Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1922, Page 43

3 . - . New York Pennant BUYING” OF TITLES { CAUSES ILL FEELING! ! i Giants Clearly Outplay Yanks in World Series—Alli But One of Minor Leagues Finish | Season. | BY JOHN B. FOSTER. INNING o1 the championships of both of the major leugues again | n 1922 by teams representing New York city did not please a! large part of the countr: Neither did it thrill the New York i public itseli to any huge extent, because New York is thrill prooi. It uierely gave the basc ball enthusiasts of Gotham and vicinity a chance to see all the world series games for the sccond y ing home . Students of base i enthusiasm over i bali and casual writers have marveled at th < world series of both years. Yet the answer seem »vious enough. The gods of the hleachers and the aristocrats of the . Folding chairs knew that New Yo could have its world champions = hether the Giants or the Yankees and so they settled themsclves sack to study the work of their favorite players and be critical rather than to go into the seventh heaven of ecstasy over some marvelous wal- p or a derful picked up. “eeding ugslnst New York in a base ! a1l way out in the has been | cep seated for y ck in the “cigh oric Glants firse ned thelr im yortant part in base hall. The natural tagonisin of the emull city for arge was increared in those dav e manifes se of fmportance hich the New Yoric players hemaelves on western fields. I TITLE WINNERS OF 1922 IN THIRTY-ONE LEAGUES | ml;‘::t '(.‘: ::"-“::".l:l; (e teams of the United States in 192 lished herewlth. This ia the way the: both fn the majors and bushes: te finished, in the P Am ¢ . Pax Pacific Coest—Sar Francisco. Interactionai—Baitimare. Westcin—Tuise. G 1 was Sath an woth New ¥ 3 diea 1o pur- ohace leeded : Gtants . Michigan-Ontario—Harsiton, Ont e ral—Grand Rapids, Mich. @ Graco—Blarsville, Appalachiau—Bristol, Va. Nebraska State—Fairbirr., Eastern Connda—Three Rivers Mississipp! Valley—Cedar Rapid Eastern Share—Parksley. Va. K. I. T.—Cairo, Ili. Oklnkoma State—Chickacha West Tezas—Amarillo. were the | irrender to the strength of 1 tional League. ght against, he American i 2 the | the title to the pen-| . League wus not | Was the Iifti ¢ York Americans cut of cighth p . Towa. to the very ——— = f the Philadelphias | S Browns Toush Foemen. i i T St Louis gave the Yankee pionship sure won it In Bo oot i s a Ton by the narrowest of margins. : -“‘,‘ ':“(‘-vl:-x’sh.m to tie las Toston critics are of the op mion | (e I the Americar Leawue that if Peanock, a left-handed piteh },;' i Louis pit Ted been cd againet the New |LCU e % which | York b ‘ Jork Amoricans in the game. <vas played in Boston and which d twee cided the ownershin of tho pe Tinston would have won and the p _ant race would have ended in & 4 they bee ITowever, that Is a matter of personal With v York ¢ recovered Cpinton and like all such theories tm-y possible of demonstration because the | could is ended and the championship |fr @ trin Loss of | 3 922 te decided. gzmes in doudle lLeaders ulso helpe race of 1 » defeat the Browns the pen- | Serfes Short and Sweet. {nant and the st When the world series was played {vedes that Wash manuger con- hiladelphia | w York the champlons of the'snd Bosten took thre ital National l.eague defeated the cham-imoments. which gave s o plons of the American League as they ! hody blow. They é!d it I} Detroit wus th! games. Thegccod be Tiad the year befor quicker time and fev American_League game, although the second contest re- Sulted in a tle, being called on ac- count of darkness at the end oy§ the | e nning. 'Ive games werc ay e 2 1 :?l x.nd fne proceeds of the second ! Those Who Tralled. i ame were given to charity. Half of | Cleveland. in May, found that the| o recelpts were turned over to dis-'team had begun to dry up and imme- | iblea soldiers and half to New York!diately started to rebuild. It won on charfties. There was some question ! its courage when its pitching was not «s to the propriety of calling the:always of the bes ame, but action of that kind is vested , ~Chicago, Washington, fa the jundment of the umpires and |and Boston were the those who know the FPolo Grounds quartet simply becs best are of the opinion that the um-|of their players es were wise in got going too far | second dfvlsion year tching of u1 team did not wIn 2 ! assicted the splendid p oungster ~ by tl who carried the tea h by his brilllant midsummer worl of Pillette, I'hiladelphia | ond division | use the