Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1922, Page 31

SPORTS DECEMBER 6, , 1922, SPORTS D. C.” WEDNESDAY : Bulls Rule Base Ball Players’ Exchange : Giants’ Pilot Ranks at - MACK’S $75,000 PURCHASE OF HALE NOW HIGH MARK Dunn of Baltimore Intimates $100,000 Is Wanted for Shortstop Boley—Both White Sox and Tygers Likely to Bid for Him. " BY JOHN B. FOSTER. OUISVILLE, Ky.. December 6.—The bulls were in the ascendancy today in the base ball players’ exchange. The market opened to- day long before breakfast with prices up even over the close of Tuesday, when Connie Mack paid $75.000 for Sammy Hale, and threw in several players to boot. Of course. the National Association of Minor Leagues is continuing its program of annual convention, but the buying and selling of players and the reports oi buying and selling have crowded news of the actual doings of the so-called little fellows off the map for the time being. * When Connie Mack came to Loms-“ - BEZDEK REJECTS OFFER ville in a private compartment every ene wondered why he was so ex- dlusive. Now they know. connie| TO PILOT THE PHILLIES had $75.000 in the first national bank PHILADELPHIA, December 6.— Hugo Bezdek, Penn State foot ball coach, today rejected the offer and he was guarding it with ms“ well know austere eyve. He had al lock and chain and a combination on | his door. There was a lot of doubt at first that Mack had paid that much | made him by President William manage the Philadel- F. Bake: money for Hale, but the man who! Bhia sold him said that was the price. and| have decided that man is honest as mud, because| werk and, therefore, ¢ no one will cheat on mud. | managership of the Ph Bezcek's teiegram to Baker, Connie Wears Sad Smile, Then some mean guy. who has| Tost all love for bis fellow-man, said it could not he, whereat a sad smile flitted_over the face of Conmle. It L IE OFFIA CHOSEN BY CHEVY CHASE CLUB | won't give me anv credit at all when | ¥ do join the dollar-busting throng.” T4 was the of one who had horne all the humility of a tail-end | team for vears. and who was refused | ecredit w! i he fin tried to I’Ill‘ his Smbh ey ot Dt Two new members were elected and Sk i : three former members re-clected to Americans were hot 3 o the trail of Hale, with their strong | the board of boxes wide open. assured that | Chase Club at the annual meeting of Connter 3t some ub at New Willard Hotel. Other majo nor, Morris Hacker and hearing of r were re-elected, and the hotel d Miller nd Maj. Gen. Mack is i ain were chosen 1o fill v we get off than it wa Hale a Renl Third Baseman. Tlale is a real third baseman. the ¢ t= thought they had h Giants manag ent wired Tt him an onr aceou 3 an Antonio Ul formality of ment with the Detroit zave Detroit first chotce Antonie plaver. and. trait picked tonio fost [ the 1. ns and up $75.00 in “rt . where do higher | s annual re- club to be The board President RBritta authorized the club prop- len the west Once 1 criooked filed agre club whic of a s Leo Diegel and Emil Loefler, Penn- sylvania state open champion. won from Fred MeLeod and Wilfred Reid a match pk 1 yesterday Columbia, and 1. Loctfer a birdie 3 to end the mateh on green. No scores were kept. player, Detroit did not however. to threw $75.000 ble to_get what New Hale can play - can play ans was a hitting fie_Coast Teague at Portland. Ore. lloway at short second—for that is where Dykes will zo—Mack has three flashes. If they hit well. he has three fuses touch off the champlonship bomb ‘h b nest s : Holex Held at High Figure. Jack Dunn of Baltimore, has three| major league clubs running around him like a flock of deer galloping “Will you sell Boley d toduy. of the nd sturdy Baltimore Dunn_replied the questioner Dunn. but h LITTLE LESSONS FOR THE GOLFER By George O'Neil thing Goliath this last With Ha and Dvkes pects he may throw | it £30.000, repeated &0 harsh old friend. hunt The : hut the tone w 0w abou W-e-l-1. time yould I milder. “Well. the B. H. urged. | d Dunn, “there comes a every mar’s life when he sell his di. ond pin under; But the aicstioner got cold but appurently that is the market figure today for Boley., but Connie Mack won't go after him. “hicago may bid for Boley. Detroit may bid for him. Both could u Rim. for both of these clubs are see- g bunting tlving in the air next sei- son. Ty Cobb never looked better in Ris life and never smiled more en- | ticingly, and its just as piain as can | Be that. hoth Detroit and Chicago American managements think they will have the Yanks on the run in 