Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1926, Page 27

THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN GTON, D. (, TUESDAY, MARCH_30. 1926. Bad Weather Crimps Base Ball in South : Ceniral Crew Takes to Water Todcg' FOUR CONTESTS AFFECTED BY RAIN IN DIXIE CAMPS Griffs, Giants, Braves and Phillies Kept Idle by Ele- ments—Bucky Harris Boosts McGrawmen, Yanks Again Defeat the Robins., By the Associaind Prese | HE several hig leagu Washington outhland’s weather gods seem wnconcerned over the desire of months so near at out or were postponed vesterday hecause of rain and the New York Giants, arstwhile Four games fizz iunior champior and aspiring champions, who are renewing an old quarrel. spent the day while rain fell. The Boston draves read free shurg afternoon wspaper as a gale swept the Tain copies A the Philade’phia Nationals idled while show Florida ¢ ers descender in a ga iers hattled the Gulfport in the ninth inning because of a downpour, v TEX SIGNS TUNNEY T0 DO AS DIRECTED slugging 30 (P Gene » held h when nnder a W the co Tunney Dlanket leaving ranged for ind Jack [ Amonz the details are Ohtaining the New Yorl Athletie Commission’s sanction. which according to Chairman James A | Fariey, 1= naf to he expected at this time. Harry Wille is still the com { mission’s candidate the heavy hi crown ecuring the building of the signing of Dempsey In some quarters it is rumored that Rickard already has an official paper of some sore pinning Dempsey to a hout this Summer. and that the champion will start training _soon, although he will not sign officially until after August 3, when his con- tract with Jack Kearns espires WARWICKS WOULD OPEN CAMPAIGN APRIL 11 Bus Freed's Warwicks, at present engaged in making a round of the local high school base hall nines, wish | te open thelr sandlot season on Sun dav. April 11 Fast unlimited clubs wishing take on the Warwicks in their opener should call Manager Freed at Lin 2330, YORK. March has heen placed contract hy Tex dry details 1o hattle hetweer mpsey ar- a makiy ine gans < Rucky Boosts the Giants. ' eporting of the Jwmen vear and Strong. The ednled weather State Manager nursed a along raw e the the rain nt Nationa dispnei naseed ane John M avrie =aid the ) pennant this Giants ave providing plimént L Yankee Stadium a new stadium A and will rated Griffoe to permits ¥ plas and his 1 crew of traveling from Cal where the tMorrow on the hos- candition Travnors ave Cineinnati e working machines camps and BEARCATS TAKE FIRST ROLLER HOCKEY MATCH | Bearcats took the first match of his | Aive.game roller hockey series with the Washingtons by a score of 8 to 0 on in Tyger Camp. he third sack call In the Tyger with Jackie Warner havin advantage M| last night at the Arcade the The | " Harry Whiting, captain of the win »w in reach:| ying combination, accounted for 7 of the goals. Henry Trundle scored the other. The second encounter will be play- cems, aboUl | ed next Monday night Jim ~ ' HOPPE SETS A RECORD, BUT TRAILS SCHAEFER YORK. March 30 (#).--Wil last billiard erown has the marvelous cue of Battle The ha \f the Chicago | bs, now basking in California’s sun- | (*ardinals mest White Sox at Dallas ain todav, The Si. Louie team is sunding into satisfactory ferm ==, and NEW lie Hoppe's heen tilted by Jake Schaefer over| With twe 300-point | 3.600-point match for the world 18.1 1 Louis | halk line title behind them Schaefer today In prep- | has a lead of 56, having won the night fip from Tar- | block vesterday, 38 to 244 after the Friday, barring | champion had ‘taken the afternoon lications play, 300 to 232 and Phillies hreal Hoppe set 2 world record high rin es with Balti- | of 148 in the afternoon. Two blocks ctively will be played today. not hlacke of the Bhe hitting slump o + George Sisler pron Wrawns plenty of wo Bration for the North on Spr dart unforseen oo The Athl eamp after t mare and Buffalo, With the B_oWlers t of interest in the duckpin game in this city <ox increases with each season. considered a o have woman patrons establichments. The better environments surrounding the game have long since erased the im- of the male devotees anly, howling empariums ho 0 sport have the leagues of nereasing tournament. =uceessfil being held that howling a regarded as Convention MeCarthy and Whalen stenholme and Rosent the plek of the Hall has Werk Nolen, Muiroe 10 plek from. howlers intn existence for vallers Taomey A i of the stars a comeback last Jack Williams, one Aecade ago. staged a Saturday night when he fook Harry Arminger’s place on the Lafavette team against the Odd Fellows. Jack was Kkidded when he started to roll, but he turned in scores of 110 and 138, Williams remalir howling fan, al though not as active as of vore. Terminal lee grabbed two from Meyer Davis last night in the District League. the gentler earh year f antry list nut bhere that Ay 1o arra ! classe + This in i of inter women has