Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1923, Page 30

r 80 AMERICAN LEAGUERS SURE | , TO VETO GRIFF'S SCHEME SPORTS: Little Chance of Local Mogul Obtaining Good Right- hand Pitcher at Philadelphia Session Mon- day—Numbering of Players Is Unlikely. BY DENMAN C League. LARK GRIFFITH'S attention wi he hops over to Philadelphia next Monday to mingle with his fel- low magnates for the annual schedule mecting of the American One of 'em s the snaring of a good right-hand pitcher for his THOMPSON. be centered ou two things when Nationals of 1923, something he is hopeful, but not confident, oi doing. The other is advocacy of the plan to have hit zones established for the purpose of reducing the number of {reak home runs which have become <0 common that much of the thrill formerly accompanying them has ceased | to exist. He will fail in this latter respect, and know battle for his pct project. regardless. it, but will put up a That's the way Griff is. So far as the pitcher is concerned, no names have been mentioned. Orthodox flingers of the type needed as a running mate for Walter John- son who can be lured away from their owners, are as scarce as Wash- ngtonians immune to grip. There are any number that Grifi would be tickled pink to land—Faber, Coveleskie, Pillette, Shocker, Rommel, Bush, Chle, Shawkey With Johnson the only northpaw of established worth on the loc ter, and Portsiders Mogridge. «und Brillheart looming as bhis “regu lar” assistants, the necessity for ob taining a capable righthander to ba ance the staff is urgent. There al-| ways is the possibility, of course, that | such a flinger will be discovered among the list of voungsters round- up for inspection at Tampa—Hol-| lingsworth, Beach, Hankins, McGre and Potter—but the chances are all | against it. Annually a number of | phenoms bloom during the morning of the training period only to wilt and be culled when the eve Ol~lhe championship season arrives. Griff Will try his durndest. Ho still has some trading material of usable quality, but his chances for success Zre anything but bright. Umpires Would Decide. The home run zone scheme is sched- uled for speedy interment, and Griff admits he fears as much. 'According | 1o his plan, which is said to have the | indorsement of Ban Johnson, and, so jar as can be learned, no one else, ix based on the theory that a homel Yun should be a drive that travels a rtain distance from the home plate. lits that depart from the playing} field at a lesser distance would be| Ihree-baggers and safeties into zones <1l nearer the platter would be doubles. Lines of white paint would e placed on the outfield barriers and | it would be up to the umpires to de- cide which zone a ball landed in. “There is no necessity for zones in the local park: it is one of the largest | playing fields in the country. Detroit and Chicago also would escape. Dfl;- sibly Philadelphia, too, now that S!\!I e Park has been enlarged. But New York. Cleveland, Eoston and St. Louis <hort” fields, either in left or| t, and have sluggers Wha! it greatly from making targets af m. while Grifi possesses no hxllirs tance propensities. Get 1? ¥Fans Strong for Homers. ere no question but that home v‘d"‘\-i: hg\i heeqn cheapened in recent rs. since balls “made of better ma- erial have made their appearance, but attendance figures during this period indicate that the fans ke omers, bona fide or synthetic, and there is absolutely no chance that the gnates will tinker with something T appeals to the freight-paying lic, \lost fans will be content to see the bome run situation left strictly alone. sey understand the rules as they ex- st now and don’t want them com- plicated by any zone arrangement. It will be recalled that it was only three vears ago that the regulations were amended to siipulate that a ball would e fair or foul as it was when it left the park. The innovation resulted in all manner of troubles for the um- hires. caused much bickering, a few fights and then the new rule was con- signed to the scrap heap. With owners possessing sluggers of | the type of Ruth, Tobin, Wjlliams. Sis- ler. Pipp, etc., and conveniently short barriers for them to make targets of in 77 of their 154 games each season, s proposal will be given but scaut conslderation. ~ The Numbering of Players. RBut if Griff's home-run zone scheme foredoomed to a quick death, and he is to bolster his mound corps through © or purchase. there will remain one uestion on_ which his views probably Il prevail—the numbering of ball ers. The National question at its | | 1 ! T 1 N : League straddled the | meeting this week by #iving the individual clubs the right to o as they pleased about it, with the vesult that Presidents Ebbetts of Brook- lyn and Breadon of St. Louis are co: <idering adoption of the plan as an ex- riment. Tn the American League Owner Co- skey of the White Sox, Manager Mack s and President Barnard have announced them- Seives in favor of the numbering plan. but their fellow magnates have refrain- edfrom comm themselve copt Griff, who y the scheme. so it appears that (he op- portunity of the junior circuit to ob- Masonic Bowling Associati 1.0ld a one-ball tournament man’s all Saturday from 1 ocloc amtil 11. Bach bowler may _have three tries at the biz prize of $50. All ties will be rolled off starting at 11 welock. The tournament is for the henefit of the banquet fund. which will be held next month. & High men have started to *roll off in the King Pin elimination tourney. Fight of the sixteen dropped by the wayside last night, leaving the same number to battle tonight. V. Ott and I. Comley, who were out in front in the qualification play, made compara- tively low scores and Were eliminated. Comiey had taken honors in the quali- fication competition with a total 1363 pins in ten games. | i Rowling by telegraph will be augurated at the King Pin alleys to- morrow night, when the local Forest Service team will roll tenpins with rest Service quint of Missoula, Tonight's the keller alleys, when the home quint| of the District League hooks up with the Terminal Ice team. Rathskellers won the odd game the last time they met the icemen. but it was a close ~have and the addition of Joe Tomey to the latter five may turn the tide the other way. MAKES NEW SKI MARK. REVELSTOKE, B. C., February 15. Nels Nelson todas claimed a new world amateur ski jumping record. He leaped | 202 feet at a tournament here vesterda; or one foot more than the previous rec- ord_made by himself last year. Radiators and Fenders KIND MADE OR REPAIRED. Cores_installed in any make. DIFFERENT MAKES IATORS. - 10 WITTSTATT'S R. and F. WORKS 19 13th. _ F. 6410 1435 P. M. 7443, Motor Cycles, $40 Up $156 A MONTH will buy late mod- eis, slightly used. Harleys, Indians, I{endersons and Ace for $40 and up. HAVERFORD CYCLE CO. 522 10th St. N.W. Yexr F St | terson. Robertson, Collins—but try and get ‘em. DODGERS MAKE TRADES WITH CARDS AND PHILS NEW YORK, February 15.—The rooklyn National League club to- ay announecd Hy Myers, veteran center fielder, hnd heen traded to St. Louls, for Jacgwes Kournier, firwt_baseman, and that Clarence Mitchell, pitcher and first baseman, had been traded to. Philadelphia in exchange for George Smith, right-handed pitcher. TYGERS T0 START WORK ATAUCUSTAONMARCH DETROIT. February 15—The De- troit Tyger management has notified all members of the club that March 1 is the date selected for the battery- {men to report to Manager Ty Cobb at Augusta, Ga. Other members of thé slated to be on hand at the southern camp March 8. Most of the players had expected a later date for the beginning of spring conditioning, Cobb being an advocate of shorter training periods. The early date was taken to mean that the manager probably had added to the tentative list of road trips en route to the north for the opening of the season. BABE RUTH NOT AFRAID OF NEW YANKEE FIELD | NEW YORK. February 15.—Babe Ruth is satisfied that the new Yankee base ball stadium holds no terrors for him. He swung his favorite bat out there for a few minutes yesterday, knocking several balls over the out- !field stands, e will leave today for Hot Springs, Ark. to take the baths before join- ing the club, March 7, at New Or- leans for the spring workout. Wally Schang, veteran catcher, and all pitchers of the Yanks also will leave today for Hot Springs. LANDIS AWAITS REPORT - OF N. L. IN BENTON CASE | CHICAGO, February 15.