Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 117, 17 May 1922 — Page 13
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND. IND.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1922.
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BAMBINO, 20 POUNDS LIGHTER, CONFIDENT OF BREAKING RECORD
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, May 17. Twenty J
pounds lighter than he was several weeks ago, Babe Ruth, almost a ball player again, was putting In hi3 final preparation today for re-entering the line-up Saturday in the game between the Yankees and the St. Louis Browns. Alternating with Ruth in the tatter's box at the polo ground's thi3 morning as has been the case every morning since the Yankees came home for a long stay was Bob Meusel, a fellow exile from the game. The Bambino believes he will break the home run record of 59 that he established last year, notwithstanding that he is entering the season when it is" about one-fourth finished and that he is not in the perfect playing form that he was this time in 1921. Meusel, who batted out 24 four-bag
gers last season, was not so confident
of extending his record as was Ruth of his. "You never can tell," mused Ruth as he caressed his ash bat. "Accidents will happen. It is not impossible for me to beat my last year'3 record. You never can tell." 24 Pounds Melt Away Babe said today that he had not recovered his full strength since his recent operation for the removal of tonsils but that he felt better. The 20 pounds that have melted from his body did not disappear because of the operation, he said. Babe's private opinion is that he just lost 20 pounds just lost 'em, and he feels better. Babe is far from worried over the homerun hitting propensity of Kenneth Williams, St. Louis American slugger, who has a count of 11 to
date, just equal with Ruth's standing
this time last year. "Oh, he'll quit," Ruth said. "He's only good on the St. Louis field" The farm which Ruth bought several weeks ago in Massachusetts is intended for a home for him and hi3 wife, he declared today. "I bought a farm to live on it," he paid. "Everything grows on the farm," but did not confide an ambition to produce a bumper crop. The place in half farm and half estate, he explained a real place to spend the winter.
JIM TRACEY BRAVE BUT POOR BOXER
How They Stand
National League
Clubs New York.....
St. Louis 15
Pittsburg .......
Chicago '...13
Philadelphia ..
Brooklyn .' 11 Cincinnati 12
Boston
American League Won Lost
Won Lost Pet. ...20 8 .714 ..15 11 : .593 ..15 11 ' .556 ..13 13 .500 ..11 13 .458 ,. 11 15 .423 .12 18 .400 ..8 17, .320
Clubs
NewxYork 20 11 St. Louis 19 11 Detroit 15 15 Philadelphia 14 14 Cleveland 14 16 Boston 12 14 Chicago 11 17 Washington 12 19
' American Association Clubs - - Won - Lost
Minneapolis 18- 8 Indianapolis 16 11 St. Paul .....14 11 Milwaukee 16 13 Kansas City ..16 14 Columbus 14 14 Louisville 12 17 Toledo 4 22
GAMES TODAY National League Philadelphia at Cincinnati. Biooklyn at St. Louis. New York at Pittsburg. Boston at Chicago. American League Chicago at Philadelphia. Cleveland at New York. St. Louis at Boston. Detroit at Washington. American Association Kansas City at Milwaukee. Minneapolis at St. Paul.
Pet. .645 .633 .500 .500 .467 .462 .393 .387 Pet. ..692 .593 .560 .552 .533 .500 .414 .154
Yesterday's Games
NATIONAL LEAGUE At Chicago R H E New York . 000 002 000 2 6 0 Chicago" 102 000 00x 3 8 0 Toney and Snyder; Cheeves and O'Farrel. At Pittsburgh R H E Boston 000 301 001 002 7 14 0 Pittsburgh .200 000 030 000 5 8 3 Marquard, Watson, Miller and O'Neill; Morrison, Cooper and Mattox. St. Louis-Philadelphia Rain.' Cincinnati-Brooklyn Not scheduled.
(By Associated Press) NEW YORK. May 17. Jim Tracey, Australian heavyweight, possesses the
heart of a gladiator, but lacks knowledge of the art of fisticuffs.. In his first American appearance in Madison Square" Garden last ' night, Tracey was knocked out in the eighth round by Bill Brennan of Chicago. Awkward but determined, Tracey set out to finish Brennan In the fir3t round, but was tapped solidly once on the chin, and then became cautious. In the sixth Brennan swung a left that caught Tracey on the jaw and sent him to the canvas. The blow did not hurt Tracey; it angered him. lie took an eight count and the round ended. In the seventh Tracey took the of
fensive, engaged in a ring - center
mauling-bee with Brennan and shoolf him with several hard punches to the chin. He was sent reeling to the ropes by a Brennan right, but came back into the fight again and staggered Bill with a left upper cut. Again in the eighth the elongated antipodean drew Brennan into a milting at close quarters. He cuffed the veteran on the jaw with a right and then backed into a neutral comeRight there he made an error of omission. He forgot to protect his jaw.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At New York R H E Cleveland 000 000 000 0 5 1
New York 200 000 Olx 3 6 1
Coveeskie and O'Neill; Hoyt and
Schang.
