Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1923, Page 24

24 - Winter League Se SPORTS.’ AMERICAN LEAGUE MEETS | TO ADOPT ITS SCHEDULE} o Mo Objections Voiced Among Magnates Assembled In Philadelphia Today Over Allotment of 1923 Dates—Detroit Harboring Pennant Hopes. ively Ball Not a New Idea—Has Innovation iL | Taken Pep Out of the t BY JOHN B. FOST \D HILADELPHIA, February 19. -Winter base ball adjourned sine die today when the meeting of the American League was completed. [he forma! adoption of the for the season of 1923 was No outbreak was heard in any quarters as o be a rains scason and spili all the preliminary have been made. so there little @ood to be d in advance. ) 3 b that happens to be play in New York when the Yankees are going weil will be grateful (g have been blessed that way, and any club that finds equally as good conditions in Chicago and St. Louis or Detroit is vot going to run amuck and denounce the schedule makers. This meeting brought togeticr marugers of the Americ ey huve heen engs i ReducedWithBase Run- schedule art the dates allotted S e | HILE 1 have a Leen re- gard and admiration for my pennant-winning and iworld championship club of 1921 and 192, | cannot truthfully say ithat it has ever given me the thrill rand the glow that I used to get out lof my specd marveis 1911, the club that beaten the Ath- letics, I du is INELKS TOURNAMENT COLUMBUS, Obio, Lott of South Bend % Ipossession of first pince i | f the EIks' national bowling tourna- | ment here today. He d Bauer of Detroit in the singles with |it_score of 1845 became events. with in_second pl < Bredmus 2 ne | south Bend. Ind.. thinks that he <ccona_pince in doubles with O e & stote of 1188, replucing 15, V 1 and that F. Charl of Detroit Gering of Liuisville rolled 624 fur Af.i place in <inglos eveuts MLLE, LENGLER VT N CANES T FM By the Aseo CAN ngle: mpion of was Lican to say that the ‘h practieally st pennant tie base jore Do team tnay 192_. 1 simply have u great iove for it largely because of iiw speed ou the bases and also because I developed nea y every man on that team. Taey were what you might ceall hand raised. Other clubs 1 have built up by trades and shifis, by using what ability T may have at organiza- to. Those 1911 boys. though. were my own VMiake-Up of the Team. that old mpionship team were Herzog. Fletcher, Doyle and Mc.isle in the infield; in the outfield were Murray, Devore and odgra-s 11 speedste think of this 4l gang stole 347 bases! And the aversge of the team was but The 1921 club had & team b I.u ruge of 238 bul stoic only Over 1 the American Leag same vear (1921) th Was team led in buse runni with a total of 111. It is not ditlicult. therefore, 10 un- derstand why T cherish that old club. All my base ball life 1 have doted on base running. Nobody regreis the decline iu base vunning more than I do. But with the lively ball beiug hit all about the lot the necessity of taking chances | the buses has decreased. A man would be foolish n, vlay the za #s it is. meet the sitg new tetl Long Hits Are Factora. a 0 s a tiue hance bail er Awmeri- Washington is relled unon it nd ugh he ) you year that he nship team he future Bush of another. Connie Mac season after season. admits that be has loss 1 ince sended amp! ses that < 0 see Y thick ba avizen fo in the I the all at Milwaukee J Schacter of i their way mt on nh L Detroit Harbors A Detroii er ope of wi t vou k & that they ures to expre: has lots of it the championsh fired well they a little o that never ve tion usually traveling tru By the first Americans ¢ have | teams s ambi- in its i tated . February the P esterd 6- 19.—Suzunne lawn tennis defeated March the n of of practice. ! . . maih of the nes ionsh'n The men's sing Phyflathlete, on Jumis right off aging 298 niore bases than oue batting ¢ face of things that would be ob- vious, because more men got on bases But it is not true at all | The answer lies in the extraor- { dinary number of long hits. Obviously |# man cannot stesl second when he hits a two-base hit. Also he has less chances of stealing third when there are so many triples. Again, there is ! no use in sending men down on a long | chance of stealing a bag when there is ia better chance of the batter hit- i ting the ball for two bases or. maybe, iout of the lot. The lively ball is re- sponsible for all that. 1 do not like the lively ball T think thie game far more interesting when cood as ever? | the drt of making scores les in scie 4> good as CVTD i tyfic work on the bases. Moreover, would Tecinical l will be one of ( His match against ever. showed tha to_be held [of his old time skill, = and 8. 'permit his real name t TILDEN “GOOD AS EVER,” BUT LOSES TO RICHARDS carnival April relay T be used. EW YURK. P'ebruary 19.