Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1925, Page 92

Majors Would Raise Optional-Player Limit : Rickard Ignores U. 1 MINORS OPPOSE “FARMING” .PLAN BIG LEAGUES WANT Landis’ Ruling in Affair Questionable, as Written Order Cannot Be Found—Squabble May Cost Job President of International League. - BY JOHN B. FOSTER: EW YORK. December 5.—The fight that is being made against the re-election of Johr Conway Toole as president of the International | League. one of the Winter's most important base bail .develop- | ments, involves the question of whether Judge K. M. Landis, dictator of | W would s it they similarly the farmed: he cume re of the on w g No. 1 leads the loop the count being 672 total ducks spilled the quartet Epworth with 15 in to- higher by In- battling for is leading In more than Ninth th sport, ever has ruled formally on the increase of the optional player | I from 8 to 1 | It was this increase which the majors. at any rate. took for granted, | that Toole has opposed, fighting tooth and nail against it, and because of | it _the majors are lined up against him in this latest bit of base ball politics. % % "he majors have presumed that 7 Commissioner Landis in 1828 advised | 0 ER TEAMS OPEN | the majors to put out 15 players on s cc option to the minor clubs i Before the annual meeting of the LEAGUE PLAY TODAY‘ winor leazues in Hartford in 1924 their secretary ohn H. Farrell, was | | aslked why he had sanctioned the in-| Leazue soccer makes its bow here crease from 8 to 15 optioned players. | today with all six teams of the newly He said he had done so because of in- | organized Washington soccer loop stiwetions by Judge Landis. This re- | swinging into acidon at 2:30. . opened the old controversy which has | The games will be played on three lonx existed between the mujors and | fields. At the Monument grounds the | winoes as to the numbes of players | Waltord Club takes on' the British the majors can farm out Embassy eleven, while at Washingtop The minors adopied resolution | Barracks the Monroe Lickers o that not more than eight p against the German-American team, could e thus planted on them to be|and at Fort Myer the Soldier eleven rewalled at the option of the furming | entertains the Germon-American Re wajor club. T was Dehind this. | serves. He was fighting for the minors against pt. Cleland, athletic officer at the S ilisios 1 AR Ghe? Tlirva Colleze, will kick off for the Bslihe wnajors igults fatacil onroe and German American teams. ke every player in t Maj. Hoyle will do the honors a could. ort Myer. Foole placed <himself | . record against increasit e e CHURCH DUCKPINNERS sharply into contact with s nujors { niissioner Landis had instructed him to sanction” the 15-plaver option hua e led arch to-ascertuln fust what] o0 o BEE LT Wk happen. President Hley gl er o ovic | Hast Washington Church. Bowling e e e e in siic. | Desgile Ainds NInthy No! diand Angvam | g "" N 8% teams .m“;‘um ked for ; first place, ISR aoy e meetine of | Douglas Memoiial in the runner-up | Lle states g au i smeeting OF] Shettioniand fouEiquistiea s s iat] fostion the minors’ meet imjhenors Commissioner Landis told |~ Ninth club ewners they would have | lal pins themselves.” because the ”x’i.“ e Associution had closed the | Bram nst them for any lesislation | thitd il regarding the player question during pin: | | e don the ensuing y = Limit Was Raised. vate. it is on record that the player limit was increased from § o 15. hecause the fact was pablicly announced by (he press ‘at the time of the meeting It has heen assumed that Judse Landis issued ing in favor of the plaver limit becau Farrell's ement. but nothing of that kind ms 1o been done. Whatever conneetion Landis may have had with the-mutier seems to have been purely vertal, and the commissioner hus been | trving to find some ong with « copy of i€ ruling, while the president éf the International League has been trying to Ao the same thing “If the jndge did not make such ruiins. Seietary Farrell is in the un Fapmy position of having to expliin. o 1975, WOMEN ARE STAGING CLOSE BOWLING RACE Anderson, No. h&uds lead-off man of the East Wash- | bowlers in individual work average of 111 and also is credited with the highest number of strikes, 20, Andrews of the same team and Souder of Douglas stand second with marks of 110 Team siandings, league records and werages follow: Ninen ington with un AL any optionil s Standing of Teams: [ . L HS 10 g 10 3 Enwoith Tl No. attein teniival Sl %0 ; 855 358 Conte 3 2 ; League Kecord mdividual average— ndividual $ume—Seaton vidual ‘e ream 159 200, 1. 