Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1923, Page 67

["sporrs | Part 4—4 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1923. Nationals Walloped by Braves : McTigue Gains Two Ring Titles by Beating Siki WEIRD EXHIBITION ENDS WITH SCORE AT 24 TO 12 Are Glad When Agony Is Over—Game Is Featured by Much Hitting and Plenty of Erratic Work in Field. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. AMPA, Fla. March 17.—Base ball of a grammar school grade was on tap in the opening game of Washington exhibition season to- Aiter e hours of the wierdest stuff ever pulled on a dia- loped that the Boston Braves had won, 24 to 12 This was ter artificial stimulation had partially relieved the dazed } of the official scorer and the services of a certified accountant | had been employed ! Just three hours aiter Umpires Ormsby and Finneran instigated | the proccedings what was leit of the 2,200 fans who assembled to sec ”wi formal de ion of Tampa's ornate new grandstand groped their weary the fair grou aying “So this is big league stuff.” This was | nterpretation o pained expressions they wore as they ambled to ted and d to recall when they had seen a more ragged contest on the town I W from condition Is su lence he right | Braves s off _Dad Dick Wade guilty | o th warm | worl the « was in when ed g telp of who trom ) A Terrible Ordeal. Hankins Land 1 were e S T O e et s (] ol noooocoruron~? ul cocooccsssconsal BRAVES. Powell, of. Nixon,' of. Conlon, s3..... Southworth, Cruise, Felix. 1f. 1. 5. | Ford. 2b. Smith, b, £ Gowdy. © pair of O'Neill, o singl: | Hulihan, p. tiushmen | Braxton, p. | Coney. —epBBowE ROl Pee Totals o FASHINGTON. . Gagnon. ss. and | Harris,' 2b. | Judge.” 1b e | Gostin, hisn in watlk four sduced hits Hargrave. in the | FEERTS ufter ! Harkins had Brillheart, 1cd | Russell, D... Wa ged and | sococconnumy, £l onsowm “when halt a luding Wade's dou- the Bl vwmooscoconunp Bl orcorconumornos® %l nooonnouunmond Bl cucormwanvmonnnm ® H Bl wwnorsmovouant 8l onrnonsraimnainal 8 | {owdy out; kit by vatted bal in fth, how- | Score by inings. gh one | Braves . .2 0405381 12 <| Washington ... 4 1 0 4 0 0 2 0 1—12 *| Two-base hits—Southworth, Wade, Feli i pies in, [HS | Fisher. Throe-base hits—Gowdy, Henry, G ! ston biffs | pon. Goslin. Home run—Judge. Stolen b L) Nk | ade, DY![;L lflnrr., .fice;h—imuh. Russell Starts Well, de. Double plavs—Gagnon to Harris to v Judge: Southworth to Henry to Conlon; Harris moned to end the |t Judge; McNamara to O'Neill to Henry 1efl when the first| Left on bases—Braves, 11; Washington, 15. | into a double | Bass on balls—Of Hankins, experi off Braxton, 3: off Brillheart, Braneaters | of Russell, 4: off McNamara, e B Anls | Hankins, 7'in 3 innings; off Braxton, b in 3'g g ¥ innings: off Brillheart, 6 in 113 innings; off relieve the MO- | Copey, 8 in 32, innings; off Russell, 13'in & rly slaughtered | jnnings: off McNamara, 3 in 2 innings. Huli- | han pitched to three batters in first inning. Hit to | by_pitcher—By Braxton (Judge). Struck out in | —By Hankins, 1; by Braxton. 2; by Brillheart, k- | 1; by Coney. 1. Winning pitcher—Cones: los- ni|ing . pitcher—Brillheart. Umpire—Messrs. (Soult | Ormsby and Finneran. Time of game—S3 hours. -d the | —— oritel out being scored on in the ecighth. o but after bingles had placed Braves {Continued on Second Page.) produced a ¢ with- | 1On the SideLines With the Sporting Editor BY DENMAN THOMPSON. 17—The eminently satisfactory showing being made roy entitles him to be rated ahead of Joey Evans at i the training season as a candidate for the third base with the Washington ball club. _Characterized by Clark . but able to hit and field, the Minneapolis recruit is fully ) 1o expectations in the latter two essentials and has demon- is conside faster afoot than his boss gave him credit for. no means a speed merchant, Conroy gets around the base at a surprisingly rapid gait for an athlete of his generous propor . and he covers terrain in the immediate vicinity of his sector in ) have not missed anything a third baseman reason- ed to get. Conroy seems to have the instinct of at he gets the jump on a ball and, having started objective point as soon as a fleeter, but slower AMPA, AMar iy 4 manner as 1d be expec welder in t reaches layer would not only shares the raps that come his way, but invariably ind the hall when he grabs it and, thereby, ix in position m him. He