Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1922, Page 30

SPORTS MARYLAND CITY WARNED WASHINGTON IS A BIDDER Griffith’s Plan to Enlarge Ball Park Seating Capacity to Accommodate 50,000 for Gridiron Clash Stirs Civic Activity in Monumental Cit; BY DENMAN THOMPSON. HE possibility that Washington ultimately may be the scene of the ul of all sporting spectacles—the Army-Navy foot ball game—is cunsing no small degree of municipal concern in Balti- more, which also is in the ficld as a rival to New York and Philadelphia for the honor oi ::. ging the annual gridiron classic With its sp. 15 new stadium—Venable Fieid—having a seating capacity in excess of 40,000, formally dedicated early this month when the yearly contest between the 3d Army Corps and Marine elevens was staged there, available as 2 site for clashes between the moleskin-clad warriors of West Point and Anni.poliis, the prospect of the nation’s capital stepping in and grabbing the plum is causing considerable apprehension in the | most color Baltimore Fears District May Ge Las no to accom- that Army-y i | hington plant of sutficient capacit rodate must be t: the enormous t ien care of at 1 there BLOUIN NEARS SHITH Right now W3 is little hope uld be induced to ap- SR INBONUNG EONEST hat the Wash- ple and willing accommodation I club ix ovide s e has started the civie bee to buzzing T at a furious rate in Baltimore. B CAR. Decemien | Clark Grifith admittedly is in the | Blouin. Chicago, world champion | field to bring the prize plum of all | POWIer. last night hit his stride in} b Washington. He . the fifth block of the sixty-game o fercnse the seating | clzssle tournament, putting him prac- I SEILHE Taci Tath natk 6t Iy even with’ Jimmy Smith " of a ' 50.000 by endi S ukee. g grounds at ith and Florida avenue:£ames is: Smith, 23019-30; Blouin, If assurance can be given that this 3¢ ab Tt i contest will be held at least every | Smith and Blouin each have won other vear in the mations capitai,| (WeNty-five games, Smith having total of 10 The grand 205 19-30 and Biouin 9 pins and Blouin 10.21 average of Smith 2043-30 pins. where. he contends, it properly should | be beld. Tt is this fact that prompted the inditenzent of the following by W. Wilson Wimgate in today's issuc of the Bultimore Sun: ! Cnpital Seen aseRival. i “Washington is beginning more and | more to loom up as an ob: iievement of the recently concelved it energetically pursued ambitions ! cle to the between in wh Last night's match of Baltimore to take its place in the of ‘big time' sports events. Most ' i T e s Svelo it aet ot winnine cames. wis | atost activity of Clark Grifith | Rotable for tua it marked 1t of the Washington buse balj | the season's debut of inny™ Car- ! = = roll. the Roy lead-off n Car- | roll had made pp his mind not to roli this the eaxon. but when he wlitnessed | defeats of the Royals™ his i 1 said that the ‘Old Fox' admit- | ted a few davs ago that his club hasi ground on which it is situated. This | RS ] plot f several hundred feet square ! e L e e e nd at some future time. of course, | 5! e s ill he used for further extenslons to | Were 332. 540 and 330, N. Chaconas the Washing e of the Nationals grabbed the homors | “an i< very Sienificant. Only | ith a high same of 135 and a set of | Tast wirter the ol 000 to | 367 ! erease its seating from = ] 3000 to 21600, Present aims| Hustling Jim Baker. manager and | cture with ting of the Wash n Ladies' | 090, is evident onj has started digg in for the that it is not 1 <t of the two girl feam< to Phila- s in the near 4 next month. The league's al- | ave heen rhed over to bi day night, | Januiry and all the Ipts will - used tc - the expenses of the Phiiadelphi: s almast refres added atiractions. The league friends and it goes without ying that on the henefit night, the | 1alleys and hall will be jammed. = i i el the ne e vall uses. It 1 of a park of The answer, is_the possibilitie: luring the a Navy Game. suld be a safe bet that the ne ‘is the particular that is acting as the petus behind the movement in the Capital city. Griffith has not falled to recognize the sound of the coin of the realm trickling into the treasure | box of the New York National League club, at the grounds of which—until this vear—for several seasuns the big ot under way last night at the King Pin alleys, the Bureau of Engraving | and Hiram Cash Post being the con- . testants. Casi Post_won all three | 2 with scores of 567, 520 and 485, | McGuire of the winners had hig contest has been held. An Nave afternoon 1% always a|335. and Moore the best game, 1 Very profitable one for the ham |1arge crowd was on hand. i magnates, for one-third of e re- —— In the Washington Ladies' League | last night. Western Union won two | out of three from the Mount Pleas- | ants. Jennie Malcolm of the defeated | ceipts—the rental charged—probably means about a $30 000 increase in the ize of the excl It Griffith the assurance that the Army-) mame will be made a permanent Washington affair, or even an everv-other-vear event, | work on the 50.000 capacity plant wili | not be slow starting. It is by noj means unlikely. in the light of recent events, that Griflith and the people back of him have had some promise relative to the Army-Navy game. An Indication, Perhaps. Perhaps the surrounding scheduling_of and arranging for Frinceton-N: for 1923 and e hesitaney rned toi ore is to bet game. 112, and high set, 317 Independents of the same league ! won two out of three from the Sales* Tax girls, Miss Christenson having | high game of 104, and Della Smith, the | best set of 279. | | rtment quint of the Ter-! minal League. won all three . games from the A. R. team last night. Herbert of the victors had| pigh game. 126, and high set of 317. [, Car D In the Masonic League New Jerus-| em captured the odd game from the 1 cntire career. 11894, and those who predicted a great | \batting carcer for the young Kansan ' bases, and it was not untl: last season ! that Carey passed him as Pittsburgh's team. carried off the honors with high , © |ins to Believe It or Not. 27107185, of vnL, |,259 Les.oF FAT £up 1,273 L8s. OF BUTER MR. AD MRS. FRANK SCOTT, cf LaportTd. HAE 13 CHILUREN UNDER 5 YEARS OF AGE (3 sttot:fv‘m and 2 pars o tuxns) L Bors G.HECKER, 1ouswlle, w36 MADE 21 A5 A ScoRED ITRUNS ' 29 Times AT AT N S CONSECUTIVE GAMES. FRED CLARKE RANKED UP - WITH BEST IN OLD DAYS BY FREDERICK G. LIEB. EW veterar F and managing { pennants for the Smoky city in 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1909. A - | turesque Wagner would have had difficulty in beating out the aggressive Buccaneer chief in a popularity contest. of the past ever held the grip on the fans of his city as Fred Clarke did in Pittsburgh when he was playing leit field g the crack Pirate team. which won National League en the pic- Clarke’s method of crashing into the big leagues was typical of his He broke in with a rush. In his first big league game American Legion Bowlfng Leaxue | Clarke banged out five hits, four singles and a triple, in five times at bat. { This is one rezcrd whic® probably will stand for some time, a rookie breaking in with five hits in his initial game. Clarke got his five hits off “Cannon times at bat. did not miss thelr guess by much. | Cobb and Lajoie each . Ball” Gus Weyhing, pitcher for the appeared officlally at bat €09 times A [ Philadelphia Nationals, on June 30, only once in their long careers. i Fred also could dash around the Fred hit over .300 in eleven of his!Sreatest baserunner. “Scoops’™ total {0 .406 in 1897. Five times in his career Clarke. he scored over 100 runs a season, his | big scoring years being 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901 and 1902. The hefy Kansan is one of the few big leaguers who completed his plz ing career with over 3.700 total bases. |last day He had the unique distinction of go- : Clarke at 601 times fn 1896 It isiwith .355, very rare for any player, star or or- tied at .351 dinary performer, to have 600 ofiicial | point away. "tacylar However, FRED CLARKES MAJOR LEAGUE BATTING RECORD. fracas is an indication of the ori ederal team with the scores 495, 494 | Year. Clu League. H the cross current that is making the|and 492 Federal smashed the pinsi 1594 onai s7 weather vane perform in eccentric | for 530 to win the final game. Jacobs i 1885 Natlonal 197 shion. of the winners had the high set of ' 1996 Loulsvillo— National 169 At any rate, it is obvious that the |319, while Wedding of the losers had | 1807 onal 213 nayors committee appointed to walt | the high game, 131. | 1808 le National 180 on West Point and Annapolis officials | Naval team won two out of three, 1898 lonal 200 &t the moeting to be held to work out; from Hops, with 530. 