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SFCRTS. THE E VENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURi)AY. ‘APRIL 26, 1924. SPORTS. Faulty Defense Handicapping Nationals : Britons Make Final Bid in Penn Games | D. C. WELL REPRESENTED IN QUAKER CITY TODAY BY H. C. BYRD ATROCIOUS WORK IN FIELD - GIVES A’S ANOTHER GAME Errors by Harris and Peck Send Johnson to 6 to 5 Defeat—McGrew or Zahniser to Face Athletics in Final Contest Today. BY JOHN B. KELLER. HILADELPHIA, Apr., 26—Unless the Nationals quickly find them- ves afield, the clever pitching staff they began this season with is oing to mean much to them. The hurlers under Manager Bucky Harris’ command generally are very capable on the hill and given anything like fair support should turn in a flock of victories, but much of their good work will be wasted effort if their teammates do not take a decided brace in play behind them, Atrocious play afield has marred all three of the performances of the Nationals in the Quaker city, only the heady pitching of Oyster Joe Martina getting them one win in the trio of starts, In yesterday's engagement cven the sturdy Walter Johnson was too much hampered by slipshod support and suffered his first defeat of the campaign. Well backed in the field, the veteran would have breezed to triumph instead of being charged with a 6 to 5 loss. Walter allowed seven hits while || BARNEY GETS BUMPED dorned mound. but other Natio ible for five gave the | tallies. 1In | WASHINGTO. Judge. 1b. ... fielding misy venth sessions | | 8. Harris, 2b. . Athietics at the fifth, sixth and s up got a life dling of the ball by | g Harms, S Rice, cf .. the first Mackman nd _each of the trio | Geslin, 1, not > ] hrough poor £ inally ved at home plate. ter apparently was in fine fettle | Fisher, Jimmie Dykes, ond batter up | Ruel, ¢ . the Uml‘“fl seventh, hit to left | Brothro u“; s a double instead of a single, | of Goslin's failure to | gpiasen; P play for a rebound from the bleacher | Leibold® rrier. Yet be then was benched | Speece, wnd Fred Wingfield sent to the hill. | The veteran really was not hit out| Totals . - of the fray. he was ficlded out of |L] *Batted for Wingfleld in eighth. The misplays were tBatted for S. Harris in eighth. committed by Peck. Harris, Prothro and Rice, with s e e e man. | p RHILADELPEIA. R tioned doing the most damage. | Hale, 3b Prothro's error was a two-base muff | Strand, of.... of Hales' p in the third inning, | Huusef, 1b: 3 ere 0 out 3 e time | Simmons, but ther two out at the tim | B | Galloway, "53. | Berking, c.. | cococnoonneont | coommmmonnooni |l coomuumenoonal @ 2l ccoommarrnooad Bat]lcusnanakewg] 5 Foowd and Strand. who followed, was an easy victim/for Johnson. while Rice fumbled Simme single and gav the Mackman an extra base in th fourth round Harris and P The pair of iscues hurt nothing | except the fielding averages of Ric To. but the errors of Harris | \lly handed the Mack open«d the Athlet fifth with 1 easy r r to the Na- tionals' manager. The lutter was un- Able to piek up the ball and Ainally | Twebase hits—Prothro, Booted it toward first. Perkins fouled | Welch, Dykes. Home run—Simmons. ot hut Wineh Batter Frank Welch |fice—S. Harris. Double plays—Gosiin to Judge, note a_double to right center that | 8. Hards to Peckinpaugh to Judge. Left on S Buliway., Welch was stranded, | bases—Washington. 10; Philadelphi e O witos nor Hale could con- | 33 ball-—0F Havior, as neither Dykes nor ale could (: i ; : : by th the ball safel 1: by B. Harris, 2. Hits—Off John- & the Mack son, 7 in 6 innings; off Wingfield. 2 in 1 in- rounder to Peck and the lat- | ning; off Speece, 2 in 1 inning: off Naylor, & % the bail to roll over his!in 3'innings; off' Hasty, 3 in 2 innings: off B. a CAsingle by ila Harris, 4 in 4 innings. Winuing pitcher—B, e into) the Aarcheld Harris. Losing_pitcher—Johns.n. Umpires— e ntvit 5 Messrs. Evans, Nallin and Rowland. Tima of ollowed. boosting the | game 1 hour ‘and 52 minutes. score total to four with but | st two of the tallies earned. Slim Har- | ris started the Athletics® nth | At Pittsburgh—Pitt, 4: Buckuell, frame with @ roller to Peck awd was! At Annapolis—St. John's, on the chortficlder's wretched |Ington College, T. to Judge Th:n Liskes got his that m well_have been | a dingle Walter was withdrawn, = The Athleties mot =fter Winxfield | ta & hurry and brought home the two men who made the bases while John- son toed *le A si : by Ha scored Harris, trand f red Hauser one-based Dykes to the | plate. Byron Spee pitched tne ighth inning agains < Macks, and | s nicked for a of base knocks, but