Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1923, Page 25

SPORTS. | Pitchers to Get Early Start This Year : No International Polo for Americans MAJOR MOGULS REALIZE VETERANS MUST PRODUCE| Pleveland Club Is Credited With Smart and Heroie Action in Starting to Rebuild Before 1922 Season Was Six Weeks Old. FIVE BALK ¥y BABE RUTH UNDERGOES OPERATION ON HIS ARM NEW YORK, January 17.—Babe Ruth underwent an operation for the removal of & small uleer from Ris left forearm at St. Vincent's Hospital today. He appeared unexpectedly in New York from his farm at S bury, Mass., shortly after mid- night, and went at once to the hospital. He went to a hotel an hour after the operation. ING LEAGUES HE EVENING STAR, FLOYD JOHNSON TO MEET WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, MASTER IN TOM GIBBONS| BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, January 17.—O0h, well, of course, what must be must be. N And sure as shooting it will be, unless all the dope, prognosti- cations and soothsayings are wrong. All of which is a wurrah, wurrah moan over the fact that Charley | Cook is playing the card too far away from his-thumb in agreecing to | match his Floyd Johnson meal ticket with Tommy Gibbon | o > { ue, the young lowa giant will PR & . S et o > BY JOHN B. FOSTER. | nave o tuke a smay roverse or two| O} AIMING' RING TITLE | EW YORK, january 17.—After the greatest year of developiaent in EW YORK. January 17—In less than a month from today the ! in tho coming .twelve months while ! its history American polo will rest from international compe! N pitchets of several major leagues clubs will search out their red| | | inava £5. know Defors e couta hone| - .FOR’PINKEY MITCHELL the coming season and leaders in the sport will concentrate on P flannels and the rubber sweat shirt and get ready to seek a hmi e 1,’," "”"fm“"{l‘,‘"“"‘fé"{’,‘lg’t‘ {?Pk;;‘h:'yt - MILWAUKEE, Wis., January 17. development of the younger players in preparation for 1924, the p: 4 g o . = . | does .8 n is T n PRy . . . R A L sedis { > —/The Wisconsin boxing eommis- W ¢- | association decide s annual mate. More hurlers will be sent to do early preliminary work to get| NEw YORK, January 17.—Statistles | his career he should be sent EAINSt| sir Yareatens 1o wiasrae toow | - NEW YORK, January 17.—Bob M- |assoc ecided at its annual meeting here. ; : 1130t eo ion for the season to come than ever before. Owners {reveal that the five minor base ball perhaps the most dangerous enemy | ypo' Natiomal Boxing Association, | Allister, the “fiying cop,” and Loren Interest will center in home tournaments and in aiding the grow : S £ 3 e testine the | Ne gould be called on to face outslde| according to information here to- | Murchison, the fleet sprinter from St.|of the college game, which was renewed last year by Yale and Princeton { the major league clubs are not shutting their eves to the fact that they |leagues which are protesting the | of Dempsey himself. i day. following word from New |;.,i5 will renew their competition,|T0 stimulate interest the association will establish a limited goal cham e to produce something better in the pitching line than they have [more strenuously against the reap-| THe SCrap. is to be held in March| yori ‘that the mationnl organizac . pel 7 L nuki i £ G fthelos basls haddicas Lot foie wn, if they e to be successful 2 co| @t Madison Square Garden. That| tion would mot. recognize Pinkey | Which began here Tuesday night, at!pionship tournament for teams of twelve goals handicap, limited to fow own, if they are to successiul. o5 i 5 _ _|plication of the draft by the two givew Cook's protege and the hope of Mitchell of Mlilwaukee as the- | the Fordham University indoor games |802ls individual handicap, which may be held in connection with the an Fhis ’.mmn to the leaders of 1922 as well as, to the tail-enders, for | major