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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-03-20
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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-03-20

Franz Emanuel Wettberg, "six-
ty three years young" collected "a
wager of $4,000 when he walked
into Albany, N. Y, and complet-
ed his walking trip around the
world. He started from Albany
January 15, 1914, and brought
back with him his original pack,
rifle-and good health. Wettberg
admits that while in Europe he
visited many wet bergs."
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-03-20
Pair Accused of
Drunkenness Are
Cited to Appear

Salem Police Saturday night ar
rested two men who gave their
names as Jerry Farrar and Will
liam Kriestzer Of Marshfield and
charged them with being intoxi-
Gated. Both men were Jailed sat
urday night but were later re-
leased when they furnished $25
bail each.
kreitzer was taken into custody
by Patrolman G. White and Farrar
was arrested by Patrolmen e.
White and G. White. Both are
cited to appear before Police
Judge Earl Race this afternoon,
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-03-20

Clyde Gardner, former clerk of
the Marion hotel, has assumed
the management of the Medford
hotel in Medford, according to in
formation received here recently.
The Medford hotel has 100 rooms
and Gardner will have charge of
the establishment during the alb
sence of Emil Mohr, proprietor,
who left Medford for California
on account of his health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
By GEORGE CHADWICK

Special Correspondent of The Ago Herald
 fCopyrlght, 1929, by The Age-Herald)
 New York, July 29.-The baseball fans are seeing right now the great est. exhibition of batting by indt- yidual hitters their eager eyes have ever feasted upon. In the past one league or the other has had one hitter who set pace defying prece- don't, but never before have two hi'- ters been smashing. banging and slamming the ball in the manner In which Sisler and Hornsby have been spelling the white horsehide covers this summer.
 Each of them has the possibility of making new worlds record for batting. There are coincidences In this situation. Each major league is represented and each St. Louis team is represented. Each type of batter is represented, as one Is a left-hander and the other right handler. Both men are playing on the same home field so there can oe no advantage in that respect, and both play on the same field in New York. Never have hitters been 90 evenly matched so far as general conditions are concerned.
 The record for the most hits In A season in A National league is held by Willie Keeler, who made 243 In 1897. His total bases were 304, bu; Lojoie hit for 3so total bases the same, year. although he had but l9s hits In all Wiili< never cared much for busting fences. He liked to stand the first baseman and the pitcher frt hof fr nj Uh n Q
 sisier's Record
 The record for the most hits in a season in the American league wal made by SIsler in 1920, when he com piled 257. His total bases were 399 made up of 4s two-baggers, IS triples and 19 home runs. Some difference a compared with Keeler's record but while Sisier can hit them out better than Wee Willie. he cannot bunt better than Keeler did. They are not putting players on the dia' mond these days who can do that The most hits made in season " single player were made by Denny Lyons in 1887, who played in tho American association and hit safely PAS times Lyons could outhit KeeleI and probably Sisler also and hs might have outhit anything that ever wore a flannel uniform If he had been more careful of the amount oi malt extract he put away The rec ords of Lyons extra base hits are not available. They did not keep then in the early days, not knowing tha' some young man would be trying tc beat out the old-timers nearly 4t years later. It Is safe to say, how ever. that Denny had his share oi home runs and triples. for he was q mighty c1outer. If he had been ablt to get to first as fast as a broker down jitney bus he would have in. creased his record materially.
 Both Going strong
 At the rate Hornsby Is going, fig uring both by game and by single chance. he should beat Keeler's 243 hit record this year. Hornsby Is now Hitting at the rate of z42 hits witf .verything from this on in his favor Tor he Is more likely to bat better han worse. He had his slump earlier n the year.
 Now we come to a rather surpris- ng display of Sisler's skill He il
 oing at the same pace he set in 1920 he continues to bat at the samt rate as q. shis moment, hs will hav'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
American Women Will Compete in French
 Track Meet
By WALTER CANT.

