Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 60

STURDY FOES ARE LISTED FOR BROOKLANDERS’ NINE Yale, Harvard, Penn, Vermont, Army and Maryland Among Teams to be Fa College Basketers ced in 17-Game Season. Busy This Week. : BY JOHN B. KELLER. ATHOLIC team this The Bro ar. C IVERSITY: has made much "work for its base ball okland management has scheduled seventeen games for the Red and Black tossers, all with insti- tutions that were well represented on college diamonds last season. The program provides considerable as cleven of the engagements are But two teams are to be encountered twice by Catholic Un They are Maryland and Vermont wi been arranged. Three trips are p the other for four tilts in New Yor! Brooklanders are to swing into act through May 24, Evidently the Red and Black book first-class apposition. Vermo: sylvania are among the northern strong bid for the south Atlantic Maryland, Johns Hopkins, Trinity, ington and Lee and Wake Forest. The first tilt of the season is sched- vled with Amherst at Brookland. Within the next three weeks Mary- land and a flock of northern nines will be guests of Catholic University, the only break In the home booking during this time being a match at Philadelphia with Penn. In the lat- ter part of April and the first two weeks in May South Atlantic teums will be encountered. The Brook- landers will conclude their season with a trip north, the final game being with Army at West Point. Athletic Dire Charles Moran, who ct hes th e ball teams at Catholic Universi s 4 man of few word: but he w admit ¢ his charges are likely to make a respest- able showing against these formid- able teams. All of which means that Catholic University is to ba ropre- sented by its usual base ball nin one clever afield, sturdy at hat with @ good pitching statf. The Brooklanders always have 4 smart teams and the material avallable as- kures a worthy representative on the diamond this year. The complete schedule follows: Mareh 31, Amherst. April 1, Vermont; 9, Maryland; , Pennsylvanin at Philadelphia; 15, Harvard; 17, Yale: 31, Lafay- rtte; 28, Trinity (of North Care- Tina); 30, Johns Hopkins, May 3, Virginia Military Tnsti- tute; 6. Washington and Lee; 10, Yake Forest: 14, Maryland at Col- lege Park; 21, St. Michael's at St. Michael's, Vt.; 22. Vermont at Bur lngton, Vt.; 23, Norwich at North- field, Maws. Army at West Polnt, N. Y. TPrackmen at Georgetown are to get into competition during the week for the first time this winter. Two or three of them will be sent to the Silk Athletic Club games in New York Wednesday night, but the team's formal debut will occur in the same city Saturday night at the Fordham meet. In addition to_entries in in- dividual events. the Hilltoppers will have a mile relay quartet on the boards. A sizeable squad has been working out daily at Georgetown since the holidays and there are enough veterans among the runners to give Coach O'Reilly more than a falr start in his season’s taek. Lafayett's basket ball team is to visit this week for a pair of con- tests—one with Catholic University Thursday and another with George- town Friday. While the Eastonians usually are quite capable on the court, they probably will have their troubles at Brookland, for Catholic University, after a sluggish getaway, is fast finding itsell. ~Georgetown, 100, may worry Lafayette not a little. O'Rellly's teams have been providing Terl oppositon for years. George Washington's quint is to figure in both of the big set-tos volving local colleges this week, hav- ing a date with Catholic University &t Brookland Wednesday night and another on its home court at Cen- tral Coliseum with Georgetown Sat- urday night. The Hatchetites have been” quite disappointing so far and unless there {s a great improvement in thelr play they are likely to get the short end of the count in both matches. Three hasket ball games in addi- tion to those already mentioned also are on the week's card here. At Col- lege Park Wednesday night Univer- sity of Maryland_will be host to the Baltimore Y. M. C. A. in Ritchie Gym- nasium. The Baltimoreans generally idable in basket ball and the Maryland team probably will d them troublesome. At Kendall Green ¥Friday night Gallaudet will encounter Randolph-Macon, its first college opponent of the season. West- ern Maryland Is to visit Catholic University Saturday d | Canoes. salling yachts, entertainment for Washington folk for Killion Field at Brookland. ersity. th which home-and-home s