Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1926, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO! 3 D C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1926. SPORTS. Cobb and Speaker Due Here in Scandal : Drive to End Base Ball Bonuses Likely ACCUSED DIAMOND STARS COMING Former Detroit and Cleveland Managers May Seek to Institute Federal Proceedings in an Effort to Obtain Vindication. iated Press AGO, Dee Cobb and Ti on Washington sumably to look over bats in the Federal dugout, hopeful of finding one with which tc Lnock thrown at them by Dutch Leonard, former American League pitches Neither Speaker nor the attorney ppanied him would offl explanat ir trip to the C: but the fact eaker and Cohb planned to be in Washington at the same time was regarded as significant. Cobb, who left his Augusta, Ga., home with the din of enthusiastic avowals of faith of his townfolk in his integrity still echoing, W reticent. Cobb, however, b ed that he will not be satisfied until he has heen cleared of Leonard’s charges. made public last week by Commissioner is, that he had taken part in a that was “fixed September gar ilities Seen. seen as the two up for the first cars in base hall a_former Two Possi Two possibilities star outfielders 1 time in their many ¥ against the same pitcher teammate of both. One is that the Post Office Department may be asked t0 investigate, with the possibility that blackmailing charges may be pre- ferred in connection with the cor- respondence which forms the basis of the allegations against Cobb and Speaker. Another possibility 1s that Cobb and Speaker ma confer with congres- sional leaders who have expressed helief in their innocence. Two other chapters, one in sympathy with Cobb and Speaker, the other hostile, were written vesterday. In San Franci a letter signed jointly by dles H. Strub and Wil liam H. r president of the Missions clubs “out of the park™ the charges Y | associate of decent men.” FOR CONFAB respectively, asked Harr Williams president of the Pacific ¢ Leag, | to bar Leonard forever from all par r the jurisdiction of the league. | ny man,” the letter said, “who conceals for seven years the evidence | of an alleged unlawful act and then, | for a_money consideration and ad- mittedly for revenge, sells it to damn the reputation of men without pre- | vious blemish is not fit to be the Williams’ Course Undecided. Williams, informed of the letter, said he would take no action against | Leonard until he received from Com- missfoner Landis a full transcript of the evidence. “I have known Cobb and Speaker personally for many ¥ rdded. “and it is inconcelvable that either should be guilty of the things | intimated.” | e only thing he could do under the cir- | cumstances, as the chy would have become known other sourc In Chicago, Charles | Comiskey, owmer of the Chicago | White Sox, also came to the defense | of the commissioner. Comiskey Hits at Navin. | Comiskey, chief sufferer from the world series scandal of 1919, coupled his indorsement of Landls with criticism of President Ban Johnson of the American League and Presi- dent Frank Navin of the Detroit Tigers. These two men, Comiskey | said, should have made public the facts as soon as they learned of them, so that the players, if guilty, could | have been punished immediately. from he | ms said that Landis did the | 'TWO ELEVENS LEFT "IN 115-POUND RACE Mohawk Prep gridmen and Northern Juniors will face Sunday to settle, 115- pound city supremacy. The fight narrowed to these elevens yesterday | when Mohawk Preps handily downed | Monroe eleven, 39 to 0, and Northern | Junfors subdued Peerless, 6 to 0, In a | stirring battle. | Monroe held Mohawk Preps score- | less in the first perlod, but after the latter had scored their first touchdown in the second session they got the habit and Monroe never had a look-in. | Smithson Preps’ right halfback, scored three of the touchdowns. It was the generalship of Quarter- back Sorrell that was largely respon sible for the Northern triumph over | Peerless. Shifting his attack to what had proved the most vulnerable part of the Peerless line after pummeling | the other side, Ensor, aided by excel lent interference on the part of Sorrell, streaked 55 years to the lone touch- down. Prior to the score that came in the third period Peerless had succeeded in ing the Northerns' repeated into its territory. Winton A. C. grid warriors, Dis- triet 150-pound titie holders, today are looking about