(copyrlEht. 1922 by The AEe-Heraldl
 New York, July 2s-The greatest event of the year, from human standpoint. will be entry of team of American women athletes in the track and field meet for women to be held next month in the Pershing stadium. Paris.
 International competitive athletics for our girls would have raised a storm of protest not many years ago, and, as for our ancestors. the idea would have been simply un- thinkable. Yet here is team of some 14 American girl athletes sail Ing abroad to try their prowess on track and field against picked women of other natIonalities.
 great many estimable persons are evidently under the impression that these girls are of the type that composed former women's baseball teams and bicycle riders. Quite the contrary. They are girls from our best schools and colleges. Miss Bat son and Miss Head are undergrad uates at Smith college, Miss Stine is from the Leonia, N. J.. High school. Miss Sable and Miss Gi1liland are New Jersey Normal school girls. Miss Ethel Walker is from the Ethel Wal ker school of Simsbury and Miss Hardwfck Is a student at the Florida State college. One strange thing Is that no girl whose home Is in New England Is a member of the team
 Matter of Speculation
 There Is little reliable Information concerning the best records of the foreigners whom the American girls will meet. Whether they are good or mediocre remains to be seen. As n matter of fact, there has been so llt- tie competition in track and field events among women that 1t is dif- ficult to judge whether We are send ing over likely winners or not.
 So far as our own records go, the girls selected show decided class. Moreover. they have been working under the direction of pr. Harry Easton Stewart and Miss Rosenbaum and have shown marked improve ment. Miss Stine, for instance, is credited with B feet 10h inches In the hop, step and jump. and close to 16 feet in the broad jump. Miss Vor- hees has declared feet 9h inches in the high jump.
 Here. apart from all questions of records and winning or losing the meet in Paris, we have a tremendous upheaval or what promises to be an upheaval in the lives of girls the world over. It follows the emanci- patton of women in civil life. It will be severely criticised and greatly praised. Some will call it unfemi- nine; others will picture disastrous physical results. But we can only wait watch and study the effects and then draw conclusions.
 The future may hold much of sig nificance. Does it mean that within decade women's colleges and Eirls' schools will be in the same competi- tions as our young mems colleges and schools? Who can say?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
PoWermen Blank LeWisburg

Playing like last years champions the Alabama Power company pas timers blanked Lewisburg yesterday to c. Barney, with Il chances, and Brinskelle, with 10, starred a-field neither making an error.
 Burney and Hanckens, with two hits each, were hitting stars. Speer's s pitching was excellent. Lewisburg played 1istless ball after the first few innings. Lewisburg ruined its Score: R. H. E Ala. Power .. o1o 12o ooo--4 Lewisburg :. 900 900 0o0-o 3
 Batteries: Speer and Eddens Screws. Roberts and Parks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
BussEs EQUIPPED WITH RADIO

Equipping motor busses with radio apparatus is departure inaugu- rated by a transit company operat- Ing some S5 of these vehicles on the Pacific coast. says the Popular Me- chanics Magazine in an illustrated article. This innovation Is the re- suit of the keen rivalry of the bus concerns to obtain for their respec- tive lines the patronage of the thou sands of tourists who annually visit the western states. That the ven- ture is practical. has been fully dem onstrated by extensive experime rts. numerous obstacles having been overcome during the trial trips of the first car so equipped. Possessing only, two-step radio short-wave re- ceiving outfit, the experimenters could Near concerts at distance of Is miles from the broadcasting station. and this despite the obvious necessity of employing a low an tenna.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
With the swatsmiths

With the swatsmiths
 Catcher schulte of the Mobile club continues to set the pace In the hitting for Southern league batsmen. The Mobile baskstop has an average of .364. with Schieibner of Little Rock. play ing his first season In the Martin loop, pressing him with 339. Old Dan Tucker of New Oriean is third.
 Birmingham possesses four men who continue to keep their hit ting marks above BOO. They are Neun with .3f7, Tommy Taylor with .S12. Harry Harper with 1909 and Doc Silva with 1904. Claude Robertson, Baronial catch CT. who has come to be looked upon as the most dangerous pinch hitter in the league, has also done some hill climbing of late. and Is now on the edge of the coveted 1900 mark with .295.
 Besides hitting over 300. Doc Silva has also other laureis to sport this season. The fleet footed Silva, who Is enc of the fastest straight-away runners fn organized baseball. has been put ting this binding speed to ad- vantage this summer. and at present Is leading the league with 32 stolen bases
 Joe Martina, at one time hailed as the rottenest pitcher in the circuit. is leading it this year with 1e wins and but losses. Fly Fowlkes. the elongated Mem phis product, Is second with 15 wins and losses.
 For the first time since local fans remember. Birmingham fails to have at least one pitching ace, who Is up among the, leaders in wins and losses,
 In the Nationals
 Rogers Hornsby continues to show the way In the senior ma jor with a hitting average of .396, and the venerable Hank Gowdy is next with .379. Barn hart, the ex-Baron with Pitts burg, is hitting .353. Johnny Gooch, the old Baron catcher, continues to boost his hitting mark, and the averages of this week show that he's hitting 1880. The big puzzle Is how are they gonna bench man who Is hit ting as feindishly as that. Tray nor, who has been out with an injury. boasts a willow mark of .295.
 The Giants are on top In team clubbing with Sh1 and the Car dinals are next With 1901. Doug las Is leading in pitching with 12 wins and three losses and Ruether Is next with 15 and 6. Dazzy Vance is. up among the leaders with 8 and 8. while Bur leigh Grimes of Brooklyn Is hav- ing his worst major league year with but wins and 10 losses.
 Cobb Setting the Pace
 In the American league, raw youngster. by the name of Ty Cobb, is leading the hitters with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
St. Louis Stars, Sisler And Hornsby, Haue Chance
 To Outdo the Old Timers

