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H L brea N ( SPORTS, Griff’s Trade Merits Approval of Local Fans : . GIVES MEN HE CAN SPARE ' FOR MATERIAL HE NEEDS Value. of Ruel Alone Ex; pected to Justify Loss of Shanks, Goebel and Picinich, While Russell May Prove Real Factor. » A \ season will be necessary to convince worst of the Griffith-Frazee trade. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. LTHOUGH it will require some time for Washington fans to resign i to the fact thay Howard Shanks will appear no more in local livery | - {070 Drew Fans. the prediction is hereby ventured that only a few weeks of the them that the Nationals got none the by which Val Picinich and Eddie Goebel accompany Shanks to Boston in exchange for Muddy Ruel and Allan Russell. The loss of Picinich and Goebel is of little consequence. Val's almost sole duty, prior to the time Pat Gharrity developed an ailment in his throwing arm, was to act as receiver the reason ascribed bein; fitted him for the task. LEAGUE HEADS GATHER * FORBUSINESS MEETINGS NEW TORK, February 12.—The pro- logue of the professional base ball season will be held this week with the annual business meetings of the National and International leagues, the latter starting at noon today, the former tomorrow morning. Club own- ers and their retinues began arriving last night. The International League may ex- press its opposition to the draft plan of the major leagues, and the Na- tional League may adopt a resolution concerning the opposition of the In- ternational and others of the minors to the plan, whereby players re- leased by the majors to the minors may be taken back into fast company through a draft process. The National League meeting Will be enlivened by President August Herrmann of the Cincinnati Reds, who plans to bring up the issue over Pitcher Rube Benton, whom he i3 trying to purchase frem the St. Paul Club.” Completion of the sale has held up pending approval of Commiss.oner Landis, who has ceived protests from major le who objeet to the former Red re-enterfog the tional League. Herimann contends that if Benton is suitable to the American Associa- tion he should be acceptable to the National League as cach is simply a unit of organized base ball. presum- ably dirccted upou the same stand- ards WILL START BASE BALL. NEW HAVEN, Conn., February 12. 11 practice at Yale will get under way today when battery candi- dates wiil report for pre v . struct ns. Actuzl batter:. start Tuesday afternoon under Coach (Smoky Joe) Wood. SEAEGASSETTG PACE FOR DUCKPIN BOWLERS Senecas are setting a fast pace in the Mount Pleasant Duckpin League. | having wen forty out of fifty-one games to lead the circuit by a good margin. Mount Pleasant, next in line, are three and one-halt games back. Four other teams have a better than .500 average, but the race for the gonfalon practically hag narrow- ed to thg first two teams. Here are the figures as compiled [only one complete game last summer | » by R. Walton Lauck, secretary and official scorer: STANDING OF TEAMS. . HS. 3 . L Pot. 1. 1 1. 1 Benecax i b 3¢, Pleasants 698 18 Arcade G'go 562 Regulars 541 Hilltops Qliftons . Chesterfiel.ds b4& Columbiss .. 548 Castles . 532 1514 Crescents . LEAGUE RECORDS. High individusl gme—Metrakes. 158, High individusl set—Doying, 385. Groatest number ef strikes—J. Scharf, Greatest number of spares—Logan, 110, INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES. SENECAS. H8. 