Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1923, Page 31

yndicate Base Ball Crux of Coast Row : John Levi Real Triple-Threat Artist ISSUE IS TO BE SETTLED AT CONCLAVE IN CHICAGO Question of the Draft Is Back of Controversy in Far . West Circuit, However—Case May Be Laid Before Judge Landis. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. N presidents—W, IL McCarthy, Harry Williams, who was elected pri Avalon by members of the faction opposed to McCarthy’s stand in regard | 10 the ownership of the Seattle club. he controversy hinges tpon McCarthy's contention that the Los; Angeles and Seattle clubs are owned by the same person, the inference { being that that person is William W McCarthy insists that this is syndic Mall law.” There is no doubt that sy obnoxious and always been erad But the Seattle club takes issue properly owned and managed, and wote in any meeting. The two presidents will la; s hefore the hlcago, and p ioner Landis issue, as McCarthy friends, who admire his exécutive | abllity whether they agree with all | his base ball theorles or not. Behind this contro there is| something else—the draft. Thare are | club owners in that part of the coun- try_who do not wish to develip base | ball talent, but are willing to take the maior league castoffs. The Chi- cago Nationals, who are in common | with the Lo ngeles club, wish a conditlon whercby they may use the Californla club to dev nd.handie plavers treely. Under the fule in vogue In 1923 the National club could not send plavers to Los Angeles un- less they were subject draft. The Paclfic Coast League would not accent plavers who were subject to draft, so that made a deadlocl 1t Chicago were interested in S, a eged. it would have ot only Los Angeles, but Seattle to combine ¥ their | iation | i for the Pacific Coast | Leasue ! The. farming arrangement which was thought to be eliminated from base ball by the agreements which wers passed some years ago in real- 1ty has come back in another form, and indirectly thers is us much dis- position to farm as ever, excipt that players are shifted from club: to club | under the same ownership. Minor leagues whic elst on major league prefer to sub- | s ins 1 ung players . are which clamor for the draft. There are clubs in all the leagues +which feel this way, though they ul- | timately will crash as two or three already have done, If the national assoclation goes into the California controversy - it will have to determine whether ‘there is syndicate base ball In the Pacific ) Coast League and whether it has the right to review an election held by a member league, If It sidesteps, | MeCarthy will be left to fight by him leaguye, EW YORK, November 15.—The Pacifie Coast League will come east | to'the general base ball meeting at Chicago in December with two | who held the post in 1922-23, and esident at a recent meeting held at rigley. jr., of the Chicago Nationals. ate base ball and illegal under base ndicate base ball, where it exists, is icated whenever proved. L. with McCarthy, insisting that it is that its representatives can legally League self, and the Pactfic Co until never will be the same again e. (Copyright. 1923.) ZEV-IN MEMORIAM RACE HOLDS STAGE LOVISVILLE, Ky.. November 15.— Thorsughbred admirers here were prepgred today to extend an enthusi { astic: welcome to Zev when the Ran- cocag stable’s crack three-year-old arrived fyom the east for the sched- uled- mafch at Churchill Downs Sat- urday with In Memoriam. A mes- sawe recelved here last night from amuel C. Hildreth, Zev's trainer, sald’ he was shipping the Kentucky winner and three other horses to_the Downs. Further interest In the race Sat- urddy, when Zev will match speed over a distance of a mile and one- quapfer with his conqueror in the nia champlonship. each horse ca; ng 126 pounds, was aroused to- day by publication of news dis- pat-hes from Baltimore that Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson was read: to mateh My Own agalnst Zev, I oriam and Homestretch. y n cn’s owner was said to be ready to | start his horse at Bowle any time be- twaen November 24 and December 1 over a mile and a quarter or greater distance. the only condition upon which he would Insist being that the sck be fast. Meanwhlile Carl Wiedemann's sturdy son of McGee was sald to be “fit” for the tilt with Zev. Wednesday