The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 12, 1925, Page 16

‘Behind ‘the Home Plate SEN 16 BY LEO H. L/ ANTA MARIA, March 12.—Base Prony ik. ing and base running, two} Walla Walla, Last Year's distinctly different baseball Champions, Are arts, require nidre than speed alone in these days of mod-| ern baseball. Stolen b. only against the battery men, the runner starting with the sion of the running itcher in posse all while all oth -r between the bases is straight base-running. The great base stealers in base ball are not all speed demons, but they couple their speed with an tell study of pit and watch the f to get the start so beat a throw tc second base. Baserunning, taking advan tage of every slip of the op position on the defense, is a dif ferent thing altogether and not all star base stealers are good base runners, paradoxical as the statement might seem, Seattle fans tako more than tho ordinary bugs in is fea- ture of baseball, because the In- dians have the premier man in the Coast league at stealing bases in Billy Lane. The Rabbit fs without a peer tn the West at running the sacks and year in and year out, he ranks with the leaders in this division. Lane has given the fans many a thrill with his antics at first base, taking a big lead and flying back to first base with the first sign of a throw to the bag. Lane is fast, but not the fastest runner in the league, Pete Schnel- der, of Vernon holding that honor. And yet, in 1924, Lano the league in stolen bases with over 40 thefts and Schnelder, playing in over 100 games, \ gidn't steal a base, They Study | Pitchers E great base thieves make such & study of the pite fes that they can tel! feature of the hurlers’ he is going to throw to fi and when he will pitch to plate. Lane has done that and very few pitchers can catch him off the bas. Just as the runners make a. study of the pitchers, so do the mound men work to periect a move to first base so as to de ceive the runner. Paul Fittery, who used to south- paw for Sacramento, had the trick- jest move that any pitcher ever showed In this league and he caught more men off of first base than any other man in the league. Fittery had a fast move and be- tg left handed, he had the ad- vantage in not having to turn to throw to first base. Tatty Thomas, now with Vernon, has the best move in the league to- day. Elmer Jacobs had a motion, a trick way of cricking his left knee that was nearly a balk, that fooled the base runners. Pitchers who have good moves to firat base, keep the runners from taking a big lead and give their catchers & much better chance of throwing out the runners when they attempt to steal. Carey Is King the ses are registered) THE SEATTLE STAR State Prep Cage Tourney Starts Today First Games His Playing Is Without Equal Being Played in Big Meet Not) Defending Title In the first game of the state high school basketball tourna ment, Whatcom's five from Bek | lngham scored a 20 to 15 vie | tory over Wenatchee, It was a close game all of the way Ww teams entered, play s }9 o'clock this morning in the thi Jannual Washington State | 1 basketball tournament at alty gym Vhatcom and Wenatcheo were pl st game r games ' ldkh | duled for ing, Yacolt was | playing Auburn at 945, Aberdeen | t | tangling with Lewis and Clark | 10:30, and Davenport meeting Yak scheduled ksor for this vs, Edson jup at vs. Hoquiam at 4 xy * % * % ” % eat ihe : SCHAEFER’S VICTORY ON n are: ¢ Evere Pullman 1 and 30 this evening, At 8:5 the loser [of the Whatcom-Wenatchee game] jmeets the loser of the Y. | Auburn game. At 9, the loser of |the Aberdeen-Lewis and Clark con-| t tangles with tho loser of F | Davenport-Yakima fray ‘the old ca thea He wizard,” BY ART CARLSON Ree AIL the now champoin! In other words, doff your lids the team that wonlto Jake Schaefer, newly crowned| Defeat Proves i | for him Walla Wa ‘Add to| Al James, I | quist, Johnny Geehan, Herman Brix. } 28% points right off the bat jtheae his consecutive clicks of 681, which he accrued over one full game | |and portions