Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1924, Page 24

.. 2¢ SPORTS. — RUSSELL AND ZACH LISTED TO PITCH AGAINST BRAVES Latter Faces Batile to Retain Job as Regular With Griffs This Year—Speece Also to Work in The Engagement at St. Petersburg. e e e e BY JOHN B. KELLER. AMPA, Fla., March 16—About fifteen of the athletes bossed by T Bucky Harris, and the young manager himseli, will take to the bounding mam tomorrow for a few hours. This change from the life of a ball player to that of a sailor will be duc to the Nationals’ en- zagement with the Braves at St. Petersburg. “St. Pete,” as the natives cail it, like Tampa, nestles on the north shore of Tampa bay, but a ride | over a considerable portion of Florida is necessary to reach it overland, | while one can ferry there within two hours, and Harris wants to get his charges there in a hurry that they may be quite ready for the iray. THE PUNCHING PAIR WHO FORM NUCLEUS OF NATIONALS’ OUTFIELD Bucky takes these players do so, too. . Among the athletes will be Allen Russell, Jez Zachary and Byron Speece, hurlers, who are expected t Braves as did the two Freds—Marberry and Wingfield For Russell and Zachary, vetcrans. it will be the petition this year. Speece has had three innnings under fire ng started here. Russell apparently is ready to give & 2ood account of himself. He has, toiled faithfully and certainly is fit! physically, and his arm that came in | for so much use last year when N: tional hurlers generally were about | as steady as leaves in a gale seems to be in shape for more punishment. In fact Russell last Saturday was given a dose of the medicine he had dished to him often in 1923. Although not adorning the slab, he pitched practi- cally two-thirds of a game. Winfield s0 wobbly at the start that Har- ordered Allen 1o the pen and re the veteran relif hurler work- #d through three full innings, heav- ing while the Nationals were batting as well as during the Braves' turns. Tt must have seemed like oid times to Russell, For Zachary, the test may mean much. ~ The red-thatched southpaw as got to fight for his job with the ationals this vear and will have to | do much better than he did in 1923 | to bag the place. The young left- in camp are capable of gi ran all the competition | is looking for, if not more. For | pecen the work-out will be the first e this expensive bit of mound ma- crial, purchased from Omaha, got a kink in his heaving wing. The sore- ness Kept n from using his gub- narine service for a few days, but | Trainer Martin declares that now the | pitcher o %o, { ith the Braves ought | smals much, for Man ting togeth- | looking club. The infield, with Mclnnis at first. at second. Bancroft at short third is a smooth- Kelleher seems & ¢ the third base position Norman Boeckel. recent dent. With the Kelleher | fielded well and hit for .306 in sixty- six games. The Braves have outfield- ers plenty, Lut lose Felix for a time. This veteran may have to un- dergo an operation for appendicitis. The interleague contesls also ought 15 help Manager Harris solve bis in- field problem. Of course. Joe Judge, Ruger Peckinpaugh and the manager himself may be regarded as fixtures| in the Nationals' inner defense, but Doc Prothro’s place at third is not so Right now the dentist-ball ver is far from being in the pink of condition and perhaps cannot prop- erly demonstrate his real ability, but even at his best Prothro likely would cel Ossie Bluege, who did most the Griffs la This Blu year. impresses those at the helm of the Nationals more favorabl this year than ever before. He is a master tielder and apparently is due | Jor improvement in batting. Ossie in practice is taking a better cut at the ball than he did in the past cam- paign and one thing absolutely cer- tain about the young infielder is that he can throw. o one else in the mp can match Bluege's arm, nor is there any more accurate thrower. Keeping this young fellow on reserve stead of regular duly this vear is vMing to be difficult Kailroads in Florida are not zoing | h of the National this spring. Instead trains for the towns wher hibition wames are to be pl done last year. automol cmployed for the transportation Bradentown, Palmetto and Sara- The last-mentioned town, the of the Giants' camp, is about sixty miles from Tampa, but the mo- tor “trip over a good road can be made in better time and more com- fortably than the trip by rail. Most of the towns the Nationals are to visit in Florida are on-train-a- day burgs and the trains break no records. Last season one of the big Jeague clubs in training in this state had to journev 110 mi.es to play a wame. The players entered the sieep- er at their camp at 1l p.m. and reached their destination the next afternoon at 1 o'clock, ready, as one said, “to sink their teeth into t conductor and engineer of the train.” ‘They had been fourtcen hours with out food. GIANTS PLAY taking pre-season gamies seriously and means to have his | fielders o turn the same trick against the | g —here Saturday. first work-out in com- since train- PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND A. L. OPENING GAME HERE | Prexident Coolidge wiil throw out the first ball at the opening game of the American League season here on Toesday. April 15, when the Nationals will entertain the Philadelphia Athietics. 