Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1927, Page 30

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. - C. TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1927 SPORTS. Collins Pays High Tribute to Plank : Latest “Scandal” Is Not Taken Seriously BASE BALL MEN DISCOUNT LAUDS SKILL AND BRAIN OF “GETTYSBURG EDDIE” | I OMETHING ON THE BALL. ] Asserts Mack’s Famous Old Southpaw Was Aggra-| vating in Slab Style Twenty-One Years of Base Ball BY EDDIE COLLINS. 11 Fidgety Fddie Plank OUR celebarted pitchers formed the core of the Mack machine ade my how iws and this story of them. Eddi» Unlike Rube Waddel of this left-handed not as famous for his « other half ddie W tricities But though v man of fine chay ad many and intell peculiarities attr hande On the irritable, superstitions: restless and capricious Plank’" unique delivering the ) and aggravated beyond To eet hi A task poses, gyrati and a cha start over was ous and he would s fussed, the ignored them | pleased—and | ked to Oppose Detroit. ’ ked to pitch against Detroit He didn't bo r awford and Mc- Intyre much, made it tough for Cobb, H Rossman, and with these three out of the picture we wpsually won. T r ame he saved by pitching a sy first and last he ever threw There were two out and runners on second and third when Cobb came up, | and we were one ru to the good. Plank and Catc ack Lapp hed a conference. It wasn't much of & con-| fercnce, but i ed Tyrus. Cobb| thought he was to be passed, but there | and Sam*liked | logue: “If T get two strikes on Ty 1 am going to throw a| spitter,” Plank calmly announced Lapp nearly laughed out loud. Being assured that Ed wa in earnest, Jack whispered: 1 will be looking for | it,” and went back to his position. The first two pitches were balls, with Ty tense and anxious. Then ter, This was the “—the ball knocked he blocked if WOMEN 1 BY CORINN ALLAUDET tossers are look- | ing forward to a banner sea- son on the basket ball court with the most ambitious schedule yet attempted. The headliner will be a game with the sextet from Western yland, slated for January 15 at Kendall Green. It will be the first time that Gal- laudet’s fair basketers have sched- uled an out-oftown team and they feel especially elated over the pros- pects of playing hostess to the Mary- Janders who book some of the most prominent sextets in this section. According _to Elizabeth Benson, coach, the Kendall Greeners -have been practicing earnestly for some time and expect to put in many hours of Intensive training during the next two weeks in ,preparation for the wpening contest. Lucille du Bose has been elected aptain of the squad. Marie Parker s manager. The personnel of the varsity six has not been announced pet, but four members of the 1925 feam have reported for practice and are expected to appear in the line-up. Mary Kannapel, star forward, who has been the backbone of the team for several scasons, undoubtedly will resume her old position under the basket. Bessie Lawson and Margaret du Bose will perform again in center field and Lucille du Bose probably will fill her Wsual guard position, Among the promising players. aho have been training for positions on the squad, are Misses Eigle, Kelly, Cywinski, Weldy and Salick Miss BeMson reports that alto- gether the prospects are much bright- er than in the past. While her smaller than the wverage, and are under a distinct andicap because of the small student frora which the team must be ked, they hre working hard ake up in wergy and speed what hey lack in size and numbers Among the ot teams listed the Gallaudet schedule are sexte from National Park, the leading semi- pary aggregution; George Washing- i‘rgl over as on wo | off the field | to | > and Pitched ifter stalling around extra t o strike, catching Cobb off rd. Cobb was vexed. Next, a nice tantalizing curve, and the ball ammed down the right-field line, foul by inches. The next pitch was ball, making the count three and two | As Lapp returned the ball on that | piteh Plank moistened his fingers and no one saw him. He fiddled around changed his pose, then chan@ed back, but at last he pitched. Strike Paralyzes Cobb. hat spitter sure broke. It would \ave been a credit to Walsh, and it