Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1926, Page 37

PORTS., THE EVENING BTAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. 0., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1928. La Coste Seen As Coming Tennis ing : “All Need Spring Training,” Landis Says ~ ALL OF mi%sg%isfi%ms IN BALTIMORE EVENT Has Needed Strokes, Temperament and Headwork. Tilden Said to Have Gone Back—Richards Declared to Have Passed Zenith. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. tennis the man who defeated the national indoor singles tif N EW YORK, February 25.—In the opinion of many close followers of Jean Borotra in the final match for tle at the Seventh Regiment Armory oa Monday is the coming world champion player. He is Rene LaCoste. Coste has not the dynamitic qualities of his fellow countryman, Borotra, but his game, in almost every department, is more soundly based. He plays with a minimum expenditure of energy, both in stroking and footwork, and is Iways poised and studious. Tiiden, in heqping Fred Anderson to defeat Richards and Hunter in the final for the national indoor doubles title, played in much better form than on last Friday, when the combination would have been defeated by the French team had it not been for But Tilden, just the same, is not Til- den. He looks and aots years older his age. One of the best judges of tennis form in the world, & man Who acolaimed Tilden as a coming champlon before any one outside of Philadelphia had heard of him, said today that he would not be at all if Bill Johnston took him ints camp next Summer. Would Be Remarkable. ¥ this happened it would be one of the most remarkable events in the annals of sport. For Johnston was champlon when Tilden was striding toward the heights, end it was Tilden who forced Johnston from his throne and ever sinoe has been the one play- er who has stood in the way of the ur-brwon‘“ of kingly honors for Lit- L3 L. To have the veteran return and take vengeance upon the younger man who had dethroned him would oertainly be a most remarkable spec- ‘taol ol Yet it may well happen. Watching Tilden in these indoor matches, the {dea was plainly established that he Bas slipped, and those who remember CATHOLIC U. Anderson’s splendid work. the events of 1925 do not have to have the fact recalled to them that the Tilden of last year was not the Tilden of pre- ceding seasons. On the other hand, Johnston has not gone back at all. In 1924 he did, indeed, show failing form, but last season he was at the peak of his game, and from the way he has been fi'ln: in California this Winter there no reason to believe that the little West- ern star will not come East this Sum- mer with about everything in the way of expert tennis that he ever had. One cuMous thing about Little Bill is that none of these Frenchmen—] coste, Borotra, nor any of them—seem. to bother him particularly. Where Tilden and Richards will find the go- ing very rough indeed and perhaps lose—as Tilden did last Friday—John- ston, with that extreme nonchalance of his, mows down his Gallic foes as though it were merely part of a day’s work. As for Vincent Richards, he, like Tilden, has been playing well below par this Winter, and it is doubtful if the future holds any promise that he will ever improve upon the standard of merit which has marked his play in the past two or three years. BASKETERS BEGIN THREE-GAME TRIP C wind up their season. ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY basketers are playing Bucknell in Lewis- burg, Pa., tonight, in the first game of a trip of three that will The Brooklanders engage Juanita tomor- row night and close the jaunt against Penn State Saturday evening. C. U. is favorite in all three contests, but it will do very well if it captures two, Coach Fred Rice doubtless will start his Sophomore combination in all of the contests, but it will he a hard task for them to play through the games. Rioe has been bothered all season by lack of real reserve strength, and this may tell against the Brooklanders in pl a trio of games in as many nights. Some of the C. U. Sophs have begun to show the effects of the hard schedule. Georgetown closed its basket ball season by scoring over the strong Pennsylvania Military College quint at Chester, Pa., last night, 48 to 