Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1925, Page 35

SPORTS.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €. MONDAY. DECEMBER - 7. 1925, Bushers Have Biggest Athletic Body : International Loop Due to Retain Toole INTERNATIONAL COMBINE I8 BUIL_DER OF BASE BALL In 24 Years Minor League Organization Has Become Potent Influence in National Pastime—Will Celebrate Quarter-Centennial. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. INTRODUCTION. HE “bushers” are coming 25 years old now. bushers, some of them are little. Some of them have only par- tially “growed up.” All of them constitute the biggest athletic body in the world. They comprise the National Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues, which spreads all over the United States and into Some of them are big titute what is known as the minor leagues of base ball. re going to celebrate their quarter-centennial for a vear, as the 1 League celebrated its golden jubilee in the last year. they resented being called the “bushers.” ~ They are rather 10w They keep an cye and a grip on the basc ball that brings Christy Mathéwsons, Babe Ruths and Ty Cobbs in wwhile cant But it doesn't 1t o that the something de- 1t the guar ball from ihe series. The fans | in't begin to have the hase ball | do if conditions were like the times before the natlonal asso-| jon was organized and beginner e given a guarantce that they | t a fair deal. | STORY OF BUSH LEAGUES The base ball season will mark a quarter of a ) of life for the organization of the | “bush leagues” which goes un- der the imposing title of N: | tional Association of Professi al Base Ball Leagues.” There were bush leagues istence previous to 25 vears of course, but until the \; Assoclation was organized th, had little standing and anded little respect aristocrats of the came, the ma- jor league magnates, or from each other. For quarter of a century be- fore that they had lived x sort of hand-to-mouth exisi~nce, prac tically without protection from the depredations of each other. In spite of this unhealthy en- vironment, one of th number survived its childhood and grew to be quite a big boy, finally blossoming into the robust man- hood of the American League of today. This young upstart challenged the long supremacy of the arro- gant National League and the well remembered base ball war | of 1901 resulted. Players of “bir | league” caliber were at a pre- mium since two major leagues now were in the field so long occupied by one. What little protection the mi- nors had from the National League ceased to exist, as both major organizations began a frantic raid upon their ranks to fill up their teams. Every man’s hand was against them, and theirs in turn was against all the others. . In self-defense, then, the mi- nors -were forced te organize themselves in order to present a solid front to the enemy. So the National Association me into being and became an inte- gral, respected part of organized base ball. Now as the 25th birthday this strong organization = a proaches John B. Foster h written a series commemorating the event. It will be found as interesting as his series “Fifty Years of Base Ball,” which he wrote last year in celebration of Minors Once Meant Nothing. cue in the o thing. It othing nd then a minor g D a 1 sty st days | fre. | leag > players get who were Violent thrusts in | of then abs in ! sharp one. n not | to pay. They were e cattle on u ranch un often walked home, vn the turnpike ues would not stick hy to their own clubs. 1id trade pl or agree to, =0 through with the details were essential to the trades. Id make promises of some- :nother to the major leagus matter drop right all wars in all w 1 because the minors hing as they should do Our game of base ball was being tloped in the chest right in the © towns where the best ball play- oue from. Tt's the bushes that ve given the stars to the game al- most without exception. There will be much to tell about that later. Help to Old-Timers. ut here they are, these bushers, these clubs which make up all the ball that is not in the major 1zues and which act both as cradle 1 coftin to base ball aspirations, be- 1use the old-timel who jeer the