Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1923, Page 24

WEST HAS LOST ONLY ONE OF CLASHES Has Wor: Four, and Gotten Tie in Six Contests That Have Been Staged—Middies on Way for Game With Washington U. Gridders. ATTLE. Wash,, December 26. S Calif., the west winning four, t On the face of these statist th enter the game New Year day against the University of Washington eleven with a handicap. on paper, a cerned The only game lost by the west Oregon clash, which gave the east a 7-tq-6 v College, under Lone Star Dietz. open, with a 14-to-0 victory over Brown U There was a game in 1919, but Great Lakes training cleven defeated g is the statistical record IFollowir sasadena New Year day foot of the ashington State, 11: Brown, ivania, 0. )regon, Mare 1s- ireat land 1920} Cal rvard ornia Ohio State, U fornia, 0: W. and J., 0 outhern California, 14; Penn| Midshipmen Speeding West. ANNAPOLIS, Md., December ball warrlors the journey at Pasadena, December 30. where on New they will clash with the of the University of Wash- 26— ot are | westward wifl termi on te alif. Year Huskies™ ington. The team attendants. thirty-two, left The Navy p the minute day substitutes, coaches and making up a party of Annapolis vesterday. vefs are tralned to i esult of three weeks of strenuous work, and there is con- fidence at the demy that the Mid- dies will be returned winners. The line-up of the team will a1 condition long jaunt, the combin de- of the (hml to- | Shewell ¢ and 5 thews, center; quarterback: Cullen and! halfbacks; Barchet or Shap- | ack bstitutes are Levens| McKee, Devens, 1 S Caldwell and ends: Vieweg and Clyde, | ckles; Zuber. center or guard; Powell, guard: Chillingworth, guard | or tackle: Hutchins, center or guard: | RBallenger. ings. Flippen. ors- | berg and Handly, backfleld men. { rne Are Well Matehed. SEAT December 26 —Univer-} @ity of Washington and Navy elevens, | which meet at Pasadens on New Year day, should be pretty evenly matched, so far as forwards are con- | erned. Washington will have a slight edge in the matter of welght. with a line averaging 156 pounds, or 182 pounds from tackle to tackle; but otherwise the two lines stack up pretty much allke. The S tet of re Lines itution has a quar- ular ends—Capt. Hall. Du- Ccle and Westrom—any two of whom make an Ildeal combination. Hall and Cole are particularly a‘\;o‘p‘l t snagging forward passe —Hall, i fingers; becnuse | Dubois. | ngy imping ability 3 iback, with ; unds Y mon at smash- | T interference. Coach Bagshay is| long on good ends. But, for matier, Folwell s well equipped | With Taylor. Brown and Stolz. i Tr ansthing the Huskies may have} 4 slight edge on the Middies in the | matter of tackl Capt.-elect Ed | Ruhn (193) and Roy Petrie (200) are i veritable glants in welght, speed and, Abitity, In eastern company Kuhn Vould be a sensation. Petrie, a 101-3 | 2 on the track, has been | I from end to tackle because of weight, Both are hard men to breaking through. Nav have not rated above e erata by eastern eritics. al- | though Clyde's return to the line-| up will strengthen the sailors. Formidable Cenmter Trio > guard-to-guard combinati has Deen noted this season fc stone-wall defense. In fa “arney at left guard has ste g Shoulders abote the whole Middie | enough, Washington's jas been looked on m afe way. Jimmy (192), who will theorstically oppose | Carney, has developed Into one oi the greatost guards turned out at Wash- 1 fHis mate is Vern Bellman 8%, last years sensation. An A2 era ™\ dltors (1512, the Husky | center, is ranked with Babe Horrel of California at the top of Western i1-passers. A pan and Bellman head the Husky interterence on off-tackle plays in the | approved Dobie style, Walters backs | up the Tine,of defense and has proved intercepting or knock- ing_down passes his 180 | shift his stop fro tackles = in_the on of Bryan and Hall, Washington's is a junior line. Last year Bagshaw started to rebuild the Husky forward line, inserting sophomores at all the positions except those two, The new men have now completed two years' play in varsity company and ara right at their prime. In faet, Pacific coast experts rank Washington's line this year with the best that Gilmour Dobie produced there during his nine vears of suc- cessfulcoaching of Husky teams and with the famous forwards of Califor- | nia’s “wonder eleven” of two years, avy's forwards will not find it an oasy thing to sift through this line, and on the defense the Middje ends will have their hands full trying to turn in Washington's crushing