Train- er. Robert Gilmore gave In Memoriam a trial at the distance, full welght up. He was reported to have covered the tance, under restraint. in 2.10 and ished ‘wound and strong. RATHSKELLERS SET D. C. RECORD WITH 666 GAME T ) in the National Capital League the District duckpin record_in the se for a score of 666. Earlier in the season the Rathskellers compiled a 621 | in a District League game. The old Belmonts of the District League for years held the previous District record of 657. The:existing . high team set of 1,512, mad= by the | Royals in 1917 against Roanoke, is expocted to stand for years to come. The Rathskellers' set last pight to- taled 1,749, just three pins behind the mark made by the same team in the District League. The best texm set in league game was rolled last season | y ihe Manhattans of the District \League—1,755—while battling with | the King Pins. t Harvill of the Rathskellers last fnight toppled the maples for 171, In the record team game, three pine NATIONAL CAPITAL. | - Nation Internal Revenus. | JHeelor. ... 83 105 107 Bleckwell : 80 89 9 | Segrazth’, U1 108 84 Rhins 8 Poeeo 10 138 160 108 07| Erieger. 107 102 98 Totals.. 623 518 477 Rathskellors. 121 130 95 120 171 99 1iz 100 . 116 137 [ 114 128 108 90 88 100 112 1. s | 88 92 99 106 87 107 Miller. . Campbell, Totats. 525 367 53 | LEAGUE. 97 99 99 0 97 107 Totals.r 491 518 469 NAUTICAL / Totals.. 471 454 511 DISTRICT LEAGUE. B'enson.jr- H.Iseman, { Totals.. 531 473 490 | Totals.. 502 481 504 Totals.. 472 50D 820 AMERICAN LEGION LEAGUE. . Jasprr Tost Cissel Se: Post. welvh 55 90 108 Jobeen. o115 107 85 Loy : z N SLY . 80 98 101 O.Clark. Handicsp: 10 10 10 Totals.” 468 501 853 Totals.. BUREAU OF STANDARDS LEAGUE. 114 111 90 | 8l szos EHIE Sesis I.Ei:si 00 | Friend. HERE was some “stepping out” jn the local bowling field last night ! on the Rathskeller and King Pin alley The Rathskellers, bowling against the Post Office boys, broke cond game by smashing the maples short of McPhilomy's high game of 174, made while bowling with the Petworths of the District League. Harvill's total set was 390, his final game being only 99. In the District League, the King Pin boys grabbed three games from the Terminal Ice quint last night on the former’s alleys, shooting them up to a tie for first place with the Curb Cafe, having thirteen wins and eight defeats. Inge of the King Pins was the star of the evening, geting a nice set of 357. Al Works was ‘way off his game as anchor man for the Termi- nals, although he would have had to do gome of his best stepping to off- set the onrush of the King Pins. MASONIC LEAGUE. Acacia. Arminius, 89 110 114 Heintm'an 86 106 .89 82 97 Bertrum.. 117 93 85 9 110 Kromditter 81 96 82 #9 93 Blind. ... 85 85 Mergnor., 88 134 ~— Handicap. 11 11 11 Totals.. 476 530 447 Pontalphs. Jacobson. 94 100 Belbert... 92 65 Zuendel. Collwel Levisohn. 87 83 95 3 8 7 78 Stock...." 98 108 117 Handicap. 31 31 2 Totals.. 470 500 478 04 80 88 4 R Ga 3 §|5gens &l pesue - Elsazse® Bl e BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUE. ‘Berbe: 5 Hullburen 101788 78 Conen o™ %, Thomas. . 91 3 Bmith 878 86 Bous 1 3 9 Totals.. 448 438 468 Totals.. HEBREW INTEROLUB LEAGUE, Y. M. H. A. Comm: i 180 118 g Bris % 97 3 113 131 | ST ;’ € Totals.. 469 ‘WAB] HEFTL HE T 514 Totals.. HINGTON LADIES' LI nE o, 89! &l ses "THE STAR’S PANORAMA OF BASE BALL 4 Pictorial Highlight History of the ‘National Game (Copyright, 1923, in U. S. and Great Britain by North American Newspaper Alliance. All rights reserved.) NO. + There is a diamond that can't be mined. It has to be laid out. It has probably made more money in its lifetime than is represented by any crown jewels. It does not emit colors, but on its surface { you see stars. What diamond is | 3s large or as valuable as the i base ball diamond? Who drew the first diamond is often disputed. Should honors be { ‘given to Maj. Gen. Abner Double- day or to Alexander J. Cart- wright? Here’s the story. In the carly days, when one old cat, two, three and four old cat were the 'fashion, it was clearly seen { that in order to get bases within i proper range there must be some { sort of square, with its four cor- 1 Then came town ball, which gradually olved type of base ball known in New Eng- land as the Massachusetts game and outside of New England as the New York game. It was not until young Abner | Doubleday of Cooperstown, N. Y. in 1839, drew a diamond, | ! that the present field began to | | | | i i i develop. There has been little change in the field since that day, except in the proportious, but the question whether Cartwright is not entitled to some of the glory of the diamond has not been sat- isfactorily settled. Some hi torians have declared that Cart- wright, walking one afternoon in | 1842 or thereabouts, in the Mur- TENPIN TOURNAMENT LIST TO SET RECORD CHICAGO, November 15.