Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1926, Page 26

THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1926. Griffmen Today Begln Heavy Drilling in Preparation for Third Pennant Drive ALL BUT THREE OF NATS [WAlFORD BOOTERS ARE IN CAMP AT TAMPA Peck, Due to Report Thursday, May Have Ruel in Tow—VWith Start of Batting Practice Young Pitchers Will Speed Slab Work. BY AMPA, Fla.. March 1. DENMAN Sports Editor. THOMPSON, The Star With every member of the squad present or accounted for, real work in preparation ior the forthcoming Ameri- can League campaign got und; tionals. Following the arrival earl er way today in the camp of the Na- vesterday morning of the delegation which has been boiling out at Hot Sprigns, the odd hali-dozen due to re- port direct from © numes straggled in singly and in pairs last evening and this morning reaay to buckle down to the serious business of prepar- ing to land a third straight pennant { or the Capital. Herctofore practice for the young batterymen, who largeiy comprised | the early birds, has been elemental in voiley ball the pitcher warmig up h with a jog around the weight wing in easy field. with an Starting today the all-important fea ture of batting practice is instituted Mike Martin having given his con sent to have the field he has recon structed used for the first time. As the diamond is in shape, but a few days more of grooming to iron out the wrinkles infield drills will be possible, so that the Nationals will not have to journey Petersburg next Saturday for initial contest of the year against the Boston Braves without preparation in the way of and bounders. rel class theix some snai ing b s Field Ready Mar nt the annual which the local Cuban All opposed by an aggregation ling Grifimen uirected by which is scoeduled tor next Moo there’ will no contest on the lo field uatil March 135. Then Braves due to come here for yeturn engagement. In the two weeks fntervening the trainer hopes to put the mds in firsi-class condition. According to Mardh there is not sore arm among the lot ot Kids whose exe ie has been supervising and he is confident they will be able to give the regula highly beneficial work in the o drills. For the first few days each hurler’s tour of duty on the mound will be limited 10 or 12 minutes and all have been warned that they must “take it easy In siriving to make a favorable im pression 1o pitchers are prone to cut the opportunity of atile in us are of fledg- are a soon oeing the rubber is presented result that they frequently up lame and suffer a serious setback in their traming. Miguel has ordered that for the present the flingers con fine themselves to ,merely ofiering targets for the batsmen. avoiding any effort to put “sometining on’ the ball Mike plans to be on hand every min ute of the drillé, too, to see that ne of the ambitious juveniles sneak anything over All in Good Condition. is loose @ as Apparently there ot a single athlete who has reported thus far who not enjoying the best of those who have been sojourning at Hot Springs clearly showing the bene fits of the preliminary work done there. Bush, Coveleskie and Judge all appe The latier, in fact on the mountain trail followinz the pace set that he claims to have lost 10 pounds. but the jowls he developed each Win ter still are in evidence #nd it is sus pected that Joe is spoofing Peckinpaugh. alone ol the contin gent which visited Hot Springs, failed to show up. Roger having been grant ed permission to stay over for a few days in view of the fact that busines: affairs at_home made nim tardy in re porting there He will come on later in the week and incidentally may have Ruel in 1on One Rice, Goslin, Tobin r to be in the pink worked so hard in Arkansas, by Coveleskie from the informa letter from znified his Memphis enroute 1o the athletes wuihority Peck received which Muddy is fresh that ntention tom A for tion Ruel May Nign Prosident Griffith new has developed Ruel. who has been ing fo inc that offered him headed for Tampa ably Soon. asserts nothing in the ¢ of stoutly contend- ense greater than it Muddy 11 difterences prob I is will he siraighizned out at a Griff and Goslin will i the e's status of Ruel civen 1= 2 and 1 permis By din thei ' on to report before sig hing of much Johnson succeeded for the period Intervene betore ends here. s Daytona vesterday day WESTERN SHOOTERS