Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1923, Page 30

30 SPORTS.’ SCHEMES TO AID “WEAK” CLUBS TERMED UNSOUND Recent Proposals for Disposition of Drafted Players Is Held to Prevent Fair and Equitable Dis- tribution of Talent. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, November 16.—Any proposal that the weaker clubs, as they are known in the major leagues, shall be favored by priority of choice in the selection of players meets with scant favor on the part of ‘those who originally formed the rules of base ball govern- ment. It is held by some eastern clubs-that such an alignment of teams against other teams in the same league closes the field for a fair and equitable distribution of playing talent. It discriminates against man- egerial judgment, they argue, putting a premium on poor management and selection of players by giving the unsuccessful manager the advan- tage over the manager who not only knows what he needs, but has earned enough money for his club to be able to afford it. .. It also is a_matter of curiosity to those who have listened to the ideas originated in Chicago as to just who should be the judge of whether a team is weak or strong. A team may become weak over night |do so. In other words, if base ball injuries to plavers. Would it con-'| were a sport, it should be handled so led strong on the |that the tyro, if he entered the na- theory that vers some day | tional game, would have an open mar- would recover, although its imme- | ket and as good a right to get players e condition might cost it its chance | as the man who had been fashioning & ehamplonship? | players all his life. Still another point is made: Suppose | In the same manner, the man who the so-called weak club did Pri- {could win championships by virtue ority selection. What would prevent | of his superior knowledge of players it from turning around and selling & | was not to be restrained from sxer good and needed player to another | cising his ability and his intelli- club? Would it still 'be adjudged 2 | gence. There arc times when a team - would it be classified |in the thick of a champlonship fight which had deliberately | needs to move quickly. it is un- 1 itself and thus be able to do o, the league of which it s a club that wWas | js 3 member has placed an arbitrary win a champion- | check upon it. | “Even now the league declines to permit their clubs to transfer players after a certain date, to prevent cham- pionships being “bought,” but it works both ways, for it prevents a second division team from moving out of the hole in which it has pegged itself. the overanxious ship? to of base ball's Y. 10 of artifi law | club owner from making good if he | had the disposition and the cash tol 'DEMPSEY~-GIBBONS FIGHT DURING WINTER PROBABLE BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, November 16—Now the report is that Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons will mix in a winter indoor bout in New York. Everybody who is close to Rickard or the champion was g about it today. Dempsey is reported to be on his way from Los to Chicago via Dempsey City, where he will meet Jack Kearns and Eddic Kane, Tommy Gibbons’ manager. The talk is the bout might be held the middle of next month—that's a joke—or later in the winter. Kearns writes that Jack has the | «Mistuh Siki? says Kid Norfolk European bug and is certain to cross | “ain’t no bettuh than nothin' at all the pond about the time when the [to me. Man when I lays mah hand snow begins to melt about New York. |upon that nigguh he gwine fall down hard he'll break his shadow in Nossuh, Mistuh Siki gwine to know he’s minglin’ ember 20." (Copyright, 1823.) Chicago Me- The Lichtenstein of has another Terry Goozeman., Larney thinks Govern middle s n to en- | thusiasm ovér his deft work in dis- posing of kie Schaefter, Eddie Anderson, Joie Sanger and a goodly bunch_of lesser lig Goozeman is Getting back to Dempsey, a friend of Jack Kearns, Harry Dime, who came In from Chicago yesterday, says { that the well known championship one of those battlers who comes in |firm has lost It's animosity against with his head down and everything A Harry Wills and that the Brown