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14 SPORTS. EW YORK, December 24—No N "PRESENT CODE HELD O. K. BY JOHNSON AND HEYDLER ‘Believe Agitation to Modify Pitching Regulations ¢ Will Be Futile—Gleason Sees First Division for White Sox. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. rules were changed at the December meetings of the big base ball leagues and none are likely to be changed at the February meeting. Presidents Heydler and John- ~ son do not think any rule changes will be made this year. In some quar- : ters there has been going on a quiet agitation, sort of a milk-shake affair, 7 to have a modification made that would permit the pitcher to discolor “ and roughen the ball and to allow him the use of resin. It hasn’t a chance. Until there is an entirely new gal- lery of faces in the big leagues the days of the pitcher are over, as far as’ “fooling” with the ball.” Never . again will he get the privileges which - he had prior to 1920. It never was be- “Heved that any pitcher, no matter ~how facile his ftasess, or how great his skill, could do so much to a base { ball as was done in 1919 and still have it retain its original shape. It is insisted by ball players that “ Erickson, the Washington pitcher, can take a base ball in his hands and twist It around so that he can loosen the cover from the yarn beneath. That's a matter of strength, of course. but imagine what a pitcher with strength of that kind can do if he is “permitted tq handle the ball as he wills. spitball Men Do Well. Tn spite of the rules which forbade / the use of certain substances, there were pitchers in 1921 who tried to fool the umpires and the observant eyes of the opposing coaches by ap- plying resin and using some sort of a substance which seemed to have talc or powdered earth of some kind as a basis, and which gave the pitcher & better grip. A ball was thrown out in the world series because some one of the Giants was supposed to have dipped it into the resin bag. By the way, had the rule been applied . strictly to that incident, it should have been the pitcher and mnot the ball that was eliminated from the game. Nehf, who was pitching at the time, was lucky that he was not put out. President Heydler is positive that the National League will not back any change in the rules before the beginning of another season. The spitball pitchers in the ational League were fairly successful last season, as were also the spitball pitchers of the American. He thinks ‘ the success of the spitballers is the best argument in the world against the use of the spitter. Doak led the pitchers of the National League in 1921, and he is & spitball pitcher. “No wonder there was little bat- ting when all of the pitchers were using _the spitball or _something worse,” tays Heydler. “Even now when we are trying to curb the freak | BAN SEES DARK DAYS AHEAD FOR BASE BALL CHICAGO, December 24.—Club own- ers. of the major and minor leagues must exercise discretion and stop pay- ing and demanding outrageous prices for players, or they are likely to have a sad awakening, according to Pre: dent Ban Johnson of the American League. “Prosperity in the last two year: carried th» magnates off their feet,” said President Johnson today, “and they are forgetting what the word | prudence means. They may be op- ytimistic over the 1922 season, but I am inclined to be a bit skeptical. “We are and have been traveling along a fictitious posterity for the last two or three years, and the sooner we step down the better it will be for the game and everybody concerned. Next season may not be so good for (the owners. Good times has affected their heads, and they are unconscious- ly doing base ball an almost irrepara- ble injury by inflating the prices on players as they have this year. There is likely to be a slump in base ball, and then some of the owners will wish they had kept the strings tied to their pocketbooks.” TO DRAFT BIG LEAGUE SCHEDULES JANUARY 3 CHICAGO, December 24.—Schedules |of the American and National leagues for the 1922 season will be drafted at a meeting of the schedule committees to be held in French Lick, Ind., Janu- has lary I, President Ban Johnson of the A’merican League announced last night. The National League committee will be composed of President Heydler and Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the Pitts- burgh club. President Johnson will map out the delivery and have stopped it to a jschedule for the American League. large extent, the leading pitcher of The date for opening the season our organization proves to be one |probably will be agreed upon as April who is dependent upon the methods |12, it was said. The schedules call for which are tahoo except to