Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1925, Page 23

SPORTS. Brainy Hurlers Ultimately Will Get Upper Hand in Duel of Wits by Crossing Up the Hitters in Employing Change of Pace. BY GEORGE N CHADWICK. EW YORK, July 14—The deluge of home runs which has descended on major league games recently, reaching the stupendous total of 700 for the season last week, has revived the argument as to whether the ball now in use is responsible. President John A. Heydler of the National League is one of those who do not blame the heavy hitting on the ball, although he admits that the game has undergone a radical change. She change, Mr. Heydler told the writer today, has taken place grad- ually, extending over a period of six 1. The one-run -in - the-first-inning game has been abandoned. 2. The old army game, or sacrifice game, has become obsolete. 3. The rule about putting new balls in play has been enforced too lit- erally. 4. The curve ball pitcher is not as akilliful as he was. 5. The spit ball and other unusual deliveries have been abolished. 6. The throwing pitcher has lost his grip and sonoer or later he will have to be supplanted by the strategic pitcher, with his change of pace, akillful use of a curve ball and exer- cise of his head. Batting Style Has Changed. Heydler might have gone further and said that the style of batting has changed and that little by little the forearm batter has been passing out. Nowadays the batter who does not take a toe hold and attempt to knock the ball out of the lot is rare indeed. The only trouble with slugging, from a scientific viewpoint is that ultimately the pitcher of brains will get the better of it. He will study his batters and “mix them up“— change his pace—and make those sluggers who are now running riot miss the ball so much that they will wonder what happened to their bat- ting eves.’ Even the hitandrun game, which was started years ago by the late John Montgomery Ward, has lost its supporters. John J. McGraw picked it up when other managers were em- ploying the sacrifice hit, and he won with it, too. Te used the sacrifice hit, 100, but usually he employed it only in the first inning to get the jump on the opposing team. The one.run-in-the-first-innings game won pennants for McGraw, and, sim- ple as it was, few other managers ‘were able to imitate it successfully. Connie Mack played the “old army game” until very recent years. When he first departed from that accepted American League doctrine that the runner must be advanced by sacrifice, other managers nearly choked with astonishment. President Heydler said he had not heard of any one staying away from rears, and this is what has happened: ball games because there is more bat- ting nowadays, and the boys who play on the industrial teams and on the sandlots are tickled to death with they fun they have now, since their captains do not ask them to sacrifice any more. The semi-pros never did like to sacrifice, They always liked to_try to hit them over the fence. - Yet base ball will tighten up again, as it did when the sacrifice hit and the forearm batter were all the rage, It will tighten up because four or| five pitchers will come along cotem- poraneously from somewhere with brains enough to subdue the wild swingers. When that happens there will be less talk about the lively ball. PATTERSON FORCED -IN LONGWOOD TENNIS By the Associate@ Press. BROOKLINE, Mass, July 14— Sturdy opposition was encountered by Gerald L. Patterson, Australian Davis cup star, in @ third-round match of the thirty-third . annual Longwood bow! singles. Patterson won in straight sets, sub- duing G. Peabody Gardmer, jr. of Brookline, former intercollegiate cham- plon, 10—8, 6—2, 8—T. Patterson was within a stroke of losing the opening set when he un- leashed his service at full force, gain- ing three aces in e row. The feature was the ousting of the tourth seeded American, Cranston Hol- man of Stanford University, runner- up for the intercollegiate singles title this vear, 6—1, 2—6, 7—5. Facing a battery of volleys from the racquet of Kar] Pfaffman, former Harvard tennis captain, Holman started e wild streak in the deciding set, of which Pfaffman was quick to take-advantage. Those who reached:the third round were Patterson and John B. Hawkes of Australia, T. Haraga and M. Fu- kuda of Japan and the Americans, Alden H. Smith, Fritz Mercur, present title holder; Arnold W. Jones and N. W. Niles. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1925. Present Era of Slugging Sure to Pass : Dempsey to Face Direct Quiz on Return PITCHERS WILL OUTSMART THE BATTERS EVENTUALLY GOLF TEAM CLASHES ON CARD THIS WEEK Two team matches in the Five-club. Golf League are scheduled this week, ‘wWith Bannockburn, which is leading, slated to visit Chevy Chase on Fri- day and Washington, second in the standing, billed to meet the tail-end Indian Spring team Sunday on the latter’s course. ** Matches in the interclub league Blaged for the next two weeks will end. the contests until September, as by~mutual agreement the clubs Hive decided not to hold matches during August. - Many of the team members are out of the city during that month, and the clubs In the past have met with difficulties in putting representative teams in the fleld. Columbia, which has won the team contests for the last three years, is not listed to play this week. Rock Creek Park golfers are finish- ing. their qualitying rounds for the course championship today, qfalifying for the title flight of 16, from which two men will be selected to go to| Garden City as representatives of Washingtcn in _the national public links tourney. Only one flight of the 18 will qualify, with match play sched- uled to start Thursday morning. Semi- finals and finals will be played Friday. . J. R. Miller, with a card of 76, led the group of golfers who competed yesterday, while Harry G. Pitt, Charles W. Cole, R. M. Brown, J. B, Dulin and Joseph A. Cox, all well known public links golfers, are to play their medal vound today. With a score of 91, John A. Kratz won the groes prize in the golf tour. nament held as part of a field day at the Columbia Country Club yesterday by members of the University Club. F. K. Nellsen and Dr. S. B. Muncaster tied for the net prize, both players fin- ishing with & net 87. Nellsen's gross was 107, while Muncaster's card read TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va., July 14.—The Potomac river was clear and Shenandoah was very muddy this morning. FAMOUS HAWAIIAN SWIMS AT MANOR CLUB SUNDAY Keaweamaki. That's not a cross-word puzzle exhibit. It’s the name of a famous Hawalian swimmer who is to show members of the Manor Club just how to locomote to the best ad- vantage in the water. The dem- onstration will be given in the Manor Club pool next Sunday at 3:30 o’clock. Keaweamaki is a member of the Hui Makami Club of Honolulu and was the mentor of the famous Kealoha brothers, whose swim- ming feats haye attracted world- wide attention. Part of Keawea- makl's exhibition will be a race with Owen Thompson, swimming instructor and life guard at the Manor Club. Any members who wish to enter the speed competi- tion will be welcomed. W \, GOODRICH LIGHTWEIGHT - KING; DEFEATS LOAYAZA By the Associated Press. N champion of the world. EW YORK, July 14—Jimmy Goodrich of Buffalo, N. Y and little heard of as a boxer a year ago, today is lightweight unknown The title was acquired by his defeat of Stanislaus Loayaza of Chile by a technical knockout in the second round of a 15-round bout at Long Island City last night. Goodrich succeeds Benny Leonard, who retired in favor of the win- ner of a lightweight elimination tournament ordered by the New York State Athletic Commission. FARRELL IS LEADING IN SHAWNEE EVENT SHAWNEE-ON-DELAWARE, Pa., July 14—With 10 golfers within five strokes of the leader at the end of the first 36 holes of play, the annual Shawnee open championship is living up to its traditions as one of the most spectacular tournaments on the golf calendar. The leader this morning was none other than Johnny Farrell of Quaker Ridge, a former winner and a young golfer who delights in injecting ginger in tournaments in which he is one of the contestants. By ridding himself of a spectacular 68 in the second round this afternoon, 6 strokes under the par of the Shaw- nee Country Club course, Farrell perched himself at the head of the procession, (his total for the first two rounds being 141, But evef with that astounding total, Johnpy is not assured of win- ning the '1925 event, for Wglter Bourne, the professional at the Me- tropolis Club in the metropolitan dis- trict, is close on his heels with a total of 142, the product of a sensational 69, which led the fleld -yesterday morning and a 73 the afternoon. Behind Farrell and Bourne came Willle Macfarlane of Oak Ridge, the national ogen champion, and Emmett French of Youngstown, Ohlo, both of whom traveled at a 70 pace in the first round and a 73 in the second. Then comes Willie Kline, the Garden City Country Club youngster; Clar- ence Hackney of Aflantic City, an- other young golfer; Henry Ciuci of Westchester Hills and