Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1924, Page 18

“ 18 SPORTS. / mericans Fail in UNABLE TO SCORE POINT IN 18-KILOMETER RACE ; \ Norway-and Finland Take All Six Places, Haug of * Former Country Winning—Another Man Is Injured on Bobsled Chute. N By the Associated Press. HAMONIX, February 2-—The United States was unable to place in ‘ the Olympic ski speed race over eighteen kilometers today. The event was won by Haug of Norway, whose time was one hour, fourtecn minutes, three seconds. - Norway and Finland took every place. Grottumsbraaten of Norway was sceond u; Finland, third; Maardalen, Norway, fourth; Stromstad, Landvik, Nor ,-sixth. United States entrants were John Carleton, American Rhodes scholar from Dartmouth; Anders Haugen of Minneapelis, American champion; Sigurd Overhy of St. Paul and Ragnar Omtvedt of Grand Beach, Mich. Switzerland's-first entry in the bob- | 500'DUE TO COMéETE IN BOSTON A. A. MEET BOSTON, Februarg 2.—] sleigh race made the best- time for this event, covering the ‘distance of 1444 maters in 12749, The chute ha an 11 per cent grade, with eighteen sharp. turns. Maj. Broome's British entry was second. Alfred_Guldener, second Swiss crev the bob overturned. aceldent on the chu occurred whilé the crews ing. a_member of the broke a leg when | Jt was the ffth | ion's most brilllant performers, will compete at the areni tonight in the ! thirty-fitth annual indoor games of the Boston Athletic Association. In the Hunter mile, feature event of the program, Joie Ray, holder of two legs on the trophy, will face stern ompetition, with Lioyd Hahn, holder of two victories over Ray this win ; Ray Baker of the lllinois A. and Walter Maunz of Syracuse Uni- versity entered The Briggs' 40-yard dash will bring together Loren Murchison, ‘Boots' Lever and Chester Bowman. In the high jump L. T. Brown and H. M. Osborne are competitors. -— { NAVY CREWS WILL ROW Yankers' Stock Rises, ¢ The Americans' brilliz over Sweden in rda game has hoosted “the stock of Fanke the of sportsmen | here, and the who " Dbeen' laying. ssainst Une tomorrow re now trying | in match with Canada to hedge. The wearers of the Maple Leaf scored” 104 goals In the four games | plaved so far, but were storéd again The United States piled 2 tallies, but Kept {ts debit c act. Thus Canada apparentiy Offense, the United States o only fimn excels i in_defense It co 2y be feated ( the Americ team, 11 isons mean anvthing, it inted ‘out th anada de- Britain 1 . while won against the sam 0. The scores of both ainst Sweden were pract 2 0: the NNAPOLIS, Md, Races for varsity February nd junior crews and S hockey is more | flenle: . but is weaker because of | the O Although both Dru ¢ considered individ 3 1o have no superior on the Canadian | nerh no peer—their | T A very individ ir weakness, | pound erews. the ter to for the' Canagixns pla pro- | against the Afnapolis plebes. verbial well e s i 3—Princeton, \'ar;ll!- Is Tmiprexsive i nd possibly freshman. The winter sports g ¢s have been ‘Ar'}"). Jamon V' with bgautiful and clear Al- | ther, tor ~“which ha norhaps most important 1 the s of the cvents Jhe stands surrounding the skat- ing rink, bobsleigh chule and ski jumps - present a picturesque ap- bearance filled as they are with spec tators dressed.in multicolored woolen rments and splashed here and there ith the national colors of the se iteen competing nations—the som ber blac a, the bright red of Switze and Britain, the black 1d zold of Belgiuny, the horlzon blue t France, the whits amd blue of Fi 'and, the red and blue of Norway, th tints of Canada's maple leaf, and the apd blue of the United » barkground of the p. suow mountainside that in the bright “rench: Alps. untries, espectally have taken their rican college vells ! h mes in. Stockholm and-| Antwerp, und-Tiave developed formulie pr encouragime their athletes whieh | L resembls Indlan war cries, | hen Thunberg of Finland aud Olsen A rway were fighting ‘elbow to el- bow: for the Jead in the'speed-skating | Tace, - or - when_ the Norwe skiers, closely followved by the Finns, at the end of the ski marathon suddenly ap- peared on the ountainside,” the cheers that afose from th to- gether \ h ~the eneral ion and excMement; one of the sceu sund Babel of 0ld when the mi occurred. In- chorus The Amer Spectacu ympic tryouts, are included in hedule follow: row iy sunior varsity May varsity and freshma v 31—America th se¢ {HIGH SCHOOL QUINTS IN CONTESTS TODAY Plzy.in the high schooi champton= ship basket ball serles was to be confirmed today at the Coliseum with Central engaging Business in the opening game and Western meeting |Tech in the second match. The first tilt was to start.at 3 o'clock. - On past performances, Western should have little trouble with Tech. A sterner battle is expected in the entral fray, as the former be allowed to use the players who-“graduate this week. anga High's tossers wha took measure of the St. Francis Xavier five of New York yesterday, 38 to were to journcy to Leonardtown, Md.. today for a game with the high school quint of that placs Genau. and Mitchell were big factors in Gon z s win, the former caging five b: and the latter tossing four. sers were e St. Francis Xavier € samed Looked to appear against the George- é h | town freshman team this morning at | the Hilltop. | BUSH LISTS NINE SPRING CONTESTS FOR HOOSIERS INDIANAPOLIS, February 2.—M ager Donie Bush of the Indianap base ball club has announced training schedule of the team ax fo'low: = March 13, Cincinnati, at Plant City, Fla.; 18. Cleveland, at Plant City, Fla.; 21, Brook- iyn, at Plent City, Fla.; 28, New York Glants, st Plent Oity, Fla.; 28, Washington, ¢ City. Fla.; 26, Clevolard, at Lake: ll-:»’i New York Glants, at Sarasota. 29, Brooklyn, at Clearwater, Fla.: Av:l 13, Boston Americans, at Indianapolis. tch Apart evening in randl- n- iz MORAN'S RING HOPES | SPOILED BY DUNDEE MITCHELL VS. TENDLER. MILWAUKEE, Wis., February i Pinkie Mitchell, junior welterwelght hampion, will sign to box Lew Tend- ot Philadelphla, Pa., here Febru- ¢ 11.. The bout-will headline a card blaster of fistic chumpionship hopes.” | which will also bring together Joo Ths scalp 6f Pal Moran, New Or.|Tiplitz, stablemate of Tendler, and 1 5 S Johnny Mendelsopn of Milwaukee. leans, lightweight, was added to the{poth bouts will be for ten rounds, no bounding -Italian's belt last night atidecision. adison Square Garden, where-John- e ny won the judge's decislon-in a fu- WOMEN IN NET FINAL. ous fitteen-round mutch, and ab- suptly cliecked the upward climb of | NEW YORK, Fcbruary 2.—Mrs. the ‘sbuthicrner, whose sensational {Marion Zinderstein Jessup of Wil- ckout victorles over - Charley jmington, Del., and Miss Lilllan Schar- hite and Johnny Shugrue recently [man of New York mect today in the lad pointed him toward a title match |final singles match of the annual in- h Benny Leonard. door_tournament of the Helghts Casi- no, Brooklyn. Mrs. Jessup and Miss Leslie Ban- But Dundee, battle-scarred and duf= able, 1 cd the aspirations of croft of Boston yesterday won the club doubles title. ¢ title contender in the R cade or moro, and Moran, de- “pite” expeciations, proved o excep- e ion, : | To Moran's credif it should be said ARMY POLOISTS SCORE. Tot bagly beaten In fact. &) CINCINNATI, Ohio, February 2,— Outriding their opponents during the sécond and third chukkers, the West Point polo team defeated the 10th In- cu'ar —rally in the ' last five 1ds, when he had Dundee bat- team of Fort Thomas, Kv., 13 Maj. Griswold YORK, Fébr —Besides | € the Tratherweight and junior 'ightweixht titles, Johnny Dundee, veteran of wmore than 300 battles, still retains recogpition as the leading A bloody; almost tufned the: which was' overwhelmingly i FoIoL T J s fa st two- | Ty e iy, (ho TERU IWO- [t5 11, here Iast wight Dundee was clearly thronghout the cxr® stages. From |SCOring six times. the: ferith ‘o’ the- finish’ 1t was-a toe- | to-toe strugrele; with-Moran holding | the upper hand most ‘of - the ‘time. ! Dundee's generslship saved him from | defeat gnd w-threatened knockout at one stage of the fourtcenth round tion base' ball club has passed from Whéi he - tottered ander a wicked Roger 1. Bresnghan of Toledo to At “the final’ be'l, Dundee’ was, Joseph . O'Brien of New York. The from culs- about the ears |new owner will leave immediately ‘ while -his ribs were Lfor Florida to select a spring train- Blotehed with red. Moran bled from ing site. Gainesville is under con- sashes under_aue eye and about the sideration. . mouth. ! Nefthed of. Dundde’s titles’ was at. s = R et Swar i inior | ALLEN To PILOT SAINTS, Ughtwalghi. Duiideo swelghing 133,800} s1i pAUL, Minn, Februnry' Moran 1 Nick" Allen, veteran catcher- of the {St. Paul American Association base ball club, has been appointed man- ager of the club to .succeed Mika Kelly,\it i announced by John W. Norton, president .of the club. = Allen joined the Saints in 1921, coming hers from.Cincinnatl in the deal for-“Bub- bles” Hargraye, . Pl A S CARDS TO KEEP PFEFFER. ST. LOUIS, February 2.