Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1926, Page 39

4 SPORTS. Resin Ball Argument Starts Today : Fohl Sacrifices Attack to Betler Defense ATIONAL LEAGUE FAVORS | THUNBERG'S FAILURE | DUNDEE “UNDERDOS” RED SOX SHIP SLUGGERS USE OF DOCTORED SPHERE Heydler Backs Measure as Way to Reduce Expenses, But American League Head Fears Freak Hurling Would Be Revived. Press ary 29, rapeze realm of base ball 1 session of vdler of the Na uct has <uhstance he ma H cod wi Aealt umpir wher we iz of vesin 1ei of the hoxmen to retion of the conditions ows two or three hall is called intents and the major he Would Aid Pitcher. = the znes here in De effor inter 1 st mi ma for the the e the One leazue nse of re stances ). Presi American ds of the the CHICAGO Aent n Moriarty the 1 tiona iy . Demonstration Conclusive. hail pro s can he o he cover e the zhened until makes thumh o sin cher's <imnle & it wist or ?M LG EC R o Resin performers. threatens to raise a whirling cloud he base bal jonal league. <ce balls in maijor league play. a commodity necessary to violinists, ihstance to the national game will | rules officials here today. to curh the stead- has recom- available to pitchers that they may g hall raises “sails” on the horsehide that it doesn’t take a microscope to detect. The argument resin was that it would take the shine” off a new base hall—it will “Giive a pitcher a ball like that, Moriarty. “and he can do thir with it that will brinz back and equal every thrick delivery that has heen complained ind lezislated vinst for Why. emery itself has nothing on resin in a strogg hand dry or wet resin is something « pitcher o his advantage. There is one thing that might hap. pen.” Moriarty continued t's hard o zet the resin off. When it mixes with parspiration it ha on like A pitcher mizht find his hands immy with it that he would he apped more than he would be thumbing the CHISOX FARM PITCHER. CHICAGO, M v 29 (). recalled las Sox he Leazue) chib, n sent hack there uinder option from McNALLY QUITS GAME. SCRANTON. Pa.. January 20 () Mike MeNaliv, formerly of the Boston 4 Sox. Washinzton and New York Yankees. has quit base hall rather than &0 hack 1o the minors. MeNally was s0ld by the Yankees to Ruffale U THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1926. SPORTS. 39 IS BOOST FOR NURMI| By the Associated Press | NEW YORK. January ~Clas | Thunbers's defeat i cvery skating start on this side of the Atlantic goes far toward strengthening the oft-heard | assertion that the Finns are zreat ath. | letes, but that there is only one Paavo Nurmi | Nurmi, marvel af runners at the | Olvmpics. came to Amer t Win- | ter and was almost always victorious. | beatinz American veterans their own game. rhen came Alhin Stenroos, Olympic marathon champlon, but he failed by far to zain the prestize that Nurmi had known. Stenroos is the Olympic | marathon champion i Thunberz lost two indoor races in [ New York. Then he went to St. John, Where. in the title meat just closed. he obtained third place in a series of ces. He is expected to appear In the ates championships at Bing N. Y. starting Sunday at United hampton. POND. EX-YALE STAR, ILL FROM MENINGITIS January 29 formoar RRINGTON Raymond Ducky Pond Yale fooi ball star. is critically il at his home here. He was taken sick last Wednesday while enzaged in his duties at Hotchkiss School. in Lake ville. and Is now sufferinz from men itix Pond. who was zraduatad last was a Dbrilliant athletic star virtually his entire colleze course had three years in varsity foot hall | and his outstandinz achlevement was | a touchdown in the Harvard same in | the first ta ha scored by a Yale in the Crimson Stadium since Conn., June, during He main Rlue in zames with Harvard, and in 19 vk contribnted to Yale's vietory over hoth rivals in their the BROOKLINE, Mass., January “ar the first time in history the an Longwond tennis how! singles | went this vear will he an invi- | ! | affair. o nual tatio . S. PROS MAY CONTEST TO GET MITCHELL MATCH! BY THE SPORTSMAN. AUGUSTINE, January 20 lier for a purse of ¢ problem ha< arisen as to wha chould he accorded the privi- {continue to improve in the z K probably w left 10 a genera! publis «n would Hagen In the first place from behind a in which H Gene can conte player A the hackers, who It of etter v some o inz 15 a ) time anie. hy professional ver hefore te n the wate than portsmen he his lovor .t writer's opinion to defend i n s ican man Are OUNDING THIRD | —~———————By Hugh A. Jenningg—~———— CHAPTER L. knew in and Greck Waddel 4 as much. but confused when over cobblestone this was another A4 