Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1927, Page 13

SPORTS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1927 Decision on Charges Made in Base Ball Scandal Now Up to Commissioner Landis 'DECISION ON WEDNESDAY, " BOSS OF GAME PROMISES ' James Contradicts Gandil’s Charge That White Sox| Paid Tigers to “Throw” Contests in 1917 as Hearing Before Commissioner Ends. Bv the Associated Piess. HICAGO, January (Chick) Gandil, base ball outlaw from the wide open spaces, has ex- ploded in the ranks of organ- ized base ball the ammunition he has kept dry for 10 years. Standing shoulder to shoulder with his pal of base ball days, Swede Kis- berg. he fired his charges of diamond yishonesty yesterday across the battle- Jround at 122 South Michigan avenue, rom which Kenesaw Mountain Landis uides the destinies of the bix leagues. Eyes blazing, and with mien aggres- sively deflant, Gandil sent his shots straight at two dozen odd base ball ylayers, or former players, who were Jammed inside the smoke-togged suite ©of the commissioner. The men Gandil accused of con- tributing or accepting money for the throwing of four American League zames Chicago took' from Detroit September 2 and 3, 1917—such names as Eddie Collins, Ray Schalk, Clarence Rowland, Red Faber and George Dauss—gave Gandil the same return vVolley of emphatic denial that they had poured upon Risherg two days before. Sitting as referee was the white- haired commissoner, $65,000-4-year custodian of base ball's integrity. the man who today contcmplates the testi- mony of more than 40 witnesses, Landis snapped the hearing to a sud den close last night with tuis 10-word Pronouncement: Will Decide Wednesday. “T'll dispose of this matter Wednes- day morning at 10 o'clock.” These things will Landis ponder: Detafled testimony by Rleberg, for- mer White Sox shortstop, and Chick Gandil, former Sox first baseman (both banished from base ball in 1920 follow- ing the 1919 world series scandal), that « ool was collected by the White Sox and paid to certain Detroit pitchers for “laying down” in a four-game serfes 80 that Chicago might win and tighten its hold on first place in the American League. Denials of contributing to any pool to be used for buying games, but ad- mission of contributing to a pool to reward Detroit pitchers for good work against Boston in a later series. These denials came from every man accused by Risberg and Gandll who testified. The statement of Bill James, a Tiger pitcher in 1917, that he received $830 from Gandil and distributed it 8.——Arnold sun-bronzed token of White Sox appreciation for thelr work in beating Boston. Testimony by Risberg that White Sox In 1919 “sloughed” a seri to Detroft to aid the Tigers in their fight for third place in the league standing. All Call Cobb “Square.” The hearing’s close found accusers and accused unanimous on one thing —Ty Cobb’s innocence of ever having |taken part in a crooked ball game. | Cobb had wired the commissioner to ask every one present ‘‘whether anybody knew if Cobb got any of the Sox pool, and whether anybody knew if Cobb ever played a crooked bail game.” The chorused tribute was prompt, with Risberg and Gandil volcing their indorsement of the “Jewel of Gieorgia” with the rest. Shortly _afterward, the commis sloner’s office learned that a hearing; set for tomorrow, at which attorney were to go over with Landis the charges of base ball crookedness which have involved Cobb and Tris Speaker, had been indefinitely post- poned. Besides paying the expenses to and from Chicago of the two score odd men who testified—a sum “estimated at nearly $20,000--the commissioner also faces the prospect some money to rehabilitate his office suite. “Isn’t this room a sight?” he asked. It was. Holes in the costly rug where carelessly thrown cigarettes had eaten their way to the floor; clgar and cigarette but®s, matches, paper scattered about. lights was so clouded from flashlight smoke that the room was dimmed. Risberg left for his dairy dutles near Rochester, Minn., shortly after the hearing ended. Gandil will re- main in Chicago two or three days. Gandil Gets Expenses. Gandil was the first to file an | | cluded 10 days' remuneration fo time lost from his plumbing job. Th he enteréd as $90. Gandil's total e: penses, for which romptly handed him a check, were 278.12. Gandil commented bitter statement by Clarence Rowland, man- ager of the White Sox in 1917. Row- land said he had permitted Gandil to leave the club in September, 1917, for a day to go to Philadelphia “so Gan- 41l could meet a couple of friends.” “Rowland lied,” Gandil said. “I on one 1o certain Tiger batterymen as a never had any friends.” CENTRAL FIVE SURPRISES WESTER Bert Coggins' snappy little Central combjnation today rules a decide® favorite to win the public high scnuout ‘basket ball title as a result of its im- pressive 25-to-20 triumph over Western vesterday in the bill that opened the annual championship series. Western had