The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 22, 1924, Page 10

Marty Krug BY LEO H, IS TEAM in the troubles as manager of the | Ar Handicap for New York club Yankee Star The Los Angeles ‘scribes are talking of Bert Niehoff as the new manager of the BY BILLY EVANS club, off, a former Angel infielder “Hy the greatest fielder t and a smart baseball man, is now piloting pa brok ; the ‘me . the Atlanta team in the Southern league | ‘***“* > 3 fe. ry for Mobile in the Southern lea time that city ever won a c _Kiug has some help com Onslow Fighter; His Team Leads Jack Onslow, former catcher, is the ro of Richmond these days. Ff om 4 his team to first way to a bad start. A mo lAgolall interest in the Virginia Heague pennant race seemed di and there wus talk of a split » gon to revive interest, as Ports. Mouth was 15 games in the lead, But the truckers Mumped and On low's charges, by winn games out of 24 played during th Motch, took the lead. Boldt Dines Star Champs | | IM BOLDT, former president of the Seattle Baseball club, will put on the annual “spread” for The| Ba Star league cham. pions, the’ George- town Cubs, win ners of The Star {snieta, being the honor guests and the time being Thursday night. It was Boldt who presented the beautiffil shield to ithe league in 1923, | land “Sunny Jim’ has always been a big booster for this organization, ee BOLDT only junior league in the state. The: official presentation of the trophy, which is a perpetual one, Twill be one of the features of the evening. ) Charley Lockard, president of the Seattle club; D. E. Dugdale, Seattle's SPaseball dean, and several other “Waseball luminaries, will be invited | There will be speeches, lots of Yictuals and everything. © Boldt ts putting on th: “his Third ave. restaurant “feed” at Major Notes i} Yesterday's hero—Johnny Bassler, De- trolt catcher, who knocked out five sin- in a row, helping the Tigers defeat Yanks 9 to 7. } Dany Vance harled his 15th victory of the season the Brooklyn Robins ‘won the first game with the Pittsburg ites, but the Pirates evened it up by| ‘taking the second, 4 to 2. The Boston Red Sox lost their ninth ‘Straight game when unable to connect Uhle’s delivery and took the small end of a 2 to 1 score with the Cleveland | “Indians. Zachery held the White Sox to eight | Bits and pitched seven scoreless inning © the Washington Senators winning 16 to 3. ‘The Chicago Cubs made it seven in @ “Yow by winning from the Boston Braves, FT tol “The St. Louis Browns had no trouble! Gefeating the Philadelphia Athigtics 4 to 2. ‘The St. Louis Cards had a lot of hard Tuck and lost to the Phillies 7 to 4. In the 11-inning game which was any- | body's up to the last out, the New York | » Giants lost to the Cincinnati Reds, § to WITH RUTH AT BAT First inning—Tripied to right field. ‘Third inning—Fouled out to Bassler. Fifth inning*-Grounded out to Blue. Beventh inning—Popped out'to Bassler. White Sox and Giants to Tour | Around World INCINNATI, July 22.—Permis- » sion to tour Europe has been granted the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox by Commis. foner K. M. Landis, John J. Mc “Graw and the national commission, E Georges and Gene Knock Off Work “NEW YORK, July 22.—Gene Tun- “ney and Georges Carpentier were ‘putting the final touches to their raining today and will both rest tomorrow in preparation for their fight, Thursday night, at the Polo * grounds. Farmer Stars; Two Shutouts Ray Heffernan, Buffalo farm hand with Elmira in the Western association, pitched a twin ball game against Binghamton on June 28, and his southpaw slants were #o elusive that the Bingos were blanked in each game, 3 to fand 6 to 0, Heffernan allowed five hits in the first and six in the second. Prior to his stunt, Elmira had lost seven straight. ) Tough Time With Club Angels Are in Cellar and Movie Fans Are Squawk- ing; Grimes May Help Club; Seattle Plays Los An- geles This Week; Other Baseball Gossip not any too good, Marty Krug i |Indians weren't }of eight when they played in Pi | exception, Is Having LASSEN cellar and with tl and he has his team in the first division. He won a penant gue two years ago, the first »pionship, and last season he e club. y Grimes, the big first from the Chicago who will add hitting strength. But the t and unless Kr are doomed t Krug faced the toughest situa:| , teat" a tee tion in the league when ho took], vouon. A gdh en epeatie’ Wade Killefer's place as the Red/ iT wo) Gombe