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VOL. 62 NO. C.
PART TWO
THE SUNDAY BEE: OMAHA, JULY 23, 1922.
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St. Louis Club Takes Lead in National League Pennant Race
n
ards Win from
Boston and Reds
Beat New York
Missouri Entry Is a Camp
and a Half Ahead of
the Giants in Heated
Race.
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(GMcbp, Oimiaha, Qr YouH B am Also Mam
New York, July 22 The St. Louis
Cardinals went into first place in the
National league today as a result of
defeating Boston, 9 to 8, while New
York lost to Cincinnati, 3 to 2. St.
I.ouii has a lead of a game and a
half over the Giants. In the per
centage column the teams stand : St.
Louis, .6-'0; New York. .t2. '
Baseball Will
Some Day See
Foreign Circuit
U. S. Pastime Makes Remark
able Strides on Alien Soil
Japan Only Nation Tak
ing Game Seriously Now.
Baseball fans of the uprising gen
eration undoubtedly will live to see
a league of nations which will not
need a pulmotor to keep it alive
and which will be equipped to en
force its own rules, especially if
former Judge Landis partakes of the
fountain of youth and lives to be
high commissioner of Uncle Sam's
favorite sport after it becomes an
international pastime.
Growth of the American game
on alien soil has been rapid in the
last few years bu So far only other
nationalities have 4ailoped players
of sufficient expertness to compete
on anything like an even basis with
American teams. That statement
docs not include Canadians, who
dwell in a different domain, but are
o nearly first cousins that baseball
comes as natural to them' as to the
youth on this side; of .the boundary
line. ' ' ' . . .
Cuba and Mexico, although dis
tinct in political government, be
long to the same nationality from a
racial and lingual standpoint and
have shown great adeptness to base
ball, although the came has prog.
ressed farther and faster in the
Japan, so far, i' the only, ao-faBea
major nation tnat nas taicen op me
American game seriously, and al
ready has progressed so fast that its
teams have made good contests out
of games with amateur and semi
professional performers of this coun
try. England Next to Adopt Game
England will be the next great
nation to adopt the diamond pas
time, and indications are that the
Britons, are looking with more favor
on baseball since the war than at
any time previous to it. Indications
are that prominent citizens of the
British isles will, shortly foster a
movement to introduce . the public
over there to our game under more
favorable auspices than heretofore.
Uncle Sam's doughboys and gobs'
were better fighters than ball
players, and the only opportunity
the English stay at homes have had
to see baseball performed by ex
perts has, been through the infre
quent tours abroad of American pro
fessional aggregations. .
Englishmen who have come to the
United States to live have developed
into ardent baseball fans in many in1
stances. No less a personage than Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle is the latest
convert to the American pastime
and, unless he backslides, has prom
ised to endeavor to interest sports
men of the United Kingdom in some
method of importing sufficient talent
from the United States to teach
Britons the game.
For centuries Englishmen have
made cricket their national game, but
Sir Arthur declares that is an old
man's game, far less interesting to
the youth of the nation than baseball
will prove in his opinion. What Sir
Arthur did not add is that cricket is
something of a "gentleman's game,"
while baseball is the greatest leveler
of classes and masses ever invented.
The reddest necked graduate of the
open lots may attain a higher salary
than the president of the United
States, if he can become a diamond
hero.
.Windsor Meet Opens. .
Windsor. Ontario, July 22 More
than a score of the best known run
tiers on the turf have been nfcminated
for the interational handicap, feature
event of the opening today of the
Kenilworth Jock club season here.
The event carries a purse of $10,000
and among the entries are nearly all
the notable runners that contested
for the Frontier handicap featuring
the Windsor Jockey club opening a
week ago.
Nebraska Lad Beats
World's Champon
Horseshoe Pitcher
SHENANDOAH, la, July 2Z
(Special.) In an ehibition
match played at this place,
Elxa Ray, 17-year-old fanner lad,
defeated Frank Jackson, world's
champion horseshoe pitcher of
Blockton, la., 6 games out of 11..
Each game was for SO points and
Ray won the first five, Jackson tak
ing the nest five. The rub gam
was won by Ray.
Daring the 11 games Rav threw
335 ringers, of which 74 were
doubles, while Jackson threw 321
ringers, of which 70 were doubles.
Tris Speaker to
Be Honored by
Folks at Home
Hubbard City Honors Its Fa
ctious Son by Voting Him a
Life Membership in
Chamber of Commerce,
By I. E. SANBORN.
