Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1925, Page 27

SPORTS. / 3/ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1925 SPORTS. Berlenbach to Defend Title February 5 : New Plan for Rating Pitchers Needed LIGHT-HEAVY CHAMPION NOT TO DRAW COLOR LINE Agrees 1o Meet Winner of McTigue-Flowers Con- test Scheduled for Wednesday Night—Chal- lengers Expected to N EW YORK, December 21 M Tigue-Tiger day night. Tn a conference with Jess McMa Garden, Berlenbach said that he wou be prepared to meet any worthy cb the date for Berlenbach's next titl contract 1at date and sig for 1cd an agrec With a cha are expected to own, | g gamed it from the lat n Dubli th he 1 an, Georges Carpentier. been among the con pust two vears, but 1 by both Berlenbach gave the cham v little more than siopp Dela wh 1 excellent ely, while ting often, much of the acks m "o heavyweight, Flowers 15-round contest McTigue and Flowers' ROUNOING THIRD by Hugh A. Stage Hot Fight. Paul Berlenbach, light-heavyweight champion of the world, has agreed to meet the winner of the Mike in New York Wednes- ahon, matchmaker at Madison Square Id not draw the color line, but would id McMahon at once set The champion is manager have hallenger, a ¢ tilt February 5. the championship at stake. McTigue and Flowers riuish a sensational encounter. McTigue once held the ¢ Battling Siki on a St. Patrick’s day Senegalese had obtained it in a surprising victory over [\\'hu is seeking with | Harry Wills and Jack face Martin Burke of w Orleans on the same program, the distance being [ 10 rounds. | _ Fidel Barba, recognized by the { National Boxing Commission as fly weight champion through his conques of Frankle Genaro after Pancho Villa's death on the Pacific Coast, will appear against Lew Perfetti, » New York ban tamweight, in a six-round semi-fl contest. The title will not be involved as Perfotti will be over the flyweight limit engagements Jennings CHAPTER XIX. ves in cye several cxcellent itions w on deve about base ball, and Irying to h tcher of I tme is as d is trying to the 1 er. 1 nev W Uwing catcl, but sharp stu its of ba who watched him have told me that he was the best of his day and the best of all time ose who were intimately connected the ¢ Bresnahan that than Ewing No one ¢ settle the point. say iwing Grand Receiver. Ewing cever. e must h w ve been a grand as wonder, E at throwing. Probably no catcher ever threw faster nor more accurately. iwing never hesitated about throwing o any base if there was a chance for a putout. Many catchers hesi- tate. They are afrald of making a poor throw or of a man attempting to score on the throw. You rarely see a. catcher today making a throw with hases filled. or second and third oc upied, or even third cupied. Often such a throw would win a ball game. The base runners, realizing that the catcher will not throw, take unusually | long leads and lay themselves open to retirement. If they felt that the catcher might throw they would not take the long leads and. by hugging the base closely they would give an advantage to the team in the field. Ewing was a good judge of bats- men and he was also one of the fastest catchers that ever lived. Few catchers are fast because the con stant crouching in ving signals nurts their legs and causes them to slow up. Maybe Ewing was a super- man, I do not know; but Ewing con- tinued being st on his feet and he was also a grand hitter. To show intelligence he had, not alone as a catcher, but in general p as well need & only t du g th ire time wing was a member o New Yo team he w the direc head of that He the team Bresnahan Also Great 1t seems unusual t New York should have carried the two men that | aro regarded as the best catchers of | A1l time. One was Ewing and lh(“ other was Roger Bresnahan. The lat-| ter was a rare specimen among catch He w: 1e first catcher in base | to wear shin guards, and he| adopted them so he could block run- the he would lers Alded by the shin squat himself across lines and dare the runners to into hin Th did, but, al- hough they hit Bresnahan, they did ot touch the pl ouched then and he generaliy catcher in lead-off man That will istory th n the bat ou off to New