Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1926, Page 67

EXPECTS THEM TO PROVE CHAMPS’ TCUGHEST FOES Washington Boss Doesn’t Rate Chisox and Tygers as Contenders—Contract Signing Business Slow on Eve of His Departure for Florida. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, HILADELPHIA, New York and St. Louis will provide the sternest opposition to a third straight pennant for Washington, if Clark 1 League situation for 1926 correctly 2in a wholesome respect for the Athletics is t battle they gave the Nationals until ind the fact that they arc rally young and “coming” outfit. His e Yankees and Browns as real coutenders probably will sidering that in so doing he virtually ces of Detroit and Chicago. nong the fans that the Tygers and cd fourth and fiith, respectively, will flag scramble, only the Cleveland In- There is a wic ho 1 figurc very promine cannot sce the clubs led by T. Raymond Cobb e Col ns 1 Doss regards the| dropped around to his place of busi- i< well balanced age ness and had four suits of clothes « in good measure the made. Even his tailor friend didn't int eleme punch | understand the method in Goslin's rength | madness when he said: lefense, and with h o spots—th T o base and the | Charge ‘em.” m really for-| Goose, of course, expected to clgan up the account with home run driv g | he likes the despite | miserable sh in 1925, when | ater in the season Goslin was opped from runner-up to the| asked how he and his tailor friend the year before to seventh) were making i s explained in a measure by | “I am sorry, but T have disap- the recent utterances of I rd G.| pointed him a trifle,’ said the ) supervisc ¢ the | Goose. “At this time I still owe him vy be accurately | one home run.” v, business man- | iter-in-chief, manipula- | R T INDIANS WILL PLAY s 0 e, MANY EXHIBITIONS Do you ri Barrow asked, “that the Yankees of 1926 will be greatest home run hitting combinaf n| CLEVELAND, January 2 (#).—The | following schedule of exhibition games cept that the Yankees of 1925 [for the Cleveland American League one of the great no-run outfits |team was announced today: > history of e ball, no obser- March 10, Cineinnati at Lakeland, followed this apparent chal- | Fla. rding to the faithful re-| « who furnished us with this | Fla. De March 16, Brooklyn at Lakeland. over the situation,” Barrow | March New York at Lakeland. ed. “We'll have Babe Ruth,| March 19, Cincinnati at Orlando/ home runs in 1925, in| March 20, Cincinnati at Lakeland. 11, Cincinnatl at Orlando, h «ne of his poorest seasons, and who fig-| March Boston at St. Petersburg. res to do much better. We'll have | March 23, Brooklyn at Clearwater. 1ob Me ) made 33 homers last | March 24, Boston at Lakeland. ear. We'll have Tony Li Zerri, who| March 25, New York at Sarasota. broke Babe Ruth's home run rec vl‘di March 3 Rochester at Waycross. on the Pacific Coast by makmg| April 1, Toronto at Atlanta (tenta- and we will have Buster Gehrig, | tive). : 10 knocked out st ye: April“3, 4 and 6, New Orleans at in the leugue four | New Orleans. en av 35 homers apiece. Add | April 10 and 11, Cincinnati at Cincin- o them Ben Paschal, batting .350, |nati nd Earl Combs, batting .340, Pitchers and catchers of the Cleve- Laking 200 base hits in his first vear | land team will Teport at Hof Springs the majors, and you will have some | February 14 and all players at Lake- b1 idea of the r punch.” |1and M Florida Beckons to l; iff. L YU wa LINARES, WITH 70, likely to cause the most | , next season, Griff —stoutly contends that none of them figures | SS to top his club, however, regardless | LEADS LINK TARS of whether any new talent is ac-| quired. He is planning to entrain next Wednesday, accompanied by [B7 the Assoclated Press. Secretary 1dward Twmon. for| LONG BEACH, Calif., January 2.