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30 Boss Bucky Decides to Utilize Moon’s Superior Bat- ting Prowess—Poor Luck W, SPORTS. th Stick Causes Griffs to Bow to Reds by 3-t0-2 Count. BY JOHN AMPA, Fla, ) tionals’ regular right fielder, M T the pilot said. “and [ beli Tobin to supply it. Johny not strike me as being a Spring hitter, and Joe certair “We want to get the jump on poison by them w in the starting line-up. But it shift from Tobin to Joe. It is becau: now than ever before. “This change doesn't mean Tobin ix out of it altogether. When- we get a good lead over the opposition Tobin or MeNeely will be sent into action, Tobin against the righthanders and McNee! that and should Joe be lieve Judge at ure, compelled first base, these udded. Moon Hit st vear 313 «clip in L hit for 501 in the Spring training games this year Joe has walloped the ball at a .615 313 Last Year. batted at a while Tobin rate, having made N hits in 13 trips S, to the plate. In vesterday's game he batted for Kelley in the ninth inning and made the longest drive of the day, only to be retired by Zitz- mann's sensational catch. The Red center fieller was standing at the e of the clipped grass and ran| far back into the brush to drag down the sphere. Such a drive in Clark Griffith Stadium would have cleared the center tield barrier. Roger Peckinpaugh. the Nationals last year, voted the most valuable player to a club in American League. got into the line-up vesterday for the first time this season. Ile had two chances afield. One was a putout in which he took a short throw from Bucky Harris tor a forced play. The other. a roller tapped by Pinch Batter Red Lucas, he foozled. At bat the Rajah popped 1o short in his first effort, but dropped ® Te: leagu into left field next time up. Peck seemed sprightly enough for him on the base but little can be told of his around the short field until he has more to do shortstop of Johnson Shows Good Form. Johnson appeared to splendid advan- tage in his first start of the y big fellow pitched smooth he was nicked for innings, half of them were decidedly flukey, and another bingle was made by a batter who was endeavoring to dodze a pitch. Alex guson, in the rext three innings. did well until he | hiad two men out in the sixth. Then he lost his control and the Reds staged ally that proved decisiv Kelley toed the slab for the Is in the last three innings and performed most impr ely. He pltched to only 10 batters, vielding but two safeties. The youn er seems to have perfected a fast ball at last, for he mixed several such deliveries with his knuckle ball most effectively. The Nationals banged the ball on the nose, but the jinx that has pur- t of these training as on the job. Fre. good, solid smashes went right to opposing fielders. In the eighth frame, after Ossie Bluege had driven in their second run with a screaming line triple to center and Myer had walked, Benny Tate crashed a liner toward left that looked good for at least two bases. but Third Sacker Pinelli of the Reds leaped high for a one-hand stab and dropped on the far corner that Bluege had left, to com- plete a double play. It was a startling piece 9f work. but rough on the Na- tionald. ! | Talks e — BY JOHN (This is the seventh of a series against | the southpaws as a defensive meas: |y v sther outfielders will be used.” Harris |y the | {in the | paths. | work | B. KELLER. ch 23.—Joc Harris will start the season as the Na- lanager Bucky Harris has announced. “T want all the punch 1 can get in the team right at the start,” |Cubs, ve Joe will be better prepared than Johnny is a good hitter through a season, but he docs, the A’s and Joe is considered rank 1 don’t think we lost a game to them last year when he isn't superstition that prompts me t sc the fatter is hitting the ball harder | CINCINNATL Christen, et lessc-se-ssese-z loeommmnnaruses lecocanimusan lesccommonsessar P PTTT T T —" P | Tate, . Johnson, p Ferguson, p.. | Kelley, p. . Harriy |, Totals Y *Batted for May In fourth +Batted for Kelley In ninth. 