Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1923, Page 30

GO FARTHER FROM HOME ¢ TO TRAIN THAN IN PAST Spring Camps in 1924 to Florida—Owners Hope to Defray Expenses y Profits From Exhibition Games. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, December 18—Class AA leagues will go farther as from home to train in 1924 than they have in the past N City team, for plans are changed. from the towns where the Cardinals Indianapol It is impossible to t in the north can Association has found that it is clubs are to do anything Association teams, especialy in the western section Another reason willing go f little money of ple up some cxpenses in spri going t instance, will are in why the minors and spend : possibility 1 of their are rore is the of nnati. The connes Athleties and very friendly provided C that certainly hletics any harm, not omplish all the Athlctics o also will mak games wit tion hetween the waukee hus been years. Milwaukee n with p! have not done the even if they did that was who Afte men look crests. 5 out for mie had and, most egated in t he was through sked him if he wal a stepping victim to their Manthattans, 32 to 18 City Club performers tomorrow nigh by any other quint this sedson. City by the measure of the | Basket Ball Tips | | tfloor to lead the ! ten: SHORT VS LONG PASSING % MEN USUALLY mv A‘I'TACK TWO in ATTAC MS 12 AEN ARouN 3 GROUPE! D fl!‘N GRCUPED INCENTER IN CO.NER; LONG PRSSES ACCURATE « SLOW: EASY TO INTERCEPT FEATUAES ‘STAR| LONG SHOTS FAST - HARD TO INTERCEPT , DEVELOPS o TEAM PLAY are antages of the short over the long passing gan c* wered by w. E MEANWELL Conch, University of Wixconxin, in- ventor of the xhort-passing game, the crixs-cross attack and the five-man | defense, Always has a dangerous and leading team in the conference, ort L‘\'rx'i The advantages of the sh the long pass attack to my: mind, very decided. (1) The short- pass game throws two forwards, a| center and one guard, four men, into | every attack. (2) It concentrates the m in close pro ity to lhci ball and so assures the best chance of securing the very frequent “loose” ball. (3) The grouped men are chiefly in the center of the fioor | rather than the corner: 1d so are in excellent position only for attack, but to swing back into five- man, two-line defense position ir stantaneously on losing tlre ball, thus insuring a strong defense. (4) It is the form of attack that can be started better irom the two-line po- sition assumed for defense position than can the long-pass game. (5) Short passes are more accurate, faster and more difficult to intercept than long on Thus the short-pass team retains the ball for a graater proportion of the game than does the long-pass one, and possession of the ball is absolutely the best de- fense known. (6) The short-pass game develops closer co-operation and team play and e star long shot. (7) Because the ball is brought close to goal before being shot, almost every one on the team can he delegated to shooting. This does away with the one-man sharpshooter and makes the team doubly dangerous in that all are scorer: (Copyright, 1 , Associated Editors.) —_— . SCHOOL SOCCER TEAMS OPEN SERIES FOR TITLE Soccer teams of Monroe and Plerce schools were to meet in the first of three-game serles for the city champicnship this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock on the Unlon station plaza. Monroe has not been scored upon this seasen and Pierce also has played consistently. ENTERS THE WILCO GAMES. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., December 18. = Karl Anderson, tormer University of Minnesota star hurdler and present holder of the world record for wi-yard. indoor hi hurdies, has ac- nvitation to compete in mes at Madison Square York, Januar. National A. A U. JACKSON BUYS HORSES. Jackson of Washington, well Milwaukee will go to Palmetto, Fla., and Columbus are contemplating trips to the far south. gainst their big lcague rivals it they must plav good ball to ho'd the fans. 2 | like it said | right | went to Ch | taled dog to do it Mil- stone to great addition of several new lover the Princes: {and jtween the Calvary | ter winning, ates theirow night in its gymnasium. do the |son is exvected when the strong Co- , spon- | Range From California to The Kansas | Calif., unless its| which is not x.