George Heron, the Meadowbrook Club professional. Kline is in fifth place with a total of 144, while the others are tled for sixth with 145. Among the 146s are Willie Ogg of Worcester, Mass., a former Shawnee titleholder; Thomas D. Armour and Joe Turnesa of - New York Following them come Dan Williams of Shackamaxon and Johnny Golden of North Jersey with totals of 14 Willlam Leach of Overbrook with 148, A. A. Armour and Bob MacDonald, one from New York and the other from Chicago, with 149; and then Leo Diegel of Glen Oaks, the defending champion, with a total of 150, a figure that almost insured the prediction that he will not repeat his 1924 vic- tory unless something extraordinary should happen tomorrow. -For reasons of her own, Nature chose the rich, loamy “soil of the Orient , for growing the world's finest cigarette fobacco. o "™ A leaf of Turkish tobacco compares to domestic as a-violet petal to a cab- ,\‘bage leaf—in size, texture and aroma. " One-is tiny, chiffon-sheer and ex- , quisitely aromatic. The other is large, seamy and fibrous. Nearly- every cigarette; including . Goodrich pummeled the Chilean with heavy rights and lefts at the start and floored him five times during the first round. Loayaza fractured his right ankle in a fall and hung on to the ropes with one hand while he sought to stave off punishment with. the other. His second tossed a towel into the ring after 35 seconds of the second round. Goodrich is a native of Scranton, Pa., and resided there up to six years ago, when he located 4 Buffalo. He had more than 25 victories to his credit during the past three years Eddie (Cannonball) Martin of New York, former world bantamweight champlon, scored a technical knock- out over Irish Johnny Curtin of Jer- sey City in the sixth round of the semi-final LEASES RACE TRACK. SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 (P).— Harry I. Stafford, San Francisco at- torney for James W. Coffroth, race track magnate, has announced that a 10-year lease of the Tiajuana race track properties, has been entered into between Coffroth and the Mexican government. The rental is §1,175,000. Gt iy MARTIN WHIPS CURTIN. NEW YORK, July 14.—Eddje “Can nonball world bantamweight champion, scored a technical knockout over Irish John- ny Curtin of Jersey City last night at the Queensboro Stadium. Curtin was unable to answer the bell for the sev- enth round. FARLEY WANTS DEMPSEY TO BOX WILLS THIS YEAR PORTLAND, Oreg., July 14 (®). —James A. Farley, chairman of the New York State Athletic Com- mission, who is here attending the Elks’ convention, announced last night that he had sent the follow- ing telegram to Daniel S. Skilling, secretary of the commiss “At meeting tomorrow passing resolution, assuming Com- missioners Muldoon, Brower, Phe- lan and Ware concur, that an invi- tation be extended to Jack Demp- sey and Jack Kearns to appear be- fore commission at meeting July 21. We must have a definite de- cision, in my judgment, from above mentioned parties at once. Demp- sey should either fight Wills this year or retire.” Martin of New York, former TITLE BOUT STOPPED AND WILL BE PROBED By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., July 14—The New Jersey Boxing Commission is go- ing to investigate a title match be- tween Paul Berlenbach of New York and Young Marullo of New Orleans which was stopped in the ninth round last night for stalling. Frequent clinches brought action from Referee Henry Lewis. The prin- cipals appeared. bewildered when the contest was halted and left the ring only upon a request by police. Berlenbach keeps his light heavy- welght crown; but the promoters are withholding “ payment to tRe boxers pending a decision by the boxing com- mission. Berlenbach’s manager sald after the champion had retired to the dressing room that Berlenbach had hurt his right hand. Representatives of the commission will have a look at it. Berlenbach, welghed 173% pounds, Marullo, 168%. In a semi-final Eddle Shevlin Boston won from Jack Rapport Newark. of of TAKES SPRINTING TEST‘: PRINCETON, N. J., July 14 (®).