1 010 001 -buse hits—Roush hit—Bluege. Rice, Roush, Bluege, Walker. | ceocosc0e-000-x | ommoomomummiue® 00200 00001 @), Ha 5 Srofen | BRES icen—Hargrave, Doahle laye— 0] o—: mr'iln’ s o D-)ml‘l‘sn 2 n;fif' 2 nnings. t Koush) . Sirbek e "By Kelie Npringes minutes.” The Reds got to Johnson for marker in the second session. Walker | opened that frame with a single past | Harris. and Critz, trying to puil awav from one of Walter's fast ones, acci- dentally tapped a Texas Leaguer to |right. sending Walker to count after | the catch. In the third inning the Nationals | tied the score at the expense of South- paw Jake Mays. With one gone, Tobin beat out a bunt toward third, and pilfered. Boss Buckey flied out, but Rice singled Johnny home. Reds Active in Sixth. Two passes and a hit batsman did not help the Reds in the first two innings Feguson was on the hill, but they made good use of a pair of passes and a brace of doubles in the sixth round. After Emmer fouled out, Har- grave doubled to left center. Springer fanned, but Christensen and Pinelli walkdd to crowd the sacks. Roush {then shot a two-bagger to center to tally two of his mates. The American League champs got only one hit, Peck's single, off Brad.- | ford Springer, recruit portsider, who | twirled the second three-inning block | for the Reds; but they combed Clyde | Day, right-hand rookie, for a marker | in the eighth. Goslin singled, only to | be forced out by Judge. Bluege, though, came through with a three sacker to send home his club's last run. to Boys on Base Ball B. FOSTER of articles by John B. Foster based on letters he has received from boys who seek his advice as to how fo train so as to fit themselves to become good ball players.) ARTICLE VIL—VALUE OF FUNGO HITTING. 1 hitting fly balls fungo? W in it to help vou to play better in a it help you to bat the ball farther? ' would you say about a boy training to bg a batsman by Does it improve your eye and does | Is there any special good | game?—Roanoke, Va. This is a novel sort of training to suggest, yet, aiter all, the questioner | i not so far away in his theory of what training may be supposed to be. It is true that the literal idea of training, which fills the mind of ever; young player, is something which has to do with the use of dumbbells. Tndian clubs. gymnastics and dieting, but there could be training in other ways which would be sure to have it: Fungo_ hitting more literally might he called practice. The boy player might be willing practice with dumbbells for an hour, if he presumed that he were actually in training to play base ball. But if he should prae- tice fungo hitting for the same length of time his actual training operations might have a direct bearing upon his future ability . although he would not be developing his mus- cles by those orthodoyn movements which e presumed 1o be ubsolutely essential to the success of a youth in sthletics, Probably Not Helpful. Tt is not likely that fungo hitting, which is tossing up the ball and bat- ting it as it comes down, has the slightest effect for good in helping o make a young ball player succeed as a batter in championship games of class or of a future and better class. Tt is quite unlike batting at a pitched -ball. There are many professional ball players who can hit for terrific dis- tances when they bat “fungos” and who cannot hit curve and swift pitch- ing with any success, Hence there seems to be little worth in fungo hit- ting as something which creates abil- i On the other hand, the practice of fungo hitting means exercise and 1he open air,and of both of these the young ball player must have plenty if he wishes to be successful. So when there is nothing else to do there is no real objection to any player bat- ting the ball out as often as oppor- tunity offers. In the country towns in the old days there was always a game of bat and catch during recess at school, which was really nothing more than practicing fungo hitting, the boy making the catch having his term at bat because of his skill as a fielder. All of this kind of work is good for ball players who are beginning. it is a question whether muscles have any more to do with the suc- cess of ball players as batsmen than have the eyes. The matter of the eves was not brought up very much in base ball until within recent years. Trobably because it was overlooked. Maybe evervbody thought that every- Mpdy who played base