1922 1 1 Iron club xhots differ from the woods only in the detail of the total distance of the swing. The head of the wood club desecribes a complete circle in the full swing. The iron club swing ealis for shortening of thin circular clubhead effect and a narrowing of the ecircle, mince you stand cloner to the ball coming im closer and closer as the distance re- red hecomes leas. The grip of e iron club skaft is firmer tha; on_the woods. Jenale Guilford, one of the long- eat drivers in the gnme, gets h Red Sox Get New Catcher. The Boston Red Sox have a new catcher, and Frank Chance will man- age the team next season. Larry Graver. the Boston secretar: who can count twenty-dollar bills with both hands at once and never miss carrying over the right figure, admit- ted the catcher part today, but he won't tell the man’'s name. He won't admit the Chance part. but another man savs he has seen the letter that tells all about it. Otto Borchet. owner of the Mil- waukee club, got a $3.000 offer from Cleveland for Mvatt, a catcher, ac- cording _to Borchet. Red Corriden. who used to play in Louisville, is to manage Des Moines next vear. Red has a fine base ball bump and should make his rivals sit| Peter the Great, 207%, sired the up_and take notice. winners of forty races on the grand San Antonio today posted a list of | circuit during 1922, nlayers for sale. but after the price | — — Connie pald not an offer was heard. Match Your Odd Coats With Our Special TROUSERS DUNDEE TO BOX DELMONT. $4.65 NEW YORK, December 6.—Johnny Save the price of am emtire Dundee. recognized here as the feather- mew suit. All colers, sises, pat- S ‘weight champion and the holder of the FISEMAN 130-pound championship _belt, will 605-607 7th St. N.W. relaxation whether with wood or iron. The muscles must he neither tight nor loose for good shotx—a wort of a controlled relaxation, as it were. (Copsright, John F. Dille Co.) meet Gene Delmont, Memphis light- welght. in_a twelve-round bout, in Brooklyn, December 12. _BROWNS SELECT MOBILE. MOBILE, Ala, December 6.—Ac- eording to word received from Rob- ert M. Weinacker, president of the Mobile Southern Association team, the St. Louis Americans_will train here during. the spring. Weinacker is in Louisville attending the base ball meeting. ‘Wonder What Merts Will Say Today? Close Saturday 8 P.M. Open Daily Till & P.M. Evening RESS SUITS Made to Measure 45" :Mertz & Mertz Co., Inc., 906 F St. .’ Established 1893 . Handsomely silk lined and designed and tailored by our own experts. Tk into | |GRIFFS SELL TORRES, YOUNGBLOOD, O’NEILL Three players on the reserve Mst of the Washington ball club have Been disposed of—Shortstop Jimmy ©'Nelll, Catcher Rieardo Torres and Pitcher Albert Youmgblood. of the ©O’Nelll regular sh Nationals stricken with pmeam close of that seasom and has bee umable to play since, has been sold to the Re: Internationals. Torres and Youngblood have been turned over to Manager lra Thomas of the Shreveport, Texas League t outright optional agreement. HORNSBY FIELDING STAR, ] In addition to tepping all bat by a great margin with a mar -401. Rogers Hornsby of the St. E 1Cardinals, the brightest individual star in the parent circuit, enjoys the distinction of leading his rival second basemen from a defensive standpoint aceording to the official fielding aver- ages of the National League for this year, announced today. Hornsby took Park in every game Louis club—I54—and fielding percentage of .96 Jake Daubert of the Ci led the first basemen wit! advantage over Char! Pirates.” The s led by « compiled innati Reds a fractionul imm of the hortstopping brigade ey Hollocher of the Cubs, but Dave Buncroft of the Giants, by accepting 984 chances, set a new major league record. Heinie Groh of the Glants showed the for the hot-corner guar ndy High of the Dodgers close up. Among the outfielders Zach Brooklyn veteran, who i3 scheduled to be traded before next season. ruled supreme. but Max Carey of the Pi- rates. another oldtimer, set National | League records for the most put-outs and the greatest number of char accepted. Walter Henline of Wheat the governors of the Chevy | Phillies was the leading catcher. and | 122 less than fifteen of the pitchers club the National Probably the closest race in flelding took place in League during the seaSon of 1922, a margin of only nine percentage points separating the eight rival clubs. York led in fielding with a percentage of .970. Chicago made the m 3 delphia m: St. Louis errors, 23a. : most total executed chances. e