Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1924, Page 31

. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1924. SPORTS. Southern League Pitchers in Demand : Interest Slack in Welters and Middles SPORTS. THE _ur MAJORS DRAWING HEAVILY' ON CIRCUIT FOR PITCHERS Washington Club Alone Has Obtained Half a Dozén, ¢ While Tygers, Yankees, Pirates and Red Sox Also Corral Dixie Mound Performers. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. Southern Association for pitchers in 1923. No matter what the N EW YORK, January 25—The major leagues dipped deeply into the quality of the southerners, the majors’ appetites seemed primed for Dixie pitchers. Detroit got Whitehall from Birmingham; the Yankces nabbed Karr and Dumont from Atlanta, only to send Karr back; Pittsburgh took Minatree from Nashville; Washington plucked Marberry from Little Rock. Martina from New Orleans, Roe and Wingfield from Chattanooga and McGrew and Zahniser from Memphis; Boston Americans took Fuhr from Mobile and Cleveland Winn from New Orleans. If any of these should happen to prove better than 50 per cent winner the quality of base ball in the south will get its proper recognition Vance of Brooklyn already has shown what a Southern Aseociationer m do in fast company. When he 8 going at his best he Is one of the most thorough pitchers in the game and he is one of the few pitch- ers left who has curves as well as speed. The big leagues were not the only opes who lifted pitchers from the uthland. ~ Dixle Walker, for fin- stance, goes into class AA. Walker has had a varied career, pltching some good ball and some . Washington perhaps got the best of the lot in McGrew of Memphis. He led his league last year in earned Tuns and managed to pile up o per- centage of .647 games won, with a team that could not be called a world beater. Fuhr, whom the Boston Americans grabbed from under the nose of the St. Louls Americans, who had the call on Mobile players, was second in the Southern Assoclation in earned runs. And his pitching was far from bad. ‘Whitehill started with Detroit last fall like a house afire and Detroit is confident he will keep the blaze going. If he turns out as well as he looks in 1 Detrolt 1s going to be hard to beat. Winn made a fair record in New Orleans, with eleven victories and nine defeats, and he was fourth in his league 13 earned runs. Barney Dreyf: of Pittsburgh had an eye on Minatree of Nashville all season and. while Nashville was not quite equal to the task of winning the pennant, Dreyfuss evidently saw pltching that would help his team. (Copyright, 1933, SPEER BOWLS 178 GAME FOR SEASON’S BEST MARK organized bowling competition last night when his team took three I LEO SPEER of the Internal Revenue team set a season record in games from the Regulars in a National Capital League match. In his first ten frames, he toppled 178 duckpins, bettering by four pins the ‘formur season game mark established by Earl McPhilomy and by seven pins the notable count registered by Tommy Harville. Speer’s other games of 118 and 109 gave him a set of 405, a three- game mmlfl ssed by only two others this season. Pete Metrakos of e the Mount Arthur Whalley of the Coast Guard All the Internal Revenue bowlers ‘were in form last night, when the team soared above the coveted 1,700 mark in sweeping the set with the Regulars. The game scores were 593, 683 and 551 for 1,7 Others on the team with Speer were Inge, Rhine, ‘Shuman and Charest. In ome or the greatest matches since the season opened the Mount Pleasant quint triumphed over the Hilltopers, in the Washington Ladies’ League, in three games and settled decisively the question of leadership that has been an issue .between the two teams for several weeks. Mount Pleasant won the first game, 465 to 451; the second, 479 to 469, and the third, 479 to 455. For the Mount Pleasants adys Lowd starred in the first, when she toppled the pins for 112; in the second, Capt. Jennie Malcolm had a nifty count of 118 and in the third Annie Anderson hit for 118. The Mount Pleasants now hold & threc-game lead over the Hilltop- ers. Commercials took two of three from the Comforter Club and are resting easy in third place. Nan Coppage of the winners had high game at 108, while Elaine Paimer g!