Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1923, Page 70

THE SUNDAY STAR, ‘WASHINGTON, » D. ¢, MARCH 18, 1923—SPORTS SECTION. Giants Are a Veteran Outfit : Mat ty Holds Record That Was Credited Alexander HAVE MOST EXPERIENCED CLUB IN MAJOR LEAGUES Pittsburgh Is Next in Line—Youth and Age Appear to Be Pretty Well Distributed Among Ameri- can League Combinations. BY GEORGE CHADWICK. EW YORK, March 17—Collectively the world champion New N York Giants of today represenf about as much age—longevity of years and experience—as any team in either major league this year. Their fight will be based on association with the game and knowledge of its ins and outs, as compared with the cruder plays of the youngsters who have not been out of the wild ivy long enough to kuow all the tricks of the aft. R There such marked evidence it stands s0 conspicuously that arc in major whether yvouth the crumbling be like that e out ce of experience on the Giants— against all of the other fifteen teams - ball—that for once the season will show ! overwhelm crafty age. Should the Giants lose, of the individual parts of the New York machine' may ¢ the falling apart of the “one-hoss shay The Giant inficld is composed of men who are as thoroughly seasoned e ash with which they try to make their home runs. There is Kelly, who has played ase ball until every muscle of his being is trained to certain stunts when he reaches a base ball field. your cmber the quar- | in many ways. and if. i » bounced out of col- the championship el Reds this year it wil be San Francisco as another in favor of the classifica ticn of the Pacific Coast League as a major organization. Other clubs the National League bave a sprinkling of gr: hairs, but they wre not in exq <. Brooklyn has 4 few, but mostly among the pitch- ers, league basc can do The tor i to the used in argument same T ix long past the o 1t stage, britte b a zel Ix Caxe in the Giunts have AEO given up by ho performed aliy sensational 4 have heen big per- 3 Ruth 1a long but o Well Age in to be partial Mixed in American. the American League seems led out with a more im- nd. All of the clubs have share. The Yanks are not thout it. Pipp has been on the diz nd long enough to see more than one presidential administration come and o, Scott is so st that he is called the “Deacon.” Dugan is not acking in experience, and cthers, especially among ‘hers, who are not young [ ok « living wonderfully re- ¥ of the t juve- all in carety wn their no curls, net o icago 1 m dad experione wears the s cue player who is al- ¥ to any of them when i oned, and vet he face of u boy—Eddie Col- is is about so-so in the id Detroit has among its veter- | National and ¥ o 1l players irror hie Philadelphia widdy nate the is young. Washington h to keep youth in campaign. Boston i just It will plug, and when a :am must plug all through the sum- mer it matters little what its age but not a youth and stew dur- but players e st a Pacific (Copyright LINCOLN POST LEADING LEGION DUCKPIN CHASE s are in in the League wing to the game | e {itans, with | on the Kingpin games | the Hiram F. | battling for former now tront | . McGuir n the average 382, Panha Contiell Post « record of 118, son command | lowly av !witn eac [ somewhere the league r: Complete 1623.) BATTLE FOR FLAG STILL HOTIN DISTRICT LEAGUE a tight race for American Legion which is rapidly end of its first season alley Lincoln and | Cash aggregations are fisst place, with the a game and a half in the how At prose Duckpin t Terminal pe Mani the e of the Hiram F. Cash Post | individual leader with a high | 106 and the high set of | cr of the McGroarty- holds the high game { | | i Miller. national vice although holding the age of 88, is improving set and bids fair to be near the leaders when | » is concluded averages follow: STANDING OF TEAMS. VIDUAL AVERAGES TERMINAL ICE | { { Lincoin | itiesm ¥ | guentin 1 NMeGroxty-0 Cissel-Saxon Kenneth 1. Henrs €. Span i Engray Weidnian sehott Mack Morgun iy Prady INDIVIDUAL AVERAGE. LIN Harl Trlan Jiarvoto Hise Nume. Wolsteuholm Tewis Nozaw Bt Jenkine MePhillony Pratt 106 104 103 101 110 T 90 o i 1,104 Gallagher 1185 Supplee . MeNerney 51 nnirie Klnge Hobbs .00 MeCambridge REGULARS 118 McGROARTY-0'CONNELL. .33 3938 101 o8 7 95 3 P9 | Sylvester 64| Panbolzer 239 | Bilsworth Caldwell Optiz, Clark 138 126 114 126 o ® 17 CISSEL-SAXON. .19 - 30 I8 =y 19 L 19 KENNETH H. Buffin Leizear Clark, Clark Clark, Smoof . Hood Clsel 99 102 101 100 101 % 8 89 . NASH. 1969 93 131 119 126 133 104 108 115 Siubert Raruard Shulm: forsell Kline Emeigh Wilson 113 118 133 110 108 108 98 19 14 10 J13 Meany George Var: Anderson SHERMANS 143 * 118 122 127 107 uz7 o5 100 126 81 108 PRINTING. 