Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1921, Page 20

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1921 SPORTS. — .George McBride Assumes Managerial Reins Here : Frisfield New Coach of Gallaudet Nine Mayjors to Test Head Guard ] FIGHTERS IN BOUTS ‘NATIONALS’ NEW PILOT OPTIMISTIC BUT MODEST gton a Team It Will Be Proud of—Has No Radical Theories on Training to Put Into Effect. 5 BY DENMAN THOMPSON. : EORGE McBRIDE nominally entered upon his duties as manager ;G of the Nationals this morning, when he visited the offices of the = club at the ball park for a conference with President Griffith. The new pilot arrived in town last night after a 1,000-mile trip from his —— home in Milwaukee, looking as chipper as ever and full of ideas for giv- = ing Washington a team it can be proud of. Mac is optimistic regarding the outlook for the approaching sea- som, but politely declined to go on record with any definite predictions | : as to where the outfit he is to direct will finish in the pennant r. Although now pessessed of the title of manager for the first time, Geo has not devoted twenty-one of his thirty-nine years to base ball without learning that pennants are not won anywhere except on the field of b. Many leaders have been known to) —— s 8o the{r flag winning in the off-sea- som exclusively, but George never will be numbered among them. He is mot given to boasting in any form. Has No Radical Theories. Nothing radical is contemplated by in his direction of the local team. We has some theories of his own regard to the training of athletes and keeping them fit and s to put them into effect. but the innovations he has in mind are of a minor nature. In all main es- sentials his views and those of Pres- ident Griffith coincide and the sys- tem in use by the Nationals for sev- eral years past will be continued. Some of the leaders who are Plays That Puzzle BY BILLY EVAN Here is a play that is put to me time and time again. It involves failure to touch a base by the bats man and the status of the runs scored on such batsman’s hit. The buses are filled and two men are out. The bat man hits a drive to left fie cscapes the fielder and gocs to fence, enabling the three runne score and the batsman to reach third The an f E the s on new assignments this year | The omission was s fi the middle of last have some rather revolutionary the-|ond baseman and the umpire. The veirs ba ball raee McGraw sent ories in regard to training, notably | yaj1 was thrown to second. The |Raufr to T s he feared that! <Johnny Evers of the Cubs and Ty |umpire declared the Tunner out on |y g had affected the Cobb of the Tigers. Evers, for in- stance, will allow none but his vet- eran pitchers to eat more than two ! meals 2 day. Breakfast for all hands third for his failure to touch second, which made the third out, retiring the side. The question is, how many runs score on such a play? By 3 o'clock and no more culinary indulgences until evening. is his dic- ANl Three Runs Score, tum. He also advocates using the| All three runs legally score on the hit. bus of by-gone days for transport- Often the imp: on is created ing the players to and from the|that the failure of the batsman to unds, believing it would result in| technically reach second has some- e athletes devoting more attention| thing to do with the number of runs to the game and stimulate the interest| that can be properly scored. This is of the public. Cobb, on the other hand. believes morning practice does more harm than good and has announced his eharges can sleep till noon if they ®o desire. Mae Has Different Views. McBride believes the bus idea was alright when no other means of trans- portation was available and before shower baths were in general use, but regards it as altogether impractical wrong. The rule relative to of runs states one run shall every time a base rumnne a ing legally touched the first | bases, shall legally touch the plate | before three men are out. In the g | cited, all three runners had crossed were legal. TANK CORPS POST WILL coplously exuding moisture from their Strenuous efforts on the field. Mac does not subscribe to Cobb's theories, either. He believes ball should be required to turn in &t a reasonable hour at night, arise due season, partake of the old- fashioned three meals a day, includ- ing a light repast at noon, and that morning practice is absolutely essen- tial, particularly during the spring training period. . No “Blus Laws” for Nationals. There will be no “blue laws” for s _charges, they will be re- to be merely temperate in their its, that's all. Card games will be prohibited, provided the stakes & ‘Hia Heat ‘consideration_are consideration—base ®all—and “skull practice,” which Cobb American Legion, will meet tonight to discuss plans for the