257 hits at the finish of the season, and that is the exact number he made in 1920.
 It should be easier for Sisier to gain a margin over 257 hits than for Hornsby to surpass Keeler's record. because Sisler has the advantage of getting away from the batter's box on the first base side.
 If, in every ten times at bat. be- tween now and the end of the year. Hornsby and Sisler can make one more base hit than they have been making in ten tries, the fans should get out the laurel wreaths for the finest exhibition of batting the major leagues ever saw In one year. The feats would go into the superlative class. The 4amous old stickers who have left memories behind them would lose ount.
 Lyons Powerful Ciodts
 Much argument is heard about great hitters because of the savage attack Ruth has made on the ball. but how many of those who laud Ruth for his wonderful driving power ever saw Denny Lyons hit? He knocked down third basemen with his drives not once, but repeatedly. At least a quarter of the time he battcQ tnc Odil lO tIlt lclt iitlu WI such speed that slow fielder could hold him on first base. The ball was out to the fence by the time Lyons was two-thirds of the way to first, and 1t was no trick to keep him from going to second with that handicap against him.
 No two batters ever had better chance to establish a worlds record than this pair of young men about whom the fans of St. Louis quarrel morning, noon, and night. It will pay them to make such record. for even If they are not rewarded at the moment In cash. 1t is astonishing how recollection of such achievements crops out when contracts arc consid- cred for the future. If each should succeed in establishing q league rec ord for the most hits. St. Louis would bubble over with pride and even the biffing Babe with his home record attached to him would fail to attract more attention for the moment, He is a little out of the llmtlight, any way,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
PerHOnais

Miss Etta Nye Malone left yester- day for a motor trip to Biloxi with her cousin. Mrs. W. A. Rose of Tus- caloosa. The party will stop en route in Mobile with relatives.
 Mrs James Fitzpatrick has as her guest Miss Lucille Pickens of Colum- bia. Tenn.
 Mrs. R. l.. King has returned homo from delightful motor trip through south Alabama.
 John O'Rouke will return Tues day to West Palm Beach, Fla, after visit to relatives in the city. Mrs. ORouke and baby, Patricia Ann, will remain during the heated term.
 Mrs. E. L. Read will be brought home today from She Central hospital in Fairfield, where she underwent an operation.
 Mrs. Edgar Lee Mitchell, Miss Elizabeth Mitchell and little George Dobbs. returned yesterday from Co., lumbus. Miss, where they have been visiting relatives for several weeks.
 Howard Earle and Irene Bashan. childrens of MT. and Mrs. R. T. Basham, of Eighth avenue, are the guests of relatives in Aberdeen, Mss, where they will spend a Enonth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
BARONS ON SHORT TRIP

Josephus will pull their Sunday and h Chattanooga where they will take the Lookouts series beginning lasting through Wednesday, Following the road tilt with the stranger they will jump back to Birmingham to close the home and hit long road jaunt
 Thursday back here for three with Little Rock and will then hit the road be until IA The Dunners have only here during the month of
 having Saturday. like the locals pitching from of the Whiteh and Bates better form Eberhard pitch consistently than time this his last Morrison showed tendency back into something like spring With majority of things should Baroncay speaking until the end of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
Knights Defeat Thomas

Knights of Columbus won loosely played game from Thomas, s to |. Eleven errors marred the contest. Osment's fielding at short. with ten chances and no errors, was feature of the game.
 For the Knights, the hitting of Lewis Mackin and Boggin, and the fielding of Ed Mackin featured, while for Thomas, Voweli got three out of the four hits. Dunbar struck out 10 men, Seven in a row, but had mis- erable support. Grill was spiked and forced to leave the game. Score:
 R.2H E. Knights ....... 900 32o oo1--6 10 1 Thomas ....... S1o 900 000--1 ! Batteries: MaclSin and Mackin: Dunbar and O'Brien.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
Parkers Beat Woco Pep

