Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1926, Page 37

THE EVENING STAR. HURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 1926, 37 Browns Look to Schang for Much Help : Dempsey’s New “Fighter” Unimpressive BALL THINKS EX-YANKEE WILL BOLSTER PITCHERS Experienced Catcher Expected to Get Results From Mound Material and Put St. Louis in Pennant Race—Would L et Danforth Go. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, February 11.—Phil sists that the acquisition of N Ball of the St. Louis Americans in- Wally Schang, the veteran catcher, was one of the best deals he has made in recent years. As he sees it Schang should contribute enough im: vement to the technique of his pitchers to put the Browns into the thick of the fight for the 1926 pennant. All last season, or most of it, after the Browns had let Severeid go ta Washington, St. Louis had good catchers, but not one with substantial major league experience. Dixon was a beginner, although a good catcher. Hargrave was secured from Wash ngton and Rego, who has always been regarded with specia’ i the major league plan of things w advice to the St. Louis pitchers agiir Louts has been shifting its pitch- staff around until it now has Giard and Wingard for southpuws, and Gaston, Davis, Grant, | Van Gilder and Claude Jonnard tor | right-handers. Add to this staff Stauf- | fer, who has shown better than me. diur Ballou, who was with Wash- ington; Palk, @ left-hander, who shou'd rough with proper conch!nl:.( wother youngster or so, and it | he seen how a veteran catcher | like Schang might help put together pitching staff that would turn in the | little matter of 10 or Xtra. victories | h St. Louls is everlastingly | to win champic Danforth Case understood tha e Browns 1 St. Louis has had him waived out of the Danforth's is a most intere: manager in the cept one who I always is tr Danforth’s delivery Yet the moment a club wish him along all the other fuse to give their consent cer- is a tribute to Danf abil- | no matter what else ft may be. | has Schung had experi- | three Amerfcan League has been w sturd vorld s tics, the in world knowledge that b cague batter Puzzles. is Dantort | | s had him | inz to prov is illex s to chaps Tt re Louis pitching staff. er is not a pitcher's coach. The atchers of St. Louis are not well informed as to what their need to bring them through | successfully. If Schang can impress =ome of the knowledge in his wise old | noodle on the younger pitchers and then, when the weather and the race begin to warm up, get in and catch some games for the Browns, when ex- perience is needed, he may revolu- tionize the team Frank Farrell, whose money, with | that of Bill Dev put_the Yankees | into New York, is dead. Farrell never bad much luck in base ball and w mighty glad to sell the Yanks to the Ruppert and Huston— | I s transferred in | r the grea t too far from the center wn to be a drawing card. tirst team might have won a nt but for the wild pitch by B¢ t the Highlande alled, never had an that. Farrell never re- gretted venture into base ball, however. e said he hagd had ne, but that he knew h as they we luck aiter (Coprright. 1926.) | Eastern Leagu lin | known t tion games w Sisler, had not yet worked into such sureness that he could offer his wishes. KLEM HAS DECIDED TO CALL ’EM AGAIN By the Associated Press. NEW YORIZ, February 11.— Bill lem. 21 vears an umpire, is polish- fai his maslc and inflating his chest tector for another campaign. Kiem. like many another who makes base ball w profession, has been in Florida this Winter handling real estate, but he hurried north for the National League's golden jubilee din- ner. Then his decision not to retire was made known, John (Beans) Reardon. native of ton. is the only addition to the ff of the Hevdler circuit this sew n, a list of 12 arbiters having been prepared, uring three for each game. They are Klem, Reardon. Hauk O'Day, Ernie Quigley, Charlie Rigler, Larry McCormick, Charlie Moran, Bob Hart. Cy Pfirman, Frank Wilson, Monroe Sweeney and Pete MeLaughlin. If an umpire ¢ Laughlin_ promises to lead them all in that department. While in the he became known as loud singing ‘all and rather he covers his allotted territory reat strides, and he has been walk around the bases twice while trying to avoid an irate player. When his decisions are questioned McLaughlin is accustomed to turn his back, fold his arms and walk away from' the accu: CUBS START FOR CAMP IN WINTRY WEATHER CHICAGO, February 11 UP).