Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1925, Page 15

SPORTS THE EVENING KTAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1925. DopervesPitchingHasSlumped:Bud Gorman Hailed as Coming Ring Champion 1 SPORTS. 15 FIGURES INDICATE BATTING FIVE BOUTS CARDED |YOUTH TO THREATEN REIGN|YOUNGPROWINNER | HEAVYWEIGHT FROM WEST CY FORALOYSIUS SHOW| OF MANY CHAMPS IN 1926/ N MIAMI TOURNEY| [MPROVING AT RAPID RATE | Four bouts, totaling 20 rounds, | = By the Associated Press. { make up the preliminary card ar - nged for the Aloysius Club smoker | Recent night, when Al Foreman oes In against Young k in the feature it rounds. Jimmy Devine of been placed on the <ubstitute for Lew McCarthy, who has withd wn beca of a death in o R quently made by |his family. Devine, who knocked out s s u, trequeutly made by | gy "heSimon at the last show, s base ball experts, that ing has gone back, scems to be borne f gouwn for 2 round go with Irish By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., N EW YORK, December 31.—Champions in sport who withstood at- |dom paid hom: howing of Youngster Earns for Him a Meet- Connie Mack Sees No Need of Legislation to Alter tacks upon their titles with an almost unbroken front in 1925 face | sensation, an unobtrusive 24-year-old, | who vesterday led a brilliant field of Present Trend in National Pastime, Which t By . 0 g g S g s o ing With the Titleholder as a Feeder for the bright for the present titleholders. present and past champlons to Harry Wills and Gene Tunney have been promised fights by Jack | Miami’ Dempsey, although fandom has doubts about Dempsey’s return to the ring. | championship tournament at Hia R DO The question whether in tennis Bill | , Willie Klein, pro at Wheatley :;g;}:::itr;{ i:u::eur:‘fl):}‘-:;‘s;fi:;;mfi His vounide wate TITk EW YORK, December 31.—Bud Gorman, the Western heavyweight D Bud had his first chance Klein left no doubt as to his pre to show his wares before a national assemblage of boxing critics Has Proved Popular With Fans. second ann golf Proposed Dempsey-Wills Battle. Baltimore prpgram as a is a young man who will bear watching. out, [\ n d by batting statistics for the A 1924 a headway These f show that against the League d the of batters are mak pitchers takin By Chester Horton N oo = | 1s one of tho: an tor tha mean_nothiny With the | Unless one of the rival m ; win a sprint to the telegraph o he fac be that slightly tn club fa follow to which fight sh in Septem of the| 1919 | On the trai world pock s of | a gym hes t s with ed five Toledo new ans Wagner. It v action picture, showing Wag- Tk s Richmond ) aged in tel ories, I showed him the picture and rem “Schaef, if you copy this style at bat and swing othes that vou'll bat Schaefer looked atsthe picture rear end of the coach answered money for that suit” Th i did was tc ball. He fore it could break d batting. not gany ba efer agner pose | be get out n front wnd on top of ters can do it con ning Lasker lest day the | baseme: i nears riva g chisor Leo is lsted as the first F i i nearest rival, Jock Hutchison ly good playving during yes |y, aoainst the [ \ heavy, Harry Drake. 1, are to furnish the battling | tamweight champion, lost on a foul in | QUest of Suzanne Lenglen, but Su rebounded to hit his chest t4 zoon i ; Since that time, however, Gorman has improved greatly; ch so hits per ga s good news i St edl: hoeilthe Snell was given the fight when| IN professtonal golf there are few e (Chat fu s gy ids INUEONECigTeatly s soymich ‘ e at the end of the opening day's play. | 3 e e even )t the Mohawks recognized by the referee. tional open winner, has had a slump, any forall the L and the fans as a rule want at in the main event. The first bout | Rosenberg’s title was not at stake|Pion, never played as well as when | g him. passing G can League batting | theousn the mocning o 1 exchange for entley » Horns Ruth has risen from S Ailile Mait D e L i [oEovina EhE DLirsemning doafvolt trict soccer players not