Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1923, Page 28

RTS8 _SFO Nationals Ready for Opening of Season : Hugmen Have Better Spirit This Yed THE EV ENING. STAR, “WASHINGTON, - D. C., TUESDAY,. APRIL 17, 1923, SPORTS.. HERE ARE THE ALETES WHO WILL REPRESENT WASHINGTON IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE RACE—"I‘HIS YEAR Motte, Gibson, Johnson, McNamara, McGrew, Russell, Hankins, Goslin, Zac| Kneeling—Warmoth, Lapan, Evans, Bluege, Judge, Rice, Hargrave, Peckinpaugh, Bush, Ruel, O’Neill, Harris and Gharrity. JOHNSON LIKELY TO FACE | THE MACKMEN TOMORROW | T EXHIBITION GAMES : W B -1 | Boston (A P 'YANKEES START SEASON WITH BUT ONE ADDITION ON COLLEGE DIAMONDS. I At Chapel Hill, N, C.—Lynchburg College. 8; North C WELLS WHIPS MALONE IN TEN-ROUND BATTLE ST. PAUL, April 1 Wells, welt champlon —Billy of Minn., rwelght GENARD, TITLEHOLDER, England, e outpointed Jock Ma- cinnatl, 7; Michigam, 3. At Newark, Del—Williams, 1; Dela- ware, 0. ) o { Philadelphia ‘() " 7 v 3) | _ Batteries—Piercy, Murray, Yolkes and De- Weinert, ' Betts, Manning, Grant, Mogridge and Zachary Are Alternates for Inaugural | 5w s et At West Point: in Philadelphia=—Bushmen Playing G. U. ! Today—National League Starts. lone of St. Paul, recognized as mid- dleweight champion in a number of states, in a ten-round no-decision bout here last night REFEREE WARNING TELLS. DETROIT, Mich. April 17.—After being warned in the fifth round by Y >hiladelphian ca Referee Al Day to either show some | Of /8ht. but the Philadelphian back strong and had Genaro grogd aggressiveness or stop altogethe Phil 0’'Dowd, Columbus, Ohio, bantam, | at the end of the fight. waded into Johnny Sheppard of Bo: ton and won the decision in their ten-round bout last night. SHADED BY WL PHILADELPHIA, April 1 Wolgast, Philadelphia, outpo Frankie Genaro, flyweight cham in a fast eight-round bout last nig} In the first round the champi knocked Wolgast down for the coyl —_— SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Southpaw Pennock Expected to Fill Long-Felt Want. | Rest of Team Is as It Was in 1922, But the Morale Is Vastly Improved. i R H E lArmy ... 3 Lo | | New York (W) 111111 u o181 Batteries—Goodman, Roper, Rowland and Cousland, Bonnett; Lucas, Ryan, Johnson and Gaston, Smith. | At Indianapolis BY DENMAN THOMPSON. | Dotrott ... 4 3 5 .. |Indianapolis HILE the Bushmen are doing battle with tiie Georgetown Uni- | Batte; versity nine at American League Park this afternoon as a final | Basslers prepping for the opening of the championship season tomorrow | At Nashville:, the major league base ball lid will be pried off in four towns of the ‘“‘:m‘l;:“l(!x-“ seeees National League, just twenty-four hours earlier than the pennant race (11 'innings.) in Ban Johnson’s circuit gets under way. e Debe, Pt and Baley, 150 Mever; 5 i | Fieids, Dabis, Perritt and Hale; < I_‘:xc'cpt for pitchers the players Bush was to pitt against John | At Wichita Falls O'Reilly’s collegians this afternoon were those he expects to send on the | . R R field at Shibe Park tomorrow in Philadelphia, where the Nationals are | St Paul (AA) 2 8 fo play the first of the ist-game schedule that will run unti Siinday | Eeme e eme) L 1B TS ctober 7. # | Fincher and Bischoff. This line-up will include Joey Evans in center field in place of Dick | —_— At Greenville— B H E Greenville. 12 18 '3 Charlott, 1 1 Batteries—Kay and Wright; Yeargin, Col- bert and McCarthy. 1 At Charleston— Augusta.. BY HARRY SCHUMACHER, Of the Staft of the New York Globe. ITH one important exception, the Yankees will start the cam- paign against the Red Sox tomorrow as they closed the season vy of 1922. The infield will be the same as that with which they j won their second consecutive pennant, and the picket line also will re- main unchanged unless Manager Huggins switches Whitey Witt and Bobbie Meusel, who heretofore have played in center and left, respec- (tively. Wallie Schang again will bear the brunt of the catching defense, | and the five veteran flingers who handled the bulk of the pitching last year are expected to repeat throughout the approaching pennant pursuit. This year, however, they will not be wholly dependent on right- handed pitching. For the first time since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary they will have a ranking southpaw on their staff in i the tall and stately person of Herbie Pennock, formerly of the Philadel- | phia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox. Pennock is expected to win | |irom twenty to twenty-five gafes for the Yanks, and prove especially Charleston. ... . Sl N Batteries—Tengen and Bpencer; Shader, La- plante and Varges. At Columbia— Spartanburg. Coiumbia. Batteries—Bond, Hill, idge, Fowler and Marshall; Meeker, Henderson, Cardner and Chisholm. LEONARD TO GO ON TOUR. CLEVELAND, April 17.