Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1924, Page 31

BIG LEAGUE CLUBS PLAN . “FOR TRAINING EXHIBITIONS Nationals and Braves, White Sox-Giants, Pirates- Cubs and Tygers-Reds to Clash in Southern Camps—Work Will Start Early. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. N training camps. EW YORK, January 3—The Chicago Americans and the New York Nationals will play their way home together from the Florida The Pittsburghs and the Chicago Nationals will make part of the long trail from California together, and the Cincinnllisl and Detroit have paired off for exhibition games on the way north. The Boston Americans will play Dallas, Fort Worth and Indianapolis, night. Atlantic coast and probably play with Cleveland and go from Florida to New son wherever scheduled, perhaps at games up from Texas, stopping at whence they will jump home over- The Boston Nationals will work north from Florida on the east ‘Washington on the way home. ill follow the policy of 1923, which worked out admirably, rleans, and thence north to open the sea- Chicago. The Yanks and Brooklyn will hook up in some exhibition games on the way home. The St. Louis Browns will play most of their exhibition games In the southwest, probably with minor lcague clubs. The St. Louis Nationals will play_exhibition games with the Philadelphia Athletics in all prob- ability, although the teams will not undertake a tour. Cineinnati has given up the idea of plaving so many spring games, which 1 en with ‘an old and tewm, and will remain in longer than in 1923, which is anot sensible move. The Reds have played exhibition games for the last ten years, without reason, #nd the club never has got enough out of it to pay for the wear and tear. The Philadelphia Nationals will work the ¢ north by easy stages and the Giants may be the team se- lected us their first trial in the 1924 | National League r s the Glants| Wwill sturt the season at home. Brook- will open in Boston South in February. Almost all the major league teams will send a part of their players to the training camps b e last week in I Cincinnatis will have the ground Orlando, ¥ 3 1 week in February, giving them a good condi- tioning in hope of annexing the cham- . . iy expect us goud a year from Lugue s in 1423—a dangerous thing to bank on with i pitcher who shows as much bility ux the Cuban star. However, Luqie appears to have muscles steel, and that will save him if temperament doesn’t run of his que. (he Reds have taken of St. Paul, who won 31 games and lost only 9 last year. If Sheehun could do that well for Cincinnati and Luque could come back with & record like his 1923 one, Cin- cinnati should have little trouble win- ning the National League flag. That would “meun that the other pitchers necded to win only about forty games all 1son any mediocre staff ought to do that well Sheehan Although the Kansas City infield broken up by the loss to Pitts- of Wright, the best American ion infielder of 1923, the cham- will have a shortstop to plug the hole and are confident of winning another pennant. Like Baltimore, Kan- sas City would be 1 to find its place again in major league circles, but mileage is a drawback. (Copyright, 1924.) DRY BOWLERS STAR IN REVEN_!E_LEAGUE Rowi the many the Internal | bition troun: tering games of enty of the vict 189, also g was resumed last night b_v' duckpin leagues, and &ood scores were recorded. In venue League Prohi- | Special Audit, regis- 533 and 520. Ber- ad the best gam set, 342 : numerous Y Communit League won a Herzl quint, set of nt of the Hebrew e games from the riend putting over a and a single game of 130. In the Knights of Prthias League bster took two of three from the Byracusians, Calanthe grabbed the odd game from the Union quint. Harris of Webster had the best game, w of War Department League rds, the Barbettes being Armies won the odd an Claims, missing clean-up by a solita In the Agri Property lant Bureau, quint bbed two of "arm Management, and onomics defeated Interbureaus in 0 of three battles. De Glantz of Property had the high game, Disburxing of the Veterans' Bureau League took the Chief Clerks over the grade for three games, Supply won the odd game from Insurance and Fourth District grabbed two of three from Accounts. Fourth Dis- trict