Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1925, Page 69

= Part 4—4 Pages - The WASHINGTON, Sunday Stae D. C, SUNDAY Nurmi and Ritola Break World Marks : Training for Nationals Begins This Weel; MUCH-TRAVELED MARVEL TAKES 2,000 Runs Distance in 5:5¢ METER EVENT —Fellow Finlander Earlier in Fordham Games Does Five Miles in 24:21 4.5, Breaking Long ed from First e during kept a shoot peed as he length- e final lap. He stablished 1923, b P T ar Nilson, the te Nurmi for a after Au » on b a h and he looked at it e Burgess of G. U. Burgess of Georgetown won the handicap in a brilliant Joseph Ingoldsby of Boston pushed him closely at the fin- was the only scratch man en- Wins. 440-vard of ap College ish. He tered oren American 00-yard handican iating the Alan Telffr Penn alt won the \e half-mile, a handic: 1ch in 1 YV Booth, form kin ar and former colors of the Mi 2-mile special, defeating alght starters. Booth's 9.23 3 FHoly nedley Murchison, the greatest with ¢ 10 i Sta ] erack tion of Helf- p affal 59 4-5. Johr won easily Ho ate rne raring , won a “fleld tim 34 n ntereollegiat when Leo Larrivee, the Ter Tom Colle star, in Boston College wa second and Col University third Higgins, former Columbia athlete, but now wearing ors of the New York A. C., was the 1-mile handicap by laides, Greek-American A. ( rd handicap man. More than es started Pive-mile handicap— W nish-American A. ( John Coxtelln. Millrose third, Louis Tikkanen, F New ' York. . Time rilling fi rsity i Kolehmain New Februar, 2,000.meter spacial hazdicas rmi, atch) w Bandicap— W Wor .. New Yark 3 ral « York Booth second, William J School; third N A, Two-mile invitation. Tose A A.. New ) x, Hochester Te 440-yard handicap—Won by James Burgess tieorgetown Universily (scrateh): second, fokeph Tngoldshs. Roston College (10 yards): Primes M Joseph's C. C.. Ne ork’ (18 ¥ 51 25 seconds. Medley rela 880, mils) Holy Cross Furns, Higgios, ird, Colum SKI CHAMPIO.NS ENTERED IN INTERNATIONAL EVENT CHI who AGO, January and pres- s of ski r ame them- us localities, are among n the International which is to open to- Fox River Grove slide has it near Car Andres Haugen, Minneapol & member of America’s Oly m; Henry Hall, Detroit, Mich,, holder of world record jump of 229 feet Norman Berger, holder the Canadian champiofiship, will jo among competitors. Martin Haldaasen, Chri Wilhelm Ursin will repre CALIFORNIA U. SEEKING INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET By the Associated Press, University of California. three-time winner of the tercollegiate A. A A. A. track and field title, would 1ike to Etage this blue ribbon event in its new stadium at Berkeley this year or next The Golden e rewarded £ continental journ the bulk of the L bership lies in the Dast is likely to mifigate against any prospect of the evept’ going to the Far West, the “xBenee of transcontinental traveling wolild be prohibitive for many insti- tutlans at it Minn., ipic ski the Berg and ent Norway. Bears the feel they should frequent trans- but the fact that A A A A mem- BEAUMONT IS RELEASED FROM PACT BY CHISOX By the Associated Press Charles Comiskey Chicago Americans Beaumont. (Tex) i & contract under w to have its choice of one Be player during 19 and 1 Thus a dispute which recen when Chicago protested the sale by Beauniant of ltcher O'Neal to the Philadelphia tionals is believed settled, of the sed the ab from 1o was umont owner as rel ague ich Chi ly arose s American campaig burst | the | tanding Record. Page.} Nurmi carried his his time at the end of each k and when he saw that he would d crossed the line, still running easily. tanding than Nurmi's since on the record hooks almost 12 years. )8 starters who gave him opposition Id finished of more o iNURMI'S STRIDE NORMAL, | VETERAN TRAINER FINDS A podnt of interest for track fol- lowers has been divelged by Pete exelman, veteran traimer of athletes. He says that by act meaxurement the racing stride of Paave Nurmi ix 7 feet 4% inches n the extreme, about the average stride for distance runmers, ac- rding to the veteran tralmer. Thix is the length of the Finn's stride In hix sprint. Normally, Nurml's stride measares 6 feet 7 inches, according to the measure- ments of Hegelmam, made during a training race of three miles, in which the Finn's stride was care- fully checked. PAAVO TO GO AFTER TWO MORE RECORDS NEy Nurmi YORK, January will try to set records for two-thirds quarters of a mile petes on the first night's program of the Millrose A. A. carnival at Madi- Square Garden, January 27 and 17.