Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1921, Page 9

SPORTS. ' ‘Reconstructed Athletics to Be Next Attraction Here 'MACKMEN OPEN SERIES WITH GRIFFS TOMORROW A’s Are Expected This Year Finally to Emerge i;-‘rom Cellar—Nationals Again Beat Red 'y 3 BY DENMAN THOMPSON. R HE much-discussed team piloted by Cornelius McGillicuddy will be the attraction at American League Park tomorrow to open the second four-game series of the season in Washington. Having o T THE EVENI STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1921—PART 1. 1. & 5 Torture Your Hushand. Yankees Lack Strength in Outfield- PASS TOPPLES DODGERS **= 4 WHAT Do You THINK, Forces In Braves’ Decisive Run in MAZEL? FVE BEEMN Tenth—Pirates and Cubs i INVITED | Saved by Rallies. Braves, Pirates and Cuby their second succ sries in the National L ‘he Boston elub took the m the lengue ehampion Dodgers HuRBY's GoinG To BE | A BIRDMAN . | v sc in extra-inning_engagement and Pitts- | burgh had to battle despe to overcome the Reds, but Evers' men swamped the Car Miljus' pass to Ford fo home Southworth in the t a b Brave win. Th wofr TAKE A FLIGHT IN AN AIRPLANE ! Your QH,158'T TraT LOVELY! AREMT YOU Lucicy ! I ! hitting affair, the winn Hetting the Athletics at the local yard on a Sabbath is far from a novelty to |twelve safeties and the Dod local fans. On the contrary, owing to Philadelphia’s proximity to the [ Siyeral timee o o iorrurted [ capital and the fact that Sunday base ball is not legal in Quakertown,| After scoring once in the seventh | the Mackmen have drawn more than their share of the choice dates since |inning. the Reds broke in the | it became permissible to stage contests here on the first day of the week, [4nd permitted Pittsburgh to | and 1921 will be no cxception But if the critics may be believed, the A's | heia the 1hedt 16 four nit I this year will be held in far higher esteem by local fans as a medium | innings. but he was hely | for furnishing opposition of a worth-while character than jfor many [mates” sensational ficldine. I« seasons past. ~ d Horse, zellet piicher, W nogiouchen 1 YUMMe Since 1914, when Connie Mack broke | | ers, scoring four times in the = STuUNTS. up the famous combination that won | tinning, bul the Cubs ke right *pennants and world championships for | | their "heels until lil"i v ; ¢ gene: credited -1 uncovked a batting rally pality gene credited resulted in the retirement . with such Jost interest, the lean leader hasbeen striving to mold another winning ma- chine and“has failed comple six_years hand running the each campaign has found the the bottom of the heap, yet re better support from the home than in the last year or two of it long period of triumphs. None of Old Champions Left. Not a single member of the famous club that habitually cleancd up for | Milan, all opposition until it met the mete- oric Boston Braves of George ¢ | ings and was conquered in th ing a single tory now is on active list of club. The services of Harry Davis Danny Murphy, old Philadelphia idols, b PN RS - IO O A 38 have been en ; el TR 2 teg *Batted for Bush in seventh fties, but of the other: ted Lo serentl e fiara ttercd over the base | poton 0000100 ball map. Stuffy Melnnis, one mem- | Washington 100406085 24 Der of the ence-cclehrated inflelds IasesHacria, Bice. . Home. ross. Joe Bush and Herh Pennock are in | R rri Sacrifice Milan. _Donble our midst now iwith the Boston Red playS—Gharrity to Harris: Harris fo 0'Rourke Sox. " Badic Collins is a member of | f Judge; Prait to Scott to Mclhnis. | Left o e Chicateo team: Tob | Shawkey, | e Toston. 85 Washington 7. Bases. on Frank Baker and Wally Schang are | T o o 6 insi: | acrion. 1. Hite— affiliated with the kees, while | 2 funings. Struck oute By Erickuon, 47 far Jack Barry is coaching the Holy Cross | ing pitcher—Bush. Umpires Mesire. con. nolly_und Moriarty. Ti < and 55 winutes. e e ase s ot College nine. Amos Strunk and Eddie Murphy also are with the White Sox; Rube Oldring is playing on the Pa- cific coast: Chief Bender is prospering as a minor league in New ere Haven and still pitching probably would have ended the rally Eddia Plank 15 cosching. Wyckoff and | TI8ht there had he not slipped up. Walsh have been lost sight of and |Bush dashed in and got Erick's bunt Jack Lapp is dead jjust a few feet in front of the plate. Picked to