Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1925, Page 29

SPORTS. PITCHING ASPIRANTS NEED SIZE, HE SAYS Height, Weight, Ruggedness, Cool- ness and Brains Essential---Lead- ing Hurlers Have Been Powerful Men By Stanley (Bucky) Harris. Pitcher I: PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS. VERY youngster interested in playing base ball wants to be a pitcher some time or other in his career. line myself when I was a little fellow th MARYLAND BATTLE TOMORROW With BT W A x Cathollc University will visit the h University of Maryland tomorrow night for a return game of baxket ball that will end the season for t & The reason every one would feat falls on his shoulders, too. But we don’t think of that. up to him whether or not his club wins. When he is in the box he is Even the best of pitchers is likely to be beaten unless his club is Johnson couldn’t win unless their teammates got themn some runs. But ther words, a team with top- f sluggers with poor pitching | nown as *“the hitless wonders ve to et many runs to win | of the job than of the physical and study nself befc he tries to be- 4 by hard work be pretty well as- | He should be of good height as well | as much work in the course of a be stronger than the average t to make much headway. are an exception to the rule. As a hasn’t reached his full growth, if his | velopment It is better for a pitcher bit When you go over the list of the powerful men. Take Waddell, Young trim waisted. They also had big get your fingers prett well around I had some ideas along that like to play that position is because it is the most important on a team. 1 ory of winning goes largely to the pitcher. Of course, the discredit The twirler is in the limelight throughout a game. While the oppo: team is at bat he has to shoulder most of the work. It is largely out 75 per. cent of the strength of his team. He is the main cog in defensive machinery able to hit the ball, Such great twirlers as John Clarkson, Clark Griffith, Cy Young, Ed Walsh, Rube Waddel!, Christy Matncwson and Walter a run or two, ail things else being equal, is generally margin enough for a high-class pitcher to work on SRR h pitching and even ordinary bat- c AN power can win many games. But | Us U, a great disadvantage. Th champion White Sox of 1906 such pitchers as Doc White, Ed 1sh and Altrock they didn't Many get started a pitchers, thinking more of the gl mental requirements. They are square pegs in round holes. A boy should a pitcher. If he measures bp ertain standards he can go ahead red of gaining success wysieally, a pitcher should be big: s size and f the rugged type. The pitcher is in every play and does | game as all the other players put together, the catcher excepted. He | r to stand the strain. But he be grown and clumsy and e have been small pitchers who have met with great success. They general thing _the percentage s against them. But a youngster who heart is set on pitching, should go ahead. He has ev chance for de- to be a undersized than over grown really great pitchers you will find | that practically all of them were Matthewson and Johnson for instance. They were tall, big shouldered and hands and long fingers, which are great assets to a pitcher. If you can a8 base ball your chances for success as a pitcher are increased Must Study the Game. The mental equipment of a pitch- ing candidate is almost as important as a good physique. Unless a pitcher is a deep student of the game and quick to detect the strength and weakness of opposing teams he will never gain lasting success. His job, if he is to hold it properly, calls for smartness. Many pitchers with less natural ability than others make the better recgrds because they have more brains. I would strongly advise every Youngster starting in as a pitcher to study the game all the time. He mustn’t stop thinking just because he is pitching. He can learn much by observing batters and plays while on the bench He should know. the mechanics every position on a team And he should school himself to be cool when under fire. He can't be highly excitable and expect to get far pitcher. He should be able to do his best when in a tight place He has to think fast and accurately without losing his mental balance. Summed up, a pitcher needs a good physique, brains, coolness and cour- age to start off with. The last three | requirements absolutely essen- 1. The first is ‘highly desirable (Tomorrow—How a Train.) (Copyright, 1925, by Current News Features.) of Pitcher Should PLAY AT MANASSAS ALEXANDRTA, Va! Alexandria High School ers are Manassas today, battling Swavely Preparatory School on th former Easton College floor. Players making the trip are Capt. Bernardt IKnight, George Heeft, Marshall Bag- gett, Johr Pierpont, James Hous- ton, Jack