Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1926, Page 22

SPORTS. T HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, .D. .C, MONDAY, MARCH 22. 1926. SPORTS. Nationals to Speed Up Training Work: Cleveland Club Is Little Improved Over 1925. LAST NINE DAYS IN CAMP - 'TO SEE PLAYERS HUSTLING Muddy Ruel and Roger Peckinpaugh Most Back- ward of Regulars in Attaining Proper Condition, More Squad Pruning Is Due This Week. BY JOHN B. KELLER. 2 AMPA. Fla, March T past. to Washington With one or twe exceptions. infielders, outfielders and catchers are ahout ready for active campaigning now. although their batting eyes can But it is quite different with the pitchers. ng corps are in need of every hit of work that can stand more polizhi members of the hur be given them during the remainder The older pitchers probably are more advanced in their training than the young men of the corps. especial Iv the recruit pitchers. There is nothing str: abont this. for the old-timers know better than the young- sters how to round info physical trim. The big problem of these vet erans is to nurse along their aging wings until they are keved to the highest pitch at the npening of the championship bartles. This arm-nursing business hy the old-timers requires @ deal of time. The veterans are unable to shoot ‘em through after a few days of muscle loosening are the rookies, so the man of long service contents himself with general work that will prepare him for the long grind of the regular weason first. But the rookie thinks first of getting his salary wing ghape before he really has rid him eelf of the superfluous poundage re- sulting from A Winter of stagnation, for the rookie, of rourze. i= eager to #how his stock in trade as quickly as possible No Rest for the Weary. In the last days of the Florida stay, though, all pitchers whe are to re main in the roster of the Nationals. at least for a time after the title sea #on starts, will have to put on extra steam. There's no rest for the weary once the club begins its harns ing with the Giants. All hurler be called upon for duty and those who are not wholly fit now will have to make good nge of the next few Aays here or =uffer the consequences durinz the journey the National Capital. Of those other than hurlers. Muddy Ruel, star catcher of the cinh the past three seasons. and Roger Peck- fnpaugh, shortstop the past four vears, are farthest from good play ing condition. Ruel. who reported to eamp shortly after the first of this month, seemingly has not heen able to round into proper form. He i no speedier on his pins than last sea. ®son, when he was noticeably the pathe, and hi= throwing arm i= in Nine morte training days, including today, and the Nationals' 1926 Spring camp at Tampa will be a thing of the While regulars and near-regulars of the club are as fit for their particular work as may he expected after several weeks of strenuons preparation, much remains to he done in the way of conditioning before the sand: of Florida are left for the clay of Georgia and Alahama and the more resilient curfaces of the other playing fields to he used an the way into | | work and plenty |squad pruning this week. | newspaper men | guests slow on | Club in S These of the stay in the ‘Gator State. | poor shape. The catcher makes no leffort to line the ball to second hase during practice sessions, and he has not_been impressive in hia throwing lin his two games. | Peck thought the haths at Hot | Springs would help him considerably and remained at the Spa taking treat- ments a few days after other National | regulars who had sojourned there for |2 time reported at camp. But the jah has found it difficult to un [ limber here. His legs and back have | refused o unkink properly and very | likely he ix in for a grueling grind hefore he cames around. Both of these men are apt to get a chance to wear away some of this stiffness in the four games scheduled for the Nationals thie week. HRoth were expected to break into the fray with the Reds here this afternoon and may gef into the game against the Dodgers Wednesdav. They'll need this more. i More Squad Proning Due. Manager Harris expects to do more | Although he has not