—The Chicago Cubs broke the ice for the major league base ball training season today. From a snowbound Middle Wi some twenty-odd of them departed for sunny California, where they start practice next Monday. The squad will be joined by elght or nine more players at Kansas City, and Manager McCarthy and anothe handful of his charges will be waiting at Los Angeles. e days will be spent on Catalin Island, and after that exhibi- be played for 23 days. ORMSBY SPURNS SOUTH. CHICAGO, February 11 (#).—In- stead of going South with the teams to cavort around in the warm sun- shine, “Red” Ormsby, American gue umpire, is taking his Spring ning heaving radiators and other objects of more or less weight in the upper stories of a new skyscraper here. Ormsby figures he'll be so tough when the season opens that pop bot- tles will bounce off him like snow- flakes. n be colorful, Me- ruso” bec halls and I ROUNDING THIRD By Hugh A. Jennings CHAPTER LX. IM HURST was the most color the spirit of adventure, the qu per of the Cel T ful of all umpires. He had courage, ick wit and the similarly quick tem- He was a first-class umpire in every way, and sthough prome to make mistakes like the rest of us, he never tried to If he called one wrong, b square things. b so many umpires. pire who will always favor the honm refore stand well with the fans in them. You could always depend ng to you away from home. After vou got to know Tim its | 1nd characteristics. you came to real- 76 that he could not be bullied. Kicking got you nowhere with him. Here is an incident that will illustra t T mean. an incident typical of cven up. | for Detroit and ( eland. in the I veland we veland came the ninth, | 3-to-2 score. | *n on bases with wo out and rlie Hickman was | sent to bat for the pitcher. Bill Dono- van. in the box for Detroit, handed Tiickman a wide one and then shot a fast_one by him. Hickman ignored the fast ball and it was a sure strike. With the count one and one, Dono- van crossed up Hickman by sending a f: one over the outside corner. fTickman did not offer. Hurat called it 1 strike. Hickman objected, saying: All Are Strikes. “You dirty stiff, what'd you call a ball like that a strike for? ~You must have gone totally blind; you're too 1 anyway."” that so, ~Charlie? ‘m blind, am 1? - I'm too old m 1?7 Well, I'll tell you, Charlie, just for that everything he throws you after this will be a strike no matter how bad it is."” Charlie Schmidt, who was catching, 1ook his hint from what Hurst said. He signaled for a pitchout. Dono- van looked puzzled, but Schmidt re- peated the signal for a pitchout. Donovan pitched the ball one foot wide of the plate. “Strike three,” yelled Tim as loud as he could yell. Hickman was struck out and the game was over. Tim was game to the core. An in- cident happened in Pittsburgh that hrought this out forcibly. He gave a decision about the seventh inning that di d the crowd. Baltimore won me and the Pittsburgh rooters | blamed the defeat on Tim's decision. ! \s the last out was made, the crowd | warmed on the field. The Baltimore | ivers surrounded Tim and escorted | to the clubhouse. To reach the | ler rooms you had to go up a run- | way on the outside of the clubhouse. | The crowd was packed around this runway and as Tim reached the top he was hit in the chest by a brick. Tim =aw the brick leave a man’s hand and without a second’s hesitation he leaped into the crowd to get the man that threw it. Tim's fists were both swing- ing, but he was no match for the crowd. He was knocked down, but hefore any serious damage could come 70 him, the police rescued Tim, saving Cleveland zot ty answered to see, i An added wrong never made a right with him, a He was never what is called a “home | New York (10). ¢ would not call another wrong to it does an um- ne team in the close decisions and cvery ¢ Tim called them as he on him to give you what was com- Another demonstration of his nerve came one day in Cleveland. The Baltimore Orloles and the Cleveland Spiders were keen rivals in those day ere plaving a tight contest in Cleveland. Bill Hawke was Baltimore. dropping curve that few men ever hit ter it broke. The curve was brea inz zood for him this day, right over the plgge. Cleveland g couple of { men on' in the home half of the nint and seriously threatened Baltimore! onerun lead. Two were out when Patsy Tebeau, manager and first base- man of the Spiders, came to bat. Hawke tried to break a curve over the plate for the first strike. Tebeau, who had not been able to do & thing against Hawke all day, ran up this time and met the ball before it broke. He drove it over the left flelder's