—Paavo new world and three- when he com- race, originally arranged as a two-thirds-mile event. has been ex- tended ' to three-quarters mils at | Nurmi’s request to enable him to try {for records at both distances. The Phantom Finn's oppouents will ‘mmmp Joie Ray, Lloyd Hahn, Ray Watson and Jimmy Connolly. | An effort also {s being made to ob- tain the entry of George Marsters, | Georgetown star. | DIEGEL SETS RECORD; ' HE AND SARAZEN WIN ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, January 17.—Gene Sarazen and Leo Diegel, Hollywood refresentatives in the Florida Professional Golfers' League | won the first 18-hole league match plaved over the Boca Clega Golf and | Country Club course here today from | Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkwood, Pasedena team, § and 4. | Diegel set a new record for th course, going around in 67, and bet- | tering Hagen's 69, made last Saturday | when Hagen and Kirkwood played Cyril Walker and Jim Barnes. Par is Dicgel sank birdies on the second, Ifth, thirteenth and elghteenth, d but for unsteady work on the |other greens would have had a re- markable score. Time and again he had opportunities to break par, only to miss an apparently easy putt | Sarazen went around in 73. Kirkwood 74 and Hagen in 75 - Sarazen played a strong game in all departments up to the fifteenth, when, with match won, he eased up and became careless the balance of the | tw Hagen constantly was in trouble go- ing out, starting a bad day with a |drive from the first tee into the pines off the fairway. His ball went into a creek on the third and fourth and into the jungle on the fifth, Kirkwood had trouble with the traps about the greens, and lost a ball in the rough on the sixteenth, but was in position to gain glory when his second shot on the long eighteenth dead within 3 foet of the p{n. It par 5 hole. He missed the putt n eagle, but sank the next one. The match was the first on the schedule of the Initial professional league to be organized in this country, ers of the circult t if the experiment in Florida this Winter is & success an attempt may be made to organize clsewhere next Spring. The match today drew a gallery of nearly thousand with a greens charge of 32. The second league match will be played over the Palma Cela course, in fampa tomorrow, when Sarazen and Diegel meet Bobby Cruickshank and Johnny Farrell in a 36-hole contest. GRANGE’S GRID PROWESS SHOWN ON EARLE SCREEN Alumni of the Universi who attended the showing of the Red Grange foot ball films at the Earl Theater yesterday certainly saw a wonderful plece of gridiron mech- anism pictured. In scenes of the Michi- gan-Tllinols game, Grange was shown making his great run from kick-off #d his brilllant broken field dashes for censiderable gains. The ease with which he reversed his field and eluded and outran would-be tacklers was remarkable. The plctures also gave an ldea of the size and magnificence of Iilinois' new staalum, a memorial to her dead in the World War. The noble pile of Georglan treatment in architec- ture ranks among the finest sports structures of the country. MORE THAN 200 CURLERS IN BONSPIEL AT DULUTH DULUTH, Minn., January 17.—More than 200 curlers will gather here for the thirty-second annual bonspiel of the Northwestern Curling Association, which opens Monday morning to last a week. Curlers will come from Minnesots, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Ontario and Manitoba, according to Alex MacRae, | secretary of Duluth Curling Club. The bonspiel’s ten events Include prizes | whose listed value reach $1,811. ¢ of Illinois | | _BOSTON, Janvary 17.—Willlam B | Piercy, pitcher, has been outright by the Boston Americans to the Salt Lake Club of the Pacific Coast Leaguc, the Red Sox manage- ment has announced. released | ¥~ MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1925. ATHLETES SEEKING TO .UPHOLD BASKET BALL PRESTIGE OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BASKET BALL At Georgetown—Georgetown, Wentern Maryland, 17. 