Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1926, Page 12

S PORTS. THE EVENI NG _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1926. SPORTS. More Allegations of Irregularities in Base Ball May Be Laid Before Landis BUSINESS HIGH FIVE |[LANDIS MAY BE TARGET TO TACKLE ALUMNI OF WHOLE SCANDAL CASE Commissioner Accepts Ri sherg close More Alleged Crookedness—Cobb and Speaker Plan Secret Conference. ated TAGO, December ribuan, 3 today ‘hoard 1919 ba hanquet ¢ over bo i + table rks appar: rs banned the up. in it told i've t 10 ¢ involve Mentions the 1917 Se a1d 1 up about that 191 do vou n hearing vinced the 1 in t when I admitted t they would: “What's, the all you get to save open weren 't before. They ing on me, but A, of talking mow, aberry hus s the r: its face, up your [& ner Landis was “out” to reporters last night, so no comment was forthcom om him on this velopment in the dal precipitated by Dutch Leonard's Arges abb, ris Speaker @ Wood had guilty kn fixed” game played land and Detroit Septemb Landiswas dly uncommunis tlve earlier in the day concerning The | | closed-door conference he held with Navin, president of the De- Tizers, who slipped Into town rday morning, was closeted with - commissioner for some time, and then departed apparently for home. The commissioner, however, has ac- cepted the challenge of _ Charlle | Swede) Risberg, one of the White Sox ostracized s a result of the 1919 world series furore, who finformed Landis, through the newspapers, that he could tell him some things about rooked base ball. Landis wired Ris- berg, who is operating a farm near | Rochester, Minn., to come to Chicago wnd tell what he knows. “The earlier, the better,” said the commissioner’s telegram, which of- fered to pay Risberg’s expenses and | “fair compensation” for his_time. Risberg said he would take advan- of Lamlis' offer to hear his He plans to come here in or three days,” he said. Accused Plan Conference. At Detroit, Cobb, Speaker and Joe | Wood, the three men most vitally af- fected by the latest charges of base ball dishonesty, planned to meet in a secret conference with their | torneys. James O. Murfin, Univer- ty of Michigan regent, who repre- | sents Cobb, said the conference might { last two or three da | Since Cobb and Speaker have | placed their case in attorneys’ hands, | they have refused to comment on de- velopments in the case. Cobb would | not even discuss the statement of Fred W Detroit ball park attendant, who d_the money Leonard says he Wood bet on the game. The statement was that the money general plac and w Ban Johns: American League dent, W another interested to the affair who continued to the “I-Have-Nothing-To- which now has a member- which includes _Commissioner President Navin, _Cobb, Wood, Leonard and evert pre party in | actually was laid on a horse race. | l | in Risber; TOURNEY BOWLERS IN BIG PRIZE CLASS It is now merely question of how much money the bowlers will get in the several elimination tournaments being conducted by the Washington alleys. At King Pin the field in both championship and elimination classes been reduced to four, only remain in the running at Conven Hall, and at dia but two woman duckpinne: shoot at the little 1 All are to share in the pri ors in t Pin tourney Moore, all, s and the mpionship section Simmons, Wolstenholme | ion group. | s running at Convention tosenberg, Mul- roe, Mandley and Harrison Lor and Doris Goodall will battle > Arcadia tonight in the final of elimination event. In the semi-fi d last night Lorraine toppled while Doris hit the wood for a count of 301 FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. | By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Eddie (K. 0. Burnbrook, Baltimore, knocked out Bucky Lawless, Auburn (3). BUENOS ATRES.—Julio Mocorroa, Argentina, defeated Antonio Ruinz, Spain, European featherweight cham- pion (12). CULVER CITY, Calif.—Everett &trong, Omaha, beat Paul Parrish, Los Angeles (10). |SPEED SKATING STARS M. A. TITLE TOURNEY NEW BURG, N. Y., December 31 (#).