standard , ainst_gathering gloom. _lfrom eighth The New York Glants in the world | cervitu rtos outbatted flelded | Turter thun their T Judgment tl A Th ’ ) ved with - st ev York cans in champiot ittes to ¥ struggle me an {1 TOS¢ to the ! Aghting factors gency They made their best| Paul was the de! icht in the second contest when they In the Int and | pennant and one slded | vercame lead of three, runs 4 the score. In spite of the fact|from the stur 4 cvident that | hat the v Nationals excelled | ;10 team could defeat Baltimore. i n these attribut of base ball which ” H havo been mentioned it is an odd cir- Little Werld Serfes. B tance that the Yankees had such | In the little world serles which was uplendid possibilities. The luck of | played between St. Paul and Balti- hase bull wus against them. There is| more the latter won handily. The! no question as to that. sames wero well attended 1epl: -geason series was played by Siugle Mispiaysi Butal. Fort Worth of the Texas Leaguo and | ; _On three occasions one misplay cost [ yohile of the Southern Association.: them & game and on three cccasions | wopH € O U0 i Mobile after a fine titey threw their chance away when| giryuggle in which the citizens of the! suecess was staring them In the face. [ contending towns rode in excursion, n that respect there has been O | parties back and forth across the world serles like it. The reason foT| Louthwest to See thc games. After | ¢ 18 in the low scores. The Yankees, | xfobile ron from Fort Worth it| T in defeat, never permitted thelr | urdertook to play Tulsa of the West- vivals to g @ b S0, | orn Leugue and was defeated, because while the v - | tte Tulsa pitchers were too good for y couthert: champio the latter Tt Coust Profited by Saules. Qut on the Pacific coast the s was lLetter nor mere cnjc th players and OWHers wer were cspecially grate they managed '? get lr; o teldink ¢’ i lout & quarter of o million dol- s She de D JERt 10 Pars worth of Lall players who will | coruted to give i be seen on castern diamends’in 1933 »f the sudden return to ngel, en outflelding ¥ b s I¥¢1" The Southern Assoclation missed s el ATAYIC | the enthuefastic support of Atlanta kS & lund Birmingham because neither of sames of the Glunts after Htengel Was | (om was provided with the kind of THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHIN Both the Blundon trophics, which have been s | Washington Gun Club for RALPH GREENLEAF E | TROPHIESTO WILLIAM vears. passed into the permanent pos- {session of I P. Williams after yes- terda; trapshoot at the Eenning! grounds. As no other contestant had[ more than twe lcgs on the Blundon! Williams undis- brought into service and the ad-! = s e base ball famou. trophy, it went to iirable werl of thly old felloy lul{H 'S.n"‘"c?‘flif 1 e e amites | puted, but he had to defeat Dr. A. V.| case ball stands out as one of the|In those citles, Afoet of thy €30 | barsons hootoofl for the other! most conspleucus performances in | GBCt SUE VU yohile, with Little prize. Williams ~hattered 15 of 20( cears. Mo was to his team what) poth ST S0E 020 Biniall share. | targets thrown, against a score of 41 any a star pitchor has been to OtheT | g Southern Assoclation will be bet- { (07 Farsons i winning teams. P e e vcat ! Calvert Bowie took the handicap x 5 ! next year. i spoon with a score of 45 in 50 tar-y I Wow Amaxten ¥ink ot Minor Leagues Prosper. | zets ‘h #poon went to Dr. The New York Yankees won theé| 4y of the minor leagues finished |A it of 50 count. | champlonship of thelr league fterlyeir seagons except one. That is an |0 Salave o s el L G ’;‘ “h‘: extraordinary record. It means that! gl I s o o istory of that clrcult eir VICtory Iya5e ball is in much the same condi-{ Wynkoop. #1; Nelson 'Fr 38:} vas the result of the unexpectedly wdmirable showing of Busk, & plcher whom they had obtained from the stor American club. It was their nckiest part of any deal that they e They did not lose anything|©f, the game are upheld. en they obtained Dugan from Bos- | There is no doubt that : 2y thire 3 |been too strong a tends < 2 to play thivd base. Daker hadlmorclalize the aport and that this ex_ | LoD o7 ploitation of dollars rather than basc ' ot stroug cnoush with the Dat 03¢, has caused a feeling of resont- | old up a championship team. Ruthi,one"o) tne phrt of what fs known, us not permitted to pluy with the|as the old guard. To them base huili lub un! e middle of May, and no axd. gemibass e B T T irie met Mg |1s almost & sacred thing, which