There is one "prophet" who is not
without honor in his own country.
He is a profes-
sional baseball
player, named
Speaker, and his
home town in
Texas, called
Hubbard City,
does not intend
to let the silver-
haired veteran j
receive all his I
honors from j
other communi
ties.
Life ' member
ship without
cost or dues, in
TRIS SPJUKEB.
the: Hubbard
City chamber of
commerce probably would not be
considered a distinctive honor by
any other of the great personages ot
the generation, but to Tristam
Speaker it doubtless means as much
a.? his fellow citizens intended it to.
For Tris always has been a great
booster for his native state and his
native city. Unlike many another
iran who has achieved renown,
Speaker - never has felt the call of
the big cities, except as a battle
field.
But for .Tris, Hubbard City might
never have become famous and in
recognition of that fact and apprecia
tion of its talented son, its business
men have written his name as per
manently into the home town's "hall
of fame" as Speaker has inscribed
it on the tablets of baseball history.
It has been said the small com
munities feci greater pride in their
heroes than the large ones do. That
may be true on a per capita basis, be
cause so many more folks know their
fellow townsmen intimately in a
small place than in a big one. But
the larger cities give their great ball
players a bigger volume of admira
tion because of their numerical su
periority.
All of which makes it pertinent to
ask why the club owners of the
American league do not add an in
expensive annex to their new hall of
fame by presenting to the native
town or city of each player who
wins the "best player" trophy some
permanent evidence of that fact? It
could take the form of a simple
metal tablet inscribed with the name
cf the native son and the date.
By displaying this in a suitable
public place the "old home town"
could do itself and its hero a last
ing honor.
The thought behind the American
league's trophy scheme is to 'show
appreciation of great ability coupled
w ith true sportsmanship on the green
diamond by something more uncom
mon and more permanent than dol
lars, no amount of which ever can
repay men like Speaker to name
only one of many for what they
have given to and done for the na
tion's pastime. .
. Wade Beats Harris.
Burlington, la., July 22. Sammy
Wade, featherweight of Pekin, 111.,
defeated Johnny Harris of Omaha, in
eight rounds here last sight. .
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Griffith and Engel on
"Ivory" Hunting Trip-
Will Be Here Two Days
Clark Griffith, owner of the Wash
ington Senators, and his king pin
scaut, Joe Engel, blew, into Omaha
this morning. .
"Griff" aiid Joe are on an ivory
hunting expedition and Joe has told
his boss so much about certain in
dividuals who wear Buffalo livery
that the American league magnate
came here to cast his optics on them.
This afternoon Joe and his good
natured boss were to be guests of
Barney Burch at Western league
park.
VMy, how' this town has grown,"
exclaimed Griffith, as he explained
that this is his first visit her since
1890, when he was playing with
Milwaukee in the Western associa
tion. "Omaha sure had a ball club that
year," said Griffith, reminiscently.
'Tf I remember right they copped
the penant. And say, there were
five players who went to the Na
tional league that year. One of
them was "Kid' Nichols. What a
pitcher he was. I saw him at Mil
waukee the other day. He is with
a railroad. Has a good position.
"Back in the days of the old West
ern j association Omaha was 'some'
baseball town. The Western was
the leading minor league at that
time."
Griff said he would be in Omaha
several davs. He was joined at Chi
cago last night by Engel, who has
been exploring the coast leagues for
diamond talent.
They are stopping at the Fon
tenelle. In a corner of the room was
a bag of golf clubs.
Joe saw his interviewer giving
them the "once over."
"Do you play golf," he asked
eagerly. Answered in the affirma
tive, Griff immediately hurled a chal
lenge for 18 holes. It was evident
that he has an incurable case of
golfitis.
The Washington owner said the
object of the extensive rookie hunting
expedition he has planned is to build
for the future.
Weissmuller Victor
in National Meet
New York, July 2. Johnny Weiss
muller of the Illinois Athletic club,
Chicago, easily won the National A.
A. U. 440-yard open water swim to
day in aficld of five at Brighton
Beach, but failed to equal the record
of 5:074-5 he recently established
at Honolulu. Weissmuller finished
50 vards ahead of the field in
5:161-10.
Thomas Blake, Los Angeles, new
American long distance champion,
was second, 15 yards ahead of Lee
Jarvin, Dallas, Tex., southern cham
pion, who barely defeated James
Hall, Brooklyn, former long distance
champion, for third place.