head, sending in the two runs and apparently win- ning the game. Hurst Not Afraid. Wilbert Robinson, catching for Baltimore, appealed to Hurst as soon as the ball was hit. He told Tim that Tebeau had run two feet out of the batter's box and was automatically out. This was true and Hurst agreed. ‘“You're out,” shrieked Hurst, There was a great commotion. Everybody got into the argument. Hurst explained to Tebeau that he was out and told him why. The mob called for Tim's blood. There were demands that he be Iynched. Hurst yelled, “You're out, Tebea and you stay out. The game is over, Turning, he started for the club- house, glaring in menacing manner to the right and left. Of all the howling mob none laid a hand on Hurst. They even opened a path for him and bel- {ligerently and defiantly Hurst march- ed to the clubhouse. There are a great many more incl- dents in which Hurst figured. A few of them will be recalled in the next chapter. (Copyright, 1026.) FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By tho Assoclated Pres WILMINGTON, Calif.—Jack Sparr, Lomita, Calif., beat Benny Valgar, SAN FRANCISCO—Rocky Adams, Omaha, knocked out Ted Hoffman, San Francisco heavyweight (2). OAKLAND—BIlly Wallace, Oakland, won a decision over Tommy Cello, San Francisco lightwelght. Jimmy McLarnin, one of the most prominent of the little fighters. is a native ol Ireland, » ¢“C’MON HELEN!” Sgme day soon your Uncle ing to be extremely agitated. going to be just cited than he has time. Reason? Helen Wills vs. discussed meeting in Carlton tour goes we a iwh the finals d seem t our Un ntment, fo [ is pliace om, if players re —_— WashngTen Re possible task befora her, e temperamental, i marvelous player— tio best woman will be hoping. ITH \%\% be somet trict ¢ of the g rtainly wo! ort and makt |GOLF IS SPREADING | | LIKE FIRE IN JAPAN the od Prose 1ICAGO, February 11 taken up golf in the san manner it has adopted oth | progressions, 1 the game rapldly in the island empi Walter Crowdus champion of Chic in contact with Japa an Army aviator in Hawall, said day that Oho Ito has completed a to of the world to study the game unde commission_of the govern ment. He has also e of a golf magazine to convey to cit zens of his country all available in formation about golf. After in: Britain and on the A Tto plaved a few hole four courses at Olympia before pursuing through the Pacific Coast S Ito proved he was qualitied to scientific d4 links by scoring 39, or var, for nine holes on the s and difficult course under Winter turf conditions. He used the best form in making hi strokes. His clubs were so orthod that Crowdus used them in pl the Japanese even for 11 hole: though the American was 2 do; the end of the nine. Tto predicted thut g one ields here £ would become om wonld be u in md it the most havix the islands of the kiny dotted with good | few 3 He had f ubiquitous of trouble in playing In world. ' TENNIS STARS CARDED IN COAST TOURNAMENT LOS ANGELES, February 11 (#).— Leading tennis players of ihe I Coast, headed by “Little Bill" ston, former national champion: Cran. ston Holman, present national junior and national collegiate champion; Helen Jacobs, national junior cham- plon, and Eleanor Goss, will play in the annual midwinter tournament at Pasadena Friday, Saturday and Sun- day. Others who will compete are How- ard Kinsey, Gerald Stratford, Walter Westbrook, Harold G . Norville | Cratg, John Doeg, Chandler, Phil Davis. Inside Golf By Chester Horton ‘The average golfer understand: what is meant by the arcs described by the clubhead in its backward and forward swings. FPresumably the for- ward arc is the me as the back. ward one—pos: bly it varies slight- ly. There is an- rs. immie other arc in the swing, however, and that is the avc described by the hands. This parallels the arc of the clubhead, but is on a much smaller scale. This | arc of the hands is what does the trick though, and while the player will do well to for- get, in & sense, the arcs of the clubhead, he can add something worth ‘while to his game by studying the arc of the hands and learning where and how they come into the swing and for ‘what effect, I shall discuss this in subsequent articles, (Copyrishi, 1926, Wlth.tfie Bowlers the leading sport in Japan and that | Dis- | end te ne hy duck a by | ul leagues. | The prest | League a| 1t the rule | art de ing with | proy ed in his third declarin 1 code on record | Washington La the best of the | anizations here. on the s in favor of such The b ved the foul when the Ladics’ Duc | clation stages its annual April