Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1926, Page 21

INING STAR WASHI SPORTS Pitchers Furnish Tip-Off on Major Clubs : College Athletic Season Near Close TEAMS USING THE MOST - ARE LOWEST IN RANKING « Cardinals and Browns Have 10 Listed in the Won and Lost Columns, While Red Sox and Braves Each Have Called on Ni BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, May 17-—One interesting point about our major league N races that is overlooked pretty generally has to do with pitchers | and how many of them are being used and what they seem to be developing. After the first lap of a bit more than a month, the St. Louis Cardinals Tead the National League in the number of pitchers who had cither won | lost for them. They were 10 in number. Rhem, Bell, Keen, Sothoron, | Sherdel, Huntzinger, Reinhart, Johnson, Mails and Hallahan had taken | a fall out of the enemy or had been floared in a regular battle. | Ten pitchers in 30 days or so is too many. Not much of anything can | | ne Moundsmen. or De gotten out of any pitcher when 10 are worked like that. Mails was found out and he was sent to Syracuse. The only way to get anything out of a player like Mails is to use him every day, ii for nothing more than batting practice, and by and by he will either find himself or turn out so bad that his club won’t desire to find him. enough the St. Louis| e ot e e/ RECORD TRACK FEATS the Cardinals, leading the american Leseue b o S ot ARE GETTING COMMON He used 10, too. Players of his team | have said in the off season that the silent n can’t locate piteh- ers, and may it is why they have talked about things. Sisler has_tried Robertsorf, Davis Jonnard, Ballou. Wingard and among all of them th manager failed to find a single twirler Wwho could win two games against any one club. By the ame token, only one man lost two games to any one | o fiy watches, to clip a fifth club, Gaston being the unfortunate 10| of a second from the world mark. He be charged with two defeats by the|had held joint elaim on old time Athletics. But there is no solidity to | of 0:09.6 the pitching, and Sisler ng At Palo around to find something University Jeep him out of trouble, v | vaulted 13 fect &rems to have been guessing to hit on | tjonal colle the right man after sending in a| John Kuck, pinch hitter. | cast the Folly of Pinch Hitting. ‘be this also is something the folly of the| By the Associated Press CHICAGO, May 17.-Annus ek and field events will hay sult of the br tthle n of be | it per- | ws Jast were t revised as a r formance of three Saturday. Three hurdles, les A. A. by four U. games i time: Alto, pe Bary of Southern S inches for a record husky Kansas 1 214 feet 21 : n The de by Johnny Myra year was the the | alifornia new na- Ma argument against pinch-hitting theory, which has lost more games than it ever has won. First of all, be sure you have your pinch hitter before you try to pick up a live coal with your bare finger: Bach of the Boston clubs has used |3/ nine pitchers. And there they are at the bottom, both clubs and pitchers. | The Athletics have used nine and en- | countered such foul weather at one | RS MOORE BIRD WINS i 5 ‘L(,g.‘;\i‘ol,i,: 310-MILE CONTEST 1o keep out of the wet. had been going this year to date Jast vear, and if Harriss, instead of losing two games to Washington, had won about two as he did at the same time in 1925, the Athletics would be pluming their Quaker feathers on the top perch. The Athletics have not been so perky vocally this year as in but they will recover their voices | ; I soar and their plumage gets [ MO No wet hen ever feels like |jopic ware singing. oy In the National League, three ¢ S have used eight pitchers—the Gi S. Phils and Cubs. Of these the Cub: are by far the best off and yet they may take to the diving bell when they get on the road. Cleveland, Detroit and the Chicago White Sox have used eight pitchers each. In a three clubs are playing base ball of much the same pattern. They may win 1 te sprinted the ver Paddock’s world re for the dash, at Lincoln. He missed a record because it was an exhibition Beating through the rain and fac ing a stiff wind, homers of the Wash- | ington Racing Pigeon Club vesterday zed in the contest held season over the course from | Concord, N. C., 310 miles from Wash- | birds, representin released at 6 a.m. clocked in at at 3:45 p.m. per nine and the he loft "he win- hour in ner aver spite of the obstacles. A feature of the race was the fly- ing of S King, a_ young bird| hatched t r and belonging to D. Roy Matthews. Average speed in ¥ of the first bird returning loft follow A. B. Moore, nington, D. Roy own, 