97 122 340 101 135 338 100 122 334 118 324 120 329 114 307 100 97 288 Field Allison Tt D. C. BOWLERS LEADING IN RAILWAY PIN MATCH ROANOKE, Va., March 17 4.\'(.mh-! ern railway bowiers of Washington jumped into the Jead tonight in theirl home-and-home duckpin match with the Norfolk and Western railway quint of this city, taking the first five-game block, 2,663 to 2.515. The final block of five games will be roil- ed in Washington. The scores: SOUTHERN. N. and W. gpemm- : u; Statiey Mulvey Milles Fuller 91 U ENGRAVING AND s 2,344 2735 Purcell . g Henlock ... 200 312 834 275 300 292 277 White, 0. E. 91 13 120 107 115 123 102 540 510 474 504 487 518 539 535 512 Dyer Funk . Johnson Hammond Ayers Swan Frailey White, M. B. STUART-WALCOTT. .31 2003 96 14 1335 85 28 2653 94 a3 3114 84 20 27580 88 i 16 1,250 78 LEADING PERFORMERS. High gumes—Panholzer, McG1oaty,-0Connell Post. 148; Metuire. Hiram F. Cash Post, 141. High set—McGuire, Hiram F. Cash-Post, Poch .. 2,61 | Mecartiiy Rriggs Gt PETERSON TO PLAY CUTLER. ; scully Colley NEW YORK, March 17.—Charles | %" C. Peterson, St. Louis trick-shot billiard expert, who trained Champion Willie Hoppe for his successful de- fenso of his world title, will meet |y} Albert Cutler, the New York expert,| “Tigividual leaders—cGuire, Hiram F Cash Sho tutored Jake Schaefer, San | post, 106: Allen, Hiram F Oash Post, 104 ancizco, for the recent challenge | Kiuge, Quentin Roosevelt Posty 10k Queatin Boosevels Pests 106 122 121 119, 134 1M 100 313 304 304 315 326 267 " should | Is Holder of Record for Most Games 150 pounds; height, five feet in a Season. A six inches, is the iron man of the mask and mint. til Ray- mond W. Schalk joined the Chicago ‘White Sox in the fall of 1912 it was the custom of major league clubs to be supplied with two and three regular catchers. It was accepted by managers and magnates that the physical strain attached to the job was entirely too great to make it a one-man position. MITE of an athlete, weight, i For the seven ‘regular positions, however, there has been no under- study. Infielders and outflelders have been expected to patrol their beat |throughout the season, barring in- {jury, since long before the introduc- {tion” of the foul-strike rule. , It was a case of work today and rest tomorrow and the catcher who handled from seventy-five to ninety games had considered that he earned 1his season's salary. Once Came in Pairs. In the days of not so long ago, about fifteen years back, there were the atching staffs of prominence. They me in pairs as Is shown by the combinations of Schreck and Powers with the Athletics, B nahan and Bowerman with the Giants, Kling and Archer with the Cubs, Moran| and Needham with Boston. Schiei and treet ith Cincinnati, Bergen and Ritter with Brooklyn, Kleinow and McGuire with the New York Yan- ke Sullivan and McFarland with the Chicago White Sox, Clarke and Bemis with Cleveland, Sugden and Spencer with the St. Louis’ Browns Dooin and Roth with the Fhillie and so on down the line. A majority of those fellows were physical giants. Yet they were not iron men with the mask and the change to a one-man catching staft probably never would have become a part of base ball but for Ray nal Comiskey Risked and Won. It isn't beef and brawn that win games and pennats. Along came the boom of this catching lilliputian in the summer of 1912, His arm of iron mowing down base runners had at- tracted the attention of the major leaguers. They gazed at him and but one movéd hurriedly out of Mil waukee. “That kid hold a big league pitc