Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1925, Page 26

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1925 SPORTS. Griffmen Ready for Home Opening Tomorrow : Luque Due for Another Big Year REGULAR LINE-UP TO TAKE| [ _LEAPING PLAYERS ON GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY'S WINNING BASE BALL TEAM || CINCINNATI PITCHER APT . . FIELD AGAINST THE YANKS TO REPEAT 1923 SUCCESS Bluege Expected to Be Back on His Job at Third Base Temperamental Cuban Gets a Fine Start and if He for Season’s Inaugural Here—Play Final in Philadelphia ‘ HILAD world champion Nationals wil P line-up that they used in starting Washington last October. While ailing wings and aching clement climatic_condition some of the Nationals, they ly to assure the presence on the fielc members of the regular lot in the in D. Ruel and Walter P. Johuson in th: According to Trainer Mike to achicve the ranking of premier t this year, but who has idled several d: be keeping company with Joe Judg paugh in the inner works tomorrow. So the fans trekking to the Georgia avenue park to witness Washington first big league champlonship con- fllet of 1925 will, barring accident in the meanwhile, witness a real world championship_club in action. While the Nationals, eager to turn the tables on the who trounced them Saturday. were quite ready to take the field vesterday, despite the number of casuals among them, Man ager Harris regarded as fortunate the action of the Philadelphia man. igement in calling off hostilities. Weather of a wintry variety caused the postponement. The surcease from toll was expected to take the kinks out of many of the athletes. some- thing that could not be accomplished without considerable delay while they were compelled to swing into action daily. The Sunday and Monday lay off ‘should work wonders with the muscle-chilled men, Martin declares. ¥ans Turn Out in Force. However, the business interest the Washington club probably vi the matter in a different light. Martin, | Cleveland . | 8t. Loui | Cleveland at Detroit. Set Today. BY JOHN B. KELLER. _PHIA, April 21.—Given favorable weather conditions, the I show before their home crowd to- morrow against the New York Yankees with precisely the same the history-making titular series in lumbar muscles, resulting from in- prevailing in New York last week, still affect have been relieved of their soreness sufficient- i in Clark Grifith Stadium of all the er and outer defenses, and of Herold ¢ battery points. Oswald, Bluege, who promises hird-sacker of the American League ays since the start of the season, will e, Bucky Harris and Rajah Peckin- BIG LEAGUE STATISTICSI AMERICAN LEAGUE. _IF— w. 1.000 883 Pet. 1.000 3 Philadelphia . 667 Washington Chicago New York . Detroit . Boston WS S 1 0 1 1 4 167 5 .167 .286 .143 GAMES TOMORROW. Washington. at. Boston. E at Cleveland. Detroit at Chicago. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Cleveland, 5; Detroit. 4 (I5 innings). Chicago, 11; St. Louis, 10. Washington-Philadelphia (cold). Boston-New York (cold). MES TODAY. Washington at Phila. Boston ut New York. Chicago at St. Louis. though the postponement of the game here yesterday was announced .as | early as noon, at 2:30 o'clock the this | vear enthus all public of | the Quaker nged about | the gates of to, | estimated extent of 5,000, and though most of the fans left the viclnity 8 soon as they ied no act. was | e at o'clock he thron; ound the park entrances was still as great, | having been augmented by many-ar- | rivals from downtown. It must have | hurt the Philadelphia interests much as it did the Washington busi- | ness management to see ail those | shekels turned aside for another d: Of course, the Nationals may have | benefited physically from the layoff, but it is difficult to understand why | the Philadelphia club hung out the | red banner bearing the legend ‘No game.” True, the tempe ure was in the 10's and a high wind swept the but such conditions have pre Washington during the base on without the Capital City | nt givir a