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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
BOOSTERS PLAN
BASEBALL TEAM
Twelfth Street Club Engages Jack
Tighe To Act As Coach of
Players.

While anxious to meet a few tri-
city basketball teams to clear up
the independent title, the Rock Is
land Boosters A. c. is nevertheless
turning it's attention now to the sub
ject of baseball. The Twelfth street
organization this morning reported
that no one less than Jack Tighe
has agreed to coach the baseball
team this season. All of which
would indicate that the Boosters
are out to establish themselves as
one of the fastest semi-prO organ
izations in this section of the state.
Under the guidance of the veteran
Jack, the youngsters are sure to de-
velop formidable aggregation.
The Boosters have finished their
schedule of out-of-town basketball
games. They still desire however,
to clash with the Rock Island Cen
trails, the Moline Centrals. the Mo-
line Centrals and the Davenport
Locos The Boosters express con-
fidence they can defeat anyone of
these clubs and establish their
right to undisputed tri-city title.
The Boosters won IS of % games
played during the season thus far.
They were the only team from the
tri-cities able to defeat the Dewitt
Independents. Dewitt defeated the
transforming Oswego team of Os-
wego, n. Y, as well as the Rock
Island Centrals, Moline Centrals,
Davenport Battery B and Daven-
port LocOS.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
TILDEN TUTORS
NEW PHENOM OF
TENNIS WORLD

A new boy tennis phenomenon
is about to make his first appear
ance in the tenris armament
This is the prediction of no less
a person than William T. Tilden
II, worlds tennis champion.
Alexander L. Weiner is this new
boy wonder. He is IA years old,
and a student in the Germantown
Academy, Philadelphia.
Tilden will pair up with Sandy"
Weiner, as the lad is known among
his boy friends, and the two are
planning to appear in tennis tour
neys in various parts of the country
during the spring and summer.
Their first appearance together
will lbe in indoor doubles matches
to be played in the Ice Palace in
Philadelphia on March 16.
In June they plan to play to-
gether in matches at Hartford and
New Haven, Conn, and in July in
the National Clay Court Champion
ship tourney in indianapolis.
Tilden, it will be remembered, is
the man who brought out Vincent
Richards, the Juvenile wonder of
the tennis world during several sea-
sons just passed.
Richards is the national juvenile
champion of the United States, AMI
altogether holds nine titles.
With all due respect to Richards
own talent and the hard work that
he has done which has made pos
sible his success Tflden is univers-
ally given credit for having made
Richards
Richards, now on the verge of
passing definitely into the senior
class" will leave a vacancy among
the juveniles for which a number
boys in all parts of the country are
contesting.
Bill Tilden says that he believes
that Sandy Weiner will prove to
be an even more spectacular and e<-
traordinary player than Richards,
The boy shows unusual volleyins
ability and plays an all-court game
with a remarkable forehand drive.
AS far as he has gone, Sandy
Weiner in his career parallels
Champion Tilden's to a dot. Both
are Germantown boys" and Saniy
is attending the same prep school
that Tilden attended.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
CHARLEY WHITE PUTS FINISHING
TOUCHES ON TRAINING FOR BOUT
WITH DUNDEE ST. PATRICK'S DAY

close followers of boxing are of the
opinion that Greb could steal
the championship from Tunney
That is to say the Pittsburgher
would pile up point after point un-
til the final round. Not only that,
it is the belief that Greb could do
this to any fighter in the country,
Dempsey excepted. AS for the
heavyweight championship, Greb
is too small for him and the pro-
posal for a fight between the two
would not meet with any public
support.
The crowd likes Greb because of
his constant activity. But when all
is said and done he is not Simon
Pure fighter. He doesn't knock out
and as rule his punches are an
noying rather than injurious. He is
an absolute large scale reproduc-
ton of Johnny Dundee.
Brothers Break?
Getting back to Gibbons, there
is story going the rounds that he
and his brother, Mike, sometime
ago had a disagreement as to Tom
my's style of boxing which caused
them not to speak as they passed
by for several months. Mike is a
profound student of boxing and
it is conjectured that he gave Tom
my advice which he thought would
do the big boy good to follow.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
BABE RUTH MADE
YANKEE CAPTAIN
Is Just Another One of Numerous
Crowns BambinO Has Re-
ceiYed Lately.