coming base ball season. Joe Fries, well known local sand lotter, will be placed in charze of the Tankers' club. Efforts be made to organize a Legion league The meeting will be held at the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce rooms in the Homer building, 13th and G streets, starting at 7:30 o'clock. W. & L. Nine Not to Visit. LEXINGTON, Va., February 21 ‘Washington and Lee's base ball sched- ule, announced today, contains twen- ty-four games and all but nine will be played here. No District college teams 4re included in the list. With the exception of Penn State, to be met in the opening game, March 31, only southern colleges will be encoun- ] e s L Togards as time wasted will continue | tered. L R conferences at i 1 1 the hotel or in the clubhouse to dis- | to Pilot Park View Nine. Park View Athletic Club has select- ed Walter Harvey manager and C Hamilton captain of its base team. are Robert Tiffy, presiden Gass, secretary, and Harvey, treasur- sr. A meeting will be held Wednes- 2y. Rockford A. C. Meets Tonight. Rockford Athletic Club will hold a base ball meeting tonight at 1205 6th street northeast. Coach Kearney ex- pects all members to attend. Snyder Wing Shot Champion. KANSAS CITY, Mo., February 21.— Harry Snyder of Kansas City won the international wing shot championship rom a field of twenty-seven am teurs yesterday. He scored 96 out of a possible 100. Frank Troeh, Val- couver, Wash,, was runner-up, with 93. ©ups mistakes made or plan a cam- m‘ of attack are helpful to the ath- individually and conductive to ¢he fans of Washi lannis ‘ashington are planning Wwelcoming bail Club officers recently chosen t:els gratified that dinner for him, but ex- no traces of nervousness over lrfllhn‘ ordeal he faces. He l?-‘ of honor at a similar af- iwaukee last Thursday, when than a hundred of his home- ifl-d-'n g"l:);el;fid ‘round the fes- im success in the task he has S0 has the ad- of having obtained a little in the role, so to speak. Banquet Plans Proceeding. for the McBride banquet, to be Bold at the W':fi'llnnn Park Hotel next ° g. are proceedi: . Bpece. A toothsome m:n\lnhu be:fi‘ by those in charge of this of the affair, an impressive list lined up and stunts of a hig] gramm a- a ‘d.entertllllnx nature pro- Another meeting of the general com- mittee in charge is to be held at the €1ty Club at 7:30 o'clock this evening. | A demand for ti - e K ickets is report Stecher to Wrestle Olin. OMAHA, Neb, February 21.—Joe Stecher of Dodge, Neb., former heavy- weight catch-as-catch-can wrestling champlon, and John Olin have been s, Where they are on | matched for a bout here March 7. It sale at ’u nc_‘l_:.h Wwhich charge includes | will be Stecher’s first match née he ng. The sale will cease when | jost the championship to Ed (“Strang- 800, the limit of acco: 2 Py Doen di o mmodations, have | ler”) Lewis. 1, which |3 the plate before the third out, hence | mow. Players of the present period e Ao rtle, to coias sux| HAVE BASE BALL TEAM drafty vehicles with their pores Members of Tank Corps Post,| \;ermonl Sckool Teacher In Line to Pitch Again | Ray Fisher signed with the i Reds x Pitch- He started the Yankees z 8 4 & 3 years he_has been in the game. ALFF CAE (P TODAY |Giant Outficlder to Ask Delay in | Trial for Illegal Trans- fer of Auto. February 21.—The ff, outfielder of the who is harge of 1 an prefe ore Judge Mul- s court b | Tt develops that Kauff and his law- {yer will oppose any motion for an {immediate trial, pieading that the {player must leave with the Giantsg for the training camp on February he New York Club is reported to [be” anxious to get the c cleared Joseph D. . tel shed Kauff tract had been re- better come to legal diffi- camp. ceived from about a.year has been tanging tood th up. O'Brien, s¢ ary s signed con a he b ! through the Interna- ason in Toronto and e fall, but the case was | inot called he went to Lanecaster, [(\hnu for the winte \WORLD SKATING RECORD IS SET BY NORWEGIAN' Febru 1 skating 1d Stroem, 000 meters onds, bom-‘ Id record by six scconds. { Yankee Issues Challenge. | LAKE PLACID, N. Y., February —Arthur Staff of Chicago, who Wwon the American professional speed skating championship, has challenged Oscar M. Math of Norway for th orld championship. athiesen on the world title last year from | Bobby McLean, American. Ski Contest to Howelson. DENVER, Col, February 21.—Carl Howelson of Steamboat Springs, Col,, with a jump of ninety-four feet, won ! | the ski‘riding contest in the national | championship class of the Rocky | Mountain Ski Club vesterday. MONTREAL, adian ten-m ! mpionship vesterday was won by | ank McKinnon, Montreal, in one | hour, ten minutes and twenty sec- onds. i | i —_— e AERO AND YACHT CLUB BUYS 152-ACRE ESTATE NEW YORK, February 21.