Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1923, Page 26

N THE - EVENING . STAR, WABHINGTON, D. C Chilly Weather Has Retarded Yanks : Griffs to Be Pushed in Final Week at Camp JUST REPLACING YANKS, SOME PERSONS MAY SAY SPORTS."” ’ SPORTS BAN QUIET AS TO GIVING PLAYERS VOICE ON BOAR CHAMPIONS ARE TRAILING o/ STRENUOUS DRILLS LISTED RIVALS IN THEIR TRAINING New York Club Should Repeat as Flag Winners Un- less Cool Winds at New Orleans Prevent It From Attaining Proper Condition. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW ORL! La., April 2—Nature spread amunfonia coils under N New Orleans this spring and reduced the temperature. So, the Yanks, who came here to train, feel as backward as violets in Labrador in February. " ¥ The players haven't lost their winter ¢hill. A few times they have heen blessed with sunshine. Then, daring to cut loose, which is the base ball vernacular for throwing and running with all steam on, they have acquired a good sweat. The next day, with the wind frisking back to the east, they have run for their sweaters and donned their arctics. So iar as the luck of the weather goes, they are rods and rods behind the venturesome teams that put out to Florida. P Were you to take the Yanks as they are now, and rest easy on their ability te win the championship the third time in their league, the awak- ening would be like that of the slumbering man who fell out tof the tail end of the lumber wagon twhen the mules, in their frolicsome manner, ran away. i ace and which they must set by several incidental mile posts. They have not dashed very heavily dation scctions in_the campaign of into their batting. They aren’t hit-11923 which has been laid by the ting with the freedom of players who | Yankee board of strategy. Much of bogin to feel that the season is near- | the Yanks' hopes is built on the hnye ing, @s witness the games with|that Ruth will come back full tilt. rooklyn. | Nor do they heft their |1f he does tne future will have its ats w o bus fondness of | happler days until the result is de- DAty W Ahe oS o ing | clded one waywr the other, and if he Taight be all of buse ball and feld- | 40es not, old Bill Grouch and all the iy veq for the puptls wheo | little Grouches are going to sing “Oh, e ey them were the happy days, long e to shed. There is a rare contrast between|“§t it/ crould start well. He is es- e players of the Brooklyn club, u:ho.‘ sentially a spring player. The fever are hersitrom Wiorldd dndithc Tenks |iof vouth conrsesithrough nis{juguisr o fact, there are several contrasts|Svery fast in April, May and Ju which will develop as the season|)Meusel certainly looks fit this spring. moves forward. A principal contrast|if Ruth, by any chance, does mnot s In complexion, The Brookixns a to expectations by lack of tanned a rich chocolate, as i Y B or he has been a 1 tT.ad been spending their days under| by influen —Meusel is going to take the equator. The Yanks look bleach-| up some of the slack by his own bet- ed, not having had sufficient sun to!ter work. Offhand it 12 worth wear away the winter whitewash yenture to aay that Meusel will play better ball for the Yanks this seasd NARES Are St=mding At then he has plaved since he hus been By force of circumstances standing | o'member of the team. That's help. pat, the Yanks may be he posi- #ion of the Cleveland club, which, ! Dugan and Ward Ready. after winning the championship, felt! Dugun and Ward are in fine trim that it had vet another title in to the outward eye. The chances circulation, and held on to its are they will be a fast pair of until they became anaemic Yanks. Pipp played his best base Cleveland had to rebuild an “in 1922, If tast was his noon d v o at least should come close B . L b s wmerican aching 1t ugain. His agllity at League champions, who are ev 2 {5 not quite what it will be when not in their very best condition This moment, to say that they ot likely to repeat their victory Year, but it is fully as apparent as e lighter in a cigar store that they the club 4e sun gets warmer in the north, Lut his batting Seems to have start- 4 where he dropped it and went home to_hibernate Delightful omen “or the Yanks in that, as it was the Food w % of Plpp which helped the are agalnst the hardest fight they | yan a lot last season when the have had since they welded into a: field crowdel thickest toward the champlouship machine. It is egually | finish. apparent that they are moving more. Schang hae added another ye 1r slowly toward the zenith of ,their ehould happen to be injured it scess, so far as