Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1927, Page 31

OF MACKMEN 12 YEARS| NSTAY Indian Is Rated Among First Five Amer- ican League Pitchers, Combining Courage and Skill With Brains. TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF BASE BALL. BY EDDIE I F ALL the “native Americans™ | who have essayed the na- | Against the Giants tional game, none has had | so distinguished a career as Charles Albert Bender. For twelve seasons the “Chief” was Connie Mac anchor man,” though | during all those years there always | were at hand at least two other hurl-| crs of great ability. Connie built his pennant-winning machine around Ben der, Waddell, Plank and Coombs while Coakley, Dygert, Henley, Bush and Carroll Brown also wore the spangles of ‘the Athletics during the | period of Bender's service with the Mackmen. T rate Bender among the first five | American League hurlers, and he gets this place because he made pitching a fine art. He mastered every natural | form of delivery, but never bothered with spitters or other trick styles. Hoth Wood and Johnson had far more speed, Coombs and Scott better curves und Joss and White more deceptive | slow balls, but I never any one | who could toss all styles with the| skill that “Chief” exhibited. Possessed Great Courage. But his mechanical efliciency was only @ part of Bender's stock in’trade. He knew the strength and weaknes svery batter, his control was superb and he possessed such a wealth of courage _that ing the strongest | teams afforded him his greatest pleas- | ure. Connie Mack said repeatedly that with a single allimportant game to play. Bender could go for him in preference to any pitcher he knew. That he meant what he said is shown | the fact that “Chief” worked the opening game for Mack in four world series. In 1905 Albert beat the Giants in the only game won by Philadelphia, shut- ting them out. In 1910 he opened against the Cubs and allowed three hits and one run. the A’s winning. In 1911 he huvled the first game for us against Mathewson and fanned 11 of the Glants, though they beat us, 2—1, and in 1914 he pitched his only bad world series game, when the Braves batted him off the siab. Everything went wrong for us in that series, an: wa Bender also has one no-hit game to his credit, that against Cleveland May 12, 1910. After the close of our season in the fall of 1909 we made an exhibition tour to the Coast. On the way we stopped to_play the famous Cubs in Chicago. Reaching there. we found that this game had assumed more im- portance than attaches to an ordinary exhibition. Chicago always had been good Americgan League territory, but Chance had a great team and the White Sox had not done well that sea- son, and the American League sup- porters were very anxiou that we win. Chief Delivers the Goods. N Connie called us together and ex-| plained the situation, then he said to | Bender: “Albert, you know you are to pitch. Now, Albert, I have asked you to win some important games for me and you never failed. I want you to bring me this game.” He did. he Cubs got two hits but no runs. What was, perhaps, the “Chief's” only fault, grew out of his attitude toward opposing batte: He was not as strong as Walsh, Chesbro, Coombs and other great pitchers, and for that reason, and also because any time any batter, however great, made a hit oft his delivery he thought the batter was lucky; he never wanted 10 waste a ball. His system was to throw all strikes, if possible. Of course, he gave the usual quota of passes because he was trying to get the ball over the corner, or high,, or low, or somewhere else that the bat- ter did not like, but he always was trying to pitch strikes. Occasionally after having the batter 2—0 he would throw one in the groove and get away with it. Then he would return to the bench and grin with great satisfac- tlon. v COLLINS. ~Charles Albert Bender. into serious trouble n '13 we were going along easily in the fourth game, with the count 6-—0 in our favor until the seventh inning. Two got on with two out when I'ved Merkle came up. sometimes got son and was bent on showing up Merkle, who was a corking hitter, a every one knew, but who could do lit- tle with Bender when the “Chief” was careful. Merkle Hit a Mile. He put over two strikes on Fred and then, in spite of the protests of Tra Thomas. Bender deliberately tossed one up Merkle's alle: A pitch that came across the letters on his shirt Merkle could hit a mile. He just naturally lost that ball and the Giants had three runs. As we won we didn’t kill Albert. . On another occasion we were hav- ing one of our usual battles in Detroit. The Tigers could not use Claude Ross- man against us because we rattled him so that if he got the ball with one or more of us on bases he was likely to throw the game away. In “Mr. Bender, will you please pick up the glove?” this case they filled the bases on Ben- der late in the game, with two out, and Jennings sent in Rossman to hit. Claude was a great slugger and not afraid