Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1923, Page 25

- Magnates Increase MAJOR PARKS THIS YEAR WILL HOLD 461,000 FANS New Yankee Stadium, Seating 65,000, Largest of Lot, Polo Grounds Next in Line, and St. Louis Plant With 18,000, Is Smallest. W ITH the opening of the Yankees' gigantic new stadium in_April and the enlarging of the Pole Grounds in New York and the Cubs’ field in Chicago, the combined seating capacity of all the major league base ball parks will be increased to approximately 461,000 for the coming season. This is an in ing capacity of the various stadiums field is thrown elgen it will accommo capacity of the olo Grounds will be enlarged from the Cubs’ park from 18,000 to about 32,000. crease of about 93,000 over the seat- last year. When the Yankees' new date about 65,000 persons, while the ,000 to 54,000, and The building of the Yankee stadium has increased the number of major league parks to fiftteen, one less than the number of teams in the two circuits. During the coming season the only oue of the five cities supporting two that will have r cities in the group just mentioned, New York easily leads in the cgribined seating capacity of ita twa stadiums with a total of 119,00 Stadium and the rounds. Boston, with its Braves' Park, ranks next, wwith a total of 75,000. Chicago, with ‘ubs’ Park and Comiskey Park, is third, with 67,000, and Philadelphia follows with only 41.000. Yanks’ Park Is Largest. Of the fifteen parks the Yankees' is Ve far the Jargest, with a seating capacity of $5,000, which cap he in- creased if the asion, sulh as a world series, warrants such‘a move. The Polo Grounds, with 54,000 ranks second, while Braves' Field. the Na- tional League Park in Boston, which had been the largest ball park in the country from the time of its openini $n 1915 until last year. is now in thire place, with a capacity of 45,000. The three flelds just mentioned are the enly ones which will be able to ac- commodate more than 40.000 pérsons. Comlskey Park in Chicago ranks fourth, with 33,000, while the renovat- ed Cubs’ Park, which had hitherto hean one of the smallest major league inclosures in the country, will rank VIRGINIA FOUR ANNIOLS FOR TRUANGULAR RACE BALTIMORE, Md., February 5. ternational relays calculated to # thrill to even the most hardened sport follower are planned for the Joint gumes of Hopkins and the 5th Regiment, February 24, at the armory of the latter. Virginia is anxious to be matched in a triangular event around the board track with Pennsyl- vania and Princeton. and efforts will bé made to persuade Navy to match the other fyers. Virginia is proud of its quartet, and piaces unusual confidence in its abllity to sweep the Loards. Penn d Princeton are annually repre- ntéd by a sterling outfit, #o, If the Tars decide to enter, a race could be held that would lack little in color. George Washington has written t send over fifteen men, and that it wants to be matched in relay events. Fordham will eend its medley team to combat in the 220, 440, half- le and mile combinations. nd Lehigh, traditional rivals on many sport flelds, will send their best men to fight it out in a relay, and the appearance of the men fifth during the approaching cam- paign. The only other flald that can arily seat at least 30,000 specta- tors is Fenway Park in Boston. ¥Ebhets Field in Brooklyn, Forbes Field in Pittsburgh and Navin Field in Detroit each ~can accommodate about 25,000, while Redland Field in Cincinnati is close behind, with 24,000. Shibe Park (n Philadelphia can seat 23,000 fans snd Dunn Field in Cleve- land has room for about 22.000. American League Park in Washington comes next, with 20.000. The only two major league parks‘that hold less than 20,000 are Sportsman's Park in St. Louis and the National League Park in Philadelphia. each of which capacity of approximately ways insures a track battle of In- tensity. Hopkins agalnst | either a 3 Maryland in 13 8 opponents teams from Marylamd, Washmgton and Virginia. City and Poly, scholastic fosmen from the drop of the hat, will also be sent against each other in one or | more events. Another feature will be a Catholic relay, Ih which teams from Loyola. | Calvert Hall, Mount t. Joseph and i other schools are expected to enter. RECORDS ARE IN DANGER The Yankees' new stadium is the first major league structed since Braves was | cpened in 1913. The next young est strucied since Braves' Field was