Baseball Yesterday No Other Game Scheduled
Baseball yesterday had no other games on the schedule as teams traveled.
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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1922
Page
9
Baseball yesterday had no other games on the schedule as teams traveled.
Washington star Walter Johnson blanked the Chicago White Sox 1 0 for his seventh win of the season and strengthened his claim as the premier shutout pitcher. The piece traces Johnson's rise from Weiser to the Washington club and notes rivals like Grover Alexander Babe Adams Dutch Leonard and others with shutout totals.
Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees was suspended for three days by American League president Ban Johnson over a Cleveland game dispute with umpire Dineen. Johnson said Ruth used vulgar language and would be fined, with the punishment to run until a full report is received.
Ted Jamieson of Milwaukee, white light-heavyweight, defeated Lee Anderson world champion on a foul in the 10th round of a scheduled 15 round match held in Juarex. Both fighters weighed at catchweights.
The British Isles team defeated Italy 6-1 6-4, and won the doubles 1-0 at Roehampton. Major Algernon R. F. Kingscote and Frank Risley beat Cesare Co pes and Count di Robeaco.
Alfred pitched superbly for the Clerks allowing five hits and thirteen strikeouts as they beat the K Cs 4 to 3 at Zech field. Cowan also pitched well for the Knights but four errors proved costly in the third inning rally that sent three Clerks across the plate.
Oakland reports Dempsey plans three upcoming bouts against Bill Brennan Jess Willard and Georges Carpentier with Carpentier’s fight likely in Europe before 1923 ends. An exhibition with Andre Anderson is slated for July 3 in Oakland under promoter Dan Lackey after talks with Jack Kearns.
Sam Langford of Boston and Bear Cat Wright of Galveston fought 12 rounds to a draw in Galveston during Emancipation day celebrations. The referee's decision drew disfavor from many spectators who thought Langford deserved the decision.
Reporting lists postponements in Philadelphia St Louis and Pittsburgh Brooklyn due to rain. Names mentioned include Hargrave Oeschger Gowdy Ferguson Russell Karr Ruel Dauss and Bassler with score snippets and team references in American lineups amid rain delays.
Randwich England June 20 AP Jim Parnes the American open golf champion posted a 72 in the second qualifying round of the British open giving him an aggregate of 154 for two rounds. Joe Kirkwood the Australian champion also shot 72 to reach 147. Marchisone hit 78 for a 149 aggregate. Barnes played well to the turn but finished with a 39 on the back nine. Kirkwood led the field with the best aggregate by early afternoon.
Lee Willard a 1 letter man from University of Colorado joins the Chicago White Sox as an outfielder. Bill Kiliver plans to play catcher after an exhibition game show of batting eye and arm. Victor Keen released to Toronto to make roster room. Babe Ruth hits seventh homer of season and is ejected after disputing a play at second. Roger Hornsby becomes first NL player to cross the home plate.
Fifty times he reached the half century mark yesterday against the Giants. Wack Miller now with the Cubs hit his third homer of the season yesterday against the Phillies. Harry Heilmann of Detroit had his streak halted by Curtis Fullerton of the Red Sox in the fourth. The Yankees, two and a half games back of the Browns after an eighth defeat, face a chase as Ty Cobb’s Tigers win their seventh in a row and close to two games behind New York.
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