Quit the Cellar. ‘;it;a';‘x‘me ‘Ihmss to the plate was low, But while there is little about the | p2Wwever, the ball getting away from A’s as now constituted to remind one { g Shanks scoring. Judge then of the once all-poweriul aggregation. [Qrllled @ single to center that cashed Mack has purchased- and drafted,| O'Rourke and Gharrity, and Milan picked and culled from the minors, | WOURd it up by biffing into a double sandlots and colieges, and at last has | Play. assembled a team the cxperts unani- | Marris Shines in Field. mously agree will emerge from thel Harris played a scintillating game cellar, some of them conceding it to!around the keystone sack. He leaped have a good chance to horn for Gharrity's high peg ned bes first division. Collins into the sack to complete a Mack has an excellent catching| double play when Pratt fanned in staff, headed by Cy Perkins, one of | the second. He cleverly handled a the most accomplished young recei w roller by Scott to start a dual ters to break into fast company killing in_the fourth, and backed infield combining tions were divined by Bush, who to the years. He has an_ into right field to snare Bush's Texas ability and punch in Brazill at.first,| leaguer in the fifth. His toss to Dugan at third, Galloway at short|Judge while off balance all but and Dykes at second, and a formid- | nipped Ruel, who did not expect the able outfield, inciuding the two Walk- | ball to be caught and was playing ers. Tilly and. Frank, and Welsh and| far off first. Witt. Judge gave a striking exhibition But it is in theaox that the main|of his speed and dexterity when he threat of the Maé¥men is apparent.| knocked down McInnis’ wicked crack In Rommell, Perry, Navlor. Moore,|in the eighth - and ferried it to Keefe, Hasty, Harris and half a dozen | O'Rourke in time to force Collins at others the Athiletles possess a staff | second. of hurlers capable of affording the| Vitt earned the distinction of being O ffent Wind of opposition. It looks|the first player of the season to be 3s if the A's this vear will fulfill the | put out of a game. Oscar objected expectations of the long suffering|to a third strike called on him in Philadelphia fans by giving them |the opener and his remarks to Umps something they can enthuse over. Connolly were of such a nature that ¥ Zach or Acosta Today. Tommy thumbed him out of the park. 5 i ¢ Del Pratt finally reported from Ann Zachary or Acosta wi e sent| Arpor, where he has been coaching against the Red Sox in the final of Ithe Michigan U i e ‘series this aftermoon, provided| was immed Eiversiey xine, and was immediately put into the line- rain does not interfcre. Manager Mc-| up® He appears to be in good physi- Bride is confident cither of this pair cal condition, but his batting optics is capable of taking the measure of |nced sharpening, judged by what he Hugh Duffy's clan and keeping his club; accomplished in’ his first game. at the top of the standing of the| Better weather induced an attend- teams by making it three in a row. e ance of 2,671, not including several Thormahlen or Myers will be called | hundred members of the fair sex and on to go to the hill for tha visitors. Boy Scouts, who are admitted as guests The 7 to 1 victory registered yes-|of the club on Fridays. terday by the Nationals was largely et PUT BAN ON BLACK SOK work given by Olaf Erickson. The! Swede’s flinging was practlcally al parallel of that displayed by All Schacht the day before. He was located for eight safeties, but was steady and effect in the pinches. | In goly two rounds did the Sox{mp. L ¢ Directors Will B * bunch:blows off him. On the first oc- casion three alien singles were wasted when he compelled Shano Collins to pop up with the bases loaded. Bos- tons fone tally was compiled in the fifth ipining through singles by Ruel and with a pass to Eddie Foster sandwiched in. Erick’s prowess was in distinct con- trast to that shown hy Joe Bush and Curtis Fullerton. The thirteen safe- Players Competing Against Indicted Men. CHICAGO, April 16.