—Be TWO DIE AT BOXING BOUTS, |Leonard jevineient champien o BUENOS AIRES, April 17.—Two |, vi’ ShimR A spectators at a boxing match in Cor- | DOXIng contests in Chicago, Lou doba died of heart disease vesterday |ville and Detroit, prior to meeti as they watched a fight which was|Mickey Walker, welterweight tit] not unusually exciting. e deaths o T ightwi occurred almost simultaneously at | 0lder, and Lew Tendler, lightwel, the end of the second round of the | challenger, at New York this sumdh Lout. The victims were a chauffeur | Leonard, here on private bu and a bricklayer. announced. GARCIA | B. H E| | 1 138 ‘2 { 5 14 St. Petersburg, Oriaado, § Daytons, CARDINALS WEAKENED. ST. LOUIS, April 17.—Manager Branch Rickey of the St. Louis Na- tionals has announced the’Cardinals would be compelled to start the sea- son without the services of Outfield- ers Flack and Myers, who are suf- fering leg injuries. Wade, Manager Bush finally having concluded that on comparative form : the ex-Indian, obtained in trade for Turkey Brower, is better fitted for service at this time than the rookie from Minneapolis. To start with, Evans has the ad- e vantage of many seasons of experi-| ence In the fast company, is faster | than Wade, a better bunter and has equally as good an arm. He is not| expected to hit with any more fre- | quency under normal conditions than | the American Assoclation graduate, | but Wade has been in a slump re cently, due in a measure, to the fact| that he was hit on the hand by aj itched ball some "two weeks ago. ‘hen Wade fully recovers he may slternate in the middle pasture with Evans, plaving when right-handers/ oppose the Bushmen, and it is possible he eventually may supplant him alto- gether, but at the outset the ex-In- dian will have the job all to himself. With Jenkins, star of the Hilltop outfit, scheduled to hurl this after- noon, and such competent flingers as' Zazalll and Jones in reserve, the Na- tionals were not filguring on having | B e Tue and Gray last spring | not having been forgotten. Rookles. to Pitch Today. | It was expected that Hollingsworth | and Warmoth would be sent to the| hill against the varsity squad today, with the possibility that McGrew also might break into the box score, as it would be fnadvisable to assign work to Johnson, Mogridge or Zachary, one of whom will hurl the initial fray of | the flag campalgn against the Mack- men tomorrow. It has been tacitly understood that Manager Busnh . in tended to allot mound duties in th, opener to Mogridge, but the pygmy pilot today stated that Johnson has shown such good form that Barney probably would be asked to fill his usual role of starting pitcher, al- though he reserves the managerial privilege of changing his mind and using one of his two veteran south- I paws, with the prevailing weather dbeing the deciding factor. . ‘With only sufficient time for dinner Bush’s squad will entrain after the game this evening -for-Rhiladelphia, where the athletes will Tepair to the Aldine Hotel, their Quakertown head- quarters, and endeavor to get a good night's sleep in_preparation for the | big doings tomorrow. his entire squad ,would be taken to Philadeiphia for the four games there =2nd then on to New York for anothet four that will be played before they raturn to make their home debut with the Mackmen a week from next Thursday. The only absentee on the trip prob- ably will be Kay Beach, the rjghthand, pitcher obtained from the Cairo club of the Kitty League, Who his, been re 1 o the Spartanburgh, League: team, and George McNamara, the Chicago semi-pro "outfieldér, ‘for whom a minor league berth is being sought. : g Nationsl League Openings. The Glants, generally favored to land on top for the third year in succession, are scheduléd to clash with the Braves at Boston in _their first championship game this afternoon, while the other National League openings ‘will find the Philadelphia _ Quakers battling the rs at Ebbet's’ Field in Brooklyn, the 8t. Louls Cardinals at’ Cincinnati meeting the Reds, who are regarded as sure to land ‘“in’the money,” and-the Cubs-playing host to the Pitts- ‘burghs Pirates, touted as most likely to prove the runner-up in the parent cir- cuit. In_addition to the Washington game at Philadelphia the American League opening tomorrow calls for the Boston Sox to help the Yankees inaugurate their new stadium in New York, the dangerous Detroit Tygers to_appear in St Louis and the Chicako White Sox against the Indlans. in "Cleveland. —_— the heavy- against Fred i Every aspirant for ‘welght title is tried out Fulton sooner or later. Bush indicated’ § Sally’[* NATIONAL LEAGUE CLUBS TO TRAVEL 87.711 MILES The elght National League clubs will travel a total of 57,711 miles in playini the dates assigned them in the 1923 schedule. The mileage of the respective clubs follows: Brooklyr .. Philadelphia St. Louts. Cincinnatf . Pittsburgh 5 Reduced to dollars and _cents thin ncans that it will cost $80,000 | at Icast to transport the eight Na- tional Lengue clubs .avound the circult. UMPIRES ARE ASSIGNED FOR-A. L. OPENING GAMES CHICAGO, April 27.—Due to an at- tack of influenza, President Ban John- son of the American League will be unable to attend the dedication of the | new Yankee stadium in New York to- morrow. . The asskgnments of umpires for the | Philadeiphin—Owens and St. Louis—Dineen and Ormsby. Cleveland—Hildebrand, Morlarty and Rowland. DODGERS TRIM YANKEES, NEW YORK, April 17.—The Brook- lyn Nationals ‘won the final game of thelr exhibition series with the Yan- kees yesterday, 7 to 3. Hungling, Brooklyn catcher, tripled with the bases full in the’ sixth and made a home run in the elghth. R. H. E, e %A% 52 asd _Hofmanp; Deberry, Taylor Batteries—Jopes, Pennock Bhriver, Smith, Mamaux and and Hungling. NASHVILLE GETS SHORTEN. CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 17.—Chick , Shorten,: outfielder of the St, Louls Browns, who was purchased by the Ctncinnati Nationals last winter ‘for | use in the Rube Benton deal with St. Paul, has been sold to Nashville. DAUBERT JOINS REDS. CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 17.—Jake | Daubert, veteran first baseman of the Cincinfatt. Nationals, who has been | 1ll, has-arrived here to start practice with the Reds. He said lte would be ready to start playing ball within a week. BARS' FREAK PITCHING. CHICAGO, April 17.—All freak pitehing deliveries — the shine ball, | emery ball and spit ball—will be pro- hibited in the American Assoclation this season, President Hickey has an- nounced. ——— ONE AMERICAN ON LIST. erican ring titles are held as fol- lows: Three by Italians, three by Irish-Ameri a Hebrew and one by a erican par- entage. HOPPE'S ARM VALUABLE: The right arm of Willle Hoppe is insured for $10,000, and he dered-not to do any handshaking. , one man of Am | burgh i topcoating of soil was zpplied to the | ' WITH 31,000 CAPACITY| CHICAGO. April 17.—~The National | Ieague base ball season officially | { will get under way here this after- | roon, when the Chicago Cubs dedi- | cate their new park, with the Pitts- | Pirates as opponents. The diamond only late yesterday and | workmen were busy right up to the time the gates were thrown open | at 1 p.m. The new stands offer a| scating capacity of 31,000. Owner Wrigley had a8 honored guests John A. Heydler, president of the National League: Willam . | Dever. last night Inaugurated mayor of Chicago. and a host of state and dity officials. Charley Hollocher, the regular shortstop and team cantaln, is ill at St. Louls and probably will not be available to the Cubs before May 1. effective against the strong western clubs, left-handed pitching. The addition of this pitcher is the only important change in the per- sonnel of the Yankees. Failing in his efforts to consummate a trade for none of which is partial to | year by strength. | " Ruth is lighter in weight this spring !than at any other time since he ! rt t | pitched for the Boston Red Sox. He Hond pag ansy Husglng decided 9115 down around 200 pounds, where he Seagbat on bis infield and outfleld | ysed to welgh In at 225 or 230, and is crults has ‘shown such superlative lor shoulv‘vl be a correspondingly better skill as to cause the Yankee pilot|pall Player this vear. ~Carl Mays, a to change his mind in this