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‘ THE EVENING S TAR, WASHING' ON, D: C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1925. SPORTS. Harris Switched to a White Collar Job at the Mine on Advice of His Family FEWER DOUBLE-HEADERS, TOOK CUT IN WAGES TO PROTECT FUTURE Bucky Had to Arise at 5:30 A.M. Back in the Old Days and Catch Train to Get to His Work on Time. This is the third installment of the autobiography of Stanley Harris, youngest major league base ball manager in the history of the game and the viotorious strategist and one of the outstanding players in the 192} world series, in which his Washington club won the yennant for the first time. rise of Harri The from colliery boy to big league manager in eight years is one of the most remarkable Vife stories America has ever produced. Chapter 3.—An Eye to the Main Chance. BY STANLEY (BUCKY) HARRIS. HE wi reduction in hours. 1f I took a week. That didn't look very good and Merle soon convinced me th e-collar job didn’t pay as much as the one in the mines. Instead of 12 cents an hour the scale was 8 cents. There was no the job my pay would be cut to $4.32 to me. But the arguments of mother at my best chance for getting ahead lay working in the office, for a time at least. The other boys in the = me about tuking a job at less money They couldn’t understand why a fel low would do such a thing. And I wouldn't have if it hadn't been for my mother and brother. A couple of dollars a week was a lot of money to the kids in Pittston—and to their families as well. “We'll get along all right,” mother wasured me. “I want you to grow_ up to be something besides a miner. You won't get very far working with your hands alone.” Again I informed her T would be & base ball player some day. She smiled and told me in the meantime to work hard in the office, go to night school and let my base ball future take care of ftself. Merle Tries to Be Kind. “Stan, vou're a live-wire kid and this may mean a good break for you,’ Merle told me when I made the change. “It's a tough racket trying 10 make the grade in professional base ball, and you're so doggone small youw'll have a lot of trouble. Now, if your size should be agalnst coal company. “I'm not through growing yet,” answered. “T'll be big enough to play base ball for a living some day if I've ot the other stuff.” “Atta boy,” Merle came back. “But always leave yourself protected when You make a jump. Don't neglect a sure thing to gamble on an uncer- tainty. Do your best on the job and the next one will take care of itself.” Knowing how set I was on becom- ing a base ball player, and knowing from personal experience the fierce competition for minor and major league berths, Merle was preparing me for what he feared would some day be a great disappointment. He didn't set a very high value in those days on my playing ability. And 1 don’t blame him, either. .Few kids over looked less like major league timber. The Butler colliery was four miles from Pittston. 1 had to get up at 5:30 in ths morning to catch the company train for the mine. Mother would let me sleep until the last pos- sible minute. I could dress as fast as a fireman. She would have a hot breakfast on th etable when I raced into the kitchen. She would see I was bundled up to the eyes on cold mornings. And that was a tough winter, too. I musthave made a strange sight, as I jogged up and down the wind-swept platform to keep warm while waiting in the lantern light for the train to take me to work. I came in for a lot of josh- ing from the miners because of my clothing. Much of it had once been Merle's. Some of it was patched. One of them, a Pole, who had Amer- icanized his name to Nick Stanley, had a lot of good natured fun with me. He was a giant in stature. Like most big men, he was slow to anger. The only time I ever saw him mad was when he beat up two fellow Poles who ousted me from my seat and dropped me, none too gently, in the aisle. They evidently had had a hard night in the barrooms. Certainly they needed the seat more than 1 did, but Nick didn't like their meth- ods Gets Some Good Advice. When he had beaten them up thor- oughly he took the seat and puiled ma in beside him. In his precise Eng- lish he told me that when I grew up never to let a big man pick on a little one. Poor Nick! He went to France to fight for his adopted coun- try and never returned Nick and I became great friends. He would joke me about being all cov- ered up except my eyes,,advise me always to keep them open and to use them daily to learn something. He predicted that T would be a mine boss He couldn’t understand why I wanted to be & base ball player. 1 read him the sporting pages, telling of blg league salaries. They were far less then than now. To Nick the figures seemed fabulous. They did to me, too Maybe I won't ever mak as $5,000 a vear.” 1 told Nick, “but Tll make a couple of hundred a month. “Don’t aim for the low the high,” Nick advised. vou will be big—then. you big thing: He had been going to might school and hed studied copy book proverbs. But no 6ne can say his. philosophy was unsound. Nick was a friend, ail right. 