for more worlds to con- quer after yesterday vanquishing | evington Yellow Jackets of Balti- ass of the Mounmental_city weight, in a hectic 7-to-0 t Union League k ago vesterd downed Clarendon Lyon |ing 150-pound team of northern Vir- ginia. The break that gave Wintons victory vesterday came when Stroeh- air and backward and was snugged by Timmons behind the Yellowjackets' goal. Bruder drop-kicked for the extra point. Prior to this play had been on an even basis, with each eleven threatening the other's goal serfously only once. MARLBORO IS VICTOR IN SOCCER CONTEST | “Replying to the “Old Roman,” | Navin sald Comiskey was “talking | through his hat.” | "“As soon as I.learned of the state- | | ments attributed to Leonard,” Navin | id, reported the matter to John on, who in turn reported to Landis.’ NDEPENDENT BASKETERS ARE HAVING LIGHT WEEK Little change in the sta teams in the Washington Basket Ball League is expected to result from the | schedule for the week of the holidays, with only four contests carded for senior loop aggre gations. The three leading teams—Epiphany Roses, Arrows and Calvary—will swing into action during the The Roses will encounter Colum! the Arcadia Wednesday night, while Elliotts will _meet Clovers on the Washington Barracks floor. Arrows will meet Independents and Auths will clash with Calvary at the bar- racks on Friday night. =2 Arrow and Park View floormen came out victorious in senior league games played vesterday, the Arrows trouncing the Collegiates, 31 to 20, in a preliminary affair to the Palace- Celtics proffessional game at the Ar- cadia, while Park View trimmed the Independents, 25 to 22, in a game which preceded the Eagles-Wonder Five combat at Congress Heights Auditorium. 7 Anacostia Eagles, unlimited cham- pions of last vear, had little trouble with the Wonder Five, trouncing the all-star aggregation, 23 to 16. Superior team work won for the Eagles over a combination that had been knitted together hastil holidays. Croson and MacDonald played for the Wonders. Jack Smith led the attack for the Eagles, with six baskets from scrim- mage. = Birthright scored a pair for the Wonders and MacDonald made one. The Eagles dominated at every stage, although the Wonders tied the score at 10-all just before the close of the first half. Games are wanted by the Eagles for the balance of the week with strong senior fives. Call Manager Peacock at Lincoln 4366. Two important court games are carded by the Olympic Seniors for the next two days. Tonight the team will play Company F reserves at Hyattsville and tomorrow the team will meet the Y. M. C. A. Seniors at the “Y” gym. Kanawhas seek games this week with teams having gyms. Call man- ager Ershan at Lincoln 5159, Elliotts will oppose the Peerless Olsen Peat Coach With Guard Play BY SOL METZGER. Breaking up Doe short pass attack, which featured @ reverse pivot, was one of the jobs the Western Conference coaches faced for many year: One of Meanwell’s former Wisconsin play- ers, H. G. Olsen, worked out a fine stefense for this attack that helped ©Ohlo State win the conference title W0 years ago. Olsen would have his guard rush at the er recelving the pass, stop a yard or so short of him, ance himself with legs spread end fleet flat on the floor and his &ms spread straight out. From this position the guard could move in any direction with almost equal speed. When the player with the ball pivoted to the rear this guard would move toward him and to the side he was most likely to pass the ball. Then he was in a position to bat the ball to the ground or secure a held ball. All these movements are {llustrated above. The diagram shows how the play was w No. 1 represents the player with the ball, “A” the defensive player who had figured out thut No. 2 would be the next man to receive the pass. Thus when No. 1 made his reverse pivot ‘A" was between No. 1 and No. 3. (CovsTiaht. 1026.) Meanwell’s bia at | | scored three goal | est crowd vesterday the young but at 9 o'clock in the| | Naval Reserve Armory. j | An intercity basket ball series is to| | be played shortly after the New Year, {according to plans made public by the | community: center department of the | public schools. Details are now be-| |ing worked out. | Opening games in the recently or- | ganized Junior Jewish Community.