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- Part 4—4 Pages ¢ WASHINGTON D. C, SUNDAY ' MORNING, MARCH 22, 1925. Natzonals Turn Tables on Giants : Harris Is Gratified by Condition of Players EACH OF THIS TRIO OF “MACS”IS EXPECTED TO HELP THE WORLD CHAMPIONS IN 1925 " REGISTER A 5-3 VICTORY "BY RALLY IN FINAL ROUND Griffmen Are Outbatted, 9 to 5, But Take Advantage of Opponents’ Miscues and Make Better Use of Their Few Bingles. BY JOHN' B. KELLER. ARASOTA, Fla,, their little world series with t Spring S tenders last October for base ball's greatest laurels. Success perched on the banner of the American Leaguers after earned. a bitter fight that ended when they inning to grab the game, 5 to 3. March 21.—Chalk up a victory for the Nationals in he Giants. It's the first in the three exhibition games played between the clubs that were con-' But it was well staged a three-run rally in the ninth After the Nationals had hammered Art Nehf, southpaw who was troublesome to them i the late wor eNisted when they came up for thei up against George Mogridge, veteran portsider. vield more than a lone tally. ~ rld series, to break the deadlock that r ninth turn at bat, the Giants flared But George refused to With the Nationals doing anything but strong hitting in the early innings and the Giants unable to do much against Mogridge in the latter part of the engagement, it seemed the clubs were destined to work overtime again, as they did in the second encounter of the series at West THIS IS MORE LIKE IT Palm Beach last week. Then, suddenly, the Nationals found themselves in a clouting mood. Joe Judge, first up in the ninth, slapped the ball to center for a base blow Ossle Bleuge went up to sacrifice and laid down a bunt toward third base. Heine Groh came in fast for a pick- up, but dropped the ball and Judge was at second and Bleuge at first be- fore the flelder could recover the ball and get it to the initial bag. Roger Peckinpaugh, fore had failed in pinches, also was Instructed to sacrifice and also bunt- eé toward the far corner. This time, Nehf essaved to do the flelding. He got the ball entirely too late to try for Peck and his heave to Groh failed to get to third base ahead of Judge. With the sacks filled, Ruel lifted to Hack Wilson in left and Judge tallled_after the'catch, while Bluege and Peck each advanced a base as Hack heaved to the plate. Mogridge Drives in a Pal Mogridge put the finishing touches to the rally by bounding a single past Frankle Frisch that let Bluege ¥ and Pack reach home. Earl McNeely fanned and Bucky Harris rolled to Frisch, but the Nationals had amass- cd a comfortable lead. Frisch and Pep Young, the first two Glants to face Mogridge in the last half of the ninth, singled, but Frisch was held to'second by Mc- Neely's fast flelding. Travis Jack- son's fly to McNeely was short and the Glants had to hold to their bases after the catch. Then Long George Kelly rolled to Mogridge and the pitcher, with a seemingly easy double play in sight, tossed to Bleuge at_third, retiring only Frisch. It appeared that Mogridge's care- lessness might get him into difficulty when Wilson singled to_center, tally ing Young, while Kelly pulled up al the middle station. But everything was over when Big Hartley popped to Peck behind third by The Giants outhit the Nationals, 9 to 5, slamming Jez Zachary and George Mogridge for all their blows. . Zach was socked five times in the first three innings, four of the blows coming in the third round, but two of these safeties were decidedly scratchy and, given better support, the red-thatched southpaw may not kave been scored against. af Raether Allows No Hita. Walter Ruether gave the Giants nothing more than two passes from the fourth through the stxth frames. He had a wild spell in the fifth ses- sion, but soon recovered his poise. Mogridge was punished most in the final frame. The Nationals fafled to get a hit off Hugh McQuillan, right-hander, “ who pitched the first three innings for the Giants. They did not hit Southpaw Jack Bentley, either, but they did not have to, for he walked four of the five batters he pitched to and gave up a marker. Virgil Barnes was reached for the first Washing- ton hits, singles by Goslin and Judge n the sixth session, and they helped make the tying run. Then Nehf came to*the scene and the National batters awakened. 