York Giants ev had plenty of batting <0 shows you how fast he must have been. [n this respect he ‘esembled Bwing. but probably faster 1l 1180 a good hitte sides belr 1 He was e wing, and, be- t. he was an ex pert bun od waiter and an ex ellent 1 ) e was an ii clligent r. ar 3 series of 1905, New Yor adelphis. b the talk of the base sall world beciiu way he han- dled the > Giants, have mediocre performers ops a batch of good men. tip | for he was | whan was | used to have an edge on the American League st 10 years the advantage has been with the les, it seems. n at the same Then, suddenly, 0 There seems to be this applies, of course, to catching. players at onc posi YANKEE SAYS JAPANESE | WILL LEAD ON DIAMOND SEATTLE, Wash., December 21 —Japanese will monopolize the fleld of professional base ball when they learn how to improve their batting average, declared Dr. R. W. Webster of the Russ Medical School, University of Chicago, who arrived here yesterday from the Far East. Webster accompanied a base ball team from the University of Chi- cago on a playing tour in the Orient. Mathewson and McGinnity. New York won the series, four out of five games, and the struggle fs well remembered to this day because every game In the series was decided by a shut-out score. Bergen of Ewing Type. Martin Bergen, who caught for Boston in the 90s, was a catcher of the Ewing tvpe. He had a wonder- tul snap throw and was a good hitter. A smart catcher, he had an erratic disposition. and his violent jealousies ruined what might otherwise have been the most brilliant career of any catcher in the game. Also. the dis- position proved fatal to Bergen, for on returning home from a trip. he killed his entire family and then took his own life. There were other catchers of the old school who were less prominent than the men I have mentioned. There was Cornelius McGillicuddy, more often called Connie Mack. He is better known as a manager than he was ever known as a catcher, but | he was a good receiver. He was un | questionably the thinnest man that i- | ever stood behind a home plate and > | he looked anything but a catcher. | Connie was a canny worker and he d il the tricks of the catching de- | partinent up his sleeve. He also had a_pleasant sense of humor and got {off many funny lines. One Spring |a recruit pitcher joined the \Washing. {ton club. Ile had heard much of Connie Mack and Imagined him to be a giant of a man. Yhen he beheld the thin Connie, he looked startled. “My, but you're thin, Mr. Mack, said the recruit, to which Connie re plied, “Thin? If you think I'm thin now, young man, you should see me four months from now when I'm trained down to my playing weight.” (Copyright, 1 ) 183-T0-1 SHOT WINS. PARIS, December ). —Val- | fleurie, a' four-year-old colt rewarded | his backers with the longest odds paid at a French track in the last 30 years yesterday at Vincennes. In a mixed Enow and rain storm he proved the best slush horse in a field of 10 trot |ters, winning by a half length. The odds against Valfleurie were 183 to 1. | SPORT BODY IS PLANNED. | ST. PAUL, Minn.. December 21 U®). —Presidents of five Minnesota col- leges—Hamline., St. Thomas, St. Olaf. Carleton and McAlester—will be in- vited to meet durlng the holidays to consider formation of a “big five” ath- letic conference THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS BY WILL H. DILG, President Izaak Walton League of America. Tm: Christmas tree season is he seli. I have change encouraged. In the first place, Chri trees think, young pinc They are s the latter, a Balsam trees usually grow in pine forests. They ha commercial value to speak of they grow pmong trees that have immense com- mercial value. T to take them is to thin out for the benefit of better trees. Tha spruce have a distinct ut spruce grows liy in swamps, and it destroys no spruce wood, in the end, to cut out the zmall ones. In fact, if the spruce were to be scientifically culttvated these small trees would be taken out any way. But that is not the only considera- tion. There is, to my 1 value rendered to our forests to have thousands of these little trees brought into the cities at Christmas time. Could