Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1921, Page 22

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 191 McBride Cheerful Regarding Outlook for Team : Only One Club Has 1920 Infield Intact DOES NOT SHARE FEARS THAT PITCHING IS POOR Pilot Voices Confidence That Hurlers Will Give Good Account of Themselves Despite Numerous Defeats by Giants. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. the eve of the start of another championship season, the Wash- O ington club presents a problem difficult of solution for those prone to figure out in advance what may be expected of it. From the countless reams of white paper and pounds of printer's ink devoted to its activities since conditioning work ‘was undertaken six weeks ago the fans all have been enabled to dope to their own satisfaction the strength and weaknesses of the team and calculate how it measures up with the other seven entrants for the grind extending into October. Most of the local followers of the pastime have concluded that the Griff- men are adequate as to fielding defense, speed on the bases and direction, with a considerably higher-than-average attacking power, but are appre- hensive as to the caliber of pitching available. What are the views of the man who =i - 1s in charge of the club, who has had/ Schedule for Opening Games in Big Leagues exclusive say as to the play who| will be regulars and who alone will e e Boston at Washington be held responsible for its success or lack of it? He is in a position to} | ERTintcphie at e York know a thing or two about the capa-| Clevel t St. Louls bilities of its various members and icago at Detroit NATIONAL LEAGUE. their fitness for the work at hand. We! have ideas of our own along these general lines and have expressed them, but the manager has vet to be heard from, so we sought out George McBride and asked him what he thought of his team. New York at Philadelphia Brookiyn at Boston Pittaburgh at Cincinnatl St. Louis at Chicago How they finiaked in 1920: AMERICAN LEAGUE. Mac Likes His Team. g‘ '9‘5 P.C. T like it,” was the captain’s frank e o and then proceeded to tell us why. The l?Hmfi punch v\lr|h :P'! * its quota of fleet runners i Mverage “aetense, menerally admitted. Were part of his reasons. Another advanced was the excellent spirit in evidence, and most noteworthy is the fact that the pilot doe: are the prevailing_ feeling of D The condition of the hurlers. .. While he did not say so. Mac \ni} 1d not regard the Washing- mated B2 “as "world beaters by any did say that four or five to give a and that d their work to meas tgeneral average of the ht from the out- reply i Washington .. Detroit .... Philadelphin | he fully expect ure up to the gene! rest of the team rig! y he can help out in| { 1 Approves New Athletic Body. 1 'H_" unanimous vots of the ulty the { University of North Ca has ap- jproved the affiliation with the South- Intercollegiate Conference, the organization recently perfected. Harding, Coolidge, Wilson Get Passes From Heydler | NEW YORK, April 11.—Sea- won pass No. 1 of the Natiomal League was sent by President Heydler to President Harding. Pass No. Z went to' the Viee President, and Mr. Heydl. el 1gni 1d mot 1 [ ch significance shoul at the hands of the Giants,” McBride Faid. “Some of the pitchers we hammered at (imt;. ltd- tt;::. :r:;ng s sl d be remembere 2 . homdwere o couple of thoge who Ullery, Star in Both, Is Wanted t into the zames s aaded the work and noz":de; for Base Ball and Track > i thought they were 2"he1d tne opposition in check. In at Penn State. tances they starte = oM I ihe pitchers who suc-| STATE COLLEGE, Pa, April 12— Eahea them got into the games when |How to run the dashes for Bill Mar- the other fellows had goften started |tin's track team and at the same o5 8 b;:lte':'s"r:y"'l:f(h~ the stick the|time continue to knockout home runs B e s In the world cannot stop | for Hugo Bezdek's nine Is the ques- D iants are regarded as hav-|tion that is puzzling big Bill Uller s fairly strong staff, themselves. | Penn State first-sacker and sprinter i\“l‘l.eme Mime or other we pounded |extraordinary. = Both teams m‘l'a"nih MNery pitcher they sent against us.|services very badly, and it is prob- with the exception. T believe, oflable that a compromise will be ef- TToney. yet no one is ny(ng that the ;":thed whereb; New York boxmen are wea oth sport Ullery is the fastest in ci Half a Dozen Are Ready. 1 est man in cir- “Right now Erickson, Zachary and cligsine haxes kst hotnas) aver cot . 3 "Ohn“(';n:p:fl;alr: e he piciked to | the ‘recent southern trip he stols o he opening game tomorrow. {home standing up. on one occasion. T e Tohnsom Ighis warm-up to- | In addition. he is the “Babe Ruth" | :1' v satisfies him_ that he is ready. of the Nittany nine, with three! e the judge of that. Acosta.