Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1926, Page 35

SPORTS. THE EVENTING STAR, TWASHINGTON, D. €. TOURSDAY. JAXTARY o ) 1926. SPORTS. ~e Few Base Ball Rules Changes Likely : Dundee Confident He Can Regain Title SENTIMENT NOT TO MAR DIAMOND CODE REVISION Chang That May He]p Personal Recorda for Stars |1 Not to Be Considered—Proposed Alterations Would Make Regulations Consistent. PAOLINO DECLARED ballyhoo of giant dimensions. WILD MAN OF RING | Safe bets may be made that within History of Bush Leagues By John B. Foste CHAPTER XXXV. introduces “Mike” Sexton, sociation. who is presiden oi the Natio: nal He lives in Rock Island, Iil, and he has been with the National Association ever since it started. When Pat Powers resigned as president of the association Sexton NEW YORK. January ~—Paolin: HIS the Basque woodchopper, who has o seen cleaning up the heavywelghts of T As Lurope, will arrive In America shortly., The stage is all set for a was induced to take the job. went to Sexton and asked him to be the executive. “There’s nothing to it,” said the men who “You just have to sit HALL DENIEDWOMEN gy FEATHERWEIGHT KING | FORPROPOSED BOUT) 4 (e IN RING TOMORROW | By the Ascociated Press | LONDOX Janua 28, he pro-| posed sl pund bout betwee two | Ammazone. Anmie Newton and Madee Yeteran, Who Has Lost Two World Championships saker, his been abandoned |the suburb of Hox The to Meet Youthful Glick—Johnny’s Follo Not Sanguine of His Success. ing local coune I where it outs to take § ace next Mon | two months the big forelgner will be- | iy the chair and preside at annual meetings, and review the work of the |¢ e d Sl i Al = — o i gin to shape up as a menice 80 far as|y,,,0q oy, ne thing and another. ¥ so fa s Tiis G e e e | BY JOHN B. FOSTER | the world heavyweight championship = ‘: one g It won't bother you so far as your | Madge are withdrawn from the PO By the Associated Pross L 2 is concerned. In the end there will be |other work is concerned. - ] o ) . . EW YORK. Junuary The base ball playing rules committee meets flnekufl:hose acute_l;.nlm\u-»:l:]l“( :n:‘:‘pl‘; Mike doesn’t do anything u?w ex- | man to be president of three minor e “;M{ Ao Souncll was EW YORK. January ~Re-entering the ring tomorrow n 5 Ve ile it i cely yill | J2€ empsey Will be usled to Step | cept bother with base ball. The Na- | le: t one time, was also on the pil % ;i s | a fistic career of 17 vears, Johnny Dundee will try to win back Friday in New York. and while it is not likely that the rules wi | forward and prove that the United {tiona Association grew so vigorously P. Corish of Savannah was b ey aan nembor e A e ’h“ Dack & be turned upside down, becanse there js no need for it, it is certain j states and not the Pyrenees l;; "‘: and began to show 8o much impor-|a member. Corish is known eve s mu?)‘: ) E 2 1¢ featherweight crown he reluctantly resigned more than a yea that the code will be altered to get rid of some seeming inconsistencies. ’:’sl[‘l‘:;'p:;‘r;‘m‘"‘""]:"‘ o .":l!lll-'P”'u“!lx'ex :.'lelne:x;,l‘ L\"n‘\?l uf\lm:: ]\x_llnlnwliu the :?..,lnnul SU where buse | rhe jromoters of the affair say they | * He hus engaged in 342 fights and won and lost two world champi Fhat the changes made at the last revision were for the better now | oG Priin "\ oudchopper is a fighter | ot 0RO e K o e T st | will hold the fight somewhere else, but | ships. . o is conceded. ent into base ball to help make personal | jear to the heart of Tex Rickard. He | (& pAe s G BRAMIOT (0 WaCH o | Nd., who 14 the Sonne man who ! [public protests against the bout, espe- | In Joe Glick of New York the veteran will meet a young and an records for st fair to the general run of players. and it is ad- | has color, and color in the |-r117pkrl|£§ + leagues and complained ubout | succeeded in buflding up so ;.:‘-‘;1\‘1 ‘l"ll“‘:jmjl"l":‘l:_:\'n¥|m| nlhl--"w’hv'n" bitious featherweight of speed and punching abil Du s lowin g witted that the a in that direction made in 1920 did not do the game |in what makes the turnstiies click 1ke | 1510 Giiiitions relating to. inter- | Mikh-ciuss bise ball in the Blue Soan- | ulgibtied since it was anmounced that | far from sanguine of his chancc. auy good. Tt specially to the home-run rule, which was amended | merry-gorounds. 