Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1927, Page 75

Part 4—4 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C., 'SUNDAY -MORNING, JANUARY 9 192¢. 2 f?o‘rnsbyS{g_ns With Giants for Two Years : Rickard Plans Seven Heavyweight Tilts TO BE CAPTAIN AS WELL AS CAVORT AT KEYSTONE Reported Annual Salary of $40.000 for Ex-Pilot of World Champion Cards Makes Him Highest Priced Player in National League. By the Associated Press field leader, ranking next in autherity EW YORK, January to his veteran manager, John Mc- Rogers Hornsby, who c | Graw, was stipulated in the contract \ to the major leagues a dozen | It strengthens the belief that Hornsb: with a paltry $500 [will be groomed to succeed McGraw tag nattached to him, |when the latter is ready to relinquish today signed a two-year contract with | the reins If the generally accepted figure for which Hornsby slgned, $40.000, is cor- rect, the new Giant infielder will ge- ceive more than his manager, Mc- Graw, and rank second onlv to Babe Ruth in the. high salary ranks of major league playe Ruth’s Salary Tops 'Em AlL McGraw's managerial contract is understood to call for $35,000, but as Fvice president and a large stockholder of the club the veteran leader profits to a much larger extent. Babe Ruth's salary has been $52,500 for several years, and his new con ‘lx'a(‘l. starting with the 19 ason, is expected to be even larger. Ry cala s Bill Carrigan, after 10 years' absence Hornshy will captain the Giants as | o SGCe®hn " is reported to have well as play second base for the 1927 | heen lured back to the helm of the and 1978 His position as | Red Sox by a $50,000 salary LANDIS WEIGHS EVIDENCE his new employers. the New York ! Giants, at the annual salarv under: stood to be $40,000, the highest-paid player in the National League. This sum is $10,000 more than Hornsby receiv~d for piloting the St. Louis Cardinals to their first National Leagur penrant and world champion- ship Jast vear. Tt is §10,000 less. how- ever. than the figure Hornsby demand- ed for continuing as player-manager of the Cardinals, and over which the split resuited which caused him to be traded to the G “rank Frisch and Jimm- Rir g May Succeed McGraw. sasons. FOR VERDICT IN SCANDAL| heard this testimony Landis appar Bs the Assaciated Vrese, ently was content with result of his \ CHICAGO January S.—Confronted pICs \) 4 i irv. st i e t | Writh: the creslest probl his base | inquiry. Almost immediately he cu e 5 oo °® | the hearing short and announced he i sirvie Commissioner Landis | woulg give his decision at 10 am. up *edir afies his strenuous | Wednesday. President Johnson of the American | League, in which six clubs have play- | ers involved in the charges, tonight | ers named in the | Swede Risberg and o w These . wo coliectors of the Chicago | continued his policy of silence, but White Sox peol for the Detroit Tigers |admitted he might have something to say after the commissioner’s decision next Wednesday. : Johnson was replaced in the major | departcs for thelfr nst their e ¢ series between these two homes tonight. timony of a “fixed" teams. Landis must weigh the story |league advisory board at the annual of Rii Jomes. Detroit pitcher, 10 [base ball meeting a month ago, and wl hey ave the monéy. there were reports today that Landis <itd nothing to me about might call in his conferees on that for a1 ‘slonghedd Labor Day | body, Johnson and President John sioner. | Heydler of the National League. Not series.” lames tcld the comm: since the ““black sox™ scandal of 1920, ““Ihey told me the $350 was a pres- | | when Landis was called in to clean up the game, have the major leagues | disclosure, although the | the crooked 1919 | that affair the| alone to ban- | et for' the three games we won from Boston. Gandil told me. during that Labor Day series the Sox would give | faced such 0 to cach Detroit pitcher who beat |events antedate Boston, and his testimony that he|world seri In “fixed’ the Chicago-Detroit series with | American League acted me is an absolute lie.” |ish the eight suspected White Sox A< the climax of the story of | Tn this case there are