Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1923, Page 30

SP ORTS. ~ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1923. Nationals’ Veterans Are in Great Condition : Indians Have Real Third Sacker FITNESS OF OLD STAGERS - BOUND TO COUNT HEAVILY Exceeds in Importance Fine Showing of Number of Rookies—Rice, Harr paugh Are in Midseason Trim. BY DENMAN AMPA, Fli ing cxhibitions given by the r Clark Griffith has bes tcam” to root for this year, and, gen are a certain number of old stagers presence in the line-up would be dictated to assure the element of bal- These are the men whose years of campaigning ance, if nothing else. cnables them to offset the inexperie formers who will be added to inject Donie Bush will pilot Without a single exception, ever ent physical shape. the winter at home. at any time and figures to surprise s year. another who has been active | all winter, and as a result of topping | t off with a couple of weeks at Hot, Springs is lighter right now than he | has been for many a spring. Rajah 18 covering a surprising amount ) and tossing the ball arour son form. He is not so far in hitting, but it will be a question of a few weeks now his optics are sharpened. Ruel Is Very Active. of advanced only until March 16.—Exceeding in importance even the encourag- club is the showing being made by the veterans of the squad.i figuring on giving fans of the capital a ry onc of these vet Sam Rice. who never takes on weig hetter trim this spring than usual, due to golfing almost daily throughout Samuel showed up with his legs sound and strong and his eye keen. He has had no trace of soreness in his throwing arm | ! tration | Gibson did a few fall aways to dem- ! | is, Ruel and Peckin- 1 THOMPSO ookies of the Washington base ball ung erally speaking. it will be, but there | who cannot be displaced and whose nce of the younger and faster per-| fire and speed into the aggregation ns is in excel- t, is in even ome of the natives with his pegging | while Dick Wade, | touted as a base runner. gave the poorcst exhibition. Goslin proved | he is in need of instruction and | re was true of Blugge. La Motte and Gagnon. None of the veterans| wus required to hit the dirt, Rice volunteered to act as an medium and both who is highly but | illus- | Bush and | onstrate thelr points. His Chance of Making Good Is Like Hi¢ Name The business of measuring the ath- Photos By CAR.TTuomek. CHRISTY MATHEWSON, JR., WILL ATTEND BUCKNELL NEW YORK, March 16.—Christy Mathewson, jr.. will matriculate Bucknell College next June, the same METO ALOYSIUS F IFIT WINS TOMORROW Aloysjus Club and the Yankees will clash tomorrow night at Central Coliseum for the third time in the three-cornered fight for the city in- dependent basket ball ship, and if the former wins it will grab the laurels held for three con- secutive years by the Yanks. The Aloysians strengthened their first- place hold last night by beating the American Legion auint, 39 to 27. To- morrow’s match is to start at 8:15. A preliminary between Western High School and an all-scholastic combina- tion will begin at 7:15. The Aloysians' record in the series now reveals three victories and one defeat, while the Yanks have won two and lost a8 many games. The Leglonnaires have triumphed but once | in four starts. The last mentioned team v:as unable to cope with the Aloysians last night, even with strongest line-up in action. Hurricunas nosed out the Marjorie Webster sextet in a 30-to-24 engage- | ment. ~ The Hurricanas profited through an early lead. Independent girls vanquished the Blue Devils, 37 to 17. Misses Totten, Ball ners. Dixie Midgets and Aloysius Midgets will clash in the Aloysius gymnasium tonight fof the 100-105-pound title Boy Scout the Oriole M and Si vietors. defeated . Roche for' the casily cored heavily Marvhottan bosketers. who finished champfon- { its ! and Hess starred for the win- HERE’S ONE UMPIRE WITH GOOD EYESIGHT “RED” ORMSBY. Here's the new American League ' LUTZKE APPEARS TO BE ANOTHER BILL BRADLEY Handles Himself in Nearly Every Way Like Former Expert at Hot Corner—Speaker Also Sure He Has Star in Summa. BY JOHN O the championship of Ohio. unquestioned superiority at this time of the year over Cinci Seeing of Lutzke, a Cleveland game on March 15 on the skin diamond of t} county will not soon be forgotten. RLANDO, Fla., March 16.