s pitchers who are registered. ‘That's the best argument to my mind that has been brought out to stop freak Cpitching. We do not want any more P of it. By the time that the end of the season comes for 1922 I expect we will have the very best curve ball * pitchers in the United States in the National League. We have several good youngsters from last _season and we have several more who are . coming in with all the promise of success.” Gleason In Optimistic. Kid Gleason thinks he can finish in e division with his Chicago Sox in 1522 if he can rake up another ““good batter and if his pitchers come i“through for him. ! “Wwe would have gone fifteen games I better last vear if the pitchers that!any one ever see : land, in fighting togs, sunk the beam at 193 pounds. .With his black hair, £ we had could have given us anything “‘at_the start of the season.” he sai “Kerr is a good pitcher about Jul. IHe came through last season for us ‘’svhen he was due to show something and then with Faber we were fixed well enough to make it warm for Jany team in a three-game Series. ‘Where we got into trouble was try ing to win the fourth game. If T ‘started one of those kids he would 12 “another he would do the same thing. If T save one of them up he was worse than if I had used him, and if T used one of them to try to get his control good he would fall down with too much werk. Nearly all the pitchers that we had gave promise, but they also gave away bases on bLalls and ‘they gave more of the latter than they ‘gave promise. Mavbe I can get ‘em to give something else this season. It 1 “do we will be stepping on the tces of some of these first division fel- lows.” “FLETCHER BEING SOUGHT BY THE BROOKLYN CLUB NEW YORK, December 24.—Arthur Fletcher, former shortstop for the !"New York Giants, is being sought, it is reported, by the Brooklyn Na- tional League team. Fletcher -was traded to Philadelphia in 1920, and announced his retirement from the . game after the death of his father during the spring training season this year, but officials of the Brook- /lyn club are reported to be nego- ‘tiating for his release from the £ Phillies. those [ 154 games, as in former year: - LAST-MINUTE BASKET - WING FOR TERMINAL Y ./ A floor goal shot by Williams in the “Jast minute of the game gave the “Terminal R. R. Y. M. C. A. quint a 28-t0-26 victory over Mercury Ath- . letic Club at the Union station gym- nastum last night The Railroaders : overwhelmed their opponents in the first half and were leading, 13 to 7, at “the whistle. Mercury railied, how- Zever, and soon tied the score. Wil- ©Yiams and Milt Engle starred for the victors. Tabb and De Atley were best fo the Mercuries, Veterans’ Bureau girls pointed the way to the the Eastern High School ~Alumni Association sextet in a 24-to-6| . game played at the Palace court. Anna Geiman, former star of the champion War Risk Indians, made twenty points for the winners. Her _teammates were Misses Cate, Joyce, _ Sterling, Cooper and Gully. The - Eastern team included Misses Gros- venor, Mooney, Bixler, Martin, Evans and Biggin. % Capital nts were easy for Grace Athletic Club, in a 41-to-29 engage- -ment. O'Neill, Grace center, tossed eleven goals from scrimmage. Miller did some excellent playing for the losers. The Fort Washington artillerymen crushed Walter Reed Medics in a 49- to-14 game. Brant, with thirteen fleld goals, led at scoring. ) Premier Midgets scored their third third consecutive victory in a 19-to-18 contest with the Wilson Normal Midg- ets. Quints in the 90-95-pound class desiring games with the Premiers should telephone Albert Sherman, 7 North 3492, between 0 and 8:30 am. Emanon Athletic Club gave the Roamers a battle before losing, 20 to 33. Faber's good playing gave the Roamers their advantage. He scored seventeen of his team’s points. —— SAN DIEGO, Centre College’'s foot ball squad, which arrived here yesterday trom Danville, Ky., had brisk signal m tice in preparation for its game $he University o ¢ Arizona Monday, Calif., December 24— SHOT AT DEMPSEY’S TITLE [jAYT0TURNFCHTER |BERTH FOR PROVIDENCE . _THE 'EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ' €., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1921. Poker Portraits. THIS 15 A STATUE OF ANGUS IDIOTTE, WHO INCLUDED HIS POKER WINMINGS 1N HIS INCOME TAX REPORT AND PALD THE TAX Ont THEM THE MONUMENT WAS ERECTED WiTH A FUMO. SuB SCRIBED BY GRATEFUL “TA¥ COLLELTORS IS GOAL OF BOB MARTIN c o7 powN BY A AU BY FAIR PLAY. directed at Jack Dempsey by N EW YORK, December 24.