Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1923, Page 63

Part 4—4 Pages Connolly of George 'WINS 1,000-YA WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY. MORNING, JANUARY RD SPECIAL, BROOKLYN MEET FEATURE Does Disla;lce in 2.17 1.5, Fastest Time of Seauoml Going Into Van at Start and Never Being Headed—Hilltop EW YORK, January 27 won the 1.000-vard spé N al, th Club, third. Connolly covered the 1000 yar this distance this season, being tin Seven runners faced the startes the class of the field Leslic was on Connoll stars was never thre A real battle was third position. with New York A. ¢, Walter Higgins ot Uolumbia, Mikg Devanney, G Masters of Georgetown and tened. waged for the Juck Sellers of O'Brien (unattached) in the running. | Tiggins showed a.flash of real speed carly in the passing Sellers for the thira but he ‘was the lap. Connolly was eight | ds in front of Leslic at the tape, With the latter barely defeating De- vanuey. Seers was at Devanney's shoulder G. U, Team Wins Relay. ticorgetown’s fast team won the ¢ lege relay York University tshed second, but was disqualified for and Fordham, which actually third, was given the silver medal. The south had things their own way from the start and were never The winning mar- a half a lap. McAllister, the national sprint champion, huug up another note- worthy performance in the 90- handicap. The “Flying Cop” elected to use starting blocks und was there- fore placed one yard b scratel Despite this position Me. ter won in the fast time of which is one-fifth of a hind the world record. A cial remarked, it is at any rate a new record for 91 vards, Morris Cohen of the Glencoe letic Club, starting from the 11-foot mark, was second, inches behind Allister, and John Furlinger of the Paulist Athletic Club, with 10 feet, was third. Walter Koppisch, captain of the Co- lumbia foot ball team, had little dif- ficulty In retaining the 440-yard met- ropolitan championship, although he was forced to dispose of an excellent fleld. Koppisch, rated off the early pace and came like a streak at the last. 1- d, TITLE SKATING EVENTS ABANDONED BY CHICAGO CHICAGO, January 7.—Disap- pointed by two days of warm weather, the committee in charge of the na- tional amateur ice skating champion- ship races tonight abandoned plans to try again tomorrow, and awarded the races to kndicott, N. Y. where ihey will be held February 4, 5 and 6. MATHEY BEATS TILDEN, TAKING ALL THREE SETS NEW YORK, January 27.—In his first appearance in the metropolitan district since he lost the first joint of the middie finger of his racquet hand, William T. Tilden of Phlladel-j phia, national tennis champion, today jost a match to Dean Matkey of New York, a player whom he had no jiMiculty in defeating previously. The | score was 6—4, 6—4, 6—4. i Experts who w the match were unuble to say whether Tilden's poor | showing w due to Tnability or litckl of desire to extend himself. He re-; malned mostly back court, trying t drives and slices. His control :nd service were good and he seemed to manipulate his racquet with ease. Mathey exhibited super-form com- pared to his past performances. COLLEGE RECORDS SET AS YALE NATATORS WIN immy Connolly of Georgetown tonight | athletic games of Brooklyn College. Athletic Club, was sccond, and Mike Devancy of the Millrose Athletic | bt jumping away in front and remaining there. *s heels throughout and the supremacy of these two urgc' lost | ard | .\m-[ Quartet Scores. ; | e feature event of the annual indoor | Sid Leslie of the New York Is in the fastest time recorded for red in 2.171-5. r, but_Connolly proved that he was PASSAIC HIGH REGISTERS 100TH STRNGHTVITORY PASSAIC, score of 59 \. J., January 27.