The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-05-09

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~ been LAUGHED toward Carl
a. Mays In the American league.
Carl uses the bean ball" To get
himself dNit Of hole when pitching
tough game. is the claim OF many
haiters. among them Lee Magee. OF
the Yankees. who went to the big
show from the Seattle club.
MAYS Is also former North.
\.Nestern Lacquer. having seen ser.
g under Nick Williams when the
(Io~land club was In this circuit.
4 Frank Thrasher. the young Ath.
letie cutfielder. is the latest one
10 find fault with Mays delivery.
Thrasher declares that In recent
frscas Mays threw several bean.
crs" at his head. until he hit him,
Last year Mays was accused sew
eral times OF getting the old apple
too near the ivory for comfort. and
the year before he had his famous
run.in with Ty Cobb for the same
reason.
MAYS is A PORTLAND boy and
makes his winter home In the Rose
City. Winter before last he had
occasion to tell of his titt with the
Georgia peach
While the records viii show
that am not what would be con
sldered 4 Wild pitcher" said Mays.
.thare Is one ball that Is very hard
for me TO throw. and when the
catcher calls for II ! generally buzz
This is the ball they were yelling
about. and II was enc OF these that
made Cobb think was trying TO
bean him. | hadn't even thought
OF such a thing.
| burred one over. II was
close and high. Cobb dropped TO
the dirt and then got mp and threw
his bat at me. picked up his bat
and walked down TO the plate and
held II out for him TO take. AS he
reached for IL. let Il drop TO the
ground. Say, talk about mad. why.
he was a regular mad mani
&c. rARR AND u. r. Dugdale.
owners OF the Spokane and Seattle
y. W. league clubs. have gone on
record as being against the use OF
profanity on the baseball field.
The use OF profanity and vulgar
ify. OF which there has been little,
N any. thus far this year at the Sc
attic park. will not be tolerated.
said Dug today.
4 have officers on the grounds
with orders &. arrest any ono who
makes himself obnoxious TO any
fan for these reasons. The rules
kvs the league are against such
things. and this IL one city where
thew will be enforced. ! am thank
full and proud that such things have
not occurred to any extent In our
park"
SEATTLE BOOSTER club
and u. II. Dugdale have done some
thing that 20 them may seem but a
email thing. They have ordered
tho gates opened on Saturday after
noon 10 the school boys of the city
without admission.
This IN bound TO have a much
more far reaching effect than II
would appear on the surface. For
In the school boys OF today We
have the fans. the players. the
writer's and boosters of baseball to
morrow.
There Ia no telling how many
future coobs. wagners. Spaldings
and Chadwicks viii become inter
ested In the game by thus being adj
mitted free TO one game a week.
Baseball has reached a point
where a new foundation must be
laid for future building. We would
cali this laying the foundation on
rock. that viii prove not to be sand.
WHO DO YoU SUPPOSE has
kicked the Stats out OF his coffin.
eombed out his hoary beard and IL
about TO do a come back STUNT
None the less than that footlight
yeh. James Edward Britt,
There is Just one boxer that
Britt wants to take on before he
climbs back into the coffin OF re-
tirement--oscar Battling Mathew
Nelson.
Nelson stuck 10 rounds with
Welsh" SAYS Britt. and the world
knows | can beat Nelson