608 0L wtrikes—Ernest Anderson Individual Kecords. wlers of the Washington kpin League enter their Bt ay night, with Columbians end Hill'oppers deadlucked for tog hamors. The Commercials ar 1y ope Vehind the leaders. whil the and Beeques e tied for l of the the way in high set for N spares. Hoe: Seatt. Ed Ao’ 10 108 130 3 ns i : : | has | Stegares { n and | s Columbi aver the =en My jie dat of Commercials is runner-up-in the | of averages, aid has the season | frovd for b ks, Foutily Nell of the Colnubians still holds” the sexson revcoird for h <ingle @2 b4 Lorraine ( bolder of all-time rec ords for <. high gawe and high sei. is ronning third in the aver- | es. While volling o consislent gane, | She has falled (-4 anythisg staeting this ingz Ristered P iy 4 e Freweh Bruton M. Raspberry « 1l i aver . is C. Jeffries Cortell Sommerkal Marceron Weber Elmans | Risdon AL defiries seasan andings and averages for the first w Peams. uldson i 1 Jumn ash equie Alimbe == Comme: e Lpdd Ifi. Comm e hd; 4 WAUGH. INDIVIDU AL AVERAGES. mbians. anfiman Domdera * homas 7 1 i 6107 VTR 7 103 267 QatBrien Feaniclin Far Hiiries X Aiknian Angeron. iites Tlomas Waters i rets 8 o1 rdin ey Teaa Quanuritie Neader a3 i 2 ix timbers. 106 10w i 1 i o Becaues. i 4 Streiter s Reiler i Allwine Rerkley K & ¢ 126 834 133 &3 1 i b1 93 5 B24 H | Teachuni i Locke .. o | R Halley Ki-21 | Stewart SCHWARTZ LEASES STUD. . LEXINGTOXN, Ky., December 5. Moten L. Schwartz, New York broke: | has leased the Skain farni of 263 acres 14 | here, which he will convert into a thor- ! oughbred horse breeding establish- He recenily purchased a num- VRstin hiw 11 torson 8013 14 ment. NAVY SOCCER WINNER. . | " NEW WAVEN, December 5:—Navy € enviy defd:ted Yale al <oceer here 1o 68-13 | day by he score of 5 Lo 0., { ning both. MASONIC LEAGUE, Standing_of Teams . Lost. Pet. To| TS Ry TS 1 0 e EEEEEERTNES Al I iy Tiinity Feaeral Foronrc Jcrtal JOLPR L. 1. Pledsant.. | ~olonion. A , Bightwood Recerds fo Date. High team set—La Fayette, 17273 High team wume-—La Fayette. 817 1o i8R IDdIVIdUal set-"Rosenvers. Gompers. sh_individual pers. 175, Hieh individua) averuge—Rosenbers. Gom- vers, 11814, The standing of three leading teams was not disturbed by the results of double-header — week, Gompers and ilarmony being unable to gain any ground on La Fayette. Gompers dropped twé to Takoma and another to Washington-Centenniul, while Harmony broke even in its two sets. Three thnes during the pust week sames were lost with scores for the iosing teams well above the ordinary. “The most outstanding of such occu; rences was a 600 game rolled by Gompers while Washington-Centen- nial was piling up a 571 game. Acacia nosed out Mount Hermon by single pin, the score being 364 to 563, and Hiram added a vietory with a 573 game against St. John's good effort of 547 This Hiram team has gone duckpin Wild in its last three matches. hang- ing up sets of 1.718, 1.627 and 1,611, for 4 set average of 1,6i2. Ax u re. sult of its good work in the past week Hiram has advanced from fourteenth to eighth place in the league stand- ings. The splendid spurt of Stansbury was rudely halted by Iiram, the lutter team taking all three games of the set. Prior to this Stansbury had won 25 of its last 30 games and this achievement was only eclipsed by La Fayette, which turned in 25 winning efforts in 30 starts. “Off on another bowling rampage” was the word passed down the Jine while Max Rosenberg wus piling’ up marks for Gompers against Washing- ton-Centennial. With a 153 game and set, he was not only responsible " his team winnilig two games. but increased his leadership in_individual average 1o 118-14, the highest mark ithin memory for a Masonic League howler at this stage of the league seu- ~on. Columbia, game-—Rosenberg, Gom- No. 285. of