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SPORTS. HOW BROWNS GOT HURLER | IS EXPLAINED BY HUGGINS New York Pilot Tossed in Twirler, Whom He Had Never Seen Pitch, in 1918 Deal, When Fisher, One of Original Lot, Enlisted. EW YORK, December Yankees in 27—War's uncertainty took from the 1918 fruits that at last have been returned—but at a in regainipg a player that he once possessed, Urban Shocker. “It will be recalied,” said the midget manager of the New York team, “that the original deal with the Browns was Nunamaker, Cullop, Gedeon, Maisel and Fisher for Pratt and Plank. Just before the deal was closed Fisher enlisted and we had to give up some one else. We had gone into it too far to draw back, and eventually ] consented to include Shocker, price. Miller Huggins has explained why he has had to dig deeply | whom I bhad never seen pitch, but knew to be promising. e uncertain and As a matter of fact “The times w any moment. pitched a few games for St. Louis in 1918." All in all, this deal of 1918, which gave the Browns a remarkable te is declared by Huagins to ave up the Yankee troops” who were to bring champion- ships to New York. It brought to- mether Pipp, Baker. Pratt and Bod a crashing quart Ping Bodie, vho was known as a “fence buster” with the White Jon disappeared from the line-up and Del Prat: was traded to the Red Sox. Baker disappeared in 1922, Then came Bob Meusel and Babe Rath to add to the distress of moundmen. Miller Huggins brough the Yankees from the second divis to_the top. Before he attained the American ague championship in 1921 Hug- name was about to be crased the managerial list several according to well-founded and it was d that he interests in a minor league club. Today the former second base- man of the Cardinals declared that he will remain with the Yankees in- definitely; that he understands the owner, Ruppert. and that the owner understands him “There is no busine. know of where nerves more raw than in the 34-zame grinds in w pennants ng on every ball pitched.” Huggin ¥s. “We have been In such & race every year since 1918, “Men in base men of strong emotions. rage man <n’t realize the strain the club is under when s the September tretch. times we see explosions in tempe but allowancs always must be for the pressure that caused the explosion. After all, money and honors are nothing compared with peace of mind and health, ai 1 have known what it is to lose both during the campaign. HAWKINS, COLLEGE STAR, WILL JOIN THE BROWNS FULLERTON, Calif, December 2 —John Hawkins, captain of the Southern California foot ball team, who closed his gridiron career when he led the Trojans to a 30-to-7 victory over Mlssouri, has announced at his liome here that ha would sign a con- tract with the St. Louis Americans Hawkins, an inflelder at Southern California. also is a letter man in Lasket ball. e will report to the Browns for Spring.training in March, REDS MAY HAVE CLYMER, SAYS DUNN OF ORIOLES BALTIMORE, Md., Dacember 27. Concerning the report from Cinein- natl that the Reds wanted “Bill Clymer of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., as coach, Jack Dunn, managing owner of the Baltimore Internationals, said today that he wouldu't stand in C mer's way if he could get a_bet contract from the National League club Clymer has ~been coach Orioles for three years er, Yined gins from timnes, rumor: sought 1 or game 1 can be worn one of these of the FLOWERS HELD TO DRAW. EUFFALO, December —Frankie Schoell. local middleweight, and Tiger owers, Atlanta, negro. fought rounds to a_draw last night. Tht veights were Schoell, 1511: Flowers, 161%. Flowers was on the aggres- sive at all times, constantly rushing Schoell to the ropes and corners, but Schoell held him off well with a fast, stinging left. ‘ ¥ Rl STAGES HANDICAP SHOOT. Officers of the Washington Gun Club are playing hosts to the club members over the Benning traps to- day in a 100-target handicap shoot Fifty Years One of a Series of Articles by John B. Foster Com- memorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National League, Next Season. XXIV. GREATEST PLAYERS—WILLIE KEELER. HE experts oi base ball recognize the greatness of Willie Keeler better than the enthusiasts of I of the more discriminating * his value as a player of unusual skill. Keeler could do more with a bat than almost any ball player who has lived, and his fielding was nearly perfection vear after year. It was this quaint character, who was born in Brooklyn and who finished his base ball in New York; who was the author of the best