At Washington R H E Detroit .102 000 100 4 8 1 Washington 000 020 000 2 5 2
Oldham and Bassler; Phillips, Erickson, Brillheart and Gharrity.
.At Philadelphia R H E Chicago 301 000 200 6 9 2
Philadelphia ....010 050 03x 9 11 1
Kooertson and Schalk; Harris, Yarrington, Nayor, Rommel and Perkins. At Boston R H E St. Louis 000 110 020 02 6 15 0 Boston 020 010 00 1 01 5 12 0 Shocker and Severeid; Quinn, Karry and Ruel.
15 RECORDS BROKEN 1 IN ANNUAL PREBLE FIELD, TRACK MEET EATON. Ohio, May 17 Fifteen rec
ords -were broken in the sixth annual field and track meet of the district schools of Preble county, held recently, as shown by a final check of records.
In the 120-pound-or-over clas3 Orval
Bragg, Jefferson township broke the
pole vault record by two Inches. The record set by him is nine feet and nine inches, as against nine feet and seven inches, the previous record. Byron Shields, Verono, tied- Bragg for the record. In the 440-yard dash in the same clas3 Edgar Parks, Monroe township, set a new record of 58 4-5 seconds, as against 59 seconds. In the t-iseball throw in the same class Byron Shields, Verona, set a new record of 353 feet and three inches, as against 337 feet and six inches. In the same class Haro!d Cromwell, Verona," broke the chinning record with 23, as against 20. - - In the 101 to 120-pound class three records were broken. James Lucas, West Alexandria, hurled the eightpound shot a distance of 40 feet and 33i Inches, as against 39 feet and nine inches. Lucas also set a new record of 310 feet and eight inches for the baseba'l throw, as against 300 feet. Don Creager, West "Alexandria, put up a new record of two minules and 27 seconds for the half-mile run, as against two minutes and 29 4-5 seconds. " - New Chinning Record. In the 81 to 101 pound class, David Riley, West Alexandria, made a new record of 20 in chinning, as against 17.
Five records were broken in the class below 81 pounds. In the 200 yaid relay, Lanied townsh'p schools set a new record of 27 1-5 seconds, as against 28 seconds. In the running broad jump Ray" Suman, Lanier township, made a new record of 14 feet and 9 Vz inches, as against 14 feet 8 inches. By a quarter of an inch, Russell linger, of Lewisburg, broke the standing jump record. The new reCord is 7 feet 8 inches, as against 7 feet 8 inches. Gerald Reed, Verona, broke the baseball throw record by almost 17 feet. The new record is 215 feet 10 inches, as against 199 feet. Elroy Kabler, Lanier township, holds the new chinning record, with 22, as against 20. In the class for girls over 13 in the 200 yard relay, Union high school, Lewisburg, hung up a new record of 26 3-5 seconds, as against 27 3-5 seconds. Mabel Belville, Camden, in the girl's under 13 class, in the baseball pitch,
made a new record of 3, as against 2, the previous record.
Chips and Slips
ONCE TOO OFTEN That's the moral that might be written after the account of the recent lightning k. o. of Ted Lewis by Georges Carpentier. The history of Lewis' career shows that the Englishman bad gone out of his class several times to tackle heavier opponents, and had always come out on" top. before he met the Carp. He just bit off more than he could chew when he tackled Georges. According to the dope at hafid, Lewis underweighed Mike Gibbons by ten pounds when he gave Gibbons a beating six year3 ago. Lewis toyed with the clever middleweight. Ted Lewis took on the slugging Bryan Downey and more than handled the heavier mauler. Lew's licked Jack Bloomfield, a light heavyweight and a clever one. Prcbably his best performance was against Ray McCormick, a short time ago. McCormick, who weighs a bit more than Carpeotier, had defeated Eat Levinsky and held his own with Tom Gibbons. Lewis knocked out McCormick in easy fashion. Mike O'Dowd. heavier and as fast as Lew's, outpointed the Britisher a while back,, but Lewis had a reasonable a'ibi. He had been sick and was not in shape when he forced himself to go on against" Dowd. Lew's underestimated Cbrpentier, and met his Waterloo.