er, much less stop a base runne was the remark of all big league owners, with the exception of Charles A. Comiskey. Well, anyway, Schalk arrived in the American League. He caught twent mes and im mediatel. the successor to that mas ¥ Sulllvan. Weight 150 pounds, height five feet six inches—yet, Ray Tk déveloped into the iron man the catching fraternity. In his first year as a regular he was behind the plate in 128 games and then started a career that not only has beene in the century cl of games annually, but a record—151 games caught in 1920, No major league catcher ever before d reached that mark And with the development of halk came the passing of the two- man catching ‘The catching staff today has ~ regular and two others who sit around, get employ ment in the bullpen, during the bat- ting practice and catch seldom more than dozen games, of Change in Catehing Custom Fqr nowadays unless there is an in- jury the major league catcher per- forms in at least 130 games. He works double-headers during the sizzling summer, where in the past a manager would have been accused of burning the physical power of an athlete at both ends had he used the same catcher two games in one after- noon. Through this remarkable record Ray Schalk has become one of the most interesting characters in the annals of major league base ball. His fame maiy not equal that of Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb, George Sisler and others, because he does not belong to the species of spectacular heroes. But his work has been done, done well and respected by those who fol- low base ball closer than by mere observation from a grandstand seat Quiet and Unassuming. Schalk, quiet and unassumig, re- cently was requested to come out of his shell and deliver a few words, about himself. He answered with the following, written with his own pen: “I have been asked to write a few lines about the ‘Iron man behind the mask and give advice to young catchers, etc, all of which will be a| pleasuré to ‘me, if it will do one youngster out of a thousand any good. “The ‘Iron-man’ subject is never looked upon in such'a light by me. Never in my mind have I had one thought of going out and breaking any catching games record per sea- son until the fall of 1920, along about the time the scandal on our ball club broke out. Passes Gibson's Record. “I figured that T had to catch all the remaining games of the season to break the record held by George Gibson of 150 games out of 134, so by the good grac of the Lord I have one record which is as dear to me as Everett Scott's of the New York Yankees. It is 151 out of 164 for a season. ? “In all probability it will be broken and the catcher who catches every game of the season is deserving of a gold medal. “I have never found a catcher who loves foul tips. The ball player who plays other positions will never real- ize what he has missed. .““Catchers sometimes kid other players for the soft positions they have picked; no wild pitcher to catch, no foul tips to stop with the thumb and fingers, no call-down to receive for the reason: ‘Well, why didn't you call for soinething else instead of giv- ing him a fast one? but we are human and know we would starve to death ving to take first base away from e Gsler, second base from Eddie Collins and so on down the line, so we just take what's in store for us and be pleased to know we can play the game alongside these stars and receive a salary for doing it. First Ald to Fingers. aprue, 1 have been very fortinate in injuries received, but on the other hand my trainer and I have sat up many a night after 12 o'clock-taking care of injured fingers so that I may be able to work the next day. Hot water and hot towels along with the proper massages have been my best friends for years. “The worst injury I ever received was not a result of a foul tip, but a pitched ball thrown by Dave Dan- forth which spift my third finger nail on my right hand. The nail was split through the center. This injury put me out for two weeks—the longest I have been forced to retire in a sin- gle period. “Others you mlight just say were accidents that go