Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1925, Page 11

SPORES ! THE EVENING 8 TAR, WASHING' D. ¢ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925. b 11 Kaplan Strengthens Hold on Feather Title : Non-Waiver Rule Bringing Protests CHAMP SCORES DECISIVE WIN OVER BABE HERMAN Takes 11 of 15 Rounds of Fight in New York Ring. Ageressive Atiack Keeps Challenger in Retreat Greater Part of Bout. ated Pr EW YORK, December featherw 19.—Louis (Kid) Kaplan's hold on the world s more secure today as the result of a ccision over his persistent challenger, the erstwhile 1. last night before 14.000 spectators in Madison TWO VARSITY COURT GAMES HERE TONIGHT Three basket ball teams of the Washington varsity group are slated for action today, two of them on home floors. Catholic University will take the court against Washington and Lee at Brookland this evening at 8 o'clock and at the same hour at Kendall Green the Gallaudet tossers will tackle the New Haven Normal five. | It will be the first game of the season for the Kendall Greeners. | University of Maryland basketers {are at Annapolis for a contest with the Navy quint. Play will get under way at 2:30 o'clock. In its debut last night Maryland's ROUNOING THIRD by Hugh A.Jennings CHAPTER XVIIL HERE are no really good spit ball pitchers today, and by that I T mean pitchers that depend solely on the spit ball. During the era of freak deliveries there was a flock of men who depended on the spitter for their success. 4 When the freak deliveries were ruled out, it was decided to permit all pitchers that had been using the spit ball to continue using it, but to prevent any newcomer in the league from using the spitter and also to prevent any man pitching in the majors when the rule was passed from PREACHER SAYS SIKI ; CIVILIZATION VICTIM NEW YQRK, December 19 (@) The body of “Battling Siki” lies in a vault in a Christian cemetery, borne there by Mohammedan pallbearers, awalting shipment to France. Funeral services for the murdered boxer yesterday were marked by the assertion of the Rev. Clayton Powell, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, who preached the eulog: that Siki was “a victim of clviliza- tion."” A man born in the heart of Africa 28 years ago, who could win a Croix de ‘Guerre and a Legion of Honor medal, win 40 battles in the ring have himself proclaimed light-hes N DADS OF YOUNG PLAYERS SEE IT AS AN INJUSTICE Proposal of Majors to Extend Optional Agreement to Three Years Instead of Two Is Likely to React in Other Direction. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ‘W YORK, December 19.—Fathers of young ball players may or- ganize to fight the two-year non-waiver rule under which major league clubs may keep a string for two vears on youngsters they . :|have farmed out to minor league clubs, according to information which ariGad team took the measure of Washington e e o In spite o at Kapla most dangerous foe was marked by e contes clinching an lou hi eir fi « bt whi after t given the Me t bout was re aper men, w led to th N gressive ensive last howey n him 11 of the 15 while but 2 w with the remaining 2 rounds rounds s in steady retreat before pion except in th, when he six of which s winnin mauling er and both at 3 plan fron ind Herman from cuts over weights we Her el he Kap ree fea led the fin York winnin Japan in Atlanta New New York d Washin were mced matc Snyd ht over Jin kamoto ix rounds, Tommy losing to Nick Q wnd Jot feat] Willie Mz latter two matches ounder re carried by | n’s sccond defense of his title within frequent at_least, cleared the atmosphere of st title contest last August at Water- den, Conn,, title holder after 15 hard- ceived with almost unanimous disap- ho considered that Herman was clear- and the championship. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT CLEVELAND—Eddie Shea, Chi- | cago " featherweight, knocked out Bennie Gershe, Cleveland (4 rounds) ie Holub, kron, beat Art Wan Buffalo (8 rounds): Eddie Bowen aron, Pa., outpointed Murray D: ton, New York (6 rounds) DETROIT, Mich.—Clarence Rosen, Detroit bantamweight, and Howard Maybe Duluth, Minn.,, fought a | draw (10 rounds) You TOWN, Tone. Paul, Fivans, gstown (12 ro M Louis, | Rosen, | rounds). TAMPA. ¥la—Tony Ross, Pitts- burgh, beat Aramis del Pino, Havana (10 rounds); Frankie Gardini, Cleve- |land, defeated John Simpson, San An- tonio (10 rounds). Arlz. — Jack | Phoenix Ilightweight, knocked Kid Logan, Tucson (5 rounds). | DENVER—Eddie Mack, Denver featherweight, beat Joe (King) Leo- 1d, Denver (3 rounds); Jimmy outpointed Dick middleweight S—Johnny won a_decision Canadian Kaiser, St over Johnny featherwelight (& out Ohio—Jock Ma- | Lynch, | and Lee, 40 to 27. The Generals were laway In the lead, but the Old Liners | were in front, 20 to 10, at half time. In the middie of the second, with | the score 32 to 17, Washington and Lee rallied against a second-string Maryland combination and got with- in 5 points of the opposition. But | Coach Shipley returned several of the | Maryland veterans to the fray and | the visitors were beaten off. Mary- | land u- ! a mixture of first-string and reserve talent most all the way. Sergt. Michael Donahue is priming | Georgetown University’s rifle team for a long season of competition. He has under his direction Team Capt. John Wise, Dorsey Heer. John Gla- vin, Emmett O'Malle; Thomas Ca- hill and Joseph Rouse, veterans, and a number of new candldates. Six | | meets have been arranged definitely | |and five others are being negotiated. | The schedule as completed follow: | _ February Johns Hopkins, | Baltimore. March_20, George Washington, at | George Washington. | (oThird Corps Area, ending February Hearst trophy, ending March 12.| National Rifle’ Association, ending | March 19, i | National ending | March 26. | at | Intercollegiate, ROCKNE TO REMAIN NOTRE DAME COACH | By the Associated Press. SOUTH BEND, Ind., December 1 Knute Rockne, who has produced win- ning foot ball teams at Notre Dame for elght years, |leagues saved several developing one. The pitchers that were listed as spit ball pitchers at that time had other stuff besides the spitter, so the rule did not bother them. nearly all of them could have gotte Elimination of the spit ball was a good thing for the pitchers and a ®ood thing for base ball. The freak deliveries were killing the science of pitching and enabling mediocre men to runk high. Men like Russel Ford, who had failed to win by using the methods that are now regarded as legitimate, became leading pitchers by developing some freak ball. Ford used an emery ball. Spitter Taxes Arm. No delivery ever o taxed a pitching arm as the spit ball. It was like throwing a tennis ball. Try that for half an hour and see how vour arm feels, but be sure that you throw the tennis ball as hard as possible. By eliminating the spit ball the major careers that would have been sharply and suddenly terminated by the delivery. No genu ine spit ball pitcher ever lasted long. Considered purely as a spit ball itcher the best of all time wus “Big 1d” Walsh of the Chicago White Sox. He had a powerful physique and he mixed his spitter with™ his fast ball. It was the spitter that made him the terror of batsmen. As a starting pitcher and as a relief pitcher he was the best of his day, but he did not last long. The spit ball killed his arm and forced him into retirement. Urban Shocker, listed as a spit ball pitcher, uses the spitter only for variety. Shocker is one of the best pitchers the American League has produced. He is an intelligent hurler and he always had a good curve ball and a change of pace. His strongest point was knowing where to pitch and pitching to that spot ¢ In fact, n along without this delivery, and a | few of them did, while the others used it rarely. Vance seldom threw a slow ball and it was not of much use to him when he did try it, for his slow ball was a poor one. In my opinion “Rube” Waddell was the greatest left-hand pitcher that ever lived. He was eccentric, and in a later chapter I shall tell more of Wad- dell and his eccentricities, but with all the odd twists in his nature Waddell was a wonderful pitcher. There have been better right-handers in the pitch- ing line, but there was never a port- sider who topped Waddell in pitching stuff or cunning. Chesbro Perfects Spitter. In discussing the spit ball I forgot to mention Jack Chesbro. While Strickland is credited with discovering | the spitter and introducing this deliv- ery, it was Chesbro who perfected it. He was the first pitcher really to limit. He discovered all its possibili- ties and made it popular, and when others saw how well it worked they adopted it. better spit-ball pitcher than Chesbro, but Walsh took his cue from him. Chesbro was an unusual spit-ball pitcher in that he became one of the iron men of base ball. Before dropping the subject of pitch- ers I must bring up Addle Joss. He was one of the great hurlers of the game. Tall and lean, he had a peculiar wind-up, twisting himself into a_cork screw, turning his back to the batter and delivering the ball sidearm, bring ing it from the hip. He had a sharp- breaking curve ball, terrific speed, a good slow one and fine change of master the delivery and use it to fts | Ed Walsh was a much | | |feated a Frenchman, had something in him that educated people should have developed and di rected into a channel of usefulness,” sald the preacher. After the Christian ceremonies, six Moslem friends, wearing fezzes, sym- bols of Islamic faith that have been abandoned in modern Turke: the silver-gray cofin to a he they chanted Moslem prayers. Louls Phal, Siki’s widow, was present. | Six_members