Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1925, Page 23

SPORTS. THE ' EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1925. SPORT S: Johnson’s Decision to Twirl Again This Season Puts New Life Into Nationals PLAYERS AT HOT SPRINGS SEE HIM AS A BIG FACTOR Feel That Chances of Retaining Championship Are Much Better With Wall Zachary Also ter on Job—Signing of Is Good News. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. Sports Editor, The Star. H day afternoon and threatens to dampen the spirits of the surance that Walter Johnson again " Bucky Harris and those of his tub themselves into generally good c tice to follow at Tampa are all hopp a ninet OT SPRINGS, Ark.,, February 21.—Rain, which started in yester- to continue throughout today, failed Nationals, buoyed by the definite as- will be on the job this year. henchmen who are here to hike and ondition for the actual base ball prac- ed up over Barney’s decision to essay nth consccutive season in Washington livery, as they believe to a man it will give them a better than even chance to repeat their pen- nant-winning feat of last year, wit dessert The fact that Jez Zachary signe was pleasing in news that Vean Gregg was reported word from his home in Nevada that which helped alleviate the rigors of hills yesterday. While no details of the understand- ing Johnson finally reached with €lark Griffith have seeped to this sec- tor, it is not mere guesswork to as- sert that Walter will pitch for the Nationals not only this season, but next year as well, as he has definitely abandoned the idea of purchasing a franchise in the Pacific Coast League following the string of disappoint- ments which attended his efforts in this direction during the Winter. Means to Continue. 1t is known that Walter was offered his choice of*contracts for either one or two seasons and that he himself dickered for an agreement covering 'a three-year term, evidence enough that he has given up the hope of landing a team of his own on the coast Had he any reason to belleve that one of the deals under consideration this Winter might be swung at the lose of the coming campaign, it Is logical to assume that he would have insisted on being bound for service in majors for only one more season, SO he would be free to act in the Fall, ind the fact that he had tied himself to the Nationals for two ensuing sea- ons indicates that his plans for the futgre contemplate postponement of hisgraduation to the role of magnate until at least 1927 There are any number of fans, even n Washinston, where his return will leefully hailed by the vast ma- fority as meaning a continued high franking for the team, who will regret tngt Johnson could not draw the cur- alir on his big league career while it ‘Jhe pinnacle of his success, and vho mentally shudder over the pros- beet of their idol's exit via the has- been route. But they are presup- posing t Walter is just about “thfough” now, while that worthy's ldecision to carry on proves he him- IscIf has no misgivings as to his Libity to continue delivering goods of ‘@ standard worthy of his reput; tion Has Fooled 'Em Before. Not a Summer has passed in many veafs now that the “experts” haven't direfully predicted his passing, but he' hlways has confounded them by refusing to be counted out, and, hav- ing3just finished the second best sea- ontof his entire career, in which he led ‘all the hurlers of his circuit, hoth as to winning percentage and effeStiveness in earned runs allowed, these would seem to be ample justifi- lcatipn for his confidence that the end is wot vet in sight for him A¢ wire the writer received from Johnison Thursday, reading, “Leaving torright. Tell Harris and the boys to e -ready for a real hike Monday mofning,”- indicates that Walter wiil e here in time to start his tubbing tofforrow, in which case he will get in 10 baths, allowing that the present schedule of starting for Tampa on Aafeh 3, is adhered to. This will hesgix less than the number that will [ha¥® been taken by the players who izcizon the job here the first of the weeis, but, according to Harris, this wilt;not scriously retard the training of sthe big pitcher, who always is in fafily good condition and scldom has iy, surplus weight to shed. More than six weeks are left be- ok the opening of the season,” said thes boy boss today, “and this will =iv8 Walter ample time to get ready. Wihgt he can't get in the way of wofk herc can be made up for in Tampa. Walter is hix own trainer, anthow. He knows just how much toil he requires, and will set his own pace. If all players were as con- entious as Barney, managing the hington club would be the softest of a snap.” May probable welcome W kind 't Welcome, kind of an be tendered nson tomorrow. Citizens and yurners to the number of several hundred smbled last Sunday, under tho mistaken impression that he had arrived, and it was announced at time by the committee on cere- nies, headed by the worthy mayor » the town, t the program would staged soon as Walter showed up No one come will 1t “ofl is ial Hot Springs will be ple to Johnson than de Milan, Walter's roommate and particular buddy during the many seasons they played together in Washington who has been hoiling out a couple of