—Directors of the Chicago Base Ball League has voted to ban from its clubs players or umpires participating in games with the Black Sox, a team composed largely of players who were involved tigs amassed off them included two | . = M in the world series scandal in 1919. Swats for the circuit one by Sum Rice! "Tne elub owners decided unani. n the openinz scssion and another| oGy “that they would suspend by Pat Gharrity in round eight, with a pal on the runway ahead of him. It is doubiful if any member of the local array save Rice could have * ade the tour of on his smash It was a hard-hit ball, that roll 1o the scoreboard, between Collins | and Leibold, but was retrieved and Telayed to the plate in such a work- manlike manner that Sam needed all relations with any players who en- gaged in games with the indicted men. Ball Players at Luncheon. DETROIT, April 16.—Alumni from more than a score of colleges and universities entertained members of the Chicago and Detroit base ball his fleetness to reach the countinglciubs at a luncheon today. Ty Cobb, station ahead of it. ldie Collins and Gov. Groesbeck Gharrity’s punch was an equally | were the speakers. hard ope that rolled 1o the corner o the park in extreme left. Pat is no . e weters when it eomes to| Robertson Goes to Chicago. sprinting, but he re ome un-| NORFOLK, Va. April 16.—Davis intentional aid in getti aro from Menosky, who lost a few able seconds when he took dive and slid for several his tummy while in hot pu | Robertson, Chicago National League Yutfielder, who was recenfly sus- pended because he refused to report, has gone to the Windy city to con- fer with the club management. Rob- { suit of the ball. Mike has respectfully requested |erison is not gatisfied with the terms Clark Griffith the ice removed | offered him. from t terrain patrols, seein ——— as how it interferes with the per- Pirates Release Traynor. * formance of his duties O'Rourke was the athlete who pre- CINCINNATTI, April 16.—Manager ceded Gharrity in th ound | Gibson of the Pirates . has releaged the diamond. Micke wled | Harold “Pie” Traynor, shortstop. to at the initial stat the | Rirmingham of the Southern Associa- medium rgcles | tion. Traynor is to revert back to club ! the Pirates at the close. of the sea- son. e ] With Sandlot Nines was con- | fourth, when | safeties, | for five s, | of | e on the part o the pitcher himself, bled t nfl.-; Candidates for the Linworth nine to shove over a quartet of t s.|are to report at the clubhouse at With one out Harris, ¢ and 12°30 oclork or at the Washington O'Rourke sing in cxsion to | barracks diamond at 1:30 o'clock to- crowd the corners, O'Rourke's swat|{MOrrow afternoon. A practice game \ieh Tt With the Engineers will be held. being & Texas leaguer, on w Weitzel'’s homer that cleared filled * bold and Collins narrowly averted a collision. Harris scored on ¢ s | bases gave Metropolitan Athletic Club rap to Scott, whose toss to la 4-to-1 victory over the new Stand- reached second t0o 1 to jard Oil team.” The Mets will play Langdon tomorrow. Knickerbocker Club, which will face the War Department All-gtars in Olympia Hollow .tomorrow. afternoon, nts more games. Teams interested should communicate with Manager {Carroll Daly, 3265 N street. The squeeze play then was Olaf’s inte O-Fourke. attempted by Erickson. How Griffs Are Hitting G. AB. H: SB. RBL Fot. 12 1 0 1 .50 Cardinal Athletle Club will éngage : fi : g , :fi in a practice game gnmorrow_qtt_e“r- 310 3 0 1 .300 noon ‘on the high school field in Alex- 311 4 0 2 363 andria. Play will begin at 3 o'clock. 312 5 1 2 .46 Adath Midgets, who walloped the frriel Rbras | Knickerbocker Midgets, 31 to 7, want 213 3 0 2 i23 | |sames with thirteen-fourteen-year 1’3 1 0 0 333 | |[teams. Telephone challenges to 1 0 0 0 0 000 | |Everett Simon, Franklin 7042, B SR SR e Eastern Jusfors will meet the Troop 1 0 0 0 0 ‘000 16, Boy Scouts, tomorrow morning 9 0 0 0 0 .000 L7th and D streets southeast. ‘Play will start at 10:30. Iy s Riviere and Kirch Chicago runs. in the eighth, 11-t2-1 game. INDIENS FINISH STRONG Rout Browns After St. Louis Club | Scores Four Runs in First. White Sox in Van. Tris Speaker's world champi - dians and Charley ‘:on."‘i‘livfi",.