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d PORYTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1927. WwPORTS. WHETHER GASH WAS BRIBE ' OR REWARD UP TO LANDIS Commissioner, Uncommunicative Concerning Lat- est Scandal, Has Only One Established Fact to Consider in Reaching Decision. By the Associated Press. HICAGO. January 10.—Swede Risherg's remark in a Rochester, Minn., billiard room, caroming from the newspapers straight into the offices of Kenesaw Mountain Landis here, has left the table in the most | chaotic shape that base ball's high commissioner has seen it ‘n the wix years has held office The balls had all been racked neat- | meeting ‘of the es and the re. of Commis Iy after the annual major league mag election for seven yes sioner Landis at a salary of $05.000. Then the commissioner raised his cue and Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker rolled from the American League. The other balls remained nicely bunched in the center of the table until Swede Risberg.‘a fizure in base ball's biggest blow-off when he and seven others were driven from base ball on crookedness charges, walked into the Rochester billiard room and heard heated discussion of the Cobh Speaker affair. “What Cobb and Speaker did was * nothing,” Risberg remarked. *They were square shoofers. If the commis sfoner wants to hear some real scan- dal, T can give it to him." A newspaper man, conv: Rochester hospital. h statement, He talked with R and the story was broadeast “If you know anything that's wrong with base ball, come on and tell it," Commissioner Landis wired Risberg, Risberg came, telling a story of game throwing in 1917 that impressed Landis so that he summoned 38 play- ers, past and present, to appear here and tell what they knew of the slough- ing of the two 1917 Labor day week double-headers which Risberg said De- troit-handed to Chicago. Gandil Has His Say. Echoes of the story reached Chick Gandil, outlawed from base ball with Risberg in 1920, and he added his tes- timony in substantiation and elabora- tion of Risberg's. The accused play- ers also responded, almost to the man, and chorused their emphatic denial of the crookedness cliarged against them In two days of hearing last week more than two score base ball figures told their version of base ball as it was played 10 years ago. Incidentally they ran up a bill for the commission- er of approximately $20,000 in ex. penses incurred in appearing at the | hearing. The commigsioner has been uncom- muzicative concerning the Risberg Gandil charges as he has heen about the bomb Dutch Leonard exploded, shrapnel from which struck Ty Cobh and Tris Speaker just as they stepped | from base bal Attorneys for have sought official Cobh and Speaker exoneration of their clients from the commissioner, and it is possible that his decision Wednesday morning may include some statement on the status of these two stars. The -evidence which Landis ponders includes the charges of Gandil and Risberg that a pool was collected |among the 1917 White Sox and dis | iributed among certain Tiger pitchers |in return for “sloughing” four gam |to Chicago, and the denial by the ac | cused players of any wrongdoing. May Consider Pool. ) | The one established fact from which |the commissioner may work is that a pool actually was collected and y to Detroit pitchers. Whether, as ¢ dil and Risberg charge, it throwing games, or, as the players contend, to reward troit pitchers for beating Boston in a later series that meant much to Chi- . is the question the commissioner decide. Risberg, back at his farm near Rochester, Minn., expressed the hope that the “whole affair might be white- washed,”” and that none of the men he named be expelled from base ball. I have nothing against those fei lows,” he said. “I wouldn't like to see them kicked out because 1 know what it i8 to try to make a living in the bushes. That's more than they said for me when I was let out.” The former player intimated that he had some further revelations up his sleeve, but declined to be specific Believe It or Not af Buexnell A MINVTE Anvy Wn PLAYED 98 fOOTBALL GAMES W(THOUT MISSING OR TAKING TIME OUT ONCE DAN HENDERSON o Jonesbero, Ga. & CHEWED A PLUG OF ToBACCO Fok @9 Hours WITHOUT A PAUSE ANT and Chicago OF PLAY * 1892-1899 T M bl . 1S @FT, 4 N.TALL || <. PRO BOXERS TO FACE IN UNIVERSITY HALL By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr., January 10.