built for the Federal League team of that city- in _1914. Ebbets Fleld was cpened in 1913, aftar Washington Park, where the Brooklyn club had weviously played. was abandoned. The stands at the Polo Grounds were fuilt in 1911, after the old structure had been destroyed by fire. Fenway Park was opened in 1912, Navin Field in the same year, Comiskey Park and Dunn Field in 1910, Shibé Park and Forbes Ficld in 1909 and Redland| Field in 1902. Regarding Sportsman's Park a8 both a National League and an American League fleld and including it in the total seating capacity of both circuits, the figures show that thet 1arics of the two leagues arc almost ~qual in their accommodations for! fans. The National League parks have a siight edge of about 3.000, however, as they have a combined ca- PAcity of 241000 to 238,000 for the American League. Capacity of Big League Parks. The following table shows the seat- inz capacity of each park in the two major leagues: AMER{CAN LEAGTE. New York. Yankee Stadium. Philadelphis. Shibe Park. Roston, Fenwar Park Washington. American Chcago. Comiskes *St_ Louis, Sportsm Cleveland. Dunn_ Fiel et vin Field. NATIONAL LEAGUE. New York, Polo Grounds. Rrookliyn. Ebbetts F Philadeiphia, Philli 65,000 38 (Lasgue Park: s33zessss ssiss ¥ i Cinconetl, Realana Field. B *Cardinals “and Browns play home gai at xame Seld NAVY AND ARMY MEET IN'SIX SPORTS IN 1923 The Naval and Military academies Will meet in six bramches of sport during the year. This is the largest number of lines in which the service schools have contested in a single year. The fact gives encoural t to the many. In and out of the serv- ices, who would like to see these two meet annuaily in every recognized aport. Dual contests between the foot ball, base ball, basket ball, fleld afid track and tennis teams have been arranged, will have representatives in s of the Intercollegiate Fenc- ing Association. The Naval Academy has been entering this event regu- larly, and genérally winning it. The Military Academy re-enters it after an absence of some years. The basket ball game i4 the next of the service conte It will be played at Annapolis on February 24. The teams have met three times in this branch, the Ni and the Army once. is expected to be one games of the collegiate June 2 is to be the field day in =ervice athlatic circles, the base ball, fleld and track and tennis teams of the two institutions meeting at West Point. The base ball game s one of the contests of a long-cstablished =eries. in which the Army is well in the lead. “The next service foot ball game will be played on November 34. The other three of the series agresd upon il be played on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. sThe Navy was anx- ious that next years game should be played on December 1, but con- ceded the matter to the Army. TAKE TITLE AT NETS. NEW YORK, February §.—Karl H.' Behr and Dean Mathey of New York | won the doubles champlonship 3( the | indoor tennis tournament of the Heights no, defeating R. Norris Willlams of Philadelphia and Watson M. hburn of New York, 6—3, 4—8, 6—1. Washburn's errors throughout were costly. ———— e PEBBLELESS DIAMOND. ‘The diamond of the Tankees' new park in the Bronx will ba pebbleless, IN BIG NEW YORK MEET NEW YORK, February 5-—One er two world records may be shattered by athletes who are entered to par- ticipate tonight in the annual track and fleld championships of the Metro- politan Atlletio Association at Madi- son Square Garden Metropolitan, na- tional and Olympic champions will compete. In " sprint events Bob MoAllister, New York's “flying cop”; J. V. Scholz, former Missour! conference champio Victor Graeb of Columbia and othe: will run; and in the walk Willle Plant, the national champlon. will be pltug.nl:lm-t'-uuh competitors as J. 3 an, ormer champion, d o 5°m£:. h pion, an . W. Landon of the New York Athletic Club, former Olympic cham- pion. who broke a world record at th Millrose Athletic Club ga. last Monday night, will attempt to create a new record in the running® high Jump tonight. Five teams, including the record- holding Val-Cour Club four, will par. ticipate in the 440-yard relay for woggen. HARVARD-YALE ACCEPT. February §.— accepted the invitation of Oxford and Cambridge to an_international "intercollegiate track meet to be held in England in July. A cablegram has been sent to B. G. D. Rudd of Oxford, who w: captain of the track team from th university that visited this country several years ago. 5 HUTCH SHOOTS A 67. SAN DIEGO, Calif., February 5.