Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1923, Page 26

SPORTS. Only Three or Four Likely to Break Into Big League. Robby Must Rely Upon Veterans for the Fielding Jobs and Box Work. BY NORMAN ST. DENIS of the Staf of the Ne C bilities. York Globe. OMPARED with last spring’s collection, the group of youngsters gathered for training by the Robins is not so redolent of possi- Out of the collection of young ball tossers who trained with the Brooklyn outfit at Jacksonville last year, Uncle Robbie, the genial pilot of the club, brought seven men out of the minors into the big show. Judging from the work of the recruits this r it seems that there will be but three or four who will find their way into the major league through the Robins this spring. Ha Schriver, Arthur fith, Bud Hu were the into the big tent of the Rol last much to the credit to note that each season that his manager did not make a mistake when he decided that they were o fmajor league cali- ser. Hank Deberry now full-fledged members of the Robins, with the former now consid- ered as the team’s first string back- stop. Decatur, ling and Tl t the tr sprin of Uncle Rob one proved rast Bert Gri Andy Hixh graduated ining camp And it is Robbie and Hungling are Vance the Leader. Of the three pitchers—Vance, De- catur, and Shriver —discovered last spring, Dazzy proved the star. Dazzy won cight and lost twelve, led both leagues in shut-outs and strike- outs and Is now looked upon as one- of Robbie's best hets in the ing line. Decatur and Shriver pitched but @ few games last season, but showed, nevertheless, that t are two of the most promising hurlers in the organization In Andy High and Bert Griflith it ~is certain that Uncle Robbie picked up two men who are prove of great aid to him. Andy High jump in a regular buse last season and bat rou 283 averaze in 153 gam This year the pilot of the Flatbush cre Dects Lo see the diminutive infielder hitting the ball at a clip well over the . Bert Griffith is certain to p Robbic made no mistake in ing him, for this on he pected to fill Hy Myer center field. Bert batted . games last season he present collection of recruits certainly will not vield such material as last years did. Of the thirteen more or less young men taken south, five are pitchers, four are infielders. one is an outficlder, and three are catehers. Out_of this gathering it will be surprising if more than three are retained after the opening of season. Will Retain Dickerman. One recruit who is almost to be retained is Leo Dic tall right-hander from Uncle Robbie already stamp of approval upon work, and therefore it can be taker for granted that the hurler will n retain- in 106 7in Memphis. has placed the tae | Dickerman's | 1 | | | pitch- | certain | Chicago (N.)....... erman, the | Dallas | i be | New York (A).... among those present when the Robins | are battling through their 1923 sched- ule. Another young hurler who has fa- vorably Impressed Uncle Robbie is Bob Vines, who hails from the Bridge- port club of the stern League. With Bridgeport 1. scason Vines won fifteen games and lost ten. Pitcher Charley Ollinger, from the St. Petersburg club of the Florida State League, appears to be a hurler who needs a bit more experience in the minors. Clarence Brown and Paul Schreiber south with the Robins last and_were sent out to the minors for further seasoning. Brown played with Danville of the Three- T League and Schreiber with the Saginaw Club of the Michigan-Ontario organization. Thus far neither has shown much improvement over his work of last spring at Jacksonville. Of the three young catchers in camp Charley Hargreaves from the Pitts- field Haven Club of the Eastern Le gue appears to be shaping up the est. Bernard Preo, from TKen Me., is a voungster who need nothing more than ex to enable him to join the guers. The third catcher, Long, is from Memph played semi-pro ball. Mullen a Star Inflelder. ebunk o big lea- Tomms , where he Bill Mullen is the star of the infield- | ers thus far. Mullen batted .312 with MMobile of the Southern League last scason and has shown here that there W ure. In addition Mullen is an adroit fielder at third base, with a good arm. Fred Schlicbner,” from the Little Rock club of the Southern League, has not shown any thing startling as yet at first base. Walter Keeley, the shortstop, is a remarkable fielder, but a_weak hitter. Stuffy Stewart, from the Birmingham club of the South- ern League, has been working out at second