leagues were less affected by| the fans for a new heavywelght | Jumior welterweight champion. Saturfay night. nual junior championship. t leaders possess a lot of old pitching talent which may show signs [its operation last year than all of | champ, not quite two months in Mitchell récently was awarded & | et ek —~ e — ] _The tournament for the national opes: v rot about mext June, at which time some managers may wake to |the other small leaguex and that the | moic h(q achieve @ near miracle It| champiomship belt following a |, At the municipal employes' gumes | | champlonship. won last vear by the ctthat they ate ok nhiog anywhere drceptitothe ok o0 jiheutier Shan o she ! may be done—strange thingsare hap- | contest conducted by a Minneapolts | TUesday night Murchison defeatod | Axgentine Foderition 't alatel agata Yor 4 at t! going any: Freiex T ; « ! <13;m‘c ;‘u e |quintet sold fewer players fnto fast pening day lvy;:m’. in every way, but | sporcing publiention, and. exnects )1(;1,\1‘1‘::'” in two ;‘.pfln{fi,t the forty | IN DE LF the International Field of the Meadow. | he Cleveland club did one c | company an the £ °om- | the writer Delleves firmly that M.| sRorely to defend his title. an ty yard dashes, but the New | SI GO brook Club, Westbury, Long Island ANOTHER McGRAW STORY | Snirtest and most heroio” thinis on | panion: e nsg | COUC will-have to rush immediately Mrtonelt i bt %y moti. | York detective showed the St. Louistan | _ The tournament seas i open Fe i ‘“ gora th\ 2 nsjox league race in BIROE i 'l';»q«lrm::flx-!"oj took ®3%|to Floyd's assistance and work non- | ged the National Boxing Assoels. | ? ~'Irml.hvmrhflf heels in the sixty-yard By George O'Neil |Fuary 8 at the Flamingo Club, Florida APPEAR TOMORROW 1 it declded to rebuild before May | T ol s B agucs. 1911 union hours to bring the latter out| tiom that he would defend his ttte | 9a5h, When he equaled the world record | s e WlLL | was over. In that month it was de- by purcha 115 through the exercise ' u winner over Gibbons. s — of 6 2-6 seconds. » book 12 will | F- | clded thac the Clevelund team wis|of options und 22 by draft, Of th The writer has seen both men In| Seamsttatnd, PICReRE fhe national Competing_with them at the Ford.| _ The 2nnual year book of golf | Ranking by bandicap of players The MeGraw serfes of “My Thirty | rot going to get anywhers. W ithout | ot were bought and 49 were|their last fights—Gibbons against| © o - - ham games 1n the 75, 80 and 100 yard | show that Charles (Chick) Evams, |, 001 0uis 1. Stoddard, Devereux Mil e Ball” will be con- i momen hesitation the president |take 1 optlon from the protesting | Billy Miske and Johnson against the | — —_— e —————|dashes Wil be Al Leconey of | Jr., of the Edgewater Golf Clul burn, J. Watson Webb, Harry Payne row. Omission of the | AN the manager began to'rebuild. {five. The five leagues. American| wily Brennane-and on. these shor | Lafayette, Eddie Farrel of Fordham| CAieago, has made the best acore |plff . Wation Webh, Harry bavn : | Most clubs in similar cases try to|Association, International, Paclfic|ings Gibbons could (6day. provided, | and Victor Graeb of Columbia. for the forty rounds of the last ten | [V UIINCY and Tommy Titrheock, inted wrticle toduy was dictated | stick ¢ out for the remainder of the | Coust, Western and Three 1, averaged | of couree, ha is 1h any Kisd 5 shape; Jole Ray of Chicago will arrive here | mutional open champlonships, which | JiiCHE Sars, wf, fon 04 vt coniiiciaitens. rear, hoplng to break even on thelone player each disposed to & major! fight rings all around Johnson. In a few days to prepare for the indoor | establishes that Evans is the beat | 0 “UONE JA% Soreesrd | JEate receipls and rebuild in the |league chub. | “Evidently Cook has thrown sover- 1 ! |season. In a letter to local club offi-' shotmaker in the i me in thin |00 huymond Bemont from 4 10§ ot SR % i IR & Follswers of the game cite these|hoard his heretofore admitted, and cials he sald he was on edge and! eountry—I well aay in, | .4 iarre Bast from T to 8. Bt oo o fore Uy 4 wasifigures as indicating that the majors | wise policy, of making haste slowly. | anxious to hear the starter's g the world, ers from ail The following officers wers clected D . I A" gt n~::~x|-1 oK t‘“!