n All matches must be completed {824 Fees roe nL eral Bt lace Round! While' Benet wae at over the week-end and the captains |)" P' @ measure of Walter | m over Hagen ‘acid \Mathonaia seat | the Big Four Inn, in the mountain: are responsible for the results being | OE te ee nlc de thle “Phat Shettreenc'thead’ ture peso match play over 72 holes, the last | The schedule follows, the players |*% of which were completed at Oxhe: setting their own playing time: Friday. The Britishers won four up| SATURDAY jand two to play, The prizes were season's attendance record is ex pected to be broken Tuesday night. ank Kozlowski vs, Morton Robinson, ¢ Oldham vs. Leo Lagerstrom, Georg Rider ys. Earl Wilson, Geno Resos vs. Clyde O'Rear, Typ mpeg Kozlowski and Whittet vs. McLean and field, Lagerstrom and Rider vs, pounds for the losers, p Webster vs. Roy Small, welter Georges Carpentier | ¥«i«it» . B Harms v J Lee, middle. art White va. Jon Swarts, Che May Quit for Good «ins ephens, Ezra Pope va. Hayes. If Georges Carpentier is defeated| Irish Circacio vs. Mickey Gill, ban White and Pope vs. Stephens and iby Gene Tunney, American light |tamwelghts Schwartz, Lightfoot and Ruffeora vs. | heavyweight champions é rete aera ay Fe aid Carrie and Kelly. |heavywelght champion, when th | a y yf" Dick Burr va. R. W. Hart, Windy Lang- | ights meet July 24, the Frenchman will | dlev lie vs. Howard Weisenborn; Nelson Rob- |hang up hig gloves for good und can- | inson va. Mel Dranga, C. C. Williams va. | oo! ait future engagements, according port and Langile ys. Kelchner ana |t0 an announcement made the other |ortland Is Again day by Francois Deschamps, his Beaten by Angels John Henry, Willams and Dranga ve. Disley and Kidwell manager, in New York. 0 SO es SS ee 12.—Portland’s Earl White vs. Howard Welenborn, ninth-Inr 1 short yester va O Willoma RW. Hart vn Deve Eiankie: Britt a | day and Lox Angeles won its fourth straight game from the Meet Bud Ridley |: Portland outhit thi kshank sud Ridley, Seattle featherweight, | to 13. The Po avers, 9 to Angels, 17 ore: Rk. H. EB. White and Pope vs. Dranga, Lightfoot and Kelchner and Henry. pa Bet wag ir Ve weriee Richard will meet Frankie Britt of Tacoma in| Los Angeles + 9 13 2 Mi Ota tes Gy ae Olean Georke Rider | the tain event of the smoker to bel Portiand:, ’.. 817 A va, Nelson Robinson. staged at Olympia, July 22, In the | Batterles— Myers einert, Dumo- Dick Burr and Windy Langiie vs. Leo |vemi-wind-up, Rocky Pebbles boxes | vich, Root and Jenkins; Leverenz, BAeERe Ck haltoen co ed Siren | Kid Mandes, | Bedient and Cochran, Daly and Bob D! Here’s how Dode Bercot and Bob Harper will Jo¢ six-round scrap at the ball t Forbes and “Sad” Sam Belkin fic oan [Due the recent city tennis the jority of the match welters has been long {n dgmand, the | without was common in most of the compet. ted te Hehe | tion ing Olympic 00 pounds for the winners and 109| Promoter Nate Druxman has lined good supporting card.’ It fol-| step before serv when they are forced to faults in the late rour ing event in point of class t m match. FI rou important ay semi-final wot National Game | How They'll Look in Ring Tuesday| Baseball Boys Play for Shield South Lake, Arden Cubs, J, A. C. and Georgetown in Fight for Title bet Class B final in the ring before starting their park Tuesday Harp reot is on the right, with his Referee Ad Schacht s pictured in the middle, 4 bs, Btar Staff Photoeraphe Foot-Faults Should Be Called in State Play BY LEO H. LASSEN And while Ray Rohwer was his homer and two Friday, little Brick Ki ked up another three-out tournament that was held Seattle Tennis club the great ma of-five, Ho, hum! ed ng pla mpires and foot-fa N the exciteme dian series, t of the Bea reams of # peing printed about the record:-t pping over the line before hit-|nis and golf tournament the. ball much play in the pre a complete ing common mpetent pire jwtil! going. ‘The It works a hardship on the it son h of a cham: | pass his mi pus matches. 