— Gene Sarazen, national open golf champlon, and Jock Hutchfon de- feated Jim Simpson of Chula Vista and Bob Simpson of Coronado, 4 up and 2 to go, in a thirty-six-hole mateh, Hutchison had a medal score of 87, five strokes under par. OTHER SPORTS ON PAGE 26. as at \ ! | | ] | | | “MY THIRTY YEARS IN BASE BALL” BY JOHN J. McGRAW, Manager New York Giants, Three Times World Champions. (Relensed Exclusivelr Throush the Nerth Amer'cas Nowiparer Alliazes.) H.ow Mathewson Beat the Squeeze Play—Covel- eskie’s Scheme for Keeping Track of Base ¢ Runners — Pop An- “son’s Weakness Was a -Base on Balls. can really appreciate fully N what it means to have a :6uy|= of pitchers like Mathewson and McGinnity on the same team. That pair would comeé pretty near winning the pennant for most any club that was at allsabove the ordi- nary. You may appreciute this when it is recalled that in one sewson Mathew- son and McGinnity won eomething 1ike seventy-five games Wtween them. That in itaelf would win a pennant. Aside from their mere ability to win, two reliable pitchers like that enable a Mmanager to experiment with ifs young, men. It was pretty nearly certain that either of them would go through the nine innings any t they started it they lost. That obv setting of the regular routine of the pitchers by having to make frequent changes during the games. Gave Players ConSdence. Any time thatgeither Matty or Mc- f}lnnl’ly wnlkna"aul to the box there was @ feeling of security on the bench. We knew that we had the best hand to start with. The other players immediately took on & spirit of confidence and played just that way. They trecognized the proba- bility of any pitcher being beaten. but they had a £ [X no mis- takes would be made. While 1 regard Mathewson as the greatest pitcher that ever lived—and most baseball men agree with me on that—don't get the impression that McGinnity was not & star of the first magnitude. He was pretty nearly aw g0od as Matty. Joe had pretty nearly O one but a base ball manager everything that a pitcher needs, in- | cluding a puzzling underhand ball and a baffing change of pace. More- over he knew the batters. To bunt on McGinnity was a tough MARRY COVELESKIA undertaking. Instinctively he seemed to know just when the batter would take & poke at the ball or try to dump it in front of the plate. If the batter iIntended to bunt MecGinnity would keep the ball high on him so that it was impossible to get on top of it. As a result, he made them pop out instead of getting away with a sacrifice. Seldom Used the Play. On_smart pitchers like Mathewson and McGinnity it was almost impos- sible to work the squeeze play. That play, as you know, comes up when there is a runner on third and lees than two out. The runner starts as if to steal when the pitcher draws back his arm. The batter then bunts the ball. It Is impossible to get the runner at the plate if the play is per- fectly made. The only thing left is to throw the batter out at first and let the run count. For a while batters and worked that play frequently. did not use it often, though. “That's an easy play to runners We beat." UNUSUAL FAITH IN RICKEY SHOWN BY THE CARDINALS BY JOHN B. FOSTER. N for ofa EW YORK., February 5.—Branch Rickey has been given'nve more years in which to bring to successful completion his theories on how to tead the St. Louis National League club into a champion- hip. The renewal of a manager's contract for five years is an unusual thing, for the majority of owners'are unwilling to tie up with a manager more than one season. This is not due to lack of faith in the ability manager. It is due to the feeling that personal differences may arise | pi which will result in antagonism between owner and team leader. Rickey has been with St. Louis as leader since Miller Huggins stepped out of that job. Each did well with St. Loflis, according to the material each Had. Since Huggins left St. Louis he has won two championships, while Rickey has not won & title. Rickey brought the Cardinals into lace, however, although he Seuia hot hold ma-‘nhunul the end of n. Tn 1922 he undertook to build a team around Hornsby, and while it may be possible in foot ball to build a team around & star it is not a hope ful task in base bal There is no instance in base ball of a champion- ship being won by one man, e though