weeks, was gratified® to learn that arney would arrive before Zeb @ for Memphis, where he is to anage the Southern Association club this year. Warren O n several days in d checked in yester- ate, looking quite fit nd feeli cording to his own statem Curley will draw plenty of work during his.stay here Mike McNally w ¥'riday tramp to make to friends in a nearb; baek on the scene todas Goslin - failed to duplicate his golfing performance of the day be- fore and bowed to the superior club wielding of Babe Ruth, who gained in pocket, while losing in_weight during hi -hole tour. The Bambino trudges about the links bundle in three heavy shirts and a sweater. da a flying visit city, but was SPEEDBOAT IS WRECKED. PALM BEACH, Fla., February 21— Ono of Gar Wood's famous speed- hoats failed to take a turn in the jiast Coast Inland Waterway near Moynton, 14 miles south of here ¥ terday, leaped the shallow bank, snapped a 4-inch tree and was wrecked in the undergrowth, accord- ing to meager reports recelved here early today. The name of the boat could not be learned. REACH FINAL AT HOCKEY. PARIS, February 21.—Canada and Tnkland have earned the right to Compete in the final of the interna- tional fce hockey tournament. The British t d the final through the defe goals to The Canadians won their place by defcatling Switzerland, 11 to 2. s excused from the | h another fat world series melon as d and started toil at the Florida camp elligence to them, and they displayed mild interest in the as willing to accept terms, but it was ‘Walter was en route to Hot Springs an unusually arduous tramp over the DISTRICT WRESTLERS EARN . A. LAURELS C. W. Havens and Edgar H. May of Washington Canoe Club won titles at the South Atlantic A. A. U. wrest- ling championships held in Baltimore last night. James Anderson of the Canoeists and Claude Grigsby of Georgetown University were not suc- cessful in their contests, however. Havens scored in the heavyweight class, gaining a decision over Harry Machamer of the Baltimore Y. M. A. Havens, though, failed to pi Machamer's shoulders to the mat. May got a decision over T. A. Van Sant in the 160-pound class. Grigsby was defeated by P. V. H. Weems of the Baltimore Y. M. C. A. in the 175-pound class final. Ander son tried two bouts and lost to Julius Blalostosky In the 126-pound class and George Eareckson in the 135- pound olass. BALTIMORE TEAM BOWLS IN MATCH HERE TONIGHT An intercity duckpin match be- tween the Yannigans, champions of the Comforter League, and the St. Martin's Club of Baltimore will be rolled on the Comforter drives, Fifteenth and East Capitol streets, at 8 o'clock tonight. The Washington team picked from Dick Simpson, Harry Bailey, Joe McCarthy, J. O'Lone, James Stakem, John Maddox, John Werres, Joseph Powers and Randolph Shackelford. will be O succeed Thomas J. Lynch as members chose John Kinley T party in that State. Tener, born in with the Albert G. Spalding party in Spalding. He pitched some clever games with the Chicagos in his time, but it oc- curred to him that there was a bigger field than in professional base ball and at length he was in the banking business in Charlero, Pa. It was while a banker that he got his start toward being a politician, and, finding favor in the eyes of the Republicans of the Keystone State, he became governor of their com- monwealth and was re-elected. The position of president -of the National League appealed to him when it became evident that politics were finished for the time being, and, rather than undertake another campalign, he decided that he would enter the base ball field, especially as it had been agreed that he would be permitted to finish his term in office as governor before he took up the active dutles of being head of a professional base ball league. When the subject of electing him was broached to the National League the New York club filed an objection, which was in part one of sentiment, as it had been New York, through John T. Brush, who had put Lynch in office and the successors of Brush were not particularly pleased at the mannner in which Lynch was to be dismissed and succeeded by another who had no experience in base ball legislation, and whose path, pre- sumably, would be as hard to take as that of Lynch had been at the start. However, as the league meant to elect Tener no matter how the New York club stood, the latter went in and New York subsequently indorsed what had been done. Tener got along very well for a time. Then he ran afoul of the same forces that had made it lively for other National League presidents. He also found that the opposition of the American League was as strong as over, and that the president of the American League was as belligerent as he had been in other days, when it had been his purpose to make the American League successful, no mat- ter upon whose toes the American League trod. Naturally not a [ kind that was mecessary “scrapper” of the in a base R of that country. o “Don’t you notice anything peculiar about those streams?” he asked. Then it occurred to me. The streams had no ice on them, although the weather was very cold, and we had passed frozen streams that morning. “They are warm rivers, formed and fed by the springs that come out of the bases of these hills,” sald my In- formant, “and they stay warm all Winter. The ducks, mostly mallards, stay here all Winter. It is quite a sight, when the thermometer gets low, to see the ducks flying and swim- ming through the mists that rise like steam from these crecks and streams.” | A little later T was to learn that |a great many ducks stay in Jackson Hole, Wyo., all Winter. In spite of the temperature ranging dowa to morc GIBBONS AND WILLS TO BOX FOR CHARITY NEW YORK, February 21.