Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1925, Page 28

SPORTS: SPORTS. _ 28 THE STAR, WASHI White Sox Primed for Griff Series ALL CLI(jU}g}KR][ONIZED, BELIEVE IT OR NOT. CHICAGO CLUB POWERFUL EVENING 15 PR Cobb’s Great Hitting Tickles Old Timers 16 T0 FAGE BARRIER |pPROUD OF SWATTING KING IN THE PREAKNESS wHO TIED HOMER RECORD o, Five Circuit Drives in Two Games Equals Mark Set by Anson in 1884—Deposed Three Modern BALTIMORE, Md., May Joint Titleholders, Among Them Ruth. FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1925. ar o Collins Has Done Well With Aggregation That Was Tail-Ender Last Year—Has Windy City Fans Aroused—South Bend Game Farce. MAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor. The Star. e climax of Mar:land’s racing was reached today with the eig! renewal of the classic Dreakness $50,000 added, scheduled as the fifth event on the Pimlico card. xteen blue-blooded three-year-olds were carded to face the barrier at about 4:30 p.m. for the run of a mile and three-sixteenths. The field, despite the elimination of several of the season’s most brilliant performers, suffices to keep the great race up to traditional standards. The mishaps which have kept »—-—4._.0 ' Ogmm my BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, May 8—All the old fellows in the An some of the young ones, too, are crowing raucou Magter Ohaly because of the stunts Ty Cobb is doing Master Charlie and Stimulus away, e 1 and the death of the Ttots Suary It is the reaction of ball players who have Man, have eliminated the particularly | waved before their eyes until they have covertly e prominent contenders, and the race | oo s g en in time, for the ball plavers e i the open afaie I hag hees | 20ce: It was bound to happen in time, for the ball playe for the past several years. old guard, are not in sympathy with the great Ruthphobi Chantey, on which Ivan Parke will Cobb used to be the target of the ball plaver’s peeve have the mount, and Backbone, L.| when he was the -liner most of the time, and mar | has had on the But now they are cheering MeAte comprising the H. P. Whitney-Greentree Stable entry, will | 41| his years of activity, has donc some to do, and that only one other ball player in probably be made the favoriate on the | : |QUATRAIN WILL GET SPEED TEST TODAY| pect her to duplicate the feat ac complished last year by Nellie Mors just to she let winning both the Pimlico Oaks and | sver L3O ey — HICAGO, N process of the same thing for the White Sox—and Chicago— that Stanley Raymond Harris has done for the Nationals and the Capital of the United States. A year ago at t! . fans that just another ba pions then. And the game was on tap. ) o : 8—Edward Trowbridge Collins seems to be in the HE CAN SwALLow HIS NOSE vit gl O re of the Gri club was on view. s ti en meant to the They weren't world cham- ce of the White Sox meant merely that a That was before they obtained a dynamic leader to breathe the spirit of | into them That's all changed now. Only a few days ago 44,000 spectators turned out to scc Pa'e Hose, the largest assemblage ever recorded on the South any ot interest fore the Na Having telephon MmO 00 pre lo)v/eluilv/gley[e)e]e) ) > m SID TERRIS WON 6) AMATEUR FIGHTS IN SUCCESSION IN (0 MONTHs, New Yorig O[IJ 0% v/ that mark may be bettered be- days hence FUN—THAT'S ALL 1884 cague on <L M w m become wearled inquiries whether tickets | for the Washington series could be bought in advance, the local manage- | ment se ago had recourse | | answering 0 tm Preakness. Maid At Arms scored | easily in the Ouks and Johnny Maiben will have the lez up for the Riddle entry today. Bud Fisher has secured Earl Sande to pilot Swope in an effort to capture the big purse that Nellie Morse brought him last vear. about the cro indicated keen of Bourbon. The colt has shown to splendid | advantage, both in races and Preak- | ness trials J. E. Griflith’s Single Foc owned by H. P. Headley, and the Cosden-Garth entries of Finland and Cloudland are considered possibilities. The race will be worth over $35,000 if all the entries go. The track is fast and with a promise of continued fair weather throughout the day, an enormous crowd