Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1927, Page 26

SP ORTS. SIGNED WITH MACKMEN + IN 1906 AT AGE OF 19 j;.lsed Name of Sulliyan to Protect Amateur Status With Varsity Team—Singled Off Walsh in Big League Debut, N the Sunday Tollowing Tabar day, 1906, T met Manager . Connie Mack in the old Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York Qity and &lgned a contract ball with the Athlatics the Bext season. 1 was .19 years old. The interview was arvanged, by | Billy Lush, manager of au indgpend- ent team at Rockville,. Conn.,.where 1 had played for several weeks, : Dur- | g my vacation that Summer T also d piaved at Red Honk, N. Y., &nd at Plattshurg and _Rutland in the Northern Lesgue. “Thatwassmy first professional experience and Ihad met with consiflerable success. 1 had hat ted over .400 for the season and had fielded fairly well at-shortstop Several times <during the Summer | I had been solicited by one of Mack's scouts to sign with-him. I-did not Fhink I ever could learn to play well nough. 10 .hold a major, league job, nd as 1 did not care to bacome a Smere minor league player 1 turhed | “the scout down. The day hefdre our .geason closed Lush, the scout, toid Ime.Mr. Mack had asked him tg pring Me’in’if he first had to handcuff me. Wo T agreed 'to go and see what he “had to say. i Made Side Agreement. # I :did. not sign until ‘the Athletics’ teader had made a side agreement not 0 trade, sell or farm me to any minor feague club. ‘Having nothing to do until school opened, T'accepted an in- Vitation to go to Phfladelphia, prac- tice a week or so and then make the last Western trip with the A's. . _The day I reported Boston was the visiting attraction, and Connie’s office was full of reporters. - He.saw me be- fore they did, jumped to the door, partially clostng it bhehind “him, “and said loud enough for them to hear: “Hello,: Sullivan, go right dbwn to the olubhouse. Glad to ses you.” Then he_explained in an undertone that I was to go away at once and work out only in the mornings, lest I be recog- nized. 1 was the captain-elect of the Columbia team for the mext season, and he did not want me to risk dis- covery. That is how I.came to play my games that season under the name of “Suilivan.” . However; the' ruse did not save-me. 1.was reported and lost my captaincy, but was made coach in- stead, the, only instance I.ever heard @f where ‘an undergraduate coached 3 Many Youngsters in Party. ~ .On fl-m,t?v.our ufl;;rx:.“a h:ux;le)_ posed .of young p) e ing, among s&em (gg , Coombs, Armbruster, c | “The White Sox r the pen- game in, were fighting desperately g:z nant, and- we were beat never in my life Wive ¥ run fi’:" 1 did, then"pripy, Wag 4g frst 1 had_ehtered, Cql b, PGS &.m_\i sixteenth ;%-vgvghg{:’% r games was with the Nefg York Elants. and for threo reasons_that grme stands out vivldly in. my “piem- ar The New_ York team ‘of that season contained ability as well a8 1 any glants -’in stature, among them Mathewson, ~McGinnity, Me- n, Bowerman, Bresnaban, Dahlen, ylor and others. ~. B A i ‘Made One. 0“&" Hits. In our game. McGinmnjty pitched against us and allowed biit two hits. 1 made one of them ‘I considered yself quite -a her5® Another time at bat I indirectly bu§ unintentionally changed Roger ‘Bredhahan from a third baseman to a cdtcher. In his previous experience Roger had pitched and played the outfield as well as the infleld, but his favorite position was third: bage. -As he was big, fast and strong fhat Jooked like his spot. On the occasfon I mention- ed, 1 hit -the. ball. toWard third, and | in fielding jt Bresnahan siipped, hurt | Bry Twenty-One Years of Base Ball " BY EDDIE COLLINS. 