ball simply o s advantages. ! had good eyes or else they could not | play. | Good Eyesight Tells. { It was not considered that one pair of eyes might be so much better than another that the better pair would | make a batsman out of a young play- | er, or a player with some experience, ieven if the difference between two | plavers physically was all in favor of |one us wgainst the second from the standpoint of strength. Much of the success of Babe Ruth a batsman is no doubt due to his vod eyesight, and as far back as the | ime of “Cap” Anson the latter would | ‘back” his eyes against those of any Ibody. He prided himself on his eye- sight and played billlards with almost as much skill as he played base ball. He batted fungos often, yet he never batted them for anything except to give his players practice or to warm up. Fungo batting is not to be decried as training if boys like it and have time to enter into it, but the results ito be obtained from it will be more general than specific, and more like practice—like taking a piano lesson, for instance. — GOES HOME TO GOLF. CARNOUSTIE, Forfarshire, Scot land, March 22 (#).—Carnegle Clark,a native of Carnoustie and three times Australian open golf champion, is on his_way back from the antipodes to play in the British open champion- ship. Carnoustie will be represented by three professionals in the champion- ship—MacDonald Smith, Arthur But- chart and Clark, who for 24 years has been professional to the Royal Sydney Club in New South Wales. Sepi e S e MIDGET NINES TO PLAN. Midget base ball teams Interested in forming a league are requested to have representatives at the Sport Mart, 914 F street, Friday night at 7 o'clock. E. D. Hart, manager of | THE EVENI Joe Harris to Play Right Field for Griffs : Ruether Finally BEATS OUT JOHNNY TOBIN GRIFFS GET PLACES ON ALL-STAR TEAMS By the Associated Press. Allstar American League teams, picked on a basis of batting and fleld- ing leadership in 1925, offer an inter- esting study and contrast, besides contributing to the fame of two sters, Leon Goslin of Washington und Gor- don Cochrane of the Athletics. (wo men topped their rivals in both | departments of the game. Selection of these teams from the loficial averages recalls an' nctual clash between similarly contrasting |outfits in 1906, when the Chicago | [ \White Sox. then known as the “hit- less wonders,”” played the Chicago the then heaviest hitting team {in the major leagues, for the world | championship. The victors went to the “hitless | wonders,” but old-timers say the | | credit_belonged to a utility man of | {the White Sox who slammed the ball {to all corners. He was George Rohe, | | considered a true member of the hit- ess squad until that momentous | for the pitchers, only play pating in more thin 100 wve heen picked on the bat- g and tielding all-star teams. . The line-up of the mythical nine with the highest ficlding averages i as follows: Audge, Washington, 1b. l)'ll:url(!. Detroit, 2b. Kami Chicago, 3b Tavener, Detroit, ss Goslin, Washington Mostil, Chicago, ef. Hooper, Chicago, rf Cochrane, Phila., ¢ Bush, St. Louls, p. 0 The line-up of the mythical nine with the highest batting averages is as tollows: ames & Washington aker, Cleveland, cf Heilman, Detroit, ne, Philadelphi . nson, Washington, p BESIEE 'PAIR OF TURF STARS | WILL RACE AT BOWIE| b Two stars of the turf will make their initial appearance of the year at the meeting of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, which will | open the Eastern racing season at Prince Georges Park, Bowie, on Thursday, April 1. They are Canter and Single Foot, Maryland-bred half- brothers in the stable of J. Edwin Griffith of Baltimore. ] | It is not improbable that Single Foot, which began his brilliant career | at Bowie two seasons back, will be a starter in the Inaugural Handicap, a $5,000 gallop of seven furlongs for three-year-olds and over, which will| be the feature of the openings d Single Foot is the more forword of the two in his training. Helsnotaller than he was last season, but has filled out. If Canter does not face the bar- rier in the Inaugural he may be seen later In the Capital or Prince Georges Handicap. p Harry Rites, the Maryland horse- | man, is