liushers coming up, sadly chant “back to the bushes” when they drop them- selve ‘They arc glad that the bushes are there to receive them with a guaran- tee of good faith because 40 yvears or =0 ago when an old-timer was dropped from the big show he would far rather becom + bartender than to relapse 10 bus| 1d he was better off in the former job as he was more certain of his pay. And it is 24 vears that the bush. ers as an organization, as a real live athletic association, have lived. They alhmost apologized to the major gues for daring to try to effect an organiza- tion that has been one of the greatest sources for good to the national game of any that tries to control and regu- late the sport. In some respects it has been greater than the major leagues have proved to be, (Copyrigbt. 1925.) OF v hich They and et t | i | (In his next article Mr. Foster will tell how the bush league organization happened to be found.) W. & L. AND VIRGINIA LEAD ON STATE TEAM Washington and Lee and Virginia e:ch placed three men on the mythical All-Virginia eleven as selected by the | Coac 0ld Dominion elevens. William and Mary came next \\l‘h’ two positions, while V. M. I, V. P. 1., 1d Richmond each had one. In the cases of Kay Thomas, Mike Palmer and Windy White, the vote was practically unanimous. c following elevens were chosen: Thomas, W. and L End Davis, W. and M. ‘End Holland, Virgin . Tackle Tilson, W. and L. Tackle Witter ..Guard Mackall . .Guard Moran, .. Center Quarterback Halfback “Halfback Fullback voints | the National League's golden | | Jubilee. i BY CORINN HE Junior basket ball sextet at the annual interclass series la Sophomores and Freshmen in t men won second place, having won t took third place, scoring one victory. The winning team Alice Ewers, Jean Jacks n- | Armentraut, Elizabeth and Grace Paynter. The varsity squad has been named by Virginia Hopkins, coach, and Alice Haines, manager, and under way this week in for the interscholastic opens with the Wils game, January 11. The. ‘group of players from which | the varsity team will be selected in- | clude Cecy Lear, C. Merric : Grace Harris, G. Youns, M. Reed, B, Boothe, Grace Paynter, Winifred Faunce, Elizabeth Hastings, Elizabeth Brandenburgh, L. Braswell, M. Neu- man, Elizabeth Miles, J. Denning, Jean Jackson, E. Pope, Leah Cate,| lizabeth Armentraut, Ruth Butts, V. Greasley, N. Miller and Alice Ilaines. Hastings Washington Athletic Club tossers | will practlce tomorrow night from | 6 1o 7 In the Marjorie Webster gym- | nasium. Mount Vernon teams will hold a workout in the Central High | in| School gym. from 7:30 to 9. The | Woodlothians will follow them on | the floor at 9 o'clock. | Capitol Athletic Club volley ball | tossers will practice from 6 to 7 at Wilson Normal. They will be fol- lowed by their basket ball squads at 8 o'clock. Princess Athletic Club basketers will take the floor at Wilson Normal School tomorrow night at 9 o'clock. The Good Shepherd girls' basket ball team, having recovered from the setback it experienced at the begin- ning of the season when it lost its old couch, Miss Louise Sullivan, is anx- | lous for games with other local clubs. P 1 Ad-! The team has been fortunate in se- | :'Cuddy, Virginia, | curing its new coach, Martha Ad- 1noke. 1: Caldwell, V. M. |kins, who has proved both enthusias- , Roancke, 1 | tic and highly efficient. Nellie Payne, ullbacks—Rauber manager, reports that the team is get. De La Barre, V. P. | ting back into its stride and 1s de- noke, ! veloping some excellent teamwork. | NOTED PASSAIC COACH Cixis ce uso of the i TO TUTOR ARMY QUINT is have had free uso of the gym- | | nastum for practice and for games. | Any team wishing to challenge the | team may get in touch with Miss WEST POINT, N. Y., ~Ernest A. Blood, ball | f the famous Passale, N. J., high school team for several seakons, | Payne at Lincoln 2011-W, has been engaged as head coach for TENNESSEE'S GRID LIST. the Army squad. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., December ().