387 351 878 ‘858 35 T.P. g;r:;xhlol Wi e Wetzel . Tiirie . McCambridge . McCarthy . Dewning Gheen Doying Riggies Ray Sieker Lebman 1054 101 & Sk 8% 1007 e 8. H 22! £ IHM 9638 96-88 sgaue’ 388 9635 3-13 i 5 987 50 $34 St T &8 358 = 4] e zess33 3 s4um B fLii it i ¥ » Bl e t =5 & & £ gz [ 8 & 7o | considerably 100-28 10020 in the games Walter Johnson pitched, g that Val's comparatively greater agility better | Another reason, never stressed, was that Johnson is 'such a wise bird in the business of hurling horsehides that a good mechanical catcher is all he requires, the necessity for a back- stop capable of sizing up rival bats- men and signaling for deliveries cal-| culated to prevent bingles being non- | existent. Pick seldom was used from cholce when a steadying iniluence was required for a_young and inex perienced hurler, or the aspect of a situation called for a well qualified director of stratggy back of the bat Ruel n Smart Player. Ruel, on the other hand, is credited with being a smart recejver, Is even taster in his actions back of the plate than Plcinich, has equally as strong an arm, with more accuracy in his throwing, and although batting is by no means his forte, is a better hitter than Pick. 0Oddly enough they were born in the same ‘vear—I896—and are of prac- tically” the same helght and weight, about 5 feet 3 and 160 pounds, but temperamentally they are as far apart as the oceans. Pick is an easy-going chap, thoroughly likeable, but having tew serious thoughts, and a well de- veloped pench self as little as possible. Ruel is a snappy, energetic youngster, whose mind is on nothing but base ball while a game is in progress, and works with unflageing zeal. A tip- off on Ruel's mental make-up is the fact that for the past few years he has_devoted his off s>asons to classes at St. Louis University and now full-fledged lawyer. Goehel In Lethargie. Goebel, rightly regarded asa “prom- ising prospec StIL is that and nothing more, after big league trials in two successive seasons. {ball hawk, with speed to burn, fine hands and good- arm., he yet jmost of his time last season on the beuch, participating In but thirty- seven 'games out of 154, and in a se £on, too. when garden work Nationals was attended to in from satisfactory manner. ¢lement of temperament. a3 w far Again the Eddie anks. the most valuable bit of talent lost in the swap, still rates high by reason of his ability to step in and plug a hole at any point in the infleld o garden. but his serviees were deemed advisable in only a few more than half the games p the Nationals last year a getting on in 3 feven in his prime, s up even more in the past season or two, something only considering his thirteen years in the protessional game, and he will con- tinue to get slower. For one aging veteran and a pair of complacent indlviduals content to just go through the motions the Na tionals have obtained a first-clas: catcher with fire and enthuslasm in his make-up. just the type to fit in with (he aggregation of {that is expected to represent Wash- {ington this year. Russell May Prove Factor. This would seem to be justification enough for the trade, with Allan Rus- sell entirely eliminated from consid- eration, but it is far from assured that the Baltimorc spitballer not prove of real worth. Russell no jlonger can be counted on to go the {full route of nine Innings—he pitched I 1 —but he i valuable for emergency {assignments. This is attested by his trecord of six games won and seven {lost with the tail end Red Sox, his i{percantage of victories, - 462, being better than the .396 javerage of the team he toiled for. Considering that Donie Bush. this lyear will have a raft of fledgling {hurlers needful of the heady hand- ling expected from Ruel, and that the jams they get in frequently may necessitate the services of an expert extricator such as Russell, it does appear, to put it mildly, that in his laélen trade Grift got none the worst of it. | Other Sports on Page 24. By ROBERT L. RIPLEY. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., December 7.— Today went by like a runaway mo- tion picture film. May Allison, Bob Ellis, Billy Dove and Jack showed me so many things them, and I remember so many people and things that I can't write them. But the time has come: “To speak of many things *Of birds and bees and sealing wax “Of cabbage and kings.” p Lasky’s Studios. A Fairyland. Covering acres Wwith =& clutter of “sets” that remind one of a work shop of seme gigantic Santa Claus. Here are housed forests, lakes, streets Cairo, -castles, tenement: eam- i .