been reckoned as one of the fore- most contenders for the laurcis. Outplaying its heavier rival from Georgetown, and with Forward For- rest Burgess starring with 9 goals tosred from scrimmage, Central held the whip hand all the way. At the end of the first quarter the Blue and White was leading only 8 to 7, but thereafter steadily increased its ad- vantage. As generally expected, Business vanquish-d Tech in the opening match of the series. but the Stenog- raphers were pressed (o the limit to triumph, 30 to 27, over the doughty little Manual Trainers. Outclassed by their heavier rivals in the early going. Tech made a gallant bid in the dving moments and suc-| ceeded in tying the score. A suc- cessful tos: trom the foul line and a court goa' by Marks, substitu‘e cen- ter, however, gave the Stenographers victory. Eastern will make its debut Tues- day afternoon against Jack Collins’ Central will play its cond game. taking on Tech. ay's scores: G i, if - Business. Keeter. 1. E. Jones rf Jones. o, Heigs. Levking W sal i Smith. 1k Terneak, 15. Totals. . . B. Jones (4), R. Heigs (3). LoyKine. . “Gallotta. Weigel ()] +. " Umpire — O'Meara. O-minute quarters P, Western & Garber. 1. Qanie! 1f Buscher, 1f. Yalcott, rf | emaam ERSEaL | Saids 5 s Burgess. 1t Hoddinett. 1 9 Nee. rf.. . 3 Lemon. ¥f.0 O Tash. Eurlm& rouch. Swift, re. | caawsoncs 0 Totals. . .14 Totals. .. 7 Foul_shots attempted—Burgess. Nee (5), Tash (2). Thacker. Garber (). Buschee (6) Coomba (2). Wilsan (41, Walker (4). Raf sree—O Me; Umpire—Schlosser. ~ Time ot periods—10-minute quarters s Eastern High's stock in the public high title series is higher today as the result of the Lincoln Parkers’ to-27 win yesterd er Strayer Led by Harry McAllister and Capt. Cy Hogarth, Guyon's hopefuls rallied splendidly in the late stages to over- come their rivals In a game that was nip and tuck from the start, Gonzaga basketers yesterday repulsed Loyvola High of Baltimore. 21 to 19, in the 1 Streeters’ gym. A court goal by Fitzgerald in the last moment won for the Purple. Johnny Bozek was the big gun in the Gonzaga attack, with 10 points. Liston was the visitors' scoring ace. Hyattsville High passers squecezed out @ 221020 victory over Charlotte Hall on the latter’s court yesterday. A court goal by Capt. Wilbur Wright in the last moments Opening gam« in atory School 185-pound uled yesterday on the was postponed until request of the Friends' coach, C. nan. Devitt is to méet Episcopal Episcopal Tuesday in the next IN.SCHOOL TILT COLLEGE BASKET BALL. South Carolina, 33; Clemson, 26. | ‘Washington and Lee, 44; Bridge- water, 26. Tenressee, 22; Florida, 19. Tulane, 20; Sewanee, 16. Delaware, 34; Western Maryland, 15. Mount St. Mary’s, 20; St. John's of Brooklyn, 13. Arkan: 36; Rice, 18. Geneva, 47; Thiel, 17, ‘Wittenberg, 33; Ohio University, 27. Evansville, 25; Butker, 23. Valparaiso, 38; Arkansas A’gles. 13 Joseph's, 10. Crescent A. 45; Vermont, 23. League Hockey. Winnipeg, 4; St. Paul, 0. College Hockey. Harvard, 7; Notre Dame, 0. Foley Scores On Block Play BASKET BALL BY SOL METZGER. Catholic University has a real bas- ket ball team. It made a good record last season. and is on its way to big things in this campaign. In Foley it has a running guard who ranks near the top and is a sure shot at the basket. One of Foley's favorite plays pictured when Catholic has the 1 out-of-bounds_under her goal. Foley |is No. 3 in the diagram, and he Uons himself back of his teammate, No. Then, on a glven signal frhmn the player out-of-bounds, Foley rushes forward at top speed, sliding off the hip of No. 2. That prevents guards following him and glv { Foley a clear path for the basket. In the upper panel the lineup for this play is shown before it breaks. Foley is the player farthest to the {rear in the black jersey. In lower panel you see him receiving pass, clear of his guard and with o chance to dribble and shoo . YOUNG OF GIANTS ILL. N ANTONIO, Tex., January § Ross Young, right fielder for the New York Giants, has been fil since before the close of the 1926 base bull season and has been in a hospital here | most of that time. Young is suffer- ing from a kidney discase and it is league tilt booked. PRO COURT'LEAGUE. Standing of Teams. Wan. Last b Cleveland Washington Philadeinhia New York Fort W " 47 20 36 Washington. TONIGHT'S GAME Washington at Cleveland TOMORROW'S GAME Baltimore @ Waehington, Cleveland. y doubtful whether he will be able to [ Join his team this season | - = TUNNEY CANCELS BOUT. | MILWAUKEE, W | ). Gene Tunne 3 | champion, in & long- telephone call from St. Louis, has cancelled his | exhibition bout in Milwaukee next 1°ri day night. Tunney said he had con | tracted a cold in the muscles of his back. | i Pa., January 8 (P Setting what is believed to bea world’s vecord for girls' teams, the Warren High School Sextet defeated Mount Jewstt High, 84 to.0. WARR | s the | of spending | torn | One cluster of | counting of his expenses, which in-| the commissioner | | pondered questions ra | stopped sale lof his | | te OLLIE TUCKER SIGNED FOR SECOND NAT TRIAL Nineteen Nationals now have come to terms for the 1927 Ameri- can League campaign. The latest o accept President Clark Griffith's offer is Ollie Tucker, outfielder, bought from the New Orleans club of the Southern Association. His signed contract was received short- Iy after the paper bearing Third Baseman Ossie Bluege's signature was filed. Tucker, whose home is at Ra- diant, Va., was first given a trial by the Nationals in 1920, when he was 18 years old. ALL BIG TEN FIVES IN GAMES TONIGHT By the Associated T CHI ), January 8.