Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1925, Page 30

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, 1925. SPORTS. Harris to Test More Vets Tomorrow : Ft. Worth Club Hopes to Keep Its Laurels “MOGRIDGE AND COVELESKIE CHAMPIONS OF THE SOUTH MAY FACE BOSTON BRAVES WORKING TO RETAIN TITLE Zachary, Marberry and Russell Show Class in Blank- Team Hard Hit by Loss of Some Star Players, But ing Cincinnati Reds—Milwaukee Club Is to. Manager Jakey Atz Is Striving for Still Another Be Met at Sanford Today.’ Texas League Title. MARCH 13, BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ORT WORTH, March 13 (En route from California to Southern * BY JOHN B. KELLER. AN 5 back into the important ¢ encountered. The rene competitive action for the first time been going through a strenuous training routine this week at the Na- tionals’ base while their tcammates were barnstorming across the “Gator State,” but just what hurlers will be sent ag: Manager Bucky Harris will not know until he has di: been accomplished in their conditioning work during his However, it Is quite that George Mogridge and 3 old in major league base ball, will be among those adorning the slal at Tampa tomorrow. Having bro winning class yesterday by trouncing the Reds, 5 to 0, at Orlando, Harris now hopes to have his club hold to a winning stride fairly well during the remainder of the Spring exhibition serfes and intends to hurl all pitchers Into the line as soon as he thinks they are prepared to show thelr mettle under fire. The manager of the cha not particularly concerned infield material right nc Ossle Bluege, regular third sacker: Mule Shirley, substitute first baseman, and Spencer Adams, recruit, who does well on either side of the middle station, practically are ready to jump into a league campalgn with no more train- ing. The boss himself also is In splen- aid form. Peck Taking His Mike McNally, substitute on the left side of the Infield, and Joe Judge, who has established himself as one of the best first base guardians in the business, need little more grooming to be fit for the regular season. Roger Peckinpaugh, veteran shortstop, Is being nursed carefully in his condi- tioning work, not that Harris fears the Rajah’s underpinning, that proved 50 troublesome in the world serles is unsteady, but mainly because the bril- liant fielder always has had to take plenty of time In prepping for the league champlonship season. In the three games he has been in for a brief while Rajah certainly ap- peared to be as fit as a fiddle. He demonstrated he has lost none of that remarkable ability to hustle back to deep short field, dig hot smashes out of the ground and heave the bull accurately and smartly to first base. His work at bat, too, has been commendable, while on the Dbases he has revealed no weakness in the leg that put him out of com- mission at such a critical time in 1924, The outfielders now touring with the club seemingly are tuned to a high pitch for so early in the training season. Considering that a month re- mains before they will be called upon to take up their big task, Harris probably will have to call a halt on the activities of some of the quintet of outergardeners on the road squad. Sam Rice, Earl McNeely and Nemo Leibold from now on will have to be cautious in their training to ward off the possibility of “going stale. Matty Needs More Work. Wid Matthews needs a little more work to be prepared physically for the campaign, while Goose Goslin is getting down to condition much faster this year than in any of the others he has been with the Nationals. At present Goose is idling somewhat because of a brulsed finger on his throwing hand. It does not prevent him from batting or catching, but the digit is so swollen that ot the & apidly to treatmént s & s.Lgger of tas World Dions may be back on tae job &3y day now. Roy Carlyle and George Reinhardt, outfleld recruits who came from Dixle circults with slugging reputations, will be looked over carefully Manager Harrls next week. has had little time to devote to these athletes, but in some respects they have not impressed him so greatly. Both have indicated In batting prac- tice that they can wallop