Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1924, Page 12

2 1 SFORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1924, SPORTS. Harris Seeks More Pep on Coaching Lines : Braves Are Hustling for Bancroft HOPES TO SIGN BEN EGAN TO INSPIRE BASE RUNNERS Griffmen Put in Claim for Third Baseman Simon of Browns—White Sox Deal Is Off —Fisher’s Hit Defeats Brewers—Play Reds Today BY JOHN B. KELLER. AMPA, Fla., March 29. fore T t! club if I can induce Ben Eg: The voung pilot so expressed h c Red S Jersey City Internationals. lly for years and know that in pitching prospects and a valuable man to have around when the paths. Harris wired Egan last night stat- Ing the conditions of the offer, and expects to a definite reply teher today Kenwood. N. Y position Bgan will ashington to t arrives from t s from tod rerorts ¢ get from 5 the job as that “There will anager of the ball t- assis v ad- fit, but of the nd it as | lete cont th Jf Eran would not of any of the with the club. ble asset and of Jack Chesbro, k is quite patient and pains- his work wi mound helping acquisition he dropp. coaches now Altrock is a vi s thinks a de: her ‘iek Ha tak corps and pitchers co Hut Harris n inspire the paths, in to handling the pitching tal- need all the rest he n inn manager tde th is the e one to on the o and h man for t Pat in Clal tight now, Harris is casting about an inflelder and may land one via waiver route. The Browns flock of athletes trying to get corner berth, have placed one lot. vester Simon—on er list and the Nationals tered a claim on him n seems to be a good right-hand hitter. In 140 games with 1io of the Texas League la: loped the ball at a . ser of his 167 hits going r extra bases. He swatted at criti- cal times, too, driving in 116 runs. He fielded 918 at third base. He is chap, being five feet, ten d weighing about 175 for Simon. ar ate, a nun But gettin, players through waiver y at this time of the All big 1 ver lists that usually ames =& several players well worth while, hut w==saver any other clut ems quite keen about getting one - two of them the waivers general- withdrawn. Harris is hoping, that the Browns will let Simon nd that the Nationals will fortunate enough to land him. It i< known that several other clubs are after him White Sox Deal Is Off. officially announced this that all negotiations with ita Sox concernimg an ex- that would bring Outfielder Mostil to the Nationals have ceased. The Sox wanted more than the Nationald cared to give, %o Pros dent Grifith symmarily ended pro- ccedings with a message to the Sox orities informing them that he however, oharge Johnny not ready to give half the Wash- | n plavor. Perhaps the improvement noted in work of George Fisher and Carr Smith, outfield recruits, also in- Auenced Griffith to end the negotia- e boys have been going both in practice and team for any particular g W the past few days. and the re- | of both i3 being considered usly. Smith at present is r fielder, bus Fisher has learned break for a catch with the sound out and is making the catches readily because he now keeps up while traversing the ly Fisher was too prone to the ground he was covering stead of keeping his eves on the 4ll. He made several good catches terday and also an excellent throw from deep right to the plate t prevented a Milwaukes score, Then he contributed a slashing single after two men had been retired in the ninth and drove in the decisive tally of the 4-to-3 game. Brewers Hard to Beat, hose Brewers who were so easy for the Nationals at Palmetto last week, ook a deal of beating yesterday. Jez Zachary, who heaved the first five ‘rames against the visitors, pitched pretty fair ball and would have es- caped unscratched, but for a two-base muff of a fy ball by Sam Rice. That error let Shinault, who had been , score from the middle station. Two singles and a double were all Zach gave up and none of these wal- lops damaged him. But Slim McGrew. who twirled the sixth, seventh and eighth rounds, was soft pickin' for the Brewers. They banged him in each session, bunching two blows for a run in the sixth and three for another in the eighth. Joe Martina did the honors in the ninth And held the Milwaukee men at bay. The Brewers also trotted out three twirlers and while all were slammed Nationals got little value out of r hits. George Winn, a southpaw, nicked for four blows in the three frames without a run re- Skinny Shaner, a right ! felded " three swats in the Jiext trio of rounds and one off Peck's bat in the fourth tallied Prothro from second base. Dave Keefe, another orthodox flinger, worked ' the last_three rounds. Buccessive singles by Prothro, Peck and Hargrave netted