1—My First Season his knee and had to be helped to the bench. Another reokie came running ont and took Roger's place. lHe re mained there eight. seasons. lle was Arthur Devlin, a brilliant player, and naw a_coach for the Boston Braves ahan finished the season in the outfield and then went hehind the | plate to hecome one of the great back- | stops of his time. 1 i 1908 Do to help pay wuse. I needed the money my expenses during my last ' college’ vear. I consider it strange that in those few weeks 1 should have played with Heinie Zim- merman, Dick Rudolph, Jack Barry, the Hartman brothers, Bruce, the Indian? Carney, Deringer and one or two others, ail of whom reached the major leagues’ later. Played With Barry Six Years, For -six vears Barry was my able and loyal partner on the A's infleld Zimmerman was on two opposing teams in world series and Rudolph beat us twice:fri the 1914 series with Roston, while Dave Shean accom panied me to Philadelphia, we having played side by side all Summer. Until 1 jeined the Mackmen 1 had seen but one major league game in my life, that being the second of the world_series of 1805, which T watched from a seat in the left-field bleachers at_the Polo Grounds. Phila- @élphia_won, mich to my distress Little did I dream that T would one L “Hello, Sulltvan—Gi day -be an aotor in a drama of ke cbaracter, yét.in less than a year I, was & member of the victorious {Tamorrow: Fidgety Eddie Plank. . (Copyright. 1027.) LUQUE ENTERS STAND +T0-PUNISH BALL FAN _HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 3 P Adolfo. Luque, Cincinnati Red pitcher; climbed'into the grandstand yesterday to reach a spectator who criticized his pltcliing in° a* Winter league game: Police intervened before Lunue reach- ed the fan, _° The Havara Réd Sox, playing agaihst Luque's team, the Alacranes, touched- the Cincinnati star for four runs in the seventh inning. A fan accused ‘ Luque of giving away the game, and the pitcher rushed from the playing field to reach his tor- mentor. Luque’s team lost, 6 to 3. Since his_arrival home after the close of thé major league season Luque Kas been managing the Ala- cranes and taking a regular turn in the box. % lad to_See ¥ou Jerry West, right halfback, has been_elected_captain of .Penn’s 1927 soccer eleven. SALT WATER FISHERMEN . HAVE SUCCESSFUL YEAR HE fishing season of 1926 was unique, bringing enjoyment to thousands and, at the same time, keen disappointment to as many others. A-sharp con- trast was drawn een the. fresh and salt water anglérsgand,’for once at least, the salt water fishetmen had & much better average. W When the season opened for. the large and &mall ‘meuth 'bass Tast Spring there were a few days of clear water in the Shenandoah and Po- tomac rivers, but tively few angle only a compara- took advantage of it. The large rity, who have to wait upyil their Summer's vacation, and many of those who do not. put off until later in the Spring and Sum- mer to make their trips to the bass streams, with the result that they were out of luck. Muddy water, the real enemy of all fresh, water anglers, provied their hoodoo.. dtihas Been many years since the :bass fishermen have had such a conditigh‘te eopdtend with. i | On the other hand, the salt water anglers experiéfced oifé df “tHe best seasons in a ang. period: ¢ At the start of their sgason. the Jhardheadg were plentiful and of gopd Size. ' As the season advanced hhuefish * fnide rance dn large munmers in ake Bay ‘and its trihutaries. | the bay: af ¥meg“seemed o be fairly alive with these game. fsh, and many lines and, hgoks were dost. Then, to add to the érfjoyment af the } deep-water fishermen," téaiit “and “stripers,” or wockfish, furnished ex- cellent sport right up {o the, gnd, of the season. d Basin Project Progresses. During the past vear the project to make the Tidal Basin the best muni cipal bass fishing pond ig. theUnited States went forward epcouragingly First, the fish racks to-prevent the, escape of bass from-the basin were installed. These racks -were ton- structed by the Army Engineers from specifications furnished 'Ly . Glen C. Leach, chief of the Division of Fish Culture of the.Bureau. of Fisheries. Then steps were -taken. to rid basin of some of its undesirable fishes, mestly - earp, ‘but #ftde triale with & big seine. net and .gill nets, it was decided that only a comparatively few of thesé fish were in_ those waters, e The next, step--that, of panting game fish immediatelyi—was started and has been“going off all during the the } O'Malley, U. 8. Fish Commissioner, placed an order for 1,000 adult bass, which wilt ba planted in the basin before ice makes its appearance. During