—President Sam Breadon of the St..Louis Na- tionals denies the report that.Jeff Pfeffer had been sold to the. Boston Braves. “As well as I can determine ‘now,” said Breadon, “Pféffer will pitch for the Cardinals in 192 D. C. NATATOR IN RACE. Joseph Kreuttner of Devitt . Prep is competing in the mixteenth annual interscholastic swimming champlion- ships today at the Central Y. M. C. A. pool at Philadelphis; He Is the only logal entry. . TOLEDO, Ohio, February 2.—Con- trol of the Toledo American Associa- BASKET-BALL RESULTS. At Athena—=eorgla, 40; North Caro- ¥ Stote,, 3. i) e hes: Diomes—oxianons, 373 ‘Lafayette—Purdue, 23; Han-| 9. . ) i ‘At Enst. Ia'lull;z-—lnmblld. 135 Michfgan <A . 7 suhvflfl:.unnn-, 263 derbilt, 25: At Charieston—Wofford, 18; Col- lege of -Charlegton, T * 'HOCKEY RESULTS. - At New -Haven—New Haven, 3; Boston, 1. Cleveland—Cleveland, - 4; - 8t 16 At Fittaburgh—Pittsburgh, 5; Eve~ Qq:"‘““‘“m"" 2 Du- Af Amberst—Amherst, 3i Spring- fleld, 2. - Five hundred | athletes, including many of the na- | IN MANY BIG EVENTS; varsity and 150- s the TOLEDO DEAL IS COMPLETED. | ! e THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, AN L] CHAPTER XV.~In the Training Camps. BY TEX RICKARD. IT was in the Reno fight between Jeffries and Johnson that I began to learn the basic principles of pro- moting, of making a big affdir like that successful. An cditor in the west has written to ask me if I éver knew of a real grudge fight. Frankly I never did. Moreover, I don't believe there ever was one. In the old days it used to‘be ac- cepted as the proper form for one fighter to. refuse -to speak to his opponent while training. There were ~stories, probably encouraged by some booster, about the two | fighters meeting accidentally while doing road work and almost coming to blows. This was supposed to con- vince the public that they were bit- ter enemies and, consequently, would put up a_barder fight. That to me is a lot of bosh. T never believed in it, and the more I see of the fisht game the less I believe in it. The publfe likes to look on a fight as a sporting event. No man ever showed poor sportsmanship by being friendly to lis opponent before and after the fight. That was my theory, and I put it into practice with Jeffries and Johnson. I used to make a point of going fishing or hunting with Jeftries and of visiting him at his headquarters. On other oeceasions I would get in Jack Johnson's big racing car and ride with him. I never tried to keep anybody from seeing me do it, either. |, You ought to have heard the busy- bodles warning me about this. Why the Fighters Hobnob, “it's bad_dope for to be seen ‘out with these fighters,” they would tell me. “There’ll be a lot of under- | | with Princeton, Massachusetts Tech | uround talk. Don't forget you are the acuse, at lome, the American | nronin (M 0ta the referear regatta on the Schuylkill; and ! “Muybe you are right,” I told one adviser, “but I'm going out fishing rowing schedule Jjust an-iicith Jeffries tomorrow. I like to talk ito_him Often Jeffries would ask me about kind of shape is he in, Tex? 1 told hini. “He'll give you quite a'fight,” Then Johnson-would ask about Jef- fries. I would tell him the sume thing, }I would never try to flaiter one of them by telling him he had a cinch. That would be foolish. | In later vears I have gone further !1in this line. I have inade special ar- irangements for the two fighters to be seen together before the fight. The fans like that so do the fighters, for that m-iter. 1 took yarticular pains, for instance, to see shat Dempsey and Carpentier | met eazh other in a friendliy way be- fore tidr fight. 1 even arranged for them to play golf together. To me that looks like Sportsmanship. While we were getting ready in Reno there was much whispered talk {to the effect that the fight had been fixed. That is all foolishness. Often 1 am asked about it to this day. ~ Jeffries had no fdea_that Johnson would win that fight. If anything, it was Johnson who lacked the con- fidence. He wasn't so sure. A proof of this is that Jeffries felt so sure of . STEPS OUT E 1 i Basket Ball Tips BEGINNERS HAVE PATIENCE. UNTIL THEY ARE AUTOMATIC. DON'T_PRACTICR WHEN TIRED. " AVOID SHORT, MOVEMENTS 1. 2. SERKY What precautions. " would you give the beginner in basket ball? ; Answered by DR. JAMES NAISMITH, the' master {Was the star of the visiting ‘team,|qme gnventor of the game, who has done more to further it than any otber one man alive. Usiversity of Kanans. ¥ %k 1. Do not expect to become an expert in too short a time. It takes several years® training to make an expert player. Skill is acquired slgwly. s » 2. Do not attempt too.much at ofie " ‘time lest confusion occurs. Master one thing before going on to the next in any particular action that you are trying to develop. 