—Attracted by a genuine howl of defiance Bob Martin's manager, James Darcy, a group of sporting writers went up to Yonkers today to give the former A. E. F. fighter, “champion of 7,300,000 men,” the once over. Did such a change in a man? Bob stepped upon the scales, dark face and imposing height he looked as fit a rival as could be found for Jack Dempsey. wouldn’t get him much, but Bob’s hands went bad in that fight. Of course, his fight some time ago with Fay Keiser They were bad before the fight, he says, and for two months he has done noth- ing but rest, hardening his maulies and building himself up. Martin, in the opinion of many ex- perts, has needed experience more than anything else. This showed in his i“blow after a little, and if I startedbout with Bill Brennan last spring. Later he plastered Frank Moran good and plenty. Then came the Keiser up- set. “That was just one of those things,” says Martin, who seems to be a modest Sort of fellow. He doesn't ask Dempeey to take him on at once, but to pick an opponent for him with the idea that if he beats the man se- lected by the champion he will get a chance for the title. What could be fairer than that? Dempsey will ar- rive in this city shortly after the first of the year and then maybe there will be some action. There was an informal meeting of promoters of several small clubs to- day to discuss the purses fighters are demanding. The good ones want so much money that showmen find it difficult to run bouts at a profit. Here is how it works out: Mickey Walker, the Elizabeth welter, received $1,900 for his bout against Dave Shade in the Broad A. C., Newark, the other night. Shade had a guarantee of $1,500. The gross receipts amounted to a little over $5,000. With the state tax de- ducted, the net receipts were $4,860_ With the fighters paid, there remained $1,260. out of which rent, attendants and varlous other expenses had to be provided for. And Shade and Walker were mod- erate in their demands at that—that is. they were moderate in comparison with the sums that a lot of headline boys ask for their services. The meeting above referred to got no far- ther than talk, and, in fact, it “busted up” when a certain well known pro- ducer suggested that a_vacation on fights be agreed upon. His idea was that after a fightless period of a month or more fighters would be more mod- erate in their prices. The suggestion was not a bad one. GREB STOPS ALLEN. SYRACUSE, N, Y. December 24— Harry Greb of Pittsburgh won a technical knockout over “Whitey” Allen of New York, when the latter ‘was forced to quit in the sixth round last night. Greb punished Allen se- verely. JETR, THI3 CHRISTMAS T MADE GIFTS 3o TM WO HUNDRED SHARES 0F SAP SILVER TTOCK! 1T'LL PUT_You 'QN“EASY STREET . 1 CENTRAL ALUNNI FNE TOPLAY Y BOYS' CLUB Central High School alumni tossers were to tackle the Y. M. T. A. Boys' Leaders in the Y this afternoon in the final pre-holiday basket ball tilt for the latter aggregation. The match was scheduled to get under way at 5 o'clock. Playing against Western High yesterday, the Y team was de- feated 15 to 11 in an overtime game. Western finished the first half on the better end of an 8-to-6 count, but when the regulation game ended the score stood at 11-all. In the extra period the Red and White ~aged two scrimmage tosses. Woerner and Fris- by were Western's mainstays. Tin- dell's game was the best shown by the Y team. Business High School was unable to muster a quint for the game with Bal- timore Polytechnic Institute at Bal- timore yesterday and at the last hour had to cancel the engagement. The Stenographers will not play until after the holidays. BROOKLAND QUINT LOSES FOURTH STRAIGHT GAME Catholic University's basket ball team, now on tour, suffered its fourth consecu- tive defeat last night, bowing to the Crescent Athletic Club quint in a 44-to- 33 game at Brooklyn. It was the ninth straight win for the New Mooners. ‘The collegians were decisively out- played in the first half that ended 22 to 7 for the Crescents. Parmele starred for the winners. Capt. Lynch made one- third of Catholic University's points. —_— NEW ORLEANS, La., December 24. —Chuck Wiggins of Indlanapolis out- boxed and out-slugged Billy Shade of New York in their 15-round bout last night and was given the decision. Shade welghed 173 pounds; Wigsins, 72. CHICAGO, December 24.