illey man. ity with | teams they : fre expre that ! Washington takes first in point of numbers and interes: manifested by’ the fair patrora nf the game. t Keen Auckpin sport af the helief that atill fem wouild | ba attracted he maple drives were Aactlities proper Instrue tlon to or oihers, There vho would ph no remarkahle mented come agers v Three matches were rolled in the Masonic League, Albert Pike landing two games from East Gate, the New Jernsalem doing the same to J. H. Milans and King David getting three from Rrightwood by forfeit, lacaliy tie more af o S 5 [ 8 ZETIS IR 1 Leveretie, Blankenship and Gra- allihan and O'Farrell. At Dallas— . R.H e 28 her at they an e who would | n oppor fnstructed o 1 of effort | wou'd | dvantages derived for ‘teason. if thay could do so elent Instruc ars now howling ‘gladly avail themselves tunity 1o snerly that with the = their scores upon ‘be benefited Tt remains for some establishment {o take the first step in giving to bowlers of the fair sex free (nstriic tlon in the game. should the services of & competent instructor be s { The management of Conventic proposes to give such without additlonal cos hours of 11 a.m. and woman patron requesting the same, and will hava on and each week | day Auring thosa hours an instructor whe will giadly perform that dury either for heginners nr those desiving | 18 fmprove upon thelr g abillty After Lowilng, ths woman howler will find at Convention Hall a spa {efous vest room al her and, w.ih shower hathe already Installed, which fonveniences are unsurpassed as to Imcala in 1he conatruction of modern vbowling estabilshments. Instruction ta woman howlers, without additional Jieost, will be glven only upon request, !the management deelres 1o state, And the fair sex patrons are assured that much instruction will not forced upon them. The desire {a to Instruct, when such instruction is solicited. others he non 10 th WANT to be a memher Club, and if accepted to self to: Play fair. Be 2 modest winner and Abide by the rules of al - respect officials. pam. to an Evening Star. classes. T am——years old ; atter I would like to have a which I will weat. Probably the biggest team match of hall c'uhs to prepare for the pennant-chasing | Miss., club to a tie | Rickard. | Tunney | In vears | — The Evening Star Boys Club Pledge Keep myself always in good physical condition. Follow the activities of the Club through The Never neglect either home duties or school and The Evening Star Boys’ Club buttn A hoy may master the art of place jlot of disappointment in frequ | hitting. 1t is quite possible, as Tris [ fanning, or fouling: out, in making | Speaker declares in an interview for.|wild swings at vwll’:"lh‘l and without | The Ivening Star Boys Club. A home- [ applying any partienlar art to your | vun star may hit a homer once in 12 | batting for times. but a good place hitter will get A hit in every twe or three times at hat | LACE hitting can he mas-| tered.” says Speaker. “I's| ! a difficult art, but, never-| oy | | theless, i< possible for every hoy: It ; T | [i< 2 most valuable accomplishment 4l § i | [ ¥ o A hov with a free swing may makr‘ | a home run every dozen times he | | comes to hat. hut the good place hit | |ter will make a hit every two or { {three times he comes to bat | J “The place hitter, should hold the hat | like the diagram. so the muscles of the forearm will put the snap fnio the drive. “The rizht-handed hitter naturally | | hits 10 left tield and the lefi-hander Fits to right A place hitter battin: ight-handed can 10 hit to righ | field and the lefi ded hitter can | | nit to lef “IFor the vight handed hitter, les hand Tomorrow: Speaker will tell you | what he knoiwes and thinks of bunt- | BYA=D | ing. Make up your mind now te read 3 or 4 inches from handle and | ciz)y ane of these base hall articles with wrists rigld and a shorl|ayi the club mews. Theve "will, be rm swing. tie sure to hold wrists | 00 0™ 0 mowneemen ta Krep | enter or below the | e | nter of the ball - | atsmen more adept At handling llsewhere an this page will he | the willow have a knack of hitting be. | faund an application for membership. hind the ball, ever sn slightly. They | Fill it in today and mail it addressed wadt until the ball i just slightly over | Chief, Boys Club, The Evenin ar. | the § With 1he ball well upon | Washington, D. € him, he advances the left foot slightly and this throws the hody back, some. what facing right field The directions should be reversed N the left-hand hitier. | “Cap Anson and Buck Ewinz, among | the old stars, were great place hitters Perhaps there are not so many place { hitters today because of the craze for | hitting home runs, “There is much glory, of course, in hitting a hemer, but fhere also is a bat push BOY BUILDERS. The hase ball season is hers and the youthful ball player can’'t get enough of it. But he should remember that it is harmful to exercise violently right after a heavy meal It's best to wait half an hour. by (Copyright. 