Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1926, Page 41

THE -EVENING STAR, WASHIN SPORTS. Tony Lazzeri Compiling an Unusual Record With American League Pace Makers MARK FOR FEW CHANCES SET BY SECOND BASEMAN vslone Guar(iiafl c;f WY;kees ;;rnges But Five Opportunities to a Game in Total of 24 Con- tests Plfnyed ThusAFar This Month. BY JOHN EW YORK, May 28, York Yankees, who engage i Athletics, after slamming th, had a record from May 1 to May 27 that is without parallel in ‘base ball. And he is likely to continue with it, Lazzeri playved the games of th I higuree of the reporters, But if he had one or two chances more or less it doesn't matter a The point is that he plays second base and has been doing it all scason with fewer chances offered to his digits than any second baseman of a big league club has scen these many d tick. was under five. That i. ually gets his during May man, who In one game Lazzeri Had but a sin. gle chance, once he had only two and twice but three. Four times he has had four chances and séven times his total has been five. vi is nimble enough and alert ! and hops around like a grass- hopper in full possession of his facul- ties. His hands are excellent and his disposition sunny. and Little laly is inelined to hold him next in respect to Mussolinl. [t something makes the ball hesitant to go his way, and he is playing second base with =o lit 118 1o show for it that unless husiness | pleke up he is likely o owa the statis. ticlan somathing at the end of the year. Veteran Observers Puzzled. Tt _doesn't worry Lazzeri, hecause the Yanks are stringing along in the American Teague with plenty to are, but the phenomenon puzzies old base ball men. Good pitching may have something to do with It, but éven then it would e figured that Lazzeri occasionally would get & series of games in which the ball would call on him quite fre- quently. It the thinx keeps up he will surely have a record that no winning wecond baseman ever Lefore possessed In a major league season. Often a second sacKer makes a pitcher good by giving him superb support. but here Is 4 case of a second baxeman willing to work And the ball doesn't £0 hir way oftén enough te keep his hands warm. Cards May Yet bLand High. 1t the Chicago Cubs hadn't eaten the hide oft the St Louls Cardinals in the early part of the year, the Cards probably would he in the lead in the National It is timely tn call attention to this, use St. Louis v well against Cincinnati. 1 ‘the St. Louis team proves to he a good organization on the read this _bunch of hard-hitting snd speaedy young ball plavers is likely tn he as prominent in the pennant race | as any other favorite, because it nevar has reached its normal bat- ting ecapacity so far this year. In the long run, St. Louis may outbat Cincinnati and by the time August approaches 1t will become more and more apt that the best batting team will have the best chance to become National l.eague champions.. Col- lectively, National League batting is rather feeble. A competent judge of ball plavers gavs that Thompson, second base- man of the Buffalo club, is the best plaver he ever saw in a minor The Pirates did well when let Moore rest and Rhyne pla but if Bill McKechnie had courage he would have kept Thompson and let the kid play second, where he wonld have heen the sensation of the vear in the National League. RAY TO LEAD BRITISH PROS AGAINST YANKEES ' LONDON. May 2% (®).—Ted Ray will lead the team of British profes Antonio Lazzeri, sccond bascman af the .