The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 25, 1925, Page 14

PAGE Ellison, Apivit and Koehler Have T youblel Failure of Arlett to Hit Consistently Has Kept Oak- lard in Second Division; Something New for Elli- son to Be Out of Charmed Circle BY LEO H. LASSEN ANY fami names, usually grouped about the top of the Coast league averages, are missing these days and the fans have to scout .800 mark to find the mon 1 under the s of such sluggers as Bert Ellison, Ar lett and Art Koehler, For the t time since he came to San cisco, Bert Ellison is under .300 at this » of the year. He is batting .297 at the t present time and is just coming out of a bad slump. Ellison was the leading slugger in the league la year. Buzz Arlett, anot! terrific hitter a year ago, is batting -295 for Oakland, and the failure of the big outf to hit tonsistently has been the! main reason for Oakland's ¢ sition in the id division. Art K t in this re of the big outf | Lamotte Is Starring Now B LAM TE I secol 5, M5 fo catch my ‘ wet started 5 Other hit t don't be H b ' to hit, are new names ar on the top r Ray Roh Portland th and is rig 369. Sony La Zere, Salt I shortstop, neve » wx hitte Jeague in home batting . Noted Fight Producer Who Is ye Ilis rank E Hoo the meanwhile } k Eldred, ve nll e Brubaker ner, Lefty O’Doul, Hack e Sheehan and that school of hit- “RA BRUB. keep right on emacking the ball, ye don’t seem to know what a} lump really !s. Waner and O'Doul | some are leading at 409 now. | Eldred “or Brazill? By T. J, Valuable AKER Is one of thone ph more than little Ad Wolgas every Ad blew seasons ago, Brubaker has filled in at every infield position ex cept first base, and always gives a good account of himself. and then was ninth men set their Woull be a prett the better of the two. Brazil more of a - swinger, quo I may be Brower Makes Good NK free and might strike out More, but he sets more distance at times than Eldred does. Eldred is harder to fool, altho Bra BROWER fs a real hit co outfielder isn't one sh-in-the-pan sluggers who come so often to the Bill hits at very few bad balis. Both jea with big league Bre line hitters, and seldom get freak! and then ‘ Bits. And both men hit well to all) ters with . fields. He deliv ag great pair are Frank and Brick. | and h: he Seals, | | hittin, Players Shift About ying a big part in the *® LOT of changes in ball players| Success of the Frisco club in pil MeCAREY Freddie Weeks, was champion. = LY some so-calle ers. other comeback with the Salt ) Vernon picked up Bobby Schang! Lake Bees. About five or six years from Sacramento and Beals Becker} ago ho led the league in pitching, | fiom Seattle, and they're both play-| not only in games won, but also in fig reguiarly for the Tigers. |the earned run column, which is i Seattle got Bob Hasty from | remarkable for a pitcher on the the Portland club by the waiver | Salt Lake club, It will be Interest-| inexperienced, he consented, On a day not long before the contest, Jim Flynn, whom all the old timers remember as a rough, unscientific but extreme ly courageous fighter, came to “Foute. Seattle shipped Frank | ing to watch his efforts to come} me 1 said, “Tom, there is Tobin to Portland, where he has | back, after several years in the| something wrong about this af- ‘become th ular £ receiv _ | stlok. | fair.” In answer to my inquiry OUR BOARDING HOUSE {(: Now, I Seo WANT To See A \e Mow'RE A SHORT- HORN, OR A REGULAR SPIKE! ~ YoU MADE BX] $25. OUT OF TW FIGHT LAST NIGHT SAME AS ME, ~~ ALL RIGHT, “ LEMME HAVE FIS.~ au! T Auer “TELLING You WHY, WHICH or How!- TWeE BEEN FIRTY-FIETY Wirt You ON EVERNTHING, «SO WHAT g. DUH OW NES ~oR No ?~ EGAD ROSCOE,” QUITE AN UNUSUAL REQUEST, ~~ HMMA - INDEED! - MORESO, BECAUSE You WILL NOT ENLIGHTEN ME AG “To WHAT Nou tend Doe With tHE 4715, © “VERY WELL THEN, Nou SHALL HAVE | \T lu BUT REMEMBER EVEN shed Vou ARE A puaitiot, L HAVE BEEN A SOLDIER, EXPLORER AND ADVENTURER 1 HAVE BEEN I) STRANGE CLIMES,~ DELT WITH SAGE “TRIBES, wAND~ TL AM NoT A MANS -10 BE TRIFLED WITH, EGAD!. | A es : ANY aaa an 16 ANSWER “TOMORROW —» ¢ & \ Telling the 30 Years in Sports. (UNCLE y years as promoter and matchmaker I believe helped many a fighter to get to the top, but non t, who became the world’s’ light- weight champion. into Los very young, back around 1908-1909, came popular by defeating some good boys