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20 NEED A NEW AS BADLY SPORTS. NICKNAME AS PITCHERS | Jocko Conlon, Harvard Product, Making Good at | Short, But He Is Far From Being an Embryo Taranville—Gowdy Having Troubles. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. PETERSBURG, Fla. March of Tampa bay in company wi S ! grand tour daily, some by wa opportunity has been ofiered to Nationals. They sadly need a new n dents for them and who is here at ing cnwrapt in silent admiration 1ational game, knows that they need suggesting it he doesn’t want to queer his job even se The Braves will not win the championship oi the National League They lack the pitchers. Oh, rare phrase, this lacking-the- as they stand. pitchers stufi. How it camps of the seven Floril put ball players into condition. The Braves will please for that portion of the Boston public checrs in Harvardese. Jocko once captain of the Harva ng short for them and the ics are play is worth. It lon is a hol playing ball s o'er sters, awhile which Conlon, . is pl Boston crit- g Conlon for ult that he is laudable L Con- product and seer or all that he is worth, al though he must realize at some time in his growing caieer that the way to play a ground ba'l is to get in front of it and not play it one vne side, college style Conlon at the start. Jip veteran base ball plays better now when he began. has @ air of making good O'Leary, the Boston writer, says Conlon than the Rabbit did e Rabbit, of coufse, Maranville. vervthing in recent | s at Boston has been standardized on the Rabbit Youth Is No Phenom. 1y James is loyal to Harvard s and yet one fancies that the has exhiiiarated him be- | N for the moment hard! with the Rabbit in his on the way to reach | height of suc To begin with he can’t get back as far and et them and he toward second he is Nat and Bostc tmosphe cause Con &eems on a par Juvenile da the Maranville can't get over wille can when with ¢ ond_the will son with_two eminent with Stuffy Mclnnj will be quite Smith s pla very well Henry ' Gowdy is having a time of it behind the bat tields down here just naturally upset Him. Plavs don't br right and many of them fail to come right. The veteran is worried. O'Neill, once Wwith the Giants, who went over the border line whew Nehf was slipped along to other club, is a better catcher this vear than ever. iie hit like his ancestors #hillelah he would be in the this vear and it isn't sure Won't be there anyhow. Same Old Outfield. Powell, Cruise and Southworth probably’ will be the outfielders when e horn blows. ) is playing the pinch hitt. v, ay on the ball in F 1 he g to bat the outfielders of the other teams retreat in good order 10 the fences and lean there waiting for it to be over, The Bostons are Tetersburg. They greatest human t short and Ford at Bin the. S collegians, and > infield | i aff; and doing it hard These ball sed the ing row that he 1 1 « a not mew to St. have been in_this bazaar of North HE MAY WIN RING TITLE IN DOZEN ONKERS, N. Y, is Ssing claim possibly achicve his ambitior lightweight crown from his S § what the town-claims to be a real champion. Regarding the second, he is Jack’s kid brother, Lawrence. Bernstein Lawrence between seven and eight years old, and he weighs forty- five pounds. He has two itching ambi- tions that are worse than ob His first to through high #-hool, and the second is to become A pri fighter. He declares he can lick anything within ten pounds of Yimself anywhere, at any time and @t any distanc And if vou could kee this diminutive kid draw on his rloves, strike a pugnacious pose, and througn his pace: t bag punch- dug and shadow boxing you would aarvel at his consummate cleverness and innate skill. He feints, ducks, hooks, uppercuts, sidesteps and jabs with the agility of a flea. actions are as lightning quick as jabbing of a snake's head. And the writer knows he packs a| Swallop weighing at least net forty six pounds. How he pe s isn't actually ne tal, but he knows it. wrence is built much like his is st H He is fearful that he will step on the tail of traditions, and {down 1o see t | promply Tu Could | | supple i | { 22—Twice in making the grand tour th the mighty army that makes the ter boat and some by gasoline boat, e the Braves, erstwhile the Boston ickname. Mr. Fuchs. who vice presi- St. Petersburg, gazing through the 1 at his introduction into the great a new name, but he is bashful about ] | before he has dusted himself into ix.i i and o'er down here in the training | where they are bravely striving to America before. Never have they seen | S0 many tourists in vort for a holday | as_this year. = Mardi gr on and the spect | were from Maine, Massachuset | Hampshire, Minnesota, Ohio, Mich- igan, Illinois and Canada. The trail { north is thick with them. A gray-headed grandmother | ting knéedles in hand, mer {away on the socks she w for Georsge : tones th | well avoid h tors Knit- | ily clicked | as making | 14 could not very | she had been pract'ce and | {had a lot of t tell her boy | [ when she got about the way | “them big bugs play base ball” At/ no - other place - ¢ h o than St | Petershurg would thing be uted Year. The Braves harldy know what to| make of themselves. Last year when; they left St. Petersburg some bril- | liant but erratic literature broadeast the statement that the| Bostons were the coming champions | of the National League. and they finished in eighth place.; | there being no lower depth of de pravity to which they could descend | |in a base ball way { This year if any one here puts that jinx on them they are going to re- e to leave the town. hey will stay until they are flat] on their backs before they are her-| alded as champions to come. Tow- | ever. the question arises as to wheth- | er any one is going to be wild enough {to do that sort of thing. There are some wild men and wilder base ball fans in this part of the United States, | but_they will have to be w they are now to suggest for Boston this season. they keep on batting have since they caught the spiri | the St. Petersburg mardi gras they paralyze Philadelp Playing against Washington, which is a team | of batting fools when it gets going, the Bostons not only have kept the | pace, but have excelied it. They are | back' to the batting form of two years | ago. They won no championship that vear, but they won many a game be- | cause they hammered the ball. That same thing may happen this vear, but the Boston infleld is not likely to be a stone wall, and as for pitchers— well there has been just one great one |in evidence thus far in the National League, and his name is Donahue of Cincinnati. That boy may keep the Reds where the life preserver always | | floats—on top. | | (Copsright, sent 1923.) YEARS OR SO n not only to a contender who may | 1 to wrest Johnny Dundee's junior | cotch-woppish bean, but it also has| As to the first, he is Jack | chest that shows possibilities after | maturity, tapering hips and legs that are as solid as iron when he is set | for a blow. and that show pliant, muscles under the glowing white skin when the kid is at easq Right now. Lawrence admits. he would far rather fight, box, punch the bag or see a prize fight, than go to | school. but his brother Jack will take care. that ‘the kid” gets the schooling that he missed, and after that—well we shall see. 1f_there's anything at all in the old saying, “as the twig is bent so the tree is inclined,” Lawrence ought to be a bearcat in about twelve years. _—————— Aloysius “Big Five”, independent champions of the District, will play the Georgetown A. C. in the Gonzaga gym at . In their last meeting the Aloysians won gather handily. Accurate shooting by Lydon fea- tured a game the Washington Orioles won from Troop 28 last night, 40 to 28. e basketed the ball fifteen times biother—wide in the shoulders, a kid's | Tips on Playing Basket Ball; Correct Rule BY ED QUIPM Every team should have two sets of shirts E of different color to avoid conflict with visiting teams. Tra- dition has it they should be in the colors of your school, college or club. Some teams disregard this in otder to get distinctive and different colors. White is a fine color, as vour school colors will harmonize ~with it Pants should be cut so that they fit snug enough at the waist to be avorn without a belt. They should he full across the hips and ‘medium in length. If pads are used they should be detachable, so they can be taken out when pants are washed or discarded if not wished by a player. . Players should select their own knec pads. Some prefer heavy ones and so on. The matter is best set- tled by each individual. Sweat shirts will do when the management cannot afford sweaters. Always bave at bench to wear when not in the game. . Q. May T catch ball on held ball if I «m one of the jumpers? A. In amateur game yYou may; in wrofessional rules, no. Q. Is two men on one always a Toul? A. It 1s only a foul when one or Yoth players have charged or caused Tody contact, the latter resulting in a foul Radiators and Fenders ANY KIND MADE OR REPAIRED. Core: n any make. _ . 10 DIFFERENT MAKES RADIATORS. WITTSTATT'S R.'and F.