—By the to 38 the Passaic High | school ball team today de- feated the quifitet from St. Mary's Academy.” Ogdensburg. N. and llll(l’t‘lv\' achieved its 100th consecu- tive victory in three vears. On the team were two men played whien the fir: of the 100 | tories was won early in 1919—Wil- 1 fred Knothe, who has been chosen on every all-sthr team of the state for three years, and Dewitt iKeasler, x| 1Kul§rd. Both are playing their last | | year for Passaic | | " Including games played so far this season the local quintet has piled up |13.070 points to its opponents’ 1,794 since the start of the 1919-20 season. In nie yvears Passaic High School | has & record of 152 basket ball games | n and lost. WOULD SWIM D. C. TEAMS. LEXINGTON, Va., January 2 | Washington and Lee's swimming team is negotiating for meets in Washington, with George Washington University ‘and Catholic University. More than a score of team candidates are receiving Instruction three times a week from Coach Twombly. | On the Side Lines " With the Sporting Editor By DENMAN THOMPSON. 8 ball players wear numerals so plain that the fans, who iake pro- fessional base ball possible, will be able to recognize not only the men actually engaged in a game, but those practicing on the field, is that it eventually will be adopted, but the question of when cannot be and an innovation as radical as this probably will require considerable time, Several veteran base ball writers who have inadvertently blundered in naming athletes because they had no means of identifying them have enlisted in the movement to have players numbered, not only fon the sake of facilitating their work, but to give the fans an adequate return for the cash they deposit before passing through the turnstiles. These include Stoney McLinn,|the major league training camps who succeeded Bob Maxwell as |last spring he discussed it. feature writer for the Evening “He adds that the players Ledger of Philadelphia, following| seemed hostile, which is not sur- “Tiny's” death in an automobile ac-| prising. They were hostile to cident last summer; Ed. Wray, sport-| catcher’s mitts, pads and masks; ing editor of the St. Louis Post-| they were hostile to the catcher’s Dispatch, and Malcolm McLean, base | shinguards, which were intro- ball editor and conductor of a sports | duced by Roger Bresnahan; in an column .on the Chicago Herald-| earlier day they were hostile to Examiner. the first baseman’s glove, and in a But advocates of the plan de-| still earlier day they were hostile signed to increase the pleasure of | to any kind of gloves. spectators in ball parks are not con- fined to the ranks of newspaper men. At least one of the magnates has have the players been as progressive as even the magnates in welcoming “At no stage of base ball history | innovations that improved and made more attractive the game out of which they everybody knows ‘the set the seal of his approval on the idea and he is none other than Cor- nelius McGillicuddy, otherwise Con- magnates NEW HAVEN., January 27.—Yalej defeated Trinceton, 11 to 21, in a swimming meet here tonight. Three intgreollegiate records were shat- tered. two by the Princeton team and | one by Yale. In the 440-yard swim. Haz Princeton clipped off 15 seconds, his time being 5 minutes 39 seconds while Draper of the visitors did the 1 back stroke in 1 mihute 58 which is 7 seconds less than rd cstablished by Hayes of Princeton last week Bench of Yale broke the 200-yard Lreast stroke, his time being utes 1% seconds. The previous time was inutes 8 seconds. S CHICAGO NATATORS WIN. LAFAYETTE, Ind., January 27.— Chicago University swimmers defeated the Purdue water team here today, 54 to 14, taking first place in seven of the eight events. The Purdue water basket ball team lost to Chicago, 13 o 2 leton of PITCHER HARRIS WEDS. BROWNWOOD, Tex., Junuary 27 “Slim” “Harris, pitcher’ for the Pbila- delphia Americans, signed a contract to- night in wedlock. Miss Mae Garms, his new manager, and fornier playmute of ehildhood days, is the bride. Dr. A. 5. Findley of the Church- of Christ, blessed the Luppy couple. ‘WILL BANQUET OFFICERS. Park View Athletic Club wil ban- auet {ts new officers. next month. ‘Those_to be lionoreéd are Presfdent i10lt, Vice President Hamilton, Secre- tary Burg, Treasurer