Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1923, Page 30

30 SPORTS. Chance Faces a Tough Task With Red Sox : Peck Must Hustle to HAS CREAKING VETS MIXED | WITH INEXPERIENCED KIDS Former Peerless Leader of Cubs Puzzled as ;o How to Shift Them Around to Make Boston Club a Smooth Running Combination. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. | OT SPRINGS, Ark., March 30.—Frank Chance, indomitable peerless leader, back in the game after California had apparently claimed him for its own, looks queer in the red sweater which is the war blanket of the Boston Americans. But he is the same old Frank, the same lion-hearted, genial old six-footer, who was wont to yell at his Cubs, “Go get 'em.” And the Cubs went forth and ate them up. i, ‘Hs yells “Go get 'em” now, but some of his Boston players have not shed their milk tecth and some of them are so old they are growing a second set and they do not take their grip as did the Tiger-toothed old Cubs. It looks as if some of them never would get a mouthful, but they are all trying. en't @ championship team,” but hi “I_don’t know |player: n’'t found out,{ If he ould be some | ente: n. Maybe I'll |1/ earchlight to make | Tae baliplayers who left to me when the Red Sox wi finally made over no doubt hav . but oh, how they will miss the shown here and there. Some of them [on' ittle hamlet they have in their have promise and some of them mere- | troups Ly have ;:,.,',Jx\\"mc\,\“";‘,f,,l have got (0| _ston's Probable Infleld. CAll of them have plaved at some| Chance said he didn't have any time some position either in the | regular infleld made for him as some majors or the minors, but I do not | of the other munagers have. It's all know how they are going to fit in for | right enough for these fellows to me. Perhaps the joints never will fit | talk about winning pennants right together. T am in the market for|off the reel, he sald, “because they piavers, but 1 don't want any more|have something on the reel. T am from the ‘pex|-er|cl\ced clas. = e}now trying to put an infleld together. had my fill. I'm working at present on Burns at Burns Deal Hangs Fire. [first base, McMillan at second,.Few P - | ster at ortstop, and larris Wh e 3 What of the rumored deal between | {)qry ®lq 5 inrisiop MO0 1o it you and the St. Louis Americans for|Skinner is in center and John Col- Burus to play first base for them in|lins In right. Young Goebel hes been place of Sisler, who seems unable toirled @ lot with the regulars in the 2 { outfie nd seems fast, but he is & report on time,” he was asked. | Httle light in batting and a whole “T'1 tel vou. d Frank “Bobby | lot .\h!’ in_experience. Both Liebold Quinn came over here and said the | #nd Mike Menoskey are available for SodmEeia R S e :];:al{m&:em and one of them may| man because Sisler scemed unable to | TR 1N Zo ahead with the team. That v i Ladihosnie Tot offpre-saason R W trade for|talk about the probable sucess of | Furns he Aoked me. 1 repiied that | McMillan at third, but the fact that T might trade if 1 could get anything | {hance has switched him to second hat might help my team and wuuldn‘(‘“‘:“‘d indicate he is not crazy about R e Ty oy Of course. | McMillan's third base future, The it would look like a good trade for|0ld fellow has had some oo chird Burns if he could get with a team | PaSemen in his time, and that is one) that might have a chance to win the | position about which it is impossible | championship. Quinn named a lot of | to feol him much. ~ He played fArst Dlayers and T tol . im I did not want | himself weil enough to win pennants, that kind. I had cnough of his selec- |and he knows how third must be tions myself. : f is one of the greatest ball of all time. is not going to be able to competition for the pennant of it is going to take a huge slice “joyment out of the season. There son to belleve the Browns still rong enough to remain in the and it looks as if it time before 1 am certa have to buy a played If the team Is going to head wanted something better. up ‘on the lLard-hitting side for the havent “heard from him since. I jright-hend nicters, go 't Loui: Burns was good enough to go to St.