anything be a better reminder of our pine forests? Doesn't the sight of these strange trees make you think of the great forests from which they came? Don't you suppose that these weea are the only part of the forests commercial value. very thickly, us nd, a distinct | re. As usual, a large number of per- 1 decry the cutting of Christmas trees on the ground that leting our forests. At first, years ago, I held this view my- | I think the use of Christmas trees should be! stmas tres are not, as many seem to pruce and balsam, and in the case of - former, they have nearly reached their growth. that millions of people ever see? Don't vou suppose that when news comes of a forest fire in the pine woods many people would not even read it if they | did not know that thousands of those beautiful little Christmas trees were being destroyed? I must say that in my opinion those who decry the use of Christmas trees |arevery” unimaginative persons Who I must see a tree destroyed in order to belleve it. I have known persons to holler about the use of Christmas trees, but to read of the many thou- sands of forest fires each year with an unmoved heart. The fires represent real destruction. Still we lose billions of trees and billlons of dollars and beautiful playgrounds by the score cach year because the people of this country do not take sufficient interest in forest preservation. Let’s direct our energy in that direction. If you must ampaign, campaign for increased | tunds for forest protection (Copyrisht. 1925. Dempsey, will | WILLETT RUNS FIRST IN ALOYSIUS EVENT Honors in the fourth of the series of distance runs being staged by the Alo- yslus Club as preliminaries to the sec- and annual New Year street jaunt went to Hurd Willett, George Wash- ington University runner. Willett finished the 5-mile course aheud of C. F. Henirich of Gallaudet and Melvin Leach of the Marine Corps, in 27 minutes 45 seconds and was not pushed to gain the victory. The Gal- laudet runner was clocked at 28 min- utes flat, while Leach, who was run- ning his first race of the season, made the circult in 28 minutes 45 seconds. The competitors finished the course at Unlon Station Plaza track. The others crossed the line in the following order: Albert Schaub, Aloysius Club; ROD AND STREAM BY PERRY MILLER. HE story published recently of the sclection of the Tidal Basin as the site for the memorial to Theodore Roosevelt perhaps has caused some of the anglers to wonder what cffect this would have on the proposition to stock the basin with game fish. In the first place the sclection of the Tidal Basin for this memorial is entirely up to Congress to decide and opposition to it has already manifested itself in the Senate. Then the Roosevelt Memorial Associa- tion has only $1,000000 on hand for this undertaking, and should the basin be decided upon it would take the greater part of this amount to place the foundation for this structure. And, if the memorial should finally be placed in the basin, by the time this work is started this body of water will be so full of fish that if a few of them were killed, or for that matter several thousand were destroyed, it would make little dif- ference. But this project of placing u memo- rial to Roosevelt in the basin is, in the kill them. The best way to revive weuakened bloodworms is to separate C. C. Anderson, George Washington:|opinfon of a4 great many, impracti- |them from the grass they are packed Ashton Bonnaffon, Aloysius Club:|cable. It could be done, of cour in and dip them in a solution of table James H. Montague. Aloysius Club:|there was unlimited money available, | salt and water. Reuben Friedman, unattached: . C.|put such is not the case. oo Bixby, George Washington; A. Via-| The humble opinion of this column | _An interesting piece of news comes from Solomons Isiand. It was stated that a great many big trout were be- cara, unattached. is that if the Roosevelt Memorial As- sociation wants to place a meraorfal in s MPSEY YAR Washington for Roosevelt, it should [INg caught in the ‘nets and that erect a staditim in his memory. Presi- |&mong 'l hem were some speckled 500,000 DEMPSEY YARN |erecta stadium in hivmemors. Dresl |amone them, were sme speckied past vears all the trout had left the bay long before this time. NEWS TO WILLS PILOT door sports. All Washington and the country at large is interested in a na- NEW YORK. December 21.