—Although dat of Lakeland, Fla., and also of Cleveland and of t B. FOSTER. d Orland Also it is the stor recruit, play third base e fair ounds of Or gr When they broke the die of Bill Bradley, third baseman for Cleve- land in other years, it was that his counterpart never would be sce again. at intervals of centuries, said some the diamond. LONDON SUNDAY GAWES LKELYT0BE STOPPD ng of games on Sundayve, such ricket and foot ball, by London's has become the subject of versy, and a movement is un- der way to put a stop to i Professional foot ball and cricket leagues in England do not schedule games on Sundays, as do the base ball teams of America. and it was The humans who come into base ball do not come alike ex ; ep philosophical student of the art o Across: the race track at the grounds yesterd; ball player, 1 on his knee, sprawled on tocs, reached out his arms two or three yards. straightened out and nonchalantly toss- ed the ball to his companion. Thes were plaving catch prior to the begin ning of the game The man who saw and 1o make sure his vision was no dimmed by the flerceness of the Florida sun shining from its turquoise sett rubbed his glasses “I_thought Bl | the game,” he said. “That ~ ain't Bill Lutzke,” was the reply Thus enters Lutzke into his own and into major league base ball, and Bill Bradley never need r into a mirror to see how Bill looks and did look bbed his eves Bradley was out of Bradley; that's in a second-place tie with the Knights | of Columbus in the District League, | Wwill be entertained at a smoker by | letes for new diamond duds has been | complcted and the Spalding agent has | assured Griff they will be delivered | umpire in the uniform he wore when Lutzke is loose-jointed all over from his he played with the United States neck down. So is Bill bal- ances first on one foot and then on the titution from which his_father, Big Six,” was graduated. The son of the noted base ball player, newly Mudd in ad uel is working back of the | vle that makes it been playing base last July that the London coun- ty council eanctioned Sundav games pla “ d hy amateurs in the parks. i the cold months, a St. Louis . “He hops about like a d that plate and whips the the diamond as if he had a spring instead of an arm at-} to his right shoulde is has gotten himself into s 1 v two months of tramping over the here 1 should be able to t in where he left off last| As a matier of fact, Bucky to do better than that, for he | some thirty points below his | mal speed with the bat in 19 hopes to re-es h himself as | 00 hitter this vea | iudge has avoided the mistake he made last spring when too his first day out c on the field after his initial | Joseph started at a more wderate pace this vear, and from all 1dications should be ready to travel | »_speed when the championship | paign gets under way Pitchers Taking It Easy. Mogridge and Zachary, the two tchers who contrived to top all the n League southpaws in effec- tiveness last season. despite the fact that each was troubled off and on with a bad arm, are rounding into form gradually. Thus far neither has developed any kind of elbow or shoul. | der difficulty and cach is confident he | will escape the ailments that laid him up more than once last summer. The veteran Allen Russel probably 13 in better condition right now than any part of the Bush roster. He was the first to reach the curve-twlisting shape and asserts his soupbone never felt better. The spitballer is not making any rash claims for himself. but believes he is qualified to do more than act as a relief pitcher, and hopes to demonstrate the fact when the time comes. He has not tinkered with &pitballs yet, displaying so much steam and a hook so sharp that any. thing further has been but. “should occasion arise, is ready 10 resort to the damp delivery at any time. 2 ape renuous sed him Evans Has a Sore Arm. Joey Evans is the only veterzn on the roster who has cause for com- plaint, but he is not voicing any. The doctor has a