fiving. He will be seen hereabouts Panther is likely to be one of three shortly. | men signed up for the king pin this —— year. The real grouch that Mike McTigue | In all Kearns is counting upon three has against his manager, Jacobs, is | clean-up encpunters for the champion, that he signed him up for a fight. | by which time the chances are Jack To hear most of the fighters talk | Dempsey will decide to become Mr. about their managers their grievance | Willlam Harrison Dempsey, capitalist 18 precisely the other way about. and promoter. JOHN BLACK TELLS: The Best Iron Shot I Ever Saw THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D, THE STAR’S PANORAMA OF BASE BALL A Pictorial Hizghlight History of the National Game (Copyright, 1923, in U. S. and Great Britain by North American Newspaper Alliance. All rights reserved.) NO. 10—BASE BALL AS IT WAS ONCE PLAYED. allowed some curious things to happen, like “soaking” and catch- ing a ball on the bound. The Massachusetts game was adopted by the New England As- sociation of Base Ball Players on April 7, 1860. Two years before this the rules were first drawn up to enable teams in different parts .of New England to meet on.a common basis with no room for material dispute. Before this there had been organized clubs in Massachusetts; as early as 1854 the Olympics of Boston were to the fore and in 1856 the commons In the recent world series there was a play of Meusel's which, had it not turned out successfully, would have cost his club some $50,000. In the 1912 series Fred Snodgrass of the Giants muffed a fly ball and because of that his club lost the pennant and $30,000 besides. In 1908 Fred Merkle failed to touch second base and his mistake cost the Giants $75,- 000 and each player about $2,500. These financial turns of the wheel of fortune in base ball show how cgmplicated the game has become. By the side of it base saws exciting contests between ball in its infancy was indeed an | the Olympics and the Green infant. - Mountains. Then, in 1857, there At the time the Knickerbock- | Wis a deluge of new clubs, like e o N N i Myt b bentat the Bay State, the Tri-Mountain, 5 the Bunker Hill and the Win- lished there were two games of gm‘% It might well be said that ball in vogue. New England it wfs the healthy work of the would have nothing toslo at first | Tri-Mountains that removed from with ball as she was played in Boston old-timers a consuming d 2 - . opposition to the game, and it was New York, and it was just as bitter vice versa. To the credit this club also that first consented to try the New York game in an of the New York game it must be said that it was nearer the game cffort to standardize the game, as we know it today, though both | regardless of locality. What were some of the char- in New York and in Boston they acteristics of the New England game of base ball? Strange in- P ALL IN THE EARLY DAYS. From Frank Leslie’s Weekly. . THIS IS NOT A PAGE FROM ONE OF THE EARLY CHAPTERS OF H. G. WELL! CROQUET, THE GREAT RIVAL OF BASE $’ “OUTLINE OF HISTORY.” IT IS AN ILLUSTRATION FROM IT SHOWS A STIRRING MOMENT I MERICAN GAME (OR WAS TOUT- UET. YOU WILL OBSERVE THE FRANK LESLIE'S WEEKLY. ‘WHAT WAS THEN THE GRBAT A ED AS SUCH), TO WIT: CRO! 1 was fortunate enough to make an even better shot than this In the qualifying round of the 1923 national open at Inwood. To my mind, that it when things go wrong. it all goes to prove Once a bad play is made, forget it | and put your mind on not repeating it You'll find that come your way. After nine holes of as good golf as one could desire, I went wrong on the tenth, which is a 295-yard elbow af- fair, par 4. A'long, sure drive over the rough 1 put the ball on the green, with a chance for a birdie, but the drive must be perfect, for the green is of handkerchief spread, the smallest on the course, with a deep pit eating into the fairway at its edge. Unluckily, I not only took to the rough, but lodged my ball in deep grass on the downward slope of a rugged hollow, with a tree between me and the green, that towered some fifty feet in the air. Getting out of the grass tangle seemed well nigh impossible, but I managed to break through, only to roll