Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1921, Page 26

- - __SPORTS- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 25 192L° SPORTS. Griffs to Retain Brottem, Miller, LaMotte, Foss and Goebel : Courtney Comes to Life on Slab ?QU ARTET OF RECRUITS (lANI]IS BARS PAULETTE INATIONAL PITCHERS WHO ARE RIVALS FOR BATTING HONORS'GETS SORE AT CRITICS FEEL BLOW OF THE AX|nuw s soer s o - AND TWIRLS REAL BALL Refute Charges of Gambling | McHugh and Eschmann to Remain in Tampa Connections. ‘ Allows Yannigans Only Two Scratch Hits in i and Marhafka and Tucker Will Be Placed n‘f,i‘l‘i‘,.“",?w“:""".IE?.?:“‘:““:‘TE: Four Innings—Shaw Suffers in Game in Other Minor Circuits. | bl om0 Tl Veterans Win by 7 to (- to the satisfaction of the commissioner ] some financial deals, he had in 1919 TAMPA. Fla, March 25.—The ax finally has fallen. With the official | ¥t Bimer rarrar dng Carl Zork of | BY DENMAN THOMPSO! . T.\.\l PA, Fla.,, March 25.—Stung by the jibes of teammates in regard s - St. Lou | news that Herb McHugh, Andrew Eschmann, Ollie Tucker and| The banishment of Paulette was an- | Tony Marhafka are to be separated from the roster of the Nation- | Iounced by Judze Landis in a formal als, definite announcement also was made that in addition to Brottem, | to his physical condition and goaded on by the lashing given him in a local newspaper, Harry Courtney turned the laugh on his seli- appointed critics by jumping into the daily battle between Regulars and Yannigans yesterday and hurling a most impressive brand of hase ball It will be recalled that Courtney developed a lame shoulder—he at- tributed it to funge hitting—the second day in camp, and for two weeks { was able to do hardly any work at all. He nursed it along for a wh but it was so slow rounding into condition that even George McBride patience became exhausted. '] EVEN-STEPHEN Now te admitted | Elmer ws a loan, which this money | some time | arrar and i named Carl | rk, in which interview Farrar and Zork uried Paulette to co-operate with in crooked inz on balll own by McHugh and Eschmann are to perform for the Tampa club, arrange- | ments to that effect having been completed at a conference between Clark Griffith and President Denton and Manager Leach of the Smokers, Just where Marhafka will be placed | has been settled that Walter will be has not yet been settled. Billy Smith | one of the four pitchers seng with the wants him to play short for his|sccond-string outfit for the gs Shreveport outfit. in the Texas|Orlando nest £, Tha wsin wii League, where Allie Watt, the capital | be Brower, Mogridgc and Acos:a, ue Product, who received « trial ‘With{ cording to present plans. the Grifts last spring and plaved dur- < ing the season with Portsmouth of Memniars Eepect | -’ Griff also had some pointed,thin, | to say. telling the southpaw that he had the proper spirit he would | have devoted the month he spent in Far- e money, which he In this letter Paulette | ames of w bt Ghaerity, ter Johnson is anxious to have thel boiled shirt for the more formal part f . fat boy cavort before the natives of | of the program of enterts n ¢ The regulars are sorward he claimed, he could | Florida prior to the arrival of his the Virginia League. also is to hold 1 i i e st Teague ialiolI8 t Bold | S ith pleasurable Batic ot io bt te with him. In REGULARS H. PO | teammates to getting his arm in farther north, however, and it is pos. | Sojourn &t St. Augustine v ixsioner, Pau Judge, 1 shape, so that the period in training sible a berth may be found for hi jday, where a rather pretent st “uteiy that he had any ju; pon A camp could have been devoted to in the Eastern League. < ents has been arr © for [thus usin Hiee 3 perfecting himeclf in thy art of piteh- 4 3 a e s of these play o Harr 2 1 ng. Tucker Has Two Offers. {honor. Grift has been e At 3 Tucker will go either to Coffeyville | ImPressed with the program So far as he knew they were hon- ke iE | R et e of the Southwestern Association. orilined fo him in correspondence and|estmen. oo G Lol i An article by a Tam ac Charleston. of the Sally League. Wal-|may wear his trick the | thrown a ball same and asserts th s companied by a photo showing Court- v curing the I ins he hLe ney temderly rubbing I ament. shoulder. . o ol abe .h‘lmselst hm;{. eonapHngiaadl; and in which the southpaw was re Dersuads him. But Tuck fgures that is Rice, who w Hitleas) iny the Arst 0005 DUS e I8CE fromatna, chat Ne erred to as “AMbl lke” among a trifle far from the old home town.