3 The Glants mixed four hits off Zachary with some weird flelding for a brace of runs in the third inning. Wilson opened the frame with a single, scratched off Judge's glove, only to be caught napping off first a moment later. Hartley singled to deep left, but it seemed that Zachary would escape without a score against im when Snyder, batting in place of McQuillan, flled to Rice. Faulty Fielding Alds Glants, Trouble for the southpaw followed, .though. Groh slammed to short far enough for a single. Hartley was practically at second when Peck made @ throw for an attempted force play, Hartley was at the bag before the ball got there and the sphere, tossed wildly, traveled on to center while ‘ arH»\ took third and Groh second. who twice be- | & T A 4] avossnniionmsd e-l ©o00smmmom ol P8l mmmrnannsnasl 3 Blusoroussensual wl cocoonsoorsony ol cocoorumommnnil comoosntumans Ia: ;r( inploos-Mesers. Walker and Bowiead. Tiie of game—l hour and 45 minutes. Walker. sent & grounder toward Har- ris that the latter was unable to handle cleanly. The wallop, account- ed a hit, tallled Hartley and Groh. ‘Walker got.as far as third base after perfect throw go through to the out- fleld, but Rice made a good catch off Frisch for the third out. One of these runs was offset by the Nationals in the fourth, thanks to the generosity of Bentley. . He walked Harris and Rice and. this pair nego- tiated a double steal after Goslin, trying to sacrifice, popped to the pitcher. Then the Sandy Spring boy passed Judge and Bluege, forcing Harris home. McGraw decided Bent- ley had enough for the day and rushed Barnes to the box. Peck, first to face the newcomer, rolled into a two-ply killing. The Glants were stopbed cold by Ruether In the fourth and made no headway in the other two frames he heayed, although they worked the left: nder for two passes. The Na- tionals also found Barnes a difficult proposition - in the fifth, but they broke Into the hit column in the sixth for the fiest time in the fray and knotted the count. Judge's Bingle Is Productive. Harris fanned to start the round, but Frisch falled to handis Rice's roller cleanly and let Sam reach first. Goslin then socked the sphere to right for a sound bingle that sent Rice to the far corner. Judge also lined a one-base blow to the right garden, scoring Rice with the tying run and moving Goslin to third. Bluege got a base on balls, loading the hassocks, but Peck sent a grounder to Jackeon that was the beginning of a double play. . Then Mogridge and Nehf assumed the pitching burden and the left- handers staged a duel that ended when the Nationals cleared their bat- ting eyes in the ninth. —_— At St. Petersburg, Fla. Philadeiphia () New York (A.) Batteries— Rl Wilson; LY . Carlson, Knight and 0. BShawkey and Schang, Jones, Majority of Fans at Giants’ Spring Base about the game here toda¥. changes during the season at 3 Root for Griffs ARASOTA, Fla,, March 21.—There was 1924 world series atmospliere Lawrence Phillips, who calls the Washington and acted as announcer during the classic in the National Capital.last Fall,.was on hand to tell the fans about it today. timfe gomedy s th&mpnonshxp affair. £ When the game got- under way, had many more rooters than the Gi: In the third inning Ruel made a perfect throw to get Walker going fnto second, but Peck, who covered the bag, let the ball go right through to, center and the Gfant ran intg third base standing up. Frankle Frisch went from |the sublime to the ridiculous in his fleld- ing. He made a most brilliant catch off Goslin in the first inning, rushing to just inside the right fleld foul line to spear Goose's liner and kill off a run. But he foozled Peck's easy grounder in the second session and in the sixth put the Natlonals’ second run on base when he fumbled Rice's roller. In the Afth frame Ruel caught hold ot one of Barnes' benders and lined it toward left center. But Travis Jack- son made a great leap and spoiled Muddy's batting average. Peck had a rough day df it In ad- *aitfon to making two errors, he came up twice when the Nationals had the bLases filled with only one out and hit nte double plays. But he got imto that rally in the ninth. -, Nick Altrock and Al Schacht put on their big- stuff and the scorecard boys sold programs of the last it was noticeable that the Nationals ants, too. A