preparing the Griffith colts for the coming campeign. If both go to the post in the Inaugural, a Griffith victory seems fairly certain. If Canter remains in the stable, it will take a| thoroughly seasoned campaigner 1o take the measure of Single Toot. Trainer Rites says that (‘anter's | campaign after the Bowle meeting will | depend upon the way in which the son of Wildair and Virginia L. trains on. 11t he does well in his work at Havre {de Grace, he will start there in the | | $10.000 Chesapeake. a gallop of a mile | and « sixteenth for three-year-olds ex- clusive Inside Golf By Chester Horton Golf never delivers the full volume | of fts arm as a sport to the playver| who is content merely to hit the ball. This fact is not understood by thou-, sands of so-called When such a golfer hup pens to connect | with a fine balll now and then he zets. in the flight 5f the ball, a gen- | uine hint of the sontinuous pleas- | ure the game might give him, but he seldom ap- praises this Bint correctly. The real charm of golf is in learning the swinga, for in this sport the swing is everything. Hit- ting the ball be-| « al. The player who has perfected his swing uls he is going to hit the ball. nothing else that the clubhead can do. | Just how he is going to hit ft—that is. with what exact effect—is the lure that makes golf many times more in- teresting to him than it can possibly be.to the player whose whole concern is merely hitting the ball. Soles STYLE AND VALUE Symbolize These Shoes! Men who discriminate— who buy shoes with a care and exactness, are pleased with HESS' SHOES and HESS SERVICE. —Styles for Spring —are pleasingly —different in superior —grades of black —and tan calfskin N. HESS’ SONS, 607 14th St. the Coca Cola Midggts, will preside. ) Mher Sports on Page 29. The | ¢ 1 € DeBerry, | Kohlbecker, Frank jCox, J. . | Felix, August | Wheat, Zac 6 Joe Kel 1 BROOKLYN ROBINS Bats. Throws. L R R R L L Pitchers. Barnes, Jesse L. Boehler, George H Brown, Lloyd A... Cantrell, Guy D Courtney, Harry Elliott, James T Ehrhardt, William € i Burleigh A. McGraw, Robert E McWeeny, Douglas L. Moss, Ray . Osborne, Ernest ¥ Petty, Jesse L.... Streleckl, Edward R R Hargreaves, O'Neil, George M. Inflelders. Rissonette. Butler, Joh Fournler, Jacq Maranville. Walte Marriott, William E Standaert, Jerome J Stock, Milton J. .. Outfielders. Sdward Hutson, Roy L. .. Jucobson, Merwin M. othern. Dennls .. D. Witt, Lawt Wilbert Robinson, y and Joe Mc record: Finished ning 65 and losing nnity, coaches. a tie for sixth posit Twenty Years of American Golf | 'BY JIM BARNES. rican Champion—Player, Teacher and Student of Golf. not a very eventful one. It not a lot of play. never missed the chance when it was bitious to reach the top as a player, , then that all possible practice would some day prove helpiul. The work around the shop and the course kept me busy in a steady grind, but six vears of apprenticeship back home had fitted me for & pretty thor oughly and this applied not only to work around the shop, but out on the | golf course as well. Things are quite | different today. It is different not only with the young fellows starting out’ here, but back on the other side, 00. Progress all along the line in the development of the game has brought about most of ‘the changes. In the old days, nearly all clubs were made by | hand. This applied to both wooden und fron clubs, heads as well as shafts. | Iron club heads were hand hammered right in the shop, and wooden heads were sawed and cut hy hand out of | rough blocks that came in something like an L-shape, except the upright part was somewhat larger than a right angle to provide about the right Me for the club. Clubmaking an Art. These blocks were something like ! two and a half inches thick and about | four inches wide. From them we had | to saw and cut the blocks down, to form the clubhead und it was no easy | job. Under those conditions club-mak- ing was an art. and the player who finally used the club got the real Landmade article. The shafts came n square strips and had to be cut and STAR, WASHINGTON, Braves . Oakland, Ardmore; W Robins . o Jersey City, Ints. Robins . Baltimore, Ints ‘Terre Haute, I. I Robins Robi Robins Minneapol Robin San F Mempl Robins . Robins Crisfleld Jackson, Cotion States Robins . Memphis, Braves Braves ..yl | Springfield, Robins Braves _............. Topeka, Southwestern Jersey City, : Martinsburg, B. R. 1 Robins . i Yankees . resident-manager; Ned Hanlo games for a percentage of 414, | EARLY GOLFING DAYS IN CALIFORNIA. Y year as assistant to George Smith at Oakland, Calif.,, in 1907, was Not that the job was hard or unpleasant. there was plenty of work to do and not a great deal of time for play left. | Once in a while, however, there came a chance to play a round, and 1 D. C, TUESDAY, ROSTER FOR 1926 Played With in 1925. G. W. L, Pet. 3 16 407 1 .500 8 .738 0 obins obins . k. 986 957 | 972} 983 959 Ints. . 50 3 w8t 000 | secretary; Otto Miller, | Clearwater, Fiw, training camp. 1923 | r: jon in the National League race, wln-l | | was a case of plenty of work and But offered. From the start [ was, am- if it was possible, and knew even who can turn out a high-class job, and many professionals do muke up a very considerable part of the wood clubs they sell, taking advan- tage of the more nearly finished state in which they can buy thelr material nowada But what was meant by a handmade club back 15 years or ago now is pretty much of curiosity—that is, to those who can tell one when they see it. My year's work with Smith was a | one, but it netted me a lot of | valuable experfence that has been | helpful to me since. For one thing, I begin to pick up an understanding of | certain differences in conditions here | and back in the old country. | days, And | my own play improved some, though it was not vet really steady enough for any one to judge whether it was getting better or not. ! Gets Berth at Spokane. | But all the time I had in mind got- ting a more responsible job as soon | as opportunity offered. Along around Christmas, an offer came. There was a club in ane looking for & pro- fessional. It wasn't a ver) attering offer, but it was a job of my own and | that ‘'was the main thing. | There must have been times when | I felt « little fear and trembling as | to whether I could make good, but \ll [ can recall about it now is being | as tickled as a kid with a new pair | 00 | to be punched into retirement. They ,;'n'nmrkrd that Paul was no longer to 5 |style of milling. | more, and it seems more likely that | test the stance I immediately- dropped sed down entirely by hand. days the blocks for clubheads on a lathe, and are pretty | well shaped when the lub maker gets them. The shafts have been turned round, and it is a fairly simple task to | tool and dress them down, fit them into the clubhead. wrap the grips, var- | nish them and set them out for sale. | Hand-hammering of iron heads prac- tically is a lost art except in ver: rare cases. When I was with the:Pelham Coun- Club I now and then came on a piece of dogwood growing in the woods on certain parts of the course, nd wherever T found something that | was suitable I used to cut it and take | it into the shope to make up into a| clubhead. The boys in the shop| thought this trick was nothing short of remarkable; the very idea of tak-| ing a rough chunk of wood and fash. | ioning it into & clubhead! They had never seen anything like it, and the first time or two they stood around and watched as closely as they might have a maglcian pulling a pink rab- bit out of a derby hat. Development Brings Changt | of shoes, at the idea of getting started. So in the Spring of 1908 my first inde- pendent professional engagement be- gan at the Spokane Country Club, | with @ 9-hole course in Manito Park. It was the only golf club in the city at the time. (Copyrigl Next: Golf Beginnings in thke Pacific Northwest. NINES IN PHILIPPINES | LOSE THEIR TROPHIES By the Associated Press MONILA, March 22.