Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1925, Page 21

SPORTS, HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, .- Cy TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1925. SPORTS. Central High School Base Ball Team Is Due to Take Field Twice This Week BLUE AND WHITE SLATED FOR TWO PRACTICE FRAYS Hopes to Arrange Tilts T omorrow and Friday, But Will Open Regular Campaign Next Monday With Game With Charlotte Hall. BY JOHN ITH his team at full streng claiming the attention of s ball mentor at Central Hi W I. WHITE. th once more, basket ball no longer everal star players, Mike Kelley, base gh School, is preparing to put his charges through two practice games in the next three days as condi- tioners for the start of the regular schedule on Monday, when Charlotte Hall Academy is entertained at the stadium. Arrangements are under way for a tilt tomorrow afternoon with cither Emerson Institute or the Epiphany Athletic Association nine, and St. John's College has been invited t the Mount Pleasant field on Friday. As the fraternity muddle has not as yet affected the athletic situation @t Central to any extent, Coach Kelley ¢is going ahead with the dally prep- ping exercises and has just about de- cided which players are to get the regular berths on the team that has the task of defending the champion- ship won in 1924 One Veteran Pitcher. ur pitchers are rounding into m and all should see considerable service during the coming season. Dezendorf is the only regular, but will have an able assistant in Don Huse, a 6-footer. Capt. Bob Williams, who played in the center garden last season, also is getting a try-out in 1 the box and is expected to become g useful member of the hurling corps. Duffy, a left-handed rookie, is ther slabman, who has attracted the otice of the coach, while Parmele. Smith, Phipps, Grifith and Brady are heing retained on the squad and should make the grade next seasonm, it not sometime this Spring. " Barl Moser, star guard of the bas- et ball five, has a strangle hold on the backstopping position. However, Engle is on the job also and will get into the catchers regalia at odd times during the schedule. Jim Hance is expected to start at first base tomorrow; Wilner, Colley and Hale being slated for the second, short and third base positions, re- spectively. Coiley is the only new- comer of the lot, and has shown sufficient ability in the past 10 days to clinch the place. Duke is another first sacker with a knack for the job. while Benner and Groves are working hard for Hale's place at the hot cor- ner Outficld Candidates. Beit Byng and Williams have been picked for the outfield positions, and should have little difficulty in becom- ing fixtures in the gardens. Blacki- stone, Lombard, Haddock and Trodden will be called on to serve in utility roles Little is known of the batting abil- ity of the members of the Central nine. To date no slugger has appear- ed on the scene to take the place of the hard-hitting Mike Gordon, whose timely clouts aided greatly in the winning of the championship last vear. Hance, the big first sacker, is showing about the best form at pres- ent, and Coach Kelley is giving him plenty of instruction in the use of the big stick. ¢ Tech High's basket ball team will | he coached next Winter by Leo J.| Kris, former lowa University ath- tete, who was recently appointed | physical instructor at McKinley to| tpke the place of Irving Sanborn. Kris also is expected to aid Coach | Mardell with the task of training the | foot ball squad next September. Semi-finals of the intersemester| basket ball series at Eastern High | were to take place this afternoon at the close of school. Teams of the| seventh and eighth semesters were to | meet to decide the opponnt of the fourth semester quint, that has come through the preliminaries success- | fully. The championship game is to be played tomorrow afternoon. GHERRYDALES WILL HOLD MEETING THURSDAY | An important meeting of the Cher- rydale Athletic Club has been called Thursday night at the home of Mickey Johnson. Election of officers of the organization is among the business matters to be taken up. As efforts to organize a county jcague have failed, the Cherrydale team will play independent ball this| vear and will have its home diamond at Lyon Village. Lyon & Fitch, coun- ty realtors, have offered the use of a. field and expect to provide a back- stop and place the