Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1925, Page 30

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1925. SPORTS. Harris Turns Attention to Hurling Staff : Salt Lake Is Paradise for Batters WANTS TWIRLERS READY FOR EXHIBITION CLASHES Realizes There Will Be Little Let-Up Once Games Start—Team He s Task of Upholding Its Prestige as World Champion. BY DENMAN Sports Edito: H tacking way OT SPRINGS, Ark,, February 2 hortening the sojourn here of the players now under his personal direction that the Nationals will be adequately prepared in an at- THOMPSON. r, The Star. 7—Having made reasonably sure by when the series against the Giants is inaugurated in Palm Beach on March 10, Manager Harris now is devoting considerable thought to the angle of defense, in so far as his plans accordingly Today scanning the list of d; pilot was impressed by the fact tha the hop from the outset, once the e little allowance made for a br cided to alter his training system to flinging from th may be better carly stretch of pre-season clashes. The fo in cails | Reds 12, two schedule as announced clash with the Cincinnati at Orlando Thursday, March after preceding Gays against the Giants first at Palm | Beach and then West Palm Beach ¥riday of that week the Milwaukee Erewers of the American Association must be encountered at Sanford Then comes a Saturday skirm the Boston I at Ta following a Sunday of res listed on Monday with the Columbus A A. club at Winte Have Rraves on Tuesday at Pet and the Reds on Tampa. Eight games is no part of a soft preparing for championship We i openi season a month away. Repu Although for the athletes at Stake. theoretically arranged | purpose of conditioning his | for the American League campaign, with the box office possi- bilities by no ans ignored, Man- ager Harris is not unmindful that his aggreg: on has at stake the prestige that goes with the title of | world champions and that if their| claim to class is not to be questioned | a good share of the practice pastime must be bagged This fact and addi that there are few on the roster this year who looked to for box duty in game: where they usually pected to perform most of has given Harris some thought. With Benson Brillheart be available for u tndisposition which training, and w missing and Joe M a likely to be, only Harry Kelly Dudley, Jim McNamara and Fred Marberry of the flingers, who are not veterans cither | in age or length of service, can be| looked to for labor. The others all re old sta with whom great care has to taken that thev are not required bea down before! their 1cier sufficiently oiled to strain withou: Lackfiring th ional one youngsters nay be he early re ex- the toil, food for unlikely to | because of the has retarded h = ahniser | Russell 1t f belie its should prove the Grapefruit the fine progre Jegebel Zachary ng also should in good stead invariably ha trio of hurle Should Help. ibber arm does not Allen Russell | value during League season, and | in training that| reported s mak- stand the Nationals In the early Spring it been the custom for a| to be assigned every game, each working for three innings. and if the rule is followed | is year the need for a sizable squad of boxmen able to deliver the goods | s made apparent by the exacting na- ture of the schedule Tt seems unlikely Johnson or Ogde reputation. at this time that will be called on to perform in the earliest of the bat- tles, and Gregg also may safely be climinated from consideration, due to | the late start he will have made, but| present indications are that Coveles- kie and Ruether will be fit for duty before the series gets well under way. Both of these old-timers, par- ticularly the former, are making grat- i‘ying progress in limbering their arms, Ruether Says Arm 0. K. Ruether hasn't asserts that to date he felt a single twinge in the el- bow that put him on the shelf for many weeks with the Brooklyn Dodg- rs last Summer, and he is convinced at it will give him no more trou- | Jle. Right now he has a somewhat tff shoulder, but. according to Jutch, this is a condition that he ex- periences when he first starts throw- ng every vear, and it always disap- pears after a few weeks. The salary paw that Marberry hurt | in a tumble shortly after his arrival | here has all but entirely healed. Fred | 1as had his training activities hampered Ly the injury only to the extent that ossing had to be eliminated, but he ready now to resume that and confident that he will not be rounding into form Peckinpaugh, who is doing a daily tour of from 18 to 27 holes on the £olf course with Johnson and Ruel, derived considerable amusement from | that New York yarn to the effect that the Nationals will be handicapped in their exhibition games with the Gi- ants due to the brittleness of the veterans, largely comprise the Senatorial array Some of us are we used to be,” observed Roger, “but t holds equally good for the