| ships, aeroplanes, and such - stupen- dous_toys, Strolled among the glant trees of De Mille’s forest primeval and ticklea jthe ribs of the monstrous skeletons 1used in producing “Adam’s Rib.* Watched Poli Negri filming “Bella “THE EVENING g STAR “MY THIRTY VEARS IN BASE BALL” BY JOHN J. McGRAW, , WASHINGTON; D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 192 ghtF ans Are Facing Big TS Manager New York Giants, Three Times World Champions McGraw Insists ;m Teams That Fight—Giants the Greatest Affidavit-Mak- ing Club in History~De- mand for Police Protec-| URING those stirring days of 1905, when some sort of a D in every city, our strongest oppe- nents ‘were the Pittsburgh Pirates. All our efforts were aimed at them becausé they were the contenders for the pennant. To this day the fans of Pittsburgh have a_keen animosity to the Giants. That, 1 think, is a good thing for base ball. Sportsmanship and easy- going methods the prospect of a hot fight- that brings [ scrap was an ordinary event | re all right, but it is * (Relenssd Exclusively Through the North Amaricss Newspaper Alliamce.) to official papers as a sort of ‘routtn It was fun, too. One of the party of New York newspaper men accompanying us had been & lawyer. He was promptly a: signed to write out the afdavits lu regular legal form and then have th iplayers, manager, owner and other {newspaper men swear to them. course, our evidence showed: the um- pires to be entirely wrong. . Arriving at Chicago we got & spe- ¢lal room and spent the whele morn- ing rounding up our afdavits. The newspaper-man-lawyer ‘would write the paper something like this: “Being duly sworn, John Jones de- iposed as follows, to-wit; Regular Legal Staff. “I am a resident of the City of New [ York and my occupatiei or profession i1s the playing of base ball for a team known. as the New York Glants. My physical dexterity snd metal acamen. | said profession.is the playinz of = position kmowiy as second base and one requiring va- eertain amount of hysical degerity and mental acumen, “On the. 7th’ day of July, 1905 while engaged with the said Glants in a game of base bajl with an opposing team known ‘as. the Pittsburgh Pi- rates. 1 was statloned at second base and was in position fo see clearly & |out ‘the crowds. philesophically. never feel w man out.” 1 Perconally I never could see this idea of taking a defeat I hate to lose and I elf beaten until the last have tried sty to Instill | nt for exerting him-| A real spent | for the { is| to be expected ! hustlers | win | and people that I can't remember Donna”* She was boarding a boat set “&\ - that same fighting-spirit into all the teams I have managed. Must Fight for MeGraw., I can apy e the fine work of apposing playe but, a the same time, I'm not much for that show of friendly feeling on the fleld. Off the fleld—yes. But once a team of mine is on the diamond I want them to fight. Namby-pamby methods don't get much. results, Nothing ever gave our players more delight than: to go back at fans and players who had started to give them a razz.- T never tried to discourage them in this, either. A team that will fight back on an enemy diamond and before an enemy crowd Is pretty well able to take care of itgelf. The play- ers gain confiderce in themselves by maintaining this cotky spirit Fans always resent the fighting back of a visiting ball club and that usually leads to trouble. I never could soe, though, why a ball player should be expected to take insults and razs- was in a city other ‘than hls own. While on the road we had hot argu- ments of this kind daily. Fans Often Got Earaged. Often the fans got so enraged that they would follow our.carriages and Ihurl epithets—and other things—at us. Al of thi great drawing vard on the road. Fans could rest assured that when the Giants arrived there would be action of some kind at thé park This also furnished the newspaper men with a lot of material for sensa- tional stories. That also helped. It's i | | i 1 1 Club. _Baltimore olumbus Columpun ittsburgh 138 ittaburgh | Ind. and Pif. Boxton Boaton Boston Boston Louinville