training goes. than wiil help a voungster to come ey would like to move. They arejthrough, but {t may aleo upset a team by no means as good condition that finds a pointed bavonet thrust Detrolt, the Athletlcs, or Clev. its way wherever it turns. and W hington, for that matter, e pitche: of the Yanks are a much further on the way to nim derful lot when vou lgok them ness than the team of Yanks here. If not one of them is to have Lack of condition will not have the ear, what in_the world can lcast eifect on their team work T e with all of them? Four is something other than conditio pitchiers are enough for anv cham- Poor condition will prevent good |pionship team—four winning pitch- eam work but poor condition and liere are six iot last forever unless a team is pa snnock is the newest addition. If ing toll to time ever can win it should be this Ruth Thin, But Looks Well. year, when he can have all the rest Ruth is thin and vet he looks well. Mis surplus wefght that bothered him 1922 ha been di. pated into the universe. He does not/need to train. Take a look at him and you will say that he needs to take it casy nd enjov recreation in the open o w over. a4 bad be dc are pitchers who are at their best with four or five days to recruit their strength. What a chance this sext of the Yanks has. redora” girls made a hit in their way by marshaling mlllionaire husbands and maybe the Yanks Florodora ther than to overexert hims!f | sextet wlill marshal another cham- chasing around the field. The better | pionship. If they do—that is, if the that he builds up for a hard seas | winning of another pennant can be the better it will be for the Y s. i traced to the expertn of the pitch- ilc begins playing as the curt ing—all the fans will have to admit rises this season With no message of | that ome old pitching staff has Christmas greeting from the proved its ability to fly bunting, even missioner of base ball. if there has appeared to be no pitch- ‘Ruth can't win the pennant alone. | ers left of unusual skill Maybe the The point is whether he cannot have | Yan have all of them iIn the 2 much better year than he had last | American. season, and that is one of the foun- ' How to Score a Ball Game BY JOHN B. FOSTER (This'is the first of a serics of twelve a nian who ever has been made an official sco outlines in clear, untechn com (Copyrigit, 1925. icles i sehich the writer, the only ¢ and unquestioned Guthorit.) They are behind the pace which they have set in the past| that he needs between games. There | v for life by any basc ball lcague, cal language to the bese bal! loving public kow properly | to score a base ball game and explains proper methods of procedure under the | you wish to’score proper NEW YORK, April 2.—The Polo Grounds, home lot of the New York Ginmts and the wscene many foot ball gnmes and boxing contests, will make its debut in Erand ume 20. Arrangemcnts were completed cant, will include wi Ametican and Europea |TWO COLLEGE GAMES ON CARD HERE TODAY Georgetown and Holy Cross base ball teams were to figure in one of the big games of the local colleglate season on the Hilltop dlamond this afternoon, with play starting at 2:30 o'clock. Last year Georgetown captured the eustern intercollegiate title, with Holy Cross rated as second in line. They have been rivals for many years and any contest fn which they op- pose is pretty sure to be chockful of action. Jenkins. Georgetown's best pitcher, s to face Horn, the leading mound performer for the Worcester aggre- gation, with the likellhood that neither team would set any batting records. Catholic University also has a game on tap, meeting the Marines in their third encounter of the ‘season. the teams having broken even in clashés at Quantico last week. Today's game beirg the rubber, each outfit is de- termined to finish on the long end of the count Univesity of Maryland's nine is con- tinuing its hostilities in the south to- day, meeting Georgid, which gave Yale two sound wallopings on Saturday ! Catholic University is the only one of the three local teams playing today that has no game tomorrow, as Am- herst will beat the Hilltop and Mary- land will visit Clemson. However, the Brooklanders will not idle, as they will practice strenuously for the clush they have with Holy Cross on Wed- nesda; (QUANTICD MARINE NINE QUANTICO, Va., April 2—A revised base ball schedule has been annou |l—vl for the Marine team. Including | the game with Catholic University in Washington today the Devil Dogs have eighteen more contests. Among the teams that will be met are the Washington Americans, Georgetown and Gallaudet. Here is the schedule in full April Z—Catholic University ashington, April 3—Haoly Cross. April 5—Fordham University. April $%—Randolph-Macon. 