Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1926, Page 69

— SPORTS Part 4—4 Pages SENSATIONAL - CRUSH BALTIMORE TEAM w Local Five-Game, Thr and Two Intercity Mate ‘Washington Rol BY JOHN B ISTRICT duckpin ords am D All-St Three gauic made a match King's S i or maples for recorded in duckpin ame block bow s All-Stars’ vict All e block Sihy an arks th District on slam set eve in the t made the K 10 games read 9! A78. 32 ks shatterec n thes District records . the Waverlys shot »d all pre L team. the King Pin their second Pin crew w: it stepped out N ind established a take considerable > of 663 that eclip: nes by in King s d and fourth 655, and & S pins more than any ve games ever before e. The old record Belmonts. who February 8, 1925 » count of 3.116 m never neared befc mes de nigh Washington Intere Incidentally, two records were tablished King Pin All-Stars were amps The 5854 total for the iteh is well above any previous per. mance, while the 175 roiled by Earl in the second game last night is recognized the best in dividual effort ever recorded in a duel between Washington and Baltimo: McPhilomy's second brilliant piec2 of work vith an S box, then h followed with eight The counts bn his spares 9,8,9,9, 8 and 9. That s mainly responsible for M. ilomy being credited with the best Marks Made. intercity match while the on theii 1 game was He st for a strike and consecutive KING PINS ee-Game and Single-Game h Marks Are Set When lers Run Wild. . KELLER. Baltimore d bowlers were handed The Sndy Star WASHING TON, D. ( NDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1926. | | ¢ socks last night on the King Pin drives in the concluding | of 10 games between the King Pin | ars of the Maryland metropolis sing by the boards when the local a count of 3,116, the greatest five annals herc. Added to the fed in Baltimore several weeks ago, 2838 | ory over the Maryland crew for the | altimo ere_those for team being raised to 682 and 1950 re- set of the night, 645, but he was pressed for that honor by Wolstenholme, who bowled a ard Campbell hit the pins for while Red Megaw got 599. Max nberg, who was off to a poor with a zame of 94, struck his later to finish with a set of five games averaged ! ge per man of nes hnny Ruppel ai Dbest bowling for the Balti the former getti 7T the latter a But moreans were hopelessly classed, so outclassed they did take a single game of the five. best fight they made was in the final ash, when they were outshot by 19 pins. or the 1, 1y 1 ore the out- not and Balt Figures Tell Story. the figures of the best done in Washington: Tier owling are ever King Rosenbers Totals 100 12 103 10 On the Side Lines With the Sporting Editor BY DENMAN THOMPSON ¢ got last night was a count me and team | Glen | et of | the King Pin | game | i Buck Earle did | set | The | BILL EVANS R.Torward NLESS the attitude of Clark Griffith and thosc associated with | 1 conducting the Wa aton ball club undergoes a marked ange the Capital will have no pro foot ball next Fall. the professional gri a for a Evidence that ing is found in the cague and the previously indicated 19 scek affiliation with the same orga: That professional foot ball eve diamond moguls and conducted as @ obtain revenue from parks now idl December 9, when the magnates wc annual Winter meeting. Questioned on the topic at that time, Griffith declared himself in faver of the proposition in a gene: . pro- vided the public dems He w inclin » doubg terest in activities of the paid gi in the Capital would be sufficient to tify the great expense such an un- aking would involve, and nothing | transpired ince, ncludin nge game fiasco here, to inc his_enthus for the project Tf the moves de by the Bost Braves and B lyn Dodgers should lead to the operation of league 1 teams by T or m nates in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadel- “hia - and = St. Louis, which alr have paid foot ball teams, hut n der base 1l control, and the v should prove profitable, or demonstrate that it has pe he Washington club would give it seriou but not until thern remembered, is must be shown un- nture least t sibilities, undoubtedly onsideration, iff, it will be Missouri, and it G m HILE the two major basc ball org: loggerheads As to Rules Revision. izations are v permit- ting the pitchers to usc resin on t ball next season with the object of | reasing their effectiveness and | reby cutting down the hitting, | it may be that th will get gethier on the question of curbing ax home r as a result of the deliberations of the joint rules com- | mittee to