Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1926, Page 13

SPORTS. Two Husky Recrui MIKE MARTIN LIKES WORK OF MORRELL AND HADLEY New England Hurlers Promising Candidates, Griff Trainer Avers—Plant Field About Ready for Use—Squad in Fine Condition. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor. The Star. AMPA, Fla, February 27.—Witl T h the close today of two weeks of dril'ing for the youths who aspire to pitching jobs with the Na- tionals, at least two can lay some claim to class, in the estimation of Mike Martin. They are Willard Morrell and Irving Hadley. In admitting this pair had caught his eye Miguel explained that it <hould not be inferred that he held the others in light regard, but simp'y ‘hat the two named had shown to better advantage thus far. He also made it clear that his estimate of them had to do solely with condition and potential power, as no means of guaging their actual pitching ability has been presented. 2l but he stressed the point that sizing arily must be restricted to considera cations and natura! attributes. Kelley and Thomas were not in- cluded in the group discussed by Mar- tin, who was considering onlv those candidates whose capabilities either re wholly or practically unknown, 1d although he did not say so in as ny words, the generous eize of both \lorrell and Hadley undoubtedly in- luenced the trainer in Both Big Fellows. Morrell 15 a six-footer of 170 pounds and the more or less u re age of 5, who was snured In the di vew Haven of the En Hadley is not so tall by 1 couple of inches, but his displace- 1ent s, greater by some 20 pounds. and his manner of twirling belies the act that he is barely of voting age, th no experience extending beyond semipro ball in the Boston area. ‘These two fellows have exception- good actfon for rookles,” the trainer observed. “What they have in the way of stuff cannot be told un til they get a chance to exhibit thelr ‘vares, and how well they can employ it is another question ve swered. Their stock in t disclosed within a few d: batting practice is scheduled to ge’ under way next week, but it will be «ven longer before a good line can b obtalned on their pltching ability because what a pitcher can do in prac tice and what he does do in a regu game often is far different. ‘We have had pitchers right on this hall club who were world beaters in hatting practice, but could not last ‘hrough nine innings in a regular con- test. Until you see a hurler in action *with men on the bases, and In a rame where something Is at stake, vou cannct teil how good he is. and e game even then is not sufficient | to fudge by “What I llke about Hudley and Mor- rell s that they both get the ball away n nice shape, in addition to being oung and strong. Both have a rmooth, easy delivery, without the jerkiness that most rookies exhibit when they first come up. I don’t know how they will pan out. but as far as they have gone they look good to me." Diamond Alnost Ready complete he mond at Plant plece of sod has been the final load of clay distributed on the skinned por- Conglderable watering and pack- | 1S to be done and the out need of aditional rolling to the rough spots, but he | sromises to have the grounds in share | ¢ can be used whe | action Monda, fon of the diz he first me of the trafuing s here will be staged, with the rool 8 | lning up against the Cuban All-Stars, 1 in something approxi- | ating big league condition. de ‘om some and a few incon- °d in the daily are in first- roquential bruises drills, all of his ing his activities, cted as a_second John Harrison in his meeting xing show. ularly proud of his he affair, for of Camem- 1 connectic league was remin hert Prominent among the Washington delegation at the ringside, in addition » Clark Griffith, was Walter Johnson, who had & fairly busy idering that after Anishi tase ball chores in the me onded the races in the ney admits that whe i cking winners at the track he is just YANK NETMEN LEAD FRENCH BY 2 TO 1 By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Februar ~¥rance s entered for the Davis Cup ten-| nis play this vear with the prospect ‘hat the Tricolor and ripes will be a ther once more. With the victories scored by Rene Y. Coste and Jean Borotra over two i the best players in the United states, William T. Tilden and Vin- ent Richards, in recent indoor 1aatches, the entrance of France has n added significance. Borotra and L Coste will be members of the rench team and Tilden and Rich- rds of the An n The Unite: in the ir th B ‘vhen Tilde 1 es gained a point matches at the d Richards conquered Srugnon, 