| % Were to go ‘to St Louis Louls to try and win & champlonship | through any shift it Is probable that for them he was just uxhxood”w try | et B;;lw;:rhgg:xl;;g, 2n p e out o e ar. empo: 1 ave no | A et T betola the Kind of a| frst baseman with whom they could fight I have on my hands. I'll make |a8sist Chance, for that is their pres- Eome of these Dall plasers forget|ent Weakness When Sisler has been they have been traded and some of | iable to.play the Browns have used them will be Dluying good ball £or| inished first sacker, and, In addition, b 3 5 {1f he is pulled out of the outfield the | Sisler's Predicament, Tople. Browns are upset in that part of The case of Sisler is being di their game. cussed in grave tones in the Ameri. | Skinner May Come Through. can League all the way from Mot CoL5 85 1o | sround news courses of base ball it|naq him once, and Chance is pretty is generally agreed that Sisler will | 220, PUm once, and thance (8 brecty not start the scason with the Browns | Bnan = Ben L Rim- FOT catchers and that he may not play until the | fafnoh fag TUell Sl VLEEers, Gl @Oanonls e elIBunder Srey lare former Yanks and one came from The great batsman is supposed t0 | \yraghington. His pitchers are Mur- have a bad arm, a leftover from al,ay who-looks as if he would make case of influenza and there may be)geod for Bosten; Quinn, Eamke. who two or three other complications all| threatens to show Detrqit he is not of which combined are sufficient to )] in; Ferguson. Plercy and O'Doul. vut a player in his back and any|Jt {s’ pretty nearly a turned-over one of which is enough to Leep him|yank pitching staff, and it looks as out of the game. Some think it is|if it would get turned over several neuritls which has struck in_behind | times this his shoulder. If that is so Sisler will| have a hard time to get back. If he| doesn't get back fans from one CDRSlrhlm, and he'll never let them stop to the other are going to mourn, for | fighting, because he would not hav George Sisler is worth having back. | that kind of a ball player on his Not on: is he one¢ of the best ball| team. Players of the American League now, | is that Chance ng along with (Copyright. 1923.) SANDLOT TEAMS IN FULL SWING BY EASTER WEEK iington barracks soldiers are {21, unles: ASTER week 1 a bang. open for -the E flooded the newspapers, and, all in al Brooklanders tossers will play their first game of the season, When they meet the South Brookland team at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Prior to the game a practice wlll be held. All dates are rcquested to report at 11 o'clock. National Capltal Post, Ve Foreign Wars, will hold its tice Sunday at 17th and B morthwest, at 1 p. Members of the Mount Pleasant A. €. will hold a meeting tonight ut the Powell School, at 7:15 o’clock. Tribby, Hill, Milburn, Patten, Marsh, Machen, Walter, Payne, Broadbent. Stantan, Behrene, . Miller, McAuliffe and Jentff are expected to attend. A practice will be held tomorrow on the Zoo Park diamond af 10 a.m. Marne was elected president “ommercial Base Ball League meeting of the organization last . Others officers elected were C. Limerick, sccretary-treasurer, and Thomas Crooke, umpire. New fran- chises were awarded to Willlams Webb Company, King Pln Alleys, Postal Station Connecticut Avenue and Judd & Detwejler. Plans for the season's schedule will be completed this week. Otis A. C. will hold a practice on the @iamond south of the reservoir Sun- day afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Joseph Bernheimer, manager of the Stag A. C. wants to book games with teams ‘{n the thirteen to fourteen year old class Ace mine would like to arrange games with teams of the midget class. Call Edward Simon, Columbia 1110-W. Naval Air Station, at Anacostia, ex- pects to be in the running this year. Crack players from the Great Lakes, Iampton roads and other stations will compose the team. Games can be arranged through Lieut. Sander- son, Naval Al Station, Anacostia, D. C SPECIAL SALE—INTRODUCING TRENT CORD TIRES For 7 days only we offer the celebrated Trent Cord Tires at wonderfully low prices. All makes of tires have advanced in prices, but, as a special opening offer, we ers the benefit of the former low prices. FIRSTS ONLY. Adjustable Cords are giving fullest satisfaction—with quality 30x 3% Trent Cord. 32x3%: Trent Cord. 31x4 Trent Cord. Trent Cord. Trent Cord. Trent Cord... $11.95 $16.45 $18.75 $20.85 $21.85 ..