Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1926, Page 29

TYGER 3! BY JOHN B. FOSTER. y EW YORK, July 6.—The. Glorious Fourth retires gracefully from the calendar of 1926 with every fair prospect that the batting championship of the American League is going to bobble along until the end of the session, with either Ruth or Heilmann landing it. And maybe neither of them will hook it when hooking is needed. Heilmann has fought himself out of @ stump that was making him N as cheerful as a deep sea diver in a of the Detroit club to the East it is on the team who was so doleful. much to heart as this o!d-timer who and may win more. The Tygers were not meeting with success, and Héilmann was dis- sed to blame his lown stickwork erhaps his was the first instance of a single player volunteering to be the gogt for the team., After’ Heilmann left New York he began to pick up. He rested a little before he started on his pick-up. Since then there has been nothing like the rapid pace by which he has gone toward the top, and there is no reason for assuming that he won’t be around the top at the close of the season. Ruth Not So Strong. Ruth, now out of the game, has , been doing his best early, and he is not-as likely to maintain his pace, His ambition' is as strong as it wzs in April, when he told the wide world that he would be a better and greater Ruth, but his batting is not as fast as it has been, even if he leads the major leagues .with his home run thumps. Ruth is not as strong’ as he was in the days of auld lang syne. The penalty of age is creeping upon him, in addition to the ailments with which he has n afflicted from time to time. Nothing has sapped his de- ¢ Not even the rookies, who are said to register despair when Ty Cobb snaps the whip, were takin, termination and good intent, but his legs are wavering again and he‘is not mounted on undeérpinning that would win a flapper first prize in 2 Charleston contest. Next to Ruth and Heilmann there are two other batters in the American League who are worthy of a lot of favorable comment. One of them is Falk of Chicago, who has been hailed as the coming batter of the circuit, and the other is Burns of Cleveland,.| i who is haviag ‘just sich a year as Speaker had in 1925, although Burns doesn’t put the credit for it on the lively ball and Tris unfortunately did 80. D Cuyler is Improving. In _the National League, Cuyler of the Pirates holds on. This kid may hold on to the finish, He is a bat- ting plugger., Although he was fool- ed, blinded and tyrned topsy turvy by Walter Johnson in the early part of the 1925 world series, Cuyler camg¢ back with a rush: He ended’ ups/by driving home the winning run of 'the serfes, Cuyler bats the same way in the league play. He doesn’t invariably get_ there, but before the week is out he is up to the figure that he had been setting' before and maybe a little better off. o It is intéresting to recall some of Cuyler’s history, which has to do. with" the arguments that the Pirates are accustomed to have with the Giants. In one series on the Polo groimds in which the Pirates were lcked badly before they Wwon lge championship, Cugler was at bat in every game at a moment when a base hit would have meant victory. In every “crucial test” he failed and Pittsburgh lost five games. “Kiki Has Determination. That didn't knock Cuyler down as it .might hiave grashed some players to the’ betto! He came back and helped to’ win a championship for his team and then bottled the world series: . A player who can do that is Hkely toWin the batting champion- ship of the National League this ear. % 4 As for competition, Bressler of the Cincinnati Reds is ranging on the upward path, and he may have some- thing to say about championships by the end of September. (Covyright. 1026.) ———— FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND—Tod Morgan, -Seat- tle, junior lightweight champion, de- feated Ted Blatt, Chicago (10). Johnny Hill, Philippines, beat Jimmy Mendo, Cleveland (10). JAMESTOWN, N. ¥Y.—Osk Till, Rochester, won from Augie Ratner, New York (10). TAMPA, Fla—Hilario Martinez, Spanish lightweight champion, and Frankie Osner, Tulsa, Okla., fought a draw (10). HAVANA—BJack Bill, _feather- weight champion of Cuba, and Willie Davies, Charleroi, Pa., fought a draw (12). EVERETT, Wash.