14—Washingto: College 18—William und Mary. S—Willinm and_ Mary. 25—Gallaudet at Washington. stern Maryland. May 3—Virginia May 12—Gallaudet. May 17—Mount St. M ¥May 19—Catholié Universi Washington. May Zi—Georgetown at Washing- toi 1 May z4—Waskington College | Chestertown, Md. | shington American | June 19—Mount St. Mary's at Em- | mitsburg. ‘SPORTS-FOR-ALL PLAN | AT ROANOKE COLLEGE SALEM. Va. | wrestiing, soccer ountry are sports which :d to the atliletic program of Roanoke College next f: The faculty committee on sthletics is engaged in workihg out & comprehensive plan for mass ath- at HAS 18 MORE CONTESTS 2ing. BY JACK BRITYOAN- g = HERO OF 500 FIGRTS =~ FROM “FIGHTING IRISH” STOCK; HOW HE GOT HIS RING NAME | | VENTY years in the boxing ring. with more than fiye huntred bouts, glive a boxer a lot of experience, if nothing else. Experience is the most valuable asset in thé ring. For five years it was sald of me: “He's getting by because he knows too much.” And it was the truth to a certain extent. In my younger days, a good many years ago, I might not have admitted that with such complacency, because it was then a matter of considerable pride and satistaction to me to know that my frlends thought 1 was “good.” Naturally, with a’lot of youthful ambition and the usual vanity of a young- ster, I agreed with them. The Pitfall of Many a Bexer. Vanity and an overinflated idea of one's abllity have ruined many | young boxers and also those who have picked other professions for their careers. 1 didn’t pick boxing for my career. Fate virtually pushed me into the game, and I can’t say that I regret it. The game has been good to me and I have done my best to be good to the game. 1 My father, more than any one else, kept me from falling into the traps of vanity and the “swell head.” He never thought 1 was any good in the ring. He never missed the opportunity to let me know how little I knew iabout real fighting, as he regarded real fighting, and I don’t belicve he has changed his mind to this day Time after time he has told me thero are no fighters today to compare with those of the last generation and particularly those of the bare fist leanings in lreland. He was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in the same neighborhood where originated the parents of Jack McAuliffe, the old, un- defeated lightweight champion; Jim Corbett, Jim Coffey, Frank Moran, | Packey McFarland, Johnny Kilbane, Mike and Tom Gibbons, Mike O'Dowd, Bartley Madden—ind some others, perhaps. nd Had the Iighting Spirit. ¢ Tou ot & bag of meney now for playisg around st Sghtin’ in thews du we got was & broken head, if we didu't fight, in my days,’’ he has recounted to me many times, describing his experiences after he left Mayo and went to Glasgow. “I waa toe only Irichman in Glasgow and I was the best man in the town with bare fists. I bad te be, to stay thers,” he would a3 The Gibbons boys and others, I have heard, never wanted their fathers at the ringside when they were boxing, through the fear that they would want to take a hand in the affair if things started going bad for their oftspring. 1 never had any fear that my father would rush in to rescue me | from what he considered a lady's game, and I have had him near my corner in several of my big bouts. sion fn Cleveland he watched me in a bout that was a par- y hard one for me. I was boxing Bryan Downey of Columbus. I wasn't in the best of shape and I took a pretty good milling before 1 did land the decision. In the dressing room aftcr the bout I asked him, “What did you think of that fight, dad?” re you don’t call that a fight, do you?” he replied. “What kind of fightin' could you do if you didn’t have big gloves on and if there was no one in the ring to keep the other fellow vif you when you were down. Ah, that's no fightin"." i Early Days. Father came to America in the early eighties and settled in Clinton, Y., where I was born on October 14, 1885. 1 was one of a family of twelve, three boys and four girls of which are still living. 