ix a nntural flielder, having the “good hands” anagers constantly are reéferring to, and hecause of andling the ball apparently without effort, his chances At the hat Conroy looks every bit as impressive ax Griff ds up there without finching n bit nnd takes 1l that frequently meuns extra distance when 1 ax the proverbial cucumber, regardiess of % him, and ix a well-mannered, likeable chap f hope for Conroy. true ckly his Joey Evans, the principal rival of Conroy for the far corner job, s not only suffering from a lame throwing arm at_the present time, hut evidently is finding it more difficult than he anticipated to accustom himself to iufielding duties, after several years of pastiming in the out- held. [vans to date has failed to impress with the manner in which e handles bounders. He has been away from third so long that his ormer cfficiency at gauging the hops of ground balls has been impaired. in addition he is ot covering very much ground and when he comes 1p with a ball is not in the best position to throw it. due to his habit oI keeping his feet close together instead of spreading them far apart. Evans ix not being counted out of the Infield seraw, however. He fy m wily veteran who ix taking hix time about getting into condition and realizes that when he works the woreness out of his arm will be plenty of time o open {he throttle and show all he has got in the way of capabilities ax « third baxeman. He has an advantage over Conroy a8 to experience in big lengue ways, iy an adept at the bunting game and pro ¥ ean cutdistance any player on the elub in a sprint around the basex. Close scrutiny of the work of Chick Gagnon indicates that he is sub- consciously favoring the leg that was injured in a foot ball game a couple i seasons ago. There is no limp nor outward sgn of lameness, but his method of going after balls to his right shows that he has that prop n his mind. Instead of dashing after a ball and jumping straddle style o be in position to throw when he gets it, Gagnon acts as if he fears he leg might buckle. Consequently he is off balance and has to take a tep or two to maintain his equilibrium and be properly set for a heave o first. This procedure causes the loss of prescious seconds and if he joes not take that extra step he can be sure of neither power nor ac- uracy in his throw. 1 , Gagunon handles a ground ball well, has a good whip and gets down | 4o first with great speed. Also, for a runt he hits a ball hard. Out- fielders who play for him according to hix size are due for many am ankle excursion. The job of the board of strategy with Gagnon wiil | be to make him forget about that leg of hix and let himself out to the fullest extent.” It is doubtful if there is anything wrong with Chick’ limb now. It probably is more of a mental hazard with him than any= | thing else. . 1 With all Washington fandom hopefully watching the efforts of Dwen Bush to make good in his first season as a manager with the i they may be interested to know how he acquired his nick- to which he has become so accustomed that he signs Jhis letters and, sometimes, his checks that way. As Bush tells it, the | ognomen was wislted on him in his first season with the Detroit club, | back in 1908. They were playing the White S and Bush, after being completely baffled by the left-handed shoots of Jesse Tannchill, came pack to the bench and disgustedly inquired what kind of a delivery the kouthpaw was using. “That’s a ‘Donie ball;” was the information sup- Iplied by Ed Killian, one of the Tiger pitchers. Ever since then Bush has answered to Donie, ]t is not “Donnie,” as some of the scribes G g GOLF TEAM IS SELECTED TO INVADE GREAT BRITAIN C HICAGO, March 17—Four former national amateur goli cham- pions, captained by Robert A. Gardiner of Chicago, are included in the American team that will invade Great Britain next month, according to announcement made tonight by Capt. Gardner. The other members of the team are Chick Evans and S. Davison Herron of Chicago, and Francis Ouimet of Boston, formerly champions, and Harrison R. Johnston, St. Paul; Maxwell R. Marston, Philadelphia; vwald Kirkby, New York; George W. Rotan, Houston, Tex.; Fred J. Wright, jr., Los Angeles, and Dr. O These golfers, the most repre- sentative geographically that have ever contended for the British title, wiil sail from New York on April 17 and enter the British amateur cham- pionship