—Is Bill Tilden's game Well. the answer really was had ear'y last week, when thela > universe fought throu a ficld-of top- notchers to a the invitation tournament at Buffalo. It was given again yesterd owever. when local critics came and saw | for themselves in an exhibition match on the court of the Ritz-Carlton | i1y "grown. 1 think they wenld have Hotel. . . ~ . |Rrown anyway. It is true that the Some there were who professed to note a slight loss of confidence in | spectator likes to see home runs hit, his play. but be it said most emphatically that if the loss of the middle [but there arc times when he gets digit of his racquet hand has affected any of the champion’s strokes in| "1n ‘one game at Chicago we got the slightest degree. he is concealing the fact admirably. hold of a lively ball last vear (1922) e looked like ths Tilden that|from a gallery that jammed overy|and made so many runs in one in- awent ail before him in the national | aviilanle ‘foot of geating and stand ing room. Their semsation: winpionsiip last September, and fuct that vouth- Richards. Who opposed oe * time. Fans Get Weary of Homers. ! sayv this in full knowledge of the attendance figures -which have stead- like the lively ball all the h champicn crowd walked out of the park. An odd thing alout this lively ball is that no manager that T ever | of was ever consulted as to the adv ability of using it. The manufactur- | w exceptionally fast f re both keved up and the pace was i start to finish. Shortened Finger Hurts, At ol the n Tilden tlauined of a soreness in his ab- ciated finecer, hut declared it had © same all through the tournaivent last week. The ¢ on had no intention of resting Tlit too much He bhas been ‘l';l\'i?e-l | that the danger of joint stiffening | would be greatly diminished if he | Lively Ball Idea Not New. exercised it as often as possible., This idea of a lively ball Samuel Hardy, captain of the Davis|new. Away back In the early eight- cup team of 1920, was one of the|ies the matter was discussed. They spectators, He saw Tilden in every| even went so far as to have some match of the event up in Buffalo,|lively balls made and run into the and in his opinion the champion play- | games. They were go lively that often | ed there as well as ever in his career | the ball would hit the And Hardy’s opinion is authoritative the sume as before; no intention of making the ball live- lier. Nevertheless, it is livelier. To | muke ccrtain all vou have to do is watch a hard-hit ball to the infield. Often the ball goes so fast as t t past the infielder before he h: a chance. months 1go rokes wou'd unfortunate loss he was mistaken. stroke in his repe sterday and it lacked nelth racy nor form. He drove both forehand and chopped and sliced, he and Lhe bu t backhand, volicyed crisply and effectivel boomed his cannon ball service across on occasions with zipping force. Nor was his control fadlty. Some Superb Volleying. lost two sets as hard and as stly fought as any he has en- 1 1 since the outdoor season, it was not through any shor ngs in his own game but through olleying of his vouth- Cpponents who ranks with the st volleyers the me has ever at his best in amc e was ce over, his s sianding up befors the wt of pounding and his ive carricd gieater sting than cver, hiz volleyving was superb, Tt aided Y by fact that the court was about fi 1 half ) regulation width, ‘That tv dificult for the cham: (i for Richards could far as the he e B coin tul first serv ner sid was replete with clement. There wer2 volléying duels that round_of_applau: the nectacular lightning round_after Radiators and Fenders ANY D MADE OR REPAIRED. Ce installed in any make. ‘ERENT MAKES RADIATORS. ATT'S R. and F. WORKS F. 6410 1485 P. M. 7443, 10 DIF! WITTST 819 13th. Match Your Odd Coats With Our Special TROUSERS $4.65 All color; new suit. terns. 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The pitchers are now forbidden to rub the surface of the ball or discolor it la any w If you will remember, in the old days, there was a great shout from the players and from the public when a all was thrown into play. pw we'll get a bust at that oil shinning rock.” used to be a common suying. It was accepted as a truth thiat the batter had a much better chance at a smooth witlle ball than at a roughened and discolored one. When a new ball was thrown out | | the pitcher immediately bLegan rub- bing it in the dirt so as to get al better grip on it. Also he rubbed it on his clothing. That is not allowed now. As a result the new ball fre- quentlv slips and does not take the b‘ands nd twists objected to Ly a pite! In addition to these handicaps on the pltcher there are many more balis used in a