206; F, zgerald, 844 rds per minute to each W. R Dismer, | H. 5 and " 917; 881 complete that's Pe 5 D. 1. Schmidt the Sox burr, Detroit misses the bulls eve by a halfinch and Tris and his crowd slough around like gnules in a Te hog or else run like bronchos. | Pirates' Theory Is Sound. | Pittsburgh has used buts seven pitchers. The Pirates are going on | the theory that they must work those old birds of theirs into proper condi- tion if they are to win in—a mighty good theo Brooklyn has used only six and so has Cincinnati and they are the class of the league for the middle of M: There's your little old tale of how good those clubs | are in the box | Washington has used seven hurlers | and threatens daily to get intofthe lead. And lo! And behold! Those | leather maulers, the Yanks, have |} used but six pitchers who have won or lost. This doesn't say that not more than six pitchers have appeared on the mound, but it does say that every defeat and victory the | Yankees is accounted for by six men. ‘Huggins has been playing 'em mighty vlose to his vest. (Covyright. 19 NAVY LOOKING WEST FOR SPORTS RIVALS By the Associated Press. Naval Academy athletes must look | westward for adequate competition in the future, Comdr. Byron Mec- Candless, Navy athletic director, be-| lleves. Not only do the West and Middle West supply the academy enroll- ment, with consequent desire on the part of authorities to develop sports competition with those sections, but there is increasing difficulty in ar- ranging schedules with Eastern in- stitutions, Comdr. McCandless has told the Associated Pre “Only this Winter, avy was ed not Eastern intercollegiate zymnastic | _ competition.” He added that % gymnasts have dominated the event for several vears. “We are building up mentally and| physically at the Naval Academy the | future representatives of the United |, i i - States in all the ports of the world. [ 200 SR AL USRS tE T These boys represent the finest| - — — young manhood in the country. We must breed in them through athletic | | competition the spirit of combat It is your wish | against the clerk’s | gain. Insist upon | while developing at the same time Newbror Herpicide the highest type of sportsmanship. *The Qriging) Dandruff Germ Remedy® DISTRICT PYTHIANS WIN DUCKPIN MATCH | A picked team of the Washington | Knights of Pythias Bowling League | now claims the championship of the | order for Maryland and the District | of Columbia as a result of defeating | the quint representing the Baltimore | league Saturday night in the last five | games of a ten-game match by 45 pin | 4 hians had an ad- ze of 66 1 sined in the e games of the match, the ten- | battle was won by 111 pins. | Pacini of Washington had the high | set, 350, and Mack of Baitimore the high zame, | The local Pythian league has chosen | the following officers for the season of 1926-27: President, S. H. Pearson, re- clected for the fifth consecutive year; vice president, Carl C. Lipp; secretary, | W. T. Baum, re-elected; treasurer, Christian Eckert, and scorer, W. J. Kessler, re-elected. President Pearson was re-elected as representative of the Pythians in the Washington City Duckpin Associ CARPENTIER TRAINING. NEW YORK, May 17 (#).— Georges rpentier, former world light-heavy- | weight boxing champion, is going | through 15 rounds daily at Atlantje City for his bout in Madison Square | Garden next Friday night with Eddie Huffman, the sailor from the Pacific Coast. BALL GAMES SOUGHT. Hyattsville base ballers wish to | book games with the best unlimited teams of the city and suburbs. C. H. Haves at Hyattsville 1098-W is ar ranging the schedule. the Distriet 5.) C he said, “the to enter the YORK, Pa. Brenneman, jr. Gettysburg College, died in a hospital erday as the resuit of having been truck on the head with a pitched ball To do that, we must meet the finest teams in the country. “We will be whipped sometimes, perhaps, as Michigan crushed us in foot ball last fall, but the must be made able to hold her own against any athletic team in the country.” ‘As far as possible under Academy regulations limiting all teams except the foot ball elevens to one trip each geason away from the Academy, plans are being formulated for in- ereasing Western sports relations, he said. The foot ball team is allowed two away-from-home trips each TOD. BASE BALL 5. American League Park Washington vs. Cleveland TICKETS ON SALE AT PARK AT 9:00 AM. MOTOR CO. | { Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street 11233-37 14th St. Main 5780 | | | | | record | rigorous | must MARINE CORPS NINE ON NORTHERN JAUNT QUANTICO, Va., May 17.