Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1923, Page 23

SPORTS EX-CAPTAIN OF HARVARD UP BEFORE JUDGE LANDIS Rochester Club Claims Former Varsity Shonstopl ccepted Its Terms Before He Signed to Play With the Boston Braves. BY JOHN EW YORK. lanua ball, is N versity nine right to his servic B. FOSTER. 29.—Judge K. M. Landis, commissioner of base | making investigation today into the status oi Arthur (Jocko) Conlon, former shortstop and captain of the Harvl'rd‘bm»l “Salve Artist.” Conlon has been called to appear hefore the commissioner | ve Artist. the Rochester club of the International League, which claims prior e Rochester asserts Chnlon accepted the terms offered by that or- ation and had no right to sign with the Boston Nationals. An- nouncement was only recently made that the Harvard ex-captain had gone to the Braves. SAM RICE SIGNS 1923 CONTRACT WITH GRIFFS Back from his sojourn of a couple of weeks in Augusta, Gn.. spent in tramping over the cxcellent Bom Air links and hunting birds with T. Ravmond Cobb ax his host and guide, Clark Grifith imparted the cheerful information that another for his 1 Nationals mow fo rhis 1 Nationals now is the fold. Sam Rice having signed his contract. Grift denied he tal «d “business” with Cobh, but was enthuslastic over the appearance of his veteran outfielder. “Rice has been playing golf ever since the season ended. practically every day, except when there has heen snow on the ground, and as a result Ix in superb shape,” Griff “His eve Is clear and his color good. T look for him to have ihe best senson of hix career this ar.” TRIBE SEES A PENNANT * DUEWITH FRANK ROTH Does the signing of Frank Roth to coach tha Cieveland pitchers next vear prophesy a pennant for Claveland? The veteran catcher has played on many a_team that has won a pornant. The name of Roth and pennant seem to work togcther very nicely. Back in 1908 the Chicago White Sox. then known as the “Hitless Wonders.” won the American Teague penfiant. At a critical spot in the race McFarland and Sullivan, the ack Chicago catchers, wera put out of the run- ning with injuries. Things looked had. Frank Roth was secured to | the bill. He stepped right into & breach and in a way assisted much in winning the pennant at vear for the Sox as did the “hing of Ed Walsh Roth then drifted back to the rs and has played on winning ms in _many leagues. Two vears ago Miller Hugglns wanted a veteran catcher to handle his Yourg pitchers. He secured Frank Roth. The Yankees stepped right wit and won two pennants, the st ever captured by New York fn_tha American League. Now Roth has been turned adrift and goes to Claveland. Does that hode evil to New Vork and good 1o Cleveland? Ball players, vou row. are mighty superstitious. HALE CHANGES GLOVE: BECOMES BIG LEAGUER Wten Tyrus Cobb became manager of the Detroit team in the spring of 1221 there reported to him in San An- tonio, Tex. training camp Sammy Hale. an inflelder. Cobb liked Hale because he could hit, but Hale's fielding was the first big worry of the new manager. Hale's hands were anything but sure. He played ground-hit balls badly and he fumbled more frequently than not. Finally Cobb decided that Hale was unable o field because the glove he wore was too small. He tried to in- dice Hale to adopt a large, loose-fit- ting flelder’s glove, hut Hale stuck to his little brown one, claiming that it felt more comfortable. Hale did not changa his glove. his fielding falled to improve and Detroit released him soon after the start of the season Detroit still had a olaim on Hals, Rut when a chance came to get Her- nan Pillette and Sylvester Johnson from the Portland club for $40,000 cash and five players, Hale became one of the five that Portland got, and it is this same plaver whom Connie Mack has bought for his Athletics at & fancy figure. Since going to the coast he has de- veloped into a good flelder and con- tinues to slug the ball Tt might also be added that after leaving Detroit flale became a co vert to the 1 U. S. RACQUETERS SCORE. MONTREAL. January 29.