diamond in first- class condition before the next prac- tice session, on Sunday. BORG, SWEDISH SWIMMER, WILL TRY FOR A RECORD The attempt of Arne Borg, sensa- tlonal Swedish swimmer, to crack the world indoor record for 220 yards will feature the first series of the Central A. A. U. indoor swimming champion- ships at Chicago tonight Ethel Lackie, Illinois A. C. holder of the 100-yard swim record for wom- en, will compete in the 220-yard free style for women, for TR ey SEVENTEEN FIVES ENTER INTERSCHOLASTIC EVENT Seventeen teams have sent in en- téies for the mational hasket ball tournament of the Uni- r of Chicago, which begins March 31 and ends April 4 Among them is Greeley, Colo., which twice this vear defeated Wind- sor, winner of the national title in last year's tournament. 215 RESPOND TO GRID CALL AT NOTRE DAME Spring foot ball practice is under way at Notre Dame University, with Coach Rockne searching for new tal- ent to fill the gaps left as a result of the loss of Crowley, Miller, Lay- den and Stuhldreher. When the call to don the moleskins was issued 215 men responded. = MRS. THORPE ASKS DIVORCE. TULSA, Okla, March 24—Jim Thorpe, Sac and Fox Indian, and conceded to be one of the greatest sll-around athletes, has been sued for divorce by Mrs. Iva M. Thorpe, Cherokee maiden, whom the athlete married at Carligle Indian School in Yennsylvania in 1913 while they were both students there. She charges sbandonment and desertion. v JBUOYS NAVY GRIDMEN. New 1life has appeared among the Navy's foot ball exponents training under Jack Owsley, formerly assistant to Tad Jones at Yale. Prizes will be o~ered for the best punting, place- kicking and drop-kicking at a con Lest acheduled for May. interscholastic | o meet the Blue and White team on | | ‘ [ OT since 1920 has a champions N took the world championship won in 21, '22 and '23 Not since 1919 have the National The Cincinnati Reds won in that yeai Giants steadily Lave been the victors the two teams from St Cardinals in the National. They have for the big teams in the East to age a The St. Louis Browns Won 74, Lost 78, in 1924. FINISHED FOURTH. “I am ready for the season to open.” Says George Sisler, manager of St. Louis Browns. “When it does you will see a stronger Brown team over a long stretch of games than last | vear, because we have the reserve pitching strength now that we lacked then. No place is weaker than last season. will be stronger. | Some of the fellows have gained in experience, while I have gained in health. We'll do better than last year. There's a great fighting spirit_ in the camp of the Browns. It wa: noticable even before “Bullet Joe” Bush, traded to St. Louis by the New York Yankees, asserted he had simply shifted from one pennant winner to another. He really thinks he can make his vaunting true and bring the Browns home in front—at least bring them home ahead of the Yankees. The other veterans sav outright what Sisler wouldn't claim — that the Browns have the strength to win the American League pennant. They base their claim on the changes in the pitching staff. “Watch Wingard,” is apparently as much of a tip in the camp here as “Watch Bush.” Ernie Wingard, the young left hander who made such a sensational start in the American League race last season, has improved greatly and promises to be one of the best young left handers of the year. Whitehill of the Tygers and Joe Shaute of the Cleveland Indians Several lare the only others in his class, With Wingard, Sisler has Dave Danforth, an old timer at south- pawing, but a good one, and Joe Giard, the young man all the Ameri- can League clubs were storming To- ledo to get-till the Yankees took him and made him a part of the Shocker deal. Bush. of course. is the ace of the right handers. He will throw his arm off to “show up” Miller Huggins for trading him for Urban Shocker. There is a useful veteran in Elam Van | Gilder and Sisler has been encouraged by the development of Milton Gaston, last year's Yankee and part of the Shocker deal, and George Blaeholder, a young giant from Tulsa Club. There are several other good-looking rook- ies in the camp who may be developed by Frank Severeid, one of the best catchers in _the big leagues. He will have Leo Dixon, last year with St Paul, to assist in the backstopping. Outside the box the Browns are the same as last season. Tobin, Jacobson, Ken Williams and Bennett are the outfielders, with Joe Evans in a