maxim for becoming a successful batter that ever was devised. - He was asked the secret of doing well with the bat on the ball field, and with a characteristic grin and a twinkle in his eye replied: “Hit ‘em where they.ain't.” Nothing could tell better than those words the secret of batting success. Keeler was not a player of the Ruth type, the Lajoie type, the Kelly type, or that of a half-dozen more great ball players who might casily be mentioned. ~He was athictly a player of the Keeler type, and it was his success as a man of slight physique and wonderful skill that for a time revolutionized base ball and gave the little fellow a ance. Indeed, the eftects of Keeler's base ball still are felt in the professional athletic life of the United States. Keeler, more thah any ball plaver who has lived, revolutionized batting. He was not a frec-swinging slugger, although he could hit the ball free and hard if he felt like it. Heavas a place hitter, a hitter who willingly Tapped the ball to some spot where the fielder had the greatest difficulty to @andle it, and the most perfect hunter day. in and day out who hi lived. He would draw the inflelder in, and when they ‘had advanced within the boundary of the base line he would tap the ball over their heads or-itne it over. 1t the infielders re- mained back, Be would push the ball shock | ) . at_Annapolis one week earlier, Shocker was subject to the draft at . Shocker was drafted after he had | BERLENBACH FINDS " ESTRIDGE EASY FOE | NEW YORK, December 3 | Bstridge of Harlem, although knocked | |out by Paul Berlenbach in the sec- | ond vound at Madison Square Garden | last night, retained his championship He is still the titleholder among the | egro middleweights. Estridge appeared like anvthing |but a champion when facing the man whose fist has strewn the mats with puglii Outweighed 13 pounds and | | evidently holding the fullest respect | | for Berlenbach’'s powerful hands, he | | began a retreat at the first bell. He | was trapped in his own corner after | {a few minutes of sprinting, took a| |right and a left to the héad, and| | sank. Before the fatal “ten” had been | spoken, however, he was on his feet |but unable to run. Berlenbach hit him once. Estridge failed to reply and the referee signaled for an| ! armistice. { Many who saw the Harlem negro| {flay Panama Joe Gans were astound- {ed at his cautious tactics against Ber- | lenbach. His blows touched his op- | ponent only lightly; he cast them {from so far away that he appeared to be waving at the audience. With| |every punch he set out on a new race until he had Berlenbach pivet- | ing in the center of the square. | Jack Delaney, who knocked out| | Berlenbach when the latter was floor- | | ing ali-comers, met an easy opponent | | in the semi-finals and won by a deci- | | sion over Pal Reed of Boston { i — “DOC” GESSLER, FORMER | MAIOR LEAGUER, DIES INDIANA, Pa, December 27.—Dr. | {Harry H. (Doc) Gessler, 45, a major | |league base ball star a decade ago, . died at his home here Thursday | During his base ball career Dr.| Gessler wus manager of the Pitts-| | burgh “ederal League team, and| played with the Brooklyn and Chicago | bs of the National League and the | Washington, Detroit and Boston clubs | of the American League. | | Before entering base ball he dis- | tinguished himself ‘on the foot ball| |field for Washington and Jeffersons| College and Johns Hopkins. EAEG——— C. U. BOXERS LISTED | ON NAVY’S SCHEDULE | ANNAPOLIS, Md, December { The annual competition of the Inter- collegiate Boxing Assoclation will take place under the auspices of the | University of Pennsylvania at Phila- | delphia, on March 28, it has been an- nounced here. The Naval Academy boxers also will ! meet Pennsylvania in a dual match The only other trip of the Na team wili be to meet Penns)lvnma‘ State, last year's champions. on Feb- | ruary 21. The big home matches are agalnst the picked Canadian colle- glans, on February 28, and Yale, on March 14 The Navy here January University. its season Catholic team opens 2¢ against McTIGUE STOPS KING. ATLANTA, Ga., December 27.