Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1925, Page 29

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1925. SPORTS. 29 Little Choice Between Griffs and Champs : Rickard’s “Tightness™ Annoys Greb STATISTICS SHOW CLUBS PALAGEBASKETERS WERE CLOSELY MATCHED) 7" TRANING GRIND 's Palace Club, in the American je race, will top off s second day of training tonight in A e 5 5 P la stff scrimmage with Harvey Neck and Neck in Scoring Runs, Making Hits [ Tnziev’s Yunkees,” former semi-pro champions of the District. George Marsk Washington's en sket ball le New Diamond Leaders and Former Titlcholde . e . . = gl =quad started o a 0-day and in Fielding in Recent Series. o0 of prepping yesierday at the | nor wher Mana r Louj Mike Martin | the court- | :d the pro- \rman directing tk n. A long ainer ners who have been attenc g world sc | hike oy re willing to admit that they never looked games for 15 or 20 years 1 for the day and was followed g upon a string of diamond combats quite the equal of or bearimg [With an hour's drill at passing and : | shooting at the basket. much re e to those which recently gave the relentless Pirates Reds Conaty, Roddy Cooney, Bob the championship of the world. | Grody and Ray Kennedy, four New 1 1,‘, H Washington looked unbeatable, Even in the | Yorkers. already had taken part in n the first four games Washington looked unbeatabl en in Bt CHeaneb e e second cont Pittsburgh's first victory—the Nationals looked great,|in Washington for training. Smooth and Coveleskie, according to Umpire Brick Owens, never pitched better | handling of the ball in the first ball in his life workout showed that George Hag- - gerty, Curly Christian and Butch In the I games Pittsburgh | erans staggered at the finish. Max | Shiet le * Pennsvlvanians on - the Tooked unbeatable « greater part of | Larey got on b .-;luw\l.m:]\( inearly | Squad, also had put in some hard o Ny di Fech: |iBames, Shut. COILEloL Foees HaD) ck the gymnasium before com- the time, and especially did McKech- | horeie tn later games Max Carey | LCKS In the gymnasi e com nie’s men show their championship | scoring seemed to be the commonest [ "8 5 i caliber in the final game, when. with | imaginable event a four-run le e them in t Moore was a flop early, yet a home- FRIENDS GOURT FIVE first ning kept hammering run by the same Moore e the away until < were ulti.| Pirates one of their four victories. | mately and c ubmerged Walter Johnson, winner of two MEETS LIBERTY A c But one ¢ vemarkable games, could not take third, and | features of the series of seven com- | neith uld Vie Aldridge, lkewise . | bats is revealed 1 e tota winner of two games. ) i On these es no two teams 1| Grantham was a fielding wonder, | Liberty Athletic Club ca Dl have been more ssely matched. | but could not bat | their first game of the ket ball | From beginning to end It was tit for | Lefthanders were smashed out of |season —tomorrow = night with the tat, a Roland for an Oliver, an up |the box, yet Red Oldham pitched the | Friends team of the Sunday School ague at Wilson three | L ormal gymnastum. for a down. In total runs Washing-|final inning and fanned two c 0 4 Che tentative line-up of the Liberty ton scored just one more than Pltts. | batters. | burgh—26 to 5. In total hits Pitts l Innumerable were the contradictory |five is: Lewis and Cadova, forwards; H ] notable ir, center; Kremb and Barnes, s0 more than |events that bobbed up in thi In total bases . 80s. Wash burzgh tted vers series, in which a badly beaten team "Mu!~ Liberty p. turned furfously at the last ditch and |ed to report at 6:43 And yvet, \\hPI\‘ Games may be are request- nged with the | ington r effaced its tormentor e and tviples. | it is all over, the figures show that | Liberty Club thre nager x\mm.’ fitohure Shureh made | the teams were nearly even-Steven, |at Columbia 4165-J eight t h.