ants. Groh, Young, Meusel and Southworth are not what you would ~all debutantes, nor are Nehf, Mc- Quillan, Bentley, tt and Snyder, hile Gowdy is no infant in arms. I'here certainly are no Spring chick- ens in that gang and some of the others are well past the first blush of youth. That story makes me laugh.” Gives Adviee to Zahniser. who >t 50 young as Paul Vernon Zahniser al- through with his threat, made after quitting the club at Tampa following a disagreement with Clark Griffith over salary terms, to sign with the Fairbanks-Morse team at Beloit, Wis., he may be saved from committing such a blunder. Zahnnie has some good friends among the Washington players here and one of them has written to the pitcher, who at last reports was in Memphis, pointing out the folly of jumping to the outlaws with its attendant pen- alty of being barred from organized se ball, and urging him to make his peace with the Natlonals' boss 0 that at least he will be eligible to set a well-paying job in a minor gue where a chance to advance again would not be barred, as it would be if he were blacklisted. Paul may be through as a Griff- man, but if he heeds the advice of his well-wishers he will not make the mistake of hopping to the so-called independents. Walter Johnson is booked for his first public appearance of the 1925 training season tonight in the audi- torium of the local high school. Bar- ney has not been informed exactly what is expected of him on this oc- ocaston, but he will go prepared to do anything from making a speech to Unless ready gone ¢ hurlers in the loc g to t t fitted to bear their share of the pitching burden in the it concerns pitching, and is applying ates arranged for the Griffmen the t his charges will be kept right on xhibitions get under way, with very hing spell, and, as a result, he has de- the extent of exacting more actual al delegation, to the end that they GIANT SALE AWAITS STONEHAM VERDICT NEW YORK, February 27.—The New York World's sporting department learns from ‘a reliable source” that negotia- | tions for the purchase of Charles A. Stoneham’s interest In the New York club of the National League have been under way but dependent upon the out- come of the mall fraud case against the president of the Giants, which is in | the hands of a jury. Reports that John Ringling headed a syndicate which was to purchase the National League champlons brought de- nials from Manager John McGraw, vice president of the organization, and from Judge Francis X. McQuade. Both de- clared that none of the stock is for sale. It is understood, the World says, that owners of the National League have a private agreement that stock In any club may be sold at the market price if anything arises which might reflect in any way on the good name of base ball Charles A. Stoneham holds a con- trolling interest in the Giants, the other leading stockholders being McGraw, McQuade and Harry M. Stevens. FLOWERS VS. BOGASH. BOSTON, February - Tiger Flowers of Atlanta, Ga., and Lou Bogash of Bridgeport, Conn., middle- welights, have been matched for a bout 1a Boston on March 20. Bogash won on a foul from Flowers in a recent contest here. POLOISTS TO MEET. NEW YORK, February 27.—Repre- sentatives of nine colleges will meet here Monday to settle the future of college pole. It is planned at.that time to organize an intercollegiate | The DELANEY HELD SURE |RUSSELL AND HARGRAVE TEASE POOR TAMPA FISH TO WIN GREB'S TITLE BY FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK, February 27.—If Harry Greb comes fooling around these parts he will find himself faced with a very urgent demand that he meet Jack Delaney. Delaney, every one hereabouts belleves, is the next middleweight champion, and the sooner Harry turns up and gets the agony over with the happler every one will be. What a round was that fourth frame in the Madison Square Garden last night, when Delaney stowed Tiger Flowers away for-the second consecutive time. For three rounds and a part of the fourth the Tiger had been lambast- ing Jack about the body In the old famillar manner. A very tiger in- deed was he as he flailed his fists into Mr. Chapdelalne’s midriff. Looked as if the deacon from At- lanta were going to pay Delaney back in good measure for the knock- out he received a month ago in the same ring. And then in comes Flowers again. Delaney, suddenly ceasing to retreat, saw an avenue leading straight to Flowers’ breadbasket. Down this thoroughfare Jack sent his flst; it went whistling on its way llke a gunman’s taxicab down Second avenue. As the shrill death howl of the spectators rose to the roof Tiger went to the floor. Delaney, as though he believed Flowers would not rise again for a long, long time, walked to his corner without a glance at his prostrate foe. But he struggled to his feet. He wandered aimlessly, apparently without conscious volition, to & va- cant corner of the ring: Delaney, seeing this, rushed toward him like some