Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1926, Page 42

Good First Basemen Scarce in Majors : Clark-LaBarba Bout Barredin New Yo WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER: EIGHT TEAMS IN MARKET FOR NEW INITIAL SACKERS Four Managers Have Hooks Baited for Talent for Next Campaign and as Many Others Would Welcome Change, But Have No Bait. | Airst-class sacker in Pickle and has Knode in the jar. | Detroit has Blue are not BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, November 12. If good first basemen for the major leagues were as plenti- RVl ibetiar now ful as the demands for them. | piy® i COUE Fad faft the Tigers 16 ball clubs would do some | my.y gidn't always agree. : ful chortling. Four managers at | iy o oo R CHRERS oome win he present moment have thelr hooks | refyuce o high-class first baseman. haited for first basemen and four more | Bo¢i must have good ones. Cinein: Lavn't any bait, although they want|poti is well off and so are the St. first hassmen. | Louis Cardinals. The boy wanted by The first base stopoff is causing | eyverybody is Sisler of the Browns and mental worry, as it did in 1926, for | it appears that Dan Howley will have the manager who thinks he has nolt;"'find another first baseman of first basemen—that is, one of skill| promise. end manual dexterity. It still 1s| necessary for a, major league first | haseman to think, but never was it | more necessary for him to be sure| of a catch and to handle his feet well and also to be a fast flelder on \hc‘ vight side of the diamond. | At Boston they have Burrus at| first base for the National Leaguers | and Todt for the Red Sox, and neither | of them is a star. nd Neun. Both unless one gets (Copyright, 1926.) s WRITERS ARE TRYING TO PLAY GOLF TODAY Two score hardy veterans of the pen s susinat and typewriter braved the chill blasts The ¥Glantn)iavs Ecelly) who sisiia | O Winter siditat ibroadalde Woday iat fisture and vet 1s mot. Some think | the Indian Spring Club in the annual he has played in New York too long, | all golf tournament of the Washing- but if the Giants pick up a better | ton Newspaper Golf Club. “t baseman he must be in the green.| The tourney is an 18-hole handicap inte iniso tinve e who is|medal play affair, with imposts rang- in handling ground balls. But|ing up to 36 strokes. ’ B can bat and he would be snap-| The field was divided into flights of ped up if he could be obtained at a | ight, with prizes to be given to the Sk hiblE WiRive) | winner and runner-up in esch. The Yankees will stick along with | Gehrig, who is not as fast as winged Mlereury, nor even as rapid as some the native New Yorkers: but he| immeasurably better than when he <t started and he is ambitious and | S CATIG klyn probably will try Hen:| . having let out Fourner. Hen-| is slow and awkward, but he | nas improved in batting and is men. | tally better balanced than Herman, | wio needs to become less infantile | if he ever is to be a success. Praise for Joe Judge. Washington has Joe Judge. than whom there is not a better first base- man in the United States, and vet| it is asserted that the Senators would consider a trade which would involve | Judge. Stuffy MeInnis will play first base for the Phillles, but that hasn't taken the Phils out of last place as vet. The Athletics are wiggling around trring to get Sisler from St. Louis. To get him they will have to p: Pool and Hauser along in some wa and they can't get either of them | out of their old league because other clubs want them both Whether Donie Bush will cotton 1y to the work of Grantham at t for the Pirates is a question. The player’s arm is none too good.| from Mrs. Colladay. Jiis batting is tiptop, but a high-class | first baseman is needed when an in.| field is made up of steaming hot| STRIBLING IS WINNER. throwers like Traynor and Wright. | DES MOINES, lowa, November 12 ER N (®).