he were an expert flelder and the best batter in his league. Opposing managers now and then say of Rickey that if they can get him to change his players often enough they can beat him. That criti- cism_is_given only for what it is worth, because it is not always a good idea to bell too faithfully irg what an opposing manager may say. He usually has reasons for spreading his own i Rickey is a fine sportsman d r of fine ide: He is in re- amateur working among pro- and it is not always an or him to mingle his ama- with the blunt demands which come in at the gate in p: ment for display of expert athletic skill, Being hired to do a thing is |5 TRINIDADS WELL AHEAD INK. . DUCKPIN LEAGLE Trinidads are well out in front in the race for the flag in the Knights of Columbus Duckpin League, having a lead of 4% games over the Chris-| tophers, who are next in line. Seven of the ten teams have a percentage of .500 or better. The figures: STANDING OF TEAMS. *Forfeited 1 game. INDIVIDUAL AVE [) W. Farnan, Ninas. MoNiokie, Ohristophers. b2 lors. not always the same as doing it for | Gorte fun. Cot (Copyright, 1928.) ISSUES BASE BALL CALL. JRHAM, N. C, February . Eight pitchers and two catchers ha: answered the first base ball practice | Bets. call at Trinity College. ROBERT L. RIPLEY. BY ROBERT L. RIPLEY. NEW YORK, December 1.—Tomor- row! All my lite I have waited for this day—the day when dreams come trye. To go ‘round the world s a dream—a dream that graduaily fades away with the years. Now is the tivte, before it is too late. If not go now.1 would never go. -~Such outhful | the did ah opportunity comes seldom, it ever, in a lifetime. ¢ From the New York Athletic Club and back. Impossible to further than that. And while on the way 1 will tell you about it. Starting toward the setting sun-to lands of the rl-lus sun through thirty thousand miles of tropical ‘onder, Road ¢ Dfl- the W of Travel is thrilling anticipation, . ... .~ I hope to interest you. . . Pintas. Beum, Ohristopher awhianey, Ninas 3 34 E 3 819 340 310 " 3¢ i 318 318 321 313 $ESEESEIEY . i3 58 PTT T T W T PR L o EEH RN ADVANCE BOLTON, February national indoor tennis championship tournament will be held on the gove ered courts of the Longwood Cricket Cludb beginning March 12. Tt was originally planned to start the play several weeks | . The-decision of Mis: Bancroft to sail March 20 for play on European courts was a factor in ndvlndng 6 date. Radiators and Fenders xom OR REPAIRED, MADE W}.TTSTA'I’I"S R. and F. WORKS M. T8, 7. sale. .IIU r. 1| Teams w Grand C ’ d 'last night after a short illnes: It w;)l give you an idea of his wtudious mind. aAll & pltcners Botto do” he said, o ke B, s head up and piteh e expressio; eping your head up® in base ball means being alert ang on the job. which just now-—did try the squeeze play on Mathewson. ow Matty Beat It. Out of the corner of his eye he 83w the man start from third, Also he noticed the batter gake a motion to choke his 3 tty simply itched out—wide of the piute,. The taiter couldn't reach the bail and n coming from third ya: caught by fen feet A Mmanage: could depend upon either ¢f those great pitchers to outtaink Iike (hat. Other bitcherd could do. the Same thing today—but they don't. The squeeze play is frequently worked during the regular season. It is even worked in the world serles. Now, as I say, only & manager can appreciate just what {t means to have two men who will really help out in the thinking department. A big ma- Jority of them run « manager dis ;‘r%cz!eo?‘b‘){"r"ven forgetting what he WL Murray. who used to munage the Phillies, had many funny run-ine | with eome of his non-thinking piay- ers. The most amusing 1s the one he skie, the pitcher, who 4 to help beat us out in f 1908 after the famous nL of not touching sec- tel n jtells oh Covele: worked 5o har, that season o Merkle fucide; ond. An Old One, But Good. The Phillies were in a close game With Coveleskie pitching and ihere on fivst bl‘:‘e, Coveleskie v ol wi 3 Naturally, ‘the runner, ulfin. -x:ad\:np- tage of that. got a big lead and stole second. A pitcher, you know. never takes & wind-up with men on bases— at least, he shouldn't do so. hat do you mean by taking a P liké that with a man on Murray shot at Coveleskie when he came back to the bench. 