of the Chief. Albert disre- garded Thomas' sign and Rossman hit a home run. _As soon as the ball left the bat Con- nie motioned Bender to come in and he was on the bench when Rossman had ambled around the sacks. Stand- ing on the plate, the elated Tiger lifted his cap, made us a bow, and called out: “I'm not much of a sharpshooter, but T can drive the Indian to his wig- wam!"” Thomas was so sore that Connie had to take him out of the game also. Being undemonstrative, Chief never had much trouble with umpires. Most of the umps don’t mind a decent kick if it is not made too obvious to the fans. Once the Highlanders came over to Philly and brought Tim Hurst with them. How Bender Was Fired. Tim worked all alone. Late in the game, which was close, Elberfeld on third and Chase on first started a double steal. Bender intercepted the gatcher’s throw and caught Elberfeld off third several feet. Tim, looking at second, didn’t see the play and waved both players safe. Albert was furious. He slammed his glove on the ground with great violence just as Hurst turned around. and the stands were hooting to beat the band. Tim walked up to Bender and said in his blandest manner: “Mr. Bender, will you pleace pick up the glove? That's a good boy. Now carry it to the clubhouse. You are through for the afternoon.” And he was. (Copyright 1927, Through this trait, however, With the consider this, bowlers?, ‘hor man is the “pinch! hitter” of the bowling game— -4 with this difference: Nobody ever blames a pinch hitter for the loss of Dball game. If he comes through, he is the hero: if he does not—well, it was a forlorn hope anyway. The anchor man gets criticized now and then, but his position still has a big edge in the business of hogging the ‘spotlight Probably every howler not an anchor man feels like committing murder now and then when he puts over a set around 400, only to have the account of the zame feature the final shot of the anchor man, who won the game with a strike in the tenth box—though his game was only 103. Taking we VER The, | i the reverse side of the ghield, the followers of a team oc casfonally g0 home “cussing” their anchor man, who blew a one-pin preak in the tenth, permitting the other team to cop by a pin or two, only to read in the papers the next day that the feature of the game was the shooting of Bill Whosis at anchor, who compiled a set of 397 Bill may have done just that thing, but the fans remembered only that blown spare break in the final box There is considerable food for thought on the part of those who are of the opinion that the duckpin game §s being overdone in this city in a re cent mews item concerning the gain powling has made in Toronto. Five vears ago Toronto had less than 100 alleys; now it has more than 600. While the item does not say so, it is Jikely that the tenpin game is the pop- ular Toronto sport and this means that the girls are to a great extent parred. Washington is logically a petter fleld for the sport than Toronto to begin with, and here the game is duckpins, open to every one. Write your own ticket Rudy de Glantz of the Kntomology team pulled a bit of effective psycholo- gy on the leading Accounts five of the Asgie League not so long ago. Ento mology had dropped nine in a row, but Instead of coming out strengthened for the match with the leaders, Rudy placed only four men on the drives and shooting with & dummy score pro ceeded to take two of the three games Ttudy insists that if the league’y con- stitution had permitted him to roll fomorrow he $100,000 Infield. Bowlers Brooklyn for the second half of our mateh with the Orpheums,” said a | member of the Washington intercity match squad last night. “Well, that won't bother us. Newly planed and | nellacked alleys always are much (aster than the ordinary ones, and this Washington bunch simply dotes on fast alleys. We ought to hit bet- ter on them next Saturday night than we did at Convention Hall last Wednesday in the opening block of the match.” There may be something squad member’s contention, t0o. New Iy shellacked alleys mean nothing to the fast-ball bowler, like Glen Wolstenholme or Howard Campbell. They can get vlenty on the ball on any kind of an alley. But according to all the sharks, newly shellacked drives aid the curve-ball artist as well as the hook-ball specialist. Bach can control his shot better on a speedy alley. Maybe Brooklyn is digging its own grave by refinishing its drives. This is a “busting” season for the pin-topplers. Here's another member of the Three-Game: Club. The Arlingtons did thi counting in their Athletic | League match with the Ahepas. | scores of the Arlingtons were 601, 608 | and 606. Clark, second in the Arling- ton line-up, led the attack with a set of 389, with high game of 151. And the Arlingtons took all three games. kind of Club ! | In taking the odd game from the Daughters of Isabella in the Wash- ington Ladies League, the Commer- cials cracked a game just 16 pins shy of the women’s District record, when