Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1921, Page 15

SPORTS. __THE . EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1921 TRIO OF EX-CHAMPIONS - |YANKEE NETMEN REMAN ARE LEFT IN TOURNEY F of the West Side Club. OREST lHXLLS. August 19.—The semi-final struggle for the women’s natijonal tennis championship was scheduled for today on the courts Miss Mary K. Browne, Santa Monica, Calif., a former titlcholder, was bracketed with Mrs. Carl V. Hitchens, Mexico City star, and her fellow stateswoman, Mrs. May Sutton Bundy of Los Angeles, also a former champion, was to meet Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, the title- holder. Miss Browne and Mrs. Mallory were the choices of many experts for the title round, to be played tomarraw. —_— - BOHNE LEADS FIELDERS His 15 Accepted Chances Is Best of Season—Harris Is Among Star Performers. BY JOHN B. FOSTER, The best infield stunt displayed this year has been furnished by Sam Hohne of Cincinnatl. He accepted fifteen chances the other day. The record for the National League is eighteen and it was made by Fred Dunlap, when he played with Cleveland. Dunlap is often spoken of as the best second baseman in the history of the game. Of course, to speak about him from personal knowledge a man has to confess that he is old enough to vote. Dunlap made his record in 1882, 2 The best record in the American { League is that of Derrill Pratt of * the Yankees. He accepted sixteen chances_In a game last season. Lajole also boasted sixteen one game. When Dunlap made his record he had twelve assists. There was a sec- ond baseman of the name of Haw in 1879, who had twelve put-ou! « playing with the Troy club. Next to Bohne's big fifteen this year +. there are three players with thirteen and one of them is a veteran, Maran- ville of Pittsburgh. One of the other two is a colt, MeClellan of the Chicagoe White Sox. ~The third is Harris of Washington, who has been a scrump- tious second baseman all of the se: son. He has pulled in eight chan four times, ten twice and eleven three times. He has left behind him all play- ers in both leagues in picking up eight chances. The best player at nine chances is Lavan of the St. Louis Nationals, whe accepted that number eleven times, Lavan and Bancroft are tied at ac- cepting ten chances, each having pulled in a half score. Lavan also leads both leagues in accepting twelve chances. He has done it three times. All told this Lavan person has squelched 297 fielding plays in 33 games. WHITE SOX LET TWO GO. CHICAGO, August 19.—Pitcher Dayenport who came to the White Sox € | from the University of Arizona and Infielder Ostergard, have been released to Sioux City of the Western League under optional agreements. —_— CUBS PURCHASE TRIO. . SPRINGFIELD, Mo., August 19.— Sale of Leo Cotter, first baseman; Joe Klugmen, second baseman, and Art Weiss, centerflelder, to thé Chicago Nationals has been announced by the local club of the Western Association. GLEASONS BUY HURLER. CHICAGO, August 19.—J. A. “Lefty” Russell, a tall, rangy pitcher of the Sioux City Club of the Western League, has been purchased by the Chicago White Sox. > Augusta,'5; Spartanburg, MISSISSIPPI STATE LEAGUE. Greenwood, 2: Clarksdale; rain, FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE. o. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Louisville, Tumbus. Minneapoiis, 8: Tolede Kansas City, 8; Indi is, 4. PIEDMONT LEAGUE. APPALACHIAN LEAGUE. Johnson City, 4; Greenville, 0. Knoxville, 7 Bristol, 0. 4. Kingsport, —_— “Bernie” Tommers, whe pitched for Yale ten years ago, will coach ‘Blue nine in 1922.‘ the fourteen times this year, gobbled nin-[ Yesterday a well rounded out game gave Misg Browne a victory in her mateh against Mrs. B. E. Cole of Bos- ton, which she wen at 6—1, 6—2. Mrs. Mallory was not put to & se- vere test in defeating Mrs. H. P. Falk of New York, 6—3, 6—1. Against the aissling drives from deep court hurled at her by the Norse girl Mrs. Falk was pewerless. The contest between Mrs. Bundy and Miss Helen Gilleaudeau of New York was claser than the scere of 1. 