| Center League will'be played Wed- | nesday afternoon, with Locust and lipse teams meeting at 2 o'clock | and the Kanawha Juniors and Colony | clashing at 4 o'clock. Both games | will be played at the Jewish Commu-| nity Center. WOMEN 1 BY CORINN, ITH the Natlonal Tennis ratings of 1926, so far as our fair racketers are con- cerned, bearing an unex- pected aspect becauses of the absence of Helen Wills' name from the top of the list and the vacancy in the place that should have held Mary K. Browne's cognomen, net enthusi- asts are looking forward to the 1927 season with much speculation as to who will top the list and-how many of the present amateur stars will re- main in the ranks to be rated. Will Helen Wills regain her throne? That is the question uppermost’ in the minds of followers of the sport. Undoubtedly, the youthful Californian Jost ground as a result of returning to the courts too soon after her operation last Summer. But whether the set- back to her game will be of perma-| nent duration can only be determined as her progress In Spring events is followed. It is more than probable that Helen merely overestimated her strength and with the long rest from competitive play that she has enjoyed during the past six months, she may come back even stronger than before her exit from the field of action in France. Miss Wills probably will find her stiffest opposition to national laurels in Elizabeth Ryan, who already has twice downed “Little Poker Face.” Molla Mallory, the intrepid. veteran who came back last Fall to score over Miss Ryan for the national title after a three-year absence from the head of | the 1list, will also be a formidable op- ponent, althought many critics believe that her return to first place was in the nature of a final gesture. No feminine player ever has matched her record of eight years as national champlon, with a spectacular come- back for the eighth season after a three-year slump which indicated that apparently her star had set. The question of the ranking stars succumbing to the persuasions of the evangelistic C. C. Pyle, who is bent upon saving amateurs from them- selves by turning them into honest professionals, is another which pre- sents food for thought. So far, no feminine players have been added to his original pair, the Inimitable Suzanne Lenglen and Mary K. Browne. But this is no assurance that others will not follow in their steps before another season rolls around. Rumors have suggested sev- eral prominent names as possible addi- tions to the professional list, among them Elizabeth Ryan and Molla Mal- lory herself. It would not seem amiss for Mre. Mallory to accept an attrac- tive offer should it come her way, for {she undoubtedly has scaled the { helghts in the amateur world and the down grade Is never as pleasant as the upward climb. ‘Whatever mav be the outcome of the national events in 1927, fans are assured of an interesting season, with many probable exchanges of position. We venture to prophesy a comeback on the part of Helen Wills. This is not a dissertation strictly upon women in sport, but one that | may chance to interest them, especial- {1y those who have the responsibility | of shaping the ideas and principles of sport groups in schools, colleges or clubs. Coach Denny Gildea of the Everett High School, in Boston, received a most generous Christmas gift from the Fileld Corporation of the high school, not as a bonus for the winning foot ball teams he had turned out, but, to use the principal’'s own words, “as an expression of the appreciation of his work during the past Fall. Far more than the fine work of the team It now seems almost certain that the Walford club, defending champion, and Marlboro will fight it out in the | play-off for the Washington Soccer League title. Led by Pollock, oals, Marlboro yvester- day routed Army Medical School boot- ers, 8 to 0, to virtually clinch fir honors in Section 2. The match be- tween Walford and Monroe elevens in Section 1 was postponed because of the muddy pitch. In the game that attracted the larg- fighting Rosedale eleven went down, 1 to 2, before Concord hooters, and the Jatter still have an outside chance to overcome Marlboro in Section 2. The other two matches also developed keen battling. British United Club, that has shown marked improvement re- cently, fought Fort Myer to a 1-to-1 deadlock, and Clan MacLennan, with 'k McGinity playing a_great all- ound game, scored its first league triumph over Rockville, 7 to 5. Although yesterday’s games were the last on the league schedule, It probably will be at least a month be- fore the booters doff their uniforms for the season, as a