most ch executed nz the eason. runners New York and Boston ¢ ne triple piay. these clute ones to do so during tl i Philadelphia had the most es, 1,151, | FIRPO IS COMING BACK | SOON “READY TO FIGH \EW _YORK. Decomber | Firpo, South American heavyweight i pugilist. has cabled Tex Rickard that he would return to this country in the near future, “ready to fight ! " Firpo's messaze was in_reply fo {an offer from the New York pro- { motor for a match at Madison Sqiare i Garden in January with either Bill | Brernan or Floyd Johuson, BRENNAN-TUNNEY FIGHT ON DECEMBER 23 LIKELY BY FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK. Dy as if Harry Greb's n igood fortune of the f; For when Harry sent word that he was in bed with a bad cold in his eves and would not be useful to the Garden promo- ters on December 29 mext, up gets Matchmaker Flourney and makes a ! bold proposition to Bill Brennan. Not only that, he waved Gene Tunney's acceptance in Lee Flynn's face. Brennan's manager blinked and i then expressed a desire to talk It over. That is what they have been {doing _ever since. There is no doubt Ithat Brennan and Tunney will meet ion the date originally planned for th [ Tunney-Greb battle. Then the win {ner will mest Greb later. |, At leant Greb will be seen if ins. Brennan 100ks upon clown who doesn't fight fair and square. He has mingled with the Pitisburgh windmill a_couple of times and savs he doesn't see and profit in being slapped and cuffed. Some one ought to tell Bill that the way to stop it is to hand .over a right-hand wallop to Greb's jaw Evidently in past meetings this idea has_not_occurred to Bi fo T” | | i ember 6. —lLooks fortune is the IFCALRECORS HOW layed by the St. | finished with perfect flelding records. ! in action | Top of Heap McGRAW HAS FINE RECORD AS PLAYER AND MANAGER Twenty Seasons as: New York Leader, Former . Oriole Has Won Eight Pennants and Finished Second an Equal Number of Times. INNOVATION IN SWAPPING i MADE BY TEXAS MOGUL ! LOUISVILLE, December ‘Trading i the base ball market became xo brisk yesterday that semething entirely mew in barter- Ing systems was started by H. J. MORE BIG TRADES LOOKED | FOR AT MINORS’ MEETING By the Associated Press OUISVIE Ky., December 6.—Trade winds began blowing at the minnr league convention today as a result of the sale yesterday of Sammy Hale, sensational batter and fielding star of the Portland, Ore., club of the Pacific Coast League, to the Philadelphia Americans for a reported price of players and cash approximating $75,000. Whispered conierences indicated that the major leaguers were in a j trading mood, and it is likely there will be some important sales before the close of the meeting tomorrow. Edward Barrow, business manager of the New York Americans, expects to close a deal for the purchase of Pitcher Jakie May, a former St. Louis Nationa discard, who was a pitching sensation with Vernon in the Pacific Coast League last season. 1 May won about twenty-seven games. The preliminary negotiations for the LE, | of them were on the market. The prices flu nted when big deals were reported, but before the day was over Jeason managed to trade Catcher Johmny Brock, ome of the athieten whose mame wan posted, fer Pitcher Marshall of Atlanta. - ‘BY FREDERICK G. LIEB. SE BALL'S manager extraordinary is Jobn Joseph McGraw. Re- B gardless of what one thinks of McGraw and his system, it stands for success. Actually it standg for the supreme achievement in base ball accomplishment. In his twenty coplete seasons in command iof the Giants, McGraw has won eight pennants and eight seconds. In DE PALMA HASN'T MUCH decision to ignore the question is the : 2 : result of convict that to do 2 5 x 5 purchase of May haveé been com-| il OF K CORYICHON cle of words, | sixteen seasons out of twenty, he either has won the championship or pleted and all that remains is the{ ‘The * commissloner declared he been the runner-up in the flag race. signatures closing_ the deal. The!talked himself “blue in the face” at Only once in those twenty years|Fabian, now groundkeeper at the Poio i price is said to be $75,000. the minor league convention in Buf- | Grounds. has he finished in the second division. | i | | | | ROOM T0 SPED I When Hale was sold to the Athlet-|falo last year about restoration of the ‘The Baltimore club, then still a ics yesterday the deal made the third | draft, trying to bring the five Tecal- His club was last in 1913, vet it was | member of the old American Associa- Coast League star to Ro to|citrant leagues