—Tha twen- ty-fourth annual American bowling congress will set another record en- try mark. with indications pointing to competition between 2,200 team A. L. Lantry, secretary of the co grees, has announced. | Ten thousands of tenpin bowlers will come to Chicago February 23 for thelr annual national contest. The| 1923 show held at Milwaukee carly | this year brought out 1,956 teams. It 1= expected that Milwaukee is to send 300 teams to the 1924 congress and Detroit 12 Tke first six days of the tournament are to be allotted to Chicago teams. ! Prize money is expected to exceed| | $90.000. —_— | TAKE BOXER OFF TRAIN FOR DODGING CONTEST: JOPLIN, Mo, November 1i. Frankle Mason, former fyweight| champion of the world, was taken | from a train at Monett, Mo., late last | night and is being held there at th request of Carthage officials, to whom a complaint was made that Mazon | fran out” of a match after Leing given his expense money and returned | his $100 forfeit posted as a guarantes | | of appearance. { Mason was scheduled to box Bat| Stewart, local boxer, in the main | event of a boxing card in Carthage, last night. When the time came for Mason to appear it was learned that | he had left the arena and boarded | an eastbound train for St. Louis. | Authorities notified police at Monett, who took Mason from the train. | ALTIMORE, November 1 Md, for a side bet of $10,000. The of one and a quarter miles or fart James F. O'Hara, general manager of the Bowle track, sald yesterday that he would offer a purse of $10,000 for such a contest, and that any con- ditions agreed upon by the owners of the horses also would be agreeabie to him. Rear Admiral Grayson is willing to make the proposed contest a two, | three or four cornered affair, and flung his challenge not only to Zev,a thorn in My Own's flesh since before the International race at Belmont Park, but also to In Memorlam, Zev conqueror, and to H. ' Alterman's| Homestretch. Homestretch beat out a good fleld to win the $5.000 Pimlico autumn handicap, November’ 3. My Own's failure to come through at Latonia, Admiral Grayson lays to the bad track. The Grayson colt showed top-notch form In a work-out at Pimlico Tuesday, doing a mile in 1.40. He was shipped immediately afterward to Benning, D. C., Where he now fs being kept on edge, Homestretch also likes a’ fast track. He ran ngainst Zev {n serial No. 3. Pimlico, but never had a chance be- cause of the muddy track. Later he Riythm in the golf troks be- gins when you start the clubhead Back from the ball and 1t ends when the stroke, finished, fada the clubkead well around over your lett shoulder. If there is m break in_the rhythm the shot shows it. Take up the exe by mov- ing the left hand over to & point even with the right log. Now hold Your position on your right heel unh of the left wrixt aweep the clubhead around fo the right and start pushing the whole left arm upward from the shoul- der. About half way up the arm wrill at the left shoulder socket. At that point let your whole body go with the club. = At the top of the awing your welght in wtill on your right heel and you ly t is up-swing until it is smooth and graceful minus any muscular tomsion. Practice it untfl you get the 17 of it. When you get that feel, you will be in the land of rhythm, v (Copyright, Joha ¥. Dille. Co.) B LOOK TO OLYMPIC GAMES. NEW YORK, November 15.—Local 5ymullu have been requested by hairman Roy E. Moore of the Olym- pic gymnastic committee to begin practice December 1. He intends to issue similar calls in Philadelphis, Chicago. Boston, St. Louls,.Los ARme geles and New Orleans. 