Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1926, Page 20

SPORTS. THF‘ FVEN’ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 'MO'NDAY APRIL b, 1926. SPORTS. Nationals Resume Series With Giants : Due for Harder Fight to Win This Year DUE TO OPEN SOLID WEEK OF PLAY AT BIRMINGHAM Veteran Pitchers Hereafter to Be Sent Over a Longer Route—Poor Flinging Gives Columbus Another Victory at Ft. Bcnmng, Ga. BY JOHN B. KELLER. IRMINGHAM, Ala,, April 5. B After enjoying the hospitality of Fort Benning and taking another licking from the Columbus American Association club in an 8-to-5 engagement at that Infantry post yesterday, the Nationais today were burning to get at the Giants. Losing to Hank Gowdy’s team the Harrismen were left wi pleasant record of two wins agains h the un- t three losses in games with minor league clubs this Spring. The contest scheduled here this afternoon was to be the fourth of the set of 10 betw and the National League runners-up, tory advantage over the Washington Tomorrow the clubs will s ng into action at Augusta, Ga. een the American League Chzmpions with the Giants having a 2-to-1 vic- outfit for the first trio of tilts. A game also will be played at the one-time training field of the Nationals on Wed- nesday, while Thursday’s engagement will be staged at Atlanta. the battling will be done in Norfolk, Friday and on Saturday Washington fans will have the first chance this season to see their club perform in Clark Griffith’s Stadium in the Capital City. From now on Manager Bucky Har- ris plans to send his veteran pitchers over longer routes than he has done in most of the past exhibition scraps. With the exception of Walter John- son and Alec Ferguson, none of the| old-timers has worked more | three innings in a single match. To- day Stan Coveleskie and Joe Bush were slated to share the mound as signment, while tomorrow Dutch Ruw -r and Curly Ogden are expect ed i do the toiling on the hill. Some of the younger pitchers also are like 1y to get a crack at the Giants be- fore the week ends. There may be a change of pitch-| ing plans for the game in W ashing- ton next Saturday, however. Walter Johnson is scheduled, presumably, to open the championship season against the Athletics in Clark Grifith Stadium a week from tomorrow, but Manager Harris now figures to use the dean of hurlers in_three rounds of next Saturday’s exhibition. The pilot be: leves such a workout would just about complete the training of his mound ace, who now is doing ilght drilling on the Nationals' home lot. Patfents Are Recuperating. Although thev are encountering plenty of cool weather on thelr home- ward trip, the Nationals are feeling quite spry. Even those few who had been complaining of minor allments are more chipper. This is especially true of Joe Harris. The hard-hittin outfielder and utility first sacker ds clared this morning that his stomach trouble had been relieved and that from now on he expected to make as good use of the knife and fork as any other man on the club. But Joe will have to stop some if he s that. dolel was a ravenous bunch that rolled into Fort Benning vyesterday. The train bearing the Nationals and the Columbus club was nearly four hours late and the delay whetted the appe- tites of the athletes considerably. They gave the breakfast at the officers’ mess a deal of punishment. Eggs were the principal course and it was estimated the party of 72 players and club at- taches consumed 36 dozen of the pro- duct of the hen. This, with 19 gal: lons of milk, three dozen loaves of bread and quantities of bacon, butter and coffee put the clubs on their feet Evidently the Infantry post was well stocked with supplies, for there was more entertainment of the epicurean nature at noon and as it came at least two hours after the breakfast nothing than | J. Hi was overlooked by the men. The lunch- eon was spread at the hostess house. After the game the clubs again visited the officers’ mess to be royally entertained. If the Nationals hit as well in the American League um year as they did {n the meal circuit a the mmu.ry post they'll set a worid record Maybe the entertainment gave Hank Gowdy's Columbus team more pep than it did the Nationals. At least the