thought to call ing off a scheduled engagement. And there frequently have been worse days in the Western part of the cricuit when the athletes have not been per- | witted to idle. It's difficult to under- stand, for, with all their injured, the Macks so far appear to be in very good circumstances The Nationals managed to the afternoon, even though they not play—at least most of them joved it. Practically the entire took the journey to Havre de G to see the ponies vel around the | mile track Unfortunatel some of them did not see much scoring | done by the thoroughb they hoped to do themselve: after- noon. ze: enjoy | aid | I thi; Due to Play Final Today. The w with the Mackmen | was to be resumed in the last day | scheduled here this series with the | same batterymen slated 1o 5o were nominated the slib yes- terday. George Mogridge, who rev- els in the cool atmosphere of early | Spring, was to endeavor to quell the foe, while Sam who proved | such a sensation i the American | League last vear, was expected to hurl for the Athletics be flying nding a por v couple of e last year—his first as pilot of Nationals—Bucky swore by many | 8 t never again would he use left-hander against the Athlet s then constituted. Well, there really nce between this phin aggregation and o Bucky either has great faith in Mogridge or feels that he is forced 1o reso moundsman of south- rfare in the the a is little differ- | year's Philadel- | that of 1924, RUTH IS DOING FINELY, FEVER IS ALMOST GONE NEW YORK, April 21.—Babe Ruth showed marked improvement yester- day. according to his ph: n. The Yankee slugg: temperature dropped Imost to normal as he celebrated the enfc d llene of teammates with eneral rejoicing. “It's easier to stay in bed when you know you're not missing anything, was the way he viewed the situation. EBBETS WILL BE PAID FINAL TRIBUTE TODAY By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 21.—Bage ball pays its final tribute today to Charles 11" Ebbets, late president of the Brooklyn tional League club, for whom funeral services will be held in Brooklyn. All the flags of the senior loop will be at half-staff for the next 30 days, and members of the Robins will wear mourning bands on their uniforms. DRE|FUS IS RELEASED BY NEW HAVEN TEAM W HAVEN, Conn., April 21.— ' Hayden, catcher for the Ken- ic s his s been signed by stern League. “Doc” Oreyfus of Alexandria, Va., outfielder, has been released. WILL HONOR E. COLLINS. Chicago Elks will tender a testimo- nlal tomorrow to Eddie Collins, man- ager of the White Sox, at the opening of the season at Comiskey Park. He will be presented with flowers and a chest of silver, after a parade in which city officials and American Legion members will participate. Collins is a member of the Philadelphia lodge of Elks. WILL LOWER A. L. FLAGS. CHICAGO, April 21.—President Ban Johnson of the American League has requested that flags in all parks of the circuit be lowered to half-staff out of respect. to Charles Ebbets, late presi- dent of the Brooklyn club, whose fu- pecal will be beld today, * = By | B | their NATIONAL L. w. . 5 the |8 GAMES TODAY. No games nt (Illr-llu at Pittsb’ :Il S RESULTS. innati, 2. cago, b New York- Brooklyn (cold). Philadelphia-Boston (cold. EAST BETTERS WEST IN TAKING PENNANTS the Associated Press When it comes to winning base ball pennants, the tern major league cities have a distant ern swir dec nei, on the west he two circuits eazue, Boston has ew York has won token 11, Brooklyn Philadelphia 2 and incinnati 1 jis has vet to score in the pennant plumn. The old Baltimore club won three times, while vidence landed in first place twice Detroit once. But those cham. pionships haik back so g that mos( fans have forgotten them. Honors in the American Leazue are more evenly divided. Philadelphia and Boston lead with six flags each, Chicago is third with five, Detroit and New York have taken three each, and Washington and Cleveland have fin- ished first one Here are the pennant records: National knpue 4, Pittsburgh . 