Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1923, Page 30

SPORTS.' THE BVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 19 2. J. SPORT Shine Against Loughran : Yankees’Stadium to Be Home-Run Haven “MY THIRTY YEARS IN BASE BAIL” {{QOUGH RING TACTICS COST CHAMPION MUCH PRESTIGE | | Referee Kid McPartland Errs in Not Disqualify Pittsburgher in Fourth Round for Exhib of Unsportsmanlike Fighting. BY J AIR PLAY. 31 Oon't let any one ever suggest to you! - Greb should de matched with Jack Dempsey. 1t will | be recailed that in the xild hunt for a Dempsecy opponent Greb | been more or less promivently mentioned. He would not last two | mpion (AN that YORK. Junuary Har ds a st the ¢ Greb his ght-heavyweight champion today solely | : one or two Eirher Referee Kid McPartland was suffering | om temporary ring blindn#ss, or he is the most charitable third |‘.|;uv1 i the ring that the game krows. The Pittsburgher used everything bu Tommy Loughran of Philadelphia lml CARPENTIERIS COMING * TO SEEK GO WITH GREB title retains s feet, teeth and knees against ht at Madison Square Garden. ireb butted than Rattling mmed Tommy without number, wasn’t deing ove of the ling Loughra) tightly the neck with b rights. clgon ever did, ith his elbow tim d when he vo hie ammer e urth round by disq S unfair an ex- the PARIS, Junua 1 4 fer will me Joe ckett, thel sh heavyweight, May 14, fn Lo 1, according to Francols Descanips., | ‘arpentier's ma Afterward, acec reant that |Carpentier and Descamps will sail fo ‘the ena |the United States to witness the |Johnny Kilbane-Eugene Criqui bout While fn the Unl Stutes Des- amps will try to arranze a fight for Carpentier with Ha probabl ENYON BRINGS TROPHY FOR EDRGETONN NN PHILAI: {bers of Pri fout ball texm but the Marquis enthy Of course may have 31 nt the other f he did could £ the elev ‘artland g to flAute Toward ound Lougl nd - feroclous! d ‘the Phila- for the nder. b Wanted a Knockou was th ough avily whird winnir reb LPRIA. Jan Mo undefeated 1 | orgetown Universi- | {ty's 1922 collegiate base ball cham- | plons, Penn's world-record-bre. | two-mile relay team and more ¢ score of individual champions rious sports were gueste last night at the sevent. | d@inner ot the veteran atule Philadelphia at the Hotel Adelphia Princeton was voted the champion eleven of the cast, and Coach Bill ! Roper, on behalf of the team, was | presented with the Joseph Jolley ! trophy. Capt. Kenyo of the George- {town nine was given t Th {Jackson Kitson championship trop 1 Penn’s two-mile re am, comi- posed of Capt. Larry Brown, George )[ltrfid“ll. dward W. McMullen nd John C. Holden, was presented the Samuel E. Shull trophy- Other awards were made to William T. Tilden, world tennix champion: Mickey Walker world elterwelight titleholder: Jock Souta world pro- fessional squash racquets ould, world an ‘ e mpion; “Boots” Lever of P joint holder of the world sixty record; Charles C. Sh scholastie swimming Paul J. Costello, champion: Alfred Le fayette, intercollegita sprint pion, and to several othere E {ROMIG, NOTED DISTANCE ! RUNNER, QUITS SPORTS | NEW YORK, January 31.—John “‘Blond; Romig, noted runner, who w: a member of the famous Penn State lay and cross-country teams, and w also won the fonal indoor two-mil, champlonship last year, has retired from ' competitioi. it SPORTSMANSHIP PRIZE i IS AWARDED TO FENCER ! PARIS, January 31.—Lucien Gaudin, | d a left-hunded fencer and for r reats champion of France, | ! | | | | | ary « has today about prestige he got whe: hi-heavy ti th m he le from Gene 1 weighed 166 and semi-final be- Murphy of Denver and ew York, welter- humdinger, with the showing’ signs of ie final “om! howev and Doy the stomacl to the ch Murphy flat on his fac AMATEUR FIGHTER DIES AFTER LOSING CONTEST MONT R 1 | championship l IMERY, Ala., January 31.— ars old. ama- lapsed into uncon: n the match of the round ¢ ry bl youth ¢ i e innounced his inten- | aw and Fetzer had been d the winner when he became died from what acute dilation of o world Lanseions nhysic the hear VALGAR BEATS McCANN. nuary 31.—Benny outpointed B in a twelve-roun; T are light- iuns te t cham- and a e FIGHT TO STRIBLING. ATLANTA, a.. Young Stribling of M ministered a sev anuary 81— acon, Ga., ad- re beating to Harry rohr of Akron, Ohio, in a ten-round bout last night. Stribling weighed 139 pounds and Krohn 165. PINKEY MITCHELL WINS. MILWAUK . Wis,, 31 Mit Milt junio pion terweight bover, 1 was given every round of vision bout over Bud E Tts in recognition bY newspaper erities i of his sportsmanship and high moral value, Tips on Playing Basket Ball; Correct Rule Interpretations — BY ED THORP . __| | Omaha ringsi | I REAKING up five-man de- Daily letters asking how a team can break five-man deicnse. The only way 1 kn s to start a speedy short passing attack in your back ourt, using your entire five men. ITe players should move at a high of floor side to ball as often and as