latter crowd was docile through- out most of the afterncon while the Columbus Senators were on their toes all the time. Each side used three pitchers. Bill Morrell, National re- cruit, who started, was wild and so | was George Stueland, first Columbus hurler. But Bill gave up two hits and seven passes for four runs in four innings, while Stueland was lift- ed after ylelding three bingles and five passes for three markers in two rounds. Lefty Thomas Is Pounded. Lefty Thomas was pounded by Co- tumbus for the victory in the two frames he worked. He had a poor sixth inning, in which he was found for four hits, one a triple that sent three runs home, and a pass, netting, all told, four tallles. Fred Marberry, who seemed a trifle Dbetter than he had been, stopped the merry-go-round, but the Nationals did not get much off the veteran, Tor Faeth, and the Southpaw, Goofer Har- ris, who succeeded Stueland. The Nationals had the bases filled with two out, in the first inning as a result of two passes and a single, neat- iy bunted toward third by Goslin, but it got them nothing. They did better in the second round, however, when Stueland had another wild streak, and a couple of Columbus infielders made poor chucks, Peck opened the session with a walk and took second as Ruel was tossed out. Morrell lined a. single to left, send- ing the Rajah to the far corier. Rice grounded to Regan, whose heave to miller forced Morrell, but the former XNational relayed the ball to the stand back of first in trying for an easy double play, and Peck counted, while Rice reached second. Boss Bucky and Goslin strolled, filling the sacks. Then Joe Harris scored Sam with e scratch mingle that Miller intercepted. Miller made a vain heave to Regan to nip Goslin, and the second sacker threw wildly past first, letting Bucky cross ¥ the plate. Columbus got a_run back in the third round, when Morrell was unsual- MORE PATCHY PITCHING T, farris 1f. m.-e Gonlinr ss02002020 eesaeeee-a;“ =l se. Washington. “olumbaus. Three-base hits—Regan and Judge. base hits—Rice, Strand and Menosky. Tiee M Resan " Double pinys— Letbold ‘5 Bird: Peckinpauch to Harris to Judge. Bases on balls—Of Morrell, 7: off Thomas. 7 Stueland. 5: off Har: . 2 in_4 innings: 3 I 2 thntarer off Harris, & in. “Left on_bases—Columbus, 8: 8 U mpires—>esars. McQuillan, bases. Harris bunted to Thomas, who held the ball, spurning a good chance for a force play on Menosky at third. Ballinger, who had knocked in a couple of tallies for Columbus in the fourth, singled .\Ienosky home to put his club in the lead. Not a runner could move aiter Rice caught Lie- bold’s fly, but Regan bumped thrce mates to the plate with a triple against the center field fence. The Natfonals got a run as a re- sult of Regan’s wild heave in the seventh. Joe Harris strolled, but was_forced out by Judge. Bluege's one-baser aivanced Judge a motch Peck forced out Bluege, but Regan who had recefved Eallinger's toss made a poor throw in trying for a double play and Judge registered at the counting block. That was all. MACKENZIE-FARRELL ANNEX GOLF MATCH Teaming admirably and outputting their adversaries, Roland R. MacKen- zie of Columbia, star amateur, and John Farrell, professional at the Quaker Ridge Club of New York, yes- terday defeated Archle Compston, crack British professional, and Dave Thomson, Washington pro, in an ex- hibition match at the Washington Golf and Country Club. MacKenzie and Farrell won the 36- hole engagement by 5 and 4, complet- ing the morning round 2 up and add- ing three more holes to their margin over the afternoon round. The match was played in a high wind, and was marked by the spec- tacular golf of Farrell, the steadiness of MacKenzie and the phenominally long hitting of Compston. Thomson, the home club professional, was off his game, finding even his usual steady putting ineffective. Farrell was the individual star of the day with a 36.hole score of 143. Compston had 149, MacKenzle, 153, and Thomson, 159. Farrell had a chance to shatter the course record of 69 in the afternoon, but falled when he missed a holeable putt on the eighteenth green. Farrell uncovered a remarkable streak of golf In the morning round when he played the ninth, tenth, twelfth, thirteenth