Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1923, Page 68

4 Collins Greatest of Second Basemen GOOD HITTER AND SMART| Although Seventeen Years Work. White Sox Star Shows Few Signs of enreer was wit then ¢n with the White BY FREDERICK G. 1 | HE ball it o cnded, bhasc ewel of but should this litle inficid s il he bail il il “d w iy choose 1 t 1s his rece present laure i 1 " b his ory Few persons y right 15 be named the gredtest sec time. L Collius, one of ond bascian than the tealers and one ! steppe f lius shows CreasuE Hins #re the vet- Ripe 1l Collins sve t i1 point of s R Luminarie s hall n his and Eddic Mack & nam nide Tine-up sul- wen. NoY be thi gradunte o Tarey so he will e 18NT six nest spriv Columbyia b % on t 1 e 3 nine when the p-, Columbia i el b Dise enior year, but lat Mick wis e perime and atill ne Athilet tati of t Conni 2 bunc ook Iddis vounz " eariy us ! Uned Name . therefor ted in 1906 nted th o winb vung Snl the.r ow ared ineligible tipped Tivan of the o 1906, position wcked st in plac- to the at nis | 1dd Next Septembe shortston Wa apped the He opposed Ed out onc hit in fou Connie Mack hi Ing Collins when he Athletics. He tried college position, sh Aldn’t look too 3¢ Colling \ iven a-tria inally hit the right =olutiou transterred veteran sceoid Dauny phy. 1o right put Colli position at md b hecame an Eddie culty t can him out stop. but th in Mack The L ficld his a4 helpe reach Collin thirteen n o 1 class | o war in his has hit ove n eventecn b caguc of them being in cventeen-year batting the American league a out of the wring 1817 and 1918, the vears. but his heart was not wWork and he enlisted in the marines, in the summer of 181X, His batting averag hegan to sprout again as o hostilities were over. as he | jumped from 76 in 1918 to .319 in! 3910 und then to 360 in 18 The | latter is Collins' batting average. R of his it suceess wver is 300 nig s in Yaddic Ranks High as Baxerunner. B ke with the of all time. with to date. ilis best 0 was eighty-one in 1910, during his carcer die stole six; hases in the same game, On Sep- tember 11, 1912, he stole on Brad- loy Kocher of Detroit and ten days| later he stole u half dozen more on | Jim Stephens and Walter Brown of i Louis. In this latter game Eddie | » second, third and home in suc- | best base- 614 stole stealing | Twice | stole sion. Collins league re her of sacrifices, already holds the major | for the greatest num- He already has 421 saerifices to his credit and the crop still is growing. In 1 he estab- lished an Ameriean League record for starting thirty-eight double plays from sccond bus iddie is ers who is Jury, and i regularly he has tively few games among players who the grea number sames. without £ on, October streak on (Copyright, 1923.) ARt e S ARUNGTON CLUBPLANS NEW BASE BALL PLANT Athlet Imost ce he that type of play- ki nune from in- has been playing missed compara- He ranks fourth have played in of consecutive ofi 475 games a contest, starting and ending his Club, sful season on the | e ast yedr, is preparing for an even greater one in base ball dur- ing the coming spring and summer. The organization has made George Dube its president, and he is planc ning the recopstruction of the base ball plant bullt last summer. The club is to purchase the field, and an addition to the grandstand is 10 be started some time next month. tiames_already have. been scheduled with Colonial Beach, Warsaw, Fred- ericksburg and other Virginia' towns, and Washington contests will be sought. With the exception of two men, the Arlington sauad is composed ; of last season’s players. The club has a membership drive on at present that will be concluded th a club smoker March Then business manager. Leo F. Wise, will busy himself with scheduling Wash- ington nines. He may be addressed wt Arlington, Va. —_— Potomac_ Atkletic Club gave the Jinworth Juniors a 25-to-18 “trounc- ing last night. Hickey's shooting and Smith’s guarding proved too much «or the Linworths. which | between {have changed places and there is no THE SUNDAY STAR,, WASHINGTON, D. €, FEBRUARY. 