the rule will be some of the city's ,in so far as quality of |ins is "concerned, have ignored tr { foul line. Yet these cireuits have ir sisted that their record perform cepted with recerds n ore the bowlers e ed to go over th rim. Thes ba ward_organiz s are beginning sec the light, howe nd soon will i Le in line with the more advanced out fits, It now | matches diives s wTou appears that the specis scheduled for the King Pin turday night will be hel even though all of the dama | it Ly the recent fire in the es- | | tallishment will not have been repair- | el hy the end of the week. It is | undcrstood that fire insurance offi « who are adjusting claims made by the owner of the building, will per- mit repair work to proceed on two | of the es and that these drive e ready for use Saturday. S enholme, Perce Ellett snd ill o on the alleys for the last five f their fifteen-zame elimi singles battle. AL S o'clock ding Lafayette team of the M- | sonic Association and the Joseph Phil- | {lips team of the National Capit | League will start u five-game set that will__constitute the first half of a match. The second block of the La- fayette-Phillips setto will be bowled 1t Convention Hall, February 20. This | probably will end the special team en gagements for a time, as 8o many of the city's best howlers will be kept busy in their leagues that are entering the home stretches of championship races. e block nation the e | { No time will be lost in disposing of { the match between Earl McPhilomy and the winner of the Wolstenholme- Ellett-Rosenberg affair. Five games of this setto will be bowled at Conven- tion Hall on February 20, five more at King Pin on February 24 and the |final five at the Coliseum on Febru- ¢+ King Pinners ran away from Joseph | Phillips in the first two games of a ational Capital League match, then dropped the third. The scores were: 3, 589 and 543 to 521, 528 and 553. | Campbell, King Pin anchor, was high with a set of 363, while Burtner got 359 and Welsh 356. McPhilomy was best of the Sausagemakers, with a set of 334. . Chauncey Peters set o game record for the Bureau of Standards League lust night with a count of 165, He was rolling with the Physicists against the Ceramists on King Pin No. ldrives. Tn amassing that total, Peters | made three strikes and four spares. 0Oddly, Peters' other games of the set were 95 each, the 165 being sand- wiched between these low counts. The Physicists swept the set. Whalley started in great style for American Legion of the Prince Georges County cireuit, rolling a game of 154. Then he dropped to 109 and 98, but the Legionnaires managed to grab two of the three games from the Stephens outfit. King Pin No. 1 expects to have 20 of its 40 alleys that were damaged by fire in condition for use on February 22, If so, leagues using the uptown drives will resume their champion- ship programs there, ! Bur- ball ing broke kett and nu vers fume TENNIS AT CARLTON AGAIN IS POSTPONED By the Associated Press. CANNES, France, February For the third successive day, all the matehes in the Carlton Club lawn tennis tournament were postponed to. day because of rain. The hotel keepers and FEiviera boosters are lamenting the long stretch of rain at this time, when the eyes of all the world are turned here in anticipation of the expected meeting between Helen Wills and Suzanne Lenglen. Miss Wills' determination to continue play, notwithstanding her antipathy to the commercialism with which the tournament has been surrounded, has brought gratification among tennis fans, who feared they were to be de prived of the keenly awalted meeting between the American star and Su zanne Lenglen, the European cham plon. Many expressions of praise are heard for the sporting spirit shown by Miss Wills fn her determination to face the mighty Suzanne in her own stronghold, despite all obstacles. Favorable comment also is made on the action of the United States Lawn Tennis Assoclation authorities is ad. vising Miss Wills to ¢ and not 1 gave w statement to newspapers at Nice last night saying that, while she had always refrained from interfering with the organization of tournaments h she engaged, she regretted that exclusive motion’ pleture rights in the wo n's singles tinals of the Carlton tournar had been grunt- ed to a private firm. MEMBERS WILL ACT ON GOLF CLUB LEASE local Members of the Indian Spris | Club will meet tonight at the club | house, near Four Corners, Md. to vote on a proposal made by a Kroup of club officials to lease the property us & going concern from Tom Moore, president of