Harvey, Ser- ant-at-Arms Gass and Financigl ecretary Carr, COLLEGE BASKET BALL. At Ann Arbor—Michigan, 14; Ohlo ¢ State, 385, At Lexington, Va—Washington and Lee, 81; Virginia Poly, 7. At mceton, I8; Syra- - 'AY Chicago—Purdue, 13 Chichgo, 23. At Jowa City—fowa. 28; North- L westers, 32, nic Mack—the tall tactician of the Athletics and the dean of all mana- gers by reason of having been con- tinuously at the helm of the Phila- delphia club_since it entered the American League twenty-three years ago. In response to an in- quiry regarding his views on the subject, the dean leader of the A’s said: “l am very much in favor of having the players numbered. No doubt many spectators have considerable difficulty singling out thgir favorite players, but to get out of the way of a one- lung steam roller. ghe lack of pro- gressiveness of the players and the magnates in adopting innovations has not been due so much to innate conservatism as to sheer stupidity, a perverse refusal to increase their niore pleasant to the patrons who pay the freight. “Maybe the professional players Y| think they arc 6n too high a so plane to wear the numerals wifich are cheerfully worn by college foot ball players, amateurs on ficld and i track, automobile racers and the this would be eliminated by hav- T bile like. That objection would *be as So much for the opinion of this V' ———— astute mogul, which is at direct UXFUR[}-"] SEND RELAY vows no player of his ever will be required to tote a brand like an many precincts still missing, how |nouncement’ was made tonight that does Kenesaw Mountain Landis,|9xford University, England, will throughout the length and breadth |sity had also been invited to the of the land for the kecnness of hi | meet, but’ was unable to accept. ice tell it, also, why cepted would indiéate that a qua: Knowlng the judge is a.dyed-in-| (et of fast‘men will be sent over. letes, but in answer fo our query in|race in the world record time of regard to his views he was non-com- | 7.503-5. ¥ g e mmes nimbered TCwonkl | oo iblie s faay othes. it conli b seem at least worth while to give | agvanced in opposition to the fume- the numbering system a trial.’ rals.” odds with that of Clark Griffith, who registers emfihanc opposition to the “crazy scheme,” and who inmate of a lunatic asylum. » TEAM "] PENN GAMES Landis Non-Committal. ; Well, then, with the returns from| PHILADBLPHIA. January 27.—An- high commissioner of base ball,|5end a twosmile relay team to the stand on the question? The eminent bnlyem’ly of Pennsylvania relay car~ former federal jurist, known |nival In April. Cambridgo Univer- vision, sense of justice ang pointed | The make-up of the Oxford team manner of expressing vi€éws. side- | fs not known here, but the fact that steps—just evades the issue. But lct [ the Pennsylvania invitatlon was ac- favor of the yumerals on-the ath- ;‘;:,‘}5’.;3“:'.;?": :“;d‘-:,.':nlfl"::]'.x? tal. :That the subject interests him reovh is proved in his reply, in which he L‘n'hh,d Bedond states that when he' was touring ' Oxford “tiird, - carned a living, and| have never been progressive enough [ own incomes by making their game | {1ea at different peri6ds of the opening | scored, successively, ‘from .the.floor, HE campaign instituted by Tommy Rice, Brooklyn scribe, to have | meeting with gratifying support in various quarters. There is little doubt | forecast, as it is a difficult matter to affect reforms in the national pastime | | { GEORGETOWN NOSED OUT | - NNAPOLIS, - Md., January:27—By a desperate efort, the Naval Academy won at basket ball from Georgetown here this afternoon, the score being 37 to 33, which was the,widest margin existing at any time during the game. ' Georgetown took ‘the lead at the cutset and held it during.the whole first half. - Passed.bya point early in the second, it again took the lead, holding it until near the end. Florence and O'Keefe shot brilliantly for the visitors in the first half, while Flavin's baskets on very long shats twice cut the. Navy's margin to a single point during the last five minutes of the game. ,Floor goals by McKee and Walshe in the last two minutes gave the'Navy the edge. Georgetown scored six points be-| . Line-Up and Summary. foré tie Midshipmen got started-and | N. Acad. (87). Positions, Mills -Right fo Left forward. .Center ., .. Right guard, Toft guard. x Court goals: Naval Academy—Walshe, 6; Florsnos (1), O/ Reete. (3, Fiavia b, s 3 Naval Aca 3 18; Fla- . Foul B tr.” Geonpetwwt Zarali Py Lo G i e ol ‘Zamii Refe M half by 12 to 5. 