Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1926, Page 39

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1926. SPORTS, 39 Mack Out to Beat Nationals This Year : Dodgers to Rely on Experienced Talent SEEKS INFIELDER TO WELD SLUMPLESS COMBINATION Connie Believ He Can Achieve Pennant If A’s Can Reverse Their Standing and That of Griffs in BY JOHN ary 15.—The ton out the pen in 1925 EW YORK, ] beat Wash ter of the target Contests With the West. B. FOSTER. irrepressible Connie Mack is out to inant in 1926. He shot so close to the that he thinks he can find the bull's especially if one or two other teams in the West will lend of the of an ion. He bombardmen st on the trai ss combina American League who is a another team or two put on the ver market What Mack hopes to do in 1926 is to reverse the standings of his team and the Washington club in their re- sts with the West. Last teams won 34 nd 37 from was the the Ath hem and only ennant by Had « eve did only the pen ne to the ntingon tle hetter against But_he also & a stiffer oppo. ‘leveland and other Hence his quest is Senatorial stronghold infielder to round out what he hopes has been after this particular fielder, for some time. But Boston and probably would give him a race if the player in question were All the Athletic infield showed s! of wabbling at times last season. strength of the team in batting was good and the fighting spirit wus un- restrained in the rly part of ason. 19 good But towa e f the factors that had been foremost in helping t Athletics b 10 weaken and finally the field slumped "hat principal renson for the Ath last mp their W ern trip. They got back h with a faint rayv of hope st maining, but they could not resain their stride and | the pennant was wafted away | Mack would not be averse to going | into the coming season with two com | plete infields, as Cobb did at Detroit last season. At any rate, he is de. termined to do a that he can to | strengthen his infield inst a repeti- | tion of the 1925 disaste I (Copsricht, 1026.) the too. season, th ' ROUNDING THIRD | ~—~——————By Hugh A. Jennings—~—————~ CHAPT! fordil wiord be, r d thougt Fi 1 awk elder, an awkward batter and an awkward base-runner, he was still good lepartmen H was When he man- White Sox he d and no center ever ranged mora widely. fielder P Dougherty and his right fielder was Eddie Hahn He used to hem play within feet of ne while he ra between them. Being an atsmen, Jones coul he knew where to play expert Nemesis to Crawford. T A Nemesis of Crawford. Sam d hit long flles to right center and Jones would set himself in right center. Often he did not to move five feet to catch the Crawford could hever hit against azo because of Jone: used to call Jones the * Chicago hicago foul and Jones n 1 flie lies hit betwe was one of An arm. hitting p Jackson. He was nd in running bases o played also ence de vn. Felsch plaved center field as r field, standing on a direct line second b nd the home plate. 1 is where center flelders stood in iy da game. Felsch 1 position, never left his but stll he way a great e never seen a man who fl n 5 d he rier to w but nter fiel neve was Unequaled. 4 great center A4 un egual in v fly ball. No man with the 1 and took ft ider so well as Speaker. reat arm. and threw with aceur ir part a. |k ound curate imes u veral of kor was « . yod hit most of hi ents varied ke Ruth started as a pitcher. Had ntinued pitching he proba ranked as the best left he game. an honor that Waddell deserves, in my opin The fact that RutK has led the 1used many overlook talents as a it if Ruth batted only ordi- v he would still be an outstand- - plaver because of his flelding abil- ile is smart and he always makes ht pl Te knows base ball m all ang He has a fine throw- irm. judges batters, | the t position for them and is as good attinyg flles any man in the tields during Lis time, Fis fielding tikness is on ground balls. 