4—86. . giving Amer- in the team com- for I'rance. Today Coste and Tiiden ‘ncounter . three out of five ots to de g A clash between Tilden and the “nited States Tawn Tennis Assocla- tjon over of several davers in < at Mad- has has tomorrow exhibition sarden \. The een been canceled. YANKEES BOOK GAME. CUMBERLAND. Md., February 27. —TWashington Yankees have been vooked for a match with the Cum- verland Colts on the local armory pawket ball floor Mondey night. The “olts were defeated by Fort Wayne two weeks ago. AasEstAl S R EASTERN PREPS RALLY. The Fastern Prep basket ball quint came from behind in the second half of their game with the Aces last night and earned the decision, 5 to 21. WATT TOPS CUEISTS. Bert Watt ciinched first place hun- s In the exhibition pocket billtard | wmatches belng held at Grand Oratral | sarlors by trimming Carl Green, 8 ERTH | ground rules. i the bases filled the batter hit a fly in | ond. | went_through ke modestly admits he considers himseli a good judge of flingers, up the squad at this juncture neces- tion of the athletes’ physical qualifi- HOT SPRINGS SQUAD LEAVES FOR FLORIDA HOT SPRINGS, Ark., February —If there is one thing that Sam Rice sfonal style be- , 1t is play golf. rday proved that by defeat ing J. G. Stickney, former amateur champlion of Missourl, in the final of the George Washington golf tourna- ment. Now Rice, accompanied by “Goose” Goslin, Stanley Coveleskle, Joe Bush, Johnny Tobin and Joe Judge. fis headed for the Natlonals' training camp in Tampa, with Rice the hap- plest of the bunch. But one member of the Washington American League team remained behind. He s Roger Peckinpaugh, shortstop, who stated he wanted a_few more baths before starting for Tampa. Because one of the outstanding stars of the American League was matched with the former amateur golf champion of the “show me” State, a big gallery was on hand when Rice and Stickney teed off yesterday. Goslin, according to report, has not as yet affixed his signature to a Wash- ington contract, but it wa by the other players that whatever difficuity now seems to stand in the way will be taken care of when the Goose, Harris and Griffith hold & con- fab after the Goslin reaches Florida. All of the Nationals appeared to be in excellent condition. ROUNDING THIRD By Hugh A. Jennings CHAPTER LXXIL T times I have been asked to will here set down what I th playing career. The most spectacular occurred | Chicago, played in Chicago. A huge crowd was out that day, necessitating | The mob was packe I ran across the line and made a leap into the crowd. As I left my teet a big fellow, who was standing, swung for my jaw. He missed the jaw, but the biow landed on my tlder. It was a lucky assault, for his blow knocked me just enough to| one side to enable me to get my hand on the ball. Fists were swinging from | all directions as I landed, but I man aged to throw the ball to the catcher | and double the man trying to score, | retiring the side. It all happened in about three seconds, but it seemed several times that long. 1 still give| credit for that play to the man who | swung for me ag I left my feet. Most Valuable Play. The most valuable p 1 Lelleve 1| ever made occurred in a game be-| tween Baltimore and New ork in| 1895. It happened with a man on second base and one out. The batter was Larry Battam, a young third baseman, who had been with the New York team only a few days. Bat- tam hit a high line drive toward sec- T made a leap, managed to stab the ball with my bare hand and in coming down I touched second base, completing a double play and retiring the side. That play won the game for us and decided the pennant for Baltimore. It 1s strange how fate works. Tad| that ball gotten away from me it} would have been good for at least a three-bagger. It probably would have won the game for New York. It would have made a hero of Larry Bat- tam, a young recruit trving to break into the majors. I luckily caught the ball. And Larry Battam? He faded soon after. 1 have no doubt that the play disheartened him. He figured the breaks were agalnst him hecame discouraged and soon depart- ed. That is how the pendulum swings in base ball. The public does not ever consider why you falled at a certain | \‘me: all the public is interested in is whether you succeeded or fafled. The busiest day T ever had was dur- ing the same season, 1895, with Bos- ton plaving in Baltimore. I accept- ed 21 chances at short without ar error. No, vou won't find that In_the record books. It not a record. 