Clarendon, since taking over the frunchise of Chevy Chase, has added six games 10 the won colunm: while losing only three. Kellogg of Trinity had an excellent chance to surpass the individual high game record of 175. With 141 jn the | eighth and a spare in the ninth. he counted only two pins on the mark nd his opportunity wis mi; Capt. Watson of La . Fayette was instrumental in “aking two gumes from Pentalpha. his games of 121, 153 and 118, giving him a set of 352 his best effort of the season. BANKERN' LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. wnk of Washington ibba & ¢ Riggs 0 Com Distrint High National . individuai horne, 10K Bown High individus! Womersley. High _team Trust No. | seta—Selarl. A1 Zutie<—Osborne. Brown. 151. kames—ivashington G010 Hibby, 582 m <otV 138: Loan & Pgrobtual sh tea t 3o g 17, Hibs T Strikes—Womersles &4 Bank of Washington and Hibbs did not roll during the week. while Riggs was defeating tife tailenders three games, and Washington Loan’ No. 1 also was cleaning up. This brings these two teams nearer the leaders and anxious to see the outcome of the big match Wednesday night between Bunk of Washington and Hibbs. Jake Schatf. that fine oldtimer, took ihe center of the stage with a per- formance that heats anything - vet rolled in the Bankers' League since ity organization. By volling games of 125. 143 and 145, he not only rolled high set for the season, but hig score of 413 s an all-time record. “The race for individual honors has tightened up still more with Clark and Wood rolling anchor against each other Wednesday night with averages of 116-30 and 110-18. Brown and Os- horn are having a still closer race not far behind with 110-7 and 110-3, re- spectively. ODD FELLOWS' Salem Brightwood Covenant ‘red D Central ' Friendship Hion team sameatounr P HIED indiidBal gdme. o Hosrt oy High individual set—D. Ellett, 140, High individual averazi—Harville, 118.10. Greateat strikew—Hamilton. 14, Greatest spares—Harville and Logan, 64. Mount Pleasant again has - startéd on a winning streak by taking three games from Brigh.wood. °The last two were very close, and to Logan o Mount Pleasant goes credit for win- ITu the second game it was necessary for him to spare with 4 9 count to swin, and he repeated this performance in the third ‘game, win. ning by three pi ‘The best indi- vidual total of the match, however, went to C. H. Groff, with a score of 329 McDonald was best fof the losers, with 2. » When Harville is rolling well Fred D. Stuart wins, and this was the case in the match with Golden Rule.~Har- ville’s first game was 141, his second 114, but he fell down iri the last game to 96, for a total of 351, the best total of the week. Te still {8 in the lead for individnal honors, with-plenty to spaye. Cordell was the main factor in Golden Rule's lone win, his total in th's game heing 122, which, with 106 and 102 in his first and second games, respectively, brought his three-game total to 340. Central climbed out of the cellar by {aking Salem into camp for. the odd game. Ohm was the best roller for Salem, with’ Van Horn performing in good style for Central. Columbia emerged victorious in two of the three games rolled against Har- mony. The Harmony boys. did not roll'as well as usual, not a han on the team having a set as high as 300, Cones’ high game of 135 and total of 318 was- tbe best. individuas efiore., B 455 Stuart. 400 3 leasaut. A6 prel | etting. 304 | In the contest between Central and | Columbia both teams were consider- | ably off form, poor scores being re- corded on both side. This match was scheduled for last week. but was ca: ied over due to confiicting lodge dates. Columbia managed to take the | odd game. | Lohmar continued his steady rolling, . c. A xheur. | nx of Teams. | Team. Woo. Pet Sauirrels Americzn Ry, F Tnion ‘Fransfer Pullmau 5 + TYPOTHETAE LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. Team. ko nxvclbllll Press. . fli-h K3 tw ler i Judd & Detwei sdeil. tne. 2 17 BT, Andrews Paver Co. 16 Stanford Paer Co. . 5 3t Joyce ¢ Suraving G Packwood Brintng cor. 14 Columbian Printine Co. Lost. SERSNISRES Washingtog Prnting _Co. Standard Engraving G i Cugraving Co.,. 