Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1922, Page 83

- BASE BALL, GOLF, : ‘ ; ) BOWLING, BOXING, AQUATICS, TENNIS, ; z un a " 3 aa TRACK ATHLETICS LACROSSE, RACING ‘ ‘ . ROD AND STREAM WASHINGTON, D. (., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1 4 P;gu Base Ball Moguls Meet This Weel: : Clever Gridmen in South Atlantic Section BIG LEAGUERS ASSEMBLE : EARNED HIGH HONORS ON GRIDIRONS HEREABOUTS THIS YEAR TO TALK OVER PROBLEMS .EGEORGETOWN HAS THREE : MEN ON ALL-STAR TEAM Promoters Will Seek Means to Eliminate Inflation Conritock, Wirts and Flavin Only Local Players 1o Be <ion of North Carolina Is Out- anding Backfield Performer. in Player Sales Market Which Emphasize Financial Aspeets Harmful to Game, i Chosen—Joh BY GEORGE CHADWICK. 1 1 EW YOKK, December 9.—The iittie leaguers finished their powwow | l in Louisville very wel! satisfied with themselves. Those who had | been prospercus and who added accounts by selling | irom the old farm rolled howe fified with thoughts of Christmas ! nieer, and those who had no Christmas checr. at least had some Louis- e cheer feft with them v comes th shem s the n * December 12 1t BY H. C. BYRD. VELOPM " of geaerally stronger teams H style of foot ball in the South Atlantic sectio which closed with Georgetown's ganie Liuced far more than the average number of exceptionaly good plave lind make the selection for an all-star cleven more open 10 questi | it i) dis 4 d a more versatile ing the yette here pry ne ute in ¢ previou ihree players :nd out so far above the others that no one wou Lion placing them on the all-South Atlantic team, but for ather rise to defend their favorites, who they should T league cetings. The first of 1gac which is to begin Tuesday. inuel fixed date in ¢ ball and : one way or another. gue meeting is to be held in New York the next ere is to be the mecting of both leagues, the joint id que siti ve heen wil base ball win The ven preference. On the team shown in the ac lare five men®oi such andisputed hout question. First, there is | a, undoubtedly the most versatle a sves ther ntitled to pluc i Nort foot bail r leagues may have som i 3 importanc ve to T | “HOPING TO LIFT CUP,” ¢ minutes of the previous| QU THOMAS? St e e el | mimuees of the Dol SN THOMAS? FAREWELL the section has known in years. things 1 luncheon and figure how they can ' ofiensive foot bail that Johnston cannot do, but if so thes e failed to e out better than cven at the end £ i |=rop out in the five gamies in which the writer has watched him pla: { Johnston runs brilli T reccivin a is worth ¢ of tha ptember. It is sme of them the tas % is a severe tax some of them to g0 before th dilings dista ith anvthing on the credit side Jedger. Many e uly in g broke field, either be : forward pass, and he is experienced 1ype of cven more to his team than his mere mechanical al he is given the captaincy of the n combinat nother man about whom the: sms to be no question, unle from t that have wateh Donald North lina . pk r. is Wallace of Virginia ¥ today. and his wa pn “I'm still hoping to | ‘hemas, who hax made mev- tx to take the Amer- var from Amceiea, m of ALL-SOUTH ATLANTIC GRID TEAM FOR 1923 | d wu ely make He xaid he han : : FOINDEXTER S N R Parties in Base Ball. de by V. P. 1. an anybody I brlliznt rec longs to Wa i ind'x’tr (N Wires (G.U.y . own coach knows. Wall: Wozns (WA a field general; he ran his | ":tl;":‘:.\'.‘{ / t the most out of it. and | \Walioee (v, that is the function of a |l k., far more than i {to run with the ball. | McDonald Is Clever Player. | The next test quarterback w. Donzld. He was clever in throwing & iforward pass. ran his team inteili- -, and did everything so weil just failed to measure up to Foster of Virgin a 1 player : nd got m S not as © oS ded on the type of chal- % winor e | FLAVIN . NCT-Guan - fe Institute, who should be p ive infl t _Tie major 1e LR P o y. / § the quarterback positio A Second Team. mostly deflationis Then there | Z / . | greater part of the eredit for Florence ( G.U. ~ Halfback ¢ They come together in the big melt-! ng pot, which is the minor league | neeting, and try to reconcile conflict-) 1 1 interes Il of which, however, } 1 { i ttezm to & iy R TS R.MORRIS itio of dol hrot h th d o~ b e N L e NCU ~End skill. . Tlhe minor Iefl_zues are F. : ball in the Southern Conference scored a keep prices at the Sing se: ent altitude. Practically i cond annuzl meeting of this < ‘been paid recently forjathletic Lody, when delegates voted h of three bail plavers and 3100.