Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1926, Page 27

NEW BOSS IS PORTS INJECTING MUCH PEP INTO PLAYERS Team Is Determined Th: at It Will Not Finish in Lowly Position, Although Its Motto Is Not “First Place or Bust.” BY JOHN B. FOSTER. /ALON. CATALINA ISLAND, A rolled on the roster of the crossed the channel between here an Calif., March 1.—Heat is being gen- erated up and down the spinal columns of the squad which is en- Cubs to such a degree that it has d the mainland, raised the thermom- cter and the steam gauge in Los Angeles and is penetrating eastward at an alarming rate. It's all because of the pep Bat North aged boys whom he is ball cipher on the Nati Los Angeles is comparing with some other hot day a sthering to m ¢ Chicago club, has thrown int McCarthy, new Bear trainer for the the young, middle-aged and nake Chicago look better than a base al League addition table. the heat, which hovers around the 90 mark, long time ago, and is attributing it to every- thing except the real causc—McCarthy's special brew of.pep. The players are experiencing an odd sensation. Cold chills race up and down their spinal columns every | now and then for fear that this one| or that as an individual may not be among the elect when the team is picked. Plenty of Spirit. The motto at Catalina is not “First place or bust,” but “We have busted in the last place for the last time. The Cubs of vesteryear thought they were working one Spring ago when they were dancing around with Mar anville leading the grand march and Bill Killefer wielding the baton, but this year it is more than thought. It has drilled a way into their skulls. Fine weather greeted them and fine weather clings to them. It is hot weather for a tenderfoot who has jus glided out of the frost-bitten Mast The sun is not enervating. It is steaming. The ice-bound arms that tried out their strength some days ago, after they had been packed all Winter in woolens, quickly found their normal throwing condition, and if the present temperature prevails this Chicago team will leave fit to play base ball on any day in April that the first exhibition game begins It is even better weather than that of 1925, when Catalina did its share to make the Cubs good, only to have the benevolent asslstance almost ru ined at the beginning when Maran- ville broke his ankle in an exhibitior game at Los Angeles. McCarthy Telling "Em. Joe McCarthy, erstwhile leader of Louisville champions, is stocking al the base ball knowledge he possesses as a leader of the bush to demon- strate that he can take his place somewhere near an equality witn the veterans he must try to circumvent in the National League. MeCarthy does not know all the mannerisms and the strong and weak points of the major leaguers against whom he must play his chess. men In 1926. He doesn’t pretend to he does. He modestly admits that knows mighty little about the Na-: al Leagu aken as a hole, but says a man can learn and hei What he does know is how ball wlec where they should be that is not | passed any ianager. That | i ma) \ders before Joe fe round, but it ses he coach men about handle slves as indi Jut he coaches them in the g » make plays as a team. That/ is one of the reasons why Joe —and he is not so awfull b taken teams in the Americ | ation who did not wear blue ribbons | as individuals and guided them along | the way to win from othérs who | scoffed &t them | Playing to Win. That is also one reason why he divided his players into two section: before he had been here long enough to realize that he Is the ouly mun who trains a ball team with a tain for a backstop and another the grand tier of box seats. H wanted his players not only to condi tion themselves to play bell but to learn how to play to win. It would seem that every manager coaches his players to play to win, but this McCarthy boy coaches his pitch- ers where to be when the bail comes n from the outfield, and he coaches his inflelders where they should be when the ball comes skipping along on an outfield assist, and he does a lot more that is chock-full of horse base ball sense. That's why the Cubs are experiencing & sensation as to the preliminaries of base ball that never Jarred their base ball funnybones in some other years. . This year when a ball happens to set away from an Infielder it is not very likely that & young man on the base lines who sees only the humor of the thing will do while the runners cir everybody has a good those present, except the Cubs. time the owner among of (Copyright, 1926.) RECORD JUST THE SAME Calif., Merch | Robert T er, president of southern Pacific division of the Amateur Athletic Union. announced that Lee Barnes, Olympic pole vauli champion, topped the bar at 1 inches in setting a new Amer 1 at the annual relays was given out, Barn 18 feet 57 inches. IN TENNIS HONORS. S. Calif., M esbrook wor aliforn singles hip here by defe Huntingion an Fry . won_tha | men’s doubles title. defeating Ralph | Hindorf and Kugene Warren., §—u.