16 to 9 and 18 to 10. A. Navy rally near the close, during which - Walshe, Barnes and~ McKce reduced the lead, to 18 fo.16. Shapley’s field goal and a, foul goal by McKee gave the:Navy'a one-point lead two ‘minutés after 'the , secénd period started. Later, largely through Zasalll's abilify. to 'toos. from the ‘line, the visitors led by 26 t0,20. Tn the last ten' minutes, Walshe, the youth- ful Nawy center, Jumpcd into the game With . rush, scoring ‘fouy court-goals | in: short"order, makihg ‘himselr tiie main Factor in, the.Navy viétory. In. spite: of the tcrrific’ rivalry. be- tween' the teams and the speed of the game, itiwas a thoroughly sportsman- like contest, .and. the renpwal, of bas- ket ball ‘rélations. bstween ithe Naval Academy and.Gé rgmy,wirvfn voted vin, 1in 2. ' EXPELS HOCKEY TEAM. l"l'l"l"SB’UI_tGlh January 27.— The oxecutive’ committee of the United States Amafeur Hotkey .Assoclation. voting by telegraphi, decided to cxpel the. Westminiter Club of New. Haven from. the league. s Action was ‘taken against the New. Haven club because it falled to ‘apmear for a scheduléd a.great. -hcc_au.‘ geme with!thec ‘Boston' A. A, BY NAVY QUINT. 57-33 1) NERCERSBURG M | 1486 2-5, made by Frie High last year. -Davis, 28, 1923. TIFLE SWIMMING MEET PHILADELPHIA, Mercersburg (Pa.) Academy today won ‘the national interscholastic swimming meet at the University of Pennsylvania, scoring 22%- points. Hyde Park High School, Chicago, and Erie (Pa)) High wers tfed for second place, with 10.points each, and Law- renceville Academy ~and Schenley. High, Pittsburgh, were tied for third place, with 8 points each. Baltimore Friends’ School and ' Atlantic City High each gatheéred 5 points. Two meet records were broken. winning the 200-yard relay January | | | race, | Mercersburg lowered the record of; }? 1.44 . _Richard Howell of Hyde ‘ark’ won the 220-yard race in 2 The" former récord was 2.32 2-5. “Erie finilghed second in the relay race gnd wrenceville tHird, In the 501yard’ race Bunnell of Mercersburg won, and Clancey of Schenley_cap: tured the 100-yard race in 671-! Miller of Baltimore-won the plunge event. and the diving contest was won by Slew of Atlantic \City. FOUR BROWNS IN LINE | .:FOR COMING :CAMPAIGN ~ ST LOUIS, January 27.—The signed contracts of four players of the local Amerjcans were recelved at the club's office here today, it was announced by the team’'s busiriess management. The ‘four players are Frank “Dixie” one of _the ‘team’s regular Frank Ellerbe, regujar th! Homer Eizel, a recrult third pitchers. and i Josh' Biilings, ‘utiifty basemnan, catch Photos By CARL THONER. GOLF TOURNEYDATES 1 OF LOCAL CLUBS SET Columbia Country Club’s annual | spring invitation tournament will be {held May 24, 25 and 26, Chairman | George P. James of the golf com- | | mittee announced last night. | James said five sixteens would | qualify for match play, and that it | made necessary by a large entry list | | the qualifl cupy two d tion rounds would oc- ys, May 23 beinghincluded. | There will be no attempt to limit the | list according to the skill of the en- | trants | _Davys for the annual spring tourna- | ment of the Chevy Chase Club will be | May 17, 18 and 19. Baltimore Country | Club spring tournament will be held May 31 and June 1 and 2 hington Golf and Country s spring tournament wiil competitive season hereabguts. Although the Virginia club has not announced the dates for its event, the tourney probably will be held’ the first week in May, as usual. This will provide four big events in will participate. - MEHLHORN AND HAGEN TIE IN BIG GOLF EVENT T | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., January | Bill Mehthorn of Shreveport, La., the second annual Texas open champion- | ship slip through his fingers today when he missed a three-foot putt on the eighteenth green, which kept him from being crowned king of Texas golf. He played phenomenal golf in the afternoon and cut down the three-stroke lead which Walter Hagen, British open hampion, gained on him in the morn- when he shot in a which set the new record for the Brackenridge course. By missing, Mehihorn and Hagen tied for first honors with 279 strokes each and an elghteen-hole match will be played off tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock to determine the winner. First prize is $1,000 and second, $750. Joe Kirkwood, Australian champion and famous trick shot, came in for third honors with a_totai of 290 strokes for the holes. He will TY away $500. Ralph Smith, Denver, came in for fourth money with he is enriched to extent of $400. Jack Tarrant, San Antonio, and Freddie McLeod, Washington, are in a tie for fifth and sixth places. Tarrant, who is an amateur, will bo awarded a cup or a medal and McLeod will re- ceive his part of the money. Jack Burke, St. Paul, came in for seventh honors, which will net him $150. Jim Barnes. Pelham, N. ¥.: Bob Peeb- 1ss, Loulsville, Ky., and Jack Forrester, Deal Beach, N. J., were in a tie for eighth, ninth and tenth places. The money will be added up and split be- tween the ‘three golfers. SCRATCH SPOON STRINE’S AT WASHINGTON SHOOT Cold, thick weather offered poor shooting conditiofs yesterday at the Benning traps of the Washington Gun Club, but some creditable scores were registered by the few gunners who, turned out. High scratch spoon went to Dr. H. E. Strife, who shat- tered 40 of 50 clay, targets thrown. Dr. J. C. Wynkoop ‘was tied with Strine, but did not enter a shoot-off. Other results: Nelson Franklyn, 80 of 100; Dr. A V. Parsons, 77 of 100; J. M. Green, 57 of 100; Col. Drake, 53 of 100; A J. Lovell, 53 of 100; Harry Reamer, 52 of 100; J. W. Connelly, jr., 31 of 0. SARAZEN TIES RECORD. LOS_ANGELES, Cal. Junuary 2 Gene Sara: national open prof sional golf champion, tied the Annan- dale Country Club course record o today while paired with Jock Hutth son, former British open champion, in ‘u - 36-hole. mateh against Eddis TLoose, Chicago professional and Dr. Paul Hunter, former California ama- teur chawpion, ' open | a row in which Washington golfers | let | 293 and he finds that | s- | town Takes Big Race : Batters Occupy Base Ball Spotlight PITCHERS SHELVED AS POPULAR 00LS Heydler Also Says Portside Hitters Are Outstripping Southpaw Twirlers. BY GEORGE CHADWICK. N EW YORK, January 27.—Left _hand batters are increasing out of all proportion as com !pared with the increase of leit hand pitchers, according to Pres: dent John Heydler of the National il.('ugur. Furthermore, the biggest and most brilliant drawing cards of the game today arc those who per- { form with the stick rather than in the pitcher’s box. “Just glance at the facts and fig- tures.” said Heydler today, “and you ywill find the most prominent bats- rmen of today are portsiders. with Ivery few exceptions. Of course Rogers Hornsby is the big excep- tion. It iz a debatable question why we ave had this tendency to left-hand atte Many believe the left-hander generally better because he i rer to first base, and therefore | should get there more quickly. Then |some folks add that a leff-hander | always has becn able to bunt better ythan o right-hand batter. Records | will show that more left-handers bunt successfully vear in and year out than do right-hand batters lolds Wagner Greatest. , some have said that the Na League could be called 1he ol of right-hand batting, and the n League the school of the ander. This theory started over rivalry that existed between a right-hand batter, and v Cobb, who, as we all know, stands the opposite side of the plate when swings. 