—Young Stribling, Ge decisi Cleveland will look forward to good | pointed Battling Levinsky, former work by George Burns, but the old Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes added an- other club title to her collection yes- erday when she defeated Mrs. Stephen F. Colladay on the last hole of the final round in the Congressional Coun- try Club championship. Mrs. Haynes won on the eighteenth green of a see- w contest that found neither con- testant able to establish a decisive lead until the end. A cold wind swept the course to make Congressional's long holes longer and add to the scor- ing difficulties of a slow course. Mrs. Haynes turned 1 up, lost the Immh. won the eleventh and after halving the twelfth, lost the thir- teenth. She won the fourteenth and fifteenth, halved the sixteenth and Mrs. Colladay won the seventeenth. Both women were home at the eight- eenth in two shots, but Mrs. Colladay, trying to hole a 3, took three putts, while Mrs. Haynes was down in two Dputts to annex the match, 2 up. William . Corby won the con- defeating Mrs. M. E. Miller, 6 and 5. Presentation of prizes will take place Sunday afternoon at the ssional Club. been in four cham- ionship finals this year. losing in the 1 of the Middle Atlantic and Dis- rict events and winning the Colum- bia and Congressional championships have reached his zenith in |last night, in the opinion of newspaper T NIVERSITY OF MARYLAND coeds are busy on tennis courts and_ rifle_range, bat- tling for the school singles crown on the former and par- ticipating in unscheduled matches on s of their officlal riffe season in the |l near future. In the first of these matches, a shoulder to shoulder encounter with the boys' squad, the girls exhibited exceptional marksmanship by out- shooting thelr masculine rivals, 498 to 497. If their shooting continues on a par with this beginning, the N. R. A. intercollegiate title won by them last season should be brought back to College Park for another year. The scoring was so close that one target—that of Helen Beyerle, cap- tain of the squad, had to be referred to Capt. Scoberg of the military de- partment for a decision. His verdict that Miss Beyerle had fired a possible, gave the girls the match. Julia Behring and Clemencia Gause were the other two markswomen who registered 100. Five targets counted wjith 10 firing on each squad. The léading girls’ scores are given below: Elizabeth Garber, 100; Helen Beyerle, 100; Julia Louise Behring, 100; Alma Essex, 99; Hazel Kreider, 99, and Mary Jane McCurdy, 99. ‘The boys’ team will have an op- portunity” to even the count soon, when the two teams meet for their second shoulder-to-shoulder encounter. ‘These matches are staged entirely as a matter of practice and, of course, have no hearing upon the formal range schedules. Results of the preliminary matches in the co-ed net tourney at Maryland show that no upsets have occurred so far. Constance Church, present champion, blanked her first opponent, Phyllis Houser. Elizabeth Garber, another favorite, scored over Ger- trude Chestnut, 6—3, 6—0. In the other encounters reported, Sharian Bullard won from Helen Beyerle, 6—5, with the remainder of the match for- feited; Betty Jones received a default from Irene Mead; Roberta Howard de- feated Naomi ° Morrls, 6—1, 6—0; Frances Price received a default from Olive Edmonds; Evelyn Moore de- feated Carry Nourse, 6—0, 6—0; Marion Lane got a default from Bob- by Ryon: Isabel Dynes defeated Anna Price, 6—1, b—0; “Bromo” Seltzer de- feated E. Corkins, 6—0, 6—3; Marian Barrett defeated Anita Peters, 6—3, 6—1: Frances Gruver defeated Thelma Elliott, 6—0, 6—1; Hazel Kreider de- feated Edith Burnside, 6—2, 6—3; Mimi Rahan defeated 'Virginia Stur- gls, 6—1, 6—2. In the feature game of the ele- mentary school playground leagues yesterday, Curtis-Hyde established a lead in the Georgetown division by defeating the hitherto unbeaten Jack- son squad, 20 to 12. Up to this time the two squads had been racing on even terms, both having won all of their games. At the end of the first half Curtis- Hyde was leading, 6 to 5; Jackson pushed ahead in the third quarter, but was overwhelmed in a las minute spurt which carried the op- posing sextet over the top, as their forwards scored five times in rapid succession. Should Curtis-Hyde win all the re- maining games on its schedule, it will claim the championship, but if one is dropped, then Jackson and champion, in their 10-round bout here fellow may 1 Cle eland has got to put a ' men. Greatest nh‘:: o{lg‘n lam.h[n L3 price $5.98 to $7.98. . Curtis-Hyde may have to clash a . N\ . My — - [ == = I L b i j // \ (g pIZRW ew Millinery 3398 Special HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. vided that Jackson makes a clean the latter preparatory to the opening | Reheces Fling. basket ball squad for the B. Y. P. U. Wednesday night and elected officers. Ruth Henderson was named captain and Margle Wright manager. Practice will ‘be held each Wednesday night from 6 to 8 o'clock in the Peck Gym- nasium. tossers will meet this evening at 8 o'clock in the Marjorie Webster gym- nasium to organize their team and be- gin practice. in the church are urged to attend. ceive merit badges and special awards tonight at 7 o'clock in the boys’ gym. nasium of Central High School at the Fall court award assembly to which the public is invited. Visitors are ad- vised to use the Eleventh street en- trance to the school. HERNDON . FIELD TRIALS FINAL many of the best hunters in the sec- tion, Ferris Jake Jim, owned by H. C. Mitchell of Herndon, Va., yester- day won the members' all-age stake, fourteenth annual trials of the Na- torious thoroughbred. econd time to decide the title, pro- weep ahead. Line-up and Summary: Pogitions Newsboy Brown Mentione English Flyweight—C Green. EW YORK, November 12.—The august State boxing commis- sion apparently has chased another title bout out of New York by ruling that Elky Clark, the British flyweight claimant of the European title in the midget | division, must go through a trial hout before he will be permitted to swap blows with Fidel La champlon. Clark’s representative here declared that the match first was sought in California and that it probably will go there. However, there also is a pos- sibility that it will go to Chicago. The commission put forth the prin- ciple that it would be unfair to permit Clark or any other European fighter to come to this country and battle an American boxer for a world title with. out first meeting the acid test to de- termine his qualifications. This ounds fair enough and it would seem that the foreigners ought to be willing to go through the paces a bit before crowding their way right in front of the footlights. Brown Mentioned for Bout. ‘The boy mentioned as the one be fitted to try Clark's wares is Dave Montrose of Sioux City. Iowa, also known as Newsboy Brown. Brown has been trying to get a fight with La Barba and it looks as though he is in line to get his chance at any claimant to the crown such as Clark. Doc Bagley, who once managed Gene Tunney, Willle Jackson, Augie Ratner and a host of other good fight- ers, has been on the lookout for an- other real star to head his stable of fighters. Doc is considered one of the best judges in the country and often is chosen to act as a second in im- portant matches. His knowledge of the finer points of boxing and boxers is well appreciated. Bagley took a good look at Al Rube Goldberg and decided he had found his star. Goldberg had everything good fighters have these days,’ slick, polished hair, silk bathrobe, tights and everything, even to the movie. Rube went well enough against the common garden variety of fighters one meets in the preliminarfes, and then Doc decided to go after bigger Es: . Bagley made the mistake of picking on little Johnny Green. The . Beamer, M ferée—Miss Abbie West Washington Baptist Church tossers organized their loop last New York Avenue Baptist Church All basket ball players More than 200 Girl Scouts will re- DOG WINS st Scoring over a fleld that embraced the final event on the program of the tional Capital Field Trial Club that have been in progress since Monday near Centerville, Va. A leg on the Master Ben Cup went to the vie- Washington-owned dogs were sec- ond and third. Sam’s Valiant Rod- fleld, property of Ford Young, was runner-up, and Carver's Lady of E. B. McLean's kennels, was third. Bur- gess’ King Pin was the other dog to compete in the second series, Highly creditable exhibitions were given by the hunters, although cold weather handicapped. The largest attendance of the meeting was on fifth round before Green committed murder. Green a Pal of Rosenberg. Green is a stable mate and pal of Champion Charley Rosenberg. When the latter was banned in the State of Ilinois, Johnny also was punished | for the heinous offense of acting as s-country | ing_partner for his pal run here yesterday. He was twelfth | Now Johnny is back home, where in 34:07. Other Colonial harriers fin-| he has been unappreciated in the past. ishing were Wilbur Baker, who was | This is nothing new. The New York- forty’ ers are forced to sit on the side lines in favor of outof-towners and for- elgners, so that Johnny has been forced to go traveling for his matches. Green is an elongated, blonde-haired chap with a tantalizing left hand and a corking right cross. This same right spelled curtains for Goldber, WILLETT IS FIRST G. W. HARRIER IN PHILLY RUN PHILADELPHIA, Pa., November 12.