—Mike McTigue. who holds the world light- heavyweight champlonship, last night won a technical knockout over Jimmy King, New Orleans, in the fourth round. of Base Bdll to Be Celebrated base ball, although there mere many ‘fans” who, in his time, appreciated to the infield quite out of the reach of any of them and get to first. If a| hit were needed to get a run over the plate, he would cut the ball to some part of the fleld whers it was most difficult to handle and get the run home. He was fast on the bases him- self, and as he was on them much of the time he was a run-maker for his team in more ways than one. Keeler played bal) around his own city before he started his professional career in earnest with Binghamton, N. Y. He went from Bingbamton to New York City to play third ba He was a left-hand thrower, and for that reason could never hope to be much of & success at third. He was changed to the outfield, which he played until he was through with base ball, and he played with champlonship teams a fair share of his base ball life. For 13 years he never batted less than .302." Once he batted more than .400. Six years he batted better than 360, and frequently he vermed on .400. - His was a wonderful base ball iife to do that. No one equaled him before his day in placing the ball and making the short hit count, and no one has equaled him since. It was largely because of his success with the bat that others who were not natural swingers tried to cultivate {lhe same thing, and many of them succeeded. @ } There never has been another Keeler, and there is not a ball player of the present time who shows the slightest indication of equaling Keeler in batting expertness. (Copyright, 192¢.) (Next—The “great Pittaburgh out- fielder, Fred Clarke.) = | g8ame_today? THE EVENING 93 FgBB BROTIERS of leviucky. TolL-- 42 YEARS e’ STAR, 21 WASHINGTON, 8% i ROB'T > | MANNING | 9 OKFORD RODE WS HORSE { BAREBACK INTOA | | DINING-ROOM AND ‘ SUCCESSFULLY JUMPED THE DINNES R TABLE TY COBB Remaker of Base Ball In His Wake CHAPT BY H, G. SALSINGER. Y COBB will leave base . ball a different game than it was l when he entered the sport. He revolutionized the game, gave it new life, new speed. He brought about a change at a time when the game had gotten into a groove; when it was an orthodox thing: whenvit was cut and dried and to a degree that was monotonous. it out of this condition, gawe it a polish and a gloss, a sparkle and new zest. He made something more out of the game than it was, and the rvapid development of base ball, its astounding growth and spread in popularity can all be cred- ited to Cobb's vision: to his speed of Iimb and a brain that worked in per- fect co-ordination and spirit. He in- jected into the game a powerful per- sonality that was felt gradually throughout the sport “He did more for base ball tha any single individual that ever lived. sald Byron Bancroft Johnson on one occasion. “Base ball owes more to him than the game realizes.” Disapproves Lively BaH. And what does Cobb think of the Not as much as he thought of base ball five vears ago. The lively ball, introduced a few vears back, changed the entire aspect of the game. Cobb never liked the lively ball. He opposed it from the start, and his opinion never changed as far as the ball was concerned. He sald often in the last few years: “The lively ball has robbed the game of its finesse. The art has been taken out of base ball.— A premium has been placed upon brawn instead of brain. “The object of the lively ball is, of course, to produce more hits. The owners believe the public likes hits better than anything else in base ball. The public does like hits, but there can be too much of anything. Too much hitting causes overbalance. The public will tire.of too much of any- thing in. any .sport. You can have even too much of such a good thing as _extra base hits. “What the lively ball has done to base ball is to spoil much of the strateky. After the lively ball few players bunted any more and few stole bases. It was not profitable to bunt or try to steal. Why? The per- centage was all against you. Maybe you stood an even chance in trying to steal, but that would advance you only one base. You stood almost as good a chance to be advanced two bases on a hit and probably score, particularly if you were on. third. Stealing third was folly. It became 2 bone-head play. The outflelders had to get out so much farther.. They played from 20 te 30 feet farther out than when the old stvle ball was in play. Their new position made - it simple to take two bases on a hit. A runner on second was almost sure to score on any kind of a hit to the outfield. So why steal third? “Science In Gone.” “Why take a chance at all in steal- ing? The thing fo do, with tie lively ball in play, was to stay anchored to a base and wait for the hit that was almost sure to come.. There Was no percentage ini base running. That was, passe. They walited for the hit. They got runs in clusters. Teams no longer played for a run, hut they