the ball, but Carlyle appears to need more training in work afield, Relnhardt seems to lack certain qualt ities necessary to the making of a big leaguer. In scoring their first victory of the vear over a major league club yes- terday, the Nationals played no better base ball than they did in the two games agalnst the Glants, but In those two games the world cham- plons performed about as well as their ardent supporters could desire. The pitching of the Nationals gen- erally was good all the way and the Datting of somewhat better order than ought to be expected at this stage of the preparatory grind. mplons is with his e Pitching Trio Improves. trio of pitchers employed the Giants at Palm Beach used again and each The against Tuesday was member of it showed some improve-; The Reds got | Zachary | in the first three innings of the fray, | ment in his slabbing. but five hits, three off Jez and the others off Allen Russell, who toiled in the last three rounds. Zach, though, was unusually cool after the Cincinnati crowd had bunched two bingles In the second session, while Russell was not much | did the Allen ap- annoyed when the enemy same thing In the ninth. peared to be in than on Tuesday, when the battered him unmercifully in his start on_the mound. Fred Marberry, the fron man of FORD, Fla., March 13.—After today's engagement here with the Milwaukee team of the American Association the world champion Nationals will resume hostilitics with big leagu ss tomorrow when Boston’s Braves will be al of games with clubs of major caliber will bring into en into the big league | MoNecly, of... his | MoNally, for two hits and a run in the seventh. by | Bucky | much | while | much better form |gregation on the Corinthian field. Glants | | the outfits, jumping this scason those pitchers who have ainst the Braves tomorrow covered what has absence. SMART SLAB STUFF NATIONALS, = 3 > Harris, 2b Shirley. 1 luege, Sb. Peoklapavs PIEE PSSR, Srrmupnnen ©00000000H0mmmmE 5l ocom Totals...... = *Batted for Zachary in fc REDS. Critz, 2. Pinelli, 3 Rousch, of..... Brossier, 1b, Walker, of. Zitzmann, f. Smith, 1f. Bohae, ss.. E. Hargrave, Rixey, p..... Sheehaa, . Donohue, p. Dresden® Wilert . Totals.............. 89 *Batted for Rixey in third inn Ran for Bressler in ninth inal Natlonals. 4000001 Reds. ...0 000000 Two-base hit—Shirley. Thres-base hit—Mo- Neely. Scrifice—Shirley. Double plays—Bluege to Harrls to Judge. MoNall Judgo (2). Critz to Bohne to Bres bases—Nutionals, 8: Reds, 7. Bases on balli— Off Rixey, 2; off Marberry, 3: off Russell, 1. Hits—Off Zachary, 3 in 3 innings; off Mar. borry, 0 in 3 innings; off Rus in 3 ia- nings; off Rixey, § {n 3 inning: ha 5 in 3 innings: off Domobue, 3 iz 3 inn Hit by pitched ball—Donohue ~(Russel Struck out—By Rixey, 3; by Donebue, 1. Wis. ning pitoher—Zachary. Loting, pitcher—Ri Umpires—Messrs. Rowland and Lohr, game—1 hour and 45 minutes, §m snehs sEvRNNE rt omoncusmusEne ol coococomronoort ¥ Xl oue. | soomcoamocomuad ol eccccccecccecol f ol 8| coccovuenntmend Time bases. Bluege, though, was caught at the plate when Zachary rolled to Finelll, and McNeely, up for the sec- ond time in the frame, fouled to the Red third sacker. The Natlonals wasted a single In each of the three innings pitched by Tom Shean, right-hander, but combed Pete Donohue, another rlght-hander, Two were out when Shirley, who had been substituted for Judge early in the game, lifted a double Into right field. Bluege followed with a single to center, to get his teammate In with the last marker of the day. Mike McNally and Spencer Adams were to do the shortstopping for the Natlonals today in the game with the Milwaukee Brewers. As prearranged when the present tour began, Roger Peckinpaugh returned to Tampa lust night, but will play against the Braves tomorrow. That vietory yesterday was scored before a gathering of Florida Elks in Orlando as guests of Garry Herr- mann, owner of the Cincinnati club and past grand exalted ruler of the B. P. O. E. There was a band 'nvery- thing at the game and Al Schacht Dule payE agel Nation. forte. T against tae Rels yesterday, to seven thelr total for the real exhibition games so far played. Earl McNeely had a busy time