$2285 MAIL ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY N.W. Distributor Harris & Lewis, Inc. 1539 14th St. N.W. Phone Fr. 8703 Practically every local nine has booked a heav or will start its first intensive training. ear with y schedule, Challenges and dope have I, a merry season is in prospect. Arlington A. C. plays its first game April 15, meeting ‘the Cherrydale team at Arlington. Address Business Manager Leo I, Wise, post office, Ar- lington, V or phone him at Clar- endon, or games. base ball sandlotters thi: King Pin nine, which has obtained a franchise in the Commercial League for the coming season, would like to schedule Sunday games with fast teams. Norman E. Blue, 1801 Wyoming avenue northwest, is man- ager. Initial practice of the season will be held by the Manhattan Midgets this afternoon at 3:30, on the Rose- dale diamond. These players are re- quested to report: Cicale, Barrack, Roache, Giddings, Hi Hutchinson, Es- sex, Hogarth, Leow, K. Door, L. Door, Thompson and Schrider. The manag- er is David Willtams, at Lincoln 3537 Black’s A. C. will meet the Hilltop A. C. in a_practice gamé Sunday at 3 p.m. R. V. Gardner, 19 Bates street northwest, is manager. Cherrydale A. C., 1922 champions of northern Virginia, will hook up with the Clarendon nine Sunday on Clarks hill diamond at 2 p.m. Mickey John- son, business manager, i{s planning a heavy schedule this year: Liberty A. C. will meet. the Warwick A. C. tomorrow at 3 p.m. and_the Woodley A. C. Sunday at 3 p.m., both games being played ¢n the Plaza diamond. Coach Pop Kremb wants his charges to be on hand for both contests at 2:30 sharp. In the game with the Arlington nine | Sunday, the Rosslyn A. C. will use the folloswwing players: , Infieldors; Riley, Styles, Beach, McCauley, John- son, Beauchum; outfielders, McCann, A. ‘Simmons and King; pitchers,. S. Simmons and Brown. The contest starts at 3 p.m. on the Arlington dia- mond. Teams desiring games should address George H. 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Enthused over the prospect, the doughboys believe they could stage box- ing bouts on a par with thoge at Fort Myer. The growing taste for fistic bat- tles shown by Washingtonians, coupled with the opinion that the barracks would prove an Ideal place for local bouts, started the bee to buazing in the bonnats of the service men down at the waterfront post and firat started the ball rolling. . One of the reasons fos the sweeping popularity of the bouts staged at Fort Myer is the sportsmanlike manner in which they are stage and fought. Fans know that when soldiers clash in the ring there is little room for doubt as to whether the scraps are on the up-and- up. This is what causes hundreds of capital residents to visit Lort Myer whenever a boxing show Is held. Wash- hopeful they may be accorded the same privi- leges as the troopers across the river. LICENSES FOR KILBANE AND WILSON PROBABLE NEW YORK, March 30.—Johnn Kilbane of Cleveland and Johnny Wil- son of Boston, recognized respect- ively as world featherweight and middleweight champions outside New Tork state. may obtain new licenses to box in this state by agreelng to carry out the orders, disobedience of which cost them offictal recognition last year. In making this nnouncement Chairman Muldoon has indlcated that, although the men would be refustated, thev would not be recognized as world champions. since two other box- erv now hoid their titles, ro far &s the commission’is concerned. Wilson., whose new manager, Frank Marlow, §8 understood to be prepar- ing a request for reinstatement, may get a new license by agreeing to carry out u contract he had with the Madlson Square Garden management to meet Harry Greb of Plttsburgh. The commission now is understood to recoguize Jack Malone of st. Paul as_the title holder. Kilbane will not be permitted to meet Lugene Criqui, European feather- welght champion, in New York, June he applies for a new license by agreeing to meet Johnny Dundee, who challenged him for a title matc st vear and who afterward was awarded the ecrown. Criqui then would be matched with the winner of the Kilbane-Dundee match for the world title. Muldoon said. LEFTY WILLIAMS NEAR DEATH FROM PNEUMONIA CHICAGO. March 30.— Claude (Lefty) Williams, formerly pitcher for Chicago American League base ball club, was in a grave condition from pneumonia at a hospital here early today. He was conscious, al- though part of the night was passed in a state of coma, from which it was feared he would not be roused The majof league career of Wil- liams, star lefthanded pitcher, ended when the 1919 world series scandal became known. Before his. banish- ment from organized base ball W liams aided the White Sox in win- ning a world title and several league champlonships. COLD WEATHER BARS GAME. CHICAGO, March 30.