—For progably the first time on record a professional boxing contest will be staged in the coliseum of a university. When fire damaged the City Audi- torium, the athletic board of the Uni versity of Nebraska, waived its rul- ing barring the professional contests from university property, to permit the mesting tonight of Ace Hudkins and Pat Corbett. The university coliseum was the only other building of sufficient seat: ing capacity for the affair LATZO WILL BATTLE BAKER FRIDAY NIGHT BY FAIRPLAY. NEW YORK, January 10.—Cham- pion Pete Latzo has a date to meet Sergt. Sammy Baker Friday evening. The soldier lad does not care to make the trip to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., unless he is sure the champlon will be on the job in defense of his title. This is the third time the pair have been booked to settle the question of supremacy between them. Latzo beg- ged off the first engagement on a count of a bad eye received in train ing. It was the right eye. The next time they were to meet found Pete suffering from a bad left eve. The champion is only an ordinary human being like the rest of us and has but two eyes. Baker wonders if he really will step into the ring with him. Paddy Mullins is taking care of the business matters for the champion. Paddy has seen the improvement Baker has shown In each of his bouts, and it may be that the soldier lad punches a bit too hard to be inter- esting. It would not do to send the champion in with formidable opposi- tion soon after his long lay off. Then, again, the fight is supposed to be at 147 pounds, the welterweight limit. Last month>Pete had a fight in Newark and he was supposed to come in at the class weight. He cither could not make the weight or did not want to, because he came in well over 150 pounds. It may be that Pete's enforced idle- ness due to a badly torn hand has put on weight he cannot easily take off at this time. This iy possible. The champion has been one hard-luck guy when it comes to getting hurt. CRACK AT LEADERS ONLY SOUGHT BY LIGHT-HEAVY Jack Averse to Meeting Other Aapirants for Bout With Tunney Next September—Deposed Champ to Battle Before Tackling Gene. By the Associsted Press. EW YORK, January 10 Rickard today hent to the task of ironing 1t details of his elaborate heavyweight program, seeking to fix defl- nitely Jack Dempsey and Jack Delaney in the scheme of his elimapa tlon program. A conference with Delaney' expected to decide whether the 1i heavyweight champion is to be cluded in the race with Jack Sharkey, Jimmy Maloney, Paolino Uzeudum and Paul Berlenbach for the chance to battle Gene Tunney ne%xt September. Pete Reilly, Delaney's manager, thus far has declined to fight the “rank and file" of contenders, holding out for bouts against Dempsey and Tunney With the heavyweight champion's contract already in his pocket, Rick- ard today was prepared to deliver an ultimatum to Delaney. “If Delane: elects to ignore the other heav weights who have done all that been asked of them, then it is tuneral,” said the promoter. was Dempsey Rickard also has wired Tex | asking Informating p date of the | forr neavywelgnt titishnlder's re- {turn here e mets [empssy to | nccept at loant nra nateh hefore seek- Ing to wrest ix laurels. ickaras ¢ . « eall for major fights in as well as the ¢ | be: staged at has indieated | site for the tity atlon series, rahip Bout, to Alum, hut he t another Iready | has received offars ‘s mote the battle at the Paltimare Stadium which seats approximately 135,300, or | at Soldiers’ Field in Chicago, scene of [ the Army-Navy foot hall game. Meanwhile, Eastern fistic circles are concerned over a series of welter welght conflicts in the East this week, including a 10-round bout Friday night at Madison Square Garden he.% tween Joe Dundee of Baltimore and Eddie Roberts of Tacoma, Wash Roberts knocked Dundee out in the first round of a Pacific Coast bout several weeks ago. On the same night, Peie Latzo, the 147.pound champfon, is billed to hox his long-deferred match at Wilke Barre, Pa., agalnst Sergt. Sammy Baker of New York. ITH 20 girls trying for posi- tions on the raity squad, American University co- eds plan to assist the hoys in making this the biggest basket ball year in the history of the school. The boys' quintet already has estab- lished a reputation for itself, listing some of the hest local squads on its schedule, and the girls plan to arrange a similar card with leading college and seminary sextets. 1t will be the first time the fair tossers have had a regular interscholastic schedule since the school became an undergrad- uate institution. NET CELEBRITIES CLASH IN MATCH HERE TONIGHT A new era in local tennis will be inaugurated tonight at Arcadia when Big Bill Tilden, four times world champion, and Manuel “Alonso, Span- ish ace, take the court in the first indoor net exhibition aver staged in Washington. Local-fans will be on hand in full force, both as spectators and officials. ol ) The familiar voieyof Dr. L. 