1 wish he might have seen the world series with the Giants (Copyright, 1925.) —aim for Some day can do Tomorrow! Sunday School League Days. NORWICH POLO TEAM TO PLAY V. M. |. HERE By the Associated Press. Norwich University of Northfield, , will send its polo team on a record 4,000-mile journey through the Middle West and East this Winter. The tentative program for the tour includes the following dates: Janu- ary 31 and February 1, Michigan Polo Club, at Detroit; February 2, Black Horsa Troop, at Cleveland; February 2, Chicago Polo Club, at Chicago; )Jebruary 4, 64th Cavalry Headquar ters Troop, at Cincinnati; Februar: officers of 10th Infantry, at Cincin- nati; February 7, Virginia Military Institute, at Washington, D. C.; Feb- ruary 8, Asmy, at West Point. Murray Wglbert, new president of the Amateur Athletic Union, believes in keeping in personal touch with his organization. Last month he visited the Allegheny Mountain Association, headquarters of which are at Pitts- burgh, and this month he will pay an official call to the New England district. In February he will visit the Indiana-Kentucky Association «nd expects to attend the national indoor A. A. U. title event at Louis- ville, February 28. vt Gold foot halix, emblematic of the 1934 Western Conference foot ball ~hamplonship, will be presented to- night to members of the University of Chicago team. e joshed you, | you'll be set for a good job with the | as much | GRIFF AND HARRIS OAF-F; FRED MARBERRY SIGNS After today Tampa, Fia., will be officinl headquarters for the Wa ington ball club and all news con- cerning the world champions will emanate from th. for President Clark Grifith anl Manager Stan- ley Marris this morning boarded a rattler for the training camp. Developments of the last work- ing dey in the Capital were the declaration of a 40 per cent divi- dend by the stockholders, which constitutes something of a record for ball clubs, even world cham- plons: the re-election of officerw, including Vice President Richard- son and Secretary Eynon, and receipt of the signed contract of ¥red Marberry, mastodonic piteher. COBB HAS A CHANCE T0 SURPASS ANSON | By the Ascociated Preas Ty Cobb, who in 1924 batted over | the .300 mark for the nineteenth suc- | cassive season, will have a chance to | equal the all-time major league mark | established by the late Adrian C. (Pop) Anson. If he again enters the select bat- ting circle at the end of the 1925 campaign, Cobb's achievement, in reality, will be better than Anson's, for the Tiger léader's record would represent an unbroken string, while Anson, in batting over .300 for 20 years, had a break in his record. stralght years, beginning in 1876, but dropped to 1892 before he rallied the following season and finished up a five-year stretch of .300 or more in 1897. Lew Paluso, recently a contender in the New York featherweight cham- plonship elimination tournament and Utah's newest and greatest aspirant to ring fame, will meet Nobe Cer- vantes of Denver in a 10-round bout at Ogden, Utah, tonight. The bout will be an event of the Ogden Live Stock Show program. Willlam_ Killefer, manager of the Chicago National League base ball club, has joined the large group of base ball men Wintering at Los Angeles. Ray Fee. a fivweight boxer, who represented the United States in the Olympic games at Paris, has decided to turn professional, and Is seeking matches in California, his home. ‘When Abe Mitchell and George Dun- can, British professional golfers, fin- ish their Southern California tour at San Diego, February 8, they will leave for the North with about $10,000 more than when they arrived. Thelr Southern California program calls for more than 20 exhibition matches at about $500 an exhibit £ TSR, 'BROWNS’ PARK WILL | | BESAME OLD PLACE | By the Associated Press The St. Louis Americans will play to maximum crowds of 18500 for at least another year. Phil Ball, the team owner, has de- nied reports that the seating capac- ity would be increased this year. The Browns' home is the second smallest park in the major leagues. Pete Donahue, youthful Cincinnati pitcher, has established one record in the major leagues. He is the first of | the full-fledzed holdouts of the 1925 season, Stanislanx Zbyszko, former world heavyweight wrestling champion, in Chicago for another Winter cam- paign on the mats, despite his more than 50 vears of age. The veteran Pole will meet Allen Eustace, a glant from Wakefleld, Kan., in a finish match January 14. ck Dempsey’s rebuilt nose has set such a pace for plastic surgeons at Hollywood, Calif, the movie capital, that a new hospital specializing in | rebuilding - features will be erected there. The heavyweight champion had his nose done over for display on the cinema screen. 