— Tam rere the latter will put in‘ Dick Linares of Long Beach led a L ouie of weeks of intensive golfing | £0If field of many national sthrs to- \ith the big chief. Griff will remain | 9ay in the qualifying 18 holes of the ld. except for dash back | Long Beach open tournament at Vir- the schedule meeting in | ginia (xéumr\ Club, with a card of 70, @ training season | one under par. A et | Harry Cooper of Dallas, Tex., and but little time remains [ Jack Ihrt, Fresno, Calif., turned in departure—and he cards of 71, while the 72 cards were Jle_contract | held by e MaeDonatd . Smith, iave conside red before he left— | Great ) . Y.: Al Watrous, Grand « t nothing | Rapids, Mel Smith, Portland, fn t news f diamond spinosa, Glencoe, N. Y.; P players on his roste Toronto; Vie Dalberto, the number signed remains at just Olin Dutra, Fresno; ona, Calif., and Fred Peck, IKel 2d_their cof He has ha w the b v and Stew- ts sev- nto. sme in-| Seventy- was the admission who | card to the final 36-hole champlonship ve. und considerablg | fight tomorrow. \ the others, but| The feature was provided by Dallas ill biank it ap- | Jeffers, Riverside, who made & hole in the signing business | one of the fifteenth, a 127-yard pitch ¢ many weeks yet |shot, and followed this up with a 1 entirely by mail. hoump of_ b e Y | ~wild Bill am E. Melborn, Chi- New From Harri | cago, was two over par, with a card heard nothing recently | of 73, and among those who accom- Harris, who tops the list | panied him at thdt figure were George \ outside the fold, 'd- | von Elm of Los Angeles; Mortie Du- proposed trade with | tra of Aberdeen, Wash.: Willie Hunter: land Pitcher Joe Bush | of Sunta Monica, Calif.; Limer Hol- ownie, probably Out-|land of Los Angeles, Jack Tarrant of Tobinin exchange for | Los Angeles, Frank Walsh of Apple- fmen whose identity has | 1on, Wis.: Neil Christian of Yakila, led. Harris and | Wash.: Bill Creavy of Oklahoma and lorida, where | Larry Gleason of Long Beach. team in the Win-| “joe Kirkwood and Bobby Cruik- is optimistic that (shank, who drew the largest gallery consummated and | putside of MacDonald Smith, found the ¢ is due to the fact|putting rather hard on them, and both r of the Browns has| tyrned in cards of 75, a class which had to vefer all proposals to head-|found mates in names of Arnold quarters in St Louls e or| Statz, erstwhile big league haule(ahau ion to listing 3 play ohn Black, Wichita, Kans., hibition games, 13 4)!b\\'111;‘hh, and-a hout.of cHibrs. T bt ‘T:‘e r&xh?n cards turned in were s tentative schedule for pre- "Among’ thoss who failed to quality aining. The pitchers, except” | were Abe Espinosa of San Franelsco, {hree of the veterans;| Tom Lollay and Joe Lollay, Texas o L Tampa on | professionals: Floyd Johnston'and E@ L t | Gayer of Chicago, Arthur McPherson der of ihe gang is scheduled to show | S8R OF o Arthu o ot o webka inter. As-ihe fiwt . DI KRGS, CRliAin Dleyih practice contest, with the Boston ar s pelersbure, s Inted oo JONEG AND ARMOUR of prepping, but they will be correspondence Wi with 34 dotted i eason t 15 only two ¢ notified no “boiling out” at Hot Spr has been ordered for any of * lhn letes this year, as was the cuse!ny the Associated Press. last season und the Spring before, MIAMI, Fla., Ha S )Washington may be represented at January 2.—Bobby the Arkaneas spa. Goose Goslin and|Jones, national amateur golf’ cham- Ttoger Peckinpaugh have found the ef- [ pion, ‘paired with Tommy Armour, of the tubbing there so satisfac-| Florjda Statg ¢hampion, defeated Gerfe fhat it 1% likely they again will | Sarazen, Metropolitan champion, and > for the last two|Leo.Diegek Canadian open champion, eks in T X Sam Rice is an-|two up here today in a 36:hole mateh. other who d: the baths as bene-} Jones:plans to leave here tonight for ficial. He has been informed that he | St. Augustine. where he will be paired can take the trip if he cares to, but at [ with. Watts Gunn of Atlanta, runner- ded. jup to him in the hnndtln:u.l amateur _ Lo championship match during the past Here's One on the Goose. | Sn o One D e e armaad Here's one on the larruping left-| Massey, French pro, and Archie Comp- delder of the Nations, .which is pre-|ston, British pro. sented just the way we got it, and is| Jones took a 40-foot putt on"the offered for what it is worth—a smile: fine‘:mh] hole to take lh;g:«:fl which Goose Gosiin, outflelder of the |Previously had alternated between the Washington champs, has a world |two champlonship pairs. The seven. of natural ability and an equul |teenth hole almost proved the downfall amount of confidence. If you doubt (Of the Jones-Gunn combination, but it, listen to this story: the pair, after slicing into the water, In Washington & well known tai. |made beautiful putts to maintain their lor offered a suit of clothes for |lead: every home run made by the Wash- ington playe Ii2's a friend of #Goslin, Ly the|way National Archery Associatior is m. Before the season opened Goslin {held in Philadelphia.. nextm st reports was undec ing the final month of the last campaign | dians and Boston Red Sox being voted as sure-fire candidates for the also- | Tony PLANSKY ONE YEAR IN MINORS OKWLGEE Okla., January 2.