{homers aiready chalked up to his| ’2’ ‘Tide and sducfiz also are in good [credit. He bats and throws left. Mogride and Rter. particularly. look- [handed. and Bezdek considers him an fhape fter now than at sny time in |important cog in his Blue and White it;g past two seasons since he has | machine. been connected with the club. | But Caach Martin needs a sprinter = 0 und ou T sco the BOYS Sl et the |toame taag re nas of,che beat tracic oo of the race have almost|gether. Ullery is the fastest man in nanimously accorded us & place In fcollege, 30 Martin wants him to don The arst division, some of them Tat-|the running spikes. With the dual fng us as high as shird. In ue\_:_ meet with Harvard coming along on this handicap 1 am hopeful the Na-|April 19, the Nittany coach feels that tionals will not disappoint the fflflg_ he must score in the dashes In order Lrate "expectations of their support- | (o have a chance with the Criomacs ers. If we are “‘“"‘Vl;":““;'h“ the |athletes, 80 he has persuaded Ullery s "?"3\“:}:' xxo';:“-o !‘—{u not be | 10 compete in that meet at least. team's failure to 90 Mo ¥ adequate | Martin also wants to use the big ;;:::':f:g' It the hurlers come lhrou‘;& o; ’;’)‘l"“ ‘dla"":hlll’;,lz:rcn’lle”gl;‘les, but x s e ball team will & a hat | 50 s doubtful if Ullery will of any ¢ 2 Record Crowd Expected. ¢ the most notable mather- Inonihat ever attended a ball game GOLFER KIRKWOOD SAILS. is expected at American League Park tomorrow to’ see n-; n;!“ R Hodf Australian Will Come Here After 'ween the Nation: g‘ofi&ffl:dhse;x.e The m‘\dem.b\{lc: Playing in England. t, members of the cabine A and both hetdes o o Ay Kirkwood, Aubecalins. en oot e s _high officess pion, was a passenger aboard ‘establishments, will be 3 o0ard the ;::“r:glu_;.y“ gates will be opened 'E‘::;”.:‘T’ Aluitania, salling today for :30 o'clock. with a band to en- 2 Teraaia e ety arrivals. With the e Ention e Tl participate tn val shortly after 3 o'clock o c e Prestaent Coolidge the more or | Te, FTench open tournament. ‘after less formal events on the Prograf|States for the national open event at Tl begin, Fresitent Harting 4nd | Washinsion Yo feach the park at 315 o'clock Promptly at 3:30 o’clock Gen. Persh- ing. headed by the band. will march with the members of both teams to center fleld, where he will unfurl the flag and immediately thereafter the President will toss out the first ball to inaugurate in the capital what is expected to he the most successful seagon bhase ball has vet known Special preparations have been made to handle what mav prove the Jargest number of persons ever ad- mitted to the local park. All of the nearly 10.000 seats in the grandstand and boxes long since have been dis posed of, but nearly as many unre- | rerved accommodations will be placed on gale at the park tomorrow. includ- | ing those in the pavilions and circus i | mot forget Woodrow W | seats three rows deep in the outfield. tapable of providing viewpoints for former Prealdei | about 3.000. There will be plenty of | | went pass 3. a number re- Toom behind them for thousands of murded as hix lucky one by Mr. Wilson. Staees President Heydler called on Jones May Piteh for Sox. Tt is expected that Sam Jones will he picked by Manager Hugh Duffy to oppose McBride's choice in the box for the inaugural contest, with Muddy Ruel doing the catching. The $250.000 irfield of the Sox (President Frazee valuation). consisting of Stuffy M Innis. Derrill Pratt. Everett Scott and’ Oscar Vitt, is expected to be on the job, although this quartet has not yet President Harding in Washing- Tem.” “Well” replied the Natiomal League president, “if you could ‘em I could stfll catch i fore P { rounds over the course of the Wash- | ington Players Cannot Swear in American Association CHICAGO, April 12—P| the wing ball fiel mediately from President Hickey said today in instructing his umpires in re- xard to the rules for the open- ing of the season tomorrow. Pitchers will he forbidden to use any forcigm substance in thel deliverien, w that the emery and and other freak deliveries will be prohibited. FRANKLIN GIVES BAIL IN BASE BALL SCANDA CHICAGO, April 12—Ben Franklin of st. Louls, recently indicted by the Cook county grand jury in connection with the alleged throwing of the 1919 world series by the White Sox, gave bonds of $8,000 in the criminal court vesterday. Franklin is alleged to have been one the gamblers who arranged for throwing the series. George Gorman, assistant state's at- torney in charge of the prosecution, an nounced that he would start extrad tion proceedings against “Sport” Sul- . Rachael Brown, Abe Attell and s who have failed to give