Loulsville Leagu Ame Amer. Ass Amer. Assn. . Amer. Assn.. Amer, Anan.. National. Natiomal. National. Plavers Amer. Aasn.. 1 1 ‘1 bt 1 ¥ 1 3 I he ‘Washington ‘Wanhingtowl WasMngton Total, mixteen years. | BY FREDERICK G, LIEB. | IYOU remember old Tom Brown? Perhaps -not a era of fans have the faintést recol- lection as. to who.old Tom Brown was. There have been a lot of Browns in base ball, but when you stand up the entire detail for inspec- tion, Mordecai, the pitcher, and Tom, the speed-boy, head the list. Orly five men n all bese ball- his- tory have stolen over 700 bases dur- ing their big league lifetime—Billy Hamilton, Ty Cobb, Hans Wagner, Harry Stovey and Tom Brown. We don't know exactly how many bases this old-timer got away with, I but it must have been around 800. Records for Stolen bases were not | as built on the floor. She speaks but little-English and does all of her acting in German. Nearby is Chaplin’s studio where we watched Charlie act as Edna Pur- viance’s director in something dra- matic. A smart fellow Charlie. Horace Willlams Tled the way through the Ince studios.. Introduced Von Stroheim, and Mickey Neilan— one serious, the other not. Watched Bob - Leonard -trying to boss’ May Murray -around in a plcture. of Colonial- days. Rupert Hughey was running around, acting, dirécting. writing and ‘talking politics ail at the same time. coming .star—was doing scenes in play of the f: But I-didn’t gee a single scandal® May Allison took us to Venice and showed Jack the Pacific Ocean. He felt like Balboa. “Along _the ‘speedway to Santa Monica. Walked out on Nat Good- win's Pler—that broke him financiaily and-'where_he delivered his famous farewell addréss: 3 “My Mountain! “My California “My Assininity!” on a lake that ing without retort just because he | tended -ta make us a ' great many of the present | Madge Bellamy- l; LEON AMI nade an enviable record as a | Who n pitcher with the Giants. much better to be knocked and roast- ‘ed_than to be unnoticed. 1" To give you an idea how seriously {some of these incldents were taken, iwe had a game in Pittsburgh one day ,that broke up in a forfelture and an official protest. Ritchie, the Pirate | socond baseman, went into third on & iplay. dnd it looked as if he wero eas- 1ily out ither of the umpires {would say one way or the other. T tran from one to the other trying to jmake him glve a decision. The best |1 got was “Go and play bal {1 protested that I couldn’t go on luntil 1 knew whether the runner was lout or safe. As a result, ended right there, with me giving no- |tice of an ofclal protest. Brush Reveled in Scraps. Mr. Brush was with the team at the {time. While he pretended to deplore ser: he really .eveled in protest. We were going to Chicago {that night, so he wired ahead and en- gaged a notary public to take ac- knowledgments of affidavits. 1 guess iwe were the strongest affidavit-mak- ing club in the world. It seems to me that we used to go around swearing OLD TOM BROWN PLAYED | ON 11 DIFFERENT CLUBS| TOM BROWN'S MAJOR LEAGUE B.\Tl'll“G RECORD. « RO o7 »0 73 100 51 6z 83 146 170 108 104 123 7 Ed 3 T.B. 161 168 177 163 12 155 j08 A.B. s. A10 07 447 08 441 14 457 82 382 07, 420 NS 362 27 545 30 556 53- 658 21 520 W0 B4z 8 400 432 473 258 247 232 277 305 232 170 153 121 136 111 120 118 s ° 3 1,469 1,908 kept during Brown's first four.years as a big-leaguer, but from 1888 o 1898, inclusive, he got away with 897 steals. As he stole forty bases.in“1886, the first year in which records were kept, it must be assumed that he was a fairly active base Lhief earller in his major league career. Brown stole 110 bases in 1891 for the Boston American Association club, yet that din’t hold up as the best per- formance. of the year. Billy Hamilton stole 115 in the same season in the National League. Tom Brown shifted from pillar to post during his entire major league carger. He never stayed put. During his sixteen years in big time Brown played on eleven different clubs— Baltimore, Columbus, Pittsburgh and Boaton af the old American Associa- tion; Baston of the Players’ League and ‘Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Boston, Loulsville, St Louis and Washington of the National League. Up to, the present Tom Brown held LNESREUIRARES( 1) { the most pitching in ohe season. 