— In a heartbreaking trial 100-yard dash Jimmie Pappas of Newark, N. J., won from Barron Rockwell of Chicago and Bob McReedy of Edgeworth, Pa., the right to represent the Tigers in that event in the meet between Princeton- Cornell and Oxford-Cambridge in At- lantic City Saturday. SEORTS. TO BE ASKED AS TO WILLS AND ABOUT QUITTING RING Hard to Figure How He Will Answer First One, But Practically to Deny Latter on Account of Its Effect on Movie Ventures. BY FAIR PLAY. N going to retire from the ring. Just how he will answer the first question ¢ As to the second he will probably say directly an is not going to retife. He would not say anything else, again, since his success inmoving pictures deper EW YORK, July 14—Jack Dempsey will be ir nesday and a million people, more or less, if he is going to fight Harry Wills. this country on We are going to ask him He also will be asked if he is be figured ot head d emphatically that he even if he never inte is pretty I ded to fight rgely upon his possession of the championship title. Some of his closest friends say he will not fight another battle. two remarks of his wife, Estelle Tay lor,.who may be regarded as having more dope on his plans and ambitions than any one else, deserve to be con sidered in any discussion as to what the champlon is going to do. Here are the remarks, made just before the two safled for Europe: 1. Jack {s a fighting man and I want him to fight. That is his pro- fession. 2. I should hate to have CUMMINGS SETTING PACE FOR GOLFERS WITH A 68 By the Associated Press. D Golf Association meet at Lochmoor 1 play. | | But | \ { f one | ETROIT, July 14—With the realization that it would likely require | a score of 153 or better for the two qualifying rounds to get into | championship match play, leaders in the scoring at the Western repared to lay on with renewed vigor today in the second 18 holes of medal Dexter Cummings of Chicago had such a commanding lead'at the | start of today’s round, with his record of 68 of, yesterday, that he was a favorite to win medal honors. competitors, Ruddy Knepper of Chicago and Henry Comstock of Buffalo, who scored par 72. Five men were tied for fourth place at 73, and one of them, James Manion of St. Louls, shot the second nine in 34, to equgl the skill of Cummings on that half." The others were Clarence Hubby of Dallas, R. A. Stranahan of Toledo, Howard Schendorf and Rial Rolfe of Chicago. Chick Evans, seeking the title for the ninth time, had a 74 to his credit at the start of today's procesdings, a total he shared with Fred Lamprecht of Cleveland, intercollegiate champlon; Kenneth Hisert of Chicago, big ten university titleholder; Dick Bocken- kamp of St. Louis, C. W. Diebel of Youngstown, Joe Bydolek and F. E. Wattles of Buffalo. Don Carrick of Toronto, Canadian champlon, was in », Gheres a little bit of MURAD n nearly every cigarette ... “But only a MURAD is AL MURAD? domestic, contains some Turkish. And the charm in each blend is usually in keeping with,its Turkish percentage. A MURAD is ALL charm because a MURAD is all Turkish. Excellence is not a mere ingredient; it is the body and substance of the entire cigarette. For you who prefer superlative quality all through your cigarette—as a whole rather than a.fractional part— MURAD is the world’s best cigarette buy. The TURKISH Cigarette C ALL TURKISH means..... ... ..cALL Charm’ (© 1925 P. LORILLARD ' COMPANY.\EST. 1760 M URAD the next brace with a fair with Eddie Held of St. Lou 75, along , formerly He stood four strokes ahead of his nearest | public links and transmissippi cham. | plon, and several others There were few upsets in the first round, except that the scoring w: lower than had been predicted the tricky Lochmoor links. Harrison R. Johnston of St. Paul, defending champion, still loafed in the club house, as his title qualified him for match play. Among the 38 players who scor or better vesterday, 13 were from nois, mostly Chicago; § were from Michigan, 5 from Ohio, 4 each from New York and_ Missouri, and 1 each from Texas, Wisconsin, and Canada. over Minnesota | Jack was afraid to fight He is not afraid. I t that man 0 remarks were quoted to n who has been lle in the past one else. ife has not ay be regard the last thing in mind is hanging up think t Harry want] few It chan ed as a that Dempse: his g Inside > be put on been bothered and the cures times at can not helped him a great d t is why he is Zoing to try : n waters—to rimself for a for the title tever ha , there will cer bout between Dempsey and Wills this year. It would be sul cidal ampion to enter the o or more preliminary trouble at are’the two Madden first not give him a great ouble, but he can catch enough punches to give Jack a good workout. Then Tunr This bout w boxing vant. If Jack at the same clevernes ive keen followers of Den that they can t Gene and time st a lot of go into the dds-on favorite ANNEXES PACING STAKE. TOLEDO, ly 14 (®).—Frank 7 . won the Tecum ing a_ value of ng day of the season racing. He rd heats, being Tarsan Grattan Other Sports on Page 24.