Warry Greb Should Win Middleweight Title from Champ
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1923 “HE SEATTLE ETAR 13 WARRY GREB SHOULD WIN MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE FROM CHAMP J . d .ll | Windmi | But Still im - 54, a Great Pitcher . aquvoritet I Chief Yellowhorse Strikes It Qil I . Joe M(;Ginnity Is Hu'rlinqg‘ t?hor His l)ubuquz 'l"‘eam CHIEF YELLOWHQRSE, the Pawnee Indian pitching for Sacramento, has made a strike in oil in in Scrap Oklahoma. The big Indian gets a check for about SI,OOO a month from his operators. BY BILLY EVANS hurler No wonder he laughed at Charley Pick the other day when the manager of the Solons fined him $250 When speaking of the miracle Ring Freak for some reason or other. Pittsburg men of baseball, don't overlook Joe Should Beat Johnny MeGinnity, Mill Who Joe ~ Wilson in Their is MeGinnity, you ask? Twenty years ago he was a big For { BY LEO H. LASSEN teague star pitcher, seven years he was & member of the New York Kamm Smash Two-Base Record for pugllls. g been a tough year May E. Glants, shariag with Christy as five Kings of the tio champlons Mathewson the pitching honors of ed have lost thelr E. square the club, ia 1933, prowns 80 far Thirty years ago Joe McGinnity Greb should make it No. 8 " Harry began his baseball career with the he takes on Johhny Wilson, - Montgomery (Ala) club of the South. Two National fmnmo champlon of the middle. Leaguers York Au ern league, 4 t division In New be Will Enter 1 g Why should Joe MceGinnity numbered among the miracle men Do Iron-Man Flinging to a decislon in a 15 . They fight hasa’t of baseball? battle, and as Wilson yound at Star Swim speak of in two years, Well, the age of 64, when golf, fought any to Aug. 11.—Winning almost constant not baseball, is the favorite sport of as Greb has seent and BY TOM OLSEN C!NCINNATI.ball a day is regarded Aug. 11.—The “Dub- men of that age, McGinnity is still one game Greb figures to win, pction, KONOWALOFF, a 8 a pretty falr performance in CHI(‘AG(:,Kid" nickname the pitching and as usual he's doing a Crystal lin is the ; human windmill ia too theae of the ball, To | The amu-v.‘ of Mrruuc club star and na- days lively to all mighty good job it, Swimming White Sox players have slipped # Wilson, according to accounts, take down a double-header is per. Not only is McGinnity pitching tional junior mile champlon, has should easily outpoint Third Baseman Bill Kamm, better he men's forming the unusual. 'B4 winning ball, but is also definitely decided to enter the in 15 rounds, thol manag- | _glow southpaw Twice this has the feat known as the SIOO,OOO beauty. A ing the Dubuque (Ia) club of the mile marathon swim to be staged season freak of the ring. | i Greb is the He by The Btar afternoon, been turned in the National league. But the title has nothing to do ‘ middlewelght Nmit or Mississippl Valley league. " ean make the August 18, in thes.mrdk‘yLakh Washington John Stuart, a rookis pitcher of with Bill's ancestry or birthplace. 1 Recently the wires carried a story can fight heavyweights, There Konowaloff's entry will the Bt. louls Cardinals, was the It'’s the resiit of Kamm’'s hobby of 3 i Je that made old.time fans all the canal, talk of him meeting over been serious additional class into the big first twirler to win double-header, hitting doubles or two-baggers. ' has sit and take notice. The bring a A soon Don't forget country up | marathon f Jack Dempsey flassic, and the mile He was closely followed by Adolfo Kamm threatens to break the ? Gibbons not news item was to the effect !hu’ he beat Tommy so be a event In of the Cincinnati Reds, tbat swim promises to big Lauque record in this respeet. Joa McGinnity at the age of 54 had major league = long ago. calendar. | yery | the local asport Btuart, who Is a product of Ohlo With about 50 to go he has stand shut out the Marshalltown team games The only thing that may In (Ia) | Konowaloff won the natlonal State university, broke into the more than 30 deubles to his credit. way is that he is very un. with only three hits, Since { Greb’s lhnl; junior mile champlonship two years games won columnsg with a bang. If he goes along at the clip that 'he = in New York, where they McGinnity has turned in half _ popular a the dis- used to date he is almost lumo ago at Indianapolls, making He moerely finish games, has maintained to 5 he fouls a great deal. That's dozen similar performances. tance In remarkably good time, but scarcity of pitchers caused sure 1o et a new mark, the 'ff*;é i?mbiggest in ring. Back 