—The Marine Corps base ball nine plays Fordham today in New York City in the opening game of a northern trip which winds up its activitles against college tean New lHampshire University enter- tains the Leathernecks on Wednes- d: at Durham. On Thurs the nine goes to Hanover for a_tilt with 1 tmouth, Vermont University is met on Friday at Burlington, Boston College is played on Saturday and on Sunday the jaunt will come to a close in a cl vith the New York Athletic Club at '] v 1sl: The Marines have won 29 and lost only 6 during the se: On the tour in the North the hoping to boost a string of 17 str victories. PADDOCK TO STRIVE T BEAT MARK AGAIN By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif, May Three attempts will made k. sensational sprinter, 0 days to further cut seconds for the 100- he set here Saturday A. A. U. meet. s of dashes on a sted om the kfast Club, an or- zation sportsmen, have n announced calling for appear- ance of the blonde-haired flyer May 28 and June 4 and 11 He will be paced by a fleld of South- | California_dash men. including wrles Borah, brilliant University of puthern Califorr freshman,” to vhom some of the honors of Pad- race vesterday go. He led the smashing sprinter almost to | Paddock’s spectacular finishing leap. As a member of the Los Angeles | Athletic Club’s track and field aggre- »n, Paddock will participate in the Naticnal A. A. U. meet at Philadel- phia in July SPORTS HELD BEST EDUCATIVE FEATURE YORK, May 1 (#). —An ace” in sports, whereby the weakest player would be in the great est competition, and the lowliest | athlete awarded the same prize as the outstanding one, w sponsored by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, in _his twentieth annual report as president of the Carnegie Foundation, made public today. recommendations »d as follow nage sport studies; minimiz and measure a 17. be by Charles Paddo: within the next the time of 9.3 rd dash th 1 the Southern P P o 5 onst 3 { the B property NEW he as we do our | exact achievement, ntestant by his ef- | fort, not by his suc invite a pupil to compete chiefly’ with himself: make up teams alphabetically and not b election; keep chronic fa ures on the squad; finally, to ev one who can jump the bar at tv feet give the same medal as marks ished athlete.” “Sports,” said the report, “are per- haps the most genuinely educativ feature that our schools at pres possess,” and Dr. Pritchett as that this competitive element als again be instilled in mental s he operatfon’ ried out,” pronounced the which, “if cunning] probably would make un- the present constant “regu- of student activities. e Boston school pupils are the base ball averages for ex- The Evening Star Boys Club Pledge WANT to be a member of The Evening Star Boys Club, and if accepted to membership I pledge myself to: Keep myself always in good physical con- dition. Play fair. Be a modest winner and an uncomplaining loser. Abide by the rules of all sports I engage in and respect officials. Follow the ‘activities of the Club through The Evening Star. Never neglect either h'ome duties or school classes. I am——years old; attend [ would like to have a Membership Certificate and The Evening Star Boys Club button, which I will wear. Clip this_blank application, addressed: Chief, Boys Club, Evening Star, Washington, D. C. Here'’s evening at home. A clean, cool smoke bacco. Daniel Loughran Co., Inc. | Main 391 “lof th | forward. | in serving that is termed a f The Chen </ BOYS CLUB 23 Conducted BY ALPHONSE SMITH, Champion Boy Tennis Player. HE first thing in tennis is to have a place to play. Mem- I bers of the Boys Club have been given that sort of information by Raiph Robinson. The next thing is to learn some points by observation. But if this is a tennis class we must start back ncar the first and work In base ball you'd first need a. place to play, then know something of the rules, then possess a ball and bat. Other equipment would be supple- mentary. Tn tennis you need a court, a knowl- »dge of the game, a racket and a ball. Tennis is 2 more expensive game than base ball for boys, for tennix balls and rackets must be of better quality than the cheap bats and balls that a young base ball player is satisfled to have. | Now we have the court, the racket | and ball, and discuss w few | points of is the | serve. T ame. The | server hits the ball from a_toss of the | hand into @ certain territory of his | opponent. If it doesn't strike in the | proper courtdt is a fault. | SHOULD HAVE CrROOK. 1% fouRr °C* | wrong | ot fault. | The volley stroke is striking m.