18, 1923—SPORTS SECTION. EDDIE CLEVER ON PATHS, | in Majors and a Horse for : Hans Wagner Rated by MecGraw as Greatest of All Bdll Players—Was “MY THIRTY YEARS IN BASE BALL” BY JOHN J. McGRAW, | -Manager New York Giants, Three Times World Champions (Released Exclusively Through the North American Newspaper Alliance.) GREATEST OF ’EM ALL Star as Hitter, Baserun-, ner, Shortstop, First- baseman and Out-| felder. and fans who have been | 1\'/\ kind enough to sugges:| subjects for chapters in these me- | moirs have asked: “"Who do you! as the greatest ball player | that ever live i The answer is: | Wagner s to answer loubt ANY of the oldtime players John P. (Honus) | ding 1914, and e e ne SANDLOT FANS RALLYING TO TH= A!D OF RED HAGER ~e hall players of the ng to the aid of Red Athletie Club fizhiing gallantly nlwa x dn the Ame ¢ euslest question 1 have I my miud there is Hans Wagner topping or present. 1 ve | out of evers hundred | asked thal quesiion, same rephy ize the rs Hor v o abou them all. past y-nine wei, the OF e Ty Cobl Sisler, ker Not oue of them. thougn, can show the yualiides or the combinalon of | quzlities possessed by Wagner Inflelder Han iy the dispute compa Remember, ot mewinr + great < ulso the n h the infield. He m in the inficld and play 1 well perhaps, than anybody Though | never knew of his tryin bl be could have pitcae As a catcher. he woul great. Wugner had of tarowing arms ever know: The sizé of pnense i al imnosstile for ay from him greatuess of )y and George na Willie Keeler. | Pocket. Red's friends of the din- are gathering € are areanging u nee and eatertainmen: etd at the BIks Club W Miss Lorraine Wall, miitee in fit. will piace i tomerrow at all in the city. urgument is Cobb_and gin with, the that Wagner ntfielder and | warvel of his | could play chairman o " ben ting goods D.C.OUNCLUB TEMM = POINTED FOR ORIOLES got 1o Ret A t in re So uniforinly player that it ermine whether lay in © in his ba her in all eswes @ Nisth Nemme. zood was Wi roas a ossible o uis highest point of his i in his | run He was topne Pos S d addition to his natural ability WoE everything hetier t rs could do. mech it be called He loved nuse ington Gun Club vhen it Oruic will he out evenge eneounters friendly rival, « Club, at Beltimore next Thursdoy trapshoot n o . he had what sense of ba often played iie thought in | 1 of base ball and had un uncannuy f being ab < where the would hit a certain kind of bail. | Instanily he would be on top of [und get his man. Instinetively | knew the different lLatters and remembered. It came perfectly naural to him to move in either di- rection. according 1o whether the was throwing a curve or : In completing double play sver had an equal. was ravely that Wagner i bad throw to first, and he | ould throw from most any position. | On ihe field he seemed awkward as | he spread himself, Dift every muscle | his body worked in perfect co-or- | inoa race 100 targets rd The teu h ub will coustitute G the District men us o triumph bolds the The Was! for tire special team It game HUNS ¢ Ay € now shoots mation now A tard SvOut held A, D Dr. . expe- Balti- tean y dele- at rail- ursday on i cleetric s Benuinz yes- to prime the locals tor the Matches for three classcs were and won by the following: Class V. Furson Win Floyd, —W. Emmons, «ud R P ~H. H. 55 C—A. D. ever | Played on Lot With K An me WOMAN BOWLERS DEBATE | AS TO EXTENDING SEASON BY H. H. FRY. Wm[ three weeks leit beiore the end of the second series, the roll It is necessary that some action be taken without delay so that e.~.~cn-l Post Ofiice Club They could probably be used, cach’team rolling once a week. but that would entail | several of us were | cide whether to a third series or call it a good season. al arrangements 1 be made to obtain alleys. The alleys will be available after the sccond series is concluded. the running of the schedule up to the middle of May. which does not peet with the approval of a majority of the bowlers. * Vaeth has offered the use | Supplies and Construction and Vovage Audit are tied for third plac The schedule for the week is as follows: Monday, Contract ks. T'rop- erty and pplies; Tuesd . General vs. Secretary: Wednesday Audit vs. Centralized counts, and Friday, Claims’ vs struetion. Manag of the Recreation alleys to finish the son, and if it _is decided to run a 1ird erles his offer will be accepted. the teams mav then rtoll twice & \eek, if