1892, while playing with . the Louis- ville Nationals, Brown was charged with_ 65§ officlal times at bat. That remained a record until Rabbit Ma- ranville went to bat 672 times last season, establishing -2 new major league record. Though 2 player who seldom hit .300, and who averaged only .£66 during his sixteen-year career, Brown at_regular intervals would go on terrific - hatting ° frenzies. *° While wandering around the majors, one of Lis favorite tricks was to lash out five hits in as many times at bat. On September 4, 1§33, his second year in the majors, he went on the first of these tears with five hits in five times up, his hits inoluding two homers, two doubles and a single, for a total of thirteen.bases. Tom broké out again on the open- ing day of the 1885 season, when he thumped Dave' Foutz for five hits in as many tries. On August 24 of the same year, Pitcher Connor of Louis- ville was. assuaited for-five hits in &8 many times up. Brown. had another one of his big days on August 3, 1886, when he lashed five hits out of Terry of Brooklyn . and scored four runs. Tom's last five in five times up was on May 7, 1891, and he.made in a good one. 'Pitcher Mains of Cincinnati was the victim. and our hero sailed into him for three triples and two singles, eleven total bases. ‘When that man Brown was wound up thre was nothing t6-do but wait until he unwound himself. - (Copyright, 1923.) —— DETRT BOVLNG TEAM ANERESELKS TOURNEY COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 12.— Rolling a score of 2,921, C. F. Smith team No. 1 of Detroit took first place in the five-man team event of the Elks' pational bowling tourna- ment,. replacing the Fred G. Smith's ot Milwaukee, which now holds ona place, - with 2,851. e 4 f Detroit want into firsf plic;‘l‘:'.\.;: singles .';emz ‘with 655. Joseph Gerou of Detroit has been re-elected presiderit of the assocla- tion. . ehmr??r’n vice president, and John Galen of Detroit, secretary. the game | them. | |He was determined to fight out the: the National League record for facing | Inj ly Gray of Milwaukee was {certain play made at third base by one Ritchie,.an opposing player. f{t being part of his professional skill ta [ sltde into the safd third base, sack or { cushion so as to avoid being touched | with a base ball in the hands of one jArthur Devlin, known 2s a third oase- ma “Your deponent furtlier saith. etc. | 1t gives me a laugh every time T ithink of the afidavits ~Without | questioning the player at all the utll- ity lawyer would go into all that rigamarole. The player would be icalled in and swori Seldom Won a Prote: “Read that carefully and -tell me if_that Is correct?” the notary public, who dldn‘l'dlumw ‘what about. would say. 1 Noura right” the ball i plaver would declare, and aflix his | name. Of course, we didn’t win the pro- test. We never did. In making pro- tests 1 am sure our cfib had the smallest percentage of Victories of any club in the world. But we kept on making afidavits, on the slight- est provocation at any time or any rlace. Finally it got to where Harry ! Pulliam, the president of the league. would open one of these bulky pack- ages. “Oh, it's some more of those darn- ed Giant affidavits,” 1 have heard him say. and would promptly toss the whole bundle aside. “All right” Mr. Brush would with a twinkle In his eye. {we've got that one over, we'd better { get ready for another’ one In the next town.” Say.” he said to me one day. “don’t you think we had better wire to the chief of police in Cincinnati and ask protection for our players? Serves to Draw the Fana. That was a good notion, I thought. So we called in the newspaper men, | \Who were always eager for such fun. | They promptly sent stories about the I need of police protection. The Cin- cinnati officlals wired back that