lithe feline animal bent upon the kill Flowers heard the slithering foot- falls, glanced behind him and then through weakness and perhaps dread he slipped to the floor on one knee, just as Delaney let a right-hand wal- lop fly. The blow struck the negro upon the shoulder. Here were two fouls. Tiger committed one when he went down without being hit, and Delaney committed another when he struck while his opponent was down. Uproar. The Garden rocked with tumult, while Patsy Haley, the reff, and the judges conferred. Finally, the only proper decision was reached. The round should go, each foul hav- ing offset the other All right. Flowers starts into De- laney with that wide, swinging body blow. Delaney beats him to it, land- ing once more upon the body. The Tiger doubled over in pain, offering his jaw as a fair mark. Enough GENARO SHADES DOWD. YOUNGSTCWN, Olo, Frankie Genaro, champion, _decisively O'Dowd, Columbus, last night “brua; : American flyweight outpointed Eddie in a 10-round bout MALONEY WHIPS ROMERO. BOSTON, February 27.—Jim Ma- loney of Poston battered his way to an easy decision over Quintin Romero, Chilean heavyweight, in polo association. their 10-round bout last night FIVE BROWNS MISSING AS SOUAD BEGINS WORK out at Tarpon Springs Twenty men were in uniform, LOCILS, Mo, February 27.—Manager George Sisler and his van- guard of Brownie base ball players went through their first work- Fla., yesterday. the only absentees being Pitchers Bush, Girard and Danforth and Catchers Dixon and Porter. Of this quintet, the absence of two is accounted for. Bush, now at Hot Springs, was expected in camp in a day or two and Porter has noti- fied the club that he will not be able to report because of his scholastic duties at Oglethorpe Universit There are only two regular receivers | on hand now, the veteran Severeld and the dfminutive Rego, both of last year's staff. Dixon is a known hold- out. A heavy fog at Stockton, Calif., pre- vented the Cardinals from practicing yesterday morning. but they made a good showing at batting practice in the afternoon. PHILADELPHIA, February 27.—The first group of the Philadelphia tionals and the second contingent of Connie Mack’s Athletics will leave to- night for their respective training quarters at Bradentown and_Fort Myers, Fla. Only two players, Wilson and Betts, will be in the Phillies party; others will go to Bradentown direct from their homes. Business Manager Shettsline and the club trainer will accompany Wilson and Betts. The Athletics' party will Dykes, Hale and Zigafoos, the last named a rookie inflelder. ‘They will be jolned at Baltimore by Bishop and at Washington by Lamar. CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 21. With the first squad of Cleveland re- cruit pitchers preparing today to start for the Indians’ Spring training camp at Lakeland, Fla. reports were re- ceived here from Hot-Springs, where the veterans started preliminary training two weeks ago, that several are suffering sore arms The Indian pitchers are doing more sirenuous training than members of the Yankees and Washington clubs at Hot Springs, the dispatches state. A two-hour session on the ball field is sandwiched between runs in the morning and afternoon, with an hour in the hot bath completing the day’s program. include NEW YORK, February 27.—Manager John McGraw took charge of practice in the Giants' training camp at Sara- sota, Fla., yesterday, and came out of several conferences with the signed contracts of Jack Scott, Jack Bent- ley and Arthur Nehf, all pitchers. He also discussed the financial situation with Frank Frisch and the captain and second baseman is expected to sign his papers today. McGraw let It be known that there are three vacancles in the outfield, with Pep Young’s position the near- est to a certainty. However, he had a good word for Irish Meusel, who has driven in many runs for the Glants, and for Hack Wilson and Billy South- worth. Groh will start at third base, and Kelly is very likely to appear in centerfield when right-handers are working against the team, he said. The Giants will return to two ses-| sions of practice daily on Saturday. Over in the Yankees' camp in St Pe- tersburg the pitchers unleashed some speed and a few curves for the first time. Nick Cullop, who appears to have made & deep impression with Manager Miller Huggins, continued to hit far and wide and drew en- thusiastic comments. Waite Hoyt, Joe Dugan, Lou Gehrig and Whitey Witt will leave New A Y TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats utographing base balls for the fu- ture greats of Hot Springs. EISEMAN’S, 7th & F York today for Florida, leaving only one regular in the northland—the left-handed hurler, Herb Pennock, whose contract awaits signature. CINCINNATI, Ohio, February 27.