\r' | train at Vernon, and Giants are expected to tra and get a good start, and the necessary to get a good start The American | such close proximity to the majors | “I'm just sticking around because 1 Mack. And he kept sticking until one morning | on as 1o he the S when no through getting Simmons, Thomas, who anght for Mack, had told him to ket Simmons if he had to give six pl and a rat- Simmons p reveport belong to th ayed the outfield for | 1 Simmons did not . which < in, Milw option. Simm of games W tha vear, batted ndling wood ¥ of the scouts But Mack Thomas h on to his s! advantage b had been keeping hi Of course, when it wa any one to get Simmor wan nted H s some too late for rybody m most of Christ- success. . Peck tossers list last night when they took the | Should they show the way to xhcl t. they can claim a record unequaled | Club has been strengthened consid- player. Peck presented a spee |tion adept in pas in defeating the Manhattans. Gollan tossed eigt ¢ combina- teaw Johnny from the | ever de- | ve play by ¥ and Gross | ded. i New York Natio: of the City Club, Playing under professional rules, the Nation- iI! led at the end of the first half, The amateur rules prevail in the second half and the New Yorj ers made numerous fouls. also ¥ disposed 1 tossers, 55 to 34, encounters the ‘Washington. Preps tonight at 8:30 o'clock on the Congress Helghts floor. In a preliminary tilt Washing- ton Prep Juniors will meet the sturdy Navajo fiv wley were | main fa lf‘l‘ s win over Milan Conch Garrinom of the Capitol Preps wants all candidates to report for this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the National Guard armory. Corinthian Midgets and times were to 3:30 oclock ers of both teams are urged to_report at the Henry- Polk playgrounds at 3 o'clock. the Yosemite tossers were offered little | position when they trounced the | shington Barracks five, 24 to 1 scored five fleld goals for the | Clever shooting by Jimmy White of | ity enabled his team to trim the | de or Athletic Club 15 to 10. Su- | v proved loo mu for the lose | Girl tossers of th Lexington Ath- letic Club scor i o 30 to 13 victory | sextet. Misses Ochs | rred for Lexington, vior performed credit- W while Miss 1 ably for Prince A spirited mateh was waged b, Baptist Indepen: e Wire team, the 20 to 13. Thomason & Kount each made three flonr go M. Koons shone for the Live Wires | ents and the Li Hudson Athletie Association showed the way to the Athletic Club, 30 to 25. Jordon, and Harding' of Hudson and Aber- nethy of the Paramounts played woll. Liberty Athletic Club ends of a double-header, the Aleckos of Alexandrt and the Montrose quint, 31 to 17, Causey’s performance in both games was exceptional. | took both defeating 22 to 12 8t. Andrew's Junfors made it seven in a row at the expense of the S Mary's Juniors, 30 to 26, A last- minute spurt, with Ourand and Thels starTing, enabled St Andrew's to win, MacDonald and L. Brenner played a brilliant game for the losers. i A challenge has been issued by the | to tossers that want action in the | und cla: Call Leo Jaffe between 5 and 6 | Terminal ¥. M. C. A. team is anxious to meet some unlimited quint tomor- Chal- lenges are being received at Frank- lin 8559 between 5 and 6:30 o'clock. One of the bext gamen of the sea- lumbia Junior team tackles the Cardi- nal Athletic Club of Hyattsville Thursday night. at 7:30 o'clock, on the Wflson Normal School court. Games with Columbia can be arrang- ed by calling Columbia 916-J. SCHOOL BASKETERS HAVE A BUSY WEEK Washington high school quints hope to smooth out some of their rough spots In tilts this week. Games have been booked for six of the teams. Tossers of Tech and Gonzaga High schools were to make thelr 1923-24 bow this afternoon, the former meet- ing the Y. M. C. A, Day School five on the Y court and the latter facing the Hyattsville High on the Gonzaga floor. Central is due to encounter Annap- olis High tomorrow afternoon in the former’s gymnasium, while Western is scheduled to invade the Catholic University court for a clash with the.