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S 20 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 1921 SPORTS \WPlans for Testimonial to McBride Progress 333 ‘COMMITTEES APPOINTED : FOR BANQUET FEB. 24 ='Al Schacht Accepts Terms and Will Strive to Achieve Sixteen Victories on Hill in Order to Win Bonus. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. EORGE FLORIAN McBRIDE, the former “dandy captain,” who G has graduated to the loftier position of a big league base ball manager with the Washington club, will long have cause to re- member the evening of Thursday, February 24, if plans for a welcoming dinner by his fan friends of the capital, formulated last night at a meet- =ing at the City Club, called to order by District Commissioner J. Thilman Hendrick, are successfully carried out. And judged by the personnel oi ~“the committees named to conduct the affair there is little doubt it will be put over with a whoop. Here's the line-up as determined by the com- _mittee on arrangements for the testimonial feast at the Wardman Park | | Hotel: : Dinner—]. Thilman Hendrick, Samuel J. Steinberger, Milton Mc- ‘Williams. Speakers—Andrew J. (Cy) Cum- mings, Clark C. Griffith, Edward B. Eynon, jr. A Finance—Dr. Harry Kaufman, Raphael Semmes, William M. Dove, E. G. Yonkers, Karl Corby. Printing—G. R. Clements, William P. Doing, jr- S Souvenir—Edward B. Eynon, jr.; Clark C. Griffith, A. J. Cummings, Tom Fisher. ” 4 Stunts—Roland S. Robbins, Harry’ King, Carl W. Linker, Charles E. Johnson, Maurice McAuliffe, Ed McCarthy. Decorations—George C. Shaffér. In the foregoing list the first named, in’ each instance, is the chairman. To Present Testimonial. In fixing upon the tariff for the af- fair at $5 per plate it was pointed out by Carl Linker, originator of the ban- quet scheme, that the entertainment to be provided alone will prove worth that sum, and that the funds remaining after payment of actual expenses will be em- ployed to purchase some concrete evi- dence of civic admiration felt for the Buest of honor, to be presented to him on_that occasion. Linker also explained that the de- eision to make the dinner a stag affair will give the fair fans an opportunity to arrange a testimonial of their own next fall, after McBride has piloted the Nationals to their first pennant. Tickets on Sale Now. Tickets for the doings decided upon as the means for showing McBride the esteem in which he is held by fans of the capital will be placed on sale at Spalding’s on 14th street, at 1 o'clock this afternoon, and will be obtainable there until the same hour of the day prior to the dinner. . Just what the gift to McBride will be has not been decided, nor have many other details in connection with the the committee members feast, but started bright and early today to put their plans into execution and there little question that the honors accorded Mac will prove a source of inspiration for him in the task he has undertaken. Schackt After 16 Wine. Clark Grifith's. list of satisfied ath- Jetes been by ore with i ! I Holds Ample Laws Exist | Against Betting on Games JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Feb- ruary 16.—A bill prohibiting betting on base ball games and making it a felony, punishable by imprisonment to a maximum of five years, was reported un- favorably today by the house Jurisprudence committee of the Missouri legislature. Members of the committee took the view that there are ample laws on the statute books to handie an epidemic of betting on base and shoulder last season. He called on a famous muscle manipulator after the close of the last campaign and had the kinks straightened out. He re- cently paid him another visit to satis- fy himself that the job was done thoroughly, and says that daily in- door warm-ups for the past two weeks have convinced him his salary wing now is in better shape than it ever was Al will be on the job for the ;tnn south a week from next Satur- ay. Clark Griffith has received a wire in answer to his telegram to Judge Lan- dis asking him to speed up considera- tion of the Miller-Brottem case, in which base ball's high commissioner s the controversy between Pittsburgh and Washington will be settled at the earliest possible time. Landis now is awaiting evidence from the Little Rock club, which “sold” the a!::m to both the Pirates and Na- Virginia League to Meet. 16.