Waddell was a coun creat athlete he was ahout and ran the and know what Sn Smallwond let it go at th aver the cobblestone walk with Ruhe every day Liked the Spotlight. The reason the Rube picked the cob- blestone walks instead of the country roads, as he sho 1 have done. was he. cau no 1ld him in the country Waddell wanted to he in lizht pickinz principa » 1o have point and nees ne ec sce and 1 the treets he dience. Rube ) oriun heside all friends the route. the day Koo after sta the lead and he creasin at lead. Al the mile Smaliwood had to « his leas 2ave way. Runnin cobblesianes had riined him finished 2 Whil ran w an an alwavs made ) mallwond and acq Alons Well rame went the race finally Dorando kept in eleventh hees inte Dorando th him ju. When Smaliwor erowd demanded "here was i general Waddell refused than Small: appropriat and baton Waddell » track the finish his. but any farthe: vod. He compromised ins into the handstand andmaster's and pretend wn o run Saloonkeepers frequently paid Wad- to tend bar onc evening in It was a profital in; \When the Rube tended 1 was crowded. The sa- his money all me profit bar the sa loonkeeper plus a ha Crazy About Fishing. Waddell's chiaf passion w Fe would frequently disappea one of his sclect fishin After the season he used to Minnesota and fish there as lo weather permitted in the company several friends, and he fis in Ken tneky. It was on one of Waddell's visits to Hickman, Kv.. that a heavy flood oc curred and the Riuhe was the hero of that disasier. e saved manv lives hy riskinz his and worked day nd_night until the sufering nf the ond viclime was relieved. Oin anather cecasion he ppm into a burning build fishing. . going spots. g0 to own and he knew to 1oad the | back De race was ando. the Italian hero wood. an English he lacked a offering to train he nn more ahout training. never d not know that. however, imagin- hase ball he must know all about s care on and saved a man from but e about tra athietics than in Bos \h his willingness ta risk his own life led to his death. e was fishing near Minneapolis. A hoy had heen drowned in the lake the previons evening and Waddell ord ut it. Also, he heard that the boy's parents w frantic hecause the hody had not heen recovered. Rinhe asked to he led to the spot where the drowning oecurred He took off his coat and shoes and | dived for the hody. He was finall forced up without finding it. Wad- | dell dived seven times more, until he found ths hody of the boy. brought it to shore and delivered it to the parents. His exploit and tuberculosis developed. sent to a sanitarium at Hot Wells, r San Antonio. Tex. About that time Charlie Carr was establishing his | ill-fated base hall college at Hot Wells, | Donie Bush, ©O. ar tanage, Bill Donovan, Georze linehler and Otto Williams were instructors there, One day they heard that Waddell was a patient in the sanitarium. located hont 300 vards from their diamond. 0 resulted in pneumon: He w Wasted to unds. The players were told that Waddel] | could he seen. and so they went aver | { him. They were brouzht into oom where Weddell was sleeping. not recognize him. The the could not than 70 pounds. | wei 5 in his playing "he pi looked at the sick | man. Finally Williams xaid: “1t's him, all right. I can tell by that crease in the nose.” i On the table nearby was a faded newspaper clipping. a picture of Wad- | dell and Ossie Schreckengost, w] | | 4 Waddell days used to catch him for Philadelphia They were in citizen's clothes and each had a grip. The heading was | “Off for the Balmy South.” | A few days later a nurse from the | safitarium came to the ball field and | told the players if they wanted a last ' word with Waddell they had better | come over. He had only an hour more | to live. Williams went with the | nurse. Waddell was Iving in bed smoking a pipe. As he saw Williams e whispered: “Hello, vouw Dutch- | fman.” | The dying man hit h. Then he 'l he over there show you hums how (o run. down to weight and sot more speed than any o' you tramps.” He closed his eyves, exhausted. He had spoken for the Iast tim: | (Copyrizht. 