‘\\ i »l;‘m » are Jfinding l]lmn' ).Hl m‘:;‘m'l | in the | As stated at the opening, unless all | \,\Htln :"{Lrl;',.‘i ’IT?:‘!:(E{V oft “”(": l:e-unrlfl have competed in these | y3on o0 0 N8 BT e Payne " a and by the end|leagdues of lower. elasoification. mr ated o opening. 2,000-me e a ilco Athletic | eve y: chairman, N 7 q own the @Y'S | |of the vear they had something worth | that tre &re Mo A tsiication L S I T Association *Fehruary” 10. Ry will| I the lant ten mational amateur e e e ‘)\)‘{V{!~-’ "/-l show : h :'x-\:~1lh.;' fans. If{the protesting quintet—are losing the proverbial waste. & | Fepresent the Illinofs A. C. championships Evans s beem | cooqing William R. Gr, Secleed wnd 16 A P g he ght have 8111 | gnanclally by refusing to accept the: The March battle will be for the| NEW YORK, Janu i —_—— memi-finalist, runner-up or winner. ireggurer, J. Cheever Cowdin, hat the Wr the' Woman's lygec voar thew dams bt xanizing | provisions of the draft benefit of the milk fund. Unques-|, "~ e o ettiee] Shich 1o &% o= R e The association decided not tc ar SHIAT e ot the Philadel-{fire first division club for 1857, o colast vear the majors signed only tiomably it will draw w record nou.m.*,’(fg;alr:;nl-:nr::“r a national u,;r,\\'.,.: regts- | m::;‘-‘-:d'i:r';l:; pil ';"'u-. b»m‘ 1o represent the T d s e : s orty 2 Who e ki dentally, Tex Rickard o 2 , refus ervene in N 16 1924 Olympics. via q day in ‘the Quaker|if the teams now above them falter {ToRX PIsgers Who had, hesu- fres; Insldsutally. Tex Rickard frst of | e of champlonshin coniengoy ir kame has ever known. More th ; ' it Cleveland s o up In the race, | | 4gents—plavers “from _semisprofes- fered Jess Willard a chance to et | ary awand ot vag Moo e | i Kok Gory takee than v was | . onal, sand lot clubs and college. either Johnson or Gibbons, but the | i e SR X0 | . Chan tlias Larly Work P g goy o | ommendatior a o X age ving, man to popularize 9 o men Thom | The o which sent theie erenors | fines—the American Leagus taking| Erobdingnagian 'ex-champ’ sald a|jmienistion that the minimum uge | | wotein “America. His ‘pereonaitts | BUILDING OF COLONELS girls rade A‘ a : hich 5 nt their pitchers R mr‘\h‘. and the Natio 1 League thunderous “No. So there you Aare. | gighteen, with no maximum age barrler, | | und fine sportsm p personify NEW PLANT 's STARTED T Lo cor dit on early [_.;,‘:; ainder. i (Copyright, 1923) lwer., outstanding developmsnts at the | F4 | the gume in this country. ed to bave much the b -_— srere e e m e - )3 ssion of the conyention oF i - R % ik ana ave ent when regular e e b el ; | Chicaxo hax mow hecome the | LOUISVILLE Ky, junuars 17_x i It iy apparent that with so | 'The fate of the rsed i reatest golfing area in the world, |cavation for the fomndation of the and . X propsed national ho: & 3 | 5 3 © . 0 through the summer, arms must ol clearing hous. all pugiliatic tnforma. | The Giniat) ®OIf crase that surpasses amything | of the Louisville club of the Ameri- ik 0 ae be made tv respond early in the year tion, rests with a_committee appointed | BTass & 'classic. for the game has ever known. There |Can Association was begun today i g If the arms do not respond, one of to examine the plan and take a mail | Purse $50,000, will he held are more golf courses in the Chi- |Since the stand at Eclipse Park war 2 [the teams in the closely iatehe | vote among boxing commissions in the! Churchill Downs 19, the t cago district than are to be found | destroved by fire I November it was Ly L American Teague race is likely to A L) | eighteen states which are affiliated with ) Saturday in M. or one week later: in mny similar ares on earth, and, | determined 1o find a more convenient Horting Grmoot pick up enough early games to give {the N. B. A than the tradit date, in order dewpite this great developmen | location for the Colonels' park and a g Hot st i inning edge for the champion- | Its operation, it was said, will depend | NOt to conflict the Preakness nouncement has been made of nine | tract was cbtained at Eastern park vioes ha &z upon the ¢ peratio) Ho: om- | Stake at Pimlico. new clubs in the territory to the | Way and 3d street ht wa PO peration of boxing com. P 1. L b the mised three-cornered LIEB. missions in New York and Massachu. The Kentucky Jockey Club made north of the city, while seven more | The new plant was planned to pro \ccou e in National, Cincinnati has ILLIE Keeler, | s : < 14| Setts. neither of which is a member of | formal application to the sta‘s racing that I personally know of are on & ckpaciiy oL 16000 Doy I e bitelhin 7 .‘,‘;v which gives muck I Kecler, Joe Kelley and Steve Brodie. what an outfield!|the . B. 4. | commission for spring racing dates, the eve of projection in the north- ns lal‘{.?l-a“fi;;!ut She T promise. oran can start at a The departed Keeler alwa will rembered ost | Richard T. Burke of New Orleans was | Which were granted, thus permitting ern suburban districts. The forest 5 e i T away pace he stands a & i RS always will be remembered as the m 8 | mimntijonsly’ lclected. president. of 1| ths: Denbr 16 e i dn i e Bn aai renensitn completion of the stand and prepar: B f amous player of ‘this trio, but Kelley never was far behind | association. which the Jockey Club had selected. which surrounds the ity and which | tion of the diamond in time for the bl Pittsburgh oked as if that team ) tje ious Wee Willie Spring meeting dates granted for Was dennted to Chicago by the Me- | first e bition game here, April t the 1922, they: " Where Keeler beat out his bunt " i Kentucky tracks were: Cormicks, will in time be dotted | Were assural p e el the Cevad not h, especially 1r MWhere Keeler beat out bunts dropped his hits back of ”"'EMMETT ORMSBY JOINS April 28 to Mar 0; with public golf courses. 3 ned the eves | tho eariy & » Giants' piten- | infield, slugging Joe crashed his bingles off the fences. In the three| 1220 Jone B Iawuin | iy enci'ef he immeciast eoir. | MITCHERL CANCEL'S BOUT: < two_out of | &FS de noet seem to be as gond as ! yvears that the Orioles won their pennants, 1894, 1895 and 189, Keliey! A. L. STAFF OF UMPIRES Jun» o o Dates for Dade <hip, ome of the important kolf - m. Toomey |those of Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. | it 391, .370 and .370, respectivel nd stole 45, 59 and 9 ¥ ! e Park and Tri-State tracks were not events, goes to the Minikahda club, : erminal lce- | BUt It would be ‘wiser not to wager | qp "y "0 410 Tespectively, and stole 45. 59 and 90 bases. That's} .o - ary 17 The shake. | Al10tted. It was annouieed that (luce WMinneapolin, thin vear. nudy SHOULDER IS FRACTURED ‘e C‘url Cafe | the collapse of the New York |the kind of a player Joe Kelley was R s e shake- | ¥l be selected late Knepper fs the champlon. It was m | Slugging Joo had one batting ¢ Brouthers each coutributed seven to! At o hahlel over this course that Chick Evans MILWATKE: January 17.—The qu ich deserves a chapter « ie general merriment. SO oo won the matfonal open champion- | ten-round no-decision xing bo: bas bein| Place a large, q orn loibuse R by SR entire big pronounced with Presider i E ship in 1916, with a score of 288— hetween Ritchle Mitchell, Milwaukee A mew duckpin league Das LEN| o0 Gfter the announcomont -header pi with ~ Cleve- | career with Lewgue and | Announcement that he has sigued the lowent no far ever recorded by velght, und Johnuy Dundes, New organisEl amiongithe qmplozes "h"",'\".