plaved for runs. “The best thing to do was to play the infleld back, aim to get one man, keep the other team’'s run total as low as possible, and trust to getting more runs yourself. “The science of batting has been fairly well lost. The idea seems to be to stand up and take a healthy poke at the ball. You don’t have to hit it a mlle, although you generally do when you get hold of it. But a ball hit on the ground will do as wefl most of the time. The- lively ball, it right, goes so fadt over the ground that it generally has speed enough to got by the inflelders. “A damper “has been put on inside base ball by the lively ball. It has dazzling | c A Different Game— A Sport Remade— His Opinion of It. ER LV, | been put temporarily on the shelf. { Inside base ball was used chiefly to { produce one run at a time. One run is no good in these days, except in rare instances. You've got to get them in clusters, get thgee and four at a time, sometimes (yes, quite often) more. Big rallies—that's the thing that counts today. Outficlders’ Assists. “The fast defensive work in which the outfielders partictpated is gone | The outflelders are out too far to met into the play. How many men have you seén cut off at the plate on rect assists from the outflelders in recent years? Nearly all the assists owtfieldors get are on relayed throws in which an inflelder or more gets it for an assist alo. “The law of the manager foday is safety first—take no chances, wait for the wallop. The manager takes his cue from the batting averages They show the percentage is in favor of the batter hitting as against the base-runner trying to steal. The hit you s0o much more. Jut base ball moves in cycles When I first broke into the league | the craze was pitching. Al kinds | of freak deliveries began to appear— | the shine ball, the emery ball, the spit | ball_and all the other freaks. Then suddenly there was complete reform All freak deliveries were made il- legal. Pitchers could not apply dirt or anything else to the ball. Base ball other. the limit No temperance. or there is absolut pro- hibition. That is how the « moves. This is the day of the siug- ger. And tomorrow—who knows?" The sky i (Tomorrow—Chapter LVI—The Dollar.) (Copyright, 1924.) | of this fish. was his pride and joy. Three years ago he began catching carp in it. Soon the carp spread and the trout began to diminish alarm- ingly. The spring came out of the bottom of a hill int the pool, and when it left the pool it left in a drop of about 15 feet. Thus there was no way for the carp to get into it by the water route. The doctor decided the eggs had been deposited ‘in the rid of the carp. He ' 'drained the pond. Salisfied that this had solved the problem, he let it'fill up again (having first killed all the carp) and restocked it with trout. The next year the carp were back. This so angered ‘the doctor that he drained the pond again and left it dry for three long years. ZThen he again reopened it, stocked it with trout again—and the next year he began to catch carp. - Some eggs had evidently lain in the:mud for three years. Anyway, that's his only solution. Today there's a fine- looking trout pool offered as a gift to_the first comer. v ‘What can be done agfinst guch an enemy? - It is hard to say. They are dndoubtedly here to stay. You can't freeze them out, either. E other case I know of is similar to that I have just told. A very large lake, one of the finest canvasback and red hen lakes in this country, became infested with carp, and these fish ate up or destroyed all the wild celery, and the ducks found other feeding grounds. . Driven to desperation, the lake—and it covers. some . 20,000 acres—was drained until the water and mud was only a foot deep. Of course (the lake is in the North), it troze solid. The next Spring a great many German carp were taken out, THe Fox TERRIER PUPPY THAT SWALLOWED A RAIRPIN B4 IN. LONG — AND LIVED. The pin was almostas long as the pup went from one extreme to the | A learned doctor with whom T am acquainted’owns a trout pool. It is-a very fine one, made by damming up a spring creek, and for years it pond by birds and set about to get| . SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, ‘DUTCH %0 Londen Tve LONG DISTANT MILE POST o SLOUR HiLL FoRT BERMUDA FAVORITES ADVANCE | IN TENNIS TOURNEY W YORK, December 27.