the past year members of many -Virginia fishing hunt clubs formed a protective nciation to help give fish and game the protec. tion needed for their conservation and propagation. A motor boat be- longing to the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries was Joaned this association by “Commissioner O'Malley, and the Board of Game and Inland Fisherfes of Virginia detailed W. Harry John- son, game warden of Arlington County, to take command. This boat pow is in commission trying to break up the illegal practices of many in re- gard to game.and fish along the Vir- ginia shore line of the Potomac. Just before the close of the session of Congress the Hawes bass Dill, prohibiting the interstate shipment of these game fish, was passed. This bill is not national in , but merely assists those States & a bass law in enforcing it and | prevenuing 1 other States. Basin last 7 bass being shipped into Boathouse Sought. parkp of the National ¢ inciud ed in his estimates submitted to Con gress Yor the next flscal year an item {for the crection of a hoathouse to re- place the old one now being used in the Tidal Basin. He intends to have as well: The boats for those desiring only a little exercise after office {hours will be provided with sliding seats. For the convenience of fisher- men, he intends to have a live box placed in the basin and.a supply of {smelt and other live bait always on | hand. the past year, despite the fact that' bass anglers were disappointed at not being able to whip the waters of the many bass streams for their favorite fish, ean be called a mighty successful gne in every other respect, and the best part of it is the fact that “many steps were taken looking | to.the future development and propa~ | gation of fish. A recent visit=to the fish wharvi and fish dealers developed the fact that & great many bass are offered for sale in this city. There is no luw prohibiting the sale of bass in the Dis- trict, but there is a law prohibiting ‘thei shipment through Virginia, and the. attention of ‘the authorities of ! Summer and Fall:menths. Duking the .| possible, ohserve started playing professional ball | | boats for fishermen and non-fishermen ! THE EVENING RICKARD IS CERTAIN HE'LL SIGN TUNNEY By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 3.—Tex Rickard packed his grips for St. Louls today, assuring friends he would re- turn with the contract of Gene Tun- ney for a world heavyweight cham- pionship battle next September at Yankee Stadium. Rickard departs Humbert J. Fugazy, who has enter- ed into a race with the Madison Square Garden promoter for Tunney's signature. is expected to hit the same trail a day later. Since the cham pion has made it clear he seeks to settle the promoting’ duel as soon as s here look for defl the end of the tomorrow and nite before week Tunney already admits that Fugazy as made him a ‘“‘very generous of while Rickard admits his price “will bhe plenty." Boxing men close to Tex say he may go as high as £750.000, the check he drew In favor of Jack Dempsey for the Sesquicen- tennial battle. action ST. LOUIS, January 3 (P).—Gene | | Tunney helieves his~ meeting here nest Thursday with Tex Rickard, will result favorably to ides and that the scene and approximate date of his first hout in | defense of the championship will be | ready for announcement. The conqueror of Jack Dempsey, fulfiling a vaudeville engageme: here this week, sald he was ready to meet any one selected for him pro vided he Is a logical contender. Reports that Rickard was prepared to offer him $750,000 for a champion- | ship bout at the Yankee Stadium next | Fall. however, brought forth the ex clamation, “That's a_lot of money when I look back and recall what T earned when I fought my first bout in Paris.” Bt . BIG SPORT AFFAIRS LISTED FOR GOTHAM By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 3.