3. Do not try to learn-something new- while ‘the nerves are tired, as little impression can be made on them at such a time. g 4. -Have the body moving freely and avoid short jerky movements when throwing for goal or making passes. - @ ek e 5. Co-operate with “your - team= mates as much as possible and yet assume full' responsibility for ‘a difficult play when god‘havé an equal or better chance than they have. 6. Follow the direction of your coach, give him your loyal backing and your best effart. 0 - 7. Acce&: the decisions of the officials, member that they see what you do, not what you intended to do, or what you thought you did. captain take the matter up in the proper way. (Copsright, 102§, Assoclated Edltses.) t = % Champions and «nd Beuth Amerios 37 North Americas Hewspaper Alllance. All rights reserved. AT AL AL LT AT AT S WHEN DEAL WAS CLOSED FOR JEFFRIES-JOHNSON D. C, SATURDAY, ot B FEBRUARY 2, 1924. In this group, from left 10 right, are; George Little (Johnson’s manager), Jack Johnson, Tex Rickard (standin, Robert Murphy (temporary stakeholder), Juck Gleason (standing), Sam Berger and Jim Jeffries (then champion). the purse golng to the winner. John- son felt the same way about- jt. If there had been any thought of John- son laying down they would have #plit the purse nearer even. You can go and bet that Jim Jeffries thought himself sure of winning. $60,600 Jem's Film Profit. In justice to Jeffries. by the way, 1t is ‘a fact that the sudden change af climate from ESan Francisco to Reno affected him very seriously. He contracted stomach trouble and dfar- rhoea. That made him slow and logy and he could not entirely eradicate It by training. A big item in that fight, apparentl overlooked by many at the start, w the moving picture rights, Johnson and Jeffertes were to divide their share of this equally. Johnson made a bad mistake of selling out his en- tire pjcture interest for $50,000. Jef- fories held on to his and.it netted PIPHANY EAGLE basketers Will step out of their clas a game with the Fort Washington five on the latter's floor. would be quitc a feat for the local team to bring home'the bacon. Epiphany is in finc fettle, however, and hopes to show the way to the doughboys. Players of the local quint are to report at the 7th strect whatf at 5:30 o'clock to board a boat. > If it is a’'question of rules iet your, him 366,660, /EPIPHANY EAGLES QUINT OF ITS CLASS tonight in Collins, King and MecLaren, for- wards: Moser, center; Elliott, 'Holst and Stanton, guards, probably will play for Epiphany. Aloyslus Freps mosed out the n-’u"‘ maculate Conseption Preps, 26 to 24. Both teamsy played well. Interior Department tcam. that showed the way to the St Paul five, 31 to 16, will tackle the Yosemites tonight in the Ingram gymnasium. Gosnell, Roll and Jack Sullivan played well for Interior yesterday. Epiphany Church Boys' five now is leading the Sunday School Leaguc as a Tesult of its 27-1-023 victory over the St. Al hans tosser: Manhattan Athletle Glub will be the opponent of the Aloysius tossers tomorrow afternoon in the Gonzaga Hall gymnasium, Play will start at 3:30 o'clock. Stanton Janlors upset - the dope when they downed the Boys' Club Yankees, 31 to 17. A fast attack, with Sweeney and Mitchell much in evi- dence, won for the Stantons. Dominfcan Lyceum was foroed to | extend itself to show the wav to_ the Palace Athletic Club, 24 to 20. Fits- gerald of the winners and Stahn of Palace performed creditably. Harry Godwin of the Elliott Ath- lotlo Club registered ten court goals against the Argyle five, his team winning, 33 to 8. Games with. the winning ‘quint can be -arranged. by calling Manager Eddle Pitts at Lin- coln 1944. Goas starred for the ' Park View Juniors when his team took. the measure of the Petworth Bovs' Club five; .15 to 4. $t. Andrew Juniors took both ends of a double-header, downing the Na- vajo' Athletic Club, 40 to 21, and the Arab quint, 33 to 3. MoDonald, Moser and Ourand of the winners were ‘the oustanding players in both games. Columbia Midgets were, offered little_opposition when they put the Argyle tossers to rout, 37 to 16, Car- rolt - obtained seven baskets -for - the winners. 5 Boyw’ Club Yankeew casily disposed of the Aurora Athletic Club, 31 to 1. Birry and Hitch shohe fot:the win- ners. 3 e i A clever passing game enabled the Circle Athletic Club to défeat -the Riverside five; 45 to 11. ' Keppel' of. tho‘mnneru accounted for five court goals. AT S aReY A -spivited staged between the Pero Midgets and the Kenilworth Athletic Club. the former Winning,'11 to 7. P. Harrison caged ‘three baskets for the winners. CINCINNATI PASSES UP : .