—Ameri- cans again hoid the racquet cham- jonships of Canada, Jay Gould of New York. who represented the Phila- delphia Racquets Club. winning_the singles, and, paired with L. du Pont Irving of New York, taking the doubles. Tn the final matches Gould defeated A. S. Cassils of Montreal. and Gould and Trving defeated G. R. Fearing and Shaw McKean, both of Boston two | Rochester club officials claimed to- | day that they had been dickering with Conlon for some time and {cently received a telegram from him | stating the terms on which he was prepared to Join the International | League club. *The secretary of the { Rochester club stated that, not caring |to use the telegraph wires in this jconnection, he at once got in touch with Conlon by long distance phone |and that club and player in the en- suing conversation came to terms. | Conlon, said the secretary, told him |he had determined to enter profes- sional base ball and was ready to ign with Rochester, although when | he left college last June he had not | intended to become a paid player. Put Deal on Record. Tmmediately after this conversation | the Rochester club states that it | wired John H. Farrell of the Na- Jtional Assoclation of Base Ball Clubs announcing that it had accepted Conlon's terms. In base ball the ac- ceptance of terms is equivalent to a contract, and for that reason Roches- ter lost no time in putting Conlon on record. it telegraphed Conlon, cepting his terms, in order that the transaction might be fully completed The next thing Rochester knew an announcement was made from Boston that the Boston Nationals had signed “onlon to a contract and intended to play him at shortstop had agreed to the Boston terms, in spite of the fact that he had hagd of- fers from other clubs. Rochester at once brought the mat- ter to the attention of Commissioner Landis and arrangements were made for Conlon to appear before the com- missioner today. It was reported some time back that Conlon had been offered the po- sition of coach to the Harvard fresh- man team, and it is assumed that the Harvard authorities took it for grant- ed that this would prevent his entrv into professional base ball. Harvard alumni, in view of recent discussinns as to amateur sport in the colleges, appeared somewhat disturbed over the matter today, as Conlon seem not only to have signed with Bosto but to be in a jangle with another club, (Copyright, 1928.) 12 DOG TEAMS LISTED FOR CLASSIC OF NORTH THE P. Man, January Twelve teams have been thus far entored for the sixth annual dog derby to be run at The Pas February 22. This event is to dog racing what the Kentucky derby is to horse rac ing In North America. Jt will be over a 200-mile wilderness course and will be worth $2,500 to the | winner. C. B. Morgan, last vear's winner, has his champion team entered. If Morgan wins, his third stralght vic- tory will give him possession of the Burns cup. P The Dupas-Bancroft team, which placed second last vear, is also en- tered. Other entrants are: W. Winter- ton. A. Russick. A. McDonald, Larry McKay, Solomon Cook, Alfred Bai- lantyne, W. Constant, Carl Sherman, Baptiste Campbell and Pranteau of Grand Raplds. Campbell won the econd annual derby and Pranteau has finished in all six races. The derby will inaugurate a carnival of outdoor sports at The Pas, which is the northern terminus of a spur of the Canadian National rail- way. With short-distance dog races, curling bonsplels, snowshoe and ski contests, the event will be a Mardi Gras of the north. FRANK BAKER MAY GO TO MINORS AS PILOT Frank “Home-Run” Baker, still a sound third baseman and good hitter, will not be with the Yankees next year, according to report. He is plan- ning to retire and take charge of a minor league club. If he is wanted by an American League club this plan may be changed. It is not the inten- tion of the Yankees to use him regu- larly next season and Baker does not want to sit on the bench. With Dugan going strong at third, Baker will not be needed. But thers are one or two clubs in the American League that might use him at third. The Browns, particularly, have a third-base problem. Baker, in midseason, was hit by a pitched ball, with Urban Shocker of the Browns doing the hurling. He spent a few days in the hospital, but subsequently came around all right. In the meantime Joe Dugan wi holding down the far corner and Bi ker did not return to his position. Tips on Playing Basket Ball; Correct Rule BY ED FFENSE. What is known as “killing” or “freezing” the : ball in the last few minutes of play by .a tecam holding a slight 1ead has come into vogue in the past- few scasons. This practice is unpopular with spectators. They cannot understand why it is permitted. Some even question the sportsmanship ef such tactics. Such play itself is started ‘by passing the ball to the back court