—Vir- meet “tonight in n, C., to adopt a playing schedule for 1921. Portsmouth will demand that the split season, in vogue for several years, be aban- doned. Wants Club in League. BRISTOL, Va.-Tenn., February 16.— An organization to get a team and a place for Bristol in the proposed Ap- palachian League this summer was formed here last night at a mass meet- ing. Officers were named and plans ‘made to secure a park. Georgia League Ready. has A Ga, February 16.—H. P. e e e e T hiE | Meikelham of Lindale has been. clected B2y o sasists Nicholas Altrock in | President of the Georgia State League, putiing over stunts on the side lines | class D T e mectits when not engaged in actual toil on the ing mound for the Nationals. Al ped into town last night for a chat with & request to make of his ‘boss, and to discuss his contract. The request was granted—it will help tide him over duriag the train season before the well known ghost begins to perambulate—and the figures stipulated in his . official papers were pronounced O.K. Al will be given a chahee to make a good sized unk of extea coin this year by producing the goods om the hill. All he has to do is turn in six. teen victories ThIS seems quite assignment for the swarthy right- ‘hander, but be believes he can do it. His confidence is based on what he e, the b-u-rrklhm‘rouee-c{ l organ! fixed the salary limit at $2,100 a month and voted for a divided season of 120 games, the winners of the two halves to play for the title. Sees Flag for Giants. NEW YORK, February 16—Back from Havana, where he spent several weeks, Charles A. Stoneham, presi- dent of the New York Nationals, pre- dicted that the Giants would capture the pennant this season. He expects the hardest o?ontlon to come from Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. HARTFORD, Conn., February 16— The Charter Oak stake of $10,000 will be renewed for the 1921 grand cir- gards as a complete recovery from [cuit at Charter Oak Park track by allment which affected his arm |vote of the fair association. PLAYERS MAY USE BU American Association Is Expected to Vote for Revival of 0l1d Custom. CHICAGO, February 16.—Revival of the base ball players’ bus has found favor with the American Association magnates, and the plan may be adopt- ed for use throughout that circuit at the closing session of the A. A. club; owners’ meeting today. Various other routine league matters remain to be disposed of, but the suggestion made in a recent statement by Manager Johnny Evers of the Cubs, favoring the use of the old-time carry-all to take the players to the diamond and 'k, is the principal business before the meeting. President “A. R. Tearney of the ileague said a majority of the club owners are in favor of the feature for its advertising value, and the enthu- siasm it arouses in players and fans. 168-game schedule for the coming season was adopted yesterday. season will open April 13 and close October 2. Clarence Schalk. brother of Ray Schalk, the White Sox catcher, has been ‘signed by Joe Cantillon of the Schalk will be sent St. Joseph, Mo., club in the Western League for a try-out. He has been playing infield positions. AKRON FRANCHISE IS EAGERLY SOUGHT NEW YORK, February 16.—Substan- tial offers for the Akron franchise in the International League—two from Newark business men and one from a Montreal group—were made at the closing session of the league’s annual meeting here. Joseph Thomas, president of the club, will submit the offers to the Akron stockholders. Thomas believes The Akron will stay in the league. Plays That Puzzle &=———=RY BILLY EVAN: The umpire never is supposed to interfere with a play. There are times, despite every effort to get out of the way that the umpire butts in. In a minor league game these two plays came up, the umpire each time being the central figure. There is a runner on first. He stafts to steal second. The umpire working back of the catcher is standing close. As the catcher starts to throw, his arm comes into contact with the umpire's protector. The throw is bad and the runner goes to third. A few in- nings later with a runner on first, the batsman singled to right field. The runner on first elects to try for third. The throw to that base hits the base umpire and the ball s de- flected into the outfield. The runner on first scores, while the batsman gets to third. What was the proper ruling in each play? Plays Differently Interpreted. The two plays are interpreted dif- ferently. In the first play, in which he interfered with the catcher, who was making a throw to second base, the ball immediately became dead and no bases can run. The runner who went to third should have been sent back to first. In the other play, where the fleld umpire was hit by & throw from the outfield, the ball is considered in play and the rumner on first, who scored, and the batsman who reached third were so entitled to advance. Red Sox to Play Pirates, BOSTON, February 16.