140, He socked 42 las state tournament is the lead-| Some of the 1 have in a tennis way plaining of the lighting system in 1 and {t's up to the tournament | the ring at the ball park shows, ser to obtain umpire fof each) saying that the light is too glar- nd play is just as| ing to look into from the stands. ents: | A big shade over each globe s restricted | would easily remedy ‘this. Most of the ‘umpiring jto the players themselves and they | should be good sports enough to um pire for otherx while they're not amateur athletics. | playing themselves, It will not only} Among the simon purew the game improve the play, but will lend more /is the thing whfle among the pro-| I dignity to the whole tournament {fessionals victory means their livell- | ohue ry: Frank Kowlowskt vs. Joo Swartz, Gene Oldham ys. O. T. Stephens, Earl Wilxon va, Chet Duett, R. Kelly y Renos. Kozlowski and Whittet Duett and Currie, Schermer and Oldham ys, Ste. phens and Swartz. : OUR BOARDING HOUSE Ohio State Stadium Paying Proposition | Now that the standing committtee | of Ohio State university has turned in its report, the total cost of the big amphitheater at Columbus is re- vealed to the public as $1,584,634.75. And it is all paid for. Of the $1,- 983,000 pledged by some 13,000 sub- scribera to the fund, a little more than $900,000 has been paid in to date, Interest accruing from this sum, athletic receipts received in the last three or four y¢ars and money loaned by the Columbis banks tur- | nished the balance of thesum neces. sary for payment. The upkeep and conduct of the stadium since it was built has been pald out of ath’ “WHT Do't care. Af RED AN NELLow! FT LOOK LIKE A | 27] STRIPES, ~~ OW! ZEBRA “THAT WAS I STILL CLAIM THAT THROWN OVERBOARD Nou EMHeR BouatT From NoAWs ARK, Wis surT WA W HAT SurT! MOMENT OF WEAKNESS, 1S ALL Wook ' OR ELSE TW’ CLERK t Sits tun: —Wrew A “TRANCE PRICE, a THATS ON Nou fw tT may BLE THAT WHOBLE PART, i agate 1 Grune “enint CLERK CAME DOWN FROM “TH! LNEOLEUM Sacramento Loses When Oaks Rally OAKLAND, July 12—Onkland won from Sacramento by rallies in the seventh and eighth innings here yes- terday, 5 to 3. The score: Sacramento . Oakland LT ib) terles — Prough, James Schang; Boehler and Read, Son Follows Dad With Rochester Eddie Burke, new Rochester outfielder, recently purchased from Norfolk, is the son of Eddie Burke, who played with Roches. ter back in the 90's. Dad Burke went to the Giants and played left field, being known in his heyd as @ brilllant base runner, The youngster is also rated as a speed merchant, R. HW veer Bo 4 Twi GOSH \F I Wap Muster GETS ANEW WAVE WARDROBE = aren't 80. pi BY AHERN ked away. NOTHING ELSE fo WEAR BUT THAT SUIT I WoULpNty put rr on |manship, “be ag oO JUMP Dow) ITO A fy & good winner FIRE NET! u~ WHEN Nou LAUNCH uhto “TH WATER IN THAT HowL, “H' Fish WILL START remov: {distance runner had two wonderful running ments, winning two distance ra within an hour. BELC COLOMBES 8" 12.—De la Porte, AN WINS of France. British Athlete to Give Sermon] PARIS, July 12.—Sunday in the Scottish church here, the service will be conducted and the sermon preached by the Sterling British athlete who wrecked the world's record in winning first place in the 400 meters run in the Olym: ples Friday—Liddell of England he British runner, who was placed in the finals of the 200 meters but was pvevented from running in the 100 meters by his religious convictions which would hot let him engage in athletics on Sunday, is studying for the ministry Many of the British and Amor jean Olympic teams have an nounced intention of attending «Copyright, (024 by NPA Service, Ine Liddel’s service on’ Sunday, is shown on the left with his wo gaines jonsbip and the » the Seattle B. id for the coming one of the best | pro umpires in the fficlate in the orthwest, nes thru the preliminary season without , beating all of the other |teams