—Athletic authorities of the Uni- Rlood succeeds Harry A. Pisher. versity of Tennessee have announced Blood resigned as basket ball coach | the foot ball schedule for 1926 as fol- | mt Passaic September 25, after de- veloping teams lows: | Wwhich set a world | " osober 2—North Carolina. vecord of 159 straight victorles over & | October ~8—Louisiana = State ix-vear period. BEiover 16—Marvville. etorer A3 —Semere Cotlese. ctober ~$0—MississiDDi A. and M. at Starksdale. November 8—Sewanee, November 13—Vanderbilt at Nashville. November 25—Kenthcky State. Palmer, W, and L. W.oand M. . eceiving Virginia, 6; Vo E ) ternolds, sinfa, Virginia, Logan, 1 i1 Roa s—Miller, Richmond, and L., 2; Hushion, Vir Q X Wilson, W. . ) L., 3 Roa- and ; Hurt, December 7 basket at Baton —— BACKS TENNIS ACTION. YORK, December 7 UP).— of the actions of Count Ludwig Salm Hoogstraeten on the! rennis court during the play in the Jiuropean zone matches this year 1 approved by the United States awn Tennis Association. Treland -oruplained that the count had been | a et “objectionable in his attitude |lege. The list: s e ratnl hetw: la September 26—Clemson at Clemeon. juring the matches between Irel md‘l ot D e emson At Clemaon and Austria. Getober §—Erskine. | . Dgtoper 16—Wake' Forest Anacostia Eagles practice tonight | “‘oioper and fomorrow at 7:30 on Anacostia Park fleld for their zame next Sunday with the Palace Athletic Club. WILL PLAY WAKE FOREST. CLINTON, §. C., December 7 (f).— Wake Forest has been added to the | foot ball schedule of Presbyterlan Col- | (place unde- | | making , tenth pl | liability and added value as pilot | the club also figured in the of the committee. | run { distance in 29 minutes. HORNSBY IS NAMED BEST PLAYER IN N. L. ) ROUNOING THIRD Hugh A.Jennings NEW YORK, December 7 \nnouncement of the selection of togers Hornsby, manager and sec- ond baseman of the St. Louis club, the mc yer in the National 1925 and winner circuit's cash prize award has been made by James president of the Base Association of Americ: Hornsby is the choice of a commit tee of eight base ball writers, one city of the senior league, ng as chairman. star, who succeeds ‘ance, Brooklyn pitching ace cholce, was voted three three seconds and two the members of the com- ) CHAPTER VIL I dive into the empty swimming tank was more costly to my state of mind than to my state of health. I was severely stunned, but recovered speedily, and this speedy recovery has handicapped me ever since. For more than 20 years I have been remnided of it. You can say a great many things in a base ball game to a man who lands head first on a concrete floor without hurting himself, and all of them have been said to me. I doubt if any man took more bumps on the head than I did. In one game Amos Rusie hit me in the head with his fast ball. I was un- conscious for three days. Jouett Meekin hit me with a curve ball and broke my nose. In one year 1 was hit 59 times with pitched balls. T became accustomed to it—as nearly accustomed, rather, as any man will ever beconie to being hit on the head by pitched ball This record fforded the p considerable wmusement. 1 mber one tne Long Tom Hughe: pitcher for Washington, ¢ ‘0 the Detroit bench and 8 b oour playe Come o Uughes answered, “What you mean by telling we o get | out? You Laven't got an ounce of | brains lett. Al that Rusie didn’t knock out of your head you left in of Gould, first thirds by mittee. Points were tirst place ce count one. On this basis, Hornshy led « field of 21 players for whom ballots were cast, the St. Louis pilot receiving 73 points out of 3 S0 aw count ten BOBBIES’ BALL TEAM IS STRANDED ON TRIP has The o culmi vears of lu Cardinal star, and its marks tionul the Na Hornsby hitic sen Liwh re wion of ini on the t He has led the Leaguc with the stick for straight seasons, but the last five, in which he has compiled a grand aver- ige of .402, have witnessed his great est work. 1lis defensive skill, re-| of decision | five Ly the Associated Press PHILADLLPHL Thelr dreams s 7 " ot December °d, the Philadel- vhilii Bobbles, a ris’ base 1 team, SiBattom e s tank at|bas returned from fthe Far East, o omioTie SRR | e ot s aia i . | midst of tour of the Orfent Back With Brooklyn. | Funds for the return journey were In 1900 1 was azain with Brooklyn, | supplied n American residing in ind we won the pennant once more. | Formosa. None