Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1924, Page 24

SPORTS. THE EVEN NG_SYAR, VASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, ‘1924. SPORTS. Grind Begun By National Rookies : Dempsey-Firpo Bout Unlikely in Next Year$ ABOUT DOZEN TAKE PART - IN FIRST WORK AT TAMPA Practice Is of Most Elemental Nature and Lasts Little More Than Hour—Griff and Harris Reach Terms in Quick Order. BY DENMAN to fame and fortune as big le I base ball for the W for for the 1924 scason got under way the Nationals. Most of those wio indulged in limbering-up stunts th he di: Some of those who are unfamiliar figures to the fans of Washington will morning will be exercising « Temain just that—they'll nev for a bricf spell and then experience, er reac cud the September. In other w e annual task performers of the nen has gottel on careers thut will bring honor anc jority this training s not failure. for in base ball. of the survival of the fittest The work ¥ under t esident Giritfi Coaches Altrock Trainer Mike Martin i most elemental nature, v played catch for ficlded Lunts an: took a jox und th field to ge up a good and topped it off with a show In a little mor gettin ds, t as in th done i da; zing e P nager Cheshi was are than an hour after into their working clothes they were on thelr way to the spacious hostelry which is their =pring home sharp- ened by the fi have had since as the inaugural s iner Mar- tin expre eminently satisficd, for his chicf concern at t Jump-off in the spring is to preven the enthusiastic youngsters from do- ing too much Fine Weather on Tap. The advance guard found tvplcal Tampa weather on tap, a brand that CBNNOL be surpassed ' for Lraining purposes in its perspiration-induclng aualit Accordins to Martin, who has been here for m. month, etrical cordit improved just £ a few days ago iow iturés for this region and a atmosphere were prevalent le time was required for Harris cach an agreement with President Griffith on the terms of the contract, under which Bucky wili take his first fiing at the managerial game. The two were closeted for nearly two hours after d last ¢vening, but most of the as spent in discussing plans for son ahead and both asserted re-able “arrangements had been made. ~ At Harris' own request his contract was drawn to cover a two- ear period, “I told Stanles 1 expected to have him with the Washington club for the remainder of his carcer,” Griff said, vand told him to write his own ticket. He chose a two-year term and that was Pperfectly agreea r a starter.” Wil Go to Hot Springn. Tarris expects to leave here tomor- AMPA, Fla.,, February 18—About shington club today when prel ‘ while a few will survive the ing at the Georgia avenue grounds with a “W like all others, will mean hope the 1 -] THOMPSON. dozen young men who aspire ague players hoisted the curtain on ninary practice Plant Ficld, the permanent camp of ond here daily for seven week h the Capital, way to tl proc Others will be seen minors to obtain needed of sifting and be cavort- on their caps until next of finding replacements for veteran u under way. A few will be launched 1 lucrative pay, but for a great ma- il deferred, if ¢ gaine of life itsell, it is a question SOX T0 GIVE CHANCE TIME TO GET WELL CHICAGO, Comiskey, February 18.—Charles owner of the Chicago Amerleans, has announced that he would hold the club managership open for Frank Chance until the lat- ter has had time to recover from his Dresent {llness and take charge. Until he is able to »ssume direction of the club CI ‘s place will be filled by Johnny Evers, former man- | G the Chicago Cubs, und “Big h, Who were slincd this sea- stants. Comiskey suid. nt In his resignation from | Los Angeles after physicians informed him his present health would not per- mit him to leave with the club for troining and possibly might > him inuctive until after the start of the season. ance was the hdst man for the Job we could g Comiskey de. clared, “and I don’t want to lose him. 1t will make little difference if he is late at the spring training. and Walsh can take care of t The White Sox wiil leave February 29 for Winter Haven, Fla., the scene of the pre on training perfod. haw Fecling Better. LOS ANGE February 18, —Frank Chance, whose resignation as manager of the Chicago Americans was refused by Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the team, declared today that he was feeling “much better” and attributed his Improvement to Comiskey's telegram refusing to ac- cept his’ resignation. ually getting stronger,” . “If 1 continue to feel as well 1 think T might be able to join the club in a fe 1 CORNELL FIVE STILL IN FRONT IN LEAGUE NEW YORK, February 18.