of two others, Nothing/| to turn out. of so sensational a natvre hed if | Spain’ 8 Dette Cup HALL’S FIVE WINS TITLE|: exhibited In cue history before. | It was marvetoust | won the Pacific Northwest asso-| Hoppe, et al, to gain the top rung ag pees ag a ceeeietion ciation cage title here last night/ And later proved {t was no fluke by w aeven foreign chal. by defeating the Astoria American|downtng the stellar Willie in a xpe-| Ber Legion team, 36 to 26, in-the final/ cial match in March of the following | bg game. | year. Seymour and Snider starred for| Schaefer's reign was short-lived, | the winners, while Langharat star-|however. For at the 1922 flesta| \Kid Kaplan Wins red for the losers. | Hoppe took back his much-cherished _ |erown, only to drop It again to his old enemy at Chicago the other day | OAKLAND, Tt tn a rather odd coincidence that| lan, world’s Calgary-Victoria the only player to beat Hoppe over| pion, won against merican cup. To entries close March 16 ders. March 12.—-Kid Kap- featherweight cham- the newspaper decision Perhaps the best base stealer in baseball today ‘s Max Carey. The Pittsburg veteran no longer has the sprinter’s speed he had a few years ago. But his uncanny ability to out-guess the piteher and go with his de- livery to the plate makes up for his loss of speed. In a game with the Chicago Cubs fin Los Angeles last spring, Carey took a lead of 20 feet off of first base and faced first base with his tack to second. “Rip” Wheeler was pitching for Chicago and with ‘Wheeler's throw to first base, Carey started for sécond and was aliding | into the bag when Ray Grimes had the ball at first. About Base-Running ASE running is a different art. One of the greatest base run- ners in the minors fs Ed Hemming way, the Vernon utility man. Hem mingway, altho no longer fast, takes advantage of every slip on the ball field and gets the most out of every hit. They say that Frank Frisch, the | New York Giants’ infield star, is the best base runner in tho game at the present time. Frisch scored from first base on a hitand-run in| the world’s series. Undoubtedly the star of them all at the two styles of running wus Ty Cobb when the Detroit wonder wag at the top of his form. Cobb not only stole a flock of bases, but he got every hit of advantage out of defens- ive slips and scored many a run and ruined many & piteh- ers’ effectiveness by his skill, speed and daring between the bases, While the running end of the ware las suffered considerably during recent years since the ad- vent of Babe Ruth and the slug. ging type of play, running still is one of the finest features of the game and the team that can show ability in this line, gets the most out of its offensive. Pat O’Hara Wood to Play for Australia BYDNDY, March 12-~-Pat O'Hara Wood, one of tho best doubles play- ers on the courts, will be added to the Australian Davis cup team with James O. Anderson, Gerald Matter bo raised to ty Abt oxpennem and Jock Hawks, it the funds Play on Saturday |. span of 20 years te none other than CALGARY, March 12 — Calgary | the son of one of Hoppe's greatent and Victoria play here Saturday in| rivals—Jack Schaefer, Sr—in the 1z-round bout here Inst night. Kap- lan was credited with taking 10 the deciding game of the Western|days when Hoppe, as “the boy won. | rounds. Canada Hockey league champlonship| der," was first making his way up| EA Siti iat Shree ay series. The winner of the game will | the billiard ladder, | D. W. Griffith ts showing a film play tho National Hockey league| The elder Schaefer wana great ex-|callod “America.” It probably. will champions for the world's champlon-| ponent of the green tables and the|bs an awful bust in Herrin, Il, ship. Ivory bcorald ia fact, he wan affec-'and other foreign countries, BY AHERN WL} Haw ~ BY DOVE MILADSG, YoR NEARS L HAVE WITiaToop YOUR DUE SCOFFING, WITH THE SAME “TOLERANT AIR “THAT A THOROUGHBRED ViEWSs THE AWKWARD ANTICS OF A PAIR OF FRISKN COLTS fax BUTT MY DAN 1S AT HAND < PRESENTLY 1 SHALL HAVE THE PLEASURE OF WATCHING