'W. Glazebrook, who for mé&ny years has umpired District title events, as well as the Chevy Chase invitation gvent each Spring, will call the yers to action from the émpire’s cifl X The .16 ledding ‘netmen of »-Je'elty will act as linesmen- for ti and doubles encountes 2 on the program. Coming junior racket- ers have been invited to serve as ball boys. The stage is set for a gala opening of indoor tennis competition in the Capital. Although Tilden and other famous players have exhibited their skill be- fore on local courts, this is the first time that a premier racketer has been put in a setting where the thousands interested can see his every stroke, and this fact has added doubly to the interest of the occasion. Because of the great demand for tickets for tonight's performance ex. tra seats are being installed -in the auditorium flmr,‘ tickets “for which © g0 on sale today at 1 o'cloc at the Arcadia. § i YANKEE BASKETERS LOOM AS BATTLERS FOR TITLE Another strong unlimited class quint appears ready to take its place among the leaders in local independ- ent basket ball. The Washington Yankee five, num- bering among its members Mickey A\IcDovnald. former Central High star, and Nate Sauber, displayed such abil- ity yesterday in annexing a 51-to-24 game from the strong Fort Hum- phreys tossers that it must be classed among the potential winners of the independent floor championship, along with Anacostia Eagles, the . 1925 champions; Olympics several other quints. So far the independent situation has not developed to a point where one team can be said to stand out by rea- son of its proven superiority over other rivals, although Company F Regulars of Hyattsville, Olympics, Eagles, Wonders, Y. M. C. A. tossers and one or two other fives have shown unusual skill. The Yankees, by virtue of their im- pressive victory vesterday, take rank Wwith the leaders until they meet a sterner local test and Anacostia Eagles scored over the St. Stephen’s five, 32 to 5, in the Con- gress Heights gym and made partial amends for an earlier defeat given them by the H_vntsvmg guardsmen. St. Stephen’s had taken' the measure of the Hyattsvilie combination earlier in the season. Eagles completely out- classed St. Stephen’s, allowing their opponents but two field goals. Fiv league contests are listed for teams in the senior loop this. week. On Wednesday evening Epiphany Rases will clash with Park View at Washington Barracks, while Auths BRIEF ITEM and Arrows will meet Friday night in one-half of a double-header, which will also find the Collegians meeting the Clovers, Lacking the nee of several floor stars, the Washington Wonder five dropped a game to the Fort Washington tossers in the Fort Wash- ington gym. e soldiers, displaying superior passing, won 41 fo 19. Kanawhas trounced Boys Club Cel- ties, 23 to 17, in a senlor league tilt at the Arcadia. Boys Club Senators won a game from the Aloysius Midgets, 27 to 21. Park View floormen annexed a game from Washington Collegiates, 25 to 20, with Peck and Dalgleish leading the attack. Two Y. M. H. A. teams took a t bill from Warwick and B'nai Brith teams on Eastern and Jewish Cont. munity Center courts, the senior team winning from Warwicks, 27 to 16; while the junior outfit won from B'nai Brith, 45 to 27. Wizards scored an easy victo, the All Stars in St. Martin 52 to 24. v over gym, Chevy Chase Central tossers got an 11-to-8 win over Anacostia Eagle Re- serves at the Congress Heights gym. Reorganized Stantons are seeking games with unlimited quint: They will meet St. Stephen's at Gonzaga gym next Sunday. Tremont Seniors want games with senior teams having gyms. Call Lin- coln 9214-W. S OF SPORT PURRED by the necessity of carrying an ciganization that will be able to stand the strain .~ of a longer echedule than usual, John Truesdale High School of Kalamazoo, Mich., has started the 1926.27 basket hall season operating under a dual team system It is the plan of the Union mentor to develop two teams, each as nearly complete as possible, one to he known as the Scnior team and the other as the Junior, According to Truesdale’s plan, he will have on his Senior team men who will not be available for service next year, while his Junior team will be able to carry on both this season and next. Holding an opposing team scoreless 48 one of the rarest feats in basket ball, but this was accomplished re- oently by the nal College (Dan- efeating the In- in diana School of Pharmacy, 74 to 0. ville, Ind.) quin Peary and Byrd have been North, but_taey ones to