_Ceml‘or!u’ turned In the best set, 75. National Savings and Trust Com- pany of the Dankers' League had things its own way, rolling three games well over the century mark and beating Swartsell, Rheem & Hen- séy. Pardoe of the winners had high set, 331, and Fant, a teammate, the best game, 123. FPerpetual won two of three from Washington Loan and Trust Company No. 2 quint. Roy of the victors was top man with a set of 330 and game of 122, Leene quint of the Business Men's League bagged all three games from the Berbérich team. Nunco of the losers had high set, 315, and top game, 116. In the Masonfe League Now Jerusa- salem capture@ the odd game from ram, Downing of the winners get- asant League is credited with the highest set at 422, while Engineers totaled 409. ting into the spotlight with a set of 348 and game of 129, Midgets of the Bureau of Stand- ards won two of three from Industrial, Golden of the losers having hi, game, 117. Mariners of the Navy Department League pulled the clean-up act on the Seccetary's Office quint, rolling all Bames over tha century mark. ies er of the losers hit a set of 338, whi game honors went to O'Leary of the | winners, with 128, Annex No. 1 of the Internal Rev- onue League won two of three games from Solicitors. Manning of the de- feated team gotting a set of 335 and gamo of 124 Brandles of the War Department League captured the odd game from Armies. ~Mortis of the viotors had a set of 325, and Brandon accumulat- =d u game of 131. Barbettes won two of three. from the Howitzers, Leasure being top man with a set of 309 and game of 121. "1?-1' matches were rolled in the Agricultural League, Solis-Chemistry grabbing the odd from Plant Bureau. Property turning the same trick against Secretary, Farm making & sweep over Interbureans, and Eco omic taking three from Forestry. Humphries of Farm. had the best set of the evening, 344, and Noone of Secretary, the high game of 126. In the District League, the Curb Cafe continued its recent good roll- ing and won the odd game from Terminal Ice. Toomy of the Termi- nals certainly did his part in trying to ward off defeat by smashing the pins for a set of 376. Miller of the Winners had a game of 133. CHAMPION FENCER DIES. CREMONA, Italy, January 25.—Gino Bellon, Italy's champion fencer, died yesterday from a throat affection. It is considered that his death wili seriously affect the chances of the Italian team in the Olympic contests. |man came ashoi llIII|IlIllilllllllllllllllllllll WUUUTU LT T LT T R T T T T R O TS (Champions and U LT CHAPTER VIl The Fourth of July, 1899. I His Fiction Helped Make Alaska Famous I ' BY TEX RICKARD. THE gold strike at Rampart blew up with a bang—not exactly a bang, at that. It was more like the busting of a cap on a musket. The load didn’t go off. We didn't find as much gold as I have in my teeth ”T" now. . t was in those trying days, though, that the principles of hon- esty were grounded in me. I believe now it was the bigness of things, the naturalness, the openness. Even though I have observed the seamy side of life, I do not believe to this day that many people arc dishonest by nature. The principles of square dealings, 1 find, apply in the fight ame just as they did along the 'ukon, when every man was on his own. There were no courts to ad- just disputes. We didn’t have dis- putes. The question has been asked me, “How do you manage to make th roughnecks of the fight game keep their word?" Truthfully, I can say that T never have found these roughnecks dis- honest. If you give an ignorant man the im- pression that you are on the square with him he will be on the square with you. The parasite manager may give trouble. but never the man who does the fighting. There were two boats on the Yukon, the Bella and the Alice. They brought up supplies in the spring. Whether | a miner was present or not, they Wwould leave a six months' supply of food on the shore, put the man's name on {t and nobody ever thought tof molesting it. There was no favor- itism. A man was a man and he needed 0 much food. Going out of Dawson City, broke and disappointed, thr pectors and myself aimed o at Rampart. As I say. that was a bloomer. There we further away than ever and more dead broke than ever—if that be ossible. My $57,000 had gone rolling along with the little white ball on the roulette wheel. 1 am trying to make the point that money, except in 80 much as it would buy food, never concérnsd us déeply. It doesn’t bother me to this day. His Name Was Rex Beaeh. We learned that the river boats would pay $15 a cord for wood, cut the proper length for the boilérs and piled on the banks of the stream. That being the only way out we started cutting wood. _ Nobody checked up this wood and no work- man thought of getting his at that time. When the ice broke and the boats got through they would simply pick up the wood, figure out the amount and leave the money for us. The boat men trusted be- cause they knew we trusted them. So 1 set to work as a wood-cutter. It _took muscle, but 1 had It. worked for several months at this job in mn effort to restors our lost fortun One day 1 noticed another gang cut. ting wood on the opposite side of the river a few miles down. Naturally we went over to call and gossip. Men were scarce those day: o see 2 new face was quite an event. One of the other wood-cutters I found to be a strong, intelligent look- ing young fellow. He took us in. gave us the best he had in the camp and_made u “What's the name, if you don't mind? I asked. “Rex Beach.” he told me. 1 knew this young fellow was edu- cated, a sort of college man, but I thought him just a prospector like myself. In fact, he was. It wa lons time after that before I ever knew that