my ball into the sandy bottom of the hollow. With both the trap and the big tree to overcome, an extremely bad score threatened, perhaps a six, a seven or an eight It was seventy-five yards to the pin. Usind)a niblick, I hoisted a high ball that Tanded on the green and hopped into the cup on the first bounce. I don't think any play ever made me any happler than that particular die. Dl am to fare unusually well with Inside Golf! __By CHESTER HOR‘TON__I The average golfer has plenty of trouble hitting the ball at all. The expert golfer hits it exaetly where he wishes to kit it. That is, he makes the club face strike the ball above its center, or below, when swinging a wood eclub as well as the iron. Thus he imparts underspin or overspin to the long Ball as well as with the shorter approach shot. The midiron push shot of 200 luck will . often w ds is made by the expert player o hold the greem because of the underspin imparted to the ball, while the tee shot, driven araingt the wind, can be o energized overspia that the ball will roil enough to make ap for the wind resintance, Not only is this ensily possible with the golf ball, but i¢ is & com- mon thing with finished players to impart the struight overspin or wnderspin, so that the ball will meither book mor slice. (Copyright, J@n <. Dills Co.) is foolish to be cast down | | my iron plays to the green, as these FRENZY OF THE BLEACHER: two instances and another, which I will now relate, attest. The day before the qualifying round ‘at inwood, playing a practice round, my drive on the 425-yard eighteenth hole left me a good 180 yards from the pin. The eighteenth is not a particular- 1y hard hole. To get on the green you have to cross a water hazard, which they call “the Lauder,” while volding a pond on the right, but there’s plenty of room on all sides of the flag, and if you get a straight ball you don’t ordinarily have trouble on_your second shot. On this day my midiron sent the ball straight for the pin. It holed for a birdie two. I wish I had met with as much luck in the championship play. On the first round, with a similar opportunity before me, I failed to 1ift my midiron shot sufficiently. The ball, fiying low and vn a line, crossed the water hazard, but plunged into the mud at its edge so deeply that we never found it again. DR. LYON WINS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION GOLF EVENT Dr. George M. Lyon of Huntingdon, W. Va., is the champion goifer of the Southern Medical Association. Dr. Lyon’s score of 93 in the tournament which concluded at Columbia yes- terday, was 5 up on his nearest op- ponent, Dr. P. H. Ringer of Nashvillg, Tenn. The consolation prize was won by Dl'ro. H. Casparis of’ Baltimore, with Seven prizes for the “kickers'" SHIPPING BOARD LEAGUE. Logal Claims. % Bk Totals.. 522 450 499 . _LADES L 0. Valuation. ilton, " 83 Tofals.. 376 308 32 Totals.. NAVY DEPARTMENT LEAGUE, Secretary’s Office, 6 McGrath., 88 Pioze Raymond. Keeler. p! Totals.. 456 443 452 Tot ATHLETIC CLUB LEAGUE. Georgotown. cho. - McNulty.. gflflfins olson. Banos Money. Totals.. 491 508 515 Totals.. 478 540 507 WAR DEPARTKENT LEAGUE. E. C. W., Ft. My §8 1i6 92 86 111 114 L 107 98 . 103 108 109 94 109 109 Monteo'y. 101" 95 103 ntgo'y. Alsop..: 107 10 199 94 119 119 Allen 94 101 108 95 91 86 tournament were won as follows: Dr. C. H. Cooke, Asheville, N. C.; Dr. J. G. Eiliott, Charlotte, N. C.; Dr. B. W. Harris, Norfolk, Va.; Dr. R. J. Estell, Lexington, Ky.; Dr. E. R. Miller, Bal- timore, Md.; Dr. C. A. Ranson, Falls Church, Va., and Dr. L. R. De Buys, New Orleans, La. ROWING TANK FOR HARVARD. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 16.— Harvard will launch’ a rowing tank in the Charles river shortly after Thanksgiving day in which rowing Forfeit. Totals.. 196 470 816 Totals.. 337 468 465 80U, RY. CLERKS DUCKPIN LEAGUE. practice will be continued as late as possible this season. The tanker float, fifty-one feet long and five and one. Operation. Dishy coid 3 B Harrison 100 " 83 107 | Rialt 81 Waskow. DOWN THE ALLEYS HEBREW . 286 498 455 COMMERCIAL LEAGUE. Totals.. 477 482 456 Young Men's Shop. 100 107 84 94 79 88 . 