New Orleans, La, March 10
Babe Ruth has been crowned
home run king, has been crown
ed by Commissioner Lands, has
been crowned by the income tax
collector, and now Manager Miller
Higgins has crowned him captain
of the Yankees.
Babe succeeds Roger Peckin-
paugh, and the tiny pilot of the
American league champions hopes
his selection will be to the advan-
tage of the team, in that he ex-
poets the appointment will elimi-
nate the friction that upset the
team last season. Ruth will take
the reins on May 20, when his sus-
pension will be lifted by Commits
sioner Lands.
Higgins slipped a suspension
slip to Bobby Roth, who was fur
nished transportation to his home
in Chicago. Higgins allows that
Roth has continually fractured
the training rules" and made the
suspension indefinite 1t is said
here that the Yanks will either
trade Roth or give him his release
before the season opens.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
SOX Confident
AGAINST GIANTS
TOday'S Game at Seguin is Biggest
Thing on Program at South
ern Camps.

Chicago, March Is. - Another
White Sox-Giant exhibition game is
the biggest thing on today's pro-
gram at the southern training
camp. The game will be played at
Seguin, Texas. and the Gleason
youngsters feel confident of victory.
having held the worlds champions
to a tie in one game and won the
other
Developments elsewhere in the
southland are:
Mobile-St. Louis Browns play
Mobile Southern association team.
Orange. Texas-Branch Hickey
back in Cardinals camp, where
team roster has been completed
with the arrival of Fournier and
Sherdell.
Leesburg, Fla.-Every member of
Phillies made at least one hit in
yesterdays game when they trounc-
ed Leesburg, 1872.
Eagle Pass, Texas-Athletics con-
tinue Connie Mack's training tao
tics of play family" ball games.
Dallas, Texas-Rain prevents
Cleveland practice.
Augusta, Ga.-Cobb shows Til
gers how to hit the dirt" in base
stealing. Detroit team on edge for
first exhibition game Saturday
against Georgia Tech nine.
New Orleans, .La.-Huggins has
taste of trouble when Bobby Roth
gets off the reservation and draws
an indefinite suspension.
Jacksonville, FIa.-Robinson sees
increased pennant chances for
Brooklyn in acquisition of George
Whitfield from Pirates.
Mineral Wells, Texas. - Eppa
Rixey expected to start for Reds in
their game today with the Dallas
Texas league) team.
Hot Springs, Ark.-Gibson puts
Pirates through training stunts de-
spite heavy rain.
Catalina Island, Calif-Killefer
considers switching Kelleher to sec
ond and putting Zeb Terry on third
to strengthen Cubs infeld.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
HRIG PLAYING
FAST BASEBALL
IN CALIFORNIA

Friends of Earl Ihrig, prominent
semi-pro and league baseball player
of Rock Island, will be glad 20
learn he is whooping things up in
the Harbor league, California. This
is circuit composed of clubs in
the oil regions of the Golden State.
Ihrig is a member of the Hunting
ton Beach team, holding down the
second base berth.
In a recent game, an account of
which is taken from the Huntington
Beach paper, Ihrig's name stands
out in particular prominence. Hun
tington defeated Newport, to 5,
and virtually assured itself of the
league championship. The first
time at bat he poled a triple. The
second time he walked, the third
time he made a homer, and the
fourth time he was hit by a pitched
ball" 1t is also noted that Earl
is batting in the cleanup position.
Ihrig has been in California since
before the Christmas season. He
has not indicated to friends here
when he intends to return.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
LONG DISTANCE
SWIMMERS ASKED
TO TRY CHANNEL,