a double san. ched | between the wallops saved him from trouble Three Mackmen Harlers Bumned. Mack used three hurlers and all re bumped for hits and runs. Rol- e Navlor, toiled the first three frame and in the secoud, after twn wer down, Prothro’s ™ bagger and single, the { lew made ck strolled wecountel for a narker. In th h_frame, and of the two rounds in which twirled, Judeg le sacrifice, Goslin's hin:s isher s pass and Rucl's netted two tallics. Long Bryan Harris went to the mound for the Macks at the start of the sixth, and the Nationals ham mered their old jinx hard enough to win had they not been so carel afield. A pass to Prothro, Peck’s | single and Perkins' failure to stop Miller's return of the ball after Lei- d's 1c cht had been caught e S r::]—\fidl(’{x!‘ {\lr’v;ulm the mmfnh, a match beginning at 10 o'clock on but they earned one by some sound | the grounds at 18th and Taylor thumping of Harris in the ninth. | streets. Crescent Athletic Club will Richbourg, hattink for (MANSKET | be the opponent of the Argyle Juniors e ; * Uhe | on the same diamond at 2 o'clock. Rice and 7oslin _double and the 00se went to third as her was | Members of the Argyle Athletic ihrown out. Galloway, though, made | Club are urged to attend a meeting « splendid stop of I's smash and | tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the Powell + throw that barely nipped the runner | School, Lamont street and Hiatt at first, th preventing tying | place. score by Goslin. CAUGHT ON THE FLY Chick Galloway, who made such a iiserable showing at shortstop for the Athletics in the opening game in Washington, was a thorn in the side of the Nationals vesterday. He han- dled cleanly eleven chances, many of thom extremely difficult, between sec ond and third bases and in short field. Gl omorossasmrnal | eosernmuow ol oooooremmmen 8l ccocommmn %l nonoocucooounk ~l cocsorcoccsss!” 4Batted for Naylor in third, Batted for Hasty in fifth. Washington .....0 1 0 0 2 0 Philadelphia ....0 0 0 0 1 3 e 01 15 2 0 x—6 Goslin, Judge, sixth with Slow alloy eloved an, n- | EW YORK, April 26—The cra > majq league game yesterday N Babe Ruth sent his third homer who a minute before had pleaded for Bush and Joe Dugan with the runs Yankees over Boston. It was the fif; tt place. Joe Bush held the Red Sox tc 1. ARGYLES TO FIGURE IN PAIR OF CLASHES single, | ~bagie Argyle Athletic Club faces a tough assignment tomorrow. Tho senior tossers will strive to mow down the formidable Spalding Athletic Club in | Gri Brookland Aces took the measure of the Newton Streot Midgets, 10 to 7. Hilltop Midgets made it three in a row by downing the Eastern Midgets, 5. Games with the :an be arranged by calling Manager Kemp at West 103 Carter, on the mound for the St. Alban’s Athletic Club, was in top form against the nine representing Troop 15, Boy Scouts, his team win- ning, 17 to 10. Griffin clouted four bingles for the winners. Monnt Rainier Junfors were to meet the Seat Pleasant Triangles today at Simmens’ homer was a powerfully | 4 o'clock on the former's filed. hit ball. 1t soared well above the wire screen in front of the bleachers ing the left ficld wall, and landed ainst the last row of benches. Players of last vear's foot ball and Dbase ball teams are requested to at- tend a smoker of the Se Athletic Club tonight at S o'clock in the clubhouse. Bolling Field and the Tank School nine were to meet today on the for- mer's diamond. Wagner and Naggy is the probable battery for the Tank team. Rice nppears to like delphia_brand of pitching. made six hits in thirteen lat here, getting thrce safeties yes- | rday. One of his hits in the third 1ilt was due mainly to his speed, Sam running out a dragged bunt in the first frame. ngfield, although a hard hitter .mmg'.hc spring exhibition series, was not allowed to bat in the eighth inning, Nemo Leibold being sub- tituted. Nemo's best was a short ily to Miller, but when Perkins al- Jowed Bing’s throw to get away from him Prothro, who had not started with the catch, easily scored. S$lim Harris was given a great hand ¥ the fans when he singled off Speece in the eighth. The long fiurler is mighty on the mound, but iets only a few safeties over the Course of a championship campaign. Dangerous Dan McGrew or Paul Zahniser may be tried by Manager iiarris against the Macks today. Ed Rommel probably will hurl for the Lome clan. HOW GRIFFS ARE HITTING A rally in the cleventh inning gave the Yankee Mideets an 8-to-6 victory over the St. Stephen’s Midgets. Manager Frank Kersey wants all ‘Waverly Athletic Club plavers to re- port for practice tomorrow at 10 o'clock on the Union station plaza. G. W. U. NETMEN BEATEN Holt, playing No. 1 for the George ‘Washington netmen, turned in the only victory for the downtown insti- tution that vesterday dropped a 6-to-1 match to the Swarthmore racketers. He showed the way to Seymour, §—6, 6—4 Summaries: SINGLES—Holt (G.W.) defeated Ssymour (Bwarthmore), , 6—4; Hodge (Bwarth- more) defeated Law (G. W.), 6—1, 6—3; Dudley (Swarthmore). defeated Klopsch (G. W.). 