— Manager, Jack Hendricks of the Cin- cinnati Reds is enthusiastic about the prospects of his team, which he be- lieves will give a good account of it- self in the league race “We have a combination of veterans dnd epeedy voungsters that looks £00d to me,” he said. “If we have better luck in the matter of Injuries than we did last vear, I think the team is going to do excellent work. There will be few idle moments after Wwe get started next week."” The Cincinnati contingent of the team will leave here tomorrow for the South and arrive at Orlando, Fla., Sunday evening. BOSTON, Mass, February 27.—The arrival of the advance guard of the Boston Braves at St. Petersburg, Fla., vesterday was unmarked by a demon- stration of any kind, advices reaching here indicating that the populace has become blase because of the facy that the Yankees also train there. Manager Dave Bancroft was unable to make train connections from Miami and was not expected at the training camp until today. - Pitcher Rube Marquard, who spent the Winter at St. Petersburg, reported in good condition and apparently unhampered by the effects of the appendictis operation he underwent last season. The only batterymen missing were Catcher Michael O'Neil and Pitchers Larry Benton and Kyle Graham. O'Neil, who has been holding out for more money, has been informed an increase will not be forthcoming and he is expected in a day or two. The status of the pltchers has not been announced. The players will have their first practice at Waterfront Park today. EXAMINE THE TIRE CAREFULLY —after we have vulcanized \t for you and you: will find it practically as good as when you first bought it. Our vulcaniz- ing process is therefore a won- derful source of ecoffomy for you. It insures longer life for both tires and ‘tnner tube during the year will save you the cost of many new tires. Sheridan Garage, Inc. A. A. A. Service Statie: 2516 Q Street N.W. (Q Street Bridge) Telephone West 2442 AMPA, Fla., February 27.—The l trotted onto Plant Field for rather than acting as a deterrent it athletes. coolest weather experienced by the ball club this Spring was on tap this morning when the Nationals their regular practice session, but seemed to put added pep into the A fast, perspiration-inducing, limbering-up exercise soon had the boys believing the sun was hot, and when the usual medicine ball sock-it-to-"em game was followed by a sprint around the track, Mike Martin had reason to be well satisfied with the day’s results. Absenting himself only from the jog around the half-mile track, Allen Russell, wounded athlete, went through the usual conditioning prac- tice with the others. Russell slipped while walking in the clubhouse yes- terday and discovered at supper time that the middle toe of his right foot had swollen a bit, and was much discolored. It did not pain him so much, nor did it Interfere with his nightly pilgrim- age to the shrine of Izaak Walton. Rubber Arm Allen' bows low before this shrine, going every night to the sea wall, there to spend all his leisure time seeking to lure the poor fish from its native haunts. Where Are the Fish? Al, running true to fishermen's form, admits that he is good at the game. Red Hargrave, his companion each night, also lays claim to being a true disciple of the renowned Izaak, but as he {s quite taciturn, is at a disad- vantage in competing with Russell for leadership. No one has seen the fish they catch, but of course, one could not with politeness ask to have a flsh brought into a hotel lobby. These are sad days for Samuel Rice. Bach time the hour hand circles the clock’s face marks another 12-hour approach of the day when Sam must put away his golf clubs and don his base ball uniform to pay scant atten- tion to the popular links game until Fall. Indeed, each 12-hour revolution of the pesky hour hand means a whole 24-hour step toward the dread day, for, sad to relate, golf cannot be play- ed in the night in this land of sun- shine and flowers even, as darkness padlocks the golf courses every- where. Rice does not look forward to the approach of the base ball season with dread, not by any manner of means. One could very well imagine Sam, waxing poetic, turn to-his golf sticks and murmur, “I could not love thee, golf, 56 much, loved I not base ball more.” Rico Keen About Base Bal. For when next Tuesday afternoon arrives the scintillating outflelder of the world champlons will be out at Plant Fleld with the rest of the regu- lars, ready and willing to begin anew the grind for condition, which enables him each year to rank high in the favor of the base ball writers and players, high in the esteem of the fans, in Washington and elsewhere. “Just as soon as I start to practice, handling bat and ball, I lose all the ‘golf feeling’ I have,” Rice says, “and I become almost overnight a base ball player altogether. By ‘golf feeling’ I mean that Intultive sense of grips and club swing, which register the direction message from the brain to the arms. In driving, a big difference becomes immediately noticable, al- though It is not to be wondered at