- *COLUMBUS. AS-A FARM ‘CINCINNATI,. Ohilo, Feb; - g Li ‘The ‘praposed purchase of ‘the - bus; American Asgociation; ‘base ‘ball club_ by the, Cincinnati Nationals has been’ called 'off, according to August Herrmann, president of the local club, Jack - Hendricks, former manager of the Indianapolis ‘team, who has been conducting the negotiations, has ad- vised agsinst the purchase, Mr. Herr mann sald. Cincinnati has made_se lQ!'fl attempts to acquire a minor layers, but so far has been un- Fo secure _mlmm terme, P It | efensive battle .was| ments took on a different air. There was all sorts of fun. The newspaper men really had more to write about than if we had stayed in San Fran- cisco. There was more of the r¢ Johnson kept his admirers and | others constantly amused with his racing automobile and_his big bull fiddle. Some have an idea that Jack not serfous about g that car. Don't you belleve it. He thought himself the greatest racing driver jn the world and would take any sort of chafices. ! And That Bull Fiddle. Johnson also knew how to play that big bull fiddle. It was his de- light to get & crowd of white folks old bull snort.--He could actually do tricks with that big fiddle. Another of his favorite pastimes was to have chicken dinners. Inside Golf -By Chester Horton: Whatever tilt of the body you mploy im your stance position muat be maintained throughout the entire awing. 2 The tilt of your body fixes the oblique plane of your swing, with the head and your shoulders fixed as its center. You are told, in golf, 10 keep your head stfil. The real purpose of keeping the head atill, in reality, 15 to maintain through-~ out the wwing this oblique plane; since moving the head up and down immcdiately chasges this plane. The golfer need mot con- cern his mind, during his swing. with all the twists and turns his oulders, arms, wrists and so on must make, but he must concern himself nbout this oblique plane, or, in other words, holding the head wtlil and keeping his body 1ilt cokstant. Lunging forward toward the - ball Immediately throws out the piane of the swing. That {» why we point out that body force adda’ little it anything to the: swing when it is employed mcrely an brute force. Copyright. Jobn T. Dille Co.) GALLAUDET AND G. W, * FIVES MEET TONIGHT Gallaudet and George Washington University -teams tonight will- con- clude & week marked by little ac- tivity among local college basketers with a game.at Central “Coliseun:. Play will get :under way .at"§:30 o'clock. The Kendall Greeners are favered to score over the Hatchetites, who have yet to-win this-seasom. - Coach Hughes I8 expected to put the following Gallaudet team on, the flvor: Boatwright and McCall, forwards; Riddle, xentas nd W;llafiu?i'!ud- , guards, {gorge Washington may Sper pia; "wl%‘!(]‘oysch and Woerner, chols, center, and- Dowd Capt, Georige Maraters dnd a milc relay team composed of Paul Heflthy, Hay Haas, Géorge Kinnaly and Jobnny. Holden will represent Georgetown to- night in the annual meet of the Bos-. ton Afhletié Association in 'the b Marsters is-to compete -in- a mile event. . RS University of Maryland trackmen will be opposed to_the Johns Hopkins. texm “in jual - meet .at- Baltimofe April 19. The Marylanders also are booked fdr"-a-couple’ other” engage- ments, : i University's &irl m'k&fi‘n“ ot deft. oday Tor| ere. the Willjam and, Willtameburg, whi i Mo ‘wfi.}.ba ercountered to: Mary ‘sextet night.” Monday -the fair Hatchetites will face the Richmond Collége six in. Richmond. . ‘ Candidmtes ‘for battery positions with the -Catholic University ~nine e club to be used as a fa for | will be’ called February 15.. About'a | Laks Ulty club”of the or en’ un-’ men, Inolading a trio of Vets! ol is dos: orans, are éxpected to report. mance of the goldfield fight ahot it. | at night or afternoon and make the | Al- | winning he insisted ou 60 per cent of | At Reno the' preliminary arrange- e 5 I ‘| tennt j ways hie had a smile for everybody. It | was a golden smile. too. It always looked to me as if Jack Johnson had more gold teeth than anybody in the world There wera frequent reports that | Jefferies was acting ugly and surly while Johnson wus happr-go-lucky {and friendly. As a matter of fact Jefferies Is a | big; friendly fellow. He was suf- | fering from that stomach trouble. | Try as he would he could not entirely & r it. That made him worry. |He was not surly or sullen. 