2—8. 8—7: Mulloy (8warthmore) dofeated Larson’ (G. W.), 6—3. 4—6, g Massipp (Swarthmore) defeated Rutley (G. W.). 6—1. 6—1. ] DOUBLES—Hodge and Seymour (Swarth. more) _defeated Holt and Klopsch (6. W.), 6—4, 7—5; Dudley and Rust (Swarthmore) de- feated Law and Larson (G. W.), 6—1, 48, |CARDS GET GONZALES; DODGERS OBTAIN STOCK MOBILE, Ala., April 26.—Miiton Stock. third baseman of the St. Louis Car- | dinals, whose home is in this city, where he has been a hold-out all spring, an- nounced today that Manager Branch Rickey of the St. Louis National League | Club had traded him to the Brookiyn | Nationals. The Cardinals get Catcher Gonzales and u cash consideratiou for | Ste Stock wili join the Brooklyn wam ai Bostun Mondags = [ Harris Visher Peck Ve Grew . Mogridge ecibold ahniser Smith Speece 2 ®cscsccesva Bs2ecoecoNANUANONUSON: o b mesenEn wlcooonrosssona!? Sacri- | direct results of the blow spectacular. champions only a hali game behind Detroit and Chicago, tied for first| t Pleasant | BY SWARTHMORE TEAM | FIRST RUN OF HERRING REACHES CHAIN BRIDGE C. M. Capper of Chain bridge an- mounces that the first run of her- ring arriv with last night's tide, These fish, like the perch, were late thix weason, as ordinarily the ram starts about the middle of March. The lateness of the season held them back this year, coupled with high and muddy water. Capper run is unusually large and that each (ncoming tide for the next two or three days will add to their number. TECH AND WESTERN TRACKMEN IN TESTS Tech High's relay team is at Phil- adelphia today competing in the Penn relays. Moreland, Kessler, Pugh and Kil- lian of the Manual Trainers were to run in the scholastic one-mile event. Track athletes of Western High were to meet the University of Mary- land freshmen in a dual track and field meet today at College Park. The first event was to start at 3 o'clock. Kanawha Seniors and Central High base baMers were to be opponents to- Guy in the Blue and White Stadium. | With Roudabash and Burdine pitch- ing a clever brand of ball, Eastern ored a 6-10-0 victory over Swavely Prep yesterday. The Light Blue and White players connected for eleven bingles, Georgetown Prep tossers fell before the Devitt Prep team, in a 12-to-2 match. Hair held the losers to five safe clouts, while his team smacked nine off two flingers. MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Buffalo, 12: Jersey City, 11. Syracuse, 3; Newark, 5. P HILADELPHIA, April 26—Followers of Washington athletics, and the Georgetown team in particular, today have their attention fo- cused on the Hilltoppers’ entry in the two-mile championship event of the Penn relay carnival in which the Blue and Gray, although doing well, hardly lived up to expectations yesterday. Georgetown thinks it has a good chance for victory in this race. Washingtonians a'so will watch with special interest the mile champion- ship, in which both Georgetown and Virginia are to run; the four-mile championship, college races in which George Washington, Gallaudet and Maryland are entered and events in which District high schools are to take part. Washingtonians also have interest in the events for individuals, Dowding of Georgetown being good in the broad jump, Kearney of the Hilltoppers having a, chance in the high hurdles and Beers of Maryland being clever in the shot putt. Washington athletes ot no par- ticular satisfaction out of their per- formances yesterday, as not a first place was registered 'in any event. Some of the exhibitions given by the men who represented George- town University were good, but not as good as those of the athletes against whom they were placed. The Blue and Gray colors floated in sec- ond position at the end of two cham- plonship races, the quarter-mile and the sprint medley. It was rather a poor second, though, in each case, Columbia winning the quarter and Penn State the sprint medley rather easily. Virginin Team Scores. It was in the South Atlantic A. A. championship mile relay that George- town got its greatest setbuck, though. It had confidently expected to win that event, but it did not measure accurately ‘the speed and stamina of the Virginia