—Pending receipt of the Nationai League report regarding its action in the Rube Ben- | ton _c; Base "Bal!l Commissioner Landis said he would take no action. | The National cided Tuesday before the commissioner. Benton was sold by the,St. Paul club to the Cincinnati Nationais, but members of the league object to him playing in the league. League members de- KILLINGER WILL PLAY. ATLANTA, Ga., February 14.—Glenn | Killinger, former Pennsylvania State foot ball star, has notified Jack Cor- bett, manager of the Atlanta e Ball Club of the Southern Assocla- tion, that he will report for dut: with the local team at the beginning of its training season. _— TERRY ON RETIRED LIST. CHICAGO. February 15.~Zeb A, Terry. veteran infielder of the Chi. | cago Nationals, has been placed on the voluntary retired list by the Cubs. Terry, who formerly member of the Chicago, and, later, with the Chicago Na- tionals, Is in business on the Pacific | coast, PATTERSON TO UMPIRE. CHICAGO, February 15.—Roy Pat- who a number of years ago gained fame as the “boy wonder” of the major leagues because of his pitching ability, has been signed by President Tearney of tne Western League as a member of the 1923 Staff of umpires. - Don’t Wait---Assortments Are Complete NOW IN THE ANNUAL ! SALE of /5% "igh SHO ) team are! to place the matter was a| Americans | THE EVE { | ' How Personal Habits of i Player's Are Regulated. { Best Way to Keep in ie Pitcher Who ! Himself Out of | League. Ate the XN a very kind letter oi suggestion Bill Lange, the old-time star player, asks me to-discuss the | discipline of todax as compared with i that of the old-time ball clubs. There is very little to compare. As la general thing there really was uno idiscipline or living regulations among 1l players thirly years ago. In my learly days it was purely a matter of |personal’ desire and ‘ambition. A { player kept in condition in those da 1simply because he wanted to make jgood at his job and earn a living. He IKknew that if he didn’t stay in condi- tion he wouldn't last long. If he was a ball player at heart he looked after his own physical welfare. There were not so many ball players then. It | was not such a profession or busi- ness; more of au individual liking lor the sport. Bedtime In 11:30 0'Clock. As the teams increased in number and the number of players on eaci team also increased it gradually be- came necessary to have a sort of s pervision over their personal habits. Nowadays if a player docs not take are of himself he not only hurts his own chances, but can interfere with the commercial progre: might call it—of the organization. So they have to be watchful to a certain extent. It is a rule on our ciub that players must be in bed by 11:30 o'clock at in the middle of the day. I have never belleved in fixing an hour at which ball players should arise. In fact, 1 am in favor of them getting all the sleep possible. Most of my players stay in bed until 9 or 10 o'clock in the morning. It makes no difference to me. If they sleep very late the chances are that they will eat a fairly good Ibreakfast and will not eat any lunch all. A ball player is usually much livelier on the field when he eats a very light lunch No Rules as to Drinking. Tn the matter of drinking I have never had any rules. When it was possible to get beer and ale I never objected to the players having a glass or two in the evenings. In fact, I often have asked them to join me in a glass of beer. It is bad to drink whisky, of course, (SCHEDULE IS REVISED FOR MARYLAND U. NINE COLLEGE PARK. Md., February 15. —University of Maryland has oon siderably revised its base ball sched- ule of twenty-seven contests. There have been several changes made ‘in the games for the southern trip, and a shift in dates also has been made with Catholic Universit The list now is as follows: March 28—Gallaudet, at Washingtor. March 28—Richmon Richmond. March 30—North Carolina, at Raleigh. March 31—North Caroli: at Greemsboro. April 2—Georgia, at Athens. G—Clemson, Clemson. 4—Georgia Tech, at Atlanta. 5—Oglethorpe, at Atlanta. 6—South Carolina, at Columbia '—Buffalo, at Anderson, April 9—Verman! April 11—Gallaudet. April 13—8t. John's. April 14—Naval Acedemy, at Annapolis. April 18—Western Maryland. April 20—Harvard. April 36—North Carolina State. Afixil 28—West Virginia, at Ball 4—Dickinson. 