'ex Rickard has gathered four ban- tamweights for a tournament in Mad- day night. Buddy Taylor and Harold Smith will represent the territory around Chicago, while Nat Pincus and Jack Snyder will uphold the East. Pincus meets Taylor-and Snyder bat- tles Smith. Out of the mixups Rick- ard hopes to develop a contender for the title recently acquired by Eddie (Cannonball) Martin' of Brooklyn when he outpointed Abe Goldstein of New York Harry Kaskey, the young Chicago star, who was declared a rofessional by the International Skating Union last Spring after he was charged with demanding money for an expense ac- count in excess of his expenses, will remain out of competition this year and apply for reinstatement as an amateur next Spring. He will com- pete in amateur bicycle events during the Summer if his amateur standing is restored. Columbia University _opens _its Eastern Intercollegiate Basket Ball League schedule at Philadelphia against Pennsylvania tonight, with Capt. Wilson and Mannheim as its only veterans. EX-GRIDMAN WINS BOUT. NEW YORK, January 7.—Ed Garvey, former Notre Dame foot ball player, last night knocked out Ben Smith of Englewood, N. J., after 1 minute and 30 seconds .of fighting in the final bout: of an all-heavyweight card at the Pioneer Sporting Club. v Anson clubbed for .300 or more 15| -294 and .275 in 1891 and | |to write to me { here by | ison Square Garden, in New York, Fri- | Bucky, when he was office hoy at Bucky Ha series. And here he ix, making a home which he managed the winning club. 1ooks when he & N days, Commissioner Kenesaw ceived by a New York bas The letter was in response to lic. held back in the recent scandal and the case. It was urged by those who signed, the letter that the commissioner make public the testimony to allay such suspicions. His reply, in part, follows “I have read your letter of Decem- ber 27 * ¢ ©’and have not the slightest doubt of the accuracy of what vou sav, namely, ‘A lot of ear- nest, well-meaning and good friends of base ball firmly believe that there is something held back in the O'Con- nell-Dolan matter. Of course, to me personally this is not entirely agree- able, because if anything is held back, I am the fellow that is doing the holding. However, although I had expected to give out that testimony for publication long before this and will not postpone such action much longer, I must withhold it at least a few days more in what I conceive to be the discharge of my obligation in the matter. “Will vou be good enough to in- form your colleagues who joined with you in your letter of December 27 of the above? “Your and their taking the trouble is certainly appre- ciated.” ~ Wil Wait Few Days. Comissioner Landis' desire to with- hold the testimony for “a few days more” is taken to mean that he is still investigating the attempted brib- ery case and his efforts would be embarrassed by the publication of the testimony at this time. He has al- ways contended among his friends that publication of the evidence would be unwise rcince he was using it as new leads for a further inquiry into the scandal. He has often asserted that to reveal the testimony would “tip his hand” and frustrate him in any further investigation However, it ‘appears now that he has reached the end of any investigation based on thg evidence uncovered and is in a position to give the testimony out. In view of his remarks about the testimony furnishing new péssible leads, sensationgl revelations may be in store when the fulk testimony of O'Connell, Dolan, Heinie Sand, Frank Frisch, George Kelly and Ross Young is revealed. The testimony is that made by the above men in the three hearings held dis before and during the late world series. Frisch, Young and Kelly were accused by O'Connell of taking part in the attempt to bribe Sand of the Phillies to throw the third from last game of the season, when the Giants and Robins were fighting for the pennant. One of those who were active in de- manding that Judge Landis give out a copy of the testimony was William J. Fallon, attorney for Cozy Dolan, in the damage suit which the latter threatened to bring against the com- missioner. Fallon said he would take legal steps to force Landis to give him a copy of the testimony, but neither that action nor:the suit for slander ever was filed. The echo of the above scandal com- ing from the Pacific Coast on Monday has almost totally died away with the revelation that O'Connell had been eased off the basket ball five on which he was to have been a team- mate of George Kelly, the Giant first baseman. % John A. Heydler, National League president, said that the case was closed so far as his office was con- cerned. From a representative in San Francisco he had received informa- tion bearing out the press dispatch that O'Connell had been let out, and this, said Heydler, appeared to settle the “difficulty. However, there was still some doubt whether or not Kelly and O'Connell had played on the same team in games preliminary to the league sea- son. Heydler said that he expected further information from his San Francisco envoy, but