926.) I gasped ontinie tomorrow and And I'm for hr | A | Mitc £300 has challenge to meet any so interested Yankee stars | I be chosen by an elimination con- | lanrels azainst Mitchell rome Saraze nd then three have splendid nperame: for match plav. and in the past seven vears thev have dominated 1ine Amer. ican professional championship 1oar- nament. which is acid test of | match play in this country. | Mitchell’s challenge calis for a hole match. which 's 2 real test and | one in which luck cannot play a very | great part. It is expected the match | will take place some time in May. and he majority of British opinion is that Hazen will be the oppcnent This doubtless would be as welceme 10 Mitchell as to the averaze Ameri- | an golf enthusiast, for he surely would like a chance to > out the memory of that defeat three years Next Parnes would Al Smith Is Going Strong. Professional golfers who are “work- | ing” their way through the various | tournaments of the Southwest these davs, are finding themselves forced | to second fiddle to Macdenald | Smith is in one of his scoring moods, and in medal play competition any one hoping to finish ahead of the easv-zoing Scot will have to play bet- ter than perfect golf. | In winning two tournaments in less than a fortnight Smith has averaged approximately 74 strokes per round, | which is twn aver fours per round. | or practically par golf. Hix latest feat of winning the Dallas event with a total of 245 i remarkable. In view of the at Winter weather pre. vailed throughont the competition. | Smith’'s come-back is one of the anstrema in the history of zolf. Ten vears agn he was among the top notchers. Then he faded, but onlyto return to the hunt a few yearsago with | better temperment. a beiter condition, and the same hrand of golfing skill. His scoring over the past year es. ablishes a record for brillianey as well as consistency. The contingent of professionals in | the Southwest now moves on to Hot Springs. Ark., for another 72-hole medal whirl, with the entire pack bent | on dethroni Smith. i MENS SOFT KID Comfort Shoe They Requiro No Broaking And G.'r::'gl‘ S‘;nn Cullhnh At Once NONE HIGHER 00 for you. feet, stylish in appear. ance; manufactured in ewr own Factory in seven and sold Direet to You the middleman’ on th I Leatror Sales, Fubber Heel in Oxford, No. 5755; Black i, Mo ¢ 214 P.ack Kid Oxfora, Ne. £2G4. %f[/{’l‘fi "{'-r: 813 Pa. aye. N.W.. 502 Oth st. N.W. 311 HOET. N.E. AN ato night o cpen Saturda; accommodate custemers | upon the time of arrival here of the | quite a bunch of roote | tur {east, and have been bowling with the IN BOUT WITH GLICK OWLING fans have the choice of two team matches for their enter- [ ] With the Bowlers tainment tomorrow night. At the Coliseum an all-star quint of B Washington girls will encounter a group of experts from the Girls’ Financial League of Philadelphia in the first five-game block of a home- and-home argument. At the King Pin alleys John Blick's Terminal lce Co. five will tackle Bill Wood's King Pin All-Stars in the starting half ot a match of 10 games. The bowling at the Coliseum is ex-| Coliseum, Convention Hall and King pected to get under way at 7 o'ciock, | Pin alleys, in the order named, are to although the starting hour depends |get the 15-xame match bein by Max Rosenberg, Glen Wolstenholme for the | of meeting Farl McPhilomy in | challenze contest next month. This | was decided yesterday at a mesting [of the heads of the (nree essablish ments. Five-zame hloc successive Saturday afternoons at - {o'clock, starting tomorrow. A purse | of $300 will go to the contestant top plinz the greatest number of pins. The winner's emzagement with Me- Philomy also will be a_ls-game affair in three blocks. Tt will start at Con |vention Hall Fehruary 20, the second | B the Awsociated Press NEW HAVEN, January 29.-John ny Dundee, veteran of 342 fistic en-| gageme: tonight will try another start toward the pinnacle he once at tained—the featherweight champion ship. He has pitted himself against Joe | Glick of New York, rising voungster. who has conquered Danny Kramer of Philadelphia_and Honevboy Finnegan of Boston. The hout will be 10 rounds and the scene Madison Square Garden Dundee is expected to make a thrill {ing fight. but opinion is against him as to the outcome. He is enterine his first contest since 2 mediocre showinz azainst Allentown Johnny Leonard last Summer. 'POPE CAPTiJRES FINAL | INPUTTING TOURNEY ruary 2t and the final bloci at the H. & Pope of the Indian Sprinz Collseum February These blocks | Golf Club won the men's putting tour are to be held in, the afternoon, Legin- | nament for January at Miller's Golf ning at 2 o'clock School vesterday, defeating T. 8. Pitt of the Manor Club by 4 and 3 in the | 36-hole final. Summaries follow _ First round——F Yoist un Solharh. 