1 don’t remember very much about the early days in Clinton, because we moved trom there to New Britain, Conn., when I was four years old. We lived there for eight vears and 1 did nothing but go to school and sell papers and get into the usual | number of boyish scrapes that had my father on me all the time, “"You're ne good You'll be the ruin of me vet. he always used to say. times it has struck me that my father might bave been disappointed in that I 80 to the bad, s he continually predicted I would when I was growing u Belds out e it to this day, saying, "'You was 20 good in your young days. First Appearance in Ring. he family moved to Chicago when I was twelve years old. It that I had my ring name fastened on me. The kids at school, picking me out as a stranger, asked me where I came from, and when I toid them New Britaln, they started referring to me always as the “Brittain fellow.” They never heard of such a place and they thought I was some kind of a circus freak When 1 made my first public appearance in the ring in Chicago the announcer asked me my name. 1 was badly stage struck and told him my name was Breslin, but they called me Brittain. He asked me what my first name was and I hesitated too long. “You gotta have some kind of a first name | went over to the center of the ring and yelled The next morning the papers said 1 was “Jack Britton.” and 1 have been Jack Britton in public life ever since. The name was also passed on to my brother, Frank Liritton, a lightweight and a good one, too. He beat Shamus O'Brien, Freddic Haas and other good ones, but he got tired of the game and got out of it. Charley Leonard, a brother of Benny's, was the same way, it will be recalled. 2 . he said and with that hc “In this corner Jack Brittain.” Jack Decides to Be a Banker.~ About this tims I was reaching the age whers a in & large family begins to realize that Bo should Degin to Sasistin Providing foed for the tabls asterd of rering it ail. Most of ths boys in my crowd were talking about becoming engineers. brakemen, conductors, fremen or cops. The appeal of any kind of & uniform is a great urge for the Boys in any lazge city whers it s largely symboio of power aud standiig i the oom- muaity. . ‘As far as was concerned 1 wanted to be a director of a bank. How- {ever, I guarded that ambition as a terrible secret, as such aspirations volced {among my mates would have been taken for the symptoms of w first-class sissy. 1 didn't know anything about banking, but I had the idea that the men listed as directors on the front window of the bank in our neighbor- yhood were allowed to spend all the money they wunted to cut of the bank. i While I did not start out to be a banker, I finally rcalized that ambition, however, by getting on the board of a bank in Canton, Ohio. Rcquisites of a Good Boxer. I went to school for two years more. I was never what might have been classed as @ mental giant, but 1 got along fairly well. By the time 1 had worked up to the high school stage I decided to start out and &et a job. As I pointed out in starting this chapter, experlence is a great thing in any line of work, but it is not everything. nless one applies himself n- tally in always trying to learn something new, experiences will only develop the instinct. i To be a success in the ring a boxer must be constructed properly. I mean by that that he must have courage, what we call in the ring “a heart,” |and he must be built weil physically. He must be mentally alert and willing {to live cleanly. To lve clean, I believe, iy the most important of ail. & | young boxer may be a perfcct physical specimen, he might be abie to box |like Gane and hit like Dempsey, he might have the heart of a lion and the | disposition of a tiger, but it he doesn't take care of himself he will get no place. My first job really scarted me in the fighting game because I had to | nght to et wlong in the business.’as I will relute in the next chapter. | Note: s there | CHICAGO, April Z—President Ba: Johnson of the American League refused to comment todny on the letter of Raymond J. Camnon of tion for the players in the councils of the national base ball management board, sent to the two major league presidents and Commission- er Landis. “I am mot mcquainted with the proposal,” Johnsom wsaid, “for I have not yet seen the letter re- ported to have beem wemt me by Cannon. After I have read it I may have something to say.” claiming four-f major lenguers as it membership. MANY SANDLOT SQUADS BRAVE CHILLY BREEZES While the chilly weather of yester- day kept some of the sandlot ball players by the fireside, there were many teams that did not let the ! unusually cold Easter interfere with | their plans to cavort on the dlamond While games were few, there were many practice sessions of varied du- rations. Premier A, C. and Triangle Midgets figured in the longest sandlot clash so far reported this season, when they traveled fourteen Innings before the former won, 11 to 10. Having |tucked this game away, the Premiers are looking for more victims In the fourteen-vear-old class. S. Gordon, North 8761, is arranging the battles. Corinthian Midgets kept warm in chasing around the bases in their game with the Ace Midgets, piling up 21 runs to their rivals' half dozen. Today the Corinthiane are figuring on doing a llke stunt to the Riggs' Pyg- mies. Linworth 1922 title team in the midget class got off to a good start by defeating the Marines yes- terday. 