fast as is pos- _sible from to the other. By the time the center of the floor is passed the defense will be confused d opened up. Of course, only four men can be used in the attack after is point has heen reached, as one must remain back for defensive pur- s well as to reccive a back- pass in case the other four covered and can no longer 1other. Each time the is passed back to the player the back court the other four vlayers immediately drop back to new_attac | @ Suppose times in suc another pl: legal A. Yewn, muccessive triex for a goa ~hall not he considered a dribl is, therefore, perfectly legal. Q. Who removes disqualified play- | ers'from the game? i A. The referce. Ix Q. What Is of ! game? A. Any unneccssary with its progress. Q. If a tewm takes out time more | often than is permitted. what is done? A. Referee penalizes a foul for de- Iay of game. Q. referee is unable to deter- | mine who put ball out of bonds, what does he do about it? A. He xelects two opponents near- ext mpot where ball went out of! hounds and tosses ball up Ielw(rnj @ player tric sion for goul before T touches the ball, is it | us fense. B through come a meant by delay | ate speed, crossing the Antexterence: irom side one »oses. vard hecome s to one all N\ IDECLAIR The new slope in Ide collar lines puts a new slanton starched-collar comfort. GEO. P. IDE & CO., oy, h S NG Dependable The Year Around Columbia 0il Co. ROSSLYN, VA. West 1012 The “Little Napoleon” in the Old Days Cutting Down the Big League—McGraw Sold to St. Louis and Spurns Managership—Playing Base BallandthePonies —What Happened to One Umpire. UMBLINGS of a coming up- heaval in base ball—an up- l R heaval that was to really change the base ball map—began |to be heard in 1899, the year I { managed the Orioles. Though we | did not realize it for some time, that was to be the end of the old | Orioles, the team that now lives in ! history. It is much intention to deal e government of the | game, hist ¥, in_these memoirs i But to make cléar the exciting in- { cidents of that vear and the ne is necessary that I give a little | ground. My purpose in the rest of the story is to be personal and in- cidental. As 1 have said, several offers had been made for men during our live: season uf 1899. At first Ned Hanlon Von der Horst refused to such offers. Soon their There were rumors BY JOHN J. McGRAW, Tebeau was a great had the job. e had triend of ‘mine, even thougn fought each other llke tomcats on the diamond for years. I thini I had more scraps with Tebeau than any other man. As & result w close friends. After jolning his club I clined absolutely to take his job. Even after Tebeau had resigned as man- ager I refused Mr. Robinson s off During that season 1 played in ninety-five games for St. Louis. 1 did the best I could, but neither Lobbic nor myselt were able to give the same young fire and spirit to thatt~am that we had to the old Orioles ! timent was missing. Just outside the St |there was a racetrac Always {bave been interested in plising the iponies. It is the one spori I like out- side of base ball. Most ball players are fond of the races. Tried to Get Put Out of Gamen. With that temptation so close at jhand it was a great trick for the players to get put out of games Ly the umpires so that they could slip across the street and tul the ponles. You can Lonis park T0BE FACTORS IN 1923 ST. LOU E Rickey, man tionals, said anch is Na- uary ger of the today that t. Lo { unless lers from among recruits it would be better to subordinate the 1 {and start building up for 1 Manager New York Giants, Three Times World Champions. (Relessed Exclusively Through the North American Newspaper Alliance.) The sen- | 1) CARDS NEED GARDENERS NEW PARK IS MADE TOORDERFORRUTH. Wind May Aid Bambino In Achieving Circuit Swats at Gotham Inclosure. what & tough &pot th was umplre. On the slighiast provoration | we would Jump on him and argue and | wrangle until somebody 1ot put out, | That person was considered el y Ior a player to throw his glove in h ir or slam his cap on the ground after a conside: worst bre onsider jt for an de is Jof dise 3 direct evidence of sard for hority. It usually | the player takes a trip to the house. One afternoon “nxious to ma gan early the umpir BY JOHN B. FOSTER. T NEW YORK, January 31—F ball nen boast” of the ess as prophets went on recor adium, pr National wou time cqualing t e rur far us is concerned. The made to order for batters whao y hard n he city ground i Americ to 1 Tim Knew “You're a bat at Umpire Hurst when he runner safe. Tim me e w Somet blind as : the | rdinals uncovered several outfield- | MILLRO Lau Madison & | Buker of Chicugo, Loren M Phe fie ble and | | JOHN J. McGRAW, appeared when he first joined the New York Giants. SEA A CAES PADDOCK IS DECLARED ATIRACTMANY STARS 0 BEIN ECORD TR NEW YORK & the greats tub xthle L.OS AN 4| Charles W. sprinter, Junu 38, Calif., Janu ddock, world ¢ the nd d he will have t ary 31.