a vis- iting club would certainly be pro- tected. The public couldn't what it was all about, but for fear something might happen and they would miss it they filled the park. Mr. Brueh had a very dry sense of ! humor and he used to chuckle over starting things like that. You u understand any profection. There were times, though, that we did. On one trip to Philadelphia we {really did have to call on the super- {intendent of the department of cor- rection — police commtssioner — and ask that the players be protected. The first official we saw intimated that we ought to Stay off the main avoid trouble. He was against us. Roger Ready, But Tardy. The start of that trouble was an attack on our carriages outside the park, in which Roger Bresnahan, riding with the driver, was hit on the headd with a brickbat and knock- ed_to the groumnd. Roger. who was a sort of detective in his home town, had piled up stones at his feet 50 a6 to be ready, but the fellow with the brick beat him to it. (Copyright. 1923, United States and Catada, 5 the Christy Walsh Byndica Tips on Playin Correct Rule BY ED FFENSE. It js really not necessary to state that un- less you develop an offense you cannot have a winning team. Too much is written about defense, too much accent put upon it. Neces- sities df an offense—its fundamentals —are the fundamentals of basket ball. Make every pass good, every catchesure. Always use both hands in han- dling a loose ball on the floor. Cut toward the passer and not away from him when taking the pass. Do not stand still in receiving it, either. ‘When vou go in for a tap ball go, in_fast and take it high. Never shoat unless you feel sure of scoring, and then be certain to follow up not only your shots, but all tried by your team. your team will do these things and do them well all the time you will be 1sure to have a basket ball team because of its offensive strength. Q. Is time taken aut during-a double foul? - A. Yes, by referee. He does mot start time again until ball is tossed up at eent Q. If ball enters basket from be- ilow, goes through and drops back iinto basket, is & goal scored? A. No.The basket is supposed to be | closea at the bottem; and if this were | w0, the ball comld net enter from be- low. For comvemiemce and to keep ‘same fast, it has been found best baskets open at bottom. it ‘was ail! derstand, we had mnot really mneeded | | streets and go up the back ways to| 3. - :{LEONARD GETS A $50,000 - OFFER TO BOX FREEDMAN NEW YORK, Febraary 12— mny Leonard has been offere Junuu defend kis title as worl * promoter, it by Bllly Gl ager. . “The | it would be held near Chicago TLDEN AND RGHARDS SE PACE N T LAY BUFFALO, Fébruary 1%.—Play was being continued hére lod"' in the {A- 40or net tourney,'in Which many of the leading stars of, the eduntry, are com- peting. o o o et Eill Tildeq, national cliamplon, and Vincént Richards- were, in - the: lime- light. yestefdiy. -Bach < won two mAtches, Tilden's big win coming over | Lindley Murray. Bfg BIIT was At the tup of his game, ajlowing the former champion baly four games despite the I t that Murtay played clever tennis. % - Summartésd, incent Richards, Yenkers; - renie ik Bt Tesham dpliped L William T, Tilden, 2, Philadslphis, defest- o Hugh Kaileher, New Tock, 60, 61, the; '?7-.\, 'Jia“ 'M- = Marray. 60, 6. s Vincent Richards o Vincent, Rickasds' defontod Fraacls Huater, MISS HOLLINS WINNER - OF COAST GOLF EVENT DiEI_MONTE, Calit.’ February 12.