be held later this month with the object of revising the play- ing code. a over 1e to- | League has gone on | record as in favor of llowing the pitchers to dally with resin. with the umpire keeping close tal on the! manner in which it is applied, while | the Ame League has declared em- phatical t regar e freak deliveries which were legis- Mted out of existence just a few years Sanborn, who has been ap- President Ban Johnson as &ne of the American League's repre- sentatives on the joint rules commit- tee, has announced that he will offer a counter proposition to lifting the ban on the use of resin that is calcu- lated to tone down batting, at I as regards home run: Would Ban Fence Hoppers. Sanborn contends that since the seating capacity has been increased at most of the parks the big leagues, the new stands have encroached far in and cut off a great deal of the play- ing space that formerly was available. He advocates a rule that balls bound- ing into the stands be counted two- base hits instead of home runs. Another suggestion to be laid be- fore the joint rules committee is that the home-run requirements on balls driven over fences or falling into nds be increased from 235 to 300 | The existing limit of fect adopted many vears ago. and pince it was written into the ruies| emi- {als to a second straight inst the practice, which | League penant, but that he would try | «a step backwtrd toward | to exact a 100 per cent boost of the | diron league idea gradually is spread- intention of the Brooklyn ball club rization. tually m: economi ¢ was dweit re gathered in N be taken over by the e line to base ball to in these columns York for their k pitching deliveries have been minated and the Lall made livelier despite statement of the manufac turers to the contrary. ether the National Leaguers w consent to consider one or both of the above suggestions as a substitute for the plan to let pitchers resin ca not be foretold, but it js any event that the younger loop never il approve of permitting the flingers to utilize resin or any other forelgn substance. ing department of the Wash- E ington ball club continues stagnant. It was rather expected Griff Silent in South. USINESS in the contract Sign- that President Griffith, who is vaca- | Secretary non in mashie- to ning with da, would discard his niblick for a pen long enough advise his public that two or three of the long list of athictes still out- side the fold had accepted terms, wires brought nothing Tampa last but the busy in the way of news froi night. 3 Aside from Johnson, Peckinpaugh Bluege and Rice, all of the importarit cogs in the Griffithian machine, cluding Pilot Bucky Harris himself remain to be lined up. It was bruited about yesterday that the boy man- ager's demand in a salary way for next season was $50,000. There is nc way of learning just how close to the target that hits, but a guess is that it is wide of the mark by about “fif- teen grand.” Harris’ salary for last season never was made public, but the general un- derstanding is that $25,000 was the figure. Bul unquestionably has earned a raise by guiding the Nation- Americar in. healthy emolument he drew down last season is no part of sound reasoning. SCHALK LIKELY TO COACH. MADISON, Wis.,, January 9 (®).— Virtual assurance that Ray Schalk, Chicago American catcher, will coach the University of Wisconsin's base ball squad, was reported today fol- lowing his conference with athletic officinls. NEW YORK;, January 9 (#).—Belle Beach, internationally horsewoman and often referred to as one of the greatest woman riders in the world, is 1 dead at her home at Great Neck, Long | Island. SEAVIEW REX WINNER. GRAND JUNCTION, Tenn., Janu- ary 9 (P).—Seaview Rex, a pointer | owned by Mrs. C. D. Stickney of Ai- lantic City, was awarded the all-age take of the. American field trial-clas- sic here today, | lication just made by the Boston National I,cague} franchise in the National Professional Foot Ball | SAM LATSKY L. Guard Photos By Cy Pepkins ured in CHAR EDDIR FORD L PForward | &« %% WILLARD HIGBIE Forward SPORTS MAY DROP ME DAL SCORE IN TITLE LINKS TOURNEY ISuggesfion Is Made That Outstanding Players in o LIE MA Cettter the 1926 p SIDNEY BLOCK.- Guard KIRKWOOD’S 31 FOR 9 HOLES GIVES TIE FOK TOP _Center By the Associated Pross. OS ANGELES COUNTRY CLUB, LOS ANGELES, January 9.