util- ity role. ler is playing a stronger game at first than last seasom, his first after a long illness. McManus at second, Gerber at short and Gene Robertson at third make up the reg- ular infleld, as in 1924. Rice and Bob Lamotte will be the infield sub- stitutes. The Browns should bat as hard as last year, possibly harder as a team, for Sisler should do better. If he im- proves his hitting and flelding and the pitchers show the form their teammates seem to expect the team will be a dangerous contender. BOROTRA DUE TO PLAY IN INDOOR NET TOURNEY Jean Borotra, Wimbledon champion, and conqueror of Vincent Richards on British turf last year, is expected to feature the national indoor champion- ships in New York Saturday. Borotra is_expected to reach New York from France today Entries for the annual event will close Thursday and there is still a | possibility that Richards and W. T. | Tilden, 2d, national singles champion, [ will compete. H air-Groom” costs only few cents a jar at any drugstore and makes even stubborn, unruly or sham hair stay combed all day in any style you like. . “Hair-Groom” is & dignified comb- ing cream which gives that natural gloss and well-groomed effect to your hair—that final touch to good dress both in business and on social BOTH BROWNS AND CARDS ARE RATED AS DANGEROUS west of the Alleghenies. That year the Cleveland Indians won and and the Nationals last year. ~. The Robins followed in 1920 and the This vear three clubs from the W Louis, the Browns in the American League and the This is the third of a series of articles on the chances of the various teams now in spring training. The teams, today, are from the West. Hair Stays Combed, Glossy! NURMI GOING AFTER MILE MARK TONIGHT NEW YORK, March 24—Paavo Nurmi will run the last long mile on the boards of New York tonight. Jimmy Connolly, sturdy product of Georgetown, will accompany him in pecial race at the 244th Coast Artillery games, an event in which Nurmi hopes to break the tie exist- ing between Joie Ray and himself as one-mile record holders at 4 minutes and 12 seconds. After this test, his last of the in- door season in the Metropolitan dis- trict, Nurmi starts on a journey which is expected to take him across the continent. He plans to return East early in May and leave immediately for a series of races in Europe, and, at this time, thers Is doubt that he will participate in outdoor compe- tition on the Atlantic side of the continent. Ugo Frigerio will meet Joe Pear- man of New York in a special 2,000~ meter event tonight. hip flag of the American League gone rom the Brooklyn Robins. The Yankees League winners hailed from the West. ince. est have hopes—the Chicago Cubs and been steadily building up and waiting nd crack The St. Louis Cardinals Won 63, Lost 89, in 1924, FINISHED SIXTH. “Our team is in the making. It is 0o early to predict where a club will finish when half of the positions are still unfilled,” Branch Rickey, man- ager of the St. Louis Cardinals, is quoted as saying. “I have so much | good material to look over that the final line-up of the 1925 Cardinals may not be announced until the day before the opening game in April. . From the constant changing and shifting of infleld and outfield combi- nations it would seem that Rickey means what he says. Rogers Horns- by, second baseman, and Jim Bottom- ley~first baseman, really are the only regu) of last season’s team who appear to be at all sure of their jobs. You can't leave Hornsby out any { more than Ruth could be left off the Yankees, and Bottomley is the best first baseman the team has had in years But for the left side of the infleld Rickey is working hard for strength- ening material. Jimmy Cooney, short- stop, and Howard Friegau, third base- man, may be there again, but if they do it will be only after a bitter fight Lester Bell, who failed to make the grade in 1924, is back. After his fliv- ver in a Cardinal uniform he went to Milwaukee and led the American As- sociation in hitting and fielded clev erly. He will try to push out Cooney “Spees” Toporcer is looked on as a contender for third base. He took Friegau's place when the latter was hurt last year and showed well. IHe ig a veteran and a .300 hitter. It Bell and Toporcer earn infield jobs Rickey will be able to put eight men in his line-up who can hit .300 or more. Hornsby and Bottomley al- ways go over that mark, while an out- field made up of Ray