ventured the opinion that the pair of ball players ball writer. the Butler collfery. He's the little fel- low standing at the right (front row), with a glove. The others are colliery players t00—and the mines have turned out some mighty good big leaguers. Bucky took a job at lexs money %0 he'd have more time for base b CHURCH FIVES FORM C. E. BASKET LEAGUE A six-team basket ball league, formed by the District of Columbia Christian Endeayor Union, opens its season tonight in the gymnasium of Calvary M. E. Church. Churches Tepresented In the circult are Luther Place Memiorial, Eastern Presbyterian, Jirst Presbyterian, Friends, Sherwcod Presbyterian and Calvary Baptist. Three ‘games will Le played each Wednesday night on the Calvary court, the geason covering 10 weeks. The schedlle follow Janvary. T—Luther Place Friends, . Eastern Presby terian Presbrterian, Fiest Presbyterian Baptiet ars 14— Caivary Baptist v Presbyterian, ¥riends vs. Ea Lother Plage Memoria Memorial _vs. ve. Sherwood Ve ro Presbsterian. % First Presbyterian. Januery 21 —Friends ve. Calvary Baptist, Luther, Place Memorial vs. Eastern Preshy. terian, First Presbyterian vs. Sherwood Pres- byterian, January 28-—Luther Place Memorial vi. Sher- wood I'tesbyterian, Calyary Baptist ve: Eastern Presbrterian, Friends ve. Flrst Presbyterion. Febrnary 4—Lutier Place Memorfal vs. vary Beptist, Fricnds vs. Sherwood Pres terian, First Presbyterian vs. Eastern Pres byterian, February 11—Bastern Presbyterian vs. Sher. wood Presbyterian, Luther Place Memorial v: Friends, First Presbyterian vs. Cwlvary Bap tiat. ¥ February 18—Friends v terlan, Caivary Baptist vs. terian, First Presbyterian Memorial February 23— Lutin Eastern Presbyterin tist, First Presbyterian vs terian Eastern Pre Sherwood Presby- ve. Luther Place Place Memorial Friends vs. a Sherwood Presby byterian, Presbyterian, First Presbyterian. i 11—Friends ve. Sherwood Presby. Luther Place Memorlal vs. Calvary First Presbyterian vs. Eastern Pres YANKEES WILL TAKE 1 world run in the final game of the xeries in The inset portrait of the testimony in 1924 O'Con- M. Landis promised in a letter re- focal another letter signed by six base ball reporters urging the commissioner to make the testimony pub- In that document it was pointed out that many base ball observers, even those iriendly to Judge Landis, believed that something was being that Judge Landis, by withholding the text of the testimony at the hearings in this city, was laying himseli open to the charge that he sought to stifle any further investigation of d not performed on the same up to this time. The lcague president said that the :ction of the promoter of the baske ball club had probably saved Kelly and Sammy Bohne of the Reds from team serious discipline at the hands of or- | sanized base ball August Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati Reds, it was said, has or- dered Bohne to cease all basket ball plaving this Winter. M’TIGUE AND WALKER NEAR SAME WEIGHT NEW YORK, January 7 Mike M Tigue, who won the light heav welght championship of the world from the Senegalese, Battling Siki, after the African had surprised the boxing universe by knocking the crown from the head of Georges Car- pentier, will K his honors tonight in the Newark Armory, opposing Mickey Walker, champion of the welterwelghts Although Walker is two classes be- low McTigue in boxing weight, the men are expected to enter the ring with _only a difference of 7 pounds. The New Jersey welter will be up to 153, it is predicted. If knocked out, Walker will still re- tain his welterweight crown because his opponent cannot make the weight limit. Walker is the favorite because of his speed. MecTigue is 32 years old, Walker, 23. The physical measurements -of the two champions follow Walker. S FEouned GIBBONS-FIRPO BOUT IS SOUGHT ON COAST LOS ANGELES, January 7.—A move to outbit London on the pro- posed Giibbons-Firpo fight has been started here by Dick Donald, a local promoter. In an effort to bring the bout to Los Angeles, Donald has sent the following telegram to Eddie Kane, Tommy Gibbons' manager, who now is in New York: i “Am prepared to better London's ofter for Gibbons-Firpo fight. Please tate terms by return wire! Bout {would be staged late in February in Los Angeles.” Firpo, now in Paris, was cabled a proposition Monday night, the pro- moter said. Though declining to name them, Donald said that he was'| representing a group of wealthy men, and declared that he had suffi- cient money to post a reasonable guarantee for the match, — +COLLEGE BASKET BALL. At Philadelphia—Columbia, Penn, 11. At Pittsburgh—Geneva, 28; Pitts- burgh, 25. ~ At Savannah—Savannak £. O, 38; Georgin, 33. At New Orleans—Tulane, 43; Au- burn, 31. "5 ¥ At New York—New York Ui 381 Brookiyn Poly, 25. 