78, 05, '11, '85, '86, , 1914, 1904, 1900, Pittsburgh—1901 5 1915. Philadelphia—1871, Cincinnati—191 Baltimore—1894, Providence—1879, Detroit—1887. American League. Philadelphia—1902, '05, '10, '14. Boston—1903, "04 Chicago—1900, "01 New York—1921, Detroit—190 Cleveland—1920. ‘Washington—1 WILLIAMS IN DRAW IN GO WITH MAYRS BALTIMORE, April 21.—The old timore Tiger surprised them all last night. And most surprised among those present while Kid Williams was bat- tering away to a 12-round draw with Lew Mayrs, local featherweight, was Mayrs. In wonderful physical trim and fighting a slashing, aggressive battle every second of the route, the veteran gladiator of the squared circle, bear- ing on his scarred and battered coun- tenance grim reminders of the days when he was monarch of all he sur- veyed among the world bantam- weights, fought almost like the Wil- liams of the days of old. The old-timer took everything that vouth could send and never once fal- tered. He stood up under the long- range barrage with the courage of a lion and not only fought back dog- gedly and at times ferociously, but constantly bored in and carried the battle to_his man. But, after all has been said and done and the Kid has been given full credit for the splendid fight he made, it still might be said without detracting from his remarkable performance that the decision of a draw was more of a tribute to the tremendous popularity of the veteran ex-champion and his courageous, game, aggressive ‘exhibi- tion than to his work in holdlngMayrs even. '96. ‘11, '13, '15, '16, "18." ‘17, SEEKS FOE FOR GODFREY. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 21. —Promoters of the Mission Athletic Club here announced today that they were negotiating with several of the leading heavyweights of the country in an effort to find an opponent for George Godfrey, Philadelphia negro, who has signed a contract with them to box any one of their selection here June 6. Telegrams have been dis- patched to Tommy Gibbons, Harry Wills, Jack Renault, Quentin Rojas and others, ded advantage over | | BRENNAN Prtcher BRAGG - Pitcher Aitional Photos QNpLLL:~Odfielder GIANTS NOW AT THE TOP IN NATIONAL LEAGUE RACE N EW YORK. April 21.—Profiting by enforced idleness, the New York | Giants, whose game with Brooklyn was called off on account of cold and rain, yesterday succeeded to the National League pace- making post vacated by the Cincinnati Reds as a result of their defeat at the hands of Lee Meadows and the Pirates, 4 to foes to seven hits. Rixey was hit fr 2 Meddows limited his eely by the Pittsburgh team, Moore leading the assault with three safeties. Although the holiday put them on the peak with a half-game margin, the Giants were dissatisfied. With four straight triumphs to their credit, and with Brooklyn’s two best pitchers, Dazzy Vance and Burleigh Grimes, in poor physical condition, the cham- pions had banked on adding to their winning streak. Vance is out with a| boil on his pitching arm, while Grimes has not yet rounded into form, but the Giants will be unable to profit by the crippled condition of Robinson’s pitch ing department, as the last game of the series today has been postponed out of respect to the late Brooklyn club_president, Charles H. Ebbets. Members of the Brooklyn team will attend Mr. Ebbets’ funeral today. Cleveland piled up its fifth straight victory and increased its margin over the Athletics to a_full game, but 15 innings were required for the Indians to subdue the Detroit Tygers, 5 to 4. Johnson’s wildness in the last frame lost the game, the winning run being forced on four consecutive bases on balls. Ty Cobb made his first appearance of the season at the plate when he batted in the seventh for Pitcher Hol- loway. He received a pass. Only two other games were played, Chicago and St. Louis teams of both leagues dividing honors. THe White Sox rescued a slugfest by a_2-run rally in the ninth against the Browns to 10, and the Cardinals were pitc to a 2-to-1 victory over the Cubs by Sothoron, who allowed but four hits, one of which was