—The Middle Atlantic speed skat- ing championships here tomorrow are expected to provide brilliant competi- tion. Among the entrants are: Charles I. Gorman of John, N. B, world champion; Valentine Bialas of Lake Placid, international outdoor cham- pion, and O'Neill Farrell of Chicago, | national outdoor champion. COLUMBIA’S TITLE QUINT USES team that knows atch, pass and think I can am that knows ‘trick” pla and strategy in th imental ity's basket ball ing up the at made him srward_in Colt team the t Winter’s Co- n title. mbia’s explains ary 1e oi simy i ch pends topnotch the full the captained the latter year, tumbia squ K keync sy cham- Coach the city rts rs pionship in t the me Know s s do al that th game. hanics of th Starts in November. ris his se g track. 1 in ruuning the Coach Mes ember December co; and p: % pelled by wo shots shot, eas t ow one Engli fancy ta lumbia < of these Prince vy'w to 11. In the Lit her stride ) 18, scoring Aftdshipmen und @ Qualter 18 ade lefy, while the With 2 minute via Lusabia Q C son in | In| pro- | only | A SIMPLE SYSTEM twas still ahead, 29 to 19. In just venty-five seconds, the Navy scored 11 points and won the game, 30 to 29. “You can’t win every game, Meenan comments, philosophically, “put if you drill your'men in a simple and speedy style of play and get them into prime condition you'll win most of them. BRITONS TO MAKE BID FOR SOME RING TITLE LONDON, December 31 (#).~+British | | boxers have flung their hats into the | ring and declared their determination | | of bringing home a championship belt of one kind or another in 1927. ngland is undergoing an unprece- | @entea boxing revival. Fights are held | in London every night and sometimes in the afternoon. Provincial cities are | experiencing a similar awakening, as | the promoters have passed the word around that fighters must keep de- edly on the move from now on or angland will be lost sight of alto- gether in the pugilistic world. very village has its_fight club, | with the hope that a Jess Willard may be developed from among the farmer boys. Phil hampion, | states to get British heavyweight going to the United me pointers; Tom | Heeney, too, is sailing soon, and Elky | Clark, who is already there, hopes to | gain a lot of cash and glory against | La Barba in his New York fight. | “George Cook. the Australian, is an- | other hope, but most of the wise- 1cres pin their faith on Scott. Several dark horscs also are now in training, | with a world championship as their e 'TUNNEY WILL FIGHT FOR HIGHEST BIDDER ¥ the NEW nney ¥ Scott, is 3 cinted Press. YORK. December 30.—Gene | stened to answer the call of | gain today with a “very lib- from Promoter Humbert J. | to defend his heavyweight championship here next Fall under to resume his a_conference e no decision until he heard from | r matchmakers. | “There are only two leading pro- | moters in the East,” he said, evidently ing to Te: ‘and T am after the best offer.” Although Tunney sald he are who would be selected to meet s had Jack Delaney of Conn., in mind for the didn’t fdgeport, match. Tex Rickard, who has most of the leading contenders tied to con- had no conference with the champion. ARGENTINE BOXER WINS. 0S AIRES, Argentina, De | cember 31 (P).—Julio Mocorroa of Ar- | zentina defeated the European feath- e ght champion, Antonio Ruinz | ot Spain, on points in a hard-fought 12-round bout here. Rickurd and Fugazy, | ) S BILL DureIN Coach o} the Haverjord (Pa) H.3. HIT THE CROSS-BAR OF THE GOAL POSTS 3 TMES IN SUCCESSION FROM THE 40 YARD LINE. Inventor qf the Movies JUMPED {672 FreT WITH HIS LEGS Tiep ToGeTHeR. BELIEVE IT OR NOT. TeoN BATTSTA, ALBERT) (d ‘4 NEW YEAR'S EVE CHILEK EiSEnBERG D‘ng :20 BOTTLES ILSNER BEE: IN 4 Houre, A HUGO SLOANE WALKED 2% MiLes EACH HOuR FOR 1000 Haurs Lancashive HEAD COACH PRI T arrived at Lexington, Va., Septem- | ber 1, 1903, to take up my job of | coaching the Virginia Military Insti- | tute foot ball team. Hammond John- | son, the captain of the team, and | three or four other trim looking | cadets met me dt the train. I was | given a room in the me hall and ! told I was to get my meals there, room with the young- re re- cent graduates of Virginia Military Institute. 