game than i tnc past. The umplres will throw out nost any ball objected to by a pitcher. T, | _Over in the America willingness of the umnires (o throw out a ball started with the sad acci- dent in which Lapman was killed by 2 ball pitch-d by Carl Mays. I am told that some.one had | | objected to the Lall that day but thut the umpire did not see fit to throw it out. in st ve G la t ball iled” and Chapman was hit. Since then the, umpires take no chances. In a way one cannot blame them. According to some of the manufac- turers the liveliness of the ball may be due to a better grade of mater They say, though, that the same amount of yarn and the same core is still used. All of these restrictions on the pitcher and the additional liveliness of the ball has Increased the effe tiveness of the batter and. therefe has decreased the nccessity for the developinent of base running as a| high art. Iu the old days the steai| | of second base or the taking of an, extra base on a short hit often meant the one run needed to win. With the hatters able to smuck the ball almost | at will, what is the use of running| the risk of having men thrown out on daring chances” They might better stand still and score on a long hit Misxes Thrill of Thieving. If base running was as necessary | as it was in 1811, 1912 and 1913, when | we had such a fast team, I am not| standard ball I Lave it|at all sure that my present team | srding official weights | could not go out and st easuos Wishington | b They do it. though. by hitting. thin! i while the others did it by stealing. | elines e Ll v great loss to me, after all the rehou the thrill that T got out of seeing me pped from shioot down the base path-, one after nerete another, until they had stolen their would way to @ win. That was base ball - | s be prac the Lind of base ball that I learned tou | he piiy love when T got my first job. { o they had to dea (Copyright, 1923, U, 8. wal (o by o There are other elements, sh Syadicat } 150 GOLFERS ELIGIBLE FOR TITLE EVENT HERE PPROXIMATELY 130 goliers, including fiiteen irom Washington, will be eligible to play in the national public links tournament | n RAY CHAPMAN, Cleveland shortstop. who d. jof being struck by “saile Carl M d as result {h " thrown by ¥ u; hign s twenty feet unsatisfactory that | iice was droyped the lively mber we | 7 exhi enn. The ioen us It opped up a at it we| somerimes | The ball was = the fdea of a cha In the brotherhood yeai ball was tried again. I rom got hold of one uf them in ion game in Knoxvill, opposition ran the ball so happened that ihev few and we got a crac ed it all over the lat. kit would be 4 good pian to | | H | and b “hould th. A e ny w what | though, | i Lo ith ip b ! a A report as barring training camps. ular pitcher in the party, included 'iquld | John —Denial al a lot of | further negotiations in the proposed | " the |in ason Ends Today : Griff Seeks Good Umpire for Spring Games ' SIX MGRAW HURLERS AMONG THE HOLDOUTS NEW YORK, February 19.—Six hold-out members of the New York lants’ pitching staff were missing today when the advance guard of bat- terymen entrained for Marlin, preliminary to establishment of the regular training camp at San An- tonio. Tex., Jess Barnes. Jack Scott and Art elf. twirling stars of the last world crics, were the regulars who did not result of the club’s edict unsigned players from Virgil Barnes, Bill and Jack Bentley. the $65,000 ar purchased from Baltimore, also emiined behind. Hugh McQuillan was the all yan which also Pitchers Clinton Blume, eorge Scheisler and Fred Hamman: Catcher Alex Gaston and Joe Casey, veteran battery coach. The squad will be joined at St. Louis tomorrow night by “Cozy" Do- n. coach in charge of the Marlin camp, and several other recruits. Twenty moyndsmen, the largest ever assembled by Manager McGraw, are on the roster of 1e champions. —_————— EASTERN OHIO TO HAVE 8-CLUB SUNDAY LEAGUE NEWARK, Ohio, February 19.—The Elnlern C!h’I'l dBlh!e Ball League hus BuCe as intended, the|Deen organized here to piay Sunday Jogtend Of Eoing = Inicnded Ihe|SR4 holiday gamiesin s tien ool season will open on April 28 and close in September, H. H. Scott, Newark ewspaper man, was elected presi- dent, socretary and treasurer, and J. m;'_n. vice president. McS8word. Zanesvi newspaper league is composed of Cam- bridge. Coshocton, Canton, Mount Ver- on, Zanesville, Newark and the Men- dels of Columbus, the eighth city to be chosen { ter, later. ' Mansfield, Lanca Marion and New Philadelphia ave expressed a desire to join. A uarantee of $130 & game was agrecd pon COLLINS DEAL UNLIKELY, SAY AL F SOX PHILADELPHIA, Pa., February 19, that there have been any ase ball deal whereby Eddie Collins, Chicago White Sox star, would e