Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1926, Page 29

SPORTS. A’s Figure to Fight Yan 0OM AS HUGMEN'S CHIEF RIVAL WITH NATS SLIPPING ieb Opines That Dodgers Have National League and that Cubs Also Will Tum- Qg ble—Pirates Lack Punch. BY FREDERICK G. LICB. Yankees ¢ to s League. and they piled up a slumps later sure of a pretty respectable Ruth’s hat reatest hall of his ca land only Ruth excels eady to ¢ to legian, filed “ollins also Pennoc ing, though 1g defense and has don on his foot, young T Only sam Jone; inue: lug back.” The hop kerted his fist b biune. but the e now than wt win in eari HE can npiling their spectacular winning st It will enable e club wins half of its ga while cc lead on, for if 's from now percentag thunder Meusel big Lou Gehrg tin-getter. Joe Du third base. though Gazella, the Laf; i Dugan during disability. The busy s ma nself a valuable member of the oyt and Shocker have been doing the Shawkey underwent an operation nobly bulk of simce for a br % | FLAG CHANGE RATINGS them to nkees look NATIONA Pittsburgh. Cinelnna'i. New Yo & Chicago.. ... Lous. Detroit. ohlyn. Cleveland Chicago. playing Grit. how camw give t it must be the Ath men broke the vecer fielder but weuk beautiful heen a till is a the team is abib U has lars Hau nder .2 of the ve pensive le letics® twirling his But the club has has pulled out a sheer g Washington's veteran pit not standing up now, and the t slowly slipping Walter son, “Biz Baine good work, but poorly this season, and Joe Bush has been more or less of u b Nationals would have heen ter off if they had ret and Rallou. The former [good ball for a I elub. White Sox Going Well. dope my th place : und und po and v do much better on at fot ne s of games nd 1 e percentage ladde ) through the East the offensiv ising club mated tops the N -lub batting and s s of alleged < and 3 rih in my the o are m is John- well and the per e some innatt the \Whit are pl the best ball in the stern s T « the American eague eld hit so well when e substituted for Kamm at third that e has heen ularly installed at short. Johnny Mostil is havi createst vear of his career. and Sox have developed quite a rol punch. Thes are topped only hy the lugging Yankees in American League team hatti With hoth two of the Sveryt idered. <h 1 place. have Punch Disappointing. ar enough to the ) when the time opinion that ti in, though in some world thought its place 1se hall 1l Speaker and Jai outstandi like the pu the Ind heads and eaction ved iteds hi le ter they resumed Browis Have Perked Up. The Tigers are fizhting ha overcome the drawhack pitching staff, with the vener year old youngster Ty C the charge in pe Nine to the West the Brown: have per up a bit after wianing only one on their Eastern trip. There sadder disappointment on leage wheel than s nates. Not only are the B to last in the this writ but are las 2 and and they ha poorest That almost makes it unanimot The Boston Red Sox fought the Yanks hard while furnishing five vie-| tories to New York's great winning! streak. but their rallies always fell one run short is the making of a pretty good Fohl's new combination in Bosten. Ry another vear or so it wil fac apidly Fadin, 3rooklyn Ic Hendricks a Cin ati « pitching move when he put nstead of Emmer. early in the season t four could Pinelli_at n Pir ut he ean Injuries Hamper Giants. Back in the East, are showingz consid ment, but the soft pi own on Injuries plaved havoe with the G cently <on, Kelly disabled wh hrohen rib With the ¢ unfo; ahle tanding pitchin; ase e Young pl pped to h . Dodgers’ Uncle Bebhy's have spoken their hitle piecr the National League and quielly have taken a seat well in the hack part of the class. The Brookivns suffered one losing streak in which they shot | all the way from first to fifth before | = Uncle Robinson could check the downward fiight of his Robins. TURF STARS TO RACE However, [ never took the Dodzers xeriously, at least not 15 pen nant contenders. h the blond giant of the prairies. Dazz. Vance, in his 1924 form. the Brook tyns would be lacking in « ship caliber. Developin, )\ ways was one of Robinson’s claims distinction, and he b ot a lot of good service out of Pett McWeeny and McGraw this Spring. but even | good staff of ers needs runs 1o win. Dodgers Soneune 1 expect hrough which A experienced will By the Associate] Proes CINUINNATIL, June 2 2 dozen of the better ¢l bred rier of ithorou handicap Ohie tgural acioss the tomorrow. A, with in ihe i oni, K this cit inaugul 5,000 added nro seve he run its purse filldale course Father Time Taking Toll. Father Time wzradualiy making his presence fel uch old-timers as Zach Wheat Jack Fournier Mheat. now the senior National Leaguer in point of serv fen't coming throuzh with the needed hits in the pinches like the L oof old Fournier, never a fa man, has slowed down walk, Maranvilie in the known racers King Nadi s, Cudzeller Sun Alios, € old Slip., ters such well Doveen. is 10 and Lee O. Cotnes Honor. Desming, and Barcola aly w0 thou it the track. of | move N nd horses are to THEY ARE THE BEST-LOOKING BEST-WEARING STARCHED COLLARS EVER OFFERED . 