aancVEry man on the team starts moving from side to side. Passes are all short, and the receiver must re- member to cut toward the ball, otherwise the possibility of an inter- cepted pass becomes great. g‘he pass is only to be made to a frec man, and a long pass is never to be_made. When the opponents close in one player at a time makes a fake start forward, taking three or four steps toward his own basket. His opponent will naturally follow him. player then reverses rapidly and comes back to receive a pass, Interpretations THORP. Q. May the official make a decision on aplay without blowing his whistle? A. No. Both codes insist that ofi- clals have whistles and that they blow them whenever it is necessary to make a decision. ed to stop his watoch? A. Tt is suggested-that the time- | keepers use one watch, placed om & table before them, or otherwise placed #0 both may see it. The watch must be stopped during the game only order of the referee. At the expirm. tion of each half it is stopped by the tl.Qlelf’;”rl. . . score is tied at end of game can the referee award the game to the team scoring the first point in the extra period when this point is scored {n lo,;' ;l:‘.n a minute? . No. In both amateur and pro- fessional basket ball & full five-min- lll!Q u“'ln ";‘A“"h -I:I hh'l.‘:‘ 3 ow mhy the 1 be bounoed when dribbling? A. There is no limit. Q. How did basket ball name? A. The fact that peach baskets (fruit eon: ) were: used as baskets when the game was rat introduced resulted in the game being called basket ball. —_— OTHER SPORTS ON PAGE 24. get its ordinary The club also declares that| formally ac-| this season. | The announcement said that Conlon | THE EVENING Gambling Nearly Kills the | National Sport—Mec- Graw Makes a Base Stealing Record—Um- pire Arlie Latham OWARD the end oi the 1895 season it became evident that | T the Orioles had won the pen- I nant; that the Beaneaters, as the be our opponents in the Temple cup series. Almost immediately ugly ru- mors began to circulate around Bos- ton. ! One of the newspapers hinted that lall was not right. That was enough {Scandalmongers all over the city were whispering that the big serics had been fixed. There was consid- erable gambling among the fans at | | that time and to repeat a rumor was | almost the same as stating a fact. | These damaging rumors, which { were absolutely | bution of tickets. If { right, it had something 1 to remember do Lauds Robinson As a| { Boston club was then known, would | untrue, started over | | some dissatisfaction about the distri- | with | STAR, - -WASHINGTON, | Jocko Conlon in Contract Controversy,: Aim to Put Kick Into New Jersey “MY THIRTY YEARS IN BASE BA BY JOHN J. McGRAW, the number of free tickets. Anyway, trouble started. There was just as much excitement then over the Tem- Dlé cup series tickets as there is now over the world series—proportion- ately so, T mean. Though we have had no rumors about post-season games being fixed sinoe the world series idea began— oxcepting the Black Sox scandal of 1919—vou will remember that for several years a sensation was started every fall about ticket speculation. It all comes from the demand for seats being greater than the supply. Any | time 100,000 people want to get into | & park that holds but 25,000 a per- centage of the public is going to be discontented and disgruntled. There is no way out of it. Peevishness is but natural. Incidentally, gambling is the one thing that will always ruin base ball If given half a chance. Base ball is different from other forms of profes- sional sport. It does not need betting to add spice to it, like horse racing. for instance. In fact, those who really enjoy the game most—get worked up | over it—seldom bet Boaton Games Tranaferred. At any rate, the situation became 50 bad in Boston that several of the re- | maining championship games were transferred to Hampden Park, at Springfleld, Mass. The attendance in Boston had fallen off to almost noth- ing. This park at Springfleld, by the way, had been used for base ball since |the ‘days of the old “Massachusetts game.”" That game—something like rounders—was “a forerunner of the present base ball. The felders could throw the ball at a hase runner and put him out that way. That wouldn’t 'VAN HALTREN, A FAILURE IN BOX, STARS AS HITTER GEORGE VAN HALTREN'S MAJOR LEAGUE BATTING RECORD. Club. Chicago Lengue. National Nationa Year. 1887 1888 Baltimore Amerk Baltimore & Pittsbu