—Joe ! L Kirkwood, trick golfer, and Harry Cooper, dashing youngster and dynamic divot digger of the Tenison Park Golf Club of Dall Tex, | cach had a low card of 138 for 4he 30-hole qualifying round of the $10,000 open golf tournament which was completed here today. | i | ! | By the Associated Press. | J ACKSONVILLE, | { penalized 15 yards for roughing. two forward passes. Both failed and The only score came in the final| period, when McBride of plunged through center to the goal line, later kicking goal. | Straight foot ball featured the game. Neither team gained in the first pe- tiod, although both teams tried the aerial, line bucking and punting routes. | In the second period the Giants forced their way deep into the All Stars’ territory but were stopped on the 17-yard line. Shortly afterward Nevers took time after his hurdling attempt. He punted out of danger, and the half ended on the Giants' 40-yard line. The Giants. again penetrated ‘the All Stars' 20-yard line in the ;.h‘l)xif riod, when a gunt by White of Ok- rhamn. went 051 of bounds on the 15-yard line. In the final period, however, the Giants forced the ball up the field to the 10-vard line, W penalties and. MeDride’s line placed it scross the goal line. | plungel NEVERS HURT IN CONTEST THAT GIANTS WIN 7 TO , January 9.—Ernie Nevers, former Leland Stan- ford foot ball star, suffered a torn ligament in the back in the second period of the game here today between his team, the Jackson- ville Ali-sfars and the New York Giants. Nevers leit the game in the third period as a result of the injuries received when he attempted to hurdle the line in an off-tackle play. was thrown with a thud heard all over the field, and the Giants wete The Giants won, 7 to 0. Nevers remained in the game until the end of the period, attempting he punted out of danger. The gamé was the second that All Stars, captained by Nevers, have played here. Line-Up and Summary. Jacksonville (0). Positions. “ Milstead Riexager, néy, arneil, Co Maurer, Orlethorpe.. Recse. Wo b dor e Nevers. Stantord Score by peri 0 0 0 Scoring Officrale—Mr. Arnald (Auburn), M. Batchan. (Floriday. i shall (Maine) | head libesman: Mr. Qlivciosivpi). feld Judge. ARMY WINS AT POLO. Bi o WEST POINT, N. Y., Januvary 9 ere two offside | (p) __Army defeated the New York Athletic Club twice.at polo today; the scoree being 13 to 7, and 11 to 1. Giants (7). Eeynolds, Georgia . Yale Ylisame. Latayette N ulgate mar, Vanderbilt | -Paim. Penn State | ‘Whité. Oklahoma 9= : Touchdown — McBride. Point from_piacement after touchdown—McBride. rpferee: Mar: ishop last 18 holes. Cooper shot a_68, four under par, which with his 70 par on the south course y v grossed his 138 also. 1t acclaim for him when he finished with a couple of birdie: Bobbie Cruickshank went out in 33 to repay those who came here to sec how the reputation that preceded him would stand up. William Mehlhorn | gy (he Associated Press. rounded the nine with a 36, one over| par, while Joe Turnesa of New York | PARIS, January came around the first half in 35, and | rotra has definitely Al Watrous of Grand Rapids, Mich., | fend his title of American indoor ten- ced one from the par for a 34. {nis champion, whether or not the \nk Walsh of Appleton, Wis., and | French Tennis Federation accepts the Dallas Jeffers promised to be up in|invitation of the United States Lawn the running, completing the 36 holes | Tennis Association to send a team to with 144, while in the 145 s were | compete in the tournament at New Phil Taylor, Victoria, British Colum- | York next month. ¢ bia; MacDenald Smith, Great Neck,| The decision regarding the team N. Y.; Ed Gayer, Chic: Vie Dal- | hinges upon Rene Lacoste’s ability to berto, Los Angeles, and C. E. Man-|obtain a furlough from military mr&:v Sl'_:revepfl:(:i Lo the | SeTVice. 5 Manning, credited as one the| . If he does the Federation w! longest_hitters In the South, sailed |over Lacoste and Jacques B‘:L:;:g many drives to support that reputa-|and either Henry Cochet or Paul tion. Feret, in addition to Borotra. Dewel Longworth of Los Angeles and Johnny McHugh, the Scotch lad {QUINTS PLAY FIVE EXTRA PERIODS, THEN QUIT EVEN from San Francisco’s municipal links, " By, World News Service. were in the 147 class. Dave Black of Vancouver, Earl Niger of San Fran- cisco, Dink Linares of Long Beach. and Joe Lally of El Paso, were- in the | 148 _class. 3 3 There were many birdies ‘on hoth | _ NinCpve :It‘r'.\l::r?&dinll;-": . ket ball game here between Hamp- ton and Eldora High Schools, the _two coaches decided to call the |~ game a draw. courses today, but most sensational was that of Lewis Scott of Los Ange- les on the long eighth hole, 516 yards. Scott went to the tees with a spoon, Jifted the ball over a clump of trees at the dog-leg for over .200 vards, h:'dfiz'&tw:tfl"?