Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1922, Page 27

SPORTS. 9, SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 19 another jump, this time 1o London. , where he will offer up his jaw as a target for Joe Beckett's right: Majors to Curb Transfer of Players : Krug Handicapped for Bout With Walker’ {says Jim. Tiit! When he walloped I {%And he is Tast at the weight, t00.” me in our fight it was an hour before EW YORK, December 11.—Phil Krug, the Jersey middleweight, did; T o R s December 18. He agreed to make 155 pounds at 2 o'clock on the after- i away Jack Demps:y will no longer hand, a dict consisting of a couple of packages of nails, a two-pound ' world beater. but any fighter that 3 . ) ' SAME OLD BUNK,” SAYS GRIFF | MUST SCALE 155 POUNDS 1 knew whether Buenos .Aire: a city or a new brand of codft not get any the better of the negotiations leading up to an agree- | coming bout between Bill Brennan | ment to fight Mickey Walker, the welter champion, i Newark on | and Flovd Johnsen. it wili be a hum- noon of the fight. This may weaken Phil a bit and make him less dan=jbe in @ vosltion o compinis gy | dumbbell and a handful of brass doorknobs may pull Phil back to hisjBests him convincingly has got cluse Hiormal middleweight eftsin|fhe hours between 2 olelock and:the timp ‘ob] 10 Sieicxcept Dampsey has been sbic MAY SET JUNE 1 LIMIT " FOR SHIFTING ATHLETES The amnual winter pastime of nomimating the Washington hall club as a feeder for the New York Yankees been resumed. The 1923 edition of the yearly yarm. as presented by the metropolitan Press today, has Sam Rice and Roger Peckinfaugh plucked to streagthen the forres of Managers Huggins and Gleason. Through some slight oversight no mention is made of what the Nationals wonld_| Ket in exchange for their centerfielder and shortstop, but them thas probably is considered of no importance. Here's the way the si(uation is met forth in a New York paper today, with the cxplanation that it “leaked out yesterday in Chicago, when the Chicago Tribune printed the following™: “Eddie Collins, White Sox second base atar. will go to the Yankees. Big League Owners Likely to Seek Enlarged Player| Selection to Offset Refusal of Big Minors To Submit to the Draft. . tainty, according to Le Journsl. which points out that Presidert Rousseau of the Boxing Federation is inclined to be 8e. E ! { 1o be fixed upon my return to i5 this evening, Carpentier tele- graphed from Brighton, Fingland. that to beat 8ik | would be the greatest joy of my life, the telegram said. It added that Georges was to get the { opinian of surgeons as to the condition BY FAIR PLAY. N mer. And d stows Brennan BY JOHN B. FOSTER. gerous for the champion than might otherwise be the case. On the otheriuu. on the horizon. Brennan is no EW YORK, December 11—It has been agreed by a certain number | of club ewners in the American and National leagues that some | to turn the trick to dat. Tooks N one club to another of the same leagu A conference of men identified here over the week end to discuss that problem, and, while no definite action was taken. it is probable that League as the last day on which interclub deals can be made. Many of the maguates in faver of the restriction of the time in which purchased from oy ‘lub faver placing vo or three naming to carry is a question on for the re- their tdeas i and this was the re: cent conference. If the season of 1923 beglns on: April 18, as it may. the June 1 limit will give club managers twelve days n April and thirty-one in May in Which to figure out the chances of their plavers. After that they would have to go to the end of the season ' R H : constituted as they iwere on that Sogaliesnatiiosolutiomq Gyt Jate. so far as help from other cluns (Tt © St league == = =150 A ut < are known to rized of their own league _The meeting of the will be; Tuesda 2 o : rer perhaps will be 2 poher minor Jcagues Y YOUNG was the most durable of all pitchers. but Christy | ‘?"“,;c' b:f.;>1r,r“.;.:.l iy trad ready "fl’jiuil‘x the lnuwr “hold Mathewson was the king of them all. \We believe we take nothing | However, June. 1 spunds entively R crelcsiNoapeivy from Radbourne. Rusie. Young, Johnson and Alexander when we | probable for tional League inter i ub trade limit date. It is poessible | the American League will follow suit. “although the matter calls for ndividual and not joint \Copyright. reising such exemptiorn | Dratt Quention Coming Us. cally forteits AU, TI=N to] mean ability. In fact, his ground-gaining ability and kicking ability fea-| her 11.—The B < ever since fi oSt minor leagucs exc n given them under ] INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE MAY PLAY 168 GAMES% NEW YORK. December 11.