1d- ward B. Eynon. jr.. secretars of the ball c.ab, called at thc White House todny and extended the in- vitatlon, which was unhesitating- Iy aceepted. The Chief Executive also intimated he might be a rather frequent visitor at the ball park this season. CLASSY FIELD TODAY ! IN LOUISIANA DERBY ' NEW ORLEA Loulsiana Derby, winter werth $1 one mnile March 17.—The the classic of the ng season in New Orleans, 000 te the winner, and at | and one-eighth the Jefferson Park course, bring: ther * today the best field of three-veur-old thoroughbreds the event was inaugurated in 1 bday’s program | marks the end of ninety-three days' | racing here. | Fourteen horses are carded to face | the barrier. The three most promi- nently meutioned are Black Gold. carrying the olors of Mrs. R. M. Hoots of Tulsa, Okl Thorndal. bay colt of Benjamin J. Block of York, and inkey, the property Mre, Payne Whitney of New Yor running in the colors of the tree stable. Rlack Gold will carry 126 pounds, top welght. Rinkey, the only filly in the ri has zu fmpost of anly 112, The oth The other probable sturters: man, Blotter, Pathan, Brilliant (ast, Deronda, Stake Me ying Fur, Extra Edition, Dreamer, Polvo, Dazaler (Rinkey and Dazzler coupled s a Greentree entry). over te “H teams” to the diamond athletes. Petworth Athletic (lub has made an early start. Bottle Cox of last] ars champion Mohawk Club, regurded as one of 1he best out- here, has signed with Pet- worth. Mike tordon, Centra! Tligh second baseman; Jack Brinkmaun., a leading amateur pitcher lere, and | Taylor, guardian of first buse also | have been mustered by Manager | Grier. 1 Freddy Noone was to have signed with Grier, but he and Charley Bern- hardt, a Waverly Athletic Club_play- er, have left for Charlotte, N. C., where they will perform with the Sally League of that city. Mohawk Athletic Club is another early bird. Several first-rate players wero mustered by the Indlans at a meeting yesterday. Ralph Fraser, M. McCarthy, Wells, Finney, Kelly, Tom Sweeney, Gardner, Dutch Smithson, Howard Miller, George Ortel, Prestle, Emmie Mader, W. Humphries, Flash | Brombrest. Bernic Fitzgerald, Joe Mc- | Cann, Frank Hudson, Al Schneider, F. | Moran and J. Stewart have signed | with Vic Guasza, pilot of the Mo-| hawks. | WHITE SOX; | AVE you signed a contract yi of hundreds of local sandlot base ball pla team managers are hurrying from onc ¢ other in an effort to line up the promising candidates. | sandlot pilots, armed with contracts and a ready pen, will try to “sell their | han, Autreys Athletie | { Sfrotos Ky CARL T-7HONER. GOOSE et?” This is the query being vers as the various d of the city to the All this week Goodman, former star hurler Kanuwhas, has signed on dotted line with Manager Bill W. 5 » R Athletic Club. cut a sw ague this spason s Goodman. ith Players of last vear's Treasury team of the Departmental League urc urged to report at a meeting tomor- row at 5 o'clock in the chiel clerk’s office, Treasury building. Leagues that will affiliate with the Washington Base Ball and Athletic Association are expected (o be or- Eanized at three meetings this week. Managers of the midget teams are to meet tonight at the Kanawha Club rooms, 407 7th street, while the junior pilols are to gather at the Bovs' Club, 230 C street. Those nines that expect to join a senior circuit are requested to send represcntatives to a meeting tomorrow night at 529 1ith street Contracts will be issued to the man- agers at each meeting. Au unlimited, senior, junior and midget teams will be placed on the field by the newly organized Eastern Athletic Association, which w. formed at a meeting of the Milans and Manhattans yesterday. L. R. German, treasurer of the Potomac League, was clected president of the Eastern club. flicers chosen werc: A. Chro- vice president; I. Thomas, sec- ¥ GOSLIN 'CLUBS LINING UP PLAYERS FOR THE SANDLOT SEASON = Ala.: erican) hern) hocker, Danforth | Mobfle. ¢ | Bayme, Se: Devormer, L.ory. At New Orleans: New York, (American) New Orleans, (Southern) Gaston, Agui | Parker. | At san Franeiseo: | Chicago. (National) ttle, (Pacific) | Jncob: and O | Tobin a At Lox Amgelex: je | L Angeles, (Pacific) 3 Plerce and Hartaett, Churry; INTERCITY CONTEST HEADS FIGHT CARD Jack Cafoni, 112-pound boxer of Walter Reed, will strive to topple Eddie Leonard of Baltimore in the main_bout of the boxing show at the Washington barracks tonight. { The affair will be given under the |auspices of the Enlisted Men's Serv- ice Club. ! Three other bouts are carded. Kid Docowittz of Washington barracks will mix it up with Spud Fitzgerald of the Mohawk Athletic Club in a | four-round opener that will get un- der way at §:30 o'clock. Joe Rivers of Washington wiil appear against Kid Hogan of the | sked | ereld: Wiltae, Adkims, McBride and | feague bowling team EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1924, Two Veteran Hurlers Get Test Tomorrow : Boston Has Right Man for Job in Fohl WHITE HOUSE SCENE |LEE RATED AS AN EXPERT SPORTS. OF DAVIS CUP DRAW| [N RECONSTRUCTION WORK The draw for play in the Davis cup international tennis matches was made at noon today at the White House. President Coolidge made the first draw and very appropriately, considering that it was St. Patrick’s day, drew Ireland. Diplomatic rep- resentatives of cach of the twenty- three challenging nations assisted. Dwight ¥. Davis, assistant secre- tary of war and donor of the famous trophy, was in charge of the cere- monies, and the nations as they were drawn were announced by Jullan ¥. Myrick, former ypresident of the | United States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion. Soventecn nations will compete in the Ruropean zone and six in the American zone, with the survivors of the two sections playing for the right to meet the United States, present holder of the trophy, in the challenge | round | The drawings for the first round resulted as follows: | yEuropean zone—ireland vu. France, Holland vu. Indin, South Africa va | Argentina.” Spain drew 2 bye. Brit- {ish Isles vw. Belgtam, Demmark ve. | Hungary, Italy vs. Homania, Austria . Switzeriand, New Zealand vw. | Caechoslovakia, | _American zone—Japan drew a bye. | Cuba va. Canada, Australia ve. China | Mexico drew a bye. | SUZANNE 1S VICTOR IN TWO NE? FINALS By the Associated Press, France, March 17.—suzanne | esterday added another cup | to her immense collection by winning {the tennis championship of southern | { France. ! he Freneh girl Covell, England, 6—2, 6—1. | defeated Mrs. ! the combination, 1 from da; Mrs. Covell reached the final through her victory on Saturday over | M Elizabeth Ryan, girl, but she failed to give Mlle. | Langlen as hard a battle as Miss Ryan gave her last week at Mentone. Mile. Lenglen playe unbeatable | tennis. Besides the =ingles cham- | pionship she also won in the double: paired with M. Cochet, defeating Mr Shepherd-Barron and Baron de Mor- i purgo in the semi-finai, 6—0, 6—4 in the final beating Miss Ry Washer, 4—6, -1, 7 Washer, Belgiu . Fran the California | 'TENPIN TEAM BOWLS 11,100 GAME, 3,044 SET | i e, i CHICAGO, Mareh —Her dians of Cleveland, hit into the ican bowling congress tenpin mey lead in the five-man 3,044 late last night. first 3,000 series in and in getting it ‘s In- Amer- évent with It the tournament, | the | unknown. ! Tulsa last year, is one of those short | young men with the reach o ta M ¥ tour- | At was the | Mmiddle of September h | into history. Indians had | down all the corrals of Tey Lowly Red Sox May Prove Formidable Aggregation This Year Under Direction of Former Cleveland and St. Louis Manager. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. AN ANTONIO, Tex., March 17—Lce Fohl has a task just to his tikinz S this year. To induce him to say so would be like pulling tacks o of a rag carpet with your fingers, but others can say so for hi: without stretching the truth. Fohl is one of the best cabinetmakers in base ball. e puts together the legs and the top of a base ball team like a Chinese worker in wooc puts together the many pieces of a tea table. He has been constructing all of the days since he first was called to a managership, and no man has been nearer to two major league championships than he without finding them settled to his credit account. . They jabbed him with darts when he failed to win crippling him, the darts have only made him more persiste: smiles nor frowns. He keeps his eyes front and pushes on. that man is going to land what he sc Here, in San Antonio, Fohl has what | is left of a team that was reduce from opulence to poverty, in the way of ball players, If it weren't for Bos- ton fans perhaps the Yanks would not now be champions. They robbed the of beanpot until Chary: was Teft with nothing but a smJ and a King Tut haircut. Fohl