Pittaburgh New York New York York York York York York York York York National National \atio; New Total, seventeen years. BY FREDERICK G. LIEB. NOTHER wild pitcher A developed fame as an out | fielder who could crash the ball against and over the garden wall was George Van Haltren. Giant favorite of a generation ago. Ii George is a sensitive soul he per- haps would prefer to have his Na- tional League debut passed over as quickly and quietly as possible. George's pitching debut was much like that of Bruno Haas with the Athletics four or five years | when he dished out seventeen bases ion balls and had designs on giving who |away Shibe Park when Connie Mack | | abruptly stopped him. Haas also has | decided to leave pitching alone, and {has moved into the outfield, | _Van Haitren's pitching debut with {the Chicago White Stockings on June | }27. 1887. must come preity close to being the world's worst pitching ex- hibition. He issued sixteen bases on {balls and was stung by _the Bostons {for twenty-six hits. The mystery was that Boston did not win by | greater score than 17 to 11. Mike Kelly and Dick Johnson each !stung the pltching recruit for five i hits, and Larry Sutton got four. Sam Wise was disgraced. He was the a hit, though he was charged with only two times at bat, walking four times. But if the Bostons made a monkey out of Big George in his pitching {debut, he made a monkey out of a lot of pitchers himself before he layed aside his big league uniform He found considerable difficulty in as- certaining where they kept home plate, but when he was standing along- side of it, he sure could “plaster the apple.” George's career runs in parallel lines to that of Jimmy Ryan, our subject of a few days ago. Ryan lasted from 1886 to 1303 inclusive Q. When Is the timekeeper allow- | l ' b the undi; Nick Altrock has invaded the realm only Boston player who failed to get | G. a1 ~1 134 AR, 183 nis 502 531 517 sS4 571 851 607 548 544 P8 7 280 14 549 1887 to the Ch Van I 7.853 1 and Van Inclusive outfield broke Haltren Ryan the day n from was in t 1903 ago altren similar. though “Big George's” life- atting average is a little bet- . against 313 for Jim. Both r3 played exactly seventeen se. s, as Ryan was out one year. my scored 1 runs and made 9 hits. against 1,610 runs and 2 hits for Van. However, as George was a pitcher in his early | years he played in considerably less | games Van was, fellow th ago. | players. ying three seasons with the Chicago Nationals, Van cast his lot with the Brooklyn Pia ers’ League team in 1890, with the Baltimore ciation team in 1591 v eighteen-vear-old d. Johnny Mec- aw. broke in with that club. | Tleven vears later, McGraw came to the Giants as manager, and found | Van Haltren one of the many fading veterans on the New York team, play- |ers who were keeping the club in the |cellar. One of the first things Mc- |Graw’ did_on coming to the Giants |was to siash a dozen names off the {payroll. “Van Haitren was cne that ! remained. though he ended his career with the Giants in the following sea- | son, 1903. | During the years that the Giants | were chronic second-division inhab- |itants, and tailenders in the era of Freedman ownership. Van Haltren's | hitting and baserunning w the one deeming feature of Giant play There was a nine-vear stretch in which Van scored 100 runs or more a season. Van Haltren made a re- markable endurance record with the Giants, from 1895 to 1900, inclusive In the six seasons referred to, he missed only eight games, playing 844 out of §52 scheduled (Coprright American Asso- hen the scrap- 1923) COMEDIANS DISPLAY VERSATILITY HERE. champion funny man of base ball, aket bfi{ and, with his old side part- ba ner, Al Schacht, is putting on a skit that fans of Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Harris- burg, Rochester, Syracuse and other big towns where they have to be a riot. Local court enthusiasts will have a chance to see ictured here, do their stuff st the Coliseum tonight, when they appear l% baroiormens egainehe crack Yankee quise. who are with Ed Ved vote Bhek and AL Their batting marks also are greatly | Haltren | He played | LL,, Manager New York Giants, Three Times World Cllampl'om.' (Released Exclusively Through the Nerth Amercan Newspaper Alliance.) .be such a bad idea today, especially |if a mankger was permitted to throw at a player who had just pulled a bone play. The games at Springfield did fairly well—drew