10 to 7. Feary, hurling for the victors, fanned fifteen men, while Ragland led in batting with three triples. Linworths' still have some open_dates and outfits who are look- ing for real opposition should phone Franklin 363. Glen Echo A. schedule that will games for the se: that also will ter June Md.. is manager. is arrangiog & Chevy Chase Bearcats lived up to thelr name when they swamped the land Park A. C., to the ‘tune of 14 More games are sought by Bearcats, who are in the seven | vear-old division. Call Man Hubbard, Cleveland IS BUNK, SAYS MAXTED NEW YORK, April 2.—"Million-dol- lar purses in South America are all bunk. Take it from me, I know. 1 have been down there knocking dead and know it 1 am talking about”” That was what Sailor Max- ted, heavywelght boxer, said when the steamer Vestrls of the Lamport & Holt line docked at Hoboken, when asked if there was any truth the | fered Luls Angel Firpo in South *America, as ult of his Brennan in E ago. | Fireo is | that hangs around poolr down_ there, but the real sports not think so much of him,” he co tinued. popular with the million-dollar purse, or anything like it_down there.” Maxted fought Firpo in Newark in March last year and lost to him in seven rounds. He went to South America to get another fight with rpo. but didn't ket it match with Fl | coneluded | SARAZEN GIVEN LEAVE d Johnson,” /§1,000,00 FIGHT PURSE | report that huge purses would ba of-| TO INCLUDE ALL CRIPPLES Pitchers to Receive Special Attention From Bush. Gibson and Altrock—Chilly Rain Prevents Practice at Tampa This Morning. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ' AMPA, Fla, April 2—Cloudy weather, with an occasional dash of T rain and the mercury in the thermometer standing at 64, unusuallp low for this section, prevented the Nationals from obtaining theie customary practice this morning for the first time since camp was pitche® here on March 1. It is likely the athletes will be able to get in some work this aiter- noon. If not, it will be the first day of training lost by the Washington ball club since it started coming to Tampa for spring condiioning. But whether it is this afternoon or tomorrow, the training when resumed will be of a strenuous nature, as but little time now remains to whip the per- formers into shape for the opening of the championship campaign. Three of the teams training in| Florida State League. meeting th Florida this spring already have | Smokers tomorrow and Wednesda broken camp and started northwerd | at Plant Field. These are in no sense on barnstorming expeditions—the St. | to be real contests, for Mamager Bush Louis Cardinals, who trained at Bra- | will juggle his line-up cousiderabl dentown: the Cincinnatl Reds, who|during the drills but they are ex made Orlando thelr temporary base, | pected to benefit the Nationals great- and the Brooklyn Dodgers, Who con- | ly. The €quad has not had any t0o ditloned at Clearwater. | much competitive action at this year's The Nationals will pull up stakes camp. next Sunday for the trip homeward,| Bush has not nominated any pitch- in company with the Boston Braves,|ers for these tilts with the Tampans, who are holding forth at St. Peters-| put in all likelihood all of the hurl- burg. The Cleveland Indlans, at|ers except Walter Johnson and Kay Lakeland, are due to get away 1ate) poaen will go through two or three this week and the Philadelphia Na-|jn;ings cach. Beach will be unable tionals are to depart from LeesbUrg| ¢, pitch for somé while. as his sore within & few days. wing does not permit him to “bear Even Cripples Must Work. | down” on the ball. Johnson, with The fact that a player is listed as! just a bit more thun two weeks of a casual will not grant him exemp-| work, i rounding into form rapidl tion fro: toil during the remainder | but probably will wait until the squad of the National's sojourn here. Not|starts its homeward trip north before even the few cripples and near crip-| e ascends the hill in aa game ples will be excused from the more | ‘Fiorida climate is wonderful for