and fourth holes in_threes. The New York pro was aided by MacKenzie on the second, and eight- eenth, which he won, and the third and fifteenth of the morning round, which he halved, and the twelfth and fourteenth of the afternoon round. In both rounds Roland was the only one who played the long fifteenth per- fectly, both times his second shot reaching the green. The tee shots of the champlon of the Middle Atlantic Golf Association sometimes outranged even the lengthy efforts of Compston. Farrell and Thompson were consist- ently outdriven by MacKenzle and Compston. The outstanding shot was made by Compston at the eighth hole of the morning round. He laid a spoon shot within a club length of the hole and secured an eagle 3, ‘The cards fo]low‘ MORNING ROUN! Z e ly free with his passes. With one out, he walked the opposing pitcher and two others in succession, then Resun sent a long fly to Goslin, and Faeth counted after the catch. ‘Another Nationa! marker splattered across in the fourth. Rice began the inning with a two-bagger along the right-field line, and scambpered home when Bucky Harris lined a single to QAT D P P BAGS RARTH PECERPY n P Ao e s I7L 1008 L, LLLL s z g 11 2023 L 1 ter. 'f;l::;‘ Gowdy's crew knotted the count in its fourth turn at bat. Morrell agaln was wild and walked Miller after Strand poled a double to left. Menosky tried to sacrifice, but only succeeded in foreing oul Strand. Bird, though, drew a pass U fll the sacks, and as Pinch Bun,er Lane was thrown out Miller coum,ed Ballinger's one-baser over Peck’ head tallied Menosky and Bird. Judge's Triple Is Wasted. It seemed that the Nationals might break the tie when they batted against Harris In the fifth, the first frame for the Columbus ‘southpaw. Judge opened the inning with a triple to right center and Bluege :ollowed with a fly to deep center. Judge sprinted from third with the catch, an.l to be caught at the plate by 1d's surgrmngly good throw. Columbu; roke the deadlock with a vengance in the sixth at Thomas' expense. Following Menosky’s scratch onebaser and Bird's pass, Lefty PRI P . PRI, o maBo PN Thomson. COAST LOOP AGAINST RESIN. LOS ANGELES, April 5 (#).—Club owners and directors of the Pacific Coast League do not favor the use of resin for purposes of pitching, Harry A. Willlams, league president, has an- nounced after & mall vote. RADIATORS, FENDERS :2_3;!::;’ v%ilrunrn 3th St. N.W. Your Old Hlt Made New Again Cisaning. Blocking and Remodeling by Experts Vienna Hat Co. 435 11th Street PACIFIC COAST LOOP TO OPEN TOMORROW SAN- FRANCISCO, April 5 (P).— The Pacific Coast League will start its 1926 base ball season tomorrow. Two of last year's teams, the Vernon Tigers and the Salt Lake Bees, have been transferred to San Francisco and Hollywood respectively. The Bees are changed in name only, for William (Bil) Lane has mercly transferred his club to the city of movie fame. The Tigers by Stanley shippinz m: Missions." through the change, will have continuous base ball for the season. Los Angeles will open a new million- dollar base ball park, where residents will see games every day, as in the case of San Francisco. The Hollywood team will share Wrigley Field with the Angels, one playing there when the other is on the road. The San Francisco Seals won the pennant last year. Here is where the teams will line ap tomorrow: Seatfle at Portland. iacions nt Sacrame 0. ollywood at San Francisco. Oukland ut Los \nxrlna EXHIBITION BASE BALL. By the Associated Press. At Louisvillo— Bost & (A Louisville ke. Zahniser and Koob and Devormer. have Dollar, been purchased San 5 0 Stokes, Meyer, ] : Sk Ga Holl s At New l}r\rdnkf Cleveland (A.) New Orleans Uhle and and Lingle. | ‘:H (e8] 0 Sewell: Martina, Cvenzos AL Baltimore — £y (r Crumple: Vincent, Baltimors it Batch. Decater ers and Cobb. vl d Jonnard: 5 At Memphis— New York (X Memmonfs (83 ton Amn At Norfolk, New Haven Norfolk (V.) o Nichols. Dopson and Riel. Kurfz and Hamb At, Dallas, Tex St Louls (3 Dallas (Tex.), faoatos ana T ( Connor, Austin Lerian At Shreveport Chicago (A Shreveport (T.) T. Blankensh Blarikenship, Wi ham. BASE BALL ON RNNM Thomas and McCurdy; H. | amson and Wil Gra By the Associated Press. ever before in the history | sional