base, and has shown himself to be a fair hitter, an exceptional base runner, and a good fielder. Charley Blankenburg is the only recruit outfielder in camp. He hails from the University of Florida. and appears to be a natural hitter, but a poor fielder. Three Veternns as Regulars. The real veterans of the Robins are expected to hold down at least three flelding positions during the impend- ing season. In addition there will be five members of the pitching staff who can rightfully be called “men of experience.” Ivan Olsen will he other veteran along with the R son troupe this season, but his capac- ity will be that of coach and utility infielder. In the outfleld Tom Griflith and Zach Wheat will represent the vete ans this season. Uncle Robbie counts upon Wheat to hold down his regular position in left again, and in right field .the general leader expects Tom Griffith to fill the bill again. Bernie Neis. the little outfielder who | has been with the club for three sea- | sons, is stri center fleld. - Jimmy Johnston will be the veteran and supervisor of the Robin infield this year. Johnston will cover short- stop again, and with last season's ex- perience at the position under his ing for a regular berth in INDIAN Frank. 6764 MOTOCYCLE DISTRIBUTOR Used and Rebuilt Motocycles Sold on Easy Termc—Repairing HOWARD A. FRENCH & CO. 424 9th Street N.W. Radiators and Fenders ANY KIND MADE OR REPAIRED, Cores installed in any make, 10 DIFFERENT MAKES RADIATORS. WITTSTATT'S R. and F. WORKS 319 13th F. 6410. 1425 P. M. 7443, The Style Shop 7th &l G The s;’::‘[:::]‘ Selis Match Your Old Coat With Extra Trousers —and twice tie: .95 wear from your suit. A wide va- riety of patterns for only— $ no mistake about the batting fig- | I | i i [ | ring. k Deberry, Dazzy Vance, Harry | belt, his playing ought to show-a big improvement. Vetern Hurlers Burlelgh Al Mamaux, George Smith, Harper, Dutch Reuther, and Leon ‘adore’ will be on the firing line mes and Ruether are expected to have profitable seasons, while the rest are doubtful at the present time. I EXHIBITION GAMES At Newark, N. J. Philadelphia '(A) < Newark (Int.)... 111110000 518 1 Batteries—Kinney. Naylor, Heimach and Bruggy; Baldwin, Keimisch and Devine, At Chattano R, . Dotroit (A.).... T Bt. Lomis (N.j...ill010 D111 Batteries—Johnson, Holloway and Bassl North, Clemons and Airsmith. Grimes, Harry « « ¥ R H. 8 10 1 1 E. i 2 oga. Tenn. R H L1218 i . S 6 12 5 , Boehler and Gooch; Zinn E. Pittsburgh Hansas City B Hy Bl St. Louis (A.)... 2 New Orleans (8. Batteries—Prustt. Root and Collins; Whit- taker, Walker and Dowie. At Wichita Falls, Tex. Chicago (N, seconds). ...... Wichita Fails (Tex)... ] Batteries—Keens Keuffman Wheeler and Kitching. 3 irts; B [] 1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JOCK PROVES BILLIARDS IS GREAT AID TO GOLF It is generally known that Jock Hutchison ix the originator of the famous mashie-stoppum pitch, but not many probably know just how the peppery Scot came by hin in- xention. In one of hix exhibitio of the shot on his recent mpectator, struck by the of Jock’s mashie, exclaimed, “How in the world did you ever think of that xhott” “Oh, I dixcovered that a number of years ago, when I was profes. sional at the St. Andrew’s Club in New York,” replied Hu One night while playing billiards, in making a draw xhot 1 wondered it the same thing could be done with a golt ball. [ thought about the matter and the next day rougl ened the fact of my mawshie by punching holex on it. With that club I was able to atop the ball a little. Then I had a maxhie ribbed with a milling machine. That worked very well, but later I had the grooves in the face of the club widened. After that all 1 had to do wax to learn to play the shot properiy.” O'DOWD. CALLED ALIB BOKER, 15 VINDCATED ST. PAUL, Minn, April 9.—Mike O'Dowd’s alibl has made good. But it took the backing of a famous clinle at Rochester, Minn., to which the great and small, rich and poor alike take their physical ailments to give it weight in a doubting sporting world always alert to jeer the latest “reason why I lost.” Yesterday the squib announcing the pugilistic retirement of the “Fighting Harp,” once the world's champion | middieweight, after his knockout by | Jock Malone, also a Twin City ring | product, was headlined “This is a | brand-new one"; “O'Dowd has unique alibl,” and »mething new in alibi He said he would like to meet Ma- lone again but that a leg he injured twelve vears ago in a sleighing cident bothered him and that a man just could not defend himself in the boxing ring on one leg. Today the papers dropped spoofing _attitude. In the tional manner they printed diagnosis at the Mayo clinic had in- | dicated O'Dowd was suffering from a primary lateral sclerosis of the spi- | nal cord, which was affecting his |, This week the “Harp” will go back for treatment. their conven- that a and O'Neill; | Fuhr, James and Heving. At Memphis, Tenn. Néw York (N)... s d Momrhis (3.) 