better than at Boston dur- ing those dreary days at the finish. We walked in with the pennant. Robble Was Salve Artist. That season I batted well and stole seventy-seven bases. I am told by the statisticians that, based on the num- ber of chances, tha record woald have beaten player before or since. That s playing of Jennings, Keeler and Kelley. They were all hard hitters, and when it came to base ball brains no player ever had anything on them. | _Another great factor in our victory was Wilbert Robinson. He was smart as a whip behind the bat and, my! how he could “bust that old apple,” {as the players.say today. Robbie was of immense service in salving the umpires behind the plate. He had & way of maljng them like him. But for his diplomacy and soft Foap we would have got the worst of many a close decisjon. 1 was continu- ally pecking at them from third and it took the combined efforts of Robbie and Manager Hanlon to keep me from getting put out of the games. 1 was in hot water continually, it seemed. Maybe I deserved it. Anyway, Rob- ble was the sugar and I the vinegar of the club. How Arlfe Latham Viewed It. To help me in preparing these memoirs, 4 friend has just sent me a lot of newspaper clippings of those jdays. One will give you an idea. It {18 an interview given to a paper by |Arhe Latham, who was then umpir- ing. We had Just protested his work- ing in our games “Robbie and McGraw are working both ends against the middle. Robbie sleeps In a salve factory apd McGraw .ats gunpowder every morning for breakfast and washes it down with warm blood. When a poor, inoffen- sive and well pears in Baltimore Robinson meets him at the plate shakes hands with him and remarks: ‘I'm glad you came overl They tell me you've been doing great work out west. The boys say you are the best in the business, and between us I'm giad you are here. These are pretty tough gam. old man. and that other fellow we had hera was a little to the bad. Of |course. he's a good feilow, but I'm |Blad you are here. You want to watch this pitcher we are trying to- jday. Great lad—keep your eve on that outside corner. He gets lots of ‘em just on the edge. The other fel- low missed ‘em | i Never Admit “And all this time, concludes | Latham, “McGraw is barking and snapping around the umpire’'s heels Defeat. { | | i JOHN J. McGRAW. At the period when he made base-steal- ing record. and threatening to bite him. 1f one system doesn't work, the other one | usually does. The Orioles are not getting much the worst of any- thing.” & Not a man on our club ever be- |lieved that we were beaten, regard- |less of the score. In one game in 1 Boston the Beaneaters had us 13 to 0 ' up to the ninth inning. Jack Stivetts was in the box. We went in for our half and knocked in fourteen runs. That was the greatest rally I ever hope to see. We met the Beaneaters in the Temple cup series and won out with comparative ease. We were in the pink of condition this time. The former experience had warned us against taking part in too many din- ners and other forms of celebration in_Baltimore. The Orioles played in two more Temple cup series fter that, but we never lost again Growth of Game Shown. A comparison of the gate receipts, the winning shares and so on of those days with the more recent world series gives a pretty fair idea of the steady growth of base ball. That you may get this clear in vour minds—I address the remark to the younger fans—you must bear 4n mind that we had no national com- mission in those days and we did not play under the rules and regu- lations swprovided in the national agreement of 1905. The players got a larger share of the money than now. No part of the money. went to a commission and for other purposes, as is the case under the present arrangement. The players got practically all the re- ceipts and they were divided, 60 per cent going to the winners. In the last Temple cup series which I participated—the one of 1 —my winning share was around $900. I forget just how many players came in for a share, but there wers not nearly so many as today. ‘The at- terdance at the games averaged around six or seven thousand. In the first serles—that of 1905— played under the rules provided in the national agreement. our New York team met the Philadelphia Ath- Jetics and won. The winning players each got $1,100. The attendance at |each game, however, was more than in twenty thousand. ! New Records Set in 1921 In 1921, ‘when