Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1925, Page 31

SPORTS. Vets Are Key to Cu ALEXANDER AND COOPER 'FOUNDATION OF FLINGING Each of Oldtimers Looking Forward to Big Season on Mound—Root Best Rookie—Pittenger ay Prove Factor in Infield. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. (Jokn B. Foster has completed the first leg of his tour of the training camps, having looked over the three National League teams~which now are in California. He is on his waw back East to see the thirteen other major league olubs in action at their Southern camps.) ) I. PASO, Tex., March 11 (En route to the Southern Training E Camps).—The Chicago Cubs will have two of a kind in the pitch- ers’ box this year. One is a right-hander and the other a left- hander. but Alexander and Cooper—right and left handed respectively— in their time have been big winners in base bali for the National League. And it is far from certain that their time is past Five yvears ago a manager of the National League, who had been watching Alexander from the start of his career, said he would be out of the game in two seasons because his side-arm motion was pulling his arm out. Alexander still is pitching. The same manager predicted that Cooper would not last, but Cooper still is pitching, and last year was a If this pair of veterans should u-n]c';'ASE WOUI:D ORGANIZE = BASE BALL IN MEXICO ith 40 victories between them in the Cubs will be giving some-| body a battle, if they fail to win a| Pl A | DOUGLAS, Ariz, March 11.—Ban- pennan n | ished from organized e ball for al- Alexander can see no reason Why|leged participation in the world series Yo <hould not be successful for some|scandal of 1919, Hal Chase, formerly first baseman of the Cincinnati Na- seasons to come g he tionals, and now proprietor of a cafe Alee Doesn't Feel Age. in Agus Prieta, Mexico, across the “I never have felt old age knock-|border from Douglas, is preparing to ing in my elbow he remarked to | OT8@nize a base ball league in Mexico on the invitation of the Mexico City the government, he says, writer, discussing his days witn the Phillies and later with Chicago. i You can usually tell when your arm | » e l “s going to back up on you. Walter| Tonmaoh asid he wnew when nis was| ADAMS BEING RELIED bad because he could not make the ball sail. ¢ he 4id have & bad arm UPON BY PITTSBURGH | for two years, as it was sald he had,| PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 11.—At 1t was not so bad that he could not|the Pirates' training camp at Paso ptich Washington into the champion-| Robles, Calif., Babe Adams, dean of ship last year. and [ am pretty sure|National League pitchers, Is holding That I have zot a bit of championship his own in the competition with the fork left In mine. When the ball youngsters, and is being relied upon ak right for me for a week | (o bear a share of the Buccaneers’ n. or fora fortnight, I|pltching burden, despite his to believe that I am e el | through—but it will have to be fully that bad before 1 surrender.” TAYLOR LOSES ON FOUL. 1t C improves in-his tempera-| PARIS, March 11.—Jack Taylor, an ment by his shift from Pittsburgh to| American negro light-heavyweight | Chicago and if he should not be|fighter, last night lost a bout to waorried by other matters he will give|Charlie Ring «f Australia. He was ihe Cubs what they have greatly heeded since 1918—a left-hander, who is an every-day terror to opposing clubs, disqualified in the seventh round for | fouling. Taylor had the advantage over Ring up to the time the low blow was struck. “I think T can win for this club,” S g he said here is a lot of activity to it. Grimm and Maranville came| NOTED SPORTSMAN DIES. alons with me, and I know both of| NEW YORK, March 11—Grant them well, and know what they can|Hugh Browne, internationally known do for an infield. If I get a start|gportsman, died at the Presbyterian is anything like hopeful, I am 1 can travel fast enough to help Hospital here, following an operation for cancer. He once was prominent ubs @ lot. My arm is good. 1|in base ball and turf affairs. n't need to hurry it. and 1 am not &= > o EOLILE S e Charles (Whitey) Glazner, former Shite Should Help Cooper. | pitcher of both the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia National League clubs, has joined the Los Angeles club of the Pacific Coast League. Cooper has no special grievance aga Pittsburgh because he was permitted to go away from undér the of Dreyfuss. He had been with sburgh