is that type Dog always had a®winner in fo| <¢ jiayer. Had he been developed e outlook aving his| Broken Leg May Be Big rHE ATT I of Game’s E STAR B est B ets [' LY FROM. HIS BROKEN OTHER TY COBB, PREDIC RECOVERS COMPLETE LEG HE WILL BE AN HUGGINS OF YANKS That is the compliment Man ager Miller Huggins of the Ne York Yankees paid Earl Comb whe recently suffered a broken leg in a game at Cleveland. BROKEN LEG Is SERIOUS Angeles and it was no soft snap to), « sprinter he would have stepped step into Killefer’s ieee’ to Slee to 10 flat for the 100 yards Niehoff, injecting new blood into ; the ib might make a stronger| “In all my career as a player team out of it. Krug doesn't seem /#04 manager I have never enthused | to be able to get consistent results. |°Ver any other recruit as I have = Ee - oe a ¥ ove Sombs, continued uggina. { Seattle is playing In Los Angeles OY", Comb ntinued Hus | tan Gok, Tae Tethins tthe! “He is one of those great | == season with that club th and| pa pire eater ho —— dropped five out of seven games uy a Y ‘ombs hasn't a sin —} When they got Los Angeles in Se- attlo they won six out of eight in condition that first week and didn't have ¢ true strength ready. While this series {s on the Seals will be playing Portland at San Francisco. Portland has gone ter- on Thursday | 'i"ttioe is" iis teciy"an ne ey knocked off Frisco seven out land recently, but they haven't done| anything since. The big series of the week will be the Sacramento-Vernon duel at Sacramento. They are. both v much in the race. Sacramento in particular threatening of late. | OAKLAND PITCHING HOLDS CLUB UP | Oakland Js getting the best pltch-| ing in the league. | Malls, Kunz, Foster, Boehler and) Krause are the classiest agerega tion in the circuit by far | They are holding up the Oaks. If| this team would add a hig class in-| fielder or two and get a bit more| the | speed in the outfield they would be| Speaker In th@ field. dangerous. Don't forget that pitching 1s 70} percent of baseball. Victorious in | Racquet Play ANCOUVER, B.C., July 22— Seattle tennis players, with one| were victorious in opening play of the Pacific North west intersectiona} tournament at the Vancouver Lawn Tennis club here. Bud DaPonte, Seattje, playihg a first | round match with Ray McDonald, Vancouver, in the boys’ singles, was defeated, 2-6, 2-6, However, Howard Lengiie, Leon de Turenne and Windy Langile, other entries from the Queen City, were victorious. Same Teams Are Leading in Race In spite of the fact that all teams in the Western association are strengthening for the last half of the Trace, It seems to be a mere repitition of the first half; with the Okmulgee Drillers, the Fort Smith Twins and the Muskogee Athletes tling for leadership. the |® bie limpressed his manager, Miller Hug: | pared with His arm fsn't to be Bob Meusel's, but ts plenty good enough, far better than most major| I ue outfielders. 1 A ni y Combs hits any | pitching with equal times all kinds of pitching per the be hard. It} pean"t affect his play n to take his pi among the game's greatest batters “Altho a big: fellow, Combs is unusually fast. He can step down to first as quickly as the diminutive Whitey Witt, one of the fastest men going to first in the American league. | “Once he geta on, Combs uses his speed to as great advantage as in reaching first. He is able.to get a big lead, senses the break and Is a ne man at shitting the dwt. His slide is most deceptive, ~~ FIELDING 18 UP TO PAR | “His fielding in on a par with his batting and speed. He gives every} promise of being another Tris] ural batter, kind of cane. | He his injury de he ts certa ace “A fine disponition, a’ great com. petitive spirit, plus wonderful natural | ability, made Combs stand out as a/ second Ty Cobb, Trin Speaker and wil SS viet “De, l a few more of the great outfielders combined. “I am worried about his broken leg. Few fast men ever come back as good as ever. The late Ray Chapman of Cleveland was one of the few exceptions.” All of which makes it apparent that Earl Combs, in his first year as} leaguer, most favorably | Coppers and BY TOM OLSEN gins EATTLE'S mid-summer _ —— - classic, the c and Field ; staged Dave Shade to Box [ana re afternoon on Denny field. . . | With the biggest entry list in the Simonich Tuesday | y05:)°o1'tne event, the competition LO8 ANGELES, July 22—Dave| promises to be keener than usual Shade, who looms high in the na-| Heretofore, the Seattle coppers have tion's Hat of overweight battlers,| had a big ed; and taken the hon will come back after a week's rest/ orn with comparative ease to tackle Joe Simontch of Butte,| ‘Three Canadian cities, Van: Mont., at Vernon Tuesday night.