- | that students at college holding S. J. for each of two bail players. and ship may ploy summe: her sums between $25,000 and $40,- i ball cccas 1y, provided th ) on several occasions within four: consent from the faculty directs . The minor leagues e mot | athletics and render a statemen obtained all of this amount, but they ! flnancial rec eipts must have gotten the most of it. They also | CO¥er on - ry exnenses. Me- | made by Florenee he ewhat himsell the choics tributes any of the @ up under xood 3 - play. And have a areat d.a: more that they have ! This ided deprriure from v 1 nald A of his work -eived for ball players in smaller | the original rule adopted at the tin fother peculiar thin well to 1 to mind thor {the conference s created, whic | d when he \shy A< some other mer ned nor run ed college diamond stars to p even Yal Majors Have Knotty Problem. S BIeh s T v foe hols leagues are the deflation- | cery. s M evarenl Gf action they would like to Seoitaken last night, when members of don’t ex-!the conference voted to take oif t : how to get at ii. Thet |financial limit, throwing down the bars 't make any kind of a combination | for porticipation by their players in which they can keep from out-|pace ball mames, provided the con vs dd ev extent 3 * ALLACE 1 w‘]"}:fv -»'me'iremm l} ilitary Tnsti- | eould wet by kS head and shoulder: B E v VAZ~Quarterback i " Weikhin K air “‘ilh carrying the Tefor that a 1 din cach other, They are wil- | 0 e e s enough to get all they can When | auapices of & league or in ores Crigen G r bl ers beck 1o e Doie of dlcagueidr inioresned | Hunt {donted phy 5 Were mnot_even nors, but point ruefully to the fact! " Aqmitting Virginia Military Insti-| they can purchase promis-| tyte into the conferenc of Sep-| ¥ youngsters for §30.000 from the:temper 1. 1923, a_question upon which | norgithey canit release Worn-outisheihusin ssion Tast night rested ! ! boys to the minors for much bet- { fF P 0 el €ex than car fan minutes after the committee on coi The opportunists are those elub ! RUE BIACR LHC Eo N hTe ma ners who are ready with JUSt @iy godav. Indee the terms of ad- lother back. White jin the V. )L L line i by North Carolina ! technic Institute. Th ; was Kenyon of G " UMI-Tackle tle more coin if it is necessary to! =¥ 00 b 5 ¥ . o 10 do £o : Decess { missle M. - permitted : . Lo 1o « a lule farther, They wont fakelts play basket ball and base ball { consistently ~ good al L i given 1 initiative, but they will trail after | o R G FE S Inember | tormer. opinion of the other fellow. The | B4mes W pistenee memte ! Flavin Ts Great Punter. als are the fellows who are ready | Uy . L 2 er fellow to pay for it. o i ey ton ity : ere of its second annual meeting, The 1 fuent clubs are Rinting . q.,ceq plans for a dual hasket ball i “hat it is tim- to put on brakes. and | tha 2 ournamen:z. to be held in Atlanta | in of Geormctown s nd out th ¢ hacks. Undoubtedly foliowers of foot by just why he man_so_bril | Virginia ol s w ground-saine + which u and weighing clubs with plenty Insist that it < February 27-March 2, with con- - time to pu. +n ba es w. A o ¥ A g S ahead. i < | ference and Southern Intercollegi: g REddie ancad) Muoibio deanues Athletie Association team part viil talk about some of these mat- pally deter- &, pating. The plans will be submitted A e = |io the s. 1. AL A. annual meeting at in_the ey of the Minors Getting All They Can. . 'nest Friday and | was suncrior 1) \ condition of anxiet aimost of | & a sr, that the financial side of the pro-| A mew migratery ruling was adopt- | fessional game is becoming too much I ed permitting freshmen to go from nded i seizing upon some of the;one institution ther after omoters and yet tliey are power- participating hletics at the ! 