of the homicide squad mixed in the crowd of 3,000 perso around the church, hoping to get a clue to the murderer who shot the boxer down early this week in “Hell's Kitchen.” There avere eight flor: tributes. YOUTHFUL BRITISHER | IS BOXING SENSATION bore | LONDON, December 19 (). —Teddy Baldock, a stripling of 17, has taken the boxing world by storm. Since he left school three years ago he been in battles and never | has met with defeat. Often he fought | twice daily in the East End, where | he is regarded a hero. The experts are hopeful that he will prove to be a second Jimmy Wilde and retrieve some of Great Britain's lost pugilistic fame. The lad comes of fighting stock. | His grandfather fought in the bare- knuckle days of the squared circle, and his father also was a fighter. Baldock’s latest victory was on Thuri day night in Albert Hall, when he de Antoine Merlo, in a brilliant exhibition. | for thr reached the writer today. The majors recently took action to have period extended to three years, subject to the concurrence of the min leagues. That would mean that young Tom Jones, player, as he thought, would be under the thumb of a 1 jor league club f ¢ successive years and yet might not play a game with a major league club in all that time. It Inside Golf By Chester Horton becoming a major league Dads, of course, of some of the |voung players are velling murder at {this proposal, and are threatening to |attempt to break even the two-year hold. They contend that no organiza- tion has the right, moral or legal take their boys in hand and hang on to their services for two or three y. in succession without giving the kids a chance to hook up with other major league clubs. Sam Robertson, owner of the Buf. 0 club of the International League, arted some of the rumpus when he stance |returned home from the New York Many | nreetings recently and announced that s use it. | he could have g a heap e money it some. |for Thompson than the latter's release thing about their |from Pittsburgh cost Robertson. He make-up that calls | hinted that three major league clubs this stance, | Wanted Thom This news started ompson’s father on the warpath nd now it is understood other fathers should be | &F€ taking up the battle used, since golf| Perhaps this outburst on the part can never be a|Of Parents will put an end to the effort proposition of ex:|t0 extend the non-waiver optional fict rule with any 8ETe€ment to three years. player. 1t you| Formerly it was The rule that have trouble with | Walvers must be asked after a player the woods and|had been on option for one season. have been using|The majors had the period extended HelGaniats stance. (n“It;\:r; iv ’rc t-m;n(v»ndihl{ ‘)h:n they Ly ance: | could not always determine the young LY & slightly onel | player's value in the first vear of op ball off the left in. ;mi)rs ,\‘:W’lh'r-\ c ;—Ild that even two step and the right foot about 5 inches, | ‘g ¢ 10t enoush or a little lesu than that, forward |rem ime vionomental viewpoint toward the ball. This stance has a |py Fth e o une e beln tendency to encourage the right e et 0Ty oung fhallipk s ¥ gDt arm |t would appear to be better pol I have always advocated the square stance for wood shots and the slightly open stance for long iron shots Therc‘ are some golfers who do better with |, the open for woods. stance FRISCH SOON GETS acco, Portland middlewelght, won intends to continue from ~Teddy Gartin, Denver (4 rounds); Spider Smith, Salt Lake City, lost to Harry Coo Quong Bill ENOUGH OF PILOTING . lost 1o Tiarry Coo Qu pace. He was a wonderful fielder when | you consider his height and build. And | he was game clean through. Not alone | a great pitcher, but a splendid char- | there. Rockne expressed regret at having | caused any embarrassment to Notre | Dame {n connection with negotiations | Stay close to the side in the back | return to the one-vear rule than to at CHISOX HAVE ARRANGED j:u he (l\l\{;;\x\r»h “.«-h'n good :lhlng. The |tempt to tie up the service of you: FIVE EXHIBITION GAMES | Hic* it U Srojecting stseif st | sy gty Veriod of two or” three Some Clever Hurlers. Mordecal Brown, Grover Cleveland Alexander, “Chief” Bender and Bill s tnsteads yeurs under conditions that appear YORK, Frisch the December 19 hard-hitting second Giants and former ity base ball and . has no desire to enter 1l fleld, even though he has been considered in John McGraw pilot of the ) — whenever the veteran York team should ins. ad his baptism in the £ pilot for a Winter league team orida, from where he writes Tierney, secretary of the ants, th: e much prefers man ning the second base fortifications to “any place where I can't get into the me. m willing to be 1 through,” he say: the job of manager. scribe the w layer until “but nix on Nobody can de- tear on your es when you are ng to direct