In a beautifully pitched game, Jordon Park took Woco Pep into tow yesterday, 6 to 2 Price let Woco Pep down with two measley hits. Not an opposing batter reached third <untif the ninth, when Price walked in two runs issuing five consecutive passes. Piano ended the rally by striking out the last man.
 "Bing'' Miller starred at bat. wal ioning out three hits. Suttle gath cred in two hits. The all round play of the Parkers featured. Score: Jordon Park ..110 0o2 110-s Woco Pep . 900 GOO 0o2-2
 Batteries: Price. Piano and Suttle Hart and O'NeaL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
CITYLEAGUE GAMES
Sayreton Brushes AvondaIe

In game featured by the heavy hitting of the winners, sayreton steam rolled over the Avondale out fit for a 12-1 victory. Sayreton Sayreton played errorless ball afield, also.
 Abney hit one to centerfield for a home run with the bases loaded In the third inning. Key Kendall. owens, Askew. Ambrose. Graves. Slavensky, Washington and Tutwiler were hitting stars. Score; R. H. F.. Sayreton ............-..... l2 IT D Avondale .,................
 Batteries: owens and Ambrose {; Tutwiler. Thompson and Rich.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
Drive-lts Swamp Coca Cola

The Drive-It- Yourself outfit smacked out a i5-6 victory over Coca Cola yesterday. The game was too onesided to be interesting and was almost a farce.
 For the winners, the hitting of D. Goldstein and Godbee featured, while Reeves, Stagg and Mills hit hardest for Coca-Cola. Mills field ing was feature also. Score:
 R. H. E. Coca-Cola .........s.s..... 1z Drive It-Youreslf ......... Is 14 5 Batteries: Smith and Womack |; Ardis, Clayton, Veitch and Godbee, Jones' Ff-s.Sf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
Southern Railway Wins

Southern Railway won an to { victory over East Birmingham, mak- ing IS hits off two opposing hurIers Falkner and Phillips held East Bir- mingham to five hits.
 Roberts great catch of Affords drive to center featured, while Clay and Lagrone were batting stars for the winners. Nayior starred at bat for the losers. Falkner's twirling was excellent. Score: R. H. E. E. B'ham .. 900 003 000--4 5 4 South. Ky. . 21o o05 000--s 15 I
 Batteries: Afford. Howell and Dell. Gilliam: Falkner. Phillips and Mer- Till Civilian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30

AIS. His nearest competitor is George Sisler with .402. Bing Miller. recently benched by Con nie Mack for non-hitting, is pounding the agate for an aver age os .S55 and is fifth in the race for A. l., hitting honors. All of which would lead one to be- lieve that Connie Mack's brain Is slipping. Reggie Stephenson, U. of A. star, Is sixth in the hit ting with .352, and the mighty Bambino sports an average of only .2S9.
 Kolp of the St. Louis Browns Is the leading pitcher with 5 wins and losses. Joe Bush Is second with IA and and Pillette is third with 12 and 4. The sem sation of the league this season has been the wonderful come back of Guy Morton. the Alabama Blossom, and all Alabamians are pulling for Guy. He's won II and lost but for the Cleveland Indians this season.
 kircher Hits Road
 The inimitable George Kircher, clown supreme of baseNail, is carrying his Birmingham Indo- pendents to Huntsville for four game series this week, start ing Monday. George, who will give the Huntsville fans A thou sand or so laughs, by his funny antics on the coaching lines, says he is taking great semi spro outfit to Huntsville, and that the series should be a hard fought affair. They play there Monday. Tuesday. "Wednesday and Thursday
 The Huntsville engagement came as a sequel to a two game series the Independents played there a couple of weeks ago. They made such hit by their ball playing and George scored Huntsville management booked 'em back in there for four games.
 Benefit Game Booked
 Every citizen of Birmingham should rally to the cause and buy a ticket to the T. F.. A.-U. c. T. ball game which is to be staged at Rickwood field August i2. the entirh proceeds to be turned over to the tuberculosis camp on Red mountain. which Is sadly in need of funds. The Knights of the Grip stage this game annual ly and there have been times when they have turned over as much as s2.0o0 to this worthy cause. They hope to. and should. realize that amount this year.
 F. H. Thurman. manager Of the U. c. Tss, tells me that 1.500 tickets have been disposed of al- ready and that these tickets may be purchased at the Hiilman hotel. C. B. Kennedy will have charge of the T. P. As. Come on, Birmingham, let's Support this worthy cause, and at the same time see a rip-roarlng, hot lys contested, knock -down-and drag-out ball game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
NuGrape 13, L. & N. 6