London, March 15.-The leading
long-distance swimmers n the
world are to be invited to compete
in common tournament this year
at swimming the English channel,
it is announced here. An INTERIM
tional relay race-open to teams of
men and women-may also be or
ganized for the chapnel coast.
A great boom in long distance
swimming is forecast following the
action of Adolph Alexander, presi-
dent of the Channel Swimming club.
in presenting that institution with
new cup to be competed for by
aspirants of any nationality The
trophy is not a challenge affair but
becomes the property of the first
person, man or woman, who swims
the channel unaided, as did Captain
Webb and T. W. Burgess.
The cup is said to rank we'll
among the handsomest of sports
trophies. From base to apex it IS
exactly three feet in height and it
is of solid silver throughout 1t
weighs 375 ounces and stands on
a very fine onyx plinth. Big Bill"
Burgess won the first Alexander
channel swimming cup when he
swan from England to France in
1911. Mr.. Alexander's great inter
est in the sport is accounted for by
the fact that Captain Webb was the
hero of his boyhood. He consid-
ers the channel swim the greatest
athletic feat Of which man is cap
able and the best incentive to long
distance swimming, regarded by
him as the only really useful form
of the art.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
WINNING CREW
OF WEST WILL
GET TRIP EAST
Long Jaur7t to POUCH
keepsie Regatta
Stake.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

Copyright, 1922, by The Argus-)
The real stake of the Pacific coast
regatta, which will be held on Lake
washington at Seattle, April p,
will be the honor of representing
the far west in the Poughkeepsle
regatta in June. 1t was learned to-
day that the Washington oarsInen
have been advised that they Will be
sent to the Hudson provided they
defeat California. With six varsity
letter men back in the boat and
some excellent material for the
vacant places, Ed Leader, the coach,
says that he has high hopes OF lead
ing the Gold Diggers over the line
next month. A new course mas
been selected on the lake, the hnlsh
being at the mouth of the Lake
Washington canal on the lower
boundary of the university campus
There will thus be fine opportunity
for thousands to witness the finish
of the event at close range.
California has lost six of the men
who rowed so finely at Princeton
and at Poughkeepsie last summer.
However, the two that remain, Cap
tain Mcmillan. the football tackle,
and L. A. Brown who rowed number
three last season are splendid oar -
men and will serve as a nucleus.
Ben Wallis says that the new ma
terial is satisfactory and that he
expects to develop an eight up to
the California standard.
Il realize" he writes, that
Washington with six veterans re-
naming and the winning freshman
crew of 1921 to pick from will be
very strong and that we will have
our work cut out for us"
At the present time only Cali
fornia and Washington are enga ged
in eight cared rowing, but the Uni
versity of British Columbia in Van
couver is taking up rowing, and
this season is represented on the
water by four cared crews. Later,
according to the understanding.
British Columbia will organize
eight cared outfits. Stanford,
which has appeared in the east on
| two occasions, has been out of The
rowing for the past two years be
cause of financial difficulties but it
| is reported on good authority that
| the Palo Alto institution will make
an effort to reenter acquatics next
year.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
WATERLOO Gets
RACAN'S name
TO CONTRACT
Former Major Lacquer to Be Play
ing Manager-Reperts About
First of April.