| freshman five. Eplphany Eagles will be the opponents of Business tomors row in the latter's gymnastum, ‘Western plays Georgetown fresh- known sporteman, purchused sev- «ral horses while at Louisville and Lexington last week. Among them was the two-vear-old Mah Jong by Sir Martin out of Simphonius by Lallett & men Friday at the hilltop. Two other school games will be played Friday, Businoss meeting the Anacostia Eegles at Central Coliseum and Eastern taking on Devitt Prep on the Light Blue and Whiteis fisor. ANS WAGNER’S S mfimmmm@ar Chapter 8—Batting .375 With- out the Lively Ball. BY HANS WAGNER. EFORE leaving Paterson B behind in this story it is proper, my editor tells me, to direct attention to the fact that in the three years I had played professional ball I had led all the teams and all the leagu in which I had been a player in batting. Up to the time I” was bought by Louisvilie my batting for the three years was 1 guess that is why yiuss paid the $2.000 average about’ Barney for me. At Steubes Dr: ille my batting av- erage was ; at Warren it was 369. For first full season at Paterson the average was .354 and the cond season Those Dbatting averages were considered more remarkable then than they would be now. We didu’t have the lively ball then. To hit .300 was quite an event I am ngt quite sure in my mind whether it is altogether the liv ball that is causing such hs.u\ hitting nowadays or whether it is poor pitching. [ am certain that the restrictions put on the pitcher have had something to do with it. Pitchers not allowed to soil the ball or use any foreign sub- stance on it, such as resin. Even the spitball is barred except in & few In the old da pitcher could go as far There is no doubt about the lively ball helping batter. Some hits that shoot through the infield would have been stopped in the old da Right here se et me bring in an- other subject. Much has been said about the pitchers wa'king Babe Ruth purposely. It has beei said that they ought to give him a chance; that it is unsportsman- - in his day, had the right _wr\-m.(l,\- be of the is a livel impression tha e pitcl said Ruth to keep him fro; time nothing ¢ some ten days ago, ¢ have over- got to hit it, haven't s the pitch- 1i you let a batter get hold uply be- | of one of the old he knocks to risk | it for a loop. It might not go as driven far. but it would certamly go Don't for- safe. The main idea is for the get that. Nobody was ever abl pite to keep the batter from to hit a ball with the tremendous | hitting the ball on the nose. [f force Ruth puts ifto a he does that they can’t beat him, It is remarkable that he | even with the lively ball” \ 5 s ared That, there lot of truth in pitcher. liy I know t! this is shown by the number of _ he always is afraid of ng one | no-hit games pitched last seaso: back so hard that pitcher | The lively ball didn’t help a bit can't get out of t as long as the pitcher wouldn't Ruth's Wallop a Real Risk. let them get hold of There ety |MIDWEST ATHLETES NEED SNOW AND ICE Some of the players were tell- BARNEY of ba bail or a before he death in a ers pass Babe Rut cause they don't getting hit with straight back at th sty is a s like ing me last spring about a drive | Ruth hit back at Dutch Reuther. The ball struck him on, the tk and made him limp for sev e T Weatern athletic departments are for cold weath orts program is golng tures pro- Reuther, “he it another one back at m that.” By that he meant that he would | 5¢"F\, keep the ball outside or inside so | in climati that Ruth would hit to one field St ather | THREE-CORNERED DEAL IS BALKED BY EBBETS Now, if I was in the hole on Ruth [ doubt if T would lay o W YORK, December 18.—Secre- Tierney of the New York Giants ed that a three-cornered dle and ri gott the pitchers He is passed for that r much as throt tried to negotiate at the re- base ball ting at Chicago Ciny it and Brooklyn d by the refusal ire on the activities of so; ndent upon a turn tw vei N his getting a hit. Th: 3 danger: man up at the plate From my own observation and from talks with other old ball players, I am pretty sure that the pitching is not up to the caliber of a few years ago. The younger ball players do not <oem to study their business as closely as th formerly did. It is the same wi other pl Bill D material from the Tierney and agreed to some of his players to the »bins for Ruether and to pass that tcher to the league champions. Eb- | bets, however, refused to negotlate | unless it was ‘specified that Ructher might clu At all Dealers. $1.25 i Give a Box of 100 Greetings cA GREETINGS BOX of one hundred Herbert Tareytons is a seasonable token of good will, a