a run in the eighth, and in the ninth Keefe helped the Nationals with two wild pitches. One let Judge score from third and the other, that happened to be a fourth ball to Goslin, put Goose on second, from where he counted When Fisher poled the sphere to center. The Nationals were to wind up a busy week of engagements this aft- erhoon by playing hosts to the Reds. Allen Russell, Byron Speece and Joe Martina probably will be called upon for the pitching. Two of the hurling squad are off duty at present, Fred Marberry and George Mogridge hav- ing contracted colds. ~Marberry's is «quite severe and he may be idle for several days. Little improvement has been noted in ‘Bluege's injured knee, but every effort is being made to aviod an operation on the joint. The fourth member of the Nationals' casualty squad, Bennett Tate, probably will be ready for work early next week. That #calp wound he received at Braden- town Thursday is not so serious, but &t present it 18 too sore to permit the little catcher to wear a mask. . TRAPSHOTS IN MATCH. Marcy and Williams were to defend their two-man championship against Capt. Horton and Dr. Wynkoop in a special doubles event of the Washington Gun Club shoot today over the Benning - traps. ball club needs,” declared Manager Bucky Harris of the Nationals this morning, “and 1 firmly believe a lot of punch will be added to an to become a member of my coaching i a job with his club made to Egan, former catcher with the Athletics, ox and Indians in the American iver of Jack Dunn's Baltimore Orioles and n is a splendid fellow,” Harris added, “I have known him per- r teacher of young hurlers, he is a_very 1 any one can put fire into a base runner Egan is the man, and 1 hope he will consider my offer favorably | l‘ EXHIBITION BASE BALL ncerning the offer | of | Harris lost no ! recruit | who | contain the | the | pep on the coaching line is what my imself in commenting upon the offer Lea for some years star re- st year manager of the u, addition to being a shrewd judge of the players begin to lag a trifle on | At Winter Haven, Fla.— X H. Bl Philadelphis (N.) . $ 1 4 Chicago (A.) sciianiae sl Hubboll. Betts, Lewis and Henline, Wilson: | | Vines, McWeeney, Blakenship and Schalk, Crause. | - i At St. Petersburg, Fla. | oston (N.). ... . I8 Touis 3100 4 8 4 | Genewich, Marquard ‘and O'Neil; Stuart, { Dyer, North, Vick and Neibeggall. ' At Oakland, Calif.— | Chicago (N.) 2 | Oakiand (P.'6. L.y 0 7 3f Bush, Kaufman ‘and Hartnet and Churry; | | Foster, Kunz and Baker. | At Lakeland, Fla.— Columbus (A. A.)... -3 Cloveland (A.) Gt Sanders, Northrop and Hartiey; Uhle, vierre and Myatt, L. Sewell, At Sarasota. Fla.— | New Yeork (N.) 4 | Inisnapolis (A 'A)°0 yan, Baldwin and Snyde Ellis and Dixon, Turner. | “At Chariotte, N, C.— Dotroit (A.)....... Toronto (L.) Dauss, Whitohill and Bassler; Sullivan 1l 8 of Med- | .8 14 2l o2 6 0 ;" Fitzsimmons, 1 1 2nd | .13 18 2 5 Lynch At Memphis, Tenn.— St. Paul (A. A.) Memphis ({ Markle Williams, | McMenemy, | Merz, Segwick and Kohlbecker. | . At Montgomery. Ala—Philadelphia (A.), Siduey Lanier High School, 8 i | | | EW YORK, March 29— N Huggins, Owner Jacob Ruppert and ague clubs send out | delaying similar action at the Yankee camp until farms are founc “world champions™ who are ready to sell | the six l | Judge. 1b | Harris, 25 | Rice, cf | Goslin, 1f. Fisher, rf Bmith, rf . FISHER PRODUCES ‘WASHINGTON. Tt S o =-3 | Ruel, ¢ Hargrave, ©. | Zachary, p. McGrew, p. | Martina, p. | Richbourg* | Leiboldt Totals.. #loococcoonconoont &l cocoomonnmmmonal | coooommmmmmnmns! %l ococorcnuonoounch wlosconcocsscsne 8 3 | Mathews, =f. | Lobe, cf. Johnsen, 1f Griffin, 1b. Cooney, & Mellilo, 2b. McCarthy, G Shinault, c. | mmoowatassan | cooomooronaa! I &l coccomourmmni Bl coconnartouns %l ecommnuomoccol |l cocococcosen!? Totals. . - “Hit for Zachary, in 8fth inning. | 1Hit for McGrew in eighth inning. | 3Hit for Shaner in seventh innin. | §Two out when winning run was scored. | | Milwaukes...... 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0—3 { Washington..... 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2—4 Two-base hits—Grifin, Goslin. Three-base t—Prothro. Stolen basss—Mathews, Coons Sacrifico hit—Meliilo. ~ Doubls_plays—Harris, | Pockinpaugh. Judge; Cooney, Mellilo, Griffn Mellilo, Grifin: Harr's, Judgs. Left on bases —Milwaukes, 7; Washington. 9. First base on ball—Off Zachary. 2: off Keefe, 3: off | Martina, 1. Hits—Off Zachary, 3 in 5 in- | nings: off Winn, & in 3 innings; off McGrew. 6 in 3 innings; off Shaner, 3 in 3 inmings; off | Martine, 1 inning; off Keefe, 6 in 3 in- | Hit by pitchor—By Shater, Harris, i out—By Zachary, 1: by Winn, 1; by Shaver, 1; by McGrew, 1. by Keefe. 