The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1924, Page 10

Figures for First Half Interesting Vernon Best Road Team a in That Time, Seattle é Winning .660 at Home BY LEO H. LASSEN IGURES f 660. Ban Francisco is next with 28, a perc ¢ 571 No team in the | 600 ball on ‘loeest with a mark Famento being sec The first couple of weeks of t Season, in Los Angeles and ake, when the Tribe won but t F ames out of 12. was dynamite for the Redskins. 1f the Seattle Thad got any kind of a break in those Firat two weeks the club would be rid. ) Sng high and dry in first place now Bince that first two weeks the In @ians have been doing very nicely way from home. Playing .500 ball 24 and ague h 1, Ver nd with 49 team “championship speed. The figures follow ROAD Won Jagd Angeles | ILETON CAN'T TEXAS HEAT leag manag Be transferred to the C Mhe former Portland nd owners to bring pong as the Beaver manager; Bill hy is being blamed for the| showing of the Rose City club/ the bugs Middleton may fe only soothing syrup for them. Wot only did Middleton prove that | ‘was a capable manager last year. he also did some fancy S HERE WEDNESDAY Salt Lake and Seattle open thetr ries on Wednesday. ‘There will be plenty of baseball the week with eight games ed. A doubleheader will be nec- to make up for the Tuseday lost by traveling and the teame @ game left from Salt Lake ¢ will probably be played Mon- Lagerstrom Is Eliminated in TELSON ROBINSON sprung the surprise of the City Playfield is tournament, yesterday, when | & he defeated Leo Lagerstror a for. “mer champion, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, in the round play. binson is billed to meet Bob th,fUniversity of Washington in the feature match of today’s . Frank Kozlowski, the defending A champion, meets Joe Swartz ve important match. ‘s schedule and yesterday's s Class A, Men's Singles Barr defeated E. E. Adams, » Miller defeated E. r, Dyer defeated A. Friberg, 3-8, 6-1, | G. Robinson defeated elo Lager- m, 2-6, 5 ated J. Schermer alt. I. G. Robinson defeated Leo Lager- 6-3, 6-3, J. D. Henry defeated D. Vander Las, Taylor defeated W. Langiie by fault. Class B, Men's Singles # FP. meee defeated Howard Dick- mberg defeated G, Wayne, 6-3, ©. Olin defeated Sam Cox, 6-2, 6-1. Women's Singles Wolff defeated Margaret Hon- Acfeated Emily Babcock, 4. TODAY'S SCHEDULE Class A, Men's Singles aP. M— Kotlowsky va, Joo Swartz. P. M— ph Loe va. LeRoy Foley, AM peng vs. B, Hesketh, i, Oldham va, Paul Dyer. Henry vs. winner of R. LeRoy Voley match. ©, White vs. Jack Taylor, Class B, Men's Singles Loe- on ys. Lefoy Kelley Johnson va, Harry Lightfoot, 1, Kluge Min 5. Vogler. vs. winner of Galvin ve ata y Fog Ttle ve. Elinor Stephens, ews vs. Irene Stephens, ‘6 Rolie Bhemsecn va, Abbie Poole, Gortrude Pens, Newspaper men who saw Luly the day he arrived in New to begin training for his com- fight with Harry Wills say tho Bouth American carries little sur. plus welght. 10m the road and .600 ball at home is Timmy Middieton has been asked to | 3 ft stand the heat in the Texas / where he is pitching for Fort he |) Public sentiment may force the ig drasite is done | be] N ng for Portland, and is far too | ¥°@r will be da man to be in the Texas league. | Playfield Meet! #26!224 was cuminatea trom Davis | cour ‘(OUR BOARDING HOUSE — ea THE LATTI Team Slow; Boston Red Sox U.S. Poloists Train | WoodlandNet for British Invasion Captains to * Meet Tonight ‘nwisieteail Mallet Wielders Put On Full L} O LAGERSTROM, fF Steam In Prepping for International Series | ~ !°"**' Die, Shor iy pt Mand pa * th lea. e n anged and th s Neda for i as there con dera be done Seattle Eagles Win From Fort Worden © Seattle won another feated t Worden by the when they ¢ th team reported sy the ¥ The score nt. H. Seattle Eagles i 16 Fort Warden T 10.3 Batteries—Wheaton, McClellan and Fa] | Barry; Vincicht, Wills and Black. | jendid treatment at \ineriéan Polo Team Will ( Thru the Ropes | Clash With British Four.,2.%=4.