- In Duse | as you can see in the deadly parallel| ywoiioion Gomets Waewicall stealing led, seven to two. | columns that follow t court to- | 0y es had left on BATTING AND BASE RUNNIN: nasium. | we men thun the oclock g ted to be on | s pra Iy ever heir uniforms. | es balls were In total. Wash ington pitchers I Pittsburgh CUBS’ ‘FOUR HITTERS’ hats where ttshurgh pitchers | an| wo 1gton batsmen. | Total batiine average 3150 their difference, Pitts. | Sacrifice hits Stolen hases made one and | Lo bires pitch balk d pitches “' ARE MYSTERY MEN| PITCHING wit Peck- | Was nted the Washir BY JOHN B. FOSTER. NEW YORK ton ber 5.—Curi !\H r:’ ‘IY'IL\\\["‘\\;VH - e wonder just where and s and two less hit 2 bat w Chiea e going to surgh, but, on the othe 2 “four t atters in the m ot eizht double RIEUDING: S el oy leagues,” promised the Chicago I»l\v‘;”‘«[w \V_L-” e 4 8 s by the outfit’s ¢ rs just about was ol 82 the time Joe Mct'a was signed on s i iger he Cubs would ltke to | the bei } have nott ing much to offer kind, especially on top of this much- | | bruited and much-denied yarn that | (\hmh 1 Bigbee had been waived |along to the San Francisco team when { Dreyfuss got Waner and Rhyne from the Const he | If the, TO PLaY BALTIMOREAN Mercurys Sunday in Cubs had been in on that »rs over ST ithe oot ball se: lay out of town this 1, it 'would have been perfectly et of the t foot ball se , Plav out of fownitnis |O8l.IE Snotic Feve Leanyipertectly nd d the heavy t variety are offered lalong to the Coast, when all that stronghold at Clark Griffith Stadium | C! would have had to do was hem by waiver. nth and H streets ean the Cubs could use Moore is bu on n at enough to see, because, despite 3 o'clock. Wintons re fau’ the world seri he ced for u game with the Southern | wouid make a mighty good man for Preps on November 15 Chicago in the outfield and might go the team will meet to 2 well on the infield in a new T ettth aad B e tee He needs more work in the infield if he is ever to be a baseman of rare skill. The Cubs have drafted W' Toledo, where he had been v have University timore Brant land end, The Mercury @ match with Johnny We, of enlisted men from the Early in the season the Sail who lat on is listed for | chel’s team | aval Acad- Pop Dulin’s Crescent Athletic Club | gridders are matched with the Pastime son from ent by the |( lub for a Sunday game. emy. oe 25 Gila Last season Wilson was swamped the Maryland Colleglans| yronibers of the Anacostia_Eagle|doped early as one of the greatest who later held the Mercury gri team will gather tonight at 7:30 at|stubby outfielders in base ball, but the tie. to a scoreles ad. Man- | National League twirlers discovered « to Fort| Fourteenth and Good Hope r The Apache eleven goes to Fort|,ger peacock, at Adam is book- | he couldn’t hit a high one outside Humphreys for a clash with the To-| T8, T8 K00l nd 29. | with a quick break to it, so he can- gineer team lead by Lieut. Ed G ety {not be one of the four hig batters bisch s are booked to en- B team from F Clarendon L; counter the Battery promised the Cubs for 1926. rt | (Copsright, 1925.) Club Federal Athletic ldders €X:) Afver Sunday on the Lyon Villag pect to get into action Sunday at Ao ! o RS against the Cali ia_Athletic Club| —— Napoleon Lajoie, in his day one of on the Mo Members | Manager Moran of the Aetna 120-the greatest of base ball players, is : practlee | pound eleven is booking games at|now a member of the boxing commis- irteenth | North 6379. 'sion in Cleveland RED GRANGE—HIS STORY BY JAMES BRADE Former Yale and All-America Fullba N APOLEON, viewing the shattered forces of the enemy at Austerlitz, could not have had more of a thrill at his feat of arms than had Red Grange in reviewing his junior high school y The Wheaton team was undefeated in its conference. The scores ranged irom 83 to 0 to 41 to 13, ar of foot ball. Most of the elevens were held without a score. Red made only three touchdowns against the first opponent. He made cight against a later one. He averaged about five in each contest. Of the 406 points made by the,“Well, Bill, vou certainly gave me e Ea acéonntedior He | enough interference.” eam Res g s after | After the foot ball season was over kicked most of the goals a the young man regularly started pre- touchdowns. His touchdown runs|paring for the basket ball. The cuge game was immensely popular in high school and Red was one of the out- standing players. He was chosen on several “all” teams, as had been the case in foot ball, and tournaments were predecessors of what came later in college and ranged from 15 to 75 vards. Changes His Style. “I changed my style of running a |over the surrounding territory made little that year,” Red explained.