(#).— | By the Assoclated Press. ~ Carrying with him several records URBANA, Tll, January 2.—Coach captured in the Western Association, Leo Najo, who was the Okmulgee Drillers’ most _spectacular ball player last season, finds himself shot into the big league at the end of his first Vyegr 1nu0f'¢llnl:ed base ball. cou for the Chicago White Sox |team. watched Najo, an Indian, In o1 ;.ndu:ntgrnl:o:k him. Saxky y the ntonlo club, but farms out to Okmulgee. ¢ = He was owned [ in that respect as the Bean- W'N OVER PRO PA'R) tmll;hpndleted ying in 150 games, Najo was at bat 559 times and slammed out 213 hits and was given 101 .free tickets | Walquist. to first. Thirty-four of the 213 hits counted - for -eircult clouts, 48~ were doubles, 10 triples and 15 sacrifice | Zuppke. “He is even more virsatile, but needs to develop certain fine points essential to excellent perform- outs, 81 assists and 14 errors. - Ten of |8nces. If Peters is eligible next year the errors, however, were made dur- b ing the latter part of the season, when | fill Red’s shoes. u;m ee'fi‘:.k:er ol;hthe crippled Drillers pla on the second bag. Ni Was "out. of his element,” 5o o ‘p‘:‘; WALKER IS ON SCENE. for a tew games.and the list of errors piled up against him.’ hits. Hé batted in 131 runs, In the center field he made 444 put- flcmbon of i.ho Naumul m TS Dt s 'n:e rhnmcflonlh’p tournament ot fifi morron night c!;l 0'clock- The _%unflay %tzif WASHINGTON, D. C, 50 uéif EDDIL SWINBOURNE <JIM BURGESS CHISOX ROOKIE ONLY iZUPPKE HAS MAKINGS OF ANOTHER GRANGE meet the- SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1926. | yards, while “Red” Barron ran three Guonau BASTMAN | Fraser and others, will be departing | [ RED’S TEAM 19-6 VICTOR OVER NEVERS’ ALL-STARS (Neither of Former College Celebrities Displays Any- al thing Out of Ordinary—Game Financ Frost, Backers Losing 312..)00 By the Assceiated Prese. J ACKSONVILLE, Fla, January 2—Red Grange's Chicago Bear feated Ernie Nevers and the Jacksonville All-stars in a professional foot ball game here this afternoon, 19 to 6. The defeat, howey detracted little from the reputation of the Leland Stanford all-Americ fullback, who entered professional foot ball ranks by participating is the game. The Bears displayed a smooth, efficient machine, while Nevers’ te: mates werc defensively a little ragged during the first three periods. A\ snappy aerial attack, short passes over the center of the line were directiy responsible for two of the Bears' touchdowns, while a fumble by Never recovered by Erickson, former Washington and Jefferson star, netted another. Erickson ran 30 yards for the point of fumble across the Al stars’ line. Grange played through the first quarter and went o eafly in the second period. He returncd in the fousth quarte : \e‘\i_len-{ \who remained in the game | Approximately 6,700 persons attend or the fullefour periods, vied more oters es - ss than _successfully with Grange for | §15 500, whlch. (o eanect to: s :’D""‘“- Fans accorded “Red” Barron. | ;o later games in which the ali ormer Georgla Tech star, place In | siars will participate the sun with Nevers. A near fight between Mullens Statistics show that Nevers booted | 1i. Stein early in the fourth peri slx_punts for 320 yards, an average | hrought a crowd on the field, but the of b4 yards; engaged in 16 plays from | Baars subdued Mullens, and polic scrimmage for a total gain of 46 yards | quickly dispersed the crowd and tossed to completion 8 out of 16 St 3 forward passes. One of them was for Line-up and Summary. 