Allen, Dallas Wiley, Ber- nard Cohen and Alfred Abramson The squad is accompanied by Coach Joyce Levvy and Manager Ralph | Scrivener. | March basket ball An elaborate program has been ar. r¥nged by the managers of the Co- lumbia and Iroquois Athletic Clubs to be staged here Thursday, March 12, for the benefit of the Alexandria High School Library fund. The big &ame will bring together the Colum- bia and Iroqueis teams,” whilé in a preliminary contest the Columbia “Buddies” will meet some fast girl's sextet from Washirgton, Dancing will follow ihe games Jupiter Pluvius spoiled the day for four local ba ball teams, who had | slated their first practices for ye: o | terday. Columbia, Dreadnaught, Car- | dinal and National clubs will get the initial workouts next Sunday. i ¥ Columbia Athletic Club has the use | of the Alexandria Armo-~y Hall for next Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock and wishes to schedule a game with some fast junior five. Manager Jack Allen may be reached at Alexandria 424. RELAY RECORD SMASHED BY FEMININE ATHLETES LOS ANGELES, March 2.—Women smade their first appearance in a south- ern Califor track meet here Saturda: when four members of the Pasadena ‘Athletic and Country Club lowered the world record for the 440-yard relay. Running against another team from the sams club, Alice Ryden, Nellie | gechlag. Elizabeth ~Nelson and Eflel Nichols negotiated the quarter mile in 0:53 3-10, 0:3 7-10 faster than the previous record, made last year by o team representing the Eureka. Calif, High School. Charles Paddock ran a 110-yard lap of a relay, and, although he started behind the field, he finished in-front and appeared in midseason form. 14 | victories both tea Play will be started at 8 o'clock. The game wax scheduled for laxt Wednesday, but was postponed to allow the Maryland team to leave that afternoon for the Southern Conference tourney at Atlanta. The Maryland squad returned yesterday, after breaking even in two zames, defeating ome of the favorites, Alabama, in the first round, but loxing in the next stage to North Carolina State. E Maryland has won 11 out of 16 games xo far thix season and Cath- olic University hax taken its last two contexts after having a rum Qf reverses. In their last meeting at Brook- land, the Marylanders won out, 18 to 14, through a spectacular rally in the laxt five minutes of play. OHIO STATE LEADING BIG TEN BASKET LOOP CHICAGO, has forged into the Western Conference basket ball championship race by two decisive last week over Northwest- n and over Chicago. Illinois, undefeated in conference play before last week, suffered a seri- ous relapse and rests in second place, with hard competition ahead. Ohio State won nine games and lost ene and has but two more con- tests on its schedule, Indiana at Bloom- ington March 7 and Wisconsin at Columbus March 14 Indiana, in third place, has won seven and lost three games, and a defeat by Ohfo would put it out of the running for the title. Illinois, which won seven straight games before it struck the toboggan and lost a pair, has a chance for first place if Ohio should lose both its contests. March —~Ohio lead the State in TAKES SKI HONORS. OTTAWA, Ont, March 2—Hans Hansen of the Minneapolis Ski Club won the Eastern provincial ski jump championship at Fairy Lake. He jumped- 88 feet. Norman Berger of Montreal was second and Rolph Mon- son of Springfleld, Mass., third. There | itself in the second half. were 33 competitors. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1925. Stanley Harris, Pilot of Champion Griffs, Starts Series on How to Play Ball G. W. QUINTET PLAYS CATHOLIC U. TONIGHT George Washington University's basket ball team is to end its season tonight in a game with the Catholic University five, to be played lt the Hatchetite gymnasium on H Street near Twentieth. Play will start at § a'clock. It _wil be the second meeting of the Winter between these teams. In a game played in January at Brook- land, Catholic University was hard pressed in scoring a 24-t0-20 win over the Hatchetites. Since then both teams have improv- ed In their play. The Brooklanders have perfected their passing game, while the Hatchetites, after shifting players, ve developed a strong attack. hi AS ALOYSIUS WINS Youth handed age and experience another knockout wallop when the Aloysius basket ball team defeated the Corby quint, 39 to 21, last night at the Arcade in the first of a series of the best two out of three games. The second engagement will be staged next Sunday night In a preliminary to last night's purely local battle *he Palace Laun- dry five won a tame contest from the Buffalo Lincolns, 31 to 19. The Corby players gave the s team quite a scrap as long lasted,” but the losers, who led, 14 to 11, at intermission, had