| 6—4. i : ! SPALLA IN BUENOS AIRES. | BUENOS AIRES, March Ermillo Spalla. the [tallan weight boxer, arrived here vesterd:y. Ve will fight Luls Firpo next Thursday TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F " RADIATORS, FENDERS MADE ANT BODIK! 3 REPA\IRED RADIATORS FOR AUTON WITTSTATT'S R. & F. WKS. 319 13th ST. N.W. 1423 P. REAR DANDRUEF :\.-. lolloh';lj continued use / Newbror Herpicide Sald ot all arug countens’ | " Chicago Cubs May Make Bid This Season : G. U. and Maryland Do Well in Track WOMAN SWIMMERS |QUINTS IN SEMIFINALS OF SOUTHERN TOURNEY BREAK THREE MARKS By the Associated Press. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 1.— Three women's world swimming rec- ords were shattered here yesterday in the concluding day's program of an aquatic carnival at the Roman Pools. Licensed officials checked the time in each event. Ethel Lackie of Chicago clipped one-fifth of a second from the 50-yard swim record, negotlating the distance in 27 2-5 seconds. Martha Norelleus of the New York Wemen's Swimming Association hung up two new records. She lowered the 220-yard record by 6 seconds in cover- ing the distance in 2 binutes 403-5 seconds. In the 440.yard swim she finished in 6 minutes 53 2-5 second, 11-5 sec- onds better than the former record. el Aakinstianig DEMPSEY VS. TUNNEY. NEW YORK, March 1 (#).—Tex Rickard intimates that Jack Demp- sey and Gene Tunney will fight this Summer for the heavyweight boxing championship. 'EAGLES BEAT STANTONS IN OVERTIME STRUGGLE list of victims yesterday. B the skids under the senior basket b: of Ralph Bennie and Morris Clarke tory by a score of 18 to 14in an extr: Bennie's basket tossing brought the Anacostia dribblers on even terms with the Stantons as regulation time was up. Clarke found the hoop twice during the added five minutes to put his club in the lead. Fort Washington basketers, leading contenders for the champlonship of the District Service League, were no match for the Yankees in the pre- liminary to the Washington-Cleveland game at the Arcade. WIith Nate Sauber and Jack Smith leading the attack, the Yanks rang up a 32-to-24 victory. Tonight the winners meet the Cumberland Colts on the Mary- landers’ court. Aloysius Club Dbasket ball fives registered a pair of wins in yester- day's double-header at Gonzaga gym. The Big Five took the measure of the st. Martin's Club, 39 to 22, while the Aloy Senlors nosed out the Ellfotts, 39 to 28. Joe Holman’s Wonder Five turned in its third stralght win at the ex- pense of the Montrose quint, 39 to 16. Washington Barracks tossers estab- lished their superiority over the Fort Myer bask ball combination yester- day by trimming the Cavalrymen, 31to 27 Epiphany Juniors scored their thirty-first win of the season when they swamped the Dominican Lyceum Juniors, 24 to 8 nahwas are matched with the ninal Y. M. C. A. quint for a game tomorrow night at 1 o'clock in Washington Terminal gym. Woodside basketers are booked to meet the Aloysius Big Five tomotrow night at Gonzaga gymnastum. Conception courtmen tez five, 63 to 12. 29-to-16 Athletic Immaculate outclassed the C Clover Juniors earned a verdict over the Berchman Club yesterday In Baltimore. HAUGEN SKI WINNER. DETROIT, Mich., March 1 (®).— 51 points, Anders Haugen of Grand *h Club, Chicago, won the Detroit Ski Club tourney. Fred Janverin of Detroit was second with 146 and 163 feet for 339 points. 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The Palace tossers showed the way to the leaders by a score of 24 to 17 and chalked up a sixth victory in the second half series. The fight now appears to lie between the Capital crew and the Clevelanders and should the latter be nosed out agaln the lo- cals are likely to step into the van. A tight defense on both sides caused last night's fray to be decided from the foul line. The visitors found the basket from the floor only four times and Washington accounted for only five court goals. The foul shots stood 14 to 9 for palace. Rusty Saunders, local forward, took scoring honors with a total of nine counters. Husta and Dieghan each contributed five to Cleveland's score. ‘Washington held a 17-to-6 advan- at half time. | 28: By the Associated Press. A TLANTA, Ga., March 1.—Mississippi Aggies, the “dark horse” of the tourney, and three favorites will play here tonight in the semi-final round of the 1926 Southern Conference basket ball tournament. The Aggies meet Kentucky, while North Carolina, present title holder, encounters the strong University of Mississippi. Both the Aggles and the Ken- tucky Wildcats reported their team In good trim. *Ole Miss" will enter the game without the services of Traxler, star forward and high-point man, who has a wrenched ankle, while North Carolina will be strengthened the return of Devin, veteran guard. The Aggles have played elght con- terence games, exclusive of the tourna ment, winning five and losing to “Ole Miss,” 3320, and to Tulane and Vanderbilt. It did not play Kentucky or North Carolina, but won 11 out of its total of 14 games. Kentucky's record during the 1925- season_ included _victories over Tech, Alabama, Auburn, ce, Washington and Lee, a and Vanderbilt. Took 10 Straight. University of Mississippi won 10 straight conference games after los- ing the opener to Louistana State, which did not enter the tournament. It did not meet North Carolina dur- ing the season, but defeated the Aggles, 33-20. North Carolina won 6 out of 8 con- ference games, being defeated by North Carolina State in a blg upset, 17-8, and by Maryland, 23-22. Among the other conference teams it played were Virginia, Washington and Lee, Florida and Clemson and beat North Carolina State in their first meeting, 31 to 21. It won 16 out of 21 games on_the 1925-26 schedule. To reach the semi-finals Mississippl Aggles have defeated Maryland, a big favorite, 2219, and North Carolina State, 32-29. Kontucky has defeated V. M. L., 3225, and Georzla. 39-34. ‘Ole Miss” has defeated Sewanee, 5016, and_Georgia Tech, 36-24. North Carolina has defeated Clem- son, 52-21, and Virginia, 25-23. E. Johnson Top Server. E. Johnson, Mississippl U. forward, is the high-point man. He has regis- tered 30 points for “Ole Miss,” slight. 1y more than one-third of his lenm'sl total. Second Kentucky star, with 29, while Capt. ! Richardson, Atlanta boy, who playved | his last game for Georgia Saturday, is third with 27. “Ole Miss” has scored 85 points in its two games, Kentucky 71 and Georgla 82. Other leaders in the scoring were | R. Johnson, Mississippi U., 26; H land, University of Virginia, 24; Nev comb, University of North Carolin Cobb, University of North Caro- lina, 21; Jenkins, Kentucky, 21; Kee: eorgia, 20: Brown, North Carolina tate, 19; Florence, Georgia, 18; Wilde, jeorgia Tech, 17, and Wycoff, Georgla Tech, 15. 26 Georgla. Tenn Georg! in the list was Mohney *There's a little bit of WHITEMAN in nearly every good orchestra leader, but only WHITEMAN is ALL WHITEMAN® | With jumps of 154 and 166 feet for | FRAT QUINTS CLASH IN LEAGUE PLAY-OFF COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 1. —Tonight in Ritchle gymnasium here the first ne in the play-off series for the University of Maryland Inter- Fraternity League title will be staged when Deita Sigma Phi, that last week won the champlonship in the national loop by downing Sigma Nu, 28 to 19, and Delta Mu, victors in the local circuit, will clash. The second game between these fives in the series will be played Thursday night and the third game, if necessary, will be staged Thursday might of next week. Since organization of the Interfra- ternity League two years ago, Delta Sigma Phi has never been defeated and has twice won the league cham- pionship. In the first year of the league Delta Sigma Phi played as a member of the Jocal loop and last year became aligned with the national group. This year was the second In which Delta Mu has won the titie in the local group. In the game last week in which Delta Sigma Phi downed Sigma Nu, 28 to 19, to win the there was plenty of spirited play. Sigma Nu lead Delta Sigma Phi, 11 to 10, at the intermission, but the latter hit thelr stride in the second half and scored 18 points, while Sigma Nu was ringing up but 8. FINAL TEAM STANDING. National Group. Won. 3 Team Delia 3 Sikma st Ny apna S Phl"Slema’ Knppa. . Local Group. Ita Pal Omega. .. Nu Sigma Omicron Sigma Tau Omega. Detroit. . Brookiyn. 400 Chicago.. 1 Last Night's Results. Washington, 24: Clevel Buffalo, 257 Detroit. 20. Tomorrow's Gumes. e at Detroit t Cleveland, Rochester Ft.Wayne 6 Fort W Butfalo A pitcher such as Walter Johnson sends the ball from the pitcher's box to the plate in less than half a sec ond. fonal gonfalon, ILLINOIS FIVE TOPS, BUT HARD PRESSED By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 1.—Close-pressed by thrge teams tied for second place, Illinois leads as Western Conference varsities go into the final two weeks of their race for the big ten basket ball championship. The leadership is at stake in the Illinols-Purdue game on the Indiana floor. By defeating the Wisconsin team, which Illinofs succeeded at the top of the standing, the Bollermakers last week climbed to tie in second place with Iowa and Ohio State. Tilinois has another severe test Saturday against Indiana, tied for third with Michigan by reason of successive triumphs over Iilinois and Wisconsin. This week's elght games will see both Purdue and Chicago play out thelr season's sChedule. Capt. George Spradling of Purdue remains the high point man of the conference. He has two games in which to complete a season's total, while Behr of Wisconsin, his nearest competitor, has three games in which to equal or better the leader’s mark. Spradling’s present total of 96 is leading the field by nine points. LACOSTE MAY GAIN HEIGHTS IN TENNIS By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 1.