1t Tacline WeLe | icague disputes. tains. ths Bakery watch, had been 2 Dundee says that a glance over the present list of fighters assures hi: ¢ in the est of Babe Ruth, who was then at the peak of his | P& l'-\l(‘(.r‘ ‘f-‘"ulf.» D iy pos- | Mike has traveled much farther | ¢ (he 2 I.Jx he can regain his lflrmtr ;xu y ' i PeageR s 3 I t into the b ss of “‘president- = 2 J er today s committee consists of Com- | rendered _eMevt e worded. | “Pagiing weiglis more | than {au”)l"". ‘:_.'“‘“':w Sieesiotl preaident It they dou't like wha BOYS WITH IMPAIRED \}JOE HARRIS WILL WEAR |savs, “who can compare with Bern Landis. Messt would muke ble for any |pounds, and his manner of subduing |INES because buse ball me ere | can_appea ere = = and Breadon of the Ditchier to get the Tl up to the plate | opponents is to smash them. Nothing | 1oekiuk for some one who would hold | purely minor league qus VISION WIN ON COURT | NEW FACE NEXT SPRlNG urd Lew Tendler, Johnny I Messrs. Mack | with anything like force and pow scientific about the wild muumalnm Dodsin palitice 1ovner Sabrulls. el :'s:: not to ‘.«m»ll_ bt JACKSONVILLE. 1L, January 2§ | "UW Freddie Welsh, Abe Attell, nd \|1- 1.:_1‘.. % prestdent ot | 1t ix unlikely that any flmnga will ““h‘ those piledriving fists—es- | e was criticized because his associa- | pateh up their grievances, und also Hinols State s'ur'.«..l for the. BI I' .hu- Harris, utility rim sacker and | White, \nni, chie und Joe i o T e pmeently | 1o adopted which will hiave anything | pacially his left-—Paolino knocked out | tion ot mixed up in a major league | gve their bucon. SEe. Rehvo” 15 Blind | itfielder of the Nationals, will |! fought them all. I have been ki e WesteTn Deanite e | to do with the cover of the ball, even | 1o bact bets in Iurope—or most of | auarrel, but maybe he couldn’t help | - N |defeated tha Sunday | fake a new face with him fo his l... out only once—a one-round defe: SRl Sa S if the National Leaguers are in favor |them..euch s Nilles, the|it. In any event he is not lovking for school team compo: bovs with | club's training camp at . Tamps | at the to defea Writers to Attend. rosin and the American Leaguers | clever French Scott_jof} trauble, andithe fact that he has such HAGEN Is WILLING rmal viston, 25 to 3. kst night, one | next month. Smiling wanly | [ wennos pf Wil L0k England, and Breitenstraeter, the Ger-|an amiable disposition is one reason ol the plavers on the State School | through bandages swathing his a ,r| he 2 The Base Ball Writers” Associution | 1f the Nutional League should per-|man champlon. Firpo looked him over | Why the association has got along | team scoring 15 points, Viiaye: Joe taday Teft tiie Bospial Sndithentmy hus been invited to send i committes mit the use of rosin it would be al-|ina upon leaving Feance for the Ar-| with very little trouble. o TO PI.AY MITcHEl.I. The “blind Loys defeated the | here he underwent a plastic sur- Jrote a letter g » the meeting. committee con lywed under the old prerogative of the | gentine he agreed to retnrn and meet But Mike isn't all the association ooting Stars, a newshe quint, by [ gery operation fo remove facial isse Comumission, forfeiti sists of James Hi New York:!leagues to take any action they de-|the Basque. But tu date he has not|by any means. The board of arbit the same score the night hefore. All| Seam Joft by wounds he suffered rweiglit crown, on the adyiee « 1tar Bullion. D¢ t. and John B sire, provided the action does not in-|done tion has a heap to say. The quarrels | {1he players on the State School team ! hile embi f the A, . I° manager and dnst my ovr terfere with the rights of any other S PR ! about 1 rs come before that board. | g7 : URG. Fla., January | have badly impaired viston e v o oo Haiw ,'“'!F,']“""" But hv" told me it + les committee has full power | league. The rd of arbitration is subject | ox"_ Walter fi. surprised golfers | A certain latitude is granted the N AR eEaTtea UNon i > se all righ 'w T am n = make all changes in the rules which | For the good of the game, however FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. o change, Some men dont ANt 10 | lre 1 SavIng that he vould e bk |01 persomal contact. bt hacking. | gecs Snd ratted upon hie face |own business affairs deems advisable. If there a d is to be hoped that no such indi {2 s serve on u,dn is ,-..Jmpiuq‘».] of minor | himself 4 match inst Abe |holding and other major infractions | Gy the face will be as good * to modify the 1 ng rules a al action will be taken. It was|By the Associated Press league presidents and club presi £, | AMitehell, as | ever made a large [0F the rules are nalized L otara s S g hat is requ L majority vote, but crences of procedure in the two| EDINBURGH, = scotlmdsroieose With o Farrell” on i1, oo, Cal | Woger 1 bis it never made a large | new within a few days. {CUYLER RETURNS TWO ' sreat sues that was responsible ¢ stralian leavyweix wing of the Oakl ub fs secre- | Hagen suid that he would be glad! _— e | pitchir ¥ for the uncertainty about the disqualified in the eixhteenth rounilizary. " john Conway president {1y play Mitchell either in |;.,;L,.fi or | FIGHTER SENTENCED THREE CUBS SIGN. i CONTHACTS TO PIRATES bility t will | rutes which existed up to 1920, when | of his fight with I'h ott. British f of the International 1 was on | America. Hagen will play in the | BALTIMORE, Janu GN. FLINT. Mi > ins | the two or ns got togethier the British empive Ligin 1925, and 8o was John D. Martin, | British open. Al i will | months in the | 1 prison at 2 CHICAGO, January 28 (P).— B ikl s B ini- Lidraste m -ml» I Del | who is president the Southern As- | not pluy fo stal - | lanta was the sentence passed upon | Shannon. shortst of the Pit and which, if Tizhe. 18 J = sociation, and lives at Memphis. Dan |« fee and tuke the wi Joe Belman, also known as Joe Bel- | Louisville yetuened 'to that Gl o = \InuJ 1. ! O'Neill presi t of astern | end. mont eight boxer well known | { for the 1926 season with T e won o over iLeague, who lives at Springfield, | Hagen defeated Mit es in Washingte There is a wide ¢ Lomite. o Mase. wax a4 member and W. G |ning v and Philadelphia. for Ralph | ion between < e rami of D @ N. C Yo lwing do 4 10 go. A ac S0 s e i Rol /]VDIZV‘ : ‘IH RD e o don 3 n urham, N. C., the only | being 4 down with & 10 g the Mann act zned. | to what his “ision ¢ mmy Olsen, Los 1anos ————————————— e heavyweight (10) By Hugh A. Jennings e A it ot e T e e T T T Oukland, won a technical knockout = A over Vie King, Australfan buntam- = CHAPTER XLIX. weight titlist (5). ason Griffith, | = en th i - sc San Jose. middleweight, won over = e s Moy maek ague base | 0 o L ong. Omaha negro (%) | = the ordinary. Some stood out because | | — some 1s0 be ball, ¢ equ deceptive. cellent fast tchers hav particularly Sometimes he wei more: he T omi in cone He won his re the Philudel tion as a pitcher A i the Amer ¢ 1o the vhere the hout bhig re fruitle Waddell had apparently been wiped off the face ¢ the earth. Washington was play in Philadelphin and after one the Washingt am. seated omn and ¢ to start b v the hotel, sudden sund tigaiton | underncath o the shoulder vehicle. e us on hi sulide s tryi iner Ll v ¥ wh e was «.ub had ne ~ince he ent. His hour o ith the last inni nok the tield W and the the assign riumph arrived | Biell would wave the infielders and rs off the mm only he and \s 500m as the dell would pr out three were noted for bhoth. £ to ba 1 to him pitching | | when playing regularl, cal talents: others were noted for te hest left-hander that ever pitched < the most cccen He had an_ex- His wind-up was exceptio ¥ s and his move to first w amount of stuff and he knew how He had a peculiar cunning and is pecnliar habits hings he did. He s departure fro: Waddell for the t arcer LENGTH OF HOLE-400 YARDS IE return of Gil Nicholls to act icans that, by G n Golf Strategies Some Important Struggles | By Bunker may not agamn attain the form w up in two national opens and win a brace of metropolitan champion- BRITAIN WILL CONTEST | IN DAVIS CUP TENNIS| LONDON, January 28 (P).