—Cornell still clings to first place {n the Inter- collegiate Basketball League. Columbia’s victory on Tuesday over Yale brought the Blue and White up on even terms with Cornell, but on Saturday night the Ithaca flve went to Hanover and in spite of the sup- posed invincibility of the home team, Dartmouth went down to defeat. Columbla meets Cornell tomorrow night at Ithaca in a game which may decide the champlonship of the league. Because of the size of the Cornell court there are many who think that the effective passing game of Columbia will carry the Morning- side team to a victor Lou Farer, Columbia’s great guard, has resumed the leadership In the individual race. Although his three nearest rivale—Kneass of Pennsyl- vania and Wedell and Capron of Cor- nell—have played in five games, he has gathered ‘enough points in the four to entitle him to first place. Farer has registered 9 field goals and 17 points from the foul line. Kneass Is second. with a total of 32 | P ints, and Wedell of Cornell third, 32 pointg. In the Yale game rer held the uncanny Fite score- | less in the serimmages on the flo Wedell and Capron lead with field goals, both credited with 14, Pite of Yale and raves of Princeton are second. with 11 each. Farer has the best record from the foul line, with 17 points, and Kneass of Penn second, with 14, The team standings and individual standings follow: LEAGUE STANDING. College. Games. Won. Lost. ! Cornell .5 4 | Columbia . ‘Dlnmnnm { Pennsylvania . 4‘!dncefion . 250 Tale .. 1 1250 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS. Field Foul Player. College, Tarrer, Columbia, ‘l{null. Penn, . and ¢ ‘Wedell, Cornell, f Capron. Cornell, f.. Pite, Yale. . Klaess, Princeton, f. Byron, Cornell, g Gleaves, Princaton, | Strom, Columbia, f | Buisman. Yale, f. | Dake, Cormell, . Manzheim, Columbi, Audcrson, ' Princeton, Morris, Penn, f... GAMES FOR THIS . R O I 1 Or WEEK. 5 2 ¢ mouth at Columbia, Princeton at Yale aad Cornell at Pennsylv CBIPPL;ID BUT DETERMINED. By the Assoclated Press. timely BADGER FIVE AIDED TO GET BIG TEN LEAD CHICAGO, February 18.—With the ! assistance of Towa and Mich- | ANN ARBOR, Mich., February 15— Loss of @ foot up Soissons way while serving with the 26th regiment Ist Division, has not deterred Stanley McBride' from playing base ball MeBride ix on the Michigan squa i footed plaver to beat him out of a regular job behind the bat. and according to Coach Fisher ft will | require a high cluss two-fisted two- | ARGENTINO IS PLANNING TO MEET LESSER LIGHTS Futends to Pick Up Some Easy Coin Before Going-‘ Into Arena With Champion and Has Plenty of Opportunities to Do So. BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, February 18—Tex N Rickard's associate, as to the a bit of Jersey gossip which the writ This gossip related to alleged plans being made by Firpo's ad in this country to steer the Wild B ing which time Luis would meet some much more money than he could m champion. DEMPSEY TO SHOW AT COLISEUM FRIDAY Jack Dempsey, king of the heav weight boxers, is to make his first public appearance in Washington | since 1920, at Central®Coliseum Friday | night. The world champion ringman, accompanied by a sizable retinue, is to stage the concluding number of a | program otherwise given over to wrestling bouts, . Dempsey, with the assistance of a sparring partuer, Is expected to il- lustrate the blows that brought him the title in the Toledo scrup with Jess Willard, In 1919, and those sinc used to dispose of Georges Carpen- tler, Luis Firpo, Tom Gibbons and other challengers. Jack Kearns, deb- onalir manager of the champion, prob- ably will be present to say a few words about his protege. Nothing much has beén done the wrestling program so far. Dbout in which Joe Turner, local ce lebrity will figure, has been arranged | and several others are being nego- tiated . But most of thosa atténding the af- falr