—Rank- ing players came through safely in the opening round of play in the na- | tional boys’ and junior tennis tourn: | ment on” the indoor courts of the | 7th_ Regiment Armory Kenneth Appel of East Orange, N. wearing the colors of Mercers- burg Academy, who is defending his junior title in the tournament, de- feated Herbert J. Duval of Choate School, Wellingford, Conn., in a sec- ond round match, 6—2, 6—2, after he | had drawn a bye. Robvert Raymond of Lehigh Uni- cersity, one of the seven college play- ers entered in the junior tournament, advanced to the fourth round by drawing a bye in the first round and winning his second and third round matohes. He defeated Solo Blank of Erasmus High School of Brooklyn, in his second round match, §—6, 6—3, and triumphed over William H. Sum- merson of Cornell in the third round, 6 6—3 Malcolmn T. Hill - of Newton| Academy, Waban, Mass, winner of| the 1823 boys' title, but who gradu- ated to the juniors this vear, drew a bye in the first round and defeated Mason Blake of South Kent School, South Kent, Mass,, in a second round h, 6—1, 6—1. | H. McAullffe of Fordham, one of | the favorites in the boys tournament, | won his match against Thomas Gren- shaw of Flushing, 6—2, 6—1, despite the fact that he is nursing a frac- tured wrist on his racquet hand. | Joseph Defina of New Utrecht High | Scheol, N. Y., advanced to the fourth round | In the | division, | Text ir., more Fox, 6—0, second round of the boys’ Myron Raymon, New York defeated Francis G. Boggs, der School, Asheville, (o 6—4, and Edward Jacobs, Balti- City College, defeated Joseph ander Childs High, New York, AUSSIES WIN AT CRICKET. s New South Wales, Decem- ber ustralia won the initial cricket test match from the English touring team by 193 runs. When Australia closed its final inning yes- terday it had a lead of 604 runs, and England in its last inning scored 411. The match lasted seven days. ‘SAM'RICE IS FOURTH" | to their list by pointing the way THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President, lzack Walton League of America. HAVE told of how the carp are spreading, of how it is virtually im- possible to control them. Let me give a few instances of the tenacity dend. But others had succeeded in digging deep enough into the mud to live through the Winter, or else | had deposited eggs deep in the mud, because there are just as many carp there now @s there ever were. 'YOST IS FOR MORE, NOT LESS, PASSING A ARBOR, Mich.,, December 27. —Fielding H. Yost, chairman of the rules committee of the American Foot Ball Coaches’ Assoclation, will oppose any changes restricting the forward pass when the committee meets in New York next Monday. In making this announcement Yost sald: ¥Generally -speaking, ' there 'is too little forward passing instead of too much. This is also true of the kick- ing game. I am not in favor of any limitations.” Yost said he would favor the elimi- nation of a run after recovery of a fumble. L (S, KRAMER IS PREPARING. NEW YORK, December 27.—Danny Kramer,' Philadelphia’s entry in the featherweight championship tourn: ment, being conducted by the New York State Athletic Commission to produce a successor to the title re- linquished by Johnny Dundee, starts niis final week training in New Jer: today for his meeting with Kid Kap- lan qf Meriden, Conn., mext Friday night In the finals. 1924. . GRIFFMAN TO SIGN. UP ~'Clark Grifith is makisgk fair progress toward getting his ath- letew in line hefore he hikes for Florida, but he has a long way to 0 ¥et. The signing yesterday of Sam. Rice, veteran incumbent of The right-field berth, raised the to- tal of Nationals under contract to foul .There a more than two Yet to be heard from, and ux Griff's latest plan is to start for Tempa_with Manager Harrix on January 7, there is plenty of work Temaining to be done. REAL BASKET BALL SHOULD BE ON TAP Basket ball followers hereabout ex- pect to be treated to one of the finest exhibitions of court play when the Palace Laundry five makes its home debut against famous world cham- plon_Celtics tomorrow night at the Arcade Auditorium. The Epiphany Juniors, victors in 50 straight games, will be matched against the Boys' Club Celtics in a | preliminary match. | Players who will figure in the main attraction are known throughout the East in professional basket ball ranks. Holman, Beckman, Lapschick, Leon- ard and Denert are to play far the Celtics, while Benzoni, Schmeelk, Knoblauck, Cooney, Lynch and Bush- man are primed for the Palace line-up. Joe Deering, basket ball coach of Columbia University, will referee the | big game, while John R. Daily, court | mentor of George Washington Uni- versity, will officiate in the prelimi- nary tilt Jimmy lake has the announcer. Arrangements have been made to seat 3,000 spectators. An orchestra has been obtained. Tomorrow’s game will be the first time that any local quint has ever had a real chance of toppling the Celtics. ALOYSIUS TOSSERS | T0 OPEN CAMPAIGN been secured as thelr SPORTS. MANY TOPICS ARE LISTED - FOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE Both Morning and Afternoon Sessions on Monday to Be “Crowded”—Addresses to Be Made by Leaders in Great Pastime. By tlie Associated Press. OLUMBUS, Ohio, December 27.