involved more vers who denied the charges | than a score of plavers still on the and Giandil. and having | rester of the American League clubs. I of Risber ' BURGFSS FINISHES SECOND TO LALLY IN 500 SPECIAL Phil Edwards of New York Uni- versity failed to overhaul a big fleld of handicapped runners in the 1,000- yard event. and finished fourth. The event was won by J. T. Downing of Columbus Council in 2 Down- ing had a start of 55 yards. Lengthy handicaps also beat Harry Hinkel, champion heel and toe ath- lete of New York A. C., in the 1 mile walk, which went to A. J. Ronsniak an unattached entrant. William Carl- son_of the Finnish-American A. C. was second, and Miachel Pecora of the Hazleton (Pa) Y. M. C. A, national junior 3-mile champion, third. Rosniak, who was allotted a ard handicap, finished in 6:50 2-5 Edwin Wide, Swedish conqueror of Paavo Nurmi, saw one of the Finn's LW YORK, January §—Vin- cent Lally, Metropolitan 300- vard ~ champion, won the Gov. Smith 500-yard specigl ” in the athletic games of thi Knights of Columbus here tonight. Lally breasted the tape more than B yards in front of Jimmy Burgess of Georgetown University. Allan Helfrich was third, a. yard behind Burgess. while Eddie Blake of the Boston A. A. landed fourth, place. The winner was clocked in 59 4-5 seconds. Bob McAllister, former New York policeman, made his comeback to- night, finishing second to Jack Dono- hue of the St Anselem’s Club in a 100-yard dash handicap. national \ hampion, Tha former known e the “flying cop.” running |Compatriots race to a sensational vic- from scrateh after an absence of [tOFY in the Z-mile handicap, when Ove two yvears, flashed ail his old-time | Anderson galloped around a field of speed., but Donobue's 4-yard handi- |30 rivals from scratch. cap proved too much for him to| The Finnish intercoliegiate distance a great burst of speed 0 vards breasted the tape champion b, overcome after he had sprinted home b Donohue was a |In the last first in two, heats bare s(ep in front, however, the |ahead of Sam McNelll, unattached winner's time being 10 1.5 seconds. (75 yards), by a step in 9:38 4.5. E. \ H. Smit. of C. C. N. Y. was third. E. Sanborn of the New York A. C. (115 yards) was third. Wide fired the starting gun for the event. Cnet Bowman of the Newark A.C., former intercollegiate champion, was shut out in his first heat. D. C. BOWLERS EARN TWO VICTORIES AT BROOKLYN 2 shing- | the Brooklyn total for the ten games. team that came | Although Barney $pinella did nothing like the sensational bowling he flashed l in Washington, he had a five-game set of 622 to help Brooklyn considerably and lead all in the team match. The Washington team that bowled BROOKL tton's all-s into Broeklyn today with an advan- tage in all three divisions of its $2,000 stake match with the Orpheums of' | this city, found itself on the winning end of hut two divisions tonight at the conclusion of the second half of the |against the Orpheums was the same \ fntercity duckpin contest that rolled in the National Capital All the Washingtonians could save | with the exception that Harry Burt. out of the battle were victories in the {ner replaced Jack Whelan, who is ill doubles and singles divisions, Their |at his home in Washington. defeat came in the fiveman team| In the doubles Walter Megaw, in. match, the one big number of the con- |stead of Al Work, bowled with How- test and the one in which they con-fard Campbell and the pair increased fidently expected 1o overwhelm the |the advantage they had gained in the Brooklynites. . | Washington end of the match. With The Washington team started well | Megaw hitting 591 and mpbell 645 and at the conclusion of the first of [ the Washingtonians hung up 1,236 the five games had boosted its lead |azainst 1,196 made by Mort Lindsey considerably, © But one by one its|and Barney Spinella. In all, Wash members faltered until the Brooklyn ington finished with a lead of 59 pins hunch found itself safely ahead at the | over Brooklyn in the doubles division. finish. In the singles, Washington increased ore was little o the doubles and | it¢ lead to 37 pins, when in the last “"‘rfir‘\ s divisions. The Bi un]‘l\\” ,:_v:,,iw,\ games Glenn Wolstenholme out . t e ayed to cope with the ‘w"‘vullvd Barney pinell: 630 to 601, Of King T or ' Wanhineton Aaay e ;m.» five games, the wklyn bowler really had a look-in, while Glenn Wol- | 100K but two. v Stenholme, uce of the National Capital | Scores of three divisions follow: drives, defeaten ey pinella Brooklyn’s wonder of the alleys, move | 5-Game decisively thun he did at Convention | o Hall In Waskington the night of De- | Megaw An igury sustained by Al Work, | Wolstenholme ne of Washington’s strongest bowl: e < e today proved a handicap.