104 100 101 89 85 K 86 Weis half feet wide, will accommodate six- 8 87108 s 88 0 teen oarsmen 36 802 Bt —— BOWLING TOURNEY STARTS, | Touis. &7 s a0 2 ST. LOUIS, Mo., November 16.—The annual_tournament of the Middle ‘West Bowling Association will get under way tonight. Approximately 1,600 team members are entered. The toyrnament will end December 9. CARRY IOE CREAM LEAGUE. Totals.. 515 483 508 Freight Auditors, 10tton s 137 8087 1] 51 103 108 20 30 30 510 483 513, s $lanezs H Elrsssss | gzzas ST HAIR STAYS COMBED, GLOSSY Millions Use It — Few Cenis Buys Jar at Drugstora ‘Even stubborn, unruly or shampooad hair stays combed all day In, any style you like. ‘“Hair-Groom” is a dignified combing cream which gives that natural gloss and weli-groomaed effect.to your halr—that final touch to good dress both in business and on soclal occasions. “Hair-Groom" Js Greaseless; clso belps c THE DIAMOND WAS A SQUARE IN THE NEW ENGLAND GAME. THE BASES WERE BOUNDS AND ONCE AROUND MADE A TALLY. IT TOOK SEVENTY TALLIES TO MAKE A GAME. deed does it sound that wooden stakes were needed for bases; that one or two men were al- lowed behind thé catcher to field for him, so to speak, in case he allowed any ball to pass him. They did not use a diamond, but played in a square and the bases were called bounds. To make the four bases was to make a round or tally, and the players at the bat tcok their “knocks.” The wooden bases, or stakes, pro- jected four feet from the ground, an-instrument of torture for the modern player, who wants a bag sufficiently iting to break the fall when a slide is necessary. There were reierees and tally- men, for a round of the bases counted as one tally and seventy tallies _counted a game. As in the New York game, however, there were indications that the New England game had possibilities for futurc develop- ment. The men who came to the bat in those days used to stall a game unmercifully. Pitchers served balls until the muscles of their pitching arms fairly quiv- ered with pain. But the 1860 Massachusetts rules put a stop to this procedure; balls allowed to pass that were considered good were called strikes, and three of them meant “out.” One of the sport writers of the day, having his curiosity aroused by the shape of the bat, said in an article, “the players have bats or sticks something of the form of a policeman’s truncheon.” The fan of those days who wit- nessed a New York game or a Massachusetts game was treated to curious proceedings. Many was the time a base runner was carried from the field, the ball having soaked him in tNe ribs and left several broken. Many was the time a fielder whipped his cap from his head, thus catching the ball. Soak a man with a ball to- day and see what the umpire would say; resort to cap catch- ing and hear the modern fan roar. The square field of the Massachusetts game was a_relic of four-old cat or town ball. Tomorrow: “Fashion Plates in Base Ball” GIANTS SIGN AINSMITH AS COACH OF PITCHERS NEW YORK, November 16.—The New York Giants made another move in their reconstruction campaign to- day when they signed Eddie Ain- 109 | smith, veteran catcher, wWho was & free agent. Alnsmith played most of last sea- son with the St. Louis Cardinals. Re- leased late in the last summer, he \was signed by Brookiyn as an ermer- fency backstop, but let out, uncondi- tionally, at the end of the dlamond ear. YRext season will be Alnsmith's four- teenth in major league compan Radiators and Fenders 10 D! 'RENT MAKES RADIATORS A'% MADE OR REPAIRED. Cores installed in any make WITTSTATT’S R. and F. WORKS 819 18th., F. 6410. 1485 P. M. 7443, ¢ BI?L~STREET NW. et AUTO GLASS FOR WINDSHIELDS OR BODIES. Installed While You Wait. Taranto & Wasman 1017 NEW YORK AVE. N.W. LONGWOOD ’ Better Collars with roll front and lock BRUCEW 00D . 4row thick, Neavy, (ustrous halr. Se- X ware &f arsasys ¢, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1923, e Base Ball’s “Priority Plan” Criticized : Zev-In-Memoriam Race Stirs COAST IS BRAGGING OF “FIGHTING FOOL” By FAIRPLAY. NEW YORK, November 16.