Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1924, Page 31

SEORTSS MAJOR OWNERS TO SEEK DEALS AT JOINT MEETING Yankees Still After Shocker and Eddie Collins Wants Infield Talent—Minors Opposed to All New Measures Being Considered. BY JOHN N meeting such measures B. FOSTER. EW YORK, December 16—In addition to the expected showdown betwewg President Johnson of the American League and Commis- sioner Landis, which is due for Wednesday afternoon at the meet- ing of the major leagues in Chicago, there also will come before the joint in refercnce to their dealings with the minor leagues and among themselves'as have been proposed, but not adopted because of the briefness of the session at New York. The minors are not in favor of any of them. The proposal to in- crease the legal number of players to be held on option to 15 meets with 1o favor, although it is in operation at the present time. The sugges- tion that the option be extended from two to five years is opposed even more bitterly by the players than it The propo: on that the players re- ceive a certain percentag: the sale price if they bring more th m im when s favor, because the ith Tajors decide to let the dea die. Yanks Still Seek Shocker: ant to some of the own- an Inter-lsague leg- be further attem their clubs. The <hocker & en up the ides that th able to make a trade of sc before the Chicago meetin There has been Some talk that Cin- cinnati would try for Neun, first basemen, who to Detroit. There i that they can get Neun out e American League, however. Cleve- New York and Boston would be almost certain to refuse to waive on him. “hicago Neun is toa pr to let get away . the Reds cannot get a * in their own league, or m the ors, thew probably will have or Fonsaca, engthen hot after t ba as worse came to wer than ther. Cincinnati, if ll it c Collins After Inficlders. Now that 1ppointed ONE CLEVER FRO NOT KEEN FOR TOURNEYS BY LAWRE NEW YORK, De E PERRY. -Despite Chester open | t October, faciarlane ed- vises that he contemplates no radieal ture from his policy of taking of hi Y| A. J. Reach {of the A. J. Reach Co. of Philadelphia, | manutacturing | but cl ourney piay. He has & major tourney, hut this 1y to his Indifference on this is more of an amateur at hear great many amateurs. And his 1 he has a duty to his club. He never prepares for the great competitions, and when he does enter he regards them as sporting tions in which there is some be had. Mac, like MacDonald Smith, is one of the few expert players who ac- tuslly swing their clubs on all shots Most golfers, good and bad, hit di- rectly at the ball in rather a sharp downward plane; t especlally he case with respect to irons. But oth MacFarlane and n ppeautiful, easy, somew azy swings wnd the ease of their play Is mos mpressive. In this W. ohnny Farrell proposi- fun to t Chester tournament fnished second to lacFarlane. It wili be recalled that arller Farrell defeated MacFarlane n the professional mpionship “rench Lick after a close and hard- ought match by 3 and 2. Oak Ridge nd Quaker Ridge, where Farrell iolds forth, are nelghboring clube, nd naturally there is a lot of rivalry fretween the two men. But they are krect friends none the less. INSTON CLUB TO TAKE PLACE OF PETERSBURG KINSTO! C., December 16.—At meeting of tk tors of the linston Base Ball Assoclation the in- itation of the Virginia League to become a member of that organiza- tion was accepted. The Kinston team wilk take over he Petersburg, Va. franchise, to- gether with 12 players. ILLIE HUNTER BECOMES GOLF PRO ON JANUARY 1 LOS ANGELES, Calif., 16.—Willle 1. Hunter, former December British amateur golf champion, has decided | to turn professional and will launch his career as a pro January the Brentwood Country Club. Hunter will occupy the position to be vacated by George Merritt, who has been the Brentwood professional a number of years. ROORKE PLAYS PARSONS. Henry Roorke and William Parsons are-due to meet in a pocket billiard tournament match tonight at the Grand Central parlors. Charles Bar- telmes defeated George Kelchner, 100 te 61, last night. SOUTHERN PREPS MEET. Southern Preps, champions of the 155-pound class, will hold a meeting tonight at the home of Manager {Beall, 808 Sixth street _southwes "The Mount Rainier Emblems are casting about for a game with the Seutherns, according to. Manager Flester at Madm 1197. . d | troversy o | Mr. Reach have | 1 at| is by the minor lea s |BASE BALL IS CALM ON EVE OF SESSION |, CHICAGO. December 16.