lightning two-ply killing was en- gineered by the world champlons.in the sixth round. With Walker ‘on first as the result gf a pass, Frisch bounded toward the box. Ruether stabbed - the ball with one hand, whirled agd threw to Harrls and the latter made a sizzling relay to Judge to make It two down.. . ‘Walker and Groh made great plays in the eighth to retiore a couple of Nationals. The former came tearing in to just back of second base for Harris" fiy, while Groh made & won- derful one-hand stop of Rice's grounder and threw out the batter. Nick Altreck hadl a deal of fun with his'old friend Hughie Jennings in the latter part of the game. The Giant coach was working at third base and Nick took a position near him and cleverly imitated all of | Hughte's coaching’ eéxpressions and {antics. 3 | n the eighth Mogridge seemid set | to catch Walker’s pop fly, but Bluege rushed across from third g the pitck- ing hlll and grabbed lhe el 2ot pilfering second when Peck let Ruel's| « J ; Photos By CARLT THONER. AMERICANS HELP OXFORD By the Associated Press, L ONDON, March 21.—Wi TO, WIN OVER CAMBRIDGE h ample American aid, Oxiord defeated Cambridge by six victories to five in their fifty-seventh intervarsity track and field competitions at Queens Club today. Three of the six firsts scored by the Dark Blues were won by Ameri- cans, R. L. Hyatt, formerly of Harvard, capturing both the pole vault and the weight-putting event, while W, E. Stevenson, ex-Princetonian, broke the tafe in the quarter-mile Lowe, star of Several thousand partisans of ome of the ether anclent English univer- sities witnessed the sports, which were run off in a melange of Spring- time weather such as England alone can experience it—a little snow, a little rain, a little sleet, cold, bitter wind, and now and then a dash of cold sunshine. v Three intervarsity records were broken, but two of these events, the pole vault and the 220-yard hurdles, have been contested by Oxford and Cambridge for only three years, so that no great credit is taken by those who won them today because they did better than their predecessors. But ~ A. E. Porritt, the New Zealander, who won the 100-yard dash in 9 9-10 seconds, accomplshed something that seems to be of com- sequence in the long record of rivalry between Great Britain's two anclent universitl The Dark Blues have raced against the Light Blues over the 100-yard route since 1864, but never until this afternoon has one of them dashed the distance in less than 10 seconds. Even the great Abra- hams of Cambridge, who defeated the best sprinters of the world in the 100-yard dash event at the Olvmplc ganies in Paris last Summer, got below 10 seconds in gaining. his four (ntervarsity victories in the century at Queens Club from 1920 through 1923. Porritt had & slight diagonal wind behind this afternoon and he finished with a fine burst of speed, leaving the others well behind him. Stevenson, former Princctonian, greatly impressed the Oxford sup- porters by his victory in the quarter mile. At that time each side had won four events-and Lowe ‘of Cambridge was thought likely to defeat the American, who obviously was-not en- joying the uncomfortable weather: HoWwever, he overtook Lowe as they turned into the finish stretch and ‘won with a lead of three yards in 51 seconds. Pole Vault is Novelty.. The pole vault, which still is a nov- Ity to most English athletes, was an y victory for two Americans, R. L. Hyatt and C. B, Wright of Southern California, who- represented Oxfard. Hyatt still was jumping with heavy ‘trousers on when one of the bridge vaulters, T. R. Scott, fell by the wayside with the bar at only 10 feet, and the American had not yet shed his sweater when the other Can- tab, R.-H. Bailey, failed to make. a vault of 11 feet. Hyatt got oyer the bar at 11 feet 6 inches, but Wright failed to do so, giving the Harvard vaulter the victory. - Porritt, the hero of the 100-yard dash, was defeated in both the low and high hurdles by Lord Burghley of Cambridge. These two triumphs seemed to please the crowd ‘more than anything else. It was not much that Burghley is a noble lord and a jolly good fellow besid this_20-year-old: heir to the quls of Exeter is an Englishman, uaa some of the cheering that Mivete victories can be attributed.to the fiu that the English are getting- just a little bit weary of - w\_cm? their home-grown talent being defeated in various sports by colonials, Ameri- cans and evVen 0o and then by Frenchmen, | run thfee yards ahead of D. G. Al the Cambridge runners. The Summaries. 