The colored man jumped around in the load, trying to head off a runaway cow. "Stop her! Stop her!" yelled tne owner. '
"I'se tryin' to, boss' replied the colored man, waving his arms. "Speak to her!" yelled the owner. "Good mawnin. cow; good mawnin" said the negro politely.
r AMERICAN ASSOCIATION At Minneapolis R H E Toledo 101 002 21310 13 1 Minneapolis 020 010 000 3 8 4 Bedient and Kocher; Thormahlen, Mangum, Williams, Schauer and Mayer. At Milwaukee R H E Louisville 010 000 111 4 9 4 Milwaukee 001 100 0O0 2 5 0
Long and Brottem; Reviere, Clarke and Myatt. At Kansas City R H E Indianapolis 010 001 711 11 17 2 Kansas City 202 020 200 8 9 3 Weaver and Krueger; Caldwell, Carter, Bono and Skiff, McCarty. At St. Paul R H E Columbus ...... 201 000 Oil 5 8 2
St. Paul 000 110 22x 6 14 2 Snyder, Palmero, Sanders and Hartley; Martin and Gonzales.
YANKEES, ST. LOUIS ARE SHARING HONORS
(liv Associated Press.) NEW YORK, May 17 The Yankees and St. Louis today are sharing the first division with two former rivals for the cellar championship the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers, who right now are playiDg the most sensational games in the league. Ty Cobb, again starring at the bat with three hits in as many times up, led his team to an easy 4 to 2 victory over Washington while the Mackmen hammered Robertson, the White Sox no hit pitcher, out of the box and won, 9-6. Ed Rommel stopping Chicago in
the latter stages of the game. Wash-j
ington pulled a triple play in the ninth inning, the fourth of the season. The pace setters, New York and St. Louis, also won, but the Tigers and Athletics are tied for third place and m, close on the leaders. Waite Hoyt reSJ turned to world's series form and blanked Cleveland 3 to 0, while the Browns nosed out Boston. 6-5, in an 11 inning battle. Ken. Williams, who gathered four hits, started the winning rally with a double. Only two games were played in the Nationals, the Giants bowing to Cheeves, crack young pitcher of the Cubs, for the second time in four games, and giving Chicago an even break in the series. Pittsburgh lost to Boston 7 to 5 in 12 innings and also lost the services temporarily of Shortstop Maranvil'.e, who wa3 carried from the field after being spiked.
Morvich and Pillory May Fight It Oat NEW YORK, May 17 Morvlch, winner of the Kentucky derby, and Pillory, which won the equally valu
able Preakness stake at Pimlico last Saturday, both will be stabled on Long Island within a few miles of each other, Morvich at Jamaica track and Pil
lory at Belmont. As both horses are
eligible for several stakes as 3-year-olds, it is probable that they will race it out this summer, perhaps in the Dwyer stakes at Aquaduct. INDIANA BASEBALL TEAM SAILS HOME FROM JAPAN BLOOMINGTON, May 18. Having finished its series of games with Japan under auspices of the University of Waseda, the Indiana university base ball squad is now homeward bound.
and its ship will dock at Seattle next Tuesday. Six games will be played with Indiana colleges after the team reaches home. Indiana received a guarantee of $15,000 for expenses from the University of Waseda and as all the games drew immense crowds, the Japs evidently did not lose any money. The opening contest at Tokio was attended bv a crowd of 30.000.
PECK AND BRATTAIN TIE IN BOSTON SHOOT
J. H. Peck and S. Brattain tied for first honors in a practice shoot held on the C. & O. Boston Gun club's grounds, Monday afternoon, breaking 49 out of a possible 50 birds. Harter was third, breaking 48 birds. The scores: 50 Bird Race. Peck 49 Brattain 49 Harter 48 Traylor. 47 Packer 46 Phillips 46 Pyle 46 Hamilton 44 Ballinger 44 Pyle 41 Smith .-...18
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RICHMOND SHOOTERS SLOW AT BIG MATCH
In only one event did the Richmond shooters attending the state shoot at
Indianapolis make much of an impres
sion, that being in the two man event when Gentry and Mosbaugh broke 283 targets and landed in third place. Harter and Traylor only broke 267 birds. The scores for the local shooters are as follows: 60 bird race, Peck 37,
Harter 36, Traylor 29; Class A, 150
-bird race, Peck 139; Class B,'150 bird,
Mosbaugh 142, Gentry 141, Harter 135,
Traylor 132.
Wednesday the men will shoot in the State handicap championship; the 100 single targets, registered, 100 op
tional targets.