3 May 5—Virginia Military Institute. May $—Washin 2 12—Catholic ington and Lee. bt May 15—Virgin Moy 15 Jore May 22—8t. John’ May 23—Oatholic Uni May 26—Johns Hopkins SEEK LEAGUE BERTHS. COLUMBIA, §. C., February | Efforts to obtat franchises in the uth Atlantic Association for Macon, as oue point and for. Eastpoint College Park, Ga.. jointly, as the other, are being made by Ed. G. { Jacobs of Macon. MACKINS TO MEET. Mackin Athletic Club will meet to- | night at 7:30 o'clock at its club- | house at 15th and V streets. All members are admonished to be pres- ent. as important business is to be { discussed. | —_— | Weather conditions eause a 50-50 ! break in postponed basc ball and soc- cer games. Rain-gives the ball play- ers a lay-off in summer. and snow does likewise for the soccer players in the winter, more. Tniversity at Charlottesville. s, at Baltimer ‘Annapolis. ty, at Washington. 15.— Condition—The Rook- night and_must not eat too heavily|{ NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.. C. 1 BILL LANDER, Old+time Giant third-baseman. but it is pretty difficult to stop {man from taking strong drink if h wants it. We have had some bad ases to handle, but we cannot fix any rule atut it. " All such incorrigible players have to be handled individ- {ually. As to diet—certain kinds of food do not belleve In it at sll. There {a lot of difference in training for a {ball game for some particula jathletic event. The ball player has to work at his job every day for six months and consequently must live {regularly. A man who is to go into L prize fight or & running race, see, can train for that particul fon. Then it is over with. That is| also true of foot ball teams. Toney a Heavy Eater. But 2 ball player must regulate his! habits <o s to live in u natural way, just 1ike a man in any other business or trade. It makes no difference to me what they eat %o long as they keep in condition. Nature will make | them want good, wholesome, substan- | tial_food. While most of the players soon dis- cover what is best for them, others never do. On onme occasion Fred Toncy, the plicher, came pretty near putting himself out of the game for good by eating foollshly. He s & big fellow physically and not only requires consid®rable food, but likes 'MATMEN CLINCH HERE | ' INA.A.UTRAL BOUTS Preliminary bouts of the South At-} lantic A. A U. wrestiing champion- ships will be held tomorrow night at Washington Canoe Club. and the finals will be conducted in Baltimore Saturday. Entries closing last night disclosed more names of Washington matmen than of Baltimoreans. Six bouts are to be staged here, four of ; them between local contenders for titles. This year the national association has offered to pay $20 expenses of each man who may be able to ‘take |part in the championships at Boston ext month, and, as the south Atlan- division also is sharing the ex- penses of the grapplers, probably a larger delegation than ever from this {section will go into the finals. | HOPPE HAS RON OF 252. BALTIMORE, Md., February 15.— Willie Hoppe, world 18.2 balk-line charapion, closed his two-day engage- ment at the Williams and Hanley Academy last night by clicking off an |~mnm hed run of 252 points and de- | | feating Charles Peterson of St. Louis, 1300 points to 84, | WILLIAMS INJURES LEG. | _BALTIMORE, Md., February 15.— Kid Williams, who has broken train- ing, will present a doctor’s certificate to the state athletic commission to- day. He says he is unable to box Sammy Sandow Monday because of an injured leg. LIST LOCAL RACKETERS. George Washingtop for April 4 and | eorgetown . week later are on the tennis_schedule of the Naval Acad- emy, just announced. The Midship- men’ will play eleven matches, end- ing the season by opposing Army at West Point June 2. _ Robby Wallace and Oscar Dugey, former big league stars. will heip Manager Killifer to get the Cubs in chape at Catalina Island. | ia > H { i —It is your chance to buy a real GOOD pair of shoes at an actual reduction that brings them down to a lower price. than you are asked to pay for ordina SHOES 38, $8.50 & kS Your size and style are here — every pair bears the “Hess” Stamp. < PA. AVE. You Will Be Perfectly Fitted at Hess's 39 Values .85 $11 Value. o $10. $10.50, . 