have lanned, two for one game each and k, Massachusetts and Vermont. The ion March 31 and will continue play management made every effort to nt, Harvard, Yale. Army and Peun- aggregations to be faced, while a title will be made in games with Virginia Military Institute, Wash- WISCONSIN AIMING BY LAWRENCE PERRY. University of Wisconsin, under the tutelage of Harry Vall, is working hard to bring about a revival of Badger prestige on the water. Cer- tainly {f there ever wus an Institu- tion where the aquatio idea should flourish it is water-bound Wiscongin. Lake Mendota plays a very impor- tant part in the extra curricular life | of the university from the time the ice clears until foot ball claims en- thusiasm. row boats and shells orowd the lake in spring and early fall terms, and not the least interesting phase of Wiscon- sin's water life i3 a splendldly or- ganized and equipped life-saving system, including a siren signal which 'Indicates the seotion of the big lake in which students are in distress, and the swiftest speed launch ' in the northwest, always ready to dash forth on its errand of mercy. The fact that last December mark- ed the twentieth anniversary of the inception of Lake Carnegie was duly noted at Princeton, when the stu- dents returned from their holiday recess. The artificlal water course Wwas constructed in 1903, but it was not until 1811 after some vears of cxperimentation in aquatics that Princeton began to figure in the intercollegiate rowing world. The building of Lake Carnegis did more for college rowing than any- thing that has ever happened in the sport. The development of crews for rowing over comparatively short dis- tances by an Institution of Nassau's athletio prominence gave almost at once & new significance to the sys- tem of so-called preliminary regat- tas, rowed in term time and upon collega waters, converting late April and the month of May Into a season of regattas hardly Jess colorful than ;}:e\}aw I.Vuy\da races on the Thames New London and oy b the Hudson at (Copyright, 1924.) {STEVENS LACROSSE MEN TO PLAY MARYLAND U. HOBOKEN, N. J, January 12.— Games with Princeton, Yale and Maryvland and the Navy are included in the lacrosse sohedule of Stevens Institute, made public today. The schedule follows: Y.A‘Drlltfi’(:l’rnrlicemn at Princeton; 12, e at New Haven; 17, M College Park, Md.; 19, S Rutgers. 3, Alumni; Lehigh; 10, Swarthmore; 17’," o Hopkins at’Baltimore, —_— YANK OLYMPIC SKA;I’ERS LAND AFTER ROUGH TRIP CHERBOURG, France, January 12. —The steamship Presidont Monroe reached here late tonight with the American _ Olympic_ skating team aboard. ~The ship battled with tre- mendous seas during the latter part of her voyage. William Taylor, manager of the team, and Charles Jewtrew landed and will ‘proceed tomorrow to Chamonix, where the winter aport events of the Olympic games will be held. The members of the team will start prac tice immediatel. FEW HOLDOUTS EXPECTED IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE BY JOHN EW YORK, January 12. N ers of the league that fails B. FOSTER. —National League players probably will not be backward about signing their contracts for 1924. Usually play- to win the world series are not so fussy as those of the league that does win. Kelly and Young of the Giants and Bentley have come to an agreement with the club. Bot were late in hitching up in 1923. Fri of the team in succession to Dave B for the largest salary ever paid a member of the Giant: far short of $20,000 a year. Frisch is deserving of all he gets. He Is a very fine player and a very square young man_ to his organiza- tion. He gives all he has and make: no_trouble. The Reds are likely to have an argument with Rousch, who has formed a habit of debating over terms. Hornsby has another year to ‘o with St. Louls and will not hag- Zle over a price that has been made. The Chicago Cubs have their play- ars pretty well in hand and the White Hox haven’t. That is one reason why the Sox have notified the. world at large that any player who has mot signed a contract will not go south. Detroit is not Ilkely to have any trouble. Most of the players are inxious to get into line again and have another whack at the champion- ship. Hovelana will rewara some of its players who did well 'n 1923 and will start the new seagon full up with - vim and five. The St. Louis Browns will be In a jam with some of their players, but ail the Browns probably will be i +'ling for Moblile. Both Philadeiphia clubs will start {~¥vuth with their men anxious to do Jvhat they can to help Philadeiphia Tfove up. Rumors of trade have been many 5o far as_the Phillies are con- cernad, but it looks as if they will start the schedule pretty much as they are. . (Copyright, 1924 SIX-DAY BICYCLE GRIND WON BY EGG AND GRENDA CHICAGO, January 12 —Oscar Egg of Switzerland and Alfred Grenda of Tasmania won the six-day bicyele race which ended at the collaeum 1 o'clock tanight. ibination traveled ive | ckler at S , b < warye. were & P have hold-over contracts, and Ryan h of them sch is almost sure to be made captain ancroft, and he has signed a contract s—said to be not FULTON TAKES BLOWS TO IMPROVE FIGHTING ST. PAUL, Minn,, January 12.—New training methods, which involve let ting his sparring partners take unre- stricted wallops, is responsible for the improved showing of Fred Ful- ton, beavyweight of Rochester, Minn. according to Jack Reddy, the plaster- er's new manager. under orders to let his boxing mates in the gymnasium swing with unre- stricted vigor on his jaw without try- ing to do all the landing himself. The cacy of this method was demon- strated last night, accordin, to when Fulton knocked. out Jim Harran of Omaha, in the Second round, after himself being knooked down at the end of the first Rk fight 1 sohe ton’s next s eduled for March 31 with Bob Roper at Miami, Fla, and Reddy says he had several offers from eastern promoters. F S S TUNNEY TO FIGHT BURKE. NEW ORLEANS, La., January 12.— Gene Tunney, American light heavy- weight champion, and Martin Burke, southern heavywelght champion, have agreed to terms to ineet here February 10, In, a fifteen-round de- cision bout, officlals of the Young Men's Gymnastio Club announced to- ay. HUNTER SEVERELY BURNED. ST. JOSEPH, Mo. January 12.— Charles Hunter, wi known in ball ctrcles ln% Tmer secre- A B e TO REVIVE ROWING | Reddy claims today that Fulton is!ga CHAPTER 34. The Most Spectacular Catch on Record. BY HANS WAGNER. HE most spectacular catch ever seen in base ball, in my opinion, was made by Jack Murray, outfield- er of the Giants, at a game in Pitts- burgh. This probably is the only play ever made that was aided by a flash of lightning. As some of you may know, heayy rain clouds and the smoke from the various industrial plants and fac- torics occasionally make it dark in Pittsburgh long before the hour of sunset. On those days the ball games are very gloomy affairs. 1 have known of a game being called on account of darkness long before 4 o’clock. On this particular day the Glants and Pirates were in & tie in a hard- fought game. Finally the Glants got @ lead just as It grew so dark that it was almost Impossible to sse the joutfielders. A dark, black cloud came . and ind it we knew a storm s coming. We tried to hurry the me along, as we had men on bases &nd a chance to win, While the batter was waiting on the pitcher, lightning flashes showed through the cioud, followed by heayy thunder, and the crowd In the bleach- ers started for shelter. The storm burst just as the batter swung on the ball. He hit it squarely on the nose. rybody could hear the crack, but in the growing dark- ness we could yot see the ball. In fact, we could barely make out the form of the outfielder. Just at that moment, though, there was a great flash of lightning. Tt lighted up the field as a flash at night would do. In the flash we saw Jack Murray going for the ball. He also saw the ball by the flash, and with a leap reached It. From where we sat it was plain to see that he had speared the ball, but in @ fraction of a second the whole ground was almost dark. Just the same, Murray came dashing in with the ball, and the umplire called the batter out. That catch, made by the aid of a flash of lightning, had put our side out and won the game. There was no question about the catch being fair. In all my experience that was the most spectacular finish to a ball game that I ever hope to see. Outficld Lost in M There have been several odd cases like that, but none so exc!lln1 as Murray's cat In Chicago oni a vear ago & mist blew in over the fleld from the lake, and was 8o thick that the outfielders could not be seen. The Giants and Cubs wers playing. McGraw has told me that that was the only game he ever took part in when he couldn’t see his outfielders sometimes for two Innings. The game having started under those con- ditions, the umpires refused to eto, Pep Young tells me that he was in right lel when he heard s ball whistling by his ear. A few mo- ments later one came to him on the first bounce, and he tried to make it appear that he had caught it on the fiy. Lucklly for the Cubs, one of the umpires ran through the fog_after the ball, and claims he saw Young trap it. 'Young never denied 1t. In one game out at Kxposition Park, the old Pittsburgh grounds, which backed up on the'rifer, Clar- | { DISTRICT LEAGUE. Standing of Teams, Ourb Cafs . . Mount. Plessant - Rathskellars. 00dfe . 38 15 21 417 o™ bins tied for fourth plice, and Rathskellers in a deadlock for eighth position, furnished the fire- | works during the past week. The (King Pins, by rolling 1,725, took two out of three from the Rathskellers, who totaled 1,713. Inge had a game of 160 and a set of 399, the third highest for the season in the city. urb Cafe held on to second place by taking two from the Calonlals atter losing the opening game. The leading Manhattans took two from the Regulars; Mount Pleasant won a pair from the Goodfellows, and Petworth gained the odd in a set with Terminal Ice, rolling one game of 841. NATIONAL OAPITAL. Standing of Teams. Games. We it Rathakellars Linwoods Belmonts, Internal Revenue Bogulars . Post Offios Natlenals Waverleys . Jos, P league swung_into action on thzhfiin‘ Fin alleys Monday, moving up trom the Rathskallar, which closed the first of the year. Rathskellers beat the Phillips team two games and lost the other by two pins. nacostia, which 1s holding down Sixih “place, "beat the strong Linwood team, which is in second, &mes, 'w’th: Post Qffice team kept ahead of tho‘ Nationals in “i":?ta‘r‘v.‘lfl by 0 games 0 ughn'(finngu Revenue defeated the ]strong Belmont team two games out ] of three. b B LBRLREILLY H MT. PLEASANT LEAGUE. Senecas . ¢, Pleasants olumblas . »oSERREEES: race tightened during the past week, as the Columbias took two out of three from the Senecas. The Mount Pleasants won three from the Cliftons, thus going into second place. The Hilitops also stayed within striking distance by taking all thre from the Fireston The Triumph Cafe wen rolling off a postponed Savoys, the other victims being the lowly tles. Chesterfields took the odd game from the Savoys in the regular scheduled tilt. The games this week will further ers. Columbias meet the Hilltops and the Senecas take in the fast go- ing Triumph Cafe. This team has only shot one game under .500 dur- ing the seagon, but has lost two 570 games by small pin margins. | PUBLIC DEPT. QIRLS' LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. bear upon the standing of the lead- | Sollcitors 0, JTANUARY 13, 1924—SPORTS BECTIO:. £ : : | THE -SUN'D"AY BTAR, wmmzmmfi, D. ©, , " _ v C. U. Has Attractive Base Ball Schedule : Fight Fans Discuss Foes for Leonard GOLDMAN SEEMS CERTAIN TO GET TITLE BOUT SOON However, Philadelphian Who Recently Beat Tendler, WAGNER CAN CLEAN UP WITH A GUN AS WELL AS A BAT I I ence Beaumont was playing center fleld. He backed up so far that he was knee-deep in water in attempt- Ing to catch & fly. He made the catch for the last out but In doing so stumbled and fell, going completely out of sight beneath the water. In & game between Louisville and Cleveland Dummy Hoy was the victim of the funniest accident I think 1 ever saw. He had backed up as far as he could go when he tripped and feli, the ball coming down and hit- ting him squarely on the head as he lay on e ground. “Looks ilke we'll have to give our outfielders masks from now on, or they'll get their brains knocked out,” Fred Clarke remarked when the laugh had died down. Jake Beoklev, & very tricky player in the old days, got caught at one of his own tricks one day in a way that gave us all a big laugh. Jake had a way of hiding the bali under bis arm at first base, 8o as to catch the runner when he wandered off. A Play That Didw't Come Off. The batter this day had got a two- base hit and was on second. Beckley took the ball from the outfield and i promptly hid it under his arm. He ! gave the pitcher the sign to go ahead land pretend to piteh. With everything set, the runner made a break to go from second to third sooner than Jake had expected. There was a great lot of yelling and jaughter from Jake's teammates, |but something happened and he couldn’t get the ball out from under {1s arm until the runner was perched {on third base. Jake then disgustedly rolled the ball to the pitcher. Beckley, by the way, was ons of the first base runners to use the old | trick of cutting across the dlamond trative and Reglsters quints can vercome. ®Misa Greefwell holds the high game honors of 120. She is the main- stay of the Securities quint Registered Accounts, at the bottom, have a fine bowler in Miss Parke who s credited with the high with 291. BUREAU OF STANDARD LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. Team. Industrials Nationals Midgets . Unions ... Sharpshooters . Chemists .. The league ‘has just gotten under way, but from the display of bowl- ing shown during the past week, should rank with the good ones. Industrials and Nationals swept the boards in their flnal matches and share the top berth. Hill of the Unions shot a game of 129 and set of 335 to top the league. Tigh team game, 530, belongs to the Midgets, who are in third place. Shaw of the Industrials has the best average of 109. NAUTIOAL DUCKPIN LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. 3 1308 th of Rock Haven holdp high game honors, wit 380 Meany of the Sunsets and V. Ott of Rock Haven share the top individual averages, with 108. Bl Do . In fourth place, has rolled the best team game, §12. AMERICAN LEGION LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. Wem. Lest 7 310 Clasell Saxon went ahead of Quen- tin Roosevelt last week by taking all thred ames from Stuart Walcott, while the erstwhile leaders wer ing two games to Hiram F. Cas Roosevelts' lone win was the re a tle, which they won in the roll-offt by two pins. In addition t6 losing the lead, Roosevelt also relinquished the high team set to McGroarty- O’'Connell team, that totaled 58 |” Kiuege of Roosevelt retas high @ame honors with 145 and Allen of Hiram ¥. Cash holds on to the best set of 368. 700 i .;“; & . - 358 The past week was marked by sev- eral upsets. Sal Estate started it with a two-game win from Prohibi- Ytion, Capital Stock captured the odd from Amnex 1, and Solicitors, with a set of 1,576, made a clean sweep in their match with Accounts and Col lectors.. The last mamed- team rolledt 1,618, but with Charest setting the pace with a set of 385, the Lawyers were n‘o't to be woa..ul ‘won each ame by & satw ."E' ’m Stock in the firat team -%'3 Ne., 1 '-Nh OF THE HUNT. from “second base to the plate with- out going to third. In the days when we had but one umpire a runner often could get away with that because the umpire would be watching the batter or the ball. One. day Jake cut the bases and was caught at it. Notwithstanding that he had been caught red-handed, he actually raised a big holler of protest over the decision. Many funny things happen on the bail fieid that do not seem so funny when written on paper. I think a man must gee them to appreclate how ridiculous they are. For instance, Lee King got into an argument with Chief Myers, the catcher, one day and started punching at the Indian, who had on his K, his chest pro- tector and his ebin guards. Now, there is what 1 call a man taking the worst of it. Cnief Meyers got to laughing so that he couldn't fight back. Even the umpive £ot to laugh- ing _and let King go on and play { without punishment. At Forbes field one Pitcher Fred Toney was put out of the game by the umpire. He walked over to the bench and picked up a pick and shovel, left there by the ground keeper. ' Very seriousiy, he walked straight across the dlamond with the tools on his shoulder. We were playing a game at Boston with Bill Klem umpiring, and as the scofe was Kflinf\ against us we all started riding Klem by velping at him from the bench. “Why don't you call one right some time just to sece how it feels?" one of our recruits yelled at Klem. And They All Had to Snore. That was the straw that broke the camal's back. Klem, taking off his afternoon |games. He also has the greatest | number of spares, 88. The week's best scores were: est, 385; Staubly, 346; Ludwig, 34 Davis, 338, and Kaason, 330, Joliffe 136 high gam: WASHINGTON LADIES' LEAGUE. Teams. Mount Plessants Hilltoppers. Columbias Commerciala ..., Gl Fost Ofloa Billie's Team Indopendents . Gomlorier Olub Post Office Department.. 8 34 : At least seven of the twelve teams have a chauce to push to the front | with good_ bowling. However, it is going to be difficuit to displant thg Mount Pleasant team. Loraine Gulli continues to smash the maples with consistency, leading the league in spares, with 83. Rena Levy has the most strikes, 13. While Billie's Team has dropped to sixth place, it continues to carry the high quint game of 518. Catherine Moriarity has the best game, 149, and Gladys Lord, the high set, 340. Pot. 19 Byl 622 683 1 ] 644 Set 858 848 524 500 e 400 233 Ings. 9 33 314 The features of the past week's roll- ing was the set of 401 contributed by Doying of Washington Loan, No. 1. His sot helped his team win three more games, making eighteen straight vietories IHlbb. won_four out of six during the week, Natlonal Bank of Wash- ington won all three from National Metropolitan, Hibba and Bank of Washington to galn & tle for second lace. x‘smnnlnh-m. of Washington Loan, No. 1, gets the hlg't set prize for the week with 342. Doying won game - |honors with 138. ATHLETIC OLUB LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. itops & L @ league started its thirtesnth week wfi the mewly acquired team, the East Washington Helghts, which took the place of the Reo'. taking one game from the Georgatowna. The Eagles got Quite a surprise when the Hilltops won two out of three from them thereby cutting the latter's lead to two games. ‘The feature of the week was the rolling of Bill Hough anghor for the Hilltops, He had games of 143, 111 and 112, for a set of 366. AGRICULTURE IHTERBUREAU LEAGUE Standing of Teams, hl-ln:a-ut HERE IS HANS, CROUCHING, SECOND FROM THE LEFT, HIS AUTOMOMILE STRUNG WITH TROPHIES mask, walked right over to our bench to see just who it was that had been dotng so much kidding at his decisions, who were making wisa cracks. We all immediately pulled our caps down over our eyes, rested our chins on our chesta and started snoring, pretending that we were asleep. *'Sleep, are you?" he snapped at us in that biting voice of his. “All right, siay asleep then. The first man on that bench who wakes up will get put out of the game. That goes, to0!" We knew Kiem well enough to know that he would do just what he sald. Our club had just got a one- run lead, and, for fear of having some of our best players put off, we had to sit there and pretend to_be asleep for the next two innings. Not a soul of us dared look up except when called to bat. € That's one time an umpire put it over on us. When I was a youns player I was a little timid about talking to um- pires, simply because I couldn’t think of anything to say, as a rule. Fred Clarke reminded me the other day of a run-in T had with Tim Hurst. Thera had been a close play at third base, where I was playing that dav. Everybody ran in to make & kick, and 1 declded to take a hand also. I ran up to Hurst and was about to open my_mouth when— “What are you doin manded. re you this team?* "No, sir,” T said, sort of taken back. “But I'm captain 'of third base.” Hurat was good-natured enough to let me off with that. here?" he de- the eaptain of Tomorrow—All's Fatr in Love and Base Ball. now leading Property by a margin in total pins, both teams having won and lost the same number of games. It remained for Property to drop the So-Kem, the former team tak- ing all three games. And the de- ciding gime was taken when Capt. Estes of the Property team pulled a double-header in the tenth, his team winning by a margin of two pins! The Economice ‘“jinx” was again working, Plant Bureau rolling ~its first 1,500 set and taking all three games. Plant Bureau's set of 1,546 is high for, the season by one pin, |Solls-Chemistry having knocked down 1,545 opening night. ~ Plant's second game totaled 530. giving the team | third place in high team games Farm ~Management rolled three good games in taking all three from Forest Service, its set total being | 1,506. Forestry uncovered a fine | bowler in Frieds, but his teammates could not offer him much assistance. Brown of Plant Bureau had high set for the week with 330. The re- turn to form of this bowler means a lot to his team. De Glantz of Prop erty had 128 for high game, Rose, anchor man for Plant Bureau, gave one of the best exhibitions of bowling seen during the league sea- On WM few spare breaks, he yet cleaned up the wood so thoroughl that he had a set of 322. Lo OARRY ICE CREAM LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. : 28 a7 W. Weimer of Sundaes, roled a set of 361 Thursday night, and It looked big until Crane of Harlequin shot 363. Hall and Lloyd held on to the high individual game honors with 137. None of the bowlers have an age over the oentury mark, but Wolfes is_close up with 99-31. He also has the record for strikes, four- teem, and tied with Lloyd with sixty:three spares MASONIC LEAGUE. Standing of Toams. Games. Won. Lost. 0 - Pot. BRRELE: srnnERRRy 7 T R T T p oo S LR ] 8 o gy, o olme, La imesint, 413 i ¥ Groatsat number of strikee—Simmons, Svatost mumber of spares—Smith, Jerusalem, 9. average—8Simmons, Mount Mount New %wnnni!lo! for -a comparatively weale team to gain a prominent place eague using t shown by 26 | the largest membership of any of the \ Will Not Be Hurried—Spalla Loses Go With Tunney by Going to Argentina. BY SPARROW McGANN. N Two months ago there di the title held by the skillful, hard- cerning Leonard had chiefly to do champion. But now, as showing how swift EW YOKK, January 12—The chief topic of conversation in fight- ing circles relates to forthcoming opponents for Benny Leonard d not seem a contender in sight for hitting New Yorker and talk cor with Mickey Walker, the welter Iy conditions and aspects change i the fight game, we have at least two lightweights who bid fair to make matters interesting for Benny within the year. As the situation shapes up now recently over Lew Tendler, knocking down twice in the course of the bout, is Leonard. OPERATION BOWLERS TOP RAILWAY LEAGUE Operation quint ia setting the puce | in the Southern Rallway Duckpin | League, having & four-game margin | on Construction. the only other team ( to be close to the leader. The half- | way mark has been reached in the | schedule. Frelght, which has been trailing | all Geason, has spurted recently, ie | tled for mext to the last place and Promises to make it interesting for | Several teams that is above if. i There iv a great race for high in- | dividual average. . Charlie Bern-| hardt still leads with 107.35, but is | being_pushed by Mulroe with 107.8. | and Harris with 107.4. Bernhardf | also has the high game of 146 and | high set of 368. i STANDING OF TEAMS. 1 Pet. 762 867 | 624 .500 Operstion . Construction Disbu Freight Auditors. Law ... Purchasing eering | Freight Trafo. INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES. 8t. 8p. H.G. H.8. ® 133 388 8 83 126 349 9 76 13¢ 358 18 53 121 330 10 33 125 338 118 5 19 117 CONSTRUCTION. Ave. Mulros Blatsdell Eupfer Fitzgerald . Fogau 978 | Gampbeli 96.6 Bernharit . Harris Surguy ‘Hutobison Hawkshaw Zobel ... on Harrison Poston £ Stults eingar Staub McKay Otta - Doan Woe " Spencer Shaniay Hl ... Berivensr Terry Coile ! Orme Btrei tre Folger Thrall Loving Hurley DO .. Skinner _ Watts MoMahor Keefer Gardner o nmumu{ &2 Freight Aud. SEMRELIS WALTER REED VETERANS TO SEE BILLIARD STARS Joseph Concannon, the New York state crack, and V. R. Ferrell, clever cueist, hailing fromr Indianapolis, will stage & pocket billjard entertainment Tuesday evening st 5:16 o'clock In the big Red Cross auditorium, at Walter Reed Hospital, for the benefit of the service men there. After the match the two experts will give an exhibition of trick and fancy shots for the edification of the veterans. This entertainment has been ar- ranged by George Cox, local billlard enthusiast and referee, in conjunc- tion with Harry Stafford of the American Red Cross branch at Walter Reed. N . DAVE ROBERTSON BALXS. RICHMOND, Va., January 12.—Dave Robertson, manager of the Richmond base ball club of the Virginla League last season, and recently traded to the Atlanta’club of the Southern As- soctation for Joe Guyon, will not re- port to the Crackers. week ocoupled the runmer-up position, wero very rudely jolied by Joppa, the latter making a clean sweep by rolling one of its best sets of the year, causing Capt. Phipps to emerge from the gloom which was rapidly surrounding him. St. John's advanced to the position vacated by Hope, by winning through forfeit the set scheduled with Harmony The latter has bowled a large numbe; of men during the season and boasts lodges in the District, vet for Some un- accountable reason failed to have the regulation number of men present. The latter bowled the highest team game of the season for the league, totaling 627, and registered its highest team set for the year, 1,683, only thirteen pins short ornsmt La Fayette's record set of New Jerusalem, that two weeks g0 was closely pressing the champions of last year, met two_ tartars in & row. Week before last Potomac took all three games from thei d ah- past week Federal repeated the loge. The week was featured by an um- usually large number of high indi- vidual sets and games. Earl Keeler's set of 370 for St. John's was best. Jimmy Simmons of Mount Pleasant contributed 384, thereby increasing his lead over Gienn Wolstenholme of La Fayette for the leadership in high individual average. Other good sots were made by Morris of Federal, Folger of Washington Centenni: 351; Harry Schmlidt of Columbia, 35 Hough_of Naval, 352; Reds Megaw of La Fayette, 349; Arthur Urban of fal, ius, |La Fayette, 346, and Crown of Daw- 3. .Earl Keeler also supplied e Sest gm‘v‘m‘:n ¥ me ot s, on Jaraseincs. with 18 i "% and Vate Goldman, who won a decision the former great fighter touted as a sure-fire opponent for Were he in chargs of a lees alover manager than John Burnas, the former fighter, the chances ars he would be hurried against Benny and get a sound beating if only because of his inexperience. This mistake, how ever, will not be made with reference to the young Philadelphian. He wi be ment first against Sallor Fried: whom Nate ought to beat ha and then againset Pal Moran, who has come into the limelight thre recent victories over Charley Wi and Johnny Shugrue Goldman Is Herty. But whereas Moran is a legitima: lightwelght and _easily fights at 17 pounds. Goldman appears to be he ler. They say he was nearer 145 1M35 when he met Tendler, but Bur says the boy has no difficuity {n mak ing the limit of the lightweight olas Like Tunney and other good me Goldman recelved his first £ experience In the marines. H one aseet—a real wallop, which |lable to send any man to the flon when It lands As for Pal Moran, his easy victor over Shugrus was an_eye-opener t the New York fans. When it is re called that the New Orleans Ttalia: knocked out Charley White it is dif- ficuit to keep him out &s Leonard's closest rival Moran had bouts arranged wit] Johnny Mendelsohn in_Milwaukes Eddle (Kid) Wagner in St Louis an another match for Charley White wa cooking. But Joe Golden, who mar \28es Pal. has called all these engage ents off, which leads to the bel that some important affair s Ir Process of arrangement for Ne York, probably an elimination bou: with'Goldman. Spalla Loses Rout. 1f Ermino Spalla, the Euro heavvweight champlon, had lved uj 1o his agresment with Nick Kline b would now be In_this country pi paring to fight Gene Tunney Spalla s on his way to the Argent! to_meet Firpo. It was on December 22 cabled Kline for $500 for fare fro: Milan to New York. Kiine =ent th doush and now has a cable raceipt 1 show he sent the coin. And that's & he has. The wise guys figure that sol cagey person is behind Spalla and that when his contract with Kline | up on January 1, 1925, he will bl som out-under another well known manager and that by that time, as part of a bullding-up procees, he will have stood Firpo off, as he might do being clever—and beaten Carpenti In other words, the dope on Spatla‘s queer actions is that he is being brought along for a great interna tional battle with Jack Dempse: Well, stranger things than this hat happened. (Copyright, 1924.) BOOKKEEPERS LEAD SHIP BOARD CIRCUIT General Books team ig leading the Shipping Board Duckpin League with two-thirds of the season gone. It has a five-game lead on Voyags Ac counts, whioh, with thres other quints, still Is close enough to displace the pace settera, Notable among the features of the second series were the high game of 155 rolled by Buhrman of the Con- tract. who displaced Boston of the Supply and Files with his 142. High Set goes to Contract, which rolled 1,609. High team game of 581 is held by Contract. Boston of Suppl and Files has rolled high indivi set of 381. t of General Bo: Teading in sy with 82, closely fol lowed by Hanecke and Boston witt 79 and 78, respectively. Boston is leading in’ strikes with 22 followe. by Wiiliams and Crimmins with 1\ each. Boston leads in average with 102 STANDING OF TEAMS. Gamas. Won. Lost, Pot. 42 28 4 Leed 42 2 that Spall General Baoks. . Voyage Accounts. Contracts . Reconciliatio: Legal Claims. Supply and Fi Searetaries ... . Centraliszed Accousts INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES. GENERAL BOOKS. / Gms. Bt. 8p. H.G. 4 10 185 23 22 2 2 2 1 1 0 18 15 Shickley - VOYAGE AC Crimmins owoeslis B wnaal BES28RE EosEsEsE g S2sszen ou2EEES See BRIRE Williams. Springer Roberts . Perco . Bkidmore ouns PR<i § ; aEEsERe} H CEESERE K «BEBENS wounasl Athey . Eoahas Ford Dilen | S oREEEES Subet 228 3 58522 SEEEE SEEERE wemEEmE B g ;5 =EEEE SEEES sn.ases Einzees 8. 3 =5 544 PADDOCK IS SCORED. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., January 12 rk-Presidio Post, No. 276, of the American Legion last night adopted a resolution condemning the “prima donna mltnug‘m“ a!‘ h‘trhtl' F::~ sprinter, an ¥ Alnletlo Union for ita Stand controversn . dock, Amate in the