Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1926, Page 81

Part 4—4 Pages The Sy Star WASHINGTON, D. C , SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1926. . —_— SPORTS | Local “Holdouts” Causing Small Worry : G. U. Athletes Trail in Fordham Games NATIONALS ALL ARE SURE TO SIGN UP IN DUE TIME President Quinn of Red Sox Explains Why He Sticks to Fohl, His “Manager Have Promising Pitcher in Morrell. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor, The Star. ITH the rotund Wilbert Robinson, president, manager, coach and whatnot of the Brooklyn W next se of perfor any too pretty But—the contracts out ye of the fairly we only a few days son, it might app ers on his list so far as the 1926 car said club bein known New ve his trouble getting his e: a foregone ¢ Tic» of ever has a mu ey with it that fafl succeeds ire crew lined usion. The b is time formers than f top honors, but that the agi wtion will be or well satisfied, to boot— 3 i is the made prediction v is that Includes Harris, Too. goes for Goslin, Judge, and T to mention 2 quar- tet of local f °s who have art lessly etr salary dif ences with the big chief to slip intc e public prints, and applies equally s well Raymond Harri versatile vo tinancier, who ines realtin and e ball wi cility of a Houdini. Harris' de e 100 per c increas rend he drew last seas not authentic, but pretty s doubt has preyed so heavily on the mind of Griff that he has missed a putt or two in sunny F' where he has been rusticati these past two weeks Grift is in Tumpa Harris™ ir Jffami, but both probably will he here for the American League schedule meeting early next month, and with Old Man Compromise impressed into service as arbiter the announcement hat Buc com wver (this is and E to will be forthcoming. Tame Stove League Season. The compars: this Winter is feature of base stove League ball following the to changes in leadership of clubs in the big show, the identity of every one of the 16 pilots always nas been initely known, and but a single Shift has been effected since the cham- pionship seasons ended. T was the rraduation of Joe Me rthy, for a Jong period chief of the Louisville club the American Association, to the directorship of Owner Wrigley's Chi cago Cubs in the N 11 League. The sinsle report deal i umong the pilots to crop up was that wild one to the effect that Roger Peckinpaugh would sever his connec tion with the Nationals and trek to Hoston to grab the managerial reins there. 2t no time was there ever the basis fact for that one. Vot only are ( ley Harrls expect rove the keystone of fense, despite licable flop in the late lamented world series. Jut the Boston ownership is o thor cughly sold on I 1s = pilot that the former Clev and t. Lou! tutor could not be pried away from ithe Hub. How Quinn Figures It. ifith and Stan- Peck to again found Proof of th ly made b: ent recen: President Lob Quinn, who is ing with the un enviable task of trying to give Bos ton a winner, to the effect t Fohl one of the best handlers of young all talent in the business and ager of his Amer- . despite the poor results attained by Lee in the past two seasons, “It stands to reason that my one ambition is to make the Red So inner,” s: Quinn, “and it equally ble that T allow anything within n block t object. Perh: be an easy matter for me to unload ur failure on Fohl's shoulders, but would be ju: much of an injus- tice as it would be easy. “No manager could have done bet- than Fohl did with the materia had to work with last Quinn continues, illustrating his point by referring to the c: Chance, known as the er” while with the Chica course, he was peerless then, but who would not have been with the collec- tion of stars he had around him? Chance Also Failed. ““Consider what happened to Chance when he went to the New ork Yankees and later to the Red Sox 1le simply did not have the tools to Sork with, und saw his clubs wind ‘up at the tail end of the league. But t should not nec Iy have made Chance any the peer than formerly “What the Red Sox need is not a change in management. 