at Deal starting on May 7. Eight of the invaders will constitute the American team, which on May 18 will defend the Walker cup at St. Angers. The two substitutes among the ten named have not yet been designated. Several Stars Decline. The selection of the team was ac- complished after great difficulty, be- cause of the inability of several star players to make the trip. Among those who were offered places but were unable to go were Bobby Jones of Atlanta, Rudy Knepper of Sioux City and Jess Sweetser of New York. None of these leading players could get leave of absence from college and had to be supplanted by others who do not rank so high as a result of last year's contest. Sweetser, who is at Yale, won the rational title last vear at Brookline, while Jones of Harvard and Knepper of Princeton made fine showings in the same tournament. The team was approved by a com- mittee composed of President J. Frederio Byers of Pittsburgh, presi- dent of the United. States Golf Asso- clation; W. V. Vanderpool of New York, vice president; J. D. Standish, jr., of Detroit, member of the execu- tive committee; Francis_ Ouimet and Bob Gardner. Capt. Gardner, known as one of the lougest drivers in golfdom, has won the national amateur crown twice and was runner-up in the British amateur championshlp, losing to Cyril Tolley on the thirty-seventh green after going farther in the Brit- ish event than any other American, exoept Walter J. Travis, who won the title in 1907. ‘Evans is the only S .P. Willing, Portland, Ore. amateur and open championship in one year, having performed that feat in 1916, with a record score of 286 for the open at Minneapolis, and’ by defeating Gardner, 4 and 3, for the amateur at Philadelphia. ns carried the amateur title for two years through the war and then dropped it tn 1919 through defeat by Ouimet, 1 up, at Pittsburgh, where Herron won the champlonship. by de- feating Bobby Jones, 6 and 4. Oulmet first sprang into fame by tying and then defeating Harry Vardon and Ed- ward Ray of England at Boston in 1913, and took the amateur title in 1914 by defeating Jerome Travers, 6 and 5. Johnston Is Long Driver. Jimmy Johnston is another long driver. -He has won the Minnesota championship twice and played re- nlarkably good golf at the St. Louls national tournament two years ago in defeating Ouimiet, only to lose to Jess Guilford, the eventual winner of that meet, because of a pulled brassie which entangled him with a tennis court. Marston and -Kirkby have figured prominently in tournament play for some time, Kirkby having won the Metropolitan, _ championship three times. Rotan has been classed as one of the leading players im the west, but has never got very far in national champlonships. Wright first became prominent as a resident of Boston by winning the western junior cham- pionship at Chicago several' years ago and since removing to the Pacific coast hes displayed fine golf on sev- eral occasions. Dr. Willing is one of the best players in a coterie of good golfers developed in the Pacific noflrthv:es! in ‘r!cenl e&r!land made a fine impression by the golf he o ed in the natienal uhnn.plvul& &t St{ Louls two years ago. J CHAMPIONSHIP REGATTA [U. S. TENNIS ASSOCIATION AWARDED TOBALTINORE NEW. YORK, March 17.—The annual regatta of the Nationsl As- mociation of Amateur Oarsmen will be_held at Baltimore August 3 and 4, with the probability that competition "will ‘be enlivened by entries from England and Canada. The site and dates were - selected at the aasociation’s annunl meeting tonight. Fhe regatta will come one week after the amnual tournament of the Canadisn National Rowing Ax- sociation at St. Catherines, Ontario, allowing those who participate in the Iatter event to go to Balti- more. Lord Desborough has en- tered a team in the Canadian re- satta whick will be invited to the United States. Baltimore was chosen nuanimously atter the association’s .executive committee had divided stx to six between it and Boston. The South- ‘weat Association of St. Louls and the Cemtral States Association of Peorin, IIL,"also. sought .the re- In addition to some international and national ‘champlonships forty medals and. twelve. banmers and silver cups will be competed for at Baltimore. ‘WILL ROW AT OLYMPICS. ‘Winning crews in this year’s Canadian Henley regatta to be-rowed over the St. Catharines course in July will represent the Dominion of Canada in the Olympics ! in Paris next-year, ¢ —— COLLINS COMES TO TERMS. PHILADELPHIA, March 17.