necessary. Tournament plans soon wiil be under way and long » would interfere with the ceiiy start of that big annual event. The contemplated intercity match the Baltimore and Wash- ington girls still in the air and the chances are that it will not be tolled off thig season. Miss Zorbac promoter of the Baltimore end of the | match, wants the Washington girl to visit her citv first, and on a Mon- | day night before the end of March. | The local bowlers cannot see things | that. way, as they are the recipients orporation Andit League, the Trad- of the challenge, and ineist on the ¢ | ing quint having a one-game margin | match being rolled in this city and Sy R R At “ine | over the Manufacturing five, while the | Tatter is just a single game in front las ‘the matter in chargo and the chance ateh w Sanoew axebiE At Jiomaten 1 of Miscellaneous. Pourron is the lead- ling_performer with an average of be rolled in this city 1]1'!\ the night i d, not at all. Y Chapman, a teammat week. with the hich scores . follows: Jennie Malcolm, 113: Frances Hell. 110; Elizabeth Rawlings, Next Saturday night the andard Rillie Williams, 116: Rtera Levy 0il Company of Baltimore will play a Miss Chandle 105: Catherine Fure return mateh with the Washington anghorn, 105. and | Gaslight Company quintson the Rec- joric Bradt, 104. reation alleys. In the mateh in Bal- |(im(yrp the Washington quint won out total pins Ly a margin of seven- teen. = An Interesting struggle is heing waged in the St. Stephéu’s League, In which the Tigers are leading by three | games, with the Red Sox in second place and the Yankees and Nationals within siriking distance. Nilund of the Red Sox is leading in individual averages with 98. Griffin of the Na- tionals is second with 97. , mother hot competition bobs up in t The three-gams vietory of the Co- lonial Juniors over the Park Ath- letic Club youngsters did not dampen the ardor of the latter a little bit| Amerienn Ice Company League is snd a return_match will be rolled | having gpite a battle for the pennant, this week on Decker's alleys. These | Station No. 2 being out in front with youngsters have become quite profi- | a small margin. Main Office is hold- clent in the art of soilling the maples | ing on gamely, while Stations Nos. 1 and surely will be hieard from in the | and 7 have been rolling at a splendid next year or two. clip. McAboy of Station No. 2.leads the individuals with a percentage of 103-7. and also carries the honors for the best set and game, 368 and 146. For the third time in threq weeks the leaders of the District League telling which auint will finally walk = There First the it the - Nation ix quite a struggle on in al Capital League, the ‘ Rathskellers forging their way up to second place, with the District: Motor Company leading by a small margin, and the Curb Cafe boys not far away with three postponed games on their schedule to help out. Dis- trict Motors has won 38 games and lost 10; the Rathskellers, 39 and 12, and the Curb Cafe, 30 and 12. Ellett of the RathskeHers is leading the individuals with a splendid percent- age of 108.25, with Campbell of the District_ Motors close on his heels with 1 with the pennant. kellers were out in front, then nal Ice went into the lead, and now the Manhattans, through their clean-up of the Colonials riday night, occupy the coveted position. The three first teams stand follows: Manhattans, 38 and 19; Terminal Ice, 39 and 20; Rathskellers, 35 and 19. The, others are well strung out and haven't much chance of advancing. Reichard of the Manhattans now lcads the. individuals, with an aver- age of 112, with Al Works next, with 111 and & fraction. Weidman leads in strikes, having placed 29 to his credit. The present week is an important cne, as the Rathskellers have three poriponed games with the King Pins. and they also meet the Terminal Ice team. Pway Ratl Terni as During the bowling of the Wash- ington Star League last Tuesday night on the Recreation alleys, the { Braves, captained by Emery Ellett, won but one game from the leading outs, but In taking this game they broke the circuit record with a team zame of 554, George Miller did him- self proud by spilling 144 of the maples. 