my friend Rex Beach, cut- ting cord wood on the Yukon, was the great writer. I simply knew him as Beach, a darn good man. 1 don’t remember how rauch Beach earned that winter, but I earned about three hundred dollars. N When the river opened up and our wood was being taken on the boats a with some im- portant information. The Stoek Just Floats In. I hear down the river,” he sald, “that a 1ot Of the boys have struck if rich around Nome. A whole lot of ‘em are packing up and getting out into the mountains near the Behring “We knew the man was talking | This is Rex Beach, noted author, who used to cut cord wood on the Yukon ' with Tex Rickard. straight. His one message was enough. Out of my wood oy T had to St. Mi- ave 336 left. I lost Beach then for awhile. On the boat T met up with a man | named Jim White. He had come from Dawson and was of particular inter- est because he owned a tent. “If T had somebody to go in with me,” he sald, “we could set up a place up in the Nome countty and make some money.” Nelther of us had enough money to tart in business. e thought, though, that we could establish some kind of & public house and get start- ed, The Nome miners were very much in'need of a social center—a gather- ing place anding at Nome beach we found that we could get a lot for $100 and we scraped up enough to get an op- tion on it. By that time the Behring sea had opened. While I standing on the beach & steamer came down to unload lumber. Th me an idea. ough of this lum- ber to bulld & floor under our tent.” I told the boatman, “if it wouldn't cost me too much. “Well, I'm going to leave it here,” he sald. ““Suppose you just pick out what you want and use it. You oan y for what vou uss or return it ater.” That was a real bonanza. In two days we had a nice floor for our tent %0 that we could storé our stuff with- out its getting ruined. Then another hoat came along and began unloading a cargo of boxes containing whisky, wines and brandy. They were tumbled about the shore. 1 suggested that there was enough room In my tent to store this stuff and not inconvenfence us. ‘All right,” he sald, “You store this stuft and if you want to use any of it just keep tab on it and we can settle When I come back. Prohibition Prices in 1899, Withéut a thought of profit, at the time, we carefully stored this liquor, feeling that we had done a fellow & good turn. b You'll like MANUEL ~ Its a splendid cigar. The e demand from Manue€l smokers and our quick delivery system to dealers mean factory-fresh cigars for you ALLEN R. CRESSMAN’S SONS Makers . Philadelphia hance Copyright, 1083, in United States and Great Britals, Ouds, Japan and Seuth America by North American Newspaper Alliance. All rights reserved. The next man I met was Murphy. I'll never forget him because he was a salesman cigars we all liked. This was on the 29th of June, 1899, tune there makes me remember the 1 told Murphy we were going to open up a palce; that if he would open up a littie gambling %0 as to make the placc eociable would sell his cigars and he could take the profits out of the games—if for a brand of The fact of a for- incldent 50 well. Then T thought of the stored liquor. The upshot of it was we opened our place on July 4, 1899, a big day in lal history of the Yukon. Wae s0ld whisky at 50 cents a drink The Story of the T World’s Greatest ‘Fight Promoter SHHHBRHEIREN opened under proper auspic came for miles. The woods to be full of them. That was a gala das in my life, ur gr receipts on the opening t, mind yos, for But the best was yet struck the real heartstrings of Alaska_ This leada me into (Be ex- citement of great Nome beac] strike, th rt “thrills and hear! breaks of house on t Yukon. Man will never see the like of it again. Tomorrow—How I Made $500,000. GRIFF GETS SIGNATURES OF MARTINA AND JOYCE Two more athletes have beon lined up for service with the Nation: this year with the receipt at ba: ball headquarters of the aigned con- tracts o Raynsford Joyce and Josephus Martina, hurlers who are to exhibit their wares at Tamps this spring. Joyce 18 a towering youngster of 180 g)ulnldl drafted from New Haven of the Eastern League, where he won twelve out of fifteen games last season, before being compelled to quit because of a bone felon on the forefinger of his pitching hand. Martina is & real veteran, admittin to thirty-four years, but his recor: of twenty-two wins_ agdinst eleven losses with New Orleans of the Southern Assoclation indicates he may prove of value here. — PLESTINA STILL SEEKS CHANCE AT MAT TITLE Marin Plestina, the huge grappler. who for years has been hurling chal- lenges at the heavyweight stars of N | the wrestling game and getting very little action for his efforts, is a per- sistent cuss, as well as a confident athiete. n lnd'l htlonbol( what Plestina thinks of his ability as a matman may. be gathered from the defl flung 10 the wide, wide world by his man- ager, J. C. Marsh, who offers to pit his meal ticket against any wrestler on & winner-take-all basis, with Lewls, Freberg. Stecher, Zbyszko, Demetral, Evko and Pesek preferred. Plestina claims he has not lost & fali in more than sevén years, and offers to donaté $1,000 to the first man to toss him. — s THREE MORE EXHIBITION TILTS LISTED BY INDIANS CLEVELAND, January 35.