3 614 1 Batteries—Wobb. Ryan and Gaston; Zaha- iser, Nemitz and Tate, Lynn, At Dall H. E, Tex. i H 5 Iy (Tex) .00 i et Batteries- Cheeves and Hartnett: Brya: | Swartz, Davenport and Adems, Lingle. At Fort Wosth, Tex. B, BB Brooklyn (N.) 3 i8 14 14 0 Batteries—Grimes, Harper and _Deberry, Taylor; Pennock, Shawkey and Hoffman. At Nashville, Tenn. Columbus (A.A.).... Nashville (S.) At Tulsa, Okla, Talsa (W.) St. Paul (A At Montgomery, Ala. Philadelphia_(A. ‘seconds) . Rochester (Int.)........... 0'Neill Batteries—Ozmer, Weizner and Lake. CHAMBERS, 7o, VICTOR IN LONGEST FIGHT, DIES PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 9.— Arthur Chambers, once lightweight champion of the world and hero of the longest battle with bare knuckles in the history of the squared circle, is dead. He was seventy-five years old, nd was stricken with paralysis se eral weeks ago. Chambers was widely known to fol- lowers of the professional boxing When the late Marquis of Queensberry decided to formulate rules caleulated to elevate the sport he consulted Chambers, and their joint efforts resulted in the regula- tions under which boxing contests are held. s 8 7 " E 4783 T 5 A and Rowland; Chambers won the lightweight title | ark, who recently died | from Johnny ClL at Atlantic City, in 136 rounds. The fisht took place on March 27, 1579, at Chippewa Falls, Canada, and w under the old London rules, when a knockdown counted as a round. CHERRYDALES WILL VISIT ARLINGTON A. C. SUNDAY What promises to be one of the best early-season games of the year s expected to take place mext Sun- day when the Cherrydale Athletic Club, 1922 champions of northern Virginia, visits with the Arlington A. C., at 3 o'clock. Cheérrydale players who have been asked to report at their clubhouse at 12:30 o'clock are Burthe, Winegar- dem, Johnson, Trittipoe, Reese, Clat- WHITE IN BOUT TONIGHT. CHICAGO. April 9.—Charles White, Chicago lightweight, and Johnny Wil- liams of New York will box ten rounds here tonight. Eddie Coulon New Orleans bantamweight, will meet Harold Smith of Chicago in one of two other ten-round bouts on the same bill. ! CORNELL AT VIRGINIA. UNIVERSITY, Va., April 9.—Cor- I nell's base ball team is here to play Virginia today and tomorrow. Rich- ! mond University also is to be met this week, the Spiders coming here Friday. —_— ROUSH TALKING TZRMS. CINCINNATI April $.—Ed Roush, | the Cincinnati National holdout, ar- rived in Cincinnati this morning, ready to hold a conference with President August Herrmann, on the question of salary and contract terms. INSIDE GOLF i | __By George O'Neil 1 WHAT HAPPENS HERE? You may be one of thoxe golfers who put inte play an old, worn ball—with smiles cut all over it— when you come to a water hole, not wisxhing to risk the loss of a Zood ball in the water. It is com- WE'LL JUST CHANGE YoOuL FOR A GoonD mon practice for players to uwe such a ball for the hazard shot, atter which it i immedintely re- placed by a good ball if it clears the water 0. K. That kind of golts in “nfety first” for the ball all right, but let'’s see what about the matter of changing the ball on the second shot. REFEREE'S DECISION. The ball must not be changed for the second whot after it has been anfely driven acrows the water hazard. The ball must not be touched, except for purpomes of identification, when it is in play. and it is In play from the time It hax'been driven untll it has dropped into the cup at the next green ahead. The player may change his ball only when it ix out of play, which means between the time he hax sunk his putt and the moment he tees up at the next tee. (Copyright, Jobn F. Dille Co.) i terbuck, McCabe, Scheffel, Halr. Wil- | liams, Potterton, Donaldson, Harns- berger, Clouser, Marcey and Kimball. Teams desiring games with the Virginians should get in touch with Mickey Johnson, Cherrydale, Va. _— COLLEGE POLO DATES SET. NEW YORK, April 9.