—The s, training season of the Boston Ap:&nrs icans will include a five-game series with the Pittsburgh Nationals at Hot Springs, Ark., and a fortnight of play With other teams on the trip north. Pirates Sign Phenom. PITTSBURGH, February 16.—John B. Hollingsworth of Alcoa, Tenn, & itcher, has been signed by the Piits- urgh ' Nationals. Hollingswortk, prior to the war, pitched for the La range club, in_the Georgia- League. Later he played with inde- pendent teams in Tennessee, and in the past two seasons he has pitched two no-run, no-hit games. CIGARETTES o> ey do FRENCH CHAMPION RUNNER SHOWS FORM IN FIRST WORK-OUT HERE 7T s JOSEF GUILLEMOT, The Fremch distance champion and winner of the 5,000-meter run at the Olympic games, is here University, New York, w] The little runner, who is world at the Olympics. shown, photographed at South Fleld, Columbia having his first work-out on American ol corporal in the French army and tarlough, will compete for the first time in the United States at the Club games in New York next Saturday. distance rumner ever developed in France. ere on Guaranty Guillemot is sald to be the Kreatest He defeated the pick of the Hoppe, Here for Exhibitions, Firm as Regards Horemans BY DENMAN THOMPSON, "\ E have with us today, also tomorrow, William F. Hoppe, who for fifteen years successfully has resisted the efforts of all cue wielders to relieve him of his title of champion billiardist of the world. Since that day in Paris back in 1906, when Hoppe, a mere stripling of a youth, outplayed the master Vignaux, within two weeks after setting foot on French soil for the first time, none of his chal- lengers has so much as succdeded in knocking his crown over on one ear, much less lift it from his classic brow. Hoppe has been a more or less con- sistent visitor to Washington for years. His ability and methods are well known to local knights of the green cloth—who constitute a goodly sized number, by the way—but for all that it is expected Sherman’s rooms will be crowded both afternoons and evenings at 3 and 8 p.m. to admire the wizardry of the champion and his satellite, Charles Peterson, who admittedly is one of the best trick and fancy shot cue wielders the game ever produced, in addition to being a lecturer of authority on its theories and finer points. Terrible War of Words. More than an ordinary amount of in- terest attaches to this visit of Hoppe because of the terrible war of words 2 | now being conducted by his manager, R. B. Benjamin, with S. G. Barclay, who is looking after the interests in this country_ of the sensational Belgian player, Edouard Horemans, who will ex- hibit his skill in Washington next week. Thus far the business heads of the rival camps have been unable to reach an agreement for an international match to quality and ability. 1212 Connecticut Ave. settle the question of superiority, but: whatever the final terms are the affair cannot fail to be a humdinger if pub- licity will make it so. Leave that to Messrs. Benjamin and Barclay. Benjamin, who says, incidentally, that Hoppe_is anxious to open an academy here—Washington being one of the best billlard towns in the country, etc.—as- serts that the fallure of Horemans to cover Hoppe's $2,500 forfeit for a title match proves his contention that the Belgian was brought to this country by 2 big manufacturing concern to trade on nothing more than talk of meeting the champion and that this company would be glad to see Hoppe beaten be- cause he has made himself independent of the octopus and constitutes a per- petual threat against the tournaments and championships it conducts. Horemans’ Contentions. Horemans’ reason for failure to cover the Hoppe money is regarded in some quarters as well taken, but not by Ben- Jamin. While disclaiming any desire to dic tate, always the privilege of the cham- LYNCH BALKS ON BOUT Finally Meets Griffin, Who Is 31-2 Pounds Overweight, in Exhibi- tion for European Relief. FORT WORTH, Tex., February 16.