Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1926, Page 37

THE EVENIN Y X STAR, WASHINGTON, -D.. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1926. Hornsby Ever Eventually May Challenge John McGraw for Managerial Supremacy ROGERS RAPIDLY BECOMING A KEEN, ANALYZING LEADER Boss of St. Louis Nationals Fast Forging to the Front | as a Tactician and Appears to Have a,Real i Flag Contender in the Cardinals. BY GEORGE CHADWICK. EW YORK, March 25.—The most interesting news that has’come out of the training camps thus far has to do with the amazing change that has come over Rogers Hornsby,.champion batsman of ¥he niajor leagues. - According to all the experts who have looked over the. BSt. Louis- Cardinals ‘at their .San Antonio camp, the star player has- de- Neloped into a great leader—one who eventually may challenge the famous ol 1. McGraw for managerial supremacy in the National League. The St. Louis manager has changed in six months, say these reports, ¥rom a tall kid with a slouching gait and a batting eye and an arm.which gmakes him superior to most ball players, to a sharp-eyed. close-figuring, keen-analyzing ¢hap, who talks glibly -of percentages and chances, and technical plays’ of the infield and the outfield, in sharp. contrast ‘to the great silence he ‘maintained when asked to discuss base ball two or thrée Years ago. sby has found his tongue and ) But whether the Cardinals win tHe i is a smart and ready tongue. All | championship or not, they have found the store of base ball knowledge | a first-class manager, one who eats Which he has ben putting away in|and sleeps base ball and dreams about his head is beginning to assert ifself. [it. A year ago Hornsby was a great e no longer is merely the batting | ball player. He always had been that. ampion. He is a -leader and now [‘McGraw angled for him. Chicago N would wrestle Joe Malcewicz at New P he has his players looking toward him with the same “'we'll follow you, old boy,” that the players of the 8 ork Giants look toward Me- aw. They are saying out West that Mc- Graw is tiring of the game. They think that his star is in the descend- gt now that Pittsburgh has won a pennant and St. Louis has®developed a leader. This belief is not confined to major league base ball. It ryps through all kinds of base ball, show- ing how closely the fans watch the game. They are judging Hornsby by Svhat he did last yvear, and they fig- ure that he will continue to progress dn the same manner. Has Real Flag Co . And so he ma Horn; proba- will go forward faster than he s in the past. He is not an apolo- st who sits on the bench or just plays his position in the field. He will be in their fighting games and fighting for them from the 13th day of April until the season closes, and if the breaks of base ball go with him and his players are in good | physical condition, it is mot at all beyond the bounds of probability that his team will carry off the National League pennant this year. fished for him. Brooklyn made a bona fide offer to get him. - Other. teams would have liked to have him, but the ante was too high. 1t would have been a great invest- ment for the New York club if the Giants had been able to land Hornsby | But it would not have been a great | investment for Hornsby. He knows it now, although there was a. time not so long ago When he was anxious to work for McGraw. It would have | been & great investment for the Chi- cago Cubs: it would have made them | definitely ong of the elect. | have been an eyen better investment | for Brooklyn, perhaps even better | than the late president of the club imagined when he made the largest | offer for him that ever was made by any club. | "What Hornsby might have done for | Brooklyn in view of what has hap- | pened ‘in_the last vear or two is problematical. He might have been | Whipped into the Iimelight earlier than he was. With all his confidence in himself | and his team, Hornsby is a modest | chap and worthy of the great popu- larity he undoubtedly will enjoy if he wins a pennant for St. Louis. (1926.) With htbe Bowlers HE Washington women's team T group, if contemplated plan to face those from Baltimore in the intercity match next month may be sclected from.an entirely new g Heretofore Official s go through: Scorer Jim Baker has acted as manager and selected those who were leaders in individual averages. This has been suggested that the 10 captains of the Washington Ladies’ League : decide on the quint. Since the last intercity match with) Baltimore , several of the girls have | greatly improyed their bowling game. Cornell’s Lunch team must have been feeling rather chipper last night, as they put over three good games for a total of 1,724 and won them all from the regul After dropping the first game to Petworth, the Mount Pleasants took on a brace and won the final two. Har Supplee of Cor- nell's had the high rzdmp of 144, while Jenkins, of the same quint and Salt- zer of Mount Pleasant each rolled the big set of 358. In the Masonic League Iebanon won two out of three from Pentalpha, Rrooks of the winners, turning in a wet of 354, while Bernard, of the losers, smashed them for 353. Barnard's 131 was the top single game. Personal Audit of the Internal Rev- enue League carries seven men with idual averages over the