1 naturally was anxious to get to work and asked when we could start foot ball. Much to my regret, I was told that the fool ball squad could not get out on the field until 4 in the afternoon and that we had only an hour a day to play. I met -the foot ball squad on the parade ground that afternoon at the allotted time. About 35 candidates turned out for practice. They were a fine looking lot of boys, not very heavy, but it did not take me long to see that they were in the best physical condition. The regular life and the strenuous drills kept the cadets in splendid shape all the time, and there | was not the same need for e: long | practice sessions that one finds at the ordinary school or college. First Coaching Lesson. Right in this practice session, I got my first important coaching lesson. I was the only instructor on the field with about 35 players. I soon found out what a real job it was to keep them all busy, even if the practice period was a short one. While I showing the backfield how to or hold the ball, the linemen would be standing around wasting valuable time. When I turned my attention to the linemen, the backs seemed to have nothing to do. It hardly seemed to me that practice had gotten started when a bugle blew and the whole crowd raced off the tield. The captain told me they had just 15 minutes to get ready for dress parade, which explains their haste. When I got back to my room, I started to figure out what I had done on the field and it seemed to me that very little had been accomplished, mainly because I had not been able to keep the entire crowd busy all the time. I decided then and there that the mext morning I would plan out very carefully on a piece of paper just what I wanted to do on the field in the afternoon. I spent most of the next morning making out a prac- tice schedule, putting down what each man was to do ev minute of the time. 1 also made a canvass of the younger officers and found that one or two of them had plaved on the | team the year before. 1 immedintelv | and help coach the squad. had found out after one perience what a real job coach men single-handed. Smoother Practice Results. Practice ran off much smoother the next afternoon and I felt a great deal more sure of myself. I kept my sched ule of practice in my back pocket so that I could readily refer to it, and we really got a zood deal of work done. The difference in the practice in those two days convinced me how important it was to prepare a sched- ule in advance of exactly what was to be done on the field. We played our first game about the end of Stepember. The team was in splendid condition and our opponents were not | so we had very little difficulty win- | ning. Our first big game was sched- | uled for the middle of October against the University of North Carolina. Herman Olcott, who had played cen- ter at Yale while I was playing at Princeton, was coach of the North | Carolina_team, so 1 felt pretty sure I knew in advance just what sort of a game we were up against. Of | course, scouting was not as developed |as it is now, and if I had wanted to | scout them, T had no one to send to see them play. I took up a great deal | of time on ‘the field explaining the | Yale tackle-back play to the team and showing them just how 1 thought it should be stopped. I told them I felt sure this would he North Caro- | lina’s plan of attack. What was my chagrin and astonishment to_find when the game opened the North I already it was to XXXIV—My First invited them to come out on the fleld | C | ing | back for the next I My 25 Years on the Gridiron BY WILLIAM A. ROPER, ETON UNIVERSITY Year at V. M. BIG BILL EDWARDS, Captain of team when Roper first played at Princeton. Olcott didn’t use the Yale tackle- back at all, but instead a simple system of offensive play with the rec backs in a parallel line. All my time and energy on the defense against the Yale attack had been wasted. As a matter of fact, it had done positive harm, because I had spent so much time showing my line how to shift on the defense that in me they became confused when - opponents did not play the way I said they would. Disappointed by Defeat. ® The Virginia Military Institute team put up a good fight, but North Caro- lina played better ball and won by two touchdowns. 