85 ry shoes—and HESS shoes are not ordinary $12 & $12.50 Values 85 'S Qur regular stock. We stand ready to guarantee them -in_every " aeay. Ihis allowance. | they 1worla. I"til we go to St imonth he had eaten himself, T SE BALL” ‘| to_eat just for the mere pleasure of it. We were in St. Louis that day and the temperature was 100 in the shade—one of those sweitering days for which St. Louls is famous in the bot months. Toney got up at 9:30 o'clock and ate some eggs and toast and coffee. That should have been enough for the day. At luneh time though, he sat down to the table again and atc a heavy meal of calf’s liver and bacon, dessért and coffee. Coll n the Field. Several players warned him, but he merely laughed. That afternoon on the fleld he was overcome by the in- nee heat. For a moment he stag- red and then collapsed, uncon- fous. He had to be taken to a hos- | sital and was in a serious condition, It, Is customary on ball clubs to allow the players so much a day for | their meals and they may eat where! they please, though we encourage | them to eaf at the hotel where we are stopping, as a rule. At the time I have in mind the allowance was $1 a meal or $3 a day. Raymond had been in his room—or somewhere—tor | three days and had not caten. it was our last day in that city und he fig- ured that he would have to use up all 80 he went down to the dining room the last mérning and ate a breakfast that cost him $9! This breakiast was made up of eve: exepensive dish that he gould think of, even to a planked stealk. Temptation for Youngwters. The opportunity for cating u lot of f00d at the hotels for the first time often makes such an appeal to young recruits that they literally eat them- | selves out of the league. | have known several cases of ball players £ 10 make guod simply because could mot resist the temptation to eat a lot of food at the expense of | ihe club. They have to be lectured frequently during the training perio big, strapping kid, you kno: wants to eat all the time and he can't | see why he shouldn't indulge himself. | All of the old-timers in base bali! member the big pitcher who could not | read and write. 1 won't mention his| me, because b might be considered unkind. This player could not read the menu cards and he tried to escape at- ention by listening closely to what the others ordered and then duplicating it Two of the regular players were seated with him one day and began to order. They went right down theé list and he thought they were read- ing every item from the card. When they had finished the waiter handed him the long menu card, on which| were hundreds of dishes. The meals were a la carte. “—and a Cup of Coffee.” n a the poor fellow glanced over the card impressively. “Bring me that and a cup of coffee/ he said to the amazed waiter, handing Eim the card. S They teli of another yvoung fellow named Whitley who came into the league and thought of nothing but food. On his first regular road "‘:D in a big league city he sat at a table with a newspaper reporter in one of the best American plan hotels in the| | i i i He proceeded to order dishes for breakfast Just ag he did at the little | hote! in Texas, where any one C0u|d| eat eversthing on the bill without be- | ing overted. Finally the waiters appeared bear- ing huge trays of dishes covered with cilver ~warmers. There was not, enough room on the table for the one breakfast, let alone that of the news- an. “Say,” said Whitley, awed by the sight of all this wonderful food. “do| they eat this way all the time in the] big league Eats Himself Out of Job. replied the reporter, serfous face. “Just walt Louis and I'll show you 2 ular hotel.” Yoheer exclaimed the voung man, | with a touch of anxiety in his voice. “1 certainly hope I make good up here.” He In i i “Do they keeping a another NC ‘ur the the league and was back \in. | minors, where the menu cards were not quite o long or fulsome. | (Copyright, 1923, United Rtates and Canada. | Comrele Waleh Syadieate.) didn’t. though. “Wonder What Mertz Will Say Today? Buying Now Means Savings. —The woolens next season are going to be much igher. —It will not be possible to offer a value like this later. SUIT OR OVERCOAT TO ORDER Regular $35 Value $18.50 In this display of fabrics are a number of medium weight suitable for Spring wear. e Tailor Made Means You Get the Suit or Overcoat as You