~ v Ebbets will sell his Brook fand Kel e ted T Hits for|in eleven consecutive. Years he it . cmmeh AEDEtERE fop ithe FOR LOS ANGELES FIGHT the wianer of this titte ¥ <, which was postponed from Jan Lo S teafia Anaithe el E 5. Of course, he will =ell -|a total of fifteen bases in nine ofM-| for better than .300. Though sy o an (Copy John F. Dille Co.} uary S o 29, has been called off will he rolled tonight on [ BUt Ebbits suys he wants his price. | cial times at but and scored seven d_out of the .200 class after | 1O el Rt Wikl TosA LES, Calit.. Ja i s |owing to a fracture of Mitchell's left al games w Jolled tonight on | A1} those with largo handfuls of mil- | puns assumed the worries of managing Mer Manager of the Chicage e s p s O L shoulder, disclosed by an X-ray pic the Recrention allevs. =Thelr season |jons step this way, rlease !, In the first game of the twin bill | the Cincinmati club. his seventeen- | 5OF. had been aigned as an umpire By Buff,'formerly” American fiv CONSIDERING BOXING. | ture. 1 last fourteen ~veeks. (Coprright, 1823) osephus. pokes che: 'S i B (R tion S Safd rmsby has been an umpire in the Weighi and world antamweight | s e - paziabt, 2 Pk ol lian] s Hedonsy Teasusibatting (aVer | wikrern, Dasmie: (or the two | boxing champlon, has begun train- CHARLESTON, W. Va, January 17. - ord © ar i PR e or iple a en es and ' a was 318, = -ea and e, . hase 11 ca- ing ere 0! a ospective V0! —. b 0 create e athletic com~ R e anamadces oo soored Shwee mums I e sesoud| Jos sles liet ceisk of Bds spend fu | TSI SO SONEE Tie Rose PATL on- DS Roee For 8 Bieemen e b UG et ua sl ‘>m: | CLEVELAND WINS AT HOCKEY Lhe B e e L e i o i e e N e ek lonmue | 1o Chicago. i PRCRT | Friday night between Georgie Marks | being considered by the commities on| EVELETH. Minn, January 17- 1 nt’that he thinks can out | tavne Cyriin. then 1 Dib oiuibrtor | wHnEEATS Totidnib oD s 2| President Johnson has definitely of Los Angeles and_“Dandy” Dick arts, selences and eral {mpr | Cleveland made it an even break for point With: Dave M itan THp then In s iprinie; for | nmisssie lofs tth 453 atoles announced that Ollie Chill has been | Grifiin, Fort Worth. Tex., the former ments of the West Virginia legisla. |\he two-game series by defeating arty lea an: Bmery Bllett J four:dounlss and s aingle anaicar. | cloned [lis cAreer Withs 4ot stolen | 40, 00e b andlit fa understood that d | tiilehglAas, annonnced ture. Mrs, Tom Gates, the only ! Eveleth in a United States Amatenr Whitford 3 burkans end Jopnes | (oo 3 fou ot ik A A e lley scored over 100 runs in six| Waish and Bill Guthrie will not be| Buff expects to appear against the|an member of the legisiature, is chatr- | Hockey League game here last nish: um hold down t chor J SumGo SOREE o el 8 in st c . ner a week from as | man n ce. 3 2. o e Uit inis® aggregation | i eight other major league|seasons, five of them heing in suc- | PAck in the ofi family nner a week from Frida man of th mitt, to hould be able to give a good ac-| { players—Cap _Anson, _Abner Dal- | cession. In 1894, the year of Balti- | ot of Three things remain | rymple, Tom Tucker: Ed Delchanty, | more's firet chanipionship, he reach- | 26 56 Beit he time, th lace and - S P . Sherry Magee, Cliff Cravath, Frank ed the gh mark o 67 runs. e e JREADING, Pa., January 17—Frankinion and Frank Isbell—hit four | Joseph broke into the Natlonal g s | Coamry I the aeat Bostorg | doubles in a single game. Isbell | League on July 18, 1892, piaying with s No. T of the American |Hercules tr . 5 ot made his four in the fifth game of | Pittsburgh against Boston.. In four| o Eragie ciiptured two | iandlc e shot over the Spring Val-}1'."" 