1 was,tremendously disappointed at losing the game, but tried not to show it. After the game, 1 went over to sce Olcott, the North rolina coach, and asked him how was he didn't use the Yale system of attack. He said he felt it was a bit too complicated for him to teach alone and as he had some fast run- ning backs he used an offense he thought best adapted to his own material We had hardly gotten back to Lex- m when a severe epidemic of typhoid_fever broke out in the town. The Virginia military authorities very wisely decided to close the academy till it was over. My foot ball was over for the year. Before I left Lexington, greed to come 1. I liked the place and also the boys. The North Carolina defeat coming as it did right at the start of the season, made me particularly anxious to get another chance to show that T could do better. FOREMAN IS IN PHILLY FOR TREMAINE CONTEST Another chance at the big time money will be given Al Foreman, crack featherweight boxer:of Wash- ington, when he meets Carl Tremaine ot Cleveland tomorrow in the semi- final bout of a New Year day card at Philadelphia, Foreman left Washington for the Quaker City today, completing his training for the Tremaine bout at the Arcadia. Tremaine, a veteran mitt pusher, has been one of the leading challengers for the world feather weight championship and is recog- Carolina offense was entirely different from what I predicted. nized as one of the top-notchers in the diviston. : s LACOSTE IS HOPING TO INTEREST TILDEN coste, tennis champion of the United States and joint first ranking player of France with Jean Borotra and Henri Cochet under yesterday’s ruling forward eagerly to “Big Bill” Tilden's European invasion. Tilden is coming to France around the end of next month and is credited with the intention of competing in the Riviera tournaments, the French hard- court championships at St. Cloud in May and the British championships at Wimbledon in June. “We will try to make it interesting for ‘Big Bill',” said Lacoste. “I feel certain he will be a tougher nut to crack in 1 than he was in 1926, and I wouldn't be surprised if he trimmed us all here this Summer." Jaques Brugnon somewhat sa castically remarked: “It's about time Tilden showed us something on the courts again, instead of in the new: papers with his pen or typewriter. At any rate, the former champion is assured of a warmy welcome, both | from officials and players, if he comes to France, and the Riviera club man- agers are Tubbing their hands in glee |at the thought of the crowds his pres- ence will attract. GRID THRILL PASSING, SAYS YALE ALUMNUS By the Associated Pross. EW HAVEN, Conn., December 31. he thrill of foot ball is rapidly passing among Yale alumni, in opinion of Matthew A. Reynolds, member of the City Board of Finance. In a communication to the Yale Alum- ni Weekly, Reynolds, who is secretary of the Yale class of 1894, says of alumni: “We gradually are adopting the calm attitude of the Yale captain, who can take defeat as a matter of course, of the head coach who can non- chalantly spend the second half of the Maryland game watching the Yale team slaughtered while he sat in por- tal 10, behind the goal line, and of the news editor who endeavors to con- vincd us that the foot ball season just passed wasn't so bad after all. “Possibly we have all been in error in taking the game so seriously, but it must be admitted that the thrill is passing.” GRID CLASH SUNDAY. Mohawk Preps, defending cham- plons, will engage Northern Junior gridmen Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Union League Park for the city 115-pound crown. It is expected to be the last foot ball game of the season here. The firm grip that sports taken on the German people is lauded in an officlal report, which says that between 15 and 20 per cent of the population between the ages of 14 and 50 participates in athletics. The fig- ures do not include students in public schools or universities. Approximately one out of every seven inhabitants, including men, women and children, is an active member of an athletic cjub. The Ger- man Turners alone have a member- ship of 1,500,000. The sport clubs which are united under the super- vision of the Olympic games com- mittee number more than 1,000,000 athletes. Fewer players saw service in the American League during the 1926 sea- son than the year previous. There were 243 players entered in the 1926 box scores, while a year before 264 got their names in the records. This season 99 of the registered players were pitchers or classed as such, as |compared with 102 plavers who were | listed as twirlers in 1925. The major league rules permit each club to carry 40 players until the season is a month under way, when the rosters are trimmed to 25. Again in the closing month the clubs can increase to 40 again to enable them to look over newcomers. Heredity has played its part in pro- Aucing § new generation of boxers in | fending title holdes PARIS, December 31 (#).