—A calm ave scant indication of what | was to fol v prevailed today &e of- | ficials of the American and National {base ball leagues gathered here for la j fon tomorrow. | In some quarters. however, it w as the forerunner of a like orm fhat would culminate the con- between President Ban Johnson of the American League and Kenesaw M. Landis, commissioner of , in the resig £ efther e club owners. b val League and s e American League officlals were fear- ful that Landis, In opening the meet- ing, might sub resignation if { Johuson would remain as head of the untor ctreutt. Johns { Louls Sunday to col { there, but | meating. An er with officlal ted back for the tion between president was le prior to the Ly & comunittee composed of rt of New York, To delphla and Barn ? Cleveland Pr d Har Willlams | Pacific Coast League, en home, has asked Comnm to turn to him ! filea by Johnson in ne! r and of th route to hi support of g existe 3t seazon. None .. _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO! |STEVE O'NEILL GOES | TO HUGGINS’ YANKS NEW YORK, December 16-—Tha newest member of the Yankees is Stephen O'Nelll of the Pennsylvania | O'Neills, who invaded the coal flelds | vears ago and the St. Louis ball field | xome years later. Most all base ball fans remember the St. Louls battery—Jack and Joe O'Nelll. They were the older broth- lers of Steve and onc of them was so adept that he could tell you every play in a nine-inning game from start to finish without a box score. Well, Steve Is a younger brother of | the O'Nellls of yore, und he has been | catching for the Cleveland club and the Boston Red Sox for a lot of years. He was sent to the Red Sox last Spring and today was claimed by the Yankees through the well known waiver route. The Boston club wished to send him to a National League | team, when Miller Huggins raised his hand’ and refused. When the world serfes of 1920 was | over O'Neiil could not have baen bought for $100,000. He was the kingpin American League catcher. He |slowed up in the next two jand in 1823 was sent to the | Red Sox. There he caught well, hit for only .236. Thus it happen that in 1924 he is sold for the waiver | price of $4.050. Miller Hugg that Steven still has a few good socks left.. He expects to train him down for regular work th Wally Schang next year. O'Neill is a good right-band batter when he is hitting ard for that reason may be of v i The switch means that Fred man probably will be traded 1 Yankees. He dldn't catch or ba to the expectations of Huggins season. Bengough, formerly of Bisons, the youngest of all the kee catchers, will be retained. owever, believes lagt { the H B S 'RIFLE MARK BROKEN | BY YOUTH ON COAST z. cadet com | announced. The previous e In 1922 by r sno High s State record by cutivé bull's urks beg exc fo up nine B b until 4 v used a | about music One of a Series of Articles by John B. Foster Com- memorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National League, Next Season. X to Be Celebrated V. TEAMS—ATHLETICS OF PHILADELPHIA. Vs existence, 1 were: F. G. Mal seorge Zettlein, rietics was Al H. Wright. Athletics of those days we iach more successtul than the Phila, National League - the best of luck even when it has had most excellent | players. It has won one champion- p in its hi ard in that year the actual plaving strength of the team almost Surely was not as pow- erful as that of some of the Phil ) delphia teams of old. Of t original Athletics none ac- i quired more fame In base ball than 10 now is at the head one of plants in the largest world for athletic goods. ith ali his years i3 strong iand vigorous and can take his round ot golY with any one who wishes a brisk partner. Force .and Sutton developed into reat ball players. In their time they were known from the Atlantic to the Mississipp! River, both of them as in- i flelders who were very proficient, and Sutton as a hard driver when he met the ball Reach was the first ball player, whose contract was transferred from one club to another and the system of first became popular, it counte o | this, I am afraid, was the principal camping. But the taste of roadside camping as had its effect on many thou- ,sands of motorists. They are begin- |ning to long for the places that are lout of reach of the odor of gasoline; | places where the passing cars do not | waft clouds of dust over the sand- wiches. Thus each year are hun- dreds of thousands of devotees of out- door life made, to the enrichment of the American nation, to the credit of the American temperament—and to the maker of the American car! The sport of auto camping itself is on more of a real “professional” basis than it was two or three years ago. Today we find experienced out- doorsmen, as hard bolled as. they make ‘em, devotees of auto camping. It has become