| Victoria and Calgary, will Shade dropped a closed one to Bert | teams in the mect, Colima last week. land and Tacoma. ° number of one or two-man NEW YORK, July 22.—Jake Zivic|@re expected from Everett, Belling and Jack Bernstein will fight Tues. | ham, Yakima and the smaller cities | day night at the Nostrand Athletic /of the state. | club in another of those “elimina-| PLENTY OF | tion bouts" which the New York box: | MUSIC | as well as In addition, teams ing commission haa decided to start} ‘The first event will start at 1:30 ali over again for the chance to}p, m., and the mect will be run} meet Benny Léonard. off in its usual snappy manner. | OUR BOARDI AB T Donit CLAM-—o BE I WASTURNING OVER —{ BED-TODNN, AND FOUND tT UNDERNEATH ~ TL AM SURE IT MUST HAVE SLIPPED Dow 1) Back, | | | elie wg austeR RECOVE' ZA MUCH OF A DETECTIVE,~ BUT IS “THis Your WATCH WaT WAS STOLEN? ~ WE MATTRESS ON YOUR OF THE PILLOW! BY AHERN — | er an AEM ™ Doni You 4 RECALL ME ASKING “| Nou. AT FIRST BUSTER, | \F You) HAD LOOKED | UNDERTHE MATTRESS? EGAD,~ I KNEW WSTINCTIVELY FROM ~ HE BEGINNING THAT YouR WATCH WAS NOT STOLEN Ie NG HOUSE Ly GOSH, MRS. AK~ HOOPLE,~THATS Th NEW, “THANKS, 'wTD SWEAR T JooK \T FROM UNDER “H' PILLOW AN SET IrTON-W |* DRESSER! “THANKG-GEE NES fue RS WIS “STOLEN” WatcH TF Copyright, 1924, by NEA Service, Ine.) Gum Shoe Experts in Field Meet # will turn! ng the famou: © Admiral fie h the my Vancouy ® band from and band. the Benttle detective, be given a strong lividual honor title t of the Vv 3. C., force. meron was a member of the Ca Han Olympic team at Antwerp , and starred in the weight other members of Canada's Olympic team are on the Van couver department, and will com- pete here Thuraday. They are Dun. can Gillies, discus and hammer thrower, and John Murdock, anoth- er prominent weight man, WATSON IS LOCAL STAR Ross Watson, the crack sprinter of the Seuttle force, will lead the local fourman relay team against some Keen competition. ‘Thq other members of the team art ‘weant Crawford, Sergeant Norton and V. E. Gilmore The meet will be the closing fea- ture of the Northwest Association of Sheriffs and Police anti-crime con- ference, which is being held here now, and police officials from all parts of the West Will see the com: petition. Seattle Eagles : Beat Westerman’s Tho Seattle Bagles Baseball club won a thrilling 1 to 0 battle from L. V, Westerman's squad Sunday at Fortuna park, The game was one of the features of the annual Eagles’ pienle. Bill Stitts pitched a wonderful game for the Eagles, allowing two scat- tered hits and fanning 15 men. ‘The losers had the bases full in the sixth inning, but Stitts struck out the next three men to face him. Stitts also scored the only run of the game, He doubled in the third inning and came in on Chamber's long clout, Stacy played a great game for the losers. The score: L. V. Westerman .. Haglos ........05 Bartoni and Johnson; Harry Champ Unhurt; Before Camera Stitts and LOS ANGELES, July 22.—Re. fusing to be stopped by few #eratehes and & bruise or two, Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, whom rumor had near death in & crash of his big car early yesterday, was Tuesday “on location” with his moving pleture company. When he returns to Los Angeles, Dempsey will start Nght training for a possible mateh with the victor in the Wills-Firpo bout | same British Golf Team Without Two Big Men Holderness and Wethered Not Able to Make Trip to U. S. This Year | BY JOE WILLIAMS | N L D tb | ; arom | e XAp AN den ci The team ts hardly representative j ir of the comy golfing strength of that country For instar bn. Ww Holderness, present champion, is not | to make the trip. Nor is Roger Wethered, who tied with Jock Hutchison in the British open at St, Andrews in 1921, coming. Amer-| would be handicapped in the if Jones and Oulmet were suddenly to be 10st to the team. degree However, Cyril James Hastings| Tolley, who ts leading the invading Britishers, exudes a note of | optimism and forecasts a tight mill tan nd gory battle. Cyril James Hastings will be | supported by W. L. Hope, who | is not wholly unaccustomed to international matches; Dennis | Kyle, a newcomer, who elimi | nated Tolley in the British