\'rw. n a jolly double-hcader today with the ngers on the ball ‘more often than any one except the pitcher, the catcher and the first bas League race todav, | has been. doing | B. FOSTER. cir way through 16 straight victories, for all any one knows. : at period, some 24 in all, with a total ncluding putouts, assists and errors, according to the un- | ys. His average per game s a pcewee figure for a second base- 'HELEN SEITZ WINS - GIRLS’ RIFLE TITLE | Helan Seitz of Kastern High School, who teok the lead in the firat duy of firing in the District’s first individual | championship rifle shoot for girle, re. | tained the lead and was winner of the two-day match shot on the Kastern | Hich range. Iler geore was 192, and althouzh Roberta Wright of Central turned in the same count. Miss Seitz zained first prize hecause she shot two points more than Miss Wright in | the* off-hand postion. Indiana. Rell with 190, was third. Mias Wright, Austin, ¥ Pile and Willet of Central and Morrill and | White of Western turned in perfect | scores in the prone position. | Scores of the girls from the four | schools were: Seitz. Eastern iht 1 3 190 | 189 1R b} [ ic |w | olm: E A o | Turner. ! Tadlum, Daniel. Parsoris, White, Western . i Wekter Central . e, Western e Weatern Tachnical. | ] | | Morrn | | Kincneion { Smith, 33330000 R ERRARRE FBIIARII22 ITS CAMPAIGN TODAY | Business High was scheduled to | bring Its base hall season to a close | today at the Monument grounds n a | with the Swavely nine. which terday served ax a doormat for | Centrul when the Blue and White team hrought its activities to an end. Frank Milburn, Mike Kelley's rookie pitcher. earned a shutout at ihe ex- pense of the Swavely pastimers, the count being 12 to 0. Milburn allowed but three hits. while his mates wers slugginz the offerings of Key for a ’totnl of 18, | Alexandrin High aleo winds up its schedule with Swaveiv. the Manassas club facinz the Alexandrians on Tues. day ol next week. [Leon Riley. who held the Preps to two scratch hits in I‘d previous encounter, will fave them { on the mound again. Swavely's track eam aixo is in town {today. The funnérs meet Eastern in | dual competition at the Lincoln Park- | ers’ stadium. - | TR | Western High's dismond ends tomorrow whenh the towners tackle Tome at | posit, Ard. season Cleorge. Port De. | wooda that skirt the fairway. Golf Strategies That Won' Some Important Struggles “By Bunker” YYHERE FARRELL'S BOLD TACTICS YON OUT any number of plays have b simply because they were bas V ¥-YY0O0DS YWHERE BLOCK PICKED UP| ERY often the best golf strategy is to “play safe.” In these articles een described which were victerious ed upon consérvative tactics. But there come times when the best strategy is to try for the limit. Courage often brings reward, too. I remember a play made bi me by the veteran homebred. M former Metropolitart open:champion, 1€ ‘wans in tHe fourth rousd ot the Metropolitan open of 1915, played over the Fox Hilix course, Staten Tsland. Hagen and O'Laughlin were paired. “Krom the tee the par four eleventh hole.” sayA Marty, “T put my drive straight over the top of a hill which faced us for a distance of 230 yards: and | followed this-up by tay ing my second. a full midiron shot. on the green, 20 feet from the pin. “Hagen, on the other hand, sliced his drive away off to the right. N he hooked his second terrificall crossing the fairway and going into rough on the other side, hopping over a diteh. Then, playing a mashie nib- lick on hia third, he topped his ball so badly that he cut a gash in it. Luck- ily, how it bounced over the ditch once mors and rolled up near ‘the green, Hagen Kept His Nerve. “Now A succession of plays of thik sort would have unnerved many & crack golfer. ‘But not Walter. “*By George,’ he exclaimed, ‘I had thia hole figured for a four. I've got to have it and this is where I get jt." “He was 15 yards from the cup. But doggoned if he didn't take his mashie niblick and shoot for it. And he chipped into the hole for his par. “It would have been easy for him to run past the cup and take two putts. But the indomitable courage which distinguishes Walter's play won a big reward. 