4 Philadelphia team. If it makes the trip by railroad. the match undoubt- | edly will begin as scheduled. Ii the team travels by automobile, there may be some delay King Pinners and Icemen are to start their scrap at 8 o'clock. And | that does not mean 8:01, as Bill Wood saye. The picked team of girl bowl that will represent \Washington is all primed for the contest and anxiously | waiting for the “Let's zo” signal to | start_the annual duckpin clash with | the Quakertown mafds The Philadelphia girls will have | S to pep them ks will be rolled on up during the match Last vear they brought abour 25| along. and at least that many will | aczompany the team on this occasion. | Helen F. Corrigan. president of the Girls’ Financial League, fs captain | and manager of the Philadelphia team. Miss Corrigan is also a regn- 1ar on the team. her averaze of 137 placing her 2t the top of the Quaiker City girl bowlers. Harry Lissner. manager of Costas alleys in Philadelphia. where the re. | match will be rolled. will be with the team in the capacity of chief ad viser to Miss Corrigan. He takes a keen interest in the in-| tercity mitches and is anxious to ar range a4 match hetween a team of man bhowlers from Philadelphia and a Property of the Agriculture Inter bureau League was in a shooting mood n the first game of fts set with In. | erburea and slammed a coun* of |621. DeGlantz led the attack. with |a total of 145, Nelson shot 127, Tuck- | Bryan: ler 123, Myers 119 and Donaldson 107. | Harne, ann Howa d defeated G.J Kim el defeated Dr. Pitt defeated Ray Campiel] defeated Dr Baker defeated J. T L& Plantz defeated A T . W. Spicer defeated Les Stabler. H. S Pope defeated P. H Wood. 5 and 4 . Serong “Yound—Kimbell defeated Howard 1 and 2. T defeated Camphell. 3 and Baker defeated “Plauts. 3 and 2. Pope de: teaicd Spier g upt e SemiAnal—Pitt defeated Kimbell, 1 u Pore deieated Raker § and 3 B FinalPupe dleaied Pitt. 4 and 3 Harmony Lodge team on 4 rampage last night bowled a game that was Just five pins <hy of the 627 record| held by Lafayvette in the Masonic Association. In amossing the total Harmon Wi led Anchor- man Supplee. who hit for 138. Price| E acored 127, Morsell 123, Eiuman Golf honors are being heaped upon Washington five. It is very likely |#nd Capt. Rodier 112, Supplee was in | the head of Roland R. MacKenzie, the that he and Lonnie Krauss will con- | fine form. his other games heinz 96| middle Atlantic champion. Close on fer tomorrow night and make ar.jand 151 for a set of vt b il i g e S e e S U . bher of the Walker cup team. MacKen e Phnencen tutute 'YOUTH AGAIN TAKES e ey At mteld | THE PAS DOG DERBY' private course of T. Suffern Tailer. ai Newport, R. . The youngster has ac cepted the invitatinr for the event on Saptember 4. 5 and 6. The tourney is limited strictly to invitation. and in THE |Emil St. Goddar Canadian “musher I The Pas dog in Nomads of the Athletic Club League are howling much hetter this season than thev did in the last. Then they won but 8 of 81 games. In this cam paign. however, they have triumphed in 1% of 45 games and appear to he sirong enough to put many more bat tles on the right side of their bhook The Nomad quint is & voung one the most aged member being only 21 The regular outfit includes Pestell, McCloskey. Rees. Sizer and Crogan. | Pestell is developing rapidly as a duck. | pinner. Only an 8 cludes the leading amateur golfers of the mu?xry, ARMY MEDICAL TOSSERS BEAT FCRT MYER TEAM e ey aduck Ry derbe in S hoon, ooc te-mlle] Army Medical Center basket ballers he has an average thig Winter of 104 |an average speed of 1015 miles an|fom Walter Reed Hospital took a All of the other regulars are of tha | hour {lows Smis frem Port Myer fast night 100 class. Schroen and Reckewez o The French Canadian won the first |PY the score of 37 to 35 Tufskie casionally fill in for some of the first |two 32-mile laps and finished third| (ONtributed the winning hasket just e oo S | prior 10 the closing whistle These bovs are from the neighbor | Only 21, minutes separated st God.| The first round of the Rervice Leazue hood of Eleventh and B streets north- | dard and Earl Brydges, another 13.|%eries ends tomorrow night with the | vearold musher, and winner of the |ArmY Medical Center Fort Humpbreyve If they |Quebec internationsl derby in 1924, [E3Me at Walter Reed. me as | Brydges. in finishing second. covered | ' 12 months, | the course in 2 hours 271 minutes. | Pal Reed, who has quite a reputa «on or two they will| Harry Olensky was third in 9 tion asa light heavyweight hoxer. is a the topnotchers of [hours and 541z minutes, and Ross Sundav school teacher as well as a Moxley fourth. in 10 hours and 9%, | hattler. PAS. Manitoba. January 29 19.vearold French- is the winner of derby for the second vear | succession | Goddard. driving a team of seven und huskies. won the 96.mile | same team for several vears they have within the