hase ball in the South ptimism permeated the or- | from the ranks to the cap. The new on finds the clubs ready for the pennant dashes and the professional arena in the South embracing a new Tri-state circuit. The newcomer, League, will month that the Southeastern get off to a start this is unusually auspiefous for a new league, its president, Cliff Green, Montgomery, Ala., believes. The schedule is to be announced shortly. Already the clubs have filled their rosters and every club has ob tained its own park. In the Virginia League they are ex. pecting the fastest base ball ever Sports scribes declare every one of the six teams is looking better than last year. A 164-game schedule has beer mapped out, which calls for a twin bill each Saturday. New Pilots In Piedmont. Further down the Atlantic Coast, the Pledmont League, with four new managers in the fold, expects to see the most interesting season in a long while. The schedule calls for 140 games and Saturday double-headers are to be a new feature. The South Atlantic League also has new managers, three of them, who will undertake to inject new spirit into the circuit. The season gets under way April 32 and there are many new faces in the ranks from whom grea' things are expected by the managers Looking up to the Class A organiza. tions. the Southern League will enter & season with several clubs well bol- stered over last year's rough corners The race for the pennant, on the face of tralning camp ‘“dope,” will be a toss-up, as the managers have gone out and purchased much new and promising material to replace last year's dead timber. In the Florida League they are counting on the best season in his tory with a wealth of good material to choose from and an unusually inter- ested base ball public. An ambitious schedule has been announced. ik sl “BEISBOL” BECOMING POPULAR IN MEXICO NOGALES, Ariz., April 5 (®).— “Beisbol" doesn’t look it, or sound it, but it's “base ball.” “Beishol,” newly coined word, meets the demands of Latin pro- nunclation for the Unitel States® national game. “Beisbol” fast is be- coming a_favorite sport of the som- breroed uthern republic. “Beisbol” chatter from the Mexican west coast says that organized teams are maintained in Hermosillo, Empalme and Guaymas, state of So- nora, and in Mazatlan and Culican, state of Sinaloa. { KAPLAN TO FIGHT CHAPIN MERIDEN, Conn., April § (#®).— Louis. (Kid) Kaplan, featherweight champion, has signed to meet Mickey Chapin, Scrantou (Pa.) lightweight, in a 10-round bout at Scranton April 12 Kaplan's title will not be at stake, both being scheduled to weigh in at TROUSERS i To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F [ Wallace Mdtor Co. 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave. Main 7612 0| Drexel and | th | scored 498 to Maryland's i IN SOUTH THIS YEAR | 14 on the ANNUAL BALL TOMORROW |TEAWS T0 0RGANIZE_|FACE STIFFER OPPOSITION FOR CAPITAL LOOP| N YANKS, TYGERS, CHISOX OPENS POLO W% ASHINGTO SEASON HERE carrying on the sport throughout the Summer months. Play starts at the Potomac Park oval on Tuesday, April 20, weather pefmitting. The schedule calls for counters being played on Tuesdays games being staged on Saturdays at The War Department Assoclation expects to put four teams on the field, while the 3d Cavalry and 16th Fied Artillery at Fort Myer will have their usual strong combina- tlons to oppose the assoclation riders in_the Saturday matches. Two of the War Department fours will be made up from the following handicapped players: Col. Nelson E Margetts, 8; Col. W. V. Morrfs, 8 Col. Gordon' Johnston, 2 Cort- landt Parker, 3; Maj. F. H. Baird, Maj. T.J. Johnson, “apt. C. 8. Kilburn, 3; Capt. ltead Wipprecht, , and MaJ. C. A. Baehr, 1 For additional teams. the following will be availab'e: Maj. J. B Maj. McLane, Maj. Thom P. B. Fleming officer: Coulter, S. Reg . O TR ", Goetz. Efforts are being made by of the local association to obt Washington the annual Southeastern circult matches, Richardson, 8. Babcock and officers in for which WOMEN IN SPORT NE FRAZIER c in the history of the co-ed rifle club at George Wash- ington University a freshman has captured high-scoring honors for formerly of Western High School, has the BY CORI! OR