went over the pan for a perfect strike Though Lapp had given t had not anticipated the terrific break and the ball knocked him over as he locked it obb, however, wis | alyzed, and Jack pounced on the b The game was | It was Plank’s first and last | and touched himi out over. spitte; One of Bddie's f: to piteh to us in batting ¢ the reasons for batting practice is to increase the confidence of the bat ter by throwing straight balls over the plate. With balls straight o the batter can loosen up his swing and train his ey Plank had different. He t tice. One idea, radically batting pr: another insisted ting the pitcher. Therefore, he de lighted to pitch to us and we never | had a good ball to hit if he could help it. It did no good to remonstrate. The more we popped up or missed al together, the more he was pleased The angrier we got, the-louder he laughed, and each session of such a practice always wound up as a fine stimulant and workout for Pitcher Plank, which may have been well Besides his skill and willingness to | work, Plank had a third quality with- out which no one can go far. He had courage. “In the final ‘game of the series with the Giants, in 1913, he gave an exhibition of loyalty to Con- nie Mack and the team that required real ner Caught Cold in His Arm. Hddie had pitched the second game against Mathewson and lost, 3 to 0. Connie notified him he was to pitch the fifth game. Now it happened that in his game against Matty he caught a into a severe attack of rheumatism, settling in his throwing arm. He never mentioned it to any one until the evening before he was to pitch. Then he took Danny Murphy and the trainer into his confidence, explained his condition and asked them | to help him. “I am going to pitch that game to- morrow if it is played, Connie ex- pects me to do f2,” he said to them. They worked on his arm all night, he assured ‘them he could do without the sleep if they could only rub out the pain. Before the game time it came back, but he donned his suit and went out to the park. He warmed up carefully, and by hardly wasting a bell he held the Giants to two hits and one run, ?q e had won our third world serifs.’ ~ (Copyright. 1927.) Tomorrow—Charles Albert Bender. N SPORT E FRAZIER: volley ball, folk dancing and free games will feature the weekly rec- reation program to be conducted to- morrow night under the auspices of the local National Amateur Athletic Federation group at Central High School, acording to Gladys Mills, who is chairman of the program com- mitte this month. . Further details, together with the names of those who will direct each activity, will be announced tomorrow. The recreation hour is open to any girls or women who desire .to take advantage of the opportunity for participation in games and exer- cises under the direction of trained instructors. It is a part of the N. A. A. F. program for the en- rouragement of mass athletics among women. A fee of 10 cents is charged to defray the expenses of janitor service and lighting. On Wednesday, January 12, the entire evening will be devoted to bas- ket ball and to the examination of applicants for registration as official basket ball referees and umpires. This examination witl be held in con- junction with the recreation program by Miss Hazel Sayre of Miss Madeira’s School and her committee, which is in charge examining and registering court officials. AMERICAN SCRAPPERS SCORE OVER INVADERS BOSTON, January 4. (#).—An in- vasion of boxing Vikings failed in a series of amateur bouts here last night. Representatives of the United States swept to victory over Swedish and Danish fighters in three out of four weights but not without rugged worl rnie Schaafe of the U carried off heavyweight honors against Nils Ramm of Sweden while Gunnar Berggren of Sweden captured light- weight honors from Karl Jensen of ton University and Marjorie Webster School { The schedule January 15 January 19 Western National Maryland | Semi- 9--Marjorie Webster 4 shington. Webster Tebruary George W February 19—Marjorie Bchool at Marjorie Webster. . bruary 26—National Park Semi- Forest Glen. zton Washington at George Washir Despite the fact that the sun shone pravely rday afternoon the pla ground lasket ball courts were