1 J Contract Department of the Ship- ping Board League moved into first place when it took three games from Centralized Accounts Friduy night while the Secretary’s team was dropping thrée to Property and Sup- plies. This puts Contact in the van by one game, while the Secretary quint - is runner-up. Property ang Just_ax meon a suitable loca- tion can be attained the company that ran the Shérmun drives wiil erect a building and place in it a large number of alleys. The old alleys were not nearly numerous enough to accommodate those wish- | cover | the | day great great {he pi eight te: as an outfielder. {that of his love for the|one sceing Wagner play short could JOHN P. WAGNER. Hans or Honus, as the “Flying Dutch- man” of the Pittsburgh Pirates was best | known. is ranked by McGraw as the greatest ball player of all time. ear the At that as to be alking about ey Hotel we ste tie park. \We still do. wd of boys hid started o gams in w vacant lot. A big. butky stopped to look them very much interested and get in the wame £0 to bat. With two on hard wallop for his side. bors discovered who he was “lsn’t that old Honus down there?” one in our party asked. enough it ot sati having plaved # hard % inst the Giants had gone t kid game and was playing his head off. When the little fellows dis- d his identiiy they insisted on name to the ball he demand was se great 1 to get some more balls 1 present them to the down Then the ] i h his signing hi had hit. Th that Hans next day younzsters Started Out With, Louisville. Wagier started out in_ the big leagues with the Louisville club when the zanizat a twelve-club or- time 1 was ir of the modern Wagner was a outfielder. 0 that he was @ first baseman. At other times ayed as an all around man. The Louisville players were taken » Pittsburgh by Barney Dreyfuss league was cut down to ns, and Wagner went along Later he was shifted is in_that position remember him. Any National n. w3 At that Baltimore. Very few fans know that te and fans short, moat to it never forget him. ROANOKE AND D. C. TEAMS ARRANGE DUCKPIN MATCH Railroad duckpin rollers of Roa- noke, V nd Washington wi meet in intercity home-and-home match. Plans have been co pleted wherehy the representa- tives of Norfolk and Western general offices and Southern rail- way employes here will battle for supremacy on the alleys. Tem games will be rolled, the firnt five to be contested in Roanoke on March 17, and the others in Wanh- ington at a date to be sgreed upon. S, L. Funk and C. T. Parker were the megotintors for the Nor- folk and Wenstern, and Southern, respectively, ing to roll there, and it goes without saying that the old crowd will drift buck just as soon as the opportunity prese seif. The ncene whiftn (0morrow for the District League, the Royals belng at home on the King Pin alleys with the Regulars as guests. Tuesday night the Shermans will be at home to the Nationals. as will the King Pins to the Manhattans. Wed- nesday, competition is downtown, the Colonials entertaining the Goodfel. lows. Thursday being Washington's birthday, no games are scheduled, but on Friday the Terminal Ice and Rathskellers clash night Interesting matebes loom up for the week in the Washington Ladies League, the dates being as follows: Menday, Central Post Office vs. Hill- toppers: Tuesday, Mount Pleasant vs. Post Office Department. Wednesday, double-header Sales Tax ve. War De- partment; Billie’s Team vs. Independ- ents. Friday, Internal Revenue Registry; Saturday, Columbia Western ‘Union. b Lengue's schicdule for t follows: Monday. Lex- ington vs, Rosedale; Tuesday, double- header, Linworth v&. Irish American; Excelsiors Arlington. Wednes- day, double-header, Tilltop vs, Dom. Lyceum: Anacostia’ \s. Keokuk. Fri- day, double-header, Aloysius vs. Wav- erly; Georgetown Argonne. vs. National Capitsl League has inter- esting matches for the week as fol- lows. Monday, Post Office vs. George- town A. C.; Tuesday, Rithskeller vs. District Motor Co.; Wednesday. Co- lumbla vs. Nationals: Friday, Wash- ington Gas Co. vs. Potomac Bank. For the twenty-first week in the Odd Fellows League matches are listed as follows: Monday. Salem vs. Eastern: — Tuesday, Covenant. va. Harmony; Wednesday, Brightwood vs. Golden TRule: Friday., Central va Mount Pleasant; Saturday, Amity Fred D. Stuart. ‘This week's list