-The in- door athletic season of the Metropolis will leap into high gear this week with a world championship billiard match, the year's first major track meet and a fistic conflict, featuring the junior lightweight champion. First of the big events to claim the interest of fandom will be the veteran Willie Hoppe's attempt to regain the 18.2 balkline diadem tilted from his brow two years ago by Jake Schaefer of Chicago. Eric Hagenlacher, who succeaded Schaefer on the throns last March, will risk the title against the 39-year-old master in a 1,500-point match at the Hotel Pennsylvania, starting Wednesday night. The match will be played in thres 500-point blocks. As Hoppe and ‘her con- clude their cue duel Friday night, Tod Morgan of Seattle, junior lightweight fistio king, will make a sortie into the lightweight sector. He has drawn an aggressive and rugged foe in Phil McGraw of Detroit as a starter, and the outcome of the match will be viewed with interest as indicating Morgan's possibilities as a potential lightweight challenger. They will go 10 rounds, unless the route is abbre viated by a knockout clout. The starting gun for the gallop over the boards will bark at the 106th Infantry Armory in Brooklyn, where stars of the track are entered,in a miget of the Knights of Coluibus. A 39f-yard: race for the Gov. $mith tro- phy tops the list. In the contesting pack will be Vincent Lally, a winner of many titles; Ray Clark, former Yale runner; Jimmy Burgess of Georgetown, former quarter-mile champion; Alan Helffrich, world's 600- yard record holder; Cecil Cooke of Syracuse University and Al Williams of New York University. NOT CERTAIN THAT GRID STARS HEADED FOR ARMY NEW YORK, January 3 (#).— Athletic authorities at West Point have characterized as ‘‘decidedly premature and ridiculous a report that Morton Kaer of Southern Cali- fornia, Wild Bill Kelly of Montana, Jim Underhill of St. Mary's College and other outstanding stars of the 1926 foot ball campaign had won ap- pointments to the Military Academy. Maj. Topthorne, head of the ath- letic department, ‘explained that ap- pointments wouild not be made for seven months, and that there was no indication the players mentioned would pass the entrance examinations. MOHAWK PREPS RETAIN 115-POUND GRID TITLE ohawk Preps are still the class of 115-pound elevens of the city. The Little Indians brushed aside their last ohstacle to the title yesterday in scor- ing over Northern Juniors, 13 to 6. The charipfons trailed until the sec- ond period, when they unleashed a strong attack that carried them to one touchdown in that session and anoth- er In the third period. Fry and F. Dellar scored the vic- tors' touchdowns, the former running Ensor went over for North- | LEWIS AND MUNN MEET FOR MAT BELT TONIGHT By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 3.—Ed (Stran- gler) Lewis has put up his $10,000 dlamond belt, emblematic of the heavy- weight whestling championship, for the victor ‘n_his match tonight with Wayne (Big) Munn. Nearly two years ago Munn tossed Lewis out of the ring in Kansas City and claimed the title when Lewlis was unable to appear for the third and deciding fall. Lewis broke his left arm last Fall, forcing postponement of a_match at Los Angeles with Joe Stecher, claimant of the title, and this will be the first severe test Lewis has given his arm since the accident. ADDS A BIG AUTO RACE. MIAMI, Fia., January 3 (#).—An- mcement has been made by Carl G. { Fisher and James A, Allison, owners {of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, | Indianapolis, Ind., that in addition to the annual international 500-mile race held each May thers will be in Sep- tember a 24-hour contest for $15,000 for vehicles powered with oil-burning motors. | GRID STAR IS KILLED. GARY, Ind., January 3 (#).—Lou Usher, 35, former all-America tackle, was killed mear Calumet City., IIL, when_his motor car collided with a bus. Usher was an all-America choice two years while he played with Syra- cuse. NEW YORK, January 3 (#.