we met the Yanks at the Polo Grounds, all records were broken. That, though, was a nine- game series. The winning players each got $5,400. The attendance was pretty close to 40,000 the biggest day. In 1922, the last series, the winning players got $4400 each. But that was a seven-game series and they got a share of the receipts for four games only. In the last series, by the way, the olub owners made hardly enough to pay expenses. The fact that we won in four straight gam robbed the club owners of a chanct That, by the way, is quite & tribute 1o the honesty of base ball. By drag- sing the series along a lot of moni could have been made Later on will explain why we didn't play & series in 1904. Not realizing that my main troublea in base ball were about to. begin I had great time that winter of 1897-18 o R R i was featured by the really wonderful meaning umpire ap- | g : 5 " % % D. ‘0, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1923 NO TILT AT G. U. TONIGHT; C. U. QUINT SEEKS GAME Basket ball teams of Geors: town and George Washington wil not meet tonight in Rysm gym- nalum and there is a possibility that no game be staged by the Catholic University tossers at Brookiand tomerrow might. The Hatchetiten asked for a postpone- ment of thelr engagement with Georgetown and the latter offered February 7 as an subtitute Davis and Elkins, which wi it Brook tomorrow might, canceled ita d The Cath- e University management is endeavoring to arrange a match with the Quantico Marimes in- wtead. AGANST TECH TSSERS Eastern's winning combination is 1o be disrupted tomorrow before the Tech tossers are encountered in the second game of the high school ba: ket ball championship series double- header at Central Collseum. Instead of the Hook-Roudabush-J. Smith- Cardwell-Kessler team, that has bowled over Central, Business and | Western in order, a new outfit with Joe O'Dea replacing Bill Roudabush will be used. O0'Déa. who played well enough to warrant his selection for the' mythi- cal all-high school team last winter, has been out of action this season | because of an infected right leg. He has been practicing for tho past week, however. and Coach Charles Guyon think= Joe i8 just about rine for com- petition. The game will conclude Eastern's activities in the firet halt of the titular series and should it win, as expected. it will be well on | its wav to the championship. The first game, Astarting at 3:15 o'clock, will be hetween Central and Business. Central probably will use the same team that ran away from Tech at the Arcade last Fridar, but Business may be reinfarced by the return to the line-un of Cant. Connor. Connor. who has been kept out of the meries recently by a grip at- tack, is expected to niav at least ha!f of the contest. Chaconas. who has been scholastically Insligible, also imay perform for the Stenographers. COLLEGE QUINTS REST | WITH YALE IN THE VAN NEW YORK. January 29 —Prince- ton has surrendered to Yale leader- 8hip in the Intercollegiate Basket Ball League at the end of the second week of play. as the schedule lapses for the midvear examinations, not to be resumed until February 10. Arthur Loeb of Princeton leading point scorer, with 49 TEAM RECORDS. Won. Lost. P.C. o 1000 780 K the 2 2 L * 1 L 8 Pennsylvania e a Dartmouth Losb, Princeton Luther, Corneil | Strom.’ Columbia . Cullen, Dartmou Swisman, Yale ¢ . * Columbia . . GuaneresSae YANKEES PLAY MAJORS; ALTROCK AND SCHACHT ASKET BALL of the legitimate B inning at 8 o'clock, are to provide gul they will be forced to share th Altrock, big ieague base ball comedia base ball show and always a funmal the base ball field. The Majors are recruited from the ranks of organized base ball, several members of the squad being drawn from the big leagu With the club are Frank Bruggy of the Phillles, | Dowd, Hickey, Black. Stark, Holly and Keating. The team has done quite well this season in competition with prominent quints in the north. The District champlon Yankees have been strengthened for the oc- casion. Doc Wasman of the Balti- more Orioles has been signed to jump against the Majors. Heddons, n used at the pivot posi- tion by tl Yanke, has not fully re- covered from injuries suffered in a recent game, but may get into action against the visitors for a time. Ford, Catlin, Ingley and Sauber are to be in the Yankee linesup. Knights of Colum basketers are holding down the front seat in the District League show at present, as a