quartet, which broke the record for the event to win. The Blue and Gray held the lead in the race by just the bare margin of a stride or two until the last fifty yards. Herlihy was given a two-yard lead at_the beginning of the last relay. He was pitted against the brilliant Bohannon, hero of many a race. Bohannon stuck at Herlihy's heels the mile in 3 minutes 21 3-5 seconds. Bohannon's time for his last quarter Wwas 49 3-5 seconds, only surpassed by one other man during the day. Briton Shows Great Speed. One of the finest races run was the half mile covered by Lowe, anchor man on the Cambridge University four. The Englishman started far be- hind in the last relay of halt a mile in the sprint medley championship event, but gained considerable ground on the last runners for Penn State and Georgetown. Marsters gained some ground on the Penn State man and he has been doing a half mile under 1.55, but the English runner gained on the Hilltop captain, and probably his time was under 1.04. Fiad he started on even terms he would have beaten the Georgetown and Penn State anchor men. If Lowe runs in the Olympic $80 and gets a #00d start of his race, he will come 80 close to winning that it will give representatives of other countries nervous prostration. Helffrich of Pemn State ran the fastest quarter turned in on Frank- lin Field during the day. In the first relay of the sprint medley champion- ship he did the distance in 49 seconds. Helffrich gave the second Penn State runner a lead of fifteen yards, and it | Georgetown at lead which enabled his team to in. It is questionable if there is a better quarter and half-miler in the ‘nited States than Helffrich. Big until the second curve was reached. There he pulled up right at the man’s shoulder and the Toronto, 7; Reading. Baltimore, 9: Rochester, 7. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Columbus, 6; Minneapolis, 5. { Milwsukee, 1; Indiazapolis, 0. | T ledo, 8; St. Paul, 4, | Louisville, 6; Kansas City, 5. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. | Birmingbam, 3; New Orleans, 2. Memphis, 5: Chattancoga, 1. Nashville, 5; Littio Rock, 4. Atlanta, 24; Mobile, 6. FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE Qrlacdo, 11; Bradentown, 3. Lakelan Tampa, 3. Daytona, 10; St. Petersburg, 9. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Spartaaburg, 14; Greenville, 10. Augusta, 3: Ashevills, 0. Charlotte, 7; Macon, 5. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Portsmonth, 4: Wilsen, N Nor ik, 9; Richmond, 7. Petcrsburg, 7: Fockymou: | { | | | | . & S Y NINE HOME RUNS FEATURE | FIRPO WITHDRAWS BATTLES OF BIG LEAGUERS | | | ck of.home run hits echoed in every Four of the seven victories were of the week among a thousand boys | the hit, and trotted home behind Joe | that earned a 5-to-2 victory for the th straight win and landed the world | ) six hit: A circuit swat Simmens with two men on won a 6-to-3 contest from Washington for Connle Mack's | | hard-fighting young Athletics. Chi- | | cago pulled up into the tie with De- | | trolt by trimming St. Louis. 6 to although outhit 11 to 7. Harry Hoop- er hit a homer during the game. Detroit's clear title to first place was lost when Cleveland made seven consecutive hits off Dauss and Pil- |lette in the seventh inning. £paak- |er's homer figured in the six-run rally. The final score was 10 t0 2. Home runs were responsi for four of the five runs in the contest which 1yn won from the Giants, land Dean sgain batticd ¢ over the rou but the an_won yesterday when Bernie Neis lifted one over the fence and | scored Vance ahead of him. Mcusels | homer with Young on had 'previously given the' Giants a one-run lead, Although outhit 13 to ©, the Cubs ed their blows, including a homer Hartnett, with Haines' wildness the first inning and scored a 7 to victory over St Louis. Homers by Grimm of Pittsburgh and Hargrave of Cincinnati kept the teams battling until the eighth, when the Pirates retreated before the rapid clouting of the Reds, who made seven | runs in the last two innings, and by winning, 10 to 4, jumped into first place in’ the league standing. The Philadelphia-Boston _National }League game was postponed by rain. PADDOCK TO STRIVE FOR WORLD RECORD “, DES MOINES, Town, April 26.