Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1927, Page 28

D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1927 SPORTS. Landis Responsible for Tarring Reputation of Cobb and Speaker, Johnson Says BAN THREATENS TO REVEAL ALL FACTS OF BALL SCANDAL AT SPECIAL MEETING American League Head Declares That Ty and Tris Broke Faith With Their Em- ployers and That Neither Will Play Again in Circuit, Despite Any Ruling t o Contrary by High Commi sioner. By the Aseociated Press. HICAGO, January Chicago Tribune that Ban Johnson of the American League, openly charged that Base Ball Commissioner Landis was responsible for tarring the reputations of s Speaker and Ty Cobb. Breaking a silence that began September when directors of American League, meeting in ¢ voted to give uncondit Cobb and Speaker, President Johnson declared that neither of the two would ever again manage or play on an toc last the cago, nal releases to | president | ‘ [ { American League Club, although he | paid & high tribute to the former De-| troit manager. Johnson, the Tribu he had accepted the “implied lenge” of Commissioner Landis bare all the facts in the Cobb-Speaker base ball drama, and would take stand next Monday at the spe American League meeting called by the base ball head. He said his testi mony at that meeting would prove the American League acted to protect Cobb and Speaker and that Landis, | alone, was to blame for the cloud of | rumors about their names “] don't helieve Ty Cobb ever played a dishonest game in his life,” John-| son said. “If that's the exoneration he seeks 1 gladly give it to him. But it is from Landis Cobb should demand | an explanation. The American League ousted Cobh, but it was Landis who broadeast the story of his mistakes. Thinks Cobb Honest. “I Jove Ty Cobb. I never knew finer player. I don’t think he's been & good manager and I have ha strap him as a father straps an ur boy. But I know Ty Cobb's ni crooked player. “We let him written a peculiar letter about a bet ting deal that he couldn't explain and | because I felt that he had violated a | position of trust | “Tris Speaker is a different type of | fellow. For want of a better word | 1'd call Tris cute. He knows why he | was forced out of the managership of | the Cleveland Club. It he wants me | 1o tell him I'll meet him in a court of | Jax and tell him the facts under| oath. | “The American League is a busi-| ness. When our directors found two employes who they didn't think were serving them right, they had to let| them go. Now isn't that enough? As| Jong as I'm president of the American League neither one of them will man- | age or play on our teams.” i Johnson then told the whole story of his investigation of the Cobb and Speaker case, relating why the sub- stance of that investigation had been turned over to Landis and why the | base ball commissioner did not know | the whole tale. Ban Employed Detectives. “1 have men working for me, on my nal pay roll” Johnson said, “whose businesa it is to report on t conduct of our ball players, We don't ‘want players betting on horse races or base ball games while they're play- m‘. We don't want players who are willing to lay down to apother team either for friendship or money. That's why 1 get these réports. & & = :“This data belongs to me‘and.not t6 Landis. The American _League ve Landis enough to show why bb and Speaker were fio longer wanted by us. That's all we feeded 10 give him. I have reports on Speaker wheih Landis will never get uhless we go to court.” Johnson's ‘statement was made after e had read the summons sent out by Landis. The commissioner said a newspaper had printed an interview with “a leader in base ball” and that he was calling a meeting to get all the facts in the Cobb and Speake: case. “Judge Landis need not worry over the correctness of that interview, the American League prexy said, “I made that statement then, I'm making it | again, and I'll make it when' he calls me Monday. “I only hope he holds an open meet- Ing. I want the public to know what the American League did and what Landis did. Indians Were Tabbed. “I sent a’ detective to watch the conduét of the Cleveland club two years ago. 1 learned from him when and by whom bets were made on horse races and ball games. I Jearned who was taking the money for the bets. I jearned the names of the bookmakers Who accepted the wagers and how much the betters made. I was gath- ering evidence. “Now 1 watched Ty Cobb, too, I watched him not because I thought he was crooked, but because I thought he was a_poor manager. Frequently 1 have called him down. “] gave Ty an interview just before he went on his hunting trip last Fall “He was heartbroken and maintain ed his innocense in that alleged betting deal which his letter tells about. I told him that whether guilty or not he was through in the American League. 