100-yard dash—Won by A. E. Porritt (Ox ford); second, J. W. J.” Rinkel (Cambridge): third, C. F. Harrison * (Oxford). = Time, 99-16 seconds inter-varsity record). 120-yurd hurdies—Won by Lord Burghley (Cambridge); second, A. E. Porritt (Oxford) ¥lynn' (Oxford). Time, 15 4- 220 gard low hutdies—Won by Lord Burgh ley” (Cambridge); second, A." E. Porritt_(0x- ford): third, H. M. Cleckley (Oxford). Time, 2445 seconds. Hoyare run_-Won by \W. B Stevenson {(Oxford) ; second, D. G. A. Lowe (Cambridge): iira, B 6 Buster (Cambriage). Time, 51 seconds. Haltmtle run—Won by . A Lowe (Cam- bridge); 8. Watts (Oxford); third, 6rch-n1 ambeiager: Fier minses S T e by R. F. Starr (Cam- beidpe), moond, B Violieneton (Oxford) hi 0'Conner (0xford). Time, 4 miu- Utes 30 4.5 sconde. Three-mile run—Won by V. E. Morgan (Ox- fora); second, K. 8. Stars (Gambridge); third, Yates (Oxford). Time, 15 minutes. D L N, kL Y S (Cambridy second. M. “Mitchell (Ox- ford) s nied, Ar. G, Wiilis (Cambridge). Dis- tance, 5 feet#1i% inches. Putfing the weight—Won by R. L. Hyatt never (Oxford): second, D. A. Warl) (Cambridge) ; third, R. L. Howland (Cambridge). Distance, 41 feet 6 inches. Broad jump—Won C. B. W. Mackintesh (Oxford) ; necond, H. K. Bagnow (Cambridge): (Oxford); fourth, M. Baker . Distance, 23 feet 21 vault—Won by R. L. Hyatt (Oxford), 11 fest 6 inches, “tleing the inter: second, . B. Wright (Ox- H. Bailey (Cambridge). Dis- O inches (an iater-varsity neight vamity record: ford); third, K. tance, 10 feet record). MRS. JESSUP TAKES TWO TENNIS TITLES BROOKLINE, Mass, March 21. Mrs. John B. Jessup 6f Wilmington, Del,, played steady, paceful tennip in ‘the final round of the women's na- tional indoor singles at the Long- wood covered courts, Chestnut Hill, today, and retained the title by de- feating Miss Anna H. Fuller of Cam- bridge, 6—3, 7—6. Mrs. Jessup, ‘who has ranked near |the top in American women's tennis for the past decade, formerly as Miss Marion Zinderstein of Brookline, not only successfully defended her singles title, but she won the na- tional indoor miked doubles title Jater in the day in.paftnership with Karl S.. Pfaffman of Quincy, formér Harverd: drop-kicker, defeating Isa- bellp L. Mumford of Boston and James E. Davies of Los Angeles, 4—6, 7—5, 1—5. The ' Longwood team of .Mrs. J. Dallas Copblere and Mrs. William Endicott, ceded fifth in this week's play, swept to the women's national lndoor doubles title at the expense of Martha Bayward, Shors Hills, N. J. and Katherine Gardner, Cambridge, 86, 6—4. Miss Fuller's play in the singles final was notably fine for a player who was making her fourth bid for nmmn honors in two years. - oo, “the Cambridgs el was aafontes in the firat raund of the in> door event by Miss Martha Bayard, winning only four games in two sets. “Today Miss Fuller gave. Mrs. Jessup | a much closer tussle than Miss Bayard was able to provide the playing-. through champlon ,ln the semi-Saal vesterday. 5 | i Nationals last season, again in McNally this year will occupy MeNeely, who played such a prominent p: ted for the center he_role of chief McNamara is the most promising of the recruits a t in the triwmphs of the 1d assignment. whi ubstitute inficlder, ane FINAL WEEK AT FLORIDA BASE TO BE A BUSY ONE Pilot Asserts Team Is Stronger Than Last Year and While Not Claiming Another Pennant Is Con- ARASOTA, Fla.,, S hit the long, long trail gereral April 14. Fve engagements are on the club’s field. The competitive program begi be entertained at mpa. Tuesday camp’s wind-up contest on Saturday. grueling grind. There is every reason to believe the Natlonals will be as fit for the start of the American League cham- plonship race as any other of the seven aspirants to the flag. After several weeks of preparation, the club was somewhat sluggish com- pared with other clubs encountered. But the world pennant winners dur- ing the last few days have advanced wonderfully. With another week of careful yet strenuous work they should quit their Florida camp just about ready to start the struggle in defense of their laurels. An arduous barnstorming trip must be concluded before the