in the Knights of Pythias League is: Monday, Colum- bian vs. Syracusian: Tuesday, Ama- ranth vs. Lentury-Decatur; Wednes: day, Capital vs. Rathbone-Superior: Thursday, Calanthe vs. Excelsior; Friday, Hermoine vs. Webster. Two doubleheaders are on the schedule for the week in the Typo- thetae League, which follows: Mon- day, National Capital Press vs. J. Dv Milans; Tuesday, Judd & Detweiler vs. Gibson Brothers; Wednesday, An- drews Paper Co. vs. Columbia Print- ing Co.; Joyce Engraving Co. vs. Doing Printing Co.; Friday, Washing- ton Monotype Co. vs. Standurd graving Co.; Ransdell Co. vs. Na- tional Publishing Co. Three matches are listed for the week in the Bureau of Standards As- sociation as followsa Tuesday, Sharp- shooters vs. Midgets; Wednesday, Aeros va Gumps; Thérsday, Unions vs. Industrials. i HOBEY BAKER’S MEMORY -HONORED IN UNIQUE WAY In memory of Hobey Baker, Princeton , who was killed & with the Ameriean expeditionary foree in Kranee, the St. holax Hockey, Club of which he wax o member, will never Hans played the outfleld just as well as he did short, but it was much harder to get a good {nfielder than an outfielder. That is why 1 =aid an out- fielder, no matter how great, cannot be compared to Wagner. He had other qualifications just as great. | Held Record for Throw. ; It may be surprising to modern day fans to know that for a long time Wagner aleo held the world’s unof- {ficial recard for making the longest throw. While playing first base for Louisville, Wagner took part in a |benefit game in ‘Octobor, 189%. As & curtain ralser to this game there was a field contest in throwing and run- ninz. Wagner made a throw of 134 vards 1 foot and 8 inches. On account of tie unofficial nature |of the judging this record was not |recognized in the books, but he made ! it just the sam That throw broke the record made by Hatfleld of the Mutua’ cxactly twenty-six years be-} fore to the day. Hatfield's throw was| _THEIRD RACE, six furlongs—T:ppity Witchat 133 yards 1 foot 71, inches. | T, TRy Sgaecond: Auntis May. third. 11 you can visualize the length of i Tpgri s a8, Sors y Reverie. HE, 2 . one mile and a sixteenth— |that throw you can appreciate what | Best Pal won: Crack: 0 Daven- comrsis Eom heave it was. Roughly speaking, fit|toche, third. Time. 148%2.5, = Scratched— |was about from the centerfield fence | Copver Demon, Seacove. |at the Polo Grounds to the plate | o FIFTH RACE. one mile and 2 sixteenth— ecords do not tell the story of g Frank won. Superbum. second L ; Cross, third, ~ Time . Wagner. They merely help. 1t was $ion third X X 3 . Mat Bodine, Mock Orange. Escar his wonderful perzonality, his sIXth | letie Gendeler Gone b {base ball sense. his actions on the e g e D i Velo s ¢ Biff Bang. ot field. These things cannot be ex-| SIXTH RACE. one mils and & furlong— | pressed in figures. Buxom wou: Pastorin Swain, second; Pirate H . 1.56. Soratched—Satens, Batted 48 for 13 Years. Execution, Tricks, Jordan fore me Wagner's batting the time he began in 1910. In these thirteen 1 i batting average of 't stop there by any nie ‘ns ¢ that, though. he grad- | ually to slow up. In 1900 he! had his toughest rivalry. To lead the National League in hitting he had to top an rage of 378 by Elmer Flick and by Willie Keeler. He did so by hitting . | Hans Wagner was also blesstd with that peculiar thing which, for a bat ter name, we will call personality. There was something magnetic about | him. He was just.as popular in one city as another. Even in the smaller leagues his name was a byword. | He was a great drawing eard. Whether the home team won or lost, the fans wanied to see Wagner. There are <o many instances of hi greatness that I could mention, space nrohibits me going into them. It so | happens that 1 have with me a clip- ping from a sport column edited by a young man named Wright out in Omaha, 1t is a gnod illustration of | what everybody thought. He say | part ! A Typical Wagner Feat. | “I've just seen the world's greatest ball player and that goes as it lays— | Hans Wagner * © = T saw Wagner at his best, playing against Chicago. 