—With | world, American, intercollegiate rec- jcrd holders entered, marks are ex- {pected to fall today in: the finals of the Drake relay carnival, provided | | weather conditions are favorable and yesterday's rain-soaked track dries. Charles Paddock, who yesterday ran the 100-yard dash in :09 6-10, ty- ing his own world record, plans to attempt to better the performance |today and also to try for a record for the 135-yard sprint, the present world mark for which s :12 2-5, set |by C. H. Sherrill of Yale in 1896. | Paddock "once ran the distance in :121-5, but the record was not allowed. The blond Californian was disap- nointed because he beat the gun in his cxhibition century yesterday and desires to meet today the same trio he defeated, giving them a handicap of four instead of two yards. The interesting relays on today's program are the half-mile, one, two and four mile events. The Towa quar- tet, which won the mile event In the Kansas relays a week ago, rules a favorite in this event, while the Orcgon Aggies, winner of the four- mile relay-at Kansas, promise to give Illinois a desperate race to capture the honors in that race Northwestern and Michigan are the favorites in the two-mile relay, while the medley is regarded as an open race. In addition to the univer- | sity relays, there will be similar events for colleges and high schools. In the trials vesterday, Hubbard, Michigan's negro star, broke the Drake record on the broad jump by leaping 24 feet 2% inches. He.also led the qualifiers in the hop, step and jump. / Nebraska featured the relay events yestérday by taking the university | 140-yard event in 43 2-5 seconds. o DRI Rialto Midgets showed the way to the Monroe Midgets in a 19-to-7 en- sagement. Cohcn hurled well for the by | light was not showing between them, { but Herlihy prebably held | of "the | to fight in the United States, includ- | yesterday, but Williams of the local tw away men turned into the straight- ATmost meck and meck 14y |and strong, he runs with the ease and grace of & much smaller and lighter man. ‘A half-mile race in which he would be matched against Lowe of Cambridge University would | be an event worth seeing. 1 four or six inch lead until fifty yards from | the finish, when Bohannon put forth & mighty’ effort and jumped u stride p? Bohannon finished that dis- tance to the good and sent George- town down to defeat in the one race whole meet in which it fig- ured itself almost a certain victor. Herlihy made a mistake in judg- ment in allowing Bohannon to pull up to his shoulder on that last turnand probably lost the race thereby. But that does not detract in the least from the credit due Bohannon for his | briliiant effort. e not used better judgment than Herlihy, but in the final test, in the last fifty yards, When both men were on even terms, s Bohannon who had the extra ounce of stamina and speed n sary to place Lis colors at the he iversity of Maryland in the poor third. Both Georgetown Hopkins furnished two win- Clarke capturing the special in- vitation 220-yard dash, in which the best American sprinters were piaced gainst Liddell of Edinburgh Univer- sity, English sprint champion. Lid- dell and Clarke won their respective heats. In the final Liddell led until the seventh five-vard mark had been passed in, but at that point Clarke gave a great burst of speed and got a stride or two in front. Liddell was going strong at the finish and was picking up at the cnd, but he could not quite catch the Baltimorean. The other Hopkins vietory was won by Booth in the two-mile race. After ¥¥ing with ome of the best distance men in the country for the first sev- ] en laps, Booth rushed out in front at T ‘irginia were © it. | the beginning of the final turn around The Virginia team Ir- | the track and at the finish was a good vine Talhntt and vered | ten vards in frone | LINKS LESSON || CARE OF CLUBS CASIONALLY AND THE SHAFTS POLISHED. ALSO BE SURE THAT THE GRIPS ARE IN COOD CONDITION St. Louls... 2 HIS OFFER TO FIGHT | BUENOS AIRES. April 26—Owing to the fact that Tex Rickard had re- | fused to postpone the bout between Quentin Romero Rojas and Floyd Johnson until Luis Firpo was given an opportunity to fight Rojas, Firpo | said he would not fight Rojas after- ward. | He added that his offer to meet the : ; Chilean heavyweight, therefore, was . comes to the selection of hi withdraw, Never undertake to organize a b Firpo declined to say definitely |, whether he would change his mind | theory that young boys and youths with regard to accepting other offers | equally well. That is not true. At e By foined If you took nine boys who had et o A e odte s | never handled a base ball in their Harry Wills. { lives and put them out on the turf for 3 | training and to learn base ball, it would not take a week to find out t they had developed certain char- acteristics and_abilities which would make one of them a better pitcher than apy of the others, another a