went wild in the second game, smashing the maples for a score of from Contract tenm of the Shipping Board League hit the maples hard and smothered Legal Claims in three games. Contracts’ second game to- | taled 581 and Buhrman shot a set of | 336. Armstrong had the best single game, 137. Reconciliation also pulled the clean-up stunt, Centralized Ac- counts being the vietim. Elias had the best set amd game, 334 and 125, respectively. Voyage Accounts won two of three games from the Secre- tary team. Houlihan of the losers had high game, 119, and best set, In the Typothene League Standard Engraving captured all three games rolled with Judd & Detweller, wi ning the last game by three pins. Hooper of the winners had the best game, 111. HIGH SCORES ROLLED IN HOLIDAY BOWLING Competition was keen among the bowlers for prizes New Year day at the King Pin, moré high scores be- ing rolled than at any otheér hollday event. Jimmy Simmons was prominent with games of 133, 149 and 151, Miss Catherine Quigley rolléd some exceptionally good games, the best P ¥ ather, 1T, 3, 8. g fon—T. e, 147; 3. 8, Qaldwell, 100) . Walker, 188; A. C. Doyle. 199; 3. Tons, 183 B. Mairakos, 147, E. & mf 130; E. C. Decker, 165; £, L. Yews R. Bhi Saivia 117 1 At 181 ull, i) 3 Jaqustte, 18y 1 XA H. L. Beaton, 11 ‘Wanan, 181; J. . ‘Women—Miss Jessie Bosley, 97; Miss Cath- 180; Miss E. Was Yaroall son, 101; Mrs, N. 3 ; Miaf Clark, 97; Miss Briscos, 108; Mra, N, ner, 88; Miss E. Patton, 98, ¢ DIXIE TOURNEY IN MAY. ASHEVILLE, N. C. January 3.— The southern amateur champlonship tournament will be played oyer the urse of the Biltmore Forest Country Club, Asheville, next Msy. The exact date will be decided later ar. NATIONALS’ OWNERS HAVE QUIET MEETING No word of a possible manager for the 1924 Nautionals came from the annual Base Ball Club held vesterday at the offices In American League Park President Clark Griffith is determine jthat the man selected shall be fully qualified for the job and apparently means to go over the field carefully. Nothing' more than routine busi- ness was transacted at the conclave. President Griffith, Vice President Willlam Richardson and Secretary- treasurer Edward Eynon were re- elveted to the board of directors. The election of officers will be held later, | but it is to be nothing more than a formal meeting to rename the present incumbents. The 1923 financial report revealed that the club was a money-maker | during the year, but the surplus was voted back into the treasury to used for strengthening the playing personnel and reducing the debt on the new stands. More than $76,000 was spent last year for new ma- terial’ that will Teport for trial at Tampa In March. SANDLOTTERS TO AIM AT U. S. TITLE SERIES CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 3.—A tournament of teams from all parts of the United States to decide the national amateur champion is one of the plans of reorganization to be of- fered to the National Base Ball Fed- eration at its annual meeting in Bal- timore, January 18, it has been an- nounced by John H. Gourley, assist- ant secretary of the sandlot organi- zation. The plan, which involves co-opera- tion with the Playground and Recrea- tion Association of America, depends upon division of the country into geographical sections, Gourley said. Champions of each section will be decided in intercity serles, the win- ners to be sent to the tournament to determine the national champion. Gourley declared that he had re- ceived assurances that the Play- ground Asociation will aid in the furtherance of amateur interests. A general field secretary of that or- ganization will visit Cleveland to dis cuss plans, after which a committee will be appointed to co-operate with the National Base Ball Federation in its expansion plan. Gourley also said that he has re- ceived assurances that the Baltimore meeting will be the largest ever held by the National Base Ball Federation. Delegates are expected from Fresno, Calif.; Dallas, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo. Erie. Detroit, Monroe, Mich.; Indianapolis, Provi- dence, New Haven, Washington, Bal- timore, Johnstown, Scranton, Harris- burg and Allentown, and perhaps South Bend, Birmingham. mphis, ew Orleans and other points. Inside Golf By CHESTER HORTON