% say memvero vat boxing family still engaged in WV YORK, July 29. mitt He is now jetting: ready America is resist } Americans have been practic: | th er| ing with various combinations in the | in the arena ir invasion by the English polo cracks, | field for more an two weeks. So|Oakland, where four-round bouts are scheduled for September. It is gen-| far the work of the players has falied |@rawing big houses. He is awa relief | rally conceded that the fight this! to meet the er y the outcome of an argument as to rder than eve Mainly, criticism is directed | whether he meets the winter of the Fer one thing the English four ly formid- Secondly, ‘American squad has been performing far below its usual speed and effect. As these lines were being written the makeup of the American foar} Walter-Leonard fight jis in Australi Francisee against the players for their ndency to individual play, rath- This is inderstand, in view of that most of the Amer | ican victories of the past were | due to fine teamwork of tue | Billy Shade in and George is in San Major Wilson, the Tex Rickard of Europe, has booked Tommy Gibbons! k Bloomfield, the ble was still a matter of detail. It seems} home defenders | wake Ghat 48 | | most likely, however, that the squad| It ix expected that this condition | yw, tive, completed | |finally will be selected from these| will be remedied in due time, and the | i. e negotiations, He has also signed iM be playing | Billy Wells to box Ted Kid Lewis me long before five players, Devereux Milburn, | St Tommy Hitchcock, J. Watson Webt gied entry smooth # a Stevenson and Bob Strawbrid, the Britishe arrive for, the chal. lenge cup match Instead of the much heralded em purse of $250,000 which Senor Firpo was to get for his end of the battle England Defeated \Tilden Has Taken _[*!t Harry Wills, the south Ameri con heavyweight will be paid $100, 000, in Davis Cup Play EAST BOURNE, Eng., July 29. wh 15 Big Net Titles | 000, sccording to the most reliable hen Bill Tilden won clay | reports in the the ten: championship in. 8t Ninety thousand names signed to the petitions, were necking to cup preliminary competition today | Louis recently it was the 15th na when the French won the doubles | tional title fc vi big Philadelphian. * ‘ “ bring the 12round game to Cal match 64, 4.6, 63, $1. France won | {iden Is playing thr the Southern |ifornia. Harry Morrison, San Fran two singles matches Saturday 1 is ©") cisco assemblyman, is sponsor of the | Angeles this week |Portland Banker | Team Is Coming |" The Ladd and Tilton bank baseball |movement. The next move is to ac quaint the people of California with he merits of the proposed atate Quintin Romero Is Winner of Verdict NEWARK, N. J., July 29—Quin-} Reports from the East carry the) tin Romero, the big Chilean heayy-| team, champions of Portland. is com. | information that Charles W Bryan, | weight, won the nod over Charley |ing to Seattle August 3 to play the|the vice presidential nominee, was | Weinert of Newark in a 12%round| National Bank of Commerce club amateur middleweight champion Milinois when onty of bout here last night. here, years old, BY AHERN | T ALWANS FIGURE THAT ANN DEAL TH’ CE Zz, G/ BYJOVE BUSTER MLaD.ZZy,_, Wy Y, 1 MA INDEED SURPRISED “THAT YOU DID NoT BLY Hf vo» « Ger A FLASH AT TH “SENOR" WELL, BRING THAT GENUINE PANAMA MR, SHORE BACK NESTERDAV 2.]] mMéctoR IS WAT YESTERDAY, FROM MY AGAIN w~ BUT WHY, HE Was || mimeD UP IN, FRIEND, SENOR GAQUEZ!. HE HAS “To WEVER ~NY \S DUST LIKE WHY LAD, THOSE HATS ARE ALLOW ME NEARER PANAMA |] A MOUSE “TRAD, ~ THERES A CATCH WW Tle Woven UNDER WATER, AND IT “TAKES “THE SEWOR A MOMTH TO MAKE ONE !. EGAD, I KNow!™ 1 WAS A GUEST oF THE GENOR ONE SUMMER DOWN \N PANAMA !. “THA CHIEF “Oring BULL” WAS “TO A SEAT Y uN CONGRESS, SUMPIN ON A ARADE-IN Wirth WW HAY WAFFLE I'M WEARING alt (Ue wl Ah SN The a sixrun lead in the sixth, but the Eagles went on a batting rampage and tallied seven times after two men were out McClellan twirled nice ball for the Eagies, after he relieved Wheaton in| the third. Lawrence and Canr ay starred for the ®. The Seatt ‘About Fights and Fighters | BY LEO H. LASSEN | Drop Out of Pennant Race) Daddy of Padded Mitt | American Old John MeCloskey, First Catcher to Wear Glove, Is Still Active in Game at Age of 55 Sensation Out of It — can gy i: , Mahomes : Flagstead Only Real Fast K “ c tt . Man; Hitting Slumps Riviere gd and Team Drops t 1 Louisville in 1869 ‘ B 1 we pre nence s the r * f f the T Leng hich he Le t . ‘ T® explain t 1 wy ar before he was catcher ¢ f : ght far the H nm Indepe ak fact } ¢ Ir e Bil Conle , 6 introduced the ca’ tepping itnelf a preliminary middlewe t mitt, wt the ti 1 t east of the Rocky mountair < ; ! f he’s a mz eventer . j t Conley fought . Ke t ling, the Georg M c ad nsation n o very lo re sa sang nd 2 ¥ . ne c ago and he knocked Stribling ie be aoe : : ctscary wath down early in the fight. It , JOHN J. MeCLO8KEY ma Whe tant of was a long scrap and Stribling H t “ on 1 ws Druxmans Beaten _ by Port Orchard at Pr Oregon Girl Will tailed yers outhit Compete in Ohio “"","!" !"" ER tive mam om lows, was G ads ® Reid, Oregon state shoot-| Druxman's ec oe ie eo } championsh 1, Ohio, late “ached Anybody giving the correct prrmiyeencien “ic Batteries—Garney