better catcher, and so on. The out- fielders are not exempt, because there are boys who will take as naturally to catching long flies as ducks to the water, and others who cannot seem to fathem how to “judge” a fly hit. The “judging” of a fiy ball is that which makes an outfieider to begin with and makes him greater as he goes on, because he displays unusual talent in that respect. All Boys Like to Piteh. Almost all boys wish to be pitelers. This has been apparent to all who have had much to do with base ball since the beginning of the game. The pitcher is busy, and the small boy likes to bs busy. The pitchcr also seems to dominate the situation, and “he small boy likes that. But all boys cannot be pitchers, and Soonmer or later the fact fs thrust upon them by their own inability to do as well as they would like to do, and by the sharp and sometimes cruel criticism' of the other small boys, Who are not averse to making their opinions known when they arc engaged in playing among one another. The pitcher of the team must be one of its best players. It has been said that pitchers are born and not made after they are on earth. There is truth in that. A boy who is not possessed of a good arm, a certain amount of control of the ball, and good judgment in watching what ; 5 . I batters do is not likely to get far as What carc should a golfer give kis|a pitcher. clubs? Not always is it necessary to have Answered by eed. More than likely an excess { of speed will spoil the boy who tries TED RAY |to use it as a pitcher, because he The siege gun of Englixh golf.| Winner of Innumcrable tournaments | und member of the greatest zolf | combination tn history—the team of, | BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS “Vardon and Ray. | *® % N = 2 In a hot climate it will be very NENIRCRN ERsN necessary to have the clubs oiled oc- L. Pet. v;l.:. Lose. casionally and also to have the shaits 4700 polished, which will keep all damp- .68 ness out of the wood and stop any 636 inclination to become too supple. &8 The golfer should also visit his pro- e fessional to make sure that his grips 200 213 are in good condition, as that, to my mind, is very necessary should a man | - GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. vi i v Wi at a. oston af ing'n. wish to get satisfactory results. P Mew York. Phila. at New Xork. Other than these precautions, cOm- | Detroit at Cleveland. Cleveland at St. Louis. mon sense is the thing to use in tak- | Ohicago st 8t. Louis. Chicago at Detroit. ing care of your clubs. RESULTS OF YESTERDAY’S GAMES, (Copyright, 1924, Associated Editors. Tnc.) Philadelphia, 6; Washington, 5. —_— New York, 5; Bosten, 2. Cleveland, 10; Detroit, 2. POTOMACS AND CUBANS Chicago, &; St. Louis, 3 8 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Washington Potomacs, who nosed W. L. Pet. out the Cuban Stars yesterday in a 7 78 5-to-4 engagément, were to face the Gt Havana tossers in the final game of 500 the series today at 3:30 o'clock at the 333 American League Park. o Each team garnered eight bingles 273 Pittsburgh. Boxton St. Louis GAMES TODAY. N, Y. at Brooklyn. B, Louis at Chicago, Cincinnati at Pitts. Phila. st Boston, LI YL club kept his safeties well seattered. Shively and Eggelton of the Poto. macs led their team at bal, each con- nectirg for a pair of timely blows. "The Potomacs are to appear in an exhibition game tomorrow at Jersey City. 8t L. Pittsburgh at Chicage. RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES, Cincinnati, 10; Pittaburgh, 4. Brooklyn, iI; New York, 2. Chicago, 3 St. Leuis, 5. Philadelphia at Hoston (ralnde - plnet At _Philageiphin—Temple, Joaeph'ny I MANAGING A BALL CLUB early All Boys Are Ambitious to Be Pitchers, But Most of Them Are Soon Cured. BY JOHN B. FOSTER: CHAPTER XL HEN the preliminaries of organization have been perfected the man in charge of the team, whether he be manager or captain, COBB TO GET “LL. D.” AT BALL GAME TODAY DETROIT, April 25—~Ty” Cobb wiill be presented with the degree of “LL. D" whem 1000 college men of Detroit hold their annual intercollegiate frolic today. The “LL. D.” which in this case ntands for “league leading demon,” will be presented by Kemesaw M. Landis, comminal,smer of base ball. The collegians will oceupy a block of aeats at the Detroit-Chicago same at Navin Field. TURF STAR GUARDED ON WAY TO PIMLICO LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 26.