9“"&;‘ know there was a man on = 'tlk;mbl‘ Pole answered by way 't kKnow there was a man stormed Murray. “Why 1 me of you fellows tell Now, en fellows.” he sald, sar- castically, to the otherplayers. who :l.r trying to suppress their smiles, T want it distinctly understood that hereafter we'll have no secrets on this club. Any time there is a runner on bage you tip Cov off, hear me? \\.e 1l have no secre 7 didn’t soj 1 ought declared Coveleskie, the "biting ear. casm of Murray totally lost on him. Old Cap. Anson's Weakness. One of the quaintest ch jever hed in b Schmidt, the pi | 1emember so well 1 book in his uniform pocket in which {hie had tabulated the weaknesses of all the diffarent batters, he would refer to this little?hook be. fore pitching to a certain batter. wOne day in Slose game, when 1 a , Ca) & terriMe hitter, A8 You wil Frcabo: ber, came to 3 n't 80 he kept a little bat. There av men on bases at the time o C "0 Schmidt looked at him a moment, Walt!” he called to the umpire and deliberutely got out his littls book. which he careéfully scanned. meantime the crow were giving Schmidt the razz. didn't disturb him, however. | Finally he called to the catcher for “J got it, T ot {t." {he atcher's ear. ‘D, ere ‘bout a curve or a fast one—so, it's 2 base on balls. Dot's his Veak: So deciding. Schmidt base ‘on bails and thousnt he rad masterly piece of ing. He probably had. at that. lieve me, thai the ball. (Bnnr;;htl.hl In the 4 _and the players a conference. he whispered in ain’t noding: Di Be- t Cap Anson could sting 1923, 023, United States asd Camads, risty Walth Syndicate.) Down the Alleys Hecht Company employes have been 1 hit by the duckpin craze, and as a result, a league has been formed, comprising six teams from the dif- ‘lerentdeplr&mlnltof the store. These teams are the Delivery Spark Plugs, Heco® Braves, xlllhl.lllnp Equllt“r: Society Brand King Pins, Office Al Stars and the Hanan Midgets. At a mesting of the captains of the teams the following officers were electe President, Bert Rosenberg: treasure: Harry Barsto secretary, Charl i Cl i burn, and ascofer, Willlam Da: 11 roll on the alleys of the entral Monda of each week. Prizes d_for the successful teams and individual bowlers. hts of Sa ¢ ten- iladelphia giris and their friends that merit mention are the ! Interesting menu, the brilliant effort: of the toastmist; Bronson Quat ithe niftv speeches of President I man of the District Duckpin Asso- clation; Sec ry and Treasurer Duft of the Philadelphia Ladi Leagu and Manager Baker of the Washing- ton team. Everybody was elated over the success of the match, and promises were given that it would be renewsd next year. Manager Vaeth of the itecreation and Grand Central dlleys ca: in for a great H of pral for his liberality in | financing the local team and enter- !taining the members of both clubs and their friends, . A _meeting will be held this evening at 7:30 at the S8herman alleys of the ofcials of the different leagues to arrange for the drives that will be used after the 17th of this month. The building in which the Sherman ialleys are located has been sold and {will be torn down. Arthur Urban, secretary of the District League, re- quests that all circuits interested nd representatives to the meeting. Geo Lewis, head of the Sherman alleys, will open a new place on 14th street between H and I, over the Studebaker automobile salesroom. and Lom Krawss, now con- n.‘c:::'wlth Sherman's, will not be out of jobs very long, &s they are slated to manage the new Crandall Jeys at 14th street and Park road. Both are very popular among Wash- ington bowlers, and will prove valya. ble assets to the new drives. Match Your Odd Coats - Save the of an emtire new suit. All colors, sises, pat- terns. t ||__ees-e07 7eh Se. Nw. Frequently | | T, &8 you will remem.- | Dean title. WILLIAMSON ONLY A FAIR BUT GOT DISTANCE ED. WILLIAMSON'S MAJOR LEAGUE BATTING RECORD. | { i /| Year. Capacity. of Plants : New York Bars Heavyweigl_zi Title Bou SPORTS. GEORGE TEBEAU, NGTED | coMMIISSION 1S OPPOSED BASE BALL MAN DEAD| TO ANY DEMPSEY MATCH DENVER, Col, February George Tel widely known in ma. Jjor and minor league base ball circl died of diabetes in a hospital here Two weeks ago Tebeau became ill from 4 carbuncle on his neck. He was un- able to withstand the shock of the operation which was deemed neces- sary. Tebcau was born in St. Louis and reared in the Goose Hill district, lon the number of base ball developed. Coming to ver in liis early youth, Tebeau was a leading figure in_ developing e n_the late '80s he and (Pa) Rourke organized his laying subse: playing subse- Ne# York Nationals Washington Americans. & few years in the big he returned to Denver, pur- shased Broadway Park and took over the Denver Western League club. In 1800 Ban Johnson @vas in the thick of his fight with the and took the to Washington. TeLeau steppe the breach and placed a Western League club in that city. The fol- lowing year the American Associa- tion was organized and Tebeau trans- ferred his Kansas City club to that organization. .