"May I ask the cause of this excitement?" said the stranger in the litt'e village. ' Certainly." repC.ed the countryman, "We are celebrating the birthday of the oldest inhabitant. Sbe is 101 today. "Indeed! And may I ask who is that
ittle man with the dreadfully sad face
walking by the old lady's side: "Oh, that is her son-inlaw. He has been keeping up the payments on her life insurance for the last 30 years."
ORGANIZED BASEBALL
IN BIG QUAKER CITY
Reynolds Defeats Doctor With Jap Toe Hold
INDIANAPOLIS, May 17. Jack PavnnM. T J i! 1 J 1
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iRICHARDS OF DAYTON
TO TAKEOK GHANEY
, .By FRANK U. 3KESKH Semi-pro baseball in Philadelphia 13 outdrawing the Phillies. Crowds ranging from 5.000 up to 25,000 are paying money to see -the semi-pros in action: ' There's not merely food, for reflection In that statement for Organized Baseball leaders but there's a danger signal. The condition which exists in the Quaker City today is the most astonishing in the game's history. Yet, in another sense, it is not astonishing at all. Ever since William F. Baker assum: ed control of the Phillies, he has parsued a policy ordained to alienate the affectioD of even the most ardent baseball fan. Instead of trying to build up a team so that Philadelphia might be proud of it, he has deliberately wrecked each and every machine which seemed formidable. Baker has sold Alexander, Killifer, Meusel, Bancroft, and others. He retained only the cuUs of baseball; men too old or too mediocie to be wanted anywhere else. And the team he has assembled as representatives of the Nationa" League in Philadelphia aye a disgrace ?o major league baseball. Certainly it's an outiage to charge major league prices to see them play. Expected Good Crowds Baker though; that Philadelpbians were so essentially cf the boob var'ety
thai, they would people his ball P3-' they will not be run. no matte? whai sort of c'ub he recnii- Hi h school base
ed to operate under the mure oanDer.
Tommy Doctor here Tuesday night, winning in straight falls. Doctor barred Reynolds' famous leg split, but fell a victim to a more painful hold, the Japanese, toe hold. Reynolds applied this hold In both bouts. The first was won after 1 hour li minutes, and the second after six minutes of grappling.
HIGH TRACK MEET AT 3:45 THURSDAY
High school's dual tiack and fie'd meet with Brookville will be started Thursday afternoon at Z 45 o'clock on Reid Field, EaYlbam. The meet '.s starting at this time to a"low aU students of the hish school a chance to get out for the first event. Brookville has a fair squad of runners, but excels in the high and broad jumps. Dickerson Jumps over the bar in the high jump for the Brookville team at a height of five feet six inches, and is a good broad jumper. He leaps right around 19 feet. Coach Stenger will give practically every man on the team a chance to show his worth in this meet, and probably will use three in some events. Admission to tke meet will be 25 cents. , Brookville has no entry in either
the high or low hurdles, and therefore,
DAYTON; r Oh'io Maj? 17.-Blockia Richards, the Dayton featherweight, has been matched to meet Andy Chaney in the headlined which will inaugurate the open-air show to bis given by the Savoy . Athletic club... of Dayton, May 24. This bout is attracting much attention of the "fans and a large crowd is expected to attend. - z Four other good bouts also have been arranged for the card. Battling Chink, of Cincinnati, who has been rising rapidly, will meet Jimmy Russel, of Ashtabula, Ohio, former bantamweight champion of the A. A. U., in the semi-windup of the evening. This bout will be on a par with the main go. Another bout that is attracting Interest is the one between Hughie Richnrds and Eddie McManus. For -curtain raisers, Kid Lucas,: of Dayton, will meet Kid Funk, of Springfield, four rounds, and Elmer yitt, of Dayton, will battle Jimmy Gordan, of Middletown, for four rounds. -
Virgil Cheeves, of the Chicago Cabs,
has assumed the name of the Giant
Killer because of his good work in the box in the past Cub-Giant series. The two clubs just finished a four-game series in which the Cubs won two and the Giants two, and both of the Cubs' victories were pitched by Cheeves.
Cambridge City will bring its baseball team here for a game of ball Sunday afternoon with the Eagles. It is expected to be one of the best games of the season and no doubt will be most exciting contest in which the locals have engaged in this season. Both teams are great rivals and will make every effort to win the game.
The seventh proved to be a lucky one for the Indianapolis team. Tuesday. The Indians came from behind and scored seven runs in this found that enabled them to trim the Kaws after they seemed hopelessly beaten. The final score was 11 to 8.