along with the mis- haps due a catcher. “I.think base ball is the greatest study of any line of business I ever saw. Show me a player who is a good one and I will point out to you a great asset in his favor. The minute the suit is on him he {¥~just like a race horse; ready to go. “The late Ray Chapman—I can plc- ture -him coming out of the poon, SCHALK, MIDGET WHITE SOX RECEIVER, | IS IRON MAN AMONG MAJOR BACKSTOPS WHY WHITE SOX PITCHERS DEVELOP RAY SCHALK. The batter studied. s the one who must be | Keep them away from what Ty Cobh, George Sisler, Ed- | We call ‘the batter's alle die Collins, Tris Speaker and a num- | “One game should be sufficient for ber of others in their batting practice | & catcher to catch the style of the and fielding practice. It is a treat to | batter. sce those fellows, glove and bats in hand with an air of k ready to play Can Develop Pitcher. Praise for Jimmy Austin. “A good catcher can develop a o “Tl\‘Ylu.\" I;!lll’\"iI the n1]n<t ¥ uable un- [ pitcher. Get your pitcher to gain con- erpaid ball player has been JImmy | faone : se ustin of the St. Louis Browns. He is | fdence, in his curve and use the T b knew that the biggest|pit o curve than a fast ball thing in the success of a ball club and | "\t SUEVe than & tast ball - o a ball player was—hustle and play to | and fatereat, Work ‘for thé 3 [ ener nd These players inspire me. and as|5Uccess of the team. long e o Cann imaptre me. And &< ™“The hardest batter to fool. fn my SEATS T otk 2 jteen | estimation, i Speaker. 1 might Years, Eddle Colling sixteen years 1| 5507010 M il foul Tips.. They Tove the same and vy | fortunately, conditions ruled him out € 7| What a wonderful eye that man has = ~ < Look over his batting record and ldom hear of retirements. | U \elq he always is around the ] fellows love to play as much > Tove 1o see "hem. Larry | (op for the least number of strike- ardner joined the Boston club two | Ul years after Harry Hooper, and Larry, | 'Joe Jackson was in’ a kidding way, often has said to|Breatest natural hitter, me, ‘As_long 1 see Hooper in|in my time. He there T figure T have a couple more [OF lefthanders. Perhaps years left in me’ criticized for picking Joe “A tip to youn, | that trouble, but I haven gns. Work | his ablility. ' He wasn't as fast as fellow who Cobb or Sisler in going to first; he likes ve his own way once in|didn’t beat out three bunts in‘a Sea- awhile and the results will more than | %o, but he could sting them on a pay vou. ine “Be absolutely sure you know what | “Before closing I want to hand out he is going to pitch. The voung|a word of praise for the members of pitcher should never question the!the Base Ball Writers' Association. judgment of an experienced catcher.| These boys have played an important part In the success and growth of the other; T will the sa 1 will be owing to forgotten & catchers caljing for in harmony with the is a good pitcher. He Washington Ladles’ League rolled its last match for the season on the Post_Office Club alleys Friday and tomorrow night moves up to the Rec- reation drives, and with four teams rolling five evenings each week short work will be made of the third and final _series. President Elizabeth Rawlings has issued a new schedule. She urges all the bowlers of the league to be on hand promptly each night at 8 o'clock. Hilltoppers still are holding the lead, with 52 games won and 14 lost. Columbians and Billie's team are deadlocked for second place, each having won 47 and lost 19. Mount Pleasant is fourth and continues fighting gallantly for a better posi- tion, with 44 won and 22 lost. Ebizabeth Ackman of Mount Pleas- ant and Mrs. Nell of Columbians were the star performers last week, each getting a nifty game of 126 and the former turning in a set of 319 and the latter, 314. Bernardine Ferriter rolled 113, Catherine Furey 106, Ann Chandler 105 and Loraine Gerardi 103. Following is the schedule for this week: Monday, Columbians vs. Sales Tax, Post Office Department vs. Bil- lie's Team; Tuesday, City Post Office vs. Internal Revenue, Hilltoppers vs. Independents; Wednesday, Western Union vs. Registry, Mount Pleasant vs. War Department; Thursday, City Post_Office vs. Columblans, Post Of- fice Department vs. Sales Tax; Friday, Mount Pleasant vs. Registry, War Department vs. Independents. The manager will take care of that base ball. and ball players owe more catcher is wrong, let the manager, not the recruit pitcher, do the criticizing.