—Streets and vacant lots near the Chicago American League club's hotel at Seguin, Tex., formed _the training ground for the White Sox’ final workout in the Spring training camp. The game with the New York National League club at San An- tonio was called off yesterday because of cold weather. Exhibition Base Ball. R.H.E. leveland Americans. . .41 1 Philadelphia Nationals 2 6 1 Batteries—Metevier, Edwards and O'Nelll; Ring, Head and Henlin, Wil- son. At Gadsden, Ala. Detroit (A)...... Rochester (L L)............. 310 4 Batterles—Holloway, Francis and Bassler, Woodal; Beal and Lake, War- mack. At St. Petersburg, Fla.: Boston (N.)...cceeoeevonannn St. Petersburg (F. 8)........ (Eleven innings.) Batteries—Yeargin, son and O'Nelll; O'Nefll At New Orleans, La. New York (A.) . 212 2 New Orleans (8)....... 10 % 0 Batterles—Hoyt, Roettger, Johnson ..13186 0 1 0 Braxton, Hernardez Wat- -and Schang, Hoffman; Craft, Colbert, Statham and Mitze. Busy!! Yes! BECAUSE Custom Tailored to your order . '35 Quality and Fit Guaranteed Skilled designers and union tailors make four -garment here on the premises. JOS. A. WILNER & CO. Castom Corner 8th and { tinued. | this afternoon and up_until ti and | We are very busy making clothes for men and young men— We are giving the men of Washjngton 100 Cents Value for every dollar they spend - with us. SUITINGS —FOR SPRING— BY JACK BRI AR ear: ~ HERO OF 500 FIGHTS= CHAMPIONSHIP. FIGHT BETTING IS QUEERED BY THE ODDS J experienced in a career of twenty y -Never before in more than 500 ring.contests had suspi directed on my work. UST before the start of the contest that took the world welter- weight championship away from me and the bout that practically ended my careér in theé ring, something happened that I had not ears. faction to me, on the other hand, té6 hear friends say that I was-always on the level and that I always gave them my best. For two years I had been aware of the fact that the end of my career was approaching, and, while I looked to the end with regret, I feit that I should be prbud in leaving a fine récord behind when,l was finfshed. Quite naturally, then, it was a severe blow just before the start,of my last contest with Mickey Walfer to hear the announcement made to 10,000 fans at the ringside in Madison Square Garden: “All bets are off on this contest.” I looked across the ring to Walker's corner, and he seeged just as sur- prised as I felt. 1 turned around to Dan Morgan, my manager, In my corner and lie told me to go ahead and do my best and that eyerything would be 0.K. Before going into the ring 1 had ¢n idea that something was in the alr, | but I passed it off as I had things of more importance to occupy my mind. While 1 was getting into my +ing | togs Tex Rickard came into the dress- ing room. Rickard and I have always been good friends, and when 1 was | boxing for him in‘Madison Square Garden he usually came around to the | dressing room to have a few words | before the bout Rickard Is Curious. “Iow do you feel, Jack?" he askéd me rather casually. and I told him I felt pretty good. “You're the champlon! ing out to win?" he quickly T thought it was an unusual ques- tion, and would have considered it a! joke had his expression not been so serfous. After a little hesitation T answered that I certainly was going to_try to get the decision. “Aren’t you in good shape?” he con- Are you go- came hack “I'm In as good a shape as I can| get in” T told him.. I added that 1 didn't feel as good as 1 did before the Leonard fight in June, but that 1 had been training indoors, and that I had not been able to sleep well. T also reminded him that I was getting old, and that I couldn’t wotk myself into condition tike youngsters can. 0dds Changed Suddenly. Dan Morgan then came into thel dressing room, and Rickard told him | there was some funny betting golng on, and_that the boxing commission was on him. ‘They were betting 8 to 5 on Britton time the doors were open. Now they're of- foring 2 to 1 and 3 to 1 that Walker wins, and some of them have money that Britton will be knocked out,” Rickard said. “There’s nothing wrong with that betting. It's wise money going down on Walker. Any one who saw them when they welghed in this afternoon would