-WORKS from scrimmage. Interpretations THORP, Q. Can the coach of a team be a | timekeeper? A. Nothing in the rules to prevent it, but it’s not a good move. Q. Is it legal in college games for one of the forwards to take a place behind his center when ball as put in play at center? A. Yes, providing his position doex not interfere with either player jump- ing. Q. Can I tap ball with both hands on held-ball play? A. No. As with centers, in jJumping one hand must he behind your back. THE STYLE THAT IS FAVORED BY THE BEST DRESSED MEN ARROW COLLARS CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. INC. NG - STAR, WASHINGTON, .D. ROGER. THREE QUINTS INATIE | IN123-13048. SERIES' A three the 1 cornered tie now exists for 130-pound basket ball cham- | pionship of the District, with Stan- | tons, Mackin nd Epiphanys in the running. This situation was brought about last night when the Stantons trimmed the Epiphanys, 19 to 15, in a game in the Congress Heights| gymnasium. Each of these teams has | lost only one game in the series. Last night's contest was a battle all the wa all the players on each quint showing good form. [ Aloysius Midgets will be in Balti- | more tonight, contesting in their class in the South Anamic.champianshxpj tourney. They believe they will be successful, pointing to a record of forty-seven wins _in forty-elght games during the past two seasons. In a_tight defensive game, the Mount Vernon quint nosed out the Western Presbyterian team, 11 to 10, in & midget division game in the Sunday School League at the Y last night. Seminole id Stantom junior fives will play Monday night at 8 o'clock in the Wilson Normal School nasium in a game that is billeg as for the “120-125-pound championship of Northwest Washington. Independent A. C. and Marjorie Webster School sextets will play to- night at 8:30 in the Holton Arms gym- nasium, on Church etreet. Hurricana and Princess girls’ teams will clash in their second court bat- tle of the season at 6 o'clock this evening in the Epiphany gymnasium. Hurricanas won the first game by an PECKINPAUGH- GIANTS FINED | FOR WILD ORGIES IN CAMP N gym- | 11-point margin. C., Judge wrenched his right knee slid- | ing onto a base in the game against the b | Oflicers also day last world series, S100; relega ond team and reprimanded other pl ™ M Dodgers, at Clearwater, Monday, but X-ray pictures disclose no broken bones nor torn ligaments, and he is expected [to be back on his job at the initial corner within a week. consists of an injured wrist, but the | heavyweight wrestlers of the country, Peck’s disability ct that he participated in batting prac {tice indicates he will be back | post at short within a day or two. ONDAY, April 23, has been ment League, which will be opener. a newcomer to the organization, A. B. Evans has been elected pr as vice president and B. B. Barrett, Another meeting will be held at French' en granted Departn which I start jts c ving. Government Print- ers and Naval Hospital will take part in a sixty-game schedule which will framed at a meeting to be held at palding’s the evening of April will be elected at that time. A. €. which will hold its prac unday, expects to strongest team in its his- year. Rivals wishing to dispute the prowess of the Milans 1 get in touch with Manager W Richardson, 1400 C street northeast. WMilan opening have the tory this Liberty A. €., which again will be coached by Pop Kremb, president of the club, expects to turn out another good bail team this vear. Practice will be held on the Plaza field, Satur- and Sunday between 3 and 6 o'clock. and all candidates for the team are requested to report. Piketown Juniors, who failed to a team in the field last year, will ck on the job this season. An BY McGRAW EW YORK, March 22.—Manager McGraw of the New York “.iunls has fined Jack Scott. star pitcher and onc of the heroes in the ted Catcher Earl Smith to the sec ayers for drinking corn liquor, ac- cording to a dispatch to the Evening World today from its correspondent at the Giants’ training camp at San An 5 | EXHIBITION GAMES. | At Tuscaloosa, ¥ Philadelphia University of 3 Batteries— ;L ill, Perkine, Bruggy. , Steed, Tubbs and Hubert, Crui At New Orleans— New York (A.) New Orleans (S.).. i Batteries—Rotteger, Spates and Schang, aft and Mitzie, Dowie. Fla— v. Pfeiffer, Stiley and Ain. 3 5; Hubbell, Weinert, Ring and Wilson, O'Brien. i At Montgomersy, Milwaukee (A Philadeiphia (A. Batteries—Keefe, Lindsey, Lengrel and Gossett; Harri and Rowland. EASTERN FIVES IN SERIES. Sophomores defeated the Juniors, | 29 to 10, and Freshmen won from the Seniors, 20 to 15, in basket ball games at Eastern High School vesterday. Seniors oppose Juniors and Sopho- mores play Freshmen in games this | afternoon. A victory for the Sopho- | mores will give them the class title. l Rigbee, | Higgin: 7 Shilling Jones, Yale bakset ball, hockey, wrestling and swimming teams have all come through, go it will be up to the EIf base ball and foot ball outfits to round out a banner year. “Wonder What Mertz Will Say Today” At the Sign of the Moon Close Daily 6 P.M. Saturday 8 P.M. . Our 30th Annual Spring Opening Establisned 1893 You will view the largest and finest showing of woolens that has ever been assembled by a ing Shop in Washington. —The special we are offering is a most extraordinary value.. —Your own idea will be incorpo- rated in the suit. SPECIAL SUITS To Order y - Tailor- Mertz & Mertz Co., Inc. 906 F Street | nants tonio, Te “These fellows arc paid well to keep and train