—Harry Wills vs. Tommy Gibbons; Paul Berlenbach vs. Jack Delaney, and Sammy Mandell vs, Sid Terris—this the program of bouts being planned by promoters of the milk fund show scheduled for early this Summer at one of the metropolitan base ball ‘parks. Although the principals have not yet signed contracts for the matches, the promoters, representatives of a New York newspaper, said-yesterday that the managers of the contenders had tentatively agreed to terms and had promised to sign contracts at the figures offered. ‘Wills and Gibbons, both challengers for Jack Dempsey's heavywalght crown, will meet in the main bout at 15 rounds with a handsome purse for each and a shot at Dempsey for the winner. A representative of the pro- moters now on the Pacific coast, who sought Dempsey for the main attraction, has telegraphed that Dempsey will not be ready to fight before Fall, but that in the event he decides to fight again be- fore withdrawing from ring competition, he will meet the winner of the Gibbons- Wills matel Gibbons agreed to the terms some time ago, but it was not until yes- terday that Paddy Mullins, manager of Wills, who saw that a match with Dempsey this Summer was doubtful, agreed to a fight with Gibbons, if the nner could be guaranteed a fight with Dempsey. Berlenbach and Delaney, old-time rivals, will meet in the semi-final, if the card, as now arranged, goes through. Mandell and Terrls, light- weight rivals, will meet in one of the preliminaries. Mandell got the de- cision in a recent bout with Terris here. THREE ARE REINSTATED; ONE REFUSED BY LANDIS CHICAGO, February 21.—Three players have been reinstated and one placed on the voluntary retired list by Base Ball Commissioner Landis. Horace Ford, second baseman with the Philadelphia Nationals, was volun- tarily retired. He is going into business. Max Flack, outfielder of the St. Louis Natlonals, who was on the ineligible list because of failure to report to the Oakland Pacific League club, was reinstated. The others reinstated were Ervin Brame of the Philadelphia Americans and Ben C. Shields of the New York Americans. GREAT DRAW IS FOOGHT BY GARCIA AND HERMAN NEW YORK, February 21.—Babe Herman, hard-hitting New York featherweight, and Bobby Garcia of Camp Holabird, Md., fought a slash- ing 12-round draw at Madison Square Garden last night It was one of the most spectacular matches of the indoor season. Fifty Years of Base Ball One of a Series of Articles by John B. Foster Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National League This Year. LXVIII-LEAGUE PRESIDENTS—JOHN KINLEY TENER. president of the National League its Tener, who was then Governor of Pennsylvania and who stood high in the councils of the Republican Ireland, had come early to this country, and in his time had been a ball player. He made the Chicago Nationals when Anson was manager, and he was one of the players who went around the world 1888. He was a pitcher, a very pleas- ant young man and he was appointed treasurer of the expedition by ball fight, where one had to give and take all of the time, Tener began to tire of the constant friction, and the trouble came to a head when he made an open avowal that he would not hear any more cases as a member of the national commission, with the American League in a hostile attitude. Next, In a question of dispute that arose between him and John J. Me- Graw. manager of the New York club, the latter got off with a fine. There is little doubt that some members of the National League meant it to be more than a fine, but an assessment of $1,000 was laid against McGraw and he was not suspended. That trouble arose out of an inter- view primted by a reputable New York base ball writer concerning which there was a sharp disagree- ment, and in which Tener was critl- cized. A trial took place in New York City, at which John Conway Toole presided, and the result of the session was the levying of a fine, as previously related. During Tener's regime the league prospered and played some of its best champlonships. (In the next article, which will be the last of the series, Foster will tell of the present president of the National League, John Arnold Heydler.) —— ANOTHER OF BOWENS TO SHOW RING SKILL Local fight fans get an opportunity to see another member of the Bowen family in action Wednesday night when Eddie, youngér brother of Andy, tackles Nick Brown in the 10-round semi-final to the Turner- Baum scrap at the Washington Bar- racks. The 19-year-old bantam has an impressive record, having won nearly 21l of his 29 fights with knockouts. He is aggressive and is reputed to be able to deliver a stiff punch with either hand. THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President Izaak Walton League of America. ECENTLY I was