—College ioot ball coaches of the country when they assemble in New York on Monday for their yearly “shop talk” will have but little time to devote to othet affairs, according to the program for the fourth annual meeting of the American Foot Ball Coaches” Association, made public by G. M. Traut- man, assistant director of athletics at Ohio State University. Trautmann will represent Dr. J. W. Wilce, secretary-treasurer -of the association and mentor of Ohio State’s foot ball's team, who now is on the Pacific Coast to attend one of the two New Year intersectional foot ball games. BRITISH SPRINTERS MAY COME TO U. S. By the Associated Press. Haredd Abrahams and Eric Liddell, Olympic champions and Britain's most famous sprinters, may appear in competition next Spring at the Penn- sylvania relay carnival Abrahan: the Cambridge all- around star, won the Olympic 100- meter dash, beating four American aces, while Liddell captured the 400- ‘meter run at Paris in world's record time. Liddell, ministry in Pennsylvania meet was defeated in vard dashes. who is studying for the last Spring, special 100 and but 220 According 1o unofiicial estimates, $10,000,000 was distributed in 1924 among turfmen in the form of stakes and purses for thoroughbred racing in Canada and the United States. Of this sum it is estimated that close to 2,000,000 each was distributed in Maryland and New York, with that fig- ure exceeded in Kentucky, historie stronghold of .the sport. Canada is credited with having disbursed $I, 000,000. is inflicted against a defending Aloysius tossers will begin drive for the local unlimited ball title when they open their season against the Truxtons tonight on| Gonzaga High's court, starting at 8:30 | o'clock. The Elliotts and Paramounts will be opponents in a preliminary game. | On their past record the Truxtons appear to have hardly any chance of | toppling the I street combination. | Coach George Collifiower has not an- | nounced the Aloysius line-up. Kipp and Fillius, forwards: Hauts, center;| Bangs and Phillips, guards, probably | will start for the Truxton flve. Eaxtern Preps will tackle the Bovs' | Club Superiors tonight in the National Guard gymnasium. Play will start| at 7:30 o'clock. ! Lincoln Park Preps scored second victory of the season over the | Warwicks, winning, 31 to 2 The | victors are due to meet the Comforter | tossers next Tuesday might in the| Knights of Columbys Hall. | Argyle basketers won their straight _victory by downing { Royce Athletic Club, 20 to 4. Simons, | Bangs and Sincell played well for the | wininers. | Corby's five midded another victim| to| the Washington Athletic Association | team, 48 to 22. Harvey Ingley of the| victors accounted for eight court| goals. their | | fifth | the ST } Takoma Tigers were forced to the | limit to nose out the Sherwood Ath-| letic Club, 37 to 31 Milburn and | Miller of Takoma and Smith of the Sherwoods were the outstanding | players. perior team play gave the Elliott } Juniors a double victory last night The Friends Athletic Club was downed, 40 to 35, while the Winton Junjors were defeated in a 31-to-19/ engagement. Underwood was in the limelight for the Eiliotts. Larry Nabholtz Tells: Using a Tree Stump for My Best Shot HE best play I ever made was home club, the Shawnee, Lim T and near a fence. Getting up to it, I of stumps and long grass, probably 30 yards off the flag. It was resting directly between two stumps that were not more than a foot and a half apart. As one of these stumps was directly between the ball and the flag and the other just the world to make a play toward the I looked around and discovered in the direction of ‘the tee, about three yards from where my ball lay, an- other stump some:two and a half feet high and probably two feet thick. This gave me an’ idea. Perhaps I could make the green after all. Using a mashie iron, I plaved my ball against the stump. It bounded off the obstruction beautifully at a right” angle, came down on the green and rolled to within six feet of the cup. T sank my putt for a par 3. Mitchell and Dean stood with open mouths. Both had sure threes, and as they were playing their best ball, they had counted on collecting from me. Most Accurate Play. During all my rounds in the open tourney at French Lick I was very accurate with my second shots—ex- cept in the match with Jim Barnes. Usually it is when you are laying the ball nicely on the green ®ith a chance to putt for a three that you are most apt to cop the bacon. 