tan- gible evidence of good taste, and a welcome supply of good cigarettes. areyton Cigarettes Kifng DREY] ng $2.000 for Hans, made one of the best buys in the history e ball. were any number of games and a lot of sn That's when the pitchi good. The Greatest Hit Ever. There is no doubt, the lively ball change in base runni Man- agers do not make their m steal second now except in rare ca What's the use of try 10 ste, nd and, maybe, get- ting thrown out when the next batter might come along and the ball out of the if he didn't do tha good nce of smac past some infielders words, there are more waiting for a hit than i steal second. BUILDING NEW BOATS TO RACE THE BRITONS NEW YORK. December 15.—The construction of at least three new six- meter yachts is planned by American vachtsmen, who are hopeful of re- gaining possession of the Brit American cup in the annual interna- tional series off Long Island mext summer. cept for Johnstgn de Priscilla and Clifford Mallory's Clytie, the American fleet, according to local yachtsmen, wil boats. Several of the vachts in the 1923 American six-meter-fleet, which was defeated abroad, have been sold to foreign yachtsmen, and others are out of commission. Elimination trials by means of which the vachts will be selected, will be conducted shortly before the cup serles gets under way. CUE MATCH TO CONCANNON. Joe Concannon, New York state pocket billiard ‘champion, defeated Charles Bartelmes, 125 to 31, last night. has made a big TORY Forest's | be made up of new | Copyright, 1823, fn United States and Great Britain, Cubs, Japan and South Americs, b North American Newspaper Al lance, All rights reserved. I have hit these lively balls. No doubt there is a difference, but, honestly, I don't believe there is as much difference as some try to make out. Just as Donovan said, the batter has got to hit the ball on the nose, no matter if it is lively or' dead. An india- rubber ball wouldn’t help a fellow who couldn’t hit it This looks to me to be.a good spot to answ%r one of the ques- tions that several fans have asked. “What was the greatest hit you ever saw?” is the question. I imagine that those who asked that question wanted to know the most remarkable hit—not neces- sarily the longest or hardest. I'll talk about those later, The most remarkable hit I ever saw was made by Jack Killackey, first baseman on that old Pater- son team. It was a home runm, 100. The opposing pitcher laid one in the groove for Jack, and with all his might Killackey hit it straight back at him like a bul- let. The ball struck the pitcher in the forehead. As he fell the ball bounced off his head and Iunded in a box back of the first se foul line for a home run. 1 here was a big row and every- body tried to argue, but there was no way out of it. That was a_clean home run and the ume pire allowed it. Shortest Career on Record. I made a hit once that I always will remember, though it wasn't a freak. The St. Louis club was playing the Pirates at Pittsburgh. Miller Huggins was the St. Louis man- ager. A fresh young pitcher had jbined them and was rarin’ to go. He was quite a wise boy, accord- ing to his own way of thinking— i of ideas and conversation. For several days he had been tell- ing theo ther S Louis players how he could make the so-called good hitters sidestep. He was eager for a chance to show us all up. “How'll you pitch against Wag- Huggins asked him. “There's only one way to do it,” he said. “I don't see why others haven't thought of it \\ hy, I'lt pitch three fast bails ri, at his head and drive that Dutchman from the plate. If he doesn't get a he'll get his head knocked off. Then I'li ¢ the next three over and strike him out.” .'\-;\\‘ that ounded enough, While he was doing this talk- ing on the bench two of the St. Louis pitchers were being ham- mered out of the box. “All right, here’s your chance,” Huggins 1old the iresh young- ster. “Get in there and show us some of that pitching. Make szuefl(r:u! outof that big Dutch- man. Several of the St. Louis play- ers waved to me in mock fear, but I didn't know the joke. We had the bases full when the youngster started and I was up. He really did pitch at my head, but I backed off a little as I swung and happened to hit the ball squarely on the nose, knock- ing it over the wall for a home run. “That'll be all,” Huggins yelled to him. “The