Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1921, Page 25

. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. " SPORTS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1921. SPORTS. =~ 25 Landis Faces Difficult As.;ijgnment at Buffalo : Two Prospective Ring Champions Found HAS TASK TO PRESERVE ' HARMONY IN BASE BALL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASKED TO PLAY CENTRE LOS ANGE December S University of Soi AS COMING TITLE BIDDER BY SPARROW McGANN. cember 26. EW YORK, December 5—Tommy Gibbons, the St. Paul heavy- Dokl L weight, who is matched to meet Georges Carpentier at Madison |1l Uumistakable Feeling of Independence on Part of the shoes N Leading Minor League Organizations in Regard Square Garden this winter, will be Jack Dempsey’s logical op- | Ketehell, = e 5 % ponent by this time next year. This statement was made today by one « nd Pap sror, to the Draft Is Evident as Magnates Gather The best Judges of fighting form in this country, a betting man who fol- | Even Klaus' suctessor, ! lows the game of pugilism not for his health, but to make money, He |wis 1ot s bid—a stron specializes in his judgment of fighting. That is to say, he will pick a | reads, hard-| man and follow him and study him for months. The fighter will not Al Mol BY JOHN B. FOSTER. know he is being lamped, nor will his manager, nor anybody else, in fact. FFALO, December 5—The fecling prevailed that Judge Landis, B Jthe high commissioner of base ball, would have a lot of harmoniz- LooK A Tuts ’x‘§u-x mu;l in question .Ims by in such 2 manner as to muke Lis op-| Mii i % 2 f i ieiskas v applying this system to Gibbuns. He CAE G dake b eally |conn! | ing to do to keep peace between the minors and the majors as DweE ! OnE FER Borh that Tomimy Je much. better | PoueAt Seem lcus good than he really |SCURCTY representatives of the former gathered here today for their annuall T MoMEY ! Two {hnn any one in “this cuuxl:lrylrou;- lbmld. will prove so if Wil- 3 ! kot zes. Gibbons knows it, but he is 1 be lured into the ring with ey ond ien he ig meeting. i Fea T St not getting excited. He has a brain o ws an opponent. e e Pt v i Mo g, If McTigue were to moct Wil him sourdly it would | r victory since there has been a fervent yearning on the part of fight Aevotees to see the middleweight ol headed by some champion qualified to There never W. man than | b to boxing | and he is using it. a more scientific young Gibbons and this appiies skill s well a8 to physical ditfoning. He is making hims bigger and stronger month by month ana is biding his tim He is_in no hurry to mect Dempsey, but when the two men sign, you can bet that Tommy will be wielding the pen with his eyes open. Outcries on u.e‘ part of the fight critics that he fe} meeting set-ups don’t bother him a There are many doubting Thomases among these base ball folks who do not seem to believe, not all of them at least, that the commissioner can prescribe for their ailments any more effectively than they can minis- ter to themselves. They preier to be both doctor and patient. Old grizzled-head fellows who have been in what is known as “bush league hase ball” all of their lives are skeptical that a base ball theorist can help them as much a hot bath and a mustard plaster. Although mot every club in or d base ball 1s personally re sented «t this meeting, every 1 Firat jumped to be rei Basemnn Joe Harris, W Cleveland team, is anxious ated HEY, oLLE! Looxy! SO DEEP! < mo ! TH WATER'S EISEMAN’S e e r=- ECONOMY,” WATCHWORD | i s thus representcd, including bit. He knows how quickly they will sads of the two major organiz FOR MINORS NEXT YEARI shout the other wuy when he pro-| Minor league leaders ¢ BUFFALO. December 5.—MWichael duces the goods ink they huve much to discus: H. Sexton, preside A~ Gibbons-Del fight 1= not| leir tescups. They do not agree as| Nasocint on his i kely mext June, winter of | '607 7th St Bet- F & G Sts. %At . 