for a long time and he had been forced to listen to the gibes L] and jeers of the right field crowd in player that Dreyfuss had on his team. He may have become tired of it By Chester Hortor It is enough | The mashie shot calls for more | compactness In the swing tham any other stroke in golf. This is because the mashie pitch calls for extreme accuracy. The ball must be hit to make a ball player tired to be jabbed verbally and eve lastingly when he is trying to do h hest. Cooper is the type of player vho may be benefited by the change that was made for him without con- sulting him. Some players are very mauch better when they are taken out of a rut, even if they have been just so fer the doing well. desired remult. Probably the hest of the younger iie - scavany . E R often 1 1 Cub pitchers is Root. He has a nice easy shoulder delivery, some speed, through tee much monsidering that he has not been ask- loeseness In_ the o' 10 use much, and “ooks ke a Trriats I the back pitcher. Bill Veeck, president of the | MASHIE IS TAKEN s . Gl nieneii'a: hitrmiano b grie o3 BACK WiTH VERY Cr7 little wrist action until mear I 'wish we had 10 more like him.” | LITTLE WRKT tne top" ot "ohe ttenger May Prove Factor. ACTION. AB+ 1ok wwing, w There is one player on the Cub| ,JOOMUCH the ‘rists tam who must not be overlooked. | SQOSENESS)S — break upward Te is Pittenger. He has been up be- | > wome. Thix ix a fore in the big leagues. After a tris] | matural bending upward of the wrists. he was sent to the Pacific Coast|met n forced action such as takes Le The atmosph food, or |place whem the plaver makes hin whatever it is out there that changes | wrists break the mashie biade direct- {he moods and the skill of ball play- | Iy buck from the ball. You throw the ers, has worked its spell upon Pit- | mashie head exactly as If it were n tenger. He looks little like the ball | welsht on the end of the shaft, mak- player who was sent away from the |ing It atfain itx maximum velocity at Fast. He felds like a sircak, bats | the instant it hits the ball. Practlee Well and zives every indication of |drawing It back with the idea that hemmz a very live wire to put on the |the head of the eclub is merely s infield in case one of the Cubs gels|weight that ix {0 be thrown inte the injured | ball. That will help you met the (Copyright, 18 | “feel” of the blade in your fingers. It isn’t the nickel you pay for a John Ruskin — but the enjoyment you get out of it that has made ‘it - the world’s greatest cigar value. Was £5a ¢ °"’5¢ Same Quality Same Size L Lewis Cigar Mfg. Co., Makers, Newark. N. J. Bernard Harding Distributor, 'Washington, D. C. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1925. SPORTS. " 31 bs’ Box Strength : Ruth Admiis He Is Practically “Broke” GLEN ECHO EXPECTS STRONG BALL TEAM Tom De Nell. newly elected manager of the Glen Echo base ball nine, is greatly enthused over the team's prospects for the coming season. Twenty-five players already have reported for the squad, and a first- class combination is expected to be ready for action when the Mont- gomery County loop opens next month. M ers of temms in the proposed Commercial League, who met last night at W. B_ Moses & Sons' and elected temporary officers, will meet again on March 16 at the same estab- lishment. Clover Junmlors wre starting the season with a bang, and are playing their first practice game next Sunday, when the Washington Preps will be encountered. Daily practice sessions are being held at the Garfield play- grounds. . Moeller of the Senator Mid- gets is booking games and may be reached at Linciln 1756 W. Directors of the Washington Base Ball and Athletic Association e meeting tonight at the office of e director of playgrounds, at the Dis- trict Bullding. Members of the Hesw base ball team are meeting at the home of Francis Hoffman, 720 Seventh street south- east, on Friday night POTOMAC PARK LOCKERS T0 BE READY TOMORROW Early bird goifers will have an opportunity to line up their favorite lockers at the East Potomac links tomorrow in preparation for the for- mal opening on Saturday morning. New greens have been placed at the third and fifth holes on course B and at the third and sixth on course A The new nine-hole course west of the clubhouse will be opened on May 30. CHANCE FOR TREMAINE. CLEVELAND, March 11.—Jimmy | Dunn, manager of Carl Tremaine,| Cleveland bantomweight, has an- nounced that he has received an offer of $15,000 for Tremalne to meet| Eddie (Cannonball) Martin, bantam- weight champion, for a title bout in Dexter Park Stadium, Brooklyn, May 15. LEADS WOMAN GOLFERS. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, March 11.— Setting a new course record for wom- en, Mrs. H. D. Sterrett of Hutchinson, Kans, won the qualifying round of the first annual Florida east coast woman's tournament here. Mrs. Ster- | rett's score was an 82. FIGHT MEN SUSPENDED. NEW YORK, March 11.—Walk Mil- ler, manager of Tiger Flowers, Atlanta negro middleweight, has been suspended indefinitely, together with his entire stable of boxers, includ- ing Flowers, for failure to appear be- fore the New York Stats Athletic Commission in answer to a summons. o REYNOLDS IS RELEASED. TORONTO, March 11.—Pitcher Arthur G. Reynolds has been uncon- ditlonally released by Toronto of the International League. Reynolds is a former Georgetown star and before coming to the Leafs also played in- | dependent ball in New England. WOMEN TO BOWL MEN. THYATTSVILLE, Md, March 11— The Arcade alleys here will be the scene tonight of a match between the Commercials, crack woman's bowl- ing team of Washington, and a strong quint of mere males, the Comets, who are leading the race for the cham- plonship of the Prince Georges County | Duckpin Association. DEFOREST IS MATCHMAKER. NEW YORK, March 11.—Jimmy De- forest, one-time trainer of the heavy- weight boxing champion, Jack Demp- sey, and later of the Argentine heavyweight, Luis Angel Firpo, has been named as matchmaker for the Polo Grounds. was pointed out by veteran deer hunt- THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President lzack Walton League of America. HE effort to drive part of the deer of the Kaibab plateau across the T Colorado River to save them from starvation because of crowded conditions failed Now the plan suggested is to herd mountain lions from the other side of the river onto the Kaibab plateau. The idea is that the lions will fall on the deer and decrease the herd to a status commensurate with the feed available on the plateau. The effort to drive tne deer across the river was a grand failure. A num- ber of cowboys were employed, and they got the deer to the edge of, the canyon, but then the deer, in a heavy sgowstorm, turned around and ran threugh the lines of horsemen. It |LOW SCOifléé ARE RULE IN A. B. C. TOURNAMENT Y. BUFFALO, N. Y., March 11.—Roll- ing in the Ame: gress tenpin tournament today confined to five-man teams, all from this city. There are five squads sched- uled, a total of 140 teams, | the ers that the wrong tactics were used; There were few changes in thy il s 1 oy said the deer should have been | ool o7 (hoTo high vesterday. driven away from the river, and that |3 individuals winning places in the charmed cirele. Scores were low. ‘The leaders: Five-man, 2,795 Two-man if this had been done the deer would have turned around and dashed | through the lines of horsemen and would have crossed the river of their own accord. Now comes Prof. Silas Wentworth, veteran animal hunter, who is ar- ranging for a party of hunters to drive mountatn lions into the Kaibab forest to reducs the deer herd. The All events, CALIFORNIA BALL TEAM WILL MAKE TRIP EAST lions will destroy enough deer to save the herd, according to Went-| BERKELEY, Calif, March 11.— worth. It is pointed out that if the [University of California’s base ball deer are not reduced, they will be- | team will make an eastern tour in come so weakened by starvation that [ June The schedule thus far arranged in- cludes a game with Fordham June S| and one with Pennsyivania June 11.| Negotiations are under way for| games with Yale, Harvard and sev- eral other leading universities. SPRINTER IS INJURED. they will all die, whereas if the herd is reduced at once, those remaining will get through . All of which proves that it is pos- sible to be too zealous in protecting game animals. The enemies of the Kaibab deer were removed and the | deer protected. They increased so rapldly that the Kailbab would not sup- port them George Hill, Pennsylvania track | The Kaibab plateau and forest js a | captain and intercollegiate outdoor sort of island in the desert, and|sprint champion, is nursing an in- jured ankle that may keep him off the track for several vears. He hopes to be in condition for the Pennsylvania relay carnival the last of April the deer could not get away from it. So they had {o stay there and starve. Wherever animals are protected, pro- vision should be made for an over- flow area on which hunting can be | Shvs i A done, thus providing sport and at the same time promoting the welfare of MAY TIE FOR SECOND. the animals. 