-—Western Conference basket ball gets under full way tonight, with all the teams in_action in title-race battles. Tllinois alveady has chalked up a victory over Minnesota, but the other big 10 quintets have been engaged with non-conference foes and the barrier on their sprint for the cham- pionship zctually goes up.with to- night’s engagement The second opponent of the season for 1linois is a_somewhat crippled Northwestern. Indiana is at consin, Mich Purdue enter Towa is at Chi On the ba of pre-season en- counters, Indiana is rated the likeliest contender in the champlonship bit- tle which last Winter ended in a four-way tit. ALEXANDRIA CELTICS PLAY NORFOLK QUINT and ALL NDRIA, Va.. January § 8t. Mary's Celtic basketers are to end their first extended trip of the cam- paign tonight in Norfolk with a game against Maury High, State scholastic champion last Winter. Alexandria High's track as lost three sterling perform- | in Capt. Marshall Baggett. Buck Pohl and Macey Berman, it is still figured strong enough to successfully defend its title in the annual track | and field championships for high odlls to be held ‘here May 21. Be- ides Alexandria, George Mason, | Washington and Lee, Fredericksburg, | Culpeper, Warrenton, Leesburg, Ma- nassas, Floris, Calverton, Herndon and Haymarket will compete. ough An invitation to participate in the| annual scholastic basket ball tourna- ment at St. John's, Annapolis, on March 11 and 12, will be accepted by Alexandria High School; it is an- nounced. Alexandria has adopted a new bas- ket ball schedule, as follows: Januars 14, Swavely Preparatory of Manassas: Fredericksburg Hig] % Randoiph-Macon Military Academy at Froni ‘ashington and Lee High at *Georke Mason High Frederickeburg High at Fred- | Charlotte Hall Academy | a. Washington and at Wash- t Prej 18, ihetor Academy: 1, 25 and 28 open. : arch 11 and 12, 'St. John's College schol- tournament ai Anaapolis. Md. 4 dria High _tossers routed George Mason High, 55 to 5, vesterday. The losers were able to get but one court goal. McMenamin and Cohen for Alexandria were ranking scorers. Francis accounted for all except one of George Mason’s puints. ° PENALTIES TOPPLE PALACE BASKETERS Two games back of the leading Rosenblum, the Washington Palace club quint will meet that team again tonight in Cleveland in an effort to reduce the advantage of the American Baskst Ball League pacemakers. Palace cannot return to Washing ton in firsy place for its game tomor- row night with Baltimore at the Ar- cadia. All chance of going into the lead was wiped out by 36-t0-28 de- feat pinned on the local aggregation by the Rosenblums last night. The teams were tied last night at the end of the half, 18 to 18, although Washington had outranged and out- played the Rosies. Cleveland ran up a 5-point lead in the second half on goals by Husta and Hickey and a free toss by Kerr, but Saunders and Kennedy soon even- ed_the count. Neither team caged a fleld goal in the last 7 minutes of pla Cleveland getting enough penalty tosses Nat Hickey of Cleveland and Glasco of Washington tangled fist fight, for which both were ban- WILL HALT RACING AT POMPANO TRACK By the Associated Press, JACKSONVILLE, Fla., January —-Winter racing meet plans of natives and visitors were held in abeyance to- day while Supreme Court justices 1 sed in legal pro- ceedings involving the sport The justices have under advisement petition for @ writ of supersedas ainst an injunction which yesterday of es at race t miles from a a Pompano 40 Miami Opponents o leases violates gambiing statutes, outcome of the legal effort, Pompano officials said today’s meeting would mark the close of the track indefinite Iy because of lack of horses Sheriff L. M. Hiers at Tampa ves- ay predicted there would “be no acing program this Winter in Hills. borough County.” where the Tampa Jockey Club is located. He bas statement on the recent cenvic Harvey Myers of Covington, K conspiracy to violate the antig bling law, which grew out of ope tion last Winter of the now defur West Coast Jockey Club, of which | Myers was president. The Tampa Jockey Club succeeded the defunct concern. |FEABODY SOCER TEAM f racing claim the sale the te anti- Regardless of the ight | SCORES IN TITLE PLAY ark View School have but one hope to | school soccer title. T body 1 booters nne u today the city 1 