already . Sarazen and are still endeavoring to T 2 drubbi el A nY thtal aivantageiotithel OF tance runner, Willie Ritola; the new | ) oeni the deadiock hoodoo which. it the Britist v. when | of the middle- | tourney at Worces At the end | r Jimmy 4 vetera 1 e their championships during 18 Gorman applied rning _round yesterday, with un it'a team to « 3 enth street k. Men hands ot A . : 2 et either to tie | has more speed and a better curve |Ders of the Embassy regulars also|the lap of Belglum o once war- BOWLING EVENT DOWN ones GIVE BENTLEY, DEAN e of base ball | him while the Phillles, who Jake Schaefer in a challenge match | annihilated J h - a U Bz e il o e ’ Just the same, it Schaefer established a new high-run | valued by the Giants at $115,000—the | £°L¢ for the prize money in the semi- oato ¢ boys nd hopes that the time will young Mexican expert, now esiding % ouns gl s b e ng ved ¢ eir titles during the year. | quite a hitter, will play fir by Hugh A.Jennings . i ‘ badl W Johnson and Hars were held abroad during 19 ball o e o 5 1907, we the p erformed a4 refularly o DENT TO PLAY TONIGHT. Haihl e | orre; vlaying international chess for | fessional ‘mateh. The | fistently as the Philadelph g Sy feais, with & seventh place clul | tonight at Grand Central p Torre shared the third and fourth|APpleby is the new 182inch s v Sarkin ; . ¢ participate In the great congress | Harris annexed the three-cushion title. | ker of Germa Marshall won the Trapshooting had a remarkable sea- o at Moscow, desplie the presence of |averages were better and, best o course it is expected he will jon, added to his honors in the| ! | m in ¢ S > seasc 5 for an ave of . semi-windup. Tony Helen Wills, woman net champion, Mohawk Club and| LOS ANGELES, December 31 (#).— | 18 making a trip to Europe, which is afternoon, slammed a against the batters inst a tree 40 feet distant and was Bud gave Drake a fearful beating, but in doing it he appeared awk In the 12 m ; 24, 1 trer 12 second half of the semifinal. | the sixth of a scheduled 10-round bout | Z&nne has shown no loss of brilliance. | ward and unscientific. There was not much about his showing that sug ' : Johnny Walker of the Mohawk | last night with “Doc” Snell of Ta-| Bobby Jones geems fo have a firm | "®Fiivore, L Bt CHE O unnerved by the incid ; fers it ! il emaind that Leo Flynn wan'ted to put him in _the ring against Ge Godirey a who like i ) owners, who are bark- : g/l Gl “Another pre 5 R berg struck a low, glancin®blow | Indications of the overthrow of the rarager 5 ¥ & y at sl ke bt g outhd SR four-roun An ot e e slancin®blow e aond Of D overibzdwiol tus d him out of the runn the Christmas fund bouts. But Jess MacMa naker, passed 5 | His lead was shortlived, for a poor The leans “string bean™ dic ot s e O'Connor will _refere Snell had held the edge through the | due largely to impatred vision Eelpigeig e . not make much of a showing in the E nSl e 0 bout and Godfrey was not much more y impressive. It looks as thou z i Latest Trade Equitable. goes on promptly at 8:15. in the battle, the boxers having agreed | She recaptured the crown last 1all Hutchison had a fleeting chance to - hat much S RICHCths Giastsyea 7 to enter the ring 4 pounds over the| Babe Ruth has begun training to| i Eeicoirs | | Thet SOCCERISTS ARE INVITED e ot o o, League BAtUnK | througn the morni Ry ; il has been touted as t e X the Lopens Aiance. thel el gloom of cutting defeat before. Ftton g 5 e He her team gains much |, pited with clubs are offered an b deadloc] oodoo ich 1 and \nts is that Me xht | cyeling king, Freddy Spencer: Harry | hrgek the deadlock hoodoo wh y Jar thel Six billard champlons—ihree pro. | &immor | welghts, und Mickey Walker, monarch | (pe first 36 holes their cards showe I |of the type MeGraw likes best, while | T€S¢ v nd the players ther botk | the Phillies, if they use Bentley at « s the eleven are re-|gsddition to this, the coveted 18.: ope: But the & ase of his own | than Dean. Bentley had been going | Will attend the gathering. battered country became the owner of rood won man steadily downward in value as a - — the 18.2.inch title when the dark- | U. S. CHESS MEN ot y i i ey T Work, Max Rosenberg, Joh ¥ re the of reading d try to pre- | let Hawkes go to Newnrk, have & hole played early this month in Chicago| Jimmy Ring, pitcher, obtained fn a| pyons bon jonnx Hosenberg, John X | will not in-fat the initial sack which needs by a score of 1,600 to 1,495, although | trade with the Phillles vesterday. 