451 and 492.1 1900 ona 1z details relative to tie 1923 contest | Hough of the winners had high game. | 1001 Pittsburgh, National 108 will find that Washington has been |127, while the high set honors went! 1902 Pittaburh Nation: 148 added to Philadelphta and New York to Donaldson of the losers, 336. 19 Plttsburmh N 150 as a rival for future service classics. | Hough's set was just one pin behind | 1904 Pittaburgh N 85 Agrerment Will Go. { Donaldson. | 1005 Fittaburah National 157 e 1 'ittsburgh N onal 129 ot B ltmere m o having €] Stewwn Unit of the Internal Rev-| 1907 Pittsburah Natiomal 165 e oo an " fearnaeare of ienue league whitewashed the Solic- | 1908 Pittshurxh 146 Washington on the point of graduat. |1tors With the scores 472, 483 and 466 | 1009 Pittaburgh 1 188 e T e Same lasw, it {5 Rardly , Yeatman of the winners grabbed the | 1010 Pittnburah N 13 probable that the present agreementhonors with high game of 112 and 1911 Flttaburah N = to stage no Army-Navy game south high set o SiZ. | 1813 Fittabureh Nattoual 1 ; ey e - rgh National z 1t behooves this city to keep ever- | prothers aunt ¥ or (W 0" winner's 3 P — — Tastingly on (he Job it it hopes ever to | oM Mevore Shop. AR, wianers Total, 21 years . 2204 8584 1620 2703 secure an Arm game, for those | pocketbookically interested in the Na- tional Capital are likely to get a lot of assistance from official Washing- ton, nearly all of which, including the cabinet officers and very often the President, annually attend this strug- gle” of the winners had the high set. 291, and Pretler the high game of 112. | g é Nationnl Savings Trust Com- pany won the ¢dd game from the Second National in the Bankers' League. with the scores 430, 510 and 496, Pollock of the winners grabbed the honors with a set of 339 {und Scharf had high game of 121. YANKEE BEATS BRITON. TRENTON: N. J. December 19.— Tommy Gerard, claimant of _the featherweight championship of New Jersey, won a shade over Joe Sy- monds; former English titleholder, fn 3 & Stengel und!a tweive-round bout last night. \'out::‘g‘:v‘r "u'_t‘,ffinl‘.fx'l' ::m?tl‘.]zisl, and | Was Symonds’ first appearance in an@ fifth to the Jensen-Ousey combination | American ring. [ —_— CLEVELAND PAIR ROLLS TO FRONT IN DOUBLES | COLUMBUS. Ohio, December 19— Rolling 1.218, Griebel and Mercurio, a Cleveland pair. annexed first place in the doubles standing of the Cen- tral States bowling tournament here. of Terre Haute, Ind., with 1.202, W. Robinson of Louisville rolled: 647 for ffth position in lhn-}dngli‘s{ and T. Owens. also of Louisville,| took the lead in the all-events stand- . ing with 1,913. e THORMAHLEN RELEASED. 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Mattern, Distributor | ightecn scasons as a regular, rising | steals now are b31., against 527 for Clarke never led the National League {in batting. Even Keeler beat him out the year he hit .406. Kansar took part in the most spec- batting race | League ever put on, | in 1903 remalning in doubt until the of the seasop. teammate, finally won leaving Clarke and Donlin and Bresnahan only one the the National the leadership Wagner, out BRGNS RS S R SRR RSSO R —By RIPLEY. 1 M TOHNSON RAN 200 MILES N30 HOURS .(.....‘\L-k Brovidence (922 MIDGET SMITH SHADED IN SCRAP WITH CURTIN JERSEY. CITY. N. J.,, December 19.— | won the newspaper decision over { Midget Smith in a 12-round fight last night. The midget put upa whirl- wind finish. but it was not enough to overcome the lead his opponent re- ceived in the earlier rounds. Smith met Curtin in_order to have the New Jersey and New York state boxing commissions lift his suspen- | sion S0 he could fight Joe Lynch, ban- | tamweight champion, at Madison | Square Garden, New York c:ty, Fri- | day night. Smith's chances of meeting the title- holder depended upon the outrome of | the fight last night. Whether he will ! meet Lynch Friday is regarded by sport writers us problematical. i ' ISMITHK.0.S TURNER | IN RAPID-FIRE ORDER ! CANTON, Ohio, December 19.