7 forgot to mention Intentionallv, of course) that this was a 15-nning game. Incidentallv. T scored the win- ning run n the fifteanth. T was on second with “Wee Willle” Keeler at hat. He singled — I scored — game o tes 1 caw was ‘The st series ever played bv Balt'more in Pirtsburgh late in the season of 1894. We were on our wav to our first pennant and one of the tearns we had to beat was Pittshureh. When we opened the serfes Pittshurgh had just as good a chance to land the pennant as we and even hetter, for thev had a long stretch of games at home while the schedule called for us to play on the road. Pittsburgh had a good team, ., and we knew we were in_for tough going. Never have [ seen another series like this. You know you plan & great many plavs in base ball and only a few of them succeed. but in this series evervthing we tried went over. We were mechanically per- fect. No matter what we tried It succeeded. It seemed that every time a signal was given the play We worked the hit and run, the sacrifice and the saueeze with perfect precision and skill. T have never seen £o much inside base ball executed in another serfes. never so much base ball finesse. There was more aggressiveness and more spirit packed into that series than I have seen before or since. Mechanically and mentall it seemed we could do no wronz. W played al im- | possible ball. Baltimore won four games In = row. No team could have beaten the kind of bpluy we showed in Pittsbuigh. We were. 50 good that believed | also the play I regard as the most valuable made by me during my | to back up Brouthers, but when he | possible to get the ball, he made a THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, HUGGINS SEES MUCH TROUBLE FOR GRIFFS NEW YORK, February 27 (®).— ‘Wilbert Robinron, president-manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, in training at Clearwater, Fla., has offered hi left flelder, Zack Wheat, a salary of $16,000, one season only. Miiler Huggins, manager of the Yankees at St. Petersburg, thinks five teams will make trouble for the cham- pion Nationals this season—his team, Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis. Jack Scott holdout pitcher, paid his own way to Sarasota to demand an increase of Manager McGraw for re- turning to the Giants. McGraw says last year's contract was high enough. PHILADELPHIA, February 27 (®). —The Athletics training at Fort Myers, Fla., have suffered their first casualty of this season. Joe Pate, re- cently acquired Texas southpaw, was struck on the temple by a wild toss yesterday. The injury, however, was not serious. At Eradentown, where the Phillles are training, Art Fletcher s less wor- ried than he has been of late, now that 12 of his pitchers are on hand. ST. LOUIS, February 27 P).— Ernie Nevers, the former Stanford University foot ball star, made his debut in a major league uniform at the Browns' training camp at Tarpon Springs, Fla., vesterday. He made a favorable impression on Manager Sis- ler, who first sent him to the rubber and later into the outfield. CINCINNATI, Ohio, February Jack Hendricks less than a dozen players of the Cin- cincinnati National League club made {up the squad that left todav for Or- {lando, ¥la. Others will report at camp. Eppa Rixey, Rube Bressler and Pete Donohue, regulars who failed to return signed contract, did not ac company the squad. Nothing has been heard from Rixey or Bressler. Dono- hue was offered a $2,000 increase, but 1s holding out for more. AVALON, Santa Catalina Island, Calif., February 21 UP).—Four Chicago Cubs are nursing injuries today as Spring training of the squad neared the close of the second week. Jo> Kelly, outfielder, {s out with a twisted ankle; Clay Touchstone with a fes- tered shin; Wilbur Cooper, southpaw pitcher, has a sore elbow, and Gabby Hartnett, catcher, 18 bothered with a bad throwmng arm. WALKER ACCEPTS BOUT. SCRANTON, February 27 (). —Jack Kearns, manager of Mickey Walker, world welterweight cham- plon. has accepted the offer of $30,000 for a_championship bout in this city with Pete Latzo of Taylor, Pa. M: has been tentatively fixed as the date. name the best play I ever made. I ink is the most spectacular play and in a game between Baltimore and d along the third base line. With | to left field foul territory. | the Pittsburgh fans, notorlous for being rabidly in favor of the home team and recognizing nothing out- side of their team, cheered Balti- {more instead of Pittsburgh in the | last two games. One play swands out in memory. I believe it was the best mechanical feat of this brilliant serles. “Kid" Gleason was pitching and the bat- ter drove sharply to first. The ball came so fast to Dan