now in the finals. therefor, the logical favorites to win They are, In Relchle they | best pitchers among | teams of the city. hill tomorrow. ANDERSON AND JENSEN TO PITCH do the twirl- the other |®ame with Jensen being the mounds |man for the South Juniors. SOUTH LAKE McManus, first base Oso’ field pitcher utility Halloway ORGETOWN CUBS Murphy ichle, third base; J Fihiuint! and T JUNIOR ADVANCE CLUB Parker, right short . left justa third base; . center field; x. | nes and with the ten-| getting #0 the home: |run hitting of Babe Ruth has almost | been forgotten. The Bambino has faults allowed because of lack of | clicked out 24 circuit wallops and is n half-way mark, however, and he | must do some tall hitting if ho can } k of 59. Ruth ty still plonship if they haven't been forced | the greatest home run hitter in the observe service rules in thetr/game and he should hit well over | prev PORTSMANSHIP is everything in Ring, Betia and W hood and some of your pro athletes | ticular how they with} a The other day in| Paris Paavo Nurmi beat hiy countryman, Willie Ritola to the tape by a stride and | when Ritola went to congratulate | Nurmi turned his back and} _Lueas, Yeargin. ‘ooper and | 1 6 1 . Millstead Ritola, running under Finnish | a colors, is American-trained and has | learned American standard of sports- good loser as well | and O'Farrell. hpyany, NORE Dean kad Biyor Goway, Perhaps in Finland they have dit. + Byuart, Haynes, Dyer and Gon- ferent standards of sportsmanship, | | but it works out pretty well to be a) | ood winner as well as a good loser, whatever country you may be from. | To the American sport public those - few lines telling of Nurmi’s action MOULTING THEIR a lot of glory that the great | ned by his leve- Wingard s and Severeid; . Ross TADIUM, Paris, July Belgian, won the jOlymple games fencing honors here jyesterday when he defeated Ducret, | s : Quinn, Mares, Puhr, Fullerton Philadelphia— k, Cheoves and Walters; Helmach and Perkine At New York— Irabowaky, } Bush, Gaston and § . Dauss and Bansler; Jonn- son and) Ruel. ‘Salt Lake Wins in 16-Inning Contest Salt! 5, ina The Dake won trom Vernon, 6 |16dnning game here yesterday. Single. Cook; Thomas, Christian and Murpby, los. have one of the| younger | Hy J Jeystel, center Ed. . Leo Lee LeBell, 1} E. 6 kr. | bas 500 404 481 4st 392 ° 3 K 0 0 | rifice hits. desperation, ma. UP HE GOES! { The Sad Tale rr y to Geary Hams. At bat- Off Griffin 28, off Mitchell 1, off Williams 32. Hits batted Mama 11. Runs scored in 6, 6 Williams §. Runs responsible for—Wil n 9, off Wil Hams 7, Griffin 6. Struck out—Willlams 1, Griffin 5, ¢ Bases on balle—Wiil 5 Hit by. tehed ball dwin. Stolen bases— Home bane hits Runs batted Brady, Rohwer 4, Baldwin, Hendryx to Welsh, Time— Hand Casey, Double play 1:40. Umpire: Game Chatter Frank Emmer had just as poor a day at shortstop yesterday as he did | good the day before. The young in- flelder kicked three chances and had | tough luck to fail twice at the plate at critical times, He did make one nice fielding pla: beating Kilduff to first base after a one-handed pick- up in the sixth inning. When “Red” Baldwin hit his homer into the left field stands Friday it was the second time this year that he has homed into those seats with the I landing on fair territory by inch- es. Rohwer’s homer in the first inning was a mighty crash over the right field wall, Altogether Rohwer has knocked in eight runs in the four games with the Seals, Incidentally Rohwer has three $10 meal tickets coming from Frank Rippe, the cafe man offering a meal ticket for every homer Seattle stick. ers get this week. Earl Baldwin also has some free food coming, There is a chance that Killefer, in tart Vean Gregg today, using Sutherland and Bagby tomorrow, Or he may try th get by with Dell, Jones and Stuteland, After several bad days, Joe Kelly | looked good in the left field yester day, turning in some nice catches, Archie Yelle sustained a slipt fine jer in the first inning and Sam Ag. | |new catching the rest of the game and it was Sam who decided it with his bat A manufacturing coneern paid Walter Hagen $15,000 to adopt for | three years one of its new make,| bulls as his favorite, ‘ ‘0 osha @ ay 6 6 3 D 6 5) 0 a ware ‘ 38. 