2 team in the field that can carry 1°ohl's orders and play intelligent hase b It is not Fohl's fault that a itcher, with instructions to throw a low ball inside to a certain batter, its one over the heart of the plate 1 sees It hit for 2 home run. Fohl cannot play the outfield and infield positions. avers that count before the man- n be considered.” Thus does Quinn place himself on \cecord In the time-worn debate as to w hether the manager makes the play- rers make the manager. ad: ‘red for having the courage of his convictions, and if sticktoitiveness can bring it about he will yet have a contender in Boston, for many years now a weak link in Ban Johnsea's circuit. New G:aTman Has Promise. In Willard Morrell, the right-hand hurler snared via the waiver route from the New Haven club of the Eastern League, the Nationals have obtained for an inspection at Tamap next month a promising college grad- uate, who, in addition, has an abso- lutely perfect game to his credit. To our old friend, Ernie Lanigan, §ne of the most demonical of figger Tilberts, we are indebted for the info that Morrell on May 21, 1921, scaled the highest hefght of hurling. In a rurfts Varsity uniform Morrell re. tived the Massachusetts Agsies with out a single ong of them reaching frst. is it would less He is to be but 9 of the 37 athletes on his roster have accepted terms for ir that Clark Griffith, with an equal number league club that hasn’t even sent its the Boston Americans, and Mr. McGraw York ago; so the piight of the Washington orgamization is not 17as it might seem at first accounting. is all set to step out and | would not | power to| ial Failure’’—Griffmen Dodgers, having announced that all of them in the fold, is not sitting mpaign is concerned. “Joints” started mailing his papers 1 Only the day before the Ag-| :s had beaten Harvard's nine. =1l was at Tufts for four ars. . born at Wayland, Mass., on oril 9, 1901, his birthday being the ime, though in a different year, as at of G. Harrls White, probably the sreatest southpaw ever born in this |city. Morrell stands 6 feet, tips the wales at 170 pounds and bats left- handed, although an orthodox flinger. | Morrell's work in organized base Dball has been confined cxclusively to | | the New Haven club. He was induced | by President George Welss to sign with the profs, then managed by |Clyde Milan, former famous star pieket man and pilot of the Nationals and now guiding the Memphis Chicks of the Southern Assoclation, in Au !zust, 1924, During the remainder of | | that tern League season he ap-| | peared in 12 games, being credited with four victories and being charged with three defeats, and had an earned run average of 3.57. Last season Morrell, whose work in so impressively subjugating a makeshift team of Griffmen in a Sep- | tember exhibition at Hartford led to his acquisition by the Griffmen, won | 17 and lost 15 games for the Eastern | League: He worked in innings and g run average of 3.53. | Here is his record for all the time he was with New Haven: Games—60. Innings pitched—325. Vivtories—21. Defeats—18. Percen Oppone; Opponents’ Opponents’ runs—142. carned runs—128. Opponents’ base hits—332. Opponents’ batting average—239. Strikeouts—125. Bases on balls—106. Hit_batsmen—s. Wild pitches—5. Eerned-run. average—3.56. BOY SMASHES RIFLE RECORD, MAYBE TWO By the Associated Press. WTOWN, Mas: | L. samuel Moore, 17-year-old New- ton high school senior, completed nearly eight hours of continuous rifle shooting today with one new world record to his credit, but uncertain whether he had captured another. Moore, firing a .22-callber rifle at a 50-foot range, from prone position, under the supervision of offictals of the Boston Rifle and Revolver Asso- | clation, scored 244 consecutive “A” bull's-eyes. This is a new record for junior marksmen. Whether he also broke the world record of 1,785 consecutive bull's-eyes in 11 hours has not been finally de- termined. The rifle club officials ruled that he had fired 3,000 consecutive shots into the bull's-eye circle of the target. But in examining his targets late today Moore himself questioned one target registered shortly after he fired his one thousand six hundreth shot. The target will be sent to na- tional officials for a ruling. The “A” bull's-eye record set by Moore replaces a mark of 130 held by Moore himself. An “A” bull's-eye must be within the final inner ring of the bull's-eye. The existing record of 1,785 bull’s- eves with a small rifle in 11 _hours is held by Clifford Poole, a Crestline, Ohlo, youth, and waa set last Sum- mer.” Moore previously had shot 1,600 | bull’s-eyes in seven hours. Today he | shot 500 bull's-eyes in 48 minutes and | 20 seconds, which is said to be a rec- ord in itself for speed and accuracy. Moore's longest rest today was one of eight minutes, and his only food while firing was 4 sandwich prepared by his mother. At the end of the long grind his hands were consider- ably blistered from working the mechanism of the rifle.. The range is in the basement of his home. RED QUITS MEETING TO CALL ON ZUPPKE By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELE: Calif., January 16.