Brouthers that he could not get his glove down to block it and the ball skipped through his legs. Reitz, our second basemar. had started with the ball. He wanted #aw that it would be next to im- dive for it. Reitz stabbed the ball with his bare hand while sliding aver the grass and he tossed to first while i D. hem’ng tat ~BOYS CLUB Conducted by ROBER BY BROTHER GILBERT, The Man Who Discovered Babs Ruth. FEW days after George Herman Ruth had showed up at his first Spring training camp, with the Baltimore Orioles, and after he had been named “Babe” by the older players, I received a letter from Jack Dunn, his manager, in which Dunn wrote: “Ruth is the greatest young ball player who ever went to a training camp.” Well, Babe just continued to hit the ball and he did some great pitching, too. He made good and he didn't stay in Baltimore long, but advanced to the big leagues. However, Babe Ruth's boyhood story was finished when he hit that first home run at the training camp. He had graduated then. He was still a kid in years, but his back was turned on the school In Baltimore and he faced to base ball's greatest heights. And my story ends there, for he became instantly so famous that the intervening space of years has been well covered by hundreds of sports writers. But now that you are still with me T want to say a few things about boys nd athletics. Be modest off the fleld, but enterprising and fearless on it. Have self-confidence. Johnny KEvers and Eddie Collins were winning ath- letes; they had plenty of initiative. Be energetic. Be_honest. Don’t become discouraged. You may never become a n‘l‘l":, Illlllt Il. good will come t;) yohu sically. The very purpose of ath- !‘,'3« is to enable our boys to unfold organically and symmet; into T C. McCLELLAN clean, stalwart, able-bodied young men. Another Tennis Game. Another flne game for the tennis. players wishing to start about now is “five-ten.” The space needed varies from one-half to one-sixth the size of a regular court. Build a frame, the up- per part of wood and the lower part of netting. Three feet above the ground is a gap, with a pocket or box to re- ceive the ball. Half way down the eourt Is a service line. The object is to serve and get the ball in the pockets. If it does not go in it rebounds to the other side of the court and the other fellow tries it. Two, three or four may play. It is @ good starter for the ten- nis season. Elsewhere on this page will be found an application for membership. Fill it in today and mail it addressed, Ohicf, Boys Ciub, The Evening Star, Wash- ington, D. C. Boy Builders. Thirst is natural. Satisfy it to a4 certain point by rinsing the mouth with water and taking a swallow or two. But don’t drink .llalw you want after a hard exer- ol By a Rush A ceive them within a day or so. There is a series of base ball and track articles to be published in the Boys' Club column that will be rel- ished by every boy. So get out the scissors_and bs ready to clip these talks. They will be hard to beat and written especially for the boys in a manner not at all technical—in fact, they will be easlly understood by all. You'll learn some little tricks you never thought of before. The mem- bers are asked to have their friends enroll now and avoid the rush be- fore the next club affair. A list of new applicants follows: Robert B. Goron, 3812 First street southeast; Bernard Gallagher, 1237 | Perry street northeast; Joseph Car- mody, 1925 G srteet northeast; Rich- ard Ray, 0204 Fourteenth street; C contest. At the close of the schedule the best nine players, chosen by a com- mittee of coaches, will be recommend- ed for “C's.” In order to win her let- ter a player must have participated in at least flve full halves during the series and must have demonstrated her superiority on the court. Her standing as a student and school cit- izen alzo must be considered satisfac tory. Numerals will be awarded all giris wing on the ground. Gleason had run over to cover the bag, Brouth- ers never thinking that the ball would be fielded. Gleason took the throw and retired the runner. I have seen many unusual plays in my career and I shall relate some to you in succeeding chapters. (Copyright. 1926.) e GOLFERS ARE TIE IN TAMPA TOURNEY By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla., February 27.