Swinging a ball club calls into use different muscles than those required for properly propelling a driver into a golf ball. “1 recall a prominent pro, who took a few days workout with our club here two years ago. He told me later on, up North, that his game suffered for six months, afterward. Yes, I'll still play golf, off and on after the practice starts, but I will have scant thought for anything else except doing my bit toward bringing another pennant to Washington.” MY GREATEST THRILL IN SPORT BY BARNEY OLDFIELD World’s Greatest Auto Racing Driver HAKING dice with death and skirt- ing the rim of eternity has been my profession for so many years that I have almost lost count of the days when life was unevent- ful. Thrills of all kinds ave come to me. I ave crash ed throu plunged into sToups vio- lating rules for specta- tors. Ihave been cut and ; - bruised and BARNEY OLDFIELD. smashed un- til death seemed on the job. Yet these things have not furnished my greatest thrill. Many would think the climax was reached years ago when the world was astonished through my being the first man ever to drive a car faster than a mile a minute. Or again, years later, when I hurtled along the Day- tona beach for a new world record at nearly three miles a minute. Or again when 1 beat the notable Van- derbilt in a match race. Or some of the other outstanding events of my Younger racing dayes. But not so. It seems to me that my greatest thrill came with a victory in the last few years of my active competition over the &Teatest pilots of the modern jug- gernaut in the 301-mile Grand Prix race at Los Angeles, for I had to use all my skill and judg- ment in this event and ended it in first place by just a few sec- onds. Fate was against me at many stages of this contest, which was wit- nessed by nearly 100,000 persons, be- ing run over the famous Venice course, in southern California. It was a nip-and-tuck race from start te finish, with thrills piling one upon another and the crowd being brought to its feet with an Intense display of emotion time after time. Many masters of racing cars were in the struggie and one after another forged to the front at times. Always I maintaimed a the leadership until the final rush. Luck smd fate came to me mear the e I ran through the gears to high immedlately after 'the getaway and from that moment until the check- ered flag was waved I never touched the levers of my car. I never let my- self get far from the leaders and as the end came along I shot after those front with all I had. With two laps to go it seemed that I could never win, for Dave Lewis, at that time a wonder driver, was leading with what seemed to be a sure margin. In racing one can never tell what particular. may happen until one is past the fin- ish, and in this case Lewis was forced to stop. Then I gave my car all she could stand and fought the others in what was declared “the most dra- matic and thrilling finish ever seen in California,” winning in the final moments of that 301-mile grind by just a few seconds. During the race I never switched my gears mor mad; stop, and the t few laps finished with such a whirlwind rush that the &aps of the leaders were closed like flamex licktng paper. And, be- ing the veteran of the starters, it Eave me my most tremendous thrill to lick the boys of the day. (Copyright, 1925.) PHILLY COUNCIL VOTES FOR $2,000,000 STADIUM PHILADELPHIA, February Final approval of the erection of a $2,000,000 municipal athletic stadium in South Philadelphia adjacent to the Philadelphia navy yard has been given by city council as part of the plans for the sesqui-centennial cele- bration in 1926 commemorating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The stadium will have a seating capacity of 100,000 and standing room for 150,000. NOBLE-FINNEGAN GO ON CLUB BOXING BILL A boxing show having an interna- tional flavor will be offered by the National Sporting Club at Washing- ton Auditorium March 16. Tommy Noble, former holder of the Lord Lonsdale British featherweight cham- pionship belt, has been matched to meet Honeyboy Finnegan in a ten- round feature bout. Noble did not do so well when he first began fighting in this country, but since he has acquired the style of boxing prevalent here has been win- ning consistently. Jackie Feldman, flyweight, who scraps around New York and Balti- more, will be brought here for an- other contest with Young Denclo. They have met twice. . FIVE WORLD MARKS BROKEN IN SWIMMING MIAMI, Fla, February 27.