the sixth home run of the season by Charley Hartnet. St. Louls fandom was enthusiastic today over the performances Rogers Hornshy and George Sisler exhibited. Hornsby got four hard drives out of five times at bat, one of the smashes being his first home run of the vear. By gathering two hits off Mangum and Connally, Sisler maintained a rec- ord of having hit sufely in every game thus far this season. SCHWARTZ IS DEFEATED IN BOUT WITH BRENNER LANCASTER, Pa., April 21—Len Brenner, Lancaster bantamweight, sped eight rounds last night and easily gained the verdict over Benny Schwartz, Baltimore. Schwartz was sent to the canvas with a hard right in the sixth, and at no time was he able to penetrate the fast working defense of the local boy. Davidson Herron Tells: A Hole-in-One That I once witnessed by me. There are different sorts of some are better than others. It was made by Jack Dingwall, f Heights Club, Pittsburgh. Poor Jack He was playing in a small open tournament at the Beaver Falls, Pa., Country Club and the shot was en- gineered on the first hole, which measures 180 yards. Now in most holes-in-one the ball carries to the green and then rolls into the cup. But Dingwall's didn’t do that. His midiron shot was ab- solutely perfect and he made a per- fect hole-fn-one. In other words, ball went Intv thg cup on T has never been my luck to make a hole-in-one. Was Really Perfect However, one was holes-in-one. It might be said that This was a perfect one. ormerly professional at the Stanton is dead now. You would expect that such a ball would bounce out again. However, the pin was a large wooden one, and the ball was caught as in a wedge and held firmly. Funny ~ thing about sensational plays. I do. not recall having made any in competition, even in 1919, when the national amateur title fell to me. Things just seemed to move along evenly at that time, without any- thing especially thrilling turning up, OCAL college teams will figure during the next.two days. L tion by playing Catholic University ing to avenge for the defeat. toppers, while the Maryland varsit harlottesville to engage Virgini Georgetown, which yesterday defeat- ed the Wake Forest diamond aggrega- tion, 4 to 2, indulged in nothing more than practice toda¥. Maryland had quite a successful aft- ernoon yesterday, the varsity lacrosse 12 scoring over New York University by a score of 6 to 0. The Gothamites, who had held the powerful Navy team to 3 points on Saturday, came to Col- lege Park a1l set for a victory, and naturally were handed quite a sur- prise. The Old Liners not only won hand- ily, but used the game to give most of the members of the squad some ac- tion, 27 of the College Parkers getting into the combat. In fact, Maryland started a set with a second string of attackers, whe got one goal before the regular offensive combination saw service. Maryland scored 3 goals in each half. Brennan of Georgetown got the edge on Sorrell of Wake Forest in a hurl- ers’ battle at the Hilltop, 3 runs in the opening session winning for the Blue and Gray. Sorrell struck out 11 men, but a pass and a hit batsman in the first inning were highly instru- mental in his defeat. Pete Schrider, southpaw ace of the Maryland team, was entirely too much for the North Carolinans. He allowed only 3 hits and fanned 9, while his mates were compiling 17 safeties for a total of 24 bases off Finch, the visiting twirler. Stevens, Troxell and Besley of Mary- land each made 3 hits, and Murray, Moran and Coghill each chalked up a pair. COLLEGIATE TEAMS HERE MEETING STRONG RIVALS in three ball games and a track meet This afternoon the Harvard nine is making its bow in this sec- at Brookland, while North Carolina beaten, 14 to 2, by Maryland University yesterday at College Park, is try- Tomorrow the Tarheels move over to Georgetown to tackle the Hill- and freshman track athletes will go oulhls HERRING NOW RUNNING IN THE POTOMAC RIVER The first of the run ‘of herring is in the Potomac Blver around Washington. A little late in mlkln( their a pearance, but running true < form, they are lashing the water in their frantic efforts to get up- stream. From now on the anglers who like that kind of fishing will be well repaid for their time. No bait is needed. TAYLOR HAS A SLIGHT EDGE ON MIDGET SMITH CHICAGO, April 21.