3 The most accurate shot T ever made was at the Inwood course, Long Ts- land, in 1923, while trying to qualify for the national open. Coming to the elghth hole, & 220-yard affair, I had pulled my ball to the left in a bunch of trees and it;was necessary for me te do some tall playing to get out. 1 was 56 yards from the flag. In front of me was a cluster of trees. My lie was in deep rough What was to_be done? Making a careful examinatiof, I dis- covered that a'narrow opening be- tween two trees gave me a direct line to the flag But the pathway between the trees was not more than six inches in width—so narrow, in fact, that I oould see nothing on the green but only the flag. 1'would have to play a ball neither too high nor too low. The former would catch the branches of the trees. The latter would not get out of the rough. I took my mashie and using the most careful aim possible, let go. The ball sailed between the tre: came down on the green and dribbled into the cup for a two. It was the most accurath piay 1 ever made. Of course, holing out was luck. But -“t.g the ball through that skinny opening was a bit more than good fortune. basket | g Mitchell and Claire Dean, two members. On the 226-yard second hole I pushed my tee shot away to the right foot ball team, the offensive team is ven the number of yards called for the penalty and a first down at the | A new | point where the ball rests. suggestion, made by one of the coun- try’s leading foot ball authorities, is to give the offensive team the yard- age without the first down unless the ball advances bevond a point which would automatically give the offensive team a first down Although official announcements re- | garding the after the 192: Giants’ journey abroad 5 playing season closes | have not been made, it is understood that plans call for the chartering of )| @ ship for the base ball party which | . CHICAGO. Decem will be led by Manager John McGraw. After a series of games in England, the itinerary turns to South'America, with visits scheduled at Rio de Jan- | eiro, Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Harry Damrau, who has played in- ficld positions in the inland.Eastern leagues, to the Giants as an outfielder, is true major league timber. Damrau played against Walker in the Virginia League last season. Andrew O. McGarrett is either a champion or a first-class contender at his own game. This year he has plod- ed 1,500 miles to push a golf ball into a cup 5.400 times, using 27,640 strokes, an average of 92.1 to an 18- hole round. He is 60 years old GALLAUDET BASKETERS PLAY BOAT CLUB TEAM Gallaudet College basketers tackle the Old Dominion Boat Club five to- night on the Kendall Green court, starting at 8:30 o'clock. Riddle and Byouk are mainstays. Massinkoff and Clark likely will be used by Gallaudet tonight, as Capt. Bradley, Wallace and Holdren of the first team are out of the city. Gallaudet during a threesome one day at my a, Ohio, my opponents being Frank found my ball in the midst of a nest behind it, there wasn’t a chance in green. Inside Golf By Chester Horton. One of the results of stooping too far in the nddress may be an “mcura- ble slice.” The sliced ball results from a' temdemcy of the player to fall_over toward the ball as he hits. Often he mever mpects that he iv doing this. Some- times he does ft more with a breaking in the knees than any other way, though it is a common thing for players 1o let the enmtire body fall toward the ball. This is very likely to happen with the player who tries to hit with his body instead of with the clubhead. When the body falls toward the baill the arms usually break in at the el- bows toward the body and this draws pin. Or the ball may be falrly hit but with the feeling that only the toe of the club caught it. Such & blow lacks solidity. .With n square of slightly open stance the end of the wood club shaft should Just grase the left knee when lower- ed, with the clubhesd in position back of the ball. e, DELANEY WHIPS REED. NEW "YORK, December . 27.