—Sewell Duane, (!é)vernu. beat Mickey Russell, Omaha BILLINGS, Mont.—Al Webster. Billings, middleweight, won on a foul from Joe Gans of St. Paul (). [Pt SRR MYRTLE BAXTER AHEAD. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 8 (#).— Myrtle Baxter won the $5,000 Edward Stake, feature of thes Grand Circuit opening day program at North Ran- dall yesterday. Louis Direct was$ second and Robert Diréct third, - The best time, 2:02 O A Aw gnod foxhound costs as much as Van Heusen is the ideal Summer collar. Its' one - piece con- struction, without linings or starch, SLUGCER LOOMS 2, AS LIKELY 1926 LEADER Ruth, Now Out of A-cfion,_ Has Set Fast Pace for ‘Championship Aspirants—Cuyler Is Making Bid for National League Honors. /| cou leaky diving suit. On the first visit probable there was no other player base ball so has won a fair share of bafting titles for the poor showing of the club. l BASE BALL SECRETS l By Sol Metzger When Ready to Steal. 0K Once a base runner gets the’ signal to steal he should be care- RACE TRACK BETTING |LA BARBA RISKING TITLE WAR GOES TO COURT By the Astociated Press. T CHICAGO, July 6.—~The battle bver the attempted return to Chicago (of open betting on horse races was trans- 46 Wadhington Bark track t the at the Washington o the ourtrdom of Circult Judge Ryner. Representatives of State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe of Cook County and counsel for the Tilinofs Jockey Club were yummonsd for arguments pre- liminary to a ruling as to whether or not the modified mutuels system in- troduced at the track Saturday vio- lates the State anti-betting laws. _‘The attorneys for the jockey club 'sought & ruling to make permanent a temporary order restraining’ int ference by city, county and State e forcement authorities, which the court issued Saturday. A permanent fnjunction would 1ift the lid which has been clamped pn open wagerings at Cook County tracks for a quarter of a century. . The opposing forces today main- tained the armistice which succeeded the open clash during the track’s in- augural program Saturday, when the State's attorney’s men ‘raided the bet- inw booths and arrested five clerk: Yesterday's meet, under the pro- tection of the temporary injunction, was conducted without the interfer- ence of the prosecutor’s staff. O VR i BOXING OVERTAKES BULL ‘FIGHTING IN POPULARITY BARCELONA, July § (#).—Boxing, after only a few years' stern chase, has overtaken bull fighting in. the favor of Catalonians. « The recent fight for the European heavyweight champlonsip, in which Paolino Ucbudun, Tiger of the Pyr: ennes, defeated Erminio Spalla of Italy, drew a ?!- ‘of 380,000 pesetas, more than double the highest amount ever taken in at a bull 'fight in the same arena. ful not to give away his intentions. Big leaguers never change their position or lead oft the base whether they intend to steal or not, as the player on the left in the illustration is doing. Inexperienced players usually tip off the opposi- tion that they are going to steal -after recelving the signal either by taking a greater lead than usual or by setting themselves for a start toward second, as the player on the right is doing. 5 BO Although ringside seats for the bout usually charged for bull fights, the attendance reached more than 31,000, The arena, which ordinarily accom. modates 26,000, had never been filled to capacity for a bull fight o FEMNRE PG Y Tiger Flowers, the middleweight champion, has been knocked out by Panama Joe Gans, Sam Langford, Lee Anderson, Jamalca Kid and twice by Kid Norfolk and Jack Delaney. e Eoening Star YS CLUB Conducted by ROBERT C. McCLELLAN BY JACK OGDEN. One of the Famous Ogden Brothers, Pitchers, VERY membér of The Star Boys Club can start right now learning to be a pitcher. All we need. is the side of a house, a piece of chalk, and a base ball. It's an old joke to yell at a wild pitcher, “Why, you can’t hit the side of a house! 3 ‘Well, let's not only learn to hit the side of the House, but hit an exact spat on the side of it. My younger brother, Curly, and my- self were farmer boys. Both of us liked base ball and wanted fo be pitchers. 