Blades, Chick Hafey and Ralph Shinners would show all men above the charmed fig- ure. Tt's not at all certain that Hafey and Shinners will beat out Jack Smith and Max Flack, ‘but they are making a great impression. One of Rickey's catchers can hit more than .300—good old Mike Gon- zales, the Cuban, the busiest catcher in the National League last year, | when he worked in 121 games. The others will be Walter Schmidt, once with the Pirates, and Ernfe Vick However the flelding array of the Cards finally is settled. the club will Lave plenty of hitting power. There is plenty of pep. It is up to the pitch- ing staff to improve on the record of last year's team. Rickey is taking a chance on Wal- | ter Mails, the famous “Duster” who pitched the Cleveland Indians to a pennant in 1920. This left-hander | does well on the coast. He has been in the National League before, with the Brooklyn Robins.® He was only a kid then. This time Rickey believes he may be of great assistance. His southpaw partners are Bill Sherdel and Elmer Dyer. Jess Haines ‘s the right-hand ace and will have the as- sistance of Leo Dickerman, once with the Robins, and Johnny Stuart. The 1925 crop of young pitchers hasn't de- veloped any stars, though it's early vet. FIVE DISTRICT RUNNERS IN ANNUAL MARATHON Five harriers of the Aloysius Ath- letic Club, Mike Lynch, Leon Ham- mond, Carl Brooks, James Montague and Grattan Montarue, will repre- sent the District in the annual Laurel- to-Baltimore marathon on Saturday. | Whitey Michelson of the Cygnet Athletic Club, who took first honors in the Washington Post marathon run over the streets of the District on March 3, will lead the East Portches- ter, N. Y. delegation in the long occasions. “Hair-Groom” is greaseless; alao helps grow thick, heavy, lustrous hair. Millions use it! Beware of gremsy, harmful initations, . KOLEHMAINEN AS GREAT - IN HIS DAY AS NURM By the Associated Press N mainen and Pgavo Nurmi have come EW YORK, March 24—Twelve years separated the coming of the flying Finns, and therein the life of a sport era is defined. Little men out of the frozen north of Europe, Hannes Koleh- to America, the latter to prove the fiitness of Finns more than a decade after the Western Hemisphere had been convinced by the other. Nurmi has succeeded, yet those who have followed track performances fail to grant him a higher position than that attained by his country- man in his visit of 1912 and 1913. Nurmi has run two races In a night to victories—at a mile and at 5,000 meters. Kolehmainen ran seven miles in two races in.a single meet. Paavo has broken four records in @ single race. Kolehmainen smashed every standard American mark be- tween three and one-half and ten miles In a single race at Columbia Unlversity on November 1, 1913 Nurmi is a sprinter as well as di tance man and can make exceptional time at & half mile. His predecessor ran longer distances and seldom found the necessity to sprint. Hannes made exceedingly - godd time for the mile during his regime, being rated at about 4.22, against the record now held jointly by Nurmi and Jole Ray at 412, and in a three- mile run was timed at the first mile- stone in 4.33. Nurmi has escaped the tri followed Kolehmainen. An_application from the Finn for membership in the Irish-American A. C. started an amateur war, and after a year in this country, having ap- parently done nothing to earn his way, the Amateur Athletic Union summoned him The investigation fell flat. Hannes had his troubles with amateurism. Hannes Kolehmainen was the star of his time, Nurmi of a modern era. Comparison is possible, but indefinite, as they never will meet. s that YOUNG JOE WRIGHT WOULD FOLLOW DAD PHILADELPHIA, March 2{.—Joe Wright, jr. plans to follow in the footsteps of his father, Pennsylvania's famous rowing coach, many of whose greatest triumphs are recorded In the annals of the Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto. Young Wright will come to this city April 7 and take up sculling. The veteran oarsman will supervise the development of his son with the ultimate object of lifting the Diamond Sculls in the Royal English Henley regatta, a feat which the elder Wright vainly tried to accomplish in 1893. Wright managed to win a heat, but was defeated in the finals. He did, however, lift the Bradford cup, one of the English sculling classics Joe Wright, jr., stroked the winning junior, intermediate and senior eight of the Argonauts last vear at § Catherines. He is 13 years old, 6 feet 3 inches in height, and weighs 185 pounds. COLLEGE BASE BALL. Athens, Ga—Georgla, 7; State, 0. At Greenville, Florida, 4. At Fla—Mercer, PROGRAM OF NURMI TAKES HIM TO FRISCO NEW YORK, March 24.