dis- ved signs of weariness in the first 20 minutes of the struggle, and after adding four points to their total at{ the outset of the last half, com- pletely faded, and were smothered by the aggressive attack of the I street clan. Edelstein, the youthful member of the Corby team, and Goetz, were the only Bakery tossers who appeared able to stand the gaff. Edelstein showed plenty of skill and stamina and Goetz did some good guarding and made three goals, two of them on_long-range shots. Corby got its first half lead by clever passing and Edelstein's shoot- ing from the floor and foul line, but even at that the Bakery players show- ed they lacked the stamina to cope with their sturdy rivals by taking the limit of three timeouts, and they were penalized twice for taking rest periods in the last portion of the game. Aloysius was not long in asserting After Corby twice from floor to run its margin to 18 to 11, the I Streeters went .on a scoring spree that netted 15 points in a row while their rivals were helpless. It soon was all over but the shouting, and the followers of the winners did plenty of that. In the preliminary clash the Palace quint soon relized it was superior to the Buffaloans and simply toyed with the visitors, the locals scoring whenever they felt likesthey needed a few polints Score of Aloysius-Corby game: Aloysius (39) Corby (21) MeNulty .Edelstein Frederici Sauber 0'Den.. annes Ford. . Catlin Scanion. ... Left guard Goetz Substitutions: Aloysius—Hook for Scanlon, Duffy for McNuity. Corby—Downs for J hannes. Johannes for Catlin. Court “goals—McNulty (4), Frederiet (3). 0'Den (4), Ford, Hook (2), Dufty. Edelstein (2), Sauber, Johavnes. Goets (3). Foul goals Fredericl, 2 in 5; 0'Des, 1 in 1: Ford, in 2; Scanlon, 1 in 1; Hook, 3 in 5; Edelstein, 5 in 9: Johannes, 1'in 1; Goets, 1 in Score at half time—Aloysius, 11; Corby, 14. Referce—Joe Deering (Columbia). st 52-YEAR-OLD TURF MARK LOWERED BY JUST RIGHT SAN DIEGO, March 2—An Ameri- can turf record that has.stood for almost 52 years was shattered yes- terday at the Tia Juana race course, when Just Right, a 6-year-old gelding, ran the two and three-quar- ter miles of the Marathon claiming handicap in 4 minutes 50 3-5 seconds. This lowered the previous mark, set by Hubbard at Saratoga on August 9, 1873. This record was 4:58% and the new mark is almost eight seconds faster. had registered Positions Rignt forward Left forward. CARDS COUNTING HEAVILY ON SLAB WORK OF MAILS .BY JOH TOCKTON, Calif,, March 2. 3 B. FOSTER. ‘“There he comes now,” ran the word through the lobby of the hotel where the St. Louis Cardinals are making their headquarters here. The eyes of everybody in the lobby centered upon a smiling, broad-shouldered young chap, as hand- some as a movie actor on parade, who followed a bellhop and his baggage. Who? D ster Mails, the pitching hope of the Cardinals. If Mails can win 25 games for the St. Louis club—now don’t smile, such things hdve happened—this southpaw, who was a butterfly in 1920 but a moth next year, may put the collection”of batting thunder that is under Branch Rickey’s direction very much in the fight for the jubilee | of the world series pennant. Duster was quickly surrounded by who had had the pleasure of haking his hand before and with hose who anticipated the pleastre for the time. It is seldom that a player, especlally one who hag had as many ups and downs as Malls, turns up looking so well in the.Spring. And he was feeling well, too, and full of confidence of the brand that he wore when he broke in for Cleveland that eventful Fall and pitched Brook- lyn into the ditch when the Cleve- lands ended their first championship in history by making a clean sweep Is Glnd to Return. “I am glad to get back league circuit again,” “This time T am going te remain I don’t have any in the big said the Duster. 1t physical misfortune, I shall be with Branch Rickey until the Cardina win a championshi “Then you are sentenced for life,” said a kidder. “Maybe not,” Mails shot back. “I've béen with one major league cham- plonship team and with. one world serfes winner. 