result of a 27-to-26 victory achieved yesterday over the Dominlcan L ceums in the, opening game of thel circuit's titular campaign. The match was warmly contested, with the Do- minicans leading through the first three periods. Then, with the 23 to 16 agailnst them, the Ca rallied and went to the front, mainly through some accurate shooting by Swift and Flynn. Gleason played a brilliant floor game for the winners. Snurkowski, oyd and Sothoron starred for the Dominicans. Capital ‘Silents could not cope with the sharpshooting of Hutchinson and Swan and lost to the Manhattans, 31 to 34, but they are hoping to fare bet- ter in other engagements this week. Tomorrow night the Silents will face the Park Views at FEastern High School and on Saturday Georgetown Athletic Club will be encountered at Peck gymnasium. A trip to Fort Humphreys will be made Sunday. More_games are wanted by the ital Sllents. Send all challen to Manager H. C. Nicol, Gth street northeast. 2 Liberty Club, which has won four- of eighteéen games played this on, is to stage a double-header tonight in the Immaculate Concep: tlon gymnasium. The Lexingtons vill be met in the first game T ing 7:30 o'clock and the Argyles the second. Washi: prep teams are to pl & twin bill tonight .n the Congr: Heights suditorium, the meeting the Herd!l : at and the big team fac'ng the Erlghl.ny les at 8:3C. Wednesday night the Epiphany Juniors will be encountered in Mohawk gymnasium. Powhatan Athletie Club basketers | twelve tonight at Central Coliseum, where Eddie Holly's Majors of York and Eddie Bratburd's Y: the feature number of a double bill. s Eagles and Western Athletic Club, that are to meet in the first game, be- n, and Al Schacht. once of the major basket ball court as well adapted to t are looking for more opposition in the 135-pound class. Telephone chal- lenges to Manager J. P. Prescott, Co~ lumbla 2339-J. Spartan Athletic Club wants en- in the 135-pound class. lenges to Manager Willia: Gallagher, general delivery, Anacos- tis, D. C. Immacutate Conception towners took Boxing FANS SEEK TO HAVE LAW AGAINST DECISIONS LIFTED Tweo Champions Defend Ring Titles in Metropolitan District This Week, Loughran Meeting Greb and Flores Tackling Dundee. BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, January 29.—New Jersey fans are fed up on no-decision bouts. They are going to try to get the legislature to legalize de cisions. As the situation stands now they say that New York, with verdicts permitted, gets all the real fights. and that the champions and near-champions flock to Jersey to caress one another Mike bout in Skeeterland between classy opponents is as rare, they claim, as a flask of applejack in a Quaker's hip pocket, whereas if the toppers were compelled to fight for decision this condition would not ex ist. And so a movement is on today to put a kick into the Jersey box ing law. i ¥ The week's | the best | pions wi e 1 boxing card in som me. 11 defend their titles at Ma RUTH BACKS PLAYERS | Hin! i bl wnf . SEEKING MORE MONEY | Tomms Tuaran o nhsasiais £ attempt to take the light-heavyweigh® BOSTON, Jamuary 20—+Babe” |crown which Harry Greb so elumeils Ruth declared that he was with | defended against Shade’s at fellow base bull players im any | tacks ove S last week 17 fight to get more and assailed 00 per cent better to aupp Sunday bawe Philadelphia wi a talk before the St. mpion among he Loughran is one of Two cham { than he be sporting | citizens after | Bave Greb a hurd run for his mone: at Pittsburgh a short time ago. He hasn’t fought here before, but those who have seen him say he is far from beirg a slouch at defense and punch a day. The home-run idol declared that 3,390,000 admissions to ¢ne New York club, t the ery of “hold-up” and was_ unjustified when ayers asked for an of $1,000 or xo." He asserted that he was cautioned By the owners of the New York to keep hix sal The other title tilt is between that ttle junior lightweight wond pvhnny Dundee. and Elino Flor latter a stablemate of IPancho Villa, who ted his wa 10 the top of the ghts. Flores Is a good, game, €r young man. He h a sha shooting eye and # rdeadly wallop. He has won some har. signed CHANEY AND RCE WL 155 s TRADEBLOWSTONEHT -+ the punching The . Howl Brings Resultn. b for a fight wit two days bafor teh up with Pal Ree has brought results. could not see that at hey figured it was th Rice. | Ha would ‘'make his real fight { azainst Loughran and then