number of post- poned engagements are to be played and competition completed in the cup- tie tournament. N SPORT E FRAZIER: a splendid thing to show good sports- manship. It is best of all to play the game with an actlve consclence.” To play the game with an active conscience. The coach who teaches this principle to his players is not merely turning out good athletes. He is making men. Fitting them to play the game of life with a consclence, for if they learn the value of practic- ing self-control, sacrifice, team play and honesty on the athletic fleld they are building character which will not fail them when the scene of action shifts to office or workshop. And to the coaches who have girls to train the same thing applies. The coach who puts character above all else in drilling her squads is molding women who will honest and well fitted to play the part of teammate in the home or of the level-headed business woman. The sense of fair play is a quality which must be developed while the char- acter is in the formative stage, and athletic coaches, more even than par- ents themselves, have the opportunity to develop this trait. And this is the answer to “What price sports?” Sometimes parents are apt to become impatient with Mary or John for their enthusiasm in la’s punt went stralght up in the| | had a very | boys. be broadminded, | °red My 25 Years o Princeton in_the Spring | up all active con- | exXcept that T \mes that Fall, | work seri’ | T left of 1912 and gave nections with foot al officiated in a few though never taking the ously. | Much to my astonishment, Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson appointed me | United States appraiser of merchan- dise at the port of Philadelphia. Never, | up to that time, had 1 taken an active | part in polities. though 1 had been a | areat admirer of the President at| Princeton. He always wos interested | in foot ball and whenever 1 met him | on the campus he would stop and ask | how the team was coming on. Shortly after I got in the customs service the Secret b the Treasury asked me to serve on an \efficiency committee to examine the various United States appraisers’ offices throughout the count 1 spent a very Interesting two years traveling | all over the United States and visited every port of entry of any size in the | country. | 1 was astonished to find there were customhouses in wll the principal cltles of the countsw—inland as well as on the coast. 1 always associated customhouse with salt water be {fore T got in the service. Now I was surprised to find United_States government collec considerable duties in all the large Middle West- | ern citles. The reason for this was | to facllitate the importing public. On the whole, I think it can be fairly said the customs service has for years been well run. Compared to munic ipal government, Uncle Sam is effl-| clency personified. Again Feels Call of Game. | 1 missed foot ball very much indeed and in the Fall felt lost without it. So much so that I went out to Swarth- | more and coached the team in the Falls of 1916 and 1916. Swarthmore was just outside Philadelphia. I could leave my office by 8 o'clock in the afternoon and get to the fleld in time for practice and had no difficulty in getting home in time for dinner. We strong team in 1916 and afayette and the Unive won from sity of Penn Saturdavs. record for a school of not over 300 They had fine foot ball tradi- tions at warthmore and, while the material is limited, their record eve Fall is impressive for a college of its size. | After President Wils elected I resigned my government po- sition. I wanted to take an active | part in politics and found my n_ym.l pathes more with the Republican | barty. So it certainly was not fair | o hold office under a Democratic | President. on was re-| After my experience 1 ’ the customs service I am convinced | the Democrats are wrong on the tariff. The low cost of production of | many forelgn goods even before the | war was simply astounding. We do | not want to be surrounded by a Chi- nese wall, but we can never effective- lv operate here in absolute competi- tion with forelgn manufacturers. ‘War Ends All Foot Ball. | The war put an end to all foot ball. | But there is no doubt athletics made | the job of developing the Asmy much | easier. The boy who played foot ball | said, n the Gridiron BY WILLIAM A. ROPER, HEAD COACH PRINCETON UNIVERSITY XXX—My Coaching Days at Swarthmore. JOHNNY POE, ‘Whose memory lives at