Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1924, Page 16

16 S PORTS GREAT FINN AND RITOLA MAY RUN IN G. U. GAMES Worlgl Champion-Distance Runner Is Due to Com- pete in Capital February 21—Forward Pass Rule Not Likely to Be Tampered With. BY H. C. BYRD. ] on February 21, according to liable soarces Nurmi, it is stated, will come to Gray games on the Saturday night a he is to go to Baltimore to appear joint auspices of Johns letic_Association AAVO NURMI, probably the greatest distance runner in the world, is due to compete here in the Georgetown University indoor games information which comes from re- Washington to run in the Blue and nd remain here until Monday, when in the meet to be held under the Hopkins University and the Fifth Regiment Ath- Ritola, a countryman of the man who won great honors for Finland in the last Olympic, also is to compe: sibly in the Hopkins games. Nurmi. accoraing to press reports from New YVork. rapidly s accustom- ing himself to the fndoor tracks, on | which he never before has competed, and it generally is sald of him that he is running with less apparent effort than other man. Certain it is that the Finn will not lack for the best of conching in how to take the turns and make the best of the short straightaways, because many fine runners who knew all those tricks and more are anxlous for him to sue- ceed In fact, Ritola was a great runner | on American tpacks before he went back to represent Finland in the Olympics and he can tell Nurmi about everything the laiter needs to know. And probably if no one told the Finn anything he would pick up the dif- ference between running outdoors and indoors without much trouble. No doubt Nurmi will be the greatest attraction for the Georgetown meet at could be procured. A race at any distence from one to flve miles between him, kLitolu and Jole Ray would be sufficient In itself to pack | the hall. | Jimmile Conr jeorgetown's fine mile runner in meets last vear, who | was present at the Olympics, says of Nurmi e is the greatest runner in the world today at any distance from three-quarters of a mile on as far as anybody might care to race. I have been on tracks in all parts of the United State nd against the best distance runners, but I've never sean anybody who even closely ap- proaches him."” t understood that Georgetown > desir to imake any an- neerning the statement » comnpete in its meet ment, however, under to appear here has the Blue and Gray which is that in Ritola’s ap- send its full in_the Fin- New York is no been agreed to track manag return f urmi’s and pearance here, It will track squad to compete nish-American games in the following week ent Every year almost a great hue and ery rises against the forward pass in foot ball. It should be eliminated, or it should be curbed, or its scoring worth decreased, are the statements made at various times. However, despite this seeming preponderance of entiment against the forward pass, § chances out of 10 about all| that the hue and cry represents is w very small minority. Sentiment i the rules committes I8 strong for re tentlen of the present system of rules, with few, if iy chan In ract,| one of the changes made last year | may be rev ped to be what it was before the change Sentiment everywhere seems to be against kicking off from the middle of the field. Everybody appears to want the kick-off to go back to the 40-yard line In a questionnaire sent out recently to all colleges in the South Atlantic saction, asking, among other things what changes might be suggested in the rules, there ~was practically a unanimous repl to the effect that the kick-off should be made from the 40-vard line instead of the middle of | the field Another in (he rule offside shoule first well o 1 tance p It is held that the first | down plus 5 yards In distanece-gives a | penalty to the offensive team that is out of all proportion to the offense committed by the defensive eleven. FAIRCHILD, PENN STAR, CANNOT GO TO COAST JOHNSTOWN, Pa., December 24.— Thedore H. Fairchild, right end on the Pennsylvania foot ball team, will be unable to accompany the team to the Pacific Coast for the game New Year day th California, his physicians have announced. Fair- child was stricken with appendicitis } while visiting here. i BILLIARD EVENT WINNER | T0 RECEIVE $3,000 PRIZE NEW YORK, December 24.—Prizes ot $3,000, $1,500, $1,000, $750 and $250 have been decided upon for the 18.2 balkline world champlonship billlard play at the Congress Hotel in Chi- ocago February to March 4, with a limit of seven entries. The probable entrants include Wil- » liam F. Hoppe. world champion: Wel- ker Cochran, who tied Hoppe in the tournament of 1 Jake Schaefer, 1921 champi douard Horemans, | Belgian champion. and ok Hagen- | lacher, German titleholder. { change an team side a | d dis- nalty MISSOURI TEAM ON SCENE. LOS ANGELES, December 24.