6—2 would appear to Both played. almost continually froi behind the base line, and rallies were frequent and long. Mrs. Bundy, how- ever, pousessed greater power and control of Ner shots, Mrs, Hitchins defeated Mrs. Greene of Ardsley, N. Y., 8—6 Mrs. Hitchins gave an excellent d play of tennis, in which she showed control of forehand amd backhand strokes, and the power, to shoot the ball into unreturnable positions, Rapid advance was also made in the woman's doubles championship, the secend round being eompleted without any particular upset. SETS SWIMMING MARK. Miss Bleibrey Goes 300 Yards in Title Event in 4.18 3-3. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.,, August 19.—A world record for women of 4.1§ $-5 for 300 yards in a 110-yard -open water course was established here today by Miss Ethelda Bleibtrey of New York city, in winning the ¢40- yard national free style A. A. U. swimming championship. Stuart men, his time bein 85 2-5 seconds, TO SWIM 100 MILES. NEW YORK, August 19.—Henry Elionsky, world champion long dis- tance and handicap swimmer, will try to set & 100-mile mark tomorrow. Starting at Brighton Beach, Elionsky plans to swim through Ambrose channel, up the Hudson river to Fort e J., thence to Roamer shoal lighthouse, and back to Brighton over the same route. —_— CAPTURES STAKE RACE. . PHILADELPHIA, August_ 19. — Millie Irwin won the $2,600 Bellevue Btratford Hotel stake, Grand Circuit racing Park yesterday. —_—— WILL RACE FOR $5,000. HARTFORD, Conn., August 19.—A two-heat race between Single G, pacer, and Peter Manning, trotter, for $5,000, divided 60 and 40, will be a feature during circuit meeting at Charter Oak Park track next month. at Belmont |ana . R Pell 6=i, ture of the | Playing in Southempton Singles Two of British Entrants, S PTON, N. ¥,, August 19.— The phiw s matches of the invita- tion tenn! murlnm-m -n;e' es ';24 o e AR Dresent. holder -t ' the trophy, Howard Voshell, meat] 8, while William T Clothier, a former na- . tional champion, clgshed with Willis Davis of Califoernia. ‘The doubles semi-finals found the English team of Woosnam and Turn- bull opposed to Washburn and Davis, while the Kingey brothers met Voshell and Richards. Great Britaln's Davis Sup. players were elimipated from the singles ya.urdn(. Richards scored over M. Woosnam in a lpectlcl;:l:r conteat, ¢35, u;-o- Davis of Ban ncigeo disposed of F, Gor- 6—3, 6—4. and Voshell de- feated O. G. Turnbuil, 3 . Clothier eliminated Harold Godshall of Los Angeles without losing a game in the two sets. In the doubles Watson M. Washburn of New York and Davis earned a place in the semi-finals by defeating Clothier 3 Voshell and L. K. Williams of Fenno, jr., of Cam- chards outplayed Chicago and J. B. bridge, - , 6—4. W oolnfill"nd Turnbull defeated Leon ge Tirenne and Dwight Robinson, 63, Robert and Howard Kinsey of San - | Francisce defeated Lowe and J. B. Gil- bert of Great Britain, !puuln out Phil Neer'and J, M, 6—0, 8—6, after Davies of Berkeley, Calif., 6—4, 7—5, CHANGES IN In rule 5, the word “illegal” has been added, so that the rule applies not only to an incempleted forward pass, but also to an illegal one. Rule 7 has been altered, so that it now ac- cords with custom. The rule for- merly provided that the captains wshould toss for choice of goal. No one can remember when the captains did this. The referee has tossed the coin for years, while one of the two cap called his choice, and that procedure now is provided for in the rules. Rule 7, in addition, now pro- vides that after the winner has s ed his choice, he may not theréafter decision, which must Makes Meaning Clear, Rules 9,.17 and 23 have undergone some slight changes In wording merely in order to make their mean- ing clearer. These changes are not likely to alter the ay. Rule dealing with unnec ry roughn hat over to cover the v: rious cases arisi. under its jurisdic- tion. One of its sections has been subdivided so that tripph tackling out of bound, throwing the player with the ball to the ground after the ball has been declared dead and any LEONARD FAILS TO GIVE X-RAY N doing. BY FAI That's all. Just that. OF BROKEN THUMB RPLAY. EW YORK, August 19.