—The first- round schedule’ for the intercollegiate polo tournament, to be held at Fort Hamilton May 3 to 16, has been an- nounced as follows: May 3, Harvard Vo, Norwien: 4. Yale ws. Cornell: 5. % stitute; 8, Princeton vs. Pennsylvania. st Point vs.' Virginia Military In- | | DEFIES WARWICK GOLFERS. | Epiphany Athletic Club’s two-man golf club, composed of Crosby Thomas and Page Hufty, has challenged the ‘Warwicks, and a representative of the lattter is urgéd to call Hufty, at | North 9142. | CARP TO FIGHT NILLES. PARIS, April 9 —Georges Carpen- | tier and Marcel Nilles have signed | articles for a bout on May 10 in the Buffalo stadium. Nilles claims the | French heavyweight championship. Smoke better cigarettes! ~—How much better? —As much better as Tareytons. —There are no better than that! T Herbert n London ttes ac- | ‘MONDAY, 'APRIL 9, 1923 BY JACK BRI - HERO OF 500 FIG [ the main reason that no one thought Without causing a tremendous world welterweight champion, and was no such a thing and that his boy Johnston arranged a_ten-round Garden, and Lewis beat Ritchie so fa effectively transferred to Lewis. the legitimacy of Ted's claim and tha sition. Morgan told me there was no unless we slipped something over on J Morgan went to Jimmy and gave “Your fellow is young and strong ton is good in a short bout. Let's go down to New Orleans, go twe: to settle a doubtful claim to the title. and we can get a good price.” When 1 trained hard I always ble: impression that 1 wasn't strong. John beat Lewis over twenty rounds and he One of the round and I kno agninst sluggers, Ko out one n, n t he couldn’t fi and box him, th xlow He didn It was a big surprise to every looked at him several times as he mouthed and gaping. In the meantime Ritchie had retir few good drawin, rds or contenders Lewis and campaign around in the m where he wax. Lewis and 1 fought twenty-two and the sudden slump that hit the K in London this yea In the first and 1 think 1 ! of our fights ¥ chapter I said that n n use my fights s on the level public must have had confidence in Jersey City drew $30.000 in a_small Madison Square Garden drew $66,000. Danclng Masters”—and other insinu: As long as Lewis s the only I had to defend my title against him, never could beat me, because he knew and that 1 could outpoint him boxing. Why Britto Most of my victories at this period | which gives rise to a belief, often exp i never could hit. That never flattered ase ball player who would be regarde with the bat. I malntain that 1 could I hit will admit it also. My record isn't filled with knock that way. It w my experien out blows was tiring as be puts everything he has in s he not only opens himself dan corner wanting breath. win Danger o There is also the danger of brok back on him he might as well quit happens when the fists get brittle his eyes are bad. A Pete Herman fought as the bantamweight champion for ye: with onl « eve and no one knew that he had one eye gone and the for xome time. A fect, but he ean’t go a Most modern killers are the onl a card promising a_battle of the alleged dancing a two box money to satisfy the ordinary man an money a long time after the maulers (Copyright boxers go in for RECEIPTS GO backers went down to Long N ing quarters that the lIowan’s protege in preparing for the Jess Wil Nothing slow but it is big enough to be a hotel. Long ”HA("? it might be said, is twenty-three fniles from New York an island in the sea just below | Rockaway. There is a beach ten miles long, hard sand and all sorts of_opportunities for outdoor work. The first idea was to train at Sara- | toga, but Johnson's friends decreed this was too_ far from the Bowery | and so the shift was made. A tent | will be erected outside the hotel. the | Belmont, and here it is intended to | charge 50 cents admission to all| k\\'nrkoul bouts. | _Avoiding the precedent set by Jack ‘ Kearns at Atlantic City, neither Johnson nor Cook will take any of | the money earned; it will be de- | | voted to the cause of our wounded soldiers. Nothing the matter with | | that idea, is there? Something of Floyd Johnson's at- | titude toward this fight game may be set forth and it will explain among other things his signing for the Fred Fulton bout called off by the New | York commission. Floyd loves to fight, according to those who are ! close to him, and he s not enjoy | one-sided battles. He has the su- | premest sort of confidence in his ability to beat any one this side of | Dempsey; never thinks of defeat. it remains to be seen | {how the M Jersey officials will take | tite New York decree