show fearlessness of the Polar reglons. Colby College track men began a training period which will put them to the test of rigorous may weather. The candidates for the relay team and for the running events on the indoor schedules donned jumping shoes, with spikes in both toe and heel. and set out on the roads of Waterville, covered a half foot deep with snow made it impossible for them to work on the cinder track George Hranicka, manage® of the Lincoln Bootere, in-the-Greater Beltl~ 1520 Fourth coach of Union | were not the only | The snow | more Soccer League, has hooted 30 penalty kicks during the last three | vears ‘and has vet to fail to count | a point on ene. Five jockeys—all an: name of Johnson—are bootin at various tracks. Go'die and J. Johnson are at Albert Johnson and D both veterans, and a named H. Johnson are at Ti. to the ‘em in Johnsgon ew Orleans, Johnson, oungster Juana. wering Bowling has shown a tremendous | Bain in Toronto in recent vears, there | being 50 well equipped clubs with ap- proximately 600 pits, compared to 9 establishments, with less than 100 al- leyr, five years ago There being no male teacher in the Hickman, Calif., school last Fall, Rita Laird, 20, pretty, 5 feet 2, and full of pep, coached the foot ball team, which won 5 straight games and scored 117 points to 18 by their op- ponents. Back in 1889 John McGraw received a holdout for $5 before he would en- ter the box “for the next contest. He got it. Although he did not head the list of winning jockeys during the past vear, Earle S8ande, America’s premier pil brought in the most money, $240, by his victories in stake rac CIRCLES TO GATHER. National Circles will hold a base ball meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the home of Manager Andrews, reet southeast. 4 32 for pitching a game, and then was | BSOLUTE supremacy of Washington bowlers in the hadwood duckpin game again was clearly demon- strated in the final block of the match with Brooklyn Saturday night, although the local outfit lost in [13 w sociation, who accompanied the team to New York, along with other duckpin enthusiasts., “Alibis ‘whould have no place in any line of sporting contests—in practical- ly_exery case.tbey are offered to cover up--delinquenctes—but in the team match the Washington five surely had one which ‘should pass muster,” Ro- dier continued. Al Work, valuable to any team, not alone for hix bowl- ing prowess but for the stimulating effect his good-natured chatter has upon his teammates, suffered an in- jury to his back in Washington, just before his departure for New York, and he was dubious of his ability to make the grade in the match. a dozen E A far as the match was concerned., With a determination to roll, if possible, however, he visited an osteopath while his teammates were at supper, and when the match started he as. sumed his place in the line.up. “Just what effect this had on his team was shown when Al started with v. perhaps, but it counted. hile he turned in only 116, with Howard Campbell shooting 126 and Glenn Wolstenholme 118, the lead of Washington was increased to 149, “But from that point on Al was a weight to his team, getting 88 in his m m mi second game, without mark, and finishing with a scant for his set. | ¢ “Al was rolling on nerve alone. His | [ exhibition was a game one—and further endeared him to his friend: “But that is the alpha and omega of the ‘soh’ stuff from a Washington point of visw. We made the Brooklyn crowd—bowlers and rooters—admit freely and fully that the visitors were supreme at_hardwood duckpin bowl- ing. Wolstenholme's shooting in the singles—630 for five games, including a 141 at a time when Barney Spinella had overcome the scant lead Glenn got in Washington team, Iloward's 86 in the last game of the team match was nothing to rave over, but when he paired with Red Megaw in the doubles he started some real howling. His §45—the hest total of the evening, and including a 163 final game—took much of the starch out of the Brooklynites, and Megaw's 591 did not heip the Spinella crowd much, either. B! G Hyattsville and Alexandria “are in the thick of the intercity bowling vattle, ‘a_fashienable form.of sport | on the drives these days. The first block of five games, rolled on the Ar- cade alleys in the Maryland town, left Hyattsville in the lead, 2902 to 6. The concluding five-game block will be bowled at Conventjon Hall on n 20, Those who rolled for Hyattsville lin the first block were O. K. Hiser, {J. H. Hiser, Handy, Sheehy, Rook, | Kes: ler, Holden and Whalley Kes. y8ler and J. H. Hiser were the only bhowlers to go through five game: The former -totaled 584 