is expected to gather | at Old Hill Top. iy g, m 10 puttin; . papers ad vising patrons re reservations could be ob and the rapidity with which these have been snapped up indicates that the f oppi point in the We - to prove veritable mi; leholders o the base ball the line and et Anson Got His in August. M 8. —Quat a possible o O > LOUISVILLE rain, a heavy favorite winner of the Kentucky Derby, will be asked to open up today and reveal his real speed for the first time since | . Frederick Johnson ed yesterday after other star eligibles partici pated in pl sing workouts The Johnson entry never has work ed in sensational style, but the eas manner in which he runs, togethe: ith the form he displayed last Win , make many turfman favor h Yesterday's activities at the ovals here were marked by plays of ex: treme speed over s listances by Captain Hal and Leo O. Cotner and a gallop over the full Derby distance mile and a quarter, by Kentucky Car- dinal. Captain Hal reeled off seven eighths of a mile in 1:27 5, Leo O. Cotner three-quarters in 1:131 and Kentucky Cardinal the required dis tance in 2:11 ptain Hal evinced a desire to go | pla faster, but Jockey A. Pease held him |do in check. Leo O. Cotner is possessed | wa of phenomenal early speed, but rail- | shouldered birds and newspaper men who have |the b watched him for weeks doubt his abil- |in v STl e ao p v’ Clgt | itY 1o carry it more than a mile. Ken- |once Wil be sounded at the Boys' Club | yycky Cardinal was well within him. |fans tonight at 10 o'clock | self at all stages of his long run and | A At least 30 clubs are expected to|was not asked to show his best ves- | w compete in the. program that terday has | S vorkouts that of Baal- | the the office of the director of | i This colt went a | £rounds, chairman of the games epped three. mittee. Unlimited. nior, junior 1 events will be run aking place proi or big Ky., v 9 ! T Phill Sheeh: jed hotels last Whiting interest 3 his recent /3) & md g0 his owner, prom who, seman 1d of material identical with complished little or other managers, and in seasén at the helm is pro- to get somewhere ns is working along the lines that Harris has followed izing that the ¢ way to get a maximum of service out of his ma- | chine was to get it to hitting on al cylinders, Collins' f oncern w to weld 2 factions and cliques ex on the team and get them to pulling togethe He took charge of of base bail bolshevi: and 5 the tralning season was well advanced had them working in st t they won 19 straigh hibitions—all the club since then they have given than they received from every in the W rn section of the White Sox Outlook Bright. Where the Sox will finish this sea- Son cannot be foretold ive months of grueling play a head competition pr s to be the in many year: t it is a type of Totals. Beversy r Johnson in third 21341004 ke Harris should have that was practi that which nothing for Almadel, | A LIST OF WORDS — WHEN VIEWED THROUGH A MIRROR, WILL NOT SEEM BACKWARD By Alex Wiemer Kansas Gty Stay At any ra record for the | Ruth, Ke |the Athletics | League recora | four homers in t but they are c to_mere honora Incidenta batting pe | with an ev he this se Two-bas: | Rice Hos . J. Harrig (2) ally. Whiting base—Goslin. out—By John hiting, 1. First oft Whiting, Hit by Umpires WRIGHT’S TRIPLE PLAY IS SIXTH IN MAJORS PITTSBURGH, | triple ple day by ristop, vas the thir tional Lea 1 same al it 1 ey W. B. B. A. A. CARNIVAL LIST CLOSES TONIGHT Last call for entries in Whshington Base Ball and Association field day, to be tomorrow at American League pa CHIDIO & A PAMPAS HORSE. RAN 105 MiLeS N 12 Hours, (~then dropped deod ) - B.A. June, 1924 — -~ z the first Athletic staged | Kk, played { G B N N —~The . GUBS-BRAVES GAME 'ALL SANDLOT DIVISIONS IS JUBILEE AFFAIRl - NOW READY FOR SERIES Loujs. C liminaries to the opening of the scason for the various leagues in the N that are to play under the association’s dircction this year. Schedules for | senior, junior and midget sections now are being prepared and the three | circuits will get under way during the week of May 17. At the Boys’ Club last night the 10| nine will sign their Washington Base senjor teams that ve entered