—Harold “Red” Grange shook hands with his former coach, Robert Zuppke, here, last night at a banquet {in honor of Zuppke by University of Illinofs Alumni. Over the protest of his manager, C. C. Pyle, Grange walked out of a busi- ness conference to meet Zuppke. The Coach wished his former protege all success in his professional foot ball career. Zuppke said that his stand on pro- fessional foot ball had been misinter- preted. He said he was in favor of it on the same basis as other profes. sional sports, but that he wented the game to keep its hands off under- graduate players. Grange and Zuppke were reported estranged when Grange at a banquet given in honor of the University of Iilinois_foot ball squad walked out while Zuppke was making a speech interpreted as a criticism of the star turning professional. g DOG TEAM SETS RECORD IN 40-MILE VICTORY POLAND SPRINGS, Me., Janu- ary 16 P).—What was belleved to be a world record for a 40-mile dog race was established here today when Ar- thur Walden's team, headed by the veteran Chinook, won the dog derby of the New England Sled Club in the time of 4 hours 1 minute and 55 sec- onds. He covered the 21% miles .thi morning in 2 hours 12 minutes and saconds. The best time for this distance up | to today was 4 hou :d 6 minutes, nade at the Internxticmal Derby at Quebec in 19205, January 16— WESTERN BASKETERS, NOSED OUT BY TECH IN TITLE [ 10 Cettert - S Tk MARSE Left Forward BLRT WILSON Braprorp Wizso Pigk’cGuard | > Photos by G Perkurs ~ w UNDERWOOD : -,I!orwatd \DELUGE CALLS HALT A CHARLES ODANTET, TRED RANDALL Piflhf TForward BASKET BALL RESULTS At Blacksburg—Maryland, 19; Vir- ginia Poly, 17. At New York—City College, —; Catholic University —. At Annapolis—Navy, nell, 14. At West Point town, 20. 40; Buck- Army, 47; George- At Norman—Oklahoma U, 40; Drake, 25. At Columbus—Ohio, State, 30; Illi- nols, 18. At New York—Columbis, 33; Cor- nell, 24. At Lincoln—Nebraska, 24; Grin- nell, 11. At Jowa City—Towa, 29; Indiana, 22. At Ann Arbor—Michigan, 38; Mich- igan State, 15. 5 At Baton Rouge—Mississippi U, 43; Louisiana State, 19. At Princeton—Princeton, 30; Yale, 14. At. Cambridge—Harvard, 33; Holy Cross, 17. At Amberst—Amberst, 44; Brown, o At Williamsburg — William and Mary, 28; St. John’s of Annapolis, 19. At Lexington, Ky.—Kentucky, 25; oo I:Ze“l'gt Va.—Georgia, 30; xington, a. eor| 5 V. M. I, 22 ‘At 'Knoxville—Tennessee, 41; Tus- culum, 22. At Fort Worth—Texas Christian, 35; Centenary, 13. At . College Station—Baylor, 22; Texas Aggies, 19. At Houston—Rice, 22; Texas U., 17. At St. Louis—St. Louis U., 33 Evansville College, 24. At Columbia—Towa State C., 23; Missourl, 22. At Philadelphila — Dartmouth, 32; Pennsylvanta, 7. At Morgantown—West Virginia, 30; Grove City, 21. At Baltimore—U. of M. Dental School, 34; Gallaudet, 23. At Norfolk—Park Place Methodists, 39; High Point College, 31. At Chapel Hill—North Carolina, 44; Guilford College, 20. o At Davidson—Davidson, 32; At Lafayette—Purdue, 38; North- ford, 19. western, 35. At Madison, Wis.—Chicago, - 17; Wisconsin, 15. TForward NEED SEEN TO SOLVE ATHLETIC SITUATION By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 16.