14; At Brooklym—Crescent A. O, 47;) pound of salt. There has been only | tional League. Teronto U., 82, i |ing | April to October. a number of erstwhile favorites have | been removed from the pay once thought that maybe, possibly, it he kept at it hard | enough and overcame all his faults, he might get a chance even in | Atlanta club of the hows how Bucky | keeping a keen eye on the play from outside. LANDIS TO MAKE PUBLIC 1924 SCANDAL EVIDENCE EW YORK, January 7—A copy e nell-Dolan base ball scandal case will be made public within a few | seen a good curve pitcher, 15 PITCHERS SOUTH NEW YORK, January 7.—If pitch- quantity means anything in the coming American League pennant | race the Yanks will Tun one-two from | According to names | and figures revealed by Kdward G Barrow, Miller Huggins is going to take 15 twirlers South with him to St. Petersburg on March 1. Nine of the number have never been seen before in a Yankee uniform Incidentally, Barrow disclosed that roll. In order they are George Pipgras, who has been released on option to the! Southern Asso- clation; Oscar Roettger, who has re- ceived similar sentence to St. Paul of the merican Association, and Al Mamaux, the former sweet singer of | Brooklyn, who will be released out- | right to one of the class AA teams.| The six veterans who will make up the nucleus of the Yank staff are Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, San Jones, Bob Shawkey, Urban Shocker and Walter Beall, the last-named being the right-hander who showed such a stunning curve ball in the late end of last season. In addition to the above six, Hug- gins has combed the minor league and come up with what he regards as the best young talent ver gath- ered together by the New York club. For one thing, Hug thinks he will have a sure winner in Ray Franci the temperamental . left-hander who was once with the Nationals and Tygers. ‘While a National Francis got into a fight with Ty Cobb, and Colb liked the youngster's show of |asts present for the opening game of VERNON CLUB ATThACTS WALTER’S ATTENTION NOW SACRAMENTO, Ca January 7.—~Walter Johnson, star plicher of the Washington American League Club, in Sacramento yesterday, on lis way to Los Angeles, sald that no definite proposition had been amy offer for that property. Johnson sald that he merely is wolng South to look over the &roumd, but that he is in a rece) tive mood it the Vernon club is on the market and ferms are of a satisfactory mature. CENTRAL FIVE HOST 70 GONZAGA TODAY Central High School basketers were scheduled to clash with the five from Gonzaga this afternoon in the Central gymndsium in their final | game before meeting the Kastern | High quint in the first tilt of th scholastic championship series on| Saturday. | As each of the other high schools| but Tech has already, beaten the | Gonzaga quint, the Central is figured to be a strong contender fin the coming series. Coach Coggins' tossers are expected to take the I Streeters into camp without much difficulty. Hale and McDonald, for- wards; Dezendorf, center, and Dean and Banta, guards, were expected to be in the Blue and White line-up at the opening of the game. Enright and Nee, forwards; Quinn, center, and O'Donoghue and Farrell, guards, were expected (o carry Gonzaga’s color: Business tossers were o be enter- tained by St. John's College this afternoon on the Vermont Avenue court METS BEAT PRINCESS IN GIRLS’ LOOP START A large crowd of basket ball enthusi- the women's basket ball league saw Metropolitan Athletic Club defeat the Princess five, 29 to 20, last night on the Wilson Normal court. Although leading, 16 to 7, at the Lalf, the Mets were tied at 16—16 in | the third quarter. However, the loss of the Princess eaptain, Annabelle Totten, who was forced out of the game by injuries, was keenly felt and the team failed to hold its opponent in the final attack. Miss Thomas of the Metropolitans accounted for 19 of her team's total score of 29. Holton Arms School opens an eight- game schedule on Friday when it meets the Foxcroft School at Middle- burg, Va. Other games on the sched- ule are: January 17, National Park Seminary; February 14, Oldfield School at Old Cove, Va.; March 21, Gunston Hall; 28, Miss Madeira's School. Con- tests with Miss Eastman’'s School, Friends, and Penn Hall at Chambers- burg, Pa, are pending. Indian Head girls play their first game of the season on Friday night when they meet the Surrattsville High School girls on the Surrattsville court. | PLAN OF BIG LEAGUES Experience of Majors During Last Campaign, When They Sought to Shorten Season, Proved In- advisability of Numerous Twin Bills. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, January 7.