—Hurd Willett was the first George Washington harrier to finish in th National Junior A. A. U. cro: Genzelo Mareno, United States Army, stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, won the race, negotiating the | 6-mile course in minutes and seconds. . iy N il K/ Seventh St: Next to Kinney’s Shoe Store TRIAL NECESSARY FIRST FOR BRITON, IS RULING Possible Sites for Title Battle. BY FAIR PLAY. | Barba, the world | | referee had to stop the fight in the C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1926. d as an Opponent to Test alifornia and Chicago Johnny has another trade besides fighting. He helps his more illustrious brother Buddy composing songs. Some day Johnny hopes to become as good at fighting as Buddy is at writing songs. | IN AUTO SPRINT RACE | By the Associated Prees. | CHARLOTTE, N. C., November 12. —Harry Hartz of Pomono, Calif., holder of the 1926 automobile racing crown, is today a greater champion than ever as a result of his record in the American championship sprint raa‘:;s at the Charlotte Speedway yes- tere | In addition to breaking the world | record for 50 miles he was second in |one of the 25.mile races and fourth ;in the 100-mile contest. | These victories added 165 points to rthe 2,789 he already possessed in the | American Automobile Association rat- ing. giving him a total of 2,945. | Frank Lockhart of Dayton, Ohio, runner-up to Hartz, broke the world record for 25 miles, and had excellent | prospects for capturing both the 50 and 100 mile races, but was forced to withdraw because of car trouble. In the 100-mile race Lockhart was a mile and a_quarter ahead of the next car when the connecting rod broke on the forty-fourth lap.’ Lockhart was leading in the 50-mile event when en- gine trouble again caused his retire- ment. The 100-mile feature event was won by Leon Duray of Beverly Hills, Calif., who also came second in the 50-mile | race. He shot around the mile-and-a- quarter track at an average speed of 122.8 miles per hour. Dave Lewis of Signal Hill, Calif., crossed the finishing line first in the other 25-mile race, covering the dis- tance at an average speed of 127 miles per hour. Hartz completed the 50 miles at an average speed of 129 miles per hour, which broke the previous record of 2 . held by Peter de Paola, 1925 champion. The record for miles was made by Lockhart at 1 miles per hour, which smashed the record of 130.39, made by Duray. | _Bennie Hill of Harlem. N. Y., di placed Earl Cooper as champion for the 5-mile distance by traveling around the track at 130.369 miles per hour. Cooper’s record was 1 . He als broke his own record of 129.496 by {covering 10 miles at an average speed of 131.32 miles per hour. CHICAGO, November 12 sweepstakes for the selection of the world champion horse was announced today as an event of the Chicago horse show, to be held at the Riding Club December 7-11. The trophy to the winner will be the Cathedral Cup, given_by John McEntee Bowman of | the enthusiasm displayed by the bowl- | ers. On their bowling night they get |are Vice President Tex Stovall, a mem- | order of their standing. | and MeGraw of Accaunting Office are ®).—A | SPORTS. With the ‘There's a new league in town. It's the Mayflower Hotel League holding forth at King Pin No. 2 drives, and it bowls on Wednesday night of each week. Although young, the circult.is composed of teams chockful of eager- ness to match their strength with other quints of the city. And at the same time the league benefits the hotel employes physically and helps the morale of the organiza- tion of the hostelry by promoting friendly competition on the alleys. Watching the eight teams of the league bowl, one is agreeably sur- prised by their scoring when it is con- sidered that only one man of the or- ganization has ever been in the line- up of a league team prior to this sea- son. And one is also impressed with to the drives long before team play 18 scheduled, do & deal of practicing and stick around almost until closing time. A league of this kind s certain to progress, and a great deal of credit for the live interest in the circuit is due Dave L. Conn, the league presi- dent, who rolls with the Accounting Office team. The other officers—and they are doing splendid work, too— ber of the Laundry team: Secretary P. J. Wright of the Garage