10 ha runs has hi: ome egins as Pitcher. ¢ harlie Jamieson also started out pitcher. He pitched for the Buf- . Internationals. After being shift- round he landed in Cleveland and used In the outfleld. Playing neside of Speaker he became the loft flelder in his league, a fine e of fly balls, a good thrower, & lead-off man, a good hitter and on the bases. Youngs, like Willle Keeler, « third baseman before he reach- e outfleld. When the Glants got it was s a third sacker. He <ent to Rochester for more ex- ience, and when New York recalled Manager McGraw decided that < would never do much at third in the outfield. So he tried and Younes made good ne the most sensational and hed rizht fielder of his time. He ressive, a constant tryer and he es to win. Whitey Witt was a shortstop on the Philadelphia Athletics team. Connie Mack shifted him to the outfield. He could never throw well, but he covered hence the nickname, es of Ruth, big and heavy, the | base ball has | ER XL. gan playing base ball “Wahoo Sam.’ but not so fast He started as He as he had the weight and the power be- it what a pity it was t Crawford 1 He wo i magks. G t much hig flies 1l hard ave a h som home tory, he cou out 20 feet park. Crawford hit The iivel new the b ind 1die Collins much ground also a good 1 and Witt were Mack had ollins in the outfield and converte | bim into an infielder while he convert ed Witt into an outfielder Harry Heflmann was a first. hut developed flel He has a powerful arm fast as speed goes in has he plays the batters well a nd is led hitters of the shifre nd unt the o off ma kward at s bi hall hut has a 3 as als his proper place in Jacobson Valuable Man. Raby Doll” Jacohson been a sensational plaver got into the headlines. but { Valuable one just the sare ed every batter, o |ana that | provea | for tota !m one has n and r he w lie p vered much zround het was alwavs active is the fact that he set a record number of chances accepted season by an outfielder. Roush began his base ball s a right handed thrower. He %00d in the minors and the “ubs bought him. After the Cubs his arm went back Instead of being crushed by failure, for the Cubs sent him to the minors and regarded him s through, Roush practiced throwing | with the left arm and so concentrated {on his job that he became one of the zreat throwing outfielders of the | game. He covers a wide range and | his right and left flelder play closer to the foul lines than any pair since | the day of Fielder Jones. He is one of the best hitters in the game and | also one of the most Intelligent. | (Copyri ' \IBITION GAMES Eddie his |18 EXH [ CARDED FOR RED SOX | BOSTON, January 15 ().—A Spring trainin chedule of 18 exhibition rames the Red X, of which 15 will he p d in the South, has been made n Games will be play March 7, N March minel March 31 and April 1, and [4n Louisville April 3, 4, 6 and 6. The Red Sox are due at their New Orleans tralning camp February 28. ——-— . JOCKEY CLUB ELECTS. for New Or- 28; ed in nnual meeting to- - nk R. Hitcheock, Widener and A. G. Morris or three vears, and_tabled from trainers to adopt in the claiming rule used in | aay | Toseph stewards a petition this State l-hsfory of Bush Leagues By John complished in the past, and yet they to those which were pursued back in There was a time when no club's players were safe. As likely as not | when the Chicago team went up to t. Paul, for Instance, to play a ball game, the Chicago manager would iind that three of four of his men were not at the station to go back home with himn. They had been lured away by St. Paul As might naturally be expected this thing hed to stop or all of the ball clubs would have gome out of busi- ness, the offenders as well the of- fended, because no one would put any money in an enterprise which had such little stability to it, Along came one of the smartest men of base ball, Col. A. G. Mills, who afterward became National League president, and who thought out what is known as the “national agreement,” which is & compact be- tween base ball organizations, as one man _brusquely put it, “not to be a bunch of damne thieves when it came to players. Men who were the soul of honor t the tempta- It had the | same fascination em that smug- gling has for some persons. Knowing that it was not good sport and even approximately stealing from their triends, they couldn’t keep from the custom of getting the big ball players to switch their alleglance. > to steal CHAPTER XXXIL HEN the clubs now of ¢he National+Assoclation adopted their own national agreement in 1901 to savd themselves from extinc- tion, they accomplished morg than.eny body of minors had ac- CATCHER HANK SEVEREID NOW IS IN LINE FOR 1926 Henry Severeid, veteran back- stopper obtained iast season from the St. Louis Browns, apparently is one of a small handful of Na- tionals who