| So now it is easy to understand why Ray Schalk is recognized as the ply passing out a Sign to a pitcher. BY H. H. FRY. M UCH interest and enthusiasm is being maniiested in the forthcoming Knights of Pythias of Washington and a like quint from the Baltimore fraternity. Grand chancellors of the cities have indorsed the cup has been donated which will be contested for annually, to become the property of the team winning it three times in succession. Philadelphia, New York and Balt more, and with the local representa- Manager Howard of the Recreation is going to decorate the alleys for of the matches an elaborate ban- quet will be given the guests by the end with the catcher, and if the to them than they believe they do.” “Catching is not'a question of sim- marvel of the catching fraternity. INTER CITY DUCKPIN CLASH intercity duckpin match between a match and plans are well under way for the event. A handsome loving Teams are coming from Bosto tives, make up a series among teams. the occasion, and at the conclusion local representatives at the Raleigh. Bureau of Standards League will hold a three-night tourney on the King Pin alleys starting March 2 The prize fund has been split into five parts. There are many good bowlers in the circuit, and the com- petition assuredly will be keen from start to finish. .Burean of Stamdards Association closes its season this week with three matches, as follows. Tuesday, Sharpshooters vs. Gumps; Wednesday, Midgets vs. Unions; Thursday, Indus- trials vs. Aeros. \ This week’s schedule of the Knights of Pythias League follow. Monday, Syracusians vs, Hermione; Tuesday, Calanthe vs. Columibia ‘Wednesday, Webster vs. Century-De- catur; Thursday, Amaranth vs. Rath- bone-Superior; Friday, Excelsior vs. Capital. Several good matches are carded for this week in the District League, as follows: Monday, Rovals vs. Man- hattans; Tuesday, Shermans vs. Reg: ulars; Wednesday, Rathskellers vs. Goodfellows: Thursday, Nationals vs. Terminal Ice, King Pins vs. Colonials. ‘Washington Loa: d Trast Com- pany, No. 1 team, four men with averages over the 100 mark, and, al- though the American Security 'and Trust Company quint is only three games behind them in the Bankers' League race, it will require unusually good bowling to pull the leaders back. Its other two men have averages of 98 and 91. Osborne, of the leaders, is credited with a set of 370 and a game of 144. It looks like a walkover for the Judd and Detweiler team of the Typothetae League. The season ends this week and it has a good lead. Its percentage is .745, and the sec- ond team, National Capital Press, has only .629.) Judd and Detweliler's team has been rolling in consistent form all season. Several hard-fought contests are expected this week In the National Capital League, the schedule calling for the following: Monday, Post Office vs. Washington Gas Co.; Tuesday, Curb Cafe vs. District Motor Co.; Wednesday, Nationals vs. Corby PBakery; Thursday, Potomac Bank vs. Georgetown Athletic Club; Friday, Columbia vs. Rathskeller. A pair of double headers feature this week’'s card of the Athletic Club League, as follows: Monday, Anacos- tia vs. Linworth; Tuesday, Irish- American vs. Aloysius; Wednesday, Dominicum Lyceum v Rosedale, Lexington vs. Argonne; Thursday, Georgetown vs. Arlington, Waverly vs. Excelsior; Friday, Keokuk vs. Hilltop. 0dad Fellows' Lengue has contests for every night this week, as fol- lows: Monday, Eastern vs. Amity; Tuesday, Central vs. Federal Cit Wednesday, Brightwood vs. Wagh- Quite a tourmey is being en-|ington; Thursday, Fred. D. Stuart v: gineered by the American Ice gom~ lstt‘.vlvennnsll':‘i‘rldl fiounz lea: i pany_general offices to be held on lem; urday, Harmony, ya den, the. Recreation alleys here May 5 |RBult Directors of the District Associa- tion will hold a meeting this morn- ing at 10 o'clock at the Recreation alleys. Plans for the big tourney will be mapped out. hit them all—right | | team selected from the | ‘Welght, ¥ 1912, 19138 .. 