riding on a train through eastern Idaho, and was surprised to see large numbers of ducks in the streams. marked about it to a fellow traveler, who happened to be a native I re- than 50 below zero, these ducks seem to grow fat and stay happy. The best duck hunting_in Jackson Hole Is Guring early December and late in November. The ducks during the day feed in the Snake River and the low marshes that it passes through. The water is very cold, and the ducks, tearing ice, every evening leave the river and roost in the many warm streams that come out of the nearby hills. It is these movements that pro- vide the shooting. X Geese also Winter in Jackson Hole; and the duck and goose hunts, in a foot or more of drifting snow, with the thermometer below zero, are fre- quent before the season closes, De- ccmber 16, MY GREATEST THRILL IN SPORT BY' MIKE BRADY Metropolitan open and twice runner-up for national open golf championship TPHRILLS are funny things. may fail to get them in some of your greatest trlumphs, and they come whizzing yp. and down your spine In gome of your smaller ones. Offhana ‘X should say that I got an much kick out of w inning the Metro- politam open chas plonship at the Engt mneers’ Clul st Sum mer as 1 ever dld in my golfing career. Maybe 1t was be- cause the finish was no tight. e M. J. “KING" BRADY Johnny Farrell and Willle McFar- lane, two of the greatest medal pla: ers in golf, and I were nearly dead- locked in first place when we started on the final 18 holes. On the first round McFarlane had gone into the lead, but Farrell play- ed so splendidly that he caught up with Willle at the end of the first day's play. I was hanging on close- ly. However, I spurted on the morn- ing of the second day, and with only a stroke's difference between us it was a situation to try noe's competi- tive spirit. Farrell and I were palred and I'll say for John that he was out there, glving all he had. His driving was & bit shaky and several times he found himself in trouble. Once, on the sec- ond hole, he landed in a deep, weed- ridden gully, but made a marvelous recovery that laid him on the green. And his putting! l engaged for the carnival. There are eight open events on the card. They are the 50-yard dash, 440- vard, 880-yard, 1,000-yard and mile runs and high jump, broad jump and shotput. For scholastics there will be a 50-yard dash. A 600-yard run for novices also is scheduled.” A num- ber of relay races are on the program. The meet management, however, has devoted most attention to the organ- ization of special races in which athletes of unusual caliber will com- pete. Foremost among these num- bers is the 3,000-yard run in which Paavo Nurmi will strive for a new record. In the fleld against him there probably will be Verne Booth, former- ly of Johns Hopkins, and Gunnar Nillson and Ilmar Prim of the Finnish- American Athletic Club. Another special race of exceptional interest will bring together Joie Ray, Lloyd Hahn and Jimmy Connoliy over a 1500-meter route. Hahn set a new indoor mile record only last Saturday night, while Connolly and Ray have been running faster on the board tracks this Winter than ever before. There probably will be much speed in the 800-meter special to be run. G ticipating in only five games, H. L. having registered 41 points. The Peerless quint, led by C. C. An- drews, took second place; the Mar- mons, captained by A. V. Cerceo, took third honors, and the Packards, R. T. Henretty, captain, finished fourth Tomorrow afternoom the Allied Five visits Gonzaga gymnasium for a return game with the Aloysius Big Five.. A preliminary will find the Peck Memorials and the Stantons opposing each other. The opener starts at 2:30 o'clock. Anacostin Eagles meet Woodside Athletic Club at 8:30 tonight inthe Silver Spring Armory. Eastern Ath letio Assoclation clashes with the Pet- worth five in the Eastern High School gymnasium. - Independents and Lincoln Guards Northeast, are matched for a game in the Eastern gymnasium tonight. The St. Stephens game, scheduled for this evening, has been postponed. A Z4-to-15 win over the Argyles makes the Independents’ victorjes 23 straight. Naval Receiving Station passers downed the Yosemites, 51 to 42. Scoring 35 points between them, ‘Whitaker and Capelli led the South- ends to a 54-to-19 victory over Car- dinal Athletic Club. Palace Athletic Club basketers took a 31-to-16 trouncing from Dominican Lyceum. A tenth straight win was chalked up by Corinthian Midgets when tBrl.;t:l(hzmi Midgets were downed, 10 0 9. After thieir regulars had rolled up a substantial margin, Columbia Junfor reserves put tife final touches to a 48- to-26 victory over Mount Rainfer. Takoma Tigers lost to Perry Ath- letic Club, the count being 41 to 26, Shiloh Athletic Club took the meas- ure of Senegal, 24 to 11. Delta Mu Fraternity tossers, lead- ers in the basket ball loop at Mary- land, were trounced, 17 to 12, by the reserves of Company F. ” Takomas and Owls were victims of the Noel five, the scores being 29 to 26 and 20 to 18. Gallaudet Reserves put the Navy Yard Marine quint to flight with a score of 32 to 12. Immaculate Conception Juniors were eliminated from the 125-pound championship running by Mount Ver- non Athletic Association in a 