traded to the New York Yankees change for a number of playvers i ney consideration, was made sday Ly Harry Grabiner. secretary f the Chicago club. Grabiner, who is here eague, was reported conference with the owners of re Yankees in New York on_ the roposed deal, which is said to have een hanging fire for a year. There have been no negotiations to have been in the Collins offer since the Decem- ber meeting, sald Grabiner, and so far as the Chicago club_is concerned, dded. the White Sox are ready the training he to 0 to camp intact. SPEAKER LINES UP MYATT. attending | the spring meeting of the American SPORTS On the Side Lines With the Sporting Editor By DENMAN addition to his quest for a real | ters of concern to C. Griffith, w at the confab in Quakertown today, is the identity of the umpire THOMPSON. , righthand pitcher, one of the mar__ hich he expects to have cleared up who will be assigned to officiate in the exhibition games of the Nationals this spring. various athletes on their rosters to upon officials of the town where th the increase in the number of interle howéver, tiie necssity for obtaining has resulted in the practice of each Last season the Nationals had of the old Chicago White Sox, wh; official family, but quit aiter hecomi never was cut out to be an umpire. National League staff, worked with games with the Boston club. It already has been announced that Bill Finneran, former big league umpire and now with the American Association, will be the Braves' um- | pire in the south this spring. joining | them at St. Petersburg soon after the entire Tribe assembles and offi- ciating in all games they play. As| the Griffmen have listed a total of sixteen games with four National League clubs, including those com- ing north with the Braves and end- ing with two games in this city, the class of the umpire who teams up with Finneran will have an impor- tant bearing on the validity of their showing in the pre-season clashes. “Muddy Ruel is a very bright young man,” says a Boston writer in commenting en the recent Red e recently on in St. | | ambitions to run for Congreas, or the Senate, or something. ~o he wanted to get a lMttle inside wtuff down (n the District of Columbis, e reanon he held out in hopes that Frazee would sentence Rim te Washington. Always knew that Muddy was a smart catcher.” Cleveland Wants Homers. Supporters of base ball in Cleve- land.. where the park has a twenty- foot wall in a “short” right field, sur- mounted by a thirty-foot screen, are | not only opposed to Clark Griffith's cheme for home-run zon but | have started un agitation to have | the manufacture of circuit clouts { made easier by removing the upper | part of the barrier. Spurred b ters on the subjcct from f 1 Fifth city, Ed Bang has indited the following : As long as Babe Ruth, Kenneth Williams, Clarence Walker and other home-run swatters de luxe are privileged to add to their records as the result of short stands we can't see any reason why Clevelanders shouldn’t be given half a chance to whoop it up for Speaker and his supporting cast. There’s no telling how many homers the Cleveland club would amass in a season’s play on the home lot were the wire screen _that has adorned the wall { ilu\'llhhui ithe rough fi |blame for the fact that Gagnon was It formerly was the custom of big league clubs to assign run the practice games, or depend hey happened to be playing. With ague clashes booked in recent y experienced and responsible ar h club carrying a man qualified b only reg- jproper training exclusively for the thankless task. Ed Walsh, famous spit ball pitche: o was appointed to Ban Johnson’ ng convinced in one season that he Bob Hart, a regular member of the Walsh in Washington's preliminary delphia, St. Louls and New York last seawon, 111, 97 and 95. re- wpectively. The Indians had hy tar the smzliext total of circul in the Ame We believe Mr. in the mood to welcome more hon:e runs and atill more home runs.’ Cheerful 'Tip on Gagnon. Followers of the Griffmen who seriously doubt the wisdom of the which Pitcher Ray Francis was shifted to Detroit in exchange for Infielder Chick Gagnon, espe cially in view of the poor fielding record of the latter, whose percent- age of .873 with Rochester last sea- son placed him at the very bottom of the large army of International {League shortstops, may get a grain comiort L of from the information Charley Moran that id there is largely to charged with twenty-six errors in sixty-five zames. The astute direc tor of athletics at Catholic Uni- v is authority for the state ment that Rochester’s infield is the poorest he ever saw in a league with pretentions to class, having gotten his dope during a visit there last summer. « “From what I saw of