Want It Full Dress Suits To order, $4 =00 stk Tined.... #Sup Mertz & Mertz Co., Inc. 906 F Street [t is ilkely to establish the identity Home-Run Zone Plan Is Doomed : Air of Mystery Cloaks PropoSed New League | “MY THIRTY YEARS IN BA BY JOHN J. McGRAW, Manager New York Giants, Three Times World Champions (Beleased Exclusively Through the North American Newspaper Alliance.) GREB AND TUNNEY SIGN TO FIGHT FEBRUARY 23 NEW YORK, February 10— Harry Greb, hoider of the Ameri. n light-heavyweight champlo; p, will defend his title in Mad. woi quare el ‘on the night of February 23 against Gene Tunney, the Greenwich Village scrapper, from whom he acquired these laureis. The articles were signed in the presemece of Tex Rickard and Frank Flournoy in the latter’s ofice in Madison Square Greb, Incking a manager, for himself, while Billy Gibson hit the dotted Iines for Tunney. TREMAINE-CURTAIN TILT. SHOULD BE A THRILLER BY FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK, February 15.—This Carl Tremaine-Irish Johnny Curtain scrap at the Madison Square Garden tomorrow night Is likely to prove & corker. And over and above this fact | of the next bantamwelght champion. | Hoth Tremaine and Curtaln are clever and can sock something awful, Efther one is figured as a winner over the champlon, Joe Lynch, who is supposed to be on the skids, But it i8 & question when the winner of tomorrow night's bout will get a crack at the title, since it 16oks as though Lynch will shortly sail for France to meet Charley Ledoux, fight to be promoted by Francols Descamps. The wily Francols has already made Joe an offer. but the champion has alsed the ante a little and is now waiting for Descamps to kick in. Ledoux would be a simpler proposi- tion for Joe than either Tremaine or Curtain and if he can get the money ne wants out of the Frenchman he certainly would rot risk his title until arter he returned from France, aforesald title being a part of what Descamps has to pay for. (Copyright, 1923.) JEWTRAW SETS SKATING ‘RECORD IN SNOWSTORM . N. B, February 15— s Jewthraw of Lake Placld, smashed another world record yesterday on Lily lake here, and did it in a snowstorm. _In a driving finish_ with Charles Gorman of St. John and Harry Kasky of Chicago, the speed king of the Adirondacks nosed out a victory in the 220-yard race and lowered the world cutdoor record to 15 4-5 seconds. STAFF AND MLEAN TIED IN SKATING TITLE MEET - SARANAC LAKE. N. Y., February 15.—Arthur Staff and Bobby McLean, | both of Chicago, each won one event, placed second In another and were tied for third place in the final race of the opening program on Pontlac Rink here yesterday of the American professional outdoor speed skating championships. They are now tied for first place in the meet with 55 points each. Edmund Lamy, Saranac Lake, | has 40 points and Everett McGowan, Paul. 20 points. The 440-yard and one-mile races were eduled for today, the second in the three-day meet. Staff yesterday won the three- quarter-mile race in 2.03, with Mc- Lean a close second. McLean, in turn, won the 220-yard event with Staff second by several inches. McGowan finlshed third in the three-quarter- mile race and Lamy was third in the 22 Lamy captured the two-mile race in 6.06, with McGowan second and MeLean and Staff tied for third. During This Sale All Altera + upon 1 the sticks . SPORTS." FEASIBILITY OF PROJECT IS SERIOUSLY QUESTIONED Many Officials Believe Drastic Draft Action Unneces- sary, But Color Is Lent to Proposition by Con- fab of Na EW YORK, February 15.—Bas N nal Leaguers. e ball's chief topic of discussi present—the proposed Continental or Interallied League, reported to be in process of organization ir eight eastern cities of t United States and Canath’and to have major league approval, if not ac backing—developed a diversity of opinion in diamond circles here throughout the country. _An air of mystery was cloaked pro{:ct_ and a majority of base ball about the actual organizers of th men, particularly in the face of de nials issued by high officials of the game, were skeptical in their views c a new league’s feasibility. One or two significant developments, on t other hand, lent some further color t. SIKI IS MAPPING OUT LIVELY RING PROGRAM PARIS, February 15.