—Re |tional stadium in Washingtor, where —— e — Q?”i.;f; :'\-frflvi' "x‘m?“‘.‘fi'fir'."a;,""i.'z N {’;-gyfiii.“f' i’ “L“:‘"‘.',“k"'x"",?,';;l"l'l‘)“‘),‘l’:;4 CRESCENT A. C. ELEVEN et B hvita o Now s nest | oreat “mumver ot meorie eomd and| GETS DISAPPOINTMENT ‘\I\A}III‘V 1“‘1:“‘:2: s to Paddy Mullins, “‘;‘:’.‘,'\‘-,:\“sj-‘r‘, ”nu:im~ don't et this |, Crescent Athletic Club foot baller: d hoped to close their season vester day in a battle with the Clarendon Lyons, but found only seven members of the rival combination on the field at game time. latest project for which the Tidal Ba- sin has been tentatively s ed cause you one minute’s worry in con- nection with the project of planting Mulling said last night that so far as he is concerned there are no new developments in the Dempsey matter. GIANTS OBTAIN COHEN, [uoubt thit i memmion o Tnosevelt |, VAR the forfelt the Crescents have ’ eventually will be ‘placed somewhere | ¢ieht” starts. (hevy Chasoe and Mar SHORTSTOP, FROM WACQ | it Washington, tut it is ainost a | g anl (e Mg M 100-to-1 shot that the Tidal Basin will | by Dulin's boys, the former winning, NEW YORK. December 21 (). - |not be the place selec v it 14 t0 12, and the latter gaining & 10, ndy Cohen, shortstop of the Waco| In the meantime the plans for the | 1o g verdi planting of fish next § rily along. Glen C. 1 ng g0 mer ach informed ub in the Texas League, may prove 1o be the Jewish star that John Me- MASTER BEN B, Graw, manager of the New York |this column vesterday thyt he had vis Giants, has sought for years. lied the office of Col. Sherrill and | Purchase of Cohen by the Glants|found everything in readiness 1o pro Tl became known when his name ap.|cced with the work. e said he in LOCAL DO(, STAR peared on the reserve list. Only 19 |tended to have the racks placed in vears old, he is said to be one of the | Position just as early in March as the | — 1 weather ~conditions permit-—that {s, flashiest players in the minors. Washington's dog star for the year H - 2 | When the ice, If there is any this Wi probably will join the Giants in 1 |is the 11-yearold setter, Master Ten i = ter, leaves tho basin. B, owned by Frank Burrows. Ben He also said he is lining up bis ship: | hiyraced through nine seare of & WALKER TO GET READY ments of game fish to be planted and | work during which time he bas pl expects to ve thousands of them in |, out of 25 Lrts. A consistent nin the field a dog mu: d the physique to « have brains rry | pion, will train indoors for his cham- plonship bout, with Tommy Milligan rati anglers has been anything but him over o A e f.::'[sl Now and then a lelter I8 ro-|ihe course, whereas the bench show Tt will be Walker's first test of|Ceived inclos o has | winner can be, and often is. a dog of gymnasium conditioning. He has ar-| (i, 100 N ot I“\lw;l'h‘l,’;. vsique but little sense.Ten rived at his home in Rumford, N. J.,|3oe F5SVE L0 CORRE B G O ion e winning the | 5 logs and hauling them in he racks are members’ st t the National {after piling log: At the rate contributions are coming | fial trie thie Fa 1o National Cap @ e ol TNGOE G0y in it would take about ten y for | featad the dechy abawipion. Bells th 3 ated the derby champion, Belle the | { s the deficit of $440 to be subscribed. | Devil, and a big entry of well-known H RSE.RETAII\ | == vinners, his win was turned in by In a letter received several days n at an age when most dogs either { from George E. Strobel. 