back into line, but he |a freak vear and the Glants were in | tion. purchased McGraw, and he made within the g prices. jors last year at X The White Sox bought Willic Kamm, star third baseman, from San Francisco for, $100,000, while the Giants purchased Jimmy ©O'Connell, a sensatlonal out- flelder from the San Francisco club, for $75,000, Detroit May Trade Veach. Manager Ty Cobb of the Detroit together with President in, was in frequent con- with’ Mapager Miller Hug- zins of the New York Americans and Business Manager Barrow. Thelr con- ferences were supposed to concern Bobby h, the veteran outflelder, ankees have wanted. v is said, is anxious to get | away: trom Detroit. Kenesuw M. Landis, base ba missioner, is scheduled to address the major and minor leaguers at their annual banquet tonight. Contrary to P! s reports, Comm 1 1ot {made no headway. What Commissioner Landis intends to tell the minors at the banquet is something only he himself knows To Ignore Tearney's Chargen, commissioner is not expected to to the charges of President of the Western and Three- eagues that he favored the Sox in the award of Lugens outfield star with the Sioux vy club, who. after being sold to the Pittsburgh club_for $10,000, was awarded to_the White Sox. The di cigfon was based on a “second plek™ contract made between the White Sox and Sfoux City, the latter club having represented that first choice of its players had been granted to another club. Sioux City failed to produce proot of this, Commissioner Landis ruled, and Elsh was ordered turned over to the White Sox for $2,500. Nashville, Tenn., has invited the minor leaguers to hold the 1923 con- ntion the: his debut with the Orioles in a game played in Baltimo Md., on August 26, 1891, McGraw’s first big league - BY M, E. EDSBERT. ithe fight as late as August. It was HOWCHILLE, Calif., December jthe vear in which the Phillies won, When Rzlph De Palma, auto driveri{With the lowest percentage ever|salary, at the age of eighteen. was { extraordinary and speed king of theirecorded in the forty-seven National|$1,200 a year. Now he gets 365,000 |gircular oval. awakened ' today, helLeague races and the Giants had the | for managing the Giauta. in addition had to forego his usual plunge, shaved ; highest percentage ever hung up by |to sharing liberally in the profits of in semi-darkness in front of a broken 2 big league tailender. The very |that splendid money maker. piece of mirrow and had a breakfast | next season McGraw broke all big! In the following season Balti- without the usual daily paper—a |league records when team ran' more was mnade a member of the breakfast, oo, that lacked everything |off a string of twenty-six straight,twelve-club Natiopal League, and 'he usually eats, being compo victories. | McGraw began attract attention . |bread ana cofrce. McGraw is two pennants ahead of ' with his aggressiveness and general Ralph is the guest of Sheriff Bar- |Connie M his nearest rival, and ability. Under Hanlon's famous three- nett of Madera county, and he is;Is tied with Connie with three world |time winners, McGraw distinguished . spending ten days in the jail here as|championships. himself as one of the most famo the result of the decree of Judge V.{ McGraw also won high honors as|batsmen, base runners and inflelders ° A. Cornell, who says that the jail iv|a plaver before he plunged into the |in the game. { where all persons who speed their | managerial end of the game. Born in; It was while playing with the {autos along country roads at seventy | Truxton. N. Y.. on April 7, 1873, he |famous Orioles that McGraw tuned miles an hour belong. began his professional career with lup the base ball brain which for De Palma was sentenced weeks ago,ithe Olean, N. Y., club in 1890. [twenty years has been the greatest but was allowed his freedom to keep ! He played with Cedar Rapids the next | asset of the New York Giants, base race engagements until yesterday|year. where a teammate was Heory | ball champions of the universe. when he showed up to serve bis sen- McG-aw’s Sixteen Years’ Major League Batting Record om- w tence. He says he will hardly get used to the jail routine bhefore he : is turnea loose Yo o Ciun, | Leasue, Ge. s Joose. : 1891—Baltimore American Asser... 31 108 245 Nice climate, but not much of a {330 GEORGE S F LA l L l DENIES lotel,” he smiled on the sheriff as he | 1592 —Paltimere o B =4 i drove up .to the jail to report. 