25; At West Point—Army, 35; City Col-| lege o York, At Baltimore—Loyola, 2 University, 17. At New Haven—Navy, 28; Yale, 19, At Princeton—Princeton, 43; Swarth- more, 23. At Chicago—)iinnesota, ®o, 18. At Urbana—Illinois, 34; Indiana, 24. At Philadelphia—Penn, 24; Cornell, 1. At Annapoliv—St. kins, 15. At Ann Arbor—Michigan, 39; Ohio State, 29. At Columbis—South Carolina, Georglm, 27. At Oxford—Tulare, University, 15 At Ralelgh—North Carolina State, 29; Duke, 22 At Chapel Hill—North Carolina, 44; Davidson, 13. At Hanover—Dartmou: bim, 15. At Providence—Boston University, 31; Brown. 15. At Lexington, Va—V. P. L, 20, \ At Danville—Kentueky, 33; Centre, z7. Catholie 26; Chica- John's, 32; Hop- 33; 30: Mississippi 31; Colum- v. NEW Yb}K TENNIS BODY INDORSES WRITER RULE UTICA. N. Y., January 17.—Indorse- ment of the proposed:new player- writer rule of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, election of Louis F. Daley 6f the Fast Orange Tennis Club as president and award- Ing of two out of the thres sanc- tioned New York State tennis cham- plonships was the business transact- ed by the New York State Tennis As- sociation at its amnual meeting here today, - v HARRIS, AN 88 SHOOTER ON LINKS, GIVES VIEWS - ON GOLF VS. BASE BALL ce T manager has spent the major portion of the day on the li has become the most ardent of all that this interest in the game has not lulled st week of golf is the first he has.p AMPA, Fla., January 17—Bucky Harris today finished the most suc- ful week of golf in his entire career. exception when inclement weather kept him indoors, the Washington Every day with one ks. Bucky Despite the fact ed in over a year his ; on- the contrary it has increased ardent golf bugs. [rnurmcuil}'. according to his own statement Says Bucky, “I have never enjoyed the game more in my life, of course I realize Iintend to play enor Harris s s h long lay-off from the game s not visibly affected his score. At present Bucky shoots be- tween 80 and 90, usually totaling 88 on the Temple Terrace course, over which he plays most of the “When I quit playing golf,” said Har- rig today, “I was shooting in the 80s, with occasional siumps inte the 90s, and T find I am going at about the same gait now.” When asked if there was any dis- cernable difference in his batting dur- ing the period when he shunned the clubs Harris answered in the nega- tive “I have managers do, batting ey never contended, a that s some golf affects the . That is the bunk,’” says Bucky. “T hold that the harm in golf lies purely on the physical side. I do not believe a man is able to play £01f in the morning and give his best in the afternoon to base ball. I think that the contention of golf gaining such a moral hold on a player that he is unable to concentrate on base ball is ridiculous. It is equally as ridicu- lous to claim that a man is unable to swing the ash with his accustomed dexteri aftep swinging the mahsie. VANCE NOT A HOLDOUT; PLEASED WITH SALARY ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., January 17. —*“Dazzy” Vance, Brooklyn pitcher, reported a “holdout,” told newspaper- men today that he would not adopt such a course. “I am more than pleased with the salary I am getting and I intend to stay with the Dodgers as long as it is possible for me to hold my own,’“%he pitcher was quot-‘| ed a8 saying, PENN BEATS CORNELL. PHILADELPHIA, University ¢f Pennsylvania defeated Cornell University, 24 to 19, in an intercollegiate league basket ball January 17.