1 Watched these fellows train be- { cause @ wanted to learn as much as | possible about my job of referee. As | the Fourth of July approached that referecing. business made me sit up and think. - - | — " Tomorrow: Jeff and Johnson in the Ring. TENNIS BODY TO ACT ON PLAYER-WRITING - YORK, February 2,—A sharp ext over the proposal to declare player-writers ineligible after Janua .1625, ‘I3 expected today when it comes before the annual meeting of the United States Lawn | Tennis Assoctation for cousideration. Becauge it required a two-thirds vots for adoption a year age, a sim- ilar measure, framed as a by-laws amendment, was Gefeated by the as- sotation, but the new proposal takes | the form’ of an interpretatjon of the amateur rule and needs offly a ma- ¥ vote to become effective. ¢ opposttion has been voiced to the proposal, and Wililam Tilden the national ‘champlon, who would be lamong several stars affected by its | enforcament, has openly disputed the rights of the gssociation to interfere | with his newspaner writing. | “Detalls of Davis cup and Olymplo plans are expected to be re- at the meeting. which also will | on dates for 1924 champlonship tournamants. George W. ! jor, Wightman of Boston, nominee “for president to succeed Dwight W. Davis of Washington, heads the siate of officers to be elect- ed for 1924, HAVERS’ GREAT GOLF WINS AT CHULA VISTA SAN DIEGO, Calif, Februaty 2.— Arthur G. Havers, British open golf champion, and James Ockenden, Kirkwood, Australian trick shot art- ist, and George Von Elm, Los Angeles amateur, 1.up in an interesting cight- cen-hole match on the San Diego Country Club course at Chula Vista. ‘Havers hat the low score. shooting 1 78, Par is 7% The British open champton cafie home in 34; three be- low’ par. Kirkwood scored 75 and Von Elm and *Ockenden, 78 eac. Kirkwood and 'Von Elm_ were up -at®the turn, but Havers' great finish sqon wiped out this lead. 1OWA NEEDS VICTORY TO STAY IN RUNNING PR CHICAGO, Februaty ¢ 2.—Towa 'tos night will have its chance again to betome & contender .for” the Westefn Centexence. title or sink down among weaker: quintets: The Hawkeye " early in the season regarded {as an aimost certain conference; lead- {er,” has' two ‘défeats agaifist it and | meets: the' strong Chicago five, which is strongly in the running for -tite title. If_victorioys tonight. the. Chicago team on. February 9 will. have. a chance. ta 1sad the Big Ten by defeat- ing Michigan, as vet undefeated.. - ‘Indlana. 18 gi the edge over Hlnfielutrh 1):- 'n} g“i""-nf"“’(‘;;':—“ anje of ‘-the _nlg) e . Gopher Gamtet has been unable to hit. ita stride after winning the first” con- { ference game of the season from Tili- nois; 36 td 23. Nelther of thése teams is-séffously in_the' running for the thtlé, although both are in a position | to upset the chances of sonie ef ‘the, moPé aspiring fives. RED SOX LET-0'DOUL GO. BOSTON, Fébruary 2.—The Boston Americans’ announced today. the re- 1édse of Feank J. O'Doul to the*Salt ific - Coast S hanaca, dgue. e Jming, rugby and goceer foot b School Authorities Contend Signing of Varsity Starq for Future Use by Big Leaguers Is Blow to Maintenance of Amateurism. BY JOHN minor leagues in their opposi N leagues at Chicago authorizi tions to include in its list of players B. FOSTER. EW YORK, February 2.—College officials are lining up back of the tion to_the rule adopted by the maj ng cach club of the latter organiza- five “futures,” who were to be college men deemed good cnough to tie up by agreement, but whe would be permitted to continue their studies until graduation. The objection of the minor leagues to the plan was registered sharp- ]y and promptly as soon as the s much with college players. As a rul cess with college men because they ! f 2 cheme: wa. Their contention was that it would increase t! major league domination and make it impo: s trotted forth at Chicago. he total of ball players under ssible for the ‘minors to do ¢, the minors do not make much suc- cannot offer adequate inducement GRIFF BUYS SPEECE, OMAHA KID BOXMAN A wad of coin, said to have be'n $10,000, and two players was the con sideration involved in the acquisition by the Washington club of Pitcher Byron Speece, purchased yesterday from'the Omaha club of the Western League, . One of the players involved is Jimmy O'Neill, forme of the Natfonals, who was farmed to the New Haven, Eastern League, club last season, and the other is & hurler to be named later. Speece 13 a young right-hander of generous size, with an underhand de- livery similar to that made famous by Carl - Mays. and whose ability is highly regarded by Ed Konetchy, for- mer big league first-sacker, 1 Omaha pilot in 1923, With a fourth- lace club, Speece last season won wenty-six and lost fourteen games for a percentage of .650. JACKSON’S CASE DUE TO RUN A WEEK YET MILWAUKEE, February 2.