Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1924, Page 30

SPORTS." MHE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY., NOVEMBER 18, -1924. SPORTS. Johnson, Passing From Major Leagués, Leaves a Brilliant Record Behind Him TWO OF WALTER’S MARKS MAY NEVER BE EQUALED 8,225 Strikeout and 107 Shutout Totals Are High Lights of 18-Season Career of National Hurler, Whe BY DENMAN \\% ewner of the Oakland club oi the P /ill Be Minor Magnate. THOMPSO v a few minor formalities remaining to be observed be- fore Walter Johnson officially ends his career as a member of the Washington club and enters the class of magnates as part acific coast organization, big league base ball has lost one of the most notable figures that ever graced the mational pastime. But much as his passing will be regretted, parti oi this community who had come to of institution, all will unite in wishi new undertaking, and there will be choosing t coming, as it doe club to capture sensational efforts in . on top of his the final wmverse. ‘The fact that the season recently | ®nded, when Johnson, in his eight- eenth campa a major league e age of 3 for a pere . was the second best of entire career, bles him to n bis exit in muecl a title-hoiding pugilist who voluntar- #1y quits the ring with (he distinction ©of . being the ‘“retired undefeated champion.” Tn only one other seaso that of 1913, when he annexed 36 vic- ®orirs, offset by only.7 setbacks, for & mark of .337, did Johnson excel his work of the past Summer. it would been something of & dragedy had Walter stayed in harness minder the main tent and finally et ®he fate that ultin must come to =11 athletes of being reduced to me- aliocrity s a moundsman through the | ¥oll inexorably taken by Father Time Will Be Made Free Agent. Dispatches from the #he effect that Johnson whip with George Weiss, she New Hao Coast are to in partner- owner of ven club of the Eastern Zeague, ically has completed ne- Fotlations for the acquisition of the Oakland club from J. Cul Ewing fur # financial consideration of close to $400,000, the only formalities remain- dnug Leing the actual signing of the macessary legal papers and the ob- faining by Johnson of his release e s assured of, for Pres- | 3dent Clark Grifith announced some | time back that he would put no ®bstacles in the way of Johnson get- ring the upportunity of striking out For himself, and he reigerated today 2hat, muc! as he regretted losing Walter's services, in would giadly Kive him his release to grasp the @pportunity of bettering himselt @whbouid the deal he satisfactorily swung. Consent of all the other clubs in the Americun and National League al30 i3 necessary hefore Johnson will | be free to take his first fling as a mogul, but there is no question that ihis will be forthcoming. Tt was with mixed emotions that | Manager Stanley Harris learned t the long-pending deal which mean the passing of Johnson as= a cog in the local base ball machine has been | virtually completed. Harris natu-| rally was impressed with the extent | of the 1053 in strengti the team will | suffer from the passing of a pitcher rly by the fans look upon the big Kansan as a sort ing him the best of success in his but few to queston his wisdom in particular time for stepping out of the big show picture, yeoman work in helping the Washington s first league pennant in 38 vears of endeavor and his contest of New York Giants, which made the Gr the world series with the men champions of the base ball FOR COAST CATCHER PHILADELPHIA, With the purchase from the Port- land, Oreg., team of Gordon 8. Coch- rane, one of the leading catchers of the Pacific Comst Basa Ball League, Manager C ie Maclkt of the Philadel- phia Americ s2id today that he | would have m star battery froin the minor leagues as well as & number of er promising youngsters to send Into uction at the start of the major league £eason next spring. lack said he was figuring on Cochi- rane and Groves, the southpaw pitch- ing ace for whom he was reported November 18.