—The resig- nation of the Philippine Base ball League as assoclate members of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Feder- ation has been accepted. The base ball league will become professional. The resignation was the result of charges that players had received money. As a result of the Philippine base bull players becoming professionals The rapid development of the game in recent years is largely responsible knows | for these changes. The demand for There is | increased production, because of the of Honor great army that now play the game, has been so strong that inventive genius has devised mechanical short- cuts to quantity production. So gen- uine handmade clubs are exceedingly rave. There still are those who learned the trade in their earlier 1873 Since | base ball trophies won at the Olympic | zames last May by the Philippines | will be returned to the Far Eastern | Athletic Assocfation, of which Japan und China also are members. The P. A. A. F. also decided that the United States Army base ball | team, winners of the 1926 national | championship must return the trophy because it employed professional players. hirly Minutes -for only You will like the mild, sweet taste of this quality cigar. Made of specially selected ripe,* domestic tobaccos with a choice Sumatra wrapper. Try one today for real enjoyment. MARCH 23, 1926. | BERLENBACH SEEN AS BEING ON ROPES BY FAIR PLAY, NEW YORK, March 23.—Among insiders, where tips run pretty true to form, the report is going the rounds that Paul Berlenbach is about ready say that he is punch drunk and that he 18 not In any way the man he was even six months ago. One of his most important rivals be feared by any good man who was clever and could hit. Berley, in the course of his bril- liant career in the ring, has heen an easy target for any one to hit, but he has won out—exceept in the case of his first battle against Jack De- laney, when he was knocked out— hecause of his ability to take it, com- hined with his powerful body attack and left hooks to the head, It Is feared that the lacing he got in the Risko fight will work to put the final clamps upon the light-heavy champion. So far as the writer is concerned, he can see no reason to judge Ber- lenbach upon his showing against Risko, a man who outweighed him nearly 20 pounds and who was ex- getly suited to cope with Berley's Out in Cleveland some time ago voung Bob Fitzsimmons made a much better showing against Risko than’ Berley did, just because Bob was enough of a boxer to protect himself against the Clevelander's wide swings. If he had had just a little more of a punch he probably would have stowed Risko away that night. As it was, Johnny survived the punches that | Fitz laid upon his chin, reeled around | for a while and then fought his way | to a decision. They are trying to match Risko with Jack Delaney for early next May. | But Risko admittedly is not look- | ing to mingle with clever boxers any Jack de Mave, the Jersey City mixer, and a good one, too, will be asked to | exchunge swings with the walloper | from Lake Erie. e MITCHELL LEARNS HOW TO USE IRONS By the Associated Press. Abe Mitchell, England's leading hope for the recovery of the British open championship this year, has so improved his idon play during the last Winter that he is enthusiasticall talking and writing about his dis- covery of secrets of style. Mitchell had been unable to keep his iron %hots from drifting to the right of the greens. This, he says, he found, was caused by a square stance. A remedy was found dent, “a lie which made me face well round to the hole, instead of using the square stance 1 had previously employed,” said Mitchell. “I dropped | my left foot bLack slightly vanced the right. | “The difference between the two | stances was very little, but T felt the | change and knew it was what I| needed. When I made the shot a ball flew straight to the green, with no sign of swerving efther way. To and ad- another ball and tried the stance again. The ball flew away, straight for the pin, and from that day my iron play has been good.” SHIMIZU TO CAPTAIN JAPANESE ‘NET TEAM TOKIO, March 23 (#). — Zenzo Shimizu. the Japanese tennis star, having recovered from an illness, has been added 1o the Japanese team se- lected by the Japanese Lawn Tennis Assoclation to compete for the Davis | cup. the international tennis . trophy. imizu will captain the team, which, besides himself. will include Tsumio Tawara, the present cham- pion of Japan: Teizo Toba. Far East- {ern Olympic champion, and Takeichi Harada, at present in Americ.a . FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By the Associated Press. - BUFFALO.