—The pl N now on. The arguments of fi aying of numerous double-headers is to be eliminated by the major leagues as much as possible from nance and of extra drain on players long advanced, found extra force in the season of 1924. The majors wished to shorten the season in 1924. to a close by October 1, they had to they found it-did not pay them. were a number of natural ones, cau them all, when it came down to the Trying to bring it stick in a lot of double-headers, and On top of the artificial double-header sed by postponements, and_ betweer final days of the pennant hunt, ti cantending clubs found it an almost superhuman task to keep their pitcl ng corps in order, while the other extra work. Basket Ball What is the correct method of pass- ing a ball (short passing game)? BY MAURICE KENT, Basxket Ball Coach, Northwestern University. For thix type of game I .believe that a two-handed underhand pass or an overhand “hook” pass should be used. In thix short passing game the pass is mearly always on a straight line—that s, it has no loop and rums parallel to the floor. It culd be about waist high and y. Practically always the ball xhould be passed to the receiver ai not to an opem space, allowing for the receivers speed. The use of this short pams makes it very hard for ®=u opposing team to intercept the bell, which is the main reason why %o many teams have adopted the short passing game. MATTf IN (iKECk.EB EVENT. PLATTSBURGH, N. Y., January 7.— Christy Mathewson, former base ball pitching ace, will be one of a team from Saranac Lake who will meet W. W. Banks of Chicago, nafional checker champion here EPIPHANY JUNIOR QUINT splrit s0 much that he obtained him | in a trade the next Winter. Francix pitched for the Tygers during 1923, but was sent to Atlanta last Winter | and allowed to stay there until the| Yanks grabbed him. Other new slabsters on the list are | John V. Bradley, a right-hander who was a free agent on the Little Falls (N. J.) semi-pro team when signed| by the Yanks: Henry (Nick) Cullop, who was bought from Omaha last Winter for delivery in the Spring of 1925; Osborne Gardner, a left-hander, formerly with the University of Washington and a Yankee for a few weeks late last season; Henry John- son, right-hander, bought from the Bradentown club of the Florida State | League, where he was a sensation; Joseph P. Maley, right-hander, bought from Richmond of the Virginia League, and Monroe Schwartz, right- hander, bought from Atlanta. In addition to the above, the Yanks have signed two star college pitchers who will be graduated next June. In order to save the boys from embar- | rassment, Barrow is withholding | their names until a more propitious A TO TACKLE COLLEGIANS ER defeating most of the local junior quints and running up a| Epiphany Juniors are now looking for Tonight the lightweight five meets the much record of 52 straight wi honors in outside fields. Blue Ridge College Reserves, a Windsor, Md. heavier combination, at New Epiphany went through last season without a defeat and has lost only one game during the present campaign. in breaking its streak about a week The Rosedales succeeded ago. Since this defeat the G street players have accounted for two wins, the second coming yesterday from the Tremont five, 43 to 16. Schloss, Carroll, Braddock, Shiéld, Hayes, Theis and McGann probably will get into the game against the collegians tonight Northern Athletie Club members will meet at the Park View School on Friday night to plan for the celebra- tion of the organization's first anni- versary. The Park View athletes will clash with the Mount Vernon bas- keters on the Central High School time. National League, Next S P | to become manager. He now is pres base ball club. : Mathewson was not a pitcher of ex- treme speed all of his life, although when he first began to pitch for New York he_had quite as much speed as any pitcher who has been con- nected with the national - e. There have been those who have as- serted that he did not have speed. That is & mistake. ; He had it and plenty of it. { A good memory, long association with one organization, a manager who had a memory as good as his own, were all contributory forces to the assisting of Mathewson’s develop- ment. He did not play base ball on Sunday when he first began, which attracted a great deal of sentimental attention to him, although he did play Sunday ball later and played other games on Sunday when he felt so inclined. His greatest and best .single feat in his base ball life was his part in the world sexies of 1905, when he pitched to the Athletics in three games without a run being scored ainst him, a marvelous bit of work assisted by some of the ablest fleld ing that the world series ever has !'seen, and by a catcher who was in his prime and who, at that time, was the best catcher in base ball and could have been rated with the best catchers of any year. He was Roger Bresnahan. There has been no pitcher who could pitch the fadeaway except Mathewson. When some enthusiastic writer, carried away by the excess of imagination and the fact that he hi says a min has been found who can dupli- Fifty Years of Base Ball One of a Series of Articles by John B. Foster Com- memorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the XXXV.—Leading Pitchers—Christopher Mathewson. ENNSYLVANIA contributed one of the five great pitchers of the National League to that organization. 