‘f‘ White Sox grabbed mames yeste in the American League scramble The chesty Clevelanders ran rousl. shod over the Browns, while the Chi- cago clan by brilliant fielding kept in front of the Tigers. i The Browns hammered Bagby for six hits and four runs in the first ning, but the Indians kept on the job and went through to a 10 to 4 win Davis and Bayne were driven from | the slab by the champions, who mad. fourteen hits. Two singles and a double off Ehmke clustered in the third inning netted two runs and enabled the White Sox to triumph, 3 to 2. Each club hud scored in the first session and hits by Cobb and Heilman »ft Faber gave the Tigers another tally in the cizhth The White Sox inficld supported Faber | brilliantly. Braves Let Out Two, BOSTON, April 16 —The Boston tionals have sent Thompson, pitcher, to Greenville, S. ¢ cey. an infielder, to Columbia, C. Both clubs are in the South Atlantic League. ATHLETICS AT HARVARD r and six Two more to give were mad the Cubs un THERE WAS THAT TERRIBLE ACCIDEMT ABUT A MONTH AGO.THE PLANE GoT ouT oF ComTRoL AT | AN ALTITUOE OF Soco { + A~D CRASHED IMA LF‘SE FeREST i I BURDEN TO MANAGERS AMBRIDGE, Mass., April 16.—Sports at Har more time from team managers and their as players themselves and have a mor scholastic standing, according to the report of faculty of arts and sciences o President Lowecll. Its report, which was made after | the most thorough study of athléTi conditions ever undertaken at Har- | ect th on in schola While, ly vard, said that the players on Aty letic teams had a fairly good average | 13’8, only slizhtiy record in scholarship and attendanc sume prog but that the team manager und “Inj 19 didates for managerships not only | “the d University exact istants than from the a special committee of the ! they half OH, \ M SURE 1T'S SAFE EMOUGH, ITS A WorDER FUL CPPORTUMNITY PiLo OH,You SiLLy Boy ! ALwAYS NERVOUS AND WORRY!IN(+ ABOUT NOTHING THOUGHT . Coright, 1921, . T. Webstam. . Y. Senate Passes Bill for Unpaid Sport Board ALBANY, N. Y., April 16—The senate has passed a bill de- sizned to create an unsalaried commission to supervise boxing and wrestling in the state. Under terms of the bill, the present boxing rulex are mnot disturbed, fifteen-round bouts to decixions be'ng permitted. eir | HERMAN IS QUTFOUGHT r m , had Bave to athletics twice as much time it one-t as the plavers, but had a much lowe. obtained by non-participants, in Ten Rounds. cla;:sflip standard. and cut their’ twice the proportion of| BOSTON, April 16.—Y M tener. D's anad t three times the pro- Aprill 16 orouns s Monc, T O mordon %, The seholarshin of | treal of Providence was awarded ths = na g candidates for man- | decision over Pete Herman of New jnThe, committee was appointed to 1ips strikingly inferior 0| Orleans, former world bantamweight present methods of conducting cer- phims i the wmalor sponts, | might oty weighed - under 119 able demands upon the time of the upper classman had thirty [iEgares: i students.” Its principal findings w ¥ Players on major teams at Harvard were only very slightly below the AMERICAN LEAGUE. cut ves thirty-two, a age Dl ager forty-two . Athletics at New York. Boston at ) W York Lone Score—Hyman Allows- unexcus. STEAL DECIDES FORG. U, Levinsky Defeats D. 0'Dowd. April 16.—"Bat- ky was given the judges’ over Dan O'Dowd at the of their twelve-round bout last decision end Valger of New York in a tame ten- toad sy | night. They are light heavyweights. yashington 2 1 647 Philadelphia I 1 oo | | ’ i cm"fik‘&'" § 1 Deoitl 1 1 o) | 0'Connell Outpoints Valger. New York. 1 1 (309 st Louis..1 3 CLEVELAND. _Ohio, April 16. — 2 2 93 urphy's Dash i i 5 Charlie O'Connell of Cleveland won SAMES TODAT. . GAMPS ToNoRROW PRy in Nint# Gives i the newspaper decision from Benny Chicago ‘st Detrolce " Chicago st Ne" oons: round bout last night. They are Cleveland at Bt. Louls. Cleveluad at Detroit. Lafayette One Hit. { lishtweights. Results of Yesterday’s 5 i i — P y's Games. Hyman's cunning and Murphy's Murphy Whips Mantell. land. 4 speed. enat 4 to mose out [ CHARLESTON, S. C. April 16— Chicago, 3; Detrolt the La nine at the Hilltop | Frankic Murphy of Charleston easily New ~ York-Philadelphla (rain). | v Chicago, . portside flinger held outpointed F! Ohio, in a ten-round bout last night. ank Mantell of Dayton, f NATIONAL LEAGUE the Eastonians to a lone safety nvmh"l et 8 in the ninth inning, and in the same q ins Easi S scssion Murphy ‘stole home With the Zewis WinsiMalzBont ily. SR A s S e s Ll (DETROIT, Mich., = April 16.—Ed. Chicago 0 2000 Cincinaat e et o angler”) ~Lewis, heavyweight Pittsburgh. 2 1 667 St Lonis. e pntest W pitching duel} wrestling champion, easily ‘won ‘his Boston..... 