244 K streel, |y re dead or on the shelf PRESTIGE HERE |5 S5 v o trei | et sron e sheit” (550 of the 13th instant [ am sending You | cidedly on the up-grade. Mre. R, 1T another dollar for the basin hinston has made two Scottish ter. Here is an example for other champions in Do pped to \Was nd dozen or 8o, ar |ton from Long 1 reda Fast tin a prosperaus season last Winte: 1t the season now under way promises and Freen 1 owned ound to be more prosperous. The club has | WOr™ms h\‘v buried in U s u = o~ }a record number of horses and proe: | varerancia O ok i |10 championship poi pects are that the monthly shows this S oun.: AR icus s Cherie Winter will be unsually bright. ik e , 11 points and bly will Rock Creek Hunt Club is holding | e ers. 56™Sw | finish during the Winter shows. These meets twice each week and attracting | §'a%s and ;*"T('\‘,“' I\ DABTRELS, In {dogs have won in open competition many riders. e D Den e ang: ! with the best dogs in Ame Several hunters owned by District | {hey are seiing (r 30 | such ecord certainly is men have earned numerous honors (Ne often thinks he 39 Washington. during the year. Charles Carrico’s 3-|{{ e Local kennels now are produc vear-old Capt. Doane won champion-| e e his dogs of ali the wellknown and som ships at the shows at Warrenton. Cul- | RS Mealer ey s of the rarer breeds. Every branch of pepper and Richmond. Ray N e ees i oh thent whbo the hound fam except the deer with Summer Hill took the champion- | (1€ SSPIEES 00 tHO hound. and aln every terrfer ship in the hunting class at the loc; it el it repre in kermels of lo show. d condlt iginee fanc Among the new arri McLean sold a hunter. Lough | ¥ SU0E T o i two Kert viers to the | Eagle, for a price said to be the high-|x. lchie PURCL B T ealers | OF Newbold Noy jest ever commanded by a District| o el T Var sl horse of this class. Lough Eagle won the middleweight champlonship in the | CANADIANS SET PA‘CE. It bloodworms are shipped nime- | tingent remaining in the first division, with 27 contests played. Ottawa and Montreal are tied in points, with six victories each. but in order to keep them longer they | must be put in a damp, cool place, as dry air will kill them. Don't place them in water, for that also would Gen Mitchell now is being pointed for the Maryland cup point-to-point race over a 4-mile route and is expected to score heavily. m T‘ieck\we ar ’/ronu 538 1, e Ben Wade P{pes sj0 e o) /Muflqu“’ Show your %a?ia Cilaus Handf\:rcj’f@ffls st the place you'd like them 25 o /& DS to buy your gifts. If “Santa” is beglg lr:jem by a woman, she shouldn’t y Syestes be afraid of having him Shirts S8 103/ \ frome 51210355 bring away a Man’s gift that will fill the need to perfection. Shirts, Socks, Mufflers, Ties, Pipes, Robes, Hand- kerchiefs—in fact, if it's anything a man wears from bed-time to bed-time —you’ll find it here. A HINT TO THOSE WHO DON'T USUALLY BUY MEN’S THINGS —we'll help you. loves from 30 03 2R Hosiery o 350 35¢ SOLE AGENTS ROGERS PEET CLOTHING MEYER’S SHO 1331 F Street readiness by teld trial winner should have prefer | s o MI.LLIGAN Responses to the appeals of this | onew wiiner caually brilllant Tiench Mickey Walker, welterweight cham-| . esPonises 1o (he SPPeats of (O v er. for the reason that to | | | | | | | | The automobile may have displaced | i, follow. A great muany have sent in e e the horse in business here, but certain- | heir subscriptic d anxious 10 | Frank Leuch has |1y not in sport. In the District this|gee this undertaking cc te his bullterrie e e e | year man has been afforded much | paps there are some amons them who, the best of his breed on the | pleasure by his greatest friend among | jjke Strobel, will be willing to con 2ch has had an offer run the anim In fact, never before has | tribute a littie more to this project for this dog, | the horse been so prominent in sport | reach a « 1l termination ieved to be the record in_this section. : s F. L. Tetreault’s shep The biggest event in which the| We have been asked to tell “where T v Bl e hls T horse figured was, of course, the an-|the bloodworms two or three points to make him a | nual meeting of the National Capital |often asked by peoj champion, and he is proving himself |H0rs~> Show, of Military and AIv.n'»n-"[uHIhE them for sevel 2 otent sire e has three or | Racing Association at the Arlington |angler also has asked, “Tlow i puppies now showing -to ad | track. More steeds were on exhibition. | bloodworm gonditlo! vantage. | { competition was keener and financial | fishing trip is postponed severa Dr. W. P. Collins' Boston Terrier, |returns were greater than in any| The bloodworms which 1 imount Harper, is well on his way | | other year of the show. calleqizne