the first t F the season. Betsy Fries, highest individual average for 1926. has made a percentage of 99.1 myntrude Vaiden, with an average of 99 in 14 matches, very nearly matched the record made by Miss Fries. in 14 contests, averaged 98.8. The Buff and Blue sk eted & mos C . crowned by their \))Xflndld national champions University of Maryland ¢ downed by a narrow mar- the triangular affair the C e Parkers contest George V gin in In ashington 96. Drexel ed at 4 \ Taylor, Mae berger and Ermyntrude V scored possibles in this en Miss Fries' 89 was so close was thought another had been re 1. Edna . rifle manarger, turned tn - ‘counting target, 9. is the only te schedule to claim a victory Hatchetettes this season although the results of the match with the University of Washington have not been determined. It is pos sible that this may mean a second defeat, as the N. E. A. rating of the Westerners’ cards was 499, while G. W. rated its total at 498. However, the cards have been turned in to the N. R. A. headquarters to be verified and the local team may find that it has one point more than it had hoped for. There was some doubt as to the scoring of one card. Perfect scores were registered in two matches—against the University of West Virginia and the University of Vermont. One point was dropped against Delaware and two in the tri- angular encounter. Of the eleven members regular squad, seven will major letters and four minor. Waldman, captain; Edna Kilpatrick, manag Betsy ' Fries, Katherine Shoemaler, Mae Huntzberger, Ermyn- trude Vaiden and Helen Taylor will be_awarded monograms. Minor letters will ke given Ethel Thels, Helen Prentiss, Elizabeth Gar- ber and Patty Anne Jamison. All letlem will be awarded at the May day celebration which will take the form of a picnic. i Hun each unter. that it possible over the of the receive Sophia Beginners’ matches have been held on the G. W. range during the past | three we Of the 66 beginners, the 25 best shots have been competing for individual and class honors. Both off- hand and prone positions have been fired. While the final results are not yet known, it s thought that Frances Held, a freshman and one of the as- sistant rifle managers, is in the lead ‘or individual high score, with Elsie Talbot close on her heels. Class honors cannot be determined until the results of this past wee¥'s shooting is re- ported. Awards will be made for the highest score in each class The Freshman squad will shoot a post-season match with the Eastern High school squad the third week in April. Following the basket ball game scheduled at 8 o'clock on the Central High School court between the Pa- latka, Fla., sextet and the D. C. Spe- cials; 2 Women's Council League com- bination, the Southern visitors will be intertained at the Metropolitan Ath- letic Club studio, on I street. Some interesting athletic fllms will feature he program arranged for the high «chool vacationers. The game tonight should bhe espe. Aitl.lll!o!m reach of all three games each week, practice en- and Thursdays at 4:30 and match 3:30. draw teams from Philadelphia, Bal- timore, Middleburg, Rumsen, N. J. and a number of Army posts. The winner of the matches represents the Southeastern circuit in the national tournament at Narragansett Pier, R. I, during the month of August. 1t "the circuilt games are played here, the War Department Assocla- tion's Spring tournament will be held at the same time. That the class of polo played here is of the same high standard as ix seen in Philadelphia and other polo centers is shown by the fact that in 1922, 1923 and 1924 the War Depart- ment Association teams won cups in the Spring tournament matches held in Philadelphia. The assoclation did not send a team last year, but the 16th Field Artillery from Fort Myer sent a quartet and made an excellent showing. Unlike other cities, Washington's polo fans get their amusement free of charge. Funds for the support of the game are raised by the annua! iden | | o'elock. polo ball and from contributions. Shooting in 13 tnatches, Miss Fries Mae Huntzberger, participating cially interesting from one angle in particular. It will be a test of the theory of the superiority of teamwork ver individual brilllance, The