2 1 647 Philadelpiia 0 = 000 n Hyman and Carney, The | match last night with Bob Managoff GAMES TODAY. GAMES WOMOMROL. own man fanned eleven bat- | of Chicago, gaining two falls in Brooklyn at Bo Boston at Brooklyn. twelve set d by twenty-four minutes. New York at Ph St Louis at Cinci latter gave six bages ;:.ul:ul-hu ”’""T" Pittsburgh at ¢ le liyman passed three, 1 s at Cinel Tmn nit et Vatters e oy I TWO BEAT CHESS MASTER. Results of Yesterday's Games. i rgetown repeat threat 1 e E zetown repcate ireatened 11; st. @ before the ninth, Tw in | Marshall Gets Draw and Wins 23 i , 6 (11 Innings). rly part of the game, the Hill- Pittabures, 3" Clncionati, "5 filled the bases, but of 26 Games Here. New York-Philadelphia (rain). | produce the punch. Carne Marshall, Uni S —_— fielding of bunts paved the w. MLl DRittagtatonychiess falotn faaie Maredsths) "|champion, in his exhibition last night the piteher's slowness filling the [before the Capital City Chess Club l»‘ ”s_” }\ h“f','.’;‘" \':-m{m started a | gave one of the best performances in w ‘uwf !.'.u',f'n’uf Ak red hom to|1is Tons career in simultancous play. lafazite b T e 0 Asainst a field of twenty-six players score. In tne cizhith, Hyman hit master scored twenty-three wins, ) th';l' h{\llf;;& but one was nipped off ne draw and two losses. This record Clash With Western Gives Blue | infia 't care: ot the ihird ot | s, i oaten fn this clty”oniy by oy an_ single ninth and witl and White Second Win in Jo; vis . J)L Capablanca, who on his’ last rere scored twenty-eight ; wins and two draws in thirty games. ‘) iced, then Hy Vair High School League. ki tonr s ek bl Due to the Jateness of the hour at T e e traa " haduled 10} which the exhibition was concluded, Central, by virtue of a 12-to-7 victory | heon, Starting ot k C Marshall - was unable to give his scored yesterday over Westorn, mow i . . (promised analysis of the tonth game m?,-on!ghx:e fi'cn']l fighting for the high | ‘"‘\“" I"il"hk]“ -Capablanca match. Se championship, The Marshall lost to 1. S Turover, Dis- Blue and White has won twe games ||| MISCELLANEOUS BASE BALL [f| trict of Columbia champion, and W. in as many starts. Tech is second | 3. Mundelle, drew with C. H. Stephen- with & Jone triumph snd S | o=l sin and dcfeated §. C. dtilder. E. B. stands third with one won and one| At Greenwood, £ C. errey, 8; Clem- | Adams, W. Rosett, C. H. Badger, S. lost. Eastern has played and lost a | ™% % (0 ORI G 8. Yoger, G. A, Col C. Hoekstadt, single game, white Buiness nas et | st Georgia - University, 6; [ A. Ber Dr. H. Wiley, M. M. defeat in two trials, At Atlanta, bama Oglethorpe. Shlis REL Bermann A . Yesterday's engagement was well | 6 4 i 1. Herring, W. R. fought, with both teams stinging the | At Atianta, Gu—Georsia Tech, 8; Au-{M B. Barshell, M. Baxter, A. ball. The Centralites poundeq Hair | " 3 B Y. W. Mutchler, C. H. Roesch, for a scven-run lead in three innings, R A (i0 Pate e inlyerdit M. jander, A. Hale and E. R. Kalin- while Brinkman was checking the A N e D bach. Westerners. Walker went to - the @ g mound for the Blue and White in the fifth, when Western went on the w path to score twise, and was nicked for more runs in the seventh and eighth. Central totaled fifteen hits and five of them were for extra bases. Cun mings, Blue and White catcher, clout- ed for a double and two singles in six times up. Western got eleven hits, Dawson, Jeffress, Stevens and French making two each. —_— White Sox Awarded Player. CALGARY, Alberta, April 16.—Mil- ton Steengraafe, star pitcher of last year's Calgary club of the Western Canada League, has been awarded to Chicago White Sox by Judge K. M. Landis. The ruling probably will be nrpe-led, as Steengraafe when under eighteen’ years of age signed to p. for the White Sox, while his mother signed: the Calgary contract. - Tadiana, 16 Va.—Waslington College, , La. Wolford, 5; South C: lina, 3. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, le, 6;_Tal TEXAS LEAGUE. Shreveport, 1: Fort Worth, 0. 12; Wirkita F Mississippi Aggies, 1; ‘aro- CHESS GAME POSTPONED. Lasker and Capablanca to Start Twelfth Contest Tonight. HAVANA, April 16.—The twelfth game In the championship chess match ctween Jose R. Capablanca and Dr. KEmanuel Lasker, which was to have been played last night, was postponed. br. Lasker decided to take advantage of his privilege of having a *night off."” The game will be started tonight. ‘Wins Scholastic Honors, CHAPEL HILL, N. C, April 16— Chapel Hill High School won the state interscholastic track meet yes- terday with 31 points. Greensboro was second with 213%, Burlington third with 17 and Oakridge fourth with 16, Friendship, Wilson, Cas talia and Wilmington also scored. 