g or four, went BY AHERN ] wegue rox | THE A “= MeCarey Thwarted Crooks Before Wolgast-Weeks Go - Inside Dramatic TOM) MeCAREY Angeles when he wa etting ahead of my story ir not recalling first some interesting events | at the old Naud Junction arena, but I am telling these stories as they come to mind and we will take on Naud Junction for a few vivid rounds later on, as I'recollect, was the boy whom Wol matched to meet at Vernon when something occurred which might have prevented his ever becoming lightweight for a reason he declared: “The betting—and the betting the mone: men ined to the have been made in the Coast, "gs up such a tremendous carly muc i money he “AML right,” I replied. “It's easy Teague since the season started lead. losing to Weeks in|*® find out. Let's start and bet a Vernon peddied Charley Deal to hs EE sroposine that he|lttle #0 as to be sure that we Portland, and the veteran third sack Stroud Back bo +3 areiaaa ang |KRow what we are tal er is playing fine ball for the Beav ALPH STROUD 1s trying regain } st laurels, Young and|. I ave Jim $400 $400 and started the nuspected crooks would go 1 our opinion the betting. should have been 2% to 1 on Wolgast However, they were glad to tak even money, which, of course, mear that they didn’t care so much to ge | odds if they could get enough bet to make it worth while, being cer thought) that Wolgnat tain (so they would lose. . 11S made it a eure thing to m what was up. So when Jim cami back and told me what was in th alr, gaat words: and tell him “Ad, don't go thru with those ar- | You are too good | It Is fortunate that we are | rangements. fighter. fable to, check it," I furthermore added: call all bets off.” This latter was not accom. plished until the evening before the battle, Jim spent an hour with Ad and then saw him call the referee back to the safe in Jefferies’ old saloon on Spring street, Flynn could tell by tho heated ar- guments that tho referes did no! want to do it, yet he must have con- sented finally, as Flynn came back and told mo Ad sald he would figh on the square, I urged Flynn again to have Ad call tho bets off, as I did not want anyone to lose money, even tho they were crooked enough to attempt such a miserable aftatr . Wolgast Won By Knockout HEN tho night of the fight came Ad waited for tho refereo to cal the bets off. This created a lot o consternation around tho ring and But the demands for an explanation, fight took place and knocked Weeks out Wolgast The story of the agreement was all over town and tho papers played it to the nklow, demanding that Wol gant be run out of town Now here in where f consider mado Wolgast, 1 nent dim Flynn for Ad to come to my office, “Ad,” T said, “L want you to be truthful and tell me the whole affair and who the men were you Events of He be- ed to box at the Vernon arena, at that time a club running in oppo- | be sition to mine, ibs I told him to go and get Wol- exactly these | “Tell Ad to | |met the referee before ‘the contest | jand get His assurance that he will TTLE STAR THURSDAY, J I ‘Many Star Coast League Hitters Below 300 Mark Yet , [Ad Ww olgast, One of the Finest of Lightw lant Relief Role = ~ Matches: in PLN. G. vv Meet - .B BY AL E x &- ROS iE . pats O ks eats Oa nl 1 e y ‘ ‘ ‘ eo Pacit f ‘ * ay ayy t H 5 ; At Philadelph Rn. Hi t A AKLAND, June Fred Luca At St. I n. H M Hu r bilft ta nail rit « » What is looked upon as th ‘ ah F sae pas Bt. La 4 4 big match of the day, is the @ sib Log “2 Batteries—Y meeting of the champion, Mr but he turned specia Gooch; Haines « Harry Young, and Phoebe Nell terday’s game here with Oaklaud,| At Bt, Louis (se Vidmarsh, The latter came thru hich the Indians with a fine vietory st Mra : P 7 Palmer, the Oregon cham ( 5 - L Bt § yesterday, while the title aN aly one re a 7 and Smith scored a decisive win in her te lectins Taeen Sherdel and Schnsidt match with Mrs. W. J. Patter Sahat itis wicstee aA tar non of Aberdeen. Incidentall ; A pig ¥" 1 t . aE yesterday's meeting was the . t t i fifth that the Young-Patterson te werd t National League combination have had and it avasls Cente Ce ee was the initial victory that has rr y been decidea tn favor of Mrs ft “ ; Young E H r “ fe e nd pat ; “y ' + y- r t . ® of play ie ¥ i 1 © “ pet MEN'S , ‘ 6 4 1 @| AtNew York (st game)—m. H. 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