1S finals and final of the Convention With the | ™ e o Representatives of the Western |record of 432. $65,000 pald for Jack Bentley and the v A 3 o A s | t best in that setto = In addition to Schaefer losing his|$50.000 turnished for Waylond Dean s s e HO e snands come when t reat actor, Willi Harrison Der n New York, carried off many | P {his Bonorst=nd prioes in|tlres of the | HODDS his championship in the [ the Phillies, while Ring will « - A s 5 Sk T ained his 18.14nch crowr Dean ntley both had by son were eliminated CHAPTER XXVIIL s cushion caroms defeated 1an Ring last season, but appened | the first time, finished tenth in a fleld | e Bocket | billi e B e i S e sports page, 1 |of Shortly th fter, at Marier 8 1 A T < bt SohoTsiach went to the Phillles In 1921 after four X won from prizes. pion. Carl Vaughn, w vears' service with Cincinna After coming home Marshall and |turned professional, won the poc : which started a Moscow November - & ‘apablanca, too, went over and 'E 4SO wan e e, vt .. BANNER SEAS At . | fourth prize Torre divided the That is the secret of | fifth and sixth with Dr. Tartakower. | iumph of the | son in 1925—the best in a decade. The ned by Pogoljubow, twice | champlonship matches were well con- run hero of yesterday prov d Dy His suc- |4 greater number of younger marks- | ant, | ting dub of today It t : him In line for the men came through and won titles t hetter s | SGERS e hete ball i Sovlet interests to pl match at American tournament in August {against Capablanca pturing the junior title. During | the trick. | tight spots of the 1907 s . eams. | ot meeting | & Australis has 148 base ball teams. | J0FCt= OHE S0 &y worth, mamber. of | team in 1924, ranked tional indoor title tournament, where sing three strokes ahe e erican | Pat Deeny of Philadelphia. TITLE, THUUGH LOSER he expects to face both Vincent Rich- iR forging three strokes ahead of I 2 , Canadian open champion, after | at Shelby, Mont,, where he opened the Dempsey-Gibbons show with a v lightweight | Charles (Phil) Rosenberg, world ban- | likely to offer opportunity for con- almost knocked down when the ball Wl <2 e average ested class . out of LIS2 g Averags and Joe Dillon of the Shenan-|coma. Wash. grip on the amateur golf crown. | £ playing during the o 5; sther favorite, led the field | Ty . gic B en b it for granted that the | Smith of Washinston and Pepco| A similar blow in the fifth was not|and Hagen. Willle MacFarlane, na- ot S & Bud up in favor of Martin Burke. reaning o ‘when they did wal | prelims, while Heinie Miller offici previous five rounds. Glenna Collett, woman golf cham-| oy ~gihsequent disastrous shots Mahon tossed away a good bet in { capty the la 1s Jimmy Ri from bantam limit. regain the Ame X Y nd yesterday ' P cuit-clouting crown he relinquished to | | heavyw TR AP bhy Jone tional should be played off the left heel the | NeavyW ot the ceacon tuc in | TO JOIN EMBASSY TEAM{SIX CUE TITLES Shoulc Beleiany : o Destined to another year of success | ., el oalen with . Jack Ke 5 SHIFTED IN 1925 |avparentiy ‘are the fleet: Finnish ate. | Gcular * threesome yesterdas ‘ rons and sortunity to break the game| e s \. Greb, veteran champlo; followed them from the National oy e J ussy | fessionals and three amateu balof the big fe among the welters 149 each. They each took er games 1n whi first {nstead of in the box, may stack | Quested to report to Crawford at 1301 | haikiine championship passed from IAN . |identical 72 for the