from the bench.” I know Mec s used to it, but this business < to make somebody else do at you can accomplish without half rying is too hard for me. BELLEFONTE GRID TEAM TO PLAY TEXAS ELEVEN SHERMAN, Tex., December 19 (). —The Bellefonte Academy foot ball team of Pennsylvania, declared to be national ~academic champions, will meet the local high school team here . lefonte has not a team of its class years, while Sherman has lieen beaten but once in two years. NEVERS BEING SOUGHT BY YANKS AND GIANTS NEW YORK, December 19 (). — y add to_the income of Stanford fullb: announced his _de play professional foot ball Both the New York Giants and Yankees have made offers to him. His feats as a pitcher compare fa- vorably with his achi ents on the gridiron. nie Never recently n - to el BREAKS SWIMMING MARK. QINCINNATI, December 19 (P). “alter F, docal!'' Y. M. G swimmer, broke the world record for 200 yards backstroke last night, when he covered the distance in 2 minutes 41, seconds. er record, held by Johnny W , Chicago, was minutes 4% SCHAEFER BEAT BOSTON, December. o defeated Wi S HOPPE. 19 (®).—Jake ie Hoppe, 3,200 77 in their four-day exhibition 1 balk line billiard match which ended last ni Both the former champions shi fine form in closing hours of play, Schaefer making a high run of 249 und another of 194, line to succeed | . who | the | | NEW YORK (preliminaries)—Nick | Quagerelll, New York, won from | Tommy Jones, Atlanta (4 rounds): | Johnny Filucci, New York, beat Willie | Makel, Washington negro (4 rounds); | Jackie Snvder, New York, defeated | Jimmy Sakamoto, Japan (6 rounds); (Honeyboy) Finnegan, won on | foul from Bobby Garcla, Camp Hola- bird, Md. (6 rounds). GRAND FORKS, N. Dak—Chuck Lambert, St. Paul, beat Gabe Kavas. Grand Forks middlewelght | Dick TENNIS CLUB TAKES il The Tennis Club of Washington at a banquet last night decided to accept the proffer of Harry Wardman and take over the courts at the Wardman Park Hotel. There are only three courts thers now, but as many more will.be bullt for use by Spring, and eventually there will be ten. The six will be of | dirt, but it is possible one or two of the other four to be constructed later may be of cement. The membership of the Tennis Club for next season will be limited to 50, and fully half of that number now | are on the rolls. There will be ample clubroom, show- ment of the east wing of the hotel. The same officials who some time ago were elected to conduct the af- fairs of the club still are in charge. (10| rounds). | OVER HOTEL COURTS| er and locker facilities in the base- | 23 he was reported to have conducted relative to accepting a position at Co- lumbia. | His stateivent, it was indicated at the university, will close the Columbia | incident so fir as Notre Dame and | Rockne are concerned. The Notre Dame coach also set | forth that the recent breaking off of athletic relations between Notre Dame and Nebraska had nothing to do with any negotiations conducted with Co- lumbia. L. RUTH WOULD PLAY GOLF | DESPITE ROUGH GOING CW YORK, December 19 (#).— Frozen grounds and snows are no ex- cuse for declining an invitation to play golf, in the estimation of Babe Ruth, who has been compelled to train indoors for his comeback on the di mond next Summer because he can find no opponent to match strokes on the links with him. “What of snow and frozen ground,” he says. ‘““Why, I've been playing in snowdrifts at Boston!” COLLEGE BASKET BALL. College Park—Maryland, 40; Wash- | ington and Lee, 27._ - At South Bend—Notre Dame, 17; | Towa, 16. At Milwaukee—Wisconsin, 42; Mar- | quette, 26. | __At Galesburg—Butler, 34; Lombard, t New York—Fordham, wich, 9. _At DBrooklyn—Crescent A. C., 39; Union Collegz, 22, , 54; Nor- | | | | u Eop(‘nt t | thre NION METHODISTS are expe: with Calvary in the Sunday S close of their battle with the C he double bill listed for Centr Calvary team has taken all| of its starts, while the Union | have registered victories in the two games in which they have par. | ticipated, and if up to their usual form | should have little difficulty in annex- | ing another when they meet the Co- {lunibians, who have yet to win a | game. ! Epiphany Episcopal Methodist teams, each of which has lit even in two games, are booked tor the second clash. Calvary is not scheduled for a league game tonight, | Lut is meeting the Yankee five in the | church gymnasium on Columbla road at § o'clock following a tilt between the Calvary Reserves and Peck Me- morial Big Five. 