'We were told that a pitcher. needed control more than anything else. So we drew the figure of a bat- ter on the side of the barn and then drew a “strike’ zone in front of him and pitched to see how many strikes we could throw—without “throw: Then after you have become fairly proficient in getting three strikes in: the right space begin to improve on your control so you can throw the ball anywhere you wish. For_ instance, you or your catcher 'or some one on the team might that the batter up was weak on & high fast one inside. Then you would ;IVB‘ to be able to throw at the spot 0. 1. Or maybe the batter Would be weak on a low wide one, No. 2. g Naturally, at the start you'll - glad i you can @im in the gen direction of spot 3, but most batsmen “murder” a ball right in the groove. Control is something besides getting the ball over the plate—it's getting ‘the ball where the batter can't hit it. Next—Another Jack Ogden story. 'DEAD HEAT RESULTS - "IN AQUEDUCT STAKE By the Associated Press. A 5 NEW YORK, July 6.—Employment of numerous judges at American race tracks almost has eliminated dead But at Aqueduct yesterday Harry Payne Whitney's Macaw and the Ran- cocas stable’s Nedana crossed ' the finish line asone in the Carter Handi- cap of seven furlongs. ‘Macaw led almost all the way afound. Pony McAtee got him away on top. But rounding into the stretch sprint, Nedana flashed forward, with Laverne Fator using the: whip. The filly gairied by inches, then showed ahead, but a last despairing bound u.m| koh-mnmmwtobfln: e dead- lock. Owners of jthe,.horses 'agreed. to split first and. second money rather than- put their tired steeds into a race-off. There were dead heats at Havana and Long Branch last year. In 1924 two oceurred at Youngstown, and in 1823, Saratoga and Latonia each saw one. - ; SONS OF WASHINGTON U. COACHING MANY EREWS By the’ Associated Press. ; University of Washington, whose W-flm racing crews. have won | many . honors, has been drawn on o by other institutions for os. i know [« Eleven men, all of whom ‘helped propel Husky shells to victory, now :‘nm'nnsed in directing rowing ac- X ’ These oarsmen are Ky Ebright &nfil Russell Nagler, University of ( X fornia; Edward Leader, Don Grant and Mike Murphy, Yale; .Fred Spuhn g:'d‘emx ALun P”e-nn-mnl!:- Robert tler, - Ani ;' Char! ‘ Princeton, fi‘r Russell mlowbm Harry-John: Dutton, Washington. Made for the hand of a 38 6 STREET, N. WASHINGTON, D man who loves c - IN BATTLE L 0 tomorrow night. Comparison of me have a decided physical advantage. pound weight without difficulty. ‘The champion, 'a year younger than the challenger, who is 21, is concéded an edge in ruggedness and punching power.. Although sach has been fight- ing for nearly: six years, Rivers is given the edge in ring: experle as he has been in’ the profs game five years, while La Barba left the amateur ranks only & year and a half ago. 2 BY FAIRPLAY. . ' NEW YORK, July 6—~Fidel La Bar- ba, boss of the flyweigh s the next champion to give a contender a crack at his title. This ‘has been a season for upsets, Qut it is not likely that La Barba will lose his bauble. He is a topheavy favorite over Georgie Rivers for the fight in Los Angeles tomorrow night, and the chances are that Fidel will carry on until he reaches his ma- jority, some time this Summer, and rushes to New, York for a gob of the big money. ¥ Fidel~ cannot box more than six rounds ‘in this State, and as a matter of fact he has not been accepted as a. titieholder by the boxing board here. The big money is back East Manager George Blake wants share of fit. * Fight fans back East are still skep- tical about La Barba's ability even though he did beat Frankie Genaro d cost 80 pesetas, four times the amount | - - Onewegk ago we announced three better, bigger Henriettas 1wvincibles and - als. Never have any - new Henriettas enjoyed so ‘sensationalareception.Never were Henrietta Even finer quality Finer quality made pos- - taxes—the finer qual- —P son! _sible by the " in cigar taxe 0S ANGELES, July 5—Fidel La Barba, flyweight- champion Mexican: challenger, Georgi¢ Kivers of San Francisco, rqnndfl[opt their training chere today for their 10-round championship ‘bout. He plloted Billy De F ) 'WITH RIVERS i urements showed: that neither would They were able to make the 112 clstvely. 