20 years ago McGinnity He won the mile marsthon swim Manager Rickey to start him E ~ . record for two- dru?x:l: ( was the *The major league “Iron Man" of the majors. Lake this summer, and Braves. at American agninst the Boston = ' He base hits during a season is It “Iron held = Oddity was always Joe" MeGinnity other swimmers who hope to wrest three Ring won, allowing only hits, Rlck- by the late Ed Delehanty. During -E,h ; “Iron Man" when one jor McGinnity, the honpors from the blond Crystal sent him back for the j RE'S only welterwe! ‘gt ey right the season of 1899, while playing to refarence was made to the great club will have to show some socond and i that has been able consistent, Man” star, contest he repeated, with the Philadelphia club of the pitcher. “Iron McGinnity to realize thelr fy beat Travie Davis and that's real, genuine speed It's been ‘over six years. since National league, Delehanty recorded Oakland shadow. Joe earned that nickname because dealre, ; my Dufty, the strain on the arm, the possessor of IGinnity, however, a major leagus pitcher won two 66 two-base hats. i of his to will in a a lot of the best in ability stand all Kinds of Konowaloff compets stood %g‘:m are tho‘ kood control, tells In a few words | In a major league career extend. games in one day. The “figgers™ Delehanty’'s- feat has up %‘ trying to work, but particularly for pitehing marathon swim this afternoon on show that in Bill of the _gume who find it so, travel why MecGinnily continues to pitch Ing over 11 years, McGinnity six back 1817, Doak, under the assaults game's }gg rounds with the Oaklander double headers, the Willamette River at Portland. for the Bt. Louls batters for 25 The four Is at an age when most players have {times won more than 30 games. In pitching cardinals, greatest years. On his back from the Rose short of ring suicide. Davis can Now it is a rarity for a pitcher to way twice defeated Brooklyn, Miller ‘mark was seriously menaced in 1912 ' forgotten all about baseball as far 11903 e 31 games, while In 1904 E&lh won he will drop off to compets in all but Dufty. try to pitch and win two in City, Huggins managing the Cardin- when Tris Speaker, playing 'em games ns being active he registered the big year of his was it ',put | an participant. the BState Swimming when Wright was That a Washington als at the time. He was the Red Sox, totaled 63 " Remember Billy an afternoon. was regular ‘While wins do sorely Boston MeGinnity did not confine jeareer, 36 against elght at American Yake his prime hereabouts? Well, good diet with McGinnity. In all prob- champlonships pressed for pitching and offered a John Stuart ‘doubles, That stande as Bt himself to any particular styde of | feats for a percentage of Kl4, an Amerl- ‘s he was, Wright had a nemesis. ability he has pitched and Sunday, bonus to Doak if he would turn in can ledgue record. ; Y woan more delivery, he was one of the first | In his 11 years of bLig league Btar's two for Lux. The Kansas The cups, ons men Doak attains his Irhat was Morrie double headers than any twirler in two victories, collected. ~ Kamm greatest speed pitchers to use the underhand ball pitching, McGinnity won 236 games be at was clever | | and one for women, will stake OLYMPIC CLUB ICity welterwelght just as the game's Laque’'s two wing were scored ln?er reaching first base. he | history. with great success. Of the modern jand lost only 134 for a mark of ob. Onece and he packed harder in the coming competition. To late In the first the sack he ‘Bs Wright a McGinnity the over Brooklyn. Initlal is im = richly desorves title pitchers, Carl Mayn Is one of the |.638, the TEAM TO RACE could lick “em all but tain permanent possession of with his team behind, pinch }palsuhigh. This fact, coupled h. Wright “Iron Man." It Is that game a with his = fof fitting a foew who has been success. a fow the mara. The Olymple club relay swimming : And thers wers a lot of boys pitchers | These are just reasons why cup a swimmer must win hitter sent in to bat for him. ability to grasp possibilities quickly, pitcher after 30 of was | who, years twirl. ful with that style delivery, Joo McGinnity, at 064 Mwho could take tha measure of the pitcher years thon three times, Before the inning was over the team of SBan Francisco will compete enables him to stretch what a ing, third of it in the majors, 20 in {of to but Wright couldn’t © Winning ball games a sea- age, is entitled be known as In nddition to the cups, medals Reds had seored four runs and in the a to the rm‘ , Russian, get 880.