—Golf- ers taking part in the Florida open championship moved .to the Temple Terrace Club course today for the final 36 holes of the 72-hole medal play. “Wild" Bill Mehlhorn, Chicago, and Harry Hampton, Key West, Fla., led the field in vesterday’s play, turning in cards of 138 each. Leo Diegel, defending titleholder, and John Golden, Paterson, N. J., came second, with 139 each. Archie Compston, British pro, turn- ed in a card of 144 and Jim Barnes, playing with an injured thumb, had 143. who participate in four full halves in scheduled games. No freshmen are allowed to com- pete in the interclass event at Cen- tral. The eight teams participating are two squads from each of the <ophomore and junior classes and a first and second Senior A and Senlor B team. Elisabeth Alexander, general man- ager of basket ball, has announced the first half of the schedule. Each day there will be a double-header. The first squads will play in the major contest and the second squads will meet in the auxillary feature. The dates are: March 2—Juniors vs. Sophomores. March 4—Senior A. vs. Senior B. March 8—Senior A vs. Junfors. March 11—Senior B vs. Sophomores, March 15—Senior A vs. Sophomores. March 17—Senior B vs. Juniors. Tonight will see the first meeting in history between the University of Pittsburgh and George Washington basket ball sextets. They will oppose in the H sreet gymnastum at § o'clock. Virginia Hopkins, George Washing- ton caach, has announced the tenta- tive line-up of the Buff and Blue as follows: Misses Ewers and Young, for- wards; Jackson and Cate at center- field, and Faunce and Hastings, Club Pledge WANT to be a member of The Evening Star Boys Club, and if accepted to membership, I pledge my- self to: Keep myself always in good physical condition. Play fair. Be a modest winner and respect o Evening Star. 1 would like to have a I am——years old; attend an uncomplaining loser. Abidebythemle‘sofnllupomlmminand Follow the activities of the Club through The Never neglect either home duties or school classes. school, Membership Certificate and The Evening Star Boys’ Club button, which I will wear. Clip this blank application, fill it out and mail it tod addressed : Chief, Boys Club, Evening Star, Washington, D. - Club Chief Being Kept Busy of Applications PPLICATIONS for membership in The Evening Star Boys Club con- tinue to roll in a little faster than the chief is able to handle them. This accounts for some delay in sending out the certificates and but- tons, and the new members are asked to be a bit patient. They will re- Earle Poole, 1332 Twenty-fifth street; Daniel R. Harty, 3430 P street; Ralph F. Sidell, 10 Montgomery avenue, Ta koma, Park, Md. Carl R. Sidell, 10 Montgomery ave- nue, Takoma Park, Md.. Roger H ohnson, Hyattsville, .; Donald burrhus, Hyattsville, Md.; Samue Hillman, 88 D street southwest Charles F. Candie, 112 Cedar street, Cherrydale, Va.; Biille Kinsella, 24 Eleventh street northeast; Alfred ‘Wanthen, Kensington, Md. Charles Franklin Lowery, 107 Car roll street southeast; Joseph Alfre Harty, 3046 P street; Russell Gordo. Gebbardt, 711 Longfellow street; Ma- rio Sims, 223 Seventh street south- west; Charles E. Ofensteln, 3808 Twelfth street northeast; David L. Krupsaw, 4409 Fifteenth street. WOMEN IN SPORT -BY CORINN, NTRAL HIGH SCHOOL basket ball tossers will open their annual interclass series Tuesday afternoon with a double-header. Junior first team will play the Sophomore firsts in the initial con- test. The Junior and Sophomore sccond squads will clash in the second | ¢ E FRAZIER The guards. Misses Armentraut, Taylor, Bradwell and Denning will probably get Into the game also, First Church piled up a_42-to-12 count against the Bethany B sextet last night in the B. Y. P. U. League game played on the Salvation Army floor. Mary Ruthven, forward, col- lected 30 points for the winners. The Mercury-Company F basket ball tilt scheduled last night in the Hyatts- v}lle1 Armory was postponed indefi nitely. Thelma Winkjer will serve as presi- dent of the Caplitol Athietic Club for the remainder of the unexpired term of Mrs. Cecelia Deubig, who resigned recontly. Hazel Davis is acting as corresponding and recording secretary. Olive O'Hearn and Mary Bingham, two new members, were elected at the last meeting and several more will bs welcomed at the coming ses- sion early in March. C. U. AIMS TO TRIM PENN STATE QUINT Catholic U. basketers, beaten for the second time on their trip by Juniata last night, 32 to 28, will try to end their season bv scoring over Penn State in the den of the Nittany Lions this evening. A victory over Penn State would atone for the two other reverses on the faunt, for the Nittany Lions’re- cently stopned Syracuse after the Orange quint had won 15 games in a row. The Brooklanders got off to a bad start last night, Juniata reeling off a 10-point lead in the first few minutes, and, although