do not hold an exslted opinfon of their worth as dia- mond performers or who are con- tent to accept a fair wage of following the policy customas of players on a champlonship clul of boosting their salary demands simply because they are on a title- winning team. Accordmg to word from Preai- dent ith, now sojourning at Tampa, Hank has accepted terms acing himself & category just half a dozen others ners on the Wash- BIG HEAVY FIGHT PURSE OPPOSED IN CALIFORNIA By the Aseociated Press. ACREMENTO Calif. January 15—Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills will never meet in California for any guarantee purses that resemble the foreign war debt, if Boxing Commissioner William H. Han- lon of Sacremento. has his way. . The Sacremento Bee yesterday printed a statement from Hanlon in which he bitterly attacked the consideration of such a match in California, involving a purse of $750,000, such as is being mentioned by Los Angeles promoters. In part, Hanlon is quoted as follows: “Dempsey and Wills might meet in California. but it will never be by my vote of approval, and I will carry a fight to the commission to prevent it in this State. It is utterly absurd to consider paying such amounts as box- ors of their class are demanding; and With the the match are the outstanding maple championship the Al Work Barl Mc promises 1o be the |y higgest by on the drives this Win ter. Challenges may be hurled at the winner and other matches follow, but, come what may, this contest that Starts at the Coliseum tomorrow night will be the event of the present bowl- ing campaizn As to a championship, that is anothar matter. The Work-McPhilomy match is tha result of a friendly rivairy between Jack Blick and Harry stanford, who are the employers of the principals in the contest. Blick long has boasted of the prowess on the drives of his Terminal Ice Co. star, and Stanford for the past year has thought that his Stanford Paper Co. bowling leader is about the best to be found on \Washington alleys. And the match starting tomorrow night ought determine which of these two backers is right, but it will not determine any eity champlon More than mes are needed to that. A champion is not a man who shoots 4 spectacular game occasion ally. nov vho bowls consistently well with a league that does its roliing on one = evs only. This column believes that a real city champion would be a man leading a xues bowling on several -« during a lengthy cam who could amass the 1 season extending early April alleys of varying would be better ed champion than ezistered his average on hat he found particularly Jis brand of bowling Despite this ment. however Philomy match league different palgn highest from late A ave September to no championship hinges . this Work-McPhilomy tch is going to attract a lot of peo- The rank and file of Washington all het up” over the af flock to the Coliseum to and o Convention Hall to see these stars in are apt to be bowling \timore among those pres too s splendic Although bowlers fair and mo A week 1 tion Th fans from ent ton are rrow. Ning for the inst a Balti him in 1 the time they would his battle with Work of fans are expecting to be bowled in the therell have to be some howling if counts recog- ecords are to be bet cames registered by bowling for the the Departmental ho saw match extraordinary nized as Disi t tered. That 3 Tip O’'Neill while Treasury team of League several years ago will take a deal of shooting to overhaul. Work, though unotficially credited with a game of . said to be the best ever toppled here, would have to get many good breaks to reach that 183 made by O'Nefll. ¢ seems to be at the top He showed that in his G in his second effort in the Washington-Baltimore match last Saturday night. Then, Earl after a starting 3 made a strike and s spares, which was nifty bowling, to say the least. But there’s a greater difference between 175 and 183 than the 8 pins seem to indicate, Breaking game records in duckpins here appears to be a_difficult task O'Nelll's 153 has stood for six or seven years, and the record it bettered had withstood the assaults of the pin smashers Tor nearly a decade. The first recognized duckpin game mark in the District was set by Dave McCarty, who left the tenpin game flat on its back to tale up the hardwood @uck pins when they were first popularized 175 score ama rolled a count of 