TO TAKE NEW RANGE Members ¢ rifle team ar tnitial ranze tomorr The callery new tions 1o to he comnletyi ver fully eondition are Walier + house of a month thai will the trning season mily came on from ind this is moving n loc Western 5 thain ernoon Hizh forward School's tn the indoor rifle i the last the Wesrern ind althoush pmed has heen pla the past week throuszh the efforts of the While waiting for the eompleted the team has to na hut has done o ade plant not in mainly men to mark ranze been practice hit-or-miss manney <h prenping 1o de. fear Tech and Easiern in two inter. hizh maiches held during the past month. T Jast encounter Fastern. went the Georgzetowners by a score of 748 10 Rob Leonard has tain of the shooters hall manage: are Edward Riount. Douglass MeDougal, Renton Morscher. Reginald Ia Gard and Frank 1o heen named and Arthur Others on the squad Hornibrook. Prescott McDougal. David roks, Lawrence Mitchell. Lewis Wedderburn. cap. Kim- m Hughes was hizh scorer for the four siages of the 3d Corps Ares fntercollegiate match recently ecom pleted by members of the St. John's rifie team. His count was 761. W. H. Bobinzer placed second with a score of 759. Paul Smith. who turned in a score of 754. took first prize for completing the course at the earliest date Eastern Hizh basketers, booked for games with the Georgetown freshmen today nd Wednesday, are tackle the Anacostin Eagles in a practice match Thursday o Woward Jones, base ball Alexandria High will put dates through their initial Thuraday afternoon. PLAY FOR SECOND PLACE. Carl Green and William Parsons play for second honors in the exhibi tion pocket billiard tourney closing tonigh his candi workout at Grand Central parlors. from fivst- | Martin, | the | a| with | vull | health. | of the | ed in | ha | foreed | that with | coach at | 1 nature. Following a Xoug session of have nidulged in short periods of fielding bunts, with each fashion for 15 minutes or so, ending extra lap for thése carrying surplus Associated Press EW YORK, March 1. N or $14000 if he fai'ed to sign and all is harmony in Brooklyn' John McGraw has decided to place his real estate holdings in the hands of a trust company nd take charge of his base ball augmented vesterday at Saras of Fv h, McQuillan rell. Tyvson and Klinger. Eleven more Yankees have arrived l'in camp at St. Petersburg h 1 (®). Crump, Far- CHICAGO, Mar weather greeted Base ball the Chicago White Sox when they reached their Spring training camp. at Shreveport, La.. Sunday, but the first workout was held over until today. The only working athlete who took more violent exercise than chmbing the steps to the dining room was Ray Schalk. who ‘(Illh with three Sox officials V| nine holes of golf. He didn't of the score, which was A wire from Base Ball Commission- Landis announced he would reach Shreveport from New Orleans on Wednesday to inspect the camp and | incidentally to play a bit of golf. At the other end of the country the bolstered up by. the pitching of Grover Alexander, were de- the Cub regulars. 9 to 4. at Island. Calif LAND. Ohio. boast | Goots ability feating Catalina CLEV] The fist Marvch 1 (#) training session for (he fielders of the Cleveland Base Ball Club hezan today at Lakeland. Fla All of ithe regulars were on hand ex | cept Joe Sewell. shortstop, and he was expected today The detachment land Friday was hours when their Saturday night near special car in which the Indians were sleeping remained on the rails, three cars ahead overturned. Pitcher Rommell and Infielders Hale, Wamby | and Dykes of the Philadelphia Amer- | icans also were aboard the train. All | escaped without Injury. LOUIS. March 1 (@), squad of 10 Cardinal Antonio. Tex.. last | | | | Cleve- several which left delayed train was derailed Jacksonville. The ST The sec players night ond reachea San | With Major Leagueres Zack \Wheat, Dodgers, has capitulated. Offered $16,000 for a one-year contract. camp at Clearwater, motored to the country | and did | but | GAIN SOCCER TITLE While tied at l-all by Fort Myer vesterday in the Soldiers’ final game of the series, Walford Club booters vesterday clinched the championship | of the Washington Soccer League. The leaders. who still have one remaining on their schedule, | have totaled 17 points for their nine starts, while the Fory eleven. winner of second honors, has earned 15 points. Linn's boot in