191400 1915 1916 Born, Harvel, I1L, April 150 pounds. feet, 6 inches. Bats right, throws right. 1892, Helght, 5 RECORD WITH WHITE SOX. ear. G. 23 128 135 135 129 140 108 131 151 1 AB. R, 63 7 401 392 413 410 424 45 333 304 485 416 442 106 Fleld, Ave. Pet. 17 81 D73 g DR D81 BT L D8L D86 85 KT H. 18 98 95 96 73 jing can BURHANS BEST ROLLER INTHE STAR LEAGUE Star mpaign League Indians won the flag in The Even- Duckpin concluded during the past in the week, with the Outlaws and Scouts | tied for sccond place. will Chiefs Burha had the ancho; best ns, average, of the 102.26, r man ,and was the most consistent bowler of the league, ! those figures and s he throughout the season. Outlaw had maintained the high started with them set, 1,518, while the Braves ran away with the best game, 55 In individual the best set, ir. | 4 339, and | scoring, Burhans had G. E. Miller, . had the high game 144, Following are the averages. STANDING OF TEAMS, | Indians Out] Scouts Bras laws ves | Chiefs Rangers . Oowl ys . Road Agents . INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES, ! Jennings Feldman . Rightstine c. Beh Arel I wil Cra: rac, Joy Mo da Co. Campbell course, season from C Milans ve. w. .38 36 36 33 30 27 26 26 I, 25 27 27 30 33 36 37 37 INDIANS. G, Tot.P. 57 4,618 21 1868 39 3510 57 b.222 15 1315 OUTLAWS. Austin Broderick Walker . D. McCarty G. E, Miller, ir... hibald . Hurley Roberts Farles liams 513,981 63 5311 60 5.090 51 4.927 63..6.241 SCOUTS. 55 4.605 60 5.289 57 5437 60 5749 54 5421 BRAVES. 63 6753 63 5.828 57 5,326 59 5,575 63..6,313 CHIEFS. 15 1,260 57 4968 30 2,665 €3 5855 39 4,004 RANGERS. 33 2754 30 3597 53 4.967 57 5.391 57 5509 Pot. HG. 538 H.G.HS. 279 313 310 318 317 262 299 282 315 12 115 124 128 COWBOYS, 6 457 61 5455 27 2480 42 3962 28 2,738 54 109 115 13 125 ROAD AGENTS. mpton 21 1472 41 3469 36 3.362 63..6,028 60 5765 90 104 111 124 119 NORTHEAST PIGEON MEN ADOPT NEW CLUB NAME and Wi es over changed d a cha officered by E J. Sull Iliam W, wil the diffi from Pigeon fanciers of Northeast Wash- ington have their organization east International Federation Club to the American Hytex Club, and obtain American Racing Pigeon new club is president; M. dent, tary and treasurer. The Hytex Club the name of the North- Racing Pigeon arter from the Union. The F. Briel, van. vice presi- Hardy, 1 conduct fts cult western secre- starting its first race of the mberland, April 27. —_— notype G (double ng Co. Ransdell graving Co.; Judd & Detweiler. Vs, Monday. National Capital Press: rce Engraving Co. vs. Washing:on | Wednesday Brothers; National Columbian Co.; vs, i ibson header), Co. vs. Friday, A Finnl week of play in the Typothe- tae League calls for follows: v matches, as Doing Printing Co. : Tuesday, i) D Thurs- Pub- Printing Standard En- ndrews Paper IMARK FOR MOST INNINGS | IN YEAR BELONGS TO HIM Leads All National League Hurlers Since 1900 in This Respect—Eclipsed by Walsh, Who Se! Mark for Junior Circuit. N another sprig of laurel to the wreaths decorating the brow of the old king of the National League, Christopher Mathewson now president of the Braves. The records in question prove that Matty pitched the greatest number of innings in one season of man in the history of the National League since 1900. R For a long time, Grover Cleveland Alexander was for the record on the basis of his performances in 1916, when innings reached 389. Mathewson's record in 1908 was better t of Alexander by a wide margin, for the old Giant pitcl the four-hundred mark in attaining it. He pitched 425 The test of the number of Innings is entitled will Pitched in a season is one of endur- |28 many of the ance and also a testimonial of suc- |Bives further cor ot i o |opinion that Big Six v or a pitcher would not be used |pitcher of the Natio vely it he were not making |time EW YORK, March 17.