mentioned who will he sent to the bush circuits, there are a conple of pitching aspirants who have not the slightest chance to break into the | hig show as yet. Some outfielders also | are apt to go from here hefore the main guard moves North. President Clark Grifith, Road Sec- - Bill Smith, Scout Joe Engel, Nick Altrock, Al ichacht and the with the Nats were of Al Lang vesterday in St. Petersburg at his annual bhanquet to base ball men with clubs training in Florida. It was the hizgest assemblage of diamond notables since the world series in Pittsburgh. The) guest of | honor was Mayor James Walker of New York. Among those present were judze Landis, commissioner of base ball. the presidents and managers of | virtually all the big league outfits | training In the 'Gator State and a | number of members of the Base Ball | Writers' Association. as | entertained at the .Jungle Country . Pete. of which the host, Al| Lang. is president MOST BIG LEAGUE CLUBS | Base Ball League has heen postponed | hour, eclispsing the record | eubic-ineh machine | he was in front. GAMES ARE PLAYED BY YOUTHFUL NINES While the hig teams were content to limber up vesterday. a number of the little fellows used the hase hall weather of the first day of Spring to advantage and started on their dia- mond campaigns The Senate Pages apened their schedute with an 8-tn-8 win over the Nex Midgets at Brookland. The Kenilworth Juniors handed the Bladensburg club at setback, 13 to 11, while the Sam Rice Insects showed the way to the Kid Kelly pastimers, 1Mt 4 The Cardinal Juniors and North erns staged a practice match, with the verdict going to the former, 10 % — Candidates for the Warwick Junior nine are asked 1o meet tonight at 7:30 in the home of Manager Bus Freed, 321 Massachusetts avenue northeast. - Tonight’s meeting of the Commer until Wednesdayv. Yorke Preps will organize for hase | ball temorrew night at street. 218 Varnum Southern Junlors are hooked for a meeting Wednesday night at 1117 Four-and-a-half street southwest. They wish to book a practice game for next Sundav with some fast team in their class. Call after § oclo HILL SETS FIVE AUTO RECORDS IN WINNING By the Associated Press. CULVER CITY, Calif.. ’ Five recently established speed yer ords were hroken here vesterday in the 230-mile automobile race, a check of the fizures today revealed. Bennett Hill won the race in a nen-stop drive He covered the 230-mile distance in 1 hour 54 minutes and 14 810 seconds, an average.speed of 131.259 miles an Marech BOSTON BRAVES Pitcher Benton, Lawrence J. Cooney. John W Edwards, Foster Bats. Throws. Ekelson, Juan Estrada, Oscar Genewich, Joseph aham, Kyle Hearn, Elmer L.... Kamp, Alphonse F. Kelsey rchie Ryan, Wilfred 1. mith, Robert E. Mogridge, George Van Brunt, Kdwin. Wertz, Henry L.. Catchers, Gibson, Frank G, Siemer, Ose; . Taylor, James W. Inflelders. Baneroft, David Burrus, Maur Gautreau, V Hizh, Andrew A.... Johnston, James H Kibbie, Horace K Padgett, Ernest K nda, Harry P r, Kdward J. as, Herhert M. Outfielders, Charlott. Robins Braves Braves Mann, Leslie Bernard F. ames 1 Francis K Worcester, Edward L. roft, manager; Ri 1925 record—Fini: chs, presids Braves Tampa, Florida State Rraves Braves .I:rldlepofl. Waterloo, Miss. Valley.. Braves . Rr Browns Dov Worcester, Eastern Worcester, ROSTER FOR 1926 Played Within 1925. G. W. L. a9 .31 14 14 10 0 .21 & 6 500 No Records No Records .3 12 10 .34 12 .32 ShaneReRa raves ves Fastern Braves Bra Robins RBraves R Braves Rrav Robins Braves a Waorcester, Braves Portl; ves Albar Eastern Sally International Eastern. ... ves . sey City Riley, secretary and business ard Rudolph, coach. St. Peters. hed fifth In the National Leag: Twenty Years of American Golf BY JIM BARNES. of 129531 made by Peter de Miami. Fla., Felinary 22 It was a fitting farewell to the 122 cuble-inch-dlsplacement cars. as taday there heging a new era in hoard track racing, the inanguration of the 911, and the records that were =et vesterday probahly will remain unmolested for a time. Hill was not alone, however, in the writing of the new page of entries in the ledger of speed records, fo Dave Lewis, a veteran of the r race dave of Santa Mon] b the way to the 230.mile