—Prob- lems In the present athletic situation must be met and solved by a college before it can lay claim to an effective institution, Howard J. Savage of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- ment of Teaching, said at the twelfth annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges. He suggested as an experiment that five or six colleges band together, dis- charge their professional coaches, r strict the activities of their physical directors in the training of college teams and curtail the assistance alumni might give, thereby placing the responsibility of coaching and the development of teams on the under- graduates, Paul D. Moody, president of Middle- bury College, discussed the relation of scholarship to athletics. When schol- arship, he said, is put rigorously in its place without a too pedantic concep- tion of what scholarship is, athleties will be found to be an asset rather than a lability. Athletics, properly handled, he said, improve not only the standing of ‘the student body, but, where due emphasis Is placed upon scholarship, train men in wise and economical use of their time. On the other hand, he added, athletics, placed first destroys schol- arship standards and becomes a seri- ous detriment to the institution. SHADE AND MALONE PAID AFTER COIN IS HELD UP 8T. PAUL, Minn., January 16 (). —The State Boxing Cimmission today decided to pay the purses to Jock Malone and Dave Shade following their 10-round fight here last night. The commission decided that there was no evidence of faking. Shade collected $6,000 and Malone $4,000. : Chicago At New Orleans—Mississippi A. and M., 32; Tulane, 24. Rochester, 41; Chicago, 25 (A. B. B. L) = Philadelphia Elks, 29; Washington l + ¢ 20 | IN TEXAS OPEN GOLF By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., January 16. —Rain flooded the Breckenridge Park municipal golf course here today, causing postponement of the Texas open tournament before the fleld of golfers in quest of the $1,500 prize got away on the final 36 holes. ‘Weather conditions permitting, the tournament will be completed tomor- row. Play will be delayed until Monday, however, should it be found impos- sible to use the links Sunday. MacDonald Smith, New York pro- fessional, will tee off on the final rounds at the head of the list, as the result of his low total of 138 for the first 36 holes. NEVER ON FAIRWAY, MAKES HOLE IN PAR SAN ANTONIO, Tex., January 16 (P).—Getting out of a difficult hole in par without the ball ever touching the fairway is the feat performed here by Ross Youngs, New York Giant out- flelder. The story came out at the Texas open golf tournament. While prac- ticing for the tournament Youngs drove from the seventh tee, the most dangerous at the municipal course here. The green is 430 yards away, dlagonally across a stream, with trees to the left of the very narrow fair- way. Youngs hooked his drive. The ball landed among the trees. His second shot failed to get him out. The third lifted the ball over the trees, and it landed on the green. He holed out for par 4. LONE AMERICAN HORSE ENTERS GRAND NATIONAL LONDON, January 16 (®.—En- tries for the Grand National steeple- chase have reached a total of 60, 4 less than were entered last year. The American horse, Sergeant Murphy, which has run in every Grand National since 1918, is not en- tered. Lautaret Is the only French entry, while Peps, owned by Foxhall Keene, is the only American candidate. Only two past winners are nomi- nated for this year's running, Master Robert and Double Chance. winners in 1924 and 1925 respectively. SLATTERY WHIPS TODD. BOSTON, January 16 (#.—Jimmy Slattery of Buffalo, N. Y., won a judges' decision over Roland Todd of England in their 10-round bout here ! tonight. Slattery weighed in &t 164 land Tmlid at 16%. P CONTEST YESTERDAY " TORD YOUNG 2 Forward CORAL GABLES DOWN GIANTS ON GRIDIRON CORAL GABLES, Fla., January 16 (#).—The Coral Gables Collegians | snatched victory from the New York Giants in a professional foot ball game here today in the last few minutes of play. The score was 14 to 13. Two former Lafayette stars, Charlie | Berry and Doc Elliot, proved the Glant killers of the afternoon. Berry blocked a punt on the 5-yard line and | on the next play Elliot wént through | for a touchdown, tying the score. Berry kicked goal for the extra point and won the game. The Giants were a one-man scoring machine this afternoon, McBride, formerly of Syracuse, accounting for all the points for the New York pro- fesslonals. In the first period he made a touch- down and kicked goal. He later boot- ed two field goals. Coral Gables broke into the scoring the second period when Flanagan, ormer Penn State player, made a touchdown and followed this up by adding the point after touchdown. The Coral Gables team is made up largely of former Lafayette and Penn State players. | Line-up and Summary. (14). Positions. N.Y.G, (13). . E...Kenyon (G'town) -Milstead (Yale) Carvey (Navy) lexander (Syrac'e) -Williams (Laf'y'te, . Parnell (Colgate. Bomar (Vand bilt) Palm (Penn State) White (Oklahoma) enkert (Rutkers) (Syrac'e) Spugna (Lenigh) Conover (Penn S Osborne (Penn 8.