by Pea ame series for the champion | ites are urnen it next ! the Plaza piteh which will either give | the title outright to Peabody or place | the team on an even footing for the | rubber contest. | Yesterday's same | hard fought. Late | Tony Bianco of Peabody through the efiicient P View de fense to raise the ball between the posts for the only score. the Plaza was in the contest { meet is to send three vela | 1avoft ished by Referee Ward Brennan | 8. | to 0 in the opening tilt of a | broke | BY I C. BYRD. EORGETOWN begins its in- door track campaign to- night with one representa- tive, Jimmy Burgess, com- peting in the Knights of Columbus games in Brooklyn at the d Regiment Armory. Burgess slated to run in a single event, special 500-yard race, with three of the fastest middle-distance men in the count His opponents will be Alan Hellfrich, Pinkey Sober, Vin- cent Lally, all of whom starred on tracks in and around New York and New England last vear. Despite his injury last year, Bur- gess is in good shape, and Coach John O'Reilly of Georgetown expects him to show, well in the event against the pick of middle-distance performers. Georgetown's main track will not he seen in action until ary 22, when it is to compete in the Brooklyn College games. Tts next meet will be the Millrose, February the next the Boston Atheletic As- sociation games, February then follow competitions for it the York Athletic Club, 14: the indoor intercol- March 4: the Crescent Athletic Club, March 11, and the Knights of Columbus Madison Square Garden, March 17. In the majority of these meets the Blue and Gray will have in competi- tion a mile relay team and two or three individ but in the Boston a two-mile cham- a t to compete in the in a race for the indoor freshman title, and a mile team to run a special event, probably against Holy Cross. is | next four | pionship, a freshman quartet to run | o Burgess to Compete in B'ig Race in Brooklyn—~Pair of College Basket Ball Games Listed Here. “C” Club May Hold Meet at Arcadia. having won both games it has played so far this season, will try to continue its vic- torious way tonight when it enter- tains Gallaudet on, its home floor. Gallaudet's fine showing against Catholic_ University has caused George Washington to sit up and take notice. ~An_exceptionally good game is expected, with hoth teams battling on close terms all the way. Both doubtless will have on the floor the same line-ups with which they started their other ganies this week. satholic University also goes on the floor tonight for its second game this week when it faces Blue Ridge College in the Brookland gymnasium. The Brooklanders have one of their best but are not expecting such an time of it against Blue Ridge. It reported that Blue Ridge has a good team, one strong enough to give any of the quints around here a good deal more than a practice tilt News brought out in this column sveral days ago that no indoor track meet was to be held in this immediate inity has developed the fact that the “C club of Central High School will make an endeavor to stage such ) event at the Arcadia some time late this Winter. The meet, if held, will be almost entirely for high school and prep school athletes. It is the in- | tention, however, to invite several college men to take part in two or | three special races. ~The club < men at the Arcadia today measur- ing the floor to determine just what | sort of a track could be put in, and a definite decision is expected within the next few day: BRACE O A pair of high- attempt to soar to the basket ball heights tomorrow afternoon in the Congress Heights gymnasimh, when two teams named after the national bird will play in a doubleheader. Anacostia Bagles, uniimited cham- pions of last year, and beaten only twice this vear, will meet St. Stephen’s in the feature clash of the afternoon, while Original Eagles will vie with the Chevy Chase Centrals. All players have been requested to report at the 1:15 o'clock. . Stephen’s holds a victory over the Hyattsville Company F regula the only local teami which has trim- med. the Anacostin Eagles this vear, and the Eagles will seek victory to- morrow in a left-handed effort to even the count. ving eagles will Parkway A. C. will travel to Alex- andria tonight to engage the Old Dominion Boat Club outfit in the Alex- andria armor Comets will meet Calvary M. E. tossers in the Eastern High gym to- night at 9 o’clock. Calvary M. a game from the Comets earlier in the season. Petworth Tremonts will end a long tonight when they meet the Dupont A. C. in the Naval Reserve gym at 7:30 o’clog! Minus the services of Joe Sweeney, the Washington Yankees will tackle the Fort Humphreys five in the Gon- zaga gym tomorrow at 3 p.m. Mount Vernon will clash with Cove- nant tonight at the Y. M. C. in a Sunday School League game: Mount Vernon players will report at 7:30 o'clock. Calvary Seniors and Clovers won a brace of senior league contests in B BY HARRY BELL. Basket