Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1926, Page 27

- and Waiter ha \ S Old \/ J A4 ETERANS IN PORTS. GOOD FORM:- NOT TO BE OVERWORKED Harris, With Much Mound 1 laterial Available, May Conserve Aged Talent—Pirates Not in Best of Trim Yet—Giants Shy of Punch. BY FREDERICK G. LIE feature of the howing of Buc oy Johuson opened the HE outstanding frolic was the and § Covele Rommel, which incidentally w Coveleskie, the big | feat by holding the At ington 80 that t mana stock again is high will be no occasion to « the best pitch 12 Cold weathe with 1 Boston raised havo N Yort pitchers. The first two games play by the Yankees used up of Hu gins' former five-star staff —Shawkey, Shocker, Jones, Hoyt and Pennock In the the lowly Red Sox the Ya J0st blew a 10-run lead, the Yanks just managed to squeeze through by 12 to The next day the Yanks were keeled over, 8 to 7. New York hit it would, but stood Brooklyn and League teams on their were p t training tri ollapsed when it competition. But ig there, and I am not vet Weaken on my Yankee foreca Chisox Start Well. Collins’ White their two Teds, Lyons hip, both of whom had holding the Browns. Toward ,the end of the tr p I came to the conclusion th site an overr: n w us h the pitching, which National heuds while up their 16 streak eal league Eddia weil wit Hanke Sox a lot by urn of George rmer form will mean a club. Uhle's opening ainst Detroit was the best game pitched by the for sand lotter in two vears. was snowed out in so many thing t though was dissatisfied witl rs when the season started. The Athletics started to show some class after dropping two games Tohnson and Coveleskie. Mack showed that using French, the former West Point foot ball star. in right field wi more than : training camp experiment been doing well The Red Sox, with their lineup re- cruited from ail points of the minor | league compass, played the Yankees | hard, and have shown surprisin gressiven: However, the club looms as a hopeless tailender. The s have shown eno pitching in first week of the son to warrant the belief that will be stubborn contende for Pittsbur time. Vie Keen, the Tformer through with a | pretty hutout . @ the hard-hitting Pirates. Keen always ap- to have the stuff while he was , but here seemed to be something missing from his make-up. | Perhaps llornsby has bro out. nst Pirates Due to Re As in 19 5 the best sh started ft they repeated vear's experience of keeping idle for a full week after crossing the Rockies 1s bound to feel the brilliant n, Capt but by May the Pirates w ve show way. | The ( still seem to lack their | gld-time punch. While the club was | handic with inj last year, the b factor in its decline was the slump to_seventh in team batting. iraw has a prize collec tlon of 1 led pitche the season only a weelk is apparent that bat will be a has Frank Snyder slowe ceptibly, but he Kk of hitting innati hasn't sh ue's operat 1 back the € . a holdout ntil afte its_Orlando ) RPier “alifornia v middle we at h r the is’ play second THendr Behne, hortstop, eran util n the outfiel Tub more now former wh rowns i n. 1 believe there verrate have was the L stron: Boston Eraves are made a L Pittsburgh steh clubs, | the feh uble for and Cincinna but we: Phillies. . knocked them back in A chain of boils kept * Vance, Brooklyn's pitching ace, inactive, but Robby shown some protty good pitching The Dodgers have a slow old club, but any manager with a pitchin: aff of Vance, Grimes, Petty, Barnes and McWeeney is bound to win rome games. The famous Brook vn veteran, Zack Wheat, started off with u rush of buse hits, getting six in his first seven official times at bat gainst Giant hurling. Rabbit Maran- Ville is playing as good as ever for Brooklyn m the fi The Cubs seem lub, and Joe Me: uger, apparently roused fresh * ambition _in last s s tailender. Fhe Phillies huve opened the season ch Deit n_anv of thefr adher s an improved . the new man- Havre de Grace SEVEN RACES DAILY Special B. & 0. train of steel coaches ves Union Station 12:10 pan. Parlor d dining cars sttached. Speclal - Penna. R. train of coaches leaves Union Ktation 12:10 p.m. Zireet to course. Parlor and_dining cars attached. Eusiern Standard Time. Admission—Grandstand and Paddock, $1.65. including Government ta: FIRST BACE AT steel will wir A year ago6 Barney and Covey won 40 games between them and lost only | I they can do that well again, Grifiith may stage another world series. | Dean, | (cams of | 1 figured | upper fllus | .