know that Britton shouldn't be the favorite’ Morgan replied. “That's partially true, but 1 can't understand the reason for the sudden change in the betting.” Rickard said. ‘Well, there's nothing wrong with ,* Morgan sald. “You'd better s our judges are and talk to the referee.” Mergan Cheers Me. Rickard then went out. He returhed later and fald that he couldnt find out a thing, but that he would be satisfled if 1 would aseure him that 1 was going out to do my best. 1 told him that I was going to give the bout my best efforts and he went out again. After he had gone M me: “Old man, You were you sald you were going to try your best to win, and you're going to have a_helluva time. Did you see that| Walker boy when he weighed in?" I told him that I had seen him, had noticed ‘in what perfect shape he seemed to be and had been impressed that he was down to 144 pounds, a weight at which he was particulatly good. as I had learned previously. ‘Listen, you got to use old general- hip and everything else now. That kid is right, and he'll keep coming into you. You should have called o the fight. I just told Maxey Blumen thal not to bet on you. He had te thousand to lay. I told him I didn’t think you were right,” Morgan sald. Dan has peculiar ideas about cheer- gan_said to right when Ik Walker gave me a fine pasting. The boys in the press box were nice to me (as they always have been) and they called it a draw. I put him on the floor once and that sort of evened it for me. 1 realized at that time that Walker was the best of all the con tenders for the title. What impres: me mostly wag his cool head and his courage. = * Harly in the fight I opened one of his eyes. In the eleventh round he had me in a bad way. I jabbed the cut open again and sald to him in a clinch—"You've got a bad eve now, do you want to be disfigured for life”” Mickey is rather proud of his good looks und 1 thought that crack would get @ rise out of him, but he didn't sy a word. A little later I sald again—“If vou don't keep that might hand back and let me be nice to vou I'll have to knock you out.” Mickey Is Game. He spread a wide Irish grin and lanswered: see, vou're a wise old guy, z you?” Morgan told me when I went back to my corner that I'd better save my wind, that soaks and not words were going to get me out After the fight I told Dan that Walker was the toughest I had ever met and that he wanted to stay awiy from him. Dan was surprised then when Rickard asked us last October what fighter we wanted him to g for me for a show in the garden, an I told him Walker. Dan thought I was cuckoo. and told me 0. but I Insisted, and the match was made. I figured that I had been slipping for two years. I had been on the floor six times in that period against second-raters and 1 couldn't be sure when 1 was going down to stay. 1 figured that it might better happen in & $20.600 bout than in one for $2,000 out some place in the coun- i All®this was running through my mind when we walked through a ked house to the ring ‘My mind absorbed. 1 was thinking of lot of things and figuring that per. haps 1t would have been better to ark for a postponement when the inson nia hit me. 1 crawled up into the corner and looked around as ysual without seeing any one. Some fight- ers may be able to count the house .with the light in their eyes, but 1 never could see beyond the first few row: in't Bets Called Of. 1 had forgotten all about Rickard's talk of 2 few minutes previous when Joe Humphries, the annguncer, came tnto the center of the ring, made the usual announcements, called me the ~grand old man, etc.” and then blared All bets are off on this contest!” My face was flushed when 1 walked to the center of the ring for the in- structions from Referce Patsy Haley. L don’t even remember what he sai I was trying to catch the converss tion from the ringside spectators and the sport writers. “Just watch yourself sow. Youre too smart for that kid,” Morgan was saylng when the bell rang for the firet round. The bout is a story in itself and 1 ®AlI continue it in the secona chap- er. (Coprright, 1023, by North American Newspa- Der Alliance.) On College Diamonds. At Raleigh, N. C.—United States Na- val Academy, 2; North Carolina State College, 8. cion becn | It had been the source of pride and great satis- HOWARD HOLMES, NEW A. L UMP, AT IT AGAIN CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 30.