afternoon score. i e up a little better in batting. Ring | Nineteenth street at 8 o'clock. Mem- | the hands of America and fell into NG, S e e R nd el | twirler and McGraw had no place for haired Edouard Horemans defeated Papas and Happy Burtner will com e at £ i apas a appy er will com- ~] s at el far e HAVE BIG YEAR = 1hie) Wi Gorman now is sct to meet all the Hemisphere, including Frank J. Mar- g be shall, United States champion: Jose|crown. Willie Hoppe and Ralph|the two plavers given by the ,\'u.v,"“j‘_hj‘“m{ R, Capablen of Cuba. the world | Greenleaf, fesslonals, and J. How. | Yorkers in the deal. All are pitchers. | ZR%8e (ONE | champion, and Carlos Torre, the |ard Shoen Edgar T. Appleby and| Ring and Bentl re of about, the | Ped the eight Frank Fl £, amateurs e de-|same uge. However, Ben who s | Dight 1 | tour international tournaments which | title tournament in Chicago in March | to pitch. The trade features the base | P4l GREENLEAF PLAYS HERE. | prizes with Dr. Tartakower of Vienna. | 6f the iproi| nelther pesfopnad as rexnlacivie f Bad. iin Chechoald + Marshall and| Among the amateurs Fr 1g showed 14 victories and 16 de- | encounters, mee saph Crowle rre returned to Europe in time to | Pilllards crown, and Dr. Andrew J Bogoljubow of Russia and Dr. Las FOR TRAPSHOTS! The greatest che e | Russtan champion, who finished first | tested, there were more shooters ipionship of the world Jimmy Bonner, the 16-year-old sen- | < lntwe! Bonner broke 1,681 the Olympic next to Bonner with an average of Of Bush Leaglle; 15 the Siate chavlomBloew R Runnells of Virginia had the best By John B. Foster score with a total of .339. Frank Troeh of Oregon, W. C. Roach. the CHAPTER XXIL ECOND BASEMEN, hot off the griddle from the minors, are not so| “They did d $100 for a new suit and paid it| zladly. ) Returns to Old Habits. After b = better than .500 by | the use 1ethod, one | vould thin ver would | rdopt _the ot 1 “Make these Auto Resolutions Jor the New Year: Present indications are that the nom- I'll save myself some of my automobile worries by using AMOCO-GAS, the Original Special Motor Fuel, and no other! I'll make better time, have more power, get rid of carbon troubles, and save money by getting more mileage per gallon. former big league shortstop, in Mich- igan; G. F. Egbers, in Washington, lost one more target than Runnells. 0 =) S. M. Crothers of Pennsylvania won 1y as are players in other positions, speaking, of course, of sec- |both the State and the national all- ond basemen who are a little better than the ordinary. jaroond title TThe zone chaniplarae It is @ hard place to fill this niche at second base and it takes a player | tain, C. W. Olney; Southern, T. K. are flen Ag )Smn:;m) e b n,d 2 nedimes nical fielder to hold it well. | Lee: Pacific, J. B. Troe oo s 14 se 1 e bie cou e considered a e o Sl e G McCarty; the Great Shaater £l piteh &rad : from the M ) Associa- Eastern, G. McCarty; G much of h repu m af the asso - et ampi auchior o, Detrolt plaved jclation was form TITLES TO PELL| LOCAL WRITERS TO MEET. i i Woonsocket. Freedman, the owner of The annual meeting of the Wash- | the New York Nationals, heard of him | ington Chapter of the Base Ball d had a chance to get him, but put| Clarence C. Pell of the Racquet|Writers' Assoclation of America will it off because he thought the price of | and Tennis Club disti: S _|be held this evening at 7 o'clock in Shitadelr toq high. Lajole after that | (ol guring the 18 "f“';:a:lnh‘“;f the sports department of the Times. S on the hoof & a ball player ie’ 1926 '« 5 our star I drove in $200,000 if Ruth was tworth | Facquets, not only by again winning three runs and ‘scored two himself. |$130.000 the Amerlcan and Canadian titles, | inations for the Futurity of 1928, Welxon Lajoie Seemed Languid. but also by going to Europe and ‘“Mg{ln il e f"hfld:eg value ;’f rained e Tk 25,000, will make it the richest race in ouble Lujole developed into one of the| Pringing back with him the cham- |30 es Tor Ml oo Sl g QN previous Jodnls t |sreatest players who ever lived, and | plonship of England. This feat, ac- | ¢ hibited in i .