Princeton. or base ball knew how to handle him- self and made a good soldier or officer. | Gen. Leonard A. Wood told me him- self fhat he found the foot ball play- ers always made good in the Arm: Starting from Johnny Poe, thei names are legion. lven a year or so ago the commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Lejeune, told would like to have any members of our Princeton teams who ted to go into the Army or Navy come to the Marine Corp: “It been my experience,” he hat a good foot ball player makes a good officer.” Without claiming that foot ball works miracles 1 can emphatically say that a first.class player simp cannot be a cad, a bully or a crook. If the war taught us nothing else, it hould have taught us that. Men whose youth holds no training in the ethles of manly sport grow up to be men who can drown bables and shoot unarmed civilians for fun, and men | who have graduated from foot ball and cricket play the dirty game of war so cleanly that it almost loses its instinctive horror. There is not much room for debate on this point, at least. T have never met a man who was a real foot ball player who did not have qualities which went far toward re- deeming his defects. (Covyright. 1926.) TEX’S NAME LINKED WITH THIRD LEAGUE By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., December 27.— | The proposal, advanced by New York | representatives of major base ball league, to lease or buy the two-year-old $2.000,000 Uni- versity of Pittsburgh Stadlum as a playing fleld for a contemplated Pitts- | burgh entry has aroused considerable | comment. i The pwpfl.\ ne! as n mitted o the board 8 & whole, but many of the 30 trustees evidenced an attitude of “listening” to any offer which might benefit the university in a monetary way without hindering the college's use of the structure. One took an opposite view, declaring that use of the stadium for professional base ball should not even be consid- Another trustee, as well as a num- ber of base ball men who know the dimensions of the stadium, asserted its playing fleld was entirely too small for base ball. ‘Barney Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburgh _club of the National League, d he had no knowledge of the project and “less interest.” Charles (Deacon) Philippe, hero of the first world series of the Pirates more than 20 years ago, Was among those who sald they did not see how a third league could pay, because of sports, which may seem out of propor- tion to their love of books. If Mary and John happen to have the right sort of coach—and most of them are that sort today, then let them become as enthusiastic as they will over their games. They may learn something on the athletic fleld of far greater and more permanent value to them than they will ever glean from Ovid or Vir- gil, as valuable as these studies may be as stepping stones to culture. MATMEN WILL STRIVE FOR PLACES ON TEAM Washington’s amateur matmen will engage in an elimination tourney January 4, under the auspices of the ‘Washington Canoe Club, to deter- mine, the grapplers who will repre- sent the Capital City in an intercity meet with Baltimore. Matches in all classes will be held. Entries close Friday, December 31, with W. D. Havens, 2500 K street. Entrants may register with the South Atlantic branch of the A. A. U. with Marvin H. Markle, Central Y. M. C. A, Baltimore, ROUGHNESS IN SOCCER IN BRITAIN DEPLORED By the Associated Press. ETON, December 27.—Foul play in the combination association and rugby foot ball matches at Eton has become so prevalent that the committee has :ldopted drastic rules for its preven- on. Every foul is to be charged against the team whose member commits the foul by giving the opposing team a free kick, in the hope that the advantage of dellberate kicking will be questionable. If this prelim- inary restriction does not prove fruitful the offenders are to be or- dered off the fleld. Viscount Furneaux, son of the Earl of Birkenhead and one of the keepers of the fleld, in a statement in the Eton College Chronicle de- plores the “alarming increase in un- to see in the house ties (games) at we value the square sportsmanship and moral training inculcated by him. It is a fine thing to win games. It is € Eton_deliberate kicking and % which would not cast Yuster m fifth-rate soccer club.” fair play,” adding, “it is dlltrel!!ng‘ the enormous initial expense. The third league interests offered $2,100,000 for the stadium, it was said by the trustee who