1 didn't think he had played fair with his employers, or with me. ““The actual facte ~hich caused this whole explosion came to me early last Summer. “Dutch Leonard had a claim against the Detroit club. He threaten- ed to sue for damages. He asserted that he had sworn statements of five men stating that Cobb had declared he would drive Leonard out of base ball ne said, declared ! go because he had | | 1 Letter Hurt Ty. in his | | | BAN JOHNSON. {only thing T could see behind | move w a desire for pers licity. I'll tell him that when I take the witness stand. “The American League is a' busi ness, that be sure, and we try to keep faith with mal pub- | It Is a semipublic business to | | our public. Certainly we had the right | to let two employes go if we felt that they had violated a trust. But Landis | had no right to release the. Leonard | charges. He had taken no part in the oust | ing of the two men. It was merely a league, not an interleague matter, and { there was nothing to be gained by telling_the world that we felt Cobb nd Speal er had made mistakes which made them unwelcome em | ployes.” | " Asked why he first | Landis, Johnson said ! "“When 1 take the stand Monday 1 ymay tell the whole story of my re tionship with the judge. If he wants to know when I lost faith in him I'll tell him this: “When tie Black Sox scandal broke, the American League voted to prose cute the crooked players. Landis was given the job. After several months had passed I asked him what he was doing and he replied ‘nothing.’ Ready to Tell All “I took the case from him, | prosecuted it with the funds ‘of the | American League, and never asked him for help. I had decided he didn't want’ to co-operate, Mg second break with Landis came | over a’ financial matter. T don't care to discuss it now, but 1 will tell about "it Monday if he wants me to.” broke with | away . Pitching Decline Since Ban On Freak Shoots Explained By Better TWENTY-ONE YEA Batters—Collins RS OF BASE BALL. BY EDDIE COLLINS. XIII. FREAK PITCHING Twenty-three or four vears ago Eil- mer Stricklett accidently learned that if he moistened a spot on the hall as large as would be covered by the twc fingers of his pitching hand.he could get a peculiar and effective “break on_the bajl. That was the discovery of the so- | called spit ball, the first of a bagful of trick deliveries, including some that were dangerous. Stricklett was a clever fellow and having perfected his new delivery to a point that gave him a new lease of life as a pitcher he imparted his secret to several pitch- ing friends and the spitter became a fad. However, only a few of the hun- dreds who tried this moist ball be came really proficient, and though it was easy on the hurler it was a mean ball for inflelders to handle for rea- #0ns it is not necessary to detail. This objection led some of the young hurl ers coming up to wrack their brains for a method that would give them the advantages of the spitter without its objectionable features, and some genius thought of roughing as much of the surface of the ball as had therétofore been moisténed. “Emery Ball” Is Evolved. Tt was found that any abrasive ma- terial, but preferably emery powder, would do the trick, and thén we had the “emery” ball. That was an effec- tive, but decidedly dangerous change and several plavers were hit and ruined, notably Roy Corhan, a Coast League shortstop, who a few weeks after coming to tbe White Sox was all but killed by Russell Ford. “I did not even take my posi- tion—."" The emery ball had a distinct ad- vantage over the spitter as it was hard to discover it until damage had been done. After a time the clever- er fellows who resorted to - emery used just enough of it to enable them to get a good grip, perhaps one side, 5o they couid make it “sail.” Players were being “beaned” all the time and though in some cases it merely was a matter of stepping |into a fast ball that was thought to | be a curve, every time a man was { badly hit there would be an outer: | against all manner of trick deliver- i ies. b Russell Ford was a member of the | Yank when he hit Corhan and { while he still was with the team, New York brought in a strapping “Ty always has been violent Ukes and dislikes. Those of his if ed to court been damaging to the Detroit club. Frank Navin, the owner, also faced the possibility that should he refuse 10 settle with Leonard the would sell two letters, one. was that one written by Cobb and the vag that letter of Joe Woods. Both indicate knowledge on the part of the writers of a_plan to bet on a framed ball game. Cobb denied he bet, and I don’t think he did. But a8 he couldn’t explain the letter satis factorily it was a damaging document. “So on that letter alone the Ameri- can League was forced to let Cobb go. “Now Speaker was implicated in the deal by a statement of Leonard. Also 1 had the data of my detectives “1 called & meeting of the director: of my league. We met September 9 in a prominent Chicago club. And we met secretly. We wanted secrecy, pot because it meant anything to us, ut because we felt we should