the last two minut of play enabled the Fort Myer team to deadlock the leaders, after Blanche had counted for Walford midway of Ime second period. | German-American and Monroe | teams turned in one-sided victories in | vesterday's league clashes. The for- mer swamped the British Emba eleven, 10 to 2, while the schoolboy club handed the German-American re- | serves a setback, 6 to 2. The teams now stand as follows: G W, 01 18 T | | Waltord Fort Myer German-American Moni 6 | | leit fielder for the Brooklyn beiore tomorrow night, he accepted Fla. | to join Manager Rogers Hornsby and his advance guard of batterymen in starting the grind of Spring training at Block Park today. he battery forces are now com- plete with the exception of one play er, Herman Bell, who has not been located. At the Browns' Springs, Fla.. about the that happened vesterday rival of Kob la Motte, utility infielder. | The Chicagoan. former Milwaukee | shortstop, appeared to be in the pink of condition. The second squad of players, including outfielders and the | rest of the inner machine, is due in | camp Tuesday. PHILADELPHIA. March | (#) After escaping uninjured from a rail voad wreck near Jacksonville, a group of Athletics have joined their playing | brothers at Fort Myers. Among them | were Earle Mack. Connie Mack’s son: | | Jim Dykes, Sammy Hale and | | Wambsganss | The Phillies, at to heve intensive camp, at Tarpon only thing was the ar- Bradentown. are practice this week. | == | | PITTSBURGH. Pa.. March 1 | Gambline for high stakes and dice ar | absolutely taboo at the Paso Robles Calif.. Spring training camp of the | | world champion T Reports re- ceived here sav Manager William Mc Kechnie has issue an edict (o this ef- fec: and making known that sames | with only small amounts mvolved will | be tolerated | | have seen manv ¢ by dice games.” the mana as having told the players (P).—Oscar | pitcher, from abs disruptied | er is quoted | BOSTON, March 1 1. outfielder and Havana, is the lalest aspirant 1o re | port ai the Boston Braves' training | camp, at St. Petersburg. Fla President Eob Quinn of the Red Sox watched the squad’s workout ai New Orleans and was enthusiastic over the prospects. Most of the Red Sox play ers are now at eamp. By Hugh A. Jepnings | CHAPTER LXXIL HE imes difference hetween a hero a it is only a step, of helders have Anderson has for dumb play in ball | filled, but many other payers have |criticism. A ifew vears ago even 'l runners, 1 recall one game in which a hall player tricd to steal second with the bhases filled and won the ame by his hlunaer Deiroit was playing against St Lonis, and Lou Criger, whose repu tation catcher was of the best tehind the bat for th Wrowns In one inning Detre with three men on buses Schaefer on third. O'Leary on second nd Mclntvre on first, Suddenly Me Intyre made a dash for second neared the he noticed O Leary standing there and stopped abruptly. Helped to Victory. Mclntyre ted Lo run hoiding the ball, came toward He was tr When Mclntyre to second. He ‘The ball hit ohun vears he base because he that day two out. ol hag When Criger, | the pitcher’s box dope out the play stopped, Criger threw threw hurriedly and low. | the ground and took # bad bound Schaefer scored. O'Leary started for third and Mclntyre reached second he second baseman recovered the | ball and threw to third in an attempt ! 1o head off O'Leary, but he, too, threw ! badly. His throw shot over the thirg aseman head and into foul terri tory. Refore the ball could he rve | trieved both O'Leary and Meclntyre ! had scored. the three runs giving us victory. | ¥red Merkle tziled 1o touch second |and lost 2 pennant for New York in 1908, Markle was always referred 1o atter that as “the man who failed to touch second.”” As a makter of fact, | more than dozen players had done | the same thing, and no blame was |attached to their errors. What made Merkle's oversight costly was that the | game had to be played over. New | York lost in the replay and Chi | won the pennant as a result. | As Cobb once remerked {pull them at one time or another. | Cobb has made several blunders. In | one game with Cobb on second and Crawford on third and with none out, | Rossman, the batter,;hit « grounder | to the infield. Crawford held third, | which was the right thing to do with none out. But Cobb did ot hold sec- jond. He went to third. Seeing