and the lal ter 595. On the Alexandria team were Mand- ley, Ballenger, Grimes,: Lynn and !Steele. Ballenger was high with 57 Game scores were: Hyaftsville, 58 TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F | | in the sixteen-team \ record with 160, at and lost 12. third place. Repai reau, Water Regi: individual neer Chief Clerks: Balley of Assessor’'s Offic age, in reau ria, 564, Matlock of the ith the Auditors for seventh plac eague, is the high average Topos as runner-up to Schott of Hob- bies, who is setting the pace with 97. Hamanrr is strike leader with 33 nrid Eiflbert of Rarbettes holds high game High team set rec- ord is held by the leading Frankies Auditors have established the high game for teams at 600, 1.604. Sewer Department is clinging to first place in the District Government League with a onegame advantage over Health Department. Department bunch has won 24 games Assessor’s Office and the ed for Shop, Traffic Bu s and Municipal the order men- ngineer Chief Clerks are rchitects follow in “He had not made three throws | ileaed. down the alley in practice before he | ' Tengue records are: High team was convinced that he was ‘out’ as|game, 566, Sewer Department: high team set, 1,557, Engineer Chief Clerk: igh individual game, 3 set, ent; greatest number of spares, high ave 106-17, Steel of Sewer ent. Opening play of the second series ANy surprises. of Standards Surv and eodetic ) Commerce, omestic winner of the cireuit. Hazel Mertz did some nifty bowling to set a couple of records in the East Washington lLadies’ Performing with the Keller Memorial team, she socked a game of 142 and set of 326, Church _Leagu good his ‘“house-cleaning’ promise to rooklyn base ball fans. With the, passing of Jack Fournier and Zach Wheat, only lefgh Grimes remains to remind Robby of i the . pennant he won in 192 rimes is on the market. PRO COURT LEAGUE. “After the match was over Mort Lindsey observed that the rubber- PREARI: o AT handed pin game was ‘his’ game, and | cleveland 14 ) it was a good thing for Washington [ Wihington 13§ that this brand of pin had not been |Khiladginhia - G nsed. Campbell was -of the opinion 5 R that maybe he might do right, well at s 12 that game, too, And so a new series T of games was started, which continued - until the Brooklyn outfit, much sadder | .\ 0SB ity and very much lighter in pocket, A A called ‘enough.” GAMES TOMORROW. Baltimore at Philadelphia. New York at Fort Wavne. GAME WEDNESDAY. New York at Chicago. GAMES THURSDAY. New York at Chicazo. ashinkton at Baltimore. GAME FRIDAY. Fort Wayne at Baltimore. GAME_SATURDAY. Chicago at_ClevéTand. WALLACE Motor Co. NASH New and Used Cars 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave. MAIN 7612 who are tied - Department howler The Sewer 154, and high Brown of Engi- greatest number of strikes, 15, Pearson of Sewer Depart- Depart- three games from Bureau of Mines and Pat- ents took three from Secretary's Office. Census took the odd from Coast and Foreign and the first series, dropped two games to the new team from the same hureau that has supplanted Bureau of Lighthouses pitcher Bur- Georgetown's basket ball team, the last of the local college group to swing into action, will make its debut this week, entertdining Lynchburg College Wednesday night and Mbunt e . 3 Py of that circuit. He has an average of | o ) sburg, Md., Sat- the team end of the contest. | 110-21 for 16 games. His set of 375 ':‘,.'da'“. “,gh"r ’,‘SI:','.“‘,W,‘,L: will be in Lhluatatenient was made thig morD | s Gecond only’ to. the 295- bowled hy:l pocy s s vitivm, Ing by Henry Tait Rodier, president| Hamann of Statistics and he has hit [ (ioach O'Reilly expected to decide of the Washington City Duckpin A®*| o4 ypares to tie with J. Harrison of | Mon his starting line-up - against Lynchburg following this afternoon’s practice. Nork, Donovan, Hickey and Tomaini, firststringers last Winter, are regarded as almost certain choices. University of Maryland tossers were to invade Charlottesville, Va tonight to tackle Virginla in the firsi of the seven games carded this week for college passers of the District sector, It will be the Old Liners’ fourth start this season. They have lost to American University and Michigan and won over Washington and Lee. Maryland's squad in tow of Coach Burton Shipley was to entrain here at 3:45 o’clock for Charlottesville. Coach Baillie Springston’s doughty American University combination that has scored seven victories in as many starts this campaign will stack up against rivals this week that are ex- pected to extend the Methodists to the limit. Tomorrow night American will come to grips with