a standard phase of outdoor recreation.in America. A few years ago the motorists wore “store clothes.” Not necessarily white collars, but store clothes just the same; for store clothes are made for the outdoorsman as well as for the indoorsman. In those days the ap- pearance of tents,’ frying pans and canvas bundles on the sides of cars caused comment. - “Look!” cried everybody, “there goes a car loaded with tents and things—they probably sleep right outdoors at night!” But the camping car today is no novelty. The tourists do not wear store clothes. Let no woman who contemplates. a trip by automobile think she will be lonesome if clad in khak! knickers! It is the skirt-clad woman who is the novelty these days. The tour]sts today are satisfied with no balf-way measures. The cars are loaded to the brim.with Jood, sub- stantial, made-to-use things. The passengers are clad in old khaki clothes. Everybody is having a good time. They have Tearned to camp out. Of course, they haye yet, many of thend to learn how, or at least why, .. 1to put out their camp fires.. My friend. to the modern base ball generation tiat t a were members of the National Lea For some reason | THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President, Izaak Walton League of America. HE automobile camper is beginning to find himself. When the sport many people who cared to camp out only when camping entailed no hardships, no portages, no hiking or paddling. The automobile brought the woods right up to the running board. You could ste; upholstery to the shade of the trees and the mossy floor of the forest, and Athletics | ague in the first year but they werc Reach, Alor o D. Fisler, W, W. Hal Kn tor L. Mcyerle G. and | dealing in base ball contracts whic |now is in vogue in organized ba ball began when e was sent to Phila delphia from Brooklyn, a mova which proved in the long run to be of mate rial advantage to him, as he developed | nhis business in ghat c Davy Force was not a ball plaver | of great size physically and wherever base ball was talked about In those days much was mage of the fact that | tha somewhat diminutive Davy could | fleld the bhall across the diamond as well as if he were a six-footer. There | was a popular notion in the old times that the great ball players must be feet. tall, or almost that, at lcast Fisler was the first base man and the first of the first base men to at- tract attention by his epeed. The generally aceepted idea of first base was that a huge glant had to play it, without particular attention to his agllity. A very tall man, it was thought, was most necessary that he might be able to reach high to catch poor throws. Little heed was given to the fact that he might have to stoop to get bad one (Copsright, 1 (Next—The New York Mutuals.) i f | | ‘. | | | 4.) d chiefly among its advocates a great from Turkish reason for the introduction of auto Zane Grey told me some melancholy tales of forest fires while we were fishing together off Long Key, Fla. He took the trouble to investigate and found a large percentage of the fires were started by automobilists. There were 62,000 forest fires last year. Care-—constant, unremitting care—is the remedy. McGRAW IS RE-ELECTED GIANTS’ VICE PRESIDENT NEW. YORK, December 16.—John J. McGraw, veteran manager of the New York Giants, today was re- elected vice president at the annual meeting of directors of the Natfonal Exhibition Co. The directors also re-elected Fran- cls X. McQuade as treasurer and James J. Tierney as secretary and as- sistant treasurer. Charles A. Stoneham, president of the club, was re-elected at the stock- holders' meeting in November. TROUSERS IEISEMAN'S, 7th & E | optimist; | &a | expres | think Lawrence w | quez D. € ) TY COBB Remaker of Base Ball The Man CHAPTE! BY H. (. SALSINGER. 1 HE make-up of Ty Cobb is complex. His is a dual per- l sonality. In him we find a man who at times has the polish, the gloss, the culture, the bearing supreme suavity of a George Bryan (Beau) Brummel, and, at other times, when he loses his temper and | lashes into a wild fury, he resembles | *he Bill Sykes of Charles Dickens’| “Oliver Twist.” His composition is of Tekyl and Hyde construction. There s no ‘middle ground with Cobb, no in-between, no temperance and no modifying. He is one extreme or the other; at times he is & supreme at other times an extreme ssimist ways is he a creature varying moods. A recrult who has just met Cobb told & veteran player that he re- ded Cobb as the finest gentleman er met say dlfferent after hof Simon’s whip. Fhat Simon?" asked the recruit. mon Legree Cobb,” the ed him Mellowed—slightly. | : passing