— Miss Marion Hollins of New York, natiopal woman's golf champion in 1921, vesterday défeated Miss.Doree {N. Kavanaugh, Les. Angsles, Calif., { title_holder; 6 and 5 in the final of the Pebble Beach woman's champion- ship here. Miss Hollins played re- L if, going out in ¢ . Wiliia: C Gardner's decision is taken to be Gardner finished rTunner-up in a 37-hole match for the British title three years ago, but Evans has been less fortunate in- his invasions of {England, having run into an un- | beatable 32 on one nine during his first expedition, when he was plaving well, and being off his game on the succeeding attempts. Their decision leaves R. E. Knepper of lowa, a Princeton student, and Harrison Johnston of St. Paul as the most promising - esterners, who may g0, aside from Dave Herron of Chicago, formerly national champlion, in case Herron‘gets back into the stride that carried him to victory over Bobby Jones at Pittsburgh three years ago. THREE TITLES DECIDED IN COVERED COURT PLAY By tha Assoc'ated Pr BARCELONA, Spain, February 12— Miss Kathleen McKane of England yesterday defeated Mrs, Beamish, alsa of England, in the final of the women’s singles in the covered court tennis championship, 6—3. 4—6, 6—3. In the men’s doubles Henri Cochet and Jean Coniteas, France, won from Tegner and Rovsing, Denmark, 6—1, 6—=1, T—5. In the mixed doubles Miss McKane and W. C. Crawley, England, won from Mrs. Beamish and J. B. Gilbert, gland, 3—$, 6—3, 6—38 g Basket Ball; Interpretations. THORP- team has the choice of baskets? The viaiting team, When a try for goal lodges in the supports of the basket, where is ball put in play? A. 1t is tossed uyp at center of the court. . Is a player out of bounds when his foot touchgs the inside of the side line? d profes- and side lines are used, a player isx out of bounds when any part of his body touches the boundary limes or the fioor outside these limes. HELEN WILLS DEFEATED. SAN 'FRANCISCO; February 12.— Eleanor Goss of New York, unknown, 1thusiasts at the' Burlingame Coun- try Club invitation games yesterday S PORTS., FOUR SCRAPS OF WORTH ARE CARDED IN GOTHAM Mill /Between Tremaine and Curtain Is Headfiuer, Others Being the Bernstein - Delmont, *:Sharkey:Smith and Gans-O’Gatt Bouts. ¥ BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, February 12=One of the best weckly fight cards of the wifiter season stares the fans in the face this week. The lit- ‘tle fellows form the cast. Jack Bernstein of Yonkers, who has cleaned up most of the 130-pounders in these parts, meets Gene Delmont from Memphis tomérrow night.” The southerner is_known to be good. and, although Jack is expected by the fraternity to win, there is a big “if” to the affair. Jack is finding it harder each time to get down to the 130 pounds and: retain his best, which is far better than the average. If he can stow Delmont away, however, it probably will mean a match with Champion Johnny Dundee. Certainly Bernstcin will degerve a fight with the Scotch wop. = 70 COST WHITE $2.500 On Thursday Jacks: Bhar na 3Midget Smith are booked for twelve rounds. Smith- has a_reputetion that has fow black marks on_it, andethe Sharkey hoy is a comer. -Tha fight ought o furnish 2 pretty good indi- cation of whether Midget will ever et to the top. If he is whipped he will have to do a lot of impressive GARDNER OFF GOLF TEAM; EVANS IS UNLIKELY TO GO HICAGO, February 12—Robert A. Gardner and Chick Evans of Chicago, the only two eligible Yankee golfers who have won the American national’ amateur championship twice, will mot go to Great Britain this summer with the American invaders to defend the Walker cup, according to expressions made by them. Evans may change his mind if conditions permit. surprised a large gatlery of tennis en- |* by defeating Helen Wills, junior na- tional tennis champlon and run- ner-up to Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in’ the final tournament last year, i—5. 4—6, 6—3. "Q..“:t the start of & game: whick{- Radiators and Fenders " Aary XDID MADE GR REPAIRID. 10 DIFFERENY ITORS. s s R pad r.F' v_»mz‘{:s 819 15th. F. 9410, *'Match Your Odd Coats- With Our Special TROUSERS Save the price of am emtire new sull colors, sises, pat- teras. B EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St N.W, - able. In ordinary s . soft collars it is FOR BEING OVERWEIGHT NEW YORK, February 12.