—Joie Ray, fleet runner of the Ilinois Athletic Club and member of the 1920 Ameri- can Olympic team, declared today that he will not desert athletics, even if suspended by the A. A. U.. following the filing of charges of excessive ex- pense accounts. Should Ray be suspended he stated that he would take up professional boxing and believed that he could soon become one of the stars of the ring. He said he had done much amateur boxing and, if forced to turn profes- sional would put himself under the guidance of a real manager and seek to become sparring partner for Jack Dempsey or one of the other cham- pions. The charges against Ray resulted from his participation in three meets last winter in New York. the first be- ing the Wanamaker games on Feb- ruary 8, and the final being the meet of the Guaranty Trust Athletic Club on February 19. Mrs. Ray accom- panied him on the trip. The rules of the A. A. state that an athlete must not be in the city where any meet is held more than one day previous or one day later than its meet. Then the A. A. U. provides only $7 a day for expenses. Never Read the Rules. Ray declared that he had never thoroughly read the A. A. U. rules as pertaining to amateurism, and was unaware of the two provisions against remaining in a city over a day, or of the amount of the expense account And he said he naturally inferred that the organizations inviting him to stay in New York, and cordially tendering him the invitation to have Mrs. Ray accompany him, would be conversant with_the rules. So he said he had no idea that he was violating stipulations of the A. A. U, when he took Mrs. Ray with him, and showed her the sights of New York. Battling Nelson, former lightweight champlon, said today that he was in- terested in the proposed entrance of the professional boxing game by Ray. and wants to be his manager, teacher and trainer. Nelson said he cou'd tcll in two months’ work with Ray whether or not he would ever advance in the fi tic sport. “And T'll tell him th» truth said Nelson. “If he won't do, I won't mince my words, but if he shows class, then I will do all I can to assist him in getting to the front.” RICHMOND EASY CUE WINNER Clyde Richmond easily outplayed Drew ‘Thompson last night in the city pocket billiard tournament match at Grand Central Academy, winning 100 to 652. Richmond had runs of 15 and 14. The next tourney match will be played Tues- day night between Ricamond and Wal- lace Kimball. MUTT AND JEFF—Mutt Gets This Way Every Christmas. T WAS GONNA GIVE MuTT. A COLLAR BUTTON BT Now I'M ASHAMED Yo SoMe WATCH, | JEEE. SUBSTANTI GIFtS ARE THe SINCE T KNow Res GIWING “ME A BUNCH Of STocic? T'LL GIVE Him —By WEBSTER. OR MONTREAL PROBABLE N iis likely to succeed. Ifee! they would carry the club along, no Next came Syracuse and the club owners there were ready enough to move out. Indeed they had got as far as tearing up the Persian rugs from the office floor when the man who owned the Syracuse ball park sald he would put in some needed improvements, and just as Frank Shaughnessy was ready to take the Syracuse mop and hot water bucket over into Canada his face was lengthened two feet and he was told that he couldn’t. The question now is whether the Jersey City club is really ail serious- ness when it says that it will not fight against a change to some other city or whether Jersey City is appeal- ing to local pride by the same good old-fashioned method that has been in vogue since the beginning of base ball—threatening to get out and go elsewhere. - Canadians Like Base Ball Montreal does want a ball club very much. In other years the ob- Jection filed against ~Montreal by other International owners was that the expense of the trip did not war- rant a jump into that section of Canada, ‘especially as the fans did not rally to base ball in Canada with the same enthusiasm as they do to hockey or. soccer.foot ball. A base ball man who knows much about Canadian conditions says base ball has gone ahead like a greyhound in front of a dachshund since the war. The French population of Montreal became more conversant with base ball during war days than ever be- fore and now patronize the game al- most as well as those of other blood. If that is the case, the future of base ball will be brighter at Montreal. Providence has been ithout Inter- national League base ball just long enough to want it again, but the longer that Providence waits the bet- ter base ball will go in Rhode Is- land, because the appetite for it will become keener. The Jersey City club might sell its franchise and it might just send it up to Canada or Rhode Island until such time as Jersey City fans find out what they are missing. Restrictions Irk Players. Minor - league players expected there would be retrenchment in the minor organizations after the talk W YORK, December 24—There may be a new face at the festive board of the International League next season. Just now Jersey City is giving an excellent imitation of a city which has lost its | appetite for class A base ball. Neither Montreal nor Providence will | | abandon efforts to get back into a class AA league, and, if they keep up | a good heart and persist in the fight, it begins to look as if one of them A while ago it was thought that Reading was the city with the cold in the International, but when two or three millionaires there said or foul, no further fear was felt about that city. HOLDS NAVY INELIGIBLE TO ENTER THE A. A. U. BOSTON, December 24.