ordering John- | HEN Willie Ritchie returned from England after lo: lightweight championship on a decision to Freddy Welsh, he discovered that the welterweight championship unmolested and unpossessed in the record book in his new throne room, Jimmy Johnston, who was then handling Madi- son Square Garden alorig with other things, announced that Ritchie ome time later, through the newspapers, I learned that I had disputed Johnston merely laughed and wouldn't listen to any kind of a_propo- How Lewis Wax Persunded to Fight. Lewis has apers after the fight sald that he didn’t win man en and the next round switch and speed all sat Lewix a Steady Customer. with Lewis He tried cach us, Ordinarily 1 do not become aroused over eriticism in the press, but it always made me mud when we were called—+Lewis Seldon two Lew Tendler i xcr may also succeed when he gets slow on hix place when hix hands are bad. ones who can draw between two manlers will 'FLOYD JOHNSON’S TRAINING | into line and Dodgers Have Acquired Little Strength : Nationals Start Their Trip BROOKLYN CLUB’S ROOKIES ARE AN UNIMPRESSIVE LOT TTON - HYS - slumbering ! It was ownerless for it worth while to claim. stir he annouced himself as the after he had become seated firmly v. Ted Kid Lewis, was the champion. no-decision bout’ In Madison Square ar that the title was unofficially but t Dan Morgan had challenged Lewis. chance to get the Kid into the ring ohnston, and that he proceeded to do. him a line like this: and he can go over a distance. Brit- fought him before and knows it. nty rounds and advertise it as a bout Lewis can knock out the old fellow ached out and looked pale, giving the pston fell for the line that 1 couldn’t signed for the bout. thnt Lewis didn't win # Lewix wan always good Jab. 1 would d xlug him, I'd er hi gure out a left-ha next time I wo one, to and Johnston. T he was open- and especially in the corner ed from the ring and there w in my class. S iddleweight di re very o 1 was forced to fight | sion times, and only the loss of my title id prevented a twenty-third meeting ny work had never been questioned. ubstantiation ivery one 1e out and so did I. The be use our twenty-first fight in arena and the twenty-second bout in ationx that we had a v ther outstanding fighter in the class, I had become convinced that Lewis I could Keep away from his punches EEed. arecr were won on decisions, pressed, that 1 was a fine boxer but 1 me, because it made me feel like a »d as a fine fielder but a bush leaguer hit, and 1 think any of the opponents s1 1in my outs, because T to | didn’t_alwavs try e that missing swings intended as mg hit by vour opponent. When a or th punches in a round and | gerously, but he will go back to the| Hands. i n hands, and once a boxer's hands go ! s a good example of what | boxer may be able to go along when | | ~ it. and even when it hecame public other bad he fousht successfully swinging, crowa on the theory . 1 will not try to deny that ttract more than one | ers. but the boxers will make enough | da they'll be boxing and making gooa are having benefits for themseives. | by North Amer] per Alliance.) | . that man- o Newsp TO CHARITY EW YORK, April 9—A company of Floyd Johnson's iriends and Beaoh today to look over the train- manager, Cook, has sclected for his lard bout, May 12. | BY FAIR PLAY. : | | | i t v about Charley Cook. He has taken over a hotel not | a stone's throw from the Boardwalk. It is not a big hotel, to be sure, son to cancel the Fulton scrap. It is to be hoped thegierseyites will fall S| a date after the villard affair. * right, 1023.) SIKI CALLED BY COURT. PARIS, April 9.—“Battling” Sikl, the Senegalese pugilist, has been sum- moned to appear before the investi- gating magistrate of the tribunal of the Seine to answer to a charge of aggravated assault and intoxication. The charges grew out of his fight with a waiter in an all-night restau- rant in Montmartre. The waiter was knocked out by Siki. May 12 Johnso; (Coj BIG RACE TO LIGHTER. AN ' DIEGO, Calif, April Lighter. a four-year-old gelding, | runnirns in the colors of William Daniel of New York, vesterday won | the Tia Juana cup race of two miles in 3:28 1-5. Buckhorn II, from the | stable of B. Creech, was second, with | the show going to Old Faithful, be- longing to A. L. Briggs. | was worth $6,5625 to the winner. started. 8.