Ball Coach Lombard College N the shot for basket the ball should be brought up directly in front of the eyes and above the head, getting a good high arch. | That may sound ea is more to it than that. | from the beginning of the shot as it —— should be made. The first movement is a forward step with just a slight, body erouch, including crouchin { movement in the knees, as well as a | forward movement of the chest. The ball is held in front of the chest or | possibly from a point just below it. | i | | | | The arms are close in at the side when the shot starts, Fig. 1. The 2. won | . but there | We'll start | F EAGLE QUINTS TO FACE POWERFUL FOES the Washington Bar ks gym, the churchmen downing Columbias, 28 to 113 while Clovers trounced the Kana- | whias, 22 to 16. Red Schafer again ranged all over | the floor to lead the Red Shields to victory over the Alexandria Pirates, 30 to 17. | Columbia Heights Christian Church tossers ended the nine-game winning reak of the Olympic Senfors in a 2.to-29 game. nnexed a game over 5 to 19. | Samoset Preps | the Mardell five, | Hyattsville High nosed out Charlotte Haill at Charlotte Hall, 22 to 20, }“ ight tossing the field goal which decided the game | | Sherwood Bet: | Emerson Juniors, i Army Medical nter floormen out | classed the Fort Myer five at Walter | Reed Hospital running up a | score of 72 to jors trimmed the 5 to 8. gym, | Hess A. C. plans to place another | basket bail team on the court. Plans | for thie season were laid at a meeting held In the .clubrooms last night | Woodward Dietrich was | president. Other officers ar | Hoffman, vice president: M. | secretary; Leo Breen, treasure | Bailey, publicity, and Paul | sergeant-at-arms. Palace Preps, 115-pounders games with teams in their cl Smith, want Comet Juniors on Bladensburg team, 35 to Corinthian insect and midget players {will meet tonight in the Peck | Memorial gym at 7:30 o'clock. Games | have been arranged for both teams. from the The Coening Star 0YS CLUB front | ball is brought up directly in In the act of letting go of the ball the arms are extended to their high reach, the ball leaving from the tips of the fingers and thumb. The final act in getting rid of the ball is | that the backs of the hands are turned In this way both arms cht amount of follow | slightly in have the | through 1 1 had several pictures taken of George Evans, captain of one of my former teams, the team that won the { lowa and orth Central Conference championship. I had coached Evans in this style of shot and he became | very adept at it and was an allstate forward selection. The pictures showed r that tion. But the pictures were taken after he had become u great star. He didn't always do it perfectly and neither will you. But practice makes perfect and it takes much practice to get a thing down right in basket ball, (Next—A basket ball talk by Os- | wald Tower, the Walter Camp of the | court game.) (Copyright. 1927 18.2 BALKLINE TITLE REGAINED BY HOPPE By the Associsted Press NEW YORK, January S8—The familiar figure of Willie Hoppe held | forth at the top of the 18.2 balkline | billiard again today in the ory of a remarkable triumph. | ppled from the pinnacle two 3 o by Jake Schaefer of Chi- | cago, 3 old veteran came brilllant finish to pull mantle from the shoulders of Hagenlacher, defending title- breaking final 87. teh ended early today after hts' pl: {HOWARD U. BASKETERS OPEN SEASON TONIGHT Howard University's basket ball team will open its season tonight, meeting the 1 1 College five of Baltimore in the former’s gym at 8:30, Morgan won two games from Howard last year, ' world TRACK STARS LISTED | IN BROOKLYN GAMES By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January $.—A half dozen track and field record holders as well as a small army of district and national champions were among 600 athletes listed for competition tonight in the opening indoor meet of the season, held by the Brookl¢n Knights of Columbus, A score of handicap and special events were on the ¢ Heading the ay of nationally known competitors is Alan Helffrich, 600-yard record holder, and a trio record-holding sprint aces. Louis Clarke of Baltimore, running for the Newark Athletic Club: Chet Bow- former Syracuse star, now also ng Newark colors, and Bob Me- Allister, erstwhile “flying cop.” Edvin Wide, Swedish champion and conqueror of Paavo Nurmi, was invited to see the meet as the guest of Murray Hulbert, national presi- dent of the Amateur Athletic Union, and fire the gun starting the two- mile race. T of the eyes &nd above the head, Fig. 2. | | had the style down almost to perfec- | SULLIVAN-KILRAIN BOUT OF YEARS AGO RADIOED ssociated Press. CHICAGO, January 8—John L. Sullivan’s .mighty .bare .knuckle championship fight with Jake Kil- rain many years ago was broad- cast, v-blow,” from WGN, the Chicago Tribune station last night. The radiocast sought fo repro- duce the battle as it would have sounded over the radio, if there had been a