Craw. | ford there, he did not stop and t {return to second or jockey along the |line. He simply ran around Crawford and continued sprinting, making a !slide across the plate. Some unjustly | blamed Crawford for that. Had Craw- ford made an attempt Lo score on the infield out, he surely would have been lout at home. as Rossman's grounder « hit so hard it would have been the jest thing imaginable to make the | play. I Speaking of “We all blunders in base ning. ! can’t forget the play ted” Faber tried in a worid series game. He mude an effort to steal third with the base occupied during {one of the games in which the Chicagu | White Sox beat the New York Giants | for the world championship. Brodie Makes Mistakes. teve” Brodie used to pull bad plays on the bases. Ope time he tried to steal third while G¥eason was on run. that sometmmes less saved batters or tricd to steal third while Bobby As he | ago | nd a goat is slim in base ball. Some Oiten base runners irom humiliation. than an inch errors he leading example oi tried with the made the same mistake and escaped | v Cobb. admittedly best of all base | Jones was on the bag. | Giet out of here velled | he pitcher threw o the and Brodie began 1o jockey took advantage of the situa tried to, with an attempt to The shoristop threw the bal pe and Gleason was naiied Brodie cowd not be censuved fo the play: at leasi, he was not, for her is how it came 1o If there wa: one thing that Brodie hated it was : se on bulls. He never wanted walk: he wanied o hit. But on thi occasion he walked The catche) thought the ball (he umpire walked Brodie on was a strike, and so did the i pitcher. They were arguing with the | umpire Brodie trotted to first mumbling to himsell. As he turned first they were still arguing, so Brodic sprinted to second, reaching ihe bas by« desperate slide. He sot up brushed himself off, looked towxrd the plate and discovered that the ar, ment was still going on. So Brodie having only one purpose in mind, anc that being to advance, sprinted on to third, where he found the protestin: Kid Gleason. Although Herman Schaefer causec a new rule to be written into the basc ball hooks by stealing first, he wa not the originator of the idea. Dav. Fultz used to do it while playing witl the Athletics. He first tried It with Davis on third and Fultz on ( { Fultz stole second. but the catcher dia not throw Fultz ran back to it hoping 1o draw o throw and give Davis chance to score, but the catcher did not bite. He let Fultz run bac and forth *o his heart's content \(r“haef&r vulled the play for its com edy en held up as to steal second bases | the bas Hleason. sl Gleason tion. or scor he Filtz vsed it solely for stategy | | (Covsright, 1926.1 SEVEN IN CUE EVENT. PHILADELPHIA. March 1 (@) | Seven amateurs are scheduled to start in the tournament for the ck fl“} A 182 champlonship of the National Association of Amateur Billiard Play- ers opening tonight at the Manufac. turers: Cluh. Francis 8. Appleby, New York, winner last ye: r, will not defend his title, His brother, Edgar v, 1924 champion, is among Wallace Motor Co. means INASH i| Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave. | zona, Main 7612 The @hem’ng Star BOYS CLUB Conducted by ROBERT C. McCLELLAN BY FRED TURBYVILLE, National Chief T game of base ball that had been ca out and manicured groundkeeper. Walter Johnson did first smoke bail from by n mound that had been carefully built up by the same groundkeeper. These two stars of base just like every other boy—they played ball on the back lots with yarn balls no store glovi wagon wheel to throw, them with, | bats and half hours between Jig ses or errands to de game. They well. Their elaborate than your For today you out by the park superinten: buy balls, bats and more time to play have o It's Spring and time to ball no matter whether regulation grounds or equipment. The princip! game are the same no the conditions. The world has ball since the daw cave man of preh ably started the idea with a club and a mis That's how he young. If he had Far-A way been p of hi toric H the m: Y COBB didn't play his first succeeded and | ereat because they liked the game so beginning was even less beginning today. diamonds matter ile to do battle, won the food for plenty The on a field refully laid skilled then. 3 boys. and a ot spin his contini a pitcher’s Her A | triang ball started es to catch spokes for hool to the became vote laid dent, money gloves. and base | have regulation les of the what » play vou Tom has sol son wa base | The ys prob. | went out laying story. d e his .I\\lll};.