waterloo, Iowa, March 15.-Pat
Raglan, former major league pltcn-
er. signed a contract yesterday TO
manage the Waterloo baseball team
in the Mississippi Valley league
Mr.. Raglan conferred with ofhclals
of the Waterloo baseball club, and
after meeting a number of enthus-
lasts at the Greater Waterloo rooms
signed a contract to lead the local
team during the coming season
The Waterloo manager viii re
port in Waterloo on April l and
the players will report about Two
weeks later. Mr.. Ragan has num-
Der of athletes on the string and
will Immediately sign them to con-
tracts. He will also start cam
paign at once for veteran as well
as young ball players around which
to build a winning combination
during the coming season.
The new leader was favorably
impressed with this city and the
fans and directors of the local club
were as favorably impressed with
the manager.
Veteran Player.
Raglan was a college pitcher, be-
ing at Cornell college in 1905. He
was a winning pitcher during his
college days and later engaged in
semi-pro ball. In 1907 he entered
organized baseball, becoming a
member of the Omaha team in the
Western league. He remained with
Omaha until the close of the 1908
season. While at Omaha he was a
teammate of Duke" Hollenbeck,
former Waterloo pitcher.
He was sold to Cincinnati in 1908
and was with the Chicago Cubs in
1909. The following season he was
at Rochester, n. Y, in the Eastern
league. He was signed by Brook
Iyn in 1911 and remained with the
Dodgers until the close of the 1914
season. For the next five years he
was with the Boston Braves. He
figured in the deal in which Jim
Thorpe. star Indian athlete, was
traded by the New York Giants to
the Boston Braves.
In 1920 Raglan was with Oakland
in the Pacific Coast league, while
during the last season he acted as
scout for the Boston Braves.
VIII Be Player.
While scouting last season Ra-
gan took part in number OF
games. and is still capable of pitch
ing winning ball He will be a
playing manager. He will work
occasionally and act as relief pitch
er. He has been successful in aid
ing young ball players in learning
the art of pitching and this will
prove a valuable asset to the local
club during the coming season.
The Waterloo manager has a
wide acquaintance in baseball cir
| cles and this will aid him mater
tally in signing men for the coming
season. He already has a number
of players who have been waiting
/ for him to sign as manager before
lining up for the coming season
while he will Immediately open ne
gotiations for a number of ath-
! letes.
The signing of manager COM
pletes Waterloo's baseball organic
alton. Plans for financing the club
are already under way and the
work is to be started on the new
ball park as soon as weather con
ditions are favorable
Waterloo will enter baseball
again under favorable circum-
stances and the prospects for &
successful season in the Missis
sippi Valley league are exceeding
| " bright.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
M'CRAW NOT O
BE NIPPED IN
CATCHING LINE
Both Giants and Boston Nation,i.,
Are Trying Surplus OF Young
BackstOps.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER

Copyright, 1922, by The Argusl
Certain ball clubs think the Ros
tons of the National league and IN.
Giants haze more catchers thar
they need. The Giants surely hava
but most of them are beginpe,s
There is no doubt that they viii 20,
tain Snyder, Smith and CASTOR n,
the coming season. If there is ons
thing more than another one IN
which McGraw will try not IN he
nipped it is in catchers. History
tells the tale of when the Giants
had a lot of misfortune in Other
days because their supply of bigb
class catchers suddenly went N
the hospital and the bow-wows con-
jointly. So did the prospects az
the team.
ANY time the Giants are found on
the trail with only two dependable
catchers it will be because soma
one has slipped in his arithmetic
Gowdy, O'Neill and Gibson ara
with the BostOns and an intimatio5
that one of the three might be mads
the subject of suitable trade has
caused two or three managers WHO
are not strong on the catching end
to put in a call for Fred Mitchell
at st. Petersburg, Fla.
In addition TO the three who have
been mentioned Mitchell has tvo
kids, Wilson and O'Regan, but no
one is asking about them by long
distance telephone 1t is surmiseI
that the catcher who might be per-
mitted to wander elsewhere, say
ST. Louis or Philadelphia, or some
town like that, is Gowdy. Mitchell
is not pining to permit any one oil
the three to get away and he cant
see why he should be tied up in
swap that hasn't something in III
for Boston.
No improvements.
Of the eight western clubs thai
are in training none with the e1.
ception of Washington is showing
much mere than in 1921 The
Giants. of course, are a better team
than they were in the spring oil
1921, and naturally should have i'm.
provement in reserve. The Ath
letics are not Circling around with
so much added celebrity that they
like champion contendeTs. Neither
Boston club has startled the neigh
borhood by any wonderful display
of dash. They are geirs along all
an even pace but there = not any
suggestion that either of them has
unearthed another Ruth or SisleF
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
JOPLIN GRANTED
TERRITORY RIGHT

Chicago, March 15.-The Western
league has relinquished all claim
to the territory in Joplin, Mo-, fol-
lowing the transfer of the fran
chise of that city to Denver, Colo,
President Al r. Tearney said yes
terday.
There had been some doubt as to
whether the Western league was
still in control of the territory, as
officials of that city were anxious
to enter the Western association,
and President Tearney said that
inasmuch as the franchise had been
transferred TO the Colorado city the
league no longer held any claim
there.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
MATCH CUMMINS
WITH KRAUSE OF
OKLAHOMA CITY

Peanuts" Schieberl has landed
a match for George Cummins with
"Battler" Krause of Oklahoma
City. The place has not been made
known, but it is to be q 10-round
windup.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
DAVENPORT HIGH
PLANS CARNIVAL
OF SPORT EVENTS

According to an announcement
by Coach Bornholdt of the Daven-
port high school, an athletic car
nival will be staged during the last
week in March. The carnival will
be held at the high school gym and
will consist of a number of wrest-
ling and boxing bouts. This will
be the first affair of this kind ever
staged at the school, as boxing is a
new branch of athletics. Davenport
high is one of the first high schools
in the state to hold boxing as a
school event. The proposed con-
test has created much interest
among the high school students.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
AT DUBUQUE.