visit- ing players have a highly organized team. This machine will be opposed by players of grester experience shd perhaps more brilllance individually, hut there has been little time for them to develop teamwork. The players have been picked from the ranks of the leading clubs in the cff but they | never have played together and their | work i apt to be ragged. Can stars itop & good team? | Mrs. H. R. Scudder, president of the Washington Recreaton League, has announced that the regular monthly cting, scheduled today, has been stponed on account of the holidays and will be held on April 12 at the| Y. W. C. A, on E street, at 5:30 Chairmen on various make reports as follows: Clara Alder. | ton, on ténnis; Florence Skadding, ' swimming; Katherine Turner, horse. back riding; Esther Hall, track; Paul- ine Wean, entertainment, and Loulse Sullivan, basket ball. Officers’ Club of the District of Co- lumbia Girl Scouts will hold a supper meeting at 6 o'clock tomorrow eve- ning at the Lotus Lantern on Seven- teenth street. Mrs. Gerritt Miller, jr., will preside. activities will | STRIBLING-RISKO GO PRESENTS A PUZZLE BY FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK, April 5.—It is dif- cult to ses why Johnny Risko’s man- ager matched the Cleveland fighter with Young Stribling so soon after he had declared he did not intend to let Johnny go into any more bouts with fast, clever men until the big fellow had speeded himself up. May be the Risko crowd has an idea that Strib is neither fast nor clever. If so, they are due for an awakening. On the one hand, Risko takes few chances of receiving any serious dam- age, while on the other hand, there is always a fine chance that he will Tho Largest, Most Economical, Most Rellable Talloring Shop. catch the speed boys tiring in the latter rounds and smear them good. Maybe he will thus catch the At- lantan and maybe not. They say Risko {s improving con- stantly in his boxing, and if so he may spring a surprise, PLANS COURSE IN DIXIE. CHICAGO, April 5 (#).—Golf course on the Gulf coast as a Winter ad- junct to its northern links {s under consideration by members of Olympla Flelds Country Club of Chicago. Py Philadelphia_base ball fans would not be surprised if Connie Mack would retire from the active manage- ment of the Athletics at the close of the 1926 season. Mack is now in his sixty-third year and has had a long and strenuous careet {n the national game. | leader Starting tomorrow, meetings will be polo season is to be ushered in tomorrow night [held each night at the Boy's Club, 3d with the annual polo ball given by the War Department Associa- |#nd C streets, for the purpose of or- tion at the Willard Hote! for the purpose of raising funds for ganizing the varlous classes of the new Capital Base Ball Ieague. Insect players will start things off tomorrow night at 7:30, when they gather to elect officers and form for a champlonship searfes. The midgets will get together on Wed- nesday, the juniors will organize on Thursday and on Friday the represent- atives of senlor nines will come to- gether. The various races for division flags are expected to open about May 15. Collegian Midgets won from the Eastern Stars by forfeit and trimmed Katzaman's Kollegians in practice game, 14 to 7. Marvin Brown, the Collegians diminutive moundsman, hurled brilllantly and had a perfect day at bat. George Waters and Don Grist came close behind Brown in the slugging, each getting four out of five. The Collegians’ line-up- includes the pick of last season’s insect nines. Comet Juniors showed the way to the Arrows of Hyattsville, 28 to 4. Peerless Juniors trimnied the Moose Athletic Club, 3 to 1 Dutch Ruether Midgets nosed out the Meridians, 4 to 3. Oxen Hill Midgets Apollo nine, 10 to 9. Tate hurled for the Southeast Goslins when the Evening Star team was trimmed, 13 to 3 downed the | CHICAGO BOWLERS WIN MOST OF K. C. AWARDS TOLEDO, Ohio, April 5 (#).—The fourth national bowling tournament of the Knights of Columbus closed last night with standings unchanged. Thirty-six cities from 12 States are represented in the tournament. The leaders: Origer- ( hicago. 710: '"‘”"h“ o Chicago, 685. CHICAGO TEAM GAINS A.B.C. TOURNEY LEAD By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohlo, April 5.