bonds. BIG LEAGUERS PRIMING FOR INAUGURAL BATTLES N son today EW YORK, April 12—The New York Nationals will meet Fordham University's team in the final exhibition game of the training sea- while the Yankees rest for their opening game here tomorrow with the Athletics and the Dodgers go to Boston to open the season with the Braves. After the Fordham game the Giants will leave for Philadelphia to open the season with the Phillies. Phil Douglas | or Rube Benton probably will do mound duty for the Giants at Philadelphia. Carl Mays is slated for the call against the Athletics and Manager Robinson is expected to call on Cadore to oppose the Braves in the initial game at Boston. Cubs and W_h—xt; Sox Ready. CHICACGO, April 12.—The Cubs returned home today with a scor- | ing record of fifty-five runs in their last four games on the training trip. A ! Chicago | [ brief work-out in the North Side Park is scheduled for this afternoon in prep- aration for the opening game of the sea- €on tomorrow here against St. Loui Alexander, it Is expected, will start the opening game. A strenuous practice session for the White Sox at Comiskey Park yester- day made up for the lack of exercise caused by postponement of the last few games of their training trip. The & left for Detroit today to open the sea- son against the Tigers. Kerr was fav ored as the pitching selection to start, with Faber as the alternate. Braves to Pitch Oeschger. BOSON, April 12.—The Boston Braves returned here today for a final work- out before the opening game with Brooklyn here tomorrow. Joe Oeschger, who opposed the Dodgers in the famous twenty ning game here last sum- mer, is Manager Mitchell's choice for mound duty in the curtain raiser. Toledo Sun;endl Grimes. TOLEDO, Ol April 12.—Suspension of Infielder Roy Grimes for refusal to report to the Toledo club after being re- leased by the New York Giants has been announced. Grimes, according to Bri nahan, demanded a bonus of $1,500 be making the trip to the minor league. Stock Still Is Unsigned. ST. LOUIS. Milton third baseman for St. Louis tionals, who has been holding out this year, conferred with officials of the club here, but no agreement was reach- toc | STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE and former President Wilson, who Washington Goli and Country Club, to make a point of playing all the courses hereabouts. His visit to the public course In, East Potomac Park last week is said to have Impressed him with the real | pleasure to be derived from an oc- casional game there. He is said to have remarked favorably on the ex- cellent character of the course and particularly of the putting greens. Of | course, it i8 to be expected that Pres- ident Harding will do most of his golfing at the Chevy Chase Club, as that is where he played when in the nate and is the course over which | most of his golfing friends play. Re- cently, however, he has piayed Several of for ' 1t and which he has becn more than two years. He. will play at Chevy Chase the oming week end with Charles Evans, jr. of Chicago, who had asked the President for the favor of having a game with him before the national champion goes abroad to take a fling at the British amateur title. Henry P. Fletcher and probably Senator Kel- logg will also piay with the President and Evans. Country Club, 4 member Army golfers are planning to open the season with a tournament, to be held over the public course in East Potomac Park, April 25-30. Lieut. Col Percy L. Jones, secretary-treasurer of the War Department Golf Club, has announced the tournament will be at scratch and entries should be sent to Col. Jones at the Army Medical School. The qualifying round will be held during the week of April 17-23, inclusive, | on the public course. The course wili! be reserved for members the mornings | of April 1. As many flights of six- teen cach will be made as there are players turning in qualifying scores. Scores should be turned in to the caretaker at the clubhouse of the pub- lic links, and in addition to the qualify- score the committee in charge cntrant to turn in two in fixing a club handi- cap. A first and second prize and a consolation will be awarded for each sixteen and a reward will be given to the winner of the qualifying round. ‘lub has plenty of men with original « aboul the way the game should be played. but it remained for John Wirt, one of the older golfers of the club, to spring the best idea for cur- ng_ one of the commonest golfing faults, Wirl had been troubled for some time with a4 habit of looking up on his shots. and particularly on thos played from the tee. He gave the cor- rection of the fault serious study, and at Jast thought he had solved it. One day he appeared on the first tee, and