1922.23 will ‘see him bid for the champfonship of the world. As to the Carpentier fight, Eddic Kane, Bibbons' muanager, just received a picture o man which was taken {ago. There is nothing in_ that p ture to indicate thut the Frenchiun ndition. Word read to the policy to be pursued, particu- Tarly toward the draft, and in that re- spect they are exactly where they ere when the organization of minor agues was perfected in New York some years back. | Minors Feel Independent. | his to prepare for it at thix | week's sension, teams in getting too high, Wil be to the hest Bargains for Tuesday y pistakable feeling of inde- - pinic of ¢ n..::m‘x'tn"“u :h‘\-‘parl of the leading | M€ game to retrench.” 1 ‘i: vty the ul“l':t":'f is not breaking minor organizatlons i3 evi- | fudke K. M. Landis, supreme | | s ek to ook up in 4 Eurbpean | L Ao Eone, Tor. 8 n base R ot ! - : DS ants . “;',[.;_m" he dx:;}: ; ;“L "’:,. -:h':l K: early in the “”L'-nll is expected l,-m‘l‘ufx-mvnl for {;»x: “;m‘t':hl'n Presenting soime extraordinary values for tomorr Lome ea S b i n 2 Dinight oceur to affect big me was hurt them, while others insist he opening session will be held | "(‘hancl in th country At Tue; sday, but the in the i that is' the Information $20, $25, $30 Men’s & Young Men’s that it has not hurt them, but, on the contrary, has done them good, and ::::.".;“ toda; attempt. 0 e T A Uy another year the beginning alo| g SpI€R S0 Smere to decide anyway it pleases about th o 2dy made will make them more| (&1 gl resulting. from | Freneh fghters conditton ts 15.85 ¢-sustaining than they have ..\‘(.r,l., ml“::-m..n clashes among the | i See Cham, ul td 3 fx:;’ru?n?h‘ thom the major | i The fight crities Mike Meo Broken Iots of 320, 825 and 830 Suits. 1o brown, 05 Tigue as the next middi-weight o ser e Ea S M e Moy o not that they way champlon, McTiue's bout against the | ray and green mixtur Sizes 3 oto 420 Genuine Snaps B b N 4 olkutive Jeff Smith at the Garden | for Thrifty 'eople hecome mujor leagues, but there is a note in their conversation that is more riumphant than it was in the past. ‘et the major leagues get their players and develop them and we will get ours and develop them!” is the mew cry which is mot the chirp of the modest wren that was wont in times_past to feed on the that the eagle droppe g “If we can't draft from the major ues why should they draft from is a que: on that wus strongly t by a class AA owner. “The ; at the draft should be enfors et the player go up in his profession, | to circulate tirough the pit, giving the | but hasn't Louisville, Milwaukee, St. Paul or Kun much right ou the base p as New York? Wh should our temms be despoiled by a Luneh of promoters who set them- “elves together and arbitrarily say Jiive way and give up to us'? Let them dig up resources as we do and provide their own ball plavers. It they develop voungsters they keep ‘hem until they are worn out. Why t any more wrong for us to do so? Plainly enough, there are some minor league owners who feel that in e they may become majors as 1ch as any one else. “Limits” Never Observed. Another element in the minors has come to Buffalo to preach and ad- vocate economy. That policy began the first year that the first minor league ever was organized. Salary Timits, player limits, even meal ticket limits have been urged and recom- inended, since the year that the Amer- ican Association decided that it was big enough to break away from the ajors, and just as often as the local lub has thought an emergency has .risen or has considered it to be es-| sential to pay Bill Smith $5 extra and free house rent for winning the pennant all limitations and agree- ments have been tumbled inta the discard. To be a good old sport in hase ball and at the same time to be an un- yielding tightwad is a part that has been played successfully by only or three men since the nat appealed to the national pocketboo! Mike Sexton, who is president of the National Association. savs the :ninor leagues must economize and probably there isn't one of them who doesn’t know it, but if a few dollars stand between friends and the pen- ant what will the neighbors say if the dollars are permitted to stick ht to_the inside of a long, limp iecathered pocketbook, while the pen- nant _goes to the town's bitterest rival? BARNES AND HUTCHISON BOOK LONG GOLF TOUR NEW YORK, December Barnes of Pelham, Y., Amerfcan open golf champion. and Jock Hutchi- | son of Chicago, holder of the British open title, December 15 they would begin an ex- hibition tour that would carry