|&ame of the series, when facing | {UEFGR T8 RO, s (A AR QA G | other things, proved the last straw Radiant, Va., and rather fancies South ' Mogrdige and Brower. came to life Carolina as being within walking | yesterday with a pair of smacks. distance of the old farm. Tuck should | takes it easy in the sprinxg be able to knock boards off the fences | “Hip~ Dugan bet him she in_the corn belt. He wields a wicked | o0 DUSRR Bet TR 6 NOWOtd = mace, but is to elephantine in action ' £ to_climb_higher than a class C cir- ¢ollected- || BRAVES’ 1921 ROSTER cuit at his present poundage. Farrar and Zork. for Courtney. He determined " “He will go on the ineligible li: i 0 pu a quietus on the tyunts of his fellow- blayers and convince his bosses (bt he was not so far removed from pitching condition as they thought. He did it, too, by going to the hill - . for the Regulars and holding th dage. Brower was another who had to Shaw. 0. Yannigans scorele o AN peed, ficiary. In the ninth, with the tying L Totals ler. through pas: s 8 at thirty years of age most of his ca- {ha uinth Witk the Ty Bats. Throws. Batting. 1 L we e oniy reer is behind him run on third base Frank contr: Rraxton. K e members of Altrock’s team to get oi McHugh and Eschmann both have | to score it or forfeit a box of cigars. : it Eegulars the bases In the first three rounde possibilities. The former appears to|The Reading mauler did his part with o have considerable promise as a hitter {a stinging clout toward right. but E it and has demonstrated in the intr: hanks gummed it for him by getting | 1%l 3 TR club games here that he has a great | in the path of the drive. L r Eilerbe (2). Foss. | and in Courtney’s final session. Brow . Picinich. Stolen baw | €F and La Motte were credited with ickson. ' First base on | bingles on raps to inflelders. off Erickson, 2. off | Only two balls were knocked out of Two-base hits—Rice, Three-base hitx—Judge. —Rice. Sacrifice fly- balls—Of _Courtner, deal more speed of foot than was sus-{ “Watch Foss” has been the byw R MELLR S (ORI R E AR Eiies 2 Cbraepniranoma L e ihe Jnfle’d on him. both easy flies to B n Piiyclied Trom fiest 1o the | of the eurrent serles and the Obee Vel Diek Rudiiph:. Ré They have made a bet of $100 that they will outhit cach other thia season. Zack hit 261 lant year and Courtney 228, Hrawer. Harris to O'Riourke "o Juge: | Hieg, and only one ¥ an. Eot as far 2 5ait that made Tommy Leach's tyes | Croavye,been gecting an eve full Eie ol : ourinex. 2 iny font aniages o shaw "% Iy | remarkable “what & lemperamental .pu-l::ll:r'nann, while not particularly | Dall close to the bag and did not make 3 - | A o P /in Bee donings: eft-hander with a sore arm can ac- fast, is an excellent fielder. He is: D! 3 SCars & 2 rather slow getting the ball away | Will be “watching Foss” all summer. H ok from him, but this is due to the fact e i CATCHE that his throwing arm has not be- " 3 gome "thoroughly” loosenedup. He THEFTS CAUSE SPEAKER |, gL n looks fair at bat and, being only a y 0 youngater, may be expectea to ym:| 10 STOP INDIANS GAMEE i B e e Totpect nChiT, WOD8° | DALLAS, Tex. March 25—After! £ mann and McHugh, particularly the |seven bases had been stolen by the B latter. regulars in one inning in vesterday's) L. o x Jeksaom Skows Real Stufr. game with the yannigans, Manager | joar ey ¢ Johnson _yesterday looked more | Tris Speaker of the Cleveland Indians | Waiter Hoik Hke the Walter of old than at any [called the contest at the end of thelGuy Lacy . time since he started preparing for |fif*h, with the regulars leading. 