17 G onelee & '3 | ital Press and Wheeler-fones and Jydd | & Detweller and R. P. Andrews will [league. A clean sweep victory for any f the teams will cause quite a shake- | Volmer, anchor man of the Wash- |inston Printing five, rolled high in- o/ 344, while McPhilomy took indl- vidual game honors with 142. tows: Ransdell, Inc.. won two out of {three from Stundard Engraving Co. |0 three from Columbian Printing Co. | Washington Printing Co. won two out Wheeler-Jones won two out of three from Judd & Detweller, National Cap- | Couvention Hall. ital Press won two out of three from XNational Publishing Co., Lanman En- -uving Co. won two out of three from tanford Paper Co.. W otype Co. postponed with Andrews Paper Co. to his good form by running up games of 119, 122 and 137. a set total of 378, | his best effort of the yea Terminal Ice Co. varied the usual order of getting pienty of pins with | | alternating victories and defeats. This | | time they rolled games of 675, 549 and | 65, for a 1,689 set, against Cormell's | Lunch, making a clean sweep of the set. | “Fnose persistent Temple bowlers re- | fuse to be denied a position among the | |contending teams, demonstrating that | | fact by going to Petworth and taking | all three from the latter, Ralph | Prevost, with his set of 333, figuring { most conspicususly in two of the vic- tories. Hargett of Petworth was high for his team with a 339 set. 5 X tegulars refused to win move than He o ot e on Hall, 865, | one game from Mount Pleasants, call il Al sei—Romibers. Conten: | ing it w day's worl fter volling a 580 ion Hall, 408, 5 a | Bame. Arthur Urban of Regulars had Tec e, JSyidust same—Vriend, Termianl | 500’1371, Glann Wolstentiplroe, capr High _individual average—Megaw. King tain of Meunt Pleasants, was much Pine. 118 the best for his team, his games of | 5 and 119 giving him a set total | DISTRICT LE. Standing of Teams. Won. Lost. Pet. DR I04 Stanford Paper Co Kine | ‘eniple e Terminal ice Co. . Cornell's Luneh . Mount Pleasante. . Regulara ........ “aver Davis.. Petworth ... Records to ins of strikes—Friend. Ter- the De iRl lea Co BT ©f Strikes—Fe |23, 12 Greatest number of spares—Megaw. King | of 367, Pins. 86. i Casting envious ‘eyes upon the run- ner-up position, occupted by King | Pins, Convention Hall invaded the al- | leys of the latter and made a clean | Mount Pleasant . #veep of the set, amassing a total of | {TiTe! Presbyier 1,781, the best effort of the week. This | Columbia Heights . included a 663 game, which established | frtwort Bapust a new league season record. | Calvary Methoaiat Most instrumental in tumbling King | (mmanuel Baptist . Pins into third place was the brilliant | shooting of Max Rosenberg of Conven-| tion Hall, who clicked off games of | Cen 135, 142 and 131, his set total of 408 ating & new league season record for high individual set, throwing into the' discard the previous high mark of | 399, rolled by George IFriend of Termi- | nal Tce Co. Stanford Paper Co. maintained its league leadership by taking the first two from Meyer Davis, the first by a €21 score, but dropped the final, when the latter team rolled u game of maintuined thee same relative posi. | 800 to 564. Earl McPhilomy got the | tions at the top of the North Wash. | best total for the papermakers, get- | ington Church League. The leaders ting 368 for his three games, but thix | wore pushed, however, Jiy Immanuel was surpassed by Pappy Pratt of | Baptist, and took one 6f the games by | Mever Davis, who evidenced a return |4 Iargin of only two pins. = NORTH WASHINGTON CHURCH LEAGUE. Standing of Team: Won. Lost 8 " 12 League. Records. ligh atrikes—Kluge, Emory Moger, ral 14, High'spares—Smith. Columbia Heights, 61 Individual game—Kluge, Emory |4+ Inaividual fet-—Kluge. Emory. 