Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1926, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, . JANUARY 6, 1926. SPORTS. 25 " 1925 Diamond Campaign Rich in Features : Giants Hope to Depose the Pirates NUMEROUS OLD RECORDS EQUALED OR SHATTERED| Washingion Club and Players Figure Prominently in ablished Marks in Most Recent LTHOUGH the base ball season of 1925 was disappointing in some respects, notably for. the fact that Washington's American League champions and Pittsbt A able to merely coast in under the wire as victors in the final month of the li's title winners in the parent circuit were schedule, the late scason was productive of an unusually large number of records set Many old marks were equaled and new ones established in the course | of the campaign, and some of the most outstanding feats were credited to the daddy of 'em all—T. Raymond Cobb. This veteran, in his twenticth season as a Detroit Tyger, hit three home runs in one game and five home Tuns in two, ty de by Anson ‘way back in 1884, In the fi Cobb | = —— hit safely six 16 total ba W world re 1a by nd Bobby Lowe, and for the twen tieth consecutive vear Cobb hit above 500, tying Anson’s anc Washington_figured in this assault records 1w prominently in the it was nosed out g a record €t straight thin _one LUQUE AND SHERDEL LEAD N. L. PITGHERS | Adolfo Luque of the Reds is credited with having been the most effective times for Ed Delahanty | the | d series. wher by Pittsburgh after seemingly having | the grand prize securely nailed. The Griffmen made eight home runs and the Pirates four in the titular stal of 12—to set a new high A Record for Goslin. pitcher in the National League in the official statistics of the circuit made public today, despite the general recog corded the leadership _of ance of the Dodgers. The d run average agai: the Cuban runs per game, while against e it was 3.53 dropping the latter leventh place. Vance was second in per zames won and lost with 22 victories | and 9 defeats for a .710 rating. Bill Sherdel of the Cards was leader, in this respect with 15 wins and 6 ‘de feats for a rating of .714. Vance's 22 victories were more than any other pitcherd scored Vance pitched the only no-hit game of the season. the Phillies being his victims on September 13. In_this game a run was scored by Nelson | Hawks, who in Vance's preceding bat- tle with the Phillies got the only bingle oft the Dodger hurler. In rating pitchers, the ague classified them in three groups. The first embraced those who bore the brunt of the campaign | and pitched at least 10 complete zames, the second those who partici pated to some extent in a minimum of 10 games and the third all others | who took part in a championship con. test. All of the pitchers named above were in the first group. Luque, Vance and of the Phillies each <hutouts, lead in total 1 hit three and Goslin 1 the world total six rris, Goose's 1lss tted a trio of hom t. and lifted the total base | Harris had but a in one series game and es in another, thereby estab L new low record for series sec. A tying the high record. while Roger Pecking gh, most | Washington fans will long rememt eight in seven world unes, @ new high figure ants, hit two homers in RKisler drove in seven runs | San \ homer and a tripie. Gehrig, Yankees, drove in | seven with two homers, William hit tk ne inning. R r Yankees, hit three homers in one niz, but they were not consecutive oster Beli, Cardinals, hit for 13 total bases in one game and Cuyler, Vittsburgh, came within one of that mark Goslin the ( Coch ane of the Athle ners in u leag ide three circui es, making his new high teammat ers in the s clouts 1 ntage of 1 Bucky Tanage i ational Wilson, G inning. 1 ith of Harold Carleon registered four Vance had 221 strikeouts to that respect for the fourth successive year. Dazzy also hit the most U , 10. Jesse Barnes of the Braves hit Hazen Cuyler of the Pirates with a pitched ball June 9, striking a batsman for the first time since Sep- tember 16, 1922 ATHLETIC STARS PASS SOMEWHERE ON OCEAN NEW YORK, nuary 6 P).— Somewhere out on the Atlantic, Helen Wills, America’s woman tennis Sisler Hits in 31 Straight hit in 34 games at the start of the season, mak 59 i for an average of .401. Cuyler, Pittsburg, made 10 consecu- tive hits, and Wheat, Brooklyn, made nine consecutive hits. Wheat reached first eleven straight times, twice on sisler safely consecutive | | | | | balls. Cuyler and Carey, Pittsburgh, and| Boston Ameri each “hit | —that is, made a single, a triple and a homer in one | Carlyle, he game. 