'UNION METHODIST QUINT and Emory | while Hoppe had four of more than | 100 during the day Zambreny and Sullivan were high scorers for the Eastern Preps when the First Brethren quint was de- e d at Rosedale gymnasium, 31 to he former caged six baskets from D. C. CUE RECORD SET. off 39 points in succes- kson set a ne ©f ht :in his istr pocks billiard match Crowley. son took t with a score of 100 By clicki sion, John recor Ias ampion=hip )seph zeme the s pointers and two counters from the with the X fives won games last night in the post 1o 87. gyminasium. their first_start of the season won from the Rovers, 71 to 13, while the Scouts nosed out the Cuthberts, 21 to 20. MINTON WRESTLES COBB. nd W. M the wre: at Twelfth e Walker | Russell F. Minton meet in the main bout ¢ card arranged for tonight Stre Chapple took high scoring honors scrimmage and one foul shot, while | latter accounted for four two- | Fort Myer junior and Boy Scout | The Juniors in making | e on the and Battling Kenney will meet in a boxing exhi with a total of eight baskets for the Elliotts when the 260th Coast Artil- lery five was defeated, 39 to 27. bition. St. Martin's Club, unlimited tossers, BILLIARDIST IN DEADLOCK. k tied Frank Turton . D s last night when he met Capt. Wolfe in the final mateh of the 182 balkline billiard tourney for the I title. < won by a_score of 230 to 24 play-off will be staged next week. KING PINS TAKE LEAD. King Pin bowlers nosed Stanford Paper Co. out of the lead in the Dis- trict League last night by defeating petworth in three games. The lead- ers have won 24 games in 36 starts. TUNNEY'S RIVAL PICKED. ST. Pl SBURG, Fla., December 9 ().—Dan O'Dow of New York has e e his bout 1o be held by the Amerdcan Legion in this city on De- cember 29 ampion has added another victory to its impos. ing string by downing Park View, 36 to 19. Naval Hospital basketers took the measure of the All-Collegians by the count of 30 to 22, Kanawha Preps scored their fourth straight win by trimming the Tre- monts, 29 to §. Corinthian Midgets defeated the Monroe five, 21 to 18, and won from the Pennants, 33 to 15. St. Peter's dribblers outclassed the Freer Preps by the count of 56 to 14. Indian basketers bowed to the Aces, 32 to 12. i s et { | LITTELL LEADS LEHIGH. | William A. Littell, former Central High foot ball star, has been elected captain of the Lehigh University. His home now is in Staunton, Va. P / cting to continue sharing top honors chool Basket Ball League race at the olumbia Heights Christian five, which al Y. M. C. A. tonight at 8 o’clock. To Block a Pass. One of the most common abuses of |defense in basket ball is to hold an opponent in front of you who has pos- | session of the ball in order to prevent his passing or shooting for a goal. The {llustration on the left shows | how such a pass or shot may be legal- |1y blocked. The opponent is hacking | the ball with his right arm, which is | bent around the shooter. His left arm is held straight in the air away from | the body. The illustration on the right pic- tures the way this play is sometimes attempted. The blocker here has il- legally grasped the man with the ball. This is a foul. ARMY-NAVY GRID GAME SOUGHT BY FOUR CITIES Four citles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York, are seeking the 1926 Army-Navy foot ball game. Navy has the say for next season. It is believed that Philadelphia has the inside track. American Basket Ball League. Standing of Teams. W. L. Pet. | Chicago... | Wash'gton 3 1 Cleveland.. 3 ll 1 Ft. Wayne T 5 e Rachester. 3 Buffalo.. . Boston.."." TONIGHT'S GAME. Cleveland at Rochester, 375 k1] Brooklyn. § Detroit.... 1 Donovan can all be grouped together when discussing pitching stuff. Al had good fast balls and good curves. All of them had fairly good slow balls and all of them had nerve and cour- age. They were equal to the test when it came. “Dazzy” Vance, in more recent years, went along much the same way. Vance had an excep- tional fast ball and a fine curve. How Vanca differed from the others I men- tioned at the beginning of this para- graph was in a slow ball delivery. acter, Joss was an invaluable asset to base ball. There are serval game today that will probably join the ranks of the greats. A pitcher cannot establish himself in one or two seasons any more than a batter or a fielder. He must be a pitcher year after vear, and that is what the men that 1 have mentioned in doing. (Copyright. 1 Story of Bush Leagues By John CHAPT N the report of the secretary for l ciation was in existence there is important then. It read: National League clubs.” That meant tendenc was willing to purchase. All the poor chaps—literally so—in the bushes had been encountering pirates who came in and took what they wanted regardless of the fact that the minor league, or the club of one league or another, had gone to expense to try to develop something worth while. Minors Are Enthused. But during all this, when men lost faith in their former associates and friends, there were actually five play- ers purchased by a major league club, and the minors heard it with such satisfaction that they gloated over the news. During that year there came