— {to have pald the Builtimore Club of ! | the International League $100,000 at he close of last geason into w great batlery. The Portland Club recelved five plavers, Burna and Masty, pitche: Riconda, infieider; Shirling, outfield er, and Rowland. a®catcher, and a | cash consideration reported to have been $30,000 for Cochrane. Thomas Turner, president of the Portland Club, who vesterday closed the deal ith Manager Mack, said that rane was one of the greatest cat ers he had ever &een work. “He has more natural ability than any back- stop In the major ieagn today,” said Turner. In the 99 games he played with the Pacific Coast team I Coch- rane batted for an averags of BASKETERS PRIMING FOR A BUSY SEASON their toseers the. n oprepar tion for what promises (o be & k On contested court campaig B One of the eatly se E be plaved tonight in the gyian parti of the Olympiu Athietic Club probabiy will tackle the Pararaount five break game starting at 6:20 o'cluck. play Pilots ot 130-pound quints on the A lookout ‘for games are urged 10 tele- he will teil vou th developing CHAPTER N\, BY H. G. SALSIN ASEBALL histori down how flen point to one break i go deeper in can 3 point to a cer game as the ( iding one oi ad that ga that was t and that onc pitched ball Wrong Pitch when Rube WaddellsThrew It— | Ty Cobb Hit It— It Won a Pennant. toe hold that bs MEETS AWARDED, RECORDS ARE APPROVED BY A. A. U. By the Assogiated Press. TLANTIC CITY,. November 18—~Twenty-eight awards of national A championships events for 1925 in seven different branches of sport coming under its jurisdiction have been made by the Amateur Athletic Union. The list of awards followa: Track—Senior and junior outdoor, San Francisco, in July or August; sentor indoor, Louisville: junfor in- door, probably New York; junior and senior oross-country (10-mile and 15- mile runs, 7-mile walk and 2-mile steeplechase), all to metropolitan as- sociations, New York; marathon (full | distance), Boston; pentathlon, Los Angeles; women’s senior, Pasidena, Calif.; women's junior, probably New- ark, N. J. Swimming—Senior men's outdoor, Seattle; senior men's indoor, San Francisco; senlor women's outdoor, New York; senfor women's indoor, St. Augustine, Fla. Hand ball—Senior and junfor squash hand ball, Los Angeles; one-wall sin- gles and doublep, New York: four- wall singles, junlor and senior, Cin- cinnati; four-wall doubles, sentor and junior, ‘New York; four-wall stand- ard junior singles and doubles, Buf- falo; four-wall standard senior sin- gles and doubles, Cleveland. (Mclllop, Mahoney, Cavannaugh and Welch), 7:48 4-5, at Penn relays, April 26. Discus throw, 156 fest 21; inches, Tom Lieb, Illinois A. C., at Chicago, September 14. Of the new swimming records and noteworthy performances, 18 are credited to Sybil Bauer, backstroke star of the Illinois A. C, and 11 to Johnny Weissmuller, star of the same club and Olympic champion, who al- ready has about 60 marks to his credit. John Faricy and John Skel- ton, also of the I. A. C,, are credited with 8 and 6 marks, respectively. Agnes Geraghty, breast stroke star of the women's swimming New York, bhas 11 mar Wainwright, a clubmate, 4, and Rob- ert Hosle, Brooklyn youth, is credited with 6 noteworthy backstroke per- formances. Only One Controversy. A controversy was aroused over the record commiltea’s rejection of the Boxing—Senior, Boston: junior, Bal- | mark of 94-5 seconds credited to L. Pty C. Clarke, former Johns Hopkins Basket ball—Senior, Kansas City;|aprinter, for 100 yards indoors in a junior, Los Angeles. meet at Baltimore February 9, The national twrestling champion-|The issue finally was referred back ships will go to the Oklahoma A. and | !0 the commitice on records for fur- M. College, with the recommendation | ther consideration. that the 1926 award be given to the| Pending further Information, ap- Oregon Agricultural College, unsuc. |Proval alfo was withheld from the gessful bidder for next year's events, [ 220-¥ard low hurdle outdoor mark The funior volley ball tournament |Of 23 seconds credited to Charle probably will go to Buffalo. [eookins HotWlowas i lvaratty, 127 Marks Are 0. K'd. | The outdodr mark of 8 2-5 seconds One hundred and thirty-seven record | for 100 vards, credited to Al Laconey. performances were approved. These in- | former Lafayette star, at Allentow |clude 75 which will go on the books as | Pa., ulso was disallowed b new American records and 62 note- {a high wind aiding the sprinte | worthy performances. The bulk of these performances 98, were credited to man and woman swimmers, while 29 were made in track and field competition Femi- nine athletes figured in only three of the track marks, but accounted for # majority of these swimming figure: 72, as compared with 46 for the men. Thirteen new American outdoor track and fleld records are featnred Ty the 200-meter mark of 9-10 svconds made by Jackson Scholz of the New York A. C. in the final Olym- pic ute at Cambridge, Mass., Tune 14, and the high jump record of 6 feet 835 inches by Harold Oshorn of | the Iilinois A. €. made at Urbana 1 Hl. May Eoth of these perform- t.'hxbu also will sfand as world rec ards tanced were filed on behalf of Paddock, coast star, t only sccepted, that of 12 s for vards, mede at Des Molnes, Tow April. | | | | i - outdoor n ters aroun by Harry T. niversity, at Puritano Fino 13c or 2 for 2 220 vards around one turn. 21 I, T. Evans, jr. lllinols, a, 111, May 16 400 meters, 48 1-10 seconds. by T Robertson, ton A, A, and J | Coara York A. €, at ne 12 and 14, ve- A. Brown une € *Listen an’ every- t no hard feelin low 2 around one 10 secon . R. B <, § t Chicago, v meter low hurdles. 53 6-10 sec- | *. Morgan Taylor. Grinnell Col- er. You don't| 'ege. A, at Cambridge, Mass a' youre all set for [ repeats. Did er's signal or 35 4-3. Cambridge. NEWSPAPER GOLF EVENT TO BE HELD THURSDAY Newspaper men who were sched- uled to play in their Fall golf touraament yesterday, will contest _Thursday at the Congresslonal Country Club. ‘The tournament was postponed on account of the death of Gus J. Karger, veteram correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star. The same conditions of play and sroupings in flights will hold good ‘Thursday as were arranged for yesterday. MEXICAN SCRAPPER KNOCKS OUT FULTON CULVER CITY, Calif, November 18—Tony Fuente, vouthful Mexican heavywelght, knocked out Fred Ful- ton, the Minneapolis plasterer, than half a minute of fghting Iz night. Using a right to the chin in each instance, Fuents floored the plasterer three times, twice for the count of nine and the last time for the final count. As the referes called out the count of ten proval, shouting “Fake!" and pepper- ing the ring with cushions. The victory was Fuente's {knockout FELDMAN SHADES DENCIO November 15.— York fiyw udges’ dec BALTIMOR Jackie Feldman, | was awarded the fter a 13-round bout last night Dencio, a Fiiipino, who ted with but one round four were considered even. b { Weighed In under 112 pounds whil th m TARHEEL NETMAN WINS. s team won the huge | the fans howled their disap- | eighth the course of two months. | | knockout at the IN A 15-ROUND CONTEST { technical K. O. BOWEN IS SEVERELY PUNISHED BY MAYRS Andy Bowen, former Tidal Basin life guard, gave his all last night in his boui with Lew Mayrs of Baltl more, featherweight champion of the South; but his best was not quite good enough. The show was staged at Fort who {s a good two-fisted r and possesses a healthy Kick |in efther mit, had quits an edge. He punished Bowen severely at times, but the game Washingtonian took it all, {and was in there fighting hard at ths end of the scheduled 10 