5 THE PILOT SAYS HE 15 GoinG To LooP Tue LooP WiTH ME, DO THE FALLING LEAF ANMD A LOT OF HAIR RAISING STUNTS i SAFE 7 WHAT Do ou MEA SAFE 7 10 You READ ABouT THAT AWFUL ACCIDENT JUsT THE oTHES. DAY T THE T ActD MECHAMIC SAY ! 1 THink You WANT ME To GET WOULD HAVE FAIMTED AT TH® MERE OF THEIR HUSBAND S HOW PERFECTLY THRILLING | MY! 1 DON'T SEE How, You CAN AT ) | | EW YORK, April 16— Only Yankees, and yet there N lack of strength 1 Bodie is too slow. His in ity enough for a two-bagger or a three is not a natural outficlder, and There is little doubt of that. Of course the Yank a disadvantage be counted upon Roth tw mu are iele to g fe but he has water on a tearing big youngster, si; ruse That's the verdict of are on pins and needles be think this is the Yankes The loss of the Athletics created sion as, if it wel the decisive series for the ship which was being played in tember. Roth is not likely to be able to play by Meusel. Washington fans Duffy Lewis' old friends in Boston may tal satisfaction in hearing that som of th ankec nal “Leaguc 1 City of Churches the Nat 1 son in Brooklyn will start on Sund display. There has been a little eri cism on the part of some of the relizi | organizations that Brooklyn should b in its season on Sunday, although long as Sabbath ball is to be played, is argued by others that it matters little Whether it is the first game of the base i son on Sunday. l Tommy McCarthy, the old outfielder of the Boston National League club, and l\he best outfielder to trap fly balls and make double plays in the history of the “AIR” BEDWELL CASE ! BY FAIRPLAY. L E EW YORK, April 16—Now that the war between the New York Jockey Club and the Maryland racing authorities appears m'ha\'e been .averted through the action of J. K. L. Ross in engaging a new trainer. for his stables, one wonders just what the real trouble has been with the former trainer, H. G. Bedweil. As a personal opinion, it would 5 = Seem that the New York racing so-| | Heavyweight Title Fight lons have. again made the mistake = of being too reticent in the matter to Be Held in Jersey City in the bad graces of the New Yorkers because of an effort to obtain a license for the ex-jockey, Carroll wettled yesterday, when Pro- moter Rickard closed a contract for the leasing of thirty acres 1 for the site of the battle. Rickard will construct an arena. He figures that the seat- ing capacity will be at least 50,000, and with the prices run- ning from £5 to $50 the receipts hould touch the million-doliar mark. Shilling. It Bedwell acted thus out of the goodness of his heart and a belief that Shilling had earned the right to favor, why, then,.it would not seem that the Ross trainer did anything heimous. But if he did misbehave, why doesn’t the jockey club come out | 1 By Webster| CLOUTING TRIO IS SHY | IN OTHER DEPARTMENT been played by the nsion about the 1 to be too uncertain. en he hits hard ted upon. Meusel He is a slugger. o g 1ttc W ra base w Brooklyn > the phy- 1S Are ACCIDENT that's one of the worst an thlete can get OCCASI0NALLY BUT to cr but a bail play | THE aqua pura knee never ki i SORMIEKESD ‘;N it will spill him | RAILROAO How Trio Sizex Up. | Ruth is not playin an ficld | w « few tacks this ye CRASHED which would kindle 1} Brookiyn mauled the Giants to a spark of enthusiasm irely fhe spring OF 1958and is no faster than n 1920. A cad which the Giants hit which should netted a 4 Pt man two bases gave him but | P Pomgien and the Yanks lost a chance to wia. | - RETTR] He is conscientious, enthus and | 1 gives his best; but cham «t zuess for (he pennant in the won by taking advanta Lea s than 100 vie- and not of feet. Meusel see wion il. Any team which ) victaries will play for PARS O 27 OLYWPES GLLE D! WHAT'S TH' 10EA, ANy WAY 7 for angther reck fand! mestiage Other Bidders for 1924 Games WANT My INSURANCE 7MOST WiNES Meusel is a_question. [t prol Withdraw—Los Angeles Is After 1928 Meet. New York fans believe the e ) Would have becn batter off if they e ‘-,\v\'u'ml Gaston vidal, un- him to play left field for them this year || T4 o niate itor