35%each 3 'for $129 CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. INC. Shet Their Dolt in w their heels to the rest of the Ameri- em to withstand a few |1 on it iy A is play'ng the \g through daily in the pinches, Yankee ensemble. [ rivals of ( pitch- ken bone < taken Bob’s place on the first iine of pitch- IN IZAJORS TO DATE CEY NEW SWIMMING GAME 090 the with) tigures and ular . Cubs probably soon will follow | look for them to | on next rength heen The bheen rates keep plugging away | spring that forms a pool in the seventeenth fairway top ripe Corsairs disappointed in the cht series Pit unong the At no have the Pirates d ch wh ning campaign of a , zames to tl | ac- ivities W% foemen of their own sec v hefore 1tinues to get consistent | crystal and Hendricks made a good short | 1elli did not hit | hit. + winning. hustling type of bali the Gants again tmprove ng 1s in their | have soked pretry another hard-hit- | IN LATONIA HANDICAP More thin await the call to the bar- Riv features the opening duy where except Sunday, will handicay M THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ks : | GEORGE MASON HIGH | ATHLETES REWARDED | ALE DRIA, Va.. June 2.—Let [ters ticipation In major sports were awarded to the members of four | George Mason High School teams at [ athletie assembly today. Athletic Divector J. Herbert Knight made the presentations. | Foot ball awards were made to W. | Broaddus, Rollins, St. Johns, Heins | 1iawkins, Dameron, 11" Francis, Me: | Cutloch. and K. Francis. Girls” bas- [ ket ball letters were presented to | Misses Warner, Blue, Cabean. Coffiin, owers, Kidwell and Davis. Bas ) ns went to Heischman, Heins, McCulloch, St. Johns, and Utter Roys who received basket ball le'ters are: W Broaddus, Francis. | Grme Petersilia, Curtis, Rollins, J. Brosddus Member: “eim wi > Hin addit vietori (and W HE breast stroke differs from the crawl in that the arms l are not taken out of the water to ecxecute their movements and the legs are kicked in a frog- like fashion rather than scissorslike, as in the crawl. It has been agreed that the froglike | kick s not nearly as efficient as the sissors kick, which many use in the cast stroke as well as the crawl, {but swimming experts have heen | forced to continue teaching it, since it is the method used fn competition. Furopeans have clung tenaciously to the old style. Since the inferior frog kick is the accepted one we will coneider it in our talk here. | Many beginners start with the | breast stroke and find it very hard to ecute the lez movements in the| crawl stroke later, making it advis- | ble to start with the crawl strokg. Ak girls’ hasket ball re awarded gold basket balls n to the felt letters for their over Alexandria High School shington and Lee, traditional Mason ch Herbert with o gold the members Knight was watch and of his four Head (e | presented chain by teams. The Pirate Midgets continue to ie right through all the opposition loffered them. Yesterday the ( The eEhm’ng tar 5i BOYS CLUB Conducted by ROBERT C. McCLELL: | Both arms in the breast stroke are movement over D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2 _1926. |EAST AHEAD OF WEST IN PENNANT WINNING By the Associatad Press !. The ascendency of Eastern clubs in ']| National and American League cir- cuits in the past five years has helped to give the Atlantic seaboard a de clded advantage over rivals in the Western ends of both circuits in pennant-winning achievements. In this period only one “Western” club— Pittsburgh—has broken up the streak of kastern victorles, and in that instance the location is a mat- ter of league location, mnot geo- graphical. Boston, helped by long periods of success in the early days of the Na- tional League, boasts the most pen I worked at the same time. They are stretched out in front of the body in the water, the palms turned outward and_swooped downward and outward in the. water and then pulled up again in front of the chest to execute an- other stroke. The leg movement is started at the end of the backward drive of the arms, The legs ave drawn up together with the knees bent downward in the wa- ter, the forelegs slanting toward the surface. When the arms have reach- ed the end of their pull the legs are | kicked outward and drawn up for the | nant winners, with 13 in the senior next movement, froglike |eircuit and ‘six in_the American A number of breaststroke swim-|League. The New York Giants are mers Keep their heads out of the Wi | next in the National League, with 12 ter at all times, others get better re- | pennants, while the Philadelphia Ath- sults by lifting the face out of the |jatics share the pennant-winning lead- water at the end of the backward|erghip with the Red Sox in the Ameri- drive of the arms to inhale