vigorous portions of the xrra"_$1‘~‘:i[r.we ball clubs in training, and the Roger Peckinpaugh, with his injured | \iiio01s have been well treate. finger in splints, will be required 1o jare but all of them sre mighty glad take his turn at fielding and ";;,‘lll’l“g,; they are leaving here gext Sunday Bob La Motte's charley horse Will b%| The club has been in Tawmpa neari ridden roughly, and Chick CABAOT|five weeks now and the athletes are will have to kic longing for a change of scenery. jhis tricky lex. All three are ex- UNIQUE GRIDIRON GAME. | pected to break into engagements hig week. Pfick o slated to take his place at shortstop when the Braves areé €N-| qlinofs and Nebraska will meet in the countered Saturday in the last 8ame |,pening game of the foot ball seasor to be held by the Nationals in FIOT- | ext fall under unusual conditions. ida this year. He has kept his arm | pach coach has agreed to eend the limbered by light fielding work-outS |other a copy of all formations th T s days, and during the eariy | Sl be used in the B part of this week will not attempt to use his ured right hand. The splints supporting the index finger of | “SANDLOT" GOLF APPEARS. that filpper are likely to be removed Moirsday. however, and then the in-| Golf has invaded the athletic clubs flelder will be expected fo take cale ) of the city. Today the Warwick A. C. fof ‘3ll kinds of clouts in the dally | g vaimond A. ¢ | aritis. | tives competing in k | public course. Hicks Baldwin of the ‘Warwicks, Lincoln 2353, 18 anxious to other links clashes La Motte Still Hobbling. La Motte, who was affected by charley horse early in the training | boc campaign here. thought he had lost | == it and resumed his full measure | INDIAN | work. But Bobby must have been joverambitious, for the soreness re- MOT CLE DISTRIBUTOR {turned Saturday and troubled him considerably this morning. So far, Used and Rebuilt Motocycles Sold on Easy Terme—Repairing atlment is not serfous enough to keep the infielder out of action, but Train- | HOWARD A. FRENCH & CO. 424 9th Street N.W. |er Mike Martin is watching Bobby | closely. { Gagnom's nurt kaee laround to normal form surpr i | fast and the former Holy Cross star | | should be quite ready to participate | n the game Saturday as a mfl.r.\‘kr' {of the Nationals' second team that 18 | |to clash with the reserves of the 1 Braves at Jackson .ille | Manager Bush and Coaches Gibson land Altro plan to keep the pitchers | very busy tn the ensuing drills, for the | { hurling staff needs much greoming be I coming | isingly is Bowie Races April 2d to 14 Trains Les Line: 12:30, 12:46, {fore it will be ready for heavy cam vatgning o the champlonship SUruggle. | | o (o Grandstand i Two Games Against Tampans. | Government Tax | Before meecting the Braves Satur-| motal the club i{s to have two work- wt Race, 2115 P.3. “There isn’t a chance in the world of Firpo getting an offer of a | back here mow to met another Maxted ¥, o learn | jetics, so that every student may ! short hand. This came into vogue a | cure adequate recreation and physical | development through participation in In the fifth instalment of “My Twenty Years in the Ring” Britton explains | how he lcarned oht in Citicego, his first matches in the days when boong | TO MAKE BRITISH TRIP what is known as the scorers’ understood nnterested i rules on which he is @ supre ] NIRST of all it is a good idea, if great many years ago, but for was well ‘of the first to score under the new characters and to the symbols which and before bas the game that they began to use it. all that it was a long, long time be. The writer was one method, aud not only added to the now are in common use on the part of expert scorers, but devised a form of score sheet which will be found by far the most compact for general game iuto the smallest space. The theory of identification in scor- & is based upon numbers. You te the names of the players in the | atting order, but you also recognize each position which they play as a fixed number, and when you record anything In Your score from the first | nning to the finish of the game you | stmply use a numeral instead of try- ing to bother with the man's name. use. It condenses every play of the other hand, the sheet which stands for the home club records the play of the visiting club, because, of course. 