8 a4 ABR A E EEE et Ow ey veg ae a ee ‘ © 19 0 6 b "1 @ 2g 4 3 ° ‘ 1 1 : 7 ; i, Mees en ar ae oo 0 6 6 6 10 0 0 6 *) HOW RU { Champions Take Game by 8 tog Seals Shift Pitchers ay Rohwer Is Stopped jy Pinch; Lots of Hitting SAN FRANCISCO 4, SEA nae TTL Rohwer tg ROHWER ‘Twist Mitchel 5 outhp on Rohwer, He threw the iy! uzger two hooks and d both of them, finnaly fi rd pitch high in the ale (on x in right field. Eldred mo after the catch. Killefer jerked Frank Emmer George Cut Bob Geary, a righthander, to pha) to him. He got Cutshaw on aa field out and the Indians’ last chan gone as Geary shut the domi Bo thelr faces the rest of the way, Mig In the next frame Killefer é Fl cided to let Carl Williams pita 2 to Sam Agnew with two meng [5 bases. Williams had been i [An hard all afternoon and Agney had rapped a homer into the 2 bleachers on his previous trip iy an the plate, Well, Sam hit apy (9 and when the ball was relayed [ea ( back to the infield two Sek Mithi were in and Sam was resting third. Williams was jerked ad Be ! Stueland finished the game, ba [for the damage had been done, the Bi cot Seals winning, 8 to 6. Fil Ge 4 It was another afternoon of ge thrills, with the long dist atting and some fine catches the n tractions for the b crowd F and Ellison did some ting that will keep the boys ning for some time. Raymond med out a homer and two 6 knocking in four runs while hit the left field fenec on the fy his first trip and the right field on second time up. 4 | tings. boys and girls. Ellison's hit was the first to hit the left field wall in Bill Rumler and Hack both smacking the boards on fly. Agnew's two blows and Baldwin's drive into the were quite some hits while la also boosted one over thet It was a wonderful afternoe the hitters, FIELDING THRILLS IR the fielding features om honors go to Rohwer and@ | Brady and Gene Valla. Brady tla ckhanded stab of Geary’s in the eighth with Agnew onfl Valla did a somersault dive after bing Williams of a hit in the feat and Rohwer went far back of {| hill in left field to spear Griffin \in the early part’ of the gama WERE MADE OR those who like their play the runs were scored #} | lows: | SAN FRANCISCO, first innings |doubled to left and Vala [the right field wall, Emmer kickel™ Megan's grounder. but Hendryx BR a double play, Brady to Welsh doubled against the lefr fleld fenwt scored when Kilduff's grounder | thru Emmer's legs. Kildut was trying to make third |sports eary sat. second add chal | SEATTLE, first inning: Lane |to right center and scored on Bisa | fly to left field. Welsh walked, ‘singled to center. ‘Ted Baldwit | Eldred at second, Welsh taxing | Rohwer homed over the right | Emmer fanned SAN FRANCISCO, fourth tanines Mf Jone out Ellison doubled againat |fteta fence and went to third am mer’s third error, He scored on BAM) single to left SAN FetaNcrsco, circ innings one out Vatla singled and went te on Mulligan's infleld hit, Welsh the ball too long, Vala scored om Fyx fly to right eld. SEATTLE, fifth innin Jand was forced at second by Welt lgon to Rhyne, Eldred singled tt Rohwer doubled to right, Weleh | but Eldred being held at third ned. SAN FRANCISCO, sixth tanta homed Into the lett fleld Diets here LE, sixth Inning | win hit one in the: gam side the foul Ine, SAN FRANCISCO, eighth duff walked, Rhyne singled tripled: to: center, E END oT ee Stanford Net Men Are in Aus Stanford university's foul nis team is scheduled to army | Sydney, Australia, today. The THy jstars, Overfelt, Merts, Hinki@e DeRack, will engage in ane campaign in Australia, Palo Alto October 1. SAN FRANCI : vs. SEATIUE GAME, cate AT For TICKETS, BE