sore arm and has had for many days, but it is improving daily and should be O. K. within & week or so. Evans now is experi- encing the fate that seems to befall every player when he quits the gar- den for the infield. Howard Shanks was affected the same way when he was drafted for duty on the first line of defense with the Nationals, When roaming the pasture Howard could throw with the best of them and never lad any trouble with his flipper, but the spring that he was installed on the first line of defense Hank's wing began to bother him Odd as it seems to a layman, there is 80 much difference in the kind of throwing necessary for an infielder and an outflelder that when a player switches from one sector Lo ths other it invarlably tells on his arm. In other respects Evans is in fine con- | dition and he still ie rated at parj I Conroy in the battle for the far | nment ! | | but by no means least in the of veterans, Walter Johnson not vet. is Eddie Ghar- 1 s in fuch a wretched tion last season that he was al- useless to the team. his hitting 1 as his throwing being af- He has proceeded carefully his training this spring. and. & noticed nary a twinge or pang to date, is confident he is defi- nitely rid of the old trouble. what- ever it may have been. Pat donned a mask and officiated back of the bat in the hitting drill for the first time Yesterday and was all smiles when he compieted nearly haif an hour of, Tobbing the ball to the various base. Will Stage Game Today. Maving changed his mind again, which apparently is one of the pre. Jogatives of a manager. Bush has de- clded to stage another practice game today. The teams are expected to l ke the field about as they did in the i ial fracas Wednesday, when the nnigans defeated the regulars, 31—, e: pt that Hankins, Brillheart &nd Russell probably will not appear ©n the slab. as thev are scheduled to face the Boston Braves in the first of the spring exhibitions tomorrow. Warmoth, Hollingsworth, Mogridge snd Zachary may be called on to divide hox work among them today when six or seven innings will be ved, _The sliding pit was utilized for the first time yesterday, and with Griff, TBush and Gibson acting as overseers | several of the athletes were given pointers on hooking into a sack avoid being touched b an alien guardian. Odd as it may seem, Bill Conroy was one of the most adept of | the bunch in absrbing Information, | to = @, S= = EN!! {two sets of twenty | the same, Fowever. | well as last veary players are ex- i Downey a3 Dle v of time for the opening of | the s on. Orders were taken for | ght uniforms, | both iwhite and . including ones | Bush, Altrock and Gibson. Just| ch of the athletes will fail to ge: | togs has not been disclosed. but three | of the bunch now on hand probably | will be missing when the curtaini although the time limit for| cutting down to the minimum of! twenty-five will not be until June 15, Landis Unlikely to Attend. i Tt seems unitkely, from what Judge Landis told President Gri the banquet in Clearwater yesterday vening. that the commi of ase ball will be able the *inauguration of ~Washin exiibition series tomorrow. will be some fitting ceremonies. According fo the llst submitted to Griff, the Bras will take the fleld in this order: Powell or Felix, cf. Conlon or Koaf, ax. Southworth or Bagwell, rf. Boeckel, 3b. Cruise or Nixvonm, If. Henry or Mclnnis, 1h. Ford or Padgett, 2h. Gowdy or O'Neil. «. Watson, Marquard and Miller, p. EXHIBITION GAMES. At Orlando, Fla.: Cleveland (American) . Cineinnati (National) Batteri Myatt, L. Wingo. Hargrave! 