mark. while e red Panla at set: Harry Hartz worlds record of 135.23 miles per hour, sustained for a distance of 30 miles during a sprint program here last April. was smashed when Tewis wheeled his trim speed ster at the rate of 13578 miles an hour. The by was eclipead made | Navember, | avernze of | 100-mile mark of 131.54, Earl Cooper here, last by Lewis Devare’'s Miami, F record | of 131.008 for 150 miles, set February | 22, was outclassed by Hill's speed of | ENJOY A SUNDAY OF REST By the sociated HICAGO. March 22 Jack a dull hoy deavor. | was The old adage that all work and no play makes | applies ta hase ball as well as another fine af en- At any rate, the hoye in the Spring training camps are | getting a little taste of fshing, golf and other pastimes, as well as inten- sive drill on the diamond. The Boston Brav and swatting the goli ball instead of horsehide. Pilot McKechnie of the Pittsburgh Pirates thought up another interesting | ner's pri scheme of entertainment Declaring that his team had work- | ed hard ever since arriving in camp. and that recreation would do them : took a Sunday off at St Petershurg, Fla.. fishing Out on the West Coast | 131.54. Hill's speed of 131.64 at the 200 mile mark. supplanted the record of 131,108 made by Devore an the Miami | howl, De Paole. Talian wearer of the Na tional driving erown, toa, drove a | non-stop race. but he finished ahout 30 seconds behind Hill. Harry Hartz third and Eddie Hearne after an ahsence of more than a the hoards, drove Tommy car ta fourth place money. The remalning seven drivers whn finlshed the race finished in the or der named: Frank Elliott. Ralph Hepburn, Dave Evans. Norman Bat. | ten. Cliff Waodhury, Leon Duray, and | Pete Kreis, Hill wen nearly half the $35.000 | purse, receiving $£10,000 as the win and $6,000 additional in Milton's Iap prizes. T | over | elubs in the entire country | was rather | Ssan Francisco ! true, American Champlon—Player, Teacher and Student of Golf. GOLF'S “SWADDLING CLOTHES" DAYS. WENTY vears ic quite a span, In point of actual developme To ha:l; hack s a matter of accurate fac point portion. country Walter 1. fore, in the and won avis. only two vears he. <pring of 1904. had gone the British amateur another performance that has tn be duplicated. Such stars of present day as Bobhy Jone: zen. Len Diegel. J Farrell and the Hke. still wery practically in their swaddling clothes. The game itsell was just emersging from that state, one might sav. There were prohahly not more than 00 golf New York had less than 20, and ather big renters of toda had than a dozen, some of them no mare than twn or three, Influenced in Odd Manner. The renmstances of my coming aver, or rather fthe one consideration that definitely influenced my decision, A strange one Yon fre auently have heard men tell how some event of seemingly trivial nature to them at the thme eventuallv was 1o change their whole lives. [t certainly requires some stretch of the imagina tion ta connect me in the ecircum stances of that time with the event that led tn my decision 1t was the e Sounds strange enouch just the same catastrophe happened I was just fin ishinz a sixvear apprenticeship in the shop of the professional at the West Cornell Golf Clib. in the little town of Lelant. in England. Like many voungsters of similar age and circumstances, I was beginning to look title, vet the John and vicinity hut it around for some place that seemed fo | a_ professional | promise a living as some two-thirds of the game’ for a.moment. at the time that leas | 1= | When this hiz | any.way you take it, and when it is referred to the last two decades of golf in thic country it covers s history from a competitive stand- nt it is considerably ahove that pro- in this 1. slightly less than 20 years ago—the I arrived |late Willie Anderson had just heen displaced as the open champion hy | Alex Smith, after having won the title three times running. something that | < that they |never was done hefore and probably never will he done again. but am nat likely tu Hore from Jtimes ince then forget that first arrival |a small-town veungster | ferent land | from home, a stranger in a strange land. More than that, | wasn't ex actly flush with monev. and had to get a joh soon. vet 1 didn’t have the slight- | 65t idea of where to gtart to hunt one. | | And lacating a golf job in those daye was an entirely different proposition from what it is today. There were mighty few of them to he had. though, of course, there were not so many peo. e there are today looking for them. Bul in dreaming dreams back Cornwall. 