- Beveral years ago he sold the Kan- as City team and returned to Denver. ENGLISH POLO PLAYERS TOHAVE BUSY U. S. TRIP NEW YORK, February 5.—The Brit- tsh international indoor polo team whioh will arrive liere Tuesday, will play exhibition matches in five cities outside New York before it meets a lected American trio in the five- mame tournament for the John R. Townsend cup, bel:innlng at Squadron A armory, here, March 5. The itinerary schedules matches February 10 and 11_with an Army team at West Pojnt: February 14 and 15 with the Cincinnati Polo Club and ue. 1d “most of | | | Noise, Tomm}: Rot and Loose Talk of Money-Mad Managers and Promoters Makes Situation Com- mon Nuisance, Chairman Muldoon Say EW YORK, February 5.—A bout for the world heavyweight boxing N championship will not be permitted in New York state, Charles William Muldoon of the state boxing commission has announced The duration of the ban was not made known by the commission chair man. It precludes all possibility of Champion Jack Dempsey meeting any boxer for his title in the state while in effect. The reasons that impelled this action, Muldoon said, were similar 1o those which caused him to announce last week that neither Harry Wills the negro challenger, nor Jess Willard, former champion, would be per mitted to meet the present champion in this state. His reasons then were too much “bally-hooing” and too much money involved. FISTS FLY IN SIX BOUTS AT FORT MYER TONIGHT Fists will rid- at mission will not permit any_bout in_ which e championship is in #aid Muldoon “There has been sitogether too much noise, with {all the tommyrot and lcose talk of money-mad managers and promoters until the situation has developed into A common nuisance to all clasfes of people. “Such a condition is not beneficia! to boxing. It is for the best interest filv boxing that such conditions be eliminated. In its expressed attitude. 1 think the commission has evolved & way for eliminating this condition.” The report that the commission bar- red Harry Wills from meeting Demp- sey because it disliked to sponsor a ‘r‘nlxeu bout was characterized as laughable” by the commissioner. FLOYD JOHNSON MEETS NESTOR IN 12-ROUND GO NEW YORK, February 5.—Floyd Johnson of Iowa, aspirant 1o a title bout with Heavyweight Champio: Jack Dempsey, will meet Mike Nestc in a twelve-round bout tonight. Johnson is matched to meet To Gibbons of St. Paul here within a few weeks. DAVIS TURNS ATTENTION the fiy tonight in the Fort Myei t in e tarting at 8 o'clock, Some good mcraps are looked for, that between Peter Mornell of Troop F, 3d4 Cavalry, former wi terweight champion of the sout] ern department of the 1y, and Private Fred McCullongh' of Persh- ing Stable, No. 1, especially prom- ising considerable action. 'The welters will mix matters over m six-round bout. All other bouts are limited to four rounds each, ONE TOPANOTCH SCRAP 15 CARDED THE WEEK !5 —Harold Stroem, who last year won the Miami Valley Hunt and Polo Club ) at Cincinnatl; February 17, the first| city_troop at Phil a: February i > ot 32 Yals at New Haven, ana February | York's fight card for the week ofters 24, Essex troop at Newar only one real top liner scrap. that The British players are F. W. Egan, [ between Rocky Kansas and Charley captain of the team: Capt. P I. Wal-} White at t"’\;y:a:ggn‘fr;f:,{ :}5‘;“. i St e ¥ Holman and Cap.{ If RC¥, "reat ‘batdle. for both are real scrappers with real wallops. But| RAY NOT TO RETIRE. don't let_any one tell you that the) winner should be named as Leonard's BOSTON, February 5.—Jole W. Ray, national mile champion, and winner of Charley has had the hunter mile at the Boston Ath- letic Association games here Satur- day night, has denied reports that|pjs money all right, but that's all he intends to retire. He sald he in- | Ag 1o Rocky Kansas, that young tended to compete in the 2,000-meter | ,uh ais0 had his ohance againat the the Olympic games in Paris|champion and foozled. He broke his 2 arm on Benny's ivory and he's never |umenny worth nce. Both boys are staying up late to {sce fight, but both occupy pretty much the same position in the light- weight kingdom as does good old trial horse Bill Brennan in the heavy- welght principality. (Copyright. 