them over 10,000 miles. Making their first appearance at Vancouver, B. C., they will go to Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Ore., For exhibitions and then to California “or several tournaments and twenty- one exhibitions. in February Barnes and Hutchison | will play at various clubs in Texas' and Arizona. In March they are to visit Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. They have been entered in both the Northern California open tournament, January 6 and 7, and the California open event at Wiltshire, some days later. The winter tour will end at Pinehurst, N. C., March 22. _— HANOVER, N. H., December skiing, snowshoeing and skating Thave been added to the required recreational activities for freshmen at Dartmouth College. 20 for I5¢ et | nal game | 5—Jim| have announced that on| Their Quality CIGARETIES You cant l\elp SDAY-RACE FEATURE " 15 BOUNCING OF BUMS BY FAIRPLAY. NEW YORK, December 5.—Ii you like real action, you ought to have been up at Madison Square Garden early today when Tex Rickard's began boune bum'’s rush to the galleryites, who enu- j tered last evening as soon as the doprs {opened for the six-day bike race and ¥ there the whole week, thelr cocked upon the raii their hats jover their eyes, caring for nothing but warmth of the place. ” No one ever knows wi comes to the garden; they a lunkempt. tough and mean natured. 1f iyou opei u bottle of pop und a few suds spatter. to right or left you have a fight on your hands that would sut- isfy even Jack Dempsey. They come and sit and sleep, and so far as may be |scen they never take a bit of interest {in the sweaty, sodden_ figures who plod along the board track hour after hour. Today, with the morning light of De cember flowing wanly down through the dusty brown skylights. the garden half shrouded in gloom, came the strong- armed squad. “Hey, ther. this mob frowsy, guy. wake up: time to get out.” “AW, go—— | Bing! Bang! Razz! Shuffle, scuttic, thump. Down the stairs, and out th door goes the roughly awakened sleeper, as though projected from a torpedo tube. {In an hour the work is done, the garden been evacuated of its lodgers, the building aired, possibly dis six-day race is ready for the new day. © one yet ever found out why any one goes to this sordid. unexciting grind, which contains perhaps two short sprints no every twenty-four hours. That is, one found out why any one wen! cept the hobo army. They go night's rest. H ‘opyright, 1921.) | INTERNATIONAL RACES ' FOR INTERLAKE MEET CLEVELAND, December 5.—There will be international competition next year in the class R boat races, con- ducted by the Interlake Yachting | Association. This was decided at the annual meeting of the association, when | tion contests at all the clubs on the great lakes, the championship to be raced at some point to be determined later. Heretofore competition had been- | fined to the United States, but Com modore S. O. Richardson, Jr., of To- ledo. changed the deed of the cup which he has offered to class R boats to include those from Canada. The association also decided to baild a magnificent clubhouse on Squaw Har- bor, Put-in-Bay Island. It accepted a { plot of ground 300 by 650 feet donated by the Put-in-Bay Yacht Club for this | purpose, and steps will be taken to | start construction soon. The annual regatta was awarded to Put-in-Bay the week of July 1. The association _will ~rejoin _the American Power Boat Association, Club was elected commodore and John W ehrman of the Toledo Yacht Club vice commodore. East-West Game Arranged. | MALDEN, Mass, December 3. — Malden High School foot ball eleven has accepted a challenge from Walite High School of Toledo. Ohlo. It is ex- pected the game will be played at Toledo. price distinckion in cigarettes BEECH NUT but like them! it was voted to hold elimina- | from which it withdrew two years | Lurgh Kotcher of the Detroit Yacht | Patted-in 'HORNSBY AND 'N AT1O! for the second success Rogers Hornsby and the St. 1 ve year. the league with an average of AU centage points over his mark of 1920, lin club batting with a percentage of nineteen percentage points. Rogers Hornsby made the | hits, 35, led in two-base hits with, 44 «nd tied with Ray Powell of Bos-| ton for the