in center fleld. Six difficult running atches were made by the fleet gar- dener, the Reds keeping him ttaveling right and left. Mule Shirley made the most spec- tacular play of the game when he re- tired kddle Roush in the eighth. The Red shot a wicked grounder well to Shirley's right, but Mule speared the ball with one hand and deftly leaped back to the sack. Rill Hargrave, the red-headed catcher of the Nationals, and Bubbles Hargrave, Cincinnati recelver with a pink tinged top, shook hands like the brothers they are, posed for photos, then jawed one another during the greater part of the fray, in which they were behind the bat. CORINTHIANS LIKE BASE BALL OUTLOOK With a squad of 38 players present at the initial practice session, Coach Walter Newman of the Corinthian Athletic Club is greatly enthused over the prospects of his Junfor and Midgets nine during the coming base ball season. Members of the club are meeting tonight in Immaculate Conception Hall at 7:30 o'clock and on Sunday | will stage thelr first practice tilt, the Junior team opposing the Midget ag- Word comes from T. H. Seay that the Southern Raflway Co. is following example of other business or- 5 1925 season. Danforth will be a regular, Sisler says, 12 he shows up. The latest re- poms &t = Spr £ Brow. IPARIAF CaT=D, ave tsat Jan- forta plans to pract.ce dezustry in Baltimore, 1ls home towa. Catcher Leo Dixon, regarded as a holdout, has wired from Chicago for transpor- tation to camp, Sisler said. The Cardinals are the victims of a 5-to-1 defeat by Sacramento. The Cardinals left their Stockton, Callif. training headquarters yesterday, and lost an exhibition game at Sacramen- to. Tygers Have Reserve. DETROIT, Mich,, March 13.—TInfleld reserve strength has been supplied to the Detroit team through the ac- quisition of Neaun at first and Tave- ner at shortstop, the first 10 day workout of the club shows. The old reliable Haney s present for third base or any of the infleld positions, while Burke is belng re- tained to fill in at second base, where he played a part of last season. Last year's regulars, Blue, O'Ronrke Rigney and Jones, are given the pref- erence to start the season. Orders for a game in which the two inflelds will perform were glven for TInal: SVELAND, Ohlo, March 13— Sherry Smith, Cleveland Indians' vet- eran southpaw, started where he left thing but strikes in practice game, which the yannigans won, 4 to 2, at Lakeland vesterday. Smith allowed seven hits, Including a_triple by Riggs Stepherson, v'ho played right field. Joe Shaute worked for the regulars. Neither issued o base on balls. Outfielder Harvey Haadrick, tne last absentee, arrived at the camp yester- day. He was detained by his wife's fliness. Ruth on the Sidelines. NEW YORK, March 13.—Babe Ruth stood before the muititude In a blue off last year, throwing scarcely any-| a_three-Inning { ganizations of the city and will spon- | serge coat, white flannel trousers and sor a nine this year. The team will a siraw hat, while the Yankees went play in the railroad Y. M. C. A. 1oop. |forth without him and batted out a atlonals’ mound corps last year, | hurled during the middle three innings and escaped unscratched, al- though he granted three passes. Two of these walks came in the fourth frame before Fred had really settled | himself to his task. In sharp contrast to the total o five swats made by the Reds was the total of 11 amassed by the Nationals. They hit safely in all innings but the second and ninth, punishing three slabmen. McNeely led the attack with a triple and a brace of singles. Bluege made a pair of blows very effective, driving in three runs. Rixey Is Soundly Swatted. Fppa Jeptha Rixey, long lefthander, who used to hurl at the University of Virginia before getting a big league job, was pummeled hardest by the Nation- als. They swung on him for four clouts and as many runs in the first frame. McNeely opened the game Ly driving a triple through Zitzmann, in left fleld. Harris grounded to finelll at the hot corner and when the lat- ter tossed wildly past first, MeNeely gcored, while Bucky got to frst. R} slammed a single by Bressler, send- ing Bucky to third. Leibold strolled, filling the