1928.) WOULD LET CODE ALONE| ISTRICT basket hall officials. gathered last,night at the Occidental for their first annual banquet | E any tampering with the precent rules of the game When asked by their president, C. Fdward Beckett, for as tn changes to he placed hefore the ioint rules committee next month in New York the court arhiters recommended a “hands-off" policv. A re- editing of the rules was asked for, however, with the term: “traveling” and "pivoting” hetter defined A ask the joint | committee to vaise the personal foul limit from four to six violations was | voted down when Joe Deering, Fred Rice and H. P. Sanborn, the coaches present, presented the case from the mentor’s point of view and showed that the present rule is making for a cleaner game. Fred R basket hall ch at Catholic University, addressed the gathering. speaking on the early day | of the game in the District. He told of | the time back in 1900 when the Wash lington Light Infantry. Carroll Inst} 1ute, Washington Athletic Club and | Eastern Afhletic Cluh ruled the hasket hall roost. and paid tribute 1o Prof. Joyce of Carroll Institute. Capt | Edwards nf the Coreoran Cadets and Prof. Reckett, the three men whn were the leaders in developing the went on record ac heing opposed to suggestions rules game from a crude form of indoor foot ball tn the svstem used today Prof. C. E. Beckett, head nf the of ficials’ organization and Y. M. C. A director. described the first league | organized in Washington in when the courts had no boundar: lines and bushel baskets were used for goals. Joe Deering, official and former | coach at Columbia University, enter tained the referees with a recitation {of some of the trlals and tribulations | of the mentor. The followlng court officials wers | present: C. F. Beckett, Joe Fitzgerald, | C. E. Celliffiower, W. R. Entwistle, | Jdeut. Paul Foot, F. B. Fuller, Haae. G. . Harbin. J. ¥, F. Ingley, T. W. Joynes. Ray H. D. O'Meara, W. . Robhins, P. Sanborn, F. B. Schiosser, Sumner and €. W, Wannan, motion to SOME OF BRITAIN'S BEST ! " TO PLAY LACROSSE HERE | series of games in America, the first of which will be with the ‘Uni\crsn,\ of Maryland, in Central High School Stadium here on Satur- | day, are some of the hest stickwielders ever produced in England Notabhle among picked from the twe big universities G. Adshead. (. M. Greenwood W. Bowker, all Cambridge . who got their first scheoling in | | pastime in the north of England, | the zreat lacrosse center of the Rrit | izh Tsles. Rowker and Adshead hoth are na tives of Stackport and graduates of the schanl there. Stockport is the | home of the werld-famous Lacrosse | Club, for the past 20 yeara club cham | pton of England. | | " Greenwood comes from Neison. in | Tancashire County. This section nsu | ally carries off the county champion- | ship honors for England. While the Rritishers were sailing across the “pond” and getting rid of | their sea legs today. the Marylznd | players were hard at work at College | Park getting veady to make a su | preme effort to start the invaders “off | wrong” in their initial game in Amer- | iea. And it is no state secret that the | O1d Liners believe they have an even chance to turn the trick. The British stickwielders will come |10 Colloge Thursday 1o he the guests of the University of Maryland until after the contest, Reserved seats for the game ar | sale a1 Spaiding’s 1338 G sireet. UMBERED among the Oxford-Cambridge lacrosse squad which the combination Wallace Motor Co. means NASH Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Jdust East of Conn. Ave. Main 7612 the H ; | | i 13 HAIR-G_ROOM" Z Keeps Hair Combed, Glossy Well-Groomed all Day on | Tennis is a major sport at the Uni-| versity of Southern California. 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NREW gandidates at Central High Schéol, end#d their work on the indoor machines vesterday:and were to take 1o the water today A 3¢ Potomac Boat Cluby'which i to repluee the Analdstan Club as fhe headqiarters for the school parsmen. to five there during the holidave, and, if possible, get in a workout every dav pnder the direction of their coach, €. W. Hecox ~Fhirtw prospective bladesmen, including nine of ‘those who made up last vear's squad, have heen getting into condition on the Central rowing ma “hines et up in the school machine shop. The coach/is putting his efforts on' turning out a fast cight, and if the material warrants it he also will form crews to row in other events. Last season the crew got off Toseph Dinkin, Henry Stew- a late start and failed to do anvthing | art, Fdward Avery, Ward Parker. startling. times ave ahead | Gordon Souther. Carl Werner. Wil- this year, ! . and 1f the rowers | liam Sample, Afhert Hockbaum, show the same interest nl”-nf-dnn\t‘Armv\nd Griggs. Charles Emmeri, as ithey have in the