will be looking for Demp: . The mat stuff will not mean much to them. for POTOMAC LEAGUE NINES " CALL ELECTION MEETING Team representatives of the new organized Potomac Amateur Base | Ball League are to elect officers at | a meeting tomorrow night at St Stephen’s Club, 2422 K street. Consideration will be given to a schedule and the selection of playing fields. Twelve teams are expected to offer competition. Devitt Prep's swimming team is due to oppose the Naval Academy plebes next Saturday at An: [ with him <t of Rickard’s indecision, manifested at a conference between him and Jack Kearns and John Ringling, Dempsey-Firpo bout, lends color to er reported a fortnight ago. y for a year, dur- core of heavyweights and puck up 1ake out of a single bout with the 1l clear of Demps, Money is the one big thing that appeals to Firpo, and if, as is under- stood, those buck of him have maig him see the financlal advantages of this cours Rickard may whistle for a fight in 1924 and Kearns may whistle twlce when he went to thirty challenges them mean real me since Firpo would run more than - an even of gettini dumped by I and thus suffer as a drawing . reap ail the ac out of the thrilling fight he put while it lasted—against the world's champion last mber? It is as clear erystal ball th just & Ric founderit not included him in 5i6 all. And since just nov needs him mere than b . don't be surprise - und company ha cwhere for n bout to fo. battle in New York wi Tommy Gibbons. PREP TOSSERS MEET HIGH SCHOOL QUINT: hool tewms will st their superlority 1 over a pair of high sche quints tomorrow. (onzaga bas ars will encounter Western at Ce tral Coliseum wh Swavely wi tackle Central on the latter's cour Basket ball of high order should re sult, the two teams in each g appear to evenly matched. Gonzaga s to round out rough spots me with Georsetown the I street 1ight forwards unable to play, injuries. That Central High would send its basket ball team to co pete in the tournament of the Un- versity of Pennsylvanix, which st at Philadelphia Saturday, was an- rounced by Coach Burt Cogelns tu- day. Iastern also plans to compete in the Philadelphii games, but it has not definite ided. it th illius and aga will L y are nursins ever, that will rest with my doctor.” L | i LEAGUE IS PLANNED | igan and & last-minute basket tossed {by Capt. Gibson to register a 13-tc ;12 win over Illinois, Wisconsin Sat- urday night stepped into the undis- puted lead In the Western Tow for Hot Springs to welcome John- son, Judge, Mogridge, Peckinpaugh Prothro, Ruel and Zachary. who are due there Thursday. He wil direct the activities of the vetcrans OLIPHANT FREDERICK MARBERRY. He is one of the squad that began training at Tampa today. He did there for about two weeks and bring them to Tampa for the intensive train- {r‘fi; that is to get under way on March Harris is decidedly optimistic over the outlook for the Nationals and is confident they will make more than a respectable showing in the coming cam- palgn. m not well acquainted with thei capabilities of a lot of th. young- | sters,” Bucky said today. indicating the newcome who were going through their paces on the half-mile track that surrounds the field, “but there are enough plavers of known callber on the roster to form the nucleus of a mighty formidable club, and if a fair share of these boys live up to advance notices we will be able to make any team in the league step some to beat us. I'm confident Coach Chesbro knows his business and I'm well acquainted with Mike's caliber ax a trainer, so 1 expect to find the Tookles in shape to demonstrate their wares when I get bac Roe Joins the Squad With the arrival of “S Roe from Memphis today, the early contingent was completed. Hargrave. Joyee ani Brogan came down With the delega- tion “that left Washington Saturday, while Moon and Dudley were picked up en route. Wingfield, a Tennessean, was met at Jacksonville. Tate came on from his home in Tilinois, Spe from Indiana and Marberry and M Grew from Texas, The diamond at Plant Field clear- i NDIANA-ILLINOIS! i PADUCAH, Ky., February 18.