‘glfmflg- spooned his approach onto the green | time, the count was 35 to 25. with 12 feet of the pin and sank his| ¢r the first extra period neither putt for an eagle. o e i A added another 2 peints, and the fifth was scoreless. . This is the frsi time a basket ball me been declared a draw in this part of the country. 'BOROTRA TO DEFEND 0 9.—Jean _ Bo- decided to de- 1 | He the of avy | | Battling Nelson won the quickest glove victory on record when he knocked out - William Roser- in - two - 1seconds. Kirkwood came home today in 31, 6 under par and carded 68 for thc‘ U. S. TENNIS HONORS | Regional Events Be S elected by Eligibility Committee and Meet in Match Play January national of maint championship, a cha ning goli courses w the closing session of the United States Go headed by William C. Fownes, jr. of 0. Picil of Memphis as first vice pr 9.—New met the ways hods of qualifying goliers for uge in golf ba d better vere subjects of discussion today New offi and Charle 1 s at f Association. officer Pittsburgh as preside dent were installed and the inaugu ral address of Mr. Fownes, who spoke on these subjects, was radiocast t the millions of golf America The plan of qualifying only 16 p! tried last year was abandoned because golf writers h two or more links was mentione The most radical and probably best liked suggestion was to do away with { medal score at the championship. as is done in Great Britains Mr. Pfeil, whe fathered this idea, suggested that | golfers who stood out for performance on the links im State and other re- gional events should be selected by | {an eligibility committee. = All thos selected would be drawn for match play and fight it out man to man. President Fownes said the limita- | tion on the size and welght of golf was under discussion be- Great Britain and the United »n, and that pos d be taken this American proposal is for a ball weighing not more, than 1.55 ounces and having a_minimum diameter of 1.68 inches. This size is permissible now, but balls may all be heavier—1.62 ounces—and smaller— 2 inches, Greens Upkeep Discussed. Most of the day was spent in a| symposium on upkeep of greens and creeping bent gr sensus that vegetative planting of bent grass was the best system. and ihe experts held that the upstanding bents, like the Washington and Metro politan strains, were best for all pur- | poses | Executive Secretary T. J. MacMa- non of New York announced that the | following dates had been set’ for the 11926 tournaments, whose venue were ziven out several months rs in Summer. The | | British amateu; | golf ayers for the amatcu jonsh of dissatisfaction among players and A scheme to try regional qualifications and to use course d by President Fow Amateur championship, 13-18, at Baltusrol Public links meet, Augu Buffalo municipal course. Woman's tournament, Septem 27-October 2, at Merion Cricket Clu Philadelphia. Dates for the open iwaited consideration of American golfers wo! early June Septemb onship man how zlish open be held at Sciot: likely be May latter srowth of Golf Shéwn. A report by the outgoing presiden Wynant D. Wanderpool, showed tha golf had grown so rapid the World War that the member clubs i the United States Golf Association I 113 in 1925 and 368 in the seven years. The increasing popularity —wa shown by a speaker from Philadelphi: who said his concern had installed course and other athletic f: ities for em Seventy per c had ente: compared wit 30 for all other sport: w. A ander of plover, asserted that ed golf was per cent more to his of the integrity a instilled b: pealed to women since 1 Chicago, em person wl at least 50 ¥ because thinking MAJOR LEAGUERS UNABLE the Associated Press. | EW YORK, N some degree to abbreviation schedule committee of the Nat today adjourned a ving dates -day mecting The committec’s failure to over | explanation from the cxecutive offic {dent John A. Heydler of the Nation | would be called later in the month | Dreyfuss, president of the world cham Johnson represented the American Disagreement between the iwo leagues over dates the first marking time in the history of organized base ball that more than three days have | | been required to harmonize the two schedules, grows out of united o | sition from National League own |to #dvancement of the closing date ;‘:mm October 4 to September 26 i Their objection to the change at {a joint meeting of the leagre a monti iago, on the ground that Sunday ba ball is prohibited in three senior cir- {cuit parks as aga ¢ two in the American »ve the owners in the