radio then. There was the background of the yelling crowd and comment on ringside incidents, in addition to the blow- ny-blow account, pitched to the key of excitement the announcer believed he would have shown had he in fact been at the ringside. D. C. BOWLING STARS | Washington's squad of stellar duck- pinners left at 10 o'clock this morning for Brooklyn, where they will engage the Orpheums tonight in tfie second and final block of their intercity bowl ing match. The National Capital team will carry into the concluding block small ds in the team, double: and singles divisions. Tonight's mateh will consist of five mes in eich of the three div % cating the program of the first block rolled at Convention Hall here last week. Howard « the double: in the single an for the V mpbell and Al Work in and Glenn Wolstenholme are expected to carr shington squad, as they . but the five-man team will not be constituted as it was b Jack Whelan, who bowled with the team at Convention Hall, is ill and probably will he replaced by Harry Burtner. Others in the five-man team will be Campbell, Work, Wolstenholme and Walter Megaw. A quartet of local racketers after testing out the indoor court on the | Arcadia floor vesterday pronounced | it one of the best of its type in this | vicini The first official match to be played on the new court will be the meeting between Big Bill Tilden and Manuel Alonso Monday night and, according to Paul Harding and A. O. White,| members of the tennis committee in charge of the exhibition and the vitation tournament to follow through {out the weelk, everything is in readi- ness for the inauguration of Washing- ton's first indoor court event. Play on boards is much faster than on grass or ¢ it is said by net | experts, which may make a decided difference in the play of the local net stars and add an element of interest to their encounters. Most of them will be competing for the first time indoors. ARMOUR IS AMONG | GOLF PACE SETTERS | By the Associated Press. |51 CABALLERO COUNTRY CLUB. VAN S, Calif., January 8.— The 130 golfers entered in the Los Angeles $10,000 open tournament took | up their clubs again to | or glory and casn as the classic .ached its semi-final stage Weather conditions indicated better yres would be turned in than those Jf vesterday and that a lower gross han 156 for the 36 holes of vesterday and today would be needed to get into the championship flight tomorrow. Seventy on the par 72 El Caballero | Country Club course was the best card cesterday, this distinction being shared by four players, Charles Guest of Hollywood, Mike Brady of Mamar- onneck, N. Y.; Bobby Cruickshank of New York and Ed Dudley of Okla- homa City. The leading 64 players at the end of today’s round will go into the finals tomorrow George von Elm of Los Angeles, holder of the national amateur cham- pionship; Harry Cooper, winner of last year's $10,000 open; Macdonald | Smith of Great Neck. N. Y.; Tommy | Armour of the Congressional Country | | Club, Washington, D. C.: Joe Kirk- | wood of Albany, Ga.; George Duncan lof Surrey, England; Bobbie Cruick- | shank of New York and William | Mehlhorn of New York proved the | gallery favorites vesterday. Pairings for today’s second 18 holes of qualifying play were the same as vesterday. The scores of the low 64 players in these two rounds are com- bined with the Sunday 36-hole flight 5 prize winners. | to determine the | Birdies are common and several eagles were made vesterday. But an outstanding event in club history was provided in the recording of the first hole in 1, when Jimmy Mason of Cas- per, Wi dropped his tee shot in at the 175-yard eighth, which is par 3. GREEN SECTION NOW "IN GOLF ASSOCIATION By tha Associated Press, PILTSBURGH, Pa. January 8 The United States Golf Association is assuming control of the Green Sec tion, an independent body | The Green Section, which came into | being six vears ago, yesterday agreed | to merge with the parent organiza- tion with a view to increasing the | | membership from 238 to 1,200 clubs. The section looks after the growing of turf grasses and maintains courses | throughout the United States. Another matter to come before the U. 8. G. A. is the proposal to abolish all allied memberships and create single membership fee of $30 ann including the Green Section service. After the approval of the amalga- mation plans this evening, the as- soclation will elect officers. The re- election of William C. Fowns, jr., Pittsburgh, as president was regarded as certain. WEISSMULLER BREAKS MARK. NEW YORK, January 8 (#).—John- ny Weissmuller, lanky aquatfc star of the Illinois Athletic Club, is credited with swimming the fastest 100 yards in history. This was revealed when the Amateur Athletic Union received telegraphic requests from Charles A. Dearl, 1. A. C. official, to recognize a mark of 49 45 seconds. e S s RETAINS GERMAN CROWN. | BERLIN, January § (#).