123 for the smalier circults have the | achool he lcaves and be eligible to JOHNSTON ctwesn their teeth and those who | take part in activities at the new huve anything to sell are taking ad- {school. He will, however, remain on N.CT~ Halfback tage of conditions to get all they |a freshman hasis until he has becn 2 in the new school for one year. anced th T kick Dbe a wonderful asset 1o a team, In one exchange of punts in he gained < for his team and it was! xchange which gave George- town the advantage it held until it ccored its three points iu the sceond | quarter. Flavin is the type of man | et a man on th ors not mean th s men of more tha hut that othe one way and another more than | ' the Bacific coast Tor ball piayers in i R e e e : oane 3 = | him: he is a great man to catch |POSsessed he last four vears. There never has ! | Dinis and run them back: he is ¢ e seen anything like it in base ball. The | 000 which the Chicago club re-| c-llent on defense, and in short has i brilliant foot lall On the Side Lines With the Sporting Editor < zht for perhaps two vears or more. ! By DENMAN THOMPSON i whole league could have been | N EWS oi a nature highly interesting to fandom of the capital may ! E all- e Maryland pla . 5 1 Played such a good all-round game | of Mary ved ; ““‘;g,"‘;’:dafi"lf."i"'; tranaterjot | That it is impossible to keep him out |in his lust three games, but injuries arkson elly is a paltry sun St the first Dackficld. earl ar prevented him play- y comparison. Base ball no longer is the quarter zame of the bleachers, but the mil- ~dollar_stake f he 10ters, and is the striking feature of thei te moment. In 1918, when! +hase ball had been stopped by the war | " Arnold of Virginia probably was jing in any of the most difficult ga 'the next best back. He was Virginia's { excent the last. with North ¢ ace all season 2nd did well in every ! State, Heugh of Marviand Zame in which he appeared. He w! jent guard. as were Thomy not only goed, but was good at all) rizetown. Rea of Virgin times, Other backs who rendered fine | teennic Institute and Slowik of He service to their teams were Randolph | kins and Fenwick of Virgi anette of North Carolina State. | In fact. s i< much 1t nd McQuade of Marvland. Frew | ayvon fo give the players alreads ‘ameron of Washington and Lev sipned their jus dit sithout at- n of Virgini cmpling o mpliment all Linemen Are Brilllant. who rend. 1. | Two men of the seven picked for teams, ! line were not on! things and did not fo cere just a little more than that i possible. They should zet undisputed = iplaces. They are Comstock and Wirt . r <ession of the magnates scheduled for Thursday all of the powers that on or another it might [ be in the national pastime will be on deck. Members of tic Heydler A circuit will spill a lot of oratory in sessions extending over a couple of e e e N ¢ Marsland play as usual, the American Leaguers will listen, more or less attentively EE L I Gk : = 3 3 3 % e A anta on Oc day ot 6= E% = P, - s i 4 vears to Ban Johnson in a powwow lasting not more than a couple of hours, iation with i s BRUWN BEA"NG BR"[]N !as usual, and between times the overlords of the sport will foregather in HITE . W 1L ON on. it i questivnable if @ better y | the hotel lobbies and talk shop, each with a view to acquiri | formance has ever been given by WAGONER_> W.8Z.~Guard k ;“1‘11‘: ;(.'yrw!’e"n‘*“ comparsd wirh { develop at the base ball conference to be held in New York this 1Cop week. With the National League owners opening their annuall coniab Tuesday, the American Leaguers meeting Wednesday and a joint right, 1022, old how o weil ober 11 that Philadciphia ked by obb or ML~ Fullbaclz TR7. En SAN DIEGO, Calif, December 9,.— |L2ckie than that put up by mstock tackl alent in & sainst Lafavette. And that w | West Virginia for the east and Gon- ! nature of his work all vear. B the ! NEW YORK. December 9.—Jock 2 Hornsby in exchange for a slightly used bat bag or its eyl outar of Philadelphia today success- | bench-worn talent. “ully defended his title as world pro- | This is where something of concern to patrons of the Georgia - et ue Izsga for the west will be the con-' When the remainder of his team With Loy ety seslonal racquets champlon by de-’ plant may crop out. It being practically settled that the Nationals will! testants in San Diegos annual inter- { SUmped: Comstock continued to play | Sonth posi ileger. in four stralght game BASE BAI ,l i WR iw"esia(e east-west Christmas day |~ Blount of North Carolina was a fine ' tions | commend: 8 ene 2 tended. er. have a new pilot next year to succeed Zeb Milaa, and Clark Griffith Fav- lenger, four straight games, Xt y¢ laa, h e 8l vex 4 Réis . the first part.ing asserted that he seriously doubts that he will assume the task himse =2 s & = i _ ! center. but much e who