1 him from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific as “Matty.” is Christopher Mathewson, and he was born at Factoryville, Pa. He was the king of strategists and he had command of a curve ball, which he developed himself, and which came to be known as the fade- away, which was the undoing of the National League batters until his arm finally capitulated under the strain and he had to retire as a pitcher court tomorrow night, and on Satur- to Be Celebrated eason. Every base ball fan knows " His name ident of the Boston National League have acquired the fadeaway and he did not last long in base ball be- cause of an injury. He was Louis Drucke, a'tall Texan, who was with the Giants some seasons ago. The. fadeaway requires not only physical ability, but art and exact knowledge of how to handle the ball, and needs a wrist that is made ‘of steel. & Mathewson remained during his long pitching career with one club. That helped to develop him and de- velop his popularity, because fate had sent him to New York, which idolized him for the reason:that he.became 'a. great pitcher under the: nomes of the New York base ball fans, where they could watch his career and mar- vel aver it. He did come:within-an ace of jumping to the - Athiletics in troublous times of war, showing that like all bail players city sentiment had little affect upon him. He was looking for the best terms that he could get for his work. Thanks to g00d advice he did not go to Philadel- phia and it unquestionably was the best thing that -ever happened:- to m. Mathewson did not have the endur- ance of some pitchers. His energies, had to be conserved, 'yet ‘he:coul pitch twice in a series and did so. He was not a hard pitcher to hit, except when he used the fadeaway, but he was the hardest of all modern pitchers to hit safely. He made the batter hit at “good-bad” balls and that was one of his greatest suc- cesses. (Copyright, 1925.) cate the fadeaway, take it with a one pitcher who ever appeared to day will be thie guests of the Old Do- minion Boat Club In the armory at Alexandria. Epiphany seniors, Ar- gyle, Woodside M. E., Company F Re- serves and Walter Reed quints have been defeated by the Northerns. Liberty tossers, who are staging a benefit game for Bill McBride mext Tuesday night in the Immaculate Con- ception gymnasium, are to be enter- tafned by the Woodside M. E. quint on the Silver Spring Armory tonight. ~ Tomorrow night Liberty Club meets the Petworth Reserves in the National Guard Armory, at Fifth and L streets. Pollman quint fs prepared for a busy week. Tonight it ‘meets the Alexandria Orioles in the Alexandria Armory; tomorrow the Naval Re- celving Station will furnish the oppo- sition, and Friday the Interstate Com- merce Commission will be met. The last two games will be Dlayed in the Railroad Y. M. C. A. gymnasium Anacostin Eagles and Petworth Athletic Club clash tonight in Hitch- cock Hall, Anacostia. The Eagles de- feated the Chevy Chase fiye, 39 to 25. R. V. Knight tossers are scheduled to meet the American Express five in the Alexandria Armory after the clash between the Pullman and Oriole quints. Aloysius basketers had little trouble in downing the Petworth five, 45 to 28. Mills, of the winners, @ccounted for 7 baskets from scrimmage. Kanawhas, who outclassed the Ox- fords, $8 to 22, wish to schedule additional games with teams in their class. The manager may be reached at Potomac 3077. A record of 22 baskets was made by Morris of the Immaculate Concep- tion Junior quint, when his team defeated the Takoma tossers, 103 to 15. Immaculate later lost to the St. John's Midgets, 15 to 23. Stanton courtmen appear to be strong contenders for independent basket” ball honors. The conquerors of the Corby Bakery team were vic- toriol in their game with the Yosemites, 31 to 17. Sweeney’s toss- ing was the feature of the game. - 1 Pioneer Juniors, a newly organized basket ball club, is seeking games with other junior quints. Bernie Jones, the manager, at 636 Webster street, will receive challanges. Ganna, Collins, Black, Evans and Lester will perform under the Pioneer colors. YALE CREW WILL RACE " IN_TRIO OF REGATTAS NEW HAVEN, Copn., January 7.— The Yale varsity crew will race in thres regattas during the coming season. The ' Yale-Harvard regatta this vear wili be held on June 19, and the annual Yale-Cornell-Princeton regatta on the “Housatonic River, at Derby, Corin., on 16. "The 'Yale-Pennsylvania-Columbia (Next: Great Managers of the Na- First, John J. Me- Graw.). race will be rowed on the Schuylkill at Philadalphia on May 2, opening the seasom for all 'of these crews. court | players were pretty well fagged b Another argument againet double héaders is that teams which are not golng 50 well toward the end of & seakon are likely to play listlessly thus giving advantage to the teams which happen to have double-headers scheduled with the: To put an end to that condi much as to avold the extra stra the financial loss, the major clubs are seeking to avoid headers whereyer possi Reverts to Old Custom. One factor that may help in direction is the new rule to