9—WHO INVENTED TH ALEXANDER J. CARTWRIGHT, WHO, IN 1842, SHOWED SOME BOYS IN NEW YORK HOW TO LAY OUT A DIAMO! ray Hill section of New York, came upon a group of boys play- ing one-old-cat. He took his cane and drew for them a diamond. He put players on the bases and in the thrce outfields, and it is believed that these boys played Caicher roow Pt » DIAGRAM OF BASE BALL FILELD the very first game of base ball ever played in this country, But surely Cartwright didn’t invent the game on the spur of the mo- ment. Where did he get the idea of the diamond? e would rather believe that he had seen the game played before. But Doubleday is to be given credit for the diamond, let us make sure credit be given Cartwright for the organization of the first base ball club in America—the famous Knickerbockers of New York. And since Cartwright went with the forty-niners to Cali- fornia, during the gold craze, may we not believe that he too] with him the diamond and th rules of the game and starteq those hardy pioneers playing ball! Probably we will have to take as final the report of the base ball commission, appointed in 1907, to determine the origins of the game: That to Doubleday belongs the credit of having de- termined the main features of the game. It seems unlikely that Cartwright had never seen a game of ball before 1842, The Knickerbocker club, in 1845, began establishing the pro- portions of the diamond. Their fourteen points in base ball opened with section 1: “The bases shall be from ‘home’ to second base, forty-two paces; E BASE BALL DIAMOND? ABNER DOUBLEDAY. HE DREW A DIAMOND IN 1839, AND THE COURSE OF THE GAME BEGAN TO DEVELOP ALONG DEFL NITE LINES. from first to third, daces equidistant.” Tomorrow: “Base Ball as It Was Once Played.” forty-two DIAGRAM OF BASE BALL FIELD Taken From a Publication of 1869 TITLE RACE FOR MY OWN | AT BOWIE BEING SOUGHT;, —Despite My Own's poor showing in the | ¥ Latonia championship, November 3, Rear Admiral Cary T. Gray- | ed son is not at all convinced that his thoroughbred is out of the at running for this year’s championship honors. Accordingly, he last night issued a challenge to race My Own against | BRITISH AND FRENCH GOLF! iany three-year-old in the country during the coming meeting at Bowie, admiral's wish is that the race be 38 arranged for a date between November 24 and December 1, at a distance her. His only stipulation, Admiral Grayson said, was that the track be fast. was withdrawn from the $10.000 Pim- lico cup because of more mud. Thus Rear Admiral Grayson's con- dition that the track be fast is ex- pected to meet with the approval of the owners of the challenged stars. For the moment son is waiting. | TUNNEY AND GREB WILL FIGHT ON DECEMBER 10 NEW YORK, November 15.—Nego- iations for a fifteen-round match be- ween Gene Tunney and Harry Greb, | respective holders of the American | llght heavyweight snd world middle- elght titles, at Madison Square Gar- en December 10, have been complet- by Tex Rickard. Tunney's title will be the only one stake. {CHAMPIONS TO VISIT U. S. | NEW YORK, November 15.—Arthur | Havers, British open golf champlon, {and James Ockenden, French open champion, will arrive December 20 | trom Europe to spend three months, heading directly for the Pacific coast |and returning southward and east- | ward for the winter tournaments. A cablegram to this effect has been | received by Joe Kirkwood, former { Australian star. Why pay twenty cents for two cigars when Cinco gives you two better ones for fifteen? 1 you don't know Cinco is better than most ten-cent cigars, today is a good time to find it out. It's all in the Eisen- lohr Process—backed by over 70 years’ expe* rience, Exoly W. H. WARNER 504 Eleventh St. N.W. lusive Washisgton Distributer J. . BLACKWELL & SON’ Alex; , Va, Northers Virginia Distributars Fram a Pubfication of 1460 ;ENGLAND HAS BIG ENTRY i IN WINTER OLYMPICS | PARIS, November 15.—England's |team tn the Olympic winter sports events at Chamonix will comprise fAfty athletes. including a hockey team, the participation of which had been doubtful until the French Olym- pic committee received official advice from London yesterday. The rubbers, trainers and delegates will bring the British delegation to sixty members. Senator Pontes, president of the Portuguese Olympic committee, has sent official acceptance of the French i Invitation to participate {n next year's | games. Portugal will send thirty | athletes, competing in the association | toot ball and sculling events and in the running over the longer distances. Senator Pontes is enthusiastic_over three marathon possibilities. These j runners will reach Paris early in May. GARTERS No etal touch you eam; These gatters are made of I%igchpeppy,longmetch elastic. They fit your legs every pair. Ask for them by name—Wideweave PARIS, | HASKELL INDIAN IS HAILED AS RIVAL OF JIM THORPE Star of Redskins Who Play the Marines in New York Saturday Excels in Bucking and End Runs as Well as Punting and Passing. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. N Jim Thorpe ever was. should be made for failing memor sonal observation is able to testif foot ball player. | well. cantiot be stopped. After the Minnesota game in which | he shome with meteoric brilllancy. | doing about three-fifths of the work, | | Bill Spaulding, the Gopher coach, took | {pains to congratulate him upon his {play and then asked him how he felt| after his strenuous endeavors. 1 Levi replled simply and honestly | that he felt he had hardly got going, | that if he could enter another full | period game at that minute he be- | ilieved he could make such a showing | as_he woutd like to make. | Levi is a genuine triple threat man | inasmuch as he can crash the line as | well as run the ends or slant off tackle. Most so-calied triple threat men are good at everything save line | cracking #nd hence strictly speaking they are not triple threats. But when | you have a man llke Levi, who is a| formidable machine when' he comes | into the Iine, who can punt and throw | the ball, then you have something | real. i Fifty vears ago next Saturday | Princeton and Yale played their first | foot ball game. Only the Princeton- | Rutgers game played 1889, antedates this early intercol- | ilexiate struggle. Throughout this { half-century Yale and Princeton have | maintained an unbroken rivairy. save | In the two war years of 1917 and 1918. | Thelr relations have never been in- | terrupted by quarrels or unpleasant- ness of whatever nature. This is a wonderful record, partie- ularly so when one considers the fe- verish desire for victory which has been marked in the great autumn, sport since the 80s. Both universities have contributed | much to the sport. not only from.a | constructive standpoini. but in & high-minded devotion to the ideals of amateurism. Both have had_their ups and downs in the game. but i a general average they have main-| tained a balance of proficlency through all the years that has kept them always among the proud lead- | ers of the gridiron sport. Tradition | that has risen in the course of their nlike asgocia- | e and much of | it is brave and inspiring and clean. Too many institut.ons ignore the ural rivalry. This, in sis, is the thing that bufks largest in college sport—a tra- ditlon of frieadly association. ~Yale | and Princeton might have lost every game played thus far, yet the bowl at New Haven on Saturday would be none the less crowded with under- graduates, alumni and friends of the | {two universities. That Is how tr: dition works out. It imparts the classic flavor and teams that neglect | a bullding process of the sort in favor of ~barnstorming trips here, {there and everywhere, generally in the spirit of advertising and commer- clalism, are headed the Wrong way. in November, | | low. Camels Piedmonts Chesterfields Old Mills Lucky Strikes Sweet Caporals Beechnuts Sovereigns Fatimas Omars Lord Salisburys Melgchrinos, No. 9 Moguls Murads Men—“get in” on this big event. the list and notice just how low we have priced your favorite brand. Stock up, while prices are so Remember this Cigarette Sale is for two days only—Friday and Saturday. EW YORK, November 15—Foot ball enthusiasts of the metropo! tan district who are anxious to see a Simon-pure triple-threat artist will have their wish gratified if they go to the Yankees' park, where the Haskell Indians play the Ma three-ply performer is John Levi of Levi has been hailed in the west as a better all-around back than This is saying a None the less, that Levi really is an e ne Corps Saturday. the Redskin outfit. The at deal, and so the writ allowance from per- aordinary e He can do anything that a back is called upon to do, and he does His reputation is that if he gets any start in the open field he A trifle exaggerated, but none the less it takes a doughty tackler to bring him down, usually more than one. 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