—Jeff Smith. Bayonne, N. J., knocked out Clay Turner, St. Paul Indlan, in the second round of their scheduled twelve-round bout here last night. They are light-heavyweights. Smith had his opponent in distress after the first thirty seconds of fight- ing, flooring him in the first round for a count of seven. WILSON WHIPS KATZ. 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Klepper. principal owner of the Portiand Paclfic Coast League club, has telegraphed Jack Kearns, manager for Jack Dempsey, an | offer of $350,000 for a ten-round Boxing match for the heavy- weight champlon of the world between Demprey Jess Wil- lard here July 4 mext. Willard, who ix here, anld he was agreeable to the proposal. SRITONCOMES TOULS, TOPLAN OCEAN EVNT NEW YORK, December 19.—The Duke of Leinster, British sportsman. | as arrived to arrange with Willam | W. Nutting. «ditor, whose challens: he accepted, the details of a trans- atlantic race in forty foot ketches. | or auxiliary sailbo: planned for| next summer. { Discussing the proposed contest, the Duke said that he would rather ketches be sailed Ly one man| each, but that he had acceded to Mr. Nutting's request that two man i boat. Mr. Nutting will be accom- panied by F. W. “Cascy” Baldwin, the | Canadian yachtsman. who was one of his two companions when he crossed the Atlantic in the Typhoon, a smal ®all boat, in 1920. The duke will be accompanied by a servant. The British sportsman has not vet| decided whether to build a ketch here | or bring his own from Ireland. ] | | | FULTON STOPS MORRIS IN THE FOURTH ROUND TULSA, Okla., December 19.—Fred Fulton, Rochester, Minn, heavy- scored a technica' knockout over Carl Morris of Sapulpa in the fourth round of their scheduled ten- round bout herc last night Morris' second threw in the towel , with Carl on the floor for the third time in the round and secmingly on the verge of a knockout. e BUFFALO. N. Y.. December 19.—Ted Myers of Buffalo, 132, defeated Harry Cook, 130, of lowa. in a ten-round de- cision bout last night. WALKER OUTPOINTS KRUG: SHADE TO BY FAIR PLAY. N EW YORK, December 19.—On least, such a hattle will be arranged for Dave, he is ready Dave went over to Newark last night to see Micke: of Harrison, N. a weak spot with Shade in the past. tive when it came to discussing prospects of getting into the the Jersey man. Hercafter, though, which the welter champion put hi: he will take courage and leave nothing undene to clinch the match. For eix of the twelve rounds in the Walker-Krug fight over in the New- ark Armory friends of the welter king sat looking with dazed faces while Krug's left whistled into Mickey's countenance. It was like one of those movie comedians who can't seem to get out of the way of a stream of water. By the end of the six rounds Walker's face would have looked like nothing at all had it not been for the fact that Krug's wallops are light. Light is right. If the gl he wore had been a little bigger Walker might have thought that Philly was making him a Christmas present of & flock of nice. downy mzttresses. Krug is clover all right. There are few boys with a niftier left. But if he were to wallop a cream puff with | haps some otliers of that circuit, and it may be frowned on b, will be a contest between Mickey Walker and Dave Shade of fences to California for the welterweight championship of the world. At N. .. mingle, and he was prepared 1o be scared to de “Irlsh” Johnny Curtin of Jersey City, | by the showing Walker was going to makc. Mickey has been sort t Army-Navy Game : Home Run Reform Doomed ' MAGNATES WILL OPPOSE ANY RULES ALTERATIONS Minor Leaguers Particularly Firm Against Increasing Legal Distance From 235 to 300 Feet, Which Would Scrap Their Small Parl BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, December 19.—Reformers in base ba'l are not N receive any reverberating chicers when they start to reiorming the home run. Any plan for an altered standard for the home run apparently will have the opposition of the New York National League club, the Philadelphia National Leaguc club a fikely to itseif. 