'BRITONS EXPECTU.S. | AT MEN VS. RING MEN. X0 TRIED IT— BUT WAS SToPpED M A HURRY and held it th Big Munn the wrestier—six feet four inches tall and weighing 2 minutes for several mol s be fore old man Zbyszko cau Munn not_the that essayed a ring carcer. It seems that all of them at one time or an other become i with boxi germs and ma termined effort mitt mixers Frank ( less than against t up in I Roller thou, soon cured » did Charle Ivan Linow, the ferocious ' fought Jess Willard o1 the name Leon two rounds. Hans Stein Giern er fmpo is only wrestler pounds—Ilasted less than of the f at- tempt o be a boxer. Tt was Munn's second attempt to turn brawn to account in the prize ring and his last venture Was no more Success- ful than his first, for he was knocked out in the first round little more than two years ago Jack Clifford The experience of Big Munn is further proof that size and strength are of little avail uniess combined with skill. Munn is well endowed with the first two tal ie won the wrestling Utle from Strangler Lewis a vear ago in Kansas City st round in his recent g less de to = e d a s rounds itley under Jiaste hu He T ted 1 NET STARS TO VISIT| By the Associated Press HY a ioul line on a bo LASTED LESS THAN A ROUND —By RIPLEY BIG MUNN {in DR RoLiER WAS SOON CURED Curley, recently attempted out on the Pacific Coast, wrestling instinet proved t when the battle turned agal he was disqua 1 for his opponent over the eourse ther < Paul He i proof that Jerlenbach was the world's amateur champion middleweight Jack Dempsey as @ champion lar-and-elbow style) came @ champion with o prese Dempsey np—starte to be but his ) strong him throw ropes Berlen re ing of bach law ag boxer | wre not to be observed? CLUB CUTS BIG MELON; | BLUEGE SIGNS FOR 1926| President Clark Griffith and Sec- retary Edward B. Eynon of the Nationals were all smiles when they boarded an Atlantic Coast Line train at 10 o’clock this mor ing for Tampa, where they plan to enjoy a period of golfing. Their good humor was due large- Iy to the action of the stockholders of the club yesterday in declaring a 40 per cent dividend, despite the expenditure of approximately $100,- 000 for players in 1925, and to their relection to the offices they have held for several years past, William M. Richardson as re: nt, this trio also econ- stituting the board of directors of | the club. | Another contributing their cheerful demeanor was the fact that Third Baseman Oss Bluege dropped into headquarters on the eve of their departure and affixed his signature to a 1926 con- tract tor to —————*' Travis ‘Y Hlstory of Bush Leagues By John B. Foster CHAPTER XXVIL OVING aloung many years The mmors were flat broke beio cials told the writer recently “The war crushed us completely In 1918 the period of reconstruction L 1918, the credentials comn present. The little that we received irom developed t1s time begin to meet administrative cxpenses % the ational vear on his own shouiders horrow more than $4,000 nk to do so. His credit nd ¥ lid al the work 14 the riy 1es e Associati . organ more th enters i ho talks retary Farrell The Peoria convention again pre the National Association to ir ball 1 1 of the league car Association th He had from the was good | the Na eased and tion sinking an $100,000 National Association none than and who s a as value of the had pr 1 convention a _resolution presented by the commit ixion of the constitution, pre- reservation and other in This was 1o protect A1 leagues t nd provide: vation could A1l club members durin, the war and that nor snoop _around her man’s players | re had been sort of an it b se th hefore which tee of 1e serving o herent rights egnum “Everybody had tolive up to the re that had been filed with me ber 21, 1918. In addition permitted that where conditions s warrant ball in 1918 ers would be permitted to go it they did not enlist, and that rvation of 1918 wol 1 That proved the ittee reported that o McGRAW AGAIN TO DEPEND, LARGELY ON HIS VETERANS’ ew York Club Has Prospects of Improved Pitching and a Reorganized Outfield to Function With Its Quartet of Ses soned Infielders. By the Assc W YORK. drive to depose ampion Pittsburgh Pirates v 1d 6.