the club and owner of the land and club equipment The lease proposal has been made by a group h by John F. Mc Cormac Hoover and Ch ter C. It contemplates l0-vear contract with Moore, during which he will be pald $15.000 a vear rencwable at the end of 10 years 5 years with payments to {nerease to 15,000 If the contract is | renewed at the end of 15 years, the pavments will be higher. Moore, according to members of the | board of governors, has spent ap- proximately $320,000 in developing the club and golf course. The initial l0-year contract to he presented fs based on a reasonable return on an | investment of $250.000 Although the meeting tonight is the scheduled annual meeting of the club at which offic e usually elected, | the election will probably be held over | for another month while the lease pro. posal {5 discussed. UNFA 11— s Golf | tor | & Champion Says Sparring League N Jack De: him as th ipsey, t heavy League just at present i if one is to b scored more t ndred knoc . Just how g fcllow Leag is the only one who possesses the p Pings cxist to prove that he ever sy Now any one with a wallop good enough to lay a hundred adversaries low is bound to break into print somehow, some way and be pretty well known. It simply could not be helped. If any one tried to sup. press such facts the effort would be characterized by complete faflure. s Little Joke. tion rises just how has to conceal himself ts Soke Dempsey Demps always When he tle tra had stopping 1 n did look pres rricr writing w mounted pe { man? not high among the Then Jimm of Liepervi butler, Geor rate cont de Dougherty Pa.. took his c Godfrey, out 0 G Falis,” Mont., to act as Dempsev's leading shock absorber when the | champ was preparing to meet Tom- my Gibbons The story went shaped up so finely one wishing a crack at 1 first have to figh the giant negro. year Big George i P nine engagements, and if one is to judge by the caliber of {these opponents and what Godfrey {did to them, the negro is not ail that mpsey cracked him up to be. Godfrey Unimpressive. Godfrey keeps challenging all the top liners, but, if His manager is to be | believed, rione of them wants hing to do with the husky colored man. | Maybe not: hut, i not, why not? ur knockouts are listed on God. = credit list. to wit, Tut Juckson 1 Baker, Battling Owens and Fred at that thereafter he titl his w has ILING that | that Gawge | LEAGUE, JACK’S PROTEGE, HAS NO RECORD TO SHOW Partner Has Scored More Than 100 Knockouts, But Public Never Has Heard of His Doings in Ring. BY SPARROW McGANN. EW YORK, February 11.—Who is this Jack League? Like a mefeor, caped this weck into the firmament of publicity when to newspaper men in Flo red ight champion of the world. t serving as Dempse ieve the champ, the b s sparring partner, and, packs a frightiul wallop and has outs to date. be told. Der ormati a record book bears his name, nor do any recent or aged clip- ung his devastating right in a ring. s list is not at all im- made a good showing but Renault hag not his big fights for rearly @ vear. If he is not on the toboggan it is high time he showed some of that class which he occasion- ally used to flash All in all, Dempeey’s touting of League 100ks to be of the same jocular |category as his praise of Godfrey. If Dempsey thinks well of ue, it would be better for the young man were he to be turned loose ind permitted to ply his trade, The mplon is tk on in the world with whom to hook wup in training j wades in like & tiger the ambition out of his m order. League | will not“learn 1 com Dempsey, ind will be punch drunk if he sticks o him long enough It is a good bet that R frev, Jack Burke and other bogers who have served in Dempsey’s camp in the past would be Letter men today had they stcered clear of the hard. nault, God- DEMPSEY IS IN DENVER FOR EXHIBITION BOUT DENVER, Colo., February 11 (f).— Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion, arrived here last night ac- companied by his wife, Floyd Fitzsim- mons, Michigan City, Ind.. boxing pro- moter, and several trainers and spar- ring parthers. He will meet Jack League and Jack Lee, two of his in exhibition bouts Friday zsimmons declared Dempsey would defend his title against Harry Wills before September 20, next, in “‘one of four Eastern citles I have in mind.” e W. G. George's professional mile rec- jord of 4 minutes 12% seconds has stood for 40 years. Men have learned that they can depend on Chesterfield for the same fine tobac- cos, the same untiring good taste, always - Chesterfield Such popularity must be deserved CHESTERFIELDS