respect. ‘“.hfl L h ”DH:O “‘m:," L e Lo Therefore, he expects to open_the e sy S Sbauratil 1sidown eaRon Wallie t | below the 200 mark this spring. and season ¢ |1s showing greatly improved pitching e oni i a s e form in consequence. o jaite Hovt, covered; Joe Dugan &t third, Bobbie o (Siesppolniment Inst year, Menael Whitey Wit and Babe Huts 8150 I8 in better condition than he H o v a | was at a much later date in 1922 and e e v allle, Schang behind | je apparently poised for a sensa- ’ Sam t e Hoyt, Bob Shawkey, Bush, | tios to his form of cailable ~for | sheer brute power and nal return two A Service on the morfi'ffif Mike MeNally | again will be on hand for utlity in-| ranky Bob Meusel, the California field work. Elmer Smith will remain et Wwith the club as an extra outfieid | Clouter. is another who apparently I e S e R e e R e According to Miller Huggins and Hormany Bl continus o serve 25 5 ateher, S Evoepting Herbie Pennock, all of |oOthers, Meusel can be just as good a | player as he wants to be, but here- |tofore has never extended himself. Kelleher will take his place. Newly installed plumbing. at the | remodeled park has been wrecked, | it became known today, supposedly as a result of labor troubles. The | damage was estimated at thousands of dollars. . {RUTH REPLIES TO SUIT, B DENYING GIRL’S CHARGES | NEW YORK, April 17.—George Her- man (Babe) Ruth. stellar homfe-run hitter nf the New York Yankees, filed a formai answer today to the $50,000 damage suit brought against him by Delores Dixon, in which she charged that Ruth was the father of her un- born child. Ruth entered a general denial to; each allegation in her complaint. . ROLLER SKATE 185 MILES. 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Thus, while Huggins has the same players this spring, he has a different sort of a ball club. Its spirit and mo- ralg are vastly different, and if they {remain so the Yankees wili be far {more formidable this year than they | ever were before. Of all the recruits who went south with the Yanks only a few will sur- vive. Some of them have shown a lot of promise, but taken as a squad they haven't been impressive. They might have shown to better advantage if they had played more games, but the weather at New Orleans wasn't con- ducive to frequent practice games and A Lesson Well Earned. But the Yankees are not-an_ ordi- nary club, and the ordinary rules do ot apply where they are concerned. During the greater part of the sea- son of 1922 they looked upon the pennant pursuit as a sort of romp and conducted themselves according- ly. They did not alwayh behave themselves as well as professional athletes should; they.weren't amen- able to discipline, and in divers and sundry other ways they failed to “play the. game.”.” They managed to win a pennant, nevertheless, but suf- fered a humiliating defeat in the world series' and have suffered with remorse ever since. George Herman Ruth. deprived of his home run crown, set his fellow players a compelling example by es. chewing vicé in alf {ts forms and has been a model citizen ever since. Other “bad actors” also have seen the light. and the natural consequence is that the Yankees, with an almost identical personnel and a far different club from the swaggering erew that slugged its way to a pennant last —eeeeee only the very best of them have| played against the Robins. Infielder Johnny Wight, who played with the New Orleans and Chatta- {nooga clubs of the Southern Associa- } tion last season, will remain with the { club temporarily, but needs additional | seasoning in the minors and probably will be released as soon as Manager | Huggins can acquire by purchase or | trade a more experienced man to act | as utility infielder. Outfielder Hinkey | Haines, former Penn State foot ball istar; Harvel Hendricks, from the Gal- ) veston club of the Texas League, and 10. D. Tucker, from the New Orleans | club of the Southern Association, also have shown great promise, and two of them ‘may be retained for utility pur- | poses throughout the entire season, Two Pltchers May Stick. | Oscar Roettger. George Pipgras. El- | {bert Johnson and Fred Spates proved ! 10 be the best of the younger pitching |set, and two, or possibly three, of them will survive the “cut” of June 16. when the twenty-five-player limit rule becomes effective. 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