} Lowe (Lafayette) Corcoran (G town) Ernst (Lafayette) Latone Flanag N Elliott (Lafasette) . Score by perlods Coral Gables: -+ . 7.0 7—1a Glants ... 3 8 0—is Touchdowne—McBride, F! Points after (ouchdown e MeB e Berrs (43 ¥ield woals-CHnde ). P rec—Mr. Smith (Navy). Umpire— Mr. Kenarick (A, and M.). 0 lisenoaa— Mr. Cates. E GRANGE OUTPLAYED, BUT HIS BEARS WIN [ ] LOS ANGELES COLISEUM, Calif. January 16 (#).—Harold “Red’ Grange's Chicago_Bears defeated the ' Los Angeles Tigers 17 to 7 here today in the West's first professional foot ball game. The galloping ghost of Illinols was probably outshone, however, by tl leader of the Western team, Georgs Wilson, University of Washington T Grange carried the ball over for both ‘Bear touchdowns. Wilson, with the exception of Roy Baker, was the only Tiger able to gain against the Bears. * Once he smashed his way through three-fourths of the fleld only to'fum- ' b"i on I::m Bear 4-yard line. n tho. elosing -minutes he passel and smashed the way to & touchdowx. P here. nowever, | treatment. | did not feel at all weli. HANDICAPS HURT HILLTOP TRACK MEN IN CONTEST Burgess and Asclrer Unable to Overcome Genero: Yardage Granted Opponents—Plansky Balked in Quarter—Holden Second in Race. By the Associated Pre N EW YORK, , was disquali distance A€ event at the Fordha the last turn. former Peny r the colors of t on half mile t for cutting in o fcatu . who Sober was timed o second slower than the New York Johnny Holden, former Georgetow New York A. C., who finished third, v nelly, former G. U. star, was placed 1t None of the Georg 1 runners i The liberal handicapping shut out scratch men in both the 20 and yard handicap 'races, both Ascher and Jimmy Burgess, town aces, being the victims in the respective events. Ascher ploughed through from the rear in the first heat of the furlong, but his usual fin ish failed to carry him beyond sec ond place. Tony Plansky, Georgetown's versa- tile heavywelght, looked u sure winner fn the quarter mile, rdling the | prostrate form of a halted him in his trac lost then and there. Burgess gave Vincent vards and that was four too Lally won the event hands while Jimmy was floundering a maze of flying heels. Al of 5015 seconds off four ya probably stand season. Albin Stenroos of Finland easily won the five-mile run. The Finn cov ered the distance in 26 minut seconds. Stenroos led Karl Kos American A. C. runner, by with David F; and, Finnish runner, third. Hubert Houben, (erman sprin star, made his first public appears He received a royal welec The A. A. U. officials were startled when Houben's interpreter asked if there was physiclan at hand to examine the s s throat. | s of the | Houben's | ed a star said that feeling, a miI many. | TWBNMIL A6, | (rh ot behind < time will the WALK as the best of AND Finnish- ORI AD another yards), third CENTRAL SWIMMERS BEATEN IN'BALTIMORE BALTIMORE Polytechnic swam | Central High School |in the Central Y The scor rARD nd B A. A O complaint mouth washe: nd prescr] baths his throat h Md., Jan to of oL The Summaries. ! TO-TARD DASH (No bert Milford Cooper Un Rutgers University, st New York Universiis. th 100-YARD' D Harry sards) hington ool o (Vivell, Hyde Central (Boi rde) . third. Tame.0:10. 1 (Handicap) —Won by Morris " X unattached arles Stempier. Brook (14_vards) AC 10 vards HALE-MILE Rt Harry “MeArdle, Ba | Time 1:36 FANCY points, won / (Handicap ) — George Nolan. New York A. C. (10 John_ Barnes 3 e Ed_Swanson, third, Time: ONE-MILE “RI Syd Leslie Anderson. ' unatt, M. Dalton. Seton Ha third. Time. 4 312 ON. E STROKE—_Kirbs Second:. Sanders .1 minute s 0-YARD BACK STROKE—Buff Poly) won: _Raine 1), third STYLE—Jelenko (Pols) t second: Mom- 58 seconds, style)—Raine YARD Stanton third, (Handican) —Won ratch): Leo (Handican)—Won | won N T icisn’ Contral Y. M. ( ond Geoghegan. | (43 ards). | + A (85 Bioomfield third Time Charles eum Come On. Men! 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