1 bring good luck wherever I go. Oakland did mot win a pennant in 1924 but the club made money, and I guess that goes for something.” Malls obviously has learned a few things in the last year or two. One is not to be too self-assertive. An- other is to use better the cunning of his arm, If he should happen to come this season upon his first great year, as all southpaws of unlimited skill do some time, he may turn the bal- ance so much toward success for St. Louls that this team, with its present make-up, will return to the position it held in 1922, when it was fighting villain, which, though it did not win a pennant for itself, robbed other teams of one. Has Some Clouters. It looks as if Rickey ultimately will settle upon an infleld made up of Bottomley at first, Hornsby at second, Freigau at short and Bell at third. While he is playing Bell as short for the moment, he indicated to the writer that it might prove better policy to put Bell at third. No mat- ter what disposition he may imake of ! his third base and shortstop positions, he has an Infleld so loaded with bat- ting strength that it will shiver the courage of every pitcher who faces it this season. With his big Betties at first and second—and mind, this man Bottom- ley, after being ill part of 1924, finish- ed with a batting record of 400—and with Bell, who led the American As- sociation in batting stunts and de- {veloped so fast that they shed tears in Milwaukee when they had to turn him back to St. Louls, and with Freigau, who should be better than he was last season, Rickey can.turn loose more big bludgeon wielders than any other Natlonal League infleld boasts. Rickey has a bunch of outfielders upon whom he counts sensibly, but not too heavily. Shinners, formerly of the Giants, is one. He lost his stride by accident, but now seems to be back. Jack Smith is a player who has done a lot of good work for St. Louis. He needs inspiration to carry him along, but if his team is going 800d he goes with it. Flack is cured of his troubles, and can play right fleld for anybody. Mag Prove Right Man. There's a punch to this St. Louls team that is so well concealed one does not realize it until the person- nel is analyzed. Maybe Duster Mails will be the Moses to lead themr out of the Wilderness. That is why they welcomed him so effusively, Anyhow, Branch Rickey says he will bet a doughnut that hls team leads the league in batting and run making in 1925. ‘That will be our little part of the golden jubilee cele- bration,” he said. “Judas Priest, but I'd like to win the championship in the golden jubilee year.” Then he knocked wood. But the writer does not know what for. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F MISS WILLS IS SUPREME IN U. S. WOMAN’S TENNIS By the Associated Press. N EW YORK, March 2—Less than four years ago a sturdy young schoolgirl, her pigtails flying and racket flashing, came out of the far West to startle the Eastern tennis world and gave the sup- posedly invincible champion, Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, a surprising tussle in the national championships. 3 Today Miss Helen Wills, with the more mature poise that comes to a university stulent and champion, reigns supreme as queen of American tennis, indisputably at the top in her own land and recognized as the most formidable challenger for the world honors held by the tempera- 'mental French star, Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen. Following Miss Wills' triumphs in | six major crowns at home and abroad. 1924, including victory in the Olympic| This season Miss Wills' main chance singles champlonships and decisive|pf conquest lies abroad, for here, defense of the American title she|with her two outstanding rivals, Mrs. first won in 1923, many critics as-[Mallory and Miss Mary K. Browne, serted their belief in the ability of |well past the crest of their careers, the American girl to vanquish|there seems little formidable oppo- Lenglen. The last chance of a test|sition for the 19-year-old Callfornia between them last Summer vanished |girl. Troms. the OlymBics, after her collapse G.U. MHWNINE LISTS 17 CONTESTS at Wimbledon, but there is a possi- bility that they may meet and decide Georgetown University's treshman base ball team opens its 1925 schedule the question of supremacy this year, for the American girl is planning another trip abroad, to study as well on Thursday, April 2, against the Tech High nine. Each of the other teams in the in- as to play tennis. terscholastic loop will be met dur- These two stars represent dia- metrically opposite types of the court ing the season and all but Western will be encountered twice. game—Lenglen, dynamic, a flashing | net artist and unusually versatil while Miss Wills, a cool and con fident strategist, depends largely upon the tremendous pace and power to her shots. A comparison of their Seventeen games have been ar- ability is afforded through a mutual | ranged, the campaign lcosing with a rival, Mrs. Mallory, but it offers noth- | Meeting with' the Quantico Marine ing conclusive. In France and at leim’lan_\‘ffl"fl‘fl?