Coach Rice's charges outplayed the Pennsylvanians from then on, they could not quite make up the lost ground. Harvey was the leading C. U. scorer with 11 points. ST e D. C. SCHOOL TOSSERS HAVE A LOSING DAY District scholastic basket ball teams ran into more than their share of hard luck yesterday and lost out in all three of the games that were played here and on foreign courts. Central, starting out on a three- game trip. dronned a clash with Petersburg (Va.) High, 28 to 13. while Devitt bowed to the freshmen of ‘Washington and Lee. 35 to 25, at the National Guard Armory and St. Al- ban's took the short end of a 87-to-22 count in a meeting with St. Chris- topher’'s School at Richmond. Both St Alban's and Devitt ended thelr scheadules with .yesterdav's clashes. Central winds up activities tonight in a game with Newport News High following an »fte=mnon match with Maury High at Norfolk. Announcement made to the effect that Gonzaga's team had been refused | the permission of the faculty to at- tend the University of Pennsylvania scholastic tourney leaves Eastern with the task of representing the Capital in the annual affaic held in Phila- delphia. The opening games are scheduled for Saturday of mext week. C., BATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1926. SPORTS. 13 t Pitchers Perform Impressively at National Training Camp OLDLINE FIVEONLY |RING TITLE TO FLOWERS; FAVORITE DEFEATED| BEATS GREB ON DECISION ATLANTA, Ga., February 27 (#).— Seven favorites and a *dark horse™ that suddenly flashed to victory ves- terday met today for the second round of tiits to decide the basket ball cham- plonship of the Southern Conference. ‘The ‘“dark horse” was Mississippi A and M., which upset the predictions and scored over the powerful Uni- versity of Maryland team. Pairings for today are as follows: UPPER BRACKET—North Carolina vs., Virginia, 4 o’clock; Grorgia Tech vs. Mississippi U., ® o’clock. LOWER BRACKET—Kentucky vs. Georgia, 8 o’clock: North Carolina State vs. Missippi Aggies, 3 o'clock. Clemson, 21. :}'irl’rl:l‘:_rn:h T;‘Imxvl. '2'6. & eor ‘ech, 36: Alabama, 27. Mississppi U., 50; Se 1 Kentucky, 29: V. M. Ge 48: Tennessee. 2. North Carol'na State, 32: Auburn, 25. Mississippi Aggies, 22; Maryland. 19. Maryland was the victim of a star- tling_upset when it was beaten by the Mississipp! Aggles, although the latter has a strong team and has shown marked ability In its recent contests. It captured five of eight games against conference teams, tak- ing its last four before contesting in the tourney. Maryland, which led, 10 to 7, at half- time, made eight goals from scrim- mage to seven for the victors, but lost out through poor work from the foul line. The Aggles made good on 8 of 14 trles from the 15-foot mark, while the Old Liners were successful only 3 times in about as many chances. ¥aber and Linkous each seored & nts for Maryland, while Adams got upples 2 and Beatty 1 Cardwell, yd and Ensor also played for the 0Old Liners. e BASKET BALL GAMES. At Huntingdon, Pa.— Juniata, Catholic U., 29. At Ann Arbor—Michigan, 33; Illinols, 4. ‘At Lafayette—Purdue, 32; Wiscon- sin, 31. At Minneapolis—Indiana, 41; Minne- sota, 23. -.-M Indianapolis—Butler, ‘Wabash, 25, At Hickory, N. C.—Wake Forest, Lenoir-Rhyne, 21. At Meadville—Grove City, 25; Alle-| gheny, 20. | At Beaver Falls— Geneva, 28; Du- quesne, 25. At Stillwater—Oklahoma Aggies, 29; Oklahoma U., 26. 5 2 {CHURCH LOOP QUINTS END SEASON TONIGHT Play in the Sunday School Basket ~all League ends tonight with a twin bill at Central Y. M. C. A., start. ng_at 8 o'clock. Unfon Methodists. holders of third nlace in the standings. will attempt o get in on a share of the runner- ‘P honors now being claimed by “piphany when they tackie the endon Baptist five in the opener. Peck Memorial Methodists meet the Columbla Helghts Christlan quint in the second game. Fort Humphreys tossers close their season in the District Service League tonight when they entertain the Army Medica] Center quint from Walter Reed Hospital. Northwestern basketers are booked to encounter the R. E. Knight five tonight at 8 o'clock on the Armory floor at Alexandria. | Fort Myer's basket ball five w: snowed under completely by the Wash- ington Yankees last night in the Sol- | diers’ gym. The Yanks ran up a §-to-13 count during the opening half and by the end of the game had in- creased their advantage to 114 to 30. Peck Memorial and Naval Medical School teams defeated National Guard quints last night in the double-header at the armory. ists won trom Company D, 24 to 10, while the Saflors trimmed Company C, 20 to 10. | Royce