— mpion tion al et P Millrose hreak rding & lifornia, who is in charge tddock’s training. “I"addock should have ar ever experien Unusual outhern ¢ the greatest ed by any sprint- Cromwell. “I have never seen a runner in finer condition after a vear's lay-off. He fs in good shape now as when he raced at He was nineteen at Ant- when he defeated the world" said Coach expected to in Ray sston, forme cross-coun- Rittler, jr., “olum inte A he equaled all sorts of on the Pacific coast he is twenty-three years old & muscles have developed, and | lost none of the never-sa -d | Mpirit. If ever a sprinter had a to go under 9 £l »nds for the yard dash, Paddock has {t." It 1= said Paddock will run on number of eastern cinder paths this year. NORTH CAROLINA STATE NINE WILL PLAY HERE LEIGH. N, C.. January 31.—Cath- University, Maryland 3 nnish-Am shattere mark v records who 1d" four-mile indoor d in three-mile tarters in sprint events o include Alf ntercol Al is whi expe favett shert Mo nd 100- ister, Th distance middle BOBBY VEACH IS BALKING. = State ase Lol teart Fon o DETROL 3 er outfiv of Bobby Veac vy and Maryland will be played k March 30, the Midshipmen in the morning and the College Park team afters a trip north the als will and April and Catholic Univ and Nay | the following twe All of the twenty-two games ou the arc with teams of the South At- ‘i on Ty of the putfielders in Americi McGRAW NOT INTERESTED. v a3t HAVANA, B After and & night, n Base Ball a playing games. The and B, Ala. January deliberating for two da wners of the South ation. have adopte edule. 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This meant. of | with the infield. but | course. that Baltimore would be one | je. h lubs to be drupped Business fallen off, due to the Amerfcan it wa truggle to both ends hough it was repeatedly dent | plavers had good reason t | that the big cut was coming | Baltimore Was Doomed. | gue heads hesitated to jopenly for the new Ameri | League, th panding. would gra | the territ We play F wners knew that Balt as doomec viously the ¥ to escape a heavy 1 . |10 sell the plavers before the balloon iburs!. ! 1 was not surprised, therefo notified during the |tnson and myself & the St. Louis club. 1 | purchase price exact] good sum. In the meant | the National League had been cut fo | | eight clubs, leaving Loulsville, Wash- | | ington, B and Cleveland out in the ‘col Ag @rst Robbie and T refused t we declined to sign a tract @~ a long time. We did report until May 5. Neither of | had P husiasm about pla {wit Louis. Our heart was | wit at team. On top of that, was ii:ld up frequently from atta ia Never Jumped a Contract. 3 here 1 want to correct ression that gained ground then. i stuck, that T jumped the « club to go into the. Amer aRue. 1 jumped no ntrac t any other time. To clea ter up I will tell what really | happened at St. Louis, and later I will show why T left the Baltimose can League Club and came to| ented T verplexing probl 1. the IV st uncover believe | cellent -year mat | tinued, turn pri some ver clse our e Llovd, traveling sec - VANKEESGETPENNOCK FROM BUSTON FOR TR " |HICKEY IS NOT WORRIED . OVER DRAFT SITUATION , 1 SAN FRANCISCO, « . when | | pire NEW YORK, Janua The | got Pitcher Herb Pennock Red Sox vesterday in one ¢ d trades in the American League urn the veteran southpaw the Yanks hand seorge Murray, right-handed | Norman MeM T one-sid his- of the for Boston 1 i s to do P [ "I was g | down LASKER TO PLAY HERE. and Caj v Needless t to MeMillan Pennack to ce & cham for the an exhi- Chess Clut. general With and 2 re now » for with ti They hav Hoxt « good cha youthful Flatbu: will be shipped to Chicago and (o ambia Eddie brought to_the new kee stadium in a New York uni- | Wonder What Vertz Will Say \ my con Today 2 » was the and my- he clause I objected to th the St. Louis Ireserve clause. Both Robbie i melf refused to sign a contra {would hold us over another | gardless of our wishes. On that 1 demanded a salary of $9 |whieh Mr. Robinson of St. Lo ifinally agreed to. That, perhaps, was | salary paid for a plaver e PEYET yurTsBORO, January The reserve clause was stricken | Muscle ~Shoals "J pointer, from our contracts. This made us)by J.'1 . Foster, jr.. was winn | | free agents at the end of the season, | free-for-ali champlonship stakes of | !giving us the right to Zo to anot national field trial finals hel The Wb or anywhere we plaased. The| winner was awarded $1.000 and a leg | reserve clause at that tim: was a | ©On the champlonship cup. ' bone of contention amonk ma | and players. We were determined n to be tied by it That I still a matter of record I nave been easy for anyb informed themselves as to i Nobody did, however. The. accused us of jumping. It made a better story that wav Yurned Down Managershin. T play: club, but at no time ager, as has been written histories of the game. 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