rounds. A sensational knockout featured the semi-final hetween Al Ward and Jack Mulvaney, both Fort Myer lads. Mul- ney was on the floor no less than 10 times in the first three rounds. Ward dropped his man twice mores with the | start of the fourth round and rushed in to finish him. Mulvaney started a sweeping right from the floor and connected flush on Ward's jaw. nearls turning Al a_ somersault. He arose at the count of nine, only to be dropped again. At the count of seven Ward | dazed and prectically out, attempted to get up once more and had just | managed to get his hands and knees {off the floor when Mulvaney clipped him again and the referee tolled off the fatal ten After leading b rounds, William F hunderbo ust for three he Rosslyn in the f bell of Fredericksh nd, th Al Forum Fort Myer over Jacl United States Marine Corps, in the d of their four-ses: len, Field Artil d Kid Arbello, U taged a comedy in f four rounds. with ng the decision, ir open- the =0 WILBERT ROBINSON ILL November ger of , has been {1l wit here for abou 1 better and be ho turned fn more than a score of | victories last season, and fulls real- Phone #8503 how much more dificdt this will | =700 make his task of giving the Capital| wWarwick Preps will make their bow a winner in 19 but feels sincerely | Thursday night againsc the St. Mary's gratified that Johnson at last has ob- | Junlors in the latter's gvmuasium in tained the chance he has heen seek- | Alexandria. Coach Mulver of the ing for many years. Warwicks Is confident his Lovs will Set Two Great Revords. ske 8. good showing in the 110- S Sienin pound class. Collins, Brooks, Lappy, picture Johngon il 1eese sceds) | Guldbers. Favae, Giifin, Thompson: pitching records for those to come to | Y3I¥ and Jphnson are among M€l that series, n 1i-in shoot at, and at least two that prob- nd‘dal"‘j‘ Chellenges: ace hetng re Lroke the Athletics, o biy never will be approached. Sume | “¢i¥ed by Manager Arthur ‘?"‘F""’" | tamous games in histo pitcher soma dav mav pitch more |2F Main 1450. between § and 3:30 i an 18 seasons for one club as John- June 14. Two-mile relayv, ston EASTERN AND CENTRAL ELEVENS ARE BATTLING etition in the 1924 Ligh school championship foot hall series was to close today with the elevens of Cen- tral and Eastern meeting in the final o it at 3:15 o'clock in the Columbia Kid. vou!yjeignts stadium. the Paramoui( manager at|ed wrong can decide 1t thiy e oy Goilige e it not alone cun one p 1 a ong 1 don’t notice it under Hughic | something else, vou merican League i up and shoot the All who died the s: £pot, feel- | ;g’r:‘ulflflmt one double crosses ennant, a at w0 s00 and Conuie M . . b delphia machine, i the season. And one series hold an L says to this Cobb, doped 100 per cent righ sure eno the lucky stiff did Coach Dam ARearm is grooming One Wrong Pitch. | Western High for the Thanksgiving he eccentric Waddell pitched one f1 game with Manchester High's 1 wrong i at game. He did not | eloven In the latter's city. know it was wrong until he talked to | ATHLETE, MAY VISIT U. S. and that cne pitched ball enabled De- | By the Associated Prese. troit to win the pennant in 1907. i ATLANTIC CITY, N November - — h o 07 A gnuwe ix wanted by the Boys' Club | RSt einsy son dld, but it seems unlikely, Lo 8a¥ | celtics tomorrow night fn the City | he least. Old Denton Dectumseh| Gy, gemnasium. Call Main 2394 Young was a big league hurler > fu the Memm Y. M. C. A. seasons, but he appeared in| Pla two leagues and With thres teams in Bzll League will start Saturdayhome run stood ouf as the most i That atrctan when the Eplphany Athletic portant hit of the season of 190 Johnson's ost notuble aehleve- will encounter the But that e 1 was made pos- Paul's Episcopal quint in the Girst sible bacanse Cobb outguessed the Going further into the game was snatch Iphfa in the ninth ket by Ty Cobb matter, | from ment