Weissmuller dove into the lead and
constantly drew away from the field
over the 110-yard course, reaching
the halfway mark 15 yards ahead of
Jarvin, who began to fall back before
the challenge of Blake, lhe win
ner swam without exertion and fin
ished in good shape. ' -
Sherman Nine After Games
The Sherman Avenue Merchants
who Sunday defeated Nashville, 13 to
7. will clash with Plattsmouth Sun
day. Manager Schneider announces
the team is open for Sunday games.
tie may be reached at .Webster 0412,
Clark Griffith.
"Our greatest stars are getting old.
Some day they'll be 'through.' , In
the meantime we must begin develop
ing youngsters to take their place."
Griffith expressed his approval of
his new manager, Milan. He blamed
the club's slump to inconsistent slab
bing and constant injuries to play
ers.
Griffith said about the time Milan
thought he would be able to use Mo-
gndge again to supplement the great
work of Johnson and Zachary, George
pulled up with another neuritis kink
in his salary wing.
Goose Goslin and Joe Judge also
are on the injured list.
Joe Dailey Shuts
Out St. Joseph
Joe Dailey swabbed the St. Joseph
Saints- with a coat of whitewash in
the first game of a five-contest series
at league park yesterday afternoon,
winning the twilight atair by the
score of 4 to 0.
Adams faced the Buffaloes, but
lasted only one and two-third in
nings when Lindberg was trotted
out to the mound. The latter held
the herd to three scattered hits in
the remaining innings.
The Buffaloes jumped on Adams
in the fourth inning for four runs
and six hits before "Red" Corriden
flashed the S, O. S. to the Saints
dugout which resulted in Lindberg
taking the mound.
A double header is scheduled for
this afternoon.
Angels Sign Semi-Pro
Los Angeles, July 22. Lee Demp
sey, local semi-professional first
baseman, has been signed by the San
Antonio club of the Texas league, it
was announced today. The Texas
club is said to have ordered Dempsey
for the New York Giants, who plan
to watch his work with the San An
tonio nine and to bring him to the big
league next year if he makes good.
Court Refuses
to Block Bout
in New Jersey
Supreme Court Justice Denies
Reform Element's Applica
tion for Warrants for
Fight Principals.
Jersey City, N. J., July 22. Su
preme Court Justice Swayze today
declined to issue warrants for Benny
Leonard, Lew Tendlcr and Tex
Rickard, leading figures in the box
ing bout scheduled for Boyle's Thir
ty Acres next Thursday evening.
Herbert C. Gilson, representing
Jersey City ministers and the society
of New Jersey for the prevention of
crime and the promotion of morals,
applied for the warrants on the
ground that the contest would be a
prize fight and. violate the state law.
In denying also an application to
prevent the bout the court held that
it had not been shown that the prin
cipals had yet committed any viola
tion of the law and until they had the
court could not act.
Knows They'll Fight.
In presenting his case against the
lightweight championshm bout. Gil-
son said:
"It is to be a prize fight. The oic-
tures, tickets ana advertisements es
tablish this fact.
"The show is to be promoted by
George L. Rickard. who was con
victed m the federal court. This fieht
i in uireci viuianon ot tne laws ot
Mew jersey wmch forbids decisions.
lhe only way a championship may
De won is Dy a knockout.
Wheh Gilson sought to criv th
me history of Rickard, the court in
terrupted:
You had better confine vourself
to tne complaint. -
"I want to show the rharartr of
the promoter," insisted the attorney,
Talked to-Benny.
"However. I have here in mv Dock
et an'affidavit of a man who visited
Leonard in his training: camp. This
man talked to Leonard's trainer, who
said the odds were three to one that
Leonard would knock out Tendler.
"Therefore, there is no sense Jin
calling a bout in which there iso
be a knockout a boxing exhibition
I ask that these three men be placed
unoer Dan to Keep tne peace.
In denying the application, Justice
.wayze said:
it would be foolish for me to ore
tend that the probabilities are not in
favor of your proposition that these
men intend to violate the law. I
don't doubt that this is their inten
tion and that their preparations have
that end in view.
But I part company with vou
until some actual crime has been com
mitted. An injunction cannot prop
erly De issued m this case.
Costello, Rooney May Row
Against Walter Hoover
Paul Costello and Ton Jlooriey are
eligible to row against Walter Hoov
er, world's champion single sculler.