—Une new bobbed up in the American Bowling Congress tournament on Eas. ter Sunda while another palr tied for first place in the two-man event and half a dozen others crashed among the 10 leaders as a result of the* terrific pin-battering by out-of- own bowlers. The Castany team of Chicago on the late shift last night collected al total of 3,063, which put them in first { pluce, 10 pins ahead of the Recreation, | No. 2, of Port Huron, Mich., which had held the topmost place for several weeks. The team gathered games of 1,025, came back with 937 and then followed with 1,101. And on the same shift were two other Windy City teams which got in the select circle. The J. P. Kelly team of Chicago went into fourth place, with 3,013, its games being 932, 1.089 and 892, while the Green Rivers of Chicago went into tenth place, with | 12966, the games being 966, 873 and | 1,027, Aston and Young, a pair of bowlers from Akron, Ohio, went into a tie for first place with Gardella and Tocco of Detroft, with 1355 for thelr three games. They started off with 460, came back with 464 and then wound up with 431 It was announced by officfals that the tle between these pairs would be rolled off Tuesday evening, the Amer- fean Bowling Congress closing late in the afternoon. Among the others to take places high up in the standings Sunday was 2. Winters of Chicago, who went into fourth place in the individuals, with 711, his games being 2 and 236, while another Windy Ci T, Pullman, landed in sixth place, with 709. T. Harkins, who hails from St. Paul, also got among the leaders, his 705 putting him in eighth place. Harkins was the onlv one to break into the allevents leaders, getting 1,969 for his nine games, with 628 in the team shooting, 636 in the two- man and 10:':[;:1 the individuals. o Castany. Chicago. atfon No. 2. . Chicago. Kell¥, Chicago A. Rivers, Rochester. DOUBLES. Aston-Youne. Alkron. Gardella-Tocco, Votel, Braddoc Kiur. Toledo. Rehor, Cleveland. . Winters,_ Chicazo. Meler, Newport. Gerioski. Detroit. Ruonoma. Roches Harkins, 8t. Paul Mathes, Chicago. J. Blue, Indianapoiis. Closes Dal.ly 6 P.M.,, Saturday, 8:30 P.M. Individuality in Seasonable woolens, smart and ex- clusive, are ready for your choosing. We are quoting prices well within the Whatever you want in tailoring, whatever you want in fabric, we can udsfy you in every respect. Tailored to Measure Clothes Mertz, the Popular Priced Tailor Sprmg Suits Topcoats Made to Order As You Wont Them *30-60 MERTZ & MERTZ C0., Inc. 1342 GSt. N.W. | season before. The Washingtons have Veteran Pitchers Rated as Team’s Greate: Asset, But a Certain Loss in the Will to Win Is Ob- served in Amerlcan League Champs. (John B. Foster is nearing the end of his swing around the base ball circle, in which he has visited all of the major league teams and a number of the minor leaguers, analyzing their chances as he sau them in action. Today he points out some of the difficulties that will beset the Washington Americans t has several deadly rivals for the 1925 B. FOSTER. AMPA, Fla., April 5—Washington has a harder fig BY JOHN the pennant of the American T So will Detroit. Washington found it hard enough against the A part of last year, and then slipped into the lead, pitchers going well; oughbred it was. It is possible a like result will follow this year. will meet its greatest opposition will last season. If the team must go to the middle of September with the pennant still in chancery, the Washingtons may be beaten out by no less a club than New York—provided the Yankees are up there and still smashing the ball as they are likely to do from the start of the season. The Griffmen seem to have lost some of that delightful up-and-at-em spirit they had last season and the been beaten in a world series and th are now playing their games antiei- pating breaks, which s about the worst_thing that all team can do. In 1924 and last year the Washing- tons' greatest delight was to get into a fight where they had to rally any time after the seventh inning. They | pulled out game after game. Seem to Expect Bad Breaks. | This year they play exactly as they were anticipating possible mis haps and when they find things