The average golfer suffers us- ually from one or the other of two “boll weevils” of olf—he either half tops all his mashie shéts or he digs the biade into the ground too much in back of the ball. Lack of correct comtrel of the clubhead cawees that pitch shots—and ddls a8 wellatl The aver: Al metn i e ) other factor that operates to eom- plicate the effort, whereas the 1dea 1n always to keep it simpl The beat cure I i ever fom for thia Inck of eontrol of the club- head in auch ahots is to keep the right elbow in close to the body Exsina O ':‘nn;. shet, hort of amtomatie guid sinee 1t req o s elubhead t and werists are kept from hreaking the ead back ahead of his hands. (Coprright, Jonn F. Dille CV.) COURSES ARE PICKED FOR TITLE TOURNEYS e NEW YORK, January 3. for all four of the natlonal golf champlonships conducted by the United States Golf Association have -been selected for the 1924 season. Dates for them will be ratified by | the U. 8 G. A. at its annyal meet- ing, which opens hére t J Fne' open emmptonmfmnml' Be ffi: ot “u:t“%lkll.nrl Hills, Detroit; ety é svent o aur title svent at the Merion hia: th 11 S Ot Tihods " 1dland Country Ciub, Provic entes WILL RACE IN SUMMER, CLEVELAND, Jinuary 3.—A sums mer race meeting will be held “g Maple Helghts track, probebly from July 26 through Augu ates will not_be definitely decided until it As learned wha will be aasign North Randall its grand nl:gu‘fi meeting of the Washington | Sites|” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,; CHAPTER 24. g Out the Bad Balls. BY HANS WAGNER. I RECKON 1 set myseli up to be shot at when I started this telling of my base ball days. So I guess I've got to take my medi- cine. You know how it is. So many odd questions have been popped at me through the mails that they've got me wing- ing. An old friend of mine out here in Carnegie, I guess, called l the turn. “Honus,"” you want to remember than when you took up that writin’ business they had two strikes on you before vou started.” On top of the pile, as 1 write, { is one from a Mr. Hawley in Portland, Ore., who asks: “How was it you struck at so many | bad balls in your time and still { managed to hit them? You tell | young players to pick out good ones. Jr. Hawley has got me right, a {that” 1 reckon I did hit at mor. |balls than any man in the busine had my own system about that- jone that I would not advise other: to_follow. Whenever a pitcher made me look foolish on a pitch, whether it was high, low, outside or inside, I figured it ‘out that he would be sure to give me another just like it. 1If I made a sucker out of u batter on a certuin | | ball T certainly would hand him | H other. So that's the way 1 figured | they would do. | And, sure enough, 1 would ¢ the | turn nine times out of ten. Having, set myself for a ball high over my| | head, for example. T naturally would | be ready if the pitcher tried to re- peat. Belng set for a certain ball. [ could sock it. If he shifted I would wait. I knew he would try to make me look foolish again, sooner or| later. It would be just the same as if I was looking for one over the middle. As lonk as a batter is looking for a certain kind of ball, and gets it he can plaster it, whether it is high, | low, inside or outside. That, I hope, expiains why I had the reputation of going after all kinds of wild pitches. ; The next writer, a Mr. Ironton of New Orleans, wants to know what I considered y greatest batting ac- complishment—the one that gave me the most satisfaction. The Fan Chirped: Then— v greatest accompliSgment, I be- in the between | and Pittsburgh, when 1! got two home runs and two singles Just when the fans were giving me the razz and begging Pittsburgh to take me back home. The one that gave me the greatest satisfaction, though, was in the de- clding game of the world series be- tween the Detroit Tigers and the Pirates. This game was played at Detroit in 1909, In the sixth inning we got two men on base and I was next up. The Detroit fans and players had been giving me a terrible razz. It seems that they had never seen me play lout there and, I reckon, were sort of disappointed. You know how it is—it's mighty tough on a ball player { who has hit so well that fans expect him to plaster one every time he comes to bat. It's