—Five world swimming records went down to oblivion .under the combined as sault of Arne Borg of Sweden and his fair companions of the women's swimming division, most of whom are stars of the Olympic team that represented the United States in the last Olymples. Borg lowered the 300-meter back- stroke record by nine and four-fifths seconds, making the new mark 3:351-5, while the woman swimmers shattered the 800-yard relay, 220-yard free style, 300-meter free style and the 440-yard breast stroke records, making a total of 12 new marks established in three days at this meet, another record in ftseif. Summaries: 880-yard relay—Team composed of Gertrude Ederie, Atleen Riggin el McGary Helen ' Wainwright lowered old record 11:58 to 11:22 25, a cut of 83 3.5 seconds. erle, “wwimming the first lap of the the new 220-vard free style 2:44 while the old mark is 2:55 r free style swim—Martha Norelius clipped 7 35 seconds off the old record, the new mark now being 4:12 15 440-yard breast stroke-Miss Agnes G broke her own record made last Febru in this event, lowering the time by 12 48 seconds to a 'mew mark of 7:20 1.5, which s likely to stand for some time. 300-meter beck stroke—Arne Horg lowered record by 9 4.5 seconds: old record. 3:45, made by Johnny Weissmuller at Honolulu in 1922. New mark, 3.35 1-5, INDIAN, ALL-AROUND STAR, TO JOIN NEW YORK YANKS By the Assoclated Press. LAWRENCE, Kans., February John Levi, Haskell's widely famed all-around athlete, has left the Indian school for his home in Oklahoma, to prepars to report at the Spring training camp of the New York Yankees early in March The big Indian has left numerous records behind him at the Indian in- stitution. He won letters In all four matches of major athletics. For three years he was high point scorer for the Haskell foot ball team and for two years was national high point scorer on the gridiron. He plays first base or in the outfleld and led in batting averages for two seasons. Levi bats and throws right- handed. He is 24 years old and a full-blood Arapahoe AMERICAN RU GBY PLAYER PLACED ON WORLD TEAM PARIS, February 27.—Jack Patrick of Palo Alto, Calif,, a member of the American Olympic rugby foot ball team is named by Gaston Benac, France's noted foot ball expert, as one of the forwards in his selection of a team, picked throughout the world. to beat the New Zealand “All Blacks. In choosing 15 players and 10 sub- stitutes, M. Benac names nine Eng- lishmen, nine Frenchmen, two Welsh- men, two Scotchmen, two Irishmen and one American. THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President Izaak Walton League of America. WITH conditions preventing a lot of feed for the quail and grouse, sportsmen’s clubs all over these popular birds. America are going to the rescue of The situation in Michigan is especially acute. A wet snow which soon froze raised havoc with the quail recently. Up in the vicinity of St. Johns rural mail carriers are scattering grain along their routes for the quail. Much the same situation obtains in other places where ocomprehensive measures are being taken in behalf of the quall. The quail are gathering around the farmhouses in some sec- tions. In an effort to prevent the death of thousands of Chinese pheasants and other upland game birds, the game department of Oregon has issued a blanket appeal for farmers and sportsmen to provide and dis- tribute grain, and this appeal has met with excellent response. Grain and feed companies in sev- eral regions have offered feed free of charge to sportsmen’s bodies pro- vided it was taken care of. It is pointed out that quail will not forage for feed, but will die If it does not come fairly easy. The work of the sportsmen in this respect is laudable. It shows for Dopce BROTHERS DEALERS SELL 600D USED CARS The title of this advertise- ment was originated by Dodge Brothers and given to their dealers as an in- violable doctrine. lieve we are justified in saying that we are living up to the doctrine in every ‘We be- Semmes Motor Company i3 Used Car Dept. 1707 14th St. N.W. Open Evenings and Sunday Main 6660 one thing that the sportsmen are more interested in these things than are any other people. Hendry-Bishop Golf Clubs Midirons Mashies Mashie Niblicks Putters Mid Mashies Driving Irons $3.50 Wright and Ditson Golf Clubs Special Midirons Putters Mashies $3.50 Values. Golf Section—Fourth Floor. Official Headquarters For Boy Scout Equipment Sports Goods Section—Fourth Floor. Mashie Niblicks Niblick Buhrke Metal Top and Bottom Golf Bags AVERAGES OF MUSHROOM NATURE DEVELOP THERE Strand, Who Failed With Athletics, Is Sample of Products—Utah Capital Came Near Losing Its Coast League Franchise. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. GDEN, Utah, February 27 (En route to California).