cur- tain raises on the 1925 campaign of the Johnsonian circuit, but the mes to be played during the tour should serve to keep the club in the fighting trim it will have at the end of its stay in the “Gator” State in- stead of dissipating the benefifs de- rived from the training camp work. How Harris Figures It. Stanley Harrls, pilot of the world champions, firmly believes that a club should play {tsel into condi- tion. Made manager on the eve of the training season last year, Harris did not have an opportunity to test his conditioning theories thoroughly, but immediately at the close of the world series last fall he set about preparing for a training campaign that he considered would be ideal, and the one mow about to end may prove right Harris' contention that the best way to prepare for base ball is to play base ball. The Nationals have mostly With the exception of Sundays, they have had but one day without a game since March 10 and they probably will have but three more off days be- fore the league season arrives. There has been some criticism con- cerning the Nationals pre-campaign schedule, particularly that part of it which has to do with the Glants, but results so far do not justify adverse criticism. Physically the men are in fine fettld, team play is more ad- vanced than usual with the Nationals at this stage of the training season and the pitching rapidly is rounding fato a form already attained in other departments of the game. Manager Harris is very well satis- fled with the results so far and feels that the Nationals, barring illness and injury, will step into the champion- ship ring next month better prepared for the long battle than they were at the outset of the American League argument in 1924. “Believe me, we'll be a hard club to beat,” Bucky declared today. “I am not claiming any pennants now, for there are seven other clubs in the league and they are by no means to be despised. But our club now is bet- ter than it,was last year, and will be still better on April 14. Infleld Is in Great Form. “And when we get into that race, Just watch us step! Just consider that our infield is in grent form. We have been putting up a fine defense for this been dolfg ed to the curving corps. the Associated Press. P ARIS, March 21— Regarding the new uniform tennis ball, the federation decided that no monopoly would be glven to any com- pany, but that the ball presented by any manufacturer in order to be ac- cepted ust meet the specifications |1ala down by a committee of four, | Which the federation appointed. The adoption of the American foot fault rule seems likely to raise havoc among the most. prominent French players, the French interpretation having allowed the server to drag the pivot foot across the baseltne at the moment of impact, glving the server a few feep “fudge.” Henceforth the American method of foreing the serv- er to stand with both feet behind the base line, without touching fit, and demafiding that one foot remain in contact with the ground during the entire service actiom, Will be rigorously applied. T Italy, where the server has been permitted fo spring before the mo- ment of impact of.racquet and ball, voted against the rule. H E 260 28 2 B. Johuson Englishman iAVY. GYMNASTIC TEAM TAKES' NATIONAL TITLE HANOVER, N. M., March Z1l-- Toronto (L.). Batterfes—Coll and Woodall, Basiler mwmI Newhardt of the Navy was aee- ond with 2493, Wheelock .l—'i& Navy third, with 2416, and Kuma- d-ln &E-mlmu ‘was m A tennis bail of uniform weight, siliency will be compulsory in all international matches played after January 1, 1926, the International Tennis Federation decided today at its annual meeting, in which 20 countries were represented. The Federation also adopted the American foot faui ceived favorably applications from Austria, Greece and Ecuador, who will become full- fledged members in due course. No request for admittance was received from Germany. INTERNATIONAL TENNIS TO HAVE UNIFORM BALL size and re- Tt re- Trelgnd, rule, Hungary, India, SCHOOLBOYS BREAK TANK, TRACK MARKS By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, “March 21.