Wn the title race of the national regatta
it Philadelphia August 5. AH three
are familiar with the course and a
great race is anticipated.
Dempsey Meets Old Foe
Ed Warner, Wichita light heavy
weight, who years ago boxed Jack
Dempsey for a purse of $10, boxed
an exhibition bout with the cham
pion for three rounds, and during
that time failed to get in a single
blow, . !
Two Gotham Boxers
in Critical Condition
as Result of Bouts
NEW YORK, July 22. Two
boxers were in hospitals in
the Metropolitan district to
day, suffering from injuries re
ceived in bouts last night.
At Newark, N. J., Jack Craw
ford, i9-year-old featherweight,
collapsed in his dressing room after
his eight-round scrap with Tommy
Gerard. Since then he has been
unconscious and his condition was
reported serious today, with a pos
sible skull fracture. The head in
jury was attributed to the fall in.
the dressing room, brought on by
exhaustion.
Harry White, 22, of Brooklyn,
junior lightweight, was injured
while sparring with one of his part
ners in a gymnasium, falling un
conscious to the floor of the ring.
He, too, has failed to revive and his
condition was described as critical
Police have held the sparring part
ners for investigation.
Herman High
in Swat Race
A new Buffalo performer is on top
on the batting heap in the Western
league. He is "Babe" Herman, out
fielder. In 59 games Herman has col
lected 87 hits, giv
him an average of
.439.
Williams of
Sioux City is close
on his heels with
an average of .415
for 51 games.
But in con
sistent hitting
over the full West
ern league derby,
Fisher of St. Jo
seph continues to
hold sway with a
.397 average, while
Manush, Omaha
0 C uthcMtn
third sacker, is
thundering along just 20 points be-,
hind him. Metz is third with .376.
Eugene Elsh, the Sioux City star,
for whose services the White Sox
and Pirates are fighting, is fourth in
the list with an average of .370. Davis,
the Tulsa slugger, continues out in
front on home run hitting with 20,
while Hemingway of Sioux City is
the leading base stealer with 33.
Uther leading natters lor oo or ,
more games: JJavis, luisa, .jo;
Long, Denver, .364; East, Wichita,
.363; Bennett, Tulsa, .361; Pitt, Okla
homa City, .359; Lelivelt, Tulsa, .355;
Grantham, Omaha, .354.
Leonard Is Matched
I With Ever Hammer
Chicago. July 22. Benny Leonard
the lightweight champion yesterday
was matched to meet Ever Hammer
of Chicago in a 10-round contesti n
Floyd Fitzsimmcvi's" arena at Michi
gan City, In"d., on the afternoon of
August 5.
lhe state convention of fclks will
be held there on that date.
Leonard defeated Rocky Kansas of
Buffalo in the same arena on July 4.
Seattle Star "Goes Up"
Seattle, July 21. Frank G. (Stub
by) Mack, Seattle's young right-
handed pitcher, has been sold to the
Chicago Americans for cash and
players, it became known today. The
deal was reported to aggregate in
the neighborhood of JW.WU.
Cue Expert to Play
All Comers in Omaha
Erwin Rudolph, pocket billiard ex
pert, will play all comers afternoons
r.ud evenings at the Paxton academy
for five days next week, starting
Monday. . Rudolph guarantees to for
feit $25 to any player who defeats
him during an exhibition.
. Among .local cue sharks who will
oppose him are Ralph Wells. Harrv
Sheppard, Milt Stevens. Hurley Ham
ilton, Harry Moon, William Usher,
James Butler, Hemic Harsch, Andy
Swanson and Ralph Stevens.
The exhibitions will be staged in
the Paxton billiard pit, a feature of
the new academy.
Cue Record Claimed
Paris, July 22. Roger Conti, the
French billiard plaver. in a match
with Gibclin. another Frenchman.
ran 3,600 points at 18.2 balkline in 59
innings for an average of 61. French
billiardists claim that this is a world's
record average, the former record of
57.5 having been held by Jake Schaef
er, the world champion. Conti's
high run in the match was 432, as
against Schaefcr's record of 436,
made in 1921.
Gibelin in the match scored 6,136
Ifouits. .
New York Clubs
Strong Because
of Expenditures
Card and Browns Represent
Wise ConervatiHin in Rae-
ball Purchases De-
dares Writer.
By DAVIS J. WALSH.
New York. July 22. If either or
both of the St. Louis entries should
head the Giants or Yankees at the
end of the major league pennant
races, it will be a triumph of con
servative building over commercial
frenzy.