as he took his stance his partners in a four-ball match noticed a peculiar mark on the toe of his right shoe. RESIDENT HARDING is displaying real golfing democracy. stead of confining his golf to one course about Washington, as was done by former President Taft, who played at Chevy Chase, {on They_didn’t_s: Ing. but watched played together in a single game this spring. McInnis has finally accepted terms. Pratt has belatedly agreed to quit his coaching job at the Univer- sity of Michigan and Scott has about recovered from the injuries that have Xept him out of the exhibition games for the past week ‘Tennis Balls, 1921, our price, each..... 1410 N. Y. Ave, All the standard makes al- ways in stock—you can get your favorite Ball here when you need it. We also stock a complete fine of Rewashed and Re- painted Ball; These Balls are inexpensive and just suit- ed for practice—all makes. “Everything for Every Sport” 818 14th Street Roberts Bldg. | Seven of Clubs Have | New Pilots This Year AMERICAN LEAGUE. 1921, 1920, New York....M. Huggins. M. Huggins | Boston.... ! /Hugh Duffy. E. G. Barrow | Philadeiphia..Connie Maok Connie Mack de. .C. Grifith | | . Club. 4 .W. Gleason Ty Cobb.... H. Jennirgs Loo Foh.... Jas. Burke | NATIONAL LEAGUE. 1921. 1820, 3. J. McGraw.J. J. McGraw .. W. Bobinson. W. Robinson _F. ‘Mitchell. ..G. Stalling | Boston. . Philadeiphis | Chicago.. | Pittsburgh 8t. Louis. tock, however, left for Chicago, the Cardinals open the season tomorroxw. Reds Send Felix to Dallas. CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 12.—M: ., whom the Cincinnati Na- purchased from the Billings, Mont., team, has been released to Dal- Jas. The Reds, however, will keep a string on_him_as the possible suc- cessor to Jake Daubert at first base. Detroit Rele:ses Boland. DETROIT, Mich., April 12.—Pitcher Bernie Boland has been released by Detroit. Boland injured his pitching arm early last year and was out of the game most of the season. Boland came to the Tigers in 1914 and ranked well among American League pitchers until his injury New League Qualifies. AUBUR Y., April 12.—Secretary John H. Farrell of the National Asso- ciation of Professional Basea Ball Leagu has announced that the Texas-Oklahoma lLeague, embracing Bonham, Cleborne, Denison, Pari Corsicana, Tex., and Ardmore, Okla., has qualified for membership in class D. In- played almost exclusively at the the present chief executive appears the player hit a fine ball down the middle of the fairway. The same thing happened for two or three more holes, and Wirt, who had shown no signs of his former habit of topping, was going along steadily, well ahead of | the other members of the match. Finally one of his opponents got curious and said: “John, I ean't un- derstand this sudden reversal of form. For a long time you have not played as well as you have today, and I am wondering if that peculiar mark you shoe has anything to do with it.” “Yes.” Wirt replied, “that mark has everything to do with it. That mark is the letter Z. and its significance is this: When i take my stance on the tee I firmly resolve to look at the ball all the way through the swinz. If my mind or my concentration hesi- tates it is sure to find the letter marked on my shoe, which, being the last letter in the alphabet, will serve to make me think of that first and last and best golfing hint, ‘Keep your eye on the ball Announcements of the annual spring golf tournament of the Washington Golf and Country Club, to be held over the Jewell course May 5, 6 and 7, have been printed and will be put in the m‘a:l! this week. Entries close with the golf commit- tee Tuesday, May 3, and should be ac- companied by certified handicap and par of home club course. Club privileges are extended to all contestants the tourney from May 2. High-Grade Gold-Filled Jeweled Elgin ‘Watches, 20-Year = 10" Regular Price $20 This is, indeed, an ex- ceptional value— gentle- men’s Elgin Watches—thin model, 20-year guaranteed. case—complete with gold- filled Waldeman chain— same as pictured. A real $20 value. .Whfla they o $15.85 We Selfeit Your Oharxe SELINGERS “Leok fer the Big Clock” A A e Indians Intended to Stan Should Take Pl EW YORK, April 12—It will 1 infields in the big leagues. M N abodt the importance of the good, so far as if goes, but where wil so shaken that most of them laok a sheller. In the National League there's It belongs to Brooklyn. a game of the big schedule has been First Wambsganss went out with a 1broken arm and now Lunte is disabled by a sprained ankle. And a sprained ankle, mind you, is often the longest time ‘being mended next to a flooded coal mine. Red Sox Four Strong. Washington is almost a standpat in- jfleld. In the last moment the Boston Red Sox are