years have in a meag- | tempered Cobb, mellowed him | He has become more and more of & | phllosopher, but the temperamental fires still flare, although not as fre- uently as of e. In his long career his disposition always has been of a truculent na- ture. He never was able to stand | reverses with good grace. He often | & selfish nature and too e lacked sympathy. bb always has been a student. is one of the keenest in land. He was quick to to understafd any subject. He inquir mind, a thirst for > of all kinds. course on any favorite wing room. Hecan on the various arts He knows a great nce and busine He about manutfacture. He d dea! about literature, | you've | about f Knowledge of Art. A friend was showing Cobb a por srebears: sald the friend, | he added in ex-| the canvas was| | but | you meant, Stuart I personall prefer Lawrence. | + great painter,” | Cobb, | Lawrence was a good painter, | But g0 were Joshua | . Gainsborough, | And there was a | ard by the name of Velas- interrupted Cobb. Rodriguez Velasques | * agreed the | great paiater, and to | he was the greatest was, in fect, the paint- added Cobb, wnd th painters painter. He the old masters and Knows Corot and Tur- ner, Whistler and Degas, Millet and Diaz, Melchers and Sargent. bb knows musi khows 1 in music is ac- quainted with the works of the great mposers, the French, the Italian, and Russian. Surprises Musiei evening Cobb sat in a famous restaurant. The orchestra was offer- ing that evening a program of classi- sclections. During the Intermis- the conductor came to Cabb's able and was introduced. Cobb In- vited him to sit down. The composer | asked Coblb how he liked the orches- tra and Cobb criticized certain phases of the rendition. The orchestra lead- er, a really gifted musician, imme- diately tried to corner Cobb in a technical discussion. The attempt tled utterly, for Cobb dazed the | ader with his knowledge of the technique of orchestration. The con- versation drifted to the violin, for the orchestra Jeader was a noted violinist and analyzed the merits of the va. rious leading masters of the instru. ment, supporting each statement with a brilliant collection of fa. A stranger, hearing the comversation, would have experienced difficulty in choosing the musician If told that one man was a musician and the other was not. He has a knowledge of sculpture. He knows Rodin and admires the work of the great French master. The ruggedness, virllity, power and force of Rodin's sculpture appeals to Cobb more than that of any other man who works in stone, wax, clay or bronze. He has a knowledge of precious stofies. He knows dlamonds, pearls, | rubles, emeralds, sapphires. He knows the history of many gems. He i8-8 judge of diamonds and the nativ- ity of the different diamonds, their cut, their value. The man who thinks he can sell Cobb a_modern_Orlental rug for an SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SALE Scooters 15 to 20% Discount Bicycles as low as $25.00 $12 Fairy Velocipedes, $9.95 Ball-Bearing Disc Scooter and Wagons, 15% off A small deposit will reserve > lopos ay . Agents for the celebrated De Luxe Bicycle. The bicyele used by United States Park Police and by messenger boys, The only bicycle made that enrries English seamless tubing. [ ¥Fully guaranteed for all kinds ot mervice. Guaramtoe backed ‘y’ht(or . " Easy Terms If Desired! ‘ROMM BICYCLE CO. 1013 9th St. N.W,, Franklin 2738 | France A Dual Personality— Polish, Culture, Suavity. Temper and Self-Interest. R XLV. antique will soon discover his muils- take. Cobb has studied rugs. .He knows his Bokhara, Shiraz, Daghes- tan, Kermanshah, Saraband, Kabi- stan, Mosul, Kazak, Senna, Ghiord Kuluh, Ladik, Beluchistan and other: He has studied pattern, weaves, color, history of rugs. He found certain fascination in them as he has found fascination in most of the things in life. (Copyright, 1924.) (Tomorrow: pter Nature.) FLOWERS FIGHT VICTOE. PHILADELPHIA, December 16.— Tiger Flowers, Atlanta, Ga., added an- other victory to his list when he scored a technical knock-out over XLVI—His | Jack Townsend, brawny negro fight- er from Buffalo, N. Y. in the fifth round last night. Flowers, although outwelghed by 15 pounds, carried the fAghting to Townsend. P RIKG TITLE TO FELD: BALTIMORE, December 16.—Jackie became Southern flyweight last night when he was given the decislon over Little Jeff at the end of a 12-round bout at the 4th Regiment Armory. It was alleged that Feldman fouled Little Jeff. e David Janowski, who represented In the international chess masters' tournament, has decided to | return to Burope, after n sojourn in this country of elght.years - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1924. |U.'S. RIFLEMEN BACK FROM WINNING TRIP NEW YORK, December 16.