| ToBM- &¥eik. who s an iceman in the Na-| tionsi Cup'tal, had a block of the | Lindser frozen fuid fall on him this morning | parre & pefore leaving home and was severely | P Soine hort. Upon his arrival here he visit- /8- Spine! ed an osteopath and-was advised to| Totals. refrain from participating in the | match. But Work insisted upon com- | peting and rolled five games with his | Meeaw Tidg <Y PERWINS GOLF BALL TESTING MACHINE IS SHOWN PITTSBURGH, January 8 (®.—A machine designed to test the resili- ence of golf balls is an effort to select a standard ball was demon- strated for the first time here today at the annual convention of the United States Golf Association. The machine, recently invented hy Prof. Harold A. Thomas of the civil engineering department, Carnegie In- driver head in an actual drive 1y a first-rate golfer. fter being hit by the striker, the golf Dball to be tested is driven ver- tically upward with a velngity of about 220 feet per second, correspond ing to that of the ball in an actual drive. The moving ball is caught and stopped in the “riser.” Fownes said the association per- fected the machine in the hope of ok | taining an accurate and reliable meas- ure of thé relative driving power of different balls. Should the c¢xperi- ment prove successful, he said, i golf ball uniform in weight and size wii be manufactured. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. George Washington, gaOnlindet, “atholic University, 48; Blue Ridge, {15, vavy, 41; U. S. Coast Guard Acade- y (New London), 2 ‘Army, 36; Clarkson College, 14, hio_State, 27. Bridgewater, 25. 3 Yale, 21. rthwestern, 23. owa, 19; icago, 13, Indiana, 28: Wisconsin, 23 Lehigh, 5 Michigan, 31; Minnesota, | Pennsylvania, 2 West Virginia, 3 18, Louslana State | Ohio Wesleyan, | serve, 36, Oklahoma, 29; Grinnell, 23, mpson, 22. Dklahoma Agi Pittsburgh, 28; Syracuse, 28. 31; Columbia, 23, > 26; 38; wanee, 23, Western "Re- s, 21. Auburn, 20 (extra | period). | Grove City, 41; Thiel, 13. Loyola of Chicago, 37 Aggies, 7. Arkansas ochester, 24. 39; Kansas Aggies, 33, , 30; Belert, 9. Wesleyan, 8; Brown, 19. Arkansas U., 34; Rice, 18, Texas, 22; Baylor, 16. Ripon, 34; Knox, 22. Depauw University (Chicago), 25; St. Louis University, 1 South Carolina, 377 Clemson, 11. issouri, 32; Kansas City Athletic Club, 26. HOCKEY GAMEs. | _St. Patricks of Toronto, 3; New York Americans, 1, | . Montreal Maroons, 3; Boston Bru- | ins, 1. | Ottawa Senators, team. He was unable, however, to | campbeil gesume his place in the doubles. di Seisks wision. In the five-man team division, the |Lindses.. . ¥ washington bowlers fafled utterly to | B. Spinelia.. goll_ up to their usual form. They | my, totaled onl guins: 2866 re: tered by That not ; only wiped « $3.pin. -dventage | ot STASHIN E :;:v'wrl S thie SN AN WEtimtand ot 19L N7 18 193— a30 faet weck, byt left them 35 pins shy of | B Seincells 123432 117 104 126— 60 nadians, 0. stitute of Technology, under the di- rection of William C. Fownes, :r., the association’s president, consists of | four essential parts, =“air gun,” | “striker,” “riser,” and “brake.” The welght of the striker is ‘the same as that of the head of an average driver. The striker is shot {from the air gun with a known velocity of about 130 feet per second, equivalent. to that attained the Carnegie Tech, Texas A. and M, 31; 8. M. U, 28. | 2;" Montreal Ca-~ | Cv PERKINS By the Associated Press. ITTSBURGH, Pa., January 8.