— Base ball promoters of seven cities | in southern Illinois and one in Indi- ana will be invited to Paducah with- in the next week or two to discuss the possibility of the organization of a new base ball league, B. B. Hook, director of the Paducah club, which has withdrawn from the Kitty League, said . Hook, with Dr. J.W. | Cox and Mike Egan, director of the Calro, 1l1s., club, which also withe | drew’from’ the Kitty, will send in- vitations to promoters of the follow- ing towns: Murphyboro, Herrin, Harrisburg, Mt. Vernon, Centralia, i3ast St. Louis, and Belleville, Illinols, and Vincennes, Indiana. Mr. Hook belleves that six of these towns will joln Paducha and | “airo in organizing a new league, 'he Kitty League reorganized Thurs- | day night with six clubs. TO PROBE BOECKEL'S DEATH. N DIEGO Calif., February IS. Legal efforts to fix responsibility for the automobile crash on Torrey Pines Grade Friday, as a result of which Norman D. Boeckel, star third base- man of the Boston National League team died at La Jolla Saturday, will ly shows the devastating effccts of the south Florida state fair held there the first ten days of this month, and many days of intensive work wili be required to put it in shape for base ball. Some of the circus appa- ratus used during the carnival still is on the grounds, in fact, and Trainer Martin's job of making them suitable for base ball has been rendered even | more difficult than usual by the fact that the infield is being entirely re- built. The. ding is com- pleted, exce All strip along the third-base line, but a lot of cod- dling will be required to attain the firm, trus surface desired. Mike has a couple of weeks to complete the Job, 2s no infield work will be sched- uled before the 1st of March. In the meantime the athletes will scamper around on other portions of the field. | Tales of the skill Sam Rice has: attained with his southpaw golf elubs in the two wecks he has been here reached Griff's ears shortly after bis arrival and led to a challenge for the first of a series of links bat- tles that will be fought until the Scottish pastime is barred, when the main squad of regulars arrives. ' CARDS HAVE QUIET SPOT FOR THE TRAINING GRIND BY JOHN of the opening of the base bLall season.) NEW YORK, February 18—Between Bradentown, Fla., and the re- mainder of the world to the north crosses a river that divides that part of Florida by a wet streak. The. center portion of this bridge is a draw and it is said that is why Branch Rickey chose Bradentown to train his St. Louis Nationals. , Whenever he expects that one of his fifty-seven of everything has es- caped him he has the town fire bell rung and the draw lifted. The vil- lage marshal runs to the draw and the escaping player i easily taken into captivity again and compelled to listen to Rickey's next lecture on “What I'd do if the couut were three and two and the ball came to me on the right side corner of the plate.” The hotel in which the St. Louis players are secluded from the re- mainder of Bradentown is next the water and the water is full of fish that have been trying to get caught for the last four or five years. Veteran St. Louls players last spring sald they sat by the side of the river at night. when the moon was shining bright and the lamps ‘were all alight, while fish stuck their noses out of the water by thé score and begged to be caught. L “Take us away from here,” said the fish, “take us to the great wide, Wwide world, where the wheels of B. FOSTER. (This is the seventh of a series of articles by Mr. Foster descriptive of the major leugue | trainiog camps which he will vislt during March to get a line on the varlous clubs in advance be made here today at a coroner's inquest. TOO HOT FOR THOMAS. NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 18— Dixile heat is too much for Fred Thomas, shortstop signed by Nash- ville, from Reading, I'a. who has written Manager Jimmy Hamilton that he has decided that southern hy- gienic condition won't permit of his crossing the Mason-Dixon to play with the Vols. NEE TO PILOT AUGUSTA. AUGUSTA, « February 18— Johnny Nee, former manager of the Evansville ‘team in the Three I League, has been signed to manage the Augusta team of the South At- lantlc League. MAJORS CONSERVATIVE. CHICAGO, February 18.