28-to-19 game. F. L. Temple, manager of Fort Humphreys quint, Is schedulihg games for the soldiers at phone Fort Humphreys 187 between 4 and. 6 pm. On Wednesday the Engincers You - He was dropping them In from gll angles. X \ Just behind us Willle McFarlane was coming along like a whirlwind, playing the magnificently steady game for which he is so justly famous. I had just settled in New York and was playing my first season for the Winged Foot Club. Naturally I was tremendously anxious to win such & great conquest as the Metropolitan. With 14 holes to go, I was still two strokes behind Farrell, and the was he was putting it seemed that I abmply couldn’t pick them up. But I kept plugging on, play- Jng par goif. . ‘Then Farrell's uncanny accuracy began to desert him. I picked up a stroke; then another, and we were even. News came from behind that McFarlane had missed a two-foot putt for a birdie on the tenth, and had landed in a trap on the fifteenth and that cost him another stroke. The moment ‘was tense with ex- citement, but I held my grip, trying to forget everything but the hole directly ahead. And, though I' came to the homerun with the knowledge that I could take a aix there, and still win, the excitement continued, for my mecond fo a deep sand Pit to the left of tho green. Play- ed too hard, the next shot would nend the ball across the green in- to an almost impenetrable tangle of weeds. Played too softly, it not escape the wand. o red of people were bank- ed around the green and slope leadin, to the clubhouse. And, when I cut the ball safely out, Soing down in five to win the championship, and the gallery burst into applause, I experienced my greatest thrill im sport. (Copyright, 1925. GREAT ARRAY OF STARS IN G. U. GAMES TONIGHT NTERNATIONAL track and field stars, as well as the cream of ath- letic talent of this vicinity, will strive for faurels tonight in the an- nual games of the Georgetown University Athletic Association in Convention Hall. An imposing array of contestants, headed by the re- doubtable Paavo Nurmi, Finnish record smasher extraordinary, has been : The program is so well filled that to end the meet before midnight everything must be conducted on scheduled time, so _the first event of the evening will be started promptly at 7:30 o'clock. The fleld will includeé George Marsters, Georgetown track team star, who has been running the half-mile around | 1:54 all Winter in meets about New York; Allan Hellfrich, Penn State's remarkable half-miler, who is credit- ed with being the best in the country; Mike Devanney and Jake Driscoll. Blll Cox, sensational Rochester schoolboy and member of the 1924 Olympic team, is due here to perform in the mile, his specialty, A 400-meter dash will have Jim Burgess, speedy Hilitopper, competing with Ray Watson. Louls Clarke, Bill Dowding, Boots Lever and Charlie Pugh will be in the 50-yard sprints. The three field events will be well filled. In the shotput, Ralph Hills, Washington boy, who has been star- ring with the weight at Princeton, will be scratch man. Bill Dowding and Bob Le Gendre, the latter world record holder, will compete® In the broad jum: There are to be a num- ber of clever leapers In the high jump, among them Ad Bond, Eastern High Schuohbfly, Wwho has been doing some sensational work ov, this Winte Pt EVANS IS LEADING SCORER OF AUTO BASKETERS AT “Y” OING through the season without a defeat, the Cadillacs have car- -ried off first honors in the Y. M. C. A. Automobile Basket Ball League. The winning line-up' includes Falls, Evans and Peters, forwards; Korman, center, and Osmond and Budner, guards. While par- Evans is high scorer for the series, journey to Bridgewater, Va., for a meeting with the Bridgewater Col- lege quint. Teams having gymnasiumis and wishing to arrange contests with the 100-pound “Y” Aces may phone Man- ager Potts at West 795, METROPOLITAN MEET ATTRACTS OVER 200 —-— NEW YORK, February 21.—More than 200 athletes, all well known in local “amateur circles, will compete tonight in the senior track and fleld champlonships of the . Metropolitan Association, A. A. U, In the 102nd Engineers’ armory. s The feature of the event-will be the four-mile walking speclal in Wwhich Ugo Frigerio, Olympic' and Italian champion, will try to estab- lish & new American record in com- petition against Phillp Granville, ga]r;ldlan champlon, and a _picked eld. Pat McDonald, . shotput expert, Is entered. Abel Kiviat, Wilco A. A. veteran, will be in the 1,000 yards event against Tom Campbell, Sid Leslie, John Barnes and other stars. 