—| ,—_—_——__—" T | il it Occasions There are really a good many of them. Our new features of style and finish will ap- peal to you. —'50 1331 F Everything for the Well Dressed Man Street imen Wednesday and | Stamping off home denouncing every- FLORIDA STATE LEAGU SEASON STARTS TODAY TAMPA, Fla., April 9—The fitth annual championship race in the Florida State League opened to- day with Tampa at Daytons, St. Petersburg at Orlando, and Lake- land at Bradentown. The classifi- ention of the league, which was raised last year to class C by the addition of Jacksonville to the cir- cult, becomes a class D organiza- tion this seasons. as Jackwsonville withdrew and Bradentown took its place. WESTERN'S STICKWORK WORRYING COACH GREEN Primed for further action by its de- feat Saturday of the George Wash- ington Engineers. Western High's nine, champion of the 1922 Inter- scholastic series, planned to trounce St. John’s College this afternoon at the Hilltop. However, Coach by the slowness h in clearing their batting eyes. Thus far only Unverzagt. right fielder, and Hageage. center ficlder, have demon- strated that they can hit. In the games with Episcopal at Alexandria | went to Florida for their spring tomorrow, George Washington frgsh- | training. He was a great favorite Sherwood High | with the fans of the west coast town. School at Sandy Springs Friday Green | for he had been playing an excellent will lay special emphasis on meeting | brand o His record impressed the pill Clark Griffith, who then was manager Other high school squads will spend | of the Washington club, and that fall today in workouts. Tomorrcw Tech's| Bobby was brought to Washington nine” will visit Gonzaga and Central|to conclude the season in a National will play the Georgetown University | uniform freshmen on the latter's field La Motte 5 Braves this week. There is a possibility that the his wares before hi; La Motte This bench business appears to have been Bobby's specialty since joining the Nationals in the latter part of the 1920 season, and it certainly Is not pleasing to the Savannah boy. The is no one with the club who cares more for bas ball than La Motte, but fate and other agencies have con- spired to mar his career, it seems. La Motte was with the Tampa Smokers when the Nationals first Green is worried lads have shown actually participated in N How to Seore a Ball Game BY JOHN B. FOSTER Article 7.—MISJUDGED FLIES. RE misjudged flies to be scored as errors? There is a question that has been argued pro and con sincc there began to be a regu- lar score in base ball apart from “outs and ins.” The postmaster in every city is a base ball enthusiast and a base ball man of rarc; intelligence as a rule, and if you were to get all the postmasters of the United States to tell how many times they have joined with some of the town folks who were discussing affairs about base ball while awaiting the mail,"you would have a compendium on base ball that would fill one of those big grain elevators in the middle west There always was a lot of talk the fielier. He may about misjudged fii It wasn't un- | for a fly hit and step into certain talk either. Opinions were | sion. Occasionally he slips slightly expressed with such positive convic- The missing of a step is not very tion that not unlikely Bill Jones and | plain to the ‘scorer, but the matter Abner Rowland wouldn't speak for a of three or four inches which were week and old Judge Grady would g0 lcst In a stride spell death and de- struction to the chances of the man who was trying to get the ball. The wind may take the ball away, and it does very often. The scorer as a general thing is all up in the air on the wind question He is in no position to gauge it. For that reason and for others the play has heen deemed to be one of those which should have a certain arbitrary defi- nition o it. Whenever the ball is misjudged it is given to the batter for what he makes out of it. If the ball falls safe the hit usually goes as a base hit If the ball goes over the fielder's head it is best always to give it a base hit. If the ball is partially blocked by the fielder the scorer mu very careful how he exercise judgment. The first tendency will be to give an error. but if it is apparent that some outside cause affected the it in any way the scorer should give the batter the hit. Remember .that the theory of the game, although it is a theory which has not been ad- vanced as emphatically as it should be, is that thgbatter should be given the preference when there is ar legitimate doubt as to whether a bat- ted ball is a safe hit or the ficlder €hould be charged