gave out word of the offer. The answer given, he said, was if the New Yorkers would put the proj in writing it would be sub- mitted to the board of trustees. This was several months ago, according to the trustee, who sald nothing more had been heard from the promoters, one of whom was said to be Tex Rick- ard. RESIN CURBS HITTING IN NATIONAL LEAGUE NEW YORK, December 27 (P). a projected third ||| me he | AT YORK TOMORROW Charley Guyon's Easter High bas- ket ball squad leaves tomorrow around mnoon for York, Pa. to meet the York high team there tomorrow | night. Allentown High may be encoun- | tered by the Lincoln Parkers the fol- lowing night, although Coach Guyon says this team probably will be en- | gaged along with a number of other {nearby Pennsylvania - high _school | fives on a foray into the Keystone State to be made later this season by |the Light Blue and White. | " Besides Eastern the only other schoolboy five hereabouts listed for action this week is Central High, that has carded a game with the Blue and White Alumni for Saturday in Cen- tral gym. THREE PIN TOURNEYS UNDER WAY TONIGHT Play in the elimination rounds of three blg duckpin tournaments will | get under way tonight on the drives lat Convention Hall, King Pin and | Arcadia at 8 o'clock. In the tourneys for men at Con- vention Hall and King Pin 82 surviv- ors of the qualification round _will strive for substantial prizes. Pin the upper and lower sixteens will be determined and both will bowl through further rounds. At Arcadia the woman bowlers will | shoot at the little maples. Sixteen | of them are to enter the e mination | 10 COMMANDMENTS WRITTEN FOR LANDIS By the Associatsd Press. KANSAS CITY, December 27.—Ten commandments, intended as sugges- tions for Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. have been prepared the Linwood Boulevard Church here. Dr. Stidger, who formerly occupied a pulpit at Detroit, announced the commandments Jast night in connec- tion with a criticism of Judge Landis for revealing details of the investiga- tion of the records of Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker on _information fur- nished by Hubert (Dutch) Leonard. the most part on Dr. Stidger's con- ception of court procedure as applied to base ball regulations and, he said, on his knowledge of the sport and his friondship for Cobb and Speaker. He told of hecoming acquainted with the players while at Detroit and said he | heldthem in the highest regard as sportsmen. | "The first commandment urges Judge | Landis “not to leave it to the public |to decide that which you are paid | $65.000 a. year to adjudicate.” | "'Eight commandments are devoted |to a plea for careful consideration of the evidence, carrying the theme that | “a reasonable doubt of any man's guilt is the basic principle of legal | procedure.” The tenth warns against “discharged and disgruntled players.” ~ The Evening Star S CLUB BOY BY SAM BARRY. (Basket Ball (‘nllch at University of lowa). In catching the basket ball a player must meet it and watch the ball until it §s actually in his hands. Don't stick the fingers out at the basket ball. Catch it with the fingers slanting elther upward or downward. Hands slightly opened. If the pass is high the fingers will POSITION OF HANDS — (2)TO CATCH a HIGH PASS will slant down. The english on a ball varies and the receiver will not catch it in the same place each time. The fingers, wrists and arms should be relaxed until the ball is actually in the hands. The force of the pass is taken on the heel of the hands and is gripped by the fingers. The arms and hands should give with the ball, just as they do in catching a base ball. If you do otherwise you “fight” the ball. You can readily see that if the play- er has to drive his hands and arms outward he will continue to fumble. That is what we coaches call fighting the ball. The action of the game is so .fast that the coach doesn't always know why such and such & player is con- Pitchers came back with resin-dusted hands in the National League last season. The home-run total for the league found the lowest level it has touched since 1920. As against 634 homers in 1926, the eight clubs bagged only 439 this year. Circuit hitting was steadily on the {increase before the resin bag came back last season. With its return, the “Jackrabbit” ball passed ott. Thus the home-run epidemic, which had spread to an alarming degree from a modest total of 261 in 1920, apparently is definitely curbed. Run-making and general team hit- ting also saw a decline. A winning team average of .290 prevailed last season, as against .307 the year be- fore, while there were only 11,755 hits this year, as against 12,495 the sea- t!,g" before. Runs dropped from 6,165 | HAWKINS MOTOR CO. Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street 1333-37 14th St. Maln 5780 RADIATORS, FENDERS MADE_AND 310 13th N.W. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F 1423-P. REAR. son;Essex Owners!! Please Note Our New Service Station Capacity 90 Cars In Rear 1121 19th St. N.W. Pot. 860 HOLLAND MOTOR CO. Showroom 1636 Conn. Ave. tinually fumbling. But the plaver would know if he would ask himself if he were catching the ball correctly, according to the formula given above. (Copyright. 1926.) - RUTH’S ALL-TIME HOMER RECORD APPEARS SAFE NEW YORK, December 27 (#).— Babe Ruth may bow to Rogers Hornsby next year in their metro- | politan home-run hitting race, but the Yankee slugger’s all-time fence- busting record appears safe. Since /1915 Babe has amassed a total of 356 | round-trippers to 191 for Hornsby. { sl b PRO COURT LEAGUE. STANDING OF TEAM | | Cleveland . | Washington’ Philadelphia W Yor o b Fort Way Rochester Baltimore LAST NIGHT'S RESULT. New York. 39: Washington. 32. GAMES TOMORROW. Gleveland at Baltimore. Cintars ai*kort Wasne. GAMES WEDNESDAY. Cleveland at New York. Rochester at Chicago. . GAMES THURSDAY. Fort W, Efrtorund w Pnifadetenia. Semi-Annu At King | by Dr. William L. Stidger, pastor of | Methodist | The commandments are based for | Races as Result BY GEORGE CHADWICK. EW YORK, December The base ball public 3 look for a concerted drive by the conservatives of the major leagues to deflate the world serfes money bags and end the awarding of cash prizes to teams fin- ishing in the first di result of the astounding s story 1 nay | Cobb and Tris peaker through the mire of an alleged “fixed” game. Base ball will be in a healthier situ- atlon, so the conservatives say, when the world series is reduced to fits proper place in base ball, and not made a greater objective than win- ning a big league pennant, and when the players are asked to play ball for thelr salarfes and not for bonuses in order to win their honors. Many men interested in the welfare of base ball have watched with appre- hensfon the money-mad scramble for the right to play in the world series | money. It provokes animosities be- tween club owners and tends to cheating on the part of the players who have not been in the habit of having large sums of money, and who become “local mlilllonaires” for the time being by the acquisition of $1,000 or so. Money Has No Place in Race. The earlier days of base ball con- vinced smarter men than some of those now controlling clubs in the na- tional game that money had no place in a pennant race, and that its up- rightness must be developed by bring- |ing forth the fighting spirit of ball | players without paying them more than actual salaries to come down to the finish as they should. In the world series of 1919 that | odorous compound of poisoned sport resulted in the expulsion of players of the Chicago Americans who were d¢ clared to have been bribed by New The share going to | | York gamblers. the teams finish $39,062.46, The Clevelandgelub won | half of it.” Cleveland had sétond place | firmly established before third place |had been settled. The third place clubs received $26,034.96. This mone; was shared by the New York Amer- fcans and the Chicago Cubs. Each player of the second place | clubs in 1919 received about $500 and leach player of the third place clubs | received "about $550. The race be- tween Detroit and New York for third place was more protracted than that for the championship and for second |place. In the scandal evidence made was inferred that the September 25, Washington's professional basket ball team, beaten 39 to 32,in an extra- | period game by New York Celtics | here last night for the second time this season, left today on a Western trip that will continue until January 8, when Cleveland will be met in the Forest City. The following night George Marshall’s proteges will play hosts to Baltimore at the Arcadia Auditorium. No league games will be played this week by Washington. Tomorrow night the locals will begin a series of exhibition games in Ohio, at Lorain. Wednesday night they will stack up against Cincinnati. The next night Akron will be visit- | ed and New Year night the Washing- | ton