—The Lawn Tennis Association announces that Great Britain has challenged for | the Davis cup series for 1926 and will | compete in the European zone. Great Britain's challenge the | third thus far announced. Switzerland nd Argentina already have issued | imilar challeng | That Won is DOTS SHOW HOW NICHOLLS 'BALL ROLLED TORIGHT AFTER DROPPING ive golf as a profcssional this Winter the time Summer has rolled around big tournament play is going to witness another great cor itender in the going. enabled him to finish run- ships, but after a Winter of practice and team play with Walter Hagen, iphia ]\\nh whom he is associated in Florida, he will be a formidable contender |in all events No less a judge than the veteran | Alec Smith tells me that Gil Nicholls was the great- | | “The cup -st mashie shot maker of them all. in the extreme. Obviously, with Wal ter’s ball lying so close to the cup, 1 Lad to play mine hole high. i was placed toward the T \hs eroecine the stveet in New | Alec even rated him as superior 1o |right side of the green. 1 must avoid York one day und u touring the celebrated Johnny McDermott, |a shot in that location because I might : Ky, Imooked hiin. Qoin sondjbe cizardry helped him to two (find the trap nearby. In playing hole run over him. The driver, Ir(~1.o\'im:W 8uc ve open championships high T must be careful. too, not to| o had killed Waddell, star oif | fore i1l health took him away from |overrun the green, which was slip- wut < ‘oo slow for Waddell | the game, just when he was at his | pery, and get in the trap at the rear. The : jumped up and ran after | Peak as a player. ! o | 5. Honpiak on thie venmias bosed In the years since he has been a! ., Taylors "“l',,“"“' il | Waddell compelied the mun {o stop | business man Nicholls has not. been | iee. s uther a koodsiel his car. “You jes' run over me,” | blaying regularl s :g“;‘en" ‘i':;gn v Put;up and the trap at sald the Rube. The frightene: re handling clubs all | the flde of the green. Looking driver was too stunned for speech. | the ti lose your sense ‘lt‘o\er. Eclded to iy &/ play which | Waddell moment and got | touch.” 5. “Without that sense ‘J’u;l' “‘?“xj e ud‘ e great Britishen | down 1o business. hiind me over | in highly developed form. no man can |J; H. Taylor, and made famous by £15 or I'll hand you a stiff punch in| Play thampionship golf. ope to | 7Y : B! e A rn'r"";h““:: fet a good bit of it | “This play consisted in slicing the | 3 {ball into the wind In such a way | clothes vely, and get fork over the $15 cady to meet a1 dd ‘that the driver Waddell the amount he demanded. Need- | paid | 89 | See some great Great Mashie Skill. Tf Gil succeeds in his effort. leries following him are going to hie playing. skill with this club S It was Nicholls' Helps His Vietim, which enabled him to pull a great One time, while pitchin ainst | strategic shot against Walter Hagen Louis, Waddell kit Danny Hoftman | in Florida some years ago. These 1 the eve with i pitched ball. [Hoff- | two men, now teammates, were in- man dropped to the ground, uncon- | tense t that time. scious. Waddel] ied up to the| The Florida open championship was nlate. threw away his glove, picked|on at St. Augustine, with a fine list up Hoffman, tossed him over his|of important competitors, but with shoulder 7 arched out of the park | Hagen and Nicholls leading the field and to a doctor’s office, where he re.| in the closing stages. 