—Benny Leonard is up against a proposition that looks simple and yet may not be so simple as it looks. can give Lew Tendler an X-ray picture and receive $5,000 for so But—and here is the big but—the picture He that Tendler wants is one of the lightweight champion’s broken thumb. You would think that if Benny's thumb is really out of commission he would simply have the picture taken, send it to Philadelphja and collect that $5,000 forfeit money which he put up to insure his appearance in the ring against the Quaker city southpaw. But he has not done this. According to fighters who were working out with Leonard while he prepared for the lsft-handed Tendler, he was having mighty poor going against a couple of southpaws whom he was using as sparring partners. One 150-pound boy was hitting Leon- ard hard and often, but not making him like it, on_ the Jast Sunday he trained, and Benny {is said to have told the timekeeper to cut the round down to a minute. Of course, this s not to be read as a statement tI Benny ducked out to lose. End Oiece Clearance Men’s Suits Made to Your Measure Worsteds of Finest Priced Up to Double and More—! " There are but a few days left to take advantage of this wonderful special price. No man should delay another day—for an opportunity to equal this will not be possible again for another year. Make a note of it now—come in today or tomorrow—there is no time Newcorn} & Green Merchant Tailors 1002 F Street N.W. Daily Originally of the fight because he found that the southpaw sparring partners were getting to him. It {s merely a state- ment of alleged fact as given by boys who were sparring either with Leonard or at the place where he was training. The champion could kill any impres- slon made by these stories by having his injured hand rayed, and th by proving that his act of withdra: which worked havoc with the plans of two young Philadelphia promoters, was due to the accldent that he said happened to him. Leonard always has been regarded as one of the honorable men in his profession. Surely he does not wish to glive it a black eye by refraining from doing everything in his power to %u‘ltlfy his part in an unfortunate af- air. . class. MADE ONLY TO CLARIFY BY WALTER CAMP. CHANGES in the foot ball rules for the season of 1921 have been made for purposes of clarification rather than alteration in play, Many of the differences noted are merely those of phrasing, while some have been made for the easier analysis of play by the spectators. The alterations which bear directly on the play begin with Rule 4. Here it is made clear that when time is called for the end of the game or John Weismueller, Chicago, wen the | the end of a period and a fair catch has been made just prior to the] open 100-yard free style swim for cal] of time, the team making the fair catch shall have the privilege of the kick, but may not put the ball in scrimmage. , other kind of unnecessary roughne | preciated by the spectators, as well PHONEF. 3075 Rival Tonnis Stars May Battle in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, August 19. between The weturn maieh Mile. Susanne Lenglen and Mre. Molls Bjurstedt Mallery, which is being diseussed by repres wsntatives of the fwe weman be played om the the Germantown corifhg te Samuel H. shalrman of <he tournamest committee. “We have put in a bid for this mateh,” Collum, “snd I feel that we very likely to et #t. 1t will be one of the big men's » mal ehampionships which will start at our club on September 9.7 U. S. DAVIS CUP TEAM WILL HAVE A TRAINER NEW HAVEN, Conn., August 19.— Walter Mace, widely knowp among college men as conditioner and as- sistant trainer for years of Yale ath- letes, has been appointed trainer of the American Davis cup tennis team. He trained the team which ecap- tured the werld ehampionship in ten- nis for the United States in 1014, and he also econditioned Maurice Mc- Loughlin_of Californfa, who beat Normzn Brookes for the world title. —_——— The fve-hundred mark in club mem- hership has been pasged by the United States Golf Association, a goal long sought. > GRID CODE tures kb in commection with { are grouped under one head. Un- necessarily running into or throwing one's self against a player obviously