has fallen heir to with a little side addition by trade and purchase. There is a chance that this outfit, led by Fohl, may make many an un- easy afternoon for other American League managers. for it is just as likely to turn out a cyelone as an April shower. Not thai it seems di- rectly headed for a pennant. But to day it will be a wi manager of the team opposing the Red Sox who is able to predict what this Boston crowd will do next, How Infield Linex Up. If the infield plays as Fohl has been working it, Joe Harris will play first base. He is apt to hit any time, and he can play the base betfer than an Wambsganss, who trained for a preacher and then became a good ball player—the reverse of Bil Sunday., who trained for a ball play and became a good preacher—is one part of the Cleveland trade that put a thoroughly safe and conservative ma, on second, and he isn't through by whole Tot. Dudles | | | Lee, who plaved short for footer. THe accepted more on the infie leaguer. ¢ world folks who ha lare he is destined 1. upport of any circus be the maty | tent under !which he performs. On_third, McMillan the road to'fame o ch ed last season. « e called him | his best-improved ball player. and if hance had it to do over he would ave started him at third and sei Darn you, stick Sluggers For the Outfeld. { there are | Collins, is to e In the outficld Flugstead, “Shano” Connolly’ and Todt. T @ pitcher will wish that the | ders of last season had forgot- flatten him before the next s been slugged | ked L ten to Boone is the man wiho 1,100 for their third game, the high | eason while playing with San An-| single game of the meet. started with pair of 972s. | The Arrow 1s No. of Cleveland | [rolled into third place with the Lincoln Lifes of Fort Wayne, Ind tournament winners two years ago, hit 2,943 for ninth position. Dingwell and Scribne hit off the second 1,300 game of the {tourney and took first place in the ’ doubles with 1,307. Diedrich and Ol- ington Ladies’ | sen of Detroit took eighth place with are back from |1 Sixteen pairs of Philadelphia highly elated over their ! d in the prize mone | victory over the quint representing the | | Pennsylvania Railroad Association of | the Quaker City. and now await the| return match, which is carded for Sat- |, |urday evening, March 29, i The local te wil go into the last | half of the series 250 pins to the good as they outrolled the Quaker City gi 2,748 tu 2,468, on the latter's home alle Tworraine Gulli rolled every |the give t Saturday over the | century mark. was the only one T, when h |to roll the entire set. [gecond fime this winte e e 3 tured first place In the na Marjorie Bradt had the high game,| (o, event at the Rocky Mountain They D. C. GIRL BOWLERS PROUD OF VICTORY Members of the W to pro duce The Herb 2.044. Doubles — Dingwell-scribner, t, 1,30 De- TITLE TO BOY SKIER. < PARK, Col, Marel Dalpes vears one of mpion, the 168, and Elizabeth Rawlings and Bron- | Parks ski tournament vesterday. Dal son Quaites also smashed the pins for | pes scored 226 5-6 points in tha tour- 5 hoints | nament to 203 points for Haugen. The girls had a eplendid time, the | Philadelphians doing everything possi- bie to make their trip a pleasant one. Rubber-banded pins were used, and | at 7:30 o'clock on the Wilson Normal only two balls rolled in Philadeiphia. | School court. A meeting will ba Maple pins with the use of three balls | held by the Capital members at $:30 will be the order here. | o'clock in the Wilson Normal School. First Baptist Girls will tackle the Capital Athletic Club sextet tonight | tonio. 5, and | Detroit olub owed many w za , the past, but who had 1 Detroiters | |been nage |his own wis ithe outf |the angle: * lother onal ama- [hoof of a mule. 1t may be that this big Ala- | hama boy has had all the rough edges polished away. | Veach is a thumper to whom the e in ed_so long ith Detroit that he had fallen vi tim to w severe attack of monotony. | of Detroit | Beans and co¢fish may prove than Lake Ie Flagstead escaped Detroit to go to| Boston, and some time ago Shano Col- | lins broke away a hitter, to play first base against | hes, because he preferred 1d, where a man may study r currents and commune of the fence. This isn't all of the Bosten for there are Steve O'Neill g cutchers, including Pic But the foreg ning of the legs and the arms re not strictls underpinn er. in base ball they go with it arms, legs would vouldr’t grab anything. This Boston club Lias all the tainty of a stick of dynamit I the hoof c ontact with the dynamite, the borhood is not likely to get ov excitement for some day HAV ; choppy seas again caused a postpone- ment of the races between Cuban and American power boats