— game here tonight. It was, the Tthacans’ first league contest of the year. They won the title last season, that I shall have to give it up soon, but in the meantime enough to last me until the base ball season is over.” Harris declares that he has no ob- jection whatsoever to any of his ath- letes playing golf in the Winter. When base ball training starts, how ever, ha expects the best in the player to be given to base ball, and conse quently taboos golf. They are h sole reasons for his objections to the game during the base ball season Griffith holds the same opinfon, ays Bucky. Harris says he, of course, intends to abandon golf during the base ball season. He expects to do just the things he demands of his players and will join them in abstaining from the game after serious diamond work’ gets under way. Bucky's card of yesterday while playing with Johnny Farrell, Bobby Cruickshank and Griff on the Temple Terrace course was certainly nothing for an amateur to be ashamed of. The 18 holes have a total distance of 6,681 yards, with a par of 72 and a bogy of 75. Harris shot it in §8 with a card as follow Out Par i Par NAVY OPENS MAT SEASON WITH A/WIN OVER LEHIGH ANNAPOLIS, 'Md., January 17.— Opening their schedule of wrestling contests, the midshipmen grapplers continued to show their class by de- feating the strong team of Lehigh Unfversity, 10 to 6 points. Navy's points were made up of two falls and three decisions, while the Brown and White strong men gained two decisions. 6 4 3 HOCKEY GAMES. At Princeton—Dartmouth, 3; Prince- tom, 1. At West Point—Army, 1; Massachu- setts Tech, 1. At Pittsburgh—Iort Pitt, 5; Boston A A, 2 At Cleveland—Duluth, 3j Tpnl, 1. Cleve- the P Assoclated Pr Paris to carry out his agreement. The advance sale for the fight with | Brettonel, the forraer European light- | weight thampion, has reached over {100,000 francs, and the promoters al- lege that Dundee's failure to appear after his contract had béen duly sign- ©ed and registered according to French law would render him responsible be- fore the French courts for heavy losses in preliminary costs and ad- vertising. The police informed\the promoters that they would be unable to request Scotland Yard to detain Dundee, as his was not a criminal offense ac- cording to the French law. The pro- moters' only recourse now is in the civil courts; The promoters also are lodging a complaint ‘'with the International Box- ing Union to have Dundee ruled out of the fighting same for life if he fails to return, Dundee was in conference with the promoters In the Hotel Claridee Throushout the nighi, until 6 o'clock this morning. He appeared to have overcome the fit of homesickness from which ho has been suffering for several days, and promised to leave for Franco Descamps’ training quarters and begin getiing into con- dition for the fight. Ins he went to Havre and took ths boat. | SPORTS RICE AND GOSLIN ENTRAIN FOR SPRINGS WEDNESDAY Tonsil Attack Delay Departure of Judge—Griff May Order More Work for Young Pitchers. Peck, Ruel and McNeely Are Balky. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor, The Star. LTHOUGH some threc months * & Nationals for the 1925 season Wednesday morning Edgar C. honored “play ball” ushers in another campaign, tra Ric must elapse before the umpire's time ning by the will get under way this week. Ear e and Leon A. Goslin, outfielders extraordinary, will pull out of Uniog Station on a train bound for Hor Springs, Ark., In addition to taking the full where on Friday they will start a three-weeks' course o sprouts that will serve as a preliminary to actual base ball condition activities scheduled to follow at Tampa, F la. 2 I-bath treatme: t e Spa, R and Goslin expect to tune up their golf to the point where Clark Griffit} will have to look to his the middle of next month laurels Until a company during their Jong journey southwestward in t 1. Judge, king firstsacker, who also has been b; siege of illness has put Josephus on base ball's only completely scotched. CF GRIFFS TO SIGN UP Clark Grifith took time out he- tween golf and bridge Jong enough yesterday 1o wire he had received the ~xigned contract of Michael Angelo MeNally, the Yankee in- ficlder obtnined iaxt month by way of Boxton, and who ix slated for the role of chief understudy for Bluege, Peck and Harris this year. MeNally is the fifteenth Grifi- man to accept terms for the com- ing season. There are seventeen more on the roster yet to be heard from. A majority of them are pitchers—I1 of them, to be exact. DEMPSEY WILL SEEK FIGHT, SAYS KEARNS LOS ANGELE —Jack Demps: Calif., January heavy-weight cha pion, and Jack Kearns, his manager. will go East next month to ser whether they can arrange a bout for the Summer, it declared by Kearns toda Tex Rickard, if he expects to match Dempsey with Tommy Gibbons or Harry Wills for a title fight in June, “is proceeding on assumptions,” Kearns said, declar- ing no arrangements have been made. for Dempsgy's anno that he will retire in June Estelle Taylor, motion picture Kearns said the only thing about that is the publicity read and that it will ing on the trip East seek a match. FIGHT TITLE CHANCE T0 BE GIVEN DELANEY NEW YORK, January 17.