century which its lead- Natural Resources Jeads in the individual averages with quite a figure to shoot at, with of Accounts and Collections nd with 108-16 and Leslie of Cor- ion Files Audit third w has the best individual 391, and has helped the Division quint very much this Mount Pleasant of the North Wash- Ingien Church League went on a ram- night, rolled three good and took them all from Im- manuel team. Slicer of Mount Pleas ant turned in the nice set of 351 and also had the best single game, 142. in the Nautical League the Potomac FBoat Club quint landed all three games by big margins from Colonial. McCambridge of Potomac turned in a set df 352 and a game of 141. S Mbtbace awd) Turkey leagues. Egypt, have several soe was an easy proposition, but now it EXHIBITION BASE BALL. Boston” ( | Clevetans Benton, Wertz, don, Millér avdl L. ‘:ewrn At Bradenton, Fla.— st Lous (A Philadelphia Girard Mitchell Bolan _and_ Dixon: Pierce and Wilson. R. . Vangilder. Dean, Ulricl At San Fran | Chicago (N.) | San Franciséo Missions (P. Root and_Hartnett, Gonzales: Eckert and Murphy. sco— R. H. At San Antonio— B : 4 Ward, Pauleon and R. . 15 10 H 18 18 M ‘Neill. anio i H E o g 9 = 3 arfoot. n: Faulkner, Matloy. rfield and Al New Orleans— Boston (A. New Orleans ke. Sommers and Austin and Dowie, Whitehill and _Bassler, tte o R. 5 3 Ehs s\oku Hilton: Irwin, Dowda. At St Cincinnalti Sew Y0 Petersburg. Fla— E; AR 2 ays, Springer and Hargraves: “and Collins. Ma: Shocker, Hoyt REGAINS CHESS LEAD. SEMMERING, Austria, March 25 (®).—The experts in the international chess tournament vesterday contested the thirteenth round. Dr. Tartakower of Austria regained the lead and Spiel- mann of Austria holds second place. The defeat of Dr. Alekhine. of France by Dr. Vidmar of Jugoslavia was the feature. OFFICIALS TO BANQUET. Members of the Approved Basket Ball Officials’ Association plan to hold their first annual banquet at the Ocei- dental Hotel Monday night. 1t might | Christian, | COMMERCIAL LEAGUE TO HAVE TWO SECTIONS A league of two divisions, one made- up of closed teams and the other of open’ nines, was decided or last night at the meeting of managers of the Commercial base ball circuit. Pilots of the teams that will take part dn the open series will be called together Monday night at the Atlas sporting goods store, while the re- maining managers will gather at ths same place Thursday: . Washington Gas Light Co, entered A team in the Jeague series last night. S STECHER WILL ACCEPT. CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 25 (#). ~Joa Stecher, heavyweight wrestler, said, through his manager, that he York in accordance with the order of the New York State Athletic Commis- MOST OF MAJOR CLUBS APPEAR WELL ADVANCED By the Assaciated Press. OUTINE training camp drills and the early practice games of the big-time base ball players have not been in vain, the athletes now . showing the form desired for the start of the long grind which leads to pennants for the best. Four veteran hurlers convinced their bosses yesterday that they are ready for the season; six of the day’s 10 exhibition games were rather tight affairs; heavy hitting featured the contests in which the major | leaguers had little opposition, and in all instances where they were pitted against bushers they won withaut difficulty. Despite Uhle's flinging, the Braves hut thelr hurlers were practiced re- beat the Indians, 2 to 1, the Bosto- | gardless.of wheather ard showed well nians executing a squeeze play forone |to turn back the New Orleans Peli- of their tallies, cans. Boston Red Sox batters showed ef- The Philadelphia Nationals, who lost fects of idleness due to recent rains, | to the St. Louis Browns yesterday in an eleven-inning affair, again have the services ‘of Steinader, right-handed pitched declared ineligible two years ago. He has been reinstated by Com- missioner Landis. The Browns and Phillies play again today. The Detroit Tygers topped all leaguers for batting in their South | Caroling barnstorming game yester- day with Toronto. 'The Detroiters made 16 hits, providing excellent base- runiing practice. The two clubs are playing again today. Both Chicago teams chalked up victories, the Cubs nosing out the Missions at San Francisco and the ‘White Sox defeating a Texarkana, Ark., team. The Cincinnati club is worried over Catcher Hargrave, stricken with ap- pendicitis’ immediately after the Yan- kee game. Pittsburgh Pirates also have a crippled team, but will meet the Shell Oil team at today. The New York action today Sarasota after against Cleveland at | day of fishing and Los Angeles | Glants swing into | golfs ‘'while Hornsby's: $t, Louis (‘flr dinals will prepare ‘to ‘end ftraining at Terrell Wells and San Antonio, Tex. The Cards start north with a promising recruit, Gerald Myers, an infielder. First Baseman Joe Judge of the Washington outfit has instituted a new set of signals to be tried out today against the, Brooklynites at Clearwater, Fla. LAMPRECHT SETS PACE. RILOXI, Miss., March 25 (®).— Fred Lamprecht of New Orleans, national intercollegiate champion, shot a 76 here to win medal honors in the quali- fiving round of the annual Gulf States’ golf tournament. LEAGU'E TO MAKE PLANS Managers of teams in the. 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