—Henvy | Domgoergen retained his ~ title of middleweight champion of Germany | when he defeated the challenger, Wai- tey Funke, on points. They fought 15 rounds. i MOHAWK PREP MEET. All members of the Mohawk Preps, 115-pound _District foot ball cham: pions, are d to attend a meeting at the cluhouse tonight, when plans | will be for a banquet. | the accusing Gandil. ¢ in the fight | EXONERATION IS LIKELY FOR ACCUSED ATHLETES Investigation Which Has Cost Game $20,000 Fa to Produce Any Substantiation of Allegations Made by Risberg and Ganc BY JOHN B. FOSTER. GO, January 8. The base all scandals of the 192627 Winter season have come and gone, but certainly with- out revealing anything very blackening to the accused Chicago and Detroit American League players of 1917 and 1919. After listening to all testimony and endeavoring to pry down to the bot: tom of the affair which had developed out of the charge of “Swede” Risberg and “Chick” Gandil, the feeling of the writer is that the White and Detroit players charged with “fixing" games probably will be exonerated. But when Judge Landis makes his decision next Wednesday at 10 o'clock he may condemn severely the practice of years gone by through which pla ers of the one team gave bonuses to players of other teams in the same league. Tnvestigation Cost $20,000. Organized base ball spent $20,000 or more to get to the bottom of this aftair and it did not get a word of stantiation for the charges of either berg or Gandil, both blacklisted n organized base ball because of their actions in 1919 world series.Gan- dil turned out to be a more talkative but u less effective witness than Ris berg. And on top of that he let the t out of the bag through his admis- sion that he was being paid $500 by the Chicago Tribune, as “expenses and incidentials” to come to Chicago with his supposed revelations. As with the Cobb-Speaker affair, this latest rumpus forced into the open by the prox- ¢ of publication of the charges. the imi Here are the high lights of would-be scandal: Big Bill James, former Detroit pitch- er, honest-appearing, highly regarded throughout his, career, told a straight- forward story that got no denial from Gandil and Risherg, both rather hopeful of some action by the com- missioner of base ball reinstating them to good standing, cooked their goose by admitting that' they had playved out of position in the Detroit- Chicago game of September, 1919, The Chicago Tribune was admitted by Gandil to have paid him $500 for coming here. Whether Risberg got Not a bit of evidence came out to back up the Risberg-Gandil charges, and Gandil's much-heralded grand ex» pose turned out to be rambling and weak. Ty Cobb was given a clean bill of health by all the players present at the hearing when asked to state whether the famous Tyrus ever was known to turn from the straight path in_base ball. The testimony of Gandil was much like that of Risber It involved James only through what Gandil said was a conversation of about 20 words indirectly intimating that if Detroit wouldn't “bear down™ in the Septem- ber 2 and 3 series at Chicago in 1917 they would be “fixed up.” James characterized this charge as absolutely false, not having talked with Gandil at the time mentioned. And it was noticeable that Gandil dldn't question this. He had been told that if the Detroit pitchers would win from Boston they would get $200 apiece. James later recelved $850, which he distributed to the pitchers and to Stanage, the catcher. e gave two pitchers in the bull pen $50 each. Risberg had sald that between $1,000 and $1,100 had been collected. Where the rest of the money went was not disclosed. Tz pitching under a bonus contr By win- ning 15 games he would get $750. He needed wins in the Chicago series to get his honus and contended that he would scarcely be wise to throw away ' chance at a $750 bénus by accepting $200 to lose a game. Put Crimp in Gandil. The James testimony put a crimp in Gandil's, who became less voluble after it was in. That testimony was the crux of the whole affair and added greatly to the weight of the evidence against the Risberg-Gandil charges, which had been emphasized in the first place because of the temptation to notoriety. The receipt of money from a newspaper and the refusal to appear until the story would be too late for afternoon newspapers, as well as his effort to try the case through publication prior to appearance on the witness stand didn't help the Gandil position a bit. Risberg likewise had stalled off Judge Landis for much the same purpose. nay money was not revealed. (Copyright. 