—Battling Siki is making ambitious plans. manager, whip of France, to take on Mareel Nill: heavyweight champio; Broullhet says that Siki will go to America in May to fight a man who has not yet been nelected. After that bout he hopes (o meet Carpentier, Greb and Jack Demp- wey. HORSESHOE PTCHIG CHANPION T0 EFEND ST. PETE! nd then will neek the French ! i i URG, Fla., February! 15 (Special).—Frank Lundin, holder | of the national horseshoe pitching ! title, has arrived in St. Petersburg from | Ekis New London, Jowa, home to finish | his training for the fifth annual mid- | winter tournament to be held here next we He will defend his title against a field of America’s best “barnyard golfers,” now gathered here or on| their way. | Lundin is twenty-one but a_ mere stripling, years old and does not register the scales as u bantamweigh He is a_shoe repairer by trade, bu about the “spuzziest’ of horses game today. His ac- & the equestrian £0o 5. He averages two ringers out of tiree pitches. None of his wares will be displayeéa local lanes in his work-out.! Lundin has chosen a site far out inf here none of the other| 1 be able to get a line| on his wo! | ary Glenna Co ational | champion, ecasily defeated Mrs. Johu ! Sheppard, jr.. of Chicago, 10 and 8,1 in the second day's play of the mid- winter woman's golf championship. Miss Collett was in splendid form. FRANCE WINS AT GOLF. | HOT SPRINGS, February 15.—W. P. France of the Inverness Golf C' Toledo, Ohio, won the Ben Br. phy tournament at the Hot Springs Country Club, defeating Jack Vilas| ot Hot Springs, two and one. J. Herbert Levis of Chicago will | referee the match between Willie Hoppe, | champion, and_Jake Shaefer of i Francisco, at New York, March for the world championship at 13.2 balk- "MEN'S WEAR | tional League, with most of th 1a new league club, providing t {tional Lea o the proposition. Chief among these developmen was an informal conference held John A. Heydler, president of the Na- club r circuit, who re- after the schedule owners of the seni mained in the ci meeting. Heydler declined to divulge details of the meeting, but It was said tha Barney Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburgh club, 'disciosed the fact that he had been approached by spon sors of the new leagie and asked to Join Montreal interests in backing Tranchise in that Canadian city. That similar interests also had madr overtures to club owners in Wash- ington and Brooklyn, two other cities mentioned as part of the new circul also was indicated, but their iden remained unrevealed. Several Magnates Favorable. Charles H. Ebbets, Brooklyn pres dent, was known not to be opposec to permitting the use of his park ue schedule, 5 his club ninetcen Sunday during the summer, was fered with. Clark Griffith, which home da not inte Wash i : project, Col. T. L._Huston, part ow New York Yankees, expres approval of plans for a new le which would afford an outlet major league material, but otherw there was little official comment. The majority of club owners declincd flat- I¥ to express their views. Edward G. Barrow, business man ager of the Yankees, who admitted that he had been offered the presi- dency of the new circuit, would n comment on it today nor indicatc whether he would accept such an of- fice. ny Obstacles Exist. Meanwhile, it was pointed out, s originaily outlined, league organ- izers would encounter practically surmountable obstacles should a tempt be made to invade Intel tional League territory, unl avowed intention of warring on t latter organiz: as a result of present draft controversy, was made Otficials, however, generally we undersiood 1o hold the view that there was no necessity for dratic action against the big minor circuits whick have opposed to draft, although rec- ognizing that an important issue ex- ists. of w n is in sig AS revealed from apparently au- thoritative sources was planned to put clubs e mew circuit is Mentreal, Washington, Brooklyn, Py Toronto, Baltimore, Bui- vark. The latter four hold Internationa ague franchises. at- QUINTS IN REAL BATTLE. ANN ARBOR, Mich., February 15.— Wisconsin _downed Michigan in a bard fought western conference bas- ket ball game here last night, 18 to 15. The score was tied at half time at 8-8. 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