2 93 T'hle and Keck Smith, Luque, At Clearwater, Fla Brooklyn tionals) 12 13 Boston (Nationals) . im Batteries—DPecature, Dickerman, Ol- linger and Debe Taylor; Wa! Benton and Gowdy, O'Neil. X NIES SEEK ERTHS INTERMINAL Y LEAGE Six teams declared themselves ready to take franchises in the Ter- minal R. R. Y. M. C. A. Base Ball League last night at a reorganiza- tion meeting of that circuit. Those seeking berths are American Rail- way Exprese, Shops, Car Department, Transportation Department, Souti- ern Railway and Raflway Mail Serv- ice. Union Station had a repre-| sentative at the meeting, but did not | ask for a place in the league. Committees to draft rules nominate officers were appointed They will report to the next meeting of the league, to be held March 28. and Mount Pleasant Athletic Club will meet tonight at Powell School at 7:30 o'clock. Officers will be elected and | base ball plans discussed. Prince Georges Athletic Associa- ticn i8 booking games with unlimited teams. Transportation will be pro- vided. For contests, communicate Mrs. C. Travers, care of Pope Yermillion, Benning station, R. ¥. D. No, 1. Perry Athletic is to practice temorrow morning at 10 o'clock at 18th and Tavlor streets and will meet tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in its clubroom in the Powell School. Aztec Athletic Club will meet to- night at 7:30 o'clock at 498 G street. southwest. Many new candidates as pected to be present RED ROBERTS TO COACH. WAYNESBURG. Pa.. March 16— James (Red) Roberts of Somerset, Ky., Centre College foot ball star, has signed a contract to coach the Waynesburg College foot ball and basket ball teams. DOWNEY SHADES KRUG. ORANGE, N. J.. March 16.—Bryan of Cleveland was awarded the newspaper decision in a twelv round bout with Phil Krug of New ark last night. HAGEN-KIRKWO00D SCORE. MOUNTAIN LAKE, Fla., March 16.— Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkwood de- feated Alec Girard and George Smith, 4 and 3, in an eighteen-hol. here yesterday. o0 nele mateh IF YOU ARE -PARTICULAR ABOUT THE FIT AND STYLE OF YOUR GARMENT INTRUST THE MAKING OF YOUR NEW EASTER 8UIT TO OMO HUNDRO. YOU wiLL GET EVERY LITTLE DETAIL CARRIED OUT JUST AS YOU WANT IT, OMOHUNDRO PRICES ARE NO HIGHER THAN GOOD READY-TO-WEAR STORES ASK. OMOHUNDRO, 514 12th ST. Your Tailor—Just Below F St. |1ast. { the pitching | form if only the fates will send them | ana Frank Paroni, financial secretasy | ~Slim” reported too elim to make his | outlook bright, having only recently re- covered from an attack of influenza, | and has not shown to advantage. He | probably will have to go back to the! minors for another year, at least. He BY GEORGE I wi of southpawitis. ith the champions. a and epidemic Let's begin wit who went to Baltimore to anne | of the s needs experience as well as avoirdupoie. | 'DEMAND FOR SOUTHPAWS FAR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY * vou will take a little ramble down the base ball alley and u of the preparations that are being made for the season of 1923 you be surprised by the tremendous activity in the concern of south- | paws limited. That is just what they are—limited. activity in the showroom and in the back shop. elected president of the 'Boston ! Braves, has not definitely selected a career. TURNER LOTUS CLUB HEAD. S. Rowland Turner is president of the new Lotus Club, organized to pro- mote athletics as well as soclal ac tiyit Other officers are Harr; Wechsier. corresponding secretar and treasurer. PURDUE QUINT AHEAD. LOOMINGTON. Ind., March i6.— Purdue came from hehind and defeat- ed Indiana, 31 to 29, in the closing western conference basket ball game <on here. Indiana led at the half, 17 to 14 CHADWICK. te some That is why there is so much Managers are seized by There are the Giants, for example, | leithander, who is not a high-class pitcher by any means, but who is a southpaw. McGraw’'s team not over-supplied | with southpaws because Nehf is run- ning_up the sunset trail. Bentley this Baltimore hercules, not only car itch with his left hand. but he can at like a Pennsylvania Dutch daliry maid churning butter, and if he| should falter when asked to stem the | tide with his curves he might rout | the other side by batting out a home | run and introducing a little tide of | his own. | Huggins is exposing a southpaw's picture in his hand. 1t had been told Huggins and the board of strategy that sits with him, including the low | counsellor and _the high counsellor, that he needs 4 southpaw. Huggins | had ideas of his own about that and he also had prejudices to overcome.: Every time in his base ball expe- rience that he had a southpaw he was baffled much of the season by the extraordinary conversational draught around his team. However. Huggins responded to the