they totaled 543. Keller girls were in a bowling mood when they encountered the fair bowl- ers of the Ninth Street Church and took all three games of an Fas | Washington Church Ladies’ Leuague match. Keller's set was 1369 to 1251 rolled by the Ninth Streeters Rena Levy sent the pins flying y while rolling with the Columbians | against the Hilltoppers in the Wash- ington Ladies’ League. She got scores | of 140, 118" and 119 for 374. Her team took all three games. COLLINS VS, MAINFORT. Jack Collins and Bobby Mainfort will come to grips tomorrow night in with three men he would have cleaned up the match. the regular weekly wrestling offering at the Mutual Theater. They will go “Chief” had just whiffed Catcher Wil- | | boxes in order to catch up with the to_this | The | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, B @ ) GOLFERS TUNING UP By the A iated Press LOS ANGELES, January Angeles golf courses tee tivity today as the hour for the preliminaries to open_tournament. 3 ers, both amateur and pfofessional representing the best from 26 States, England and Canada, were enter Thirty-six holes of quali on the courses of the Los Brentwood, California, Wiltshire, Midwick and Hillcrest Country Clul will determine before night the 128 players to qualify for the start in the 72 holes ‘of play at 1l Caballero Country Club Friday. About 40 these 128 aready are chosen, the Dbeing the foreign layers and leaders | in the national open and local chan: pionship tournament of the past year. who are exempt from qualifyin play by virtue of their past per ances These top-notcher are on other courses. Out of the ers who qualify for the entry lis only 64 will get into the final 35-hole | championship flight Sunday. That | field will comprise the 64 low scores and ties at the end « the first 36 | holes at Caballero, 18 of which will be played Friday and IS Saturday | The one-day interval in the play Thurs will be devoted to practice on the various courses. The 11 allero Country Club o fers championship par course, 36 out and 36 in. Its vecord | was set last November 15 by Jack TParrant, professional at the club, wi then went over it in 66 Greens are in excellent shape, bit fast now after the cold weather, but with rising temperatures pre- vailing it promises (o offer its best challenge to the entrants. TILDEN WILL DELAY HIS TRIP TO EUROPE | By the Associated Press NEW YORK. January | Bill" Tilden has canceled posed invasion of IFrance’s tennis strongholds along the Riviera for the | Winter season in preference to visit ing California 1 Flovida, then going abroad in May and June as the | No. 1 man of an official American team which will compete in the lead ing Franch and Britich tournaments Tilden's trip to California and Flor ida will keep him out of the National indoor championship in New York in February. The indoor crown has | been won by Irenchmen for the past two years, Jean Borotra in 1925 and | | | | 1 i | 5.—Los | 300" play- | of practicing | Dlay- | real T { 5 “Big his pro Rene Lacoste in 1926, but there is no prospect of another Hic this Winter. This year will be the third straight |in which the United States Lawn Tennis Association has sent a men's team abroad for the principal foreizn tournaments.. Ray Casey and John Hennessey went over in 1925. while Vincent Richards and Howard Kinsey, now professionals, were leadars of the 1926 invasion of Paris and Wimbledon. Tilden’s trip will be his first over- seas since 1921, when he won the ‘Wimbledon “world title” for the scc ond straight year. Tlis teammates for | this year's team have not been se- Jected. but Frank Hunter of New| York is likely to be included. | invasion 100.000. base leagues Between 75,000 and balls are used in the major in a single season. | somewhat | Women's | the CLUB WILL BE ORGANIZED By the Associated Press EW YORK. January ganization of new members, situated for woman members. situated in West- cheste County between Greenwich, Conn., and Bedford, N. Y., has been announced by Glenna Coliett of Providence, former national cham pion. It will be known as the Wom en’s Westchester Golf and Club, and if present plans materiali will be opened formally by the mer of 1928 The club will the second of kind in country and model after its predecessor. the National Golf and Tennis Glen Head, Long Island. Tt hope of woman golf Miss Collett explained. that such organi zations as these will form the founda tion for a Nation-wide group of clubs Or a country Club of s the s, NO FANCY DIVIDEND Tennis | FOR NATS THIS TIME| a day yesterday for fine but one for the stockholde Washington ball elub At the club's annual meeting Pres- ident Clark Griflith, Vice President and Treasurer Willilam M. Richard- son and Secretary nd Assistant Treasurer Edward F Eynon v were re-elected and also again name the board irectors But the stockholders who had re- ceived dividend 10 per cent in 1 and 102 got a .dividend of exactly 0 per cent yesterday ever, most of the owned the officers gnd directors and