—Eddie Collins, star second - baséman, an- nounced today he had come to terms with the White Sox. He will leave in a few days for the training camp at Sequin, Tex. BASKET TITLE ROCKVILLE'S. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 17—Rock- ville's team won the basket ball WILL ENTER FEDERATION EW YORK, March 17.—The final step designed to bring America into closer affiliation with the rest of the tennis playing world was taken today, when the United States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion decided to apply for membership in the International Lawn Tennis Federation. lTonger | enterprising as h SCORES ON POINTS IN 20000 BOUT Irish-American Is Victor in Disappointing Contest in Dublin Arena. LONDON, March 17.—The Dublin correspondent of the press association says that soon after his fight with Siki today, McTigue was taken to a hospital with a painfw injury of the hand. An examination revealed that his right thumb had been broken. DL‘BLI\'. McTigue, the : fighter, light-heavyw Zuropean and March 17.—Mike -America the champion heavyweight Georges Ca S g regain the honors he lost to “Battling” Siki by a return matcl Senegales. Iri wo! and 1ampior can ier fror we ) iguc rey t i at the S ty-round won on poin test, but lat have disa pressed at the er e cor nterest He ar t the close of @ s winner. Contest I Disappointing, Asar > fig] o atsanpo sy allenze of the whole bility that the interrupt the bomb, but the precautiof at various po; und the and, beyond distance fro was no trouble ceeded The n and althot the Irishman, favorite It wa start that McTig i at irregulars w with had ta station theater, one explosion a short und, the long & but t clearl at the ta opponent. Then when he Tigue to the ropes, eral times, with hard work out without damage. MeTigue Good Sprinter. center of Te to the having s face, efforts, directed n Senegalese i portunity to we continual swingir hopped around the r for so many rounds that his suy became anxious or_discouraged, and shouted “Hit him, Mike; put him out! Siki, whose wrath it was expected would rise quickly under these tac- tics, held his temper admirably, showed signs of s when' Mec- Tigue succeeded in avoiding his fiercest blows. It was not until the eleventh round that first blood was drawn, the Irishma e ow- ing a slight g that Siki was bleedin Y The Senegalese tried McTigue in the twelf McTigue's ability kept him out of dange unable to reach him the thirteenth the Ir v avoid a vicious left & and hooked Siki with his right. He scemed along to be saving liis right for som special opportunity, while Siki used both hands equally all ges of the battle Some Action Develops. After the fourteenth round Me began to fight; he forced the pace, Siki made a rather steady acquain- tance with the ropes. dently figured that the time fc ing his bid had come, and he got home many times on the s Tibs In the eighteenth ing temper, an s viciously on the floor while kept worrying him with vi prods. Cheers greeted th awakening of the Irish £ there were signs of d face of the me up for out ue slid or son the ard t round, but destepping and Siki was éffectively. In n ducked to at s ar ion on the When he nineteenth Siki showd signs of punishment: he had some of his id was not as i been the cas the early rounds.- McT was wary He had dis- s _round. ed his ribs and took mno chan tinctly the better though his opponent r The decision was a result of the federation’s action, taken in Paris |a number of times. yestgrday, petuity, including the title events at The committee in effect refused to consider the resignation of Dwight F. Davis as president, tabling a request that he be relleved of his duties be- cause of his recent appointment as assistant Secretary of Wwar. It was understood that Mr. Davids would be prevailed upon to retain the post to which he was elected early in Feb- ruary upon the condition that other officers of the association share his responsibilities. Invitations Declined. Invitations from Sweden and France for American teams to visit those countries this year were declined be- cause of the desire of the U. S, L. T. A. to concentrate its effort upon a Eu- ropean ianvasion in 1924, in which it is expected that leading men and women court stars will take part in the Olympio tournaments at Paris in addition