fpkymical and sporis, has to ne Robins to Set Precedent. ted Press he feels confident For the first time in the history of the T AP e fae e wwarded to Paris, as he has been in- =5 5 formed that Holland Sw. with Boston as the attraction. Th Aoy e A Vi ectacy - 2 will not be any unuspal or spec andoned their efforts to this end will t France's claim. ished a report, is received through of Los Angeles, that 1s decided to abandon 1924 olympiad. that city also its claim for th: tend the Lausanne meeting of the Olympic committee the end of May and another meeting of the commit- tee in Geneva early in June. It is un- derstood he will make a strong bid for the 1928 games for Los Angeles. which will be supported by Frahee, the French contending the preference should be given to allied and asso- ciated countries hefore neutrals. Should Paris be 1924 games, M. Vidal said he hoped to obtain a credit to build a stadium similar to those at Stockholm and London. but games probably would be held in the Pershing Stadium, under the auspices of the new ministry of sports and under the immediate management of an Olympic committee drawn from the Union of Sporting Federations of France. French Runners Arrive. NEW YORK, April 16.—A team of the best collegiate runners in France, picked from a number of universities, arrived here today on the steamship WILL “SHOE” PRESIDENT TO PLAY BARNYARD GOLF President Harding soon may quali- as a barnyard golfer, for on Mon- he will receive a set of horse- shoes and an invitation to practice on the Potomac Park pitching green. The and say s0? The fighters are to battle on | | 107seshoes, to be presented by Brig. a pereentage basin—i6 per cent | | Gon. 1 3\" 1""".- i fl";lfl PR . .y 2. e ckesy orseshoe itchers’ 8s8oci- In Fighting Circles. to Dempuey and 21 wexiceniitef L) o lior: Ohln, ed_on behalf of Carpentier. ROSS GETS NEW TRAINER Supplants Bedwell With McDan- iel, Acceding to the Demand of Jockey Club. New Yorkers who have been anx- jous to see Joe Welling, the Chicago lightweight, in action ever since he stood Benny Leonard off for fourteen rounds. will have their chance next Tuesday night, when the Chicagoan faces Pete Hartley, the tough Dane, at the Pioneer Athietic Club, in New York. Jersey City is fight mad. The pro- matere of the new big Open Air AT- mory Athletic_Association, have en- gaged Frank Bagley as matchmaker. Ragley, as all know, manages Willie 35.000 barny e rd_golfers afliated National Tiorseshoe Pitch- One pair of the in nickel and an- other pair in copper, with the Pres dent’'s name sunk in them behind the toe calks. The T and T Horseshoe Pitchers As: ociation of the District has ar- aged for the presentation and will sk the President to visit the green at 19th and D street: Yachtsmen Meet Tonight. selected for the - Ruth Is Uncertain, Bodie Too Slow and Meusel - Merely a Slugger—Roth to Play When Knee Mends. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. Bl ‘season or one in midsummer. In !y TN 0T AAE any event, it will be the first time in the | oo kil (‘;]';_fj“n;l‘ 102;13:: t:: :!: - “ast that any club has opened its sea- | JTUETICAN Divmple committee is ex- failing to do this the * 4 NEW YORK, April 16.—Jack | |France, t i of giving reasons for their stand! | pempyey, heavy-weight cham- | |yania rfll;‘\'cl?:‘rg?\l';lx:t”l;;fli:i';.l“i‘n‘ against the trainer. The belief seems pion, and Georges Carpenticr, | |, 2590 The ! ashistas Stee to_prevail—in the absence of any| | Fremch challenger, will fixht a delegation of Penn- definite information—that Bedwell is | | JuIy & In Jersey City, ciose 10 | | syivania students. son, Augie Ratner, Gene Tunney ;‘::kolher good pugilists. Bagley will provide the Jerseyites with many a good bout before the snow flies. n interesting fact that all the New York fight clubs report dimin- ished receipts since the opening of the base ball season. The Ted Lewis- Ratner fight on the day that base ball opened here was badly hit. former flgh!;r‘ ‘:\'}:o has been trading in junk In '(‘;:le;:;z‘ has decided that there hls more money in trading wallops. So he and Eddie McGoorty of everywhere and champlon of nowhere. will mix it up at Kenosha on April 29 —_— TWO TITLES DECIDED IN PINEHURST TENNIS NEHURST. N. C., April 16 —Miss R iderstein and Miss Edith Sigourney. favorites, were winners in the final of the women's doubles in the North and South tournament lf_t!r a hard battle, 3—6, 6—3, 6—4. Ichiya fumagae and Beals Wright were re- turned victors in the men's doubles, defeating Raymond Bidwell and Jo- It is ai Phil Harrison, M siah Wheelwright, 2—6. 