1*n. Win meant to clinch first place. =« ¢ In the first, with one Cub out &nd men on first and second. Hoffman hit the ball 2 mile a minute over sec- ond, seemingly for a hit. Wit a ten- foot lean, crouching close to the | @round. he tore across the diamond {and fairly hurled himself on the ball s it was passing. With one move- ith teams “No, 6. Baker, wore that number while playing with the moted wkating club, “He did more to make hockey and our team popular than any man I know of,” sald Capt. Juck Blueworth of the St. Nicks in -+ commenting on the absence of the —_—— New Orleans Resulis FIRST RACE. five and one-half furlongs— Whelebone won: 0'Garite. second: Guv'mor. third, Time. 1.07, Scratched—Archie Alexan: dor Diana. TIuf, Last Effort, Pistrus. Hobey SECOND RACE. six furlongs—Bess'e Leigh- ton. won: Chiva, second; Tender Seth, third, Time. 1142 Scratched—Macbeth and Felicitious. Tia Juana Results. FIRST RACE. five and a half furlengs—D, { lanery won: No Wonder, second; Canion Bal . Time. 1.08. Scratched—Syncopation, | Boskworm ad Vibrate. e | BECOND RACE. six furlongs—Mondardella { won: Cedric, second: Norford Heney, third. | Time. 1.15. " Scratched—Lola_Flul | THIRD RACE. one mile snd three-sixteenths | —Erank Fogarty won; Dominator. seoond: Gij sy Joe. thizd. Time, 2.0135. All started. FOURTH RACE. o1e mile and seventy yards —Don Jose won: El Roble, second: Reydo, third, Time. 145 1. Scratched—Ioon. FIFTH RACE, five and & half furlongs— Brilliant Ray won: Dolores, second; Feylance, third. Time, 1.06 2.5, Scratchied—Fluterel and Black Deer. | _SIXTH RACE, five and a half furlongs— Rnighthood wea: Ollman, second: Krewer. | third, Time. 1.051-5. Seratched—Brilliant | Bay, Feglance. Bandane and Dr. Corbett. VENTH RACE, six furlongs—Jack Bausr | won: Caos Enigue. second: Doubtful, third. ! Time, 1.12 2.5. _Scratched—Settle. EIGHTH RACE. one mile and seventy yards { —Hackamore won: Dolph, secocd: N. K. Beal, | third,” Time. 14615, ' Scratched—Baifour, { Capen, George Muehlbach and York Lassie. Scratched—Junanite 111. i i | BECOND RACE, x 1urlnls;—!0fihlhl | won: Colossus, second: Gratian Tume 1.14 3.5, Scratched—Carrutbers, Nan, Arti X and Advance. | ” THIRD RACE. five and one-half furlongs— Pony Express won: the Ulster, second: Ilu- y sionist. third. Time, 1.072-5. All started. ment. seemingly, he tossed the ball | 'FOURTH EACE, cne mile end 8fty yardi— to second, where Miller received it|J. Alfred Clarks won; Guardsman. seoond: and whipped it to first, turning back | Feliz M., third, Time, 1463-5. All started. Hoftman and completing as dazaling | o FIFTH RACE, one mile snd 8fty varde— a double play as I ever saw.” I T Mr. Wright points out that Wag- | TH RACE. one mile and 'sixty yards— ner's great hands made it possible for | cavali Ruddles. second: Dick Nell, him to do things with the ball that | 45, All started. were impossible for most men. And | he_was correct. TANK MEET TO BROWN. | | Yes, Wagner was the greatest of all | | players. T intend to put him on myl PROVIDENCE. R. L. February 1 Brown's swimming team easily out- | all-American_champion team for all | time, which T will present in a later | ehapter. I*(Copyrignt, 1 | Havana Results FIRST RACE. six furlongs—Mess Kit won; Mab, second: Country Girl. third, Time, 1.15. Not long ago it was stated om authoritat Cornell dis- putes the assertion. Not enly do thr Ithacans regard the training vable as a big aid for their nmjor sports teamw, but they have vanced to a atage where they have just put their fencers on a special dlet. The en hav: own chefs and d NATIONALS TOP ROLLERS OF COMFORTER CIRCUIT Having a lead of more than 200 poirits, the Nationals bid fair to car- ry off the pennant in the Comforter Duckpin League, which has completed three-fifths of ' its twenty-five-week schedule. STANDING OF TEAMS. ‘Won, Lost. Pet. 3 5 a7 29 16 28 17 18 27 1 1 33 Shamrocks . 9 38 h individual ave: lvey, 10°-10. lu!xo‘:o‘.nd high individual unl:::il High tean) game—Cardinals, 543, High team set—Nationals. 