—Sid Terris, New York and Barry Cook, Buffalo, fought draw (10).'Martin Burke, New Orlean and Art Welgand, Buffalo, fought to a | draw (10). NEW YORK.—Red Chapman. Bosz- | ton, outpointed Charley Goodman, Brooklyn (10). Carl Tremaine, Cleve- land, beat Joe Rider, Brooklyn (10). ST. LOUIS.—Eddie Kealey, Bridge- port, Conn., knocked out Sully Mont- gomer Fort Worth: Tex. (1). Babe McCorgary, St. Louis, outpointed Henry Malcor, Chicago (10). Lew Per- fetti, New York, beat Johnny Kaiser, St. Louis (10). PHILADELPHIA. — Jack Delane: Bridgeport, Conn., defeated Maxie Rosebloom, New ‘York (10). Rocky Smith, Battle Creek, Mich., beat Tommy West, Trenton, N. J. (10) COLLEGE BASE BALL. At Athens—Georgia, 8; Ohio State, ; C.—Guilford, 1; " At Greensboro, Quantico Marines, of Joy five pennies 19 Stores—The better to serve you | Jurfes. | Joe has a_jumping tdoth and Tony | terday’'s game with“ Boston at SPORTS. Ready for Service MAKES DEBUT TOMORROW AGAINST BROOKLYN TEAM Ogden and Marberry Also Slated for Toil—Hadley Is Signed, Larry Schacht Is Released Uncondi- AMPA, Fla.. March 23.—Walter T Henry Ructher, who was on= of t pitching mainstays of the Nationals last vear, at la<t considers him- self ready for his 1926 start under fire. After two weeks of arduous endeavor in morning training sessions at Plant Ficld, the portside flinger who threatened to jump over the traces this year and did not affix his signature to a contract with Clark Griffith’s club until more than two weeks after the date he had been ordered to report at camp, figures h salary wing is loosened sufficiently t. o permit its use in three innings o the slab. So Manager Bucky Harris has ordered the erstwhile recalc: trant to show his suff when the Dodgers are encountered here tomorrow afternoon. Ruether is the only member of the hurling corps of the Ame at League Champions who has not taken a turn on the hill this training sea son. fling against the Reds yesterda for the fifth time in six games pla He was left by himself in this respect after Walter Johnson had hi when the Nationals went down to deiea ved with major league clubs in the preparatory campaign, the Cincinnati outfit bagging the better end of 3-to-2 count. Last yvear Ruether went games for the Nationals and worked well enough to establish a record of 18 victories against 7 defeats. He wag especialiy effective: the first two months of the season, but in July he fell into a fearful slump. In which he sustained the bulk of his losses. He recovered his pitching form in August however, and retained it until the sec ond successive league championship had been clinched by Washington. Seemingly after that Ruether lost his cunning for the second time in the season, for he was not used against the Pirates in the world series, al- though he ranked third in winninz percentage of the pitchers of the Har- rismen. But in training here this Spring the Dutchman appears to be in fine fettle, at least in excellent physical trim. His arm seems to be strong, for he has done a dea! of toil- ing in the morning drills. Start Frequently Postponed. Ruether, though, has asked several times that his 1926 mound debut bhe postponed, evidently fearful that he was not in quite good enough condi- tion for a fair test. He first was slated to hurl against the Phiilles last Fri day, then against the Giants Saturday. The Dutchman did not regard himself as qualified for a trial either time, and Manager Harris had about decided to send the southpaw against the Reds vesterday. Again Ruether requested a postponement of his start and Bucky agreed, but told the slabman that he must be ready to take a turn in the first of the two games scheduled with the Brooklyn band this week. Harris more than eager to ascertain what may be expected of Ruether this year. While Johnson and Stanley Coveleskie probably may be depended upon to register a re. spectable total of victories, the Na tionals may have to look to Ruether and Bush for most of the other suc- cesses to keep the club in the thick of the fight for the flag. Bush in his threeinning start against the Giants indicates that he needs more preparation, considerably more, before he will be ready to as- sume his part of the task of helping the Nationals to a third successive pennant. into 