Gaguen in action be should be rated as a very ficient flelder,” says Moran. ‘Many of the errors he made can be chnrged to the lumpy nature of the moll in the Rochester infleld. which is notorious for causing the ball to take odd bounds. I wure he will show to advantage a good diamond.” Driscoll in International. Mike Driscoll. former catcher- first baseman of the Catholic Ur versity nine, who was supposed to have signed with the Nationals, fol- lowing the close of school last sum- mer, will be with the Rochester club this year, according to the state- ment made by Owner George Stall- ings, former manager of the Boston Braves, to Clark Griffith at the win- ter meeting of the American League It will be recalled that Driscoll reported to the Nationals in Phila- delphia early last season when he :lu p, and Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge of public buildings and!Speaker here. following to be held at East Potomac Park. beginning Jufle 26. This was | erence yesterday between James D. Standish, jr.. chair-| course committee of the United States Golf Associa- | HOUSTON. Tex.. February 19.— Glenn Myatt will be with the Cleve nd Indians this spring, according to a statement made by Manager Tris % i i a conference Standish was in Washington on his way to Pinchurst, N. C.. and ! with the former Milwaukea catcher. | Dr. Waiter It could not be learned whether Myatt Z had been signed It recently was an- nounced that Myatt would retire from the game. 9. when 36 holes will be| KINSEY BROTHERS WIN. SAN FRANCISCO. February 19.— Robert and Howard Kinsey. second ranking team in the United States, ied at a cc of the public dec i { grounds. h conferred with Coi. Sherriil as to the details of the tourney. S. Harban, former vice president of the U. S. G. A.. also attended the con- ference. A tentative schedule under which plavers will be qualified from the | various districts of the country and thus made eligible to compete in the tournament was announced by Stan- day. June 2! played. ! The euggestion was made that a team match be held on the day pre- ceding the qualifying round. and that a smoker be held the same evening. |won the doubles tournament of the Standish announced that the United | Burlingame Country Club invitation- States Golf Assoclation will permit|ai meet, defeating James Davies and tournament contestants to accept| Phil Neer, the elghth ranking pair, railroad transportation to and from | G4, and 6—4. Washington and $5 a day for cxpens- | es without endangering their ama. | teur standing. 1t was alao made known Columbia Country Club max hold & tourney for | non-competitors during tho week of | the event in which those who fail to | qualify are expected to play. Presi- | dent J. H. Hanna and chairman G.| P. James of the golf committee of the club gave their assent to this plan. 15; New England, 2 ago. 15: Wilmington, . 4: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, 6: Atlanta, 4: Detroit, §; Dayton. 4; Indianapolie. 4; .ouis, 8: middle west including Joseph, Des Moines and Kansas 8: Pacific C §: Scattering. Washington, New York, 15; Philadelphia, urnament 1 start on U with_a qualifying round holes, Eighteen hole match pla rounds will be plaved by the 32 qual- {fiers until the final is reached on Fri- Wonder What Mertz Wil Say Today? DELAY IS COSLTY —Next season woolens will be higher and you will pay more for your clothes. —Buy now at low prices. SPECIAL SUIT OR OVERCOAT TO ORDER Regulation $35 Value $1 8.50 A mumber of medinm welght fabries saitable for spring weas in the display. Full Dress Suits To order, lllk $45 " MERTZ & MERTZ CO,, Inc- Business school students now realize that by renting a typewriter for home practice they can make faster progress. Special rates to students. L. C. Smith & Bros. 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Then, too. it must be re- membered that Spoke would have an array of real offside drivers to back him up in Glenn Myatt, Joe Sewell, Homer Summa, Charles Jamieson, Larry Gardner, Frank Brower and others. “It is within the range of possi- Wilities that the Indians would pass the hefty totals piled up by Phila- After Every Meal NEW YORK, February 19.—The Brooklyn Nationals have announced that Paul F. Schreiber, right-hand pitcher of the Saginaw club of the Michigan-Ontario League, had signed a contract. Most of us eat too hastily and do mnot chew our food enough. If people realized how much more good their food would do them {1f properly masticated, and followed up with a bit of WRIGLEY'S to Keep teeth clean, breath sweet, appetite keen and diges- tion good with WRIGLEY’S. WRIGLEY’S is the perfeect gum, made of purest materials, o being it in modern, sanitary to you freeh and fall- Aasored