1,552, High individusl game—Mulvey. High individual set—Mulvey, 34 m.nu:unm (average per weg. " 4l. Tigh spares (average.per game)—Hiel, 1.80. INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES. NATIONALS. {awam Dartmouth here tonight | score was 49 to 19. The Brunonia, S. and Canada, by Christy | WoOn every event except the 100-yard sh Syndicate.) breast stroke. By Perry Miller- EARS ago a two hundred-foot cast with a three or four ounce sinker was considered something wonderful. If one could have taken an expert caster aside in the year 1850 and told him that an angler in the year 1922, with a small stick some seven or eight fect long, would cast a sinker about one-tenth of a mile, his reply can be easily -imagined. Nowadays a 200-foot cast, with a three or four ounce sinker, is an ordinary feat for ap expert, In 1908 E. B. Rice made a tourna-, ment cast with.a three-ounce sinker | of 2953 feet. and anglers marveled. NO TRAINING TABLE BAN improvements, however, in reels, rods and lines continued year after vear and with each improvement the dis- tance of the cast has increased. Passing over many world records in | the art of casting, we come down to the records of the Asbury Park Fish- ing Club, made at Newark, N. J., No- vember 6, 1917. At this tournament Charles Elingshausen averaged in five casts, the distance of 435 feet ten inches. Very remarkable as all | fishermen will agree. But on May 5. 1919, John Shaw of the Long Is- land Casting Club, broke the previous record with a single amazing cast of 452 feet and three inches. The present world record is held by Harold G. Lentz of Philadelphia, a member of the Anglers’ Club of Ocean City, N. J. The cast was made at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, on May 7. 1922, at the annual tourna- ment of the Dover Fishing Club. This cast was 463 feet and eleven inches. 1t was made with a rod believed to be of bethabara, with a Melsselbach No. 500 reel, and a nine-thread line. The weight of the lead was four ounces. No doubt the time is not far distant when even this record will be broken, The constantly developing skill of casters, together with the increasing mechanical perfection of rod, line and reel, partivularly, augers well for a new record. Anyone who knows any thing about mechanical devices and examines a modern surf reel of fine quality, must be impressed with the wonderful workmanship, the gearing is cut with the accuracy of the inside of a watch and it would seem that the present-day salt-water multiply- ing reel had rexched its final and perfected form. As in the case of the reels, 50, also, with rods, which, of first chop quality, combine ‘extraordinary strength, as needed in handling such length of line and a heavy lead, with a kind of tempered steel elasticity, which could hardly be expected in & rod con- structed of wood or-of glued-up cane. Some of these cane surf rods are of double enamel construction, and such rods are built of twelve strips of cane instead of the usual six strips: one rod inslde another, the two perfectly fitted together and cemented into a solid whole. Nationals Cardinals Knights 400 Gen ‘250 1200 Every fisherman can recall the first time he tried his luck in the pisca- torfal art, and remembers how he went out in his garden or in_ the woods and dug earthworms for bait. Recently one fisherman, who had been angling for over thirty years, dis- covered a deformed worm, something he never had even heard of. Thej worm had two heads, or were they 4. tails? Tt would seem that one head would be most logical, for then it could work its way through the earth head first and drag its Lwo talls be- hind it. , How did this deformity take place? Zoologists tell us that the earthworm readily regrows part of the body when Injured. If the front half of an earthworm be cut_away it will grow a new head end. What probably happened to the worm above men- tioned was that an injury cut off either the front or the back portion of the body, and when the end re- grew, because of some peculiarity of the injury, two separate ends were ‘ srown instead of one. o LBE288 B SRRsRAR o a3l suzvas § s B oammon 43e832 3 The | AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY | 1 | i | i i i | | ; ‘ | }of Columbia Base Ball { upon CONSERVATIVE MAGNATE ARE OPPOSING PRACTICE Old-Time Ball Players Aroused te Bitterness by Sys. tem and as Result Are Asking Higher Figures in Their Contracts. . BY JOHN B. FOSTER. expressing themselves in no N to sign their names to a contract. recently put in vogue by whi The opposition is coincident to 11 EW YORK, February 17.