George Washing- ton, which furnished the smart Gal- laudet combination a lively tussle Sat- urday night before succumbing. The e GEORGETOWN BASKETERS OPEN SEASON WEDNESDAY game will be in the G. W. gym. How- ever, what is regarded as the sternest teat vet to be faced by the Methodists is their engfigement Friday night with the Catholic University quint in the Rrookland gym. The Cardinals, flash- ing general superority, have bowled over all opponents thus far this season in decisive style and will be the team, ityis helleved by many observers, to halt American. Followers of Catholic U., though, helieve that their team will meet its hardest opponent this week in the crack, Navy five that will be engaged Wednesday afternoon in Annapolis. The Midshipmen have shown impres. sively in chalking up six victories in as many starts. It ghould be a bang-up game. Maryland also will invade the Navy stronghold Saturday afternoon. Washington's lone representative in the Fordham games Saturday in New York will be Jimmy Burgess, stellar quarter-miler ~of John O'Reilly's Georgetown team. Burgess was run- ner-up in a special 500-yard race in Gotham last Saturday. In the Ford- ham affair he is expected to flash his wares in the 440-vard run, and doubt- less will start from scratch. A for. mer Hilltopper, George Marsters, half- mile_crack, also will compete in the Fordham games. Coach O'Rellly has announced that a medley relay team will_not be entered in the meet by the Blue and Gray as was originally planned. TOSSERS IN EASTERN LOOP WILL BE BUSY By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 10.—Five <ames on the schedule of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basket Ball League this week will call every quintet of the circuit into action for the first time this season. 3 Pennsylvania, victor over Yale in its first encounter, will figure in two con- tests against teams which also got off to an auspicious start, meeting Prince- ton on Wednesday and Dartmouth on Saturday. The Tigers likewise will the Commerce League developed The reorganized Bi team won u- e el s in Washington—was a real treat. engage two foes, coming to rips on Glenn piled into the head pin with | BROOKLYN GETTING RID |saturday with Yale after opposing consistency, and it was a mighty : Pennaylvania. small number of breaks that he OF VETERAN PLAYERS |" ‘The champion Columbia cagers, who missed. dropped thelr opening brush in Tiger- o Campbell, however, must be| NEW YORK, January 10 UP.— |iown last Saturday, face Dartmouth awarded the laurels as hero of the | Wilbert Robinson is rapldly making [on Wednesday before receiving Cor- The latter melee league tilt nell here Saturday. will mark Corneil's first this year. z In their game against the Tigers Yale diibblers will seek to snap a los- ing streak of more than 20 games, extending from the latter part of the 1924 campaign. Eli teams have failed to win a single league contest in the last two tournaments. and again have started at the foot of the ladder with two defeats this year. Simmen, Ell pivot, sets the scoring pace with 16 points for two games, only 2 points more than the total of Gartner, Princeton forward, for a sin- gle contest. Devenport, Pennsylvania basket _tosser, ranks third with 11 points. The team standing: Princeton Dartmouth Penr aylvan Cornell Columbia -Hl;dson-Essex Owners!! Please Note Our New Service Station Capacity 90 Cars In Rear 1121 19th St. N.W. Pot. 860 HOLLAND MOTOR CO. Showroom 1636 Conn. Ave. QUINTS WILL OPPOSE MINUS SPECTATORS By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 10.—A basket bajl game without spectators between keen scholastic rivals, unique in this athletic era of cheering crowds, was on todw®s sport bill of fare in the metropolis, % The contending teams represented James Madison and Thomas Jefferson High Schools. Principals and coaches of the insti- tutions decided to bar spectators as a precaution against a possible demon- stration, resulting from feeling over the forfeiture of a foot hall game last Fall to Jefferson. Madison’s eleven left the field after a dispute, Players and officials only, was the sign out for today’s melee. BALL CLUB T0 ELECT. Officers for the coming season will be elected at a meeting of the Takoma Park base ball club tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at Takoma Park Theater Hall. Members are urged to bring a new member. GRIDDERS T0O BANQUET. Celebrating their winning of 115 pound city gridiron laurels the past season, Mohawk Preps will banquet Friday night at the Blue Triangle Club, Twentieth and B streets, start- {ing at 8:30 o'clock Footer-cleaned suit * Hot-dry