— University of Missouri Tigers, cham- plons of the Missouri Valley Con- ference, 21 strong, have arrived here to meet the Trojan warriors, Southern California, in a Christmas day foot ball game. ROCHESTER LISTS OBERLIN. ROCHESTER, N. Y.. December 24.— A game with Oberlin features the 1925 foot ball schedule of Rochester University. Oberlin will be played at Oberlin November 27, and will come here for a return game In 1926 WILLIAMS IN COMEBACK. | Fort | shots te in the Georgetown meet and pos- GALLAUDET SCORES INITIAL BASKET WIN Having broken into the winning class, Gallaudet's basket ball quint is expected to go about its work more confidently in its engagements after the holidays. In beating Fort Humphreys, 25 to” 24, at Kendall Green last night, the Florida avenue team showed a generally better of- fensive than it had in its two pre- vious cont s and sturdier defense in_pinches. Galludet was outpointed from scrim- mage last night, the Engineers get- ting eleven fleld goals to the op- position’s eight. However, the five of Humphreys was held at bay sev- eral times when it threatened serious- Iy to count. The Kendall Greeners times with twenty free Humphreys twice with eleven. Byouk of the victors and Clatter- bos of Fort Humphreys were the star from the fleld. The former made five goals and the latter six. Riddle of Gallaudet made good with seven of his eleven shots from the free throw mark. MACFARLAND TOSSERS SCORE OVER HINE GIRLS the MacFarland celebrated their inter junior high the Hine on the tallied nine tosses and Girl tossers of Junior High School debut in the girls' school series by downing team, to 4, yesterday Central court Virginia Monk and Clara Alderton of MacFarland, members of the champion lowa Avenue playground team, and Betty Martyn and Julla Aman of the Hine combination were the outstanding player: BUSINESS BASKETERS OVERCOME GONZAGA Business High will be heard from in the scholastic mpionship basket ball series, If its 30-t0-16 victory over victor over the Techites, anything counts for Stewart, N nd Brist factors in the Stenographers’ wie tory, as they accounted for of their team’s poin Capt. O'Dono- ghue of the T Streeters also played well. were big After their 20-to-8 triumph over the Hagerstown High School, the Central tossers hope to continue their good work by disposing of the Blue and White alumni on New Year day in the Columbia Heights gymnasium. McDonald of Central accounted for five court goals against the Hagerstown team yesterday. nd its alumni team in the Light Blue White gmynasium in their rub- ) ont The Alumni five wor vesterday. 36 to Pat O’Connor stered the deciding Alumni yesterday Eastern High were to meet tod: A rally in the last half gave the Hyattsville High School tossers a -to-11 victory over the St. John's ollege combination. Cohen and Wright led the Hyattsville attack. MIDDIES WILL BE BUSY IN WATER AND ON MAT ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 24— The Midshipmen swimmers, water poloists and wrestling teams have ambitious seasons ahead of them, ac- cording to the schedules just an- nounced. January 24 and 31 and February 14 are open dates for the swimmers, but the other contests in the tank fol- " Pittsburgh and Dartmeuth: 21, Syracuse (also water polo: March so_water polo), at Princeton; Ruigers; 21, Yale (also water polo): 27 . intercollegiates, at Yale. Wrestling—Januars 17, Lehigh: 24, open: 31, Washington_and Lee: February 7. David: pen: 21, Trinity of North Carolina: 28, team froi inadian universities; March 7.'Penn Btate; 14, West Virginia, at Morgan- thwn. JOHNSTON IS TO PLAY IN EAST NEXT SEASON | NEW YORK, December 24.—William M. Johnston, veteran California ten- {nis star, will invade the East again next Summer for the national cham- plonships and other title events. This word is brought back from the far West by Willlam T. Tilden, national champion and Johnston's keenest rival over the past few vears. BREAKS LIFTING MARK. PARIS, December 24.—Charles Rig- oulat, Olympic light-heavyweight lifi ing champion, has claimed a new world record by lifting with two hands a bar welghtng 1525 kilo- grams (336.2 pounds). The previous record was .made by the. German weight lifter, Goessler, with 151 kil- ograms (332.89 pounds) in January, 1912, in Paris. BALTIMORE, Md., December 24.— Kid Wiillams, former bantamweight champlon, will begin his comeback stunt on Monday night when he op- poses Joey Schwartz of Washixgton in a 13-round bout at the 104th Regiment Armory here. PRI “LRADS MISSISSIPPI AGGIES. JACKSON, Miss., December 24— Henry Stone of Tupelo, has been elected captain of the Mississippl A. & M. College gridiron team of 1925. Stone was rated one of the best ends in the Southern Conference dur- ing the season just closed. CORNELL PICKS KEARNEY. ITHACA, N. Y. Prancls Kearney, ir, of Maplewood, | shoulder, will resume ring activities|field, Ohlo. N. J., tackie for the last two seaso on the Cornell varsity foot ball team, has been elected captaln for 1925 e COLLEGES ORGANIZE. LOUISVILLE, Ky. December 24.