—Framed in the background of France's sensa- tional though losing fight to topple America from the international tennis pinnacle, Rene Lacoste stands forth as a potential world champlon, if not already within the realm of considera- tion for t.e honor held so long by William T. Tilden. Critics here are of the opinion that Lacoste's straight set vistories over Tilden and Vincent Richards may be accepted as indicating that the 833- year-old Wimbledon champion has carned a place as outstanding con- tender fo international No. 1 ranking. Lacoste’s victorfes over the No. 1 and No. 3 players were amazing in the ease and decisiveness with which he won, particularly in the view of the tact that he never had played on the Tth Regiment Armory courts. It was belleved that the strangeness of play- ‘ing on the boards, together with the peculfar lghting conditions, would bother him. Richards, on the other hand, has al- ways been consldered particularly dangerous on these courts, where he has played for several years. Yet he was routed in his matches against La- coste, both In the national tourna- ment ll’_!d in the team match. INVADING GOLFERS WIN. BELLEAIRE, Fla.. March 1 (®).— | Arnaud N and Archle Compston, l!‘,ul‘hpm.h goif stars, defeated the Smith brothers, Alex und MacDon- ald, 5 and 4, in a 36-hole exhibition | mateh here HILLTOP TEAM IS STRONG IN ALL OF DEPARTMENTS Blue and Gray and Old Liners Set Pace for East in Relay Races, and Former Now Is Picked to Win Intercollegiate Meet. BY H. C. F Georgetown can repeat its performance of last year and win the in- door intercollegiates at New York Saturday night, the Blue and Gray I and Maryland track teams will BYRD. have the distinction of having won greater honors for their section than any other school or schools during the present season. In fact, no other school has as good a record as either Georgetown or Maryland, and together the two unquestionably top the list. Together the teams of Georgetown and Maryland probably would defeat the combined teams of Harvard and Yale. Maryland has made an_exceptional record with its relay team, but Geéorgetown not only has a fine relay, but also possesses brilliant Georgetown and Maryland each lost one relay race, ers in other lines. rform- but in each case to a team that was defeated on another occasion. The Blue and Gray went down be fore Holy Cross In its first event and Maryland dropped a race to Pennsyl- vania after having previously beaten that school. Georgetown has since beaten Holy Cross on two occasions. In fact, Georgetown was so Strong that about the only opponent that it could find to run against was Holy Cross. In five meets in which the Mary-| Jand relay team has taken part, three in New York, one in Boston and one in ~Baltimore, victories have been won over Boston College, Bowdoin College, New York University, Ford- ham, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Rich- mond, Columbia University and Yale. The indoor games, held under the auspices of the University of Rich- mond, were also won by the Old Liners. In addition to its relay team George- town has had in competition, in north- ern meets, Plansky, Norton, Gegan, Hass and Dussault. All have done well. In the Johns Hopkins meet in Baltimore Saturday night, the entire Blue and Gray squad was entered and won the team trophy easily. In fact, the Hopkins meet Saturda: night found both Georgetown and Maryland winding up their regular indoor schedules impressively. The Blue and Gray squad ran to the front in many events and got the team trophy by a wide margin, while Mary- vith its relay team gave Yale a decisive whipping by a margin of nearly 20 yards in the feature of the night. All thet remains to make a great climax to a fine season from a local point of view {s for Georgetown to win the Intercollegiates. And it seems, in almost everybody’'s judgment, that it has an excellent chance to do so. No other big school has as capable an aggregation of middle distance run- ners, and in the field events the Blue and Gray also is strong. Norton and Plunsky are almost a team in them- selves. Ray Hass is a hurdler who seems to have only one superior in the colleges, Wolfe of Pennsylvania. Whether or not it measures up to what is expected of it, people in the North who know most about the strength of other schools are picking Georgetown as the probable victor. A remarkable thing about the relay team which has gone through such & fine season for Maryland is that not one of the men was a runner in_ high school before entering Maryland. In other words, all the running that the men are doing has been acquired since they entered the freshman class at Maryland. Thomas, who ran first on the team, came from Tech, but was never a member of the track team there. Sheriff is a Marylander by birth, but was graduated from & high school in Ohio, where he was not a runner. Matthews had some experience as a high jumper in high school in Maryland. but nobody ever had an opinfon that be had 50-second possibilities as a quarter-miler. Ends- low, anchor man, the only fourth- year man on the team, was a rather slow half-miler on the freshman team and was taken in hand by Bill Gates, then Maryland track coach, and de- veloped as a quarter-miler. 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