2: by Martina, 1. Wild pitches—Kesfs, 2. Winning itcher — Martina. Losing _pitcher — Keefe. Bmpires—Mossrs. . Gowan, Leibold, Chesbro. Time of game—2 hours aad 10 minutes. RAIN CALLS A HALT ON SANDLOT TEAMS Rain drowned out the sandlotters today. Numerous nines had planned long drills. Weather conditions per- mitting tomorrow, the teams will try to make up for lost tima in prepara- tion for the campaign that will get under way about two weeks hence. 8 © | mi Northern Athletic Club expects to garner laurels both in the senior and junior divisions this season. Candi dates were to Teport today at 2:30 o'clock on the Park View playgrounds, although hardly any practice is ex- Pected. Challenges to the Northerns may be sent to Sam S, Hessler at Co- lumbia 9333 after 3:30 o'clock. Two home-run_clouts by Jacobs of the Navy Yard Marines enabled his team to point the way to the Wash- ington Barracks nine, 20 to 5. Morris and Grover of the winners also each hit circuit drives. Curb Care nine took the measure of | the Biack and White team, 4 to 2. The winners also have a victory to their credit over the Gallaudet College team. Senior teams competing in the ‘Washington Base Ball and Athletic Association are to be divided into two sections. Mount Pleasant, Northern, Emblem, Kanawhas, Argyies and the Fastern Athletic Club will play in the first division, while Chevy Chase, Mardfeldts, Liberty, Apaches and the Shamrocks will meet in the second division. Another division will be formed if more teams join the circuit, Willle Glascoe, Frank Kersey and Vie Guazza will submit a schedule for the Independent Sandiot League at a meeting of the circuit to be held April 10. They expect to work out the series dates next Thursday night at the Mobawk clubhouse. "Repre- sentatives of the league rejected the application for membership of the Maryland Athletic Club, x Giants when Manager McGraw of the New York | to twenty-nine men. Four mere will go before June 15 | ang | vesterd: | pla | for “several days, BELIEVE IT OR NOT. ¢ NSCARREY o Douglas, AND HIS WiFe. JANE WERE MARRIED 79 YEARS — Cng AND NEVER. HAD A QUARREL . Patriek died Dec 9, 1851 — Acs 102 Tane died Dec.19, 1851 — Act (00 JoHN KINNEY RAN 10 MILES Kansas Acies CompLETeD 24 ~—wearing hugh £ vubber bosc(s,s Hornell, N FLORENCE IS AMONG SIX LET OUT BY THE GIANTS under the ax terday, Nationals cut his squad Manager Business Manager Ed Barrow arc i All of McGraw's roo went the Eastern League. Pitt-bu from the Giants Paul Florence mer Georgetown University Walter James, Earl Webb Rosner. N Kent to ot > Leete Greenfield. Manager Robinson of the ub is more concerned wit the men he has than with paring. Just as S| hnny Jones im- ported $25.000 Pacific coast was induced to Brooklyn sign after a hold-out signed, Beloit, League The Giants won from Indianapolis 6 to 2, in the only game yed by the three New York teams. They play Boston Nationals at Sar- asota today while Indianapolis moves to Clearwater for a game with Brooklyn. Gardner's Hit Decides. CLEVELAND, Ohio, March @ Larry Gardner, veteran infielder, con- tinues to uphold his reputation as one of the timely batters. Batting for Metevier in the ninth inning day, with one man out, singled, sending in two runs, which beat Columbus, 4 to 3. It was the Indians last game at Lakeland, Fla. Charley Jamieson, sore-arm victim returned to left and threatens to outlaws of the jump to Mid-West Gardner field. Strong for Outfielders. BOSTON, March 29 —Although forced to carry on without Stuffy Mclnnis_at first base, owing to a lame ankie, the Boston' Nationals ad- ministered 'a 6-to-4 beating to the St. Louis Cardinals at the St. Peters- burg, Fla. training camp vesterday. Six_outfielders were measured for uniforms, including Stengel, Cruise, Sperber, Nixon, Cunningham and Felix. ~Of the infielders, Mclnnis, Tierney, Bancroft, Smith, Padgett, Kelleher and Herman were measured. Among the pitchers, Barnes, Benton, Genewich, Cooney, Marquard, McNa- mara, Lucas, Stryker, Yeargin and Lansing. had their measurements taken. Five or six outfielders will be car- ried by the Boston Americans this season, Manager Lee Fohl said at the San Antonio camp last night. The list is expected to include Veach, Flugstead, Ike Boone, the veteran John Collins, Joe Conolly, promising new man who came to the Red Sox in a deal with Cleveland, and Phil Todt. Change for Detroit. DETROIT, Mich, March 20.—After six exhibition games with the Toronto Internationals, the Detroit Americans g0 to Atlanta today to play the At- | lanta team of the Southern Associa- tion. Detroit defeated Toronto yesterday, | 13 to 2, in a game featured by the first triple play for a major league team in the exhibition contests. Cobb, Pratt and Blue handled the play. Four Detroit players also pounded out five home runs during the game. Seeks Third Baseman. ST. LOUIS, March 29.