—Um. pire Howard Holmes, who set what is said to have been a precedent when he ejected Manager Arthur Fletcher of the Philadelphia National League club from the park at Lakeland, Fia., Monday, yesterday chased Catcher “Butch” Henline of the same team, during a game between the Phillies and the Cleveland Indians at Lees- burg, according to advices received here. Fletcher is said to have been the first major Jeague manager cver put out of an interclub game during the spring training season. Henline was ejected when he dis- puted @ decision on a pitched ball This renewed Monday's argument be tween Fletcher and the new Amer can League umpire, which ended when Holmes pulled his watch and threatened to forfeit the game unless Henline was taken out. As on Monday, Joe Sewell, the In. dian's shortstop, was at bat when yesterday's trouble started DODGERS STARTNORTH LEAVING WHEATBEHIND W YORK, March 30.—Zack Wheat, heavy-hitting outficlder, has refused to sign With tite Brooklyn Nationals because the club will not add $500 to his last year's salary, which was $8,800. The Robins have left Clearwater, Fla., for the north, and Wheat was left’ behind. Wheat told his erst- while mates that he would return to nis Polo, Mo, home today if Ebbets hadn’t changed his mind on the sal- ary advance by nightfall. Two of the Yankees' young pitchers went dowa under a hit fusillade de- livered by the New Orleans Pelicans at New Orleans yesterday, losing their game, 10 to 2. Babe Ruth cheered up the American champions, however, by lifting one for a home run The Glauts,.who yesterday remained idle because of continued rain at San Antonio, will depart tonight for Dal- las, where they will mect the White Sox tomorrow and Sunday. WOODLIFFE WILL RACE NINE HORSES AT BOWIE Saddles and Boots is the star of the stable of nine A. Woodliffe has brought to Prince Georges Park Bowie, for the snring session of th southern Maryland Agricultural As- Sociation. The immedlate of Saddles and Hoots 1s the $5.000 In- augural handicap, a gallop of seven furlongs for three-year-olds and over, that will be the feature of the cpen- ing day's’card next Monday. Saddles and Boots is right. He won twice at w Orleans and Woodliffe is con- dent he will take plenty of beating next Monda: Saddles and Boot of L. Leibling, : re also Marie Mexim, Monastery, Ramkin, Take (#ire and Sunny Girl of Woodiiffe's string. Monastery won four races at New Orleans and is at the top of his form. Ramkin won five times. He Iso is good. The others in the barn are Veto. Episode and Service Star. J. McCoy is with Woodlifte. So is Yeargin, a lad whose license was suspended at Saratoga a couple of seasons back. Yeargin expects re- instatement by the Jockey Club. 1t he is not disappointed he will ride for Woodliffe. Yeargin was not a bad sort a couple of seasons back. Sergt. Mortemer Murphy's Bowie string. which will be served by eorge Mein, the riding sensation of the New Orleans winter meetings, also H. Thomas, when Thomas is fit Bgain, and J. Zoeller, is made up of the veteran Jock Scot, Thimble, War Victor, Blily Barton, Feodor, Ettahe, Knight of the Heather, Easteside, stic, Lady Mara and Royal Charlle. Ettahe, a five-time New Orleans win- ner, is a bear in Bowie's deep going. Quecreek is the star of the string is the property { objective | Keep His Job BLUEGE REAL CONTENDER FOR POSITION AT SHORT Youngster Is Fielding Semalionally and Batting at at.313 Clip in Exhibition Games—Mogridge Joins Hospital Squad. BY JOHN B. KELLER. AMPA, Fla, March 30.—Roger Peckinpaugh, vetera T who, is slated to fill the shortstop berth for the Na they enter the race for the American League flag, may have to -tep along at a lively rate if he is to retain that position. An injured fir has kept Roger out of the pastiming for the past ten days, and d that period Oswald Bluege, with the National squad for a second i1 tion, has taken care of the job between second and thrid bases in a mo-t pleasing manner. . ; @ The young infielder, originally obtained from Peoria of the Three Eye League late in 1921, and last season sent to Minneapolis of the American Association after a short stay with the Nationals, in the five games he has played at shortstop in the exhibition series has handled cleanly his_twenty-two fielding chances and batted at a .313 clip, a credi table showing for any player at the position. Osste was legally at bat sixteen times in the five engagements and