1828.) YORK, February New Leonard and that's all they were— just cracks. In each of them he gave the lightweight champion a run for been the same WINS SKATING HONORS. CHRISTIANIA, Norway. February] the world skating champlionship, yes- terday won the contest for the Buro- TO MUNICIPAL TENNIS By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 5.—Develop ment of “sandlot” tennis players wi be one of the features of the adminis tration of Dwight F. Davis as pres dent of the United States Lawn Tenr nis Association. A national campaign to tir interes in the tennis played on municipa courts with a national championsh tournament for public parks player- late this season are among Davis immediate plans, the Associated Press was informed. Preparatione will begun immediatel SETS SKATING RECORD. ST. PAUL, Minn, February Breaking one world record and win- ning_first place in all three events Art Staff of Chicago scored 120 point and took the lead in the first of two-day program to decide the mna tional indoor professional skating championship here today. Staff skated HITTER, Club. Indianapolis , Chicage Chicago Chicago Chicago Chicage Chicago League. National National Players. Total, thirteen years P BY FREDERICK G. LIEB. ERHAPS the most remarkable thing about the career oi Ed Wil- iiamson, third baseman of the old Chicago White Stockings, is that the man who held the home ran championship before it was smashed in recent years by Ruth and Hornsby was only a fair hitter. Williamson hit over .300 once in his career, and that was in 1 i Claus year for ball players, when they were.permitted four strikes (none of them foul strikes) and bases on balls were scored as base hits. ‘Williamson's record of twenty- home runs in 1884 stood out as base ball's greatest slugging achievement up to the time Ruth lugged his blunderbuss into tion. Ruth first broke Willlamson's Yet se record in 1919, his last year with Wednesday | Boston, when he beat it by two, hit- (h\‘( twenty-nine homers. Villiamson's twenty-seven four- base clouts still remained the best record in the National Leaguc until last season, when Rogers Hornsby went on his home run tear. By lash- Ing out forty-two hbmers the ril- liant Texan established a new Na. tional League record, and left the ‘Willlamson sign post far behind. othing shows better the direction in which base ball is drifting_ than the fact that & home run mark which endured for nearly half a century was _passed by four batsmen, Horns- by, Williams, Walker and Ruth. Old-time fans were surprised to learn that Willlamson held thq old home run crow their recolleCtion of him is not that of a fearful slug- el d had a short fence that e would dump the ball over, and most all of his home runs were made in Chifeago. However, them he whacked out his hile he was making i rong. He going twenty-seven on a The VAN HEUSEN needs no the 220-yard dash in 19 1-5 seconds, a record for an indoor track. The former mark was 19 4-5 seconds. AB. 237 H. 53 N 78 92 98 11 115 7 93 190 1s 41 33 1228 T.B. 1 H H s AHNSARRBIRAY » lysazes 4504 lauBaEILIILILIE he Santa batting average of .278, and in only 106 games. Willlamson averaged one homer to every four games in 1884, which was Hornsby's_average last In 1921, when Ruth poled out fifty-nine, he averaged one to every three games. During one stretch in June, 1884, he bagged four homers in thfee suc- cessive games, getting one on the 23d, two on the 24th and one on the 26th, the next day of the schedule. Williamson had quite a time with the Detroit pitchers on Memorial day, 1884. In the afternoon game he slammed Pitchers Weidman and Meinke for three home runs and a double, totaling fourteen bases. This is the next best record to that held Jointly by Lowe and Delehanty, each of whom blasted four homers and a single in one game for a total of seventeen bases. In the two games of May 30, 1884, Williamson knocked out six hits in nine official times at bat and scored six_run iday! Ed was one of base’ ball's foremost third basemen in his day and playea on five Chicago champlion teams under Cap Anson. 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