—When Wise Counsellor, present favorite to win the Golden Jubilee, Kentucky Der- by, left today for Pimlico, where he is scheduled to start in the Preakness, he was accompanied by armed guards, a precaution taken by Trainer John Ward after receiving reports of a plot to cripple the colt and prevent his start- ing in the Pimlico and Churchill Downs elassics. A relative of a stableboy overheard a conversation between two strangers recently concerning a plot against the colt. He told Ward who cautioned the stable foreman to keep close watch over the thoroughbred. A second warn- ing of such a plot received from an un- the trainer placed three armed guards and two watch dogs near Wise Coun- sellor’s stall the last two days of his stay here. . The crack three-year-old is said to have been backed heavily to win both the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby and future bookmakers stand to lose heavily if he should finish first in both events. “I am told the incentive for injuring Wise Counsellor’s chances in the Derby comes from a eriminal class that has been operating around race track: Trainer Ward said. This gang has a record that shows it has been in plots before.” Wise Counsellor was purchased as a two-year-old for $66,000 by F. A. Bur- ton of Chicago. He is insured, his trainer sald, for $100,000. COLLEGE BASE BALL At College Park—Maryland, 8; West Virginia, 7. At Cambridse—Harvard, 6; Georsia, Charlottesvillo—Quantico Ma. rimes, 3; Virginia, 0, At Raleigh—North Carolina State, 5; |Georgia Tech, 4. At Tasealoesa—Alabama, 9; Vander- Af Greeaville—Oglethorpe, 5; man, 1. At Elon—El Fur- | At Birmingham—Auburn, 3; Howard Cellege, 2 (10 {nnings). At Providence—Brown. 41 Pean, 1.| At Chester—Penn Military, 6; Sus-| quehanna, 2. | s players. ase ball nine of any character on the may play any position on the field will be 5o confident of his ability to throw the ball to the batter with force that he will use too much of it and give more bases on balls than he | will strike players out. A player who zives bases on balls does not get far as a pitcher. Usually the pitcher shows himself in 2 | group of youngsters. Sooner or later of | all the volunteers there will be one who | will settle naturally into the task of throwing the ball a certain distance in | the games that are played from day to Qay, and if he is progressive he will be abie to put the ball on the corners of the piate, whero it is hardest of ull for the batter to meet it. Don’t think solely of speed when the pitcher is named. Think of control, and | of the boy who can be cool when there | are three runners on bases and no one out. That is the type of pitcher who makes himself felt in the long run. | Cateher Must Be Stardy. For the catcher it is well to pick out & boy who is sturdy and perhape | a little chunky, and, above all, get the boy with the best observant | power of any one on the team. The | catcher is the one player before (Whose oy the game Is cver present. | He can see everything that is going | on, because all of the game is con- stantly in front of him, and he is likely to be of more assistance to the team than any other plaver in the field. The catcher must be a good thrower. Not only is he called upon | to make the long infield throw to second, which is part of his game, but he is in a position where he may snap the ball to first base, or to third | base at any time, and he must have | an arm that will help him to do it. { But when considering that arm also | consider a sound and sensible head, | because too much throwing to bases will_undo any catcher. The sreat trouble with college base ball is not lack of throwing but (00 much of it that is unnecessary. | HUNTER IS DEFEATED IN NET EVENT UPSET WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W Va,, April 26.—G. Carlton Shafer of Phila- | delphia won a signal honor yesterday | in the semi-final round of the men's Greenbrier Country Club invitation | lawn tennis tournament by defeating | Francis T. Hunter. twice a winner of the challenge bowl and runner-up | for the world's title at Wimbledon last summer, by & score of 6-—2, T—b. Today Shafer will meet S. Howard | Voshell of New York in the final roun | Shafer won through superior con- ! trol. and uncoyered the best tennis he has shown in the last two years. Hunter was weak in his overhead and volleying, faulty in his judgment of distance and time and lacked co- ordination. | Martha Bayard of Short . Hills, | J., north and south champion, and | Leslie Bancroft of Boston will meet | in the final of the women's singles. | Miss Bayard defeated Mrs. Theodora | Sohst at 6—4, 6—3. and Miss Bancroft | won from Isabelia Mumford, 6—1,! 