YoU BOTH Do OBEISANCE “TO ME, WHILE TL BASK IK) THE GLOW OF WEALTH AND GOCIAL RECOGNITION | Nove YELLED WOLF KT US So MUCH Now, |/ WE CANT RELN On Nou ANYMORE “THAN A RUBBER CRUTCH kf] Now Duet HAVE ANOTHER WILD IDEA OF SOME KIND TURNING HAND- SPRINGS UNDER, GIN, ~ SAAN fw Youve BEEN RINGING “THAT | COWBELL ON US SINCE UNCLE “Tom WAS A NEPHEW I. ALL NOURE GoIne TO DO \S CRACK OPEN ANOTHER EGG AS FIND IT 1S RETIRED! ~ GREEN CLOTH SENSATIONAL ppe was too good | Wilson, John Dahl: | Don Day and} Challenge Sent In| IT Spain's FR pitching, CORVALLIS, O March 12) This ts not the first time Schaofer Vv YORK. Maret The crack Hall's School of Com-| ham held the title, however. Back In| ble Sau estwa rig Ba | merce basketball team from Seattle|the 1921 tournament he whipped |< ngo for the Davis cup competi Over Johnny Farr WILE = 3 NEMESIS even \ | cus P=) » uct s ed HIS PATHET? ‘TAUGHT Him To PLay amon | Casarann, Rooms Arp Concas Be the state title last year, is not de-iking of the billiard world. For! Real Incentive — fending its title. Walla Walla was| Young Jake squats atop the balkli¢| fFrotiowing the defeat of bis jilus/ defeated in an elimination game|throne today trios: Gad: at 4 ands of Willie, BY BILLY EVANS recently, P Schaefer, as the sportive fraterity | Young Jake bad but one thought up- | ]V ne 2 Apes pe ey Only two of the teams thax ' now knows, gained the highest hon-|permost {n his mind. And that was Peay ig ie eer rom le d in last year's tourney arelors in the cue universe the other|( beat the chap who had downed |! Payee: virbbaenB sax Bhon again entered. in competition this|aay when he skipped thru the inter-| his father During the winter I have dis season. Hoquiam and Lewis and{national tournament test ‘@ithout| So the younger Schaefer cuased this phase of the game With Perouicwannn pcbalyy 1 nam 0 of the lor league Clark of Spokane, are the teams) meeting defeat. And not only did he | billias And und car etus | Perbaps hr a ghee ace doy playing ¢ necond consecutl¥®| surprise most of the experts by #0| tutelage of his dad, “* lin pitching. : : year, 4 tered thes: ’ |doing, but he took occasion to hang|tered th oar bint “ ‘ Arrangem have been made At up several recorda that are quite apt| AS mentioned, he finally realized his|. V°*", Pressed for reasons for the university gym to take care last for " pet ambit b he in| 20ch & ballet, no very logics! argu: y |to last for many yea f S » by & the In| nents were offered to prove their large crowds during the tourna comparable Hop: a i again p ‘ Runs Out lin 192 **'9/ contention, In other words, mont of PLAYERS AT | From Spot | ape a member’ oc fears, sniatns r ‘SES Hin most sensational mark-emash- | FRAT HOUSE: big thal 06 Contac wis.tte connten | PIG k Frosh C. + [has been playing second fiddle to The players from the 16 teama|'0# reat, of courve, was the running sky Fros GRE rating. If you would belleve the entered aro being housed at the | % 40° points gy et tay ae M managers it's going to be much dit. university fraternity houses iz th Eric Hagenlacher, the German} — en Get Letters| =" this summer. The superior. The final game will be played| "tr. This was one of the most spec] The Untveralty of Washington |ity of the twirlers will het be nearly Saturday evening, and because of | ‘cular pleces of work in tho annals | freshmen all players were! so pronounced, the unusual Interest fn the tourna. | the game, yosterday ed letters. Cee ment this year, one of the largeat| Then thero was his deciatve victory | ived the emblems are} Unquestionably the increased crowds that has ever seen a con:jover Welker Cochran when be ran| Ken Hagiet, Hill) batting punch has made for test in the local gym is expected | out tn two Innings, getting 112 and | J°&Bs0n, Rab Hall.