—Two difficult barriers stand between Jack Delaney, Bridgeport, Conn., weight, and the world 169-pound title, but it expected he Will get an opportunity to scale them within the next two months. These barriers constitute the punching Paul Berlenbach an. champion, Harry Greb. Delaney’s feat in stopping Tiger Flowers, Atlanta, Ga., negro, in the sacond round of a 12-round match at Madison Square Garden Friday night places him on the verge of @ cham- pionship match with Greb, but Rickard would like Delaney to meet Berlenbach before taking on Greb. Delaney fittingly established his superiority over Berlenbach when he knocked out the latter last Spring. However,. the New York boy has been coming along fast since then and feels he can give a good account of himself in another fling at Delaney. Rickard said today that no arrange- ments had been made for the Berlen- bach-Delaney match but that negoti- ations would be started next week The winner of this match’ will meet Greb in a title fight, Rickard saidy Defeat Costly for Flowern. WARK," N. ‘J, January 17.—A 12-round bout between Ted Moore and Tiger Flowers, which was sched- uled to be held at the Newark Armory on Fgbruary 2, was canceled today by Babe Culnan, one of the pro- moters. Culnan said the cancellation decided upon following the knoc defeat of Flowers at the hands ¢ Delaney in New York Friday night 17 incement nd wed actre: knows that he have no bear- next month to is hard- was out Jack DUNDEE GETS HOMESICK AND JUMPS PARIS BOUT ARIS, January 17.—Johnny Dundee, former featherweight champion of the world, sailed on the steamer Farig from Havre today. The French boxing promoters claiming to hold his contract to meet Fred Bretonnel in a 15-round contest in Paris January 27, asked the French police to have him intercepted at Plymouth and returned to AUGUSTA DRAWS EYNON FOR TEN DAYS OF GOLF Clark Grifith and Stanley Har- ris, who have been sojourning at Tampa since week before last, are mot the only officials of the Wash- ington ball elub who will get in some golfing thix Winter. Bd Eynon is to kave his fling. too. * Before e became buxiness man- ager, secretary and assistant treasurer of the Nationals Eynon was amateur champion of the Dix- triet. He has been too busy to devote much time to the links since, but still has a hankering for an occasional rognd. Most of the burden of handling Washing- tom's first world series fell on Eynon's ecapable shoulders. feeln he in due for n Uttle tion mmd will start thie mfier for Augusts, Ga, for 10 days of &olf. In bix party will be J, Thil- man Hendrick, Myer Coken, Harry Kaufman and David Hendrick. Chicago promoters are plawning (o stage another international six-day bicycle race, when left-handed | tion }and the athletes ¢ join him at Tampa few days ago the expected to have he person of Joseph en by the links bug, but a emporarily, the plans for threesome conscquently being the sheli t ter of fact Gett Judge is a athle & his feet wet tramping through slush a ago, Judge contracted a heavy which settled on his chest and severe case of sore throat inflamed tonsils, and he to his home. His physician told Joe he could forget any- plans to leave this week, but that if he followed directions he might be able to entrain for Hot Springs the first of next month. According to Judge it necessary for him to have his tonsils removed, but whether the operation will be performed before the season opens or postponed till next Fall will depend upon develop- ments, Minor changes in plans for Spring training have been rather numerous this- year, but there is good reason for belleving still another will made—one that will involve about a rd of the entire squad May Shift Reporting Date. According