to other principal conti- nental events. In an effort to stimulate interna- tional competition for women the committee invited foreign tennis as- sociations to send feminine repre- sentatives to compete in the United States this year for the Wightman cup. This trophy was donated several years ago by Mrs. George W. Wight- man of Boston, the former Miss Hazel Hitohkiss, who has ranked for some time among prominent women play- ers in this country. It has not been competed for since it was offered for international play. If invitations are excepted the women's cup cont: probably will be held in connect with the women’s national turf cou championships at Forest Hills, N. Y. the week of August 1 The committee ratified a record tournament scheduled for 1923. The 1ist, which now includes more than championship of Montgomery county | 220 local, regjonal, state and national , 26 to | tournaments, is expected to pass the nual tournament. {court singles and veterans' _eliminating the last obstacle in the way of this country’s [ rimue went in ha membership by abandoning all awards of world championships in per- | Siki severely Wimbledon. about 230 tournaments played last yea Three additions to the national champlionship list are included in the schedule. One is a revival of the interscholastic championship, to be held in connection with the intercol- leglate title events at Philadelphia, June 25. The others are the girls' national hard court championships to be held in Callfornia, at a place and date vet to be Selected, and the municipal championship, awarded to St. Louis on a date to be set later. Further recognition of the munici- pal game was taken by a decision to award official U. 8. L. T. A, medals to winners of public courts tourna- ments in various citles of the coun- try held as preliminaries to the na- tional championship. Tourney Dates Ratified. The other national championship tournaments ratified follow: July 2, women's clay-court singles and doubles, Buffalo; July 9, men's clay-court singles and_doubles, In- dianapolis; August 13, women's grass-court single_and doubles, West Side Club, Forest Hills, N. Y.; August 20, men’s grass-court doubles, veteran doubles, mixed doubles, fathers and sons event, junior and boys singles and doubles, Longwood Cricket Club, Boston; August 31, September 1 and 3, Davis cup challenge round, Forest Hills; September 10, men's grass- singles, Germantown Cricket Club, Philadel- phia. .« 7 POLO TITLE TO YALE. + NEW YORK, March 17.—Yale won the intercollegiate indoor polo cham- pionship tonight, defeating Princeton, {9 to 2, in the final contest of the an- The Blue excelled res of | 250 mark before it is completed, thus|in all-around play and in the last t: sclipsing the previous high record of johukkers soored at the rate of § 2k nd last round Me- ard and punished In the face. He was fensive when the bell In the twentieth & still on the Never Champion NEW YORK, March 17 Tigue never reached the ship class in the United States, al- though he laid n to both the Irish and Canadian middleweight titles. His claim to the Canadian title was disputed by Jeff Smith, who gained a decision over him in Halifax in 1921. He won the championship in 1920 when he knocked out Gene Bros- seau, the recognized Dominion title holder at that time. McTigue, a crafty ring general and clever boxer, fought most of the leading middleweight and light- heavyweight pugil this coun try, where he started his professional career in 1915. According to record books, he lost but three out of 101 bouts in the past eight vears and holds two decisions over Harry Greb. former American light-heavywelght champion, He won forty-seven of his fights by knockouts and twenty-one by de« cisions, records reveal, while twenty- eight others were no-decision affairs and one a draw. Besides his victories over Greb, one a newspaper verdict in 1919 and the other a referee’s de- cision in 1920. MeTigue defeated Battling Levinsky, former world's light-heavyweight champion, and Augie Ratner and Tommy Robson, two prominent middieweights. He was never matched with Mike 0'Dowd or Johnny Wilson, forn er and present middleweight title holders. Siki's victory over Carpentier, his charges of frame-up; his suspension by the French Boxing Federation and his ultimate reinstatement, minus his titles, were recent happenings with ‘which 8ght fans arve familiar, 5 P A1 fo- mpion in the