off tackle slants. SKATERS PRACTICE. ARANAC LAKE, December 26. he Amer| Olympic skating team had a light workout vesterday. Ice at the famous rink, where the world's skating stars have contested for vears was in no condition for speed- ing and the team worked ' under wraps. AUTO GLASS SHIELDS OR BODIES. O Talios Whtle Xou Walt: Taranto & Wasman 1017 NEW YORK AVE. N.W. "Radiators and Fenders MAKES RADIA in ‘make WITTSTATT'S R. and F. WORKS €410, © 1495 P. M. THS.. Match Your Odd Coats With Our Special ‘TROUSERS $A.65 up he price of ecutire I colors, sizes, been played between eastern and western universities at Pasadena, { of 1923 show t that | S AT PASADENA Since 1916 six foot ball games have | ing one and losing one United States Naval Academy will | he s far as gridiron contests are con- during this period was the Harvard- Washington State | ed the annual classic feature in 1916 niversity. it was hetween service teams. The the Mare Island mdrines, 17 to 0. WAGNER'S BATTING IS TIED BY HORNSBY | The official batting records of Na- | League players for th ' Rogers Hornsby of | Louis, for fourth ive | year, the individual batting | ckampionship with a percentuge of | .384. This equals the National Leaeue | consecutive batti championship | record created by John H. Wagner | 2t Pittsburgh; from to 1909, in- ! clusive ¢ Tie marks of Hornsby and Wagner | tional season | the won WAGNER, 6. 140 142 151 137 570 HORNSBY. [ 149 154 154 107 Totals. 564 Ross Young of New runs scored with 121 Max Carey of the Pirates “risch led in hits with 2 1 bases with 311 lies and Pirates tied Grantham | f the Cubs for two-base hit honors | with 36. Traynor and Carey of Pit burgh led in triples. each with 19. Williams of the Phillies topped i home-run hitters with 41. Carey led the base stealers with 31 thefts, and McInnis of Boston was the lead'ng sacrifice hitter with 37. Two hundred and fift took part in games with the eight National League clubs, as follows Cincinnati, 29 players; Pittsburgh, 21: Boston. Brooklyn and Chicago, 33 each: N . and Philadelphia and St. Louis, 37 players each Ten players engaged in games for| two clubs—Lee Meadows with Phila- delphia_and Pittshurgh, James Tier- ney and Charles Glazner with Pitts- | burgh and Philadeiphia, Jesse Barnes and Earl Smith with New York and Boston, Henry Gowdy and John Wat- son with Boston and New York, Lesl Mann with St. Louis and Cincinnati, John Couch with Cincinnati and Ph adelphia, and Edward Ainsmith with . Louis and Brooklvn. Players who did not during the season were cago and Burns of Cine URGES MULDOON TO STICK. ST. PA Minn.. December cretary V Sailor of the Minne Sota_boxing commission has tele- graphed Gov. Alfred Smith of New ; York, asking the executive to urse | William Muldoon, chairman of the New York state boxing to remain on the job. AB. 518 515 g 495 1 75 201 168 2004 724 H. 218 235 250 424 163 2228 866 York led in one more than | Frank nd in th even pl miss a game atz of Chi- at comm % JEFF TO PILOT FIRPO. 1S OBISPO, Calif.. Dec: James J. Jeffries, former he. weight champion prize fighter, | g0 east after the first of the manage Luis Firpo for Tex K according to word he has sent he BETLESS RACING STARTS. | 1.0S ANGELES, Calif., December 2. | —Betless horse racing got aw an auspiciou t at the Cylver City | track vesterday. with more than 15,- | 000 fans witnessing the ) 100-day program. J. B. M dden by Jockey .200 Christmas handicap. ong feature. 1 —_—— ) ROBLES, Calif. —The work of. laying out and pre- paring the ase ball diamond for the Pittsburgh tionals, who will train here in the spring, virtually has been completed. | boxing. and in the gym he looked to | rounds. POLO GROUNDS’ RECEIPTS NOT DOMINATING FACTOR {Intimation -That Other Clubs Are Willing to Help. New York Has Winner Because of Drawing Power Meets With Denial. AERRRRRR CHAPTER 16. The Test of a Star Team. how close a young pitcher has to be watched. Fans often think a pitcher is wonderful, but they do not know of these little faults, Until they are corrected the pitcher is not properly seasoned for fine work. After a runner thinks he has . outguessed the pitcher he gets his lead and starts. Mind you, a base runner knows that the pitcher also is studying him to see what move he makes for a bluff or a real start. Therefore, the runner must watch himself as well as the pitcher. He must nd exactly the same when he intends to bluff or to start. His move is to base ball what a good poker player's face is to poker. He must never tip his mitt. Once a man starts he must go