1 had not overlooked | fact that there would he plenty of dif flenlties. 1 expected to find tough apots and had whetted myv courage up meet them Ko, while T eonidnt help feeling pretty despondent discouraged at firsi. 1 made mind not te weaken, hut hustling Tt wasn't in tn start very lnng wait. after all ate in Novemher | got tn San Fran cisco. and soon after Christmas found a job as assistant Smith over at Oakland. Shortly after the start of the new vear I set ta work on the first joh in this country. (Copyright. 1926.) (Next—Farly Golfing Days in California.) TUNNEY HAS A REAL 1 1 was, | A dlf . 5,000 miles and more away | the | and | up mv | to George | EASTERN TO START BASE BALL PRACTICE Their basket hall season having ended antomatically when the sched- uled trip to York and Lancaster next week end was canceled, Eastern High athletes wers expected to tuyn out to- day for their initial base ball practice. As no games appear on the Eastern schedule for several weeks, the team has ample time to prepare for the de- fense of itx scholastic championship laurels won last season. Kighteen teams have entered the intersection hasket ball tonrney which opened last week on the three out- door courts in the big stadium on East Capitol street. The list includes four teams from each of the first and second semesters. two from the third, three from the fourth. two from the fifth, one from the sixth and two from the zeventh. hegin immediately after the Fa BY CORINN The schlag ball event for girls, Dire LAYGROUND directors are hu in order by April 1, so that the play CaPolyn Alexander, director, has an- nounced the full schedule for the Maza Division Schlag 11 Leagne, which will be inaugurated April 12 | when Carbery and Blair-Hayes clash. Miss Alexander has announced that all games will hegin promptly at 3:45 and will he plaved on the Plaza Field, near the Union Station. Carbery won the division erown lagt vear and hopes to defend sue cessfully its right to wear it annther season. The schedule: Peahody v monds: 19, Blair-Hases Vs | Taylor va. Gales-Blake 21. Arthur vs, Pea- Ludlow: = Gales-Rlake v Peahods Ludlow : 20 Carhery Blair-Hages vs. Peabody May—i3. Edmonds ve, Taglor 4 Krthur 5. Gales-Biake va Carher: Blair-Haves ve Tavior, 5. Edmonds v : + Tastor: 11 Arthur ve Ludlow v, 19 Gal lex Riake v Fd St. Martin's givls triumphed hy s mafe margin in their game with the Immaculate Conception sextet. which was plaved in the former's zym nasinm. The count. 36 to 16, is in dicative of the superiority exhibited hy the Winners. Capt. Aznes Shana han’s forces seemed unable tn get started and were decidediy off form throughout nis League are reminded that |are scheduled to meet with the secre tary tonight at 7:30 at the Burlington | Hotel. A full report on each.team will be given and plans for the Spring schedule discussed. Correct addresses and telephone numbers of each mem | her ofsthe respective squads should he reported. A special meeting of the Washing- ton Field Hockey Clih has heen ralled | this evening at %30 in the Halton | Arms gymnasinm in order that the | Ay the Assnciated Pr 1 NE\\' YORK. March from the training cam wh least four and probably five clubs will Not only will the American Lea; all, where last season the Nationals » The fields put in order in anticipation of the Spring tourneys, which will infield % | the same tim | Team leaders of the Women's Ten. | they | CLOSE FLAG RACES LOOM IN BOTH MAJOR LEAGUES this year i both major leag GOOD PITCHING ESSENTIAL: FOR INDIANS TO ADVANCE: Tight Hurling Alone Can Make Tribe Factor in the Pennant Race—Jack Dunn Grooming Orioles | | For Another International League Flag. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. AKELAND, Fla, March 2. The whole thing al club is that, with all the rookies it gathered together. it i Cleveland n't much To put it another way, the team keeps ut 1 more than it was in 1925 a-promisin’ and by and by has zot 1o get comewhere There are some good plavers on the Cleveland rocter. [ the ald cluh’ not in the sense of heing thrashed, but in’ might start on the road ta success ar it can't get pasted. There always | could once get pasted proper! putting together its awn parts, it | the rate of a mile a minute. But | something ailing. 5 No one will exactly pick Cleveland [ 1o win the pennant in 1226, and ye if the team got gaing on what it has | shawn from season to <eason it might stand the major circuft of its affilia [ tion on it bleoming head. A dark horee iz about what (leveland is. hut N SPORT E FRAZIER | thex eant get it scraped awas. sily engaged in having their athletic | \hila the Clevelands have their problem and their eutfield problem. the bhig question lies with ster hohdays - |the pitchers. If I"hle comes up with which opene the season, will he fol- | something andShaute comes hack s i i< courts | With what he had two vears ago. and St hapei hasel ek ey ™% | Sharry Smith is himself. and three o ers may start practice for the series.|four other things happen in the pite | members may have the privilege of (ing line, including Levsen, as likel meeting Cynthia Wesson, national |a8 not the Indlans will do the sealp | president of the tnited States Field |dance more often than the skir Hockey Association, whe will address | dane the gathering. e be | Mian Wessan will apeak ‘to the Hot. | Must Have Gond Pitching. ton Arms players this afternoon at 5| Put this pitchinz ouifit must do [oclock and tomarrow she will address | Something. The team s hopelessis | The hockey enthusiasie at Hoad Col.|Deset with trouble without good pitch "lege. Frederick. Md inz, becaise thare are weaknesses ATl Ioeal enthusfasts are cordially |that are gning ta hurt like bifzes i |invited 1o atiend the meeting of the |the pitchers can’t keep the defenae | W. F. H. Club tonight and hear Miss | 1P | Wessan's address | Shante lanks zand. He has heen | — | pitehing well. Strange rase, his | Letters and sliver hockey halls were Twn vears ago everv Ameriean awarded the memhers of George|Leagua manager was saying Washington U'niversity varsity hockex | “If oanlv | had him This seamon |team at a recent linchean held fn he hobs up with speed and a eorve |their honor. The Freshman sauad.!hall that whips itself around the hat" ‘\\'ir\nm of the interclass tonrney. was | ters' lags as it did in hiz goed seasen presented with a silver loving eup at | and if he fs like the typical lefthander” the Pan- it fs mure that he have a good year, awarded hy | Hellenic Association | ‘The balls were offered by the Hour . Glass Honor Society of the school Sophia Waldman. president of the so- clety, made the presentations. Those who were hanored hy letters |and trophies were: Alice Halnes, cap | tain: Jean Gravatto, manager: Leah | Cate, Betty Brandenbuxgh. Alice Gra- ham <. Helen Miller. Lonise Omwake. Mary K. Lutz. Vivian | Robh, Louise Dn Bose. Ahbie Rurke. Margaret Knapp and FElizaheth | DeeKay. Miss Virginia Hopkins, { coach, also received a hockey hall i Sl | A eall for Girl Scont leaders comes m the “Little Hanse” on New York | avenue. Sporiswomen trained in the | ideals and practice of falr play are urged to lend their experience in the training of the younger girls, wha look | 10 them instinetively for guidance and knowledge. If you have even a little spare time and a lave of the outdoor world, get in touch with Evelina Gleaves. director of seont headauarters. 1750 New York avenue, and make arrangements (o llead & zroup of seonts. They need venr heln, will Buckeye Is First Choice. , Ruckeye, of course, Is more or less first chaice and the hest het for ¢ land. It is pretty generally f that he will he one of the stars of tha A ican League pitchi ot fit in 1 If he is and s nte turns up with something. the Indians can hother the clubs that dn not like left. handers. 