1927.) WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER IGH SCHOOL athletes are proving the popularity of basket ball with members of the fair sex by the large numbers in which they are turning out for the intramural games which will get under way in the near future in each of the five local schools Central and Western each boast several hundred basket ball enthusi- asts who are trying out for posi- tions on the class squads. At Cen- tral the numbers are so great that emester teams are to be formed, in- stead of class groups. This will give double the number of students an op- portunity to compete for basket ball honors. “irst and second teams from each class are. being organized at Western and a double series will he played off. stern High tossers have been practicing since early in December and expect to open their schedule short Preliminary practice at Tech has been halted temporarily, but will be resumed the latter part of the month, at.which time captains and managers will be selected and a schedule mapped out. Business’ tossers have not organized yet due to the absence of their coach, Arbutus Saunders, but regular prac- tice will begin next week, with the selection of the teams early in Feb- ruary. No inierscholastic basket ball com- petition is permitted in the local high schools, but following the intramural series in each school, mythical school squads are selected from the ranks of the class performers. These girls, | chosen as the representative players of the school, are awarded major athletic emblems at \Western, Eastern, Business and Central, and minor letters at Tech, where girls are not accorded the honor of major letters for any sport. _Efforts have been made at various times by physical training directors at Tech to have the ban on maljor sport emblems for girls lifted, espe- cially in the case of the winners of tennis and rifle laurels, but so far the efforts have been in vain. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. BERLIN—Harry Domoergen, dleweight champion of Germany, de- feated Walter Funke (15). W YORK—Phil McGraw, Detroit, defeated Tod Morgan, Seattle, junior lightweight champion (10). (Non'title.) Billy White, Jersey City, won from Harry Cook, Buffalo (10). Spug Myers, Pocatello, Idaho, beat Sid Bar- barian, Detroit (10). WATERLOO, Towa—Billy Muscatine, lowa, defeated Collins, Kansas City (8). ERIE. Pa—Ted Easterbrook, Niles, Ohio, beat Chet Thomas, Boston (10). Art Milnes, Ellwood City, defeated Bert Hillier, Montreal (6). TAMPA, Fla—Bermondsey Wells, ¢ England, beat’ Jiluan Moran, champion of Spain (10). WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Kew- pie Trimble, Fast Chicago, Ind., beat Jimmy Cashill, St. Paul (10). HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—King Tut, Minneapolis, won a technical knock- out over Danny Kramer (6). Billy Hart, Hollywood, and Irish Mickey Cone, New York, drew (6). s FRANCISCO—Ollie Bartlett, St. Paul, and Thomas Palacio, Philip- pines, drew (6). SAN DIEGO-—Charlés Feracl, New Orleans, lightweight, defeated Frankie Burns, Mitwaukee (10). Joe Lewis, New Orleans, lightweight, beat Art S: co (6). Moon, Jackie Billy Jim WILL NOT BE BARRED S ANGELE: January 8 (#).- What the well dressed woman will wear, if nything, while paddling acr nta Catalina Channel Jan- uary 15 in a quest for glory and the $40,000 prize means nothing to the Angeles City Council. Councilmen announced a “hands off” policy in answer to a deluge of demands that women contestants be forced to wear something more than a covering of axle grease. They said that as far the the coun- cil is concerned, feminine swimmers might wear grease, regulation swim- ming suits or the fullskirted and bloomerel bathing suit of the “gay HAWKINS mid- | MORGAN OUTPOINTED | IN NON-TITLE BOUT NE WYORK, January § (#).—Tod Morgan, junior lightweight champion boxer, was convinced today that he could not give Phil McGraw, aggres- sive Detroit battler, three pounds ad- vantage in weight and score a victory. A judge and referee agreed that McGraw won from the Seattle title holder at Madison Square Garden last night, while the other judge voted for a draw. No championship was in- volved, as the bout was catch weights and both contestants were over the limit, McGraw at 1341 and Morgan at 13114, . Morgan showed great gameness, but waited too long to start his drive. Spug Myers came from Pocatello, Tdaho. to outpoint Sid Barbarian of Detroit. The Pocatello lad was true to the tenents of the society for the prevention of useless giving, repre- sented by his nickname, and made the blows he gave count. HORNSBY SEES McGRAW REGARDING HIS SALARY By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January 8.—Rogers Hornsby, traded by the St. Louis world champlons because he could not agree with the management on salary questions, is here to see if his new employers, the New York Giants, and he can reach a meeting of minds on the same subject. The former manager Cardinals, who Is_expected second b for New York in the 1927 season, conferred last night with Manager John McGraw. Hornsby's contract with St. called for $30.000 annually, but it was predicted that the figures would be revised upward in New York Hornsby plans to leave for St. Louis tonight. MAINFORT GETS EVEN. Bobby Mainfort threw Jack Collins twice in succession at the Mutual Theater last night. 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