34. The Qadets, who were favorites, led, 22 to 80, at the Intermission, but the Hill- toppers played the Pennsvivanians off thelr feet in the last half. Nork cli- a season of heavy scoring for the Blue and Gray by getting six from scrimmage, and it was his work that decided the issus. Eight University of Maryland toss. ers were to leave this afternoon for Atlanta to take part in the Southern Qonference championship tourney that starts tomorrow. The Old Liners, who are in charge of Coach Burton Ship- ley, will play the Mississippl Aggies in the first round. This is a tough as- sigmment at the outset, and after such a long jaunt, as, outside of North Carolina, the champion; Mississippi U. and Kentucky, the teams seeded along with Maryland Aggies in the draw, have about the best aggregation in the South. Then if Maryland beats the Aggies, it probably will run into North Carolina State, another really formidable combination, in the second stage. In fact, Maryland, “in the luck of the draw,” fared much worse than the three other seeded teams, who drew easy assignments for their opening clashes. Maryland is due to start Jack Faber and Fred Linkous, forwards; Capt. Bill Supplee, center, and Bill Beatty and Leland Cardwell, guards. Donald_Adams, center and forward; Buddy Ensor, forward, and Artie Boyd or Walter Troxwell, who play either guard or forward, Were the reserves to be taken along. Boyd hurt his leg Monday in practice, but will go if it is.in shape for him to play. Faber also can play guard if necessary. Maryland, which won 14 out of its 16 games during the resular season, is highly regarded by the Bouthern critics, However, the limiting of the teams to eight men hurts the Old Liners’ chances. Shipleys’ strong point was In utilizing 10 men, usually Mike Stevens in addition to the nine men- tioned, and sometimes 12, Dave Whel- chel and John Woodward also figuring in many contests. In fact, Shipley took all 12 on the three-game trip Maryland made into Virginia early in the year. All of the eight picked to go to At- lanta are former Washington high school boys, except two, Beatty, who is from New Jersey, and Ensor, who i3 a Marylander. TWO BIG COURT EVENTS ARE SLATED FOR SOUTH By the Associated Press. OUTHERN collegiate basket b: weck and the next with tourn: Association, respectively. Friday, in all reaches its seasonal climax this aments to declde the championships of the Southern Conference and Southern Intercollegiate Athletic tlanta, 16 picked quintets of the Southern Conference be- elimination contests, and in Greenville, S. C., next Monday, individual g:atn champions of the S. L A. A, begin a tourney. SFW writers have predicted freely, basing thelr choices on game percent- es and player conditions, but here s how the brackets show the Southern nference tilts will progress: vs. esseo vs. FOUR—North Carolina_Stats I flsbams Poly and Maryland vs. Missis- ‘Winners of the first and second brackets will meet in the semi-finals, &8 will victors in the third and fourth. Entries for 8. I. A. A. tournament had not been completed today. Two { States had not selected the State | champlons. Alabama will pick her yopresentative quintet tonight as & wesult of the Howard College-Birming- together with six South Carolinians, ham Southern tilt at Birmingham and Louisiana is expected to do likewise before the end of the week. Kentucky Wesleyan was selected last night to represent that State. Stetson College will represent Florida; Mississippi College has been selected from that State; University of Chattanooga will play for Ten- nessee and Georgia will have Mercer. The six quintets from South Caro- lina_are Newberry, Furman, Citadel, Wofford, Presbyterian College and Charleston College. South Cerolina will have a heavier representation in the tournament be- cause the association decided it was unwise to defray expenses for more than one oollege in each State. Five South Carolina institutions entered on WANT to be a member of The Evening Star Boys Club, and if accepted to self to: Keep uncomplaining Abidebythembofaflsporblme respect officials. Follow the activities of Evening Star. membership, I pledge my- in and the Club through The Never neglect cither home duties or school classes. Yam— rs old ; attend—————e—————school, I would like to have a