—Pros- | DPects of another waek of testimony- taking in the $18,500 salary suit of Joe Jackson, former White Sox playér, against the- Chicago club of the American League looméd today as Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the club, prepared to take the stand in his own defense. : Early forecasts of the line of action ta Le followed by the dofendant oluly in sceking non-liability for payment in what Jackson: alieges’ito. be a breach. of a three-year - contract ¥igned after the 1919 world series between the White Sox and the Cin- cinnatl Reds appeared to ba Justifica- tion for the severance of-contractual relations of player and club because of alleged disclosures of misconduct of the plaintiff in the world series. The defense. it is £aid, will-attempt to show that Jackson €igned his con- tract. after the cloxe of the’ series with full knowledge of the incor- Poration of the tor-day release clause. now in dispute, and that the White Sox club owner exercised his option under the olauge when informed. that the world gerles had been_ “thrown' to the Cincinnati Reds and was rat- {sled-that Jackson had been fvpived in the alleged “throwine. - ONLY FOUR OF REGULAR REDS YET TO BE SIGNED CINCINNATI, Fcbruary 2. — Feta Sammy Bohne are the of the Cincinnati National League téam who have not sent in their signed contracts for the coming sea- £on. May has not_been heard from since he was purchased from the Vernon club. None of these .players is regarded as a hold-out. -however, and all are exnected to sign up in time to start south with' the elub, four weeks from today. nly regulars SOX DENY GETTING NEW COLLINS BIDS CHICAGO, February 2'—A (gnial that any new bids have been- received for Eddie Collins, star second.baseman of the Chicago Americans, has been made by President Comiskey ‘and. Secretary ‘\‘vl'flblnbl‘ of the club. -Both stated that storfes printed in the east that Wash- ington and the New York Americans had made offers for Collins were with- out -foundation. NEW YORK, Febraary 2.—Both' the New York Yankees and Washington Senators _are negotiating _with . the Chicago White Sca for Eddie Collins, star second baseman, it was learned yesterday. 5 At Yankee headquarters it was offi- cially announced the management would include any one of the world champions French open titleholder, defeated Joe |in a trade except Babe Ruth, Joe Dugan, | i Aaron Ward and Sam Jones. If Col- i1ing' came here he would play..eecond and Ward would replace Everett Scott at shortstop. . Owner Comiskey of the Sox was un- derstood to have refused to trade Col- line here unless Ward was given to him in__addition -to other players. A year agd thé Yankees offered Ward, Jones and Bob' Meusel for' Collins and Bob all. ‘What material besides Second Base- man Stanley Harrls the Sox demanded from Washington for Collins was not ade known. Washington was under- Rood. to- want. Collina to. manage. the team. D B According to Clark Griffith the Wash- ington club has not reopened negotia- tions with the White Sox 1o obtain Col- ling, nor has it received any communica- tlot from Chicago on this Bubject. HELLEN AGAIN HEADS TENNIS ASSOCIATION i 0 BALTIMORE, Md., February The annual- meeting of the middle Atlantic division of the United States Lawn Tennis Assocfation held here yesterday indorsed the Teport of the. natfonal committee on amateur rules disqualifying - &ny _ ranking tennis player who writeg.signed articles on the subject-of termis for “pecamiary gain” after January 1 next.’ “Oficers for the ensuing. yéars were elected,” ad follows: . President, Ar- thur _Hellen of Washington; vice president, P. F. McIntyre of -Nerfol| sécrétary, J.. A, Magee Baltimor: treasurct,. Herbert Nickel' of Rich mond. £ All of these were Te-elections, cx- cept In the case of the-treasurer. The meeting also indorsed the movement to°have tie 1924 national public parks tournanient theld .in Baltimore. —_— Among the popular nports in Seuth Afelca ate tennis, golf, crisket. awitn shortetop | the | Donohue. Jakie May, Ed” Roush and| From the standpoint of resisting encroachment - upon their range for j securing players, the minors wers { quite right in their’ opposition. The { field is narrow enough, and the right | of the majors to add some ninets | more players to their holdings.would permit them’ just about to noup | the colleges. | The purpose of the proposad * tures” scems 1o be just now dawning |on the colleges, but now college au- | thorities who are trving to maintai | the amateur standard are launch severe ° criticism agatnst the pla | They contend that profcssional base- I ball can get alonx verv well and