—With four days yet to go before the St. Louis Americans leave Mobile, Ala., on their exhibition tour, Manager George Sis- | ler is working overtime with third basemen. Harry Rice, Frank El- lerbe, Gene Robertson, Sylvester Si- mon, all look good, he says. The Browns meet the Mobile Bears today for the sixth time. RICHARDS DEFENDING INDOOR NET CROWN. NEW YORK, March 29.—Vincent Richards will have to play through a field of sixty-seven players to re- tain his title in the national indoor championship lawn tennis singles tournament which begins today. Richards meets Kenueth Appel, na- tional junior indoor champion, in one gf eleven matches scheduled for to- y. Francis Hunter, runner-up for the world’s_championship at Wimbledon last summer, is on the opposite half of the draw from Richards. Other well known players entered are Frank T. Anderson and S. Howard Voshell, both former champions, Herbert L. Bowman and Jerome Lanz, New York state intercollegiate champion. Ahl for | keeping | product, | American Loague's most | FORWARD PASSES ST NEBRASKA w22. ! — | Ar | herst, At Tech, At'Cl lemson, At Macon—Mercer, #; Auburn, At Durham—Trinity 13; Elon, 2. Charlottes [ Atl —Virginia, 6; Am- Georgia SCHOOL NINES ARE HALTED AGAIN Rain caused another delay | opening of the h today lis |HIGH for- | in the h school base ball Owing to conditions nd Business and to call off hos-| scries | Tech Central were tilities Inclement weather has played havoc with the school games. The ing match was to have bee last Saturday, but the e ferred. Games day and Wedn vented. forced open- | plaved nts inter- scheduled for Tue day also were pre- Athletic advisors are to arrange | dates for the postponed games a soon as possible. The regular sched- |ule will be followed Tues when | | Western takes the field against Busi- | nes Swavely preps presented a hurler vesterday in Neid, who held Emer- n Institute hitiess in a inning game, his team winning. The winning boxman out seven batters. | bingles were garnered off Vahery and Jones, the Emerson flingers. seven- 10 MAKE CLEAN SWEEP Waverly of the National Capital | Duckpin League won all three games from the Anacostia team last night. Al Works of the victors was high with a set of 371 and game of 141. Sweeps prevailed in the Bankers' League. ederal American won all from District National and the Na- tional Bank of Washington handed the same dose to Riggs No. 2. Two r<atches were rolled in the Ma- sonic League. Arminius won the odd |from Washington Centennial _and Osiris took two out of three from Joppa. Heimer of Osiris had a set of 340 and game of 129, Personal Andit of the Internal Rev- snue League captured the odd from Accounts and Collections. Joliffe of the losers had a set of 351 and game of 128, Car Shops of the Terminal “Y’ League grabbed the odd from Car De- partment. Senecas of the Mount Pleasant League won all three games from Clittons, and_Mount Pleasant got a forfeit from Castles. Logan of Mo@nt Pleasant had a set of 367, and Woll of the same team a game of 149. { Two matches were decided in the ladies’ Navy Department League. Register Division won all three games from Files Division, and Mails grab- bed the odd from Discipline. ~Miss Sickles of Files Division rolled a game of 110. Four matches were staged in the Interstate League. Correspondence won two out of three from Statistics; Valuation No. 1 took the odd from Engineers; Directors cleaned up on Valuation No. 2, and Finance grabbed a pair from Traffic. HUGHES BEATS MERINO | IN BILLIARD TOURNEY | Merino lost his first match in the District championship three-cushion billiard tournament when he fell be- fore Hughes last night, 35 to 34. Murray took the measure of Turpin, 135 to 27. Play will be resumed Monday night | at the Royal Billiard Parlors, when two gumes will be played. Goodacre will ‘meet Turpin at 7:30 o'clock, | While Cashman will oppose Johnson later. Merino still is leading with six victories and one defeat. Turton is second with five wins out of seven games. R MRS TR T NEW YORK, March 29.—Abe Gold= stein of New York, who dethroned Joe Lynch, bantamweight champion box- | er of the world, recently, will appear at Toledo, Ohio, April 4, against Bob- | by Wolgast of Philadelphia in a twelve-round, no-decision bout. | is | light-heavyweight shoe Pichers Assocal GALLAUDET-MARYLAND U. BASE BALL GAME IS OFF The collegiate base ball 1id will not be pried off here today, an the laudet game sched- Green this after- CANOE CLUB AND M. U. TRACK TEAMS SCORE ‘Washington Canoe Club and Un!