Membership Certificate and The Evening Star Boys' Club button, which I will wear. Name of Boy. THREE ALOY RUNNERS Albert Schaub, Mike Lynch and Jeremiah Looney will cafry Aloysius Club_colors Sunday at Baltimore in the 10-mile street race to be staged under the joint auspices of the Emorywood Athletic Club and the Federal Beneficiary Assoclation. The fleld will include Albin Sten- roos, Olymplc marathon champion; Bill Agee, Elmer Moran and a number of other distance stars, who took part in the 10-mile jaunt held here on Monday. Schaub finished ninth in a field of 81 runners in the holiday event. Lynch took fifteenth place and Looney twenty-fifth. TWO G. U. MEN WILL CONTEST WITH HOFF By the Assoclated Pross. NEW YORK, February 25.— Georgetown University's itwo all- around stars, Anthony Plansky and Emerson Norton, will compete for all- around athletic honors with Har- old Osborn of the Illinois Athletic Club and Charley Hoff of Norway, at the Knights of Columbus meet in Madison Square Garden, March 16. Originally the event, comprising seven track and fleld tests, was plan- ned as a duel between Osborn, the Olympic champion, and Hoff, gener- ally regarded as the American’s fore- most all-around rival. So insistent have been the requests for ths par- ticipation of Norton and Plansky, however, the K. of C. authorities de- cided to admit them to the contest. Hoff and Oshorn both agreed to the addition of these new rivals. The Norwegilan, in fact, asserted he re- garded Norton as possibly a more dangerous opponent than Osborn in the events planned, which constitute &n abbreviation of the usual outdook decathlon program. Norton was a close second to Os. born in the Olvmpic decathlon cham- plonships in 1924. Plansky is the present intercollegiate decathlon ti tleholder. He beat Norton in this contest at the Pennsylvania relays last April BASKET BALL GAMES. Chester — Georgetown, 43; Pen;uylvn:'a Mulitary College, 31. ord, . —N. . S 82; Guilford, 31. LT t Elon — Wake Forest, 20; Elon, 15. At Columbia — South 27; Furman, 24. At Pittsburgh—Geneva, 37; Pitts- burgh, 29. At 'Chicago — Detroit, ola, 18. At St. ington [, 22. 'estminster — Washingto: College, 31; Blue Ridge, 24. At Emmittsburg—Dickinson, 28; Mount St. Mary's, 15. Providence—Brown, 33; Tufts, At New York—Fordham, 42; - hastan, 23, 4 Blan bt Esston—Latayette, 25; Gettys- urg, . At Schenectady—Union, 58; Ham- titon, 15. At New Brunswick—Lehigh, 37; Rutgers, 24. At Worcester—Holy Cross, 51, Tux!llesQ 3 At State College—Penn State, 37; Syracuse, 81. SPORTS EVENTS HELD AT JEWISH CENTER A double-header basket ball attrac- tlon, an exhibition of swimming and life saving and a series of bowling matches formed the program staged last night at the Jewish Community Center when athletic facilities of the new plant at Sixteenth and Q streets were thrown open to members for the first time. A capacity crowd saw the girls of the Capitol Athletic Club go through the {stunts in the 60-foot tank under the direction of Guy Winkjer and Al Lyman. The Kanahwas and Temple Alumni basket ball tossers opened the new court, with the former getting the verdiot, 28 to 28. In the second game the Rialtos took the measure of the B'nal B'rith quint, headed by Irish Edelstein, 27 to 25. Young Women's Hebrew Assoclation bowlers took the homors in the first games rolled on the four new duck- pin drives. They scored three straight victories over the Interclub five. Carolina, 22; Loy- Almzll'.h—l(nnsn!. 29; Wash- ARLINGTONS TO GATHER. Base ball enthusiasts of Arlington County, Va., will gather tonight at 8 o'clock in Columbia School, on the Columbia pike, has arranged for & musical program and the serving of refreshments. BY BROTHER GILBERT, Man Who Discovered Babs Bath. HE Spring following my d'll- I covery of Babe Ruth playing at St. Mary's School in Balti- 1 learned that Jack Dunn, the :::;eagcr of the Baltimore Orioles, was looking for a left-hander and had his eye on Rube Meadows, one of my young pitchers. But I didn't \vautyhim to take Meadows. The boy wasn't ready to go into profes- sional base ball. I oftered to show Dunn & player that was ready if he would promise to “lay off” Meadows. So he, along with Fritz Maisel, then captain of the New York Yankees, and myself, went over to see Ruth. “Whew,” said Dunn as