are given nhonor: INing Rim e el Teipnin: Cahs sorons te e illiass the tasic imsclf jifoot balljgamoinithelSan Dieno 0y jml,';‘e ,,hy;; Iv, both from a stand- able mention shoald feel considerable which was played at Philadelphia, : it is barely possible that negotiations for a field director will Je opened. !dium, it appeared certain after a} o "~ satisfaction in having been especially L g“mf:h}:d"zodny m;A“‘-’ the Natoinals may figure in a rather extensive swap of playing ma- BAN FOR GI ‘ ING COBB H I i meeting of the San Diego Athletic Rpirts. Ofnlfi;:'tmgufim;n“:-fié fawe moticed in a year in which their 5 terial X |and Recreation Association, 4 non- | measured up to what Wirts did when Work had to be brilliant to acquire at 1 won ‘onr e s . £ Gy e 5 A Z 4 'y rate, Clark Grifith intends to board a Pullman for the - ! e oy such n . To those men who hav t of seven matches played in Phil [ metropolin temerrow mixht and be o e [scene Brlaht andl casly Tees- !g;fif::“orgnmzallon which lists melg;!“r,r:‘l\:‘?etrim:h:%tz l‘:f':yse‘;:r f;‘)r\\ard e ition G e R izhter and less ca- + delphia a week ago. The American D Em st mmtianed! im inone ia a week day morning and xtay ax long ax there s any chance of putting over ; : i hd inst Lafayett uyed in invincible form, and u{terL Pt £ » 'z % . 5 ) Tentative invitations had been ex-ining touchdown asainst Lafayette ing th: v gave their <he first game, when Williams was§ JHUS 0N 10 Sienghen She aggresation which proved such a slgnal W YORK, December 9—At a meeting of the New York chapter of | tended Oregon University and Gon- | than he could put on wings and fiy I Thad Shiey Teaye il A iati 5 © tion went | Zaga Univercity to represent the west, | And twice before this season Wirts 1 | could N the Base Ball Writers’ Association today, the organization went | :maolr::o;f‘l}:s‘;’a;"ll’{‘:‘lf;‘pl‘m:'m:fed hiad v long runs put his team-'m a dnd that in Siving :’k‘ujn;“h-n,: ":l‘:l on record in a series of resolutions to the effect that the 300 by e Tacific coast confer e frown- f{,‘“'"{'&}?nfi“n%?' V:‘-;l:n:flg'fl(';'lfl:f" Actually are entitied to) Jast an s : 5 S s ; e ; R ng upon Oregon's participation inthan e- e e b Soutar ained his triumph today | be little chance of his escaping the task of guiding his own | Datting average recently credited to Ty Cobb of the Detroit club by, g JEen Srohevl, b ! town's best sprifiters. That speed en- 48 the moxt written of players. Bedrasat Lt s (ASE, 7 | President Johnson of the American League ought not be recognized in| West Virginia has agreed to meet [ables him to play farther back on de = 2 e s e ‘ 2 e ! athletes by engaging an outsider. The only one apparent on the horizon = S z A - i s western teams selected, | fense than the average man could, and ,‘“dw;h;m s week tfl;a Swera is Bill Carrigan, the forceful former leader of the world champion Red { official record publications. Copies of the resolutions will be sent to Baseie“h" 20 the estern tevre i ‘consequenll)‘ cover much more terri B-DAY BICYBI-E GRIND 08t d swept to an n\'er-i vhelming shutting out the ish star without a peint in the o g Managers of proved worth are so scarce that there seems to WH:\TEVER plans Griff may have are known only to himself. I 18, 6, 15—12, 14 ox, and since he made his pile with a string of movie houses the New | Ball Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis. The resolution follows: SEATTLE, Wasa, December 9.—|tory. i University 6f Oregon will not accept! Two players the writer did not see ! —11, England theatrical magnate wot!d scorn to consider any proposition in-|{ “Whereas the president of the|batting average of Cobb be not recoxz- s 2 7o 3 . < Soutar cuptured the world racauets | volving merely a salary as manager. Carrigan might i accept | American League has scen fit o ig-|nized, and that efforts be made to o b e N e e stivastiasonl 918 %) the presidency of some club with a huge block of stock guaranteeing |nore, thejpulineiol e e e E‘::‘F.