—Rene La- | | man of Wi of the Tennis Federation, is looking | | Georgetown the | a| Business High basketers, beaten vesterday by Tremont A. (., 31 to 24, today were to engage a combina- tion made up of alumni of the school. Evans, Rivers, Ford, Daley, Connors and Ferguson were among the old grads expected to get action. Business put up a keen fight before succumbing to Tremonts yesterday The Stenographer were ahead, 16 to 14, at the half, but Tremonts gained the lead a few moments later and held it. Ciango and Brown for Tremonts and Keefer, B. R. Jones for Busines worthy exhibitions Western High / gave lumni easily down ed the varsity team of the West End school, 53 to 32, vesterday. Gs McDiarmid, Frisby, Dulin and Heagy played strongly for the old boy while Buscher and Wilson were most consistent for the varsity. Central High Varsity basketers probably will have their hands full tomorrow afternoon against the Blue and White alumni. A formidable combination has been gathered to represent. the grads by Eugene Casey, treasurer of the “C" Club. The game will be in Central gym, starting at o'clock. YOUNG NETMEN PLAY IN TOURNEY FINALS BALTIMORE, Md., De Alphonso Smith and Eddie Jacobs of Baltimore were to engage Henry Johnson and Malcolm Hill of Boston in the junior doubles final and Wilbur F. Coen, jr., of Kansas City, was to tace Sidney Wood of New York in the boys' final today in the national junior and boys’ indoor tennis cham- plonship tournaments at the Fifth Regiment Armory. Smith and Jacobs conquered Frank Shields and Everett Smith of New York: Coen defeated Henry Clabaugh of Baltimore and Wood vanquished Billy Jacobs of Baltimore vesterday in the semi-final encounter. All the matches were decided in straight sets Julius Seligson of New York, de- who vesterday overcame Edward Jacobs of Baltimore in the semi-final of the junior singles, 6—4, 5—7 will " meet Frank Shields ew York tomorrow in the final. Shields, who last season was national boy champion, downed Henry Johnson of Boston yesterday, 6—1, 5—7, 6—4. An interesting feature that will climax the net carnival will be an exhibition bringing together Bill Tilden and Neil Sullivan of Phila- delphia and Edward Jacobs and Al- phonso Smith of Baltimore. SPORT STARS PERFORM FOR VISITING FRATMEN Lillian and Loretta Cannon of Balti- more and Dale Fisher and Albert Ly hington, famous swim- mers and divers, last night gave an xhibition at the Jewish Community Center for the benefit of the Alpha Omega Fraternity, which held a smoker there on the first day of a four-day convention. An exhibition of boxing by the pro- teges of Jim McNamara, physical in- tomorrow | structor at the center, who is active amateur boxing in ting feature. in promotion of the city, was an intere Chapters of George Washington and niversities are enter- taining the fraternity for the conven- | tion, the high spot of which will be |a grand | night at ball to be held tomorrow the New Willard SUZANNE IS CUT OFF OF FRENCH NET LIST By the Associated Press, PARIS, December Lenglen, French tennis cently turned professional, women's in France for made public by the French Tennis Federation Paul Feret, another who turned professional, nored in the men’ Although Rene Lacoste captured both the American indoor and outdoor championships this year, gaining uni- 1 recognition as the world'’s No. ver, the federation placed him on even terms in the French rati ith Jean Borotra and Henri Coclet Didi Vlasto and Helen Contostavlos share first place in the women's rank- ing. Borotra won the Wimbledon cham- plonship, but lost to Lacoste in both American ‘tournaments. Cochet won the French championships and also distinguished himself by eliminating “Big Bill” Tilden from the American outdoor title event at Forest Hills, N. Y. 31.