1 ¥ opinion, Wagner s the greatest right-hand hitter of them ail, althoug fans be- {lieve T'op Anson the greatest. I wm proud of the reputation that been given the National League for i great right-hand hitters, but nevertheles: that league is today | recognizing that left-handers are de- velopirg faster than right-handers. “If we follow the list of National League batters after Horns wh tops them all, we find that many c our prominent batters are left-hand- ers, and again it makes me doubt that we are developing left-hand pitchers in proportion.” . Which brings us 1o the second as- sertion that base ball's spotlight hax shifted from pitcher’s box to the plate Everybody has been talking about the way that batting has picked up The pitchers have talked about it until the tears ran down their cheeks There was a time whe: the grea pitelier stood higher in the b world_than the leading batsman. the old davs the first thing the aver: boy tried to do was to ecmul Clarkson, or Keefe, or Mickey Welch or Goldsmith, or Radbourne, Mathewson, or some other man v had made himself famous by pitching Almost everybody thought some time he would make a home run like Williamson or George Gore, but that | was secondary to the hope of becom: [ing a great pitcher. Now it i dif {ferent. The pitchers are losing their {grip as heroes and the boys ar | thinking of becoming Ruths, Cobbs Speakers and Hornsbys Left-Handers Formerly Disliked. T If left-hand pitchers were deve oped in proportion to left-I ters would it not be likely dent Heydler intimates, would be fewer batters hitting a {normally well? Everybody knows the left-hand pitcher is a check on {most left-hand batters. It is per- fectly natural that he should be. | To the boy of to it magy {news that there was a time inSt |ball when the left-hand player w Joked down upon. 1f a man batted {left-handed, volunteer teachers at { tempted to instruct him how to bat i right-handed. If a beginner pitched left-handed more than often two- thirds of the players and fans be- gan to vell to change pitchers, espe- cially if he were a little wild A Tight-hund pitcher could be wild and it would be overlooked, but never in the case of a left-hand pitcher. Now it is suggested, and not with out good reason, that it would not be bad medicine if there could he |found some high-cla left-hand pitchers to stop the “carrying on of some slugging left-hand batters (Copyright, 1923.) I COVAN ANDMLEA BREA SKATIG MRS ‘ EDMONTON, Albert Everett McGowan, S professional s} sensationally i i n January, ter, today of I trod winter ic e in three attemp! jto Tower ‘the record of 9 for «100 yards, established sover | weeks ago s Jewtraw of Lake Placi best mark for thi distance was 9 3-5 seconds. PITTSFIELD, Mass. January 27. Bobby McLean of Chicago, profes- slonal, broke the world skating rec.- ord for 75 yards here today, going th« distance in 7 4-5 seconds in a trial against time. The former record of 18 1-5 sconds was made by Morris Wood, amateur, at Verora. Lake, N. J., January 24, 1903.% —_——— EVELETH AND PITTSBURGH SCORE IN HOCKEY GAMES CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 27. Eveleth won from Cleveland tonisht in hockey. by a score of 2 to 1. The teams divided the two games in the series, Cleveland having won last night by a score of 3 to 0. Tonight's game was even at the beginning of the second period. r PITTSBURGH, January 27.— close game liere tonight the Pitt burgh team of the United States Ama- teur Hockey' Association defeated Milwaukee, making u clean sweep of the two-game series. The gcore was 2 to 1. . Sullivan of Pittsburgh and Boyd of Milwaukeo were the s BOSTON TEAMS LAND. BOSTON, J y 27.—The Boston A. A, hockey team routed the St. i Nicholas Club of New York, 6 to 0, in the first of the tive U. §. . A’ gaies played here ‘tonight.’ In’ the second game Beston Hockey Club de- featéd the CanadianClub team of New York, 3 'L