five; Treas- urer William Dupar, who rolls with the Engineers, and Scorer Charles Brady. The league Is composed of teams of employes working in the various de- partments of the hotel, as follows: Uniform Service. Accounting Office, Enginee Laundry, Main Dining Room, Garage, Kitchen and Banquet Room. At present, Uniform Service is leading the circuit with Account- ing Office in second place, \)pt the other teams are not named in the leading bowler at present is Nichols of the Uniform Service, with an average of 109. Matero of Engineers, Calles of Garage The league's pressing Nichols closely. Sometime next month a quint com posed of the best bowlers of the May- flower Hotel League will engage in a match with a team of men affiliated with the King Pin drives. And if the Mayflower team is defeated, the hote a banquet. Manager Armiger of King Pin No. 2 already has named himself as head of the five that will oppose the Mayflowers. He also hus‘dral‘lsd for his club Bill Wood of King Pin No. 1 and John Pinspiller Evans, also with the Meyer Davis interests. The remainder of the team will be picked in the near future. Here is one for the book. With Plant Bureau shooting against the Property five in the Agriculture Inter- buraeu League, the teams went into the tenth box deadlocked. They bat- tled neck and neck down the line until Dr. Posey of the Plant five hit for a strike amid clamor from the Plant rooters. fouled on the first shot, and the pins had w0 be reset with no credit given. A trifle upset, he broke the second ball wide, and it took the side of the | alley amid groans from the Plant Bureau gallery. The ball, however, hugged the edge and went down to tip off No. 7. Can you beat that? A one-pin count on a strike in the tenth | box. and that count sufficient to break | a tie and win for the bowler's team. Nationals swept their set with the Hugh Reilly Cfompany in the Athletic New York, 7 il . iy \ AT i Z - 7 & i . s A of large size garments, on derizing charge for out-sises. management will stake the victors to | Shooting for his count, he| rk Bouwlers above the 500 mark. McKay, Na tional anchor, led his team with 3 set of 322. Operations easily overcame Sup plies in the Shipping Board circult Kiycken socked the maples for a 326 st as the Operations quint took all three games. King Pins grabbed all three games from Temples in the Ladies’ District League. Anchor Bailey of the win ners had games of 104, 106 and 10} for a set of 313. In the men's District circuit, he ever, the Templa representatives got two of three games, dropping the second of a set to Government Print ing Office. Hurd of tho Temples an: Barnard of G. P. O. each rolled a 35! set. PArT PALACE BASKETERS SLOWED BY INJURIES ‘Washington's basket ball club of the American League did not play the scheduled full game scrimmage last night due to three of the play- ers being injured Miller, the wiry center with Buf- falo last season, sustained a deep cut - in his left elbow at Central in the afternoon. Chazmadia, another cen- ter, had been hit in the eve, and Wesslock, a forward, was slowed up by a_ weak ankle. Capt. Kennedy looked the men over and decided to put only one quint through a fast session, Glasco and Saunders at forwards, Kennedy and Ripley at guards and Slegel at center then took on one of the Terminal Y. M. C. A. teams ifor a 20-minute workout. Philadelphia opens the season at the Arcadia on November 21. The advance ticket sale indicates that the stands will be crowded. | ALEXANDRIA QUINT | LISTS MANY GAMES St. Mary's Celtics of Alexandria have arranged a_pretentious schedule for their basket ball campaign. It in cludes a_week's tour of Virginia and West Virginla in February and a game for the benefit of the Alexandri United Charity Fund with the Wash ington team of the American Baske Ball League. Following is the schedule: November ‘Washington American League team at Alexandria Armory: 24, Central Nigh of Washington at Al exandria Armory. December 11, Calvert Hall at Bal- timore. January 31, Augusta Military Acad- at Coving- it: Acad brier High School at Ronceverte, W. ‘a.; 26, Calvert Hall of Baltimore at Alexandria Armory ¢ DARNELL BEATS BROWN. | NEW YORK, Novembe: Enter ing the ring at Mitchel Field last night as a substitute, Jack Darnell, former Club League, all of their games being [¢ Choose from a complete selection modeled . lines. No extra Washington, D. policeman, scored <. 0. Willie Brown.