walloped five singles. He also drew four passes, made a sacrifice hit and tallled four runs. Among the pitchers he faced were Wigington, Baroot, Pertica, Haines, Sherdell and Toncy of the Cards and Donohue, Couch, Benton and Keck of the Reds, all formidable slabmen. Bluege failed to impress with hitting at the outset of the Americ League campaign last year, clouting at only a .197 rate in nincteen games, but when shifted to Minneapolis he struck his stride and_slammed the ball for a mark of .315 in forty-four engagements. In the exhibition games this spring he has been batting in better form than he revealed in his brief stay in the Johnson circult, taking a vigor-|for L ous swing and meeting the ball more | toiling squarely b His Flelding High Clas Last season Bluege indicated that he could handis himself well in the infield, although his American League fielding record of .825 in seventeen games at third base was overshadow- €d by a number of other hot corner guardlans. He did better in the American Assocfation, fielding at a 936 rate in thirty-three engagements | at shortstop and at .94 as a third baseman in eleven contests His fielding has bordered sensational in the battles in d this spring, and his work at the daily squad drills has been especially bril- itant. Ossie gets 'em equally well to his right or to his left, mo with speed, and most import. gets the ball away f 1y. In the fielding practice vesterda: several of his stops and throws of a variety that would have drawn piaudits from the stands had the been achieved in a leugue struggle. Bluege, who halls from Chicago, not of the aggressive type that pre dominates among the athletes of the middle west. In fact, he has be < clined to be too passive, but to h innate fielding ability there has been camy ional permamently at nals’ mound staff ucted in the art in r n finding the short taps has been per- rs 100 much lee it_difficult to ha while Hollingsworth mitting base rununc Jez Zacha son in worked with full half b men were tutor notably Goose formances o lacking in m has done s the paths hir in-chicf when . too, was given a les- hering in Luats. Gibson lonz southpaw rof eral of tis running the pa respec et Cripples Not Bacused. group of cripples was cused from the dril. Judge's was strong enoushg to per participating in a tatting and b The did o the | Gagnon knee to pr Gharrity and Be arms, got into acti All o field this despite s were on ing, but Georg gridge_was excuscd from the tice.” The fork-handed her tracted a slig d in his -end of of Archie Zimmer, which has come up from Havana with Turbulent, Bobbed Hair and Cork Elm. Cork Elm. a half-brother of the famous lit- tle black horse Slippery Elm, was not as sound as he might have been when he left these parts last fall, but he is going well enough now. Richmond, 7; Maryland, 8. Georgla Tech, 14; Penn State, Pennsylvania, 3; Georgia, 1. Virginia, 14; Amherst, 6. Holy Cross, 18; Randolph-Macon, Trinity, 17; New York, 4 Mercer, 3; Yale, 0. At Leesburg, Fla. ing up a fighter. 1 felt a lot the same way he did about it, but it didn't do any good to be told about it. It didn't disturb_me, however, as I thought that Dan was just a little more than usually pessimistic. He didn’t want me to take the Wal- ker bout In the first place. Two years ago_ last August in a twelve- round no-decision bout in Jersey City High-Grade ‘The finest wheel in America. Guaranteed five years. 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Manager Donie Bush yill have to Nationals will pl wield the ax and reduce the squad of | 1} e Natlonals to not more than twenty-|scheduled for b fiva, This means that three of thelat st. Pet present lot training here will be sep arated from President Clark Griffith's pay roll. but Ossie Bluege is not go-| ing to be one of them. One Drill Daily Listed. Two hundred miles of motoring Wednesday so tired the National who made the trip to Orlando fc the tilt with the Reds, that Bush crdered only one practice session yesterday.” That was held in the morning. The athletes were at work hree hours and attacked thelr such a vim that tne midget manager about decided to conduct but one long drill daily hereafter, | linstead of the two short practices | Ihe had planned. | Manager Bush. Coaches Gibson and | Altrock and even President Griftin | were at hand to give some pointers | to the men. 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