1f one 1a to take the wod, John O’Brien, the little fellow {5 inch a champion and a great Knows the Ring Game. " John had grown in the service and knows what h,r:.y talking 'oe 3, Duane to the niche they occupy in boxing. Just now O’'Brien is pil :}n‘ the destinies of Lew Perfatti, one’of the sweetest little bantams in’.the La Barba make. hfl Ni York debut, Lew scored a ki o and ik 5 WASHINGTON CANOE CLUB MAKES SWEEP IN PHILLY! reso! : 1t Barba would fight oftener, there is no doubt that he would come o m:'gc muwmn has about' , and p &' popular 1 over the counteyy - F tp the.radio “returns .while Mandell was . winning' the title .from : Rocky Kangas Jast Saturday, . She stayed in her room’ until friends brought the in the second round, but the'Coust |’ lad came so. strong in the closing' sions that the judges i decision. Perfettl is the lad who the comback aspirations of Cannon: ball Eddle Martin; 3 O'Brien thinks La Barbe has‘a ‘bright future before him. But not as a flyweight. John'says the Coast boy ‘s better around 114 ‘or 115 pounds. This is several pounds over the flyweight lmit. It would not surprise him to see Fidel go out after the bantam crown, now held by Charley Rosenberg. Maybe the weight has something to. do with the infrequént-appear- ances of La Barba. Most of his recent bouts ~have been at cateh ulares, ot nanded Him, the | biirst h & M{’ tonight in the title holder's town. of ‘Rock- ford, 1il,," and “will leave -Wednesday | for. two weeks in.the East. 16TH ARTILLERY: FOUR ° DEFEATED AT RUMSON RUMBSON, N, Field Artillerymen’ uction i By the Associated Press. HILADELPHIA, July 6—With the exteption of Junior four-oared gigs, in which the Arundels of Baltimore were victorious; Philadelff phia oarsmen carried off all the rowing évents in the People’s day regatta on the rain-pelted Sthuykill River yesterday. Qarsmen: from this city won twenty races. As in former years the Washington Canoe Club, with several Olympic ‘champions in its créws, made a clean sweep of the four canoe races. pscatiss. At sintsdl bbice bt S 200-MILE AUTO RACE IS TAKEN BY COOPER By the Associated Press. SALEM, N.H., July 6.—The laurels of a’victory won after he had trailed the fleld for 130 laps in the 200-mile Independence day sweepstakes todny’ rested on the brow of Earl Cooper, yeteran Los Angeles. auto- racer. ' Cooper negotiated the distance in 1 hour, 42 minutes and 56 seconds for an average of 116.562 miles an hour. Victory netted him $8,000 in prizes. Benny Hill was in second place and eter de Paolo, winner of a prelim- 50-mile race, ended third in the main event, \ 2 Cooper drove a front-driver Miller eight, Hill a_special Miller eight and De Paolo a Dusenburg eight. John Duff of Indianapolis wrecked his machine and suffered a broken collar bone when his car crashed through the top rail and dropped clear of the track. The race was on the Rockingham speedwa. ity ofimported Sumatra wrap- per, and filler containing Hava_na from Cuba’s finest cropinrecent years. Ifyouare a qua.htgl smoker, do not fail e;s’ sol_‘bi‘g.' ‘t,o try these three improved Potomac Boat Club of Washington was second in the tandem double and * single blade and singleblade four races and finished third in the doublé- blade four event that completes th4 program for the canoeists. - Joe Wright, jr., of Toronto, ro: ing for the Penn A. C., won in the senior quarter-mile dash and asso clation single: In the dash he six feet over & of the Bachelors’ Barge Club and a field of four others, including Walter. M. Hoover, national sculling cham. pion, who jumped his seat just aftef the start. Hoover was extended in champion- ship singles by Russell Codman, jrix of Boston, now rowing for the Uni< versity’ Barge Club of this city; Hoover won by half a length. Grana ville Gude of Washington was sixth,” For the first time since they hav been rowing together, F. X. Finne- gan and Charles Mcllvaine, national- 145-pound doubles champion of the Penn A. C., were beaten. 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