should o % stand on its merits as a game and Jprles there fu no doubt that Surin€wnich should not rest for It support to_his club. Cincinnati finished second in the Nationa] because of the improvement of the club’s younger players. The team developed consistent pitchers. Pittsburgh was pushed out of sec- ond place in the National at the last moment, the result of one of those lapses in form which were typical of the Pittsburgh club all the year. St._Louls, after being a contender in he National, dropped back to a tle tor third, because the team generally crumpled up when it had its best op- nortunity of years to win a National League championship. tion as it was prfor to the war. will continue to hold its grip upon! the public so long as 1ts general con- ditlons are good and the traditions showman has crept so insiduousiy into the sport that even its strongest men been drifting. Reforms Are Needed. Regulations have been modified to a very slight extent- in the relations between club owners and players, but there is room for many more modifi- cations which shall ténd to destroy the commercial atmosphere and re- | store to the professional side of the game the prevailing eharacteristic of | sport which once dominared it. Some ! part of this can be dons by endinz It | Capt. H. M. Horton. ; Stubener, L. Wiiliam ot N. J., and Donald ¥ town, Ohio, sur round in the !mem at Pinetfurst toda on the theory that it is a show. The|meet in the trophy. contest on Mon- day. ed midwinter zolf tourna- j combined foot hall and base ball field { ‘ ! {REEKIE TO MEET PARSON ! IN GOLF TOUR NEY FINAL' December 30— Upper 3 r, on of Youngs-. the semi-final } and will | Reekie played against T. Russell and 2. John F. N Y. have been blind to where they have|Brown of Montclair and won by 4 Parson wen by 5 and 4 from Dailey, of Rochester, HERZOG WANTS BENTON CASE GIVEN AN AIRING |* BALTIMOR, Buck Herzog, who star, Rube Md.. December 30— | major leagne tioned in se Chicago. Brooklyn, Philadelphia and {the trafiicking in plavers tor huge!pall Commissioner Landis. < the Hoston made up the second divislon | sums of money and ultimately it will | affair reopened. and has retained | ,¢ the Natlonal Lesgue because their |hove to be done, as the principle of | Charles H. Knapp as his attorney. eugth was not great enough to|the practice is bad and th Knapp LR waun TaDRae Il The out- reesary tax upon nd division i Ww 13 an un jan wnn ! baving = cdyiser fo < Jack _Dunn's Te: GTON, Monopoly Hurts Game : Pugilism Thrives Despite Flat Year NATIONAL CHAMPIONS OF PAST YEAR Rocers Horngsy EXTERMINATOR. and JOCREY EARL SANDE. RECRUIT MYATT EXPECTED THSS IS A TOUGH LIFE! TO STAR WITH CLEVELAND BY JOHN B. FOSTER. LW YORK, December 30.—It was expected today that the Cleve-| land American League club will announce the addition of ‘;\Iyalt,i catcher of the Milwaukece club, to its playing staff shortly after ! January 1. Cleveland, however, is not going to get Myatt without putting !out a healthy amount of cash. The price is claimed by some to have becn | and certainly the roundelays Otto Borchert, the Milwaukee club | N 330,000, W has 1 CHAMPI(BNS FOR 1922 IN THE BIG LEAGUES Base “Per cent carned runs per me. “Won 26, lost 7. NATIONAL i Hitting—Hornsby, St. Louis 401 Pitching—Ryan, New York. 00 Donsiue, Cinciuna ‘o7 | g 141 152 Home runs—Hornsby, Bt. a2 Base stesling—Carey, Pittsburg] 51 Per cent earned Tuns per mine-inning | game. t “Won 18, lost 8. SWIMMING TITLE SEEN | FOR AUSTRALIAN GIRL | Theima Lawler of Svdney. a} ¢ sixt rs of age, is lauded i comiug middle-distance swim- mpion of Australia. { annual $80-yard race! girl ¢ as th ming cha She won th for the Annette Kellerman cup, and New South Wales swimming expe predict she will become an Interna- | tional star. i STADIUM FOR SAVANNAH TO BOOST SPORT THERE : Savannah will copstruct a modvr*‘ on the ground inclosed by the race; track in that vity. | It may help secure professional base bdll for the city. The improve- ments will be directed by the tri»lmze; exposition auto races, and a big foot ball match will help put Savannah on the sporting map. — SYRACUSE U. IS TO ADD i 0 ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT | Syracuse is about to add to its ath- | letic equipment. { The new Hendricks Field will in-, clude twelve acres and consist of base ball section. quarter-mile run-. ring track, practice foot ball field, la- crosse field, several tennis courts, women's hockey fleld, outdoor basket ball rectangle and several fleld | honses i e nnprovements vl cose D. €, cen singing about Myatt always had 30.000 notes in them. | of the former champion whose ef- Franc but de.: Carpentier had. Moreover, = American Assoclation managersbe.