40 EXPECTED TO RUN IN STREET CONTEST Officlals of the Aloysius Club are expecting a fleld of 40 harriers, comprising the best home talent, to participate in-a five-mile race over the streets of Washington tomorrow morning, starting at 11 o'¢lock. The start will be made from the club rooms, at 47 I street morthwest. From there the runners will pursue a course ‘leading east on I street to North Capitol, south on North+Capi- tol to B street, east on B htreet to Second street, south on Second street to Pennsylvania avenue, east on Pennsylvania avenue to. Seventh street, north on Seventh street to Florida avenue, west on Florida ave- nue to M street, west on M street to Fifth street northwest, south on Fifth street to I street, east on I street to the Aloysius Club. N E Coach *Dan Hassett of the Aloy team requests that all members of his squad be at the starting point of the race tomorrow merning. .. , CAl RENAULT STOPS BURKE. FORT BRAGG, N.'C., February 21. —Jack Rénaulf; ~Canadian heavy, knocked out. Charlie Burke last night in the third of their stheduled 10-round bout. -quint at York, CENTRAL HIGH FIVE - TO PLAY YORK TODAY Defeated vesterday by the Reading five, 41 to 15, Coach Cogging’ Cen- tral High basketers will attempt a comeback against the York Institute Pa., this afternoon. In the Institute team Central will be meeting old rivals, as thres members of tHe combination played last year with the West Philadelphia five that downed the Washingtonlans in the final round of the University of Penn- sylvania tourney. Playing in the steel cage at Read- ing the Columbia Helghts schoolboys were outclassed in every department and scored most of their points on long shots. OVER SERIES Special Dispatch to The Star. TAMPA, Fla.,, February 21. strated this in the past. “We demonstrated it last season to be licked to put us in a position to “We demonstrated it last Fall w in the world series. ,“And as often as we care to giv Spring exhibition series with these agam.” This was the answer of Clark| Griffith, president of the Washington | club, to an article appearing in the Sporting News, in which it is stated that “John McGraw surely played a sharp trick on the Old Fox when he induced the latter to arrange the Spring renewal between the rival major league pennant winners of last year. The facts as to the arranging of the serles with the Giants are as follows, Griffith states, “Some time after the world series was over—and after McGraw had left for Europe—James J. Tierney, secre- tary of the Giants—called me on the ‘phone and suggested a renewal of the Spring exhibition games between | the two clubs. Seeing an opportunit; to schedule games which would give | us what we go South for—some good | practice before the season opens—l readily agreed “I recall that we have played the Giants before in the Spring—and beaten them. We shall play the games with the McGrawites just as | we would with any other club in ex- | hibition games—to get our team on edge, and to get a line on our rooki:| pitchers and other additions to our playing personnel. It is too ridicu- | lous to for an instant consider that either myself or McGraw would jeopardize our teams' chances in| “The Strengthened by the acquisition of Brist, former Business center, the Tech, basket ball five scored a de- olsive victory over the freshmen combination at Georgetown Univer- sity, 27 to 17. Western High had a walk-away with the St. John's College five, the final count being 51 to 30. McDiarmid and Dulin scored heavily for the winners. Leading from the start, St. Alban’s tossers triumphed over Donaldson School of Baltimore, 43 to 17. Brant and Hammond played well for Bliss when the superior teamwork of St. John's of Annapolls gave the Bliss tossers the short end of a 36- to-16 score. Gonzaga High basketers are in New York today for a mesting with Regis High Schoot Monday St. Francis Xavier quint will be encountered in the Gotham. YALE RELAY SWIMMERS SHATTER TWO RECORDS NEW HAVEN, Conn., February 21. —The Yale varsity relay swimming team broke two world records, and the Eli squad defeated Dartmouth, 43 to 19, In a serles of water events last night. The Eli relay team covered the 250 02 2.5, breaking the record held by the Illinois Ath- nd made the 300 yards in 2:27 3-5, lowering the Illinois Ath- letic Club record of 2:28 2-5 METROPOLITAN SEXTET ADDS ANOTHER GAME The Metropolitan Sextet, leader ina total of scven times. the Woman's Basket Ball League, 1 el i L L e Inside GOlf list of victories by defeating the Cap- By Chester Horton. YRIL TOLLEY, the stalwart C championship in 1924, made one of whom was Tolley and the ot itol Athletic Club six, 32 to 6." Calvary M. E. girl tossers downed the Sioux Athletic Club team, 38 to 13, in the Calvary gymnastum. It ix a rather common practice for Rolfers to graxp the shaft of the wood | club at the extreme batt end of the lenther. Often the left hand is| half ap inch or 50 heyond the end of the leather, xo determined ix the | player to get the longest possible hold. Grasping| the shaft in this manner throws the club slightly out of balance. To o grasp it| successfully the player must know how to delay his timing mome to compensate for the increased pull | which the club- | head will exert. It would be better | practice to grasp the leather farther down the shaft instead of at the butt | end. The best position for the hands | ix always found at about the center of the leather. (Copsrigut, 1 D. C. VARSITY TEAMS PLAYING OUT OF CITY | Georgetown and ton Universities athletic activities Laxt night's meeting between the Webster School and Washington Ath- letic Association teams was post- poned until Tuesday night. D. C. BASKETERS TIED IN FREE-SHOT EVENT Robert Jacobs of the Washington Y. M C. A. and C. Ellenson, high school student at Wausau, Wis., are tled for first place in the interme- diate class of the national fres throw contest sponsored by the Interna- tional