—Four swim- ming records and two track marks fell in the annual Northwestern Uni- versity, national track and fleld meet, which ‘closed here this evening, gi ing Atlantic City, N. J., High School first place in the tank affalr, and Cedar Rapids, Towa, High School first in the track meet. Atlantic City High had little trouble in the swimming meet, running up 27 points and establishing three records. Cedar Rapids High in the track affair scored 20 points, or five more than s nearest competitors, Oak Park High, Chicago. Evanston, Ill, was third, with 131, Shaw High School of Cleveland and Detroit Northern High divided second- place hofiors with 12 points each, as Atlantic City'$ nearest opponents. Atlantlo City swimmers hung up new marks in the 160-yard _relay, when they clipped three seconds off their own record of last year, estab- lishing a new time of 1:16 3-5 sec- onds; in the medley, ~when they knocked 6 3-3 seconds from thelr own record of a year ggo, traveling the distance 1 2 minutes 6 2-5 séconds and in the 100-yard back-stroke event, when Scherea went the distance in 1:08 3-5, one-fifth of a second better than the tinfe éstablised last year by Hilivof Hyde Park, Chicago. Anotl mark went by the boards in the rd swim, won by Wallaitis, Detroit Northern High, in 19 seconds. In the track meet the Senn High School team, Chicago, ran to a new record In the fGur-fifths of & mile re- lay in 2:49 1- Glst of Hyde Park High, cmux«. shattered the half-mile mark of Stock | of Rockford, who ran the distance in 2:04 2-5..in 1922. Gist went the dis- hlu In tws mnm att early in the training season, and there is no reason why it should not be better when we we down to actual fighting. “All of us are in splendid physical condition, particularty. Roger Peckin- The final week at the Florida base promises to be a that.for the past two weeks. | vinced “We’ll Be Hard to Beat.” 7 BY JOHN B. KELLER. March 21.—Tampa headquarters of will be maintained one week more, on then the world champions w Iy northward, but quite roundaba to Yankeeland for the opening of the American League campaign or active one book, three of them on the ho ns Monday, when the Dodgers w the world champions will motor to Palmetto for a tilt with the Buffalo Internationals and on Wednesdas will invade Clearwater for a return battle with the Dodgers will be a guest in Tampa Thursday and the Giants will be ¢ Buffalp ere for the _Not an easy schedule, but the Nationals have made meuch of thei training in Hot Springs and at the Florida base and are ready for a GRIFFS’ BUS NARROWLY MISSES PLUNGE IN RIVER Special Dispateh to The Star SARASOTA, Fla. March The world champion Nutionals eame close to phinging Inte the Manatee River on their way here today to play the Giants. Stanley Harrix, manager: players and Clarence Rowland, the umplire, were in the bus when it started across the bridge. Five planks broke under the heavy load and for a moment the cham- pions were on the verge of falling into the river. and only quick action on the part of the driver provented a serious accident. “I thought that I was going to feed the fishes when the planks broke,” matd Nick Altrock on hix arrival, adding: “Clark Grifith would have died of heart fallure 1f he had been in the bus.” was last year, and then he was muc better than in 1923. MoNeely is. 1 believe, better than when he finished last season, and he was good ther As to Rice, the only thing needed to be sald of him is that he is as grea as ever “We do not Intend to be caugh without a good reserve as we wer: last year. Lack of capable second- string talent almost finished us ir the world “gerfea Well, we do not intend to be.caught that way again Shirley was a clever first sacker las year. He will be better this year For the other side of the infleld we will have in reserve Mike McNal well known to all followers of big league base ball as one of the best substitute players in the business and Adams, a recruit from the Pacific Coast League. Adams can do a good plece of work either at short dr second. “For the outfield we wil ha: bold and efther Matthews or in the event any of the regulars falter. I am not worrying about th club’s reserve strength “The catching staff, too, i proved. Ruel is in fine physical con- dition once more. He does not look the same- Ruel that came out of the 1924 American League campaign all fagged out by a terrible lot of work. Tate and Hargrave both seem to L doing better behind the bat Pitching Is Most Improved. “But 7 think the club's greatest in: provement is in its pitching staft