1905 ~ White Sox-Cub world times at bat he landed on Pitcher | three last night frqm |1ey, traps. = s e series. Jack Stivetts fer a triple and scored | ‘Office with the scores 435, || Fi Trach, Vaucouver. British Co- |1 qouble-neader mentioned | one run. 151. Ball_of the winners |lumbia, was tied for first honore, each | yejjey and two of his fellow Orioles,| Besides Jos Kelley, John McGraw, 10 the best et of 295 and Peaks of | having broken 25 llve targets. In the| geeler and Brouthers, set a record | Wilbert Robinson, Kid Gleason and | ers high game of 106. shoot-off, Iitchen scored 0 stralehti hen they knocked out twenty-three | Hugh Jennings aro the only mem- | S mo hits, while 'rra‘r-y m‘\u;-d ; e[afl_‘;j‘l ?“‘i of their team’s forty-one hits. Kelley | bers of the famous Orioles acu\'ely} A. W. Dyer, president of the Noi 2 Ru-pfl“;;\m s L-nntnl‘,g;;nfl'" Ba O and | whacked out nine and Keeler and|in base ball today. olk and Western Railroad League o - Detchy, Mount Carmel, el g o < | T e Lol Ilke o arcaige alme irs-up with 24 each. | JOSEPH JAMES KELLEY'S MAJOR LEAGUE BATTING RECORD. | atch with s railroad team Inl K Sumon, o S rarren, Chitago, | Year. Club. League. . . T.B. S.B. Pet| this elty about the TIst of March R a 0RO O o arce. L, | 1592 Plttx-Balto, Nationnl 3z’ 30 B 7 245! o has selec team from his or- {880 T el % "1 1893 Baltimore Natlonal 90 120 236 312 n and sug -BameEE S S ® | 1594 Baltimore National 509 167 304 391 cachicliyitor s eploniny {1505 Baltimore Natlonal. .l 510 148 256 370 | ze e a able. 1896 Baltimore National. 516 283 370 | cther’ prize 2 SEORNT | MAY PERMIT SARAZEN |3 naimore Nationai 51 = ol Mston avenue, Roanoke. i 1598 Baltimore ‘National.. 467 210 328 | B T e w| 70 TAKEBRITISH TRIP| S o=sen 5 o o2 R athskellers . on even 4 * A - i erms with the Terminal Icemen in| NEW YORK, January 17.—Directors | 1300 Brooki m Jatlonal.. e I S the District League tonight, as they jof the Briar Cliff Lodge, the country i f’|nrln:nu Natonsl 156 23 4 327 meet the Good lows. A three-game | club at Briar CHff Manor, York, lflfi-l l:lnrlnn‘ti Nation: e 85 160 -1],5] ictory will again give them a tio|which has engaged Gene Sarazen as (1903 Cinclnmati Natlonnl.. = aa > = \ for t place. | professional, may Teconsider its d""vl e A = | 281 — e Clnlom mo A e o 2 | ises Ciictausn. Nasiomal 43 106 130 228 £ in May and Jun ake part in v: 3 228 | . rames Kernan of Romé, N. Y., former | 5o Bf 1908 Boston National s 5 77 259 | Yalo catcher, and at present a gtu-| “pynai decislon would be made after — e — dent at the’ Yale Law School, has |, Final docision would be made ofter Seventeen years ... 6912 1,379 2201 3009 453 18| signed a contract with the New York | returns from an exhibition tour. (Copyright, 1925.) ts for next season. Kernan ed with Reading of the Inter- national League = =, i ; " % § IDEDELL Starched col- larcemfort is making con- sistent style- hits on Ide’s new curves. 3= = R (i N This Ide collar nas the exclusive LINOCORD BUTTONHOLE, which makes it bold for life its original easy pose. & S GEO, P. IDE & CO., INC. TROY, N.Y. IS X 1509 14th St. We are now occupying our new four-story building 1509 14th Street Built especially to meet our sales . and service requirements as Reo distributors. The Trew Motor Co. Main 41734174 1923. SPORTS. ASSOCIATION WILL SEEK 'TO DEVELOP YOUNGSTERS KEARNS AND JACK WILL START EAST THIS WEEK LOS ANGELES, January 17— Jack Dempnsey, world heavyweight boxing champion, and his mana- ger, Jack Kearns, planned to leave for New York either today or to- morrow, the latter ounced. Kearns said he expects to sign Dempsey for a bout soon after arriving in New York. SPRINTERS T0 RENEW IRankiug by Handicap of Players Leaves Yankee Stars at 10 Goals Each—Meadowbrook Again Gets National Open Championship Event. f { | fifteen cents only because White Owl is the biggest selling cigar in America. And the reason for that is White Owl value. Gerual Coan Co. %fimryu gb/zawa White Owl