Kiwanis Club and the Y.M.C.A. Each scored 48 successful shots out of a possible 60. The contest will be “thrown off” at | a date to be decided later, when it| will be determined whether W | ington will have first or 'second honors. Assistant, Physical Director Kellar of the local Y. M. C. A. received this report yesterday. He states that 26 States were represented in the con- test, In which Washington furnished 32 of the entrants. R. H. Stephenson of the receiving barracks of the Naval Operating Station at Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Va., won the national championship in the senior class, scoring 71 baskets | out of 75 trials. | DIEGEL SETS GOLF MARK; LONG PUT BY SARAZEN George Washing- are to engage in today, the basket ball teams of both institutions and also the swimming team of the| Hatchatites being scheduled for com- petition, but all contests are to be held away from home. The Hilltop quint was to encounter tne Navy five at Annapolis this af- ternoon, while the Hatchetite tossers were to meet the team of Savage Institute in New York tonight. George Washington swimmers will travel to Baltimore to engage the Baltimore Athletic Club mermen. LAKELAND, Fla, February 21— Gene Sarazen and Leo Diegel, repre- | senting _ Hollywood, Fla, defeated Cyril Walker and' Eddie Loose, the Lakeland-Winter Haven combination, in a Florida Professional Golf League match when Sarazen sank a 50-foot putt across a rolling green on the twentleth hole. Diegel set a new record for the Lakeland course with a 69. WATROUS TAKES GOLF PRIZE BY GOOD FINISH RPUS CHRISTI, Tex., February 21.—Al Watrous of Grand Rapids, Mich., shooting steady golf for the last 18 holes, overtook Al Espinosa in the final round of the Corpus Christi open tournament, turned in a 70 for the last 18 holes, and won first prize money of $300 with 286. Esplnosa .went to pieces in his-last tfip around the course, taking 79 and finishing with 294, in a tie for third with John Golden, Paterson, N. I. Henry Clucl of White Plains,'N. Y., shooting a 289, took second money. PLANS BIG MAT BOUT. CHICAGO, February 21.—Floyd Fitzsimmons, who controls the Sky Blue arena at Michigan City, scene Basketers of Georgetown Univer- sity concluded their home last night .with a tol7 over Eucknell. The Blsons were out- classed by the Hilltoppers all the At halftime, orgetown led, Sweeney and Brogan played for the victors. Catholic University's swimming team was downed vesterday, 48 to 21, by the team of Swarthmore in the tank at Brookland. The Red and Black took but, one first place, Fitz- gerald winning the 220-vard free style event. William and M measure of the y girls took the eorge Washington University basket ball sextet in a 45-t0-37 engagement at Williams- burg vesterday. second-half ral LISTS FOR BOWLING of several big fights, including the match hetween Georges Carpentier and Tom Gibbons, has announced an offer of $50,000 for a match between Ed “Strangler” Lewis and Wayne “Big” Munn. TOURNEY SET MARKS BUFFALO, N. Y., February 21.— Secretary A. L. Langtry of the Amer- 'ican Bowling Congress is reporting | city team entries today for the in- ternational tournament to be held here March 5 to April 6, credited Buffalo with 1,113, a record number of entries from one city. The previous record was held by Chicago, with 1,051 teams in the tournament held in that city last year. Buffalo, also is credited with estab- lishing a new record, that of enter- ing more teams than all other cities combined. The total entry for the tournament is 2,200, also a new A. B. C. mark. —e SWEDE WHIPS BRITON. GOTHENBURG, Sweden, February 21.—Harry = Persson, the Swedish heavyweight champion, last night was awarded a technical knockout over Guardsman Penwill of the British Army. The fight was stopped in the third of what was to have been a 15-round bout. 3 BASKET BALL RESULTS At Georgetown—Georgetown, 27 Bucknell, 17, - 5 *| ” Chicago leads the entries outside of At Annapolis—: Coll Buffalo with_150. Others tabulated Bites Bleetrtent sehoor 1o % ®(are Detroit, 100; Rochester,, N. At Raleigh—Virginia, 21; North|74; Cleveland, 68; Erie, Pa., 4 Carolinn State, 20. ‘:i‘“k:fih“; ?yr;’unn.YN. E..(;l; ’r;;- Blacks! , Va~—Davidsos edo, o, 24; New Yorl ty, Vitginin Poly, 36. avidson, 401 | @ tisburgh and Niagara Falls, N. Y., At Philadelphia—Carnegle Tech, | cach 22; Newark, N. J., 20; Cincinnati, 38 Drexel, 14. 18; Louisville, Ky., and Indianapolis, At Pensacols, Fla—Spring Hill, | each, 17; 39; Naval Afr Station, 33, Wayne, Ind, 14. an St. Louls, 16, and Fort At Cambridge—Harvard, Rochenter, 28, At Buftalo—Colgate, 20; Bumale,| WELLS DEFEATS BRITTON. 