as they did the vofing worrying particularly Poor wi profits of the Na chase of many was given dividend WALTER REED VETS T0 SEE BOXING SHOW Walter It was good the officers not such a of stock s by no one is that_cut down the fonals and the players during 1 the cause lack rther Fifty soldiers at Reed Hos pital will, tlirough the courtesy of John Blick G. S have op portunity of witnessing the boxing Arcadia the and Forsherg the Spe during January, will be held auditorium. Joe Chaney, brother of known Kayo King George will trade punches with Harry Grooves of the din. Sports Club in the main offering of eight rounds, In the semi-wind-up of four Sailor Mackena will take on aunders. In the opening exhibition, four-rounder, that will start at o'clock Dick Richardson of Kenil- worth. and Johnny Conroy of Mohawk Athletic Club will face Two other good bouts are to com- plete the card. 3 xhibitions at Club which Arcadia first at of tonight the well Chaney, also a . The first golf club in Wisconsin was founded at Janesvilla,ifi 1894 BY JOHN A. FERRALL. HE 01d Timer looked closely at the Kid and then sniffed the he said, “burning What's the idea of smoking that sort of stuff; do you consider tobacco injurious?” “This is a high-class cigar.” pro- tested the Kid, removing it from his mouth and looking with considerable pride at the fancy band around it. “They are two for a guarter.” “Two for a quarter!” exclaimed the Old Timer, astonished he said. ‘‘You've already smoked the 20 cent one.” The Kid prepared to make u come- back, but the Old Timer held up his hand. “Never mind about that snappy re- tort,” he said. “All I want to know is whether you have been hitting the eggnog or anything similar before coming out to join in this game.” Me hit up home brewg with 78| people whiffed in New Yorl! alone by the stuff this week” cried the Kid “Say, I'm almost afraid to drimk lemonade. “Oh, all right,” comforted the Old Timer. “I just didn’t want yvou to get started here and have the heat bring out the kick in the stuff and make a nuisance of you. The man ager is still sore about what happened Saturday night The Kid went shot out and four rest of the bowlers. Then he came back to the bench and wanted to know the details of the turday night | occurrence. | “Why,"” explained the Old Timer, “‘ay man came in here and started bowling by himself. He appeared to be per. fectly sober, I understood, but I sup- pose the heat and the bowling thawed | out the stuff he had been drinking., Anyway, the manager noticed that he ! had stopped bowling and since he did | not start up gain but merely stood {looking at the score sheets he went over to collect. Then he saw that the! man was just starting his third game. | ille left him standing there, but when 1 he came back in about 10 minutes the | man was still there. { " “In front of the score sheet the Kid. “He must have paralyzed for fair.” A Problem in Mathematics. He was still showing signs of life said the Old Timer, “but mot many. | Apparently he seemed to be up | against some problem in scoring his | { game. The manager asked about it ! {and the man expiained that he had | { bowled two games, which the man-| | ager could see from the score sheet, | and had made a spare in the first | box of his third. He had then shot Ithe second box and was trying to figure out his score.” “1 see,” commented the Kid; “he ! had forgotten what he made on the | spare.” “No: he told the manager he had | .ounted one pin on the spare.” said the Old Timer. *The manager then wanted to know w was wrong. | You counted one on the spare, he said, ‘and t gives you 11 in the st box. ‘There is nothing compli- cated about that. 1 vou've al-i { ready entered the figure one on the ! asked been | | | TROUSERS | To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F S they are slicking the alleys in on-following xhcntuhbfwtm-mnct. | do the Holiday Spirit on Alleys Tells in Bowler’s Figuring dd another one and score sheet: just you have it—11 in the first box. “Fair enough.” agreed the Kid. ‘Apparently it wasn't that ea this man,” said the Old Timer, he turned to the manager and cried: ‘Thass jus' whazzmatter. After. <I wrote that one up there 1 just couldn't figger on which side of it I should put the ozzer one—thass whazz botherin’ me. You tell me where I put the ozzer one—in front of the first one: or behind the first one? Jus' tell me that! " “Say,” said the Kid, amazed, “he must have had some of the stuff that Uncle Charlie fixes up now and then: it certainly must have been real Fisherman’s Bait Fisherman's Bait Timer. “That's new The Kid explained. It gets its name from the story of the bootlegger who came up to where a guy was fishing and wanted to know what luck he was having. The fisherman said he had not caught a fish all morning. The bootlegger reached into his hip-pocket and took out a flask. ‘Put some of this on the worm before you place it on the hook. and see what happens,’ he sug fisherman did so d red his line into the water again. In