—Bug Taylor, Terre Haute, Ind., bantamweight, box- ing for the first time here since the first of the year, had a shade the better of Midget Smith of New York in a 10-round fight at East Chicago last night. Taylor recently underwent an oper- ation for an affliction of his right arm and showed improvement in form. It was also Smith’s first fight since he broke his hand last November. Taylor weighed 123 pounds and Smith 119% pounds. SKEETERS BUY HURLER. JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 21.— Jersey City has purchased James Rob- erts, a right-hand pitcher, from the Brooklyn club. ) Bales & Service NASH Sales & Service NASH Sales & Service | NASH Sales & Service dom iin age. Main 7228-29 1423-27 L St. e Sixty years of service to Washingtonians have imbued us with a qual- ity that is akin to wis- 1925 Advance Six Roadster $1,498 Delivered R. McReynolds ‘& Son NASH Sales & Service NASH Sales & Service NASH Sales & Service NASH Sales & Eerviee Col. 2819 14th & Park Rd. do two victories N is anything in form and precedent, I Luque is an established every: with a greater variety of halos than returned to Havana they made him sensation in 1921. Luque came forth in 1924 in high but he had not shaken off the non-repeat jir an_oddity. thing but. TOM SHARKEY, NOW 51: PLANS RING COMEBACK SAN DIEGO, April 21.—Tom Sharkey, veteran of many a b toric boxing match, who has been away from the 1!!“9 for years, has taken out a boxing license and will return to the ring again. Sharkey’s application for a box- er’s license gives his age at 51. He made his start in 1898 and fought such leading pugilists of his time as James Corbett, Jim Jeffries, Peter Maher, Kid McCoy and Joe Choynski. MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.' Newark, 5: Buffalo. 4. Toronto, Reading, 1-8 Other games postponed. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. St. Paul, 2: Toledo. 1. Minneapolis, 4: Columbue. 1 Milwaukes, '5; " Indianapol: Loulsville, 6: Kansas City. & SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION. Atlanta, 11: New Orleans, 1 Little Hock, 11: Chattancoga, Nashville, 6; Memphis. 5 Birmingham,' 8: Mobils, 1. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Augusta, 6: Asheville, 4 Columbi partanburg, 6 Macon, 14: Knoxville, 6 FLORIDA STATE St. Petersburg, 12 LEAUE. Tampa, 8 MARSHALL IN DRAW, TAKES CHESS DROP By the Associated Press. BADEN-BADEN, April 21— tures of the play in the fourth round of the international chess tournament were the defeat of Torre of New York by Treybal of Czechoslovakia; a draw by Mieses of Germany with Marshall, the United States champion, and the | Russia and Rubinstein of Poland. The two latter players are tied with scores of 3% games won and % game lost. Marshall is tied for third place with Rabinowitsch of Russia. A sumimary of the play follows: ‘ Alekhine, Russia, won from Yates, {England; Reti, Czechoslovakia, lost to Colle, Belgium; Treybal, Czechoslo- [ vakia, won from Torre, United Stat { Spielmann, Austria, lost to Rubin- stein, Poland: Rabinowitsch, Russia, won from Bogoljubos, Russia: Carlw Germany, defeated Ross - Kolste, Holland, drew with Tarrasc Germany, and Mieses, Germany, drew with Marshall, United States. The games between Thomas, Eng- land, and Gruenfeld, Austria, and Saemisch, Germany, and Tartakower, Austria, were adjourned. The scores at the end of the fourth round stood: L £ 2 Alekhine . Rubinstein. Marshall Spielmann Treybal . Thomas Yates Kolste Rosselli J.r..