out of the play, either before or after the ball has been declared dead, and unnecessarily roughing e man who has made a forward pass are group- ed under another head. The penalty for offenses under the first head is loss of fifteen yards from the spot where the foul was committsd. For the second list of offenses the penalty ias loss of fifteen yards from ulm spot where the ball was put in play. A new section has been added to rule 14, which will be gratefully ap- as by the unfortunate team forced to make a safety. This new ruling pro- vides that the side making a safety may bring the ball out to their own 30-yard line, while a side making a touchback may bring the ball out only to their own 20-yard line, as | before. Alds the Spectators. The principal reason for this alter: tion was to enable the spectator: know -at once when the ball was touched down in goal by .the eglde defending that goal, where it was || for the opponents attacking that 0al, or whether it was only a touch- | ack, which scored nothing. g It seemed fair also that a side so hard pressed as to be forced to make a safety should be entitled to a some- what greater distance in which to protect their goal line than that given the team which merely had made a touchback. Quite a number of so-called “ap- proved rulings” are appended to the Tules by the committee. —_—————— RICKARD PINCHED AGAIN. Tex Is Arrested in Chicago for Transporting Fight Films. CHICAGO, August 19.—"“Tex" Rick- ard, promoter of the Dempsey-Car- pentier boxing bout, has departed for New York, after having been arrested by federal officlals and held in $10,000 bonds on a charge of vio- lating the law prohibiting interstate transportation of fight films. The maximum penalty is a one-thousand- dollar fine and a year's imprison- ment. Rickard exhibited the films of the Dempsey-Carpentier match Wednes- day night before an audience of wounded soldiers. Rickard recently was fined $1,000, ‘when he pleaded guilty to transport- ing the fiims from New Jer: to New York, where they were shown to wounded soldiers. a safety and so scored two Dolnlll “This Is a Studebaker Year” We have several used Stude- baker cars which are in such splendid shape that we are proud to sell them, sure of the fact that each one will make another Studebaker booster for this big Studebaker year. And the prices are ’way below what you would pay for many cars far from the Studebaker * Commercial Auto & Supply Co. JOSEPH McREYNOLDS, PRES 817 and 819 Fourteenth Street : ‘Jvlnlnele swept the day, JAP RACKETERS AHEAD Neod Only Doubles Vistory Todsy to Defeat Indis in Davis Cup Match. LAKE FOREST, 111, August 19.— Needing only one more match to bring them the vietory in the semi.final round clash of the 1921 Davis cup| series gainst India, Japanese temnis experts went on the grass courts at the Opwentsia Club here this sfter- noon confident of victory. In the singles matches which launched the series yesterday the Kui e inning from Mahommed Sleem of In- die, 9—7, 6—1, 6—1, and Shimidzu de- feating Fysee, 6—2, 6—1, 9—17. Both Kumagae and Shimidzy proved better all-around players than their Hindu opponents, and it was the su- periority in pace which teld most strongly, enabling them to maneuver the other men over the court and rake thelr defensive territory, particularly with severe cross-court placements. GOLF TEAM TO PLAY. Bannockburn Players to Visit | Dr. ‘Washington Club on Sunday. Golf teams representing the Wash- ington Golf and Country Club and the Bannockburn Club will clash Sunday on the former's course in the third of their 1921 series of five matches. Each has wen once. Last Sunday in & match at the Ban- nockburn, the home team overwhelmed the visitors, winning by 16 points to 2. Howard and McCallum were the only winners for the Washington. BRITISH GOLFERS WIN. Defeat Barnes and Hutchison by 0 1 Up in 86-Hole Mateh, BELMONT, Mass, August 19,—Jim Barnes and Jock Hutchison, American and British open golf champlons, were defeated one up yesterday first thirty-six hole exhibition match with the British professionals, Abe Mitchell and George Duncan, played on the links of the Belmont Bpring Country Club. ‘The best ball scores were 67, 68—135, for the winners, and two 68, 68—136, for the Americans. ——— PUBLIC COURSE READY. CHICAGO, August 19.