and then | o' \(iop "L | exhale through the noxe under Water. | ™ Ciicaps has compiled by far the | There is # Dause hetween the 165 | page record in the West, with 11 Na- | drives as the body gildes ulong fn ety o0 I T S and Mes Andieih water. It is a good plan to rel Teagie Mhis to its credit.. SEe Eaats M tine e 2 reet i tote ulaziln is the only present major league city which has not produced a pennant Cola M of Washington were = - defeated 1 12 to and wavely fruitless innings Manassas, nines vester. neither Alerandr battled four day afternoon it {team scoring IS INVENTED BY COACH CHICAGO, June 2 (®)—An am phibicus game which he calls “cito’ hirs been developed and announced hy Coach Tom Rohinson of the North western Univel ¥ oEwimming team Similar to water polo and volley Uil the two ng teams may have | ers and their objes lis ints by passing the ball over seven-foot goals. | | (Note.~This ix the second of & series of o | By the Associated Press | N EW YORK, June 2.—The pugilis w ppo: Paddy Ryan. SPOKANE GOLF COURSE | UNIQUE FOR ITS TERRAIN v the Associa OR variety of terrain. scenery and playing conditions, probably no | S goli club in the United States surpasses the links of the Spokane | el | (Wash,) Country Club. | There are mountainous backgrounds. plains, plateau jorested hilisides, rocky crevasses. arroyoes, a lake and a gulches, pre- | cipitous b'u | | the player sees | some 300 yards | this crest Tow 'O The golfer ix presented during the ular. From with long shats the green far 1 g away. { down to the river at the foot ¢ : e Bl e tain® perilous brassie shots ' Called “Inspiration. ! across an arroyn that deploys a wide would he a good | stretch the n as the view. with/ o up; three-shot iing the emerald nitchies narrow " hty desire to most perpendicu And the trajectory mountain defile. a distance. so that such the top of a wk Hutehison and Jim in far overdrive the green and only fair players each the velvet grass | flag. vound of the links m this of pines insp e sre “Tnsp! name for forests fairway a here players Barnes with a Iy could around The thrill of this hole is not al-| lowed to die out at the next, for| after one ascends the steps to a high | rock tee. he looks down a steep grade | through the lane of trees to'a zreen} nestled under a shady background of | firs. Any sonahle drive will get home. 26 while experts use A4 spoon or even an iron 1 Then a tree in a cozy nook of ever- greens with a bubbling fountain and it puriing brooks at vour feet, whence a snot of 150 vards lands the | Lall on a tabled green overhanging | the river. A glide home in the shade | of the pines and the round is done, | but one who is strange to the course may have some difficulty in adding | up his score, although par is only 69. | ro g - | m shot h|to . a ive from » piney below. i drive from a ponderc tee and other sorts of Going Is Difficult. going with its | climbing at times, but the prings that gurgle here and there pour forth water that is re- venating. ym the clubhouse, nestled among | pines in the center of the ground; the first two holes run down a mod erate grade to a river curling around the base of a mountain peak. The third retraces the und to a green stuked off by conifers that measure | a dozen feet around the trunks. Then ov the d creeli bed to a valley and back #nd down agi Atter a short hole, whose green is | on the burn, the player shoots more than vards to a spot sel like a sta among the tall firs. Then the tee of the ninth hole forms the stage fo: the zolter as he clambers up a serfes steps to a niche on the mountain 11 around, except in must shoot 181 e with almost her wood- | could e the The is | mour ve BASE BALL BECOMING | TAME, SAYS FLETCHER nt. Thence F vards acy a ravir perpendicular sides to an bound green An Uphill Shot. At the start of the second half | comes # short hole that probably has | the steepest fairway in the world. | The distance from tee 1o pin is onl 1143 vards. It looks shorter and seems much longer in play. for the way is | through a rocky crevasse with the | green appearing to be almost straight | above the tee. The sides of the glen | | rise 50 feet above the hottom of the | ravine. Played as it looks, the ball | will fall far short of the carpet, and | the ordinary golfer must take a good | now discussed freely by the players. swat with a mid-iron or spoon to get | “The fans like to feel that the play- home. owing to the fact that the ball | e:s are opposed to each other in spirit. iv intercepted at the top of its trajec- | I am against rowdyism. The game | tor has grown out of that stage. But that | The next four holes on a plateau | does not mean we expect plavers to | would be dull, except for forrested | act like a lot of Little Lord Fauntle gulches which must be avoided and | roys. deep ravine that must be carried | “\We used to regard the plavers of ice. But these are only the calm|an opposing club as deadly enemies “efore