— Organization of a Kentucky confer- ence, patterned along the lines of the Bouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, is virtually complete. The University of Loulsville, Tran- sylvanla, Wesleyan and Western State Normal initlated the movement. Other Kentucky colleg wfll be gaked to join the group. TAYLOR TO FIGHT AGAIN. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., December 24. —Bud Taylor, bantamweight title contender, here New Year afternoon, when ‘he zoal for the! : who has been idle since December 24— | early last Summer, due to an Injured|land and then drifted down to Mans- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, 'WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, ‘924, | Nurmi Due to Race in Meet Here : Firpo Sure He Will Get Another Dempsey Go piXiE bIAMOND FANS |LUIS PLANNING TO EARN ANOTHER TITLE CONTEST Expects to Meet Gibbons or Renault in Spring—Rc- gards These Two Fighters as Next in Line to Dempsey and Wills. MERKLE TO ASSIST IN COACHING YANKS NEW YORK, December 24.—Fred Merkle, once lest on a journey from first base to second, has found h way ‘back to New York, scene of his misadventure. He will become a sistant coach of the Yankees, accord- ing to Business Manager Ed Barrow, unless something happens to a deal nearly consummated. Merkle played first base for the Glants several years ago, when Larry Doyle and Art Fletcher were part of the infield. He came into public eye as the man whose so-called “bonehead play,” when he failed to touch second base to complete a Giant viotory cost the Giants a pennant. Of late years Merkle has been playing with Rochester iri the International League and his hitting has been ex- ceptional. The nature of the deal by which he qomes back to New York, although with the American League team this time, has not been announced, but is supposed to be a_stralght cash proposition. Manager Miller Huggins, who has occupied the coaching lines during his regime, is expected to re- tire to the bench and permit Merkle to handle the field activity. As the old Giant player is still a remarkable hitter, he may be used In pinches this year, although this is not the intention, according to Yankee officials. The story of Merkle's misplay has been told many times. Here is what happened: With a man on second base, Merkle singled, advancing his team mate to third. Then came an- other hit and the winning run, to all purposes, went across the piate, but—Merkle had falled to touch second. Seeing the winning run scored, the Glant first baseman rushed off the fleld with his teammates as Johnny Evers, then second baseman for the Cubs, noticed the omission and won hls argument. Many who saw the contest have declared that the umpire was respon- sible for Merkle's notoriety, having slgnalled by raising his right han that the game was over. JUNIOR GRIDMEN T0 PLAY FOR McBRIDE’S BENEFIT Junior foct ball players of the Mercury and Crescent elevens are priming for their game Sunday at Union Park for the benefit of Bill McBride, former sandlot star, who now has paralysis. The teams have plaved a specta- cular brand of ball all season, and ought to supply some lively doings Sunday. Lt SOCCER TOURNEY TITLE TEAM YET TO BE DECIDED Washington's elementary graded schcol soccer championship will not be decided until after the Christmas holidays, now that the Park View and Blow soccer teams ended yvester- day's intended titular match in another deadlock. The elevens have met four times, three games ending in tie scores, while Park View won the initial engagement. Lippold again distinguished himself for Park View, booting his team's only marker. Bennet kept the Blow eleven in the running with a goal in the closing minutes of play. TEN NAVY TOSSERS | T0 TAKE TRIP WEST APOLIS, Md., December 2 The Naval Academy basket ball team has practically completed preparations for the invasion of the Midwest, during which three of the strongest teams in the Big Ten Conference will be en- countered. Ten players, in charge of Lieut. Comdr. H. W. Underwood, will make the trip, leaving her at noon Christ- mas da: Minnesota the first foe, will be met December Then the midshipmen play Chicago December 30 and wind up the journey with a game at Ann Arbor with higan, January 2 PLAY CUE MATCH MONDAY. Henry Roorke and George Kelch- ner are due to meet in oune of the pocket billiard tournament matches Monday night at Grand Central. Drew Thompson upset _calculations by de- feating Charles Bartelmes, 100 to 79, last night 1 McTIGUE TO FIGHT XING. ATLANTA, Ga, December 24.