through. That thing of trying to get back to the base, if caught, is foolish. There is more chance of going through with it. No man can be a good base runner with- out a good hook slide, and he must be ablé to slide either to the right or to the left. The direc- tion in which to slide can nearly always be determined by the motion of the infielder who starts to cover the bag. Always Finish a Slide. Let me advise. a young ball player: If you start a slide go right on through with it, whether vou are caught or not. Ifi you attempt to check your slide you are likely to break a leg. Don't forget that the pitcher is as wor- ried as you are. The main idea is to make him do the worrying. Ty Cobb has the right theory in base running. He always took the chances and tested the other fellow’s nerve instead of letting ' the opposition test There is a lot in that. Make them do the worrying. That is true in.any business. Instead of letting the other man keep you worried as to what he is going to do vou should take the offensive and make the defense worry as to what you are doing to do. Cobb, for instance, never was worried about being cut by the baseman's spikes. ut they al- BY HANS WAGNER. AVING been asked to give an opinion as to what depart- ment of base ball comes nearer showing the difference between a star ball club and an ordinary one my answer is: The running and stealing of bases. There is quite a difference be- tween running bases and stealing bases. Tt a different ‘art. Among ball players to run the bases means to get every possi- ble advantage out of a hit. To steal bases means to get every possible advantage on the base paths without a hit I notice than fans and even pert writers often make the mis- ake of referring to a plaver as a great base runner wien they really mean a great base stealer. There are many marvelous base | | runners w |.;‘ rnrlel_\' ever ~trlal a Twenty-eight years ago Hans Wagner, out of a job, wired his brother. of ase. on the other hand, there | the Warren, Pa., base ball club, his terms for nining the Warren team. The Tesome men, who seem to have {man who s procluimed by experts to have been the greatest ball player of -'f’“_“ '.f‘jl*'l‘«‘-“’& bases. but who | g]] time was willing to work for $65 a month. The Warren club could not { often tall down in running out | .ee the value of his services just at that time, and his “hold-up offer” was | their hits. : | declined. The telegram is signed “Jobn.” that being Wagner's real first name. To my mind, the art of base | stealing has declined a whole lot in the last few years, due mostly | to the lively ball. Managers, fig- | uring the percentage ‘of chances, ‘ i BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, December 26.—That any club in the National Leag: other than the Giants can earn enough out of its share of the 1 receipts in New York to pay its salary roll is denied in inter views with three of the owners who have been most prominent in the | older circuit circles. It has been asserted that opposition to the Giant has dwindled in proportion to the financial return from games in York. | : There is nothing to bear this out further than the natural sectiona prejudice against the Giants, and the erroneous idea as to what club- receive when they play in New York. The salary roll of any second division club is held to be out « proportion to what such a club may receive at the gate in New Yorl | when the Giants are going good and in the thick of a hard fight. If the Giants had not been doing,K would be with a better club tha: well in 1922 and 1923 it is conceded | Brooklyn, but the Dodger manage: hat the eastern half of the league |has no intention of letting him ge! would not have shown anything very | away, Ruether is a principal part of ttering €0 far as &pot cash is con- | what "Robby” says is the stronges: rned. — Boston, Philadelphia and | pltching staff in the National League STONE STOPS 0’DOWD IN THE EIGHTH ROUND | the latter Help, But That Is Al PHILADELPHIA, Decembe Ad Philadelphia light heay The games between the Giants and weight, stopped Dan O'Dowd, Bosto econd division teams on the Polo | Grounds have been Iliberally patron- in the eighth of their scheduled ter | round bout vesterday. ized 4s a whole, and as there have been scme Sunda, when the attendance r good, the whare, of the visiting clubs has been | very welcome, but it has not been in any such aggregate that it could | be called ample to cover salary count. ; O'Dowd’s seconds tossed a towe “The old idea that the pay roll of ldnto the