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CHAMPIONS T0 FACE 'SUIT FOR GAMBLING DEBT IN'RING CLASH HERE| SHOWS FINANCIAL STRAITS More than one international angle figures In the Tommy Noble-Honey Boy Finnegan match that serves as | the headline attraction on the pro- | gram of the National Capital Sport ing Club at the Washington Audi- torium next Monday night To prove his_claims to the British | |Babe, Despite Being Best Paid Athlete in Base Ball, With $52,000 Yearly Salary, Acknowledges He Cannot Meet His Obligations. title, Noble wears the Lord Lons girdle, while Finnegan, on the other| TRatect ¥ iy e L L N EW YORK, March 11—The Evening World prints the iollowing four gold belts to back up his claims, today from its special correspondent at St. Petersburg, Fla B e Sk Shempion ‘Babe Ruth has very little to show today for his arduous Scae Tonhardo. st Datisrn vears of toiling in the big leagues.” The Dencio-Feldman bout is likely to be a hummer, and the semi-final eight-rounder between Andy and Tony Cortez, local ring celebrities, | holds interest for Washington fans. | w The opener « Sammy Hogan of the Mohawk Club against Jack Patrone of New Orleans, | WDRLb BILLIARD MARK This was gleaned from a talk with Ruth on the steps of the Yankees A coun here he n Bowen | clubhouse at Crescent Lake Park try home in the shadow of the famous inn ght farm in his later years six rounds featuses | today with the exception of his wife’s holdings Ruth has passed the shadow line of his vouth and old. Youth is collecting its toll. is all that R He His best days are bek Sudbury realy possesses Mass., growing fat d hi During the last three seasons Ruth was known as the highest-salaried base ball player in the history of the game me and violated it, and by squawking He received $52000 a season. that he should ing on New tne debt had It is sald that Ruth has one-third [of his salary withheld by the Yankee |that I welched, and revealed that he IS MADE BY APPLEBY |owners, whe are investing it for him |is a gambler, I believe o, v PR for a rainy day. be barred from operat Edgar T Appleby of New York, in- | 5% TINIE 0 nuons nancal | York feacks terna : eastern amal s L e status came as a result-of his beinz| 1 would have paid, phamions sl 482 balkiine: billiards, ‘FUFI] in New York for a racing debt | he kept his word."” New | In the same race the team covered[of fellow 300 yaras in 2.27, being 2.27 4-5 the previous record bad you are “I feel that. ina a gentlemen's g0 ahead.’ much as allahan agreement with whose ability have dixcovered he was former heavyweight champion boxe | established a world record in Js e |incurrea last Summer at the tracks| Ruth's money has Heen taken away FOSRIASCIUEn IOn AN amatens chamy | o) sua P A {from him by “sharks” He has given plonship tournament when he ran 164 | 1% And SrounC Bew XOrC o ltreely to charity. Just a few days 1o Rowingle rn ot i Lichtenstein, 1o whom the claim was | #80 he was having his finger X-rayed The former record, 154, was held by | [ yjgneq by Baward J. Callahan in a doctor's ofice when a cripple John A. Clinton of Pittsburgh, jointly Yes, 1 owe the money,” Ruth said |came in. He handed him a dollar and with Appleby today. “f made the bets last May. || remarked Gee, here 1 am com- SN . lost $7,700. 1 went to Callahan, who ! Pléining of a busted firger was making a book, and told him; In his career as one of the greateat YALE SWIMMERS SMASH |1 could not meet the obiigation just|Southpaw pitchers in the game, and then, buf to give me until the end|unquestionably the greatest of hit RECORDS IN EXHIBITION | of the season, when I had some more |1ers Ruth has earned a small fortune | monev, and 1 would pay him with old age creeping NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 11 “He said ‘Al right.” A few months little to show for The Yale varsity six-man relay swim- [ later, forgetting or disregarding his st colorful base ball ming team broke two world records|agreement, he demanded that I pay |Plaver in the history of the game last night in an exhibition match with | him | Sa g = a freshman team | said T did not have the money The team covered 250 vards in 2.02,| He told me. ‘All right, I'm going to| N. March 11-—Edward A the previous record, made by the Yale | expose you. Ill have it published in | . 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