preliminary [ Von Lewineki, Tom Adams, Man workouts they will be given plenty | ning Dyer. €. M. Brooke, 8. Amato competition during the remaining [and Samuel Ambrogi. Joe Howard. months of school as well as through- | Allen Bovle and William Sigmund ont_the Summe: are candidates for coxswain, ‘Fhe list of those whe rowed last | (Coach Hecox is nol arranging any year and are ‘hack agah trying for places in the efght includes: Fred Otho Hammond, Jack calvin Ttodgers. harles dmund _Ault. Arthur Red gers. liam Stewart and Capt Aden Unger. Besides pulling an oar, | Strewar: attends the managerial duties of the squad. Rernard Living ston hapes the coxswain's | joh again. | the Warwicks New candidates zetting their first | game yesterday training in the art of handling a Kins and Perry sweep are Edwin Shuffle, Kenneth | during the “Haves hig hopefuls aciually making time up and down the Potomac. |the Navy Plebes prohably will be ar anged, however. and New Rochelle (N. Y. High wishes to come here for a match race or for a pregram of events Sargeant n zat 210 6, practice Quinn, Frager. Ad work the mound HAVE a Camel, and let your taste besatisfied! Millions of experienced smokers just wouldn’t buy or smoke any cigarettes but Camels. Camels are so different from other cigarettes. So glorious in flavor and fragrance. Because of their choice tobaccos and perfect blending, Camels are all pleasure, pure golden contentment. Nothing is omitted to make Camel quality the biggest sensation in the history of smoking. Camels give you the utmost in cigarette enjoyment. [np wetl for | Outloak Is Much Brighter Than Last Season, When | Members of the squad expect | schedule until he gets a good look at| A race with | Kastern's hase hall nine howed tn| their first starts of the | season. « Talbert and Rankin clonted the rwick hutlers’ offerings for two home rung, while SheehV ‘regis tered, a circuit drive for the winners , the Wagwicks angounter’ Cen i | Devitt Prep's linenp for the open- ing game with Business Friday at the Monument grounds will be as fol lows: Fishar, first base; Markham, second base: Cook, shortstop; Trilling, third base: Carmichael, catcher; Head | Jenkine, Briggs and Dannemiller, out- | Nalders: Bastable, Gredling, Miller and | Bowling, pitchars § | - Devitt basket ball letters have bean |awarded to Ribnitzki, Hurd, Merrill, B. Kennedy, Fisher, Toler. Danns miller, Jenkins and Manager Johnson. St. Alban's opens iis base ball sche Aule today on the home diamond with Laurel High. 'SCHOLASTIC COACHES | " PLAN ORGANIZATION All coaches and physical instructors | In the senior high schools ara being | asked to meet Saturday at neon fin Spaldinz's for the purpse of consid ering some form of organizatinn which | will creata a hetter understanding | |hetween the athletic departments of | |the varigus schools and consequently | place scholastic sports on a higher | plane in the District It 15 falt that the city is.entitled to first.class athletics and may have | | them if petty differences and disputes which arise can b froned out in a | friendly fashion by soms organized body instead of heing given harmful publicity and fAnally left unsettled. | The basket ball season, which end. | ed without.a title being awarded and | resulted in no end of controversies, | is an example of the slipshod methode | which might he correctsd by the ' formation of a coaches’ association. The junior high schools already nine innings and showed hava such an organization | Mary, EPIPHANY IN TITLE "CONTEST SATURDAY \ Whethet 8r not Washington will ba represented in the list of South At iantic basket ball champions will be decided Saturday at Baltimore Y. M C. A., when the Epiphany Juniors make’ their final stand in the annual tourney The team s sesking the 145.pound erown, and is the only Iocal combina tion still in the running. Baltimore's DeMalay quint is listed to oppose the church tossers. To reach the final Eplphany defeat #d Park View of Washington, Heart and McDonc igh clubs of Balti more Tonight's tripisheadsr at the Ar | rads opens at 715 with a match ha twaan the Kanahwas and the Alove ius Seniors. The second game bring the Calvary Collegians into actisn with_the Epiphany Big Five, while the finale will zse the Wonder Five artempting to outpoint the Stantons Mount Rainier Seniors snd their court season tomarrow, when they tackls the Independents in FEastern High Gvmnasium INSTRUCTION OFFERED TO YOUTHFUL ATHLETES Graded school and playground ath. letes are offered an opportunity to get into shape for the Summer meets a! the series of weekly drills to be rted at Plaza track on Saturdav. Several college stars have velun teered tn show the youngsters -the proper way to gn at the track and fleld zame COLLEGE BASE BALL. At Georgetown — Georgetown, 6: Bucknell, 2. At Williamsburg — William . “thmomh 6. o At Athens—Georgia, horpe, 1. 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