and »| Youth Annexes ..42)2.2°"502 | Fleming and Bak ast week's King’s Prize oe in cei Shoot WA, ¢ Dave Shade Flivvers in California failed the Califor lost 1 game He nd won rou a deci from Joe is and jeom t nough fireworks for the Los An) wa it means glo fans. They don't want class; Priv Desmond member | want action | of the govern Dempsey Is Great Boxer, Says Astin ink for Athletics Have 3 Third Sackers PHILADELPHIA Pick Myers to Win Mix Don't t Burke's nuded 13 Young core W boxing July 29. y in the Nort inc bulls 1 feat of marks ysey is one of the cleverest nanship. s Victoria started the} known. He uses his feet in wonder rtd heed boys who \ sman-|ful fashion and what he doesn't c on. the ein: weak . {know about boxing isn’t worthy of are making feedinare eth oes she ma knowin I saw him work for th 7 eye at 400 yards.’ Since first tim few weeks ago in : hootin for the prize has been an Los Angeles a] showed me nie Mac ‘e annual even! 1 the w con ‘That's what makes him a oe sIX} | cided that Dyken fon't « Ly, | | dered the best n all the united 1, @ combination of hitting t the t be a third aacke spite the fact ikin ‘dom. and boxing ability onight that he has a gre arm, a won hat's why Ottawa is excited be cause her stripling youth copped the prize Bercot Taking re posite n. He is used at second Much-Needed Rest ; Sammie Hale was ‘ Y; Dode Bercot and his wife are tak are hs repuths er tof Compiler Winner ing a long trip into the wilds of the the » ¢ failed to live up He is in need of a rest, as he + notices and was soon in Goodwood Race i had three tough fights In. suc ns n favor of Dykes GOODWOOD, Eng. July 29 cession and was in danger of going ris Meantime, Mack has apparently erein's Ci to 9, won| stale n his gym || decided that onda, who he Steward’s Glorious Good- | He been playing ubstitute roles, wood today, with J Z | terrific | | SUPerior to the other two. He has |/dut second a FLORES with Dode{ | the call at present Po 8 to 9%, third. Twenty ° ° ce CORES tour. ran Big Game Friday Flores, with his hard punching j REMERTON, July 29.—The base- Ula ame Tercot. ras mud Pancho Villa Wins oS altel ach tee Over Frank Murray | 8. 8. New 8. S. California Athletic park here | Walker Planning to Play in West, Mexico and the U. Myers can hit some on his own are to play at ace ATLANTIC CITY, July 29.—Pan-} Cyril Walker, “American open | Friday in a game that is billed for ee addin i cked F ree | cho Villa, world's flyweight cham.|¢%@mpion, and Bob Cruickshank, run. | tte Navy Yard championship. Un Cutlen last week, fight a Sunny Jim, erup to Bobby Jone sua e s bel h plot; was’ in no.datigor’ when’ bef oene:t Bobby Jones last year, | U8Ual interest is being shown in the colored battler, in the six-round semi- | | windup. | will compete on Califo |coming game. Moudy, who goes to | risked his title ip California links this Chick Tavit va. Frank Cheslock, here last night in aj winter, jthe San Francisco club, in the fall, #ix-round bout against Frankie ar | | eit twirl for the California. welters; George Ishi! va, Bud Davis, | y, of Philadelphia. Villa won e eases bantams, and John Budnick vs. Sailor | © he six rounds, had Murray Maley, heavyweights, |Grimes to Be Late complete the |!n,a bad way in the fifth and sixth. card which is being staged by Nate| ears in Joining Angels ° Z | Ray Grimes, the big first sack Draxian {Plans Going Ahead [obtained by Los Angeles from the | for Big Golf Meet |o"2= Cubs, may not report for iy eke a ball attendance records in Belling- some time because of his wife's i-| ham w sha | Arrangements are said to be under | ness in the East bey Aa Oe ee wal for a 72-hole match ne Hee o Hast. | ailelay Steastoon when the Belling- jw z | reset ham Elks and the Everett Seagulls Cyril Walker, American open cham . GRANDETTA battle for the leadership tn the North jpion, and Walter Hagen, British! Babe Herman and Frankie Gran-| west Washington league. The game winner, for September in New York. |detta, bantamweights, will headline | will be attended by several thousand The winner would be the acknowl. | tonight's ring show at Portland, They | Elks, in attendance at their annual |edged champion of the world. fight 10 rounds. ~ | state convention here this week Fach Big Crowd at Bellingham Tilt BELLINGHAM, July 29.—All base- PACIFIC COAST LE W fan Francisco . Reattle "ai ewe A New York Chieago Philedelp Boston At Bor Pittebarg 10 Boston . 9 AT ee Ydo and 1, Smith; Yeargin and O'Nell! York Ro |B. (hile) ios tit Oh ead Donohue and Wingo; Osborne, Whe ne NN) At Philadelphia i Neve i) Chleago Seaitle Is Best “Home Team” in Coast League \ oe j