“;xr(nidenl the fireworks of th | 3. first ky Harris’ two veteran stars, Walter kie, in their first two games of the season with a 15-inning 1-to-0 shutout against as the 111th shutout of his American nsylvania Pole, followed Johnson's tics to six hits and one Young F hers verwork t in the rris has enough ¢ American League this year. cats had uny reason to expect. | the former Giant, came through with great game inst Boston, while e entire pitching staff has looked ty good. However, it probably is only a flash, as the real strength not there. | (Copyright, 1 } BASE BALL SECRETS By Sol Metzger. WHEN TAKI THROW AT A BASE. NOT THIS L\ I~ SNl Y | ‘The baseman who crosses his |to receive a throw either to one {or the other of a base take. He is not able R | aquickly as when he steps straight out | with the nearer foot, and he cann reach as far. For tance, in the ration the baseman is step- ping out to take a low throw to his right. He is able to handle this ball till keep his foot on the b: the baseman in the illustration has crossed his legs in reaching for the ball has pulled h rear foot off the base. As a result the runner is safe. PLANS ABOUT FINISHED LEXINGTON, Ky., rds and racing of s by the Kentucky Racing Commissior the final preparations for the meetings in the Blue G e now practically comp The Spring meetings will be opened here Saturday, when a day meeting is_inaugurated. Ashland track was allotted from July 5 to July 21 for a 15-day meeting. run the | ese veteran stars, and the | lower | 10- | week’s play in the major league | Spring form of these two veteran aces means that Wash- | ke meet | | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, urlers Boost Griff Pennant Stock : Sencio’s En DEVITT RELAY FOUR ' “ OUT OF DRAKE MEET | Devitt School's relay four, Kansas University Saturday | wiil not run in the Drake relays dur- {ing the coming week end. | business manager | Devitt, that the wus on after having | b barred from the meet through | ineligibility of one of the runn | who 1s sald to have admitted | Drake athletic authorities that he compe under Mercersburg Acad- jemy colors within the past two | months before registering at Devitt | “We wrote to Drake asking | eligibility rules some' time ago,” Ower 1, “and were informed that if our runners were in good standing under the local fc federation rules they would he admitted to the We wrote back saying that there was no W1 federation, ! we included a statement by Dr. Harris Whita, athletic director of the public high sc the effect that our teams we le to com pete with the high and prep school the city, entry was O.K.’d in vesterday by L. W. ¢, 11, chairman of the federa- m of high school athletics in that ict. Last night, however, T re- ceived word that the team was on fts way home. 1 a telephone the Drake authorit learned that the director of the meet had declared one member of the team ineligible and barred the quartet. G. U. PICKS RUNNERS FOR RACES AT PENN trials on afternoon, Capt. ¥ cted as the fourth man own's one-mile relay team for the Penn relay carr the other three pos urely by Preparatory winner last S. Owens, at stated today its way home had “Our m sent f Jolic an tele. Smith conves toda tion with the ions bel also entered and Burge: | -mile relay, while s will team up with Sw the sprint medley The Hilltop fou ters runnir } record rof this games list vea In addition to th vard four has selected fron Whelan, Me: with | trials will Alt and the college four- ship, it W runne Shea, freshman that the post crack, Is laid up another mem- utomobile ac- Ithough opin- Gray the Blue and COLLEGE BASE BALL. « zetown—Wake Forest, 7; ette—Purdue, 6; Chicago, At Durham—Duke University, 12; Durham (. ¥ artmouth, 12; New York 105 Springfield, 1 At New Yor 0o At Phi Swarthme i At Providence—Villanova, 17; Provi- dence College, 6. —Tufts, leiphia—Pennsylvania, 9; B The win puts Eastern up with Cen- tral in first place in am having