—The the world ¢ pitching 1924 strength, and a reorganized outfic'd. Although John McGraw frankly concedes Pittsburgh ve in a machine which outstripped his club last season, | 1925 werc 1 pros pects of an improved ing staff, a veteran infi stored 16 b and powe tha s t the maintai t th Giants i offensive. For this reasor the few deals he h here from the Phill ied 1o again depend on his veter 105t notable brought Pitcher | for Wayland De Groh, ackson ile Fr who suffe campaign. have McGraw intends to st third second base and respectively He has de atile George having been second and buse after him to use at . field 1 to othe play to tel Groh fails ol Lix it camp the Gian t Far and first re 1in he segan At the cor Bi the Tyson, from chanc Young Wilson m the tions in with “Did we 1 = cause OWn rese Me regardie tional Comn g of hu hiee b dolla it was v associat had a po sessed | d forr ad 1 for d b cons nst the ed overager started ' ' fin t ned 1o liave re tha erans Hartle A For catche SCHAEFER BETTERS 1/ (i LEAD IN 18.2 MATCH * Ass AGO, 3 vet FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. IRK CHIC T Stanislaus Loyaz ited Cha k. rounds lizhtweight, ou Allentown and 1 Young Juke has taken a Horemans in which ends tod his win_of the 500-t0- 197 k—Dave At- mweight, de Minneapolis. 10 P ahl. Desx angle, St Nate Ripon ght. | gh run Horemans co the nervousness 1 ing play i ki TERSBURG. Fla O'Dowd. Columb Miiie Ohis champion, who left today to invade| LONDON, January 6.—Lawn tennis what organization meant o Luropean courts, will pass the great |enthusiasts already | pole “vaulter of Norway, Charley | arq to the appeara Hoft; Hubert Houben, German |72fd to the appearanc sprinter, and Georges Carpent American team at W vear. French boxer, on their way to That's days Washin They want to kno Collins, the! Speake record, strong | Speaker, Chicago A 3.000th big broke the wor HelT by Cleveland, and nericans, made league hits and 1d°s two-base-hit are looking for why some leagues penalize the sharp- iz to tell you some 1as the etin had been Commission i ard to the territorial rights ot ot & the black streak while others, inclu Slone th hooters for crossing of the pay some nbledon this SR e issued by the Natio e Lajole at 6 bhest in the cit ) atte te Ray = Schalk, Chicago Americans broke the major league record f otal games ht, surpassing the figure of 1, et by Deacon Jim Me- Ivy Wingo, Cincinnati, set the al for gam 1ght in the Nation- League at 1 Scott’s Wonderful Mark. shortstop for to the bench consecutive games, Everett Yanke went playing 1307 world record. Joe Sewell, Cle nd, nned our times all year—an unprecedented performance Pittsburgh, stole second, iird_and home in succession against Chicago Cubs h, Athletics, reached first five s in one game without making a . receiving three passes and mak- ing two sacrifices. Dykes, Athletics. ched t him and made triple and a2 homer. Burleigh Grimes, two double in a sing Vangilde as relief pitc hree times for Scott, the ter a hit the five times three first n singles, ball one Brooklyn, hit into plays and one triple play game of 12 innings. St. Louis Browns, acted inst the Athletics three days and got victories in credit three No-Hit Game by Vance, Vance, Brooklyn. pitched a same and a one-hit game, both Philadelphia, within five days. Lyons, Chicago Americans, Washington to one hit, made by Veach with two out in th Veach thegeby spoiled a Pennoc ¥ Yankees, held he Athletics to four hits in 15 innings and won. 1.0 in one inning > Sisler no-hit sainst held Bob inth Browns made 10 ne. five of them in a first baseman second baser Kelly, second baseman Yo ants, each made in a le zame, enn Wright, Pittsburgh > play unassisted against Cardinals 1, Detroit. and ach caught without having irowns; Fewster Cleveland. and for the New made the S Ruel, Wash nine-inning 1 fielding m, Dazzy Fams Sevente catching 1. 