4 The third haseman has its influence | destiny. They sured alen Cleveland sot Hodapp from Indianapolis by payinz a larze sum of cach last vear. Hodapp in 1974 lonmed as the hest voung ball player in Florida. but no one took him he cause all of the hig managers figured he needed seasoninz and thev wante Indianapolie to finish the joh Of course. if Lutzke ever gets n Ivhn game as he should there is nao | one likely to put him out. Speaker P except at third He dnes nat want 1o =hift Jney 1 from short, hecause Joeyv ean hat. and without hatting Clave. land will have a unanimous strugele to do any better than it did last year. on the Orioles Size Up Well. The writer | timore Orfale their training camp and fo parently anchered the Baltimare ub “until death dc part,” be cause Jack Dunn can't seem to hitch up with the Chicaze Cubs for a trade. No attempt i= made in these parts | to deny that the Cubs after Boley, but no one gets a ball plaven from Baltimore without paying fully for value received How this will affect Joe McCarthy's plans is a question. He surelv did | want Boley. no matter what anr in dividual says. and Bolex would have done the Cubs immediste good. And | the Cubs must have a Int of imme- opped in on the F inta Gorda d Boley ap were promice of clase and exciting races ues 1z held forth in reports so far ere observers are convinced that'at | be in the thick of each pennant hunt. gue witness something of a free-for- and Athletics made it a “two-horse” g00d. he declared a holiday today and | Talks to Boys on Base Ba]l planned to take his men to the ranch | of a friend near Paso Robles. Calif., i | o ! BY JOHN B. FOSTER ack rabbit hunt and a har e were scheduled. But the Pi rates started the day with memory (This is the sizth nf a series nf articles hy John R. Foster hased on Ietters he has veceived from hous who seek his adriee as tn how to train 0 as to fit themselves to heeome gnad ball players.) of a double defeat at the hands of ihe WHAT A BOY PITCHER NEEDS. Mission Bears at San Franciseo Sun HAT exercises are hest for the fingers s that 1 may he able PUNCH, SAYS RISKO NEW YORK. March 22 (@), Riskn, Cleveland heavyweight, cored a decisive vietory over Rooked Passage to Frisco, | world light heavyweight boxing cham- Then eame the hig fire and lots of | Plon. Panl Berlenbach. in a 10-round | ctories In the newspapers about the |hout here Friday night, save that ity of San Francigeo and the State |Gene Tunney's hlows are the hardest race, if the opinions of Southern observers are horne out. hut the Pitts- burgh Pirates will occupy far from the dominant position conceded them after their world ceries trinmph last Fall. If the pitching staffs of the Ath- 1 already well equipped Cincinnati cast, | | tetie and .\;:OL«nn'I-.':‘nr:"llrm;fl exand the spirited attack of the st.| leadership all have served to hoost the cireuit, the eritics agree. At the same | time, hoth the Tygers and Browns give | pennant prosnects of these clubs, diate good if they are to get any, where, Raltimore expects to win anather championship this vear, and it proh- ably will, as Dunn has been beating around the hushes as usual and dige ging up hall plavers that no one else | seemed 1o he able ta perceiva, golfer. Australia, the United States. | Canada, South America. all were pos sihilities, vet my knowledge of each and limited that there was no leaning toward any ene, ~Johnny who the d still in mind. While some exceptionally favorahle reports are coming out of some of Monahan Looks Promising. camps, a bit of pessimism is being registered at few. Connie Mack has been review the work of the Philadelphia Athletics at Fort Myer, Fla., with a gloomy eve and eleased the observation that ''the Athletics look hag a= when they dropped 12 games 2 rew last year. They must wake u Hold-outs a r copcern to some manazers and Harper of the Phillies are the Bradenton round- out for more little is making plan out them. Another is Billy Terry of the Giant his desires to Sarasota {rom Memphis Otherwise the daily record of pre season base ball endex was ture of more or le outine news, Maranville and Fournier are show- ing the Brooklyn outfit how to hit the ball at Clearwater. Optimistic re- ports of the development of the New York Yankees were ziven out at St. Patersburg by Jack Dovle, Cibs scout He says the New Yaorlar e ing better than ever before. Red Sox