1In fact, as mained until the doctor revived Hoff- | they came to the seventy-second tee man and & tended to his injured eye. He disliked criticism. S inge as it on Waddell was really super: ™ one game the player co Trom first yelled to Waddell, out of there.” yon bi bum! You don't know how to pitch Waddell e ! at the player and the vemark was repe he Rube ivopped the ball in the pitcher's box, tossed avide his g wallte field, climbed the tence and join stin gods 11 the bl remained until the Oppo: ende advantage of e Lo this W in W i's makeup. They u neent on it, think inz up ting things to say to Wad dell whenever he walked to the box. He finally became hardened to this verbal attack and did not mind it an more. After Waddell went from Phi wdelphia to St. Louis his former team- nates tried it in the first game he itched against them for St. Louis, It worked with reverse English. All \Waddell did was to strike-out 16 of his tormer co-worke: (Copyr COOK LOSES ON FOUL. EDINBURGH, Scotland. January ) eorze Cook. Australian hea: weight, was disqualified in the eight- enth round of his fight last night | with Phil Scoti. British heavyws for the British Litle. T<enty spgu - 1nil <aw the mateh. cht. | Mn!‘nfl heavyweight | the title lay between them and they were tied. S ‘Both of us got off terrific drives,” says Gil. “But in those days I could hif them farther than Hage, and my ball ended up 10 yards nearer the ¥ would have been a big help, because, forcing Hagen to | play first, it would have given me a " | chance to gauge my second shot by his. However, because of wind con- ditions, the position I had gained gave Walter the advantage, i i High Wind Blowing. | *1 had hit my ball about 270 yards | down the left side of the fairway, while Walter's ball lay well over to the right. A high wind was blowing, but its direction was such that he | would be able to play straight into jthe face of it, w hile 1 would have to shoot across it, as it blew from left to right. “Hagen's second was a beauty- magniticent shot, right on the flag, which almost hit that object, coming to a stop not more than eight feet ' beyond. He was left with a sure par four or a possible birdie. The galle out a great vell. Traly, it | championship ~ was slipping speedily {from me, especially when the shot T had ahead of me was visualized. “The clghteenth green at St. Augus- tine was trapped all around and a shot aeross a heavy wind was dangerous 1t this particular | |that when it came down to earth it | would roll almost at a right_angle | !from the direction in which it had | come. “To execute the shot, I had to start | my ball away off to the left of the line to the green, cutting it sharply | with my mashie to give it spin. And | 1s 1 lay 140 yards from the flag 1| had to hit a_terrific blow. | “It turned out exactly as T had hoped. The ball set off well to the left. The slice began just as it neared the green. The wind caught it in perfect fashion, and as it came down it seemed almost to be drifting back- ward. It struck the green exactly {hole-high and rolled sideways, passing close to the cup and coming to a stop five feet at its right. “My caddie screamed like a Comanche. I never got a greater thrill in my life. When we putted Walter_rimmed the cup, but had to {take a four. I holed a birdie three for the championship.” (Copyright. 1026.) il AMATEUR BOATMEN TO BE INSTRUCTED The usual instruction classes for| amateur boatmen have been ar- ranged, to begin on March 1, by the Potomac Power Squadron of the United States Power Squadron, Inc. The classes, which are free to all| who wish to enter and will cover all | rules of navigation and other subjects | connected with boating, will be held {in hall No. 1 of George Washington | University Medical School, 1335 H | street. | Bight lessons will be given for the | now forming, the las\ to be! given on April 19. Ito join are asked to communicate with J. T. Bresnahan, 708 Fourteenth | street, or J. Edwin Lawion, 2708 M street. Persons desiring | PN T NN NI Wi The Jordan Motor Car Company announces the appointment of DICK MURPHY, Inc. as distributor of Jordan cars in Washington and surrounding territory. The unusual type of service rendered, and the clean cut business methods employed by Dick Murphy, Inc., need no in- troduction to the motor car owners of Washington. Showroom and service depart- ment are located at 1835 14th St. N. W. 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