—Censervative basc ball men are these dus uncertain manner over the pract: ch. college players are paid a bo a expressed against the practice of putting into the contract with <on college player that the latter is to price that he may bring upon being sold or transierred to another clul, gct quitc a percentage of any sa than the one he originally signs with BALL CLUB IS PI\.ANNING | TO START 23D SEASON The Pittaburgh Colleglans will start thelr 23d consecutive = won early mext May, whem they will open a schedule of games with auch college teams ax Pitt, Penn State, Bucknell, West Vir- ®inia, Weat Virginia Wesleyan, Bethany, Grove City, St. Vincents, Westminster and others. After the college weason they will hit the independent ecircuits. | Art Rooney, former Georgetown | University athlete, now a law | xtudent fn Duquesne University, will be the captain. Richard Guy, | sporting editor of the Plttsburgh Leader, will continue to direct the teani. BALTMOREANS LIKE 0. INPIRES UNDN tie District Umpires’ As- sociation in its conduct of sandlot tournaments and work in amateur base ball generally here that Balti- more arbiters are asking the lucal moguls of the diamond to assist them in orgar a similar body in the Maryland _metropolis. The Monu- mental city men have many eries to handle during So successful has been the better by an organization than by | dividuals working independentiy The District body is unique in direct! first advanced by James Y veteran arbiter, and recen elected president of the associat At Hughes' suggestion a meeting | was held February 921. and an association of nine members Jaunched It met with success the tollowing summer, and now the organization on Hughes, i has a membership of twenty-four. It co-operates with the Base Ball Association that the organized sandiot leagues and the committees in charge of the vari- us independent club tournaments. The members. by thelr efficient work in the fleld. have won the confidence of the public and elevated sandlot | base ball generally. They are called to officiate in college and scho- lastic games here and handle many ginia. * In addition to Hughes the officers are Joseph A. Handiboe, vice presi- | dent, and Bernard J. Doyle, secretary District controls contests in nearby Maryland and Vir and treasurer. Other members are I2d- |1 Paul B. m ward Bratburd, Jack Cohill, Thomas A Danieis. James R. Green, Carr, Crooke, Will A D. | mone lall over the National | hear mor | treneiy Handiboe .M. Johns E. Long, E. H. George F. Nau ton, Dick Vensel Nelson Wilson and Willimn, Wi The old-time base ball playvers b heard of the system considerable rneor It is one reason why just preceding spriz are sending their contracts more money. Among h Ider players want W the oollege guys for signing#a contrac they can't write any better t one else.’ Jack . Haas [ sld many outgo There are ball of big instances in b nd no income T some clubs. The I whicl the Yankees made with Killinger ¢ Penn State was 2 losing venture was a big league fool ball playe Paying Collegians to Sign Stirs Trouble at could and did give him wonderful support, too little to warrant #ash to the front base ball. he hé showe wonl eax [ Speaking of the transfer of Uinp Emste io desk work, President Hes ier remarked Imslie certainly | earned his rest. Just think of thousands of miles that he eled in his more than quarter of century as an umpire. tle has bee League circul 1 and out. He ha mifllions of spe sions on tiie pla up and down i before tators to gi of the gum Heydler was asked why the umpir aren’t announced as officials in vanee They ler w Onee wmpi ar ' and 1 de live eaid Hex “They ure hur Absolute 1 survey, they vould curdie the ess in Ave mi an hears kful to this of huma than ti ot i week, | o] that the nearly belleve spect are umpire the most and genuine successful acc dific Now' thzt Connoliy comes p; eran or a e rmpu conzratulation t has bee f Americun etty nearly to being the dean of them all Of the college men who will the spring canips this vear it pected that not more than five nake the e wii naming tie ar season, OF Maguire Cross to the sioner of o Bostonialis pull through, alt) hard fight to hol major league pitcher s Washington Preps pointed the to the Libertys last night in a 11 encounter. 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