The St. Louis clubs have cost
their repective owners nothing in
particular beyond a few heartaches
in former years; the Giants and
Yankees are an ensemble of base
ball prima donna, almost prohib
itive in price.
Consider the present Giant roster,
for example. Heinie Groh is sup
posed to have separated his owners
from a mere matter of $150,000;
Bancroft, $75,000; Meusel, $50,000;
Nehf and Shinners. $40,000 each, and
Toney, Douglas, Snyder and others
well above $10,000 each.
Ross Young in right field; George
Kelly, first baseman; Bill Ryan, the
pitcher; Earl Smith, catcher, and
Frank Frifch, in the infield, alone
are developments of the safe and
sane policy.
Ruth Cost 1125,000.
The Yankees? Kindly see J. T.
Morgan & Co., without delay.
Babe Ruth cost more than $125.
000 before the price of major
league chattels got out of focu?.
Even before then Frank Baker went
under the hammer for $30,000. while
Mays was bought for $40,000 several
years later.
There is no such thing as estimat
ing what Schang, Hoyt, Jones,
Scott, Bush, McNally and other
former Red Sox cost the Yankees,
because they figured in trades where
the cash consideration was kept as
dark as Kid Norfolk's courftenancc.
Even more recently Whitey Witt
escaped from Philadelphia at a cost
of $10,000.
Next we will call the attention of
the class to the St. Louis Browns.
Shocker, one of the best right haml
crs in baseball, was a gift from the
Yankees; Severeid, a fine catcher,
came up from the American asso
ciation at the usual rate of ex
change; Sisler, greatest player in
the game today, was secured from
Michigan university for the cost oi'
a free lunch; McManus and Gcrber
are minor league purchases of
slight amount: Ellerbe came in a
trade with Washington, and Will
iams and Jacobson, outfielders,
were inexpensive mi,nor leaguers.
Pruitt, great young left handcr,
was an inexpensive collegian.
Tobin Was Expensive.
Of the entire outfit Johnny Tobin,
having been a Federal league star,
cost a good round sum because of
the rather frantic bidding that pre
vailed at the time, and Dave D?,n
forth, the left hander, is supposed
to have come from Columbus for a
consideration well above $40,000.
The Cards were assembled at a
financial outlay similar in propor
tions. Flack was secured from the
Cubs in a "hoss and hoss" trade in
which Cliff Heathcote also figured;
Jack Smith cost less than $1,000,;
the great Hornsby less than $1,500;
Mueller was picked up, merely as a
promising minor leaguer, and the
same might be said of Fournier,
who had failed to make the riffle
with the White Sox and Yankees.
Milto.n Stock and Jeff Pfeffcr are
the results of trades in which the
Phils and Dodgers respectively
took much the worst of it; Ain
smith was picked off the baseball
boneyard. CIcmons, another catch
er, was a moderately priced young
man, and McCurdy, a third, was a
collegian, hence cost nothing.
Doc Lavan, the shortstop, was
chased out of the American league
and was sold by the Senators at
the waiver price, while Doak,
Sherdel, Walker, Haines, North,
Pertica and other pitchers came to
the club at little or no expense. Not
to mention "Specs" Toporcer, one
of the best utility men in the game,
who was found on the New York
sandlots.
Umpire Moriarty Talks
His Way Out of a Swim
There are some people who insist
that umpires are not human, have no
sense of humor.
The following bit of repartee is of
fered in rebuttal of such a belief:
, During a game in St. Louis a friend
of Umpire Gcorgs Moriarty invited
him down to the Missouri Athletic
club to enjoy a swim.
Now it so happens that Moriarty.
despite the fact that he is an all
around athlete, is unable to swim.
After thanking his friend for the
kind invitation and expressing his
regrets at being unable to accept be
cause of a previous engagement, he
remarked:
"Perhaps it is just as well, because
I swim like paralysis."
"How is that?" asked the much
puzzled friend.
"One stroke and I'm through," an
swered Moriarty.
$100,000 Playfellow
Verdict Affirmed
New York. July 22 The ap
pellate division of the supreme court
today unanimously affirmed the ver
dict for $100,000 in favor of Harry
K. Sinclair, proprietor of the Ran
cocas stables, against James H. John
son, owner of the Quincy stables, in
the Playfellow case. It was under
stood Johnson will seek permission
to carry the case to the court of
aooeals.