—An unearthing of old records has ad mounds- ven_cre: his tota in t went o 5 innings. gratify old gu 500d. Hix Mont Severe Season. The season of 1908 in many respects the most severe that Mathewson ever put in. _The Giants did not win the championship that year, for it was the season when Merkle's fajlure | “to touch second” Is alleged to have cost the team the flag. However there were other plays which were quite us costly for New York that year, and not all the mistakes were made by plavers. As Mathewson pitched in fifty-six games that year, it did not seem quite right that lie was not credited with the largest total of in piched. In fAifty-six ga one of the highest records of ance attained by any piteher the days of Radbourne. The finding of the records which gives Matty the credit to which he ROD AND STREA By Perry Miller V It is record {innings | League shed 1800 was made wson set the sam,. spithall better than part in fift inning the totz yer takes in_which he which he reli It has been a son had been fa hen he was with was not true the Nat 1 Le favor is an tratio includes both t ved and th nother pitcher that Mathe part since NYGL! S are asking, “What's the matter h the fish?" One day last week a whale was discovered near Coloni: A Beach—dead. What caused his dea was caused by the dumping in the Potor confiscated liquor. Then comes a report from a resi follower of the rod and recel, that he place containing many rockfish, rangir weight, So far no reports have been re- ceived of perch having been caught|yrars’ this spring. In past years perch fish bl ing has been known to start at early as March 15 ny fisherme have at they believe the first of our a S are now in deep | water in this When the water gets a little warmer they will comn up the river. The report of the landed in & net at tainly is startling. | they nave advan of Wuashington almos two mon whead of time. Indian Hend is about twenty miles below Washin on, and as rockfish spawn in water at & tem perature of 70 degrees, it won't b long before they will be caught in the | | swift water around Chain Bridge A great man catflsh were cau during the past w . the lar weighing thirteen and 4 half pou The river is muddy at present, how ever, and there is a pretty swift cu rent. but no apparent rise in the water, usually looked for at this time of the yvea due to melting ice in up-river between Harpers F Cumberland. th no one kno ac river a larg Perhaps i quantity c of Ir seen om Head, ent iy n et h d in at o eight pounds a1 ir one r return water, the d Ly the fish upgn e sight of f perl they fresh wat, rockfish being Indian Head cer- It is that to vicinity the ive i turnis o hed L new s anglipg for shai ~u weve patters CUBS ARE AFTER TERRY, BUT HE WON'T RETURN LOS AN( 5, Ca Zel Numerous letters have comé to fishing editor asking why don't sh take bait. Why is it that they car not be caught like other fish with a hook and line? ccording to the bureau of fisheries when the shad starts its.spring trip into fresh water for spawning pur- poses it ceases to eat and attends strictly to business. When they start their return to salt water they com- mence_to eat, but not like the other fish. In the first place, the shad has a very small mouth, and, instead of rushing upon small ~minnows like their brothers, they live on a micro- scropic diet, sucking from the water what they take as nourishme: | The shad require a tempera of 60 degrees for their spawning, which usually takes place from Arpil to June, and then commence a leisurel retreat to salt water, many staying in fresh water until the temperature gets too cold for them. The young fry, when the about " three inches long, begin to| make their way to salt water. It is| sald by the bureau of fisheries these voungsters at this ag teeth, but that upon reach enter busines Killifer hay out the infield and is Terry bac ith the RICKEY WOULD PAY HIGH FOR A SOUTHPAW HURLER LOUIS, round ous ¢ ST. Mo., March 1 h son opens. Rickev eye o is” repor rert, 1delphin Hé would pi ) playing mater other lefth ability, as he of outficlders and six right-hand ran pitchers get to be A conservative car of extreme Je3LTLILILILC desirability YOUNG AUTOMOBILE CO.: IN 1022 Connecticut Ave.