6—4, in_the semi-finals. i Voshell and Hunter won tlie dou- | bles honors by defeating Shafer and | Fred C. Baggs at 6—4, 75, 8—6. Ered eyt s . STANDARD MAKE ' TIRES CASH OR CREDIT CONVENIENT TIRE SHOPS 3t 130 P S, disclosed source was so convincing that | BEATEN ON OPENING DAY, BUT HOPE TO COME BACK Cambridge Team in Two-Mile Championship Contest and Liddell in 160-Yard Dash—Number of Title Races on Today’s Card. ] HILADELPHIA, April 26—British tr: in their first two contests with Amer rel. arnival will make ture events of the concluding « has drawn more than 4000 competitors fron in the United States, Canada and Great Britai Cambridge University's runners. who State College and Georgetown vesterday pionship, loom as more formidable title race this aiternoon. but they face their the teams that conquered them yesterday Pennsylvania State has in Helffrich and E that shattered the world record in winnis while Georgetown has the brilliant team 1 title last March E Liddele, = 1ittl, who holds the Britich ¢ will match his speed with, ponents ar 100 atone for his defvat Louis Clarke of Johns 20-yerd dash ye riva a final bid for hono s’ program ot this athietic r laure! the | COMMITTEE ACCEPTS | TILDEN'S RESIGNATION 1 VEW YORK, teh sprinter, umpionship, | T eftoct ds in an | Hoy sLeriiy April 26 flyers Occidental College, Los American college 1 be decided at distunces one and four miles, bes. class championships, w international eve legiate Institute ite two-mile inte championship against schoolboy rivals Besides Penn State's | terday. other major relay crow jto Pennsvlvania over the dists medley route and to Columbia quarter mile, w in t « unced ¢ the resig n icage triumg var n th | tivities ing ind Wa hin athlete, vidual featur: and Char Jéffers MEDLEY " WINS CAMP MEADE MEET Athletes of the piled up annual track Tank de Uit while th with 21 points, third hment. scorer ut. White Tank Bat Company Washington G day were 6 Trapsi tatives ore, a at Bal caster in over the points and no Sergt. Stanford of t 17th Tank I to the field mest rday ONE-QUARTER MIL CHAMPIONSHIP—Won ity (Dack, Donalds: seoond; with fror Rict registered Benning 3212 NTE Universi the nd tr: bPHILADELPHIA To CHECK PAID SPORTS ON SUNDAY PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia tional Sunda: wports, unnecessary gamex which interfere with church services or the peace of quiet-iov- 26— | April to have a “recrea- but _protexsional INTERSCHOLASTIC business and 5 | CHAMPIONSHIP second man 220 vards and fourth man 880 var ing neighborhoods will not be per- mitted, Mayor He plans to isxue printed inst endrick announ ruc- tions defining the lawx. “emmercial “will not be allowed, either open or A he defined as one where the play- camouflaged.” Nports.” he sars. HAMMER THROW— ton 146 feet faet 8t commercial sport ers are paid to perfor what th object may b “Worldly employment or b of unnecessary ayor Kendrick, “is_prohibited by be permitted. with any to perm legal brief, character.’ reading from tden any gen- eral opening of stores in the city PARENTS enior, Junior asked the co-operation of in Southeast to pro that section in last night. Schmidt Ball and lined the body. A jazz band Quartet enlive Approximate present Athle program ’ AID IS ASKED IN SANDLOT ATHLETICS Manager Lawrence of the Shamre :ance, 185 foe! and Midzet the parents ote athletic ac- Haso ont- Washington Association dopted b ic Inside Golf By Chester Horton ‘When golfers really understand how the “flick of the wri _ antomotic will begin to appreeint complished, who tries 10 do thix will never zet anything for hix pains It must be aceomp!ished automotically, and the w ccomplishment is hy xeci that the left arm is held thronghout the swirg. tronbl on. Pit TRACK EVEN COLLEC SCHOLASTIC MEDLEY ~ RELAY to run 440 vard FIELD EVENTS. JAVELIN THROW—Wo bury < ix ae- th, why it is desirable to hit the ball with the elubhead instead away push of T kink it ix a ke fo trv I golfers to h (heir wrixtx moment tting (he he player ihic of bi hall. Special B, & Union Station Parlor and dini Speeinl na. leaves nion Nt noon—direct 1o standared time. at_golf 2 it - aiht held rigid, just firmiy »treizhi— bend at the elbow. muxt held onto the xhaft top of the back swing. i¢ The fingers at 1 M Five the clubbead, thus. = throw at the Insiant it w ball. this unbendinz at the moment the ball Once you get the feeling of wrist hit— of the left which ix all there ix to the idea of “fiicking the which the wristx"—and you feel the lightning speed v clubhend when h then g through the ball, you will begi realize how and why the and perhaps from Ritx, hire you can Lkeep your body-push out of it. 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