of the girls knew the The next vear I was a member of the fidentity of their benefactor except ;| Philadelphin Nationals, manuging and | that his name was Moody. captaining that team. I had played | ‘The Bobbies, under the direction of first lase for Brooklyn during the | Bddie Ainsmith, former catcher for two vears | there and [ con | the Washington Americ left early tinued at first Philadelphin. An | last Sumer 4 tour of the Orfent jury to my arm prevented me from | Ten games were played a short At the end of two teams with fairly good Philadelphla my arm was | turns, Mary O'Gs s0 I retired from the ma- | Bobbies, said urning to HBaltimore, | In. games nage T and the proceeds b Voting on First Tei for finuncial re ) - set hard to arrange, me slim leagues, where T had n in the SECONDARY SCHOOLS /i 20 ADOPT SEVERE RULES - i .0 Cornell in “ 1 /GOODRICH WILL RISK RING TITLE TONIGHT {with my brother in Scrantor iring the off-xeason I remained with {the close of the 1906 was drafted by the Detr my debut in the » spring of 19 ed Willlim Armour as the club. There was some good playing talent, but the club had not played in the best ot iuck for several seasons. This luck turned in the vear I joined the t We won a pennant in 190 | stirring finish, and we won again | following year. This 190% Am Baltimore until on, when 1 club and American | In De- By the Ass . December overning athletics < have been adopted fon of Secondary ind College rules ¢ ted with the exec- committee of the Southern In giate Conference. 50 secondary schools in are meibers of the —Five rules among its memt by the sek The utive teree More the = ciation The rules follow: 1—No member of the shall permit foot hall pri sume more than two hou the student’s time 2—A student shall not be permitted 10 take part in branches of athletics ing successively during the BUFFALO, N.Y., December 7 (). | The ‘lightweight championship will be take when Jimmy Goodrich, the and Rocky Kunsas, vet- challenger, step into the ring tonight. Both hoxers ure resi of Tuffalo drich got the lightwelght crown { Y virture of his successes in 3 jlournament to cheose a successor to | League pennant race was probably | Benny Leonard when he vicated the | the closest of all time, and on the last |throne Kansas has bean o persist- e Ll tmeand on afent challenger for the title. Tn 1923 we of land on top. In 1909 we|he made the unsuccesstul effort o O e {wrest the championship from Leonard vears we were beaten by the Chi The champlon. who s gt We lost 1o Pitts |15 five vears v vear; if, for instance, basket ball fol- | burgh, the series going to e, lows foot ball, a student must choose me: I remained as inans of (ind more skillful | asso- suth sociation e to con. xer far d mo it concede sports. he Detroit Tigers until the close of [that Kansas is 1 stiffer all be allowed only | the 1920 season. Then I resigned and | Puncher. ays’ absence during each session | returned to the National on account of athleties. | joining the New York 4—Freshmen - teams shall be al|sistant to Manager McG lowed to play not m than one - ne ;m.‘_\' from home during a sen | Where Interest Lies. son | That. biograph: TWO TO LEAD ELEVEN. SOUTH BEND, Ind, December (®).—Two red heads, ; I - | | | i T ool om Hearndon 1 do not think You are d much in the details of what | Dame foot ball team. ave accomplished, but I know |resulted in a deadlock & interested in hundreds | decided the pien that played base ball before | honors. If was played in India nearly 100 | I became identified with the organized | Heas <port and those who have appeared | |in the major leagues since I joined | Louisville club, In 181, In the | E FRAZIE chapters that follow I will write of George Washington University —No institutior membership in the tion unless it belon: athletic association. —e nors of captaining the 1926 Notre The election would rotate ¢ t Horace Domi; vich repeated last Sund ) ond in the Alo zed yesterdiy and C. Hein- | at Union Station Pla Dom ington U (Copyright, 19 these men—nanagers and players. I} want to tell you about some of the | stirring_games 1 have witnessed und 1 want o tell you about the leading players at the various positions and won | try to explain why they beeame 5 \)(‘C‘: e . | ed with major league base hree well played games. The Fresh-| vears and in that time I have seen wo and lost one game. The Sophs | many come and go. Some were un | standing oddities; some were great for DOMIGAN AGAIN wINs { one thing and some for another. |1 will tell you about those I have | Te in the nature of observations and not autobiography. In the ne ster, I shall name the leading bat- z ding batters in my opinion—and v to rank them. Also, in a later | ‘hapter I shall pick three teams that tim y fesiG o 1 have participated in or witnessed who carries George Wash- | r = = Bave Esen ersity colors. covered the | More than 5.000 games. 1 have § ones. S of thess described | of the Aloysius Club gave Helurich & | (8o Soms ok e ol b dendy ob close fight for second honors, but “\L\'“r"‘_’d. there were never two games Frank Smith took fourth place, fifth | 1 base batl Played e3artly aiiie. Lo honors went to Reuben Freedman,| jote are no UH8 PEORE 10 L0 WO Ashton Bonnaffon placed sixth, George Ek ‘l_’ul e e | some mediocre, some indifferent and | | some bad. I James M. Jones, secretary of the | T pital City Umpires’ Association, an- | nounces 4 meeting of the organization | “ome of the freak plays. defeating the Seniors, | famous. I have been closel. usual characters, fellows with out ALDY CLUB!S RACE:»‘-': and met, and what follows will il(‘r.\ —at least the men that were the | believe to be the best three of all Albert Schaut| many great plavs and many unusual | g s in base ball played exactly alike. Also. r seventh and Jeremiah Looney s of pl some good, me great. UMPIRES TO MEET. | tonight at 8 o'clock at 1318 H street. MOSCOW, December 7 (#). Bogoljubow, chess champion of Rus-| sia, won the first prize in the inter ational chess tournament by scoring | a draw in his semi-final Dr. Emanuel Lasker of Lasker stands second and Capablanca of Cuba is sure of at least third. — . William Parsons and W. L. Hamp- ton meet tonight at Grand Central parlors in the District champlonship pocket billiard tournament. “‘And [ find itmakes no dif- ference what size you buy —one for a dime, two for a quarter, fifteen cents or three for a half—you get the best there is for your money. Michelin Tires are On Sale Here, There and Everywhere 10c and 15¢ 2 for 25¢ 3 for 50c ADMIRATION WM. DEIHES & CO., INC,, 414 10th ST. N.W. lin inches of the Fri the | re old, | ! Lugene Edwards, will divide the | nd the squad | the | greater distan the makers of the famous Michelin Ring-shaped Tube ONLY ONE OF THREE |MUST BATTLE OPPOSITION | SOCCER FRAYSCLOSEl FROM MAJORS, IT IS SAID Walford, | Amertcan elevens broke into the win | gre e 2 | ; | colum yesterday in the maugura of | IS Stand on Draft Is Declared to Have Brought Him Enemies—Big Leaguers Also to Hold Annual Meetings This Week. cer League. The Walford booters scored over the British embassy once in the open ing half and again in the final to ge a 2:0-0 declsion at the Monument | Grounds. At Fort Myer, the Soldiers had lit- tle difficulty in their game with the German-American Club Reserves and ran up a 7-to-0 score. Franko, Linn and Ellis each counted twice and Hel- ler added the odd point. The German-American eleven handed 4 7-to-2 trouncing to the inexperienced 9 iti d th ch spe H s 1 Stonroe “team it Wasbington s | . Toole has opposition, and there is much speculation as to h racks, At half time the count stood | SPECtive successor, if there be such a person. There have been rumo 3 ot 1 for the winners, that the major leagues have entercd into a determined fight 1o depos Ceremontes were observed at each | the International nead because of his stand on the dra of the playing flelds. At Washington TN f the Internation Barracks, Capt. J. R. D. Cleland ses will cicked off. \while at the Monument | | krounds Capl. Pumtrey. British vice | consul at Baltimore, did the honors { Maj. Hoyle started the game at For Myer. |GARRETT AGAIN HEAD OF BANNOCKBURN CLUB! W. R. Garrett, who has been presi. | dent of the Bannockburn Club for the last two years, has been re-elected ml ot | the newly organized Washington Soc- By the Associated Prese pre ner term « W YORK, December 