NuGrape outslugged and defeated l.. & N. yesterday, 13 to 6. An excess sive number of errors marred the contest
 The hitting of R. Herring, Black, Burton and Jernigan featured for NuGrape, Jernigan getting five hits out of five times up. Tucker and Taylor did L. 6 Ms heavy hitting. Score, K. II. E. l.. & N. ...., Oo2 13e ooo- 6 II 5 NuGrape =. o30 243 o1x-13 Is
 Batteries: Roe, Crews and Will Hams; Williams and Black.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
 Vols Sell Hap Morse to St. Paul for Fall Deliuery

Nashville. July 29.-(Special.)- Hap Morse. third baseman of the Nashville Vols, has been sold to the St. Paul club of the American asso- ciation, 1t was announced today by club officials here. The conditions of the sale provide for his delivery at the end of the Southern league playing season. in exchange for either two players acceptable to the management of the Nashville club or $2,500 in cash.
 Morse is one of the mainstays of the club in hitting. fielding and base running. He has stolen home four times this year. twice against Birmingham and twice against Chat tanooga. He came to Nashville two years ago from the Coast league, hitting .295 last year in the Suoth- ern and being right around the 300 mark now.
 Krehmyer Retires
 It was announced that Shortstop Dutch Krehmyer, formerly of the Pittsburg Pirates and later of Bir- mingham, has been placed on the voluntarily retired list following his arrival here from Birmingham after being suspended by Manager Larry Doyle for -insubordination on the field. He will return to his home and not play again this year. Manager Doyle played second base Saturday and will probably continue at the base unless a steady shortstop can be landed, Chick Knaupp in the meanwhile being shifted to short stop.
 With three catchers. Meyers. Nor row and Ritchie, out of the game with injuries. the Vols are being held up behind the bat by Kestner, local city leaguer. Meyers Is out for the season with severed leg tendon Morrow for 10 days with a split finger. and Ritchie for 70 days with an injury sustained by running into a concrete wall during Friday's 3 game in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
nnncn fnr Nils. wilIi.

Miss Eleanor Willis of Birmingham, the guest of Mir. and Mrs. Lee Moody, was the charming honoree at de- lightful informal dance given at th6ir home Friday evening. The spacious drawing room of the home was thrown open for the dance and re- freshing punch and sandwiches and cake were served during the evening.
 The young guests present were Miss Willis, Miss Mary Mildred woodrow, Miss Virginia Cameron Miss Josie Belle Hawkins, Miss Mag gie Johnson, Miss Eileen Smith, Miss Katie Ling, Miss Mrytle Hayes, Mias Katherine BatX Miss Helen Smith and MT. Harry Faull. MT. Henry C. Rush, MT. Frank White, MT. Hulette Perry, MT. stanton MeCollum, MT Lewis McTyeire, MT. Walter Smith Mir. Howard Stansell, MT. Morris Meigs. MT. George Hayes and MT James Cameron.
 MT. and Mrs. Lee Moody, MT and Mrs. j. l.. Whltmore, MT. and Mrs Dan Davis entertained the young party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-30
Younr NIntron'n CInss.
nridge CInh,s PIcnic

The Tuesday Bridge club gave a picnic complimentary to their hus- bands Friday night at West Lake. The party went out in the late after noon and after swim Npicn,c basket supper was enjoyed. Dancing followed. During the intermlssion iced watermelon was served.
 Those who made up the party were MT. and Mrs. ]. A. Little, MT. and Mrs Charles Kutchins, Mr. and Mrs. Mac Batson. Mir. and Mrs. Sterlins Floyd. MT. and Mrs. Clarence Wilson, Mir. and Mrs. James Fitzpatrick, Ms. and Mrs. A. H. Rickart, MT. and Mr5. Bruce Snider, Miss Mary Reynolds, Miss Marie B. Porter, Miss Lucille Pickens, Mrs. Frances Patton, and Mir Joe Lewis, MT. Oscar Stausell and Mir Clarence Hughes and Mir. Luney Ragsdale.