team will engage Canton. Jan- uary 3, Ray Kennedy will lead his tos- sers against the Youngstown team in that city. Washington will play its first league game on a jaunt on January against Fort Wayne. The next night will find the Capital City boys taking on the Warren team in that Ohio city. On the succeeding two nights ‘Washington will encounter its stern- est tests, being carded to swap baskets with the league-leading Cleveland team. Kennedy’s charges battled the crack Celtic outfit to a 31-to-31 dead- lock for the regulation game last night, but the invaders from the big period that was not to be denied to win the stirring struggle, 39 to 32. ‘Washington started strongly and ran up 7 polnts before Nat Holman and company registered. During this time Washington had generally out- classed the visitors. The local five maintained a_big edge throughout the half, which ended 19 to 11 in its favor. In the third period, however, the Gothamites with John (Broadway) Barry, who had been jumping center, shifted to guard and Dutch Dehnert inserted at the pivot job, began to find themselves. With Jonny Beck man breaking loose to score a number | Conservatives Oppose Award of Pri Third and Fourth Clubs in League Pennant t | week which dragged the names of Ty | and for second, third and fourth place | g in the race was | | public last week by Judge Landis it| town unleashed an attack in the extra ! |EASTERN FIVE PLAYS |CASH FOR WINNERS ONLY AIM OF SOME MAGNATES to Second. of New Scandal. 1919, game between Detroft and Cleve land was have been ‘“thrown' Detroit by Whe Cleveland club in o der to glve Detroit third placs. O | course that would have given the | Detriot players enough extra eash Ipay their car fare home and a it more. Alleged Cause for Dicker was sure to Detroit_club help e, the eland was to he D and money former Detroit pitche evidence about the gan to be trying to ma | the reason for the d | ween Cleveland and Detroit players t | which the latter club was to win. | Despite the fact that [ t | that game, the New York elub g ithl money. It i so quite corta that the Septer | Detroit and Cleveland, which was ti otween them for the year, wou 1 third place, althoug > had a third Leonar ing on it. On the same day ¢ leged ed" New York club defes letics, 4 to 0. On September | York lost and Detroit won. T+ | lowing day Detroit won again, b New York won a double-header froin Philadelphia. On September 8 De troit defeated Chicago and was bax in the fight again for third place On September 20 New York wo from Philadelphia and clinched thir place. Hughie Jennings was manager o Detroit at this time and with s tean which was not going very well he finally got the players together an: for the greater part of August th Tigers were running neck anc with Chicago. On the last Ex trip Detroft backed up and dropped to fourth place. Meant $550 Per Player. 0 per player to tk clubs finishing third in 1919 may no have actuated any betting, but it ac tuated a “benefit” for Detroit, aocord ing to the testimony of Leonard, b which Cleveland was to trade over t. Detroit. Whether Leonard’s testimony is be lieved or not, it has at least prover that there can be a motive for gam: “trades” so long as there is money in volved in first division places. This {8 the point on which the bas ball conservatives will argue, and apparently they will do plenty o talking In the coming months. (Copyrigh ) PALACE FIVE GOES AWAY TO PLAY EIGHT CONTES also getting the range, the visitors soon knotted the count at 29-all. A foul shot put the Ceitics in front but Saunders came back with a fleld goal to give Palace a one-point lead Then Dehnert, in the act of shoot ing, made. his first, but missed the second and the contest went intc overtime, WORLD WALKING MARK CLAIMED FOR ITALIAN MILAN, December 27 (#).—An Ital- fan, Callegari, has put forth a claim to 'a new world walking record of 1 hour 38 minutes 531 seconds for 20,000 meters. Callegarl was clocked §n that time after his first claim to a record was refused because of faulty measure- ments on distance covered. The best previous accepted time of 1:39:22 was made by N. Petersen of Denmark in June, 191 SOCCER SCORING RECORD IS LIKELY TO BE BROKEN NEW YORK, December 27 () A goal-kicking soccer record is in the making, it developed today, n sta- tistics for the American ILeague showed Dave Brown of the New York ants well out in front, with 37 tc redit. 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