—Mike McTigue, light-heavyweight cham- plop of the world, today was en route to Atlanta from New Orleans to box Jimmy King Friday night. T players and firemen. ways have a base ball trend. Delehanty might have played the infleld if he had been a more accurate thrower at short distances. He tried his hand at first occasionally, but his real forte in base ball was in the outfleld, and it was there that he made his greatest success. He could catch, but behind tkhe bat he was bothered by erratic throwing. He tried to get the balf away from him too fast and burried himself out of accuracy. As a batter Delehanty was one of the best who has lived. There are friends of Delehanty who have in- sisted that he was the best, and they had plenty of argument to help them out in their contention. He could hit anything anywhere, and he was likely to strike out in a pinch as an: thing else; yet that was just where he was strong, because the pitchers in trying to work him would either send him to first or get in the hole d have to serve a fairly good ball, d then Delehanty would cut loose. e did not like any kind of a ball that zipped around his neck, and the pitch- er who could feed him with fast ones of that nature could send him back to the bench. The trouble there were few clever enough to do it. Delehanty played ball around Cleve- While with that club he received an offer from Wheeling, W. meets Al Ziemer, Cleveland bantam,|Va, He was short of funds, which in & J0-round boxing contesty ~} halih chmg 10 him & greatsr | is not the hustle EPIPHANY JUNIOR QUINT RUNS WIN STREAK TO 51| PLACED IN DILEMMA F PIPHANY JUNIORS aim to set a record as noteworthy as that rung up by the New Jersey Passaic High School. Although the local quint has a rough road to travel to reach its goal—that of matching Passaic’s win column of 147 consecutive victories—it has at- tained the 51 mark in straight wins. The Immaculate Conception Juniors offered Epiphany a great battle yesterday, but were downed, 40 to 33. A drive in the last few minutes of play decided the issue for Epiphan: After they advanced to m 23-to-14 lead at half time, the Epiphany play- ers saw their opponents spurt in the third pertfod to trail by only one point. Then the Epiphany got busy, and with Braddock and McGeehan lead- ing the way, pulled up to a safer margin. These youngsters each regis- tered five court goals. Falcone and Ryan of the Immaculate combina- tion also gave good accounts of themselves. Petworth Boya’ Club will be match- ed against the St. Mary's Juniors of Alexandria on January 1 at Alex- andria. ‘Washington Athletic has set itself a task several days. Friday the Corby five wHll be encountered in the Congress Helghts gynasium, while Eastern Athletic Association will be met on the following day in the Eastern High gymnasium. The Washington five will tackle the Alovsius team next Tuesday on the Gonzaga court. Games with the Washington five may be obtained by calling Manager De Marko at Lincoln 3554-W. Association in the next Calvary M. E. tossers proved no match for Eastern Athletic Assocla- tion team, the latter winning, 27 to 12. Krum of the winners led both teams with five court goals. Rosedale Juniors added another victim to their list by taking the measure of the Liberty quint in a 16-to-7 engagement. Streeks and Essex of the victors were the out- standing performers. St. Murtin basketers were extended throughout when they nosed out the Immaculate Conception team, 18 to 17. J. McCarren's foul goal in the waning minutes de Hobbs of the Columbia Heights team played creditably when the Calvary Reserves were trounced In a 15-to-10 tilt. The victors are seeking games through Manager P. E. Poole, at 3149 Mount Pleasant street. Northern toawers were forced to play an extra five-minute period before they could beat the Epiphany Athletic Association, 32 to 30. H. Peck, M. Gass and Jermain of the winners played well. With King playing in brilliant style, Indépendent Athletic Club diG the un- expected by trouncing the Anacostia Eagles, 33 to 10. City Club_ tossers could do little against the Newark five of Baltimore, the latter winning, 57 to 9. Cassassa and Devlin of Jinx Ath- letic Club are displaying their wares to good effect these days. The Jinx tossers have a victory to their credit over the sturdy Cuthbert Juniors. Seminole Juniors are casting about for games with Kanawha Juniors, Washington Preps and the Mount Vernon Seniors, according to Man- ager Sparks, who may be reached at 641 T street northeast. Joseph, Mo- lenof, Watt, Gooch, Werle, Collins and Sparks compose the Seminole team. Ottawa Plebes, averaging 95 pounds, desire to arrange games with the Palace Laundry Midget and Sherwood Midget quints. Telephone challenges to manager at West 1037. ‘Washington teams averaging 135 pounds desiring games with Century Club of Baltimore may communicate with Manager Saffran at 2028 West Lexington street, Baltimore, Md. His Moods CHAPTER LIL BY H. G. SALSINGER. Y COBB always has lived in moods. He would change I from the happy and gay to the gloomy and morose. Some- times he was a mate for Pollyanna, a hypochondriac. There were times when he won- dered what it was all about and what use it could be. On one of these occasions he said: “If T had my life to live over again, I would be a surgeon instead of a ball player. I think I could have done a great deal of good in