“;.rr.r FERERE u'a“-l‘ e The p&h’lngs for the fifth round of the tournament are: Marshall vs. Carls, Bogoljubow vs. Mieses, Rubin- stein vs. Rabinowitsch, Tartakower | ve. Spielmann, Gruenfeld vs. Sae- misch, Torre vs. Thomas, Colle vs. Treybal, Tarrasch vs. Reti, Yates vs. Kolste, Niemzowitsch vs. Alekhine, and Rosselli, a bye. Sl e STILL PLANS MAT BOUT. CHICAGO, April 21. simmons, Michigan City., moter, who offered _$50,000 wrestling match between Ed gler”) Lewis and W e (“Big"”) Munn before the giant Nebraska collegian lost to Stanislaus Zbyszko, said he would make an effort to close a Munn- Lewis contest, despite the fact that Munn no longer has a claim to the world heavyweight championship. ROY DEFEATS GARCIA. MONTREAL, April 21.—Leo (Kid) Roy, Montreal, former featherweight champion of the British Empire, was awarded a decision over Bobby Garcia, champion of the United States Army, in a 10-round bout last night. Roy welghed 1271 and Garcia 126%. SI.AT'I:EBY STOPS McGOWAN. BUFFALO, Y., April 21.—Jimmy Slattery, Bufla!o middleweight, knocked out Billy McGowan of At- lanta, Ga., in the second round last night. The weights were; Slattery, 160; McGowan, 162. The greatest all-round golf ball of the game. Far and true in t and dursble beyond all description. Each 75¢ “The Spalding™Dimple. Esck 75¢ “The Spalding™ Mesh. . Eack 7S¢ ‘Spalding Bags, Clubs, Golf Hoss, sic. O 1338 G St., N.W., Washington resumption of the lead by Alekhjne of | Maintains His Stride the Reds Should Prove Formidable Flag Contenders. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, April 21.—Two swallows do not make a Summe tablish Adolfo Luque of Havana and Cincinnagi as the leading pitcher of the National League in 1925. But if there Luque should have a red-hot season. ation. In 1923 he led the world in pitching. He won more, did better and surrounded himself When he Similarly he was a any pitcher in any league. idol of the c h hope of repeating his success of '23, All his carcer he has been One year he is a topnotcher and the next year he is any- The Cincinnat| | Orlando a littic 30, to be exact moned to the box were practicing at while ago—on March and Luque was sum v the manage imedfately after nnot pitch with ested Luque preserve me—I breakfast, out my gum,” | “And—the ~ saints haven't got a gum with A hastily organized search-and-seiz ure party finally discovered a. stick of m, which the famous Red hurle epted gratefully. Then he began to chew and throw. As his jaws warmed up his arm warmed »on_he was in great time abounded all a Offers to Refund Gum. upon returning to refund t s brought me breaks, she bre hasn't broken for a whole shall eat a ton of gum before the son is adjourned. But thi have brought to the house what it had lost. That c dios, how she by P It was all quite true. Luque had been pitching base ball for minutes that no team could h drop ball was dropping and the speed ball was speeding He was the buoy confident, ughir Luque of . whom not even the gibes of the caustic Giants cou rattle, instead of the dropping, de nt’ Luque 1924, whose he bowed w shame at the of the back home who h agered the to bacco crop and the plantation and the mule on him, and ho had labeled him, when he had returned to the Prado, “king of the base ball world. On the Right Track Again. Better look out for Luque. It m have been the gum. It may be the cad year, it may be a return of confidence But_whatever it he seems to be headed out into the channel again, an if he gets another victory or two ur der his belt he will be a danger man. The more su aches Lugque the better he pitches. The bos quet of victory intoxicates him like the rising perfume of fine, old brandy If Luque is himself and wins a fift of the 100 games that are necessar to make a club fairl e of a per nant, it will take a ot of besting to shove Cincinnati down the ladder They’ll get the other 80 or bust—for Cincinnati, like Luque, is a team that travels better when it is winning ) i I c Later, to the gum, muc bencl ing The s she T s she f Luque ve—sacre d was h is, (Copyri DONAGHEE IS DES*TROYED AFTER BREAKING ANKLE Donaghee W son of The Curra no more. The horse was destroye order at Ben: breaking an ankle jured shortl over steeplechase Donaghee develop. per last Fall, after the best 3-vear-olc Maryland. 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