the| Ball and Athletic Association con. ranks of the sandlot association were [tracts tonight at 2303 First street. divided into two sections. Section A | Practice s sqheduled for 8§ includes the Linworths, morning at 11 o'clock May made 8 ival reuit who g didn't prod 1 there were tow c a.game. with of its kind in nerican Le: sue he A ith three s Wright took the last innin putting out Ci Hornsb Following triple plays. Outfielder Providence, Infielder F When the batter up icago Cubs and today, th gray-haire 1 century tc nost_me mile in 1 quarters mile in quarters in 1 Horses from the ms brothers, dley RGANIZATION of the senior division of the Washington Base Bal!“ Heat om- | and v's drive in epped on second , and then touc s he came from first ba is the list of unassisted | wves It Tecumseh the box for the champions initial combat of the set this noon. The Tarheel portside i nd usually s > t the Sc | en will ther The contest will be a bit more than T club on May § 1878, | the usual struggle. It will signify ‘nic Padzett of the Bos. |the completion of 30 unbroken years tonNationals ‘o Otteber & 1923 | of base ball riv set aside by Shortstop Neal Ball of the Cleve. |the Nation: the golden land Americans in 1969 | jubilee and Chicago flit At b back would offic! 3 in the Quantico Paul FHines of the old M hd Since the sandlot governing body is | ) run on a strictly a s, the track and tield meet is its only means | of providing funds for financing the | v entries in the n 0. feature event » clubs of the parent on ip to hard to rem by sundown. n that the | st in South was the - essayed to Nationals stacked up Bend yesterda weakest outfit and after t hured for it. T 16 to 1. or something like the caliber of the competit dged from the fact that Goc Y lin batted right handed and played | short during Schack the Altrock. mim and W. John bing ‘em ove: so the T ber, were ed in his best vein | 1ob | one ond Baseman William Wamb ganns of the Cleveland Americans ir a world series game with Brooklyn in Burns of ns in 1923, VIRGINIA NINE WINNER IN 17-INNING CONTEST May 8 —University of ed” Columbia, 5 to 4, h i 3 | from second base w enter. Witk out in 10 000 000 01— 5 12 1 000 000 00—4 a Luther, Br EAST-WEST SERIES SHOULD GIVE TRUE LINE ON TEAMS By the Associated Pr EW YORK, May league season between - acid test for Spring win the first serious challenge to The scene shifted to the ] the Eastern t of the | circuit, with Washington meeting the | sluggish White Sox ter, x\mle} | | 8.—Oper: tean West Americ s a stz the Giants oppose uncertain Car- dinals at the Polo Grounds. he Yankees, who always have fared better on the road than at home, wel- comed the opportunity to quit the 1last. Manager Huggins attributed the defeats of the Yankees to the cold weather along the Atlantic C Without Babe Ruth the team has been laboring under a handicap | Cleveland forced another triple tie | for the leadership of the American | by turning back the e Philadelp! and Washington were idle. Ty Cobb and his Detroit club were subdued by the St. Louis Browns, the veteran Tyger pilot slashing out a double. while George Sisler hit safely in his twer scond consecutive game, hitting a home run in the fifth. | The Giants r f the Phillies by the champions lead to win by An u Wright, Pit ni overcoming 11 to 8 | isted triple play by Glenn | burg oristop, featured the Pirates’ zement with the St. Louis Cards, which the latter won by 10 to 9. In the ninth, with Cooney | and Hornsby on base, Bottomley lined | to Wright, who stepped on second, re- tiring 2 runner headed for third, and then touched out Hornsby, who had dashed from first to second The Boston Rraves took advantage | of loose playing by the Dodgers and | cvened up their series by winning the | fourth game, 7 to 3. | SPEEDY TRO’TTER -SOLD. FREIEMONT, Ohio. May S.—Sale of | mbol 5. Forest, 2:01 trotter, to C. C purgin, Rocky Mount, N. C., ha been announced by C. A. Hocher secretary of the Fremont Driving Club. i il RACERS T0 GO AT AUCTION. JAMAICA, N, Y., May 8 (A.P).