ama- teur, striding along at a four- underds gait to do it; BK. F. Storey, captain of Cambridge university team, and vieto Herlet, a fine match player, and the son of a noted golfing mother who recently, at the age of 72, played in Ber 35th women's championship; Michael Scott, who has won the Australian open title; T. A, Torrance, who has had experience in the cup matches, both here and abroad, | and 0. B. Bristowe, W. A. Mur. ray and Robert Scott, Jr, all players of standing in the Em- | pire. |. Cyrit James ‘Hastings assures us that even without the distinguished | services of Holderness and Wethered | the E hb nquad will be no part of p for America at her best | Three of these international |matches have been played to date | America has won all of them, and is pected to win again this year. It is significant, however, that the matter of winning becumes increasingly difficult each year. America walked away with the first matches, 9 points to 3, The score the following year was 8 to 3. Last year at St. Andrews the Americans won out in a driv ing finish, when seemingly out of the running, 614 to 5%, Oulmet saved the day. Two down to Wethered, the Boston star shot | tho remaining two holes in birdies, | won both, and squared the match. A | victory for Wethered would hav | given England the cup, Woodland Net | Pilots Must Send Results HE results of the O. T, Stephens- C. C. Williams team matches in the Woodland park tennis league were the only ones turned in for Sunday's schedule. The results follow: Cc. Cc. Willams | Swartz, 6-4, 3-6, 11-9. Stephens defeated defeated Joe R. W. Hart, Paul Dyer born, 6-1, 6 The Hesketh-H, Williams match | wasn't played. No doubles were played, either, |the matches being booked for this | week. | The other managers should send in their results immediately so the standings can be made up and the matches not played can be re-sched- uled. The schedule for next Sunday will not be available until all of the re- sults of matches booked so far are in, defeated H. Weisen- | leave Ellis (Same Old Tale; _ Beats His Pals Luis Firpo Is Admitted Here Asa Visitor t whip ailin, for which elty her passport reads across the bay on ¥ York as soon an he was released b the immigration authorities. relished hin detention 4 ne the af. ternoon. The South American was being chaperoned by representatives of Tex Rickard, and Rick was busy thruout the d making strenuous efforts to obtain Firpo's re lease It was not clear whether or net Senorita Lourdes will be allowed to Island, even if bond 1 “Benorita Lourdes ts held here prior to her departure for Cuba,” ice of the chief inspector said “We understand she does not wish to stop in the United States, and ts She is held ‘ture for that | | | HICAGO, July 22 é. ot ¥E. Carter, the Flossmoor jclub, Chicago, in the lead, 151 golf. Jers set out today on the second 1§ |holes in th | Western | ship. | Capt, Carter, once champion of Ireland, scored 34.35—69 in the first 18 holes. This was three under par for the course ateur golf champion- | Dawson, George |Hackl and Rudy Knepper, of Chicago—tied for second |with scores of 70 each. | Arthur Sweet and Jahn Dawson, all \¢ ago, and Frank Dyer, Memphis, finished in a tle for third place, with cards of 72. ‘Thirty players thad rds of 76 or better, | Thirty-one golfers are for match present title holder, being automatic. ally qualified. A score of 153 for jthe 36 holes probably will be neces. stary to stay in the running. Green Lake Club Again Is Winner The Green Lake Commercial club ball team made it 16 games in a row, | winning from the Riley Cigar's team, |5 to 0, at Green Lake. Jimmy Hyllen- jaren twirled a nice game for the winners, and Hamilton and Tom Hyllengren starred in the field. Hur- ley played a nice game for Riley's. to qualiy The score— R H. E. Green Lake C.C. .7., 5 8 0 J. EB. Riley 2.0... Sa We Bat J. Hyllengren and Hamilton; Bud. nich and McLaughlin. Zbysulio to Meet Schikat in S. F, SAN FRANCISCO, July —Stan- islaus Zbyszko, Polish lion, will meet Richard Schikat, German champion, at Dreamland rink here tonight in an elimination bout. The winner will wrestle Ed (Strang- ler) Lewis for the world title two weeks from tonight. Mike Romano and Andreas Cos- {anos meet in the semi-final of to- night's card. There ill be two 15-min- ute preliminaries, Belgium's champion wrestler is an aviator, . And ,of course, he’s a star at the flying fall. American Olympic BY HENRY L. FARRELL ARIS, July 