1 may say most missed my easy four. “Hageén didn't win the champlon- ship. but he finished near the top.”" The incidént O'Laughlin desc: is In no way strategle, but jt shows the value of courage. the way for a description of a play by that gréat medalist, Johnny Far rell, which not only was great strat. egy, but which showed inimitable courage. And this play won a cham- onship, '“Joh:r’:y was palred with Harold Block of his ewn club, the Quaker Ridge, In the (inelurst amateur-pro- tessional champlonship of 1924, when the play came up. Harold and | were playing arouad with Leo Diegel and Chris Dumphy. the Washington amateur,’> Is the Way Johnny tells the story. ¢dal play prevailed, best ball scoring.” Pendulam Changed at Sixth. “As we came down the line on the final round it appeared probable that the championship lay between the Diegel-Duinphy teAm and our team. But at the sixth hole the pendulum swung toward Leo and Chris. ““The sixth hole iz a par five. meas. uring 470 vards. Diegel and Dumphy clicked off dandy drives. but Harold and | went all to the bad. He topped his drive, while 1 pushed mine into a hunker off the right side of fairway “Block. playing hiz second, had more trouble, slicing his ball w"’lf;\- "his T al| Also it paves | the | ‘Walter Hagen, whith was described to arfy O'Laughlin of Plainfield, N. J., a hat fits into thig category. ““Looking things over. however, 1 saw there w@8 & slight chance to play a Jong shot eut of the bunker with a spoon. ‘The ball lay fairly well away from the bank on the side toward the green. Bank Sloped Towsrd Left. the pin, though, nor even straight | toward the green, for the part of the | bank in front of me wae (60 high. But the bank sloped down toward the | left. 1 believed that I might ba able to play a slice that would put our team back in the running. “I know Diegel and Dumphy were astounded when they saw me draw out my spoon and descend into the bunker. They thought T was foolish. I could see them whispering and shak- | ing_their heads. “They figured, T presume. that 1 would do better to play safely to the fairway and take a chance on laying my third dead. But this was one time when I considered boldness the bhest straiegy. worked, and a lot hétter than T expected. 1 lald my ball six feet from the cup. And I followed this up by holing an eagle three! ““As® T remember it, Diegel and Dumphy were short on their seconds, Len chipped up for a four and Chris 100k a fi Harold Block picked up !in the wouds, but instead of losing a stroke we gained one. “Ultimately we won the champlon- | *hip. beating Diegel and Dumphy by thres strokes, And at the last mo- | ment they had to be content with third place, for Jim Barnes and F. . Newton of Boston eased past them | Into second place. (Copyright. 1928 ) . | K. K. K. NINE WOULD HALT | STREAK OF SHAMROCKS | Ku Klux Klan base hallers have | taken over the job of halting the win- ning streak of the Shamrocks Sunday aternoon at Congress Helghts field. The Harps have turned in four Wtraight wins. In their opener they trimmed the Dreadnaughts and later 1ook the measure of the Virginia Grays, Petworth and- Arlington. The Klansmen invade Mount Rain- jer field tomorrow at 5 o'clock for a | match with the Mount Rainier Seniors. WOMAN GOLFERS REACH | "CUP EVENT SEMI-FINALS | Mise Rusan Hacker opposed Mrs, J. | F. Dryden. while Mre. W. V. Free. man played Mrs. MeCook Knox i the semi-final round for the F | high _commission _cup for women at the Chevy Case Club today. The event is Belag played with club handicaps. “1 could not play stralght toward | U. S. TENNIS STARS By the Associated Pr PARIS, May :S.—-American tennis was represented in France by tI Iargest aggregation of noted players since the Olympics when the French and American mixed teams met today for the start of an international tour- nament on the hard courts of the racing club. All indications pointed to an ulti- mate American victory, but the event aroused great interest in Paris, where lar, and every seat of the 5,000 sur- rounding the center court was sold in advance for the three days of pla; _ Today's program provided interest, wish Rene La Coste meeting’ Howard Kinsey in the curtain raiser and Paul Feret playing Vincent Richards. Helen Wills, the American woman champion, was matched with Mme. Matthien, a young French player of some promise, and Elizabeth Ryan was to play Mile. Deve, another young woman who has been attracting the attention of tennis: fans. G. U. NINE HAS ONE MORE GAME ON NORTHERN TRIP . Georgetown's base hail feam, which lost to Foraham in New Yérk ydster- day, 8 10 3, has one more gamé on its Northern jaunt to pull itseif’ out of its: slump. The Blue and Gray rests today, but tackles Yaje at' New Haven tomorrow. Fordham's victory evened the teams ;‘nr 1he season, As the Hilltoppers won ere. Fordham made 13 hits to seors its | twenty-sacond victory of the season. Georgetown's pitchers hetween them issued seven passes, hit a batsman and made a bhalk, but through good twirling on the part of Gillesple, Who | relieved (ioddard in the midst of a third inning rally by Fordham, the Maroon had 13 men stranded. Sia g sie PAY FOR CITY PARKS By the Asociated Pr CHICAQO, May 28 -How city parks more than pay for themsalves | in intrinsic value, in addition to fhak- ing wealth for the property owners and furnishing pleasure 16 citizen, was related by John Bain, Sout Park commissioner, in dedicating Chicago’s sixth public golf links, which occupies a large part of the 322 acres in Marquette Park on tae sout western edge of the city. | "'The land for Marquette Park was purchased not many vears ago for {about a quarter of a million dollars. |1t then lay far beyond any built-up | portion of the city. Since that time. |although transportation facilities | have not been extended, land values have increased so rapidly that the park property is now worth $2,500.- 000. Surrounding property has risen in valueé $100,000,000, The improvements, including trees, | shrubbery, landscaping and she golf | course of 18 holes with a $100,000 | clubhouse, have cost about $1.250.000, making the paper profit $1,000,000 on the park land in addition to all the other benefits. Commissioner Bain drove the first ball on the new course, which winds among artificial lagoens, over crested hills and across verdant islands, whije FEd Gayer of in Orchards Clubh, a former California star, provided the | expert test of the links. Despite a leaden sky and sodden turf, hundreds of persons waited for hours for a chance to try the new golf course. With the other five links in Chicago parks, Chicago can now fur. nish free golf to 2500 players daily, but the demand is at least double the | . according to the park ~om. | ner. WILL BOX AT SMOKER. Five boxing boutr appear on the program arranged for the Naval Re- serve Unit smoker to he held at the | IN FRENCH TOURNEY | fennis is becoming increasingly popu- |- LAFAYETTES TO PLAY THREE FRAYS IN ROW “Ma” Cheseldine's Lafayettes have a full base ball program ahead of them over the week and, three games hav- ing been hooked. Hostllitles open tomorrow at 3 o'clock at Fort Myer when the La- fayette nine tackies the team repre- senting the 34 Cavalry. n Sunday the Lafayettes trave] to Herndon, and on Monday at 9:30 the Red Croes nine will be encounter>d at St. Flizabeth's diamond. Cl dale will swap blows with Buck Grier's Petworth combination Sunday on Lyon Village fleld and will go to Herndon on Monday for a double-header. Reese Hair, Univer- sity of Virginia hurler, s expected to pitch one of the two games at Hern- don. Joe Holmai Wander nine is not meeting the White Liavens Sunday, as ‘was announced previously, but is play- ing at Addison, Va. battle the®St. Mary's club. The Libertys open a threegame pro- gram tomorrow with the Rarber & Ross nine on Plaza. fleld at 3 o'clock. The St. Mary's nine is met on the same diamond Sunday, while on Mon- day Takoma Park is 10 be entertained. The Monday game starts at 9 o'clock. P Ku Klux Klan tossers, meefing the Mount -Rainier Seniors tomorrow at 5 o'clock on Mount Rainier field, are withour a Sunday match. Call Lin- eoln 3370-M, Arlington and Aztec junior ninea plav tomorrow at 1 o'clock on Dia mond No. 4. i Mohawks are meeting the Natfonal | Ciroles tadag at 3 o'clock in their last atart before tackling the Dreadnaughi Sunday. Palais Royal tossers have canceled their Sunday gams with Bladeneburg. | COLLEGE BASE BALL. EI At New York—Fordham, 8; George- | town, 3. = f At Columbus—Georgia, 3; Ohio | State, 1. | At Roston—Boston College, 4; Man. | hattan, 1. UILD up your health and th with this wonder- i brew. Full 0!4 time Srrengih and favor guaranteed. Sod in hotels, restaurants, grocer drug stores, ete. 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