500, Leaw gume—Petwortis Baptisi, 50N am set. Columbia Heights, 1,609, crages—Kiuge." ' Binor Webb. ioxii 1078 immanuel Smith, Co: lumbia’ Heigh By making clean sweeps of their-| matches rolled during the woek Mount Pleasant and Central reams | | | | | !,‘. al _Publishing Co. | Tomorrow's matches ‘between Cap- ttract considerable interest® in the I up in the standings. dividual set for the week, with & total Itesulis of the matches were as fol- M. Joyce Engraving Co. won two out of three from Packwood Printing Co., STANFORD BO - DISTRICT DUCKPIN GROUP ESULTS oi the first series in t | last. when Curb Cafe, now Co gin. and Stauniord Paper Co. battied King Pins down to the final game to determine second and third positions The Papermen finished out in front the first meries, which closed on wember while King Pins and Convention Hall were cloke on their ieels. Terminal Ice is second in total pins, vet is only sixth in the team *tandings. Of the men roiling their first season in- the District League the name of Jack Whalen of Stanford Paper Co. ftands out. I~ has an average of 216 for 24 gaes. Standing of the teams, league rec- ords gand mdividual averages for the first series follow: 3 STANDING OF TEAMS Team Lost nford Paper (o 7 King Puis Convention Hall Temple ... Cornell's “Lundh winal los Co K-gulars ... Piasants Davie aworti S Eristtran LEAGUE RECORDS. Hizgh team same—Convention Hall High team set—Convention Hall, i 818 Tigh iodivicual riend, Terminal tee Co., 163 Higl individual set 0., 308 -Friend. Termiaal Ice o averuge—Friend. Ter- spares—Moore. Regu- umber of strikes—Friend, Ter- KENNEL AND FIELD H. Kernodl Goodac — o, George ¢ thusiast, kennel A Lad rying e, locul bheagle en hus veseeded his braeding The Goodncres, Avanel, purchasing- Bucko, Pearl. Princess and Sweetle, all car- the prefix, J{ollowing their win -of first place in the pack | stukes at-the Maryland triuly on Oc- ober 20, and second place at the na | tlonal trials on November 5. His smallest and most important purchase is the stud dog, Fairfield Doctor, measuring a scant 10 inches «t the shoulder and naver “‘unplaced” |at any of the Bastern trials in which ,he has been fearlessly campaligned. | Loctor has the distinction of being the smallest beagle ever to run in & | recognized trial. which makes his rec- {ord for consistent winning all the | more remarkable. | Goodacre has always manifested a | weakness for “pocket” beagles, and | | followers of the game can see in tk .at=st meve that he plans_to breed |anad deveiop a. counterpa of his [ noted field trial -and bench show win |ner, Champion Little Mack. Any | oriversation with Goodacre on the subject of beagles is sure to bring out | some mention of thls great liitle dog. | a double champion and never defeated « the field. at by Congo Newcoin Regret, Frank Leach's winning bull terrier, went to winners fund best of breed at the recent At-| !lantic City show. while his kennel : mate, Newcoln Diana, was the re-| serve winning bitch. Ragret was best of breed over Cloudiand White Mist, ! {a noted winner, and placed best in the all-terrier class, which carried With it the Press-Union Trophy. a | { 19-inch silver tankard. This dog, just, out of .the puppy classes, has been | ! winner at the last four<shows and ! {has the highest praise of all the judges who have seen him “‘down. | Regret appears. to be about the | hottest thing on the circuit, ‘and he should give a favorable: account of himself “at the coming .show of the Westminster Kennel Club, the mecca of all dog fanciers. | Dr. William P. Collins purchased ithe Boston terrier Trimount Harper, following his placing as reserve win: [rer in the Boston terrier specialty | 1 Boston, Mass., in_competition i With 227 dogs. gPrior to this showing the youngster kad won the three-point jevent at Brockton, and he has since i placed winner in Atlanfic City and at the speclalty show in Providence iwith " 157 dogs competing. Harpet, {welghing in at 13% pounds and 13 months .oll, seems . to be taking the' | shows in rotation, sa that Dr. Collins {expecta to finish him shortly. He is {déscribed as a sound dog, particularly |&00d in_ head, sbody- -m& @ait, bat not, a flashy' individual. .He s being shown | | this ‘week ‘at the .spectaity show in Philadelphia. 