—In play-offs of tles of handicap golf matches, strokes must be taken on the same holes beyond the eighteenth as in the main round, The United States Golf Association has announced a ‘ruling to that effect, clarifying a month of Novamber a greafsmany |that State-has been directed to this |situation which has troubled tourna- adult bass wéré planted. Henry L3 matter. ment officlals the country over, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, WHEN HE GRADUATED TO PRO RANKS Here's a likeness of Eddie Collins taken in 1906, when at the age of 19, he was leader of the Columbia University base ball team. CLUB BASKET BALL FIVES ARE GETTING BUSY AGAIN A busy week for independent bas- keters will begin tonight on several floors, with court contests scheduled every other night. Lightning A. C. will meet True Blues tonight in the Hine Junior High gym. Tomorrow night a brace of the strongest inde- pendent teams about the Capital will play, with the Anacostia Eagles, last year's independent title holders, tra- veling to Frederick, Md., for a return engagement with the Frederick team. Eagles have already won one game fl"lls year from the upstate aggrega- tion. Olympic Seniors will meet the Na- tivity A, tomorrow in the Nativity gym at 9 o'clock. Washington Wonder Five, with an aggregation of mem who starred on other crack eourt outfits last year, up- set the Original Stantons in the Gon- zaga gym, 21 to 18. Epiphany Roses, Company F of Hyattsville and\the Arcadian girls were winners In & triple-header at the Arcadia. Roses won from Park View, 22 to 16; the Hyattsville Guards- men romped away from St. Martin's, 24 to 11, and_the Arcadian trounced the Western Electric Co. glrls, 28 to 7. The Roses-Park View game, by mutual agreement, was not plaved as a Washington Basket Ball League contest. Members of teams in the Washing- ton Basket Ball League will meet to- morrow night to thrash out severad questions of importance. Continuing on their winning way, Anacostia Eagles hung up an impres- sive 39-to-14 victory over the Comets in the Congress Heights auditorium. With Jack Smith leading the attack, Eagles jumped into an early lead and were never headed. Boys' Club Celtics garnered a senior league contest from the Elliotts, 31 to 22, In the Gonzaga High gym. Celtics led at half time only by 12 to 11. Kanawha tossers will meet tonight at the Jewish Community Center, and all members of the team are expected to be at hand. St. Martin’s Juniors trounced the Boys' Club Orients at Germantown, Pa., 20 to 18, a second-half rally bring- ing victory. Seneca Juniors and Emeralds want court action. Games with the Senecas may be booked by calling Manager Clark at Lincoln 1883-J, while Em- eralds may be reached at Adams 2128, BASKETERS TO GET BUSY IN EAST AND MIDWEST By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 3.—Fast- ern intercollegiate basket ball teams get-into full stride this week with a_schedule of 17 games dashed with intersee- tional color and league rivalry. The Fastern Intercollegiate League, which launched into fts 1927 cam- paign Saturday at Philadeiphia with a defeat for Yale at the hands of Pennsylvania, will put on two con- tests. Both will be played Saturday, ons calling the champion Columbia qintet into action for the first time, with the Princeton Tigers as its op- ponents. The other skirntish takes Dartmouth to the Yale court, where the Eli team will attempt to score its first league triumph in thres seasons. Intersectional clashes on the week's goal-tossing bill of fare bring together Rasey Best Man Dribbling Ball BASKET BALL BY SOL METZGER. There are many uses for the drib- ble in basket ball, though there is no fundamental more difficult to master. So true is this that some coaches have practically abandoned it as a means of offense. Today the leading tutors empl t, men like Meanwell, at Wisconsin; Meenan, at Columbia; Romney, Utah Aggies, and Sanborn, North Carolina. Anw one who has ever watched Mannheim, Columbia, or Rasey, Minnesota, dribble, will agreé that this stunt is most effective on of- fense. Rasey had the art down to a cold science. He would go down the floor at full speed with his eyes on the court ahead, apparently feeling the ball. Like all good dribblers, the fingers of his hand used to slap the ball were well spread. Also, he kept the ball directly in front of his middle line, as in the il- lustration on the left, and he bounced it so that it rebounded ahead of him and arose to his walistline. That enabled him to catch it and pass or shoot when « pressed. No basket ball art is quite as thrilling as the art of dribbling because the dribbler not only has to keep his eyes on the court ahead, but also has te know the lay of the land to his rear. And as he rushes at full speed his slap of the ball must be most con- stant so that his hand will always find it at a certain place. (Copyright, 1927.) Ohio State and Pittsburgh at Colum- bus, Ohlo, and Wisconsin and Syra- cuse at Cleveland, both tonight. On Wednesday, Pennsylvania will invade Annapolis to face the Navy in an- other outstanding tilt. CHICAGO, January 3 (#).