one win to its Tech and Business have & loss . Western makes i first .start v in a contest with Central. ating Business on the base ball :ld is not such an outstanding ac- complishment, bec: as a fan re marked at vesterday’s game, the Ste nogs_haven't h: good nine_ since left. However, when it 1 that Eastern’s pitcher, John Quinn, handed his opponents a string of zeros throughout el nings, and it was not until ed him and_the had been shuffled that Busines le to tally, it appears that ay have a'right fair tean atman, left fielder fo lly in the final frame Art raphers a w nd hits i sent two runs in before man came to the plate with the bases londed. He took a healthy cut and placed the ball in left center for a homer. “appelli of Eastern had a_perfect day at bat, getting three hits. Rankin, Eastern catcher, also got three, one of them a four-baser. Shreve, Marosy shared by and “Reveille” mound duty for the h the weather giving promise warming up, high school tennis teams will be busy during the re- mainder of the week making up for lost tim While Tech and Episco. pal shunned the courts yesterday Western und St. Alban’s racketers met at the latter’s nets and split even in four matches, Western winning CHMan to Man 'All popular shapes— 10¢ to 3 for 50¢ the standings, | EASTERN NINE IMPRESSES, EASILY BEATING BUSINESS ASE BALL fans at Eastern High probably are laughing up their | sleeves today at those who have in never be in the running for the scholastic title. {the Lincoln Parkers, after playing in-and-out ball during their three games | prior to the start of the league series, slugged the sluggers of Business to get a 10-to-6 d ron’s team would he reason is that ted that G came to life yesterday and out- sion. one out of three singles matches ang taking the lone doubles engagement. The Westerners meet Devitt Prep to- morrow Columbia Country Club, and are scheduled to play Central in an interhigh es encounter Satur- day. Central is booked to meet the Navy Plebes Saturday, however, and probably will tackle the scholastic champlons on Friday or early next week. Tech s meeting Friends today and will play off the postponed en- zement with Episcopal tomorrow. siscopal meets Friends on Friday. lban’s and Georgetown Univer- freshmen teams are booked for L tilt on Saturday. Rifle teams of Central ere to meet on for the third matches being shot am champlonship. Central stern are leading in the race, each having scored an easy victor opening matches. The forme of 3 is the best yet made by any of the four team: At the conclu ng, W test their for the on of the wil at the val Academy. A six-man team from the Georgetown school will make the trip on May tral's marks May 22 Hoping to w he held in share with was s past season, ball coach 1 Spring practice in the school gymmasium. will drill twice each week. crack of the mile event team before for Owens and Tech the Central range of the serfes of indoor and in the score gallery ern and Central teams skill in matches with the Navy Plebes on the outdoor range 8, while Cen- pen go to Annapolis on k the title which forced to at lled out his can- The players COMMERCIAL WELVE teams, as many pairs ight in the Washington 38 are looked for. Last night. Washington Loan and Trust team smashed the maples so consistently as to land in first place in Class B, its score being 1,626. A new leads also bobbed up Class C, the Conference Unit getting a score of 1,536. Last night's scores: in team Totals . Kottler . Miller .".".".", enberk . Graham ... Bernstein' | Totals . 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Heinie Miller, manager and match- maker of the mew organization, an- nounced today that permission’ has been granted by the authorities of Prince Georges County, and that the club will stage its opening program on May 20 with Goldie Ahearn and Al Foreman meeting in the main bout. W. J. Dunham is secretary and treasurer of the organization. Just .50 09%%9%9%%9%2%2%%9%22%22%22%2%2222%22%29 TO TAKE DRIVES TONIGHT Duckpin Association Coliseum, which has been designated as Commercial League night. As there are only 10 quints representing that organization, teams from the American Mechanics and’ Financial Leagues will fill in. quite