— Dick Griffin of Fort Worth was three and a half pounds over his agreed weight of 118 pounds, and Joe Lynch of New York, bantamweight cham- pion, refused to meet him in their scheduled exhibition ten-round bout last night. The crowd, however, made such an uproar that Lynch agreed to go four two-minute rounds with Griffiin. Dur- ing the sparring exhibition, when the crowd grew angry and began making threats, policemen stood near the rin The exhibition was for the benefit of the European relief fund. Jess to Fight Only Jack. LAWRENCE, Kan., February 16.— Jess Willard has declared emphati- cally that he would not meet Fred Fulton or any of the other fighters prior to his bout with Jack Dempsey on Labor day. “If they don't let me meet Dempsey I won’t fight again. and that goes,” the former title holder said. Willard said he had decided to quit farming. “From now on I am an oil man and a prize fighter.” He said he would soon establish his home in Los Angeles. HEDDON WINS GUE TITLE Captures Amateur Billiard Honors by Defeating Collins in Final Match Tournament. CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 16.— Charles Heddon of Dowaglac, Mich.. today is the champion national ama- teur 18.2 balklfne billlard player. He won the title last night when he defeated Percy Collins of Chicago, 300 to 247, in the closing game of the tournament. Heddon won five of the six games in which he participated. The only game he lost was to Francis 8. Ap- pleby of New York, the day after Heddon established an American réec- ord by running 139 points in one in- ning. Incidentally it was Appleby’s brother Edgar who Monday night handed Collins the first defeat he has sus- tained in two years. Heddon’s victory sent Collins into a three-cornered tie for second place with the Appleby brothers, each }mvting four victories and two de- eats. pion, the Belgian’s attitude is that a 1,000-point match for the 18.2 is absurd. “We shall insist upon a match of a sufficient number of points to insure that the result shall be determined upon the merits of play,” is the way his manager puts it. “We think the billiard public wants to see the world championship conclusively decided. A short match is not a fair test of the relative skill of such players as Hoppe and Horemans, and we intend to hold out for a match of 3,000 or more points at 18.2, and not less than 2,400 points at 18.1. Benjamin and Hoppe can arrange a match for any amount of money they desire. We have agreed to everything they have demanded thus far, except the length of the game, and feel we are justified in the stand we have taken in regard to this point. Why Hoppe should persist in holding out for a short game is a puzzle. Horemans is anxious to play a sufficient number of points so that the loser will have no substantial alibi to offer after- ward.” Here’s Benjamin’s Answer. In rebuttal Benjamin oites the fact that when Hoppe won the champion- ship he was compelled to do it in a match of only 500 points. “Hoppe is the champion,” he says, “and is not going to be dictated to by Horemans or any other challenger. A 1,000- point match is a fair enough test. There is nothing to be gained by stretching it out to cover a week. After two or three days the table slows up to such an extent that real championship billlards is out of the question. If Horemans really wants to play he can have a match on a winner-take-all basis and with as large a side bet as he can raise, and with the advantage of odds, too.” ESSEXN Note Its Present Price Compare It With Others EN naturally look to higher-priced cars for a basis of comparison with Essex. The Essex price gives you nothing by which to judge its Lambert-Hudson Motors Co. Salesroom Telephone Franklin 7700 Service Station 633 Massachusetts Ave. In four times breaking the Transcontinental record with four different cars, Essex gave a proof of con-, sistent endurance and reliability such as no other car has shown. High-priced cars, time and time again, have tried to break the Transcontinental record. None ever succeeded. Essex did it four times, every entry beating the former record. Can any car, at anywhere near its price, offer so reasons for its choice? Compare it point to point and let price decide, Prices f. o. f. Detroit Touring, $1595 Roadster, $1595 Cabriolet, $2100 Sedan, $2450 Reasonably Prompt Delivery LIST OF DEALERS: Jas. ¥, Strange & Som, Annapolis, Md. Woodbine Motor Car Co., Woodbine, Boarman Bradford, Belair, Md. Hull, Automobile LY Harbaugh, Westminster, Md, Smith Motor Co., White Marsh, Md. Virginia Motor Co., Charlottesville, Va. The Hicks Moter Co. Winchester, Va. Hargrave & Lewis, West Polat, Va. J. M. Bright, Keyser, W. Va. L. E. Hedges, W, Va. The Vi Motors Ce. : Rickard Tangled in Seeking Kilbane Foe . PAIR OF ELIMINATION BOUTS END IN DRAWS Sieger-De Foe and Baird-Jacks Battles Are Fast Affairs, But the Plans to Match Winners Broken Up. BY FAIRPLAY. featherweight champion, can N EW YORK, February 16.