ring fo £ave him from fur a second division team is about| ther punishment. $40.000 ix valid no more” said one led from the second div owner. Ten players Boston boxer a ba now are 10 cost pu 340,000, O'Dowd weighed 180 Stone 177 SIKI IS DEFEATED. PHILIDEL avlor, vwelght, was g ttiing Stki, the = egalese in a_ ten-round bout and 1y will have twenty- Siki did not appear in five play your pay roil. perhape you can se ditfon. He wetghed 177 180, X- Stone, and tie the score. A hit or two would break up the game, i I never felt surer of winning a J five minutes. Again the man was caught off third. By this time every man on both clubs, including substitutes, was out on the lines telling the runners what to do. The spectators also were shouting advice. I was simply standing there with the bat in my hand They ran those players up and down the lines for fully ten min- utes, with everybody confused, the whole game in a jam. Finally they nailed the man at the plate, ~whereupon Kling turned and again caught the run- ner between third and second. After a long chase they ran him down. Just as he slid into second to be touched out, the Cubs looked up and there was the other runner tearing down from first to second. In time they got him, All this time the crowd didn't know what was going on. Neither did we, for t matter. All was confusion. Finally Um- pire O'Day walked up fo the plate. “They're all out!” he yelled, waving his arms to include the whole diamond. Then for the first time we ball game in my life. As I stood there I would have bet a thou- sand to one that we would win Kling was catching—and, by the way, there was a great catcher. The whole Chicago in- field suddenly went into a coni- ference. Kling ran out to the pitcher, and, aiter a lot of nod- ding of heads, he came back be- hind the bat. Taylor w pitch- ing. ' I crowded up to the plate, but the pitch was-far out to one side. They had decided on wast- ing one. In a flash Kling, who had fig- ured the situation out right, whipped the ball down to second and the runner, who had taken a big lead, was caught flat-footed. Seeing he couldn’t get back to second, the runner started for third. At the same moment the runner on third started for home. The Cubs then switched the play and caught the”third base runner in a chase between third and home. He finally slid back to third safely, and the play shifted again, the second-base runner be- ing caught going back to second realized that three men were out. again. This kept up for fully | In other words, I walked up to ~| the bat with the bases full and SPALLA GOT HIS START b s i acepicted bal AS FIGHTER IN AMERICA I was left standing there. Nol‘a BY SPARROW McGAN ball had been hit. I don't believe such a play ever was duplicated in all base ball You can well imagine how we sat and looked at each other as we rode back to the hotel. ‘W YORK, December 26.—Now that it seems certain Ermino Spalla, Get the Lead in Stealing. the Italian heavyweight, is going to return to 'this country with The art of base stealing and the backing of a stentorian ballyhoo, a word or two concerning | pase running does not necessarily this alleged champion of Europe will be in order. : gEl ¥ E P 4 < rely on speed. The m Spalla, then, is a fine looking Italian, who came to this country two, >l‘ pb : e ;‘hmx = or three years ago and hung around Newark, working out in gymnasiums'| {{S31i€ 2 base is to get the lead. and occasionally fighting. He was very quick to pick up things, and e Sl aunuer o Miere such clever fighters as Charley Weinert and Young Bob Fitzsimmons were willing to show him tricks of the trade. The consequence was that he devel- | had he controlled his rapacity when- ored mose than a fair knowledge of | ever hy saw a sign of food. Like Firpo. Spalla is an artist with wasting his time, no matter how fast he is. The important | the knife and fork—that is to say, he is an artist so far as making these thing is to study the pitcher 1 implements move rapidly is concern- and find out just what ed. These foreigners don't seem to | ind of a move he makes in realize that in this climate one can- throw: to first base and to the plate. early every one of them not.cat and drink as one does in other | climates. * | has some little mannerism that is noticeable to a close student. Louis Drucke of the Giants had a fault of lifting his right heel | off the ground just before he Nick Kline, who probably will man- | turned to throw to first. If he age :xall.x. mx‘v_m“a‘ble to make him didn't do that we knew he would wn on