Jonnson orzanization. The lat {ter stood solidly for shorte: the | season, and the tie vote which result ed was | by Commissioner K cast his ballot for the 1 Johnson Fall indi- apyr al of abbreviating the 134-game schedules in order to make possible completion of the world series_within the first week of Octo- | Unfavorable her at the last | series was responsible for their stand. | although Dreyfuss produced figures to | show that during a 23-vear period only three post-sea shes have been delayed by rain. BASKET BALL GAMES. At Brookland—Catholic U, Gallaudet, At George Washington, | Medics, 23. At Princeton—Columbia, 41; Prince- { 19; ree Washington—George 33 Jehns Hopkins Haven—Dartmouth, 26; nnapolis—Navy, 27; New York sity, 21. - est Point—Army, 31; Lehigh, 22. ('olumlyu.—l’urdue, 35; Ohio Univer: At W —Richmond Wake Forest, 23. , At Chicago—Tlowa, 18; Chicago, 13. At Bloomington—Indiana, 33; Min- | nesota, 28. At Chicago—Michigan, 32 North- | western, 30. | At Bristol—King College, 29; Bristol IY. M. C. A, 22 Mac- 24; Alester, 19. At St. Louis—St. Louis U At Philadelphia — Dickinson, = 24; 29; Washington U., 26. At Golden, Col.—Colorado School of orado Chiropractic College, 34. St. Charles, 21 At Lexington—Bridgewater, 23; V. as A. and M., 17. So::h hlu‘clk;lmhlmu State, 31; Washington and- Jelferson, 19 - ton, 15. At Northfield—Stolaf, \ 29; t Morgantown—Carnegie Tech, 26; West Virginia, 24. 2; Mar- quette, 19. At Greenville—Duke, 22; Furman, 17. Penn, 19. At 'Stillwater—Oklahoma A. & M., At Norman, Okla.—Oklahoma, 28; Missourd, 23. Mines, 32; St. Regis College, 18. | At Denver—Colorado U., 42; Col- At_Missoula—Montana, 33; Mount At Durham — North Carolina, 12; Durham Y. M. C.'A., 35. ML L, 18, At Shreveport—Centenary, 26; Tex- At New Orleans—Tulane, 36; Clem- son, 15. At Salem: Salemn, 26; Alfred, 24. At Washington: Allegheny, ‘At Grov Grove * Ci Geneva, 26, N At Lincoln—Nebraska, 20; Creigh- | nuary 9.—Unable to surimount obstacles attributed i of the season a full weck, the joint ional and American Base Ball Leagues agreement without reaching on le conflicts brought league, although P: al announced that a second meeti \ m was Barney pion Pittsburgh club, while President ‘x ague. SR |RUTH NOW HAS A SEAT | ON “HOT-WATER WAGON" o er of eithe | NEW YORK, January 9 (#.— | Babe Ruth now is on the “hot- water wagon,” according to Arthur McGovern, who is training the Yankee slugger for a 1926 come- back. “Ruth has been accustomed er indulgence in stimulants, pa ticularty coffee, for said McGovern toda Jlow a dozen cups of coffee a or a half dozen at a time.” This, perhaps, had much to do breakdown a year age. He is drinking much hot water instead. BIG-HEARTED JACK WOULD SELL BOLEY BALTIMORE, January 9 (®).— | Jack Dunn. manager of the Baitimore | Internationals, cited terms tonight on { which he would part with Joe Boley | star Boley wi - the majo New Y him ma ad re- Oriole shertstop. s ad sed as ambitious f the league meetings but no transactions involviz | terialized. Dunn he | ceived reports from Chicazo alleging that he was asking an exorbitant vrice to forestall the transfer to the big show of Boley, whom he described |as “only the second best shortstop in | the world to Glenn Wright.” ver in ! “I want to say that I am not anx |ious to sell Boley, because he is the main_cog in my club.” Dunn but I also want the public and F to know that T don’t want to ke this player out of the big leagues by | asking reported exorbitant prices. | “To show I want Boley to go to the | majors T will take $50.000, Moe Berg Roy and_Pitcher Mangum frofn | the Chicago White Sox for his re |lease. Also, I want to say that the only man in base ball who eyer mad me an outright offer for Boley was Charles H. Ebbets. He offered $100, 000, which 1 refused.” g v e MILLIGAN TO FIGHT ZIVIC JANUARY 22 9 A NEW Tommy weight Zivie of boxing bout den Jan Zivie Walke YORK, Milligan, January English middle- champion, will meet Jack Pittsburgh in 10-round Madison Square Gar will substitute for Mickey welterweight title holder. who was barred from participating the match by the Ne York State Athletic Commission. California Joe 'nch and Bushy Graham of Utica . Y., bantam challengers, have been matched for the 10-round semi-final Tt also was announced that Frank Moody of Epgland and Benny Ross of Buffalo had been matched for next Friday night. Young Bob Fitzsimmons of Nutley, N. J., meets Jack Delaney of Bridge port, Coni and Tommy Freeman of | Hot Springs, Ark.. opposes Joe Dun- {'dee of Baitimore. ' All three bouts are | 10-rounders.