—That the United States Navy could not jol thé Amateur Athletic Union be- enuse of the naval cuxtom of i ing money prizes in wome athletic events ix indicated in a letter re- eeived by William C. Prout, pres dent of the A. A. U, from Capt. Charles R. Train, representing the Secretary of the Navy as athletic officer. “It in impossible,” the letter xays, “tor the Navy to afiiliate with organization which would necess tate having Navy athletes on a strictly ‘simon pure’ basis” NAVY SIGNS FOLWELL FOR TWO MORE YEARS| ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 24.—Th athletic officials of the Naval Academy have contracted with Bob Folwell to act | as head coach of the foot ball team for a period covering the two coming sea- sons. Folwell succceded Gilmour Dobie as head coach at the Naval Academy when the latter went to Cornell prior to the season of 1920. During both years i which Folwell has been in charge, the midshipmen have accomplished the chief objective of ‘their efforts by defeating the cadets of the Military Academy. This vear the Naval Academy had, according to general belicf, the bes: team in its history, and next season is awaited confidentiy Folwell, a University of Pennsylvania produet, coached at’ Washington and Jefferson, Pennsy and for a short time at Johns Hopkins. s —_— W. AND J. PLAYERS FIT AS COAST TRIP BEGINS WASHINGTON, Pa., December 24.— Washington and Jefferson's foot ball squad, led by Coach Neale and ac- mpanied by President S. S. Baker {and a party of undergraduates, were | n an enthusiastic send-off when left here today for Pasadena, where on January 2 they will | against the Unive of Cali- | ia. Every player was in prime condition for the journey und the | game, it was asserted, gridiron prac- | tice having been carried on to with- in a few days of departure, The team will go by way of Kan- sas City, which they expect to reach tomorrow morning. Remaining until Tuesday they will journey to the( Grand Canyon, where they are sched- juled to reach Thursday. The day will be spent there and the final leg of the journey will end at Pasadena Friday afternoon. Players who are selected for the trip ~are McLaughlin, Brenkert, ckson, Basist, X Futhey, | Vick, Konvolin Spille Aiken, | Capt. Stein, Weiderqu Perkin Browning, Crook, Snyde; Marion and Kopf. | matter whether the weather was fair | { about economy at Buffalo, but Ih!)’! did not expect that it would come | through the contract route and the players who are in class AA are scolding about the restrictions which | have been placed on contract making by the officials of the national asso- clation. “If a player is good enough to be sold to a major league for $10,000,” said one of the Reading players who is in New York, “he should be al- lowed half of the money. It's all buncombe to say that it costs a minor league club a small fortune to de- velop a ball player. It only costs a season’s salary and traveling ex- Denses in some cases. Figure that at $3,000, which is big money, and you find the team which sells his re- lease for $10,000 making over 200 per cent. That's all. If that isn't dealing in human flesh then I don't know ~what the English language means. If the San Francisco club really gets $75.000 for O'Connell and the ball player doesa’t receive a penny it looks to me as if every body better go into the minor league base ball business and let the rest of the old sport look out for itself.” ROSE, BOHEMIAN BOXER, MAY BATTLE DEMPSEY NEW YORK, December 24.—Frank Rose, a Bohemian heavyweight, has been suggested to Tex Rickardas a possible contender for Jack Dempsey's title. Rose is twenty-eight years old, weighs 185 pounds and stands five feet eleven inches. Ottokar Bar- tik, Rose's manager, declared that the Bohemian pugilist has engaged in 100 ring battles in central Europe and had yet to be knocked off his.feet. Bartik told Rickard that Rose would arrive in this country early next year and will be willing to meet any American heavyweight. Rickard might name. BILLIARD STARS PLAY HERE. George H. Sutton, handless player, and Kojl Yamada, Japanese champio: will_be opponents in 18.2 balkline bi liard exhibitions at Sherman's academy January 9 and 10. Afternoon and even- ing blocks will be plaved. (Copsright, 1921, by H. C. Fisher. Trade mark registered U. 8. Pat. Off.) Sure: T'vE ALWAYS HAD A HORROR OF" TLe Look INTHIS INVESTOR'S MANUAL AND S€€ WHAT TSAP SILVER:~ A WILD-CAT SToCke FLOATED IN 1918, ABSOLUTE LY DVIDEND T'LL GET] Every YEARS SAP-SAP- SIWER=— AW, Here 1T ¢ FACE OLD Ace WiITH A SMILE? SAP {use later on professional teams. SPORTS. No Changes in Base Ball Rules Are Likely : Larry Kopf Slated to Become a National DEAL FOR SHORTSTOPPER NOW NEAR CONSUMMATION Acquisition of Cincinnati Infielder by Washington Hinges on Obtaining Waiver on Certain Local Player—One Club Blocking Deal. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. ARRY KOPF, shortstop of the Cincinnati club of the National League, will be wearing local 1 by Clark Griffith is consummat ivery next season if a swap arranged ed. This involves the transfer to the Reds of a player—identity withheld—now on the roster of the Griffmen, and whose ability is rated sufficiently high that difficulty is being experi- enced in getting him out of the Ame: rican League. The name of the athlete slated to figure in the deal with Pat Moran’s team, or the position he plays, Griff declines even to intimate, and he is equally mum regarding which of the other seven clubs in the circuit is blocking the transaction, but he beli eves it can be put through by swap- ping waivers with the owner who wants the performer Griff has ticketed for release. NO MOHAWKS TOPLAY AGAINST PRO FLEVEN Knickerbocker and Mereury clubs will provide most of the players for the all-star sandlot team that will engage the professional Senstors in the foot ball game at American League Park Monday afternoon. The match is to start at 2:30 o'clock. Mo- hawk Athletic Club will not permit any of its city champlon eleven to participate in the contest. Gainey. end, and Sullivan and Tay- lor, tackles. Wwill be drafted from the Mercuries. The Georgetown ag- gregation will be represented by Bot- eler, Jenkins, Carroll and Cox. Harry Harris, who won laurels as a gridman at West Virginia and Dartmouth be- fore joining the Akron professionals; Roy Mackert, an all-South Atlantic plaver while at the University of Maryland, and Sam Kaplan, former Senator, also will play with the all- stars. Stanton Athletic Club will end its season Monda afternoon in a game with the Dreadnauzhts of Alexar dria_at Union Park. A preliminar. starting at 1:30 o'clock will be 1 plaved by the Lexingtons and Arabs. Aerial Athletic Club goes to Seat Pleasant, Md., tomorrow afternoon for a game with the Seat Pleasant eleven, Southern Maryland champion. They will open play at 3 o'clock. GRID STAR'S TENDENCY 10 COACHING DECRIED BOSTON, December dency of college fout ball come coaches at big s graduation was decried today by Pres- ident Remson B. Ogilby of Trinit College, New Englund representativ in the National Collegiate Athlet! Association. Pointing intercollegiate competition inspire intense play in contrast with the lack of fire that marks coniests between professional teams. he added: “It is small wonder that college stadium that is alway to capacity for a big game. “The difficulty comes when this out that is the filled in tense intere e athletic i nd organi its _money value. To m mind. the chief problem in college athletics today is not the endeavor on | the part of individual colleges to offer financial or other inducements t strengthen their team Colleg with ideals do not do th and, so far, no means have been succ ful in preventing colleges with low ideals from accomplishing it. “The greater problem is when pres- sure is brought to bear upon an athlete who has made a reputation as a college amateur to use his prow- ess later for financial gain. 1t is not a good situation when a gridiron hero gets a salary running into four or five figures as a coach, for three or four years after graduation. It is not a good sityation when a man Zoes into college athletics largely to build up a reputation whidh he may The fact that college athletes very shortly after completing their college season enter the field of professional sports brings up serious problems. “We may say that the influence of such college men as have gone into professional base ball has been for the best interests of that sport, but that may not apply to foot ball.” PENN LISTS MARYLAND FOR 1922 GRID CLASH _PHILADELPHIA, December 24— ! ither Dartmouth nor Lafayette will be on the 1922 foot ball schedule of the University of Pennsylvania, With the exception of one game the schedule has been completed and Ne- braska, Alabama, Florida and a half dozen other teams are under consid- eration for the open date on Novem- | ber 4. It has been definitely decided that the University of Maryland will ge played here on October 14. —_— LEHIGH SIGNS BALDWIN TO BE RESIDENT COACH BETHLEHEM, Pa.December 24— James Baldwin has been selected as resident coach of foot ball and base ball at Lehigh University for a per- jod of three years. Baldwin is a graduate of Dart- mouth, of the Harvard Summer