|him famous in more towns than his Formerly T had been doing a lot | own. He continued the pursuit of athletic honors in the Spring the track and was uniformly ays on success of stiff arming. 1 tried dodging and throwing my hips from the tackler as he was about to hit me and it|ful. worked very well. Charlie Weldon Red had been elected captain of the was coaching the team and he | hIgh school foot ball team for the fol brought me forward rapidly. Our |l0Wing year, his last prep season, and team plaved together like a bunch | he tugged at the ice on his route that Summer with all his might, upon it to put him in the sical condition (Tomorrow: School Team.) of brothers and it was a pleasure relying to be on it.” That season, 1920, the sports writ- ers who followed high school affairs were perplexed in trying to describe this phenomonon of the foot ball field, just as those who write college foot ball were when he broke loose in the higher circles. The old terms would not do adequately to describe his achievements With the bla He Captains His High | (Copyright. 1025.) FOOT BALL SECRETS By Sol Metzger. € of sudden and in- tense publicity let loose upon him Nearing Recelver |Red Grange remuined Red Grange ind did not lose his sense of values 20 He hud always been somewhat bash- | ful and he remained so, especially to| THIS the fair young devotees of the game 1t w of Punt. ho wanted to lionize him s dmost impossible to get him to at- tend social affairs. His whole | interest " was concentrated on ath- letic NOT Ited had a way all his own in side | stepping that form of activity de- | THIS scribed by Coach Zuppke as “swing pushing”; that is, calling on the girls M ornered he would readily agree | 'n (l date.” About the time his agree. ment was due for fulfillment he would become so busy at something else | that the social engagement would slip | his mind. When the high school heroes were banqueted Red usually was not | f to be found. His greatest relaxation |43 he nears the receiver of the Kicl was to get together with some kindred | Then. he is in a position to drive in souls of the athletic world and sit|him and to make certain his tack around “batting out fiies about that | Whether the receiver tries to dodge or which was of chief interest to them— | POt iy Too many ends continue their run | down the field in an erect position as | in the lower fllustration. 1f they ap h the receiver in this way he can dodge or straight-arm them out flf the way because they are not well | balanced nor in a position to drive in low to make the tackle. = hr‘ o— An end rush in going down on | punt should run with his body inclined forward, as in the upper illustration, Gives Others Credit. Past games were gone over with ome few boyish compliments strewn long the way, “Well, Red, you cer. | of 1 fast when we played W 1d say a is 1 " 135-pound title, will —FEEEAISES WORRY LITTLE FIGHT CLUBS BY FAIR PLAY. 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Company, pink of phy- | JACK QUITS MEXICO; | [JARRY PEEVED WHEN TEX FIGHT MENMAY SUE| SPURNS $30,000 DEMAND By the Associated Press. o MEXICO CITY | Newspaper dispatches from Tampico | Canny Promoter ‘riti ¢ / ‘i | say local boxing promoters are much ) t w W riting on Wall When Wills- Firpo Serap Proved Bust, But Pittsburgh Man Says He Is Worth ] November 5 | exercised over the Dempsey to appear at in accordance with a contract. v allege that the champion returned a 10.000-peso check given him us a re failure of Jack | hat Money. taining fee and left Tampico without | BY SPARROW McGANN explanation i S 2 A Should the Mexican authorities fail EW YORK, Novembe Greb is peeved Tex Rickare to apprehend Dempsey befe he gave him the go-by because of the c W 1 crosses the border, the dispatches say, | TR 2 £ o the promoters will sue him for dani CLSTES I on b SeEvIce r an_oppo ages in the American courts. 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