- versity of Maryland athletes figured prominently in the All-Baltimore athletic meet and relay carnival in the Monumental city last night. The canoeists, however, set the pace. Washington Canos Club won the point honor by a wide margin, with 27. Fifth Regiment A. A. was second with 14 and the University of Mary- iand was third with 12. The Washington paddlers captured four firsts, two seconds and a third, while the” Old Liners annexed one first, four seconds and two third places. Alberry, who won the mile and ran third in the half; Norton, who cap- tured the 440; Clark, victor in the 220, and Hayden, winner of the half mile in this event and K. Knight, run- ner-up, were the point getters for ‘Washington Canoe Club. Supplee was the leading light for Maryland, scoring the Old Liners' only first. He won the pole vault and was second Other Marylanders to count ~were Compher, third in the mile: Beers, second in the shot-put: R. Whiteford, second in the 220 and third in the 440, and the relay team, which was nosed out by the Fifth Regiment four in a mile event. Lieut. Harry Liversedge of the Quantico Marines broke the south At- lant record that had stood twent Maryland. sile 43 feet 9 inches, a member of the United States Olym- pic team at the Athens games. The relay race between Maryland and the Fifth Regiment team was the most stirring event of the evening, it bing nip and tuck all the way, the soldiers winning by four vards. Pugh, W. H. Whiteford, Dave Endslow and Joe Endslow ran for Maryland The Fifth Regiment team ran mile in 3.23 a second of the South Atlantic record, set by Virginia a couple of years ago. MALONE STOPS TODD. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March Jock Malone of St. Paul knocked out Roland Todd. middleweight cham- pion of Burope. in the last round of | a ten-round contest last night SUPREMACY OF THE IRISH IN RING NOW THREATENED CHO) O sod. 'Tis a sad state of affai Why, only the other day a young Jewish fellow named Goldstein |fidence in. up and larruped the life out of Joe L; won Joseph's bantamweight crown. fistic divisions—Dempsey, Walker and McTigue. no fighting man for the Irish to be Time was when none but the lIrish knew how to swing a fist. But now— oh. wurra, wurra' The fiyweight champion is a little brown-skinned, slant-eyed oriental—Pancho Villa. contender for his cromn naro A n —rules Hebrew—Goldste in | place of Lynch on the bantam thron; And there isn’t an Irishman who bids fair to displace him. Johnny Dundee sports the feather- weight crown which used to set on Johnny Kilbane's Irish pate. And, for all his fighting ability, Dundee is | not an Irishman, but an Italian. Another the thera reign. Sure, now there's Mickey Walker, welterweight boss. A spalpeen to to be proud of, too. 'Tis the map of Hebrew—Benny Leonard— light-weight champion, and isn’t a Mick to threaten his Killarney that's spread over his face, | too. But Harry Greb, the middleweight boss. it is a Dutchman he is, although he fights like a son of old Erin. he is a Dutchman! Michael McTigue, ‘tis true, ng. but bad cess to him, doesn't fight is the Mike, in a | manner calculated to reflect glory on his countrymen, Ah, but there's Jack Dempsey—an Irishman and the greatest fighter who has come along since the days of Lugh-lam-fada and Fin MoCool. After all. though, Dempsey is just one champion—one of three Irish champions. Three of ‘em, begorra, and there should ke seven! What is tho matter? If the sons of the ould sod don't perk up they'll have two of tke old “three Jacks'— Sullivan and Dempsey, the Nonpareil —turning over in their graves, while the third, dapper Jack McAuliffe, will have to hang his heed in shame as he parades along Broadway, M'TIGUE-STRIBLING IN TRIM FOR SCRAP NEW YORK, March 29.—Mike Mec- Tigue, world light-heavyweight cham- pion, and his challenger, Young Strib- ling, Georgia schoolboy, completed train- ing yesterday in prepsration for the twelve-round match at Newark Monday. They put in a hard day's work shadow boxing, punching the bag and stepping ten rounds with their sparring partners. McTigue's lip, which was split by Ted Jamieson, Milwaukee middleweight, in sparring, has healed, and the champion was reported in the best condition of his career. He weighed a bit over 165 pounds last night. Stridbling did eight miles of road work and wound up with a stiff gymnasium assignment, tipping the scales at 166 when he finished. The principals both plan to do some road work and shadow boxing today and Sunday. FIVE CHESS EXPERTS IN RACE FOR HONORS | NEW YORK, March 29.