-‘ serve before it has hit the ground. It the position of the feet by ROBERT C. McCLELLAN SMALL G. U. SQUAD FOR COLLEGE MEET Coach John O'Reilly of the George- town University track team is con- templating taking only eight men to the intercollegiate champlonships at Harvard, May 28 and 29. Although he realizeg the task of such a small group, attempting to bring back the title would be fmmense, the compet!- tion s so keen that nong but the finest in college track circles reach the finals, making it practically useless to bring any but potential champions ina gbtar Most serves are returned after ball has bounce: The ball in play from the time the server hits it until the point has been decided. The first score i3 the point. The mnext score is the game is won by the plaver or side | - 3 which first scores 4 points, providing | The tentative squad inciudes Ascher that then the opposition hasn't scored [and Burgess, to compete in the fur- 3 points. If opposition has 3 then |long h and quarter mile, Swin- goes to side which first gets a|burne in the 880, Gegan in the mile, ad of 2 points. | Capt. Ray Hass in both hurdle races, A setIs six games unless the op-|Dowding in the broad jump, Plansky position has five. In that case the |in all the weight events and Norton st goes to the side first getting a | in the high jump, pole vault, shotput lead of two games and discus. (Copyright. 1926.) | Time trials will be held this after- CONFERENCE NINES | and Greenafege in the mile, If Dus- sault comes up to the standard they bail teams today startea on the finat | QOLLEGIATE GAMES three weeks of the season. Wisconsin | DRAW 859 ATHLETES Purdue. Towa res in two mid- i week game: at Northwestern | additions. Harry Ielme may go as | two-miler may Moroney to throw may t him in the half mile, while By the Associated Press. a_ sprinter may be picked from CHICAGO, May 17.—With Michi- had a ch: at 1 to take second place from 1llinols. Michi; Wednesday at Minnesota on! ind Ohio State Fri- | the lin, McLain in the quarter Whalen, John Hass and Melton. 1 leading, Western Conference base is playing at lowa and Ohlo State at conference tilt Ann By the Associated Pr CAMBRIDGE, N May 17. Thirty-two of the thirty-nine members of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur .Athletics of America will have teams on the field when 859 athletes assemble in the Harvard Sta- dium here May for the fif: tieth annual intercollegiate track and field championship: Of the we winners in last rear’ wre entered again, with in the li ifornia, day’s lone at Arhor. Saturds schedule sends Purdue to Chies Indiana to Minnesota, Ilinois to Michigan and Wisconsin to Northwestern. The Standing. W. L. _ Team .6 1 Ohio State 5 2 Minnesots % Chi 4 Indiana 4 Towa Ww. L. of Southern (* winner, is coming m of 29 men that includes two Olympie champions, Lee Barnes in the pole vault and Hauser in the shof Among the ent 74; Cornell, 70: ¥ g 1 2 3 is5s 05 olf clubs and gro spresent an investment ,000,000. nd in Canada of about 68: Dart BUD HOUSER IS LABELED GREATEST DISCUS HURLER (This is the seventh of a coaches and officials in 1o A) By the Associated Press L 0S ANGEIL May University of Southern Ca thrower in the world today,” Cromwell. “Weighing only ci in hi of dis: throwers ‘ “He holds the four greatest discus | records in existence,” his coach went on. “The lowest is the intercollegiate records of 150 feet 21; inches, made | at Philadelphia las Olympic mark of 151 feet 5 established in Paris in 1924. tional A. A. U. record he hol feet 6 inches, made at San F last Summer. On April 3 of th Houser set a new world record mark 158 feet 1% inches in Palo Alto, | st Fall T made a prediction that | Houser would break the world record | con. I placed the mark at 160 feet for him and I still believe that | he will do it. I can think of no greater School. * Name of Boy. fill it out and mail it today the right cigar for a quiet —m.ade from choice to- Price 5 cents, 1347 Penna. Ave. Distributors serles of stories connection with ornia track team, is , comparative jalty go, Houser, Cromwell points out, “has rhythm to th deivery of the discus, a fact that has brought him to the pinnacle | | toss | ed durin | predict that perhaps the next genera- | mouth, Yale, University Maine, 50; Penn State, Stanford, University of Pennsyl shurgh, 35: Columbia, 29; University of South Georgetown, | fornia, 16, and West Virginia Univer- sity, 4. | Pitt | THREE DIVISION MEETS ' DURING NEXT TWO DAYS Three division meets tomorrow and | Wednesday wind up the preparations | of graded school athletes for the an- nual eity championship meet to be held Saturday morning at Plaza track. Both Bloomingdale and Garfield sfons hold their tests tomorrow at from prominent