—A nouncement has been made that ra ing horses of Willis Sharpe Kilmer and the late Julius Fleischman would Le sold at auction at Belmont Park on Mav 23 TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F, 1g day of the initial series of the big of the East and W offers the BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS AMERICAN LEAGUE. W ast. | B S TODAY. Wash'n at Chicago. New York at St. I . Boston at Detro Boston at Detroit Phila. at Clevelund. Phila. at Cleveland. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Cleveland St. Louis, 6: Detroi. No other games schel ORROW. Wash'n at Chicago. New York at St. ed. NATIONAL LEAGUE. | New York | Cinclnnati | Chicago Philadelphia | Brooklyn .. |8t Louls Boston Pittsburgl GAMI Cincinnati at Bkiyn, Chicago at Boston. Cincinnati at Bkiyn. Chicazo at Boston. St Louis at N, Y. St Louis at N. 3 Pittsburgh at Phila. Pittsbursh at Phila. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Boston. 3: Brooklyn, 3. New Vork, 11: Philadeiohia, 8. St Louls, 10; Pittsburh, 9. ENTERS POLO TOURNEY. NEW YORK, May 8 (A. P.)—Har- vard’s entry in the intercollegiate polo championship tournament which | the Westchester-Bilunore Y., June 13, starts at Country Club, at Rye, has been recelved. Princeton, Yale, Norwich, Pennsylvania Military Acad- emy and the United States Military alreadv were entered. Every Jack Bernstein SUIT Is made on the premises by master UNION TAILORS | JACK BERNSTEIN The Master Tailor 814 F St. N.W. <. | being the | | | 3 | leased Sunday by | of the Pacific Coast Leagie, is to join organization that d through ional League he present city officials ¢ base ball and a few took part in that first nized baseball eve gume between Boston and iladeiphia, in Philadelphia, April , 18 e expected to be present. BANKERS WILL OPEN LEAGUE TOMORROW W. MelIntosh, is expected to throw out t ball at_the opening day cere- ies of the District Bankers' Base 1l League tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Monument Grounds. Commercial National Bank vs. F. H. Smith Investment Co., at Diamond No. 1; District National Bank vs. Na- tion Bank of Washington, at Dia- T No. 4, and Riggs Bank vs. the Hibbs Co., at Diamond No. 10, are the three encounters scheduled for the league opening. Tossers of the Na- tional Metropolitan B: do not get nto action until Ma It is ex- 1 who 16. | pected that by that date the Amer- {ican . s |have entered streaks in both sections, as well as | ampion leaders in both circuits. and Trust Co. will a nine in the loop, he total of teams to eight John F. Hillyard of the National Bank of Washington has been elect- ed_vice president of the circuit. The bankers have decided not to join the ranks of the Washington Base Ball and Athletic Association. —_— U. S. CHESSMAN SURPRISES. BADENBADE! May 8 (AP.)— There was little change yesterday in he standing of the contesiants in the inetrnational chess tournament. The most noteworthy change was in the score of Gruenfeld of Austria, who was defeated by Torre, United State: which put Gruenfeld in fifth place, below Marshall, United States, who adjourned his game with Niemzow- itsch, Denmar} ATLANTA GETS BAGBY. SEATTLE, May 8.—Jim Bagby, for- mer Cleveland pitcher and a hero in the 1 world series between the Indians and Brooklyn, who was re- attle, champions Security bringing the Atlanta Club of the Southern As- sociation The Spalding FiNesT calfskin shoes. Made on sensible, com- fortable, athletic lasts in our own factory. Ideal for golf, country or street wear. $l°nplir : 1338 & Street, N.W., 3..:.;.,,..,,. controller of | enior cham. Tremonts, St r 1d Assistant ' Union No. plons last vear; | tin’s, Boys' Club Seniors = Moving Plcture Operator 224. Teams composing the Crescent Athletic Athletic Club, Mount | Athletic Club, Trinit | Park. |~ Both sections will play Sunday base { ball exclusively. No Sunday games are to begin before 12 o'clock The dead line on senior contracts was set for Wednesday night at the Boys’ Club. All members of the divi- sion teams will meet then to receive their schedule assignments. Club, Libert tainier Junio; and Takor Standard Oil tossers of the Commer- clal League came out on top in a con test with The Evening Star nine, th score being 6 to 4. Thompson's Dal outclassed Willlams-Webb, 6 to 5. B Annex No. 2 took vesterday's Treasury League