to original porting date set fo terymen is February 22. This sq embraces Pitchers McNamara, Dud ley, Kelly, Brillheart, Zahniser, Mar- tina. Russell tn' add to Cath 1 Hargras Third Bas Rlyege is from this b hurle cold led to with town lan oung bat = Zachary, Oss that middle- | the | Tex | the early ga of the unusual heavy exhibi! cdule of the Na- tionals must be found With the first o prac affairs scheduled for March 10, w the Glants will be encountered a Falm Beach, the fingers will have had but a fortnight to get their wing in shape Griff always maintained three weeks of work is necessary t thoroughly loosen a fiinger's arm and for the past couple of seasons ha had his rookle chuckers busy during both of the last two weeks in Febru ary. Tt is likely that when Griff gets t studying his training plans he will dis cover the situation and send out revised orders to this co ch: in a | weelk earlier. Griff and Harrls anxfous to demons “Spring world series” with the Giants that there was nothing flukey in Wash ington's victory over the Nationa League champions last Fall. Thirtee games have been listed with their rival of last October, and it Is a cinch that the prexy and pilot of the local outfl will overlook no bets in trying to grab a majoritysof them Trio May Be Slow Signing. Ctility Inflelder Mike McNally ha | ing clambered aboard the band wagc vesterday, 2 half of the tives on of the Gri now are lined up for ecrvice mext Sun mer, with a month yet remaining be the time limit for getting under cove will arrive. Peckinpaugh alone of thr inflelders is unsigned, with McNeely the fiychasers and Ruel of tho back stopping department the principal othe absentees aside from the flinging corp: There is every reason to believe thar this trio will give Uncle Sam's postal employes at Tampa more to do than the rest of the squad combined beZore nego tiations are finished.- Peck already has voiced some pertinent remarks at home in Cleveland anent the responsi bilitlés of a prosperous employer to hie employes, McNeely is credited with hav ing announced in far-off California tha he has politely requested asrevision up ward of the figures contained in th contract submitted to him, and the tense silence existing in St. Louls, wher Ruel holds forth during the W regarded as having great significance. A player never becomes a holdou! until reporting time arrives with him still unsigned. There is very little like hood that an impasse will be ence tered.in negotiations between Boss Gri fith and his athlete: but the date actual capitulation on one side or the other In the case of a few of them max come perilously close to that designated for them to be on the job. Obligation of Title Winner. Construction of a tier of seats over the right fleld pavillon, which is ex pected to start tomorrow, and when |completed by April 1, will add ac commodations for soms 2,500 fans, i not the only improvement contem plated for Clark Griffith Stadium this year. One of the oblig@tions incurred by a winning team is that of display ing bunting symbolic of the honors earned, and to accomplish this a new flag pole is essential The old one was plenty good enough when the Stars and Stripes alone floated from it, but under the new order of things a staff sturdy enough to support ban ners emblematic of the American League title and the world champion | ship in addition to Old Glory is neces. | sary. In order that neither outfleld stand nor fence ‘'may interfere with the proud display of these three flags against a fitting background of sky a staff of steel 60 feet in length fe to be erected in the extreme limits of dead center fleld, where all hoisting ceremonies may be witnessed by spectators. It is estimated the mew pole will involve an expenditure of about $3,000. Special dates for the raising of first, the American League banner, and then the world cham- plonship flag, will be deslgnated aft- er the season's schedule is announced hi that rate gu his ILLINOIS BEATS INDIANA TO WIN THIRD STRAIGHT URBANA, 1L, January 17.—Tlinois defeated Indlana in Lasket ball here tonight, 34 to 24. It was the third straight Big Ten win for the Llinois five. Jilinois led at the half, 14 to 13, .