182 on the aleys, that since have been demolished, on October 3, 1910. Dave did his shooting for the Mount Vernon team against the Paluce quint in the National Capital League. His big score was made in the opening game of the inaugural get of the league season. For high-class bowling one turns to the Distriot League these days. Roll- ing egainst the Meyer Davis quint, the Convention Hall team of Morgan, Ur- ban, Mulroe, Miller and Rosenberg turned in @ set of 1,789 to take three games and fatten the Convention Hall total pinfall that already was the high- arty B. Foste putsuedfalmost exactly similag tactics the very ®asliest days Bf base ball. Dol Mills put & stop to that by his agveemnent avhich was & tripartite af fatr fust all the national agreement of these day¥ between the National League, the American League and the National Assoclation is one. The | firt agreement was ameng the Nu- | tional League, the American Associ tion and the Northwestern Leaguc. which, in a sense, may stand for the | minors in this instance. It put a| penalty on playslifting and for that | matter put base ball men on their | honor to stop those things Which were making base ball & farcc and giving the sport a reputation among those from whom it was es- sential the game should get support. ‘This agreement made base ball. It | Was even a more powerful source of | good than the so-called reserve rule, | which some men think mede base ball. The reserve rule served to steady the balance of clubs because it kept plavers under one control in definitely, but the national agreement Put men on thelr honor to let players | alone. | Money always has heen a serious | arawback in minor and major base i ball. Too much of it more than once | | has led ‘to scandal and too little of it | doesn’t lead anywhere except to the | scrap heap, which is built wide and lofty with failures dating from the beginning of base ball time, [ T 8 o'clock tomorrow night, two of Washington's star bowlers will swing into a match that many followers of the game believe will about determine the champion duckpinner of this section of the country. But there are many others who hold that a 10-game match cannot determine a bowling champion, even though the contestants in argu- e we if other States wish to entertain the idea it is entirely up to them, but count California out.” LOS ANGELES, Junuary 15 ().— Jack Doyle, veteran California fight promoter, has obtalned from Jack Dempsey, world heavyweight cham- plon, a promise to fight Harry Wills 10 rounds to a decision for the title in Los Angeles Labor day, September G next, on three conditions. Dempsey’s first two _stipulations were that the group of Los Angeles backers, whom Doyle represents and who have signitied their willingness to underwrite the match up to| £2.000,000, obtain permission to hold the bout in Los Angeles Collseum and | that they show the necessary financial | ability to carry the deal through. | The champion’s other condition was that he be given 10 days to permit Flayd Fitzsimmons, South Bend pro- moter, who has been negotiating with him, to put up the necessary cash guarantees for a hout in the East, or| call that deal off. | .— | Dempsey interlected another stipula- | qule;'s smashers of the season. of the league. Two of the games e above 600. Morgan was the big p0ise of the mateh with a set of 383. PAOLINO OUTPUNCHES DEMPSEY, SAYS CARP States Washin Baltimore Thu second | of their balkine | match holding a 33-puint lead over the | Maryland tea Last night at the Lewis the Distri the first 67. Leny bheat He d | while Capt. Chs | from rson, of bill: the 18 for block intercity see ex RY soclal call in California Florida that L | nd Krauss | more powerful punch in his left hand | 0 tue T8 Angeles Bout. i it ma- “I have faced them both,"” Carpentier s i CT CUES didn’t recover my senses for two DISTRI T E BEAT boxing, at the - 13 He will go if coast promoters ins intend 1o visit this Sentiuves NEW YORK, Janua 15 Paolino, Spanish heavyweight, has a tion to the effact that the promoters {of the Los Angeles bout, if it ma than Dempsey possesses, Georges | ihopedic Hospital for children here, Carpentfer of France, former light-|which he would match with another heavyweight champion, sald. $50,000 from his end of the purse. said. “Dempsey knocked me out in Jersey City, but not for long. Paolino hit me once in a