17 5 SAN FRANCISCO, February 21— At Richmond—Richmond U., “Bermondsey” Billy Wells, British Bridgewater College, 23, ' welterweight champlion, was given At Lexington, Va—Washington and | the decision over Jack Britton, for- team that has New York lettered on its uniform. | paugh, or Rice, | his previous trips South The Indians won in a | 3 GRIFFITH IS NOT WORRIED WITH GIANTS Washington balt-club can beat any We have demon- when the New York Yankees had win the pennant. hen we walloped the mighty Giants e them both barrels in lhe_com'in; selfsame Giants we can lick 'em thcse games for the mere satisfaction of winning. “Only the ignorant, or those who do not care to see, would think for an in- stant that Walter Johnson, or Peckin- or Zachary, or Mogridge, or Harris on our team, or Artle Nehf, or Frisch, or Kelly, or Heinie Groh would take the chances in these con- tests that each and all of them will be willing to take when the real ball games are under way after April 14. Smart trick by McGraw? Apple sauce” A continuation of the usual program of conditioning practice was indulged in by the squad at Plant Fleld today, with bunting as an added task. Fielding bunts is rather strenuous for the players at this stage. Leaning over to take the little taps brings into play muscles which have been dormant all Winter, and it is hard. Pitcher Brillheart gave added evi- dence of the fact that he is quite far ad- vanced, due to his having worked out at his Virginia home, by eteaming a number of stingers into the mitt of Ben- nie Tate, while Tom Zachary, unques- tionably in the best condition of an: was with dif- ficulty restrained from letting loose. Altogther the first three days’ practice has been highly satisfactory to Presi- dent Griffith and Mike tin, and the middle of next week should see the pitchers curving the ball over the plate. of John G. Anderson Tells: Cyril Tolley’s Six Successive Birdies at La Boulie Englishman who won the British amateur championship in 1920 and captured the French open® a remarkable record in the Fre amateur championship last Summer at La Boulic. The French amateur was played in six roun 18 holes each and one round—the finals—of 36_hole with five rounds of ®Thus the finalists, her myself, went around the course Tolley's record was established on the fourteenth On this 340- vard hols, with par of four, hc made a run of six successive birdie threes The remarkable thing about it that the hole did not lend itself to a demonstration of Tolley's driving powerf. As everybody knows, the Britisher is a slugger who gets great distance. But it bappens tha there is a cross-bunker on the four- teenth hole at La Boulie which is placed about rds from the tee Nobody attempts to carry over this in champlonship competition, a spoon shot being the orthodox play off the tee, followed by a mashie pitch to the green. This is the way in which Tolley played, se that his long drive was of no use to him in accumulating his chain of birdies. It was his putter that turned the trick, for he just couldn’t avoid putting the ball in the hole. In the hole a wa five rounds preceding the finals he had gotten his threes by holing putts of from 10 to 25 feet. Against me in the morning round of the finals he had run down a thirty- footer with ridiculous ease. When we reached the fourteenth in the afternoon round the manner in which Tolley would perform was vitally fmportant. At this time we were all even, with but five holes to bs played, and a break either way could decide the championship. “By George,” I told myself, as we reached the tee, “he can't keep it up. It _isn't golf—that's all.” I had the honor and fortunately placed .my ball in the exact spot which I desired to reach. Then break came and it was in my favor. My opponent hooked his ball into rough at the left and then. trying to get out, looked up and topped his ball. The result was that he took a five to get down, while I holed a four. This put me one up and I made it two up on the fifteenth green by sinking a 20-foot putt. We halved the next hole, but Tolley won the seventeenth, carrying the match to the final green. We halved that hole, too, and the championship was mine. Lucky for me that the Britisher didn't make his seventh successive birdie. MISS COLLETT EASILY FINAL IN GOLF EVENT PALM BEACH, Fla, February 21.— Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, R. I, yesterday defeated Miss Edith Cummings of Chicago, 5 and 4, in the final match for the Florida women's championship. Miss Collett was out in 37, one over fours, while the Chicago girl appar- ently off form, especially in approach- ing and putting, took 47. Miss Collett’s short game was a curate, and her putting bold and ac- curate. Cards: won the final in the second 16 from Mre. S. S. Laird of New Rochelle, N. Y., 4 and 3. AL e LEADER'S WIFE DIES. NEW HAVEN, Conn,, February 21 All rowing activities at Yale have been suspended until Monday follow- ing the announcement of the death of Mrs. E. O. Leader of Seattle, Wash., wife of the university's head rowing coach. oy McGRAW STANDS PAT. SARASOTA, Fla, February 21.— John McGraw, manager of the Giants, who has been spending his vacation here awaiting the arrival of his players Monday, has stated his 1924 team, in so far as infield and outfield positions were concerned, would re- main intact. — CHALLENGES HOPPE. NEW YORK, February 21.—Robert L. Cannefax, world's three-cushion billlard _champion, has challenged Willle Hoppe, 18.2 champion and winner of a recent 600-point match against the three-cushlon King, to another exhibition match for a stde purse of $4,000. HOCKEY GAMES At Duluth—Duluth Hornets, Cleveland, 0. At Eveleth—Fort Pitt, Ao L. 2: Boston A Lee Frewhmen, 26; North Carolimalmer welterweight titicholder, after Freshmen, 30, 10 rounds here. At St Paul, 1. Paul—Pittsburgh, st