—It looks as though Johnny Kilbane, the keep on being an actor for some time at least. “Tex” Rickard thought that he had conceived a plan which would result in a capable opponent for Kilbane, but events at Madison Square Garden last night sometimes go astray. For instance, of Sammy Sieger, who hails from th show that even the best laid plans a youngster answering to the name e East Side of New York, met Billy De Foe of St. Paul, the man supposed to be next in line for a wallop at the featherweight title. Every one thought that De Foe! would play with Sammy for a few rounds, then stow him away. But, alas! Sammy packed a nasty right, sneaky and quick as a cat's leap, and when the fifteenth round was over. the judges decided it was a draw. A whole lot of Sammy’'s friends in the audience thought the judges had made a mistake. But this isn't tell- ing all of “Tex” Rickard's plan. The latter had two other prospective Kil- bane opponents on tap. They were Earl Baird of Seattle and Freddie Jacks of England, who went ten rounds in the semi-final. Rickard fig- ured that the winner of the Baird- Jacks_scrap and the victor in the De Foe-Sieger battle could be matched in a short time and that the winner of this fight wouid meet Kilbane. After ten rounds of- the fastest, cleanest fighting, though, that the Garden has seen in many a night. the Baird-Jacks bout was declared a draw. And every one was satisfied. poor “Tex,” though, has got to start all over again and, while he's study- ing the situation, Johnny Kilbane will undoubtedly keep before the footlights and be safe from all harm. Kilbane Is Getting Old. Johnny Kilbane, who sat at the en, ure getting old. His dark g:.’l‘;'d is sprinkled with silver threads and his face has lost the freshness of youth. Just the same, he looks rugged enough. Kilbane is a terribly old man; he is thirty-one. Johnny has seen thirteen years of ring service, which is a long time for a boy to go and still be rated among the best in his class. Still, Jack Britton is a champion after fifteen years of fighting, and no one in his class seems likely to take away his crown for a year or more to come. For 80 young a man, Carpen- tier stands well among the record- holders in point of service. While he is only twenty-seven, he has been walloping opponents for thirteen years. Over in France Johnny Coulon, aged thirty-one, is still fighting minor opponents after sixteen years of bat- tling. Kid Williams, the Baltimore bantam, has seen ten years of fisti- cuffs, and Johnny Dundee, the New York spaghetti chaser, has fought while ten years flitted away. (Copyright, 1921.) FRENCH IN U. . GAMES Seven, Pick of Olmypic Team, to Compete in- Penn Relay Car- nival in April PHILADELPHIA, February 16— Seven athletes, representing the lead- ing universities and colleges of France, the pick of the French Olympic team. will compete in the Pennsylvania re- lay carnival at Franklin Field, April 29 and 30. The composition of the team ‘wae announced by the university to- day upon receipt of a letter from the French athletic authorities. There will be a one-mile relay team, | ANl Athletes in Line; | | Walker Last to Sign | ‘ PHILADELPHIA, February 16. =—With the receipt of a sizn.d from Tilly W lder for the Philadelphia Americans, Manager Mack to- iced that the team s ‘ for the year. Every “WILL KEEP DAVIS CUP" Tilden, Who With Johnston, Gets Home From Australia, Says U. S. Safe for Some Time. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February 16.