do jwaltz with Reed in Newark. At e time_the battle, which was s r next Thursday night. Loughra: b mee: on Tuesday, was a he didn't win. Anyway, there ou to be considerable doings when two meet Friday jin Newark Jersey me 29— Tl Md. January and Frankie will exhibit th at the 4t they w BALTIMORE. George Chaney lightweight boxers. stocks of trade tomight Regiment armory, When e travel over a route designed to last|g rounds. Chaney. with m?ref x : ment o hundr _outs to his{ell out is poor business. So the than one hundred knock e opot. |5 Dout wis et back a week. Bui credit. has been more in the spot- Tt GO Aoiinny for ibis idle light than his adversary. who has not|week and ckard did it top-notchers of the (Copsright, 1923) MIDDLE WEST ATHLETES IN BIG EASTERN MEETS CHICAGO. January 20.—Chicago |athletes led by Jofe Ray, crack mid- dle distance ner for the Illinois Athletic Club, began an eastern in vasion today. Their first objective was the annual indoor track and fieic meet on the Milrose A. A. in New {Tork Wednesday. The athletes who delegation were Ray Watson, Harold Osborne, Eddie Knourek and Carl A1 derson of the I A. C.: Wharton, C. A A., and Buker, University of Chicago 1 a bad fight in payment for met as many squared arena | However. Rice has & following and | his backers expact him to" furnish, stift opposition to Chaney and affora | plenty of action. As each is con-, sidere® a fighter with a wallop. the fght fans are looking for a knock- | out rather than a battle ending in a dectsion Other bouts have been carded. Nate Carp will swap blows for eight rounds with Johnny Mayhook of Philadel-| phia: Dick Gotwalt will box Young Pal Moora for six rounds, while Al Rell hopes to be returned winner over Tim Kelly of Quaker city. The last named pair are also scheduled to step | Six rounds |GREENLEAF IS AGREEABLE letween the features fwo efllOruI‘To MATCH wlTH TABERSKI heavies, Jim Edwards and K. O, Nel- | on of Toledo will try to holat colors| in a bout whose limit ‘is four rounds.| Ralph pocket nounced ! Frank Taberski, retired fron ! championship competition four years | ago as the undefeated title hol 3 a matech for the world championshin. This is the resuit of an offer made by Charles Kline of New York, gua’ anteeing the players $2,000, with the privilege of 75 per cent of the gross gate receipts, for a match to be played in tie metropelis prior to April 1 ‘ Wonder W ‘.:""':'. Will Say . . Big Savings —in Our Special Sale Prior to Inventory —Choice of our magnificent stock of fabfics. Plenty of medium-weight fabrice in the ghawing Suit or Overcoat To Order $ 1 8.50 Regular $30 Values $2 2.50 Regular $35 Values $27.50 Regular $45 Values $35.oo Regular $50 Values $4()-00 Regular $55 Vaiues comprised the Greenleaf. billiard his w the professions! champion, has an- lingness and burlesque classes will be offered ankees of this city are to clash in These quints and the Anacostia the honest-to-goodness competition, e honors of the evening with Nick | ker. These fellows have found the heir mirth-provoking stunts as is the measure of the St. Stephen’s quint in a 64-to-23 tilt. Enright of the vie- tors tossed a dozen goals from scrim- mage Aloysius Club's Big Five nosed out the Baltimore All-Stars in a 36-to-31 battle, Farley of the winners and Voeth of the Baltimore team starred. Georgetown Athletic Club held to its winning stride in a game with the ‘Washington Collegians, scoring a 19- to-14 victory. Gollan and Chaconas played sensationally for the victors, while McGurk was the star of the Collegian lineup. Hudson Athletic Association is cast- ing about for opposition in the 125- 130-pound class. Challenges may be telephoned to Manager Louis Johrden, Lincoln 3222. Columbia Athletic Club wants games with teams averaging 135 pounds. Challenges may be addressed to Man- ager Thomas A. Redmond. 1124 Co- lumbia road, or telephoned to Colum- bia 7220. Mackin Athletic Club boys gave the Stanton Junlors a 31-to-25 trouncing. Bonner did the best work for the winners, while the Mitchell brothers were the strongest Stanton players. Qaincy Athletic C easily came the State Athletic Club in a 31-to-12 engagement. H. Smith, P. Smith and Dennis starred for the win- ners. over- quished the Virginia Oriole Smith and Preston played spectacular games for the Congress Heights quint. Hurricana girls will go_to Balti- more Saturday to play the Y. W. C. 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