—~Three more exhibition games have been added to tne Cleveland Indians' train- ing schedule, making sixtéen In all. On March 26 the Indlanapolis Amer- fcan _Association team will play Cleveland at Lakeland and two da will stop off at Tuscaloosa for with the University of Alabama. Announcement also was made that no American Lesgue umpire would join the Indians during the ‘training The roulette wheel and faro bank seaso TWO DIVISIONS OF BOXING GAME ARE STAGNANT NOW Dave Shade’s Intention to Invade Heavier Class Doer Not Excite Fans—Todd Fails to Impress Malone—Lynch Due for a Trimming. BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, January 25.—As showing the lack of interest in thq middle and welterweight classes, let it be said that Dave Shade's announcement of retirement from the welter class has not caused even a ripple. Shade’s alleged reason for invading the middleweight division is that, having beaten all the leading welters up to Mickey Walker —who won’t meet him--he is forced to go up a notch. K Caustic critics intirnate that Shade’s departure from the welter class ;-’ due more to excess of weight than to lack of suitable opponents in old class. It may He $0, or it may be that the Californian’s cagey manager, Leo Flynn, sets more of a chance to beat Harry Greb for the middleweight title than Mickey Waiker for the welter crov{n. ZEB MILAN TO MANAGE NEW HAVEN THIS YEAR NEW HAVEN, Conu., Jamuary 25. ~—Clyde Milan of Clarksville, Tex., former Washingt merfean League astar oumtfelder, captain ager, will marmge the Kas League, t M'TIGUE PAYS $10,000 TO GET RID OF PILOT NEW YORK, January 25.—Mike MoTigue, world's light hmavywelght ohampion, and Joe Jacobs, his man- eger, have settled their «ifferences definitely, but not in 2 mew agree- ment, as those ¢loge to themn had ex- pected. McTigue paid Jacobs $10,000 to be reléased from his mansgement under a contract which would not have ex- pired until August. and hercafter will manage his own affaifs. The legal documents were sighed yestor- day at the office of Tex Richami, pro- motsr, who negotiated the peace settiement. It was reported that immediately after signing _the papers MoTigue re- celved an offer of $100,000 from a syndicate of Newark, N. J., promot- ers, to meet Geéorges Carpentier of France and Young Stridbling, the lat- ter in an indoor bout about the first of March and the former during the summer. HOPPE TO PLAY KIECKHEFER. CHICAGO, January 35— Willle Hoppe, world champion 18.2 balkline billiardist, will meet Augie Kfeck- hefer, former three-cushion cham- plon, In a three-cashion match here | robably in March. Both players ave expressed a willingness to meet an rms, date and place for the match are to be decided upon Flynn says Walker won't meet an: | one but “suckers,” and that seems tc be pretty nearly the truth, although as the writer has said befors, it fs difficult to see why he should fear for his title in meeting any man in his class, not excepting Shade. In an interview after his Boston fight with Roland Todd, the Engiish middleweight champion, Jock Maton: didn’t speak as though he wae great- d by the Britisher. “Tod1 efensive fighter,” says tha . Paul mitt artist. “He blocked enough of my punches to sink a ship He didn’t hit me to amount to any thing and I think he was glad th fight was over when it ended. 1 don’ think he'll ever be 2 world champiot He ia a good middleweight—for Enx- land, and that let's him out. It doean't look as though Johnn: Wilson will be able to draw any mo:> money out of Tex Rickard as & con tender for Harry Greb's title. He ha had his chance, and, after promisin,: to ralse merry hallslujah with Gres he put up a most disappointing bou: Johnny's record since he lost t championship to Greb suggests {% he fights better when he has no gre: issue at stake. This belng o, he wi be able to go about the country bouts of no really great moment ax pick up & lot of money for a lon time to come. Joe Lyneh has cartainly proved n. great shakes as a champion in bantam class, and probably is due a real trimming the first tim classy newcomer with & wallop a fighting hoart goes up against In fact, Joe has been having troubles against boys not rated - (Copyright, 1923.) YEARLY JOB OF SIGNING ROUSH IS BEGUN AGA: CINCINNATI, January 25.—Catch Hargrave and Outfieider Dundan, t: of the three players who declars themselves for subatantial increases in salary. having signed contracts the Cincinnatl Nationals now will de- vote attention to the bringing of B Roush into the fold. Talk of a three year contract at a figure consider ably higher than that heretofor: offered the star outfielder, is beins heard among local fans. | topnotchers. The Hecht Co. 7th at F