—Paavo Nurmi has completed the program for the remainder of his American visit. Planning to sail for home early in May, without competing on Eastern outdoor tracks, the famous Finn sign- ed entry blanks for a dozen meets in this country and Canada, and tenta- tively agreed to compete in three more. His schedule: March 24, 244th Coast Artillery games, New York; March 26, 106th Field Artillery games, Buffalo; March -28, 107th Field Artillery games, Pittsburgh; March 31, Elks games, Boston; April 3, Ottawa: April 4, Mon- treal: April 6-7, Detroit; April 19, Loyola College games, Chlcago; April 20, St. Louis (outdoors); April 25, Los Angeles American Legion games (out- doors); April 30, San Francisco (out- doors). | 1In addition Nurmi has been asked |40 appear at Minneapolis on April 18, jat St. Paul on April 18 and at Omaha on April 21, but he is not yet certain whether he will be able to include these games on his schedule. e C. U. AND GALLAUDET PLAY LOYOLA GRIDMEN Catholic:University and Gallaudet College® are the two Washington echools appearing on the 1925 foot ball schedule of Loyola College of Baltimore. ~Both games will be plaved in the Maryland metropolis, the clash with Catholic University being scheduled for September 26 as the season-opener for the Loyola gridders. The tilt with the Brooklanders will be played in the Baltimore stadium, while the Gallaudet engagement is scheduled for Evergreen on Novem- ber 14. be deserved OREMOST among the many factors contributing to Mr. Belasco’s success is his uncanny knack of anticipating changes in popular taste. And this knack is just as impor- tant in other fields. For example, “hesterfield oy EPIPHANY JUNIOR QUINT FAVORITE FOR S. A. TITLE one of the two Washington basket ball teams to survive the preliminary and semi-final rounds of the South At- lantic tourney, will enter their game with the Huron Athletic Club in Baltimore tomorrow night as favorites to take the honors in the 130 pound class Last night at Congress Feights|to be banqueted on Thursda gymnasium the Epiphanys easily de- |at the home of the manag feated the Warwick Preps. 48 to 9, in | Sixth street southwest, at § the final of the elimination series for the 125-pound championship of the District. From the start of the fray the Ju- niors had things their own way, and during the opening period piled up w 13-to-3 lead. At the intermission the count stood 19 to 7. A lone goal from scrimmage during the second half completed the scoring of the Warwicks, while the ultimate winners boosted their count almost without interruption. Shield, Epi- phany's center, took scoring honors |defeated the St. Au v ; efcated the St. Augustine tossers with seven fleld goals. 36 to 24, on the Twelfth street Y. M Score: 4 C. A. court. At the half the scor Epiphany Positions Warwick. [ stood 24 to § GEORGETOWN IS LISTED BY WESTERN MARYLAND Shield. . “Cuter Hirst... Right guard Hases Lot ghard WESTMINSTER, Md, March 24.— Georgetown is among the dozen =chools that Western Maryland has Substitutions—Thies for Hirst Hages. Grifin for Payne. Fisld listed for base ball games this Spring The s have several more co (4). MeGann (6). Shield (7)., Tht Braddock, Thompson (). Goldbers tests pending “Ham” Lewis will again coach ield (4). Thies, Collins. eptral Board). which be captained | ark, a catcher. ‘olumBlas were defeated. 43 to 30, S-Navy at Annapo Blue b Sigma to 14 trounced to 15, Delta defeated Ka and Alpha Omicron I the non-sorority team, 24 the intersorority loop games the University of Maryland, Alexandria strong for Juniors, the to 2 court at Alexa Celtics proved 1 the Palace Laun latter being nosed the Friends' outdoc ria ry Leading from the start the Senegals McGann the Virginia Orioles, and the St. Mary's ©ve downed the Iroquois Ath- letic Club quint, 23 to 16, in a double header of the Alexandria Gazette's ju- | * « nior tournament in fray, the the with ormal c 32 to 27. Spurting early the Northern tossers kept throughout their game Rovers on tve Wilson and got the decision Chestertows Pa Washiogton ( Sl —Lebavon Valley at Annville. the urt in Gettraburg. 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