7t i Dr..Collins has also purchased: the middleweight winher at Boston, ragis- | tered from Dr. Collins’ kennel as Dis- {trict Attorney. He will 'be put on the show circult as soon as Harper has won_his title. Tt will be of interest to Washing- ! ton dog fanciers to know -that e §-month-old bitéh Anne .von Helz ECk, owned by Mr. and Mrs. John, Groves of this city, was. judged the Shepherd puppy “in ‘the recent show corducted Ly the Atlantic City Kea i qelt_Club.. . v | | | i i ¥ that the honors this season will be more clasely contested than the weei, with a score of 1.541. Wal. | lace Memorial was u clove second, with a2 mark of 1337, Wallace Me morial went info sixth place hen Calvary forfeited all thre= Bames. Central Presbyterian and Columbia Heights teams r tomorrow Bmory thcounters Petworth Tuesday, and NWallace Memorial meets Immanuel he District Duckpin League indicate | Baptist Friday = —— | Mount Pleasant rolled high set for AGRICULTURE INTERBUREAU LEAGUE. Team Standing December 4. 3 P uvention Hall, won by a ‘arge ‘mar- Kem \coutits Eroperty Plant Indusiy Solicltors INDIVIDUAL AVERAG STANFORD P. G st Name Wi 1660: Ac- R i HigG ans gambes CRouite 30 5 E conomice: 5o N IALL site—Dixon. e invidtis Kames— Dixon McRericher s x Weekis' prise—smith of pL ¥ Lawis Eritheimer Stanford So-Keme: i45 1 Stork, Nyer ant. gain of 43 So-Kems t )R advantage of Capt. Storck’s abs ey 1ce to hand his texm 4 wo-te-one licking, taking the odd same from the Accounts five. The Su-Kems registered the high game for 583, to wWhich Adams 143 and Gowan 31, S game was the best individual ormenee ublic Loads outfit L2 | I8tered the surprise of the ev 13 Winning two of the three 1o the strong Property team. Al the sames were closely dontested. less than ten pins deciding erch. Nairm hinsell wus the best performer for Roads, while Tucker starred for Prop reg- ening Ly sames from s won two games 18 and moved sixth place in the league’s standing. Murphy and Ruppert contributed the efforis Jor winners, with N lending Strom support Carthy and Ready. with set totuls 317 sua espectively, were best the Interbureaus. The third deciding game was 4 tor the Imis, the lawye behind and winning the verdict in the I boy by uargin of 437 v ;) he Plint’ Bureau team was able ake 1Wo games irom he k-onom hove that team into st the somewhat doubtful unking third in totu pins ed and last in games won. As m matter of fuc new ruling to the effect that no teum shall give handi AP to one of higher standing, kept | the Plant Burcau outfit from making ean sweep. The winning mirgin, tather curiou ten pins in each =ame: Econon Hing the first by (that margin and Plant taking (h second and third with ten pins $n ch. Smith was the outstunding star | for Plint Bureau, his effective pin o | spilling giving his team its margin of victory. ‘rom up to Tealiine orpe D Hurd Cornedl \l the Interbure: 1 for NCariny Sl Weideman coming from Metralion Crban Rigi’ Coudand SCNickle vs and > Shipley Nuples Sltzer S MEYER DAV v T s wing Arminge: Mcbolrick Lynn Cratt Earnes Watson Dracopoulis curious break, tvpical of the duck” game, and which decided the ame in favor of Economics re- sulted when Ferrall, Goll and Costellc spared in succession. but counted only I. 2 and 4 pins. respectively, on their 1011 | marks. Since the game was lost by Y% [ien pins it can be seen that any rea- sonable counts would have meant vic. 1o Filline Huxter fieltman i 28R HASKELL COACHES QUIT. LAWRENCE, Kans., December 5 |= Y (P).—The Haskell Institute foot ball RAD‘ATOI:S. FENDEI{S BO] team will e undar new management S MADE AND RERAIRED DR next vear, Coaches R. E. Hanley and NEW_RADIATORS TOR AUTON Leroy Hanley having ammounced that | WITTSTATT'S R. & F. ! . D 13th ST. N.w. 14 they will not retur; Order Yours Now for * the Holiday Season Satisfactiomn in the good- looking ‘100 per cent wool- ens of which théy are made —satigfaction .in their swagger . cut-—satisfaction ', in the pains-taking man- ‘ner . of _their tailoring. Union made .in our” own * workrooms. Sold AT $50 AND $55 NOW . " Quality, Workmanship and Fit Guaranteed Jos. A; WILNER & CoO. : . CUSTOM TAILOR: o & S. Lightweights | VINEZ, FRENCHMAN, GETS CHANCE TO GRAB CROWN Yanks May Cool Heels, While Little-Known Foreign Scrapper Tackles Jimmy Goodrich—Cham- pion Has Prior Date With Rocky Kan BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK. December 5.