Ruth came trotting down the cinder path in his whop clothes, “There's a Rube Wad- dell in the rough.” Dunn signed George Herman Ruth to a contract that afternoon, March 17, 1914, news spread idly around the schol. Even the smaller boys of the institution had learned to appreciate his tness, and when they found uth been “‘signed” to play ball in & regular league, and was to ve St. Mary’s, one of the little fel- yws plaintively remarked: “There goes our ball clu And so it did. Two days later Dunn started for his training camp at Fay- etteville, N. C., and Ruth was along. Babe Ruth didn’t look that way the first day he was at training camp. Whatever faults he had were corrected, even though they were minor faults. This pose of Ruth is approved by the best of base ball men. If you bat like that maybe you'll be a home-run star, too. There will be another interesting chapter of Ruth’s boyhood tomorrow —for he still was & boy even though he was in professional base ball. Elsewhere on this page will be found an application for membdership. Fill it ¢n todsy and madl it, addressed COhief, Boys Clud, The Evening Star, Washington, D. C. BOY BUILDERS. Begin _training for a sport slowly. Begin practice each day slowly. Warm up slowly. And then wind up the day slowly. Use the speed in between. (Copyright. 1026.) The Evening Star Boys Club Continuing to Grow Rapidly Club has been heavier than at D URING the past few days enrollment in The Evéning Star Boys any time since the early days of or- ganization. The club’s reputation is spreading rapidly, and as soon as the boys are made acquainted with its doings and purpose they send in their applications. Once more the warning is made that all affairs will be open to club mem- bers only. The button is the badge o.f identification, and no boy will be priv- fleged to take part in the functions who does not wear one. Thoss who are thinking of doing so should send in their pledges now so as to avold being caught In a last-minute rush, as was the case with many prior to last Monday's basket ball games. There are many affairs coming in which all will want to take part, and not any of which will interfere with any one's duty to any other o tion. It is hoped to bave the athletic carnival program ready for publica- tion within & few days. There will be plenty otlcompouuon. 80 start to pre- re for it now. NAn_V member of the club bstween the ages of 12 and 18 who plays the saxo- phone and would like to joln boys’ orchestra will communicate with the chief. The story of the phenomenal rise of Babe Ruth continues in ths club column today. From this stery it can be seen readily that the Bambino's success was due ‘ his love of the smrt and the way at it continually. Next week well have real base ball tips. Not general discus- slons, but rather to the point talks, on just what the individual boy wants to know about. The latest tlr-nwl{‘ enrolled is Billy Kitch, from San Care los, in sun-kist southern Arizona. A list of new applicants for mem- bership follow: Leon Cohn, 1835 Bpring road; John mrfln;:on. 412 Hancock avenus, Ta- koma k, Md.; Lemuel Fugitt, 323 Chester _street southeast; Donald Fugitt, 822 Chester street southeast{ Eugene Widmayer, 2319 Lincoln northeast; CMI:GI Gunn, re 5406 Thirteenth stree Raymond F. Noyes, 613 Marymnd avenue southwest; August Beals, 3002 Porter street; Thomas P. Dowd, 411 Cumberland avenue; John K. Jams 712 Portland strest south. east; Jack B. Davi: U street, southeast; Sylvan teenth street; Lewis Norton, 444 Kene ‘The committes | D. tucky avenue southeast. Edward A. Langley, 138 E street southeast; Maurice T. Ingling, 2540 Fourteenth street; Frank BE. Wright, 1004 Thirteenth street southeast; Samuel Leide; 1219 Seventh street; James cGinnis, 3610 Twelfth street; Robert H. Boyd, 4521 New Hampshire avenue; Reed Gib- son, 1512 Olive street, Kenilworth, . C. Martin Berman, 503 Monroe strest} Harold Padgett, 8524 Park plaocej FORT WASHINGTON QUINT NOW TOPS SERVICE LOOP ORT WASHINGTON courtmen, F defending champions of the District Service Basket Ball League, stepped into the lead list night with six wins in seven starts by handing a 30-to-25 setback to Fort Humphreys on the Fort Washington floor. Accolo and Nulowsoi led the attack for the s and each contributin, ing the hoop for four Fort