School of Physical Education and of the Illinois Summer School for Coaches. He has been professor of physical education and coach at Rhode Island State University of Main and Trinity College, Durham, N. C., where he is located at present. —By BUD FISHER. With the Yankees demanding the best players on the Washington roster in return for Johnny Mitchell, the quest for a shortstop has led to Cincinnati as the only place remain- ing where there is one obtainable. Kopf is no star and never has been one, but he playved a whale of a game« for the Reds of 1919, the vear they . the Nutional League gon- . and, with the aid of certain White Sa 1o copped the world | chamepionship. Griff belicves Konf would strengthen his team if he could display the same fcrm he did that year, < no reason why he shoulan't. a comparatively | young feiler, ‘neverything. Kopf generaily is regarded as being a pretty good ball player whose worth was lessened by the fact that, like other members of championship clubs, he formed an exalted opinion of his capabilities and value from a salar. standpoint. It has been hinted that, along with Dutch Reuther and one or two others of Moran's team, Kopf failed to observe training rules the vear after Cincinnati won the title, but no such charges were preferred azainst him last season. and it is believed that Garry Herr- mann’s willingness to let him go is oue largely to the fact that Kopf has bern ¢ eficd with his berth. tand that the Reds have loaded up infielding talent obtained Kopi's record in the averages is | rot particularly impress He 18 a ative of New Britain, Conn., and is i ars oid. After leaving he got his fi1st pro- onal _experience with Akron in the 0ld Ohio-Pennsylvania League in 1910. He was with the New Haven and Fall River teams the next vear and in 1912-13 played with Toledo of i American Association. He blos- somed as a big leaguer with the Athleties in 1911, when in thirty-five zames at second, third and sh ad 2 batting average of .1 in 118 games divided between second and third bases, he boosted his_average to In 1916 he slid d o to Baltimore. where he perfor: hoth sides of the ke: ne and attained_a mark of 2 with the Th ncd another trial in company. his time with Cin- ciunati, 2nd in 148 games at sh, for the Reds in 1917 he batted He was in the Army in 1918. The fol- Jowing proved his best. With the pennant-winning Reds of 1919 pf attained an average of i feli to .245 i still farther, to .218. it is to Washing no meuns certain he will land tie job at short. Griff m that ciear today. He will be ken to Tampa and be given every oppor- nity 1o demor his fitness, but » will_have O'I La Motte for the IN HOLIDAY PIN MATCH Knocking the little maple pins for ia set of 1 the Odd !+, composed jof Fielding, Mulroe. Evans. Nolan {and Jolliffe” won the capital prize {in the holiday bowling event con- |cluded last nighi on the Sherman |drives. The sc bettered by 6 pins that achieved by Wright, Reiff, nd Moore of the Even { Bailey, Mar} ive. The bowlers qualified for team iplay by making the ten best com- iposite five-game scores durinz the week preceding the match. Ranked according to qualifying counts. those in the odd positions were teamed against the remain‘ng five entrants {in a thrce-game match. Fielding's 552 was the best qualifying score. Reiff's 313 earned him the prize for the highest set made by a member of the losing team. Billle's _team of the Washington Ladies' Duckpin League swept its three-game match with the five of the Internal Revenue | League last night at the Recre | Miss Thomas of the winners was ing scorer with a set of 280. Bowlers at the Recreation drives Monday will be hitting the duckpi {in an effort to carry home the cream. Sixty gallons of cream v be given away, one gallon b lawarded to the bowler making th best score on each floor every hour from noon until midnight. NINE GAMES SCHEDULED FOR W. AND J. GRIDMEN WASHINGTON, Pa.. December 24. —Two dates remain open on the eleven-game foot ball schedule of ‘Washington and Jefferson University for 1922. These will not be filled until after the contest with the Uni versity of California at Pasadena, January 2. The schedule to date: September 23, Geneva; September 30, Westminster; October 7, Bethany: 14. Carnegie Tech; 21 and 26, open November 4, Lafayette at New York 11, Wabash; 18, Pittshurgh at Pitts. burgh; 25, Detroit at Detroit; 30, West Virginia at Morgantown. POCKET BILLIARD TITLE RETAINED BY GREENLEAF EW YORK, December 24.—Raiph Greenleaf, pocket billiard champion, jretained his title be defeating Arthur Woods of Minneapglis by a score of 450 to 277. The ‘match was played blocks of 150 points each. 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