just about half-a-minute there was a whale of a stir-up below and he hauled in the line—" “Yes, ves,” said the Old Timer. had landed a whoppez " A Hooteh Worm. Not exactly that.” explained the Kid. “He haxled in the line and there was that wurm with a stranglehold on a husky fish. punching it in the eye ' asked the Old to me.” ‘He d the Old Time signed the pledge?” “I' off the stuff forever,” admitted the Kid. “That’s my New Year reso- Tution.” “Yes: the same one you made last year,” agreed the Old Timer. “Fisher. man’s Bait! Migosh, what stuff—how v manage to throw it down and it“into bottles" I dunno,” admitted the Kid. whiskey once was a medicine!” ‘Oh, you can still get good stuff— by accident,” argued the .Old Timer “Why, I read only the other day of a man who had been flat on his back nd Bt ‘And {in the hospital for nearly two years; couldn’t even sit up in bed. Some: body slipped him a half pint of sky- blue water and—you wouldn't believe it—he left the hospital two da later.” “What do you know about that?"” demanded the Kid, astonished “Yes, sir,” said the Old Timer, pick- ing up a ball and preparing to throw it through the back wall of the alley, s later he left the hospital —they took him to the cemetery.” WALLACE Motor Co. NASH New and Used Cars 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave.. ' MAIN 7612 for | How- wounded in the World \\‘.,;H ! the ! (Kid) | | | | | 8:30 | lof | sether FOR $10,000 EVENT| EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN offering adequate facilities for holding © Women's championship events. he Westchester club's goal is I ding opers will start, Miss Collett said, as soon as 0 are enrolled. She expects that by May ground will be broken for the 18- hole zolf course to be laid out on the 150-a tract obtained. The will measure bhetween 6,000 and 6,2 vards, a distance more suited to femi- nine plavers than the regulation men's championship courses, average around 6,500 yvard been designed by Devereu F who also laid out the Women's tional, e first ub will Jenney, former It has ar 100 members of the new become “founders.” Marie Metropolitan cham- pion, and Mrs. Henry Topping of New York are among those interested with Miss Collett in the froject. IRVING HADLEY SIXTEENTH GRIFF TO SIGN FOR 1927 Receipt today of the signed con- tract of Trvin dley, the husky vight-hander who showed so much promise when grabbed off the sand- Tots of Bo last year, raises to 16 the number of Nationals who have agreed {o take orders from Buck is next season. Of the others in the fold one is a_catcher, tfielder, five are infielders and eight President unced _(h today an- Winter e to Tampa would r because of the ng at French nuary 17. 4 ether -with Bob Quinn of Boston and E. S. of Cleveland, representing the American League, and Barn Dreyfuss of Pittshurgh, Bill Veeck nd Bill Baker of Phila- sent National ittee fort to agree HOPPE WILL STRIVE T0 RECOVER CROWN YORK. January vppe tonight will begin his fight to recover the world 18.2 balkline title snatched from him by of Chicago two yea In the path of hix attempted come back stands Frie Hagenlacher, quiet, calculating German lacker. the man who overthrew Schaefer Spring. apparently has no fears for his championship. In two previous matehes he won victories over Hoppe. But Metropolitan students of the game consider the veteran former frame @ new major-minor Assoc star. unex titleholder to be playing in such bril- | have installed in the honors than decade. Hoppe. who for many years ruled supreme in every branch of the balk line game, enters the opening 500 points block of the 1.500-point duel without a championship for the first time in his reer. He lost the last his wns—-the ‘18.1 diadem—to haefer almost a year ago. Recent exhibition play apparently hax put Hoppe in his best form. In one match against the Japanese play er, Kinrey Mat: ma, he put to- seven runs exceeding 200 points each, one reaching as high as Hagenlach hischampion: they to re liant form that him a_favor te held for mor who has not defended b since he defeated Schaefer, veiled his form by secret practice. The former champion has been pli country little more than five x each season he has made pid strides, until toda he is con- sidered critics one of the greatest exponents of the nurse that ever held the title. The match, to be staged at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 11 be refereed Ry Albert G. Butler. Play will start €ach night at § o'clock, with the final block to be p U. S. POLOISTS LOOK TO DEFENSE OF CUP By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, January 5.