| smarter pitching. Tho lively ball has practically made It im- | posstule for « pitcher to get by | OM speed ante, | Control Great Asset ® most earential feature of mod. | Ten years ago the change of pace ed by the United |¥84 Considered more in the light of la luxury, certainly not a neces Things have changed. It ts now almost an absolute necossity for succens, During the past five years much experimenting has been done by the| [pitchers. Freak deliverios, much as| the knuckle ball and others that aro permissible, have received much at+ tention 6s a means to slow up the batters, Freak deliveries, including just a| over Johnny Farr of Oakland {n ajslow ball, are difficult to control. For several years pitching has been | |featured by an unusual amount of | wildness, duo to the many exper! |ments that wore being tried. | Last season there was a docided | How Players | Get in Shape ANTA MARIA, Cal, March 12.—What do the ball play- ers do in spring training to get In condition? That's « common question among ball bugs who have never been ina training camp. | There are two workouts a day, one early in the morning and the other about 1:30, both lasting | two hours, Upon their appearance at the | park the players all rin around the field and then bunting games start. Four or live payers an a group field bunts and all of the pastimers go thru this drill for an hour, Then comes fielding practice for the pitchers, who shag fly balls to get their logs in shape, and for the rest the bunting games continue, The idea of the latter is to strengthen the legs and stomach muscles. Batting practice is noxt in or: der, various pitchers | taking turns on the hill everybody bats for a while, the regulars getting most of the time at tho plate. The practice is wound up with soveral rounds of infield and out- fleld practice, In the afternoon a Regular Yannigan contest is played. Another shag around the park and the athletes call it a day, PIRATE RE PASO ROBLES, A three-run rally ARS (WIN , March the 12, in elghth seem | Major leag IE change of pace has become jauarters | mprovement ct afte 1 oupled with a a ce hn to make for muc pitch his summ While I still believe that bat ting will bo supreme, [ look for the list of 300 batters to be considerably cartaed, Florida Gets Play iD’ RING the month of Maren, | Florida will get the greatest | play aa training quarters that bas ever gone to one state in tho. his jtory of baseball, | Ten major lengue ball clubs are |training in Florida, five from each |leaguc. Threo are tn California, two Jin Loutsiana and on in Georgia, | dition to the major teams, | In ad jelght of the leading minor ‘league |clute have selected Florida for their preliminary work. Opinion as to spring apparently {s shifting, ather fickle, For several seasons state of Texas was most fay. ored. This year not a single team training there. | The Florida cltmate jconditioning a ball club. th r However, t has not been the only feature | t bas caured so many of the} ams to favor that state. The natives, realizing the values of advertising, have catered to the ball | clubs in many ways. There ts no question but that Florida ts reallz- jing handsomely on {ts {nvestment. ee ee In a number of cases tho ma- Jor league clubs have been tied | Up to long-time contracts by the | clty agreeing to bulld a suitable park and afford other necessary facilitles, It has been a wiso plan. SNELL PICKS | TOUGH ONES ééT)oc" SNELL keeps picking them tougher and tougher, jand in Mike Dundee, his opponent |for Tuesday night's show at the Crysta? Pool, critica believe he has chosen tho. hardest problem of his brief but mete orle career, Dundeo ts re. garded as ono of the best and] smartest — feath erwelghts tn the country, and fans are figur- ing on him to cut short Snell's phenomenal rise, They figure that he {s smart enought to keep out of the way of Snell's furl. ous swings, and SNELL that tho now shift used by the Tacoma Won't bother him. Promoter Nate Druxman reports 4n unparalleled demand for tickets and predicte & complete sell-out by Sunday night. “The te Pool won't be half big enough to hold them ally* Druxman saya, “and I only wish @hat tt was pousible to hold this shot at the ball park, so that everyone who wants to seo {t can.” Wilson Gaw Will Lead Roosevelt Wilson