‘l of a good ball player like this and you don't boys for president Ty ilk a day. val It must be good stuff. he came home with of food. young ones ate their fill and then began playing with the clubs and the missiles. started. And thus base ball It wasn't called base ball That remained for American They perfected the game and named it. Since those primitive days a stick stone or a ball and a bat vally been in the hands of man nd boy. e's one le ball. form of bhase ball The diamond is laid out need so many a game orrow Ban Johnson. of the American League, mething to tell you. Ban John. as once a sports editor. the great BOY BUILDERS. Cobb drinks a guart of NSo does each of the attending the United States Academy at _Annapolis. b (Covyrizht. 1976, F nends Eurollmg In Evenlng Star Boys Club/ ERES ton and surrounding and Arizona The last oi our far- 150 miles irom play space around Billy's All the color of the Sou cactus, Indians, sand, the ¢ the beauty of it monplace to Billy. many playmates members h but there wonldn’t We're going to club what the boys in * the Sunset’” do when they He thought enough as s isn't one wholesome boy’s activities the club, although he mig! able to participate in any tions. There are many section outside the organ would like to be members, rious reasons best know selves have failed so far their applications Articles on Commencing umn - will run o ay series ¢ | helpful base hall talks ever [ ROUNDING THIRD | boys. Some of the best kn: base ball, including our Harris, have writien articl for the club, in a manner t understand. A list_of new bership follows: applicant all—probably He prob e’in the Nation's trade places for awhile Billy The Heart of | clean living, sportsmanship and clean, boys in Base Ball. the territory, by any applications from points as far distant as Carolina, Chicago. away iriends to en ‘m the town of San Car'os, in the heart of the Indian Reservation, in Ari- | the turbulent Mexica home. thwest—the cowmen and | is com hably hasn't | his brother Capital, who Ree James here 1501 tell the of | Edwar street | phy. W, east southe Twent p! fa play, to enroll in ht never be of its func: this | | Md.; Anaco Muirk; | stree | ninzto | Twent | Md.; 1 |den st Jam Wo Gordo nlace Davis hert T Franl [ ilver tion who but for va- n to them to hand in club col the most given to own men in own Bucky s expressly he boys will 't s for mem Herbert Robert Miller, ¢ place Viennz 9s 26 Sixth Medfor Thomas Arthuy Wilbur in The Evening Star Boys Club is not confined 10 W ashing- means, the Montana as is cvidenced by roll was Billy Kitch n border. There is plenty of ves € McCann. 1335 “avanauzh, 30 Park road S Dent place 1500 Thirteenth Mundell, 1332 Maple southeast: Harold Brown, Vi William T, P. Hannan eventeenth street: George Lang bley avenue, Hyattsville, Md. it Herrell, 08 Shepherd street: d J. Leon 3706 Eighteenth northeas Hebron Magee Mur veet northeast: Kmory . 753 Eighth street south tin_ Littlefield, 1526 1 street John L. Sullivan, 1412 y-ninth streei. M. Miller, B. D. Charles G. [ 7 ot ir. Richardson C.: George Douning, Md.: Milton Sweet, 20 Q Edward Magruder, Hen John A. Collins, 3813 street, Mount nier, Weedon. 229 Critten Hyattsville, Route 3. stia, irk Jame: n, Md.: y-eighih Jelbert P reet. ington Clatke, n_Linsey Wa Chevy Chase, ir hormpsan Rydecn. 14 Leizeas Md.: Hston Va, Myer, Va.; Warwick Md.; Roscoe ( elyn streel: Her- ‘Thirty-first street: Thirty-fifth street. 405 Gist aven Charles Hailer 510 pring There’s no other cigar in the worl mad finer. d like La Palina. They're e different—smoother, Filler of the choicest Havana grown, rare imported wra mil Excellente size Senator size Blunt size Magnolia size r—here is mellow, rance unsurpassed. 