—The United States will be able to is in line. Walker, who t night in Madison Square | keep the Davis cup for some time, ac- cording to Willlam T. Tilden of Phila- ! delphia, who, with William M. John- ston of San Francisco, arrived here yes- terday from Australia, where they won the world international tennis cham- pionship. The cup was sent to the TUnited States Lawn Tennis Association in New York, Tilden said today. Discussing the recent Davis cup matches in Auckland, Tilden said a feature was the court on which the games were played. He told how a turf court that had been donated was transported piece by piece more than seven miles to a spot in the public dominion set asgide for the matches and then rolled out for weeks prior to the games. “Never did I play on a better, faster or truer court,” he said. After an exhibition match here to- night Tilden expects to return to Phil- adelphia. Tilden and Johnston were accorded an ovation by civic, military and sporting 3\]‘) officials when they arrived yes- India in Davis Cup Play. NEW YORK, February 16.—Formal challenge for the Davis cup from the All-India Tennis Assoclation has been received by the United States Asso- clation. It is probable that the India players will appear in the English championships previous to taking part in the Davis cup preliminary matches. The British Isles, Spain and Austral- asia had previously filed challenges. MASONIC CONTEST SET FOR JUNE 25 A rip-roaring base ball game of really high class will be conducted by the Masters’ Association of the Ma- sonic order at American League Park with one substitute and two individual on June 25, according to the commit- entries. The relay team will be com- posed of George Andre, Gaston Fery, Maurice Mercery and either Maurice Delvart or Devaux. Andre is the quar- ter-mile champion of France: Fery reached the semi-finals in the 400- meter Olympic championships at An tee now planning the -engagement. Teams representing the Shrine and Grotto will be opponents in the event held annually for the benefit of the Masonic and Eastern Star Home. President Griffith of the Washington team has donated the park for the werp; Mercery is the high school quar- )occasion. ter-mile titleholder of France; Delvart is the holder of the world’s record for 500 meters: Devaux is a former quar- ter-mile champion of France. The individual entries are Ali-Khan, the sensational French territorial sprinter, who was in the final heat of the 100-meter race at Antwerp, and Denys, one of the best long-distance runners in France. Denys has beaten Guillemot, the Olympic champion, four this year. tm’;‘;!e le:u{ accompanied by a man- ager or coach, will leave for America on April 2 and is due to arrive here a ‘week later. Would Prevent: Racing. RT, La., February 16.— A petition will be filed in state court seeking an injunction to prevent the holding of a thirteen Tace meet, scheduled to be held under the aus- pices of the Shreveport Jockey Club 2t the state fair grounds here com- mencing Saturday. —_— Eagles’ Nine Early Bird. Eagle Athletic Club is scheduling games with base ball teams in the fifteen-year class. Requests for en- gagements will be received by Man- ager Charles Carrico over telephone ‘West 1005. B —— BERLIN, February 16.—Dr. Eman- uel Lasker, the chess master, will em- bark on the steamer Hollandia at Am- sterdam today for Havana, where he is to meet Jose Capablanca for the world championship. ' George M. Evans of Harmony Lodge is chairman of the committee in charge of the game. Charles W. Hoover of Dawson Lodge is secretary and Arthur G. Fessenden of Lebanon Lodge treasurer. Archie D. Engel of Albert Pike Lodge also is a member of the committee. STARS WILL ROLL IN TITLE TOURNEY Bowling that will be bowling is ex- ' L pected tomorrow when the third group ¢ of duckpin spillers takes the drives at the Recreation in the newspaper in- dividual championship tourney. The McCarty brothers, Dave and Doran, and J. A. Curtin of The Star, Lennie Ewell of the Times, Jack Reilley of the Post and “Smoky” Sengstack, a Herald roller, are among the star per- formers of the mewspaper fraternity who are scheduled to bowl. Others to bowl are Nagengast, Montgomery, Barber, Homan, Clark, Stewart, Bris- coe, Gaithers, Elms, C. L. Ferber, Goodwin, Hayden, Hurley and Walsh. —_— McGowan Leads Lamy. SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., February 16.—Everett McGowan of St. Paul Minn., defeated Edmund Lamy of Saranac Lake in two of the three pro- fessional skating races on the first card of their two-day meet. Mc- Gowan won the 220-yard and mile events, while Lamy finished first in the three-quarter-mile. They will meet tomorrow in a 440-yard, half- mile and two-mile events. BARRACKS Distinctive in Style Superior in Quality o LION E b el Collar . AND COLLAR CO. ALSO MARERS OF LION SHIRTS, TROY, 8. V