—Inten- sive prepsration for defense of the internatitnal polo cup by America against an invading British team next September will begin this mrnth, the United States Polo Asso- cfation has disclosed. Tommy Hitcheock, j with Devereux Milburn the rank of 10-goal handicap player in this country, plans an active campaign this Winter in California. Milburn, famous American figure in interna- tional polo for many vears, expects to play in Florida. They will be Jjoined "by at least 10 other plavers under consideration for selection. Included in this are: J. Wat- son Webb and Malcolm Stevenson, 9-goal handicap players; B. W. Hop ping, L. k. Stoddard, Eric Pedley, A. T? Perkins and R. E. Strawbridge, 8 goals; Fred Roe, Capt. P. P. Rodes and J. Cheever Cowdin, 7 goals, and Stephen Sanford, 6 goals. . who shares Olympia Fields, Chicago, world's largest golf club. is the By o Hunton’s Pharmacy—9th & U Sts. Is A Star Branch Office No matter where you live, in town or the nearby suburbs, there is a Star Branch Office handy, displaying the above sign, where Classi fied Ads for The Star may be left. They will get the same service as if left at the Main Office and no extra fees are rates. The Star prints MORE Classified Ads every day than all the other There can RESULTS. “Around the Corner” is Office course | | | bas been settled with a change on both which | . | pionship mmet, | | won last year b ries of matches Willie | ake Schaefer | cool, | last | SPORTS. CONFLICT IN GOLF CLASSICS AVOIDED By the Associated Press. NEW YORK., Januar: American and British golf officials have buried the hatchet and international compe- tition on the links once more is in prospect, The controversy over open-cham-| pionship dates, resulting from the flx- | ing of both the British and American title events for the week of June sides of the Atlantic. The American fixture has heen moved ahead to June 14, 15 and 16, while the British cham has Dbeen set back to the week beginning July 11 The truce brought no change in the plans of Bobby Jones, howev The winner of both titles last year reit- erated his intention to remain on this side of the Atlantic next Summer, thus passing up an opportunity to de- fend the British championship. The compromise opens the way, however, to an invasion of this coun- by a team of British professionals, h il oppose an American co tingent for possession the Inter national Ryder trophy. The cup was British pros in a se road it | h ATLANTA. Ga., January ).~ Change in the date of this year's Brit ish open golf championship will not alter Bobby Jones' decision not to defend his title. He made this dec- | laration in reiterating that his law | ¢ n from devoting sufficient time to prep. aration for the event D.C MEN TO SPEAK AT GOLF SESSIONS Three Washington men are on ”""i speaking list of the annual meeting | of the greens section of the United | tates Golf Association to be held at | Pittsburgh, Pa.. in connection with | the annual session of the association, | iday and Saturday. | The annual report of thé chairman | of the greens section will be read by H. L. Westover of Washington on iday and a few minutes later O. B. Fitts of the Department of Agricul- ture will review the activities an {accomplishments of the greens | tion | Westover will speak later in the day on turf grass experiments at Gaineville, Fla., and on Saturday, Dr. John Monteith, jr.. of Washingto will address the greens section om | progress in control of brown patch. Other speakers on the program in- 1 | | driven out result of the present investigation. will restor | studies at Emory University here and |} business interests would prevent him | ¢ in the majox | knew BASE BALL INVESTIGATION MAY SQUELCH BOLSHEVIKS Probe of ‘“Swede” Risberg’s Charges by Comm sioner Landis Likely to Result in Elimination of Game’s Trouble Makers. BY JOHN B. FOSTER HICAGO, January sioner Landis and the ball plivers who have responded to hi all to meet him today and hold a joint debate with Swede” Risberg have more at stake han a mere settlement of any‘trouble hat may have had its origin in glleged ixed” games of 1917 The bolsheviks in base bail may be or effectively curbed as a —(‘ommis fol Dutch’ Risberg's o owing the self-sacrifice Leonard with his letters involving Ty ker in a base bi of “obb and Tris Spes 1 | scandal, is being welcomed rot only for the do in unce ring s or giving base ball a cle alth, but because it probably the player to a better more proper frame of mind Aiding the Owners, Too. »od it ma “rookedn. bill of b his testimony be- 1t his son will play wants the future ht ctly appearing Risberg offered cause of the fuct hall some day and 0 be clear and bri junior. He wlso is ind! for the owners—although he doesn’t know it—who hope that as a result of the communistic leagues may decide th it is best after all that the control of base ball be vested in the owners of element his_inquiry ball clubs and not in the ranks of the bolsheviks among the player Within two vears after the outbreak of the war, the organization of base ball began to get out of ha rere was a general looseness and laxity on the part of the plavers. Base ball had been handled with an ifron hand. as it must be handled to be successful. There always have been players who were disposed to revolt against restraint. Most of them were who were just smart enough dangerous. They preached sentation of s