—The de- cision of the majors this winter to continue using lightly marred base, balls is almost the only change adopt- | ed to speed up the game in_the past twenty years, according to President Ban Johnson of the American League. there stretches a long bridge which civilization hum so fast that not even ! a bootblack walks. We want to see the wheels go round.” “And we with no bait” said the St. Louis players. “If Rickey caught ! a bait.can around the place w get fined our whole doggoned salary. Don't it beat creation Bradentown is the most strictly temperance place on Florida's en- chanting west coast. Pirates once used the river to d their booty and ~ whatever costly wines they wanted to cache. Any booting that is done now is done so surreptitiously that the strongest whiff of anything in town i that of a two bit vial of barber’'s delight. (Copyright, e LEW;SW}B?S!TALIAH MILAN, February 18.—Ted “Kid" Lewis of England, wealterwelight champion of = Europe, yesterday knocked out the Itallan middleweight Frattini, in the seventeenth round. 1924.) I some hurling for the Griils the latter of five games, to top the Am Streetman, Tex., and has the build to sta from Little Rock of the Southern Association, ALOY-PALACE CITY COURT U row night at Central Coliseum the 1924 title. Aloysius basketers, won last year, will enter the fray 1)'Augustino and McNaney of las from the clubmen’s line-up. [ in the last two weeks, and the fans liminary game between two strong se Aloysius demonstrated in its game with City Club that it can, offer the Laundrymen the Keenest sort of com- petition. Efficient passing and team work marked Alc us’ | vy _against the G street tossers. Palace Laundry was forced to extend itsclf to nose out the Alexandriu Light Infantry team Satarday and the chances are it will be compelled to display a better brand of ball tomorrow night. Immaculate Conception Seniors, who took the measure of the Bolling Field five in a 31-to-16 engagement, will tackle the Fort Washington quint to- night at Fort Washington. Enright, Kirchner, Mills, Kennedy, Con- Farrell, Johnson, Furman, | Blanken, Reiter, Comer, Hermann and Fillius are to play ror Immaculate. Games with the Immaculate tossers may be arranged by calling the man- ager at North 7643-J, between 6 and T o'clock. . reps were offered 4it- ‘Washington downed the tle opposition when th: Knights of Columbus te Johnson, McCathran and R. D played well for the winners. lenges are being received Washington Preps_through Manager Shields at Lincoln 5404 between 4 and 5 u'clock. Playing one of their best games of | the season, the Washington Comets, run roughshod over Arlington Athletic | Club. winning, 46 to ler and eil of the Come a De Hess of the Virginians shon. | disposed 1 -to-15 ! for the St. Martin's tosners casil of the St. Anthony five in game. Hoddinott starred winners. Juntor tosxers of Northern Ath-} letic Club are to figure in a double- | header tonight on the Central High court, meeting the Roys' Club Cel-; tics in the opener and the Petworth Boys' Club in the nightcap. The first game will start at 7:15 o'cloc] Nor- | thern’s senior five is to meet the Kin- | near Class basketers tonight at the City Club, H ! A stirring match iz expected be- tween Princess Athletic Club and the ! Capital girls' tonight, on the Immacu- | Conception floor.! Play startsi 5 o'clock. Radiators and Fenders ANY KIND MADE OR REPAIRED. Cores installed in any make 10 DIFFERENT MAKES RADIATORS R. and F. 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Ward, Short, Hulse, Chap- pel, Leon, Levy and Norton of the Elliotts are to report at 1228 I street northeast at 6:30 o'clock. Stanton Junlors made it seventeen in a row by downing Lexington Ath- letic Club, 54 to 10. Handback of the winners made ten court goals, and s being counted upon heavily for the game against the Knights of Colum- ception Juniors registered nine bas- kets nst Winton Athletic Club, his team winning, 51 to 24. WISCONSIN WANS MEET. CHICAGO, February 18.—Wiscon- sin won the first annual quadrangu- lar indoor relay and fleld meet held at Northwestern, taking five first places out of the ten events for a total of 65 points. Ohio State and Northwestern fought it out for sec- ond place, the Buckeyes winning with 34 points while the Purple got | Chicago was fourth with 23. | CITY, Mo., February 18.— s took a firmer hold on the| leadership in the . 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