—8 TEX GETS YANKS' PARK. NEW YORK, December 31 (&) The line of march in Tex Rickard's heavyweight parade will lead to Yankee Stadium next Summer. The Madison Square Garden promoter again has leased the American League ball park for outdoor shows. T0 HOLD ATHLETIC NIGHT. Members of the Aloysius Club will { attend an athletic night to be held to- morrow at Gonzaga Hall, 43 I street, at 8:30 o'clock. C. E. Cornell will be BRIEF ITEMS OF SPORT have | America, says Georges Carpentier, who | admits, | have come new men of iron, them-| | selves in charge of the program. The affair is open only to club members. concedes to the other side of the Atlantic a vast superiority in the fistic game. In the last few years, Carpentier the old ‘‘unbeatables” have disappeared, but to take their places ! sons of fighters, who are| endowed above all with a tremendous ability to take punishment. “That is all there is to it—to take punishment,” Carpentier declared, “and the Americans are the greatest masters of that ability. Hit them as hard as you can for 8, 10 or 15 rounds; your arm will wear out and it affects | them little.” { Four sets of brothers, with a little help at left guard, left halfback and fullback, composoed the Midland (Nebr.) College foot ball team. Three of the pairs were regulars and the other pair broke into the line-up fre- quently. Two of the pairs played side by side in the line, while a third com- posed the regular center-quarterback combination. George and Henry Monnich held down the left wing of the forward wall, while John and Paul Cunning ham were on the right flank. Loren and Wallgee Graham were at center Jones and | note- | Tau | uzanne | tar, who re- | s not men- | ranking | Hints Are Growing Louder That an Attempt to Play ! Balked 1 BY JOHN B. | EW YORK Hints are this sector “ ball that an | base ball polit | against Commissioner Landis in | Cobb-Speaker-Leonard scandal. which has far from sizzled its last sizzle. There are some “insiders” in base ball who think that all the details in the case were prearranged Judge Landis in a hole, and that balked those who sought to make trouble for him by calling | down when it was unexpected If such were the intention on the part of any one, the ball com missioner flattened it out, be was the first to bring the stor FOSTER. December grow louder of « itte: s was direct base the base ball fans. The theory now latest insinuations ndal, attached to “Swede" Risberg, former Chicago White Sox shortstop, who was booted out of base ball as a result of the 1919 world series scandal. fori Lapter in the at Judge Landis, Risberg Stresses Challenge. { Risberg, can name * are crooked.’ the point that the Commission “Landis and the big b ball don’t want to know the facts, at the same time that the Commissioner is being roundly censured by some people—including many who hav been noisiest in the pa in base ball—because he has placed is advanced ball th s the name of inother ard on allenge to Cobb-Speaker case squarely before the public. It is apparent that Jud withheld any decision in regard to the APITOL Atheletic Club's bas- ket ball squad will play a prac. tice game with the B.Y. P. U sextet Monday evening at the Wilson Normal School gym- nasium, according to Florence Skad- ding, president of the C. A. C. Players of all three of the Capitolites, teams are requested to report, as frequent substitutions will be made during the contest in order to give all of the toss- ers a workout The final selection of the personnel tof the three sextets to represent Capi- | tol A_C. in the Recreation League and District of Columb League series will be mad Coach ing the regular practice period in the Wilson Normal € The list of officers selected to lead the Washington Recreation League during 1927 shows few changes over | the 1926 group. Mrs. H. R. Scudder | was re-elected president, Lot Sul- livan will continue as first vice presi | dent, Dorthy Greene will act as second | vice pr y Ca secretary | and Margaret Cr treasur | Miss Craig also will have charge |of the physical examination of play- | ers, and M ss Sullivan will take on the additional duties of basket ball | director. Managers of all teams in the |are requested to commun with Miss Sullivan, if they have not |done "so already, giving her their {gym dates and signifying which ries they expect to ente; s Sul- van can be reached at 1 Phone Potomac 3 should be sent by man: Craig, 1022 Eleventh street st, before the second week in when the schedules will Senior squads will be assessed a fee of $8 and junior sextets $5. On this last day of 1 be well to cast a along the sport highwa 12 months among girl ue | 1 926 it might ward glanc of the pa and wome {they are playing ] the local circles