Washington's total. Dyson was baskets from scrimmage an The league schedule will be com- pleted Saturday, when Fort Hum- phreys entertains the Army Medical Center five. There are several post- poned games, however, one of which will bring the leaders Into action The Medicos play host to Fort Myer tonight. ‘Washington’s DeMolay quint, sched- uled to play at Frederick tomorrow, swamped the Hagerstown chapter team last night at Eastern High, 47 to 8. Peck Memorial tossers will enter- tain a team from Bllicott City tonight at 8 o'clock. Tomorrow the Peckmen lay Company D at the National uard Armory, and on Saturday they meet Columbia Heights in a Sunday School League game. 0ld Dominion Boat Club courtmen, beaten last night by Joe Holman's quint of high school stars, 89 to 23, will try their luck with the Aloysius Club tonight at 8:30 in Gonzaga - nasium. Epiphany Juniors - liotts are hooked for the preliminary at 7 o'clock. Seventh Floor General Accountants and Fourth Assistants furnish to- night’s game in the Post Office Basket Ball League. The Bixth Floor Ac- countants trimmed the Delivery five last ‘night, 50 to 16. quint, each finde a of foul shots to best for the losers, with a quartet of the same number of free tosses, been matched for Sunday’s game ad Congreas Heights Auditorium. Epiphany Junlors took the Capital Preps to camp, 88 to 17. First tossers ghowed the way to the Second Baptist team of the Columbia Federation League, 22 to 10. Noel Preps swamped St. John's, 62 :.; E:'zxm downed the Freer Preps, Mount Vernon Juniors outclassed. the McLeans, 16 to 6. . * Winton_tossers nosed out the St. Martin’s Seniors, 31 to 27. Moose Midgets handed the Rex five a setback, 77 to 17, Frank 's De Luxe won thelr and sixth games from the St. Jobn's quint, 40 to 81, and 28 to 31. St. Mll!'lmmlbn gngh'l uniors at Alexandria, 38 0 19. John A. Bagby, 108 Wootin avenue, Freindship Heights, Md.; Sol Rosen- thal, 918 Ninth street; Joseph Eck- ert, 120 Thirteenth strest southea: Thomas W. Orme, jr.. 207 B street; Willlam McKay, jr., 4005 New ue. nhouse, 184 Twelfth street southeast; Clark Willett, 301 Hammond street; Lester W. Hebbard, 703 Longfellow street; John W. Sii kins, 2031 Hamlin strest northeas Martin Darnall, Hyasttaville, M WOODWARD TOSSERS TAKE LEAGUE TITLE ‘Woodward School carried off the title in the Prep School Basket Ball o with a record of six wins in nine starts by defeating the Devitt Lightweights, 25 to 10, yesterday, in the final game of the series. The champions displayed a tight de- fense, and held their opponents to a total of three court goals. Hayes and Allen of Woodward led in the scoring, each getting three baskets from scrim: mage. Eplscopal High of Alexandria fin- ished in second place in the league standings with flve wins against four defeats. Devitt and Friends bring up the rear. PALACE BASKETERS ARE KEEPING BUSY Palace basket ball players will not remain idle while walting to resume their fight for-the second half cham- plonship Saturday night at Brook- lyn. The team left here this morn- ing for a pair of exhibition contests that should get the club into fine shape for Saturday’s clash and the game here Sunday with the first- place Clevelana five. Tonight the Palace tossers will show the inhabitants of Danbury, Conn., how the court game is played in the Capital City. Tomorrow they slip down to Hudson, N. Y, for a second tilt. Every member of the squad is making the trip, but it is hardly likely that Rusty Saunders, who has been on the sick list for several days, will see actlon before Saturday. Horse Haggerty, the latest Palace player to be sent to the Rrooklyn team, will oppose his former mates for the first time when the Dodger five is met. Reds Conaty, Roddy Cooney and Buddy Bushmar are other Brooklynites who formerly played in Washington uniforms. Sunday's game at the Arcade will be preceded by a clash between the Yankees and the Fort Washington basketers, leaders in the raee for the District Service League title, Harvey Bacon, 924 8pring road; Louis F. Scheele, 2807 Q street; Jo- seph F. Sherman. ohn 8. Messer, 1657 Thirty-first street; Donaldson Colognr, 1421 Co- lumbia road; Willlam McAndrew, 3803 Seventh street northeast; Edgar Dorman, 1344 North Carolina avenue northeast; Clifford A. Johnson, 201 Ascot