Gaw, guard’on the Roose volt high sohool basketball toam, was yesterday elected to captain the Ted. dy cagers during thelr 1926 cam: palgn, Hore tt is March already and no- body has yet been ablo to explain the mystery of how Cyril Walker training | is ideal fo | THURSDAY, MARCH — ; } DALY AND TOBIN MAY BE INDIANS ONLY CATCHERS! [Red Baldwin Is Still | Ranked With Holdouts © ' Action Expected Thursday on Case of Catcher by President Lockard; Brady Said to Be on Way t Santa Maria lt eee BY LEO H. LASSEN (sre Sank fick “oti vintites ANTA MARIA, Cal 12 Tom Da wD » ¥ experienced tm Tom Da and Tobin | e Haad nla As Beattlo Indians, unlees Charles Lock : urd, president of the ¢ an talk cure terms wi holdout | me catcher, ho in oti? at his home | from, 4 n Oakland. This comes from “Red’ 4 e the highest e nd gave him | ¢ Oregon Aggies and California ‘ Tangle Tonight (HORvALLas March 12—The first of the series for the Pa Coast Conference basketh: champlonship will be played here to night between the Oregon Aggies and |the University of California fives The Aggics are slight ta | win tho game, altho most cr both teams on an even b The necond game of the ne be played } Friday ni should a third game be necessary, ged on @ neutral floor, game of stuff,” EMPSEY Ii AGAIN SU WAUKEE, M I past seore of sults against a new action fa r $10,000, and Cannon tely for the Bast @ ¢ for the champion, uits are the out; n alleged contract entered een Reisler and Dempsey, which ts alleged to have stipa Reisled was to manage thru a | Dempse at Dempney for a five-year period. since declared void run of the a Milwaukee ctroutt young Jake Schaefer time-Rele- qualifies him for aj number of coum . Nurmi | Se Gregor MacLeod | Stanley Hills are just about ready to jtee off on their big match for some} pic links. | Note: | broadcast | which, Incidentally, ts to start from seratch, We don’t know where, | how or under what conditions {t will terminate. Radio F, A. R. C. E. will | Bill Harmer, who can sell White | trucks quicker than he can get out lof bunkers, ts having a tough time |landing Ray Fowler, This canny {uel dealer wants two strokes a hole | but But ts at a loss to know if | he'll have to win or lose the match lin order to get Ray's order. Lake May, who spectalizes In running down criminals, had a tough day at Beacon Hill yes- terday trying to run down his wild tee shots. Tho story that {s going the rounds | about Guy Worthley, cne of Rainier’s 20-men, playing much better than his rating {s all bunk. This young trap- finder played 18 holes with one of the members of the handicap com- mittee the other day and totaled a fino 115. Nuff said. | _W. ©, Barnhart, who se sells ma- if chinery, breezed into Spalding’s MacMillan andy nd of a championship at the Olym-/| tho results of this tilt. | OOKS: ‘SLICES on Seattle fairways a> BY ALEX C.ROSE * Carl Leon, the salt man, is serf ously considering giving up golf. can make a living selling salt, * 3 Jimmie Woods, who the lunch counter at the M had a big day at Rainier last | Sunday, Jimmie's sandwiches are | ; mmuch thicker this week, say his } patrons, : Here's a man that you all know, Bib name was Jack MacBean; He used to sing and whistle when ever he was seen, You've heard him at the concerts and while looking at thé | screen, But one day he sang to his paré ner’s putt, “The Wearin’ of the Green. —Stan Hills, Claude (“Tiny”) Stanley was toe pereuade Larry Ives and Dick Haynes, the Potson Ttoins, to go out to Inglewood. “Tiny” got trimmed, and now he ts wondering if there is any such word as “Reciprocity” Ye quite sure that the Ives: Haynes combination know nothing adout it, tn ME EBS The Lake Shore golfers are all | excited these days. Secretary | Frank Byers’ ducks are laying. | | That's tho first bit of exciting news we've been able to get from Inglewood for quite some time. | Thanks, yesterday for a pair of wooden | clubs, He brought his calipers and straight-edge along and | spent the entire afternoon there. 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