harder on him than on a player who hasn't been boosted so much in the newspapers. Well, I came up and on the second ball pitched got it squarely on the nose and slammed it to the fence for three bases, scoring the runners. { i AGN D. C. This is the famous Fred C. Clarke, great captain, manager and outfielder who played with Honus on the Pirates for many years. I am sure that wallop gave me a better feel than any one I ever hit. I remember one fellow in particu- lar, who sat just Lack of the Detroit bene It all right,” he yelled to the pitcher, “that Dutchman has got a ellow streak. Let's g Just then 1 smacked the old onion. Only a ball player can exsctly ur- derstand how I felt. As a matter of fact, we didn’t need the runs, but it was those that gave us a start. The final score of the game wi Pittsburgh, 8; Detroit, 0. So many of the fans who have been good enough to read what I have written have asked odd questions about queer pitching and oddly pitched games that 1 will answer them all {n one lump. I reckon that will be about the best way. The most peculiar and surprising pitching that I ever saw in a ball game was done by Christy Mathew- n in & game at the old Exposition 'ark, in Pittsburgh, when the Glants and Pirates were fighting it out for the pennant. Matty was at his best then. v In the very first inning he started LEO DIEGEL TELLS: My Oddest Play in 1923. d a stone wall and placed his ball nice himself into seemingly impossibl of the wall, with a road and a s the hole he was 50 anxious to re The most unusual play I had last Curlously enough, it popped up In a a previous installment of this series. Bobby Jones described an unusual play he made at Hoylake, in England. He banked a billiard shot against 1y on the gréen after he had gotten difficulties. by hooking to within a foot d strap intervening between his lie and mmer called for a billlard shot. match with Bobby Jones. It was in a practice round at Inwood, just before Bobby won the 1523 open title. I On the No. 7 hole, distance 223 yards, with out of bounds to the right and left of the green, demand- ing an _accurate tee shot to get a par 3, T hooked my first against a tree at the left. There was absolutely no way to hit the ball In the direction of the hole except by playing it off the tree. I turned my back squarely .on the pin, made a successful billiard, dropped the ball on the green and nk a 4-yard putt for par. ‘The billiard stroke is one that every player is likely to need, sooner or later. When it confronts you, take your time and study out the angle the ball must talke most carefully. A tree is apt to be more difficult to play than a wall. Most trees have rough surfaces. Moreover, they are rounded, not level. This complicates matters. (Copyright, 1023.) TIES COURSE RECORD. TAMPA," Fla., January 3.—Henry Bolesta, professional at the Palma Cela Golf Club, shot & 71 yesterday and tled the course record he set two weeks ago. Bolesta had four birdies, | but three bad holes made him finish one over par. Imitations .are number- less, but the quality h: ¢ never been eq| When you say “EBONITE" to your dealer and refuse to accept an, substitute you avoid all chances of getting axle labeled tr-nunl'l-lhlm i3 greases, having no o cating values. N Sold by reliable dealers in Sve-pound cans and at appointed serviee where you mee the cheeker- bomrd sign pump and service station sign. EBONITE Has No Rival— There Is No Substitute. 1t DLED olL HUTCHISON, USING ONLY PUTTER, WINS AT GOLF MIAMI, Fla, January 3.—Jock Eutchison, ex-British open golf cham plon, arrived here Tuesday, and ye: terday proceeded to give the links- men a lesson in the use of the putter. Using only this kind of club on ali shots, the peppery Scot defeated T. W. Palmer, Florida state amateur champion;, who was allowed to use every club’ in his bag except his wood. The Hutch played the diffi- cult “country links in 78 with his putter, which is a remarkable per- formance, consldering that it was the first game of golf he has played in more than a month. Hig margin of victory over Palmer, who Shot an 80, was 2 and 1. On each and every long hole Jook had par or better. "He had birdies on both the seventh and sixteenth, which are more than 450 yards each, and par on the first and elghteenth oles. whipping fast balls at our batters and not one of us could touch him. Not once did he give me a curve or a slow ball. or even his fadeaway. Every time I came up it was a fast— and gee, it had smoke!