undoubtedly was in e blish- | S¢, Ing the high-water mark in the mat- portion of a twin bill. The Friends'jate “Rube’ W addell, a remarkable fer of shut-out victories at 107, which | und Union M. E. teams will be op-| left-handed pitcher, Scate, but ®o0al he achieved on August st. | ponents in the other league game. cunning, with sical power when he blanked the St i will make final prepar: and with all Ui e Browns in this city for his sixth|tions tonight. Collins, Theis, Sheild,| wants. He just shout every- white-washing effort of the 1924 |Hoerner, Stott, Scrugge, Ourand.' thing and Connie Mack had sent campaign. Little less remarkable is| Holst, Hayes and Braddock are asked | him to the box that afternoon fol the record he holds of having struck | to report at 7 o'clock stave off the Detroit attack and give | out 3, batsmen, which Is exactly | Philadelphia the break that she need- 228 more than tle total compiled by | Boys® Club Yankees have fine Dros- | oq to win the championship ; pects for a strong team. De Labra, H the illustrious Christy Mathewson How this ; shed from with the New York Giants in 17 | Ciere, Nichols, Aaronson, Harr lDl’lvah”oug;el:):?a‘?\f:: Jater told by Wa After having batted against all! s 1S.—Charles Hoff, star Norwegian this system after batting against| OlYmPic team, s the “greatest all- fast one, in thut order the first time|Y3ding the United States during the that they will throw you the same #easons. Goatic, Goldburg. Goldman and Neu- | gohy Nl e have o v Another record held by man ere among the best talent. Last | s e SLOTY | vary n - #hat is likely to bal year the Yankess won 13 gmmes In| pogioory.0) 117 Tecital and the story|vary from tuis Drsien, 2o Sefow for vears to come was that in 1913 | 32 starts in the 140-pound class.. John | “Up 'comes this Cobb; and I feeds| that do aixe the leading p! ltlh@_rai of pitching §§ consecutive scoreless | Neuman is hooking games at 632 M| pim n faat one on the incide where! ‘"'L‘L"i‘»ul‘.:é“uii ;§‘lln xr;aniH'\,:re ianings and still anotner, that of |street. !he wasn't supposed to particularly|you often know just where the ball|18.—Richard C. Laughlin of Anderson. twiling shitout victorfeaonthree| & . .. L o {like to see ’em pitched. 1 aiwayS|will be pitched, but often it carries|S. C, has been electekl captain of next . & b Ta0s, THoT | (e St. Mary's Juniors of Alexandris | f8UTed that it this fellow had any|so much stuff that ‘you cannot get | vear's Union Coilege foot ball team. ’hn {:'Y 612 in September, 1308, with at Alexandria 1102, 5 | weakness it was on a ball pitched | the proper hold on the ball and you! He played gquarterback during the eENBWITorlc Tanicees ayhiswiotinia. E clgge in. The way he Stood at bat|fail to hit safely even when vou have | 1924 season. Entered Hull of Fame. made him shift too Quick to et & the advantage of knowing what it 18 | = Johnson entered the pitchers' hall Hank | £00d hold of the ball. | (Tomorrow: Chapter XVIII—Three! ©f fams at Boston on Julvy 1, 1920, The| “Well, I shoved the first one in|¢ N Eallutecs when ho turned back the Boston Red | quint will practice for one week in|over the inside corner of the plate (€5 i, 21994 in,.the Tnited Stat Sox without a single hit or run, and [the All Sainis' Church gymnasium|an’ he never looks at it. The um-| (Conyright, 1634, in the Taited Siates, | 18 came olose (o dupllcating this Lefore It will enter the field. Games | Pire calls it a strilke, but he pavs 10| jan Newspaper Alliance. All rights re- | feat only when he blanked [ may Le arranged by calling Maneger | attention to it. I immediately figures i yerved.) the St. Louts Erowns In this city on [ Hubbard at Cleveland 1227-J. this bird is looking for & certain ball ————— Auzust 25 without a bingle or tally thinking I'd give him just what hec for seven innings, only to have rain Everts Athletic Club succs ssfully { wanted on