7—John Conway Toole, for fiv N dent of the International League, is in line for ano the same duration when the circuit convencs in annual meeting today, the first of a series of base ball gatherings here that will consume the greater part of the week. Inside Golf By Che-ter Horton onclave « shorte she ma The reason the golfer should changing his stance or grip when tempts to impart on o the golf ball is because the mere fuct of the change will defeat the purpose he has in Say you us played in throngs of have been « { the cold in W\ | the rain in P | A special n League has b cek's proce s on their toes. TOSSERS TO BE BUSY AT HYATTSVILLE HIGH that post. John T. Harrls has been elected vice president in place Walter P. Skinker. L. 8. Pfautz and Middleton Beaman have been named to the board of governors to flll vacancies | |125-POUND TITLE WON ; BY MERCURY JUNIORS | Juniors reached the yesterday when they trounced the Friendship Athletic Club, 14 to 0, in he final game of the eries for the 5-pound foot ball championsh Seven teams took part in the race Mac MecDonald coached the success- ful combination. The Friendship club offered stub | born resistance to the junior Wine footers and held them scorcless dur- ing the opening half. In the | pericd, however. off-tackle | Capt. Barry, Wiltshire and Claggett carrying the hall, put the leather with ndship line soon |after the initial kickoff. Here Friend- | ship halted the advance and took the | ball on downs, but in attempting (o | kick from behind the goal line, Kleir muffed his boot and Oden fell an the Pigskin for the first touchdown Another series of off-tuckle rushes st gave the Mercurys possession on the |, | Friendship rd mark in the quarter. Claggett scored the go: \nd Wiltshire, who already had added in_extra point in the third sc sicked the goal. Forward passing also played a purt * {in the Mercury triumph. A total of 4IX heaves was tried and completed | 4i {for a gain of 117 yards. Wiltshire| ' 4 : . 5 on the starting end eneh wmed , Rav M -ovey s booking and G. Limerick did the receiving. | '*" the Petworth boys at hese two were the stars of the win- ' attack, while Capt. Padgett was t for the Friendship club. i wn into intention: v to keep the ma let us say You shift to open stance the ball playec forward ACTION OF FORE" | |[ARMS-ON CLUB- | |FACE-ON BALL | with to that your anxiety about the | thing vou are at tempting. and the | result will in ably be a poc shot. With ball o m u further in fr you will invar reach out for it. lest you miss it this will draw 2 body lunge into th shot. Maintain your regul; |let the forearm roll over er for & hook, under f sl You will be surprised u ase with | 104 which you can bring off intention: 1 slices. Give the club time | goul plan to get down der direction the record, ¢ high school title number & ring the conquer o right. 1 CARDINAL JUNIOR QUINT fitear . WILL HAVE BUSY WEEK“‘HI} » to be looked to: Mor an, who has been elected capf rdinal Juniors, winners of three|#Nd is being groomed for one of the ight victories on the basket ball {forward jobs: Costinett, tall center of st piv men in the (| court, will attempt to unnex four|school’s history; Wilbur Wright, ar ! niore games during the week | exceptio clever gua Berna ] onight the Cards hattle the East-| e Bill Meeds, Holl n Preps, tomorrow they take on the | Other Nightcap Juniors, Thursday the Tres | An < w Juniors will seek to defeat the ranged dinals and Friday night the Car. |¢lude Ce al Preps will furnish the opposi-| Washingtor Inhlem Hig! games | Adums 3489 (Cops na ul tive schedule is by teams listed so n nd Tech High Schools, Charlotte Hall and A | GRIDMAN BREAKS NECK. | PHILADELPHIS aul McConvill their | Frankford Par December SEEK FOURTH IN ROW. basketers n professic broke his neck y ing against the nd died before reach strive for 1ight win tonight when they | foot ball tea the Hyattsville National| dar, e, in the militiamen’s armory | merdaje A. 2 8 o'clock ing a hospital rs, The largest covered lurope has just been | Berlin. ice rink opened in ce “How far should a tire run?” The answer is “Farther.” That is just what Michelins do. 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