1t {5 the players of the visiting club who put the home players out On each sheet you will have plenty oi plays in which No, 3 took part, and that 15 to be expected, becuuse No. 3 the first baseman, and he is about the busiest man in putting out other players who take part in the game. ¢ ball enthusiasts were so | How to Number Positions. | Whenever you see a 3" recorded you The customary recognition of the|know that the first bascman of ei various places on the field by num-|the home team or the visiting team er Is as follows, was doing sometaing. No. 1, pltcher; No. 2,-catcher; No. 3, uppose that the catcher picks up a first baseman; No. 4, second baseman; | bunt and throws the bail to first base. No. 5, third baseman; No. §, short’|That play goes down on the sheet as stop No. 7, left fielder: No. 8, center- 23" ‘In good Lngilsh that means the flelder; No. 9, right fielder. Now don’t | catcher assisted to the first base- imagine as solne have that No. 1| man's big mitt, because you wouldn't sticks to Nehf of the Giants all the|expect him to roll the ball. The season and that vou must have a|writer has seen a catcher kick the number for every player who 4| ball and get the put-out and the play member of the league. If that hap- | went down 2-3 just the same. pened you would have vour numbers i running into the “500s” and you DYHEnt, would have to carry a book along 2 with vou to identify players by | BIG RACE TO LONG SHOT. Sumber. Your No. 1 is the number at-|Bythe Assoclated Press tached to the plicher of (he home| “PARIS, April 2—Xophime won the A A o e T o (O vISiting | Preeident do la Republique stakes at Sheet on which to keep the score of |the Auteuil race course yesierday. each team you know that the fleld- | Master Bob was second and Barker sng plays recorded on the sheet for|third. The winner pald 18 to 1 in the visiting club really are the plays | the pari-mutuels betting. Master which were made by the members of | Bob was 2% to 1 for the place and the team of the home club. On the | Barker the same price to Sngw. v T Dress Well and command the at- tention of every onme. SMART STYLING, EASE AND GRACE OF LINE, CHARACTER AND CORRECTNESS OF FIT AND FINISH ARE FEATURES GIVEN CAREFUL CONSIDERATION BY OMOHUNDRO'S DE. SIGNERS AND TAILORS. MEN WHO SEEK TO EXPRESS THEIR PER- SONALITY IN THE EXCLUSIVENESS OF THEIR APPAREL COME TO OMOHUNDRO'S FOR THEIR SUITS AND TOP COATS. OMOHUNDRO, 514 12th ST. Your Tailor—Just Below F St. | the sports best sulted to his needs nd aptitude. The formal gymnasium work at present required at Roanoke of all freshmen and sophomores has not | proved wholly satisfactory, in that too much of it omits the play instinct. Next year the lower classmen will be | allowed ta elect that lranch of sport 1in which they are most interested. and which will mean most toward thelr proper physical development. | “The new program for physical edu- cation provides for an additional ath- letic instructor, who will carefully plan 2nd supervise the recreational activities of those not members of squads training for varsity teams. The appointment of the new director | kas not been made, though several | ompetent men are under considera- tion. i i | —_— Ben Miller's soccer team of St. Louis has defeated the national champions, Sculllns Steel, also of the Mound City, three times this season. -t the Sign of the Moon Established 1803 trates the highest want. son is a high-class You have the tailoring experts porating the indi tomer. “Wonder What Mertz Will Say Today” art. The kind of tailoring well-dressed men Our inaugural special for the spring sea- choice of fine quality, smart-looking wool- ens at the low price of $25.00. was prokibited by luw, the initiel pursc of ten dollars and his first knockeout. rigint 1923, United States aud Ceoads, by North American Newspaper Alliasce.) | I5= | D.C. RUNNERS IN RACE. | Western High School, Aloysius Club and University of Maryland have run- ners in the three-mile road race that will be held under the auspices of the Baltimore Cross-Country Club, in the Monumental city, late this afternoon. In all, twenty-four are listed to com- e KILLED ON GOLF COURSE. STOCKTON, Calif., April 2.—Walter G. Hunter, assistant state highway | engineer ‘and prominent Stockton resident and sportsman, was Kkilled during a golf game at the Country ub yesterday, when he was struck by lightning. = Detroit's Golf Association twenty-six affillated clubs and uniformed caddies. BETHANY STAR TURNS PRO. BETHANY, W. Va, April 2—Harry | Randolph. captain of the base ball and foot ball teams of Bethany Col- | lege, has signed a contract as pitche with the Birmingham. Ala. club of the Southern League. He will report after his graduation in June. | SPORT CONFERENCE MEETS. | CHICAGO. 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