so yauddy that it was impossible to play | off any of the games yet remaining in the Blementary School Inter layground Leagucs. Ace Maude Purk director of g ties, the ! nished umbia Heizhts divirion = former league aud the tw played in the city cha geries will be scheduled as grounds dry out sufficient); lay possible ¥ Fu\{’:\vvng the wind-up of the basket ball loops an ll-city playground squad will be sclected and announced through this column. The selection s to have been made on Christmas d4v, but t postponement of games made it impossible, as the selection is 10 be based upon performance during the entire season | Danish fundswental Kyunastios, of the not yet 1pionship oon as the 10 make Denmark. Tony Tavolieri of Cambridge de- feated Andreas Petersen of Denmark | at 147 pounds and Billy Bruinsma of { Worcester defeated Eberhardt Han- | sen, Denmark, for the 160-pound class, Fights Last Night e Associated Press. | SWARK, N. J.—Benny Valger, France, beat Jéhnny Ceccoli, Scran- ton, Pa. (10). Orlando Reverberd, Italy, and Jack Monroe, Los Angeles, drew {10y MEMPHIS, Tenn—Jimmy King, New Orleans, won a technical knock- out over Jimmy Cox, Memphis (one). BALTIMORE, Kosenberg, bantam Benny Schwartz, | title (12). MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Joey Sangor, Milwaukee, and Johnny Hill, Philip- pines, drew (10). Howard Bentz, Mil- waukee, shaded Emil Baksic, Cl cago (10). ‘WINNIPEG, Manitoba. — Larry Coleman, St. Paul, stopped Patsy Pollock, Winnipeg (three). Bobby, O'Shea, Minneapolis, scored a techni- cal knockout over Fred Tilston, Win- nipeg (eight) FIGHT IGHT. CLEVELAND.—Billy - Wallace vs. Xeundy beat non- champlon, Baltimore, orate conceits was | cold which developed immediately | Md.—Charley (Phil)| was | sign, he | was held for the purpose of as- | RULE 30. sec.2 BY FAIR PLAY. EW - YORK, January 4.—Tex Rickard is leaving tonight for St. Louis with an offer to Gene Tunney which the | champion is unlikely to re- | fuse. The sudden activities of Rickard | presumably mean th; the so-called premier promoter i#Pnot letting the grass grow under him and means to beat Humbert Fugazy to the prize plum of the coming outddor season. Fugazy has the lease on the Polo Grounds. Rickard comes right back waving a paper proving he has the sxclusive right to stage poxing shows at the Yankee Stadium. As the know- it-alls say, the war is on and a merry time is sure to be had Now to get down to Rickard is going to t} with an imposing arr - ent. Of course, he will have a chat- with Tunney—a mere informal chat on the weather and Gene's ability as an actor. That is just about all Rick- ard’s visit means to Tunney. Any one who knows the ways of the big promoter knows that he is a_show- man and believes in publicity. But to 1g into’ line again Wash- irgton bowlers are looking forward to Saturday night's clash in Brooklyn that will end the battle between the local all star aggregation and the Spinellas. Orpheums and wondering whether little Barney Spinella will continue his phenomenal pin shooting. ‘The remarkable converted tenpin- ner who socked the maples for such startling counts here, probably would swing the match to his club should he bowl in anything like the form he exhibited at Convention Hall last Wednesday night. Although the Washington squad came out of the first block ahead in all three divisions of the contest, it holds no command- ing leads in the doubles and singles. A couple of extraordinary efforts in these divisions by the little Spinella and Brooklyn might walk off with two victories to Washington’s one in the intercity struggle. In all Iikelihood the complete ‘Washington squad will make the trip to Brooklyn‘for the final block. Al though Ilarry Burtner and Perce Ellett, reserves, failed to get into the bowling last Wednesday, they are ex pected to accompany Glenn Wolsten- holme, Howard Campbell, Al Work, Walter Megaw and Jack Whelan to the Orpheum drives in Brooklyn. In the Georgetown Church League, Peck No. 1 holds a first-place advan- tage of five games, after taking two of three games from Calvary Method- ist, although the second-place West Washington Baptists swept their set with Covenant. Arlington Methodists are in third position and