game from the Lib- erty Loan team. 6 to 3. Interstate battled to a 6-to-4 victo: over the General Accounting Office in the Government League. Departmental League Printers shut out the Bureau nine, 14 to 0. Some warm competition Saturday afternoon when the Fairfax Farms Dairy nine tackles the Stanton Ath- letic Club at Rosedale diamond at o'clock. Manager Wolfe of the Pierce . letic Club unlimited nine has the use of Riverdale dlamond Sunday, but is without an opponent. " Hyatts. ville 311-W. Pop Krem's Liberty Athletic Club team will make a bid for honors on the track tomorrow at the Washing- ton Base Ball and Athletic Associa- tion field day at American League Park, and on Sunday will return to the diamond pastime, meeting the Sur- rattsville team at the latter's fleld. Members of the Liberty team are to report at the Anacostia side of the Anacostia bridge Sunday at 1:30 o'clock. A special meeting will be held at 718 Taylor street Monday night. Members of the St. Martin’s senior [§ ARE YOu temptation. Section B are | “Look-overs’ welcome here as buyers. Few have the heart to leave empty-handed, but that’s up to you. can resist these values, you're immune from all ’ are just as SEMMES MOTOR COMPANY Used Car Dept. 1707 14th St. N.W. Open Evenings and Sundays Arlington and St. Aloysius teams will meet for the first time Sunday at | o'clock on the Arlington diamond. | McLane will pitch for the Arlingtons, | who will be endeavoring to make their wins three straight | Aurora Insects wish to book a game | for tomorrow. Call Lincoln 4933. Linworths will encounter the Vir-| ginfa Grays Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Washington Barracks | 1d. District Engineers are to encounter the Warwicks tomorrow afternoon at | 3 o'clock on the diamond at Fifth and L streets. Mount Rainier Junior Athletic Club Senlors will meet tonight at Mount Rainier School to elect a captain. The | | have been | efficient umpire: Summer base ball serfes. Tickeis placed in the ha members of the clubs that the organization, and the asking their friends to patron big ow in order that they may h and scorers throu season free of cost s set tomorrow will be records, as the affair is to be put on annually. Jimmy Connolly and Willie Sullivan, Georgetown University track Stars, have been obtained to act in an official capacity and have prom- ised to do their best toward showing the vounger athletes how a track meet should be run. Numerous individual prizes are of fered and handsome team trophies will g0 to the clubs making the highest scores. out the Al m Trinlty nine will be met Sunday aft- ernoon. Railroad Y. M. C. A. base ballers turned back the Terminal nine, 16 to | 13, in the third game of the Terminal | League. | Leonard Harper has heen clected | manager of the Mount Rainier Junior | team. Kenneth Clayton was elected ecretary of the club and Buck Mid- dleton captain of the nine. The Glen Echo Athletic Club team has scheduled Treasury Annex No. 1 for Sunday in place of the Park Lane Athletic Club_that has canceled be- cause of the iflness of several players. The game will be played at the Glen Echo diamond, starting at 3 o'clock. STRIBLING SOON STOPS MUCH HEAVIER ROMERO BOSTON, May § (A.P)}—William L. (Young) Stribling of Atlanta, night won his first fight in the S weight class when he was awarded a technical knockout in the fourth round over Quintin Romero, Chilean heavy- weight champion. Although Stribling weighed in at only 179 to Romero’s 1923 pounds he sent the Chilean to the mat twice in the third round with blows to the face. IMMUNE P If you GOING TO OLYMPIC CONFAB. ¥V YORK, May 8 (A. P..—Col Robert M. Thompson, pre American Olympic committee, sail for Europe and the Olympic Sat urday to attend the international Olympic Congress at Prague, Czecho- slovakia, May Mur Hulbert president of the A. A. U., and the other American delegates to the Con gress will not depart until May 16. to ours. DoDse BROTHERS DEALERS SELL 600D USED CARS ident of the ! will | rening of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis. Milwauke Toledo 7, K s Louisct 4. Minneapolis, INTERNATIONAL Jersey City. 5. 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