his fish an oup and o th e. 4 V' spaghett! stuff, and, if so, he -may fhrow. to ibcislate . That gave be carried along until he gets into the ring against some real performer. | He is a likable young man, and al- ways willing to take advice, so per- us a chance to take a lead. Drucke had great luck in beating o Sood | !aps his manager will not have tough hitier, and, it he had been in ' this | "21INE: | our club in the old days, notwith- coun in the past fifteen months standing this weaknes It took McGraw a long time to discover how we knew when to take a instead of Furope, he might have | The Beat e Are been sized up by now as a good xec- | Packed in Wooden Boxes—Advertise- ond-rater. That i{s, he would have, ' ment. seem to have decided that there is less chance in trying for a steal than in waiting for the bat- ter to get a hit. With a liv ball he has more¢ chances of knocking a grounder through the infield than formerly That makes the hit and run the out- standing play, because it gives the runner a double chance. If the batter fails to hit, the run- ner may have the base stolen anyway. If the ball is hit through the infield the runner takes an extra base. That is why most smart managers use it ahead of all other plays. The oddest and most amusing —to the spectators—base-running stunt I ever saw happened with the Pirates in a game in Chicago. It was not funny to me. It was the beginning of the ninth inning and the Cubs had us four to three. Suddenly there came a break. The first man got on. Then came a couple of lucky breaks in the infield, and we got the basés full with none out. I was next at bat. This looked like a cinch. A hit, a fly ball— anything—would score one run art and ga beating th ore, me out “I Lelieve my to rely upon New York | pay ¥ players. Never hay enough from the New York club in any one year to do anything of the kind. The generous receipts in N York usually have made up for what | best of v elub failed in clsewhere r ntimation that second division clubs re willing to let things go along GREB WHIPS LAUGHRAN so that New York may win is mot : PITTSBURGH, Pa., December Harry Creb of Pittsbyrgh, middl true. They have been getting the | players and we have not, but it X welght champlon, was awarded deciston over Tommy Laughran | long lane that won't turn somewhere. ;l'lw statement that the National Bhilacelpht RS ot s % vay v v i i eague depends on the club in New ' Philadelphia a o ong ol re ways were worried about being | YT, existinee in not true round match yesterday. Laugh cut by his. There is just as much | e 5 sed 4 left jab to Gr ¥ J | Agminst Strengthening Giants. Dmed s lect Jab to Grel him and outfought him all the danger one way as the other, but : i s Back of all this fs said to be his aggressive and determined | unwritten agreement between certain | Greb weighcd 168 pounds and Lo ran 1681 manner made them feel on the |of the clubs that they will not make defensive always. I don't belieye |a trade with the Glants, and that that Cobb or any other good |they will not consent to a trude| GIBBONS TO BOX FULTON ST. PAUL, Minn, December Tommy Gibbons has agreed to mes base runmer over deliberately cut | XRIch will transter any player to Fred Fulton in a ten-round hou: s glven | b A the Giants—presumably any plaver into a baseman. No ball player |who is a star or would be expected to wants to hurt another. The good |strengthen the Giants where they ones, though, always want to win. |need it. Brooklyn's refusal to let That is all they think of. Ruether leave by transfer that would thi land him in New York Is part of the Tomorrow: The Plays That Take Base Ball Genius. St. Paul in February. bons' first mateh sin Jaek Dempse Shelb part of a pro whie will lead to a return mat heavyweight champion. It will be his_bout v Mont.. and he believe h with the | agreement. . Tuether. it is reported, cracks to certain players has made that he be as clever as any of them. In fact, as a gymnasium battler he.came 1o be quite impressive. It was when he went into the ring against rugged thirdeaters that he did not appear s0_good. The best fight the writer saw him g0 through was one with Itallan Jack Herman _two ago. when he stopped his fzilow Neapolitan in nine But, of course, Herman no means a good heavyweight. He rates well in the third class as Firpo and other men wha have met him have demonstrated As for Spalla, he showed being able to develop into lead, but he finally got it. Then he made Drucke change his habits. 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