clamor, i may have been circulated so freely, and he has Pennock., a southpaw, at The Boston Americans are not so valorously in the hunt for a south- paw, but they will take anything in line, whether it is north | or south. ight take even a ‘westpaw or an e paw if there was one in sight. The Boston Nationals have gone into the southpaw hunt and have picked up Cooney, who can pitch weil on days when the sun is in Sagitarrius, and not so well when it is in the soup. Washington has what it thinks to be a well seasoned southpaw in Mogridge. The seagoning is good and | the young man has pitched some ex- cellent games, but Washington needs more than pitchers. The Athletics would parade around Independence | Hall if they could find a second Plank, | and while they have Heimach, some sooth savers have been telling him to try to be an outfielder, because he is too good a batter to dry up on the pitching slab. The _Phillies, like the Boston Americans, are open to donations and care not on which side the line may They something. Pittsburgh believes that | Top Coats Meyer’ 1331 F STREET | may | the closing engagement of the sea- it has two of the best southpaws in the circle in Cooper and Hamilton, but each of them is a year older than n 1922 and it was some time ago that they celebrated their first birthday in base ball. The Chicago White Sox have Lever. nz on whom they have pinned thelr faith as the tidy is pinned to the old splint-bottomed rocker. The Browns have Pruett, whose future grows rosier and rosier as Lee Fohl and Bobby Quinn continue to put red giass in the window where the old panes have been broken out. Cineinnati is wavering as to wether it hadn’t better claim the pennant at once on the strength of Rixey leading all ieft-han s in 1922, and up in Datroit they wake up now and then with a happy smile as they think that Francis may develop into a formid- able left-hand pitcher with such a team behind him. I Brooklyn has Ruether, but Brook- lyn doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry over its ball team. Cleveland will again try Sherry Smith who was with Brooklyn, and if Smith possessed the winning tem- perament how he would scoot down the pike. Zachary of Washington turn into a successful and de- pendable mixer of curves this year. The point of the whole thing is that the managers have discovered, after facing the pitching situation for two years, that the curve ball pitchers are their future hope for success. (Copyright, 1923.) NAVY MATMEN AT ITHACA. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 18.—With & record of consecutive victories ex- tending over Bmeveral seasons, the Navy wrestlers are in Ithaca to do bat- tle with the grapplers of Cornell in son TORONTO GETS O'ROURKE. | TORONTO, March _16.—Shortstop | Jones, on whom the Rochester club had waived claims, has been !l‘ldcdl for Frank O'Rourke of the I’urlllndl Pacific Coast League club. ~No finer —No larger Collection of in the city Tweeds! Overplaids! ~Home- spuns! Loose Models! Inverted and Box Pleated Backs! And besides these features—THE SIZE RANGE IS COMPLETE $35, $40, $45 s Shop Manager Hutchinson tomorrow night at his home, 1305 Rosedale street northeast. |EASTERN QUINT PLAYING CHICAGO SCHOOL CHAMPS stern High School's basket ball team, which has garnered the Dis- trict, South Atlantic and Washington- Baltimore echolastic titles this ve: is endeavoring to add to its laurels this afternoon in a game at Centra! cum. Conch Guyon's churges are tac pions of Chicago's school league. Pi promptly at 3 o'cloc Ed Thorpe. New York basket ball #uthorit was to referee the match. Herbert Reynolds, a western confer- cnce offigial, was to umpire, and Paul Menton, noted South Atlantic court arbiter, was to be scorer. ORANGE TARGETS TO FLY AT GUN CLUB TOMORROW Six events comprising 100 targets wiil be included in the St. Patrick’s day trapshooting program to be offered by Washington Gun Club tomorrow after- noon, at its Benning grounds. In each event, one yellow target will be thrown. Those hitting the “Orangeman” will get free targets Three classes will compete, with three prizes at stake in each class. The Red and Biue team race will be on in the entire 100-target shoot. The contest will begin at 1:30 o'clock. —_— France hoasts 10,000 association foot ball teams, y-four-team T y o to start | Marine “Corps team of Quantico, V | WORLD AUTO RECORDS SHATTERED BY DURANT LOS ANGE March 15.