surgery. I would then have been of some deep use to humanity.” At other times he decided he would quit base ball. Often in the last five years did Cobb seriously consider leaving the game. He intended to settle down, fish, hunt, read and enjoy life. Changing Moods. “Down South we know how to live.” he would say. “Down South there the bustle, the tear and ‘wear that vou find in the North. We get something out of life down there. We know what home is and where; in the North most people be- lieve that an apartment of a few rooms is sufficient. We could never think of such a thing down South. We know food down there and we know how to relax. There is not t! battle and strife for the dollar that you find in the North. Tell me, what do they get out of life—these people that are fighting for fortunes that few of them ever get? They Erow old and helpless long before their time, and when they have passed their usefulness what have they got? ‘What do they get out of life even if they do succeed in getting money? Fifty Years of Base Ball One of a Series of Articles by John B. Foster Com~ memorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National League, to Be Celebrated Next Season. XXL GREATEST PLAYERS—EDWARD J. DELEHANTY. HE “only Del” was born in Cleveland and he picked up his base ball in Cleveland. He played on the old river bed, which was the site where the great sandlotters of Cleveland made good, and there were many of them to make good. Not far from the Delehanty house in Cleveland one of the city fire companies was located and “Del” practiced with the men on the lot next the engine house when he was a boy. All of the Delehanty family were Firemen al- his life, and so he started out for Wheeling, which was farther along the B. & O. than Mansfleld, with a good palr of shoes and a lot of deter- mination. He caught enough rides to make the walking easy and had not been in Wheeling a week before he was the sensation of that part of the world. Philadelphia heard of him and ob- tained his releass from the Wheeling Club for the huge sum of $1,900. That price was the highest at the time it was offered that ever had been ad- vanced for & ball player. Delehanty went to Philadelphia un- der the guldance of Harry Wright, who brought out all the good points in & wonderful player, and his record from 1892 to 1903, Inclusive, was one of the best of which base ball ever has heard. His batting average in tl time was .367.. He made a total of 2,167 hits. r does that record include the season of 1830, when he jumped organized base ball and went with the Cleveland club of the Broth- erhoed League. Going back to the home town nearly spoiled him as a ball player because he had too many friends. > His last year in base ball was with Washington. He had fallen off in batting, but he still was able to hit the ball better than .300 then. (Copyright, 1934.) Next—The Grsat Hane Wasnes, Kaleidoscopic Changes— Heights of Optimism— Depths of Pessimism. By the time they accumulate their fortunes they don’t know how to en- joy the money.” At other times he would say: “When I quit base ball, which will be very soon now, I shall depart with one deep regret, and that is that I have done no real good to humanity. |1 suppose everybody will have for- at other times a fit companion for | gotten me in a few years' time. In recent years he often tired of base ball, as this observation by Cobb shows: “I am fed up with the continual rain. 1 am tired of it all. All the ambitions I had when I broke into profeesional base ball down in Au- gusta in 1904 have been satisfied Yes, I have achieved more in b ball than I set out to achieve. Now' I can go back and settle down and get something really worth while out of life. A Dying Comfiagration. Wear after year he made up his mind to quit. At the age of 32 he said it was his last year. Then another season and another farewell resolution But he was still playing daily six vears after his first resolve to_guit. “Thirty-five is the age limit for pro- fessional base ball men in the big leagues,” he said at 32. “When a man reaches that age he loses his ginger, his pep and his speed. 1 am not at top form now. Since 1914 1 have gradually let down “After a ball player reaches 30 he becomes methodical. I have become methodical, and today I find myself doping out each play before I make it, with a view to conserving as much energy as possible. “Most of the success I am having is due to psychology. apply it con- stantly. For instance, when the Tygers are leading and the oppor- tunity presents itself I often take chances, making a freak play or steal- ing a base when there is no necessity for it. 1 create a series of mental hazards for the opposing team that causes the player to fumble nine times out of 10 on a similar play that may follow. “When I was in the flush of youth I could play all day and all night without tiring, but now I find that as the vears creep along my stamina weakens. I can no