bases. Then Judge fann-d, but Bluege lined a single to center, tallying Harris and Rice and moving Liebold to the far corner. Peck’s one-base blow to right sent Leibold home and Bluege to third and Bill Hargrave's walk again filled the ¢|ager Rob Roy Mackey. | contests at Main 6464. Games with the Mohawks, who hold thelr first work-out on Sunday morn- ing, may be arranged through Man- J. P. Burroughs has been elected captain of the F. H. Smith Co. base ball team. Manager Foley is booking | Morton Anderson, president of the Washington Base Ball and Athletic | Assoclation, will preside at a meeting of the Potomac League tonight at the offices of the Ransdell Incorporated Printing Co., 1317 C street. Elks defeated the Mohawk Midgets, 27 to 7, in the opening game of their season. Members of the Virginia Quickstep nine will practice tomorrow after- noon at 3:30. Manager E. R, Allen of the Dread- naught Athletic Club is booking games at 326 North Washington street, Alexandria. TURNER THROWS NESTOR. 14-t0-10 victory over the Boston Braves, at St. Petersburg yesterday. From the time Nick Cullop, dis- coverer of alllgators, went to the plate to open the battle, pitchers stumbled to earth. The Yankees made 20 hits, the Braves 12, Urban Shocker made his first appearance for the Yankees. Herb Pennock, holdout pitcher, reported from Jersey that he was about to start for the training samp. Fournler and Wheat hit successive home runs for the Dodgers at Clear- water, but the irregulars won the battle, 10 to 6.+ Young McPhee, who would succeed Dutch Ruether as Brooklyn's lefthanded standby, has pitched nine scoreless innings in the last three training games The Glants, at Sarasota, were a joytul lot after two victories over ‘Washington, and Manager McGraw was 8o _overcome that he neslected to call for the customary nine-inning practice game. The signing of Bill Terry, first baseman, and Emil Meusel, outflelder, was reported officlally. George Kelly alone remains without the gates. Heat Hampers Red Sox. Joe Turner defcated Mike Nestor, two falls in three, at the Mutual Theater last night. } Cub” pitchers [ Twenty-six Cubs SISLER FIGURES GASTON TO BE REGULAR PITCHER LOUIS, Mo., March 13—Milton Gaston looks so good in action that Manager George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns says he is sure to employ the ex-Yankee as a starting pitcher at the opening of the Gaston’s display of a fork ball, with which to vary his fast delivery, prompted the decision, Sisler announces. . Sisler is now sure of four starting hurlers, the others being Bush, Wingard and Van Gilder, with Davis ready to work against teams that have proven easy victims for the right-hander. Leaguers defeated by the New York mericans, 14 itched the the Braves anc fourta, % for ive st went ner. the s aa Today the Braves play the Giants at Sarasota and Saturday they go to Tampa to play the Washington Amerlcans, the world champlons. Hot weather continues in New Orleans, and Manager Lee Fohl of the Boston Americans ordered light prac- tice. Ernle Vache, promising left fielder, Is suffering from a charley- horse, Phils Defeat Macks. PHILADELPHIA, March 13.—A triple by Joe Schultz, with the bases full, ‘in" the sixth inning gave the Phillles a 6-to-3 victory over the Athletics yesterday in the first of a two-game exhibition serles between the Philadelphia National and Ameri- can League base ball teams at the Athletics’ training camp in Fort Myers, Fla. The second game Is to be played today. The Athletics made all thelr runs offt Couch in the first two innings. Knight and Betts, who divifled the work on the mound for the National League team in the last six innings, were In great form. Only two hits were made off Knight, while Betts held the Athletics hitless in the three innings he worked. Snappy fielding and base running on the part of both teams featured the contest. Reds to Play Orloles. CINCINNATI, Ohlo, March 13—The! their scheduled Cincinnati Reds, victims of a 5-0 de- feat by the champlon Washingtonians Dupiey Martina admlits having celebrated his 35th birthday, while Dudley is not yet eligible to vote. Both are stri games to earn mound positions with the We i in the eurrent