—The Big | Ten basket ball season opens tonight at Minneapolis, with Minnesota and Illinols, two of the squads having more new players than almost any other in the conference, playing the curtain-raiser. At the same time, three other Big Ten fives will be playing their last practice contests, all on the home floors. Chicago meets Iowa State, Northwestern plays a return game against Notre Dame and Ohio State tackles Pitt. Temorrow night In- diana meets Carleton College at Bloomington. “Two of the four teams which tled for the conference title last Winter, Towa and Indiana, are of almost equal | promise this Winter, while Michigan |§ and Purdua, the others of the quar- tet at the top in 1926, lack several of last Winter's star point winners. The Wisconsin five is a veteran combination, but Chicago and North- western will have to get along with- | out some of thelr best men, due to flunk notices. Ohio State has about the best pre-| season record of the conference, with victories over some strong Eastern teams and a smooth-working comhina- ion. 5 The other conference teams swing into action agalnst each other Sat- urday night. FURMAN'S 1927 ELEVEN WILL PLAY TEN GAMES | GREENVILLE, S. C., January 3 (). —Furman University, Which won | the South Carolina foot ‘ball champlon- ship the past season, will play 10 games next Fall, as follows: September 24, Duke at Durham. her 2. North_Carolina State: 8. 15. Georgia (place . Oglethorve at Atlant; oV Wake Forest: 12, S Carolina: Citadel at Charleston: (Thankegiving). Clemson. BEHR, YANKEE NETMAN, WINS CANNES TOURNEY CANNES, France, January 3 (®).— Allen Behr of New York, who caused a sensation at the opening of the Riviera tennis season by carrying Jacques Brugnon, French internation- alist, to deuce sets, came out vieto- rious in the Reausite tournament, which ended vesterday. Showing superb net play, he defeat- ed Charles Aeschliman in the final, at 6—3, 3—6, 6—4, 6—4. 1,518 SET AT TENPINS ROLLED BY DENVER DUQ| DENVER, Colo., January 3 (®).— Two tenpin bowlers of the Pubiic Service League team rolled 1,518 in two-man competition = here. They 5, | H re- | Mona JANUARY 3, 1927. ANOTHER NET TITLE GAINED BY LACOSTE By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 3.—Rene La Coste, French holder of the American lawn tennis champlonship, now holds the indoor tenn! champlionship of France. Plerre Landry, the rising star of the French courts, brushed aside Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon on his way to the titls, but was stopped by the machinelike La Coste in the final, at 8—8, 6—2, 8—8. La Coste was not as steady as usual, however, and looking over the correspondent’s shoulder as the latter was totaling the point scors, said “Don't_tell me I made that many er- rors. What—43 nets and 52 outs? T must have played ilke a novice.” “Please don't send that to the United States.” he added banteringly. “They will think I have gone back ter- ribly In steadiness.” La Coste had pralse for Landry, whom he termed a hard player to gauge. Asked as to his plans, he said “I intend to take things easy all Winter. Iam not going to the Riviera, as I don’t want to reach the St. Cloud and Wimbledon tournaments already stale, with a hard campaign awaiting me in the Davis Cup and United States champlonships.” UZCUDUN’S VICTORY STARTLES CUBANS By the Associated Press. HAVANA, January 3.