the storm of beauty, for the | while the zame was on, but now there fifteenth tee is at the verge of a bluff | is too grcat a fendency to turn the big 200 feet high and almost perpendic- | len=ies into college s Soles of Heror Since 1873 By the Assoviated Press Modern hase ball will lose its attrac- | tign for the public unless the fra- | ternizing of rival players is rep\u(‘ed] by the combativeness of the past, in the opinion of Arthur Fletcher, ag I gressive leader of the Philadelphia | Nationals. “There is too much hand-shaking and back-patting nowaday said the former shortstop of the Giants. “The players greet each other like traveling men meeting on the road. Things which used to be secrets years ago are u of 14 n TG (A White Shoes for Men Exclusive—FEconomical Elegance yoked to common sense and true economy is what Hess Shoes offer. 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'80. '81, '82, '85, '86, 08, 10, 18, | 16, 20, | ‘09, | tories on the.caresr of Jimmy de Forest ) 1900, tic training system of Jimmy De For- | ppijadelph, Cincinnati—1919 d | Providence—I879, § Petroit—1887. AMERICAN. Philadelphia—1902, 05, '10, ‘11, 13, NER Boston—1903. 04, °12, '15, '16, '18. | . 17, '19. Saturday night boxing feasts with home talent menus were weekly en- tertainment features. The principals neither signed contracts nor trained lavishly. Their financial rewards were conditional with the patrons. If the guests were amused or pleased with an_exhibition, dimes and dollars clattered into the ring. with the win ner taking all, usually becsuse the 'nser was physically unable to collect. The average purse.amounted to $10 Cicago—1900, ‘01 New York—1 Dietroit—190° L2109, Washington—1924, ' | Cleveland—1920. 'ENTRIES BEING RECEIVED | FOR WOMEN’S NET EVENT | ¥ Women's starting Plaving iron g f a con stant use of his principals | OPeN stance handoned P lied the right jvances to- the ball foot goes vther toward| the ball as this ince opens up, and the player viould keep in that as the | foot ad in the £vs should | e 1o place more | ind more of the | ou: weight on to » right leg. You! this bhecause pivoting s 1sed in pr ion | fta degree of open stance used, so oot | that by the time you get down to a | Bimve | ShOT pitch®or run up no pivoting at | jall is used. For the same reason, use | no pivoting if vou use a wide open stance for all mashie and mashie-nib. | {lick pitches. Simply draw the blade hack and then swing it up Into this atmosphere of ro Snivies for the annual anadieedsm Jirdny e Perest i Tennis League tournament, ed himself. He entered the im |Saturday morning. must b promptu bouts, but he was small and hands of the committee b were hard to Fridav F nee Posto find. As a featherweight he fought | Entrants should call Ad periodically, but the reward was not commensurate with his abi He | o gradually drifted into the training end of the game A powerful heavs nSl e 0 Pete McCoy. a rival of the late John L. Sullivan. took a partic ] | liking to vour De Forest and By Chester Horton ———_ used to keep “the Kid' in his corner whenever he started out to “pleuse the patrons.” Intent upon trai once he had definitely fzhting as a career, De iForest <t the theory of training and physical development. From Sullivan. Ryan and McCoy he pieced tozether the fea- tures for a system all his own But his source of supply was limit ed. The big boys in those diys dil not take their training seriousiy one had developed a thorough tem. Lear t the military training s: of England. France and Germany contained feat which might be helpful, De Forest worked his way to England. He spent six months in an Englis ernizing with the drill sergeant those in charge of the phys velopment of the English Tommies From England he went to Germany. thence to France. ab orhing features and developing his theorles as he new id He indexed a syvstem which later was to This system elevated Jack Demp. sey to the heavyweight championship throne and brought Luts Angel Firpo within speaking distance of that same objective. | THREE POLO.CONTESTS ON TODAY’S SCHEDULE | Postponement ot the final match of | the War Depariment Poio Associa- tion’s high goal tournament yester. day because of rains makes. today's program at the Potomac Park oval a _triple-header. Starting at 2:30 p.m, War Depart- ment Whites and 16th Field Artil- lery teams will bring the high-goal series to a closge. 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N |ordinary hec | sight of n {land in | five from | solitary | Tex jof the { good for a b SPORTS. 29 Ted Lyons Is Promising Eniry for Piiching Crown PRESENT PACE WOULD NET HIM OVER 30 WINS IN 1926 |Chisox Youngster, a Texas Product of Baylor U., Is First Pitcher This Season to Win Four Games From One Club, With No Loss. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, June 2—Ted Lyons, pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and a most promising entry for the leading tosser of the right- hand regiment of 1926, is the first major league hurler to win four games from any one club this season. Lyons has immersed Cleveland in the dip four times and has yet to lose a game to that band of spinning wheels which sometimes revolve nd spark and other times refuse to twirl and throw out nothing but smoke. Speaker is accused of taking himself and Jamieson out of the Clev land batting order because both have a negative reflex whenever they go to the plate. Maybe it is Lyvons who has driven Speaker to desperation, but there are some solemn old owls who insist that it is smoking which has twisted Speaker's batting eye. Since there are other old scouts who declare just as solemnly that smoking doesn’t go to the eves but to other arts of the system, the argument is moving artfully along. To date Lyons has this record: Won one game from Boston, one from the Athletics and four from BASE BALL SECRETS Cleveland; won two from Detroit and lost one: won one from St. Louis and y Sol Metzger lost one, and lost to Washington. ? That makes nine victories and three To Hit to Right Field. defeats for April and Mav. If he could keep that going all season and | had the opportunity he would finish with a record of more than 30 vic- tories. It is true that Lyons ge part of his record out of his bility to stand Cleveland on its noodle, but this is not out of the use it has been the his tory of base ball that the winning pitchers have had one club, and us. two, that were woefully weak against them 5 Matty Had Soft Spots. Christy Mathewson once had the Indian sign on the Phillies and he had even more of a Choctaw sign on the Reds. He could count the Reds defeated from the moment he walked on the diamond and began to toss the ball their way and they hated the as made DO THIS The best way to hit to right field is to swing just a bit late. as the player on the left in the illustration is doing. Don't set yourself at the plate toward right field, as the player on the right in the illustration is doing, in order to hit in that direction, as the stance is an unnatural one. You are off the line running from home plate to the pitcher and your position is uncomfortable. LORD WODEHOUSE LAUDS POLO AS PLAYED IN U. S. By the Associated Pr Lord Wodehouse of England is much impressed by the ‘“‘goaheadness” of polo in the United States “The California grounds are the finest I have ev played on,” he sald. “They provide an excelient | foothold, and to that. I think, must be attributed the aggressiveness of the American game. Another reason for the Americen punch is that most of the players were foot ball men when they were in college and sec ondary school He said the climate, “vhich makes it possible for year- | around games, also does much for the | Calitornia plavers. America s many young plavers coming forward.” said Lord Wode- house. “while we have few, and it v increasingly difficult for us Other pitchers have been crowding alohg, winning their three games here and there, but this Chicago White Sox man has all of them licked for win ning four from one team with nary a licking in return. He also is the first major league pitcher to have won four | games from any one club, whether los- | ing to that team or not. Lyons won three games from Cleve- 1825, and never was defeated by the Indians that year. That makes his present run look ail the better. He n five from Washington last year without suffering a defeat at the | hands of the Champions, and he won | Boston while losing oniy | It is a pity that he lost thal‘ game because he would have blue ribbon decoration for his were it otherwise, In 1925 the Athletics could thrash Lyons. He lost four games to them and won only two. This year he has pitched one game against the Athletics | and won it. and has pitched one | against Washington and lost that, after defeating the Champs five times hand-running last vear. Lyons Is College Kid. Lyons is a college kid direct from the campus. He never had even the little minor league training that Matty | got. Lyons was horn in Lake Charles, La., where the fishing is good | and hnnting has its charms. He went | to Baylor University, over in Waco, | Con Mack trained at Lake | Charles with his Athletics and al- | though he may have heard of Lyons, | the kid was one schoolboy who got away from Connie. If Mack had Lyons it is a shame to think | what might happen to the other clubs | American League except pos- | sibly the Huggins dynamiters, who are apt to blast their way through solid rock in any e i Chicago had won 23 games at the | 1 of May, 1925, as against 24 at the | ame time this vear. and of the 24| Lyons has nine on his ledger. one. had a &houlder Wallace Motor Co. NASH Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave. Main 7612 e Pretty | ) who went straight from | college to big league base ball. It can Perfecto, 10c Invincible, 2for25c Diseribntars President, 2 for 25¢ 635 Lotesana *ve. NW, Washinkto c.