—A posal that the International Base League s 1son be extended to 163 restriction will have to be placed on the transier of players from jwil minor leaguex will be ovligated by i couneil and since then have ¢ after the playing scason starts. If with the National League was held June 1 will be fixed by the National ! majors or to minors of other classifica- | tions, may receive fresh attention this | week when major and minor leagues | hold meetings in this city, 1 The . supported in. their views 3 mer K. M. Landis. desire 10 amend the pry nt draft statute as embodied in the 1921 agreement so that ! its provisions and given no choice in the " matter. Unsuccessful Ttures “That the deal will be brought up and probably consummated this week is a certainty. There now is sald to be a third club invelved, wherchy the Sox will he able to acquire one of the best shortstops in the league. He is Roger Pecki xh, now with Washington. “The wtory ruas that the Yanks will purchane Peck or grab him in a trade. Another nource has it that the ficet-footed Sam Rice will accompany Peck to New York. Having landed Peck, the Yanks wil] hand him to Chicago, along with two or three others, as payment for Collins and possibly two more of the present members of Gleason's brig: the fight. When it comes to oratory give ys two managers each of whom Is trying to hang something upon the other. For once they are the center of at- traction while the fighters hang upon the outskirts of the excited group ab- solutely dazed by the flood of words gushing from the lips of the men whom they support by their fiatic er- forts. The managers of Krug and Walker spouted two days and two nights before they finally signed the fight agreement. ice,” sald Walke: “Bib Falk ix to go with Cellins, and Bob Meusel ronxibly Hoyt, will come here.” What has Clark Grifith (o say about it? “SAME OLD BUNK. a piteher, p after the muss Merely this: were made a year ago by the advisory b re- peated in an effort to secure a new understanding with the five recalcitrant minors, who insist upon keeping in force: the present law, which was made effective for seven vears, or until 1923. For Larger Player Limit. Timit, to afr n. On the other rom th fi agreed upon | Jeintly by 32 anuary e same time | leusuvs that have taken the American Asso- | onal d Pacific | ntry: the Wesiern | nd the Thne-l: i of him during his big league baptism. | ! Relievisg !inning of & game against the Brook-| 10 yne” Geal with Norfolk, from | LITTLE LESSONS FOR THE GOLFER | By George O'Neil. @ larger rangc | {tention in his teens playing scholastic and college ball in castern Ay “KING OF ALL PITCHERS,” TITLE GIVEN MATHEWSON BY FREDERICK G. LIEB. ; lass Matty as the twirling star of all time. { Dorn in Factoryville. Pa, on August 12, 1880, Matty attracted at-| Pennsylvania. He pitched for Bucknell and was a foot ball player of no | tured a game which Bucknell played at Franklin Ficld, Philadelphia, some twenty-odd years ago. s atty's start with the Giants on’ Jesse Burkett and Dan McGana, who| Z 1900, should hel , {played with Matty on the Giant, Lrgl 3 poy RS Dsneg “ra‘ew world champions of 1905, were mem- bers of the same St. Louis club. “Big_Six” failed to win a_game for, ew York in 1900, and 1h Giante didn't think eough of him to com- Ju any kid who has the tar belted out Ed Doheny in the fifth; ¥n champions of that era, Matty was | which iven a lovely pasting. club he had been acquired.; then drafted Mathewson ¢ enough, Joe McGinnity, whi rfolk and followed ft with | with Mathewson on Mc-!thn leading bonchead deal of all bas carly champions. oppored ! ball history. in the game which he broke | Jors. first time that Matty met M. was on September 6, 1900, when | been out of the game in 1960, for the f the Giants was | Bucknell Collegian. Rusie's arm wa: d leading off | “dead” and he never pitched another inals. Ag, league game, while Mathewson . this time hecame the outstanding star of base, was co-st Graw's The Giants decided that maybe they : vould like to keep Mathewson after and traded Amos Rusie, who had | 1 in as {f Flovd is being d ahead : hur ;had been wettled and he went out to|Just a bit too fast. / ¥ i bout with Riki. take the air. “if 1 could fight as good = report Is current that Siki has di as there guys can talk I'd take on! Charley Wienert of Newark still is {Jack Dempsey tomorrow and fight!, drawing card, a8 witness the an- Ih‘m With one hand tied - inouncement he will meet Jack Her- !the police seem unduly alarmed. Th newspapers tuggest that he has be irited away from the clutches of man this month. But he is