9 to the campaign. He worked hard for |2, and gave the pitchers half an hour's about an hour. chasing flies in the |drill in trying to catch runners off the outfield, warming up for ten minutes, | sacks. I . . pitching to the b&’t’len for fully al There were two individual steals. a f_‘;,'- Ei»?n-'xu,' 2 quarter of an hour and then putting | double theft and a triple steal, with i in an equal length of time fielding | Catcher Nunamaker scoring. The bunts. Most of the time he was on |bases were stolen while Nelson Pott, MACKS, EAGER FOR FRAY, || Plays That Puzzle ||, . s oo | e S niiem e, 7 * Tierney of Pirates a Clouter. . and what the regulars did to Jim's F A ‘ E; ! I l[—1 E: ‘ ;I Q hl' I ‘S 'I“ )I) Q ‘7 BY DILLY EVANS | JIOT SPRINGS, Ark.. March 25—|offerings enabled them to avemgs e G e mmn‘?‘;;" i ‘l:lerne)d second sacker Of|(neir defeat of the day before by-ek- ol PRV o e unusual from the grandstand, yet|(h¢ Pirates’ squad, ran his home run | 6 victory. Judge's triple, x . |total up to nine yesterday. when he e . L = - - , .., | was simple and proper, when one | a single by Mi 'S two-bas, l AKE CHARLES, La., March 25—The Philadelphia Americans Will | ynew what had actually happened. |®Mmashed out two circuit clouts in a $ie by Nilan and Rice's two-base ing out a Walter Rarba; Norman Boeck L. Christenbu : smack gave the veterans a pair of meet the New York Nationals here today, and the Athletics are | There is a runner on first base, one |S3Me between the regulars and the|tallies in the opener. Another was A A i in |out and three balls and two strikes yannigans. He went to bat three{added in the second, when Ellerhes cagerifonithe tray s ManageriMuckiprobablysovillSusciRerey il LS eier: SOnithamextipitontthe | fimesNintorenbihires e sans I or | Wekns Yoomese Soubl Lot e ihe box. runner starts for second. The batter ithree hits. The batting of Tierney | hot single were the chief factors. Mack did not take another chance with his second-string pitchers | 5\¥ings at and misses the third strike. |has featured all the Pirate exhibi-| Shanks and Brower retired the side « 1 B és | The catcher makes a perfect throw to 'tion mes. i J Vs yesterday in the game with Atlanta, and, as a result of the pitching of second. getting the runner and com- | T Pirates will break camp March | but be wor Lomnlius in the third, Moore and Hasty, only two of the southerns reached first base in the | pleting what scemed to be a perfect |30 and play fourteen exhibition games | runs in the fol 5 5 h llowing round. w contest, which ended 9to 0. gouble play. Ahe ball at which {helen tbute ¢o Cincinnati where the | Brotlens got & tingit bob B o) batter swung for the third strike just|y. i o . grazed the uniform of the batter. What |11 OPen the season April 13. O'Rourke compiled doubles, together Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama are | > lahoma s re | vas the proper ruling? 3 with miscues by Foss and La Motte ~ 1y lobb. ball | Cincinnati sandlotter, was on the Southworth. . 1. 2 the principal contributors to Mack's was - = Y e L | T i K w4 |(hs, princival contributors to Macks || TpAINING TRIP GAMES et e ey e e || Tiomer JoMs Cub Becrait. el S e LS of his tour of duty stepped on the — e I 120 a2 and loxt | among ‘them. In all the Athletics have | The batsman was automatically out | VERNON, Calif.. March 25 A% %0 teams feom the Btk foting 9 accelerator and, with Rice at the bat, Red Sox Rookie Makes Good. of aom T e team mit Sey and Belded for | fifteen players from south of tm-“ i when the third strike at which he |Schneider. former Cincinnati pitcher, | FOr the Yannigans Erickson was ‘o- w. over in the old-tim C Mason and” Dixon line. 5 A Barede e ks old-time! /0T SPRINGS. Ark. March 25.