—The inter- national chess masters’ tournament, at the end of the ninth round, prom- ises a keen battle for supremacy among five foreign masters who have assumed a dominating position in the field of eleven competitors. The brilliancy of Alexander Alek- hine, young Russian champion, who now holds the lead, and Richard Reti, who has won four of his last five en- counters, has shared interest so far with the comeback of Dr. Emanuel Lasker, former world champion. Las- ker and Reti, in second and third place, are within striking distance of Alekhine, while close behind, in 2 tie for fourth place, are Jose Capablanca, Cuban world champion, and Dr. Tar- takower, Austrian champion. The two American entries, Frank Marshall, United States champion, and Edward Lasker of Chicago, do not appear to be formidable contend- ers, while the Britisher, Yates, scems 156 out of the running. But irs, indeed, in the high jump. | for | years in beating Beers of | Liversedge tossed the mis- | eclipsing the | mark set by Robert Garrett, who was | the | within four-fifths of | 29.— | . the fistic supremacy of the Irish is being threatened. But | three of the holders of world titles are descendants of the ould | in Both Infield and S training, none shows so much and careful work to get something o the moment they take the ficld. inclined to be too loose. When an right along with it and was wrong, spring season was over Washington LINKS LESSON —_— BEGINNERS | PRACTICE WITH THE MID-IRON . £ LOFT AND LENGTH OF HITTING SURFACE MAKE IT AN EASY CLUB WITH WHICH TO SET HEIGHT. 2 IT1S THE MOST ENCOURAGING CLUB TO PLAY WITH. & /T HAS 30 MANY USES' THAT /T I3 VERY VALWABLE. ington, 24-12, in their first exhibition game last spring. from Boston, winning one by a score of 16-3. had scattered all they had over the landscape in the first meeting 'BOSTON MOST IMPROVED TEAM IN SECOND DIVISION Beaneaters Have Good Catchers and Are Stronger Garden, But Quality of Pitching Staff Is Unknown. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. s PET_ERSBURG, Fla., March 29.—Of last year’s second-division teams in the National League, all of which are down here for spring improvement as Boston. Hard work ut of the players is in evidence from Boston in practice last spring was not loggy and lethargic, but was nything went wrong the team went The Braves pummeled Wash- 2 But before the four out of seven games It looked as if the Braves too. had won The club doesn't act like that kind of blunderbuss this spring. When it shoots. it shoots to kill, not to scat- ter. Thus early it has smitten Brook- Iyn, its league teammate, such a whale of a smite that Brooklyn couldn't tell whether the red sunset was crimson or crow black. Much of the hope that centered in Boston last year flubbed before Deco ration day arrived. But this year's team looks as if it would go on and keep going. Have Energetic Catchers. Boston's leading catchers, O'Nei and Smith, are bubbling over w the high qualities of enthusiasm an push that a team needs when it must get out of the cellar and fight for t} attic. O’'Neill today is one of the best youngsters behind the bat. Smith 2 good helpmate. There is another Smith on the tean |who in 1 gave every evidence of being a successful third baseman. He appears to be the logicel man to Ea ath of Tony . who was f/ally hurt in an automobile accident in California. With Bancroft trusting the posi tion of shortstop to no one but hi self, with Tierney on second an Mclnnis on first, Boston has an in- field that is no dub on the defense and is pretty good in hitting. Cer tainly It is a more promising infield | than” Brookiyn or Philadelphia car | boast. It will be a d job to get j anything through the left side of the i Braves' infield if no dents hap- pen to the playa:s, through 2 logi If Smith does as we seems ¥ be hoped What club, if any, should a beginner practice with mostly? Why? Answered by PHIL GAUDIN Medalist, British open championship. Captain ‘of British internationzl golf team: member of that tenm for eight consecutive years. Winner of numer- ous foreigm tournamentx, including Manchester Guardian trophy. * % * % T would say the most preferable club would be the midiron, 2s one uses that club more at the start than ynch, as Irish as Paddy’s porker, and | And now but three Irishmen rule Sure and the latter is proud of, either. Inside Golf By Chester Horto: It in universally taught in golf that the body should return to its exact stance position at the in- stant the ball i hit, yet how many players we sce who, at the instant they hit, have the right heel well off the ground. It i one of my three “Iittle fun- damentalx of golf” to keep the right heel on the groand until the ball ix hit. In no other way, I maintain, can you get the maxi- mum of power into the swing. 