5 Mention of a modification of the playing rules in regard swats has sct the minors by the ears. They do not want anyth kind. Not ail the minor league clubs are blessed with fine ficlds ar ornate stands, and they want home runs to continue to be atted w in their little old parks just as they always have been. e There is no real desire to hit home run bhetween the eyes and /| it out of husiness for all time. Th = Who belleve that a change w be attempted which would do with home runs have got the impres The Intent is to » ardize the homer so that four-sack hits will be now symmetrical Thi despite the fact that the home rus right now is about the most stand ardized thing. cxcept the Bauges ot railroad t: ) SHOW “QUEER” INCIDENT PARIS, December, 19.—A close study of the film of the Carpent iki The stun for Ruth and fight shows that Francois Descamps, under Ruth 225 feet. Any hit t Iianager of the French boxer, went 16 B0es 235 feet and at the same t Sikis corner in the fourth round and Eo¢s over a fence or barrier is a id something o Hellers, the agel-se's manager, according story printed by L'Auto today. Ser to gal home run. Hence need to standardize standard. there is no what alrcady s a The journal reealls that aceording g to Siki's allegations It was In the W ouid Affect Many Parks. Tousih connd ondt ihe Hesird Suggestion has been made ad- ranged to allow himself 16 he vocates of a change that the standard abariat of the box- . made ¢ 2 Cederation: it an interview -witn Do mado 300 e Somie: Jump, ¢ aid that for the manager of | 65 feet are to added o the ri- buxer to talk to the manacer of |quired distance for a hu v another wit a bout was ia progress measuring poles wiil have to be st jconstituted a very serfous fault up in both left and right field at the The journzl a that as th f"'!“;f" Polo Grounds, in right ficld in the s e e oht® | National ground at Chicago the e el el s bt Philadelphia National park, the Cle gl 3 land ground. the Brookiyn ficld a perhaps in the new Yankee stadiu here On wost of the big league fields the left field «tands are just a trifie GET TITLE GO | minor leagucs ndicappe fences in , outside the 5 - | the 300-foot big battles of the winter 1o Le left alone eir purks a 1it, but with The minors want h the came o'd were cleared s on the e of t when they if Mickey Walker docsn't balk. As and Philly Kruz JERMAN GETS DECISION IN FIGHT WITH KAPLAN MERIDEN, ¢ December 19. Bale Herman of Califoruia won twelve-round decision over Louis Kid" Kaplan of Meriden at the Na- tional A C. last migar. G > ter an even round, Herman all his might his fist would bfl"fl”:gé‘z away to a clear lead in the sec- back. What happened in the fisht| ond by a series of left hooks, which was that Krug, who outweighed |had Kaplan wobbly until just before Mickey by some seven or eight|the bell. . pounds, planned a line of battle in| Herman won five of which he would jab his opponent with | rounds. with three ev his left throughout the twelve rounds. aplan weighed The scheme worked until after the - d He never see ) be v v talka- g with when he remembers the manner in features in the way of Krug's leit the twelve 9 and Herman 12! sixth. Up to that time Walker looked | more like a dub than a champion. He ! oot enuldn't get shed of that pesky | NUSS BATTERS MULLANEY. ft ginning with the seventh.| MILWAUKEE Wis. December 18.— the tearful entreaties of Jimmy Nuss, | pile in regardless of | Eddie Mullane: T found that Krug's weight, in sev:: ently powerful to | The bout was it ran, Walked : boxing commisson when Muilaney !was in a bad way and evidently no match for his opponent. Wis., defeated Oh'o, weite as t night. ped by the state alk s not sufiici expense, left w keep him at ba shaded Krug. (Caprright, 19 LA In their Senator Excellente . Blunt (inglasjar) 2 for 25¢ CONGRESS CIGAR COMPANY, Manufacturers, U. S. A. The Quality Cigar Since 1896 beautiful, glass humidor La Palina Blunts make a Christmas gift sure of appreciation. 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