within the partures in old sports that give them a novel flavor. An organized polo squad of the fair sex, compeiing with out-of-town groups, both men and women, is per- haps the most spectacular addition to the local playfields. The first archer tournament, bringing a revival of an age-old sport to the Capital splash of color to the pictur Then we have our first fair basketers ving under boys ainst me bers of the opposite sex. Also have four local hockey players jour- neving to the scene of the foremos hoc sic of Ameri active part in the preliminary stages of that event, putting Washington on the hockey map for the fi time. We hear the crack of the rifle, echoing the first national gallery championship brought back to this locality by members of the fair sex. And crowning all, we have that out- standing event among sportswomen which though not purely local, still was staged on our own Potomac in the shadow of the Capitol—the first speed-hoat cla ely for wom- | en and the major cup race won by a woman over a field of male com- | petitors in the speed-be S much for the first to these the iner on the part of local women timers group of a n the fa RADIATORS, FENDERS RODIES MADF. 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This was all ve secret in manner, but it was going on and base 1 writers from minor league cities in pos sion of names and rumors of some concealed letters aid would turn base wave ntion in Ashevile, league men | ball upside down. that L | political warfare aimed | ¢ | e the results of his investigation in the | games or throwin | e Landis | black and white and not m | | | | | | |and pick out from the host of games |4t 100 targe adds a | hoc > | ters of the royal ana Lionel Levvy Tuesday evening follow- | | wood, | voted to the 18 holes Suit Would Develop Facts. “Duteh” ation ball brought dama Leonard has than commi: more i has given to the foner, & may b out durin civil suit fo es which it has been indicated obb and Speaker may bring to cle their names. ¥ Leonard has no addi tional information, that fact would de velop. If any of the Detroit playe peddled around the gossip about ¢ during the past vear or so, th could be established in the eve the players were called as wit nd in th: the players y y would be a by Judge Landis wh s of base | they did not come to him instead of ttering rumors manner. There is nothing organized base bal would like so much as to have Swede in a mysterious t for publicity | Risberg or any other ball player wh knows anything about dishones ames go to Com t once. The commis wants everything it > gossip missioner Landis sioner, however (Covyright. 1926.) WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER miliar sports of basket ball, tennis golf and swimming and we have the reasons for claiming this to have been a banner vear for our women in sport. 126 GOLFERS LISTED FOR $2,500 TOURNEY By th , December 3 X mas- ncient pastime entered for the first round of the ,500 open golf tourna- ment today, which is a preliminary of the Los Angeles $10,000 open The galaxy of contestant seorge Duncan, British s Von Elm of Los Angeles Smith, veteran Scot, who his way to many titles; Mehthorn, the Evanston flash: Bobby Cruickshank ew York, Joe Kirk- the alian ciam- pion and now ew York, and a host of others from some 15 States and Canada. The best of them have something to shoot at on the Virginia Country Club course since George “Joe” Martin, the Virginia pro last Thanksgiving set up a new record of 64 for the par 71 The Long Beach open is a three-d: avent, today and tomorrow being de- qualifying play, from which the low 64 and ties will emerge for the 36-hole final flight Sunday. Scores in the qualifying 18 wre included in the championship flight, making the play 54 holes for the purse. WILL SHOOT FOR APPLES. Home-grown apples will be awarded est marksmen in the handicap shoot < tomorrow afternoon at Washington Gun Club. -One hundred included Mac Wild Bill' 1 o'clock ports that made their debut in| The apples will be donated by retiring cear or de. |officers of the club, who will be en tertaining in honor of the new officers, who will ba installed during the after. noon. - LA HOCKEY NO CHILD'S GAME. NEW YORK, December 31 (&) oot ball has nothing on professional for injuries. 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