Detroit continued its winning streak by trimming the Nationals Tuesday by a 4 to 2 score. Cobb and Veach had big days at the bat driving in all the runs. Cobb continues to pound the ball, getting three hits out of as many times to bat. Veach connected for two blows.
Pins XI First Pope to See Ball Game NEW YORK, May 17. A pope for the first time is to witness a baseball game soon. In donating to the Knights of Columbus a site for an athletic field at the foot of one of the seven hills of Rome Pope Pius XI., it was announced here, expressed to Edward L. Hearn, director of the organization's work in Italy, the hope of seeing the American game played. Pope Pius will be able to watch the game from the window of his study overlooking the field. "I want to see with my own eyes the development of your work," his holiness said.
FSnt he erred in hat Idea,
Certain sportsmen in Philadelphia, d:sgused by the Baker tacticS and yearning to see some sort of good baseball played, began to back semlp.o teams. They engaged only good playeis men who had not merely native ability, but plenty of fire, dash and "pep." They steadied the lineups with once-time players of the majors. Rvpntiiallv a real rivalry between the
teams representing different PhHadel-
phia districts sprang up. The result was ciowds and crowds and ever increasing crowds Semipro ball made a great hit with the na tives last year. Whenever the teams of rival districts battled there was always a big band of rooters on hand to lend vocal aid to their favorites.
Go In Strong The games took on the aspect and the spirit of collegiate football combats and the players threw their whole hearts and souls into the combat, Philadelphia came to Eee once again baseball as baseball should bejlayed; with the mind, the arms, the spirit and to the last ounce of energy. So successful was semi-pro baseball in Philadelphia last year that one of the backers built a ball park which, in certain ways, is a cose rival of some of the big leagues. It's known as Shetzline field, seats nearly 11,000 and can be made to seat 20,000. It has a regulation maior league playing field.
Semi-pro ball' not only started off with a hurrah this spring it got un
der wav with a boom and a thunder
like Niagara. Shetzline field at times hasn't been large enough to house the crowds which are getting more baseball for 25 cents, 35 cents and 50 cents
than they've seen in the Philhe playground for years. Enthusiasm runs riot. New semi-pro fans are being made every day. Deserting Standard And each new day many of the lov
ers of baseball wno nave remained faithful to the Phillies, largely for memory's sake, are deserting and becoming semi-pro converts. Why not? For a fan wants to see a contest on the diamond. He sees none when the Phillies are in action, for no matter what club they face, it's 2 to 1, 3 to 1, or 5 to 1 that they'll lose. And so Philadelphia Is doling out to big. league magnates everywhere something of a warning and one which Is: "Give big league towns big league baseball, or we'll hurdle to the semipros, where we get a run for our money; where we can get the thrill and the joy of seeing baseball struggles not slaughters of the home town team." . (Copyright l!2t By Kins Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
gh school baseball players were
to leave Wednesday afternoon to take on the College Corner Hi team at the latter place. The players Were to go in automobiles. j Richmond's entries in .the events will be as follows: J 100 yard dash B .-own. and Kennedy. Mile run Hobson and Huber. Pole vault Bond and Lutz. Shot-put G.-eene and Matthews. 220-yard dash--Reid, Brown and
Kelley. 880-yard run Hobson and Ryan.
440-yard dash Reid and Ryan. H'gb jump Reid, Lutz and Walls. Broad jump Kessler and Greene. Relay Kennedy, Brown, Kessler
and Reid.
NOTED JOCKEY IS PAID - RECORD PRICE, $25,000 NEW YORK, May 18. A record price for the seivices of a jockey in this country was said to have been paid today when J .S. Cosden, well
known turfman, paid ?25,00O to James
Arthur for the contract on Chick Lang. Lang, who was developed under Ar
thur's training, has ridden ISO win
ners in less than two years. He is a native of Hamilton, Ontario.
EAGLES' BALL CLUB WILL MEET FRIDAY
All members of the 'Eagles' baseball club will roeet -in th Eagles' club rooms- oii "South - Seventh street, Friday night, "at 7:30' 6'cIocY.' Marfager Johnny Logan has called the meeting and expects every man to be present. It is thought the team will be given another blackboard talk, and that a skull practice will be held. The team will play the Cambridge Ci!? nine at Exhibition park Sunday afternoon and Manager Logan is tak
ing no chances on dropping this game. Cambridge promises to be the strongest team the locals have met this season and if they continue to pound the ball as in previous games they should put over a win. A practice session will be held at Exhibition park Saturday afternoon and all players are expected to attend this session. Logan will put the finishing touches on the team's play at this practice. ' -
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