up a novel point in minor league base tall. There was a club a* Taunton, Mass., which did not belonz to 'he New Eng- land League, but its owners were 50 finmly convinced of the good of pro- tection—note how the reserve rule still held its own—that they asked the National Assoclation to take them in. They wanted to join the happy band. It looked like a happy band to them when they discovered that the smaller leagues were finally standing by each other and showing thelr faith in the same. The association would have bheen very willing to have given protection to Taunton, because that would have meant solicitation of protection from many other cities, but, after long and careful consideration, it was deemed impolitic to do so, and ratker to con- fine protectlon to leagues and not xtend it to citles. Had it gone to ties, the problems of the executives would have been enormous, as they would have had to care for countless cases which should first be adjusted by leagues and which would have multiplied until no board ot adminis- tration could have kept up with vbem. a lot to the minors. for good in base ball because one of the major leagues, at least, B. Foste ER XIL the first year that the National Asso- a very interesting item. They thought there was some | tite agreement, the National Ascocia- | | tion hold its present organization su preme and intact.” Tt has done so, an‘d the tripartite agreement did re. sult. 'TEX NOT INTERESTED NEW YORK, December 19 | Contradicting reports from Paris, Tex an interest in the firm of ‘Manitot,” controling pugilistic organization of Paris. Rickard said his fistic interests in all of his time, and that he had never considered extending the scope of his activities to foreign territory. A Paris dispatch suggested the pos- sibility of Rickard being behind Jef- ferson Dickinson of Jackson, Miss., who was announced as having entered the French firm as partner of Antoine Boyer, for many years head of Man- itot. In connection with the change in tion, announcement was made that hand knowledge of fighting methods n this side of the Atlantic. —— LEADS TULANE ELEVEN. NEW ORLEANS, December 19 (). —Harry Gamble, a junior, has been elected as captain of the 1926 Tulane foot ball team. successful | from the long list of pitchers succeeded | |SCOUTS TO COéf YANKS | It was very | “Five players reported as’ purchased by | Rickard has denled having acquired | America were so broad as to demand | management of the Paris organiza- | American pugilists of good rank would | be sent abroad to give Europeans first- | S { man IN PARIS RING GAME i ball ). — | | exhibition pitchers in the! Recent | ). —pasadena | Ralph CHICAGO, December 19 (#)—Five | games have been an- nounced for the Spring training jau [ of the Chicago White Sox | The club will leave March Shreveport, where the first will be played with the Shre i club March 13 and 14. ‘ March 19, 20 and 21 the White Sox | will play at Forth Worth. | for Zames epo: ABOUT $100,000 YEARLY | ¥ YORK. December 19 ). —| additions have Increased the | cost of the scouting and signing | partment of the New York Yankees to approximately $100,000 annt Although the club hitherto paid little attention to the develop- ment of new players, every section of the country will be combed next year. | R L WILL HANDLE BIG GAME. DASADENA, Calif.. December officials have an nounced officials for the New Year day foot ball game between Washing- 19 Walter F McCord, nell, Springer referee umpire ad lines sylvania, George Ha fleld judg: EASY FOR SALEM ELEVEN. TALLAHAS ). —Salem, Mz team < of Tallahas a., December School fo defeated Leon vesterday, 44 High w7 McLEOD IS WINNER. HURST, Freddie pro, and Donald Pa A C., December 19 McLeod, Washington | on, Youngstown, | defeating Jim Barnes, British open champfon, and John D. Chapman of Greenwi in an exhibition match here by 3 and THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL President Izaak Walton League of America n PORTSMEN just now are fairly humming with Hunga in all our bits of forest, and capturing the imagination. vinced that all we had to do in order to, set loose a few of these European A funny incident bobbed up during the season. It was typical of the fighting days of base ball. Umpire Betts of the Texas League negotiated for the sale of a player from the Evansville, Ind., club to Corsicana of the Texas League, and the owners of the Corsicana ciub knew nothing about it. The player's name was George Markley and the National Board of Arbitration, after hearing all the facts, decided that the player belonged to Corsicana. That was the only way in which they knew how to dispose of it. ‘“League vresidents,” said the verdict very solemnly, “are warned against Betts.” Sexton Made Chairman. M. H. Sexton was made irman B postponed until aiter the holidays. After the first