10¢ 2 for 25¢ 2 for 25¢ 15¢ *ye Perfecto Grande, 3 for 50¢ and in many other popular shapes CONGRESS CIGAR CO.,Inc. Philadelphia, Pa. have | He lives | 3 8 UP AND 9 STROKES By the Associated Press. SARASOTA. Fla.. March more than 1000 people, including some of the country's most noted golfers, following them, Walter Hagen, former British open champion. play- ing under the colors of the Profes- sional Golfers' Association, took a lead of elght up on Bobby Jones, national amateur champion. for the first 36 holes of their 72-hole match, here yesterday. The two meet at St. Petersburg next Sunday for the final 36 holes over the Pasadena course. The Whitfield es- tate’s course was the scene of yester- | dav's match. Hagen, despite the fact that he had recently recovered from illness. took an early lead in the match, and was never headed. Both plaved unsteady, Hagen winning by his superior put- ting on the greens. Jones' showing was disappointing to the gallery, and [ he was often in the rough. Hagen's play became steadier as the match progressed, and he gained five holes in the afternoon to add to his lead of three on the morning round. The former British champion took a lead of two holes for the first nine, winning the first, fifth and ninth, while Jones captured the seventh. Hs increased this lead to three hole: when he took the thirteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth holes, while Bobby wou the twelfth and seventeenth Hagen started the afternoon by winning the nineteenth. but Jones re- |taliated by taking the twentieth. Each (ook three holes each the rest | of the way out. Hagen the twenty- third. twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth; Jones the twenty-first, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh. On the last nine holes Hagen shot superior golf, with a card of 32 to capture five of the holes, tne twenty-eizhth, twenty- ninth, thirty-first, thirty-second and thirty-third. running his lead to elzht holes for the 36 rounds of play The cards: MORNING 4434 54243 1.—With oUN Huzen L % font 5"y 5 4435 5334 AFTERNOON 454 343 a3 Jones- out i 44 554 4 4 4 4 | 803 Michigan avenue ter W. Ross, 5 Primiose avenue, Chevy "Chase, Md.: Richard Smith {1606 Rosedale streat northeast: Eari | Batien, 2§03 Rhode Island avenue northeast: Stanley Pearce. 204 Penn. svlvania avenue southeast: Leonard | Seufferle May, 2208 Wyoming avenue; Donald Louda May, 2208 Wyoming |avenue Charles Geb street: Selden |Md.: Henry Caranfa, 3 | northeast: John Keenan ton street northeast: 20 Siblev avenue, | John Williams, Hyvattsville, Md Lyu street; Joseph Branzell liam C. L sure, 3404 Cedar a Silver Spring, Md.: Robert P. 717 Shepherd street: 1329 Jefferson street: 115 Baltimore Park, Md. Kenneth Mannakee, 4013 avenue: Theodore Wellons, 3558 War- der street: William M. Raftery, 228 eventh street northeast: Rayvmond J. | Curnwell: 1115 ¢ street northeast: Irv ing L. Schneider. 621 Fifth street northeast; John Walter Cole, 935 Glst avenue: Fred J. Johnson. 913 Colum- bia road; Arthur F. Johnston, Columbia’ road. Daniel Carmody, | east; John Boyle, | 615 H streel southwest: “|ing, 217 | Wyble, northeast: Wal at, 711 5 Longfellow Netherton Landover, F street 1253 New- Harry G. Black, Hyattsville, Md.: § Franklin street, Capitol street; Wil enue, 13 0 3613 O street; Frank iordon Cooper, Lowell Hendrick avenue, Takoma [ | | | Mlinois 1025 Alexander Mackie William W t; Jerome B. 5 3 reet: Bernard lohey, 2513 Seventeenth street: Vin- cent Kane, 617 Kifth street northeast George Edward Roberts, 321 | Bennett, | 913 | S street north- | Elizabeth Ryan and Mary K. Browne, | M street. | al | Looney | completed the distance. HAGEN LEADS JONES (BAN ON EXPENSE MONEY TO BE ENFORCED IN GOLE By the Asso HICAGO. March 1.—Efforts are to be made this year to enforce the amateur rule in golf, forbidding acceptance of expense money by competitors. While this aim has been in mind for years, the tenet evidently has fallen short of obedience, observers say. Many players enter all the major tournaments without visible means of obtaining the rather large sum needed to pay fare, board and lodging and incidentals during the week or so of play. It has even been contended that usually a sinecure. This bars the the rule should not be enforced and|impecunious youth who has neither that players be allowed to accept the|wealth nor rich friends. minimum bona fide expenses by cer- President Willlam C. Fownes, ir.. tifying an account to the committce | new president of the United States in charge of tournaments. Golf Association, warned in his in- A golfer cannot enter a meet 1,000 |augural address against acceptance of miles from home without going, en-|expenses for competitions. It was tailing expenses of at least $150, in-[this renewed warning that again “luding