faithfully,” McGraw z. I have won pen- before on discipline lack of material, but I would not at- tempt to win another without discipline in my club. ‘Scott always has been a hard man to handle. I have not been severe with him. 1 suppose winning a game in the world_series has turned his head. I have been trying to talk to this fellow Smith for three years. He shows no improvement. “I will break up these wild orgies among my players or know the reason in shape is quoted as say e | PARIS GARTERS No metal can touch you There is leg comfort and long comfort in PARIS Garters. They are always higher in quality than in price. ‘When you buy ask distinctly for PARIS. «3000 Hours of Solid Comfort™ A.STEIN & COMPANY MAKERS Children's HICKORY Garters Nrw Yoar O AMATEUR LEAGUES TO START ON APRIL 23 cral Accounting Office and the Marines will hook up in the Other teams in the circuit are Government Printing Office, Navy | Yard. City Post Office and Interstate Commerce, the last named being alone and | THURSDAY, MARCH 22, -1923. Braves Are Lacking in Two Essentials : Hollingsworth and Hankins on the Mound THIS JEWISH ATHLETE BITES THROUGH STEEL LONDON, March 22—That a Jewish athlete named Breitbart, thirty-four, @8ix feet three inches in height and weighing 210 pounds, can bite through steel is vouched for by a medlcal correspondent of the Lancet. Breitbart's performances astounded a committee of physicians, smiths and presidents of ‘athletic corporations, who saw him sever with his teeth several iron and steel chains one- fifth of an inch thick; bend into a circle iron rods half an inch equare, using his mouth as a fulcrum; bend over his head a rail four inches thick by two and a half inches. ‘The correspondent says: “The com mittee is satisfied that he accol plishes these tasks by means of ex- traordinary muscular power coupled with excellent scientific training and muscular energy.” ST. JOHN'S NETMEN READY. St. John's College racketers are {cagerly awaiting tennis conditions. A veteran team will take part in matches with St. Albans, Central High, Georgetown Fresh. Georgetown Prep and other teams. Playvers avail- able are K. Callan, H. Callan, Hicks, Sheridan, Fugitt, Bonner, J. Kelly, E. | Kelly, Morris and Belair. | CUTLER TO MEET CALZA. Charles Cutler, among the leading and Charles Calza, Italian champion, will wrestle at the Coliseum next Monday night. Joe Turner and John Kilonis will meet in a preliminary. set for the opening of the Govern- made up of six strong teams. Gen- esident of the league, with J. T. Lord secretary-treasurer. store next Monday. organization meeting will Sunday at 230 at 1002 13th street utheast. Players asked to report are Miller, Dalv, F. Babbington., F. Fitzgerald, Quill, Cheseldin Cotton. Genoe, Haynes, Randolph, Sill. Mas McGlue, Shapiro, Fogit, Mulroe. rner, Kennedy, "Cor- be held Seat Pleaxant A. C.. through Man- ager Harry C. Kidwell, has issued a -call for base ball candidates to report )for practice Sunday at 2 o'clock. Those expccted on the field are: Major, Skillman. Schilke, Pinkert, Sheriff, Bowles, 'Otterback, Laycock, | Main. Joe Me Mat McGarry, i Loveiess, Young, _ Litz, Hampton, Redmond, Ciates, Fisher, Hoyle, Douglass, Joseph, 'Ringold, Schultz, Ribey, Augustine. Monohan, Fugett. Milburn, Stevens, Farr, Saar, Houchins, Hutchinson. Brewer, Tan- ner, Dove, Lowe, Amer, Miles, Rob- erts, Morcland, "Everett, Buchanan, Nevett, Jones, Easley, Josey, Garner, Hall, Alden. Jarboe, Barnes. Griffith | and Lambright. Park A. C. will hold a base ball meeting tomorrow night at its club- room, 921 C street southwest, at 7:30 o'clock. W. Eaton, R. Gallegher, J. Fogar . Chisholm, G. Gallegher, C Crump, Van Horn, April, Hollis, Mo- rlarity, Shellen, Battin, H. Hall, Mines and Bowen are requested to be present, Gemeral Accounting Office Junior base ball squad will hold its first practice Saturday at the Monument grounds. Players are asked to be present by 4:45. Marfeldt A. C.. formerly the Lang- don Juniors, are ready for business. The club took its new name from its backer, a business man of the suburb, | who has been chosen president. Other officers are: Elmer Eckloff, vice president; Laurence Murphy, secre- tary, and John Farrell, treasurer. Games are being sought with team in the sixteen-seventen-year-old class. Write Theodore Sheckels, 3205 Frank- lin sireet northeast, or phone North 2566 after 3:30 o'clock. Triangle A, C. of Seat Pleasant, Md., is out with a challenge to all nines in the seventeen-nineteen-year-old class. Address Ralph Chaney, Land- over, Md. Chevy Chase Bearcats have the “games wanted” sign out. They are in the seventeen-year-old class. Man- I Dever, | McDowell, SPORTS. Special Dispatch to The Star. TAMPA, Fla.,, March 22 (before the game, that is). To make matters a little harder a sort of introduction to Saturday's are lettin, invades this soil. will be here is beside the point. RECRUIT OF REDS HELD AS AN ARMY DESERTER ORLANDO, Fla., March 22.