longer make the plays 1 used to mak Grows More Dilcult. Fire belongs to vouth, and even with Cobb, in whom the flames burn- ed longer than in the average mortal, it became more and more difficult to stir the embers. “Base ball is a hard, fierve-racking life when vou play the game for all it is worth. There is8 no rest when you are weary and the travel is tire- rome."” He wanted to have time to read. He likes books, as he likes pictures and music and other works of art. In books he appreciated fine phrasing. The play of words has a fascination for Cobb. And he likes biography. He has read nearly all the biographies of Napoleon. He has engaged in read- ing the biographies of the illustrious Bonaparte during the Winter season The greatest character in the world's history, in Cobb's opinion, was Na- poleon, with Julius Ceesar next. And it would be difficult to say that his biographical study did not have powerful influence ‘'over Cobb's career. He probably would be the last to say that it did not. (Copyright, 1924.) Tomorrow: Chapter LIIL—<“Rest.” FIGHTER TO INVADE. NEW YORK, December 24.—Tom- my Milligan, British welterweight and holder of the FEuropean 148 pound crown, will sail for America soon to compete against the best American welterweights. Milligan’s recent victory over Ted (Kid) Lewis, former world welter- weight champion, in London, prompt- ed his decision to invade America. He is a native of Glasgow, Scotland. PSR MARTIN TO RISK TITLE. NEW YORK, December 24—Eddle (Cannonball) Martin of Brooklyn, recently crowned world's bantam- welght champion by defeating Abe Goldstein, will risk his title for the first time when he steps in the ring agsinst Tommy Murray of Phila- at PhiMelphia, January By the Assoclated P Base ball fans in the South next Spring will have a hard time choos- ing between the two banner attrac- tions of the major league exhibition tourists. The Washington Nationals will travel with the New York Giants in an echo of the world series, but the tour of the rival second-place clubs, Brooklyn and the New York Yankees, will boast two great attrac- tions—Daazy Vance and Babe Ruth. The Brooklyn-Yankee series goes back to 1913, when the late Frank Chance was in his first season at the helm of the American League club here. The Giants, on the other hand, have shifted partners frequently in their Spring barnstorming. Boston, Defroit, Cleveland, Washington and Chicago have toured with the Mc- Grawmen in -the Spring. Manager John McGraw of the Giants must keep both eyes on Frank Walker, outfielder from Rocky Mount, N. C. this season, for Walker is an oddity among ball players, a business man. As boss of the Rocky Mount club, he sold himself to the Giants for $10,000. If he fails to make the major league grade he may want to buy himself back—say for $5,000. Meanwhile he will be collecting a salary. United States Senator James Wads- worth of New York, who held down first base for the Yale nine in 1898, is regarded as the best man in that position in the last 35 years, accord- Ing to a former Yale pitcher. Wads. worth was a “turn around” hitter, a clever bunter, a fast felder and re- markably speedy on the bases. Dur- ing the season of 1895 Wadsworth made only one error at first base, and that came when Bill Reid of Har- vard knocked the ball out of his hand. Wadsworth smashed out 15 hits in six games against Princeton and Har. vard, winning the title for Yale by batting in all of Yale's three runs in the final game. Saturday, October 17, 1925, will pro- duce the most attractive dish of grid. jron delicacies ever before scheduled for a single Autumn afternoon. On that day not less than ten big games are carded. The two foremost con- tests include Notre Dame's meeting with the Army at New York and Pennsylvania's game with Yale at New Haven. Other games scheduled are: Princeton-Navy at Annapolis, Syra- cuse-Indiana at Indianapolis, Colum- bia-Ohio State at Columbus, Colgate- LaFayette at Philadelphia, Penn State- Marietta at State College, Pa.; De- troit-Georgetown at Detroit, and Bucknell's game with the Haskell In- dians. s x e genai e CHICAGO, December 24.—Battery- ren of the Chicago National League Base Ball Club will not undertake preliminary work at the Catalina Island training camp next Spring, and the entire team will leave Chicago February 26 to begin workouts March 2. In previous years the pitchers and catchers have begun practice a week or so before the remainder of the team. Tentative plans for _exhibition games call for about 20 games, mostly against Pacific Coagt League | teams at Los Angeles, Long Beach |and Oakland, and the Kansas City | American Association Club, with no | pre-season barnstorming tour. 