training bout and I | b BALTIMORE PLAYERS | the visit to the United is a | vacation, the first since he started to California in two weeks and will fulfill & contract to box Jimmy De- laney of St. Paul in about ks, “1 will Promoter today, but only as After’ I get through have heard so mich ably will stay he two months les Wolfe won | FIRPO STARTS TRAINING BUENOS AIRES uvary 15 (®)—Luis heavywe Argentina, J 2 12, and wo runs of for his match against E i each. | Italy, to be held here early Frank Turton and Powell will | March. Spalla i due from Italy about | play for Washingt the 5 & middle of Fehrnary ' ists will go tof TEX RICKARD RANKS FIGHTERS OF WORLD By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January 15.—The “complimentary” ranking of Jack Dempsey at the head of the heavy- weight division and relegation of two other world's champlons, Rocky Kan- sas and Charley (Phil) Rosenberg, to subordinate positions in their classes, | feature the 1925 international boxing list selected by Tex Rickard, pro- moter. The list: BEAVYWEIGRTS—Jack Dempses of Los Angeles. Harry Wills of New York. Gens Tuoney’ of “New York. Bud Gorman of Kenosha, Wis : Jack Renault of Manireal LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS—Paul Berlen bach of New York. Jack Delaney of Briden gort Mike MoTigte of New' York. Younk tribling of Macon. Ga.: Eddie Huffman of Los Angeles. : MIDDLEWEIGHTS—Hasry Greb of Pitts burgh, “Dave “Shade of New York, Tiger Flowers of Atlanta. Leo Lomski of Aber- deen. Wash.: Joo Gans 0f Alientown. Pa WELTERWEIGHTS —Mickey = Walker of Flizabet J.; Tommy Milligan of Scot land, Jack ‘Zivic' of Pitteburgh. Joe Dundes gt JBaltimore.” Georgie Ward 01" Eiizavett LIGHTWEIGHTS—Sammy __ Mandell_ of Rockford. . 11l.: Sid_Terria’ of New York Rocky Kahsas of Buffaio. Jimmy . Goodrici of Bilffalo. Solly Seemun ot New York JUNIOR LIGHTWEIGHT Moreun ot "Seattle Joe Glick of New York. Mike Dundee of Rock Irland. 1.+ Honesboy Finr an of Boston. Johnny Drew of Worcester, Mass. FEATHERWEIGHTS—Louis lan of Meriden. ¢ He York, Jimmy Robby “Gar Bass ANTAM ford. Mas N Y. Bud Charley (f Schwartz Sarmiento of (Kid) | Kap- Anel W Lox Holabird Graham of Terre H Ind 1) Rosenbers of New York. Peis New Vork, Al Brown of Panama. s 0f New Hed 01 Utica, B 1 Laharba of New of _Los Anzeles. Frankie Genaro York Newshoy Brown of Sioux City. Towa THUNBERG IS BEATEN BY AMERICAN SKATER NEW YORK, January 15 (#).—Clas | Thunberg of Finland, champion skater of the Olvmpics, has met defeat in his | first American indoor test. but he has | lost none of his presti, for he shat- | tered the world 2-mile indoor record. | Three miles of racing at M:ifdison | e Garden, where Thunber » Moore, champion of th rs, and Charley G Canadian title holder, la quired 168 corner turns awerves. For 36 of the 47 Finn held the ad, with Moore ond place and Gorman third turns were crude, both f together to avoid spilling Moor jumped ahead at th end of | ; miles and Gorman followed nherg 1 11, against the boards ; rink, refusing to extend Moore won in 9 minu 2515 rds behir Jut brought €13 45 The New York Gi first game under azement 3 nts plaved their ohn McGraw's | (Big) M ROBBIE SEEKS TO REBUILD WITH VETERAN CAST-OFFS Brooklyn Boss Banking Heavily for Contending Club in 1926 on Maranville of the Cubs, Witt, Ex-Yankee, and O’Neill of Braves. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 15—Veteran players rescued from the back trails of the major leagues carry the hope of Wilbert Robinson yn Robins and bring them back to the contending position they held prior to 1925 He in his attempt to rebuild the Brook His aim is a high-pitched offensive infielder, Rabbit M nville; the fleet erstwhile Braves’ catcher, Mickey O'Neil, 1o fire. Maranville slated over the keystone bag, Mil Horace Ford probably be at short ney, Marriott, late of the Brave well as two young players, Inside Golf By Chester Horton The farther bac the more difficult the reverse ru Il call upon the former Cub Whitey Witt, and the ch of the dash and is <t to sta terond hould he take turn to third, while would leave in reserve Tier- a Des Moines recruit, as inty about the Jacques the n order ne 1o escape uncormpl kly he T | the Bro By | of attitude or < you take the timing. you swing | Iy Wh swing for the Brook- n fans later quieted him. 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