40| Should Ruether reveal no more |did the transfer from the Brow | his fnitial workout it bly mean that in the American League campaign recruit hurlers will have to be brought to t} ald of Johnson and Covey while the other two veterans are rounding shape for c ntly good per ance Cuy Ogden, who has been an { and-outer in his slabbing so | Fred Marberry also o n _tomor s el will toe the slab for the first thre innings, while Marberry will pitch the last three. Freddy probab: would not know what tc other part of the game, s | tomed "has he become to | fraye. One Signed, Two Are Dropped. While the were takir on a plaver ay, they cast ¢ |aside. Irving Hadley, Brown Unive: #ity pitcher sent to training camp « the expense of an enth . nus of that institution, affixed his name to a e dered him by iffith before 1} Washington president announced t Pitchers Larry h Al brother, and Arthur versity of Maryland product, released. Schacht was cast off unconditior |ally and will return to his home New York. Humphreys is slated the Kinston Club of the Virgini | League, but will go there under o | tion. Both of these boys were expect ed to leave Tampa today. Harris has announced that two more pitcher an outfielder are to he sent eclsewhere but that the transfers were not likel to occur until afte reach Washington ne. | Hadley. who has b the squad here, although not offi a part of more than weeks, a fine sl pect, but not y big show. In be one of the two pit farmed out by the an earnest and intell with a_season or two in some good minor league ought to develop into : smart hurler. w finishin: . Un i beer MAJOR LEAGUE HOLDOUTS * ARE HOEING A TOUGH ROW By the Associated Press HICAGO, March 2. so well this year. Dutch Henline. Phillies’ Some of C tain for failing to report at Bradentown, Fla. the base bal! holdouts arc catcher. has just lost his job as cap Will Huber, third basema who came to the Phillies last year from the Beaumont team of the Tevas League, has succeeded to the positil Other 'managers have made plans to get along without the seekers for more salary. But managers have other problems of replacement, most of them tem- porary, created by illnesses and in Among the latest viftims are Jumping Joe Dugan and Tony Lizerri of the New_ York Yankees. a digestive disorder and both are out of practice at St. Petersburg, Fla. " Speaker of the Cleveland Indians pulled a slight “‘charley-horse” in yes. St. Petersburg, and may be out of the line-up for p day or two. Donohue, Cincinnati pitcher, developed rheu- matic leg and could not face the ‘Washington Senators Monday, but was feeling fit enough today to go in against the Yankees. The new sacrifice rule was applied in the Cleveland-Boston Braves game at Bt. Petersburg yesterday. Me- Nulty fouled. Spurgeon dashed for second and beat the throw, but Mc- Nuilty was not credited with a time at bat because of the runner's advance on the foul fly. Application of the new rule was witnessed by Commis- Tris | sioner Landis and Col. Jacob Rupper everal pitchers zot away to g s in vesterday's practive gan | ¥ Vance of the Dudgers fanne | twvo men. zave two hits, but allowed | no runs in three innings : St. Louis Browns at Cly The Browns won, 11 to =, hurling of Davis and Falk, the forme breezing along easily, but the latte getting nicked for five safeties i | three frames. The Giants at Fort Meyer: with Frisch back in the line-up, | washed Connie Mack's Athletics, wh. fafled to reverse on the boss's repri- | mand. The New Yorkers meet tie | Browns at Sarasota today. | Rhem and Keen went to the moun! for the Cardinals and shut out the San Antonio Bears, 1 to 0. Both me | obscure last season, have T promises for 1926. ater, Fla behind the brigh The Meji shrine, nearing completion |m Tokio, is the largest athletic field in the Orient. ow FFACTORY sales of repair parts on Studebaker cars for several years have averaged only $10 per car per year! Why part with money for parts? Studebaker cars require mini- mum repairs. Money put in at the factory for better mate- rials and careful workmanship means less money put out by the owner for repairs. Joseph McReynolds J. H. PRIESTMAN, Sales Manager Fourteenth Street at R N.W. Phone Potomac 1631 STUDE BAKER'