Win a Battle. Whil the Boston Braves were idling Sunday in pleasurable fashion, their fellow townsmen, the Red Sox were taking the measure of the Pel eans at New Orleans, 3 to 0, ma as a result of Lendgren's speed pit ing. w. scheduled to time against Cincinnati Cincinnati will oppo: Mays and Donohue. The took off Sunday at &t Petersburg. their last holiday until they reach bhome, April &. Roxev and Bressler, the last Reds to sign, planned to join the team today. O'Farrell's single in the fifth inning drove in the only score of the game yesterday at San Antonio, Tex., which the St. Louis Cardinals won, 1 to 0. Rhem and Keen pitched superbly for the Cards. The Browns idled y day at Tarpon Springs, Fla.. but ed a solid week of exhibition gam today against Brooklyn. Dixie Dz will work on the mound. Records so far show that Cleveland plavers have made poor showing against pitchers for Cincinnati, the Glants and Brooklyn. A higher qual- ity of pitching is needed or the In- dians have not had enoush batting practice. sport writers have observed at_Lakeland. Rained out at Fort Worth, Tex.. where they were to have plaved an exhibition game, the Chicage White Sox were back at their Snrevenort. La., camp todayread y for further drill. The Chicago Cul will loaf today. but tomorrow they are scheduled to battle & San Francizco team. The have a six-game schedule with teams in Qflw Gate visinity, h Ruether ivere for the first at Tampa. them with Reds also Johnson and itch today Tooks | it?— Petershurg, Va." ta get a good strong grip on the bhall in order to curve | on. 1f the fingers are supple and long the chances are that voun will he hetter aided in getting vour grip hecanse of those qualifications than he- cause you may actually need to obtain strength in them. { that the stronger your fingers are the hetter use they probably will be to {yon if vou are anxious to become a pitcher and curve the ball well. It is quite true Yet {3t is not so eszential that you have the fingers of a Goliath to throw a eeker for 2 heavier stipend | who wired | a mix- | curve hall ae it long ennngh to palm the ball. Inside Golf By Chester Horton The golfer is always cautioned to ! relax. but he gets a hetter grasp on the precise manner of the swing. I think, by acquiring such facility with with the club through other channels than merely making his muscles en tirely stlexs, 1t acromplishes nothing for the player to dn that, becanse he imme. v becomes 80 lonse tha' contrel of the clubhead is lost. The hest road to the ecor rect degree of re laxation is found through warking with the head— and hy that T do not mean through thinking exactly. [ mean through maintaining the sense of halance with the head. Balance is In itself the ve. sult of a restrained relaxation of the muscle system. When you throw a ball or a stone vou maintain the hody's pesition—or balance- with the head. The same thing applies to the golf swing. The head is always nsed s the counter-balancing agent. That is why vou hold it still, as the say- ing i HOLD “vouR HEAD STILL- DON'T LIFT 1T (Conyright, 1926.) BARNES-JONES ACCEPT MATCH WITH BRITONS TAMPA, Fla., March ®).—Jim Barnes, Britieh open champion, has accepted an-invitation from the Lon- don Evening Standard to play a four: hall zolf match, teamed with Bobby Jones, in which the American pair would meet Cyril Tolley and Abe | hefore vour sight {avoid any excercis fitchell, British amateur and profee- sional. The Standard proposes to ctage * match at Moor Park, Lon- don. Jeues uruo-gu accepted, < that you have fingers which bend easily and which are “Planting the ball” means that yeu can sink it witkin the zrip of vour | fingers, not palm it as the professional | magician who makes a coin disappear | until you are not quite certain about vour own The better curve pitchers are those who can wxap their finger around tne ball and spin it as it gets away from them. That does not mean that a plaver with short fingers cannot hecome a curve, pitcher, and a good cnrve pitcher, for there are men with short fingers who are very good, but as it is a very goed thing to have long and supple fingers it {s easy to see that length is not something which training can