through ' jopiswe, as a Madison Square Garden attrac tlon. A sad example of u mau with reat natural gifts who never took | Jim Tracey is seeking relaxation | among the bright lights of Broadway | attcr his Argentina experience. Why g this so-r‘alled vl;anmlon l?l ?Ufi‘fl:r“flihlmzpu reriousiy until it was e late. is traveling so far to take it on the|\Who is the guy who seid that cxperi- | l';{r when he rlomd :-ve got h‘umpl-;'d;enrq is the ivy that grows around a nors S;il‘\“lroa;-pv;rr ::‘1‘; I::v‘ i off Just ax quickly here is not quite:ryin? »attle a Y ently rlen’r. Shortly he §5 18 going to take| thing that promoters puil. Where White-Hicl (Copyright, 1922.) ar of hix hands. which were injured in hif” appeared. but neither his friends nor .- - sames wili be made at the arm ithert Robinzon, | bal = : the loague today. Pre i : 3 : = ': oo Mathewson's Major League Pitching Record. jVear. Club. League. G.. Won. Lost. P.C. Hits, BB. S0. % 1900 New Vork . o i 000 az 6 K 2 1901 New York N 17 6 1 2 wind up its 11902 New York \ation: . i~ k23 154 time as the 1903 New York National . I ;: !1 e —= - 1903 New York Vational ... az 31 g {1805 New Vork Vational ... o 6 153 - (haCEEESSI ca tin New York Nat 12 37 128 [4 inners in the Inter- a2 53 118 League pennant race, had to 1" a3 250 n conditien by playing exhibi-, o 38 1! - : games during the week Which ' o 0 184 8 ntervened hetween the closing of the | 3 38 141 2 International schedule and that of the | 2 34 134 American A ation. 11 31 8. Anether decision to Le made at umr ke the midiron well up and 12 ;} :; meeting will be the season’s opening | let the wriats break just a trifle “ A 4] 5 ;| =t the top of the midiron stroke. - = =0 i 4 ! With jigger, mashie and mashie 17 yearw’ pitehing total. . ... 630 187 I8 3207 e - of the International conflict. l niblick, do not let the wrists break Comparing Four Emperors of Pitching. i S T T | =—in fact, the average player will Their three hest consecutive years of pitehing. YOUNG PITCHERS LEAD | do better it he holds i wrises | ""’"‘“‘“"'“"“I";"’"""" etk ,a' s { firme; d free f: s itcher. Best Yre. With—Club. on. Lost. P NATIONAL LEAGUE LIST SRS frootiem wriskhveaks |y cane. . 901-02-03" Cleveland o1 81 .78 i ::“ '}'.“"' ':“I“"'" "'."“ though |yathewson . 1903-04-03 ork o4 34 736 ¥ e midiron, being at the end of & z 55 Ni 24 B TEo Younesters captured the Honors lomger ahaft, requires the same | Joiinon - D IOITATAs Wasbinmion American. . 84 3% 8 in the National League pitching arrx_\'.l according to the averages made ' public v John A. Heydler today. Bill Ryan of the Giants topped the list in effectiveness as regards earncd runs _per nine-inning game, and F Donohue, the Reds’ young marvel. lea in_percentages of games won and lost. Ryan yielded an average of only & runs per game in 29 conte: Donohue | won 8 out of 10 games. KANSAS CITY GETS ROTH. - b has s n outfield positic 1923 season. Last_spring Roth w a4 member of the New York Amer ained his knee : into the same. PELICANS BUY CATCHER. | NEW ORLEANS. December._11. President Helneraann of the New leans Southern Assoclation club | has announced the purchase of Cateh- | Bradles Hocker from Toledo Ameri- | can Association club. MACK SELLS ECKERT. TORTLAND, Ore. December 11— Charles Eckert, right-handed piteh has been purchased by the Portl ~lub from the Philadeiphia Am he cans. He is to report P of the United States Golf Association = 2 s catng S ey e e e Gl ey asectation: Beginning Tuesday, December 12th A,bglln;d :s part };'fl_\lm nt in ld Rd decided that plavers having a whereby Sammy ale was sold icap of 1 to 6, inclusive, shall be H 1 Philadelphia. paired one with the other: those hav. $20,000 worth. Some but slightly used. Prices start as low at $300- RECOGNIZES U. 5. RIGHT | T0 DEMAND OLYPICS: ' the Associated Press. | AUSANNE. December 1i.—F Pierre da Coubertin, founder of th Olympic_games, and president of the fnternationai Oiympic commitiee, which has its headquarters in Lau- | sanne, on the occasion of a reception | he gave in honer of the delegates to! the newr east peace conference, made an important statement with refer- ance to the future of Olympic game: n the United States and operation of Germans in the games. Baron_de Coubertin sald he did not lieve Europe had the right any long- | o monopolize the Olympic games. is something astounding tile way we on this sido constantls ael the Americans to come to us, without facing the possibility of ever going to them,” he declared. “It will be the in- ternational Olympic committee's duty to make the Olympics henceforth a much more American affatr than ever before. ‘Then. we must think of our numerous