—The first | combination aero and yacht club in America will be located on the north- ore of Long Island. The newly organized en Aero and Yacht Club has purchased a 152-acre ate Mattituck Inlet, between Port Je on _and Greenport, for $509,000, and will start work soon in dredging the harbor and erecting a shelter for large vachts. A forty-acre ficid for airplanes also is planned, so that club members can make direct cighty-mile air trips to New York city or acress Long lsland sound to Connecticut points. O’LEARY TO WALK SON OF MAN HE DEFEATED HOUSTON, Tex., February 21.—Dan O'Leary of Chicago and Joe Johnson of London, England, are contesting a 200-mile continuous walking race here. O'Leary, who is eighty years old, defeated Johnson's father in Eng- land twenty-years ago. ST. LOUI annual regat Kowing Assocl o Mo., February a of the 21.—The srand Rapids, Mich., this year. The ldates have not been set, but it is ex- pected they will be July 8-10. Tucker to Be Inspected. Oriff has decided to have Ol ooy ESTABLISHED 1893. Tucker go to Tampa with #quad next Saturday for an inspec- gon. Tucker is a husky outfielder, in his 'teens, who practiced with Natfonals for two or three days fall. He is slated to be farmed ‘out this season, but came to town the other day from his home at Radiance, . Ya. and convinced Griff he should be over at the training c: 3 He alternated between the inxfld&:’:\% and also did some pitching :with an industrial team last season, the earmarks of a hitter, Akron Club in Balance. AKRON, Ohto, February 21.—Mon- treal sportsmen have offered $41,000 for the Akron franchise of the Inter- mational League. Whether or not the affer will be accepted was said to de- é md upen whether the Akron Cham- of Commerce and other business orgaaisations would respond to a re- by the local club owne: Sivance of 315 000, U0 OWRers tor an Blake Goes to Rochester. PITTSBURGH. Pa, Febru: 21— + Pred Blake, who pitched for the Pitin- burgh Natlonals last season, will be with the Rochester Internationals this year. Blake requested he be @ent to Rochester for “seasoning.” Rauth Goes for Training. MNEW YORK, February 21.—Babe - Roth has left snow-covered New Yark for Hot Springs, Ark., where he N At the Sign of the Moon Made to will stast training for another attack In this e his home run record. Great Browns’ Vanguard Leaves. 3-Day ST. LOUIS, Mo.. February 21—The Sal sdvance guard of the St. Louis ale Americans departed yesterday for the training camp at Bogalusa, La. ~ The vemainder of the team will leave Bundxy. Continental Adds Team. PHILADELPHIA, February 21—G. M. A. Lawwon, organizer of the Con- tisental Base Association, has announced that a negro team would ‘be placed in Providence. Lawson said he expected to complete the eight- alub circuit by placing l!‘f-:.:“ at Pittsbargh and Akron. chises been awarded to Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo and Cleve- el e American Swimmer Second. MELBOURNE, Australia, Februa 21.—F. E. Beaurepaire of Austral Yesterday won the one-mile Austra- itan mma championship. Ludy ager of raia finished second. display. You will find just IT WILL PAY YOU ' | Great 3-Day Overcoat Sale! CHOICE OF Any Overcoat N OUR ENTIRE STOCK Regular $50 Value $26.75 Your unrestricted choice of the largest and finest showing of Overcoatings ever shown by a store in Wash- ington. Not a new or good fabric is missing from the “NOW FOR NEXT YEAR'S WEAR—FOR YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO DUPLICATE THE VALUE. Every garment made by our experts and guaranteed. CLOSE DAILY AT 6 P.M. Measure what you want, TO BUY AN OVERCOAT | Grand Rapids Gets Regatta, | Central States | tion will be held in | During Their Stay in Camps g ir S Camp BY FAIRPLAY. EW YORK, February 21.—Among the paraphernalia which most N of the big league managers have packed up to take south with them are several varieties of head guards designed to protect ball players when at bat. Hughey Jennings, the Giants’ field director, will take some, and Miller Huggins says that the device will receive a thor- ough tryout by the Yankees. Veteran players with whom I have such a position that they cannot jerk talked are all interested, but they m back quickly. And it is then seem to have some diffidence about [that accidents are most likely to oc- posing before fellow players as men | cur. scared of their beans. It may I that the rookies will be the goat While all sorts of places have been As a matter of fact this invention is Ipicked by the big league clubs as the best thing -that has come out [training grounds, the fact still re- since the catcher's mitt. If it had | mains that deserted Marlin, where been used in the past ten years score of ball players would be alive today. Ray Chapman would be li ing. Chick Fewster would not face the plate with a terrible dread, and