The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-06-17

san Francisco Seals couldn't stop the
crushing attack Of the Seattle In.
dams Thursday. II took the locals
IL innings 10 scalp the leaders yester-
day. but they punched their hits in
the 18th for the winning counter.
lifting the Seals scalp for the second
straight time.
Thursdays game was one OF those
battles filled with thrills, and it's a
real Job 20 pick out a place to begin
to tell about II.
The three big features OF the tiff
were the swell pitching of Al Dem.
aree. who hurled the best brand OF
baseball ne has shown here since
Joining the locals last year: the hit
ting OF Bill Cunningham and Jim
o'Connell. and the wonderful field
ing Of jimmy Caveney at short for
Frisco.
Al Demaree let the visitors down
with six hits in IL frames. and
tanned nine in eight innings. He
showed a swell fast ball and had the
Seals swinging like the old barn door
at bis slow foolers.
The cartoonist had lot Of trouble
With young O'Conneli. the Frisco
flFst sacker. In the fourth James
took . toe hold on one OF AIS deliv
cries and tore it over the right-ficld
fence for his third homer in two
Avn It's a yeesnrd here
Bea1des this he contributed a pair
~ sizzling singles. nearly making a
double on his blow in the ninth. but
Middleton tagged him at second.
The Seals scored first in the initial
Inning. when Rath made a lucky
homer. Rath hit q ny to left. near
the foul line, and Cunningham
hooked the ball. but lost II when he
crashed into the left-field boxes. He
VAS knocked cold for a minute. Rath
meanwhile ambled around the paths.
There isn't any real sense in hav-
Ing those left-field boxes built so
e1oos To the foul line. as It hampers
~ work Of the outfielders and no
bo6y ever sits in them. anyhow. They |
ought to be removed to give the field |
ogD . chance To work. Rath's fly was
= fair bah. but Cunningham nearly |
ct knocked for . goal trying to
1ieId II
seattle evcned Il up In the second.
when Bin Stumpf hooked one of
Johnny COUGHS fast balls into the
Hatfield bleachers.
o'Connell contributed his homer In
tho fourth. putting the visitors |
nhand. They didn't como close to
soaring again during the day.
IN the meanw lille. Seattle was I
pounding Johnny COUGHS offerings
IN over the lot. but they didn't break
thru again until the ninth. Cum
ninRham started the inning by crash
lng his second double Of the day into
right center. stumpf made a pretty |
hunt and moved Bill up to third
Then Spencer was sent In to hit for
Tobin. and he hit one at Couch SO
hard that II bowicd the Frisco hurler
over and Cunningham scored.
Wisterxil opened the attack In the /
18th with q single. Murphy also sin
g]ed, crashing one between Rath and
o1ConneIl. Eldred was purposely |
walked and Kenworthy squeezed
Wisterxil over with another beauu-
ful bunt on the first ball pitched.
The value OF q great shortstop like
Jimmy Caveney. Of the Seals. was
amply proven yesterday. Cunning
ham doubled in the seventh and was
moved to third by Stumpfs sacrifice.
Then Tobin hit hard one to right
thru the box, but Caveney made a
wonderful one-handed stab with his
eioved hand and tagged Cunning
ham at the plate.
Another beautiful piece Of defen-
sive work was dished up in the sixth.
when Middleton doubled and Wis
terxil tried to bunt, missing the ball
Agnew shot the ball on line to Cav
eney, and Middleton was trapped off
second
Al Demsree. besides pitching won.
derful baseball. established what
ought to be hitting record for him
for the season. He slapped out two