friends and follewers in far eastern lands. South American and African fn- terests also have to be taken into con- sideration. I “Such & movement cannot be gov- i bi sort of wrist action that the wood | club takes. The weight of the | midiron hend, however, will upset - | the player's nenxe of control ’ it if he fails 10 keep hiv wrints well under his conmtrol at the | 1 i breaking poin: ‘There is no better golf form in the game than that of Hob We- De icago pro. shown in This pose shows driviog swing as | tly ax it can be shown. Note | hin weight has | his right leg, and | down wtroke, from this position, will give him a perfeet i to the clubhcad to whisk the ———— WOMAN'S GOLF EVENT ENTRY 0 BE LIMITED YORK, December 1f.—De- sion to restriet competition in the women's national golf championship to players having a handicap of not more than 14 strokes has been an- by the women's committee ing similarly class in the pairing shall have handi- | caps of not less than.10. ner more than 14, i3 Side events held at-the women's na:{ - tional championship will be limited | handicap of 7 paired. to 10 shall be while the third to a match against women's par, a} hest ball foursome and a mixed four- | some. A ! WORLD TENNIS TOURNEY " | MAY BECOME A REALITY | EW YORK. December 11.—Poasi- | ¥ that the English Tennis Asso- ! ciation may eventually abandan claim ' to the world's individual champien- } ships granted to Wimbledon by the’ International Federation is seen by Americans as the English body ‘plans to hold its annual meetin ¢ Decision to give up the’ Wimbledon.: award would allow the championship i matches to be played by rotation in ! America. France, Australia or other | countries which have fostered the.| game. i | If the English change is made, it now appears probable that the United | States Lawn Tennis Assoclation will enter the International.. Federation |Such & move, it:{s_understood, would be followed by the erection of at leasr one concrete stadium far-tennis play. i It is understood that.the West Side | Tennis Club, at Forest Hills, L. L., has agreed, under centain conditions, to assume financial responsibility for an American Wimbledon. | - ' an experienced cigar smoker who doesn’t Fino: dicer2 for 250 ) lBaayuet 10c straight i i Wx—:‘&ymm-wm'uh-m'n’m;- dm.:toblend Itis hard to imagine - ji -well_balanced | .of: L And i you do ke thet ~ Drop another 25, | TEN “DROPS”’ Every car will bear a price tag, showing Initial Price and Reduced price each day. Price Changes Take Place at 9 o’Clock Each Morning. It Annual “DROP-DROP’’ Sale of DEPENDABLE USED MOTOR CARS Greatest in Our History—For 10 Days Only! Then on cars remaining—a “DROP” of $25 each day. A $300 car if still unsold on the 10th day—can be bought for $75. By waiting, however, you may lose your car. Each car marked in plain figures and every 24 hours marked down $25 lwer.‘”Brin] m‘: :vm mechanic if you like—but Warrington repre- sentations are invariably found relidble. Comeé Tommorrow—See the Variety Complete. j TERMS IF DESIRED. One-third Down. Balance in TWELVE MONTHS 7 Washington’s greatest and most unique sale of HIGH-GRADE USED MOTOR CARS These prices will also interest dealers udufiow-nicepmfitonr«du. Salesroom Open from 8:30 A. M. to 9 P. M. Watch Our Windew for Daily Specials. erned on a single-centered plan. The e 4 3 plan_must at least be elliptic. As to; KILBANE VS. VRIQUI : & bustness o criticize -the way they are | NEW YORK. December 11 —Johnny' 5 : mrepared. Bach city, when once it is +he Paris games of 1924, it is not our chosen as the seat of coming nma-.l should be mllowed to act freely in ac-; i £ / . cordance with its methods and spirit ;;I‘_:“g.g;‘:;}‘:’”m:‘;:‘,f;:‘;e?’:‘!“fifi( < 14th and Penna. Ave., /A g I 0 R < A R ( : O - We feel confident that Paris finally will| pepublic Athletic Club, has an.| d Washington, D. C... = 5 a.o its best and prove wo: y of 8 OC- nounced. ‘ ‘ ' l' s '_’7-’,7 ] / // » g = “The right of Germans to compete at | s | "] ST 3 o T Rone Dpen Evenings Olymplc games stands above di on. | Princeton’s swimming team inaugs. % G H. P. Cigae-Co., 4 ‘eleop) Justil Olympics are based on the rule that ali | urated the 1933 season by defeating fae. "< North ® Kilbane, world's featherweight cham. pion has signed to. meet Eugene C qui. holder of the Europedn feather- N / istributor : D. LOUGHRAN CO,, Inc. Ui(l games are for all the n;tloui."'nu Lohl‘!&SSfl(o 11. Pflnaeten;wdox! m-:l{ en_ - . ernational Olympic ttee, in my: | plac all events and sesond in 3 2o f&tun, eannot nfi‘ u""&‘&' wory m: ut .tb. lmér-d‘fvih';l' id the $20- g new German members of it.” yarg awlm. WARRINGTON 1800 Fourteenth Street N W