—Chicago's eighth public golf links will be for- mally opened tomorrow with the com- pletion of the Columbus Park course, planned’by Chick Evans, national ama- teur champion, and George O’'Neil, a former professional. CHAMPIONS CLASH. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August 19.— Three of the world's greatest man swimmers—Ludy Langer, Honolulu, and Norman Ross and John Weiss- miller of Chicago are entered in the 220-yard free style national senior championship event to be held here this afternoon. Each holds a world's title. in_ their . District Bowlers Fourth. Washington bowlers finished fourth last night in the florists’ inter-city! duckpin tournament, held at the Recreation alleys. Chicago rollers were first, New York second, and| Cleveland third. i Tennis Rackets All Makes Now Reduced 0% Any Tennis Racket Restrung for only $].50 424 9th St. N.W. Open All Day Saturday .,/' 3 FRENCH| SPORTS. 15 Women Playing Semi-Finals in Title Tennis : 15-Year-Old Girl Captures Junior HELEN REAL BRAND OF STROKES : QREST HILLS, N. Y., August 19—Helen Wills, a fifteen-year-old girl, of Berkeley, Calif., who wears short dresses and lets her hair drop in a couple of pigtails, became the junior tennis champion of the United States yesterday. She took up tennis seriously less than three years ago, and she was very proud of possessing the honor which attracted her to the east, her | The schooner Mayflower, built by mother said. But Helen did not reveal her pride to any one else. just blushed and smiled her thanks when a group of young girls and {the vight to repres rown-ups surrounded her as she title by dgfeating Miss Virginia Carpenter, sixteen years old, of Phila- : yes delphia, 63, As spon gs Helen got a chance to talk after undergoing effusion of con- gratulstions, she sald she was hun- gry- In a moment cakes provided for the players be; to disappear. iss vpanter, too, was told by admiring friends how well she had played l{llnll the indomitable at- tack of the young Californian. “1 did the best I could,” she assured them, and was patted on the back. Pupil of Her Father. The young Californian is going back home next Monday to her father, . C. A, Wills, who, like Suzanne Lenglen’s father, gave his daughter her first lessons in tennis. After the Willses went to live in the city of Berk lttle more than two years BEO, en joined a club with some sure-enough’ tennis courts, She rap- jdly became proficient and defeated her father so badly, the mother said, that he would not play her any more. Every sunshiny day the girl went to the courts, opposing men most of the time, and picking up the fine points 8o speedily that this year she et forth for tournament conquests. She won the junior champlonship of the Pacific coast, and, palred with acquired the coast ‘Then she came east and won & suc- cession of victories in matches at Nar- S0 it 13 She left the courts where she won the ragansett Pler, Seabright and Glen Cove before the national tournsment began. Regular Schoolgirl In her dress and manner Helen Wills ems not unlike other school- girls of her age. would think for a minute of teasing " Helen that way after once watching her slap a tennis ball. Her | service whizzes over the net like that of a vetel star, her forehand and backhand drives have remarkable ac- lcuracy and sp nd her vicious kills of lobs that soar up over the net are a joy to behold. She is five feet six and one-half inches tsll and weighs 130 pounds. Miss Carpenter came into a cham- pionship, tbo, when she doubled with Miss Ceres Baker of Orange, N. J., and won the junior doubles title. The Misses Helen and Adelaide Hooker of New York were their opponents and lost, 6—3, 6—3. Long Trip for Grid Team. Boston College's foot ball team will {‘our‘ney to Texas the middle of Octo- ‘er for @ game with Baylor Univer- sity. You cant help but like them! ‘They are DIFFERENT They are GOOD CIGARETTES | Net Honors WILLS POSSESSES |[> nt th. ax in elimination trials. C. 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