scheme don’t work.” In a few days Huggins released him. That boy, who was going to knock our heads off had the unique record of having stayed in the big league just long enough to pitch one ball. And he never came back. I've often wanted to know how his work appeared in the official records. The papers didn’t print it. To tell the truth, though, I felt sorry for that kid. I like to see them come in fresh and full of pep and vinegar. simple Tomorrow: The Secret of My Batting. i A JOHNNY IS GIVEN JUDGES’ DECISION OVER BERNSTEI Thirty-Year-Old Veteran of More Than 500 Baules‘ Adds American Junior Lightweight to World Featherweight Championship. who has participated in more two boxing titles. The first, N ship, which he won last summer from Eugcune second, the American junior lightwe EW YORK, Decermbeg, 18—Johnny Dundee, 1} than 500 r ttles the ng ba feathe: Criqu ight champions! world night from Jack Bernstein of Yonkers, N. Y. Dunde¢ was awarded the_judges’ continuous, but uninspiring milling, agreed he had been outfought. ' The entirely lacked his springiness, was | iense and did not respond to attacks did when in his prime. Bernstein was the aggressor almost enti rounds, being jabbed out of the lead dec in wh old-time ight in | with sustai all tt was consideral punches, cl d in the s defender staggered his opponent with his harder to avoid clinches in his follow-ups. NEW BALLPLAYERS | COST MACK $250,300 NEW YORK, December 18.—Con- spicuously among major leaguers en- trenching for the 1924 campaign is| Connie Mack, tall tutor of the Phila- | delphia Athletics. Within the past fortnight Mack has startled the baseball firmament b purchasing three of the most-sought- after players in the minor leagues. For a cash consideration of about $100,000 and several players the Ath- | letics obtained Max Bishop, Balti-| more second baseman, and tegh out- fleld stars—Paul Strand of Sait Lake City and Al Simmons of Milwaukee. ‘With this material Mack hopes to emorge from the American League deptha in which his club has been submerged eince he wrecked his fa- mous champions after the 1914 sca son. Departing from his long- lished policy of deveioping Mack loosened his purse string: season when he acauired. among oth ers, Sammy Hal for a reported result of his new policy, probably close to § tion to the alue changed in sev Last sezson early in the camp: and other mishaps brought the team down, although it finished sixth, on. noteh higher than in 1922 and the highest sinco 1914, SUIT AGAINST FIRPO DISSOLVED BY COURT JERSEY CITY, N. J, December 18.—A writ of attachment obtained by Sallor Maxted against Luls Angcl Firpo, involving Firpo's share of the proceeds of the Willard-Firpo fight here last summer, was dissolved in opinion handed down in circuit court by Judge Willarda W. Cutter. Ap- proximately $25,000 was involved, it was stated. Judge Cutter held that the sllega- tions in the afdavit on which the writ was based had not been sup- ported by legal proof. 5 Maxted alleged that during the Maxted-Firpo fight in Newark, last March, he discovered the motion p tures ‘were being made and he ob Jected. Firpo, he averred, agreed to pay him haif of the proceeds from the pictures, which, according to the affi- davit, were given wide display in South America. Maxted alleged that no payment had been made to him by Firpo. GRAPPLE TOMORROW NIGHT. Joe Turner and Chris Jordan will be opponents in the feature wrestling bout to be staged at the Coliseum tc morrow night at 8 o'clock. Bobb; Mainfort and Zeke Smith are to ap- pear in a preliminary match. ITALY &7 WINTER EVENTS. PARIS, December 18.—Italy's entry for the Olympic winter sports at Chamonix was received by the Olympic committee today, bringing the total number of countries repre- sented up to sixteen. Italy will com- addi- in | on | Amateur | structea B bod his no g2 oni accumu to gua DUNDEE ¥iAS ASSET iN A REAL MANAGER BY NEW YORK Dundee's FAIR PLAY. D or the polit 2 PP s & Jan s A ck from Bernste with these m had nothi tatooed hiv AR Wil Batthing Siki's moc has not been sort of condit manager, Bob bout in 'wh Lohman Wednesday night. o fool wi ed somé time to do is let some g ould lear Dbest so, his s callea 6% a to meet Jos Mich., on is no bhid s be Lohman Floyd John STAND AS TO PADDOCK WORRYING A. A. U. 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