five minutes of their game with the Virginians, the Centralites were masters of the situa- of the National Board of Arbitration in December, 1801, to succeed Thomas J. Hickey, who was notifled that his tion all the way and were given a great ovation by the Charlottesville fans gathered to watch the perform- connection with the National Assa |ance of the Washington champlons. clation had been severed, and Decem-| Capt. Mickey Macdonald, Central ber 10 the resignation of Hickey was |forward, alone caged seven baskets to received at the office of the National | equal the scoring of the entire Lane Assiciation. team. Merle Dunn contributed nine This was the result of trying to|Points to the winners' total, while change conditions by which the mi.|Earl Moser apgcounted for seven nors were being operated, and in the | counters. secretary’s report there is a para- Western's combination, which in- paragraph which tells how Hickey | cluded Underwood, McDiarmid, Wil- was notified that the Western Asso-|son, Heagy, Wailker, Danfel and clation protested against its territory | Young, walked away from St. John's being invaded. That territory cum-|and was mever extended to gain the prises what {s now a part of the cir- | verdict. Four field goals were credited cuit of which Hickey is president. to Underwood, while McDiarmid con- The Memphis club was expelled be- | tributed three. Morris and Rosinski cause it @id not obey orders. That| were high men for the Saints, with started a fight against Charley Frank, | three and two baskets, respectively. which lasted for a long time. The biggest event of that meeting| Randolph Shreve, hefty Stenog- was the passing of a resilution by |rapher guard, was named captain of Lucas of the Northwest, which read:|the Business High eleven for 1926 “That in the event of a joint invi-| by the 20 members of the squad who tation being extended the National|were awarded the school letter yes- Association at any future time to|terday. The monograms went to the confer with the board of directors of | following: Capt. Tony Stewart, Man- the American League and the Na-!ager Sidney Block, Babe Silverstone, tion League in the interest of a tripar- George Yeatman, Randolph Shreve, ASKET BALL fives of Central and Western registered triumphs yesterday, Central trouncing Lane High School at Charlottesville, Va,, 36 to 14, while Western was celebrating the first game in the Georgetown school's new gymnasium by trimming St. John's, 27 to 18. The game scheduled between Business and the Gallaudet freshmen was CENTRAL AND WESTERN CAPTURE COURT GAMES Charles May, Sam Lafsky, Jerry Col- lins, Bill Wolwitz, Perry Earley, Harry Altemus, Paul Debrowolski, Alfred Agricola, Frank Davis, Hugh Rivers, Harry Yaffy, Harold Claggett, Adolph Brooks, Floyd Barnard and Ellsworth Taylor. Gonzaga's court team gave promise of duplicating the feats of the foot ball eleven when the tossers opened their schedule by trimming a strong alumnl quint by the count of 32 to 21. The line-up included Capt. Enright, Gaghan, Bozek, Farrell, Twoomey, Costello and Fitzgerald. Enright and Bozek were high scorers, with totals of 14 and 10 points, respectively. A schedule of 15 games has been ar- ranged for the Purple dribblers. Fast- ern and Western are the only local schools appearing on the list. It fol- lows: December 22, High,_at Eastern: S Francis Xavier ot Now Yor i i 30. St. Joseph Prep of Philadel- i January 4 "Alexandria. at 11, Loyola of Baltimore, at Balti- more; 14, Georgetown thmgn at Georfiu- town: 15, Eastern, at home: 27, Hyattsville, at home: 20, Alexandria,” at’ Alexandri February 2. Georgetown Prep School, i Georgetown Prep: 5. Hyattsville at Hyatts. | indicating that the National League may take | mee G | period, whic excited over tl Hungarian partridge, we are t. { until there are six where only one native bird would be. heard men enthusiastic over this idea until they were positively con- too much like the old-fashioned laws of apprenticeship. NATIONAL LEAGUE LIKELY TO PEBMIT USE OF RESIN (Copyright. 1925.) By the Aesociated Press. N EW YORK, Dec uncement by President . e ‘may see fit to interpret” the rules to allow the use of resin by pitchers was accepted in base ball circles here as Heydler that he : independent action on the question in the event of the joint committee’s failure to lift the ban at its ng next month. “I believe it would be possible for the president of teil the umpires to permit pitchers to use resin he said. “Each president may interpret the |not affect the American League in s he sees fit. I certainly would | any way. Of course, in the world not let a pitcher dive into his pocket | S€F€S We would have to work under for his own supply of resin, because f:J:,',’:,“}T;;Sfei(":’.,',n'f‘_',,f::d“’(l",’,:,‘:\‘; that would pave the way for abuSe of|it would be for the best interests of the privilege the game if we gave the pitchers “If we take the resin idea, little help.” P e WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER EORGETOWN playground basket ball sext ¢ pionship yesterday, defeating Garfield of the three-game series staged on Plaza the opening game at 13 to 8. Garfield, exhibiting much improved form, went into an early lead and retained throughout the first| closed. 