a lot of Class A bowlers in the organization and some good scores The “College” shoes is born of our knowl- edge of everything. They represent perfection irl style, fit and finish. Should Be Fitted.” N. HESS SONS, 607 14th St. D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1926. BRITISH STICKMEN TO CONTINUE PLAY By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE, Laurie D. Cox, Sy University lact team. who ranged the tour of thescombined Ox- ford-Cambridge twelve in this country, announced that the Britons will play Yale at New Haven today, as per schedule. Coach Cox explained word had been sent to the Eli graduate manager ask- ing for a cancellation because two members of the Lnglish team had been called back home and on account of injuries incapacitating several of the substitutes It later developed a team could be put on the field, so the cgncellation order was recalled. WOMEN'S NET LEAGUE LEAGUERS and a bunch of singles will roll to- tourney at the There are SINGLES. CLASS A. 101 91 116 328 3. Bisho . Bienop Tomassett. . . A, Goodmun . M. 0"Toole Hinman B ] J. Fo Motvke Berman Fussell Gelslor Snegnoski Hamanm SSeonSonxorol SR3SICRREEIGTAES Racketers of the District Women's Tennis League will begin play in their annual round robin event tomorrow afternoon, according to Marjorie Wooden, president of the league. The entire schedule of matches for the current week has heen announced by Miss Wooden and is published be- low. Players are requested to get in touch with their opponents and arrange for playing their matches immediately. Al results should be phoned or reported by mail to teamn leaders. Individual notices of matches have been delayed, Miss Wooden states, but will be sent out in regular order next week. In the meantime it is CLESS C. . Robertson. . 77 . Dye . Whalen! | Sandefer ikht ir Ketchell Tassa . Kirtchinov " " 05 SCHEDULE FOR TONIGHT IN DUCKPIN TOURNAMENT l;:'r\l:: m:;:f\GLLq. TPM Albert W.Myer. .. H.J. Heller Constantini I notification s each ver is in- formed of her opponent’s name and telephone number in the schedule given below: Mid City va 4928) ve €. Frazier Walker (Claveland 4725 (North G14R) Liberts. Kelloy (North €080). ¥ 3. Dooiittlé Class. Alley. ) C 1 h L € - 3 D. Parmale : A L | Man 1880 V. M. Ma | “incomn I don anch \ Didden Mrs. Fleming (Claren. Mount Pleasan %) “ve. D. Hevl ( y (Adams 1875 U B, Hubbell Van R. Thom fency W. Seib W. AL Kluta. ... E. Bamnard.’ 0. Webh F. Henderson 3 4. Hendley Hurlhut (West W Ke Tumbia 4630) (Columbia 83! niz. Miltner Frank Christy. . TAMS. 8 PM L0 A M. 53RT South: 4. J. Morgan Read. . Tribal Clalms League (Cotumy) s 3 718y, Mr P. Gouid Sioux Club. T 10186 947) v ] B Telehart (Lin- : > Commercial League. {clevean worzyn's g ry Tee Croam No Evening No. 1 (Lincoln (1o phony M Ve Fellows Lewis (Franki 7186), K. Ber- Seward (Clev h 46411 ve 5. J. Wooden Poston (Lincoln Woodward ‘& Lotlirop o Dulin & Martin . Times-Herald iRaiag Financlnl League. Crane-Paris ......... 10 PM "Toole and Roy_Dunavent pdson and H. S. Hinman oore and partger. . S 0 4 Thorpe and E. Cornell RACE TRACK DESTROYED. Fisher and H. W, New Lanharit 7 NTI N, W. Va, April 21 Vs Bt ol Lonie T - grandstand of the Tri-State y 7 race track near here ‘\Illl Ilnd ‘\‘\,v “\. ertel and J. W by fire with a loss of $25,000. Track e officials announced that because of the SINGLES, 10 [fire all remaining races on the sched- Thomas A. Hassett. ule would be canceled. James O'Leary W. S Warren. . M 60d. - A. E. Fisher.. R. Rook : AL W Newnian. L G rrington A 5PM Other Sports on Page 28. * Lanhardt Claude Cowles. . Jerome_Cowdel W.C. Powell Otia Wells. H. L. worey Thomas Walker..".". €, Q. Stoner. .. .. W. R. Greenwald. . P S S PR R T A T et CONSIDERS FIGHT CHANGE. NEW YORK, April 21 (#).—The State Athletic Commission has taken under advisement a proposal to sub- stitute Tommy Burns of Detroit for Ad Stone of Philadelphia as an oppon- ent for Jack Delaney, hard-hitting light-heavywelght title contender, in the main bout of an outdoor show at Ebbets Field May 26. TEN POLO TEAMS LISTED. 