—R. { (Clift) Durant. automobile race driver, broke world record petitive and non-competiti |five and ten mile distances. | The trials were made under supervision of and with the sanction both com e, f | Automobile Association and will | recognized as official Durant's time for five miles w | nounced as 2.32.40, an avera | 118.42 miles an hour. This broke the non-competitive record of 3.16.55, fo { merly held by the late Eddie O'Don {nell_and made at Sheepshead Bay, IN. Y., November 10, 1919. and the competitive by Frank Elliott, Calif., April 2. 1 Durant made a record 5.04.05 f | ten miles. an average speed of 118.4. | This broke Jimmy Murphy’s non-com- petitive record for the distance of 6.14.60, made at Sheepshead Bay, vember 18, 1919, and the competitive |record made by Frank Elliott at | Cotati, April 2, 18, The latters | time was 5.14.40. i el e e Northwestern University has ele- vated golf to major sports rank. at Cotati, record of 2.38.85 made | C. | mer. ! that time the council felt that the bulk of public opinion favored Sun- day sports and decided to give them a year's trial The United Council for Sunday Pro- tection and many others feel that public opinion was misjudged. Not long ago the Sunday protectionists called a public_meeting. which pro- tested against Sunday sports and re- quested the county council to re- scind its action when the experi mental years ends this coming sum- The solicitor general, Thomas Inskip, presided at the meet- |ing. He said unorganized games, such the | been called | | | continued, prove to be only a prelude or the |t0 club games and cup competitions |until on the Sabbath. Opponents of Sunday games had Puritans. ‘he remarked, but in his opinion Puritanism had done more for England than almost | of the contest board of the American |any other movement of its kind in|fame, then base be | the history of the race. LASKER HAS POINT LEAD IN TITLE CHESS MATCH NEW YORK, March 16.—At the end of thirty moves in four hours, the time limit, the first game of the eighteen in the tournament of the American chess champlonship, was adjourned with Edward La: ker, Chicago challenger, one point ahend of Frank J. Marshall, the New Yorker who is defending the title. Laxker won the toss with the queen's gamb! Marshall declined. Both contestants played mainly for computation, and toward the latter part of the session they were pressed for time. At | Sir | other, then on both and picks the ball out of space and throws it where it be longs. So did Bill. Lutzke leans for ward with an air of casy restfulness and darts forward like a ming bird when the ball starts. So did B ot in base ball history have there two men more alike in Lutzke Wicked up one b her and threw the batt when it | favor of the batter. jon a ot it was as if | pan over | two-bagge | b eyver r ou two-to-one |in tests on the Los Angeles specd-|as are now permitted. would, If they |other toward t ling the Tilden High five, cham- | because the a _snapshot could | made of it herwise { have made a home ru | This is a great deal but if Cleveland hasn't a !man who is on his way ball is have he about Lutz! third b, not outdoors. Summa in Rightficld. Summa is in right field for {1and. Pittsburgh had him once | Speaker says he has the best vo outfielder in the American League |Summa. Tris is't given to | exaggeration. Guisto will played | € Guisto look | he piays like a bl m, along | stops the bal at once, few first basemen, | he reached fr f-w to sec | base over the foul line and got t ball. The next moment he reached | the ‘other way around and stopped {one. The latter happened to be a h | "And when the astonished Cincinnat batter noticed this play on the part iof Guisto he stood in his tracks. C play first, a feat can perform. Once EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St. Please Note That We are Located Between F & G Sts. 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