past after another se: be rated amon the city. hit P. A. and it “won’t hit back YOU can hit it up with a jimmy-pipe and P. A, from the moment you finish break- fast till you crawl between the sheets at night . . . slow or fast . . . pipe-load upon pipe-load. It won’tbite your tongue and it won’t parch your throat. Because—the ‘ Prince Albert process hit Bite and Parch a body-blow in the very first round. . Millions of men who thought they never could pal with a pipe are now Prince Albert regulars. They’ve found the one tobacco that fits their taste neat and nifty, pipe-happy, ¥ Mic, WHO FAIL TO FIELD WELL Boone, Vache and Prothro Bat Heavily, But Unable to Keep Many Slams From Rivals—Boston Replacements Are Uncertain. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK cans, is the January 29.—lLec trade off his field release the best ha about 911 poin trio of wt Foh! | hom had was best in the game EPIPHANY BIG FIVE REGAINS ITS STRIDE Ipiphany hi . whoymeet tist five in Leazue e the five he Clarendon omorrow s Sun. double-header at A. hit" their str night after dropping Northwesterns and r £core on the quint. Fvery member of the bination had a hand in Scruggs and Boerner leadi noints each Vasker hall Raap Central 1e again last me to the n oup a 311014 Railroad Y. M. €. A inninz com the scoring . with Yankee tosser: Washington Barracks five play the Fort Humphrey night in the Engzincer i over the Lions won from the Buffala: S and to 10 League Peck Memorial a game with Company National Guard conrtmen 3 annexed District Rover tossers won from the \Wa ington Athletic Club, 24 to Enz hatket bringing in the winning points Alexandria Pirates defeated Cross Roads, 22 to ] nd 1 from the Rosenbe: 32 ta Tremont Juniors play the Termin Y. M. C. A, Reserves tonight at I'nion Station gym and tomorrow night meet the F Mver Bov Seouts an the lat ter's fic De Molay conrtmen back tn the Pullman q anded a Knights of Columbus howed to Gonorall Tire five. 591 5c the Company F regulars were nosed out by the £ J. Meeks quint. 23 tn 12 while the reserve team won from Atlantics, 30 10 You'll say so. Cool as the well-known cucumber. Mellow as moonlight on a limpid lake. Fragrant as spring blossoms. That’s Prince Albert all over. When you get going with a jimmy-pipe and P. A., you can lick the world with one hand tied. Just around the corner is a friendly shop where they hand out P. A. sunshine in tidy red tins. This is your cue to turn your tiller in that direction. Get your- self a supply of this grand old tobacco that has made so many men downright PRINGE ALBERT —no0 other tobacco is like it! Fohl < disposed are Boone r of the Boston Ameri- manager <o far who has dared to manag < team to a minor league and also to trength in an efort to bolster up Vache and Prothro. r of better than 300 Boston c¢'ub, and i one of the Yot after tw Fohl t trial with Bos & hecome ronvinced that make a biz and nas <hipped him to the ub. in hossed vears will never leazue st fielder Mission ( Deir new hich Ont there San Franeiseo. is by Bill Me- he is likelv to hit the 1l intn the Pacific ocean. He power enough. But wheiher he will be able to keep up with the hits that other latters send to his field is an- He certainly could ther question for B oston Boone Was Timid. Boone was with £an Antonio in 19, and year educed the hattin records of the Texas League to pulp Foh! promptly nabbed him Boone was timid, and Fohl. fearing that his timidity would ruin him, showed him especial kindness. The treatment was euffciently in keep him hit ting like a h afire in 1924 and but inspiring enough improve in hic fielding whom Fohl also has sent he minors former Texzs He batred in 1 nd is ha 34 time in the Vache's e Boone's hility 1o distinguich a base ) the e sky when it came to inspiring e tronh 14 a batting average also h; heen and Ezzell, 2 10 his credit was sent alonz e Coatt third baseman with in the hatting col for good meas 1 has taken on much ort to replace that et go, and it remai whether ‘the Boston clu the changes mate to be seen will profit by RED SOX SIGN DEITRICK. CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va., January 22 (). William A. Deitrick of Nor- folk. Va.. third-vear student at Vir ginia. has signed with the Boston Red Sox. Deitrick was signed by Washing ton last Spring. but a bad ankle inter fered with hik play and he ended the with Greemville of the Leazue. A, ls sold everyohere in tidy red tins, pound and half-pound tim humi- dors, and pound crystal-glass humidors with sponge.moistemer top. And always with every bit of vemoved by the Prince Albert process, and parch