coming through with a fielding infleld that will give them all a chance to get out thelr opera glasses. Mclnnis at first, Pratt at second at short and Vitt at third will be a close- woven human screen against ground balls. That four may not hit as hard as some, but right now, from a field- ing standpoint, they should block them as well as Cleveland's infleld when the latter is going top speed. If the re- mainder of the Boston outfit were as generally perfect as the infield the team, which they were counting out a fort- night ago, would have to be counted in_as a_front runner. The Ngw York Giants have switched Frisch to second, and it's his normal place, where he will stop many a one that Larry Doyle couldn't handle, be- cause he 18 a quicker starter. Happ, on third, is new to New York, but not new to base ball. He isn't a spring chicken, and is as good now as ever he will be, probably at the top of his game, and has hit the Giants at the psychological moment for both Glants Should Lead. With Bancroft playing short New York, their infieid should be fastest in the National League, cially in the early days, when the ground is soft. Afier it gets hard the chances will not come so easy. Young Ford of the Boston Nationals can run up eight and ten chances in a game and never wink. The Phillles, none too well propped! at the best, are still casting about for a first baseman, with the season twenty-four hours in the offing. Pitt burgh launching out with two youngsters, Tierney at second and Bankhart at third, but watch them. Two better kids have not started in their freshman course this long while. Cincinnati_is shot to pieces. Only one " Daubert, is on_the inner works, and he is first. The younger chaps will vacillate when the pace gets faster, Hollocher is back at Chicago. but' the Cubs need more than him. St. Louis would have |been a standpatter if had jturned up to play third. pretty {safe to say that Stock had his best year in 1920. Hornsby isn't a blue | ribbon third baseman, but if the spec- tacled Torporcer pulls through atl | second, St. Louis is no worse off than |it was last summer. providing the re- mainder of the infield holds up. Fewster Has Big Task. The Yankees have got a new sec- ond baseman in Fewster, and no matter what he does he will have to crown himself with a lot of laurel to field the bag as well as it was field- ed by Pratt last year. The Athietics look better fit with Brazill at first base, because he can bat more con- sistently. That will help his pitchers indirectly. Lee Fohl hasn’t a motion what Gleason will be able to do for him at second base, nor has any one else. A lot of the Browns' hopes go with Gleason. The veteran Eddie Collins is all that is left of the White Sox infield. The remainder of it is a good minor league outfit. Detroit has a new first baseman, Blue, and he dove- ltails pretty well with an infield not joverstrong, but normal. Some shake up when majors have for the pe- | I If you think thata “tasteless’’— Distributor D. Loughran Co., Inc. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. In the American Leaguc one was to have stood | pat. that of Cleveland, but it's been raked fore and aft by injury before | F YOU think that only strong cigars can have real taste and fragrance— You’ll be delightfully surprised when you smoke El Producto. It is mild, yet has a distinct char- acter that makes thousands [ROBINS PRESENT SAME FOUR AS LAST SEASON d Pat, But Injuries Pre= vent—Great Battle Among Inner Works ace This Year. be a great battle among this year's any a strong word has been written | pitchers to the managers. That'sl 1 the pitchers land with the infields s if they had been through a corn only a single infield standing pat. played. made %o many changes, and it's the pitchers who'll know it. What would be gained by having base ball bats of standard weight? 1t would add nothing to the efficacy of | batting. A sapling youth and a Her- | cules would be placed on the same! basis, to the good of neither. as each | would be compelled to handle a bat all out of proportion to his individual physical strength. For one it would | be too heavy, and for the other too light. How ‘many home runs would Ruth bat with a broomstick, and how | || many home runs would little Romeo 1] Standard- { i hit with Ruth's sidepost? ized implements for play ways offset the lack brains. annot_al- | of ‘standardized | Speaker blew a lot about his young | pitchers before the geason of training began. and. judging from the silence, most of them must have blown. With Firat Baseman Blue Detroit| missed it by not having Second Base- man White and Third Baseman Redd. The shortstop might fittingly have been Banner. 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