Grace Epis- copal is fourth. In the second di- vision of the league the team rank ing is Christ Episcopal, Calvary Meth odist, Peck No. 2 and Covenant. With the exception of high team set of 1,572, held by West Washing ton Baptist, all of the season's rec ords in the circuit are in the posses- sion of the fifth-place Chi Epis- copal team. This quint has rolled a 590 game and De Lashmutt, one of its { members, has hit a set of 361 and has averaged 10431, Bergfeld, another st Episcopul roller, has socked game of 142 for a season's mark. failed 10 show wmuch | strength against: Mount 0dd Tellows' League, and the latter walked away with two of three games and did not need fts handicap in either of the victories. Arlingts Cornell's Lunch cooked the Meyer Davis five in a District League tilt in all three games. Cornell’s victories were decisive in each game. Packwood and National Capital Press teams triumphed in the Ty- pothetae League, the former trim- ming R. P. Andrews in three games and the latter handing Stanford Pa- BEL oy & §lmilay licking, XKling of Neho in the | | go after a match eight months be- fore he means to put it on is unlike him. Rickard does not do_ things b; halves.. Either he knows his ground and is sure of himself or he has an ace up his sleeve to trump the othe move at the proper time. Fugazy will ert every effort to stage the heavyweight championship jgmateh next Summe: But beating Rickard is still another thing. Hum- bert will have to bid high, and he will do_just that very thing It will be up to Rickard to meet Fugazy's offer, and it may be that Te has an agreement with Tunney whi the latter is not at liberty to disclose at present. In going after this fight Rickard will be hampered to the ex- tent that he may not be able to bid s much as he would wish., He is under obligation to the stockholders of the Madison Square Garden Corpo- ration. i | bl Rickard wants the match. There is | no doubt about that. Still he needs all the publicity he can get for the series of heavywelght matches he is staging in Madison Square Garden. Calling on Tudm\ey is the best means to gain that end. | HILE the leagues are swing- | Andrews was high bowler, however, with a set of 346. Nomads took the odd from Na- tionals in the Athletic Club League, staging a fine rally in the last game to score the match victory. With Schroen hitting for 139 the Nomads totaled 859 irf their last effort, Platos annexed three Arepa League games at the expense of Leonidas. Valiotes of the Platos shot 318 at an- chor to lead all bowlers. WOULD REGAIN CUP NEW YORK, January 4 (#).—Great Britain will renew its attempt to re- gain the international polo challenge cup, held here since 1921, in a chal- lenge series next September. Matches will be played probably at the Mead- owbrook Club, Westbury, Long Is- land,’ the best two out of three to decide possession of the famous trophy. : The United States Polo Association announces acceptance of an official challenge from the Hurlingham Club of Great Britain, which contained no mention of plans for assembling tho invading team. Indication has been given, however, that a combination picked from British officers in India will carry the British color: This year's series will be the ninth between the two countries since 1886, After being held for 23 3 by Eng- land, the trophy was fi brought here in 1909, when Payne Whitney organized America’s first “big four.” Devereux Milburn, a member of that team, may again rep- resent America in Its defense of the cup next Fall, Harry GENERATOR TROUBI;E? WE REPAIR ALL MAKES CREEL BROS. 1811-17 14th St. N.W. “Potomac 473 Representing 48 Leading Mfrs. of Auto Electrical Equipment and Motor Parts " RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE AND REPAI BiXTois FOR AUYOS NEW “RA WITTSTATTS R & F. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F] OFFICIAL PLAYING RULES AT NO TIME DURING THE PROGRESS OF THE GAME SHALL A PITCHER BE ALLOWED To APPLY A FOREIGN SUBSTANCE OF ANY KIND TO THE BALL RICKARD PLAYS SHOWMAN |LEWIS TOSSES MUNN IN CONFAB WITH TUNNEY eeds Some Plli)licity for i{ea;yweiglll eries He Is| taging——However, Offer He Will Make to Gene Will Be Hard to Refu IN STRAIGHT FALLS By the A e CHICAGO, January 4-—Ed (Stran- gler) Lewis settled his two-year-old dispute with Wayne Munn over the neavyweight wrestling title last night, taking two straight falls cession of crushing headlocks. Munn, who two years age tossed Lewis out of a Kansas City ring and claimed the championship when Lewis did not appear for the third and de- ciding fall, had Lewis in danger only once. He made Lewis tussle for ai most an hour for the first fall, but appeared hurt and lost the second in 21, minutes The match, in which Lewis' $10,000 diamond championship belt was at stake, drew a record Chicago wrestling crowd of 10,000 fans, and a gate of with a suc- | FRISCH WANTS $20,000 A SEASON FROM CARDS By the Associated Press NEW YORK. nary’ 4.—Sam Breadon has a fittle financial mat ter to arrange with Rogers Horns by's successor. ankie Frisch, property of the Cardinals New York-St. Louis desl brought Hornsby s he will demand a two-year contract from’ President Breadon at 320,000 a year. He Is askin Y000 more than he received as a Giant Breadon traded Hornsby York when the latter i a three-Vear contract at of $50,006 annually 'TEX SIGNS DELANEY - BEFORE TAKING TRIP NEW YORK, Jaw Rickard enlarged his heayyw map to inelude Juck Delane before boarding a train for St to sign Gene Tunney A way to reco liation between the | promoter and the world light heavy weight champion appea to have been opencd after conference ves- terday in which Pete Reilly, manager | of Delaney, met, Rickard for the first | time since their split last Spring. Rickard refused to discuss the meet | ing, but Reillg admitted he had glven his consent for Delaney to fight either Jack Dempsey or Tunne outs for Delaney with F bvach, Jack Sharkey, Paolino Uzeudin and Jimmy Maloney, among others, also were discussed, but Reilly objec ed to Delaney’s participation in Rick- | ard’s heavyweight elimination tourna- ment. He gontended that Delaney al ready had qualified for either Demp sey or Tunney by his quick knockout triumph over Bud Gorman “I signed no binding agreement I told Rickard I wanted Delaney fight Demp: t Summwer [».nlll Reilly as well a Rickard, wants the man who wili | draw t in a heavyweight title bout Fall. Delaney will { Dempsey and beat him. 1 see no rea son for Delaney beating any of the { others.” Rickard will'leave for St this afterncon. With hem will be Billy Gibson, Tunney’s manager; Dud- ley Field Malone, the champion’s at- torney, and a flock of hoxing writers and friends of the promoter. |ROSENBERG IS AN EASY | WINNER OVER SCHWARTZ | BALTIMORE, Md., January 4 (). { Charley “Phil" Rosenberg. bantam champion, was given the judges’ de- jon over Benny Schwartz of Balti- more after 12 fast rounds here last night. The local boxer the way. The men fought at catch weights, with Rosenberg’s title not at stake. | | { | | i who beaame the in the which ys that to New isted on salur Louis ul Berlen- and to Louis late was outclassed all |HOFF DROPS A. A. U. SUIT WHEN HE IS PAID $900 NEW YORK, January 4 (#).—The Amateur Athletic Union announced that the controversy with Charle: | Hoft, invelving a $500,000 suit for dam- | ages against the A. A U., had been ended by & compremise settlement on expense money claimed by the Nor- wegian pole vault record bry Hoff accepted approximate! today | tight | ' SWEDE RISBE | Confident Money Chisox RG’S CHARGES Gave Went 1o Boston for Beating Detroit—Such Practice Was Common in Game BY JOHN B. FOSTER. V YORK. Janhagy 4 ball men who knew of keen fiight in the American League for the 1917 pennant and who also knew of the payment of money to certain teams it they would deféat certain other teams, {take little stock in what Riy | berg has had to say to « Similarly, no one is getting excited about Harney Dreyfuss’ story that the | New York Giants offered money Brooklyn to beat th Pirates in the 1921 race. This was an established practice in the old days of n {and, as Dreyfuss says himse Lundis has put a crimp in t tice Risberg must more convincing proved regarding the payment money by the Chicago White Sox Detroit players as a motive to induce | the Detroit players to throw a series Matter of History The statement made by | players in reply to Risberg | White Sox paid the Detroit pla win from