40 yards and another for 26. Grange L ). Positions. Chi. Bears (19 carried the ball 20 yards in five plays. | Kendrich ..o Tere e o Bears (15, His longest gain was 11 yards. Texas A. and M - SHA Nevers carried the brunt of the de- | FRehe: -y Lett tackle oo fensive work during the early periods, | We - Left gua twice tackling Grange savagely, and crashing to stop line plunges and | off-tackle plays by the Bear. The Bears attempted a total of 13 passes, 7 of which were completed for a a total of 85 yards. The All-stars | Lawson s oyend. o made 16 tosses, 8 of which netted 112 | Bowarr . " Guarterback. vards. Britton punted four times for | Pitt the Bears for a total of 185 yards, | PAgoN averaging 47 yards. The Bears returned punts for 31 f the gam Notea D Center. . Vi Right guard. . Right tackle.. . Left balfback boots back for 42 yards. J.. Sternaman ripped .off 38 yards from scrimmage in five plays and once was thuown for an 11-vard loss. | giquchdowns: Bears— The weather proved slightly 4 | e warm | for_point after touchdow: for foot ball and the game was not | y OMcials—Mr ’Armold (Auburn), referer not | 3 Florida), umpire - Mr. Gee: (G a success from a financial standpoint. neii). poad laeesan, V0P Mr Gee (Co JONES AND GUNN OPPOSE - FOREIGN GOLFERS TODAY BY RAY McCARTHY. S . AUGUSTINE, Fla., January 2—The first event of what promiscs to be a big year in international competition in golf will be held here tomorrow when Archic Compston, England's greatest pro fessional golfer, and Arnaud Massey, French open champion, opposc Bobby Jones, America’s outstanding linksman, and young Watts Gunn, in a four-ball match. From then on until next Fall, following in rapid succession, ther will be a series of internatianal golf srtuggles between the stars of the United States and Europe. Compston and Massey will remain | this country in the next three months |in Florida for three months, engaging | will indicate how much may be ex- the best of the Amerlcan professionals | pected of him. and amateurs in tournament and| Joyce Wethered, despite her an match play. nounced withdrawal from competition. Will Stay Uptil April. t |vn?h1azly will be induced to play in the " British women's tournament In the !hateflfar':p::xds::'l:b&?fl‘;} ;&T_\:n”“: amateur competition Great Britain is latter part of “ApHL AL the. same | PINNINg its hopes on the prowess of T ecican Walker Cnp toams, | Several young players who have come composed of the best amateur players | 1O the front in the last two ycars. of this country, will be boarding the Invasion Is Planned. boat for England to meet the British % amateur stacs after an absence of two| On the other hand, Great Britain Vears. At this time also Glenma Col. | Probably will do a bit of invading on Tott and & number of other American | ItS own part this year. The executive nittee of the American Profes. Association is lay to bring team of Bri h pre nals to this country next fall f ith the America American sionship links on Lons woman stars, including probably Mrs. | “Sally” Sterrett, Edith Cummings Marjon Hollins, Mrs. Alexa for foreign shores. | A few weeks later Walter Tiagen, | * and to compete in the who it is reported will again attempt | P¥ olfers’ ¢ to win the British open: Jim Barnes, | ¢Vent lisbuy the present British open title holder; | Island Leo Diegel, aggressive young home:| Joe Lannin, former owner of the bred professional; Johnny Farrell, | Boston Red Sox base ball club, is co- Gene Sarazen and Joe Kirkwood will | operating with the American profes. sail to John Bull's isle. sional golfers’ committee on this prop- With this group of stars appearing | ofition, and, being a real promoter in the various British tournaments, | who cares nothing for expense, it is the forelgn stars will have their work | not expected he will allow the idea to cut out for them in defending home | fall through. titles against the invaders. In the event the British pros do That Great Britain already is pre- | come to this country they probabl paring for this invasion is evidenced [ will remain here for the Winter by the reporte emanating from the | months, engaging in competition in other side. The Britons are counting | the South and West. To date Comp. greatly on Compston to hold the fort | ston, Massey, George Duncan, Arihut for their pros. - He is said to be the | Havers, Abe Mitchell and Jimmy Ock "TRANKR > MeLAIN Zuppke of Illinois may not expect to find any more “$100,000 players” on his freshman squads, but he is, never- theless, keeping a sharp eye on the probable successors of the famous Red Grange on his 1926 foot ball DOWDING And he thinks he has found one who can partly fill the Wheaton ice- man’s shoes, providing scholastic ait- ficultfes do not interfere. Speedy in the outer gardens, accu-| The" promising find rate with his throwing arm, danger- ous at bat and always fast on the bases, the-lithe young athlete bullt up a record in the Western Assoctation that will remain for some time, J. W. | booting "them, scoring seyeral from Seabough, president of the assocta- |the 55-yard line. - Besides his accurate toe, Peters is one of the best forward passers seen at Tilinois_since the days of Larry is Forrest (Frosty) Peters of Billings, Mont., who kicked seven field goals in one game in his high school days. This Fall he exgelled all the varsity candidates in BASKET ‘BALL GAMES. M Wut Point DEMPSEY DECLARED T0 BE IN FINE TRIM |, A, Am At Colunllml—ohlo Shfi. 36; Prince- M ‘Chicago—Kansas Aggles, 30; Northwestern, 28, - t Chicago—Drake, 27; C| 2.