the next one or the one PIEDMONTERS To MEET #na the contest. gpened its season last night by scor- | after that. He figures I'm going to| DURHAM, C., November 1 Johnson is the joint holder with Mg & £4-t0-23 victorv over the Bher-|be working on him. So I see my | Membership in the Piedmont League ooks Wiltse of the Giants and Guy|Wood Athletic Club. The Evarts|chance to cross him up. 1 savs to|for the 1925 playing season will be arton of the Indians of the record |lave eutered the 103-pound compe-|myself, ‘I'll feed this cuckoo ono in|decided at a meeting of the league directors to be held November 25 in | Greensboro. Kkinds of pitching over a stretch o many seasons, ("obb made this observa- : | athlete characterized by Lawson Rob- Most pitchers follow a set sys-j2% of pitehing to you. You can get|ertson. head coach of the American |ar hlete in the world,” may be. them once or twice. If they throw |around at rid, . Vou a fact ball slow ball curve,|40ded to the st of foreign stars in you come to bat it is almost certain | WiREr seqson. | tasentiworitizole ] Wad-i thing in the same order the next|Yault record and also is a star mid- Johnson d recol-ltime von come up. Few plrcharn'dle-disflnea runner. i all competitors 15¢ straight LEADS UNION GRIDMEN. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., November Clarence Corby will coach Chevy Chase five this year. Duryee has been named captain. RADIATORS, FENDERS made or repaired. New oves. Aleo bodies repal o Bew. TTTSTATT'S R. AND F. WORKS, a1 Jota. - 6A10 > 1421 P.¥. 8036, Money Loaned Automobiles Apply Mr. Herman -1423 L St N-W- the Escepcionales 3 for 50¢ on, Bouquet | 10c straighe ! ®f four strike-outs for a single i tition. A. Tepper, North 4803, is|the same spot an’ get him in a hole, ming, and Walter shares with Joe ! then let him guess on what's comin’.’ ‘Wigod of the Boston Red Sox the We Are Now Prepared to Render American League record for consecu- tive games woun, at 16. both having mccomplished this mark in the same year—1912 Striking evidence that e retained his potent power far be- wyond the period whon = hurler ia ex- pedtad to remain efficient is found in the fact that Johnson in 1824, a doz- wnseasons after that notable effort, Jod his league in the matter of o SR You will find our convenient location with- plenty of - : space for parking or turning on our: own property a D2 58 joy as compared with the congested ‘downtown area, yet I3 2 we are right near the two street car lines or within easy < b walking distance of ‘the business section. You will like our flat rate prices. They are low-and’ we suggest you make comparisons, wtrhight wins with 15 Johnson's All-time Record. When it is borne in mind that for #. great majority of the time he spent b E’ ‘Home of the Famous Certified Gold Seal Used Cars’ ML Champlain St. at Kalorama Road ghout the United Branch Showroom, 1931 14th St. at U Phone Col. 5050 with the Washington club Johnson han $5,000,000 2 year - TS the distinctive character that ! A K makes El Producto so enjoyable. And it’s the mildness of the blend that makes continuous smoking of El Producto such a pleasure. Besides, you're sure of this one thing—the character you like so much today will be the same to- morrow, next month, next year. It never varies. You’ll find the color and size you like—at 10 to 30c.’ G. H. P. Cigar Co., Inc. Phila., Pa. Distributor, received only indifferent and some- times outright weak support from his teammates, his_lifetime record for games won and lost is a most re- markable one. Following are the compiled from unofficial rec- Good judgment applied to smart attire —that has been, is, and al- ways will be the Van Heusenidea. the Werlds Smariet COLLAR Daniel Loughran Co., Inc. 1347 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington, D. C. enjoyment EL PRODUCTO 17 L1 11§31 |5 Wanters th States pay mor Son lcenses, 2