snglers) fulends, Lecaveemo) ¢, o title an the whippets, Free The Riding and Hunt Club enjoyed | fishing trip is complete without @l 0 rippi Witchet, Freemanor | international show at Chicago. diately, instead of being kept a day NEW YORK, December ). A horse considered the most promis- | or two after taken from the water, |Canadian teams hold sw in the | ing of its class ever owned in the|they will last from two to four days | National Hockey League race, only District is M. C. Hazen’s Gen. Mitchell. | after receipt at this end of the line, | Pittsburgh of the American con- | HAYES PICKED JACK, NOT WILLS, HE SAYS By the Associated Pre: NEW YORK, December 21.—Tedd H: who is training Mickey Walker, welterweight boxing cham- pion, for his bout with Tommy Milligan of Scotland in New York next ‘month, has denied reports from Halifax that he had predicted & knockout for Harry Wills over Jack Dempsey next vear in a brief bout Haves formerly trained Der v “It must look funny for statement to come from me,” WON-AND-LOST SYSTEM UNFAIR TO MOUNDSMEN Rule Revision Seeking Better Method of Recording Victories and Defeats Apt to Be Recommend- ed or Whole Matter Abolished. said. “T was surprised to r in BY JOHN B. FOSTER. a Roston paper and I knew at once 3 that T had been misunderstood. W hat EW YORK, December 21.—Pren nam ) [ sald was just about the reverse.” Yainkees as i diviz nitel for 1925 Yes, 1 think Dempsey will fight an A leading pitc Jn iRy St e aAN L L e carned runs, when, as a matter of since cstz ct, Covelesk as he was he will stop Wills. of Washingtc eally held the hon e PRl vision of the method by which CRITICS AGREE ONCE. That the title of best pitcher should not go to the man who - - 5 3 greatest percentage of games was well trated this yvear in the ca New York boxing must hav, Atk i T rated th that Kid Kaplan defeated Babe | Other players of the teams have as much to do - Herman last Friday, except, perhaps, | record as the pitchers themselves. R Herman himself, and he has remained | skill, were almost identical in 1923, but ir silent. | tories, Rommel's stood at 677, to .310 { m History of Bush Leagues By John B. Foster CHAPTER XIII. the minors were having t! ACK in 1902, an organization, because they were experiencing the joy ern B were not dreaming, the importance of the various orga lated to public For was considered to ing a united circuit and pinching themselves to make st zatior iterest was much different in localized specifica instance t League | about the biggest | New Plan Needed. ion. A by of the club held too much like a | ¢ r pussed ou which e Eastern hecause the that Danny r at Dublin owner took 1 nd thing in base ball in the minors. The | > | into the ni At 1 " : American Assoctation did not com-| Hadar 1 mand the national attention it does | t eventua now. The Pacific Coast League was | and | still called the Californta League and r the American as | also the “Outla because the minor league. When clubs wonld not under the N were ov 1 be-| tional Agreement trait, so early ! e Athletics, whe developed, has followed the Pacific i Coast lLeague to this day. Out ir e batter ¢ California they were so remote from crowd w d. Delel the remainder of the bast ball 1| Whose average was as ¢ that they did not fear their plave Danny Murphy, but would “jump them" overnight ed In many more games than . inor le he odd Like the Cli tois t Ratied chiah i It righthanded ind both could hit to right fie Sl hard us they could to left GaRRaTlG i ymething like tha in the Of course, the Pities i the bie pheric conditions are held to be the vas Lajoie. and all thres tonic that keeps th ng and there | %%, 1. Murphy. Delehanty and I is more truth than poetry in that, be | Joie have their impress on base into big leagues heir to fever . AR S e n« RAWLINGS SAYS ANKLE ; « o 1 led properly was a min IS NEARLY 0. K. AGAIN PITTSBURGH, Pa December LOWRY GETS TROPHY. ). Jak 1 base-| CHICAGO, December ferenc n chose Western e "Ml the good Irishr . NEW RACE TRACK PLANNED turned out to see him make b CHICAGO. December 21 (P). | nd e of them must T00acre site } him at the station. 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