tossers downed the Takoma Remsens, 48 to 5, and trimmed the Blue Birds, 48 to 25. STARS TO COMPETE IN BALTIMORE MEET By the Assoctated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., February Charles Hoff, Norwegian vaulting marvel, will make his seventh shot at the world indoor pole vault mark to- night in the feature event of the an- nual Johns Hopkins-5th Regiment indoor games at the latter's armory. In six record-breaking leaps since his arrival in this country, Hoff has litted the mark from 13 feet 1; inch to 13 feet 414 inches. Hoff announced on arrival here that he plans to clear | 13 feet 7 inches tonight. In addition, Hoff will compete in an _international 440.yard run, and will continue to the 500-yard mark in an effort to break Ted Meredith's record of 58 seconds. | __A third feature will bring together Herb Meyer, Newark A. C., national 100-yard low hurdle champfon; his| team-mate, F. A. Farrell; R. Hass, | Georgetown; C. Moore, Penn State, | intercollegiate champion, and others in a century dash over the low sticks. | The 43 events scheduled have at- tracted athletes from 60 colleges, | schools and clubs from all over the Georgetown, the favorite to win the meet; Maryland, with a good-sized |squad in the individual events, and matched with Yale in the feature re- lay race of the evening, and most of the high and prep schools of Wash- ington and vicinity will take part In the games, HOWARD TO PLAY GAME IN ITS NEW GYMNASIUM Howard University basket ball quint today plays its first game on the floor of the new gymnasium dedicated yes- terday. The Lincoln quint from Phila- delphia opposes the Howard tossers at_2:30. Howard freshmen and the Colleglate Dribblers were booked for the pre- liminary Today's varsity game is the second match of a serles of three being played with the Philadelphians. Howard gained the decision in the opener, 28 to 14. The final is to be staged on { meeting of that organization in Th By the Associated Press. N EW YORK, February 27.—Theodore (Tiger) Flowers, a negro fron Atlanta, 30 years old and veteran of eight years of ring battles today is middleweight champion of the world. The crown is his by virtue of a 15-round victory on points over Harry Greb of Pittsburgh at Madison Square Garden last night. The margin was not large, yet enough to convince the Greb was not what he had been in previous defense of his title, for after four rounds he forsook his “windmill” attack and poised his right hand for a damaging blow. This blow never landed and Flowers, lashing out continually, gathed the verdict for aggressiveness and a_will- ingness to fight throughout. Many critics argued that the decision should have been a draw, but the State Athletic Commission has ruled that fights shall be decided by the number of rounds won. Flowers, in the opinion of critles, had at least six of the rounds, while Greb could muster no more than five and four were even. Red Mason, manager of the former champion, said after the contest that \f Flowers had won, then he was the victor by the narrowest of margins. Flowers' manager, Walker Miller, said that his boxer would have shown to better advantage had not Greb locked arms about his opponent from the ninth round to the end. “Harry,” Miller said to Greb, “Tiger will_fight any middlewelght in the world in three months. n take Glenn Wolstenholme and Earl P while Earl, in so far as most of the concerned, is comparatively a youngster in the gawme. ing to worry about in taking that match with the Mount Pleasant establishment man, » King Pin a leys. Given the five or slx extra years that Wolstenhol has had on the drives, McPhilomy ought to be one of the most finished bowlers of the city. Where Glenn goes about his duckpin ning in a methodical manner, Earl is given to worrying a trifle—worrying | Just enough ake his game some. What unsteady. But with the confl- dence bound to come with years of en- deavor on the drives, the Stanford Pa- per Co. man probably will be very near if not at the top of the business before he is through. In the final block of five games yes- terday the contestants broke even on the game proposition, each winning two. But Wolstenholme Increased the G5-pin lead he took into the conclud- ing block of the match to 82, outbowl- ing McPhilomy, 535 to 568. Glenn got 17 marks, fou only one of McPhilomy's was & 10-pin affair. Just before the start of the block McPhilomy was presented with a dia mond-studded platinum _stickpin by the Coliseum managementt. Scores of yesterday's games follow: ELEVENTH GAME. Wolstenholme— 0. 