'RED SOX TO PRESENT MANY NEW PLAYERS CLEVELAND, Ohio, —Manager Lee Fohl Red Sox is ready to ask waivers on Pitchers Quinn, Piercy and Murry, he declared here, adding that few veter- ans will be in next vear's line-up. Pitchers Ehmke and Ferguson, | Cateher Picinich, Second Baseman | Wambsganss and Outfielder Flag- | stead will represent the veterans. | _Although Joe Harris batted .301, | Fohl plans to start the season with | Todt at first base. Prothro, acquired from Washington. will be at third, and Gross, farmed out by Boston to San Antonio last vear, and Rogge, a Western Association’ recruit, will be tried at short. The outfleid will be the same as that which finished the season— Willlams, Texas recruit; Flagstead and Boone, with .Bache, a right- hander from Dallas, and Collins as utility men. Heving will assist Picinich behind the bat, with Stokes, a graduate of the Mobile Club, as their understudy. Sharing the pitching staff with Ehmke and Ferguson are Fullerton, Ross, Ruffing,*Kallio, Lucey, Wing- fleld, Wiltsie and Kiefer. All are right-handers except Wiltsie and Ross. Ross. December 24. of the Boston EASTERN TITLE BELONGS TO THE HOLY CROSS NINE NEW YORK, December 24.—Anal- ysis of eastern intercollegiate cham- plonship honors for 1924 reveal that Holy Cross has a much stronger claim to base ball title than Yale. Holy Cross, due chiefly to the great pitching of Owen Carroll, boasted an unbeaten nine which hung up a string of 18 triumphs, Including vic- tories over Yale, Harvard. Dart- mouth, Princeton. Boston College and Colgate, all among the strongest in the East. TUNNEY IS AWARDED FIGHT WITH GIBBONS NEW YORK, December 24.—Gene Tunney, American light heavyweight champion, who a year ago filed a chal- lenge naming Mike McTigue, world titleholder, with the New York State Athletic Commission, has been award- ed a bout with Tommy Gibbons, St. Paul heavyweight. who stood 15 rounds with Dempsey at Shelby and more recently knocked out Kid Nor- folk of Baltimore. McTigue, who has no license in New -York, has promised to appear before the commission for several months, but has failed to do so. McTigue is understood to be in- sisting on an outdoor bout this Summer if he is to defend his title and Is expected to meet the winner of the Tunney-Gibbons battle, if such a match is arranged. —_— HOCKEY PLAYER FINED. BOSTON, December 24 —Normal Fowler, goal tender of the Boston professional hockey team, has been indefinitely suspended and fined $200 for indifferent playing. Your 6ld ih ‘ Made New Again and Semialing "By Hperi Vienna Hat Co. 489 11th Street SPORTS By the Assoclated Press. P ARIS, December 24—Luis Firpo, who is yearning for another chance at Jack Dempsey's crown, expects to be matched with either Tom Gibbons or Jack Renault for a fight at Madison Square Garden in April, he told the French sport writers upon his arrival here. Questioned about Quintin Romero-Rojas, who was recently given the South American heavyweight title because of Firpo’s failure to meet him, the Argentine said his rival w “It amuses me when the “a third rater. outh American boxing commission, which is hardly an official body, gives him the title champion of South Ameri Firpo added. at him.” Inside Golf By Chester Horton. The back swing of the golf club in deliberate. The golfer must under- wtand what this term means. Not molfer in a d, my ob- on of play- indicated, makes hix back nwing deliberately. 1f you drove a nail into a hoard or wall with a h mer each back struke with the haminer would be dellbecate. The mame sort of ac- tlon most take place with the golf club. Thix means that the club ix taken back with OELIBERATE |the naturally in- creasing speed that the action calls for. It cannot be %0 slow that it pulls you balance and it must mot be xo that it removes all chance of o ing rhythm of movement. Eolfer who can hit a ball takes the club and. deliberately, he draws ft back, then hits. It ix a very good iden to keep all the details out of the mind while hitting. (Copyright, 1924.) | I HAV I refer to J. H. Ball, secretary It is said of Mike Brady, winner of this year's metropolitan open champion- ship and twice & runner-up in the na- tional open, that he made & hole in one twice in a single day, but Ball some |years ago not only made two holes in |one in one day, but secured them con- | secutively. In other words, he played | two holes in two. So far as I know, this feat stands alone and is a world record. A Hole In Nothing. Speaking of holes in one, 1 rather unusual experience in Scotland, just before I came a in this had 1913, to during a friendly match with . Newell, on the municipal course at Ayr. He was entitled to rather a liberal handicap, including a stroke on the 233-yard third hole, and when he taid his second shot a foot from tha cup for an actual three, which, minus his handicap, gaye him a two, he ap- peared certain to have won the hole My tee shot had been a very straight one, but as we approached the gree the ball was not to be seen. Apparent it had gone over. We started to look for it. when one of the caddies covered it in the cup. I had made 233-yard hole in one, to win. But this incident does not beg equal the one in which the mental James Braid, five times open