Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1926, Page 23

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, MONDAY. Fete Will Attract Base Ball Nolables : National League Has New Hall of ENIOR LEAGUE BA“IQUET E"OSUN IS BENCHED, - TO END (,()1 DEN JUBILEE BUT IN A NEW GAME| ary 5. n where Senator Pepper to Address Gathering at New York | ten | ROUNDING THIRD WBy Hugh A. Jennings " CHAPTER XLVIL JANUARY 95 25, 1926. SPORTS. Fame MAN, 73, IS ANXIOUS ‘NO GIANT NAME APPEARS T0 FIGHT CORBETY| |N LATEST LIST OF STARS Wash., January 25 73, farmer of Nampk: J. Rankin, W ‘iHomaby., Carey and Pinnelli Are Ouly S ors of N i &l Jim Corbett ever base ball is rhe ROBABL \ the hardest-hitting organization of all time was the old J& wants to fight | & : < S 7 S ch for more | b . rmer heavywelght champion of th | H on February 2 to Be Attended by Veteran sass onpdhe enchatokd m;‘,, P club. This team becaie organized in 1893, and the | woria:. Hannth dociared ere. that| revious All-Star Combination—Bottomley. 33 persons it startled base ball with exhibitions at bat such as the | Corbett had once Issued a challenge mpires and Officials. . e . : s o | that he would fight any man in the Cuyler and Stock Get Places. Players, 1 | lm. had_never witnessed. On the team were such famous clouters as-| el he would flght anv man in the i a b e trend, M soleon Lajoie, Elmer Flick, Ed Delahanty and Roy Thomas, great and | xait reached the ge. The former e ward J. Carney, to = the beneh | near-great in-the list of-batsmen. No team has ever batted so well on its | heavyweight pugllist will be 60 in e & BY GEORGE CHADWICK. | | i gronnds as this Philadelphia outfit. I do not know whether any onc |:l'"n:l\sll and Rankin says he is BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ; o S spathenned T Goslin. jhub St batting average of the games played at home by the Philadel- | *eAd¥ (or ham e EW YORK, January 25.—The biggest cleaning out o | Z ; 2 RSN DEVINS fas] inybody n oppuse 0 i P e ex s ve known Jim Corb: or S i : the i ¢ Hote! Astor, hewe, on \‘U‘H:".W b DR ut-1 .h believe that nevr again will basc bal see exhibitions ), °T bave known Jim Corbeit for| G disciosedi Dyithe omalzic S lnpae N i e 2 him id the Nampka man. I don't i Of the top-tiotchers of 1924 only three survive. They are Hornst ficance of this was plain to us say that I can beat him, but we ought | Murphy’s job with Philadelphia Yt Teun beat him, bt we 0UEh! | 2y teading batsman, Carey as leading base stealer and Pinelli as lead P chief of the signal corps. Leav- | matel, as Corbett has tuken good |sacrifice hitter 8 v, | strange t | ing tihe field, he would take up his|care of himself.” Hornsby replaces Fournier as leading h hitter of I | d away from its cwn park it! position in the second story of the| Although 14 years older than Cor- | ¢ X 5 e h & 2 and the not duplicade its howe jerform: | clubhouse behind a window in a di- | hatt, Rankin is not worried. He is| Cuyler replaces Roush as champion triple slammer. Botton i 1 rect line with home plate. Supplied | (ix “foct one ineh in height d | mate of Horn:by, supplants the latter as leading two-base hitt S ged f the Philad | with 4 powerful pair of fieldetisses | 200 pounds. but claims he can | as the leader in total number of hits v s to eur-! batsmen Murphy would sit there and get the | To 150 pounds, “his fiEhting | \who have not followed the figur K away from t thelr worl souls. — As soon as | \elght.” ClieasE Wheat § SR road - could compara with | overed the away from iee tound ati | the signal he and communicated | #L third base coachin, er happened to he cowch- | iladelphia would stand over | upe 1924 in rungett! took the lead uway from both N History of Bush Leagues Vance. who led in 1924 The leadin; ional League pitche wme. I'm Ba ; et the signal from | In 1924 was Yde of Pittsbu p heniptiens s and communicate it to the | 7 although I N LaiStal s . Philadel :.f i \ S One buzz would be for « fast | By John B. Foster: Ao Pepper Main Speaker. AbRE b oo ouia e nta ot nak | two for u_curve, three for ' {ore to Bill RUSSIA IS PLANNING et ! % Lo one. The batter ‘alwase iaew | CHAPTER XXXVI. the pitcher was preti g for the minor leagues , in other words. | in the zame's history reting any L becam ery teatn | e about to G S § e he | TUNS allowed, is supplanted by Luque s ' M 133 ova 8 s BT i '“‘i\vu-ph _}hc:’n., a catcher | UW ers the goat. The fellow who does the scribbling and t he greatest goodand-bad alternato 2] " F o smari one, no i i ry : PA (}F R| 1EFTS e nEdino’ cotile | scr The secreta Fancelt Burrus supplanted Grimm as i e is Jot ts se ball letters at e tae is Johu H. He gets more base bal | leading first baseman, ba 1 on v 5 hiladelphta h the Philadelphts sig- any man in the world ings of playvers who par pated 1 s l,\ ll NIUS wWaoon lartting at The New York Glants P = been secretary of t big organization since it started.! 