Florida Spring training 1d Champions. HOW TO PLAY BASE BALL By Stanley (Bucky) Harri FIRST BASEMAN, II—TRAINING HINTS. T HE first baseman, like all other infielders, must train for quick starts. A good system to follow is to break from a playing position after the manner of the sprinter, from a crouch. Learn to start for a play as soon as the ball is hit. Constant practice, plus natural ability, will do the trick. The hardest task the youngster faces is to shift his feet. practice until he does so automatically. He must You will find it helpful if you drill yourself off the field in going from one side to the other of an imaginary bag. the fashion of a Such work will make you sure of where your feet ought to be. The green first baseman will always be! by looking around for the bag. He has lost it when forced to shift to get the AUDIENCE OF NOTE EXPECTED AT BOUTS White shirt fronts, though not com- pulsory, are expected to be much in evidence at the Washington Auditorium Monday night, when Tommy Noble, British featherweight champion, meets Honey Boy Finnigan in the headline at- traction of the second show of the new National Capital Sporting Club. There also will be a liberal sprinkling of evening gowns in the boxes, for many fair sex fans are to be present Staffs of foreign embassies have been invited to attend as guests of the club, and are being assigned to choice seats upon application to the organization's the Brits moriing. Young Denclo, Wio appears a Jackie Feldman in the semi-final bouts echeduled for New York and New Orleans, and promises he will not re- turn to Washington until he has earned a chance at Frankie Genaro, present fiywelght champlon. KAPLAN IS MATCHED FOR COAST CONTEST SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 13. —Louls “Kid" Kaplan of Meriden, Conn., featherwelght champion of the world, has been matched to fight a 10-round bout with Stewart McLean of St. Paul, Minn, in the Oakland base ball park on the evening of April 1. The match Wwill be promoted by Tommy . Simpson, Oakland fight im- presario, as the conclusion of nego- tiations which have been in progress several davys. It was said that the featherweight title will not be involved, although it reported “Scotty” Monteith, man- ager of Kaplan, has been offered a guarantee of $20,000 if it is made a title contest. McLean scored a technical knock- out fn an Oakland fight arena last night over Jimmy MacKley, San Pedro, Calif., in the first round of six-round bout. at Orlando yesterday, went to Eustis | for the first real game of the season today to play the Baltimore team, six-time champions of the Interna- tional League. Manager Hendricks took all of his regular players, in- cluding three catchers, with Rube Benton, to do the pltching. Root to Hurl for Cuba CHICAGO, March 13.—Charlle Root, who totaled 21 victorfes and 16 de- feats as the star twirler of the Los Angeles Pacific Coast League club last against his former mates In today's first game of the Cub practice schedule, at Los Angeles. Marty Krug, former Cub, and man- ager of the Angels, will recelve, in part payment for Root, Lefty George Milstead of Marshall, Tex., on this trip of the Cubs from the Catalina Island camp, and will be awarded another player on the next trip. and Cublets in- vaded Los Angeles. Johnny Mostil, White Sox out- fielder, monopolized the slugging spotlight at the Shreveport, La., camp yesterday. He went to bat 5 times and scored 5 runs of the 12 made against the Clancy clan’s 2. Another game today was expected to put the White Sox In fighting trim TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats BOSTON, March 13.—Base ball fans crowded the park at St. Petersburg yesterday to see the Boston National A EISEMAN'’S, 7th & F Jakie May and Neal Brady, _year, headed the list of Chicago.| N against the Shreveport Gassers to- morrow. Pirate Rookies Score. PITTSBURGH, March 13.