be tried this vear by the National Leagu~ which provides that double-headers may be played on the first home series 1f it is thought advisable to do sc That was the custom at one time Then a rule was adopted which p hibited the practice. This ruls was made necessary because some of tha owners were suspected of-taking ad vantage of a few drops of rain to make double-headers necessary. Necessarily the old rule put doub! headers over to the second or thir visit of a club, and if it ratned on th second visit it might make all th games of the third series double headers. It has happened that ther have been as many as five and six games on the last round of a club i a certain clty, and the Natlons Leagus in particular wishes to put a end to that condition, which has caused some criticism of their chan pionship struggles. Objection has been made to carr ing base ball too far into October be cause it might interfere with the foo ball season, but the objection does no amount to much, since base ball fans as a rule are not Strong supporters o foot ball. Most of the foot ball crowd {1s a college crowd. The base bal | crowd is more cosmopolitan. There are evidences that the minors as well as the majors are working to ward the idea of less double-headers having found that it cheapens th sport to have one double-header afte another. This is especially true among the minors, of the Inter | tional League. | (Copyright, 1925) | MOUNT RAINIER ATHLETES MAKE BASE BALL PLANS Mount Rainier Juniors have re | ganized under the name of the Mou | Rainier Athletic Club and are alread | making plans for their Spring | ball campaign. Fourteen play | and league ba been signed The following officers have bee elected: Don Bellman, president Frank Bauman, vice president; Leor ard Harper, secretary: Wiltia Smith, treasurer, and Joseph Pilur mer, sergeant-at-arms. Stewart vin will manage the base ball tear CHANGES ARE MADE IN HARNESS RACING CLEVELAND, January 7.—With t | admission of two new member tracks Aurora, I, and Atlanta, and in portant additions to and changes ir the rules, Grand Circuit stewards end ed their annual meeting with the re election of H. K. Devereux, Cleve land, president; E. W. Swisher, Co lumbus, vice president, and W. K Kinnan, Cleveland. secretary-treas urer, and the selection of 10 stewards Cleveland was selected for next year's meeting. A schedule covering 16 weeks, 1k longest season in its history, was dis tributed among the 10 member trac The season opens at North Rar dall, Cleveland. June 22, a new ear starting date, and closes the week of | October 13, at Atlanta Secretary W. P. Engleman of Kal: mazoo said that the American Derb:, founded in 1924, will be renewed & Kalamazoo on a $25,500 gross val basis. Starting and regularly delegated judges were clothed with power to fine drivers for disobedience and 1o remove a driver and substitute another for the remainder of a race. It also was stipulated that every penalty imposed upon a driver, train- er, owner or horse at any meeting of the Grand Circuit shall be enforced strictly at all other meetings unle modified or reversed by the board of stewards or the parent assoclation to which final appeal may be taken Three stewards will constitute a court to which any ciplined driver may take immediate appeal. At least three visiting stewards will atter each meeting. Grand Circuit tracks, according to a changed rule, may affiliate with any parent association, but the elrcuit's own rules and regulations are not to be set aside To clear the way for both dash and clalming events the rules requir each purse to be of at least $1,000 value was repealed. All horses car- rled in a stable must be registered with the Grand Circuit secretar: Money accumulated from such fees will be turned into a fund for the« benefit of disabled drivers and care takers. Declaration of starters must be made not later than 11 o'clock th morning of the day prior to the race In late closing, events on tracks where wagering {s permitted no owner, trainer or agent will be al lowed to start more than one horse. Drivers who violate a new rule r. quiring horses to be brought to a paddock or some special space are to be liable to fine or suspension. De- lays were frowned upon by adoption of a rule limiting them to five min- utes unless the judges grant longer time. Another new rule provides that a horse' can be claimed by another horseman who has an entry in the same race. No provision was made for the exercise of a free claim. Dates, in addition to the opening at Cleveland, follow: Columbus—July 6 to July 11. Toledo, Ohfo—July 13 to July 18. Kalamazoo, Mich.—July 20 to July =3 Avrora TiL—July 27 to August 8. orth Ri all (second meeting)—August 12 to_August 26. Readville, Mass.—August 81 to September 5. Hartford, Conn.—September 7 to September 12, Syracuse, N. Y.—September 14 to Septem- oer 15, Columbus. Ohio (second™ meeting) —Septoin- ber 21 to October 3. Lexiozton, Ky.—October 5 to October Atiauts, Ga.—Oetober 18 1o October