10-inning game in Vance fanned 17 men, De Brooklyn, handled 20 chances, o record established in 1884 Cincinnati second base- putouts, 11 assists g-inning game. Pittshurg 1de a new high record double plays, making six of them Philadelphia on September 23 ime that made the F error in a nst the imy the tes plays Sl a0 the innings and was we Chicago Cubs the New Giants, 9 to 8 The Athletics made 13 runs in one n sinst Cleveland. and Detroit figure against Cubs made 1 (zainst Cineinnati made a like numbe t. Louis Bro hi mber of hits made in ), went to the credit nts against Philadelphia. Total bases numbered 45. Cleveland made 24 hits against the Athletics nd Boston, while Washington made 24 hits against Cleveland. The Athletics and Cleveland played an $1z-inning game in 65 minutes, a new American League record. The Athletics lost 10 of 12 games on their last Western trip, and that slump cost them the pennant. Brooklyn lost a string of 13 straight games. Philadelphia made season by the om York duplicated Yankee inning nd Clev against Henry Roorke and Joseph Crowley meet in tonight's match of the District cket billlard championship at Grand Central parlors. Crowley's meeting with Morris Dent has heen postponed until Monday. but | no-hit game. | and | ons of the National League. In | the | runs in | while | | vade the United States. SQUASH RACKETS CRAZE AMONG BRITISH WOMEN LONDON, January 6 UP).—Athleti society women have taken a leaf out of the Princd of Wales' “Keep | Fit Book.” They have gone in for squash rackets So enthusiastic and proficient have many women become that a woman's squash rackets champion- | | ship has been instituted. | M;?oundi L By Hugh A. Jennings N discussing the outfielders of 1 l ball players in 41 games games the year follo a man is a hitter. T had plenty of color and ambition. A from ordmary, but no man could gues: Also, during the first few days that | I watched Cobb it was apparent to me that any attempt to harness him was going to bring about trouble. He had | | never worn a saddie: he had never had | a bit between his teeth, figuratively | speaking. He did not care for either. That was plain to me. 1 pictured diffi- culties ahead, but 1 decided to take my problem in hand and try to figure out some solution. I finally concluded | from my observations of him that | Cobb was one of those rare individuals | who can best teach themselves. He | would learn quickest by being his own } schoolmaster and I decided to appoint him that. I did not make my plans known to Cobb, ignoring him and let- ting him do as he pleased. Lets Cobb Alone. : A few weeks of this and Cobb ap-} ed to a newspaper man traveling with the team. He said he could not understand why 1 instructed other | | players and never said anything to him. It was a mystery to him why I {ignored him completely. He thought |1 acted as i he were not a member of the club. Maybe I had in mind | sending him to the minors or trading him. He was smarting under the in- attention. I explained everything to the news- paper man, my observations, my con- clusions and my resolutions. I was | oing to let Cobb handle himself. teach | | himself, guide himself. About this time there was trouble between Cobb and some of the other | players. They did not get along well. | lOne day, during batting practice in | | Augusta, George Mullin was pitching D |and T was standing behind the pitch- e bo: My attention was attracted to a scuffle in one corner of the out- fleld. Cobb and Charlie Schmidt, one |of our catchers, were having a row. {1 went out and separted them. I | thought the thing was ended but ap- | parently it was not, for a few days later Schmidt came to me and said | that he was going to settle his differ- ences with Cobb as soon as the team got out of Cobb’s home State of Georgla. They had it out in Median, Miss., on a clay playing field. Schmidt | easily won this fight and when the | combatants were separated Cobb's face was cut from Schmidt's blows. 1 had left the hotel late that day and the possibility of again seeing Wil °T. Tilden on the famous center court as well as Johnston and Richards. | terested ove lcan women's t | “The gathering ably will be the best collection of ten | not there, corroborated what Cobb had on my way to the park I met Cobb, who was on his way back to the hotel. He was bleeding about the face. I asked Cobb what had happened and he said- Schmidt and he had a fight and that Schmidt had won. I told him to go back to the hotel. ~ At the park Bill Donvan, who wa They express particular delight over iy The woman - th players are keenly ir make-up of the Amer un which s to com pete for the Wightman cup P. W. Rootham, vice president of the Lawn Tennis Association, says: at Wimbledon prob nis players that has ever appeared to. gether at one time. We are especially gratified that Tilden will compete. ng Third | CHAPTER XXXIIL e ball T want to begt 1 first saw Cobb in the training