6—4, 9—11, T—5, 6—3. ‘Mru. Molla B. Mallory and Beals r way through to the doubles. in com- ein and S. Wright won thei final in the mixed pany with Miss Zinderst Howard Voshell. The program today includes the final in the mixed doubles, the final in the Women's singles between Mrs. Mal- Jory, mational indoor champion, and Miss Zinderstein, national clay colu_'t champion, and the final in the men's singles between Kumagae and Wal- lace Johnson. Mme. Lenglen Is Playing Tennis in Manly Style CANNES, France, April 16— Suzanne Lenglen, champion woman tennis player of France, in displaying the mont brilliant form ever seen a tournament here, not losing a game in the last four sets she has played ‘and only losing two of the last thirty-eight games. On Thurs- dny she defeated Mrs. Dermer, e—1, 6—1, and_yesterday she won'from Miss Debocarme, 6—0, A4y, and from Mrs. Craddock, 6—0, 6—0, Local tennis, enthusiants claim that in her present form Mme. Lengicn would wive any man champlon, including Willlam T. a:very bard game. BALTIMORE, Md., April 16.—Com- CLEVELAND, Ohio. April 16.—Dele-. mander J. K. L. Ross apparently has | Eales froln great Takes cities will o ¥ haslifiend the annual meeting of the bowed to the mandate of the New | Interlake Yachting Association in York Jockey Club. He has notified | this city tonight. H. Guy Bedwell. his trainer, that all | The question of what rules will be y Bedwell, his trainer, that all | o) 0l 055, Pins the interlake yacht relations between them will May 1. Henry McDaniel has appointed to succeed Bedwell | The dismissal of Bedwell and the | appointment of McDanicl mean that | cease | . July 10 to 17 will been | b, h In Court Tennis Final. the danger of an open fight between | NEW YORK, April 16.—The final of ', Ross and the New York Jockey Club | the national amateur court tennis probably has been averted. The ef-|doubles championship brought to- | fect on the Pimlico situation is prob- lematical. It is generally believed in racing jcircles here that State Senator Wi liam I Norris, counsel for Bedw will take his client's grievances the racing commission. Gov. Ritchie had not decided on the new commission. He had, how- gether today Jay Gould and Joseph W. Wear of Philadelphia, titieholders, - nd Joshua (rane and George R. Fearing of Boston. to Yale Riflemen Win Again. IW HAVEN, Conn., April 16.—The rifle team defeated Harvard in N Yale ever, narrowed the list of probable | 3 TEC ic = 3 : : a egraphic meet yesterday, appointees down to four or fivelygg t; 457. It was the eleventh vie- names. tory for the Yale team in twelve meets this on. Central Racketers to Play. Central High's tennis team was to play the Suburban League Argyle team on_the latter's courts this after- inoon. Fowler and Dudley are the Central singles contestants and Fow- | ler-Shoemaker, Dudley-Phillips, Thur- ! tell-Goodman, Goff-McGuire and Mc- FaddenChjldress the doubles teams. Penn Netmen Defeat C..U. Catholic University racketers failed to take a match from the University of Pennsylvania tennis team on the Brookland courts yesterday, losing 0 to 5. Led by Capt. Fisher, the Quakers gave a brilliant performance. Cawley and Young rjaved pluckily for Cath- glic University in & match lost 6, 7—35, §—10. Phone F. 6764 SUNDRIES Howard A. French & Co. Distributor for Indian Motorcycles 424 9th St. N.W. Used Motorcyeles Repairing Reach Final at Polo. NEW YORK, April 16.—Princeton and Norwich meet here tonight in the final of the intercollegiate in- door polo championship. Yale and Cornell were eliminated yesierday, while Harvard, West Point and Penn- sylvania withdrew. BASE BALL 323 3:30 P.M. AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Tickets on sale_st Spaidin ickets on sale al alding’s 613 14th St. N.w., ol [From 8:30 AM. t0 1:0 e ickegs on sale at Hecht Co.’ 517 7th St. & 6 OTHER RACES r Penna. R. R. train leaves = Union Station 12 o'clock noon—direct to i Special course. Special B. & O. train leaves * Union Station 12 o'clock noon. Parior and dining cars. g ADMISSION: Grand Stand and Pad. dock, $1.65—including War Tax. RAGE AT 2:30 P.M. = P