— activities of the green ction of the United States Golf Association passed into the hands of the governing body, today. A merger of the section, a separate organization, was approved at the closing session of the association’s annual convention here. The con- solidation was authorized yesterday by the seGtion, which was formed in 1921 to care for turf grasses and maintain _courses. Henceforth the section will function as a spbcom- mittee of the U. 8. G. A. As a consequence of the amalga- mation the association's active mem- | bership will*be increased from 338 to {1,200 clubs. Willlam C. Fownes, jr., | Pittsburgh, who was re-elected presi- ! dent, announced' a membership cam- | paign would be started soon to make the association move representative of the entire golfing fraternity.. All allied memberships were “abol- |ished and the association agreed { upon a single membership fee of $30 annually, including the green section service. After several speakers had stressed the, cordjal relationship _existing be- MEMBERSHIP IN U. S. G. A. IS SWELLED BY MERGER tween the western and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews Scotland, a_cablegram was read from orman Boase, chairman of the championship committee of the for- eign club, on the subject. “I wish that the -cordial ship shall continue as alw: cablegram said. Pleading for support “the high standards in amateur sport,” Fownes said the association not “‘comprontise on this prin- He added the members of the association must remain “simon pure.” Besides Fownes, other officers elect- ed follow: Vice presidents, Charles O. Pfeil, Memphis, and Findlay S. Doug- Jas, New York; secretary, Herbert H. Ramsay, New York; Charles H. Sabin, " New York; general counsel, Josepk 8. Clark, Philadelphia; execu- tive committee, Roger D. Lapham, San Francisco; P. C. MacKall, Min: neapolis; Thomas B. Paine, Atlanta, Ga.; Melvin A. Traylor, Chicago; James D. Standish, jr., Detroit; George V. Rotan, Houston, Tex.; Her: bert Jaques, Boston, and Rodman E. Grisoom, Philadelphia. Clark, Rotan and MacKall are, new officers, the others: being re‘elécted, relation ," the to maintain EMMETT J. PARE - TENNIS LUMINARIES WHO WILL SHOW SKILL AT ARCADIA TOMORROW NIGHT Y PRRRING FOUR GOLFERS TIE FOR TOURNEY LEAD By the Associated Press. EL CABALLERO COUNTRY CLUB, Van Nuys, Calif., Ja Four players shared low honors of 141 | at the end of the 36 holes of qulifying |play tonight in the $10.000 Los | Angeles open golf tournament. | The leaders were, Harry Cooper of | Los Angeles, who won last year's | tournament; Charles Guest of Lake- | side Country Club, Hollywood; Bobby | Cruickshank, New Ybrk, and Al Wat | rous of Grand Rapids, Mich. | Sty five of the 130 starters | aualified for the 36 holes of medal play tomorrow, which will decide the }dim bution of the bhig purse. Play in today's 18-hole round started nd dusk overtook the last two- over the course ‘atrous playing with Georse Von mateur national champion, slid 'THREE LISTED AT YANKEE ' STADIUM, INCLUDING FINAL Berlenbach vs. Maloney, and Sharkey vs. Paolino or Hansen to Open Tests at Garden, With Demp- | sey Meeting Elimination Winner. ted Pr the champion's theatrical profits. 1 with | W YORK, January § addition, his authority is curtail | the heavyweight champion, | all dee ns heing reserved by | Gene Tunney, and all of his | ney so far as fights and terms are outstanding ~ehallengers ex- | concerned cept Jack Delaney under 5 lock, barrel and key, Tex Rickard today hegan shaping his plans for TUNNEY BOUT s"'Es elimination bouts that will pave the way for a title match in September | at the Yankee Stadium | The promoter disclosed a program calling for two additional indoor shows, featuring heavyweights, and three outdoors, all at the stadium. OFFERED TO RICKARD By the Associated Press NEW YORK. January $.