With the addition of several veterans but sturdy hurlers, I think the Na tionals will have the best pitching staff to be found the American League this year. There are a. co Ple of new youngsters, 100, W | ought to make some he old-timers look to their laurels. “Instead of having only four regu lars to take their turns on the hil this year, I am banking on having five. That will give a regular four days’ rest after a trick on the slab. But the club, I belleve, will have such a number of capable pitchers that 1 can use three, or even four, in a hard-fought game, and still have two or three men of more than average Lei paugh. Any of the fans who thought Peck was ‘through’ after hls injury in the world serles will be greatly surprised wlien they look him over next month. “The club's outfield is doing won- derfully well in the gardens. Goslin is a more improved fielder than he! ability to throw at the opposition the next day. “Washington will have a good cilub ‘tlns yvear that will be out to repeat | its success of last vear. It will have | Just as much fight in it, if not more, than that which won the world series. L.t me repeat, we'll be hard to beat By the Associated Press. N post office clerks’ games in the 69th made the distance in 10:05 3-5 secos America’s premier walker, br 1912. Plant won easily, crossing the finish, — line 25 yards ahead of Phillip Gran- ville of Hamilton, Ont., who finished second. Mike Fekete of the Pastime Athletic Club was third: Paavo Nurmi, Finland's super run- ner, running his first race since his collapge in Madison Square Garden Tuesday night, easlly won the mile and-an-eighth special His time for the distance was 4:59, 3 1-5 seconds slower than his own’ world's record for that distance. time during the race, more than 75 yards from Andy Craw, runnink unattached. Gunnar Nilison, Pinnish-American Athletic Club, was third. Nurmi ran easily and showed no, effects of his recent iliness. Lioyd Hahn, Boston A. A, won the mile special in 4:21 3-5. Leo Larrivee, Holy Cross, was second, with Willie Goodwin, New York A. C. third. Hahn ‘won by 15 yards. Alan Helftrich, Penn State's star performer, loafed through to an easy victory in the 880-yard run, negotiat- ing the distance in 202 3-5. Sid Lesle, New York A. C. was Second, and James -J. Connolly, former Georgetown athlete, Dplaced third; Jack Sellers, New York A. C., and Walter Mulvihill, Holy Cross, com- Dleted ‘the -feld. Willle Ritola, starting from scratch in a field of 48 ters, won a slow 2-mile victory in 9:322-6. He was forced to push through a crowded field, all running with a 176-yard handicap. Joe Wallace, New York A, C., was second and Harry Kaplan of Union cm’en third, winning by EW YORK, March 21.—Willic Plant, one-half mile handicap walk, PLANT SHATTERS WALKING MARK SET 13 YEARS AGO Morningside A. C.. star and oke the world record in the one and one of the feature events in the Regiment Armory here tonight. He nds, clipping 2-5 of a second off the mark established by George Goulding of Canada in Brooklyn in March, TUNNEY GETS OFFER TO BATTLE DEMPSEY CHICAGO, March 21.—Billy Gibson, manager for Gene Tunney, Amerioan 1light - heavyweight champion, an- nounced here topight that he had re- ceived an offer for Tunney to box Jack Dempsey in a 10-round no-de- cision contest in Los Angeles in June. The Finn was not Puned at anyYye saia, however, that he would with- hold acceptance of the offer pending the outcome of negotiations for a 13- round bout to a decision with Tom Gibbons in New York during the Sum- mer - season. Gibson sald Gibbons had been offered $75,000 to meet Tunney, but that the St. Paul heavyweight had :iluph)'ed no inclination of accepting t “Tunney is willing to meet Gibbons at catchwelghts or the light-heavy- weight 1imit,” Gibbons said. “We are ready to guarantee Gibbons $75,000, This {s an offer he cannot refuse, as he previously agreed to meet Tunney in Madlcon Square Garden and would not have received more than $25,000. “Tunney is the logical opponent for the St. Paul heavyweight. Gene has ®rown heavier and stronger and is developing into a full-fledged heavy- welght. Gibbons should meet him and the winner could be matched with Dempsey for a title contest.” Tunney worked out here today. leaving later for -St. Paul to meet, Harry Greb in a 10-round contest nest Friday night.