on_all the erning b the game run like Many of the pla men to be Zov a soviet ers of those times pennant. teams, make certain to offered to unable to them that might win & pennant Barney Dreyfuss accuses players win a players lof the Giants of giving money to the Brooklyn pitchers in 1921 to en- for Risberg | any | » ball and wanted | there had been suins of money | fight harder to defeat a team | Pitts current 1 cou rooklyn to defeat burgh. That story was around New York within three wetkgs after the Brooklyn-Pittsburgh series, | but no one paid much attention to it | because that kind of money en | couragement was not a new thing. It | the players of the Giants did put up | money they didn’t get much of a run. because Pittsburgh was too strong for rooklyn, There is nothing new « the Dreyfuss statement laccused the Giants of giving money te@ his own pitchers to sames, | there would have been an eruption of another Vesuvius. The wiser and more experienced heads in base ball have heen opposed to the payment of money by players te hire auxiliary troops, as it were, ever sifice the practice began. Charles ymiskey, owner of the White Sox, figitter from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head, always was bit ter against it. He was betrayed more by hi players than any owner of re cent_years. All during the war period the owr ers were forced to contend against the growing license players, some of whom did about as they pleased he cause they threatened to join the Army or Navy 1918 Developed Trouble. 1918, which 1t ught work-orfisht_order, developed trouble of all and a some ball players had about as much backbone as putty dolls. When the draft loomed up, they ran like seared | sheep. Not all. by a great deal. Tt | was mostly bolsheviks who did | that When base ball was resumed the bolsheviks returned, noisier | ever, and before the year was Comiskey had been “given his.” Oths ler club owners might have ‘“got theirs.” The influences for evil then carried on. but less and less deter minediy. although the O'Connell ir | cident New York is only a recent one. If the th | affair can | By | ! novel in If he had the most The year n 191 than® over: eshing out of the Risberg increase discipline per | cent so that a fine means a fine and violation of the simplest club rules means punishment, base ball men wilf feel better about the future of the fgume. . (Copyright. 19271 clude Alex Pirie, president, Profes- | sional Golfers' Association of Amer ica, and Rodman E. Griscom of Phi delphia. chairman of the greens se tion committee. Dr. J. T. McClenahan of Washing- ton and G. I. Chasmar of Columbia and possibly several other representa- tives of local clubs will attend the meetings at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association. Findley S. Douglas is chairman of the section. Restriction of entry lists in the loeal golf tournament problem that has assumed increasing propor- tions from year to vear, is certain again to crop up this yearsiOnly one | local club at present has a set system af keeping the size of the entry list down, Chevy Chase. which imposes a handicap limit on the guest competi- tors. The other clubs have not vet initi- ated a move in this direction, although there is discussion at Columbia of limiting the entry list to personal invitation, as is done by the Baltimore Country Club. The Baltimore system { has worked. out very well, particulariy as the entrles are drawn from the | entire Eastern Seaboard. Columbia usually holds the largest tournament around Washington in point of size of entry. It has drawn more than 300 players for several yea This problem, while pressing. is not regarded as so important as that of cutting down the number of tourneys or of transferring some of the big events to the Fall which is practi- cally free of big events. GRAND CIRCUIT DATES FOR SEASON ARRANGED LEXINGTON, Ky., January 5 (®). —Dates for the 1927 grand circuit meetings which will be held through- out the Summer and Fall have been awarded by stewards of the circuit. Following is the schedule: Toledo. July 11 _to 16, etroit. o 23. alamazoo, July Grand Rapids. August 110 6, North Randail. August 8 to Goshen. Augugt 22 to 27 Syracuse. Aughst 20 to September 3 Tndianapolis. September 5 to 10. Soptember 12 to 17. no meeting. courtesy to_Kentucky State Fair. Lexington, September 19 to October 1 Atlanta, October 3 to 8. CUEISTS CONTINUE PLAY. sdward Timbel and William Smale will play the feature match tonight in the District pocket billiard contest under way at the Arcadia. George Kelly last night trimmed Fred Rey- nolds, 100 to 30. Kelly had high run of 41, a record for District title matches. “DERBY TRIAL" ABOLISHED. LEXINGTON, Ky., January 5 (®).] —Blue Grass Stakes, known in horse racing circles as the “Derby trial” be- cause it once served as a final prepa- ration for starters in the Kentucky f RECEIVED HERE | only be one reason and that's Derby, has been abolished by of the Kentucky Association charged; only regular