—Tex Rickard is up to his old tricks again N Once more a foreign fighter gets a crack at can lads cool their heels in the outer portals Tex knows that a foreign war is more spectacular and dramatic ivil war. He knows how Uncle Sam digs down into his striped jeans to see some foreign invader take it on the car he is, he caters to ghe inclination The latest outlander he has on his hands i< | lightweight. Maybe Tex doped that something in the way oi international color would be required to make the crowd shell ous to see that synthetic champion, Jimmy Goodrich, defend his gonfalon 3 o i The trouble is that the only color Vinez haus. gotis the fact that he DUCKPIN TEAMS TIED |1 i, Filt i it FOR LEAD IN LEAGUE : He showed here against Charle a title, while Ameri- And. like the showman en Vinez, the French Rosen, and while the decision wen against him, it was the unanimovsx verdict of the unhiased fans that he won. Even so, he did net produce an\ thing qualified to enlist great interesi in him. A real contender for a title hould surely have shown a_ bigger irgin of superiority over a boy ik« Rosen than the Frenchman dispayed As for Goodrich. the best that ca: be said for him is that he is contin ally trying. That about lets him out and Vinez looks to be cagey enougi to outsmart his man In the meantinie Goodrich has a dat on Monday night next against t venerable Rocky Kansas. Kansas might knock Rickard’s projected title | bout galley-west by fanning Good vich, but the chances are that Jimmn will be spry enough to keep out of e« way of Rocky's clublike urms and take the decision ori points Vinez gets a crack at the title with sout having to go through any series of elimination houts. When thes: were held he was invited to partici pate as representative of the Ol Warld, but turned doxn the offer. Is it any wonder that the American ligh weights are peeved SMITH IS RE-ELECTED HEAD OF YACHT CLUB a re Disbursing and Accounting teams are deadlocked for top honors at the close of tne first serles in the Vei- erans’ Bureau Bowling Lengue. Mails and Records trails the leaders by fo sames, Bernie Nolan of Disbursing & the league's outstanding bowler verage of 108 for 24 gan a big factor in keeping the top. Standing of the teams. league rec "ml.u and individual performances fol- cw His has been iis team at Standing of Clubs. Won Disbursi Acounting Mails and Records Construction Record Performu Highest individual Highest Nojan, 14, Highest number Sibley High individual game—Dundon, 164 High individual set—Shechan-Webi High fat gume—Howder. 46, High team game—msutar m asi—C ith Iagh s number of —Sheehan 10 of svare total pins—Disburs INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES. Disbursing. Conrad . Smith was reelecis the Corinthian Yaci Club at the annual election of officers -held during the past week William A. Rogers was named commodore for the coming son W. Briggs. rear commodore C. Boltz. secretary and treasurer . West, recording secretary, Herbert Bose. club measurer. Andrew D. Porter, E. O. Reed ani R. 8. Clinton were chosen trustee. the organization In his speech modore Smith outlined an elabo; program for enlargement and in provement of the club’s property a the_south end of the Highway Bridge ALOYSIUS CLUB TO HOLD DISTANCE EVENT TODAY Long-distance runners, who are pre. paring for the second annual New Year jaunt of the Aloysius Club will have their second practice run this ¥ ing at 11 o'clock on Union Sta t Plaza track All registered to compete in the event, which w over the S-mile distance. Sinley Rosenblatt Hishop Coudwin of Henderson Web Hendley Amidon ros 1 = ‘ and Viehman D Wart acceptance Coi Houtt Stieehan Pass G rardi Lade athletes are eligible be EPISCOPAL HIGH LISTED. Hizh "hoa hedule iscopal R appears on of the Gilman Baltimore "an teday. The Alexandrians en the ‘Gilman matmen at R Baltimore on February Country nounced 3 12 Zuller Resnicoft Gardner BATTERIES “Pay as You Ride” PROBEY TIRE STORES 104 P on N W 4P NW 1290 4 B M€ NOT AFTER ANDY SMITH. NEW YORK. December 5 (#).— Denial that Columbia is seeking the services of Andy Smith. foot ball coach of the University~of California has been made. 'MAKE THE BOY HAPPY And Keep Him Healthy With Qne of These Fine Gifts at Such Reasonable Prices Rugby Foot Balls, $1.00 to $10.00 ! 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