2-0 in its favor. | Dorothy Waddell caged the lone goal. | Repeated CGeorgetown were checked by Teresa Breen and Mary Ke! cither league to it win | captured the 18 to 14, in the second 1d. Georgetown won erson, erners, quick stellar forward for the West got free for four scores in iccession, giving her team : lead which Garfield was not able to ovescome. The half closed with the score 11 1o § for the Hilltop team. During the third period Garfield a Georgetown each scored 3 points. Fo additional points were collected by | Georgetown and three by Garfield, in the final quartes Abbie Green, Georgetown director. coached the championship team. Long practice and _skillful coaching were evident in the consistent teamwaork and accuracy exhibited by the squad. Maude Parker, director of play ground activities for girl will pre. sent the titleholders with bronze bas. | ket balls. The runners-up will recefve basket ball emblems in brown and 3 gold felt. prospects of coverts| Teresa Breen n pheasants, of Chinese pheasants [fleld girls’ and b of other foreign game, that keeps | will grow | . 1 have it shots he second period had scarcely opened, however, before Estelle Es H. DILG. entertained the Ga vs' basket ball teams last night at the home of her parents, 124 F street southeast. 1 Line-up and summaries. Georgetown. Positions ‘Wh R. Mary Beamer. Sadi> Kiatia. Reni Bryan Margaret Gossage Shbatitution R Bryan Fiing Telen Breen . \Teresa Breen L Mary Kelso Garfield—Dorothy Fling for Bryan ' for_Gossage, Gossage 10: eld goals—Wi to flood the country with game was birds. Alas! 1 can also remember when even more enthusiastic prophecies were made on behalf of the German carp, and I believe the English spar- row s to bring a wave of pros- perity to the Nation. I do not intend to show a narrow patriotism in this matter, to wave the flag and cry, Our American birds are good enough for me! T realize the distinct value of considering all things, of exchang- ing ideas, goods and even game birds with foreign lands. But in this mat- ter, let us please stop and consider, from a purely practical standpoint. Have we made sufficient scientific study of the Hungarian? Have we waited, watched the first importa- tions, to see what actually happened? It is a very important step, worth going slow about. | Brown. Referee—N | keerer—Abbia G: | Howara. Jowa Avenue, 1923 and 1924 basket ball champlon and Georgetown's Waterloo last season, has challenged the titleholding team to a match to be played this afternoon on the George. town field. Frances Major, who is coaching the Iowaians this yvear, hav ing succeeded Jack Whiting in that capacity, has developed a strong team almost _entirely from new material Virginia Monk, forward and Anna Tucker, 1924 substitute, are the only members of the old squad in the line up. I think it is a matter of rainbow chasing. We are looking for a pana- cea for our ills, a cure-all that means RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE AND REFAIRED NEW, RADIATORS FOR AUTOS no work, no concerted or sustained ville: 8, Geopgetown Ffeshmen, at home: 18, Wertern, 8¢ Western: 20, Recis High of New York Cily. at home St Peter's of Jersey S 3 Rome. effort. I firmly believe that the na- tive game birds are the proper ones for our coverts. If we will only take the trouble to nurse them along, to save the feeding places. I think they will in the end do much better than the imported bird. They belong here. Personally, I would hate to see the ruffed goose replaced by the ring- necked pheasant. He {s a native to our forests, is made to fit into them in every way. I would rather shoot one ruffer grouse than a dozen of these compartively tame and un- sportsmanlike birds of plumage. If the ring-necked were native and we were suddenly enabled to have ruffed grouse, as an importation, we would undoubtedly be tickled to death. It's the yvearning for some- thing new, for a cure-all, a substitute for study -and work, that fosters the foreign bird movement today. It is based on laziness and on day dreams. It is a patent medicine. It is a futile hope and may destroy what chance there is left for better hunting. WITTSTATT'S R. & F. WKS. 13th ST. N.) |Bwiners of other makes! trade quichly for Studebaker "_Pm_uer‘ Durability finish Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street Hawkins Nash Motor Co. Sales and Service 1337 14th St. Main 5780