—At lib- | erty under bond on promise of the| Cincinnati National League club to stand responsible for him, Dann youthful recruit pitcher, to- day awalited the next move to unravel the tangle in which he placed him- self when he left the Army at Fort Calif, and came here to join the Reds. Dever was arrested yesterday on | charges of desertion from the United | States Army and was being held for military authorities. Dever said he uriderstood from a Cincinnati scout that he would be purchased from the Army, and. accordingly. he left his post and came to the training camp. Dever, according to base ball experts, iIs rated one of the most sensational pitching finds the Reds have disclosed in many years. Down the Alleys Galta of the Commercial League won two out of three games from Hecht's last night with the scores 518, 518 and 511. Sterling of the win- ners had high set of 363 and best game of 146. Machine Divisfon of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing captured all three games from the Engravingj quint last night with the scores 512, | 469 and 515. Davis of the winners had | best set of 351 and single game of 122. Mount Pleasants of the Washington | Ladies’ League pulled the clean-up stunt on the War Department quint last night with scores of 476, 436 and ! 461. Miss Lowd had the high set of | 296 and Miss Ferriter the best game of 110. Western Union of the same league | also won all three games rolled last night, Registry being the victim. The winner's scores were 486, 443 and 473. Miss Frenzel captured ail the honors with high game of 124, best set of 329, and in addition broke the league record by rolling 94 flat. Nuts of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. League whitewashed the R E team last night with the scores of 370, 435 and 397. Trotter of the winners was the top man with a set of 329 and game of 134, NEW LEADERS APPEAR IN TENPIN TOURNAMONT By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, March 22 —New leaders appeared in the singles and doubles events of the American Bowl- ing Congress tournament today. K. | | catener: Schario of Canton, Ohio, took the lead in the singles when he turned in games of 244, 208 and 243 for a total of 695, topping Elme= Lee of Milwau- | kee by two pins. E. Mueller and € Summers of Milwaukee rolled into first place in the doubles when they swept the alleys for a count of 1,273 Teams from Chicago, St. Louis, Erie, Pa.; Toledo, Jacksonville, Fla., and Atlanta, Ga., will take the alleys tonight. The Street Cleaners of Erie ager Hubbard may be phoned at Cleveland 1227, have the reputation in the east of be- ing “money winners” in tournaments. 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The fourth and last ordeal through which Tampans have passed and are passing i< the game this afternoon with the Robins. The first time The second ex on the local fans, today's game is affair. Saturday, the Tampa folks it be known, is the day upon which the great Rogers Hornsbhy The fact that a score of other Cardinal players als: The $300.000 beauty—see the posters Clark Griffith and Scout Billy Smith are having stuck up about town—Is to be in Tampa Saturda i pristine vigor, with all of his wonder- ful batting arms (it is taken for granted that he must have more than two) and with the full intention of knocking lopsided all base balis thrown at him. It is estimated smokes which may the Cuban cigar n ize the games her placed end to end the ashes thereof would suffice to cloth the modes Babe Ruth in deprecating cloth fo years to come. The bambino smot a lengthy ball here a few years ago and the blow still is considered as being something of a record. despit J Judge's homer of last Saturday Today doings center about th game with the Robins, even thoug interest pales somewhat in the face of the approaching event of Saturda Hankins and Hollingsworth have been selected by Manager Bush to d the hurling. with the Brooksville, Fla youth as the first one to work Judge's Injury Not Serious. Joe Judge had an ) picture rather several of them. ade of h.< injured right knee yvesterday. but as nothing serious was discovered Ma ager Bush is congratulating the fatr that be given kers who S0 libera it all the him by patror v wers | upon the probability of Judge's ear The star first- ¢ game today, return to the line-up, sacker will not be in 't of course The line-up will be the same as that of Tuesday. w Bluege at third Gagnon at short, for Peck still ha finger wrapped in gauze, and Con- roy at fi The Robins will take the field with tewart at second, Johnston at eho th in right, Schilebner at firs Neiss in center, Mullen at _third Bailey in left, Deberry and Tavior while the pitche vicked from Ruether, Grimes, Harper Shrover, Smith and Mamaux. 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