—zip! zip! zip!—just like tha “What's he using?’ I asked Claude Ritchey when I came back to the bench. ‘All he's pitched to me is a fast ball every time,” sald Claude. ‘That's all I've seen, too,” d Clarke agreed. As the game went along we talked and talked. trying to get a line on what the big fellow had. After we were shut out and went to the clubhouse we checked up every batter. Not one of them had seen anything but a fast ball. In other words, Mathewson had pitched an entire nine Inning: hout offering anything like & curve. ‘He had got a8 ever pitchdd in which the pitcher did not use a curve or a slow ball at any time in the game. Matty, you know, often changed his system. If he started in making CUP IS CUT IN HALF WHEN RUNNERS TIE BALTIMORE, Md., January 3.—A precedent set by King Solomon was followed by athletic officials of the Young Men's Hebrew Association here In determining which of two runners who tled for first place in a series of races should receive the trophy, a silver cup. ‘When Earl V. Hart and John Peter- san crossed the finish line in the sixth and last of the series of five- mile Jogs and their points were totaled, it developed that each had arned twenty, the top score. Club officials then left it to the pair to decide whether a deciding race should be run, or how the win ner should be detérmined. John and Earl, howevi pparently had had their fill of running, for the time -holnf. anyway, and after a little d! cussion it was decided to cut the trophy in half. ccordingly, thia was" do: Each half was mounted on plaque and presented tonight &8 an individual award. * Tolmanize! UR epecial process of laun- dering starched linen collars was conceived and perfected for the men who like dressi- neas, but not at the expense of comfort. TOLMANIZ- ING makes a collar white. smooth and neck conform- ing. THE TOLMAN LAUNDRY F. W. MacKenzle, Mgr. st 6th and C Sts. N.W. Don't say “necks week." Learn today the comfort Cof TQLMANIZED, col- lars. Phone Franklin 71. ‘THURSDAY,” JANUARY 3, 1924, S s pan . rights reserved. some batter bite at his big loop curve he would kebp right on tossing it until somebody got hold of it. Any- thing that was golng good was good enough for Matty. He never experi- mented unless in & hole. But let me tell you something! When that old Loy got in a hole he sure could bear down on the old apple, as ball play- ors have & way of saylng. They never made any better pitchers than Mathewson. Melntyre's Hard Luck. The hardest-luck game I ever saw was pltched by McIntyre one day when we were playing the Dodgers at Brooklyn, For nine innings he didn’'t allow anything that resembled m hit, but, unfortunately, the Brooklyn® club could not make & run and the game went into extra innings with the score 0-0. MelIntyre kept right on polishing us off in the tenth. At the end of that inning everybody was talking about McIntyre having pitch- ed ® no-hit ten-inning game, which we thought would sure be a record We managed to get our first hit in the eleventh and we finally beat him 1-0 In the thirteenth inning. When a pitcher can pitch a ten- inning no-hit game and then get t I consider that the champlon hard luck of the worild. I believe Leon Ames once pitched & nine-inning no-hitter at the Polo Grounds and got beat. George Wiltse lafer pitched & ten-inning no-hitter. 01d Iberg, to my way of thinking, had the oddest delivery of any pitcher in the world. He often pitched slow balls and curves fifteen fest high be- tween the pltcher's box and the plate, dropping them right over the pan. How he did that I was never able to figure. Jim Vaughan had no preliminary action at all in the box. He took no wind up at all—simply stood straight up and snapped the ball at the batter, 85 If he was handing him something. Kantalehner alweys dropped his arm low behind him and looked ex- actly as If he were lifting & ton of lead before each delivery. I used to grunt with him. I'd feel like I was fetting tired myself. Old Kanty's de- | lvery was about as odd as any of | them. Al Demaree delivered a ball to the batter exactly as if he were putting the shot. It was mighty hard to fig- ure what he was doing. Carl Mays, I think, has the oddest underhand delivery of them all. Often his arm is #0 low that his knuckles graze the ground. (Tomorrow: “Picking_the Greatest Players of All Time.") COLORED TITLE ASPIRANT FACES A TEST IN MADDEN Failure to Dispose of Bartley in Short Order Would Ruin Harry’s Prospects—Spalla Coming Here After Meeting Luis Firpo. BY FAIR PLAY. N stick five or six rounds to enhance EW YORK, January 3.