place northeast; Albert Wel- lens, 8568 Warder street; Blllle Han- num, Berwyn, Md. Bernard and_Francis Gilliam, 423 Quincy street; Eugene Robinson, 630 Park road; Charles Wells, 1828 Thir- ty-fourth street; Randolph Cooksey, Falls Church, Va.; Peter De Vries, 920 Sligo avenue; Charles and Martin Mueller, 26813 1. street; O. Harding Zimmick, 1419 Columbla road. EVERYBODY BENEFITED BY CONDITIONING SEASON Judge Believes Base Ball Term Could Be Applied to Work for General Good—Considers Fans Very Exacting in Demands. BY JOHN B:. FOSTER. E to the writer, “this Spring about this: N ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA, February 2 fan correctly,” observed Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis 1f T get the idea of the training camp business amounts to “All managers should train their batters so that these batters can hit the ball out of the lot, and at the same time all managers, if fans have their way, should train their pitchers o that they can pitch airtight games.” . The judge was in an expansive Friday on a training camp trip of h quarters of the teams in the South of the season which comes with base ball once more in the air. rame of mind as he prepared to start is own, which will carry him to the and East. He referrcd to the tonie Jut the problem of the managers concerned him. “I submit.” he said, “that the man- ager who feels confronted with the job of training airtight pitchers and -400 batters has some job. Somebody’s got to give. Yet the fans want to see thelr home teams come back to the domestic hearths with pitchers who won't flinch against the mightiest of all bats, and with batsmen who ocan reduce to pulp the offerings of the greatest plichers who ever bent the ball over the plate. “Really, even if exaggerated, that is what is behind all this Spring train- ing which sends young men from Min- nesota for their first trip into the gar- dens of Florida, and which lands young men from New York next to the ranches of Texas. Hope to be Stars. “These ball players, young and old, are sent out to Spring training to he. come ball players who are to be kings at the bat or in the box, performers without peers.” ““What would base ball be without Spring training?” the writer queried. “‘What would a man be in a desert without a camel?” the commissioner countered. “In these campe you have gathered a lot of men imbued with the determination to fight for a cham- plonship. The air is full of expect- ancy and of news of this boy and that ‘who gives promise. The whole atmos- phere is toned up with that life of sport which gets all of us. “Each team you visit during the Spring training is probably just a lit- tle advanced over the one you saw the cay before. You can't pick cham- pions on the first round. You stand open mouthed and admire. You get just as much fun out of watching Bill Jenkins just from Georgia trying to do something that Matty did as you would to see & no-hit game in the mid- dle of the season. That's why there is Spring training. “Cozy Dolan is in Sarasota running a dog race,” the writer remarked. The judge deliberated. He looked out of the window a moment and said: “Now, T wo! there? There': ing whom I er how he came to go YOUNg man concern- refer to say nothing. g. nging the subject, Judge “I told you that I was to take a Spring training trip last vear, Well, I'm golng to start off on another. I'm going to Texas and Florida and I'm going to be in Spring training all the Spring until the race is actually on. All of us need this Spring train- , ing. That phase, Spring training, should be incorporated in the Amer- ican book of phraseology not only for the use of base ball alone but for the general good. I think I have become the most thoroughly Spring-trained judge who ever relinquished the bench."” (Copyright. 1 S American Basket Ball League. (Second ight's Result. Rochester. 20: Fort Wayne. 18 2 Tonlght's Games. ochest Chic: Washington ‘at Brookirn. ONTARIOS TO MEET. Membere of the Ontario Juniors will talk base ball tonight at 2507 Seventh street at 7:30 o Thougands of men and women have prevented bair loss by timely use of ng@?fler icid alfty Halr'Tanic™ Go where you will, you’ll find fresh \ evidence of Chesterfield’s constant appeal to men who know good tobacco Ch esterflelds ave made by