}",.Sfi""fif&’ n the official base|gay. 4 declsion of the e e Poltobui Tustitateatsisnt Tfl G[]U“. UN i 1 ey T - New or! e 3 - X i v TH 3 RIVAL TUTORS handsome profits thrown in as a Christmas present, but Griff's mission in een New York and Detroit on Ma; “That the actlon of the president ifi'.:“;':.:i‘*‘ discouraged scheduling o :,;gfi:m o‘:h’elr;c init | et \;_:&zhflfh: I | 3RO R3S U New York is to shop and not enact the role of Santa Claus, so if he |15, 1922, and substituted instead the|of the American League In arbitrarily 5 O o ot S s S ‘ HOOL GRID CONTEST | does_enlist a new director of strategy other than himself it is assured |unofficial score sent out by a pres¢|changing the score is strongly con-| MORGANTOWN, W. Va., December |ter. One foot ball authority made the NEW YORK., December 9.—Goullet IN SCI ! | Carrigan will not be the man. 2 i association; lahnld i m‘fl:fl‘“f& (l’:d;h?; fi'fl;‘éfi;"’g‘e’fifl :Ify l‘;l;fl- 9.—Gnnlagn‘ Cniversuydot sl«fiat;le or | assertion after watching Georgetown 'and Belloni tonight won the six-day = arbitrary on | = g N B L . i ’ FINDLAY. Ohio, December _9. GYift helieves Re already has rounded up reeruits who will ma- | ;o \Vors of the prosident of the Amer- | paired. - the University of Nevata will e se- | play Iafayette that Huat Was theibicycle zace at |Madison' Squar ‘zuiph Fletcher, coach of the West ‘l:rlllly -mvlul'ltl-e- the Natiomals for mext seasom, being particularly ican League, taken without inquiry| “That the members of the New |in the foot ball game with West Vir-|tackle of the whole section. Two | Garden. Brocco and Coburn finished igh School of Aurora, IlL, today prexsed with what he has seen and heard of Catchers Lapam amd .| oo |nvestigation. gave a hit to Ty ' York Chapter of the Base Ball Writ-|ginia University at San Diego. Calif., | other men who knew what they were | second, and the Egg-Eaton combina- 1w his foot ball eleven triumph over Hollingsworth, Outfielders Wade |Cobb when the play officially had been | ers’ Association should decline tolon Christmas day * H. A. Stansbury, | talking about spoke of Wagoner in | tj, hird, :he Findlay High eleven, coached by » _Infielders Bluege and Cenroy. Seored an error for Scott of the New |serve as official scorers unless they |director of athletics of West Virginia, | just. as glowing terms, and others tion, third. by : brother Robert, by a score of But with Phillips, Woodward, Courtney, Youngblood, Torres and|Yerk Club; and receive assurance that their scores|said here late today. Xnew of no man his superior. The final score was 2.457 miles, 0 to others of their caliber gone he still h: b 1 2 s “YWhereas this overrulinz of the|will be accepted as official and firal.| When informed that the University eight laps at the end of the 143d The visitors scored two touchdowns et h ‘h gone l‘e still has a number of players in the dead-! o HUI€TCR, A% VoV imy "Cobb a .400| “Be it further resolved that a copy [or Oregon had refused an_invitation Morris a Wonderfal End. o nd a safety through weak kicking | wood class, or who have outlived their usefulness here, whom he Wouldlb.(tmg Sverage, ciusing comment | of this resolution be sent ty Kenesaw | to play West Virginia at San Diego, | Selection of R. Morris of North: '®H" 55 nd a fumble by the Findlay team.|be glad to trade for one live wire performer, with a goodly chunk of cash | throughout the country that tended | M. Landis, commissioner of buse ball, | Stansbury said all arrangements for Carolina for left end over Florence of{ A few moments hefore the finisia hile a third touchdown came on a|thrown in for good -measure. If Griff is successful in framing a swap|to cast discredit upon the official|and to the president of the American |the game were being made by the|Georgetown, Hardwick of V. P. L., Gastman took a bad fall on “dend ong pass over the goal. Findlay | is fikely a righthand pitcher capable of winning m than he | scorer: therefore, League, and this action be submitted | San Diego Recreation Association. )Branner of Maryland and Davis of; .ap's curve” when his front cored a touchdown on a long end p pab g more games than he | SSOEETL, IO UAG" That it ig the sense | to the ddjourned annual meeting of | Twenty selected players from the | Virginia probably will cvoke con-i ; “am and a 13-vard ,penolty ageinst | loses vill be added to the roster to assist the veterans, Johnson, Mogridge | 5¢ the New Yorik Chapter oF the Gac | the Base Ball Writers’ Association ot | Mountaineers' Mmoo tedsy | begas | siderable ori % - werted © as e ang ure and Zachary, and the youngsters, Brillacart and Francis. « , Ball Writers' Assoclation that the .00 Ametica.” practice for the game. { the writer (hinks ol svine of s Plays fia oo Be Swecdn