—Cuban fight fans were still talking today about the sensational victory of Paolino Uzcu- dun, FEuropean h weight cham pion, over Martin O'Grady of Cali fornia. The men met at Almendares Park Saturday afternoon prepared to go 12 rounds, but the “Tiger of the Pyre- nees” scored a knockout after only one minute of fighting. A right to the jaw and a left hook to the body finished O'Grady, who was already groggy from punishment. As the latter blow landed he sagged for- d with his knees widely apart and his head dropped to the canyas be- tween his gloves. He was counted out while his body waa off the canvas. 0'Grady was warned three times by Referes Fernando Rios for hitting low, but explained after the fight that he was so dazed by Paolino’s first blow that he did not know what he was doing. The blow in question was a terrific right to the head, which Paolino, who was a woodchopper before he began his ring career, is pointing for a match with Gene Tun ney. Efforts are being made to mateh him against Antolin Fierro, Cuban heavyweight champion, or Floyd John- son for another return to New York. POST OFFICE GIRLS TOPG. A. 0. BOWLERS ‘With the second series of the schdule in the General Aceounting Office Ladies' Bowling League con- cluded, Post Office leads with a two- and-a-half game advantage over the second-place Controller Generals. Kellogg of Controller Generals has been doing the best duckpinning having an average of 962 for 39 games. League statistics follow: League Records. LY HS 1 1. 1 i 1 v Computars .. udit P. & T V. B. Audit. Augit Cont.. High averages General). 98,31 Owen (Check Accountin). — Kellogg (Comptroller igh games—Cardin (Post Office). 126: Kellogz (Comptroller Géneral). 12 a13: ! ay and Travel, rant (Bookkeeping). Office). 310. relc (Post Office), 13; Kellogs ptroller General), 11. Spares—Hellogs (Comptroller General), Awnunlbl;l 46. Office, 1.392: Individual Ree | POST OFFIC gden Newkirl BOOKKEEPING. .. 42 312 3 114 3 Soattern® o 4 E85mes, 7 Ba3a33 a Owen . Graham ! Nuenhahm 53 FEF < 230 ororsusuRa 29 rdcs ETPS v EI=FRs e L. mi Jones . Thompson Planthaler Magrud 2 [Siriet=to- SO R Y commnome § moncusna o it § i . g 79 182 AUDIT CONTRACTS. e Owners!! Please Note Cur New Service Station Capacity 90 Cars In Rear 1121 19th St. N.W. Pot. 860 claim a record. 'The scores ‘were: Roy Johnson.. 223 225 269717 George Skeen, 252 259 2 !_01 shook the Californian’s eatire frame.| ht here before his BY JOHN B..FOSTER. NEW YORK, December 27.—Titlel as the original “little black’ satchel” carrlers in base ball seems abouty ready to be conferred on players and,| tormer players of the Chicago Whit Sox Some interesting base ball historyd Hes back of the charges of “Swede'™ Risherg and the reply of the accuse White Sox players that the *“pool' made up for the Detroit team in 1917 | was a “gift" to them for defeating the Boston Red Sox, the principal con- tenders with the White Sox for theg pennant in that year. In 1917 thers wns a 6tory cur rent in base ball that the White Fn; players, out of the goodness of their’ hearts, had paid a bonus to the pitch- ers of the Detroit team to defeat the Red Sox. Chicago feared only Boston in the race for the pennant. Ball players had dona this before. Away back in the, eighties players of one team which had a fine chance to | win a pennant had been known to | say to players of a team that didn't have a chance: “A ten-spot if you lick that other team.” Mind you, players were not heing asked to throw games. Far from it. They were be- ing asked to win games by turning on all the steam in their ‘systems. Onwers Disapproved Practice. Owners of base ball clubs did not like this sort of thing. Conservative crities disapproved of it and declared that it was a practice so unsound thag it would lead some day to an offer of the wrong kind and on the wrong side of sport. Sopa of the yarns which have been current about the bonuses paid by ball players unquestion ars pure Risberg’s Charges Recall: lent—Dislike of!BlacktSox fortSchalk and Collins May HavesSignificance. ollins Spurned First Bids to Enter Professional Base Ball 21 Years Ago “GIFT POOLS” IN OLD{DAYS WERE COMMON PRACTICE System: Formerly Preva- £ hokum,: foredt-ds mot.an easy- matter to separate anyyp! ‘om his meney if it 1s to be. paid to another bail player for doing-that:which the benus xlv;r'{hlnkl the other+player-is hired to do. In the 1917:race led on September 1 by the following ures: Games icago 83, 76; games lost—Chicngo 