1lie 1398~ ore 2 2t ~ 328 l came from Fresno in his high-pow- | 1504—Baltimore -1 515 340 T A' I' FI‘ H' Il “] 4 S 4 F' 4 K E:lornd car. but he Kept it many notches | 1585—Baltimore ®u = 3% i P below the seventy-mile limit when .m“"—-fl gl e = 3 3% | he crossed the boundary of Judge —Baltimore 3 CERS I 55 an { . = Cornell's jurisdiction. -- 18 321 42 334 ST “But I'll go some in getting away - 118 40z I3 380 from here” he explained, with a Bes At 3 e ARIS, December 0.—Georges Carpentier in newspaper interviews ,‘:e“',“‘_j,‘;;‘h‘"":"”:;';’;‘;;‘é’;‘kh‘i‘ffj;,‘,;tnm—sm York 34 16 z 2= v added his protestations to those of Francois Descamps, his j was fairly comfortable. At least it | :::l': ': : : -‘3“' S Rt ing Siki i was clean. He has to keep the cell b 7 manager, to the assertions of Battling Siki that the boxeps’ recent | {50 Co0h 4.2 Rimselr, and mops. it 3 ' P 00 meeting was :o have been framed. out with 2 :;uc:nlu;d broom, l:e York X 4 3 ° o0 ! Carpentier’s chief argument in his efforts to diacrcd‘it the statements | H2Y Pend b e Sasiighc ::“::‘:: s 060 3516 1015 1508 48 334 { of the Senczalese is l()hshn}:\' hln bxli" damaged kuulck.c h:mhd t‘o e'(hli:lall night, X-ray photographs of his hands, taken aiter the fight, which show that; For his first meal he had beef stew | all the metacarpal hones were broken and nis coffer and bread. He can.| QPENS WAY TO CUE WIN }PIRATES IN A 3-FOR-1 “Docs that look like a fake fizht = e s Shat it Toe e rotine s avnen Carpentittie ‘aco "aeed | MALONE WHIPS DOWNEY | Beaiz, s, an, som the sicoae, vt | WITH THREE-BALL SHOT| TRADE WITH SEATTLE j whether 1t was likely that he would | {at least, he will be “one of the bova™ | George Wheatley. who scored over| SEATTLE, Wash.. December §.—In- IN TEN-ROUND CONTES LOUISVILL land partake of jail food. arrange a frameup for x bout he was 3 (Copyright.) Drew Thomgson, 100 to 95, last night | formation was received here ! 5o sure of winning that he actually in the first match of the final round | that,James R. G. Boldt, president of i Ky.. December reputation. An_ interesting ! sporting | oee of 1 the Pittsburgh Nationals for Ray Rohwr. outflelder: Blake. a pitcher who was two years with Buffalo in the International League, and another player, to and it was Malone's cleverness at|night won a technlcal knockout,, In his in-fighting that enabled him to gain |when Jack Thompson of St. Joseph,|Wheatley was behind, §S to 95, when Mo.. also colored, broke his right!he negotiated a three-ball combina- arm in the fifth round of a ten-round | tion shot and ran out a string of 12 match. Each weighed 204 pounds. |points for victory. in this lates: tch with Thompson, cene in this latest eracted in the! % paper L’Auto last evening when and_his_former i manager. M. Helle mceting by acci- | dent. had a heated passage of words i over the charges. the truth of which | Hellers den The argument, which i took ce in the presence of the as- tounded newspaper staff, ended where zan ill to impose an extra tax on the gross receipts of boxing matches and upon the purses of the winners has been filed in the chamber of deputies by Deputy Girod of the department of Doubs. Deputy Girod's bill does not fix the amount of the tax, leaving {that to be suzgested during the dis- { cussion In the chamber. NEW YORK. December 6.—Georges Carpentier and Battling Siki, and their managers, Francois. Descamps and M. Hellers, will be barred perma- nently from boxing in the state if the charges of alleged collusion in their recent hout in Europe are sustained.; Chalrman Muldoon of the state ath- letic commission, has declared. —_— WILL RESUME RACING. SAN DIEGO, Calif.. December 6 Resumption of racing at Tia Juana is to be made today. according to an- nouncement by officials of the jockey | club. The aniouncement came after word had been received from Gov. J. 1nnocente Lugo of Lower California, { rescinding orders issued earller for | !'the closing of the tracl [ 1ost it vy averconfidence. The former |Jock Malone. St. Paul. shaded Bryan of the pocket billiard tournament at |the Seattle, Pacific Coast ba: b o Lt - vney. Columbus, Ohio, last night % 5 LEBEIe ORRRt Lbai. | champion asserted that since his de- | DOWREY, Columbue, Ohio, last night | FIGHTER BREAKS ABM. | Grana Central Academy, is to meet|ball club, announced from Louisville j feat ‘his one ambition been o eighth meeting. | NEW YORK. December 6.—Georze! Clive Richmond in tonight's match, | Ky.. that Jack Adams. maRager of the j meet Siki again and re-establish his was wild with his swings | Godfrey of Chicago. colored. 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