—The Pirate rookies turned the tabie the regulars at the Corsair camp at Paso Robles, Calif., and emerged from yesterday's squad game with a 5-4 victory. It was # big day for the Yannigans, who have already taken several trounchings from the vet- erans. Rémy Kremer did mound duty for five innings for the second-string men and held the first team to four hits and one run. Fresco Thompson, the Yannigans' second baseman, enlivened the afternoon With So much fast flelding that fans llkened him to Johnny Evers. Johnnie Sherlock, from Buffalo, saved the game from a tie by grab- bing a short fly in the last inning and throwing Joe Cronin out at the LU LT L L L L L LT L 2 Give Your Car a Spring “Dolling-up” WE _PAINT AUTOS, Make Stip Covers, Tops, ete., as well as do General Repair- ing and Overhauling. L REAL SERVICE on every Job — prices and work that invariably please. R. McReynolds & Sons 1423-25-27 L St.—Main 7228-29 2T 2 T LT 2 Z T, N LT T 2272772 2T T T, 22 ray himself | on| Work from the inside to the outside and back again, after pugilist shadow boxing. ball and loses time, and oftentimes the runner as well, by having to locate the bag. Furthermore, he 18 handicapped in taking the ball because he is-so awk- ward. You have gone a long way when you learn to shift your feet fast and ac- curately. Then you can keep your eye on the ball and concentrate on the nec- essary task of getting it properly. A workmanlike first baseman knows by instinct just where the bag is. Practice, and then more practice, is the thing to make you letter perfect. Don't be too castly discouraged. If you have speed and are naturaily nimble on your feet you will get there all right. Practice playing the ball. Don't let it play you. Always try to get your body in position where you don't have to reach to the side to make a catch or stop. Don't be afrafd to leave the bag in order to do so. You'll still have a chance at the runner. You will find the short pick-up the hardest thrown ball to receive. It is coming .fast and is difficult to handle properiy. Here, again, is where a first haseman must put in plenty of practice. Get ate to work with you on t o get two 2 can't always be Goae. but tae ball saould be so piaved Bu you good habits. stab i3 pretty to watch, but It Isn't al- wars successful. It pays to be safe rather than sorry. The first baseman should school him- £olf in timing his throws to the bases. This holds particularly true with a man on first and one out or none out. Then is the time the play on a fast-hit ball in the Infield comes up at second base. In such a case the ball Is generally coming xo fast at the first baseman that by the time he is ready to throw neither the sccond baseman nor the shortstop has reached the middle bag. Learn to throw more to the bag than to the re- ceiver. Practice throwing two or three feet ahead of the man covering second on such a play if he is In motion when ¥ou get rid of the ball. If the bail is thrown directly at the man covering, while he is moving to- ward the base, he has to slow up or reach back for the ball. In either event he has a hard job to get the baserunner. Perfcct timing is required in making the throw to the bag instead of to the in- fielder in motion, because the ball and shortstop or second baseman should reach the bag elmultaneousiy. Only practice will bring about the desired re- ul Practice dropping of the hand fast so that you can put the ball on a runner accurately. Such quick-jabbing ability will come in handy when the pitcher is trying to prevent a man from taking too long a lead oft your station. Above all teach yourself to watch the ball constantly. By so doing you will not only be able to perform your first- base duties better, but you will be of great ald to your team in handling many infield balls and in cutting off throws from the outfield. 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Jake Atz, the Fort Worth never talk is a watch- watchword. d it word that Dallas, Shreveport, Beaumont and the rest of the clubs in the league will do weil to consider. for bear. SIKI DECLARED FIT FOR TONIGHT’S BOUT| NEW YORK, March 13.—Battling Siki, sensatlonal son of Senegal, once more Invades New York tonight as half of a feature 12-round battle at Madison Square Garden. He will fight I'aul Berlenbach. 