| Who played ball so easily that almost | cording to the followers of racqu Weistarted 1 fans thought he wasn't trying to | never before had been ucomp%sfifii with Dor iin in the box, play. ot by an American player. there follow 1 n that respec ere was never a In addition to winning the e player exactly like him. Seemingly as| three titles, Pell onee more won sne anguid as If he were exhausted by | doubles champlonship with Stanley s effort to breathe he would glide | G. Mortimer, another member Cf rh ver toward the ball, pick it up and| Racquet and Tennts Clube an a batter out on what might | partner. The playing of Pell thiy ave been a base hit, doing 1t as If 1t | vear was by far the hest he cors u little dab along the ground. exhibited, and in whnning the ter Gay he was taking about | singles champlonship of Ameria Lo aring fon two chances more than any-| defeated Mortimer in the final matci puted dec 5 2 in gl S G ¥ ng the ar T % [tional A atic vears unquestion- Jack Soutar of "',m“d ) s Eddie Collins. He started tc S o adelphia I AT B t e Il‘:'l.\_ s s ."r”g”-];i-":,“;d'; professional racquets vnam,'fx}:.',;* whe at first base. wn_in |cause he wished to save his standing ;‘3;‘;“’3;; nmn e 'f;‘l’y"”&lfi s a heap and a.nc or |at Columba. s year. nonth it oot Donora Day In and day out at continuous ”",m;h’;";""i"" foaued & _Statoment wit saved work_there is not a second baseman, | jott uff B¢ WAS Solng to retire from the De s and preclous few infielders of any type, P you hin' b |made by Collins, and lust seasgn, as noth wis this | who hold the record that has’ been Bini 5 was |second baseman of the Chicago Amer- CHISOX ADD EXHI’BIi‘IONS. i i v s I'll give the machine I'm running a square deal policer 2ossman about. That an d held the Ath but that is deubtful pitching to us. wers pls “Doc” White, the of the White Sox ching. Shae er was on the b t g & sore thumt filled the bases w it O ] efer w d he would a firm told, swung ang 1 into the left fic game for us. morning when we arrived in Detroit, we dis. covered the newspape carrying page-wide headlines proclaiming the slugging powers chaefer. He hailed a hero We were plaving aftarnoon and E Clevelagd. Sch iever could hit Joss because B a full swinger and Joss always fooied him with his slow ball, a delivery that was polson for a swinger. When Schasfer came to the bat in the first inning he g%ew a tremendous ovation. He doffed - cap, then took three swings and rted for i him |8 not | bette second pitcher mizht gm | some smart second & | tional Assoclation. %o and |them have played a ve Ing the | were to go to the outfleld | pivot man in base ball. |is not an ordinary second baseman land neither was Larry Doyle of the he kept his temmn in the race, ng as manager, untl he hurt him nd lost a chance to finlsh third or Hornsby Gets Palm. The National League has found iseman that Collins has been, se he has not had enough oppor- tunity. He may be some day. Pos ball | that s, heca like Tenney and Plaving a tle was the | Collins, 1 pennant race and threw | t from college not the great emen in the Nz Frisch can't go in sibly be has had a rival at second buse on the field in Herzog, who came from Ivania to the Glants. Both ¥ impor part in the successes of the New York Nationals and that helps to tell the went to the Giants nurs- | story of their value on the ball field. came | Frisch is a better batter and runner. Hornsby stands out today as the big- hought he | gest man who has come from the | bushes into the big league works. It is his batting which makes him more prominent than nd try put- ting a very fast man on second base it is possible that the St. Louis team would stand higher at the end of the season to come than it did in 1925. His batting will hold for his team no mat- A |ter where he plays. 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