—Jack Delaney of Bridgeport, Conn., easily outpointed Pal Reed of Boston in a slow 12-round bout at Madison Square Garden last night. Each weighed 163 & . SOCCERISTS IN GAME. Soccer players of the Army and| | ) cotland, competed at the | According to present rules, if a pen- | declares that Frank Walker, | { who sold himself from Rocky Mount | Coach Robert C. Zuppke of Ilinois vice’ president, will preside over t morning session, which will be tz up with routine business and off reports. District representative |Teport on “Foot Ball Progress, Needs and Outstanding Pieces of Pla | their regions. Discussion of coachin ethics, rules and officials will folldw Coaches who will report foot ba | conditions in their districts z | trict No. 1, Robinson of Brow Thorp, New York University; |Byid, Maryland; No. 4, S | Georgia; No. Spaulding, sota; No. 6, Clark, Kansas; Bible, Owen; No. % Rom | Aggies, and No. 9, Warner, Stanford | Foot ball motion pictures. special | committee reports and election of of- | ficers are scheduled for the afterndon meeting. Speakers on the midday pro- |gram include Athletic Director A. A. Stagg of Chicago, who will give “Some Observations on How to Make Success of Foot Ball Coaching"; hick” Meehan of Syracuse, who wil {discuss his impressions of intersec tional foot ball in light of the rec Syracuse-Southern California gr iron game: Hugo Bezdek of Penn State, “Forward Pass Defense”; Maj | John L. Griffith, commissioner of the Big Ten, “Future of Foot Ball” and Gen. Palmer E. Pierce of the National Collegiate Athletic Associati The feature of the evening will be the second annual “Brow: | Experience and Story-Telling Con- |test” This contest is open to all |coaches. Maj. Frank Cavanaugh of Boston College won the first one held a year ag Walter Camp, dean of | foot ball writers, and Grantl | Herbert Reed and other widely read will speak at the evening PENN GRID SPECIAL TO HALT IN CHICAGO ber Minne- Utah sion Derby | otk of Pennsylvania ball squad | and its followers will stop here for 13 hours today en route to the coast to meet the University of California on New Year day A busy program arranged for tha \v:;tor,- called for lunch t a hote! |and a workout in the new Chlcag: Riding Academy e Tonight the Chicago Alumni | ciatlon of the University of Pe vania will tender the team and t accompanying party a testimoj dinner. In addition to the practice in Chi- cago the squad will have workouts at Omaha and Ogden and in the stadium at Berkeley, Calif, upon its arrival there, Asso- PITTSBURGH, Pa., December University of Pennsylvania's special | bearing westward the Pennsylvania | foot ball squad, trainers, coaches antl | over 100 fans, made a one-hour stop- | over here last night when the rear | car developed a flat wheel | A crowd of 100 Pennsylvania alun |and friends greeted the tralm an | were given an opportunity to tend | Coach Lou Young and his staff by | wishes. Clyde Floro, substitute "quarter. | back. joined his team here, swellink 4 the list of players to 34. Coach Young expressed the hopk that the squad would arrive in Ber keley in time to get into fighting trim, mtating that the cold weather had handicapped the team in its pre- paratory work in the East The loss of Craig, Fairchilds and Wilson was bemoaned by the Fcedand Blue mentor. He characterized the loss of these stars as a serious blow to the hopes of the 11 in its strugele with the Golden Bears New Year day | FORMER G. U. ATHLETE MAKES TOUR OF WORLD NEW YORK. December 27.—Emgr- son Norton, former Georgetown at) lete, who gave Harold Osborn a gréa {fight for Olympic decathlon horors at | Parls, will complete a trip around the world when he arrives here to com- pets In the Finnish-American A. C games at Madison Square Garden January 6. Norton, whose home is in Riv side, Calif., salled with the Olympi team from New York last June-18, and after competing at Paris went to the Far East, where he competed |in Japan and other countries. He recently reached San Francisco on his return voyage. Norton Will compete against Oshorn {in the high jump at the Finnish- American meet. Gt ST. LOUIS U. VS. VERMONT. ST. LOUIS, December 27.—Vermént University’s foot ball team- will meéet the St. Louls University eleven here Thanksgiving day next season, mak- ing three intersectional games on the St. Louls schedule for 1925. “Fhe others -will be Army-West Point, Oc- tober 24, and Carnegle Tech here No- vember 21. Perfeetly Natural Cleveland owners lubri- cate 23 moving parts with one shot. Warrington Mator Car Co. 1727 Comn. Ave. R | Navy Medical Center at Walter Reed Hospltal were to face the Fort Myer booters today at 1:30 o'clock on the Monument grounds.