steam sterilizes the moulds fit and shape. Minor 1332 G st Nw. PAIR OF CUE STARS DISPLAY SKILL HERE Devotees of the green table and cue, will have ample opportunity to look at the stars of the pocket billiard and billiard world this week, with Albert Cutler, former world Junior balkline champion, scheduled to appear at the Arcadia every da at 2:30 and 8 and Willle Lewis, former Pennsylvania State pocket billiard champ, billed to appear at the King Pin, in afternoon and eve- ning performances. Cutler will take on leading billiard experts of the Capital, and will show a number of trick and faney shots. No admission will be charged. - Gene Ruark, one of Washington's outstanding pocket hilliard stars, will oppose Lewis tonight at 8 o'clock.. LOTT LEADS NETMEN IN WESTERN SECTION By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 10.—For the fourth successive year, George M. Lott ,jr., of Chicago ranks as the best player in the Western section of the United States Lawn Tennis Asso- ciation. Lott’s impressive record throughout the last season, climaxed by a success. ful invasion of Eastern courts, gave the University of Chicago champion a clear margin. Lucien E. Williams, also of Chicago. was placed second and Johnny Henne: sey of Indianapolis was third, follow- ed by Kirk Reid of Cleveland. Art Shaw, Axel Gravem and “Al Green, all of Chicago, and Leroy West of Evanston. Marion Leighton of Chicago, who has headed the woman's singles divi sion on and off for the last six years, again rates as the hest woman play- er in the section. Others finished in the woman's singles as follows: Clara Louise Zinke, Cincinnati; Mrs. Ruth Riese. Sagina ich. < Olka Weil, Cincinnati: Miss Margaret Kommenda, Winnetka. 111 Cansfleld, Detroit; Mrs. L. E Chicago; Miss Marion Pearson, troit, and Mrs. A. E. Michel, Chicago. Other standings were: JUNIOR SINGLES—Emmett J. Pare. Chi- capo; Gordon Braudt * Chicazo: William . Louisy, S ) Bl Syarey “ille: Scott Rexinger. Chi T Fy Lukats, Ga Schomme: RLS %0 coe. ilwaikee. NGLES—Clara Louise Zinke, rone. Winnetka: Vir: A ee 3 Ruth Willard. Chicago. Ao AL WATT WILL MANAGE RICHMOND NEXT SEASON READING, Pa., January 10 (®).— Al Watt, second baseman of the Read- ing Internationals, has been released so that he might accept a position as manager of the Richmond ciub of the Virginia League. Watt was traded to Reading last " Special © 209 Men’s Clothes Footer Cleaned One Week, January 10 to 15 Men can be confident of their irs made and buf no extra charge. See for ,..'r:.:"- at Ihm.-.mhl prices: Busineds Suit.................$1.20 TOPOE .. qcnsisones Overcoat, heavy...... Overcoat, very heavy. 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The extension was found neces- sary because of the last-minute or- ganization of several news groups, making it impossible to complete ar- rangements for the schedule by Janu- ary 12, as was planned originally. January 14 is now set as the dead line. All entries must be in by that date, reports of physical examinations made and fees paid. The latter should be paid to Miss Sullivan. Physical examination reports should be sent to Margaret Craig at Main 992, A meeting for the purpose of dis cussing the new basket ball rules, some of which have caused confusion among players, will be held at Busi- ness High School this evening at 8:30, under the direction of Miss Hazel Sayre, chairman of the examining committee of the Washington board of officials of the National Amateur Athletic Federation. All players and coaches are invited to attend this session, which will be held in the gymnasium in order that rules may be illustrated as they are explained. Members of .the Washington Field Hockey Club who are interested in basket hall will meet for their initial practice Wednesday night in the Hol- ton Arms\ gymnasium. on Church Street near Seventeenth. The club plans to engage in one or two games later in the season, the principal contest being one with the Baltimore Field Hockey Club sextet. .Definite arrangements have not heen made yet for this affair, but it is probable that if it takes place it will be held in ‘Washington this season, as the Orioles played hostess last yvear in the annual court clash of the rival clubs. Basket ball and examinations of officials for rating by the \Washington hoard of officials I feature the Wednesday night recreation hour of the N. A."A. F. group to he held as usual in the Central High School Com munity Center gymnasium from §:30 to 10 o'clock. The examinations will be conducted by Hazel Sayre and the members of her committee, beginning promptly at 8:30. 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