champion of Great Britain, figured Braid was playing with a man much inferior in skill to himself. On a short hole, where Braid had given handicap of one stroke, his opponent made the hole in one. Now Brald was a great enough player perhaps to have halved a hole in one, but not even he could tie or beat a man who had made a hole in nothing! Two Holes in Two. Perhaps the most remarkable plavs made during the 1923 New England T ber pacs. The leather boots range all the way from heavy shoes to high | knee. In spite of the general excellence | 0f a number of preparations, nobody has as yet succeeded in making leath- er impervious to melting snow. Boots which will stand ordinary lake or stream water will admit snow water. As a winter foot covering no leather boot, so far as I know, has proved successful. Ordinary moccasins are the best thing of all in very cold weather, and even In medium cold weather if snow- shoes are not to be worn. But water soaks into them as though they were sponges, and even in zero weather the rubbing of snowshoe thongs melts the snow somewhat and it permeates to the feet. The oiled pacs are perhaps the best snowshoe footgear. They will withstand a lot of damp snow before getting soaked. The leather itself is just as liable to soak as is that of leather boots, but the comparative absence of seams makes them more waterproof. They retain the pliability of the moccasin, which is a big factor in their warmth, Rubber pacs are very popular among woodsmen for wear in damp snow. They are not the best things for the feet, however, nor are they as warm they seem. For the first few hours they seem very warm, but the feet are constant- Iy perspiring in them (even in the 2227 22222777777 20 22272 | “Gardner” “Outperforms Any Car in Its Class” R, “If he uses the title in Buenos Aires eve | Erminio ybody will laug ght which left me the mo: regrets,” he told the sporting paper L'Auto, “was the with Dempsey. Just think-—I knocked him out of the ring in the first round, which he finished groggy, and you might al- most say he was saved by the gong. Alas, in the second he came up as fresh as ever, and I lost. “If 1 meet him again—and T have every r n to believe I shall do in 1 if I beat 1 hope to have better It Demp- sey is a terribl As to the European champion palla, whom Firpo knocked out in the fourteenth round at Buenos Aires last Mgrch, If 1 had been in hetter woule have beaten him q 3ut automobiles were 1 ng that day in the Argen Grand Prix and | was s§0 occupied with the trials and the races that I had not thought much about t f oa In Firpo's opinic heavyweights | age: D Renault “The Gibbons . although ponent.” ir leading cedence psey MONTGOMERY FOULS FOE. BOSTON, Deceml Boston h a loney. was award over S Worth heard many stories of golfers mak myself turned the trick, but I consider tk of this sort ever performed must be c paratively an unknown as a knight of the links “hunting boots.” Under the head of hide” moccasins, oil-tanned pacs, clkhide pacs and others of similar ma terial. The rubber pacs are made of heavy rubber as his of the instep and leather the rest of the way up. ofte foot knocked round GEORGE LOW TELLS: Making Two Consecutive Holes-in-One t the mo rkablc ie redited to a man who is com of the Charleston C Club, Charleston, S. C., with which T was formerly connected as professional. open championship, which T were pulled by George Gordon. When Gordon came to the twelfth hole in the morning round of the second day of play at the Wanna- molsett Country Club, Rumford, R. L, d a spdon to the nec green. His ond the flag a birdie 2 n round his tee shot ronge won I ed | but he sank th In the afters vards vards fro e £00d-sized mound But he wasn't daunted. Using his mashle, he holed his ball for another birdie 2 M’CARTY ROLLS 412 IN BLIND PIG EVENT behind got 118 for a sta and Teams from lot Pythias and Odd |also bowled, but their not impressive. Kn Leag scores we JOE F LANN‘vaDIESA CINCINNATI, December 24.—Joe Flanner, one of the founders of t American League, died yesterday his home here, following an extended illness. He assisted Johnson in e tablishing an American League t |in St. Louis THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG. President Izaak Walton League of America. HE question of the best footwear to use for Winter hiking or snow shoeing is a subject on which very few outdoorsmen agrecs The three leading kinds are leather boots, moccasins and rub ‘moccasins come the regular “moosc riddle coidest weather), and if the stops for a wi the cold gets |work. In comparatively warm w er, when protection against wet sr is desired, they make the feet per spire to such a degree that they soon become red and tender—they “par boil.” 204 1f rubber pacs are worn, it is nec- essary to wash the feet in snow every few hours and to change socks each time. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F HEXCITEMENT!! 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