track the golden jubilee meet of the ce (Bud) Houser, captain of the the greatest discus in the opinion of his coach, Dean| in this spe- nth degree ly light as performe nia avenue se pete. Winners of fi | third places go to the ¢ n to reach| Four divisions held their t annual na-|week. Maury School won easily in th Cambridge | Rosed: decision from Rgss in the Columbia Heights race. Peabody won by a good margin_from the other schools in Plaza division and Force-Adams out- classed the field in the Georgetown atvision. for him th t the fift achievement that mark tional int« on May 28 “Incider in Iy, T do not believe that 160 feet will be the limit of discus ng. 1 belleve that the ultimate throw will be around 180 feet. and, | although that mark will not be reach- | & span of my life, I would tlon will see such a feat. s in the case of any other com- petition, temperament plays a great | part in discus throwing. Houser is at | his best when under the strain of | x to produce. You might meet a social function without | knowing he ever had on a track suit | | and talk with him all evening and he | would never mention the fact that he is even a discus thrower, Yet, let him | get onto the field and he becomes as | full of confidence as a champion | fighter. | “On the day Houser competed | ainst Sanford this year he found rtranft, former Stanford | weight man and at that time world | record holder, was to act as measur- ing judge for the discus. Hartranft is now’ with the Olympic Club of San Francisco. Houser had set the record at 156 feet 31 inches in 1925, Hart- winft had heaten that mark only a week later by throwing 157 feet 16 inches. Houser went out at the Palo Alto track and uncorked such a pow- erful throw that a new record was | chalked up. Tt was a coincidence that Hartranft was the man to announce that his record had been broken, Glenn congratulated ‘Bud’ warmly after the event.” Your Old Hat flade New Again Cleaning. 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The team is at Boston today for a g with Boston C Tomorrow it jumps over to Tufts and Wednesday winds up | dence College at Providence. Before it leaves on its Northern trip Georgetowr of Baltiy hedul un | o | contests, one tomorrow with Loy Mount St. Mary's The team leaves Friday for Worces ter, where on Saturday it plays the first game of fts trip. Monday it meets Boston College at Boston, has a | lay-off Tuesday, and on Wednesday | plays at West Point. Thursday it [J | zoes to New York for a meeting with | Fordham, on Friday has another off | '™ , and Saturday jumps to New “bout Haven to wind up the schedule at | PP Yale. | had ir eorgetown has two more trac expected te | field meets. The first is a dual | with Navy Sa Intercollegiates n, and 29. It is not likely that men | 1! will be sent to Chi ka part | N |in the National Colleglate Athletic As-| {1 ! games. | L » Blue and { Navy without difficulty of winning the meet though it realizes ti against a tough propos | Southern California squad. othery 4 ter his team had le | fumpea and beat his o the n the te on the ind Stey there in Whe - over me suit re » wi the meet St t Boston, it will be| TThere down S composite base ball team from | % do bette Maryland will play two ganu with | than that; Watt two teams of the Eastern Shore|capable League, sbury and ston. The|in the lo schedule, however, wound up last/|there weel and these games are not count- | field men in th ed as a part of the season. Sev 11 | will be written ¢ men not eligible for varsity competi = | tio i1l be members o he team that e e e protmional| | SEONPYHEATFINSURED; MORGANTOWN, W, Va 3 Wese of 1. inciden track and ¢ whom mor South 1t anot | goes to play a club: Probably the biggest contest of any | in Spring sport Marviand r will be played at Baltimore Saturday s when the lacrosse team hooks up with | g, e Wt | Fopkins, Both twelves have been | fon 3100000, e oy through the year without defeat, and | gy [0 Tk the game probably will draw llm‘\llle against v los | greatest crowd that has watched a|iation”due to the premature |lacrosse contest in In their | U0 00 10 i final games last week s Beat [ oq v on- tha work o Ahe ot Pennsylvania, 12 to 0, Maryland | won from Lehigh, Hopkins has beaten Onon a_Indians, St. John's Maryland | bridge, Pennsyl | vens, Lehigh, Swarthmore g vette -() ford-C \\I: | 'P‘»‘n'\(“ a Lafy. | India fr 5 ation p = v out Last year, when Miss M. won_ the Soutk track and field championships, it was | done in a way that was rather amu | ing to its opponents and which rather | I ROUSERS chagrined_its coaching staff. 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