| fOFts to obtain ring < ready for the match., ' leoked to be upon the ley o firmly that Myatt will make| hAve proved fruitlens. re experts who believe t good in th | Jack has hobhed up again, laid 2 it 1o get San Francisco piteher. | they have a man who will make a| winner in_the majors and that he wiil | do s well with the Reds as he did| . 2 3 e ; Cend {on the coast in 1822, If that is the | with other cities which have fostered this sport for some time. Intro- lout. Tendler guined u case, Cincinnat! more than ev | dueed at the local club 1 1 e S Sl anthE oS the carly rounds, but E i dueed at the local club late last year, the game in fourtecu months fight Leonard began to make pr DECEMBER 31, 1922—SPOR! S _SECTIO IN MANY BRANCHES OF ATHLETICS ITHRILLS ARE FEW, BUT CROWDSGOOD. Dempsey’s Enforced Idieness ! Reduces Interest—Several Titles Change Hands. BY FAIR PLAY. E is were concer: ort of pugilism fell pret the vear 1922. wever, the boxi a degree comparah’s onal and qua 1 inter gencral interc is chared b fir the sport ief thousands wl orm ally N ention pugilistic affa t as idlc du XhibiL WILLBATILE DENPSEY, STRANGLER LEWI SYS avyweiziit ay that arrenge er. Up oWl guns. knocking all or But his 19. the two are to beh as how & consisted chiefly, of the poor dden. and as a_climax his defes: Marry Greb in New York. He di ¢ great class against Miske, wh The problem is wheth playing possum toward u battle wi:’ just what huppened * « made this match. Th E ¢ details to be work ©u can think wl it. but when & re indie: i rether 3 7 ASK OLD JACK JOHNSON | emember John Arthur Johnsen, Madison utpunch Sguare 4 the \ eter: 1 Arthn, better known as Jack, . ; who xrabbed the avywelight WICHITA, X good, rough and ready 1 puxiiistic championship of the Tom L < walloper."bul_ i 'no genve of i a a: Cichita, over whose cor great fighte: Pl e e T s o1 3300000 offer for & mixed b The Américan lightweight chaw the ancient Jim Jefferies and caused fistiana to institute & search of many years' duratiom for a white hope which finally was sup- plied in a ring at H: by I Willard? plonship_was taken from Gene Tu: ney of New York, by Harry Greb of Pittsburgh. This title battle w built up originally through & fig! Detween Tunney and Battling L. 4 vinsky, the aged natiomal title o in Wie Lewis ita between Bd and Jack Dempses ler’ made to Jack Kearns, knows nothing Was { of signed articles drawn at Wichita | for the bout. he sald today. Jack was mecused of mERY | | ANGELES, Callf., Decembor bolder from whom Carpentier had things, and after a I:d-c exile flv-‘ | —Jack Dempsey said today he won the weorld light-heavy title som. this country returned, “dowm amd | "y .y informed articles had been' monthe before the Frenchman an out” and served a term im jail. | oo 3% 2 mixed bout between Lim. Dempsey met. Tunney hand even les Since littlc has been heard o ! trouble in disposing of Levinsky tha: [4 ’ | self and Ed “Strangler an L this time in New York, where h wax arrested fo regulntion. In paying hi Johnxon expluined to the couri— wet thin—<that hix $10,000 automo=- batted lik LOTS OF GO re 1,824 watched S e hile wax a little hard to mannge.” Joe Lynck Came Back. e s e e BRinE bit more often ~ 3 . former ti powerfuily than der, when d the slck ur catchers now in bas: £ d Johnny Buff of Jersey City : tivity. Mudisor, Squure Garden. v Myatt i the player who was id later Panclo v wn in” in a trade with Milwau- | B Y EA N IN (‘API’I' Buff out of his national kee, but at that time Myate had not 4 Jiitle, Vitt bails from the P Islands and hus had one of the thrown out as many ranners for Con- | nie as he has since for Borchert. A lot of old National League play- ers out on the Pacifle coust think that i f Cincinnati has been able Mitchell, the | remarkabe rises pugilism has k in_some time. The high-licht battle of the took place one summer night i amous arena o Jersey City nd Lew Tendler fought t deforred battle. It wasa n ITH racquets hecoming morc popular every day among he members of the Racquet Club. it probably will not be man 1 years before Washington will be able to compete on even terms | W squa Boyle's Thirty Acred S where Benny Leonar ir lor / rs to be the team that w lenge the Giants (Copsrij ress and at the end was deing n than holding his vwn decisions went to