that it is too @blg. and takes 100 much money from the. public, to indulge the practice of going to th and by. making: cash offers inducing eollege men to tie themselves up to professional base ball at the end of their coliege courses, Here's a Typieal Case. Ope case is cited of & _major lcag clu¥ that had 2 prominent culle halfback under salary for three [ Years. The player took part both in college base- ball and foot ball, de- spite the fact that he was bound contract to become a professic when hg quit school, ff, indeed, his contract® didn’t make him one the minute he signed it This fs not a {solated instance. Bany ball players. in coilege have been signed to contracts fn. April’ of their eenios year, with. the stipulation that the fact =hould. not’ bé made public until aft graduation, 5o that they might reta j their wmateur standing. - They use | money advanced tnem as professionals | to paytheir.college bills. They wer | professionais, but they “got awsy wi 1t.” There are some ball' players now in the majors, who did this before t went from coilege to professional bu ball. | “Futares” Really Are Pros. It is held that the task of attemy to maintain the amateur standing college is difficu’t enough without b ing the major league c'ubs snoop around and, by getting players in tt + Junlor year' to sign agreem: prolessional” ball, enier them on sor sort of a “future”_iist, by which the cannot be claimed by any other club {organized base ball. -It s certain th: players ‘won'd not agree to pledge services unless therc. was an exchas of financial va‘ue; and-a-“futare” Dlu !er, therefore, ungestic would 1 ome ‘& profeselonal -8 soon- as signed a contract. - {Copyzig! TOOMEY BOWLS HIGH FOR WAVERLY. TEAN Wavarly guint of thie N ital Dickpin Leigid won two threé gam fre the Belmonts last night, Toomey of, the winnera bowled i high set, 262 Phiilips of the losers rolled the best game.. = 1 1924, | In the Maxeate League Hiram cap- tured -the cdd game, Moiryka of the losers w with a-set of 318 andga; Sionx of the Ked Men's . Leazuc grabbed thres games from the Ha makers. Grudd of tie Sious set’and 112 game: Electriclans of _the League won_two of t Squfrrels, HS Willfamis being ton man with a se game of 120, - i Terminal. ¥ ee from th the fomer of 321 and Two matches were roiled in the 1 terstate. Commerée Leoague, Dirocto winning three games from: Valuation . d Elnance taking the ovdd from Trafic.” Bayliss of Traff high with a sct of 330 and gamc 133 Capltal Stock of Internal Revenue League swept its match | counts: and _ Eolicctions. ald Capital Stock had a 304 set, and Lu. weg of the same quint a game of | M. A. Jeese of the Busines League won the odd from Shop. can Legion League won two of three from Quentin Roosevelt. In the Washington Ladies’ Lea Mount_Pleasant won three ga from City Post Offic Federal American of the Bank League puiled the clean-up act Metropolitan. Lyddane of tho wi ners was best with a4 set of & ' ‘Lanman Engraving of the T¥pot etae League won two of three from Ramsdell, Judd & Detweller took three games from Andrews and Stan, ard Engraving won over Jovco En- graving. Seunders of Lanman was the sta® of the matches with & game of 141 and set of 353. NO CHANGE TO BE MADE IN BALLS USED IN 1924 CHICAGO, Februaty 2.—There will be no change in the kind of base balls used In the major leagues this season President Johnson of the American League in making this announcement said the reason for the erratic be- havior of the balls early last season, which resuited in an epidemic of home runs, was that thelr newness made them unusually lively. When the umpires were instructed to keep the spheres in play - until they actually showed wear and tear, ke the game slowed down. / will make no change in the this year,” President Johnson said. “There is no need of experi- ments along ‘this line. It was the new balls constantly in play which caused the havoc early last season After the batters hit the ball a few times they will slow it up just enough to make it normal. 2 “Aithough I think the fans want'to seo the ball- g0 -over the fence .at times, the men who are adept ut making home runs will have to_earn them.” RICKEY AFTER GAINOR. DALLAS, Tex., February 2,—Bran Rickey,” manager of the St. Louis Na- tionals, expects to-see H. L. Robert- con ot fhe Houston- Texus, Leagué Club ‘in- Austin today in an effort to obtain ‘ Del- Gafnor, . veteran player, “I am’ willing to make a $7.500° deal to get Gainor back.”™ Rickey said. Radiators n‘.nd Fenders. > DIFFER] M '8 RADIATORS, A ‘Cares installed in any make. WITTSTATI?S R, and F. WORKS a9 datu, T, 0Al0, WS P, I el i ball