-h o by i i Wimbledon for several seasons Len-| April, 2 Tech High; 4, Cen igh, A home the latter has met equally as |High decisive defeat at the hands of Miss y Prep: 4, Eastern High, at Wills in the last two national cham- o B Smamgn Bigh; pionship finals. Tiigh e ¥ Devitt Eas y 11, Georgetown Prop Business: 18, Easte Last season saw Miss Wills reach | Mary's Prep. at e 26, High; 29, Central i May 30, M her greatest heights. She captured | Quintics’ o o Hlsbi M g ————— e ——— B rine: Such popularity must e deserved r I "HE magic carpet of the Thief of The greater magic of Bagdad! Douglas Fairbanks, whose . name packs theatres to the doors! Mr. Fairbanks has won success in many roles, Chesterfield in but one. NEW YORK, March 2.—Four of the nine games remaining in the Eastern Intercolleglate Basket Ball League are scheduled for this week. Columbia meets Yale at New H: ven Tuesday, Dartmouth and Penn clash at Philadelphia Thursday and Columbia plays Princeton at Prince- ton and Dartmouth encounters Cor- nell at Ithaca on Saturday. Cleaves of Princeton leads the in- dividual scoring Mlst in the league today with 48 points and ke captains a team which leads the circult, the Tigers having galned the honors by conquering Dartmouth at Hanover on Saturday. STANDING OF TEAMS. ¢ Opp. it 120 120 144 144 1713 02 Pennsylvania Cornell . Foul Goals. 8 18 Cleaves, Princeton, c.. Picken,’ Dart., rf. Lemon, Princeto Friedman, Dart., ' If. Hyoson, Princeton, Carmack, Penn., it Dey, Dartmouth, ¢ Laub, Columbiay'rf.. Dartmouth, Yale, if. 1 8 13 PIRRRRRRAERREARRRNNAN BREBREEERNBBESSS: @amaabEan SYDNEY, S. W., March 2— Mariechen Wehselau of Honolulu won the 100-yard women's swimming championship of Australia. Her time was 1 minute 5% seconds, which Is an Australian record. SPORTS. \\ TIGER TOSSERS LEAD [FOUR CONTESTS TONIGHT LEAGUE THREE WAYS| IN ALLOY COURT TOURNEY ITH two games in the second rounds of the Aloysius senior and junior tourneys having been decided when the Anacostia Eagles downed the Holy Name five, formerly the Waverly Seniors, 19 to 14, and the Boys' Club Celtics defeated the Darkhorse Juniors, 32 to 21, seven additional quints in each class have qualified by turning back their opponents in the first-round clashes and are ready to take the floor a second time. Games scheduled for Gonzaga gym- nastum tonight are: Tremonts vs. Rose- dales, at 6 o'clock; Woodside vs. Kanawhas, at 7; Comforters vy. Peer- at 8 and Boys' Club Stantons, at 3 o'cléck. Cardinal Juniors, Mount Vernon Seniors, Rosedales and Stantons are the latest teams to qualify for the second rounds. The Cardinals defeat- ed the Waverly Junjors, 13 to 14 Delta Chi Fraternity of Georgetown University, took & 33-to-14 trouncing from the Mount Vernon Senior five; Rosedales downed the Hopelights, 26 to 13, and the Stantons handed the Independents a setback with a score of 30 to 16. Other quints that will play in the tournaments this week are Epiphany Seniors, Boys' Club Coaches, Pullman, Youngbloods, Aloysius Juniors and Cardinal Juniors. Oficers of Calvary M. E. Athletic Assoclation announce that ellgibility Huts for the Midget basket ball tournament that opens on March 6 must be submitted at once, as draw- ings for the first round will be made,| immediately. Entry lists may be mailed in, in care of Calvary Church, Fifteenth and Columbla road. Each organization entering the tourney will be allowed a squad of nine play- ers averaging 112 pounds. Palringx for the third round of the elimination series being conducted for the 125-pound champlonship of the District are as follows: St. Pat- rick's vs. Army Boys' Club, Cardinals vs. Epiphnay Juniors, Boys' Club va. Tremonts, Rainbows vs. Kanawhas, Warwick Preps va Columbia Sllents and Mount Vernons ve. winner of the Anacostia Fagle Prope-National game. Anacostin Eagle basketers are scheduled to clash with the Oxfords at Immaculate Conception gymnasium tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Manager Schwarts of the Southends, who oppose the Live Wires at the Boys' Y. M. C. A. tonight at 7 o'clook, wishes to book games with Epiphany Juniors and Mount Vernon Athletic Association. He may be telephoned at Franklin 4777 after 6 o'clock. Calvary M. E. tossers entertain the Quincy Athletic Club five tomorrow night in the Calvary gymnasium on Columbia road. Quaker City Panthers defeated the Alcos, 22 to 20, and the Senegals trounced the Elite Panthers, 21 iv ¥. Hanover Midgets, who downed the Sherwood Juniors, 32 to 24, want games with quinta in their class. The manager may bo reached at Colum- bia 2394. e e ST. LOUIS, March 1.—It is probable that the Browns avill add the New York Giants, National League cham- pions, to their list of opponents in Spring exhibition games. A game is sought to be played at Sarasota Fla., Glants' camp, on March 24. —_—_—m _ D very -’ Douglas Fairbanks in his greatest screen classic “The Thicf of Bagdad™ Yet both have achieved their im- mense popularity by the simple process of deserving it. Downright better taste—that’s the “magic” of Chesterfield! What else could account for such popularity? ~ Chesterfield CIGARETTES