—|W& = Joined the National League tn| Perry, Naylor and Ray hail from | Yew York Ameriouns . He said on his way to the showers | Ernest Neitzke. recruit pitcher, prob- d ,with the ( abs, ouly | Oklishoma, Harris, Eden and Myatt | 78 et res S that he felt absolutely no ill effects |ably will be one of the Boston Amer- er members amoug those wow In the|from Texas: Hasty and Slappy (rom | Batteries—Collins, Plerry aud Hoffman, De in his arm from his strenuous exer- |icans’ regular hurlers this season. He ) ¢ Georgia, Ty Walker from Tennessee, | Yoraer: Mamauz, Mitchell an er, Krucger. tions. He is slated to pitch three | has shown well in practice games. During their forts-ive he National | Prank swung and missed touched his per- Shook the nerve of Virgil Cheeves,|Cated for only one run in his t son. In all such cases no runners|Cub recruit pitcher, yesterday, in a|inning, when Rice scratched a safely an advance because the ball be-|game against Vernon, when he lifted | through Foss, stole second and rode comes dead. Therefore the perfect [the ball over the left field fence, and | home on Lewis’ safety to center. throw of the catcher getting the run- (the next six batters scored four runs.|Olaf had the Regs well in hand for alker from Virginia, Gallo- | ner at second was a wasted effort. | He settled d fter th b < & - | L ue the Braves have won 4 and lost v 3 o =2 | At Lake Charles, La.— N ort. | H lown after that and held | the remainder of the route, but it was innings in the game tomérrow and s‘",‘..ta‘“,‘; zl:::\;lfl;;;“l:; fl‘::‘ly“;:("- 428 games, ranking sixth in Biteta | WA from_jficuth Carolics, 8 ¥1€5. | philadeiphi Americans . 9 9 31The funmer should have been sent|Vernon, while the Cubs were driving [different with Schacht. may be expected to give the Regu- |ters P A Wianding. with s percentage of .4 om 3| 3 Atlanta (Southern) 0 1 0 o first. in six runs and a victory. nty of smoke to look at. It:Innis absent. He is expected shortly. | 'iandink. with u percentage of 470 et s YR e Schacht Has His Troubles. Browns Break Camp Today. Brewer, Wheat and Schmidt. Schacht was nicked for a pair of BOGALUSA, La., March 25.—The St.| At Galveston, Tex. Louis Americans prepared to break | New York Nationals tallies right off the reel on McHugh's c RMER MAJOR (5 5Ei iy camp today. The first team goes to |Galveston (Texas League) 6 10 5 IEHCk e P R R z n by gracefully for a couple of r New Orleans to play the New York| Batteries—Ryan, Shea, Voight and Smith L y uple of kpwas W s but a streak of wild, and Brookiyn clubs of the National|snyder, Knight, McGraw and 0'Briea, Lapan. EAG ER IS SHOT DEAD!Fou wotim St cague, and the second combination I . l l . : to Memphis for three games with the [ At Cisco, Tex. 9 eighth. Goebel opened this chapter S 2 Sinei 4 with a safety through O'Rourke, Southern Leaguers there. P ationals then Shanks and Brower both 7 9 3 PRIN "SPRING SUITS A 5 Batteries—Luque. ~Coumbe and Hargrove, v o . walked to load the bases. , It isn’t an easy matter to make you White Sox Start Series. e Rl T UL OSTON, March 25.—John B. (Larry) McLean, former major league| 1t appeared Sehacht might _pul = Tail WACAHOCHIE. Tex., March 25.—A | A\ ornges mex, catcher, was shot to death in a South End saloon vesterday. His [:::o‘;‘l:n”:f,.n s W Devet S lieve the bare statement that Tailored-to- three-game serics with the Wichta s fou Sativhas . 0 companion, John F. McCarthy. is on the dangerous list at the City |1eTbe. but Foss was to' be recko i i exas L e nt (T e) : 5 5 & 4 o e Ird macks order Syits are superior merely because e ignink Bencitule e NRE S0 | i Samea ity spa Kol oo | HOSPHaL, with 2 bullet in his stomach, John J. Connor, saloon manager | S s ' cirer The basisd i s Dick Kerr is scheduled to pitch today. o Sherdel 4 i who fired the shots, is held wi! i - 3 = ‘we say $0. The! closing, pEAetice. yesterday. was | pim, Brown. Sheciel, Haines and thout bail, charged with murder. wallop to deep left o r. It was it wi i i sus s . a clean triple for Fo want- But—it will be the simplest sort of thing ane of the most strenuous sessions of | 717 AR Connor contends he shot In self-de- | backstop, who was shot and Kitiea | £ Lo Sllder BAC he Wiacls Side get your belief i you will let us make SSRERELUEIDS s oral A 6 10 offense when XMcLean, six feet. five|during a quarrel in a Boston saloon,|the chance of injury and was flagged to ef if 5 : Vernon (Pacific Coast)............. 