—Charlie White, Chicago lightwelght, who lost a fifteen-round decision Friday night to Rocky Kansas of -Buffalo, must forfeit $2,500 for being twelve.ounces over the stipulated welght of 135 pounds for the match. Chairman William Muldoon of the state boxing commission, who had not received the promised: protest of White's manager to surrendering-the $2,500, said today that he probably would order payment to Kansas If the proposition is placed formally be- fore him. Bexing, .crities _serjously charge White's lack of effectivences to his worry, caused by the praspect of los- ing $2,500, and to the loss of strength suffered by his forty-five minutes In a Turkish bath trying to reduce final, but it is thought possible that INSIDE GOLF By George O'Neil Driving from the eighth fee at the Brookline course during the last .national amateur chknmpio: ship, Chick Evans found when he 1 that it ha irectly in front of a the course. His ball had rolled over this bit of sed and stopped about two inches it promised to intertere consldcrably with his next shot un- leas it ‘were removed. Evans called 1o the referee, thea told him not te Bother, that he would play the shot avold any controvers: The chip of sod interfered wit even this vetcran and cost him the hole. What would you have donme in the circumstances? ’ Referee's Decision. rily the player could eon- ch an ob: ball to move It wit! lay- ing. In champlonship play, how- ever, special jocal rules for the day ‘might Bave called for different ne sportsmanskip which he - varfably reveals in his matches. (Copyright by Jobn F. Dille Co.) PEARSON KEEPS TITLE AT SQUASH RACQUETS DETROIT, February 12.—Stanley | W. Pearson' of Philadelphia Success- fully defended -his title against Charles C. Peabody of Boston {n.the final of the United States squash rac- quets championship hore yesterday, winning 14—18, 18—14, 15—13, 16—8. The champion’s superior form told. Boston won the national team play. title, taking . three games.to Phila- delphia’s two. BRITISH FOUR BEATEN. WEST POINT, N. Y., February 12. —A.team of Army officers yesterday defeated, 10 ‘to 5, the British inter- national indoor polo team which will meet ‘a picked American trio next month in _the first competition for the John R. Townsend trophy. pressed in; {recently had been engaged i battling to regain his present place among the near-elite. ¥ o Big Affalr Friday Night. The Carl Tremain-Irish Johnn: r- tain scrap at the Garden Friday night is. of course, the big affair of the week. Both have agreed to make 120 pounds at 2 o'clock the day of the fight. The wise ones are picking Tremain to win, in view of the ter- rific lacing he gave Mike Ballerino o week or g0 back. Mike filled in for Curtain. who had injured himself training. Both boys pack a terrific wallop and both are fighters. The !'!'ml-lln‘a! that night will be between xr’;‘lnx: i:mlfl: .'Alnd Danny Lee, who re- centiy beat California’s dusky v Dr;l;\ Danny Bdwards, o) Danam € curtain show on Saturd; Gans and Jimmy O'Gatiy are all set for twelve rounds at the Common- wealth Club, and Vincent Pepper Mar- tin and Frankle Edwards may travel the same distance at the Rink A. . We say may, because it is very prob- 2?l:hlhi:L there will be a flop by one & two before th Y a5 e e lust scheduled (Copyright, 1923.) WINS SKATING TITLE. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, February 12.—The speed skating championshi T ship of the world, for which there were eighteen competitors, was won here by Thun- berg of Finland. The foriner cham- pion, Harold Stroem, Norway, was among the starters. It is said thar Thunberg intends to turn professional and go (o the United States. GRIDIRON STAR WEDS. FAIRFIELD, lowa February 12.— Aubrey Devine, all-American quarter- back and captain of the lowa Uni- versity foot ball team in 1921, was married here vesterday to Miss Cath erine Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hamilton of Pasad Callf. Devine is at present a student at Jowa University and | assistant coach. TAKES SKI HONORS. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., February 1% —Anders Haugen, representing tic Minneapolis Municipal Ski Club, won the national ski championship here vesterday. He amassed 277 points il the class A events. FORMER COACH DIES. 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