—Stadiums one in ‘May, the second or 4 3 . finals" in July and the “final” on or |In various parts of the country already | about September 15. - Originaliy are being offered to Tex Rickard for | Rickara planned only two big out. | the bout in which Gene Tunney will defend his heavyweight championship in September Baltimore is the area into_the biddin | door shows, but the unusual wealth | of heavyweight material has prompt- ed him to change his schedule first to toss its in spite of the First Elimination Bout. fact that Rickard virtually has decided to stage all his outdoor shows h Bouts 16 ‘Which Psal Bérlenbich | {amren statiom oo paon A e will meet Jim Maloney, and Jack | cock of the Baltimore Sta Sharkey oppose Paolino, the Span-|dium. advised Rickard today of thes | furnish the first major elimination | This would excee apacity of the | tests late in February or early in |Sesquicentennial Stadium at Philadel March at Madison Square Garden.| Phia, which housed 125000 for the Paolino and Hansen are matched | Dempsey-Tunney Battle February 7 as a preliminary, while | Chicago, where Soldiers’ Fleld seated | Berlenbach must spose of Mike |Close to 110400 for the Army-Navy McTigue on January 28 to remtain |SAme. also has offergd a prospective TR ther iy battleground. Although Rickard & not yet S - " reached an agreemen with Pete Reiy, manager of dack veaney.| TILDEN IS WINNER the promoter is confident Delan will figure later the program yin ngure laer wn e vosmm IN THREE MATCHES Rickard to meet the winner of the | eliminations in the July show | " Rickard, incidentally, cleared up an | uncerfainty, which has been reflect- | | ed in the wide variety of reports as| o o | to the exact financial term for Tun- | Willlam Tilden, 2d, playing exhibi- ney's first title defense. tion tennis matches here today, de- Gene Should Net $750,000. feated A. H. Chapén, jr.. of Spring- By the Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn., January | Tunney, the promoter disclosed, field, Mass., Paired with ? s aranty of |Chapin. Tilden helped defeat Dr. il 1ocuiNe - & S Sat & ¥ Kleimschroth of Germany, and A. H. $400,000 and 40 per cent of the gross | Ashalter of Switzerland, 6—1. 6—2. | recei ccess of $1,000,000. This| Tilden later took part in a mixed ‘\r:q’:m! I":h\ h i,‘m e much as |doubles with Mrs. J. C. Corbiere of j ot ane e : | Boston as his partner, defeating Mr | Dempsey receivsd in the batfle of the | arq Are. Chapin, jr., 6—3. 1—5 | Sesquicentennial last September, | Mrs. Corbiere defeated Mrs. Chapin, $750,000,, if the gate receipts of the f—4, 6—0. | next titie bout reach the Philadel- 3 % |phia figure of approximately | yAvy PLEBE FIVE WINS. | $1,900,000. 1 APOLIS. Md.. Januar; - Opening their basket ball season hers this. afternoon the Naval Academ: Plebes won from Baltimore City Col- | " The terms of Tunney's mew con- tract with his manager, Billy Gibson also came to light today. Gibson will | | receive only 15 per cent of Tunney’s | boxing earnings and 10 per cent ofilege by 32 to Onthe Side Lines With the Sporting Editor BY DENMAN THOMPSO, OT guilty.” This unquestionably will be the verdict of Kene- saw Mountain Landis when he gives out his decision on the investigation of charges of crooked work in 1917, made by Swede Risberg and Chick Gandil against mem- bers of the Detroit and Chicago clubs. 2 ‘ Acquittal already has been attained in the minds of the real jury in the case—the vast army of fans who make base ball possible by paying at the gate. The unsupported allegations of twa such thoroughly discredited figures as the pair_of Black Sox, who con- fessed to dishonesty during the probe in Chicago by admitting they “played out of position,” are universally discredited. [ Accusations Fall Flat. Against the clear and emphatic denials of such respected and highly esteemed men as Eddie Collins and Ray Schalk the charges made by Risberg and Gandil have no weight with the public and it is inconceivable that they can have impressed the' commissioner of base ball, who {s thoroughly versed in legal procedure and the value of evidence through many vears spent in the practice of law and as a member of the Federal bench The most important single thingsn the whole flare-up. however. is that it brought about the, investigation and enabled the fans to reach a decision of their own. Landis been a much criticized individual since the mud-slinging first started. He has been accused of everything from using bad judgment in permittin® the fact that the integrity of some of the athletes had been questioned, to playmg to the gallery in the manner in which his sifting of the cases has been conducted, but if we feel aright the pulsc of the people he has done the best thing possible for the game in the long run Investigatiop Beneficial. Sinister rumors that everything was not on the up and up in base ball have been current for years and many followers of the sport have had some doubt as to its honesty since the disclosures of the 1919 world series. The banishment of eight of the Chicago players, including Risberg and Gandil, who were accused of con- nivance with a gambling ring to give the Cincinnati Reds a cham pionship, and the subsequent similar fate befalling Jimmy O'Connell and Cozy Dolan did much to restore the confidence of the public in base ball, but this latest “scandal” should accomplish even more. In effect Landis invited all who knew or claimed to have knowl- edge of any irregularities to come to the front and have their s Gandil and Risberg alone responded and their rambling and circum stantial allegations promptly were refuted by some three dozen citizens who, unlike their accusers, mever have had their honesty questioned. Game Basically Sound. The net effect undoubtedly will be that the public, or that por tion of it which entertained some question of the hénesty of hase ball, will reach the inevitable conclusion that the game is basically sound, after all. If not, the fan will argue, why is it that not a | into the class of leaders with a bril- | liant 69, which with a_similar card | by John Jones of Kelso, Wash., | proved to be low toda ares of the leaders follow: | Charles Guest. Hollywood.... 70- | Harry Cooper. Los Angelea’ . 7 | Bobby Crulckshank, New York 7 | Al Watrous. Grand. Rapids. | donn_Jones,' Kelso, Was i | Ed._ Dudley. Oklahoma City. Farrell. Mamaronecl ¥ George Von Elm. Les Larry Nabholtz, Cleveland. . . . A. Moser. Los Angeles (amat.} T Armour, Washington, D. €. onia) . Mamaroneci H . Glendale, Calif... Pittsburgh. ... . 7 Ed Glencoe. 1 Hutt. Martih. Los Dick Kinarss, Long Willie Hunter, Santa Moni » William Mehlhorn, New York. n, Seattle . klets! Youngstowr, Oiio Leo New Joo jesi. New York. John Black. Wichita, Kan 150 TO HAVE TWO CAPTAINS! FAIRMONT, W. Va,, January 8 (@, —When the vote for captain of the Fairmont al School “basket ball team shdived Willlam Samples ai TPaul Hef@ler tied for the honor:-both elected wera d . Thy wilt iternate gameg. " serve at single bit of concrete evidence to the contrary has been produced when every possible opportunity for it was afforde If, as expected, the verdict of Judge Landis absolves from wrong-doing the men accused by Gandil and Risberg, there will re- main only a show-down in the case of Cobb and Speaker to make the record ciear. As in the situation of Collins, Schalk et al. the plaintiff against Ty and Tris is a man who comes into court with hands anything but clean. And so far as the super-stars accused by Dutch” Leonard are concerned they also have been acquitted by the public, although their admirers will feel more satisfied when Cobb and Speaker have carried out some course which will necessitate a de- cision from the commissioner in their cases, too. Owners. Not ‘Accused. A point overlooked by many in connection with all the recent rumpus, however, is that it is the players who have been accused, not the owners. The men in whose hands rests the responmsibility for the conduct of base ball have been placed in some tight positions, but their integrity has not been brought into question. At every “turn they have done and are doing everything possible toward the maintenance of clean play and this fact ultimately is bound % register with the fans. But if half a dozen or half a hundred individuals were cong victed of underhand practice base ball still would endure. Prest - dent Bob Quinn of the Boston Red Sox hit the nail squarely on the head when he expressed the belief that during mare than 50 years of professiohal base ball there had been less crookedness in it than in any other sport or most businesses or professions. Base ball is tundamentally honest, It will carry on. ”