break- ing against them they don't rally as they once did. They've got to get out of it and get their noses a mile up toward the sky and “rear arcund” exactly as if they were the colts of 1924, if they expect to lick this Ame: can League bunch in 1926 Perhaps the strongest asset that the Washingtons have got is their old | nitchers, when once the old pitchers get tuned up for the race. Almost all the old bc can stand a lot of | banging and crowding in the piteh- | ers’ box and not worry over it. They have been through the mill too often. A man like Walter Johnson, who is | [in the best of condition this y | | probably as ready to have a | season as he was %ears ago. kno | when he {s not quite meeting his own | expectations, but does'nt worry about | it because he has been there before. He never looked more like ball | | player than he does this year. He is | every bt as likely to make a record | in 1926 as he would have been to| | make one 10 years ago. Johnson feels good, too. When the old fel lows feel right they have a certain | amount_of elation that will sustain them. If Washington had two Walter Johnsons, the pair would just about take the team along to the pennant. Bush Sould Be Winner. Bush is flightly, but he is likely to| g0 to a successful season with Wash. | ington. ‘The pitcher who may start slower in 1926, and who«can hardly hope to | be as successful as he was last season | |is Coveleskie. His arm is tender like that of all spit-ball pitchers in the | Spring, and he may not win as many | games as he did last vear. But it | he does'nt he will have more as- sistance, or rather the team will, from its other veterans. Ruether ‘never has seemed to be better fit than now. If he has finally ot it out of his noodle that he can't | get to the Giants he may be quite a pitcher for Washington. Marberry does'nt look right. Ile needs work and he needs control aml if he does'nt have control he is'nt of so much value to the Washington Club. A good amount of winning should | be expected from Ferguson. He is| no longer to be rated as a novice,.and a4 certain amount of winning may come from Ogden. Kelly, tco, looks good, but the real fight by this ball ctub is likely to be made with the old-time pitchers in the box, and after the Fourth of July, when base ball tells upon the men who can't stand the strain of a desperate race. Has Boost for Joe Judge. The writer has seen no first base- man this Spring who plays his base New York will make it harder and Chicago w and once in the le | ence | chap who with such ease and such polish as his year. Washington, he warns, pennant in the American League. hand to win had in 19 League in 1926 than 1 ce it harder. etics in the early with the Washington ead the old blood showed how thor- Where Washington be in getting the lead as early as ir Joe Judge, and he does it with little effort that it is no wonder the home folks and the out-of-town folis do not seem to realize what a jewel this chap is. And then him there playing Blueg amond fron featured, fine » boy, who and cross the d the finely ird baseman Fxperi- and he rs bet the grea League him muc ar wing lie eloped qy o with the bat ) ugh i Marris, of course the great of goes back nov ter than ever. mirable 2 whether T sta has played ones base Ball for Washington ih vear, and he is fast—very that matter—but he hasn't the esx- perience of Peck who s one of the best pl ops in the game. Place means _the where to go for the batters. In the o debating « probabi it. Sooner the Wasl that Joe Harri or later Joe there for good, because Washingtor has got to summon every our batting strength it possesses if pects to win a pxmml this 3 ‘ eht, 197 BIG RING BUSINEbS IS DONE BY RICKARD YORK, April now in the class wit * brought a return lars to the ing, | e ness,” one million d son Square G Winter campalgn just closed. Sixteen ring shows, held Rickard's big new arena bet cember 11 and March gate receipts of $934,619, acc officlal figures made public tor total attendance was average “gate” was $5 average ance 14,168 The high registered at the <ea ing show, with young 01. The . and the te totallng @ record for indoor boxing anywhere in the country. 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