22,—America's vic. torlous contenders are headed homeward, ‘The games of 1924 are over—except for a few inconse- quental events—and the United | States has scored its most com: plete triumph of the 30.years since the modern Olymplads were inaug- urated, Champions in track and fietd, tennis, rowing, boxing, rugby, | wrestling and target shooting—our | teams have totalled more than twic as many points as France, \the nearest competitor | According to the French commit. | way of figuring, America's total point score for the oighth jOlympiad is 95; Brance, second with }47; Britain third with 98 and iin }land fourth with 84, There remains to be decided the championships in weight lifting, yachting and — equestrian but nothing that can hap- {pen can detract from the convine- Jing performance of the Americans against the world 4 gimes were 4 financial fall ure, bad sportsmanship developed Performers + Are Now En Route to Homeland) while the national anthem of a Successful nation other than the French was being pliyed and there were other causes for regret which led English sports writers to de- Gare the Olympics not worth while. But to America, with her crop of new champions—the tennis titles captured by youngsters, Vincent |Richards and Helen Wills, the swimming by our girls in their ‘teens, the track and field games developing such title holders as Lee Barnes, California school boy, and the target shooting producing a Juvenile sensation—the games were ainly worth while in. bringing out the new athletic strength of the United States und demonstrating our superiority in athletic endeavor fore orew, them there, ‘The great Yale whoxe victory won us the rowing championship, has scattered thruout Hurope, Captain Rockefellor frequently, crowds hivsed and booed And some of the others planning to come home around the world rd himself | Some,ot the American track and field stars went to London and} cleaned up in a meet With the British in which the sportsmanship was in pleasing contrast to that of the games here. Others went to Vienna ond swept everything be He had not | | | ith Capt. E. | | Portland qualifying round of the | His golf was master. | New York ... Det ful at every hole. I | Four players—Jimmy Manton, of |- St. Louls; George | | Play, Chick Evans, the | New York | | } Logger Will Be on Guard for Filipino First Punch That Hit Ber- cot Behind the Ear De- cided Their First Bout rid of « bis sple with Bob Harpe and he looked lik an Heres BERCOT ably be a bit more cautio ght and will force Flores to lead more In their first meeting Bercot did a of the leading, Flores being cc t with counter punching. 1 tw to make a fight and Bercot w force Flores to op geressiveness an ng should make a whirlwind t out of The regu with the r ar run of bouts are on t of the card as follows je Cullen vs. Sailor Byrne light heavyweights. Mickey Gill vs, George Ishii, Karloff vs. John Dud k, heavyweights Sailor middlewe Harry Murphy, Austin Los Angeles WHERE THEY PLAY THIS WEEK at Bacramento, nd st Salt Lake a n Francisco, Seattle at Los Angeles. AMERICAN LEAGUE honors, | py NATIONAL * LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Chicago 36 F 39 41 “4 bi Philadelphia 83 Boston rr) Philadelphi Brookly Pittsburg 2 (first game); Brooklyn 4, Pittsburg 2 (second game). Chicago 7, Boston 1. Cinctnmatl §, New York 1. Everett Wins Long Contest in N. W. Loop IVERETT, July Everett feated Sedro-Wooley, 9-8, in a thrilling inning game here yester- day before 1,000 frenzied fans. It was the longest game of the year in North Washington League baseball, and as a result of the victory, Ever- ett took top place in the second half of the league race. Nordly reached first on a fielder’s choice, and with two away, he stole second. Bobby Bu: cracked out a long single and Nordly scored with the winning counter. Bill Jolinaten, Is Off for the Eas SAN FRANCISCO, July —Wil- liam M. Johnston, crack San Fran- cisco tennis player, left here yester- day on his annual invasion of East- ern tennis circles, which will end with him playing for the national singles title. He will compete in sev- eral tournaments prior to that time, An Sngewotl Costs Little and ~and so it is ideal for matoring, for camping, for use in crowds oy when playing golf or tennis. ~ The NEW Yarikee ti With Radiolite Dial "275 pase Ss nae Bert Niehoff Boosted for Los Angeles Pilot 4 BERCOT SLIGHT FAVORITE OVER FLORES TONIGHT Combs One | Atnerioaie Should Win Walker Cup ‘