loss of wages. Without|brought the subject up for discussion subterfuges, only the golfer of means | among followers of golf tournaments. can enter, making the title largely| There have been exceptions to the plutocratic. rule, for competitors in the public Among the schemes that have been |links' championship are allowed to re- used to evade the rule is one that|ceive expenses. The Walker team, has been common at times in college | which is to invade England this Sum sports. The beneficiary is paid the|mer, will have its bills paid by the necessary funds for filling some posi-| United States Golf Association, as tion created for the purpose and! usual ALOYSIUS RUNNERS HOLDERS OF RECORDS SCORE IN BALTIMORE ENTER A. A. U. GAMES ted Press By the Associated Press CHICAGO, March 1 The names of a number of athletes who broke records in various parts of the United States last week end appeared today among the entries for the National A. A. U. track and field indoor cham | plonships to be held here Saturday. John Kuck of Kansas State Teach- ers’ College, who put the shot 50 feet 63 inches at the University of Illi- nois relays to better his own world in- |door record, will compete in the na- | tional event. Werner of Tllinois and of ‘Ohio State also are en Walton Shipley and Albert Schaub Aloysius_Club runners, came in for | third and fourth honors, respectively. in the 10-mile street race won vester- day in Baltimore by Albion Stenroos, Finnish Olympic marathon champion. Stenroos made the distance in 53 min utes 26 seconds Willilam Agee, Emorywood Club har- rier and winner of the modified mara- thon staged by the Aloysius Club on Washingotn's Birthday, suffered an attack of cramps and was forced out of the race after the fourth mile. Sec ond place went to Frank Carney of | Guthrie the Shanahan Club of Philadelphfa. | tered Al Petruska. sporting the colors of | John Grim and Fred the University of Maryland, finished | Michigan State College stars, ninth. Jimmy Montague and Jerry |in the world speed records of the Aloysius Club hoth | Champaign games, will compete against Loren Murchison, Tllinofs A. C. star, in the 60 and 300 vard events Charley Hoff, Norwegian pole vaulter, who has broken record after record in the East. invades the W | for the national event Harrington, Notre Dame star. who | has done 13 feet 113 inches, will he among Hoff's competitors The trials will he run cago Riding Club, under (‘::m.:,:::ia spices of the Illinois A Chicago A. A. Alderman who tied at the STENROOS IS VICTOR IN BALTIMORE RACE! the the and at hi joint BALTIMORE, March 1 i Stenroos. Finnish Olympic champion. won the Emorywood Federal ten-mile race vesterday over a field of 66 runners. His time was 53:26 minutes. | Frank Carney. national junior cross-country champlon. running under the colors of the Shannanhan Catholic Club of Philadelphia, was second Six Philadelphians the first ten. William Agee. Emorywood Club, Baltimore, who defeated Stenroos and Carney in Washington recently. with- drew from the race at the six-mile | post. | e LEAGUE WILL MEET. ROCKVILLE. Md. March 1.—Al though base ball interest. so far. at least, as the amateur variety is con- cerned. has heen at a rather low ehh for the past vear or two, Harry C Meem. president of the Montgomery ounty League, hopes for a revival of enthusiasm. He has called a meeting for March 9, in Rockville. placed among MANAGERS TO GATHER. First steps toward the organization of the Government Base Ball League | will be taken Wednesday night, when managers of the various teams mest at the Howard A. French Co., 424 Ninth street. HAWKINS NASH MOTOR CO. Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street 1333-37 14th St Main 5780 FARRELL WINS PLAY-OFF. TAMPA, Fla.. March 1 (®).—John ny Farrell, Tampa, won the Florida open golf championship here. beating Bobby Cruickshank by one stroke in their 18-hole play-off. Farrell's score was 72, and his Chicago opponent took T: Cach had a total of 286 at the conclusion of the 72-hole match paly Saturd TENNIS EVENT FAVORITES. PALM BEACH, Fla., March 1 (®).— both of California, are favored to cap- | ture the Florida open tennis cham pionship, which opened here today. | Three members of British nobility, | Lady Cholmondely, Lady Suirdale and | Lady Dorren Hely-Hutchinson. have » entered. | ot ———— CAPITUL CIGAR AND TOBACCO CO., 604 PENNA. AVE. N.W.