4 13 1|inches tall and weighing _nearly | W38 born at Frederickton, N. B., in|at the far corner by O'Rourke’s rela: Spring Swit. All Tigers Are Primed. o s 250 pounds, “started to climb the bar | JULY: 1881, and first drew attention | Of JeWis' peg. 1ana attatks him. McCartho os © | in base bail as a first b Some fireworks were set off In the asserted. the 1899 season and the following one! {heir bombardmen of Schacht, and. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 25.—The | Del Detroit Americans are to break camp ;phy. tonight and begin their round of prac- McGraw, Shellenback and Hannab, Our Prices Are Reasonable— oy e an=zaThEs Wi : Vi At Oklghoma City, Okla,— McLean staggered.out to the side- | MCLean caught for the Frea. jbut for a bit of hard luck. would Our Tailoring—We Guarantee. e s Ll Toxas and Western|viv Yor Nationals (second team). & 7 5| walk, where ho fell T whs poge team, and in 1901. was ul:l:ikt‘zr,‘lhl\'e tied the score and, possibly, £ is reported in excellent conditi Oklahoma City (Western) 5 10 2|nounced dead upon arrival at the hos- | the St. John, N. B, club, won. Tigers were to bring their Datteries—Barnes, Winters and Henlin; | pital. McCarthy reeled 100 yards up |, He broke into the major leagues in McHugh Gets. Third Hit. here to a close with a game against | Harle, Ramsey and Parker. the street from the saloon before|1902, with the Boston Americans and McHugh led with his third safety of the Camp Travis team this afternoon, e crumpling up. ) Hiopear later joined the Chicago Na-|the afternoon, @ bounder over secnd the recelpts 0 5o to the soldiers’ ath- Reds in Final Camp Game. Connor told, the Bolice ne feared = fons Rno traded him fo the St.|that netted him two based when Har- 3 etic equipment fund. = of “Wednesday night's oc- | L onal for Catche i w W Judge. Torres’ 818 F Street N.W. 8 oot CISCO, Tex., March 25.—The Cin- when, he said, Richard [O'Neil. After half a season in s[ L%‘\?x‘: ;‘:lt‘hh:oved “‘l’r‘: u(ylon nql‘ch. z:d aft- P Cards in First Shut-Out. cinnati Nationals will close their |Kerins, an alternating bartender, was | McLean was sold to the Portland |er Erick sat down and Goebel walked, Cards " |chased” up and down the room . by BEAUMONT, Tex., March 25—The|training season this atternoon, play-| S35, "0 4™ fnally. was “forced o St. Louis Nationals scored their first |ing another game with Dallas. Mar- | Jesve” his past shut-out of the training season yes-|quard and Eller will pitch in the final| Connor will be arraigned today. terday by defeating the local Texas ntest. Larry j toxiau s dotes ux cont. Larry McLean, former major league Pacific Coast League club. He Mo i c . He remain- | McHugh scored on a single to center ed there until 1907, [Xhen the Cineln: | by Shanks. Goebel sprinted around to Nationals purchased him. third, and when Brower shot a seem- McLean played with the “Reds” un-| ingly sure safety to right, was on his {31913, when he was transferred 1| Way to the plate with the tving run; St. 'Louis Nationals, f Here fate intervened im the person of the New Fori Giants RonerE ,,}",:“}: Shanks, who was unable (0 get out of Zust of that year. M the way of Browers rap, which for the Glants antil 1oio 220 Plaved | Ji8 & him on the les and sutomatic: In the 1913 world series between the | 2L retired him and the side, i New York Nationals and Philadelphiy| OWIPE to the scarcity of pitchers in we are Tallormg Americans McLean participated 15 | C2MP. those Who worked in the bpen- five games, with a batting average of | [N Eame of the set will have tdf be 1007, All Wool .500, and flelded = drafted for duty again this afternoon. 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