papers here combined. a Star Branch, 1443-P. St NW, representative teams in the District fell before the Guardsmen. and good teams represented ATHLETICS IN GEORGES HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 5. With sports of all kinds, as in former vears, “going big” in the more thickly populated areas of the upper section of the county and with activity becom- ing more marked in the southern end, Prince Georges County enjoyed a full athletic year in 1926. The boom in the southern section manifested itself particularly in the organization of strong base ball teams in communi- ties; that; formerly were without rep. resentation_on the diamond, or had mediocre nines. The high spot of the year doubtless and the feat that brought the count most prominence was the great show. ing made by the soccer ball team of Hyattsville High School that, after humbling a number of the best elev- ens in_the State, including Barton High, defending champion, bowed to Havre de Grace High at Baltimore in the final tilt in the elimination series for the champlonship of the Western Shore. Hyattsville in Limelight. It was a banner year generally for Hyattsville High athletic teams. Marked superiority was shown by the local schoolboys in t Not only did they easily capture the county title in the annual championships, but won first honors among the coun- ty schools of the State in the Univer- ty of Maryland interscholastic meet. It was the work of Kenneth Watts alone that brought victory to Hyatis- ville in the Maryland meet. He scored all the 11 points made by his team, achieving one new record for the track and equaling another. Laurel and Upper Marlboro high schools also had sturdy track teams. Seat Pleasant won the annual track meet ‘for the rural schools of the county. Laurel High won the county base ball title. There was no basket ball championship series among the county high schools. Hyattsville, howev had a five that gave most of the rank- ing schoolboy combinations around Washington stiff opposition. Strong regular and reserve quints represent- ed Company F, National Guard. of Hyattsville, and a number of the most and around eld ball was introduced as a Fall sport for high schools of the coun: and Hyattsville High won the serie: It was the first time a girls’ athletic team of this school had ever won a county championship. andlot base ball had a big year K Mount Rainier, Maryland Park, Riverdale, Hyattsville, Mitchellville, Seat Pleas- PRINCE GO FORWARD ant, Seabrook. Upper Mariboro and other communities. Success marked the 1925-26_season of the Prince George County Duckpin Association. The feature was the stirring struggle waged for the cham pionship between American Legion and Collegiates in the closing weeks of the campaign. The Legion mapl men_ triumphed by sweeping the crul cial set with Collegiates. Needing alk three games to win, the victors copped gue by a long pin. In_ tf% dssociation’d annual tourna- ment Paston C. Holdén was the win ner in class A and Porton led in class B. SARAZEN, ON GOLFING” SPREE, AGAIN SCORES: MIAMI, Fla., January 5 (#).—Gene Sarazen apparently is on a golf spree: Twice handrunning now he hag topped off splendid performance with- a display of fighting quality and emerged winner from open tourna- ments attracting some of the countr. best. Yesterday he finished the Miamt " Beach open tournament four strokes under Jock Hutchison of Chicago, after a stretch drive. He pocketed |$1,000. Last week he shook off Willie {Kiein of Wheatley Hills, N. Y.. and af the end of a 72-hole march pocketed $750, and the Miami open title Kleiri won last wear. Sarazen's winning was 277, strokes better than ) mark in the Miami tournament Hutchison, who did not show well in |the other tournament. stayed with Sarazen until the fourteenth hole of. the last round, where 2 6 on a pa 5 ruined him. In the morning round each scored 68, three under par. and were tied. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By the Associated Pross CLEVELAND—RBilly Wallace, Cleve land, won a technical knockout over |Cuddy De Marco, Pittsburgh (two . rounds). Willie La Morte, Cleveland, * defeated Happy Atherton, Indianapolis (six rounds). .08 AN score yesterday, 12 SLES, Calif —Happy (Kid) Brown, FPhiladelphia, beat Johnny Adams, San Francisco (10 rounds). SEATTLE—John Lester Johnsor, ! New York, defeated Tiny Herman. ' Tacoma. (six rounds). Correct this costly error Wrong HOUSANDS believe that a motor needs pro- tection only in freezing weather. This erroneous be- lief is costing car owners millions. It is the cause — authorities agree — of 50 to 75% of all premature motor wear. Correct this belief — at freezing the damage is done. Right Wrong Models for all cars priced $22.50 to $30.00. Special models for Ford, $15.00; Chevrolet, $17.50; Dodge, $20.00. Right fiC:.dhm its work G:I. destrue- PINES AUTOMATIC WINTERFRONT Makers of many fine cars ers — it the :}y i 8 costly damage wr by cold. 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