47, Boston 47. It the Chicago plgyes as berg has declared, arranged with Detroit to of four gam capture the serf n September ed by the clubs 3,:}:1 3, then the Chicago players were about the biggest cowards approaching an end of & pennant race that ever play- ed in the American League, for they were leading Boston by points, which is the:equivalent to a week of the season. Chicago Consistently Better. On September 15 Chicago had won 93 games and lost 48, while Boston had won 83 and lost 53. If the White Sox had lost the four questioned games to Detroit, they would still have won 89 games and have lost 52, and this would have given them a half week's lead over Boston, with a fort- night to play. In other words, Chi- cago played better base ball all the time than Boston, notwithstanding the four igames which Risherg has brought into the additional scandal evide: In passing it also may be mentioned that in giving his evidence Risberg implicated other players, among whom are two, Eddle Colling and Ray 1k, who were disliked to the poin vsolute hatred by the “Black Sox" 919. Collins and 3chalk were the two White Sox players who were most suspicious of those players in the 1919 world series and expressed their opin ions openly. (Copyright 1927.) KING SELLS RACERS T0 RECOUP LOSSES By tha Associated Press. NEW MARKET, England, Janu- ary 3—King George was able to re- trieve some of his losses on the flat racing season through the sale of several of his horses a§ the blood- stock eales here. Knight of the Gar- ter of the ruler's etwble brpught 3,000 guineas, or about $16.27. The sale also included horses bought by the British !hpllm‘m Agency for export to the Dnited s;‘a’ms’ and South America. These include: Antipodes, in foal 8 Suns spot, In Tund B0 guineas: _ Mendose, 4,000 guinfas: Meriel, In foal to Salmon Trout, 630 fuineas; her colt foal, 610 guineas, and a gray filly foal to Spes, 2,800 guineas, these heing bought Yor American clients. Miss Kitchener, in foal to guineas and is to go to Brazil. The highest price paid for any horse during_ the sales was 9,100 guineas for Bella Minna, which ran with falrly good form during the last flat season. More than 1,000 horses were sold out of a catalogue of 1,167 lots, the total paid belng 435, guineas, is 82,324 guineas excess of last year's total, and a rec- ord. The British ket has never been state, experts sa; LONDONDERRY LOSES IF HE WINS DERBY LONDON, January 3 (®).—Lord Londonderry, who has but one entry |in next year's Derby, Bernadotte, | while encouraging his trainer to bring the horse up to perfection, is, in a way, hoping he does not win. To a peer, a great territorial land- lord and one of the largest coal own- ers in the country, winning of the world's most famous. race would mean an actual financial loss. According to custom all his tenants and the thou- sands of miners in his pits and all the men connected with the stable would expect Hberal bonuses as part of the celebration with such a noted event. The Derby stakes are of 100 sov- ereigns for each entry, with 3,000 sov- ereigns added. The breeder of the winner recelves 500 sovereigns, the owner of the second horse 400 sov- ereigns and the owner of the third 200 sovereigns out of the stakes. in a healthier INTERNATIONAL BOXING. BOSTON, January 3 (#).— Eight boxing vikings, four from. Denmark Orpheus, fetched 1,450 | 3 Blade thoroughbred mar- | - fmes CRIMSONS SET PACE IN'BOWLING LEAGUE Crimsons, who hold a scant lead in the Holy Comforter Bowling League, will engage the Browns tomorrow night. Team captains are urged to have their men report in time for all games to start at § o'clock SDANDING OF TEAMS. Ww. L 1 3 INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES. Crimsons. Games. St Smithai.g.... 4 1 an Atenden. 110 Cassawar. PErE A. Ford Holmes Connor Harworth | arthy [ = LIOTCVEY JoRe i ABEDD B B i rabins Poioiee:el Bonnne Finnezan Allman SrIB0 BA0DBD Srimar F) 3 pava’ i@ W. LaBille. ... R. il B ey ;hnrll!!nrd awos9 il 225088 Q'Lone 2 cormwms B oziszes i oo e sageie cpeciit eagEseiEs seegit LORODLII ABDIRBN 2200wOm DD, e LEAGUES WILL MEET. 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