8iki conquered Georges Carpentier of France, then light-heavyweight cham- plon of the world, in Paris, more than two years ago. He went to Dublin on a St. Patrick’s day and was defeated by Mike McTigue, present champlon. Sporting followers agree that the African would be among the leading boxers of the day if he could refrain from comics In the ring. He is re- ported to have trained falthfully for tonight's bout. Several months ago he met Tony (Young) Marutlo of New Orleans in w York and lost the decision, al- though many at the ringside believed that he had earned at least a draw. NEW YORK RACING DATES APPROVED BY STEWARDS~ NEW YORK, March 1s.—Dates for 10 racing meetings in New York State this season were approved at a meet- ing of the stewards of the Jockey Club as follow: United Hunts. April 25 and 27. Jamaica, April 29 to May 21 Belmont Park. May 22 to June 13. Aqueduct. June 15 to July 7. Empire City. July 8 to July 30. Saratoga, July 31 to August 29. Belmont Park, September 1 to September 15, Aqueduct, Beptember 10 to September 30. Jamaica, ‘October 1 to October 15 Empire Oity, October 18 to October 30. BALL IS MADEHANAGER OF THE NEW HAVEN CLUB NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 13.— Neal Ball, former member of the Cleve- land Americans, has been made man- ager of the New Haven Eastern League team for 1925. He has been coach of the club for two seasons. Some years ago he gained fame by making the first unassisted triple play in “modern major league history — AUDITORIUM AVAILABLE. Louls J. Fosse, general manager of the Washington Auditorium, has announced that the maln floor of the building will be clear of seats on April 7, 8, and 9, and may be ob- tained for the staging of hleti events. A total of 15,000 square feet of floor space is avallable. — = SQUASH MATCH ARRANGED. Squash players of the Washing- ington Racquet Club are scheduled : oy Solid sizes. A o0 READ THESE SPECIALS bray. 7. | and 1t lookea in the store for the e WORKINGMAN Scout Shoes leather—all sturdy shoe for rough work. $1.95 5-Finger Horse- hide Gloves Very special— 65¢ Blue Chambray Shirts Golden Rule cham- Sizes 14% to 69c The Fort Worth battery is being loaded Last Sgmmer, golng 1 when things wers for the Fort Worth club if ¢ were headed pennant, the league held x decided to divide decision had effect whatever on Fort Wort e that it gave that club a chance to win tw abbreviated “seasons. After that Fort Worth fn the Dixie serie resulr nd all for the meeting and season. The mixed up with the custom- this Winter the fans of this part of the United States have been chuckling to themselves And they are entitled to thelr chuckles, for Fort Worth is a game city and it has a game basc ball club. __The club has been hit hard by los- ing some of its players, among them Kraft, who won the home run cham- plonship of the minors last season Kraft has retired and is running an automobile agency. But if the team misses Kraft and the other players who have gone they are not saying anything about it. They are just sit- ting tight and sawing wood Middleton Still Active, In a Fort Worth hotel lobby the into Jim Middleton, onc- will “hail that fact who probabl hold the rec- ord for finishes of games in the minor leagues, if there were such a record He might have made a si ar record in the majors had Lady Luck not been against him Middleton went to the Giants aff a fine year in the minors. But abou the first thing that happened to him was an attack of tonsilitls, from which he did not fully recover all season. Disheartened, he went back® to his farm in Indlana. Later Chanc took him to Portland, Oreg., wh he shone not only as a pitcher, as a manager. Middleton looks well and likes the sun, of which he will get a plenty down here. He is something of mascot as well as a good pitcher. T is not suggested, however, that Jake Atz took him as a mascot. The only sort of mascot Atz recognizes is a base hit, Waeo Back in Cireuit. ‘Waco has been added to the Texas League circuit this season, and old- time easterne will hall that fact with pleasure, because there was a time when a major league team buck- ing up against Waco would have had to play as hard for its scalp as It had to play In its own circuit. The teamwork of Waco was the biggest hit in Texas League base ball when that city was winning pepuants. 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