assist, although stiff joints ean be loosened if finger exer- cises are taken up. Any exercise which wonld strengthen the fingers would help any hoy who is training to pitch a eurve ball, but that might thicken the fingers or cause the joints to be- come enlarged. Big joints always ai in the way when the pitcher wish to let the ball free with a dash and snap. They actually retard speed. On the other hand a stub joint or absence of a joint may develop a curve. Witness, for instance, the case of Mondecai Brown who did not have anvthing extraordinary in phys- ical development to assist him to he- come one of the best pitchers on the Chicago National League Club in his day. but who was really thought to have acquired more skill in pitching a curve bhall because he had lost the index finger of his right hand almost at the knuckle joint. He could make a ball spin out of his hand with some whirlicues tnat other pitchers could not get, and there were many who were sure that the loss of the finger really helped Brown to fame, although no one better trust to losing a finger to make a successful hase hall pitcher. The finger is worth much more than the fame or the cash one might re- rcelve and there always is the chance that the loss of a finger will ruin an otherwise gond hall player. Don’t worry ahout stréngth in the fingers. Their length cannot be culti- vated. but keep them supple and try lof California generally. rot to get enlerged joints. That is about all that s necessary to “train” the fingers in order tn pitch A curve. (Conyright. 1028 Considerable was sald about the State being a land of sunshine, with mild Winters and so This scemed to mean that It was a great place for golf. and if T was to follow golf as a profession. [ certainly wanted tn go where it was heing nlayed in plenty. atralght throngh 1 San Franeigeo. For a voungster who never had heen very far away from his own home town that trip was a real adventure. The trip over hy hoat was a revela tion, and though I have made it =ev eral times =since. nn other crossing | has meant anvthing like that first one, Then the trip by train from New York to California was another thing of wonder. It seemed that it never wonld end. But it did. of course, and in due time 1 reached the Golden Gate. I have bheen n San Francisco many At the Sign Maoon - \\“’ Fatab ed 1898 1342 G St. S0 I bonked passage | he ever has faced. | Among Risko's apponents have heen | Young Stribling and Jack Delaney “Tunney is heavier than the others 1 mention, and that is where he gets hie bunch.” Riske saye. “Perhaps I will meet Berlenbach again, probably outdoore. and I have no fear of t! outeome. ™ The tontender clase of the heavy- weight division will continue its de- velopment when Young Stribling, the mighty young man from Georgia, and Jimmy Slattery. who proved a sen- | sation a year ago, get together at | Madison Square Garden Thursday | night. Slattery has a six-round decision over Stribling to his credit. The Georglan desired a 15.-round perform- ance this time, hut Slattery insisted on 10, promise of greatly improved showings with added strength. in several depart- | ments. The White Sox, too, if the correspondents have not hecome en- thusiastic as vet over the chances of Cleveland. the Yankees or the Red Sox. Tn spite of Rabe Ruth's expected comeback and the addition of several high priced inflelders, the Yankees have not impressed their followers in the South. | 8o far as the Pirates are concerned their rating as favorites remains un cha d among the experts, but par- ticular stress is laid on the added strength apparent in the line.ups of their principal rivals. Improvement in the pitching corps of the Giants, the addition of Wally Pipp, Christensen and Emmer to the Our Store at 906 F Street Was Destroyed by Fire Vot a Yard of Fabric Was Saved AN ENTIRE NEW OUR NE The complete loss of our stock of fabrics at our old store, 906 F Street, forced us to place facturer. All ghipments have hurry up orders with the manu- been received, and we are now prepared to show you a complete line of the NEWEST, the SMARTEST and the BEST fabrics made for this season. 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