—Salt O City, long the storm center of the Pacific Coast League, is all set to demonstrate again this season its specialty of jazzing up the batting records of hitherto mediocre batters Players who never hit anything in their lives go to Salt Lake City and knock the ball so hard that it floats away into space and falls or some poor neighboring planet to mystify the natives. The only trouble about these Salt Lake phenoms is that they usually leave their batting power right here in the Rockies when they are called on to bigger leagues Natives of Salt Lake City admit this, but they declare they can't be blamed if the ball players are not able to take the invigorating Salt Lake climate with them when they leave. Paul Strand is one of the outstand- ing examples of what Salt Lake City can do for a batter. He hit so won- derfully that Connie Mack traveled all the way from Philadelphia to see him perform, and then signed him up for the Athletics. The cautious Mack has been lamenting ever since the impulse that led him to surrender rallroad fare to come out and to see the great illusion. For Strand had no sooner hit the American League than the canny pitchers of that cir- cuit got his number and began to pitch them where Strand could not see them. His batting average dwindled away to a shadow. There was a time in the latter part of 1924 when it looked as if Salt Lake City would have no coast league team this season to turn out hitting won- ders. Bill Lane, owner of the Salt Lake club, said that while the climate made batting averages go up, it made turnstile averages go down. Unable to stand—or understand—such a queer concatenation of events, he felt it incumbent upon him to go over to California and buy a cludb nearer the ocean level. The citizens told him to mosey along, for they would take care of the old ball club themselves—and so they have. Vernon will open the sea- son at Salt Lake City April 7, while Stalt Lake City will finish at Sacra- mento October 18. In between the base hit factory of the Rockles will operate at 100 per cent of capacity, and that is a good thing. The coast league would not have seemed the same without it. A lot of hopeful ball players who adorned the East last season have come—or are coming—over the great divide not to return. At least not for the season of 1925, Sterling Stricker, the huge pitcher of the Boston Nationals, is one of them. He is plodding toward Seattle, where he will pay part of the price for Welch. Charley Dooin, the old Philadelphia catcher, says Stricker has the widest curve of any kid pitcher he ever saw. It certainly is wide enough, but its wideness is ex- ceeded by its wildness, and so he is going back to the minors for the sec- | ond time. New York had him and let hm go. Then Boston grabbed him. and let him go. But if ever Stricker | gets control of that curve of his, watch out. Yeargin is another Boston National who has been given a one-way ticket to the coast. A clever kid, who seemed | always on the point of breaking into the elite, but never quite made it. He has & good chance to grow up out here in the West. Brooklyn has sent Pitcher Decatur to Portland, Oreg. Uncle Robbie tried him several times last season, but the final verdict was that he was too wild and needed the air. Jones, the former Portland shortstop, also goes back to Portland from Brooklyn. His holdout on Brooklyn was not a good invest- ment, even If he did get quite a little vacation out of it. The Cubs have placed Elliott, the first baseman, with Seattle. Cincin- nati has landed Sanbersg, the catcher, in Los Angeles. Branch Rickey has sent a trio of players to Oakland in exchange for old Duster Mails. If Duster shows anything like his old- time form it will prove to have been a good investment for Rickey. 2 o RACER BRINGS $25,000. NEW ORLEANS, La., February 27. —Announcement of the sale of Elector, a promising 3-year-old, by 5. N. Holman, owner, to the La Brea Stables of California, has been made here. The consideration was given at $25,000. SANDLOTTERS MEET T0 ORGANIZE LOOPS Half a hundred sandlot base ball managers are expected to be present at the meeting of the Washingtor Base Ball and Athletic Association, to be held at Spalding’s, 1338 G street tonight for the formation of leagues in the unlimited class. A plan for forming a league, pla: ing two days a week and every othe Sunday, already has met with an en thusiastic reception, and Sunday and week day loops also are in the process of organization. Many in dependent teams have signified a de sire to join the ranks of the associa tion, and Morton Anderson, the newly elected president, has hopes of pla ing sandlot ball on a firm foundatior during the coming season. Government League franchises ars to be awarded tonight at a meeting of the circuit, to be held at the recreation rooms of the Government Printing Office. LAST YEAR'S CHAMPION WILL TALK BASE BALL Southend Midgets, winners of the District base ball championship of their class for the past two seasons are meeting tonight at the home of Manager Bill Sanderson to discuss plans for the coming season. The Southends are moving up a notch this year and intend to enter the junior division of the Wash ton Base Ball and Athletic Associa tion. Tonight's meeting will called at 7 o'clock. company is coming / & Inauguration is just around the corner; perhaps the home folks are coming for the occasion; you'll want to look your best when you greet them. e Oarsmen of the U. S. S. 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