Boston—has {matter of base ball history b vigorously critici 5 e element from th the fact became known. Ofthand it seemed perfect] to ‘show appreciation in that Base ball, however, is not game, but one of fight, Whe its tight, it is no lornger a {an exercise, That position by the wiser heads in bas . as partly hecause the plavers were enwaging in this “gift” practice that the conduct of the world series began to be criticized and the club owners | began to he warned that they were |letting skyline finance run away with them. The players justified the giving of money to other playegs to win on the ground that they had heard that the major league clubs themselves shared in the receipts of the world series. “If they do that sort of thing. there lis mo reason why we can't he square h each other,” was the argument advanced by some players who were smarter financially than othe | The system of bonus giving in hase ball w established by some of the wealthier clubs. As far back as 1889 the Cleveland eclub of the National League was promised a sum of money by Boston players if it would lick the New York team in the final game of the year. The championship depended upon that game. Boston was playing in |and New York was playing in Cleve- |land. The game was won by New | York. Hence the Cleveland players | did not receive any cash. Long-Standing Habit. Base ved establish than he something has so far of to and has sport s taken It Pittsburgh | Other circumstances of that game | are interesting. It will be seen, how- |ever, that the custom of players of- | fering money to teams to thrash other teams is one of long standing.. It may also be added that the Boston players, in addition to desiring the honér of winning the pennant, expect- ed that they would be permitted to lay some exhibition games. They also expected to share in the gate re " in Washington #nd Viellitey to | . courtesy it loses | Not Many Years Back. [ceipts, like the custom that bega! | regularly with the world series in 1905 ‘The Giants in 1889 also expected to {be able to play an exhibition series | with Brooklyn. winners of the Amer! |can Association, and played their heads off in the stiffest kind of battle | They won against Cleveland largely because Buck Ewing, with his tre mendous inspirational force, carrfed on. The man seemed almost super human as he took the Giants along { with him. {AMATEUR MATMEN IN D. C. TEAM TRIALS g | A en grapplers will . { i r the right to represent Was) lington in inte matches with | Baltimore team later the Winte The will be staged at the A | cadia, with the winners in cach d vision to Ko on the Capital City tean | Matches have been arranged as follows: larence Bruce vs. John Ber zomki, 1i% pounds; Ernest Rice vs. ] | H. Andet 125 pounds: Sol Wisook ve 147 pounds; Jack son Clayton, 16 sby vs. Bill Havens Bud Haven, heavyweigh Havens, heavyweight George Bruce will be one referces another to be tonight 'MANY SPRING GAMES LISTED FOR RED SOX LEWISTON, Me.. January 4 OP) |Training season exhibition games fo the Boston American League tean: announced by Manager William Carrigan, inciude an opening series with the New Orleans Club, and barnstorming trip of seven ending at Indiagapolis. At New wresile onts 3 Jones Turner vs. Tho sounds; Claude ( of the with chosen games The dates Orleans—March 13, 19, B fic At Birmingham—DMarch 31 Minneapolis at Decatur, Ga.. Apri at Louisville, Ky., April 2, 3 and 4 Indianapolis, Ind., April 5 and 6. The Red Sox originally were sched uled for games at Columbus April and 6 but these were cancelled after the sale of the Columbus franchis: the Reds and Indianapolis was sub stituted. WHEAT MAY BE A GIANT; | McGRAW LINES UP TERRY NEW YORK, January 4 (F).—Zach | Wheat, veteran outfielder recently cast adrift by the Brooklyn Robins may catch a line thrown out by the New York Glants. Manager McGraw admits he is interested in Wheat He also expresses high satisfactior over receiving the signed contract of Infielder Bill Terry, who was the Giants’ most obstinate holdout st Spring. for 1926 greatly ex- ceed the total Nash sales in the same ter- .. ritory for the 2 years of 1924 and 1925 combined THINK IT OVER! Wallace Motor Co. - Distributor I709LStl'eet * Main 7612