protect _deh and Speaker as much as we would. “They had done & lot for base ball. ‘We had to let them out, but we saw would have no reason for bringing embarrassment | upon their families. We wanted to be decent about it "The directors voted to turn th sults of the Leonard invest over to Landis. We did that in pliment to him, not to pass the buck re. tion statements | 1 first at bat m- | big minor leaguer hailed as i spit ball hurler, Ray Keating. Whether Ford showed Keating the effective- | ness of the emery or not 1 do not and tried it out—successfully. Ump’s Ire Is Roused. In 1914 we were playing the last game of a series in Boston and we were fighting all through the game over the condition of the ball. Tom- my Connolly and Bill Dineen umpiring and we ruffled Tom's sense of dignity with impunity. We went from Boston to New York and who | should appear to umpire but Con- | nolly and Dineen, | Keating opened seing the visiting | | against team and were us we {us and struck out. Rube Oldring ned on me on the way to “Look at_the bal When 1 stepped up to the plate I asked Connolly to let me see the ball ¢ “Get | curtly, three balls. As he passed he bench he said, § in there and hit,” said Tom, You wasted a long after- noon yesterday, but you are not going to get away with it today. Get in there and hit.” “I won't hit until you look at the ball,” 1 answered. 1 'was peeved myself, especially We acted. We thought he ought to know about it “When Landis mony and those letters 1 1 couldn’t fathom his motive. & released that testi as amazed. The Tom's brusque manner. For ancwer he roared at Keating, “Pitch the ball.” 1 did not even take my position, 12 tearing the leather just a little on# that I never saw. | know, but at any rate he heard of it | latter | of course, | were | Brigcoe Lord led off for | was the second batter and he fan- | u(‘ | much lees take the bat off my | shoulder. Three balls that Connolly {called strikes came whizzing by and | they sure were sailing. When the third one was called 1 was the third out. “Will you look at the ball now?" T demanded, as the teams were chang ing sides. He called for the ball, which had been thrown to the infleld, and was plainly amazed at what he saw. “Better look in Keating's glove,” satd. Manager Frank Chance interfered at this point, but Connolly was aroused then and insieted so quickly on examining Keating's glove that the pitcher did not have time to con- ceai a small piece of émery paper he had inserted on the inside, covering a hole he had cut in the palm. Conolly rolled the ball to Dineen and kept the emery paper. He sent both emery paper and ball‘to league headquarter§ and I undérttand they were used as exhibits in the confer ence which eventually led to the ban on all gorts of adventitious aids to pitching. = “Shine Ball” Effective. A third trick délivery that met with disapproval was the so-called ‘“‘shine ball.” Dave Danforth!invénted that form of deception, but Clootte perfect: ed it. By vigorously rubbing a new ball on his trousers the “artist’ would produce an unusually smooth spot about the size of a quarter dollar, The ball was then thrown in the sama manner and with the same effect as an emery. Cicotte worked on it until he had it aheolutaly perfected. With this trick added to his spitter, his slow ball and his marvelous control Cicotte was in clover. About the time all these artificial devices were forbidden the extrémely lively ball was introduced, and the hitters had their day, while the pitch- ers were up against the frowns of fortune. 1In the half century of war- fare between batters and pitchers the “lively” ball was the hardest problem the hurlers ever had to solve. 1 think, too, they would eventually have over- come that handicap had some of the “hop” not been taken out a year or more since, but a few infielders might have been disabled or killed mean- while. A curve, a fast one and a slow ball do not afford enough variety for many of the young pitchers coming up nowadays, & they have the “knuckler” ball, the “screw’ ball, the “fork” ball, and one fellow tried to get away with a “muyd” ball, but one of the bays on my team caught him and that went into the discard. 0ld timers talk about the decline in pitching as compared with the days of Young, Elarkson, Keefe and others 1 Suppose they put | the shoe on the other foot. The bat- ters are harder to put out, that's the answer. There's a lot of good pitch- ing today, but there also is an army of good hitters. About that “mud" ball. men was at bat with the bases full | and two out. With two strikes on the | batter the pitcher halted the game to | tie his shoe lace. My man knew this | was a stall and he could see things, | too, that some less alert batter might not have noticed. When the pitcher stooped over to tie his shoe he placed | the ball right beside his shoe. Under- | neath the ball was a very damp place, and when he picked up the ball he was careful to have a good-sized gob | