Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1924, Page 26

THE EVENING STAR, . WASHINGTON MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1924, SPORTS. Trade Helps Both Red Sox and Indians : Ruth Out to Break All Slugging Marks'§ WINTER WORK IS MERELY - TRAINING FOR BASE BALL Babe Dislikes Farm Labor, But by Reason of It Hopes to Outstrip All Past Records in Long- Distance Batting in the 1924 Season. NEITHE N to make a deal for their probable s aside. Cleveland also has taken Fewster from Boston, an infielder whol does fine things while the fire burns not great, but young. Cleveland gave to Boston Steve O'Neill, a catcher high in reputation; a second baseman in Wambsganss not all through, even though he has served long; an outfielder in Connol the vounger clement in base ball, an that he is great, but as yet has not demonstrated how far he can go. Cleveland_offered to trade Wambs- ganss for Burns the Chicago meet- ing. Bobby Quinn, now managing the destinjes of the Boston club in company with Lee Fohl, sald that Cleveland had not oftered cnougn. He appeared to think that Burns was of as much value at firet basc for Boston as he was at first bace for Cleveland. Barnerd Was in Earnest. Ernest Barnard, precident of the Cleveland club, repiled that he thought s organizaiic had not made a bad effer. “Bu . “the fact ihat Boston has not accepted what we offered must not be taken as an indica- tlon that we will not inxke every effort poesible to get Burns for Cleveland in 1924. We will hate him If the Boston uced to part with him. eaker, Who was & rem- i » conversing, “wo will get Burns if we c We will make our infield what we want it to be. The players like him, Cleveland likes him, | e him, and If we had him i 23 1 we would have been faster on the infield than we were. ‘That's wihy I want him for 1 ns to ine the ve! e Sidee 1T 1 an_com Wipning pitcher, I think we can come ! Fo the Yanis than we did last Fea Neither club secms to have lost by the trade. Boston has gained an ex- pericnced catcher, much needed, with what Boston has for pitchers, and has a_ young_outfielder well worth trying. Cléveland had no chance for Connolly. Speaker would not upset the combini- ton of Jamieson, Summa and imself. | Cleveland gets & first baseman who will steady an Infleld whose shortstop and second baseman both are likely to be erratlc, but nelther of whom can be vpured from a hard-hitting outfit ltke Cleveland. Ir Boone succeeds at Boston as al nitcher he has everything to galn. The | Boston Infield will flash with Wambs- | sanss at second and Lee at short. If McMillan comes through at third as R OF TEAMS LOSES ‘BY SWAP INVOLVING SEVEN Increasing Boston’s Strength Against Indians Will “Not Hurt, Speaker’s Flag Chances if Hubites Can Give Yankees Trouble. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, January 14—Cleveland has succeeded in obtaining Burns from the Boston American League club to play first base in 1924, thereby demonstrating that the Indians, once determined trengthening, are not easily turned within him, and Walters, a catcher, Iy, who is up to the general run of : d Boone, a pitcher who may prove TWO YOUNG BOXMEN GO; 14 NOW ON GRIFF’S LIST With the release to the Chata- nooga club of the Southern Amso- ciation of Buck Schemanwke and W. K. Howser, announced today, Clark Grifith has cut hix corps of Ppitchers to fourteen, which in the exact number of hurlers expected to make the trainjug trip to Tam- pe. Both Schemanske, & big right- handed product of the Detroit who first attracted attention by sandlots, and Howser, a youth his work with the town team around his native Ashburn, Va., are regarded as promising prod- ucts, but in need of much meason- ing. Stringe are being kept on them and they will be recalled in he fall. * The fourteem hurlers remmining on_the roster are lrogan. Dudley, Johnxun, Joyce, McGrew, Marberry, Mertica, Mogridge, Moone, Roe, Ruswell Wingfleld, Zachary an 7.ahnive: e name of Brillheart still ap- ington lst, bat will Be made in the mear future. may be 10 per cent better than it was last scason. Indians’ Chances Bopsted. 1 Cleveland has increased the strength, of Boston against New York, even at the expense of increasing Bos- ton's strength against iteelf, it has Relped its chances for a pemnant, and if a first baseman will make Cleveland better, both Boston and New York must meet that situation. Trades with Bos- ton almost invariably have been of fu- ture great importance In the American League, and this 1s 1i to be no exception. he played last the Boston infleld JEROME, K. 0D BY TAYLOR, DIES AFTER AN OPERATION EW YORK, January 14—An aul N for of Terre Haunte, Ind. on Friday thisproves to be the case, officials st. against Taylor. Death followed an cerebral hemorrhage. Jerome, whose real name was Frank Daugherty, is the third New York boxer to die from injuries rec faw legalized the sport in 1920, if I Tavlor’s blows. The first was Frankle Pitcher, who | dled in 1922, and the second Andy | Thomas, 'who succumbed early last| r. Neither was as well known as | Jerome, who was a contender for the | world title held by Joe Lynch. Threats of legislative action ngainst | the sport have been heard since wide | discussion began a month ago of poor décisions. ~An Investigation of Jerome's condition before the fight is expected, particularly ae he has been fighting often and it was apparent When his bout with Taylor began that he was mnot in his usual strength. Tex Rickard, who promoted the fight, sa{d Jerome was in good condition when he entered the ring. A brain speclalist attempted dn un- | usual operation yesterday to save the boxer's life, boring a hole in the skull to relleve a blood clot. Rickaré Bllly Gibson, Jerome's whether the death last night of Frankie Jerome, bantamweight boxer, was due to a blow received during a bout with Bud Tay- e actually succumbed as a result of (Copyright, 1924.) topsy has been ordered to deterntine last, at Madison Square Garden. If ate, action will be taken immediately operation which failed to relieve a eived in the ring since the Walker | manager, and a few other friends were with Jerome when he was in-| formed that an operation was to be performed. “Well boys,” the boxer said, *T guess this is my last figh The | operation apparently was a success: and his friends left the hospital, only ; his wife and his menager being with him when he died. Previous to meeting Taylor, Jerome never had been knocked out. Taylor pressed the' action in the, fight” Friday night and had a big lead in points when Jerome opened | up in the ninth. Jerome went down ' in the elevnth and was caved from a ! knockout by the bell. Taylor batter- | ed his body as the tweifth opened and Jerome sank to the floor, roliing | towsrd fthe ropes to assist himsel? to his feet. The referee stopped the NER’S APTE % 5 BY HANS CH A applied to the game. All's Fair in Love and Base Ball. WAGNER. FEW people who have just a fair working knowledge of base ball seem to be confused over the words crookedness and srickiness as They have asked me to relate any crooked in- cident that T ever saw. “Fhe answer is that'I never saw onc. If a player actually was crooked in base ball there is hardly a player who wouldn’t help to get him blacklisted for life immediately. The word crookedness, when applied to base ball oiten is mixed up with what some folk call lack ot sportsmanship. As I have said before, we never thought much about what was sportsmanship and what wasn't in the old days. We used to win. A crooked player is one who will use ference? In all my life I never have heard of but two cases of downright crooked- ness, actual dishonesty. That was in the caso of the players of the White Sox, who were put out on a charge of having sold out to some gamblers, | thelr agreement belng to let the Reds win the first two games. Many vears before, long before my time even, three other players were thrown out and disgraced for throwing games. It is mighty hard for a ball player to throw a game even if he wants to, 1t would be impossible for one man to do it. The minute he scemed to be going badly the manager would take him out. It requires several in a con. .'-Plrlcy to actuaily throw a game. For Instance, a shortstop might de- cide to be crooked in @ game and not 3 3ingle ball would be hit to him all Tn the first place, a ball played is a fool to be crooked, because he cannot possibly gain anything by it in the long run.” There is no incentive. He can make more money by winning than by losing. If he should get a sum of money for throwing a game he would lose many times that amount by being blacklisted for life out of the game. The real secret of base ball's suc- MANY STAR GOLFERS. IN CALIFORNIA OPEN LOS ANGELES, Calif., January 14.— Golfdom’s {nterest today is focused on the Los Angeles Country Club links, where nationally and interna- tionally famous players will tee oft with sectional tilteholders and favor- ites {n the first eighteen-hole medal round of the California open cham- plonship tournament, Heading the list of ncarly 200 en- trants are such names as Gene Sara- zen, national professional champion: Joe Kirkwood, former Australian open champion and present holder of the California open tile; Arthur Havers, British open champlon; Jam: Oclken- den. open champlon of France:Johnny MecHugh, California, amateur title- holder; Willle Hunter, former Dritish amatetr champion: George von Elm, former - transmississippi _titleholder. and I'red Wright, r., member of the IWalker cup team, which invaded Eng- {land in 1831 and 1$23. The plavers are paired today ama- teur with professional for the first cighteen holes. Another eightee: holes will be played tomorrow, and Wednesday the low sixty-four con- testants will play the final thirty-six holes. IRUTH AUTOGRAPHS BALL FOR MISKE TESTIMONIAL ST. PAUL, Minn, January 14—A base ball autographed by Babe Ruth, home run king of the New York Yankees, will be auctioned ut the testimonial boxing program here to- morrow night for the family of Billy Miske, late heavywelight pugilist of St. Paul. The base ball will be brought here by Harry Hellmann, De- troit outfielder, who will referece one of the bouts. Mickey Walker, world welter- champlon, will box four vith his sparring partne Gibbons, St. Paul heav will step four rounds with Jimmy Delaney, St. Paul, and Gunner Joe Quinn, Minneapolls, and Tommy | Burns, Detroit, Mich, will go six rounds. fight. POLITICAL BAN ON WILLS | REMOVED, IT IS DECLARED BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, January 14.—There is talk along.the Great White Way | that Tex Rickard has reccived assurancesithat the political ban N on Harry Wills appearing in a If this is so it wo { championship battle has been lifted. account for his sudden activity in behalf of a Firpo- Wills fight, followed by a battle between Dempsey and the winner of that bout. Paddy Maullin that fine old Irishman, who manages Wills, has shied of an ofier to his man of $100.,000 for a bout with Firpo and $200,000 for meeting Dempsey if he disposes of the Argentino. Mullins wants a per- centage of the receipts for his battler, and if Rickard is as anxious for Wills” services as he appears to be Mullins -will get-what he asks. The point io that Wills might not beat Firpo, and thus would get only 100,000 and go into the discard to boot, whereas if he were to meet Luis on a percentage basis at the Polo Grounds - he would surely receive enough to salve that depression which follows upon defeat. Most men. who follow fighting closely bellove that Wiils is taking « big chance In méeting Firps, a big- ger chance, for Instance, than 2 fin- ished boxer Mke Tommy Gibbons would take. For Wills lfkes to get | in.close, using one arm for holding, the other for hitting. i Heo is mot so rugged a performer as Trpo, and it is figured to be a cinch that if he were fiailed about the head a8 Dempsey was that night last Sep- tember he wouldn't have much of a head left. Wirno, it is belleved, could surely hit Wills, and . 80 to win the negro would have to survive some terrific wallops. egroes, because of their color, look isapder to hurt than- white men, but, in reality, they aro not. History records few, If any, cases where the black man has stood up and taken panishment to. the limit and then eame through and won as Kid la- vigne did in_that memorsble battle| egainst Joe Walcott, wherein Joe beat up. the Kid murderously for many | rounds, but in the end was clearly: ‘beaten by the Saginaw .lad. As for Firpo, his gameness iis, of aourse, unquestioned, likewise his ability to absorb wallops such as Dempeey alone can give without woing to sleep. Of course, he did flfialfy take .a short nap, but it re- quired a multitude of wallops flush on the chin to keep him_ down. Rickard, so far as the pulling power of @ Willg-Firpo battle. is concerned, 43 dead right in his judgment. The Tublic 1ikes to see a real fight, and as the two men in question size up this one woulg be worth taking a chance on a $27:00 veat. In the meantime, Harry Wills has 2, '$100,000 offer ‘to box Tommy Gib- ‘bons in Newark on May 1. This he may socept. All told, this looks to %e'the year In wrhich Harry is going ap cagh fa. . - S s ~ GIBBONS AND DEMPSEY DUE TO SIGN SHORTLY HOT SPRINGS, Ark., January 14— Articles for a return match between Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons probably will be signed within two weeks, Jack Kearns, Dempsey’s man- ager, stated upon -his arrival here. “There is also a good prospect for enother bout with Firpo a little later,” Kearns sald. UTATE SOt el CUEISTS WILL PLAY. Joe Concannon and V. R, Ferrell will be opponents in a pocket bil- lard exhibition to be staged at Wal- ter Reed Hospital tomorrow after- noon at 5:15 o'clock, under the direc- tion of George Cox. HOCKEY INJURY FATAL. PRINCETON, . N. J., January 14— Harold B. Reese of Ashville, N. C., a member of the Princeton freshman hockey team, dled in, the McCosh In- frmary yesterday _from an injury which he recelved Satwrday when he was struck in the head by a hockey stick during & game between the Princeton freshmen and a team rep- resenting the New. York branch of the Canadian Royal Bank. PADUCAH,’ Ky., ‘January 14.—Or- fm!nuon of ‘a'néw six<club base ball eague to include cities i western Kentucky, Illinois and TeRjnesses to succeed the Kitty league, {s In pros- pect. Parls and Jackson, Tenn.; Cairo and Herrin, Ill, and Paducah and Mayfleld, \Ky., are mentioned as being favored for membership. DUNDEE TO GET $15,000. PANAMA, = January 14.—Johnny Dundee, the featherweight champion, is to receive $15,000 for his fight ulln'%.lol Lombardo, -the Central and South' American champion. Inside Golf By CHESTER HORTON__. Iu all goIf strokes the clubkead in played, in the down swing, from “the inside out” That is, the right shoulder going into the ahot scemingly makes the clubhend travel outward from the imaginary straight line passing through the ball, but in reaMty it passes straight along this line. i ount” automatic—If the player gets in knack of scissoring his after the clubhead goes th: the ball, The dowaward swing of e el = traveling fulerum, with the left hand Xolding firmly the shaft and the d arm pressing hard his pressing of againat the left that speeds the clubhead. The scissoring movement of the hands causes the right hand to pass clear over the left, but you must be careful not to let the right kand roll too soom or you will hook every shot. The sketch ahows the hand movement at the mo- ment of tmpact. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) Radiators and Fenders 10 DIFFERENT MAKES RADI ANY KIND OR REP, o in mate WITTSTATT S . and F. WORKS 310 13, ¥. G161 1486 B, M. 7443, Match Your 0dd Coats ‘With Our Special TROUSERS' ~ 348 e Save ‘the price of ‘entire mew amit, All cplors, simes, patterns, EISEMAN'S 605-607 7th St. NW. every trick that we could think of " tricks to lose—see the dif- a sport Is that it must be honest. . Nowhere {n the world does honesty pay better than in base ball. The clubs who win the most games, you know, draw the biggest patron- age. Tho'loss of patronage would overcome any possible galn they might make by selling out. The same thing goes for the players. Those on & winning team creasos in salary. every Incentive in the game is to win. Putting it Over is Different. Besides, there wouldn't be any fun or any thrill in base bail if it could be juggled around like some other event. With us it Is a life work and an everyday thing. Whilc a wrestler or a boxer has one fight every three or four months a ball player must be on hic job every day of the week.- No man can be happy and be dishonest. Base ball players are essentially a. happy lot. G But when it comes to trickery, schemes to beat the other fellow out, that is difterent. There is a sort of feeling among ball players, despite what you may have read, that any- thing is fair that they can get away with. Anyway, that was the idea in the old days. 1 remember one Al day when ANNUAL DOG ‘ ' Coliseum January 25 and Charles A. Watson that all past re club, Eighty-seven different breeds v far west as California. There are scores o breeds. The Californfa entry is tion “of wondertul wire. terriers, owned by I man, the Los Angéles John J. Morton's pai; come (rom Charlotte, lahe entry” from New i T than ever and includes many gf the best dogs of many breefla.nwlr:))l éavy emphasis on great Danes, Dob- crman pinchers, pelies and pomerani- T:lm&fl 'rds to Be Conspicuous. e final rush of entries di the -fact shepherds will m:ckl:'gg dangerous bid for the honor of out- |numbering all other breeds. Futher- more, the class of entries has never before been equaled in this city. Stx champlons are coming from the ken- ;"El."ko{’ax). ‘fi_ %m}"ldener of Elkins ik, - e adel, Vi fing‘ re]l'lxradpcanil&lln. Shimiartiayes +iralda Farms, owned by Mrs. Gi- iralda Rockfeller Dodge of Madison, X. J. has entered five shepherds, tn- cluding two champlons. Other shep- herds of known caliber have been en- tered by John Gans, the New York millionaire sportsman, and Eben Rich- ards, jr., of Tuxedo Park, N. Y. Pelkes are sure to attract the fem!- nine fanciers for the entry shows a wonderful collection exhibited by AMrs. Hattle P. Waldo, Mrs. E. M. Dingley. Mre. Sidney Franc of Sheeps- head Bay, L. L; Mrs. A. Frey of Baltimore; Mrs. 'A. Goldsmith of Bal imore and several professional hand- lers. The pekes will be more numer- ous than at any previous Washington {show. An’international champion grey- jhound, with titles won both in Eu- rope and America, has been entered by John Sinnott, a retired capitalist of Phlladelphia. It is Charles Rose- mont Liscard Fortunatus, considered by expert judges the best of its breed in the world. Sinnott has refused $10,- 000 for his greyhound. Rare Specimen Iv Listed. i A most rare entry has been re- {ceived from Otto H. Gross of Fair Oaks, Pa., a retired steel magnate. It is one of the two Ray pinchers in this country. This dog {8 a smaller edition of a Doberman pincher. The Westphalia kennels of New York city, will send a large number of Dobermans, including several champlons. This German breed is new to this country, but is increasing fast. There are a number of high-class lo- cal entrles, including two owned by Gus Buchholz. J. Harry Meyers, who used to be secret service operator before he re- tired to ralse America’s best great danes at Bayside, L I, will eend down a large collection. Elmo K. Lincoln, known to all lovers of the movies as “Tarzen,” will show five of his chows. He is said to have at his Greenacre kennels in Fair- wire-haired fox rving C. Acker- movie magnate. T of colltes will (ol York city s ‘Wonder What Merts Will Say @ collec- | Mumuux . first started pitching in the big les e; the Pirates and Gfants were playing. Mamalx had been go- ing pretty well until some Giant. hit a two-base hit with a_man on first. This put runners on second and third. There was “a conference between Mamaux and some of our players around the pitcher’s box. Roger Bres- nahan was on the coaching lines for the Giants. - “Tley,” he yelled to Mamaux ju: “let me see Mamaux, being a youngster and hinking that Bresnahan wanted to seo If anything was wrong_ with the ball, tossed it to him. Bresnahan promptly jumped out of the way and let the ball roll to the stand. Both runners scored. You can imagine what & razzing Mamaux got! Now that may have been unsports- manlike, but it was looked upon as a pretty good joke. Bresnahan had sim- ply got away with an old trick, as old as hiding the ball. If a man gets away with a trick like that in glae ball the big league players never complain, but there is an_unwritten law that & player must not purposely injure another. More trouble is caused over that among ball players than any other one thing. Most of ‘the time these injuries are accidental, but in the heat of the game It is perfoctly natural for @ player to complain that a base run- ner deliberately cut into him ‘with his &pikes. ‘Waddell Showed He Could. . Injuring a man naturally puts him out of business and may stop h nly method of making a itving. There- foro to dellberately hurt & man ls considered a very mean Zot. * One time at the Polo Grounds Mc- Graw, knowing that Rube Waddell was to pitch against .the Giants, nagged him into a throwing contest before the game. Ile had 'Waddell throwing his arm of to. eee who could make the longest peg to the plate. Rube got so Interested and tired that when it came to the game e was 80 weak he couldn't pitch at SHOW HERE ATTRACTS RECORD ENTRY HEN the final entry was tabulated for the tenth annual bench show of the Washington Kennel Club, to be staged at the 26, it was anpounced by Secretary cords had been broken and that the Capital would see its largest and best exhibition in the history of the Il be shown and no fewer than 537 dogs have been entered by their fond owners. Entries have been regis- tered from as far north as Maine, as far south as North Carolnia and as ‘rhe’ largest single entry was received from the Pine Tree kennels of Portland, Me., which will have fifty-seven shepherds on exhibition. i single entries, usually high-class pets of varying «ld, Conn., the largest collection of his old Chinere breed In the United States. The bench show committes of the \Washington Kennel Club worked {hard preparing for the 1924 show and each and every one is straining him- self to make everything a success. Secretary Watson {4 chairman and is recelving the assistance of Mrs. Marion C. Dunphy, Mrs. P. E. Smith, G 3 Leaker, E. Hume Talbert,. George H. Kernodle, Frank Meyer, Frank P. Leach, Thomas A. Bamford, J. B. Bell George 8. Goodacre, Ford E. Young, Albert Hahn, Mrs. Mary Cowles Ac- 'Kinley Pope, Mra. William P. Collins, George B. Elllott, Harry Baulalr, S. J. Held, Mrs. Frank Meyer. Mrs. Richard E. Johnston, Mrs. I C. Birney, Dr. D. E. Buckingham. Miss Gretchen Wahl, Edward A. Conroy and Mrs. Hattle Waldo. TWO FIVES UNBEATEN | IN CONFERENCE RACE I ' By the Asscciated Press. | CHICAGO, January 14.—Wisconsin innd Towa took the leadership last week in the big ten basket ball race and are the only teams to start this week with perfect records. Allchigan s to make its debut to- night against Illinofe. lowa showed {ts quality by the brand of ball shown against the Pur- due team on the opening game of the Towa schedule, dropping its opponents by the score of 36 to 26. Purdue had demonstrated itself one of the strong- eat teams in the conferenc ‘Wisconsin. with victories over In- dlana and Northwestern, has gained an early advantage, which many pre- dict will be Improved with the a vance of the seazon. Its victory over Indiana was by two points. Purdue, with two victories and one defeat, {8 in third place and has { dicated by its -howlnf against Chi- cago and Ohio Sta hat it will re- main with the leaders. Indiana threw a surprise by defeat- ing the strong Minnesota team, 29 to 23. Th tled with Chicago and Iilinof t the .00 mark. Both Ohio State and Northwestern have dropped the two first games on thelr schedules. Games for this week are Indlana at Wisconsin_and Illinols at Michigan tonight, Northwestern at Illinols ‘Thurgday night, and Iowa at Michi- &an, Purdue at Minnesota and Indiana at Chicago Saturday night. | | Today? Opem Daily TI1 6 P.M. Our Semi-Annual Clearance Sale ~ _Suit or Overcoa_t A,TO l/3 OF ]‘ Priced as low as $18.50 Cutting out the high cost without cutting the hi offers Tailoriig Values to ‘miss. < Have them made as quality is a feature of this sale—a sale that that no man-:can afford you-want them. ; Full Dress Suits, Silk Lined, $45 Up ‘; Merts & Mertz Co., Inc., 906 F St. aill. In the old days that was con- sldered strategy, and mnobody ecver thought of criticizing McGraw, The other manager simply gave Waddeil the¥dickens of & call-down. for beins a sucker. - Anpther old tire-‘em-out trick that | sometimes works with young pitchers | Wwas to catch them in a chake be-| tween the bases. The opposing in- | flelders would throw the bull back and” forward until the.poor pitcher had run his tongue out. They never had any intention of catching him. They just kept throwing the ball to make him run up and down the base That also {8 a favorite old trick to play on recruits in the spring training camps. They had & good laugh on me a few years ago when I went out to Homestead, near my home, to play an exhibition game. with a semi-pro team. The grounds were crowded Wwith all my friends. i I had just bought an automobilc and had brought my family out to the game {n the car. With them was a negro maid. She didn't know much about. base ball. I was the only one who could drive the car and the negro mald didn't feel quite safc even with me driving. % My folks were enjoying themselves, seated in the car back of right fleld. The town folke, of course, wanted me to show off a little. Not If Ske Could Help 1t, Well, & finally got hold of . one ! and slammed ft far out into the crowd. 1 rounded second ‘and the home crowd began rooting for m “Go home, Honus—score on it!° © ¢ Go on, vou Honus, run home, run| homet"’ \ With this rooting I did make a run | for it and slid in home safely. Juet a8 I was plcking myself up and start- | ing for the bench here comes the negro maid running for all she was worth. “Don't do ft, Mr. Honus, don’t do it,” she was screaming. “Don’t you run home. Ef you goes off and leaves us In dat car God knows how we all will ever git home!” Once Jack O'Conner, the catcher, ‘was presented with a large bouquet of flowers with all kinds of cere- monles. Jack knew that he didn't have any real friends there. He sort of smelled a mousffe. Taking the bou- quet he had one peek at It und tossed it into the alr, hitting it with his bat. Bits of cabbage flew all over the diamond. They had handed Jack a cabbage head with a few flowers stuck around it. Fred Clarke once played a trick on one of McGraw's young pitchers that the Giant manager never has forgot- ten. This young fellow prided him- self on his control. “Hey, you've got no control,” Clark called to him. “I'll be® you two dol- lars you can't throw a ball behind the batter.” This was sald so that nobody else could hear it. Sure enough, the angry voung fel- low dld throw one behind the batter that went wild, allowing two men to scare and losing the game for Mc- Graw. The funniest part of that to me was that the young pitcher came around that night looking for Clarke so as to collect his two dollar bet. (Temorrow: Chackles and Chores in Spring Training.) e MICHIGAN FIELD HOUSE CONTAINS BIG LAUNDRY | ANN ARBOR, Mich, January 14— A large laundry, complete in all de- tails, is part of the equipment of Yost Fleld House. It will be devoted exclusively to cleaning -the clothes 8R4 track suits of the university ath- etes. One of the regular tasks of the laundry will be to turn out between 300 and 500 towels each day. Jer- seys, stockings and other aritcles Iworn in competition will round out busy weeks for the washerman. A rotary drier bas been installed, for the rough drying of foot ball and baee ball uniforms. No matter how wet the uniforms become, & few min- !Veach will report. {and_ Pleinich By the Associated Pross, S UDBURY, Mass., January 14—Babe Ruth, who bats out hom in the summer months, plays gentleman farmer on hi estate all winter, but not because he like to. ruas Sudbury Ruth, busy at build- ing a pew henhouse one mild January day, suspended operations long enough to say that farming with him is just an incident in the seri business of base ball. The ax, hammer, saw and snow shovel, which are Ruth’s winter-time toys, are no more than instruments of training for ¢ mighty bat that is expected to propel home runs in mid-July. Impelled by on his farm of 140 acres. put on the Babe's great, frame man INTERCITY CONTEST Teams representing the Carry Ice Cream League of this city and the Hendler Ice Cream League of Baltimore have arranged a duckpin match. Nine games will be rolled, the-first three in this city Wednesday night, on the Rec- reation alleye, the segond three in Bal- timore & week later, and the final three at a location to be decided by the toss of & coln. The match should be close and in- teresting, as_cach leaguc contalns an array of good bowlers. Ice Cream and cake in profusion will be provided at the contests and an or- chestra will be on hand. -— RED SOX PROSPECTS SATISFYING TO FOHL CLEVELAND, Ohlo, January 14— With the acquisition of Second Base- man Wanibganns and Catcher Steve O'Neill from Cleveland, Manager Lee Fohl declared that he cxpects his Red Sox to finish high in the race this sea- son. The Red Sox infield more than likely will line up with Joe Harris on firet base; “Wamby,” second; Dudley Lee, formerly with the St. Louls Browns, at shortstop, and Norman MacMillan on third base, Fohl said. Howard Shanks {1l again’ be utility infielder. Fohl {5 of the opinion that Bobby O'Nelll, Devormer will form the catching Ehmke, Quinn, Terguson and Plercy forming the i pitching staft. ‘nder the tutelage of himself and O'Nell, who will be the Red Sox main- stay behind the bat, Foh! believes that Murray and Fullerton will show " im- provement. Others lLe expects much of are Pifchers Fuhr, Who won twenty-three games with Mobile last year; Marshall, a big right-hander from San Antonio, and “Dan” Boone. staff, with Veach Still Is Balking. DETROIT, Mich, January 14.—Bobby Veach, for the last eleven years a mem- ber of the Detroit Tigers, has declared he will stand by his ultimatum that unless he received $3,000 wabove his salary from thc Red Sox to defray mov- utes in the drier will put them back 1 | ! J ing expenses, he was through ith ba: 11 eus of his ! | which produces suflicter 1 | “That’s the idea,” said Babe. “A guy’s got to keep right at it.” an ambition and a drcad,Ruth performs much hard wor The ambition is to outstrip all past records long-distance batting in-the 1924 season. The dread is that winte: 13 pounds of weight which he will b compelled to train away in the early season. |BOWLERS T0 STAGE Ruth said he had too much redu ing to do last spring, that the proce.s sapped his strength, and-that he loet time ut the opening of the season, which tol@ on his 1923 peft Nothing of that kind I8 to occur thiy year, the Babe says, and he gla: that he has added little, i an g poundage of the 1923 world series. } made one trip to New York thl v ter. It was to ask and receive pe mission from Col. Ruppert, o the Yankees, to go to Hot Spriig Ark., early in February for the *be ing out” process. Sixty Acres of Woodland. Ruth does not pretend to be mu of an agrlculturist, as the growin season of crops finds him engaged elsewhere and otherwise. His bury farm contalns etxty acree woodland, and it is against this the the Babe' directs hix efforts. He ¢ timates the timber on his property about 300,000 feet, and he swings hi: southpaw ax dafly during his e journ here. This winter he has varie ! the program by assisting in t: bullding of several chicken house intending to branch out on a larg- scale in the chicken-raising industrs. Ruth swings at a tree with much the same wholehearted energy ho displays in driving at a base ball. Hin blows meet with somewhat more re- sistance, but there is the compensat- ing advantage that he is allowed mors chances at the tree, His Sudbury neighbors regard Ruti as a faithful worker, but have no* grown intimate with hiso. The Babn does not pretend to be at his best a conversationalist, but he is we! liked here. 1In adjoining towns the fact that a base ball star of the firsc magnitude resides in their midst does not seem to be known to the entt populace. A Newton policeman wh arrested Ruth for speeding somo weeks ago thought his captive & fighter. The Babc's automobile him into trouble from time to ti: but never in Sudbury, where the ro are not adapted to Speeding. Fishew Through the Ice. During the summer months Ru nired man” carries on at the fa to stock zrder for the winter months. On estate there is a farmhouse, w Ruth does not use, two modern ba and considerable live stock. Ru and his family occupy a bungalo When he wearles of labor the Ba. goes pickere] fishing through the ico on nearby lakes. —— UPSET IN DISTANCE RUN. PARIS, January 14.—Ernest B.. del, a hitherto unknown runner fro: Nancy, finished first in road ‘race held yesterday uu auspices of L'Intransigeant, France’s crack runners. His tine wa 33 minutes 23 seconds. He will trained for the 10,000-matar event i the Olympic game ‘Like this-coat? We- have 1,000 more just as good looking that go on sale Wednesday at $35. A quality group of the nation’s finest . off.” makes- made to sell from $50to $75. Tues- day’s Star tells the story of a wonderful pur- chase. Don’t buy until you see what’s coming . The Hecht Co. 7th. at ' F