—Bartley Madden, the rugged West Side battler, has a simple proposition before him. Wills the end of this month in Newark all he has to do is to In meeting Harry his reputation. And in so doing he will put a serious crimp in Har?‘s fair repute. s, hould he go twelve roun. pionship contender and Madden’s stock would go way above par. there is little chance that Wills will strike a snag. , Wills would be done for as a cham- But Else he would not make the match. One may gamble he knows what he is doing and that i Madden will think he has collided with a dark cloud laden with all sorts of high pressure calamity such as tornadoes, cyclones and hurricanes It would seem that Wills has nothing fo fear from Madden so far as punishment is concerned. In fact, as said, the whole issue revolves around the negro’s ability to jar the Irishman to the point of coma or condition approximating thereto. Of all outraged managers Nick Kline is the most so of all the writer has seen since Harry Greb discharged orge Engel. Here Ermino Spalla wires Nick for $500 for expenses from Italy to the United States. Kline sends the dough, whereupon Spalla uses it for transportation to Buenos Aires where he will meet Firpo. Crafty guy, that Spalla! No wonder Kiine cabled the King of Italy asking him to have Spalla garroted, to bad men in Italy. A dispatch from Rome says that after Spalla meets Firpo he will come to the United States. The mersage does not attempt to predict how the Italian will come. Probubly fest first. When h was in this country Ermino was very careful what fighters he met. Just what induced him to overcome this caution and consent to a bout with the pile-driving Firpo is a difficult ques- tion to answer. Looks as it Lew Tendler is through. Taking no credit from Nat Goldman, it stands to reason he hardly would have given the Philadelphia southpaw the eating he did had Lew been the lad he used to be. Well, Tendler saved his money and, even had he not, the Leon- ard-Tendler show at the Polo Grounds last summer yieided him enough of the needful to make him attr e to bond salesmen and life insurance agents, Jack Kearns wants Dempsey to ap- pear in tnree batties in this vieinity or whatever they do | next vear, appearing on the three big holldays, namely, Decoration day, July 4 and Labor day Reasons of patriotism, of course, have dictated tha desire of this well known firm. (Copyright, 1924.) HERZOG NAMED PILOT OF THE NEWARK CLUB NEWARK, . J, January 3 Charlie Herzog, former major league base ball star, has signed a contract to manage the Newark club of the International League, it has been an- nounced by Michael McTighe, one of the Newark men in the syndicate which recently purchased the club. The terms of the contract were not made public D. C. TO HAVE DELEGATES AT MEETING OF U. S. G. A. Washington will be represented by two delegates at the annual meeting of the United States Golf Association which starts in New York tomorrow. Dr. J. T. McClenahan and G. H smar, chalrmen of the greens com- mittees of the Washington Golf and Country Club and the Columbia Country Club, respectively, will leave for New York today. ok * * »* »* * * * * »* * * »* »* » »* »* »* »* % * * »* * »* » * »* »* »* 3 * title b2.0.8.2.2.2.0.0.0.0 0222002 008 080206000 20¢.000 2088202000800 e8e8 208 ex Rickard has been persuaded to tell the story of the Pugilistic Ring—from his intimate experience with it—under the “‘Champions and Chance’’ It will be published exclusively in Washington in Che Star Beginning January 20th Containing a thrilling chapter a day until this greatest promoter of fights has put the public wise to the great high-lights of the Sport in which 305,000 people spent $4,175,000 to witness five fistic contests. 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