—At last there appears to be a real, roar- ing, tearing, ever-battling feather- welght In sight. He is Ernfe Gooze- man of the Pacific coast, who has been opening the eyes of the mid- dle west fans of late. His real test the other night against Billle Levine in East Chicago {s touted as a revela- tion by men who have no financial interest in the boy~ They say he likes to fight, and the fans know it, from bell to bell. ‘Westerners ray that the nearest approach to this fighting fool was Ad Wolgast, the Cadillac wildeat. Efforts are now making to match him against Joe Burman and if he gets by this encounter with flying colors he will set sall for New York, where it is predicted he will be as Sreat & sensation as was Stam Ket- chell. Maxy Hoft of Philadelphia is named as the biggest contributor to the benefit fund for poor Al Lippe, who has gone to Arizona suffering from two diseases, either one of them un- usually deadly. Hoff came up with $2,000. More than $5,000 already has been collected and Billy Gibson, Leo Flynn, Jimmy Rothwell and others who have been ralsing the money say $6,000 will be enough. Jeff Smith was Lippe’s leading boxer. Billy Gibson sheuld make much of Pal Moore, the “uncrowned cham- plon.” Gibson says he is going to keep Pal busy all through the winter, which will please the fans, because no walloper goes better with the cus- tomers than Moore. pearances Harry Greb is going to be weaker than ever when he makes the weight limit of the class of which he is champion. The Pittsburgh windmill is getting to be a big guy. FIGHT IS POSTPONED. MILWAUKEE, Wis, November 16. —The Pinkey Mitchell-Nate Goodman boxing match which was scheduled for November 16 has been postponed for ten days because of injuries the former received in trainin, entuckv FANS WATCH TURF STARS IN WORK-OUTS FOR EVE! 1 Eastern Horse Stands Trip Well and May Be Favorite Over Home Entry in Contest at Churchill Downs Tomorrow. q < i OUISVILLE, Ky., November 16—Lovers of thoroughbred horsed arose early today and journeyed out to Churchill Downs, drawn to the track by the presence of Zev and In Memoriam, contenders in a match race scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, in which the Rancocas stable’s crack colt will attempt to reverse the decision of the Latonia championship, in which he was defeated by Carl Wiedemann's colt, and win back to the position of defender of the title of champion threes year-old. Zev arrived late yesterday fi vas y i trainer, Samuel C. Hildreth, 15 have stood the trip wel. A galop oves a mile was the workout scheduled today for the Kentucky Derby winner. . Trainer Robert Gilmore is expected to ask In Memoriam to step a brisk half mile as a finishing touch to his traning for the race Saturday. cYCLOPs WILL RAGE _ lm‘r‘.:-lsh hutlh: dfl'f?"“v, “;sc\:::(m.“:;: AT THE BOWIE TRACK | the relative merits of the contestants | has become more general and with the aavanc isitors for the v George M., Odom's “string” for the impending meeting of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, November 20 to 30, inclusive, at Prince Georges Park, Bowle, will be the black swayback Cyclops, a Prince Georges native son. Modo, hero of earlier Bowie meetings, has been of no use since back in the spring. He is out of racing until next season at least. Marshall Field has retired Emotion and Scarab. Emotion is to |0 that distance. The horses are to be bred next spring to Sir Martin, | CATTY equal weight, 126 pounds each Scarab to Campfire. Robert L. Gerry | sy owns Cyclops. | = But Cyclops may be good for a race | seven furlongs. And Cyclops will e or s0. The black fellow looked smart | practically on his own dunghill. in a couple of races of one mile and | Like Abou Ben Ahdem, son of Omar seventy vards at Pimlico. He had his | Khayyam and La Deliverance, the dash and hung to his work in the | star performer of the stable of Gage stretch. There will be plenty of races | Taylor, C ops hails from of six furlongs, six furlongs and a | Woodward's half and seven furlongs for him. He just about five miles, does not avant to go any farther than | the south of Prince G apparent today. ans In Memorium, a Kentucky horse, owned by a Ken- tuckian, s a sentimental favorite. | Whether Blue Grass turf fans “pul their pocketbooks where | hearts are, however, re seen. 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