with a mistake. (Copyright, 1923.) depr body within range of his voice for being a blockhead, because the judge insisted that a misjudged fly was simply plain stupidity. The judge was partially right. Per- haps in most cases he was seven parts right out of ten, but the fact that occasionally he could be wrong always left the question open for argument. It never takes long to Zet up an argument in base ball. Tt starts as easily as a fire is kindled by throwing a lighted match into a gasolines can. It has now come to be understood that it must be a very, Very ex- ceptional cast of misjudgment that goes down as an error. There are So many ways in which a fly hit can be udged that it is not good policy to give too much leeway to the scorer to decide for himself as to whether there was a misjudgment. The chances are that the scorer might work more cases of injury to the fielder than he would Ho good to the score. Many of the plays on which flies are misjudged are a long distance from where the scorer sits and not always is he in the best of position to determine what actually happened. ound conditions sometimes bother Now on Sale A Limited Number of Showerproof Top Coats 30 and 35 Coats made specially for us, in a special long length that reaches below the knees. Tweeds, Bedford Cords, Gabardines, and Cheviots in nine shades of gray and tan. Raglan-sleeve models, plain or belted. “ - Men's Clothes Section, Second floor. Woodward & Lothrop family and friends, however. by the sore leg that has kept him out of the game for the past week. s quite willing to get in there and “strut his stuff” if he ca do nothing more than hobble about, ager Donic Bush may deem it wise to keep Bobby on the bench. be going right | | the SPORTS. Homeward PLAY THE BRAVES TODAY IN FIRST OF ROAD GAME Bobby La Motte Will Strut His Stuff Before the Home Town Fans of Savannah If His Injured Leg Is Sufficiently Recovered. BY JOHN B. KELLER. AVANNAH, Ga., April 9.—This is La Motte day. seaport and the natives are expected to turn out en masse to w ness the performances of Bobby around the hot corner in the first | of the five road engagements scheduled between the Nationals and the Georgia's venerable oung National infielder will not shoy for he still is bothered but Trainer Mike Martin and Man- but two games, both at third but was expected to become a fixtu at the hot corner the following yea La Motte became a fixture, that but on the bench. At the 1 he pulled a tendon in his lex, able to play in only seve gagements during th Last year, however, La Motte wa in there more than half the time, tik ing part in seventy-eight contest All but seven of these games found Bobby at third base, shortstop being his berth in those few. He performed creditably, and when he signed his 1923 contract had visions of becominz the regular third sacker for the tionals, Then ca t acquired from roy, who has d camn and wa Na- The club 31l Cor first blow Minneapolis so well in trainins that the third-base job is his for t present. At least. and to make m ters worse for Bobby, he sprung charley-horse two we and has been to do anything in th of ball pl La Motte is an earnest young takes the game seriously, he enjovs being in big pany, probably ther be at tachéd to a high-c rinor leagu aggregation playing regularl than warming the bench in th majors, La Motte there is ar he is Savan ans will not see their fellow townsman at his best Train Ride Tires Players. Tt was a tired lot of Nationals that scrambled out of the sicepers ir parking yard of the nah road station this morr That r from Tampa yesterday was a heated affair, for the sun h: summer smile down thing to break the journey was the stop at where the National col the Braves' second te were picked u Four more tilts are to be held fore Waskington reached Friday ight or early Saturday morn Charleston will the scene of t morrow’s match nesday the clu will battle at Portsmouth, Thursday the battling will be shifted to Nor- folk and Friday afternoon R N hopes to see the Nationals anc clashing The squad quit T ber to the ciub not condition. La Mc others heing in great for The slow- followed man and com- who while he in there to make will a Sava ng s on a regula here e C monotony of Jacksonv who played m Saturday aqL week is expected to give tehers last bit of conditioninz they need. Then all will be ready for the get-away call a week Wednes a; Open Until 6 P.M., Saturday, 8 P.). 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