Dubuque, Iowa, March 15.-With
2,S29 pins set as a mark in the five
man event, by the Blackhawks, a
Davenport crack bowling squad, the
Fitzpatrick Athletics smashed
their way into first place by piling
up 1889 pins last night-on the
Fitzgerald alleys-at the Tri-state
bowling tournament now in pro-
gress.
Pin knight Bowers visited the
alleys late yesterday afternoon and
he slanted at the score made by
Reuter- in the singles. 1t looked
big. The score was Gal. Bowers
scratched the floor, sort of working
in a little rosin to keep from slip
ping, made a couple of passes at
a powdered towels, picked up the
16-pound pill and the rumbling
started. When the smoke had
cleared away he had knocked over
GAG pins which entitled him to go
into first place in the single and
also in first place in the all events.
leaders,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
HEDDING WINS
TEN AND LOSES
THREE BATTLES

Hedding, Ill, March 15.-With its
victory over the Macomb Teachers
college by a score of 80 to II,
Coach John Gillespie's Hedding
basketball team finished its sea-
son and hung up one of the best
records ever made by the local
court artists. The seasons dope
sheet shows 10 games won and
three lost, for a percentage of 1863,
which is doubtless one of the best
averages owned by any of the
minor Illinois colleges.
Tho raoOr6 of the Seaco follows.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

Providence, r. Joe Lyncn.
New York bantamweight, won the
decision over Terry Martin, in L.
round bout.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

Philadelphia.-Fred Fulton, Min.
nesota heavyweight, knocked out
Jim Holland, Baltimore, in the
sixth round of a scheduled eight
round bout.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

Columbus, O-Eddie O'Dowd,
Columbus bantamweight, won the
decision over Willie Spencer, New
York, in Il rounds.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
GAMES CROSS WITH LANDEPS
BOWLING

Selle Bros team of Rock Island
took two out of three games from
the Davenport Auto School quintet
Monday night, on the Grand alleys,
Davenport The results:
CCHOnT
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
Tennis Star Dead.

American tennis players who
have participated in tournaments
at St. Cloud and Wimbledon Sill
cerely mourn the death of William
Laurentz, the French player. They
feel that without him Davis Cup
prospects so far as the French are
concerned are materially injured.
Laurentz first came into notice IN
1911 when he defeated Anthony F..
Wilding, in the indoor court at
Auteuil. He represented the very
perfection of good form in tennis
and at one time held the world
dirt court championship.
1t was noted in the course of in
door play this winter that not a
few of the crack tennis players did
not complete. This was because of
the theory that the poor lighting
of the covered courts affects the
eyes and initiates against the best
form of players in the early weeks
at least of the outdoor season.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15
Coaching Counts.

What is the secret of Illinois sue
cess on the track? OF Pennsyl-
vania's success at basketball? Of
Princeton's success at water polo?
OF Yale's success in swimming? OF
Harvard's success in football? In
all cases the answer is-skilled
coaching. Look at Michigan. in
the last two years the Maize and
Blue basketball team has won 33
of the Al games played. In three
years Michigan has won 16 out of
"a conference engagements. No
luck in this. Credit is in great
measure due to Eddie Mather, the
coach. Before coming to Michigan,
Mather coached five years at Kala-
maZoo. providing three basketball
championships. Mather went 10
college at Lake Forest and in his
senior year was captain of the
basketball five, the baseball nine
and the football eleven. This goes
Mack Aldrich Of Yale one better.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-15

ST. Louis, Mo.-Carl Tremaine,
Cleveland bantamweight. won the
referees decision over Jabez
White, Albany, n. Y. in IL rounds.