—Three members of the victorious American rifie team which, by executive order, was sent to Lima, Peru, for the Pan- American matches last month. r turned to the United on the Grace liner Santa Loufsa. The group included, Sergts, Morrix Fisher and Raymond O. Coultre of the United States Marine Corps und Stephen D. Monahan ot Chicago. The string of triumphs scored by the American riflemen started even before the Pan-American team matches, which were the main obje tive of the invaders. In some of the individual contests American riflemen carried off the first seven places. The Americang also captured the trophy of Peru team match, and Lieut. Vermette won the Argentine | medal for high man in this event, placing only one shot out of 45 out- | side the bull's- . The American team swept through the Pan-American team match by a margin of 74 points over Cuba, 190 | points over Argentina and more than 300 polnts ahead of Peru. Other events ained by the American riflemen ere the Pan-American champlonship and the special gold medals for high score in the kneclin and prone positions. BRITISH RING CHAMPION WINS BATTLE ON POINTS | TONDON, December 16.-—George | McKenzie of Lieth, Scotland, feather- | weight chamvlon of Great Britain, successfully defended his title against Larry Leach of Doncaster, England, in a spirited 20-round bout at the tional Sporting Club. McKenzis- won on polnts, having the edge all the way JACK JOHNSON IS FINED. GARY, Ind, December 16.—Jack | Johnson, negro, former heavyweigh |champlon, was fired upon and halted |by ‘a_Gary policeman, who alleged | that the pugilist was driving his au itomobile 70 miles an hour. He pald {a filne of §1 and costs and w | 1eased. ates vesterdayy tndividual | SPORTS. 3 ). 'More Big League Deals in Prospect : Weinert Gives Further Proof of His Class 'SHOWS HE CAN “TAKE IT” INBEATING JACK SHARKEY Adonis Demonsirates He Is Coming Back Fast by Outpointing Hard-Hitting Heavyweight in Twelve-Round Battle at Newark. | | BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, I ber 16—Promoters are to face with the grim fact that only a boxing show with the most resounding names is calcufated to draw dig these da: Charley Weinert and Jack Sharkey drew no more than 4,000 spectators to the 113th Regiment | Armory in Newark for their 1 nd bout last Monday night, and at that there was the addi ent of Eddie Garvey, the former Notre Dame foot ball star As it turned out, Garvey refused to bo: and Sharkey put up proved to be = have been packed into the building. Don’t make any mistake about Weinert; he is coming back fast In the tenth round of the Sharkey bout, as he sat in his corner after as fast and rough milling as two heavyweights have put up in a long time, | the Adonis was not even breathing heavily. He gave one of those exhibitions of | starboard fin two or three science prevalling over brute strength |a matter of sheer necessity, uch as one often reads about, but so{ All in &ll Welnert cut eldom sees. But this Lithuanian who |pretty much to pleces ;m- adopted a famous ring cognomen | rounds, but he never slowed him and in fact could pass, from the looks|and took several hefty waliops h of him, as a £on of Erin, is a dan-| In fact he sustained two rights §erous young man lon the jaw which should convinee What he does not kaow ahout the|aRY one that the Adonis can take a fine points of boxing would fill a|X&llop of mighty proportions as well book, but when it comes to getting| And that is com in close and hooking in and | rights that are laden with amite § particularly the right—sSharkey is| there. He ought to -t lot of work " |around these parts for he is strong, | vicious and can take it as hand it out Never before had Ehark, | against so clever a big man as ert, and the Jerseyman at once pro- | |oceeded to show Jack all the d | ses to which a left hand can be put | it Sl a3 MAT TITLE IS AT STAKE, | n a boxing bou ! { CHICAGO, December 16.—The Sharkey must have thought that{of Ed “Strangler” Lewls, Weinert had more left hands than | heavywelght wrestling a centipede has feet. Weinert made|will be Involved in his m | & left-handed fight of ft until late!night with Mike Romano, |in the bout, wher he unhooked his|the Coliseum. It is a fini face , but the fight th e biggest crowd Weinert hat could 1 tin as | his rival in the 12 WILL BOX IN BALTIMORE. vell o) BALTIMORE, Md., December 16.- well 45| ppa national A. A. U. championships wi Deen | 104th Medical Regiment Armory, Bu! 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