the Giants had their about the ideal place for spring training. the reason the Giants (Copyright, 1 own layout. is in this country Poor food was passed it up. ) HORSESHOE WEET 0PEAS serious injuries to other players would have been prevented. Froth- ingham of Harvard, for instance, | would not have lost an Two Kinds of Devices. The guards the writer has scen are of two sorts. One is almost like a foot ball head guard; the other is;“Barnyard Golfers” Ranging From practically a quarter section of a Rl base ball catohers mask, fitting | 13 Years to 74 Competing in snugly across the eyes and temples. This has the merit of being incon- spicuous, quickly adjusted and as quickly removed.” Cerfainly the hene- fits of a guard of the sort will ap- peal to the players, and if it does not it is up to thé base ball authorities to compel such protection. Batters are hit. according to John McGraw, when they are trying to outgu a pitcher—and guessing contests are the rule as between foundsman and batter. For instance, a batsman will see a ball coming straight for his head. Knowing the control of the big leaguers he will decide that the sphere is going to break. and he stands motionless, a cordingly. If it doesn't break he beaned, or has to dodge like lightning. That was the way Ray Chapman got hit. McGraw savs there is really no ex- cuse for a batter to get a solid crack on the head, provided he stands at the plate correctly, head up. If you watch the big league hitter evade a ball you will see that he does it by jerking his head sharply backward. The amateur is inclined to duck, low- ering his head forward and letting the horsehide pass over. In this way a drop ball is very likely to prove a bean ball. But when the best players crowd the plate in order to put the Title Tourney. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, February 21.—The annual tournament of the National Horseshoe Pitchers’ Associa- tion opens here this afternoon for a week’s meet, with champions of sev- eral states and aspirants for the na- tional title registered to compete in the ancient game of “barnyard golf.” Among the competitors are Hugh E. I aimer, seventy-four years old, unde- teated champion for the American In- dustrial Athletic Association, and Harold Falor, thirteen years old, who is considered a strong competitor. F. M. Brust of Columbus. Ohio, ex- national champion, who lost the title to George May in 1919, has been regis- tered, but the present title holder, Frank Jackson of Kellerton, Iowa, has not yet been listed. Flying Boat Speedy on Trip. WILMINGTON, N. C., February 21.— The flying boat Ponce de Leon, which landed at Southport, near here, after flying from New York, 725 miles in 6 hours and 57 minutes, has left for Fernandina, Fla., en route to the West Provide Talent for Silver Spring Show Tomorrow—Ahearn and Conroy in Main Go. Washington boxing talent has been drawn on for a five-bout entertain- ment to be held at Silver Spring, ) tomorrow night, and the match-mak- ing maneuvered by Frankie Mann promises some lively tilts. Five bouts, totaling thirty-four rounds, are sch. uled. Beside these, a battle ro: with five contestants flinging fi will be included in the program. Tk show will be held under the auspices of the Supply Company. 1st Maryland Infantry. in the Silver Spring armory. and the proceeds will be used to heip furnish the company's clubroom. The battle royal, opening number, will start at 8:30 o'clock. Young Goldie Ahearn, former A. E. F. feather champion, who since his return from France has been sending into dreauland New England's best, will mix with Johnny Conroy. a scrapper. who has done some good work at Ardmore, in the main go. These boys are to weigh in at 128 pounds and are to fight ten rounds to a decision. The eight-round semi-windup will bring together Billie Regan, the southwest bearcat, and Frankie Du- vall, pride of Northeast Washington, light featherweights, who tip the scales around 122 pounds. These bat- tlers have done much boxing in ente: tainments in the vicinity of the Dis- trict and each has the reputation of giving all he has in a mill Johnny (Jumbo) Eggleston of the Northeast and Johnny Shotz, a South- west boy, welters, and Young Demp- sey of Georgetown and Sailor Ken- dricks of Bolling Field, middle- weights, are to meet in the six-round engagements. A pair of Tommy Touhey and Kewpie O'Donnel, will go over the four-round route. The tilts will be refereed by Pat 0'Connor. RYAN, ONCE PROMINENT BOXER, SERIOUSLY ILL PHILADELPHIA, February Jimmy Ryan, prominent middleweight in the days of the bare-knuckle fight- ers, is seriously ill at a hospital here. A call has been made for volunteers to submit to blood transfusion, in an «effort to save his life. 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