100 games or mere. of the al . nd the Clhica 1894 and | serles an Philadelphia fr: gave him a heap of wor st off, for which he never got a Cubs ran all the : was pitching tor the | from anvbody. but his exper 3 uld have flled a hogshea others out ¢ honove s A time and Frank Bower- | o hles Travnor of urg: conipletel: i 1 1 was @ catcher fo w York. | A floored Groh for third . 1T « Pavior and Bowerman had agreed| Much of the matter which goes to|ended Vas handled for| yng Bancroft o niex | tha e ol » e Cinein. | that when Tay hed Bower r pi o | Farrell is of that type which needs de ‘ options ex stop he hed at nmd in the dea{ mute | clsions about players. He savs theler 3 itorial 7 o5 = would ghow Dhila- | fewe that he ever ren than o that defied |€d in on since 1906 were s handl Mike Gonzales it 3 v phii “I'he greatest number of decisions th: bout a 1 8 |6 Gatohiis hath o S vl Murpl he has rendered in one year was 1,107, Outside of Cincinnati took the outfielding’ leac i e Correspondence totals from 10,000 to | secret now and then trims the | oo o fe S ROl L elphia 1 000 letters, a. on. Strike a_bal | rose bush the front vard 1 ibly the most res thinz : th nee on that f year ¥ 150001 The peak of the association ratings les in the failing out-a loud Sunuily sud yeve 000 1et | reached tn 1913, when f the Giants, who wen! mu chaRn ers to his credi " leagu embracing 356 cities and| o r Stant — . s maie e snane 2] 1o addition to the lettors. Furrell has <in the United States and Can- |} e :\“:rr',‘f“: g s ¢ al UET | eceived 4,000 to 5.000 ,,, lcefus O3 T iivers X . 0 IVADING GOLF STARS Jeoroom itk Dummy | SN, 200010 G0 (SRS S fada, emplog e b e e ot Gian o eve selisl y {where he lives——-Auburn- . a4 3E E AGAI Fiowe £ e e rone of this xplaining ARE DEFEATED AGAIN petit iy | well ““(‘)x (‘1;“'1 legrap! T e PETERSBUR( = D Litinhepi says that he handled | ated except iCopyright ex as contracts in 1923, examined anNGuarel o ] \ fur Murphy. | 1,200 to 1,470 “terms accepted” —that's € ans! S \ i 3 ¥ ned an ¥ | when 7 ball | be Op reqert, ¢ o "*;N'r‘ i~ LAWN BOWLING A'ITRACTS ’ S sure to be some chap who will put i st . it it would be iy o L T. PETERSBURG ' d clocted . | d the coacher at third | ments plavers, | @ demand f i tos whom ihe Jio e * Nore {han 200 en e Sgiid here was o brick wall in the cut- it a fast ball tonal : and options ex; rml:;;l o | here today for the openinz th v . lot and r m: 000 copies of offic : | National Open Lawn Bowiing tourns e BEpIOe NSIiE ihe word s. heard all minor league play- that he did | 1 e, Virtually every section of the T et # ountrie 1o d slow ball ind club disputes and Nation is represented, with seiera ¥ il o was flashed roversies, gathered the evidence| Farrel did all this work at first with- | entrants. from Canmda. . e Y d sy and as soo d wrote the decisions, and then some |out salary. He didn't know what he ! o i & A chap got mad because he couldn't tell [ had zot into wh'n he tackled {t. Re S SHOULD B‘ GREAT RACV BEgielaE. e Ve price of peamits for | ing fxithful and rather partial to the Y : Sz 5 = stand job, for the sake of bass ball, he kept CANNES TENN“ DELAYED g £ 3 All the money which i on doing it. by and by it began to | France, January 73 tasan |dawn upon some of the members of al of the woman's single o i 9% ¢ ssoc ihey Dad been | in the tennis fourney between Heis Wills_and Mlle. Viakto, as well as all other finals, were postponed yes. terday on account of rain e e - CThere's a little bit of MURAD in nearly every cigarette - but only a MURAD is A4LL MURAD Most good cartoonists nowadays suggest, in one way or another, the whimsical artistry and homely understanding of Clare Briggs. them. Perhaps onc is reminiséent of MURAD'S delicious flavor, another hints of MURAD's tempt- ing fragrance, a third reminds you of MURAD's In some of their drawings, you catch a faint ~ gracious coolness. trace of Briggs’ exquisite humor; in others, a re- flection of his deep knowledge of human nature. But only Clare Briggs is all Clare Briggs. The others can only approximate him. For most good cigarettes contain a variable percentage of that choice tobacco which makes MURAD incomparable —Turkish tobacco, and the finest grown. So it is with nearly all good cigarettes when But Turkish tobacco is the sum and substance of compared to MURAD. MURAD, not just a mere ingredient. Thus, only a MURAD is all MURAD . . . only a MURAD is all charm. M UR A D The TURKISH @igarette There's a fleeting suggestion of MuraD about “There’s a little bit of BRIGGS in nearly every good cartoonist, but only BRIGGS is ALL BRIGGS" A Turkish means Al Gharm @19 7. LORILLARD COMPANT, BIT. UM s . e