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Col. 4467 A New Hess Shoe for Men Our confidence in our Distributors 635 Louls Washington, D. € “We Fit You as You IS READY FOR PLAY| hoped that the first week's schedule | will be played off without individual | was destroyed | L ad d Is Third of Fatal String SUCCUMBS AS DID DENCIO AND VILLA, AFTER A BOUT Death Following Terrific Battle With Bud Taylor Causes Fans to Wonder Whether Filipinos Lack Constitutions of White Foemen. By the Assocated Press HICAGO, April 21.—Only one of a quartet of Filipino selected by Frank Churchill in Manila, and trained to a boxir C brilliance that enabled them to contest upon au equality with best of their weight in the world, remains alive and Sarmiento, the largest of the group, and Clever Sencio, who died yesterday in Milwaukee after a terrific round bout with Budy Taylor, Terre Haute, Ind, challenger for world bantamweight title, was the third to pass on in that manner. Young Dencio was the first. He died after a grueling fight h Bert McCarthy in Melbourne, Australia. Previously Dencio coil¥psed after his fight with Eugene Criqui of France, former world feath®?weight cham pion, but recovered. Then came Pancho Villa, who soared Yo heights just heyond the reach of his three little brown brothers by winning the world flyweight championship, only to die, too, after a fight, | The unusual record of deaths of the . |little Filipinos has caused Chicago {ring followers to wonder if there was nsl e O | *omething in the .tropical make-up to render them unable to follow the fast pace get Ly their white foemen of the roped are rtain without par youngster sle carry on—Pete that only a featherweight. 10- the y Chester Hortol the seried of deaths is llel in boxtig history, and each of them followirg hard, smash ing contests, in which, exhausted to the very verge of death, none of the Filipinos g an_inch. but fought terrifically to the final bell, or, as in the case of Dencio, until a hard smash rendered him completelv hors de com Long ago I adopted a trick in my own play which, so far as I know is not generally made use of as it well | could be by the aver: I always choose a spot where there is a weed, a dan- nor some- thing about one foot ~ directly in front of the ball in the line of di-| rection. When I | swing I then aim at this spot, through the ball. one thing to | tell you you hrough a straight | ine, but ftis much | jia g more helpful, I {obeyed have found, to have the definite mark | wa out there in front of the ball—it | fected ja keeps you reminded. The same prac- | died later tice can be followed on the fairway; |sufferin . there is always a weed, a blade of tall | head my Me S grass or something to provide the |tim of | follow through objective. Try it. \ent. Vila, showed un Clean: ng Youths. ncio and Dencio were clean-living ouths, beautifully #f uscled and appar- ntly in exceilent coMdition when they entered the \videly-thparated rings for their it Villa, champion. had deviated £lightly from the rigorous path of per fect ~condition, but he had vouth - |physique and ‘an amazing energy in fav epped into his last ring. the IN FOLLOW THRU| @ recent vic was Villa's last oppe lavish spender, neve: il his last fight the effe it life he found so agreeable his hard little fists began to dow) American dollars. He | thotsands in his short me | career, vet the charity of his DEMPSEY TO DISCUSS | TERMS WITH RICKARD " By the Associated Press b FORT WORTH . April ck Dempsey arrived here ez morning to discuss a_contract pre | pared by Tex Rickard. New York pro- | moter, under which the heavyweight | champion would defend his title next August or September. | " Rickara announced Monday Gene Tunney probably would h Ame | Dempsey’s opponent if the champion | great deci accepts the articles arranged by tele- | ot him no tim graph. Under the proposed contract | 1n death | Dempsey would fight August 12 or |achieve a et September 3 or 16 against any one | e meritedl Rickard may name and at D vriters, who, the New Yerk promoter may select. | written tha The conference at which the champ- | ‘yea t fon will be asked to sign is in_the office of Amon G publisher of the Star-Telegram. Dempeey, delayed by a track wash out at Toyah, spent yester f BODIES MADE AND REPAIRED noon visiting townsfolk. 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