4 Moreover, if you will demonstrate this point for yournelf you will see that, with the right heel planted mquarcly on the ground when the ball is hit, the entire weight of the body is automatically thrown into your awing, which is as it should be. 1f you lift this heel too soon you rivk persistent topping, while, if you do not top, you will miss throwing in your body weight, at least in part. Lifting the heel too soom must change the path of the bhead, because obviously this hoel was not off the ground as the club was taken back. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) NAVY IS IN RUNNING FOR SWIMMING TITLE NEW YORK, March 29.—Nine colleges qualified thirty entrants for the finals of the seventeenth annual individual championships of the Intercollegiate Swimming Association at the prelim- inaries held last night in the College of the City of New York. Yale placed seven men, Princeton five, Navy five, Brown three, Pennsylvania three, Leland Stanford three, Columbia two, Williams one and Rutgers one. The finals will be held tonight. William O’Connor of Leland Stanford won his heats in the 200-vard and 440-yard swim, winning from John Haw- | kins of Princeton, the intercollegiate rec- ord holder at the latter distance. A. R. Rule, jr., of the Navy took firsts in the 50-yard swim and the 150-yard back- stroke. P. A. Wsckoff of the Navy won his heats in the 100-yard swim and the 50-yard swim. CARPENTIER-TUNNEY GO LISTED, SAYS DESCAMPS PARIS, March 29.—Although denial has come from every possible source !of reports that Georges Carpentier, former light-weavyweight champion of the world, is to fight Gene Tunney, the American light-heavyweight, in New York this spring, M. Descamps, manager of Carpentier, insists that articles for such a fight, to take place between June 15 and 20 at New York, have been signed. —_——— WINS BOWLING PRIZE. CHICAGO, March 23.—George Far- caro of Chicago, scoring in every game above 200 and topping with 268, carried away the individual sweepstakes of the American Bowl- ing Congress, with s total of 1,117. any other club. It is also a very easy club for a beginner to get con- On account of the loft and length of hitting surface of the face of the club it becomes easier { for beginners to get the ball up with {a midiron than with any other club. l 1 i The midiron is the most encouraging club to play with and one of the most important if played correctly. (Copyright, 1924, Associated Editors, Inc.) 'D. C. GOLFERS GIVEN ANOTHER RUDE JOLT The weather man has struck an- other blow to the public golfers. The East Potomac Park and Rock Creek Park courses, scheduled to bave opened last Saturday, and re- scheduled for use today, will not be thrown open for several days, on account of the latest deluge. Chevy Chase, Columbia, Washing- ton and Indian Spring courses also are closed today. Their use awaits the return of proper ground condi- tions. Arthur Havers and Jimmy Ockenden, British golf professionals who are touring this country, will play Fred McLeod and Leo Diegel. Washington professionals, in an ex- hibition match at the Columbia Country Club on April 22. The match will be open to all golfers invited by Columbia mem- bers, with no admission fee to be charged. McLeod and Diegel were defeated on the last hole in a tourna- ment at Miami, Fla, by the British pair. EPIPHANY TOSSERS ADVANCE IN TOURNEY Epiphany Junior quint is the only Washington basket ball representa- tive left in the A. A. U. South At- lantio championship games being held at Baltimore. While the Washington Terminal Railroad Y. M. C. A. toss- ors wero eliminated last night by the Wyman Athletic Club, 41 to 36, the Epiphanys turned in a 32-to-16 vic- tory over the 145-pound Cliffords. The victory put the Epiphany Juniors in the semi-finals. They will play a game tonight, and if victors will enter the final contest Tuesday. Epiphany outclassed its foe last night With MacDonald, Kessler and Ourand displaying unusual ability at goal shooting, the Washington five took matters easy throughout. This trio accounted for eleven baskets. A clever defense also served the local team well. Wyman Athletic Club was forced to extend itself to show the way to the Washington Terminal Railroad basketers. The Oriole tossers pocket- cd fifteen baskets, while the Ter- minal five cut the cords for fourteen. Taylor of tho Washington quint was the individual star. He led the fieid, with nine double-deckers. Terminal was leading, 22 to 13, at half time. Dean, Desendorf, Scruggs, Clayton, B. Kessler, MacDonald, Ourand and MoGann are to play for Epiphany Tuesday. Most of these youngsters performed for Epiphany last year when it won the 135-pourd South Atlantic title. Douglan School tossers disposed of the Alfred Jones Graded School five, 12 to 7. A fast running attack, with Davis and Spriggs much in evldence.’ alded the winners. Girl toswers of the Holton Arms! School took the measure of the Alumni in a 38-to-26 engagement. A rally in the closing minutes put the Holton sextet ahead. Alexander and Jones of the winners and Bryan and Sima of the Alumni were the leading players. Aloysius Midgets will entertain the St. Martin's Seniors of Baltimore to- might in the formers gymnasium. The Immaculate Cubs will take the floor against the Foley Hall 105 pound team in a preliminary gam starting at 7:30 o'clock. links | { that he should. the Braves will give | their second division playfellows & i hot time of it all year. Pitching Quality Unknown is impossible to say where the Boston pitching staff will go and | where it will be when it finishes because there is too much about it | that is unknown. When a team does not enter a on with pitchers of admitted capability, it is only guess work to say where that team wi land ! The ou | ningham to | outfield from | sented in 19 center and he Tt tengel and C 1 be a differ. the Braves pre- Nixon is playing ndicates already the £ood effects of playing between two men of experience, one of whom has great speed as well (Copyright, 1924.) ' MISS COLLETT WINS | TITLE AT PINEHURST 14, with help, w that | PINEHURST. N. €., March { Miss Glenna Collett of Providence. | R. 1., vesterday won the morth and | south title for the third consecutive { year, The former national women's champion defeated Miss Louise F dyce of Youngstown, holder of { Ohio state championship, on the | teenth green. being 5 and 3. ! ""The score, however, is by no means descriptive of the onesidedness of the { contest, for M ollett was six up at | the turn, s Fordyce winning on ione ho p to that poin From there, with the match well her grasp, Miss Collett let up a trifle and Miss Fordyce won three out of the |next four holes with par at one | The Providence girl was still four up with five holes to play and after o half at the short fourteenth she clinched the match with a fine par 4 at the fifteenth. { “"At no time in her career has Miss | Collett ever plaved more brilliantly | than she did up to the turn today. was the sort of golf that caused many of the professionals who followed declare they would be well satisfied to take her score for their first | nine holes in the men's tournament | next week. Her driving was not onls | long. but remarkably straight. Her long game was without a flaw, and her approaching was so dead] putting was largely a formalit was_just to the turn, o v stroke over the men's par for the No. 3 course, and she was 36 in spite of @ 5 at the short 221-yard fifth hole where the par is 3. due to a drive th carried over the green and two weak roach shots. ‘ P Phere was no let-up on the part ol the Providence girl until the tenth | hole, which has been her Nemesis. | Tiere she put her drive into the wood lat the right and had to waste a stroka | Playing short of the brook. She was twice in the rough on the way to the next hole and missed a two-foot putl that would have given her a half, while at the thirteenth she missed hex tee shot and got into an almost un playable lie on her second. The former national champion’s short game was So true that on nins of the greens she required only ono putt. In all she had eight holes in par figures and two in birdies. NEARS HOCKEY TITLE. BOSTON, March 29.—Pittsburgh Hockey Club, champion of the west- ern wheel of the United States Ama- teur Hockey Association, will enter the third game of the six-game series for the national title here tomight. holding & 2-to-0 lead in games over the Boston Athletic Association. east- ern champion, Pittsburgh won the second game of the series, 1 to 0. L MANDELL VS. BERNSTEIN. CHICAGO, March: 29.—Sammy Man- dell of Rockford, IIL., has been match- ed to meet Jack Bernstein of New York. former junior lightweight champion, in a twelve-round, no-de- cision contest in Louisville, Ky., May 16, the night before the Kentueky Derby. The weigat will be 133 pounds. . TROTI‘ERS BURN TO DEATH. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. March 29.—Sea Breeze, valued at 37,500, and B, . Little, $5,000, trotters owned by S. E. MeKinl burned to death and Iwanta, a standard mare, valued by her owner, H. H. McAninch, at $22,000. was blinded by fire of undetermined origin which swept three stablea as the state fair grounds here. 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