camp at Augusta, Ga., in the Spring of 1907, when I went down to take charge of the Detroit team 1 1905, the year that he joined the Detroit team, and in 97 | ing, so he still had to play a full season in the majors My first look at Cobb in batting practice told me that he could hit | He had the right way in going after a ball, the style that tips you off that He had fire and aggressivness. He had played | Later I found that he ny one could sec that Cobb was far s how far removed he really was in charge of the squad when I was told me, and that night lrmxlled.; meet- ing of players. T informed them that Cobb was hot tempered and easily aroused to anger and that there was only one thing to do and that was to forget the past and live in peace in the future. They all agreed. After the meeting 1 called aside Bill Dono- van, Charlie O'Leary. Bill Coughlin and Herman Schaefer and asked them to take Cobb to a show and try to convince him that the players were friendly to him. This they did and it straightened out matters for awhile. There were arguments after that at times but no more fist fights between Cobb and other members of the team. Sticks to His Plan. 1 had decided to lot Cobb teach him- | self and I stuck to this plan. I have| wondered often since whether I pur- sued the right policy, but even today I believe if I had to do the same thing over again T would pursué a similar | course. Cobb wa law unto himself ! and by being permitted to work out all his own plays and plans unham- | pered by any managerial restrictions that other players were under he de veloped himself into the most remark. able ball player of all time. Still, by | permitting Cobb to do as he pleased made my job of managing the Detroit team the most difficult that any man- ager of that dayvghad. Cobb_never attended morning prac- tice. You can imagine how difficult it is to get other players to do some- thing disagreeable to them if one is| excused from this dut They na- turally rebelled: they constantly want- ed to know why they had to get up | in the morning and come to the park and sweat and work when Cobb did not have to do it. Trying to keep them in line and prevent them from sulking required rare diplomacy and 1 am afraid that my limit for diplomacy was a bit under the required stand- ard on numerous occasions. (Copyright, 1926.) e PRINCESS DOREEN IN RACE. LEXINGTON, Ky., January 6 (). —Princess Doreen of the Audle: Farm Stables will be shipped to Tia Juana January 15, to run on the Coffroth Handicap, S. M. Henderson, trainer for that stable, has announced. RICHMOND, Va., January 6-(®). —Cyril Walker, 1924 American open | somewhat tainted golf champion, and Tom Boyd, for- mer metropolitan champion, will play an exhibition match here on January 13, It is difficult to understand I-line observa vaded by the bowler witl more or less foot 100se the rule frequer actory to ev serve it strictly The fast s valls here takes value of the s One c the bowlers of a In most ¢ it pe Even whe ape pun f all lcagu I ce here ¥ S W Wl loose away e svsteni that pre much of the by league fairiy leasue t doesn't e a rap about the foul line with those of cuit that punishes duck pinners w cross the black band The men of “don’t care have a distinct advantage over others. ‘While occasional fat t deal to the average L mainly bout his se: After the race is ove cord t shows him to have b consistently strong pin a lengthly campaign that high average has been ach| in a league that casts a any shot not made from hehind foul lin he feels sutistied that record not to be disputed. But averages in leagues that do not worry about the foul line rule ure True, most of the shots In. such leagues are made from behind the mark. but too many are fired after the bowler has ecrossed it Fouling frequently gives the bowler an advantage of a yard or {wo, sur prising as that may seem. and that's a tremendous advantage, too Generally, the bowlers of Washing ton are of the opinion that the foul line rule should be in force here, but they don't stop to think that it$ en forcement i up to them. The: the leagues, and the leagues make their own rules. If they want to pro. hibit the encroachment upon the drive, they can do without em ploving a cop with & “'stop™ light. Let them adopt a foul line rule in their own league and their averages will be more satisfactory to them, and certainly command more respert in