vesterday. It was announced that the races would | be run today if weather conditions | permitted. i | ner of Dievit with ¢ But instead o nt. He neither Eventually. EASTERN HIGH SQUAD TAKES FIELD TODAY Coach Charley Guyon of Easter High was to have his base ball car didates out for the first time todas on the Rosedalo playgrounds. Ses - eral veterans were schcduled to re vort, including Roudabush and Bur dine, pitchers; Jack Smith, first sack er; Hook, eatcher; Kessler, shortstor lowdon and White, outfielder Eastern probably will have sor new material that may older heads (o look to their laurel Tihe East Capitol squad will u:c the Rosedale playgrounds as pra tice diamond throughout the seasc: 98 the field in jts new stadium w not be compicted for thres month Squads of Tech, Central and Wes ern also were to be sent through (1. paces today. As soon as Busine: obtains a diamond at the Tidal basi: grounds it will call out its youn ters Real honest-to-goodness wor Will be the order of all of the coach: in_the next open Saturday in Central Wwhen Western tackles Tech. . Western hopes 15 make its 1 ut in a eame with Albans a | Hilltep Wednesda: Swimmers of Central Devitt Prep i # good showing nd 1 ct of Colum onship events at Baltimore urday. although neither school war able to outpoint Tome or Baltimorr Poly, winner and runner-up, respect ely. Central was third w vent) points. ' 1 en Amon; shone were A. who won th 28 1. Wash ton bovs who Mitchell of ¢ plunge for dis ixty fee . Who w . and Edmon lue and White scor ond, respect t Kreut diving ever nn of the first and 100 Emerxon Institut, strive to mow down the Immaculate Concept ors tonight at 8 o’clock N the latter's court. Immaculitc ! meet the Alc Farrington, Connors, Hock, Blanken, Fillius, Kraushaar Bonomo, O'Donoghue and Sullivan of e Tmr s are to report 0 o'clock. Jim Delaney Fights Tunney. ST. PAUL, Minn., ) heavyw when he Yort ight boxing champlons meets Gene Tunney of Nea MadeNew Again Cleaning, Blocking and Remodeling by Experts. 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The world champion Yankees will rest until Wednesday before again tackling the New Orleans Pelicans, who registered a 6-to-2 win over Huggins' squad yesterday. 1 Earl Combs made two of the four | Donohue and Sheehan will do the Yaunkee blows against New Orleans | pitching. Luque and Dibut, Cuban pitchers yesterday. The Pelicans |members of the Red team, are ex- jumped on Arguijo, the Mexican, for | pected to report at Orlando tomorrow. five runs in the fifth inning. . ! MiSokic DuMINI(eRSs WAL Hartford Imsects are casting about CHICAGO, March 17.—Guy Joe Bush, |about for games through Manager newcomer from Mississippi, presented (Guy Ferguson, jr., at Franklin 2379, | & strong_argument for his retention = 9 i by the Chicago Nationals vesterday | Challenges to the Congress Heights | when ne turned back the Los Angeles | Atnletic Club may be sent to Manager | Pacific coast leaguers with one run !D, R. Preston at Main 5124. A meet- | in eight innings. His efforts enabled ing will be held at the Congress;, the Cubs finally to win a game from |Heights clubhouse tonight. ! the Class A. A. players after two un- — successful starts. For the first time ! this spring the Cubs dispiayed some! H hitting strength. The Cub seconds defeated Seattle, Pacific Coast League, 1 to 0, at San Bernardino. Presidents William Veeck of the Cubs and Barney Dreyfuss of Pitts- burgh were together again. Unofli- cially it is said that Dreyfuss wants fo give Rabbit Maranvills, Shortstop, for Vic Aldridge, pitcher. Sisler Plays First Game. MOBILE, Ala., March 17.—Manager George Sisier of the St. Louis Browns played his first game since October, 1922, vesterday, an_exhibition affair against tie Moblle Southern Associa- tion teaia, covering first base for seven imnings. Sisler felded fault- NG change in size or price of Parr MALL Regulars {CokeTip} A Shilling m Lendon—a Quarter here lessly and was robbed of two chances to make spectacular catches of foul balls by interference from McManus, { who worked at second base. Sisler | was up four times and his record for the day was a fa:der's choice, a strikeout, a fly to loft fleld and an infleld out. The former premier first sacker of the majors took unn;s[ easily, not oxerting himself. 0 Reds Clash With Indians. CINCINNATI, March 17.—Manager Jack Hendricks will take all of the regular players to Lakeland today, when the Reds go there to engage in their first big league contest of the + soason, against the Cleveland Indlans. 44 Cigar is made by Consolidated Cigar Corporation New York Distributed by Co., Inc., 602 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W. Washington, D. C.