The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-08
On the
Lam....
with
ELLIOTT
NIETCALF

HENRY WOODS, Yakima Negro
lightweight who. after being
classed as through in the North
west. went on TO win the Cali
fornia 135-pound title, bumped into
a serious setback last night at
Los Angeles. He was halted in
six heats by Jackie Wilson. Cleve-
land -.
THINGS run in cycles, we un-
derstand -.
Well, of recent days You can
find incidents to substantiate
Last week three baseball play
ers -. two In the WI league, one
In the majors suffered broken
noses, one right after the other :.
And last night in WI play it
was bat carnage that broke forth.
Get a load Tacoma Is. Yaki-
ma 0 Bellingham II. We
natchee 3 Spokane IL, VAN
couver g..
DON'T forget tomorrow
night is THE BIG NIGHT at
Athletic park. If the weather
man gives us break you'll proba-
bly, see the largest crowd in the
parks history. It's the night the
city celebrates its 65th birthday.
this game being the chosen We
hicle -.
MARVIN RICkERT. Tiger re-
cruit optioned out to the
Boise club of the new Pioneer
league. picks up a saucy pen to
write Gordon Mann, Tiger chuck
er:
Boise, Idaho
Hello, Gordon: Well, lad, You
asked me to drop line and tell
you how I'm getting along, so
here you are I broke in Tues
day, as we were rained out the
first day l joined =.
We played double header that
day and in the first game l gets
one for four. I goes nothing for
four the second game. The next
night l goes nothing for four
again =.
About that time, lad, was
wondering if I'm ever going to
get a hit. We had Thursday off
and played again tonight. We got
beat, 16 to 3. | gets three walks
and a single my first four times
up. / comes up again in the eighth
and bangs one against the center
field fence, which is 500 feet from
home plate .
l breezes into third standing up
and grinning to myself and l looks
around and the jumps had called
me out at first, saying l missed
the bag. l told him what
thought of him, but as usual it
did no good. Just 10 gallons of
Rickert oxygen used up I'm
just sniped out of triple. Boy,
did l bust right into that ball,
though
The pitching in this league Is
worse than 1 thought IL was. So
dang blasted slow you get ankle
pains standing there waiting for
the ball to get up there. Maybe
Ill need arch supports before the
seasons over. I'm telling you,
Gordon, this league hasn't got two
players out Of the whole damn
works who'd make the grade In
the plump little WI league :.
This guy that pitched against
us tonight set new league
strike-out record of IT and the
guys on this club said after the
game, That pitcher sure was
snaky tonight, oh ?"
His fast one was deceptive and
all that garbage. and I'm telling
fCut oOi doiit dltI lnlS ISL lUSt
grape-juice with ants in it, he
couldn't throw as hard as nickel
peanut brittle bar. I'd like to bat
against him all week :.
And say, Old-timemr talk
about road trips! The WI Is
breather compared to US $50
miles to Salt Lake from Lewiston
to here took us Is hours. And
l really mean they are long. mean
hours. 1t was 81 degrees in Boise
yesterday. ! nearly keeIed over.
And the trips are nothing but
hills and desert few Jack
rabbits and RATHER once in n
while is about all you see :
If the heat and the trips don't
get us, l ought to have a pretty
good year if all the pitching
Is IKE I've seen so far