Leonard. «w real battle and when Tendler lconard meet next summer, as the: surely will, the chancee are that feud between the two boys wiil settled for good and all, With Johnny Vil:on, who holds ti attracted enough players to warrant the scheduling of three-club tourna- ments and an intercity match this winter. The Racquet Club ha:ijoined i the National Squash Racquets Association, which was organized about CREWS CLASH IN MARCH. | twelve years ago, and may send a five-man team to the national cham- The annual 4-mile rowing race| pionships in Detroit in February. between Oxford and Cambridge var- TS rent i Sty 8-oarediaheniFcrewsiillite heldyon danuatyilh senloniend Hunior " SIKI SUES FIGHT CHIEF. | New co: mission bestowed the title upon Da Rosenberg of Brooklyn. Some ti: after this benefuction Rosenberg w over the Thames course, London, |club handicap events will be started, ; itie, Larred fro : March 4. The” intervars sporu;land entries already recorded indicate e e will take place the same day atja sizable list of competitors in these { eager to do buttie i1 commomnwealt! s i | o araeval (imhess Gontasiaiaally oony | RonSEAlese SBoxer Sensws "LOOLSYnee ghis agpeirance wodld be pory ork uthletio — —— —— | SCTV® 28 PrOparatory affairs for the to Restore His Standing. mitted, the SOME OF THE CHAMPS [elub championship to be conducted in February. filed a sult in the ¢ 5 i » : 2 "| Mike O'Dowd, former middlewelg! DETHRONED THIS YEAR| A team will be sent to Baltimore against Paul Rosseau, prestdent of Htlchorder. With O'Dowd teading by - ! Jake Schaefer, billiards. January 13 for a match with the no prench Boxing Federation, for|goodly marglin. Rosenberg fouled 2 { Baltimore Athletic Club. Seven pla¥- 4y nulment of his ~e-month dis- | opponent uud was disqualified LI T iers aro to compete. Those regarded ification and for restoration of | Michael is now, by grace of the ! York Commission, middleweight * pion of the world.” ‘This titl ever, ix only locally recognis none too ardently even in Ne: Johnny Kilbane, world's champio: featherweight, has been inactive : year, as usual. Last spring he went t. Europe, but the enormous sums o money he asked for letting Eugeue Criqui take a shot at his chin causcd Kurope to give him a cold shoulde: There are chances that Criqui w come over here this year and that Ki! bane will agree to mect him. Johnny Dundee retains his tit], juntor lightweight champion (a York distinction) and would like a as likely selections for the team are | his title -§h‘ki‘urup«-fln ‘helvi‘_\-:;ll_l‘:; R. W. Wigglesworth, Coleman Jen- | hamplon, which he wop from Geors nings, Dwight F. Davis, Horace Green, | ~The sult was a result of Rosseau's G. Quincy Peters. L. E. M. Crocker fajlure to answer formal summons and Arthur Hellen. served upon him last week, direct- The game certainly has established | jig him to produce within three days fteelf at the Raoquet Club. In No-|ind records upon which Siki was di vember of last year not more than|gylified. The Senegalcse boxer re thirty players registered for COUrts | sgerts, in the action begun toda but now more’than 160 are intersste’ | his contention that the federation cburts at the club are in daily use, | 2ction was illegal because he was | cach court for an ayerage of ten| half-hour periods. i !""Otte Glocker, professional, who isj Johnny Buff (twice), boxing. Georges Carpentier, boxing. attling Levinsky, boxing. Tunney, boxing. ome,run hitting. G Babe Ruth, Morvich, running herse. Harry Arnat, rowing. D’Arcy Hadfleld, rowing. mamoku, swimming. fiford, gol Jim Barnes, golf. Walter Hagen, golf. Miss Marion Hollinw, golf. W. L Hunter, golf. Miss Cecil Lelteh, golf. Jock Hutchinon, golf. not allowed to give his testimony. Stanislnus Zbyssko, wrestling. developing the Rucquet Club players, | Frank Kramer, cycling (retived). |believes that within ten years the; New much to fight Benny Leonard for Tommy Wilton, auto racing. { ame will be plaved in splend] ightwelght crown. But as i the pa Tommy Murphy, karncas driving. |tant !ty in America .| ment. 3 the champlon has ignored the Scotc Newell Banks, checkers, | At present it ham a firm hold inThe 1im bership ha: { Wop, so will he probably in the fu | Philadelphia. New York, Boston, Bal- ! placed at 609, There promises to b: ture. The public belleves that thi Mavhe Detroit. 2 good mateh 5 Cleveland. Chicago fhustle amons { timore. ching. dand M s citie he 6.000 members of | would be other | the uivis 4 ing capidly Charle Scadun vvks, yolv. Pty