other circuits. ihe scores mean a 1zuer, he son aver: oys -n smasher And ved the his is Temple No. two of the Northeast League and Comet, a Hyattsville team of the Prince Georges County League, are to clash tonight on the Northeast Temple drives in the first half of a ten-game home-and-home match and a brisk brush is promised. The Mary- landers are bringing a doughty quint to the Washington alley, but they will encounter in Manager Tad Howard's representatives a capable lot of duck pinners. The Temple No. 2 squad in- cludes Tooney. Brown, Crane, Hurd, Edinger and Hayre. The first five named probably will start against the Comets. The Temples will go to Hyattsville the latter part of the month to complete the match. To- night’s block at Northeast Temple, at Twelfth and H streets northeast, will get under way at 7:30 o'clock. Not often does a bowler become s good that he is benched, yet that has happened to Henry Rodier, captain of Harmeny Lodge quint, in the Masonic Association. In his last appearance on the drives at Convention Hall, Cap- tain Hank hit the pins so fiercely that his charges voted him off the team for a short time, at least. It was double- header night for his team and he shot in two games of each set, all of his efforts bettering 100. That was some- what above Captain Hank's average, and as handicaps in the Masonic cir- cuit are changed after each set the more consistent bowlers of the team feared their leader’s streak might handicap them too severely, hence the benching. Four TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F nt nake | ere is no definite ruling concerning sher cities the drive is not to be in n Washingtc inspillers ar such fouling is tabooed, violations of inly would be more satis- foul-line rule and ob ould adopt the tifth n Resin Levy of the Columbia e Washington Ladies’ Leag ped on the gas to finish with 1 st night in a match with the Daugh ters of Isabella quint. Rena knocked ve spares_and zood to roll up such e 1 successive on each outfit | tense het tanford, biack of the impending Al Work-Ear! Philomy 1aatch, than between the bowlers themselves, although it is certain_the contestants will 1 th skill when they the rivalry is of a deci dly nat with both, Blick Stanford confident of their men prepared to back them to the limit Tentztive dates set fc match we January and January 23, five mes Lo be rolled at Convention Hall and five on whatever drives Stanforc may elect. When it is concluded, Max Rosenberg, who tukes off his hat to | no rival bowler. wants a chance at the winner. ween shoot meet dly and 1t frie « ARRAY OF LINKSMEN - IN $10,000 TOURNEY By the 1 LOSs 6.—The fessional on the f Associated Pross. ANGELES lif.. January greatest field of golfers; pro nd amateur. ever gathered cific Coast gzing divots and swinging mashies over the 60| golf courses of southern California, | {In preparation for the open tourna ment day, Saturday and Sunday at the Los Angeles Country Club, The largest purse of < ever of fered for golf in $10,000 in cash, is the goal for the 72 holes of the flight over the three day: Entries, the list. of which closes tomorraw e expected to be somewhere ‘between 200 and 300, and 165 finalists for the championship | flight Sunday will be selected in 30 {holes of qualifying play. Bighteen |holes will be played Friday and 1% Saturday. The famous B North course of the Los Angeles Couptry Club, just out- slde of Beverley Hills, where many tournaments have been played, is the stage. A preliminary performance, in which practically all of the pro. fessional actors will participate, is scheduled for Thursday in the nature of ‘an amateur-professional event. {This will be 18 holes of pla The gaudy stocking my has Iready invaded the tournament | course, smaeking, driving and putting away to get accustomed to the fair | ways, traps and trioky greens. They have been shooting at.the course rec- | ord of 64 that was set up by Fred Wright of Boston. Harold Sampson, | professional of Burlingame Country | Club; Burlingame, Calif., has tacked | up a mark of 65. The par of the course is 72, it being 6,547 yards for the flight of 18 holes, 35 *out and 37 in Eve section of the country resented, as well as Canada, host of professionals and alread- listed. NASH Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street Hawkins Nash Motor Co. 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