most three-baggers with 18. Carson Bigbee of Pittsburgh is! the leading one-base hitter, with 161 singles, and George Kellf of New York, Wwith 23 home runsmade the| Li | most’ four-base hits. last year, | | Roge gain leads the long | total bases for an r base percentage of .63 Six players made two hundred or| more hits, as follows: Rogers Horns- and_Austin McHenry of St. Louis, ‘and 201 hits, respectively; Frank risch and Emil Meusel of New York, 511 and 201 hits, respectively; Carson | 204 hits, and J 3 i hit i Bigbee of Pittsburgh, Jumes Johnston of Brooklyn, 203 hits. Not since 1899, when seven players | tizde 200 hits, huve so many National | | Leaguers reached this high mark. Eight players joined the ‘century | run club” in 1921, as follows: Horns- by led with 131 runs; Frank Frisch| |ana David_Baneroft cach scored 121;] vmond Powell, 114; George Burns, 111; James Johnston, 104, and Carson | igbee, 100. i | BB Frisch of New York was easily the leading base stealer, With 49 stolen bases. Miiton Stock of St. Louis led at sacrificing, with 36 sac- rifice hits. Ivan Olson of Brooklyn faced pitching the most, going to the Dbat 652 times. Six players engaged in | every game their clubs played, as follows: Hornsby, 154; Frisch, Ban-| croft, Boeckel and Bohme, 158 each, | and James Johnston, 152. A tie exists for the longest streak | | of ‘safe hitting in consecutive games. |as Carson Bigbee and Joseph Rapp | both maintained batting streaks in 23 | | Buccessive games. | | ®"Rogers Hornsby hit for the most | total bases in a gnme.]ll, em:‘):h:go:‘ three-bagger and two home runs | Siime 70¥85avis Robertson of Pitts- | by batting in 8 runs on August | 19, equaled the National League runs- record, held jointly by, | | | FOUR RING TOPLINERS | IN BOUTS THIS WEEK NEW TYORK, December 5.—Three former champlons and & mnewly crowned fistic titleholder will appear in bouts scheduled, here this week. Peter Herman and Joe Lynch, former bantam champions; Mike 0'Dowd, for- mer middleweight king. and Johnny Dundee, the junior lightwelght cham- i plon. will be engaged. i Herman will resume his camgaign | for the title now held by Johnny Buff in a fifteen-round contest Thursday with Backy O'Gatty. Lynch will meet Max Willlamson of Philadelphia in ten rounds Friday night. O'Dowd has Lou Bogush of Bridgeport, Conn., for an opponent in a twelve-round bout tomorrow night. ¢ Dundee and Satlor Friedman of Chi- cago are principals in another twelve- round bout Friday night. G. U. LETTER MEN ELECT GRID LEADER TOMORROW Letter men of the Georgetown Uni- versity foot ball squad will meet tomorrow to choose a captain for the 1922 Hilltop eleven. Fourteen play- ers and the manager were awarded insignia yesterday. It was the small- est number of awards made in recent years, the new rule providing that only those who played in 50 per cent of the halves during the season being eligible to receive the letter. Those who qualified under that provision were Capt. Flavin, Kenyon, McQuade, Byrne, DuFour, Florence, O'Connell, Butler, Goggin, Sweeney, Comstock, Thompson and Werts. Exceptions to the rule were made in the cases of Leary and Manager McHugh. The former has been a substitute on the team for four sea- sons, the one just past being his last at Georgetown. Hornsby I highest average since 1899, when Edward Delehanty of Philadelphia led | 3§ It is a net gain of twenty-seven per- it most Bransfield of Pittsburgh and Cravath CARDS AGAIN ' TOP OLD LEAGUE AT BAT| AL LEAGUE batring history of 1920 repeated itselr, accord- | ing to the official averages released for publication today, as both | .ouis Cardinals won leading honors | batting mark of .397 is the | while the St. Louis club, which led | 308, improved its mark of 1920 by | of Philadelphia. The old National | League runs-batted-in records of 11 runs in one game was made in 1892 by Wilbert Robinson of Baltimore. | St. Louis, in addition to leading in ub batting for the second vear in succession, with a percentage of .308, | made the most bits, 1,635; the most | total bases on hits, 2, and _the most tw he average -base hits, 260. of the champion Giants was .298. During the season two unusual in- | cidents occurred. 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