8p. 80 ) 0 10 20 35 54 73 88 96 105 11 McPhilomy— 918 27 4855 T s8 07 208 TWELFTH GAME. enholme— ; 25 3B a8 67 75 w5 McPhilomy— 10 19 27 37 46 54 THIRTFEE: ‘Wolstenholme— 2o 40 U5 e 63 16 marks Wols FOURTEENTH GAME. Wolstenholme— 9 18 McPhilomy— st ¥ 31 £0 60 69 78 MePhile 10 o . . 36 36 61 60 BY 105 1 SUMMARY. Wolatenholm S 1—1.842 580—1.760 08 113—505 568 61 116124 121 There will be three ¢ es of con- testants in the annual championship tournament of the Washington La- McPnilomy: 116 {dies’ Duckpin Association this y ‘This was arranged last night at In the singles season average S A rvemng Star Building. group, bowlers with a s of 33 or better will be in ¢ Those averaging from 80 tc in class B, and those belo class C. Doubles teams with an average of v or better will be in class A, while averaging from 160 to 175 wili n class 13, and those below 160 it class C. Quints with an average o. 440 or more will be rated as class A. Those averaging from 400 to 439 will be class B teams, and below 400, clas: C team The assoclation named a board of | governors. In addition to the officers the governors will be Lucile Preble and Karl Green of the Public Debt League, Mrs. Thompson of the Agri cutural League, Helen Sullivan of th Navy Aviation League and Lula Go Tee and Miss Graham of the General | Accounting Office League. King Pins strengthened their hold on first place in the District League by taking two of three games from; the Terminal Ice quint. The scores wers 562, 595 and 590 to 541, 620 and 300, GLENNA COLLETT BEATEN. A BEACH, Fla., February (P).—Glenna Collett, Providence, | R. L, golf champion of Americe. and | France. lost to Miss Dorothy Chicago, yesterday, 3 and 2, in the biggest upset of the women's South Atlantic golf champfonship being ed at Ormond Beach. ¢ Browne, Los Angeles, bent Helen Payson, Port: land, Me. 4 and 3, and went into the fina! against Miss Klotz. s BREAKS GOLF BECbRD. HOLLYWOOD, Fla., February 2 P). — Willle MacFarlane, national open golf champlon, broke the course record over the Hollywood Golf and Country Club links vesterday with a score of 66 for 18 holes. The former record of 68 was made by Gene Sara- zen last year. Klotz, 27 March 20 in the Quaker City. American Basket Ball League. (Second Series.) W L 7 on. 4 1 . /0 § 2 1 Booil 2 3 1400 Chicag Last Night's Result. 26: Rochester. ¢ Tonlzht's | Washinkton at Brooklyn | Cleveland at” Rochest ‘ s Rnchaster, Ft. Wayne o Chicago, Tomorro ! Cleveland at Wash it D MOTOR CO. Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Sireet 1333-37 14th St. Main 5780 With th;g:BdWflers ROBABLY experience as much as skill told ia the of them strikes, while | judges and referee. him if you want him. We bar no body." Flowers probably has suffered moro knockouts than any other champion the world has known. He went into the test with Greb anything but favored, because last ter Jack Delaney, the light heavyweight from Bridgeport, Conn., knocked him out twice. On_ elght occaslons Flowers has heard 10 counted over him, four times in 1922, when Kid Norfolk, Sam Langford, Lee Anderson and Jamaica Kid accomplished the feat, once in 1921, woen Panama voe Gans was (i adversary, and again in 1923, when Kid Norfolk required a single round to_win. Last year, besides the Delaney re verses, he lost to Lou Bogash on foul at Boston and was bea.en by Mike McTigue in New York, although: few at the ringside agreed with tho verdict. Flowers is married and has one daughter. He formerly entered the ring at about 170 pounds, but by ¢ stant dieti t hnny Wi son of B i1 betwee: McPhilomy that ended yesterday or the Coliseum drives. Glenn has been bowling, lo, these many years other Washington duckpin stars art So Earl has noth g in his 15-gamec ho represented t 1,842-to-1,760 'HUB CITY BOWLERS " HERE FOR CONTEST ah bowlers, Boston best bets in the smallpin game, wi be at top form for their match in Co vention Hall toni the W ington sharpshoo! The Hub er got In town early yester: ind sper considerable time on the s wi they will start the ma at 7:30 o'clock Al demonstrated that they could hit the duckpins in vogue here as well as can the candlepins that are used ir New England. The team that has won 10 champior. |ships in Boston includes Edward I | Murray, manager; Paul Pohler, Archt | Walsh, Lefty Mitchell, Howard Bes | man, Fred Haney and posing these men and five-man team g Wolstenholme, Earl McPhilomy, Re |Megaw, Al Work, Howard Campbel! Perce Ellett and George Friend. | Menager Murray hopes to be able t igive the local sq | realizes that his te. jits game in oppos joutfit. 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