< At Hanover, wm Hanover | (Alm). Pa.—Central .”l (Night). 26; Yale, 13. 27; Mis- “Peters shows great promise‘of be- ing a second Grange,” sald_ Coac] 2, NEW YORK, January 2.—A report Qn Jack Dempsey’s physical condition has been received by the writer from one of the best judges of boxing and physical form in the. country, Bob Shand of Oakland. Shand, who recently spent a fort- Los.Angeles, found Dempsey occasional - workouts, so far as an ob- i"}ha ch.nn!on ap- he will be among the first in line to keeping™ fit and he says Eee !:d\tarnhnl are nmnc Y Dl and, G PINEHURST, N. C., January 2 (®. x —Cyril Walker, holder of the national . open title in 1924, arrived here this Aaernoon fresh !rom v.he Miami. tour- """,‘:'..?"Y"f R W.L.Pet. mh'n‘ greatest linksman developed in Eng- | endon have agreed to make the trip land in he past 10 years. His play in | next Fall.\ TENNIS NOT MAIN OBJECT OF TOUR OF HELEN WILLS BY GEORGE K. BENJAMIN. B ERKELEY, Calif., January 2—Helen Wills, America’s premier woman tennis player, is off for Europe, where she expects to participate in some important tournaments in the next few months and may even meet Suzanne Lenglen, noted queen of the European courts. But tennis, according to the youthful champicn, was the least of her thoughts when she planned the trip. “Tennis is not the primary object of this trip,” Miss Wills told the writer just before she boarded a train for New York, where she sails, January 6, for the continent. “My primary object is to travel, and, ship. She narrowly missed playing see the things that other tourists see.|agalnst the French marvel in Eng Also, I shall do some studying of the|land, and she showed her admiration kind that can be done alone, out of | for Mlle. Lenglen at that time by com. school. I am looking forward to my|ing valiantly “to her defense when trip with great pleasure. I know I|Suzanne was accused of feigning ill- shall enjoy: it wonderfully. ness to avoid meeting her. “During my other trip abroad there| Miss Wills, who was 20 years old was almost too much tennis. - I was|last October, is seriously pursuing o kept so busy that I hardly had time|course in general arts at the Univer- to look around. I wint to see some |sity of California, from which she ob- of the wonderful art of France, _I ex-|tained a semester’s leave for the pres- pect to play tennis, of course, but I|ent travel and study tri She is ac will not be under obligation to keep!companied by her mother. They plan to any set schefule. There are tour-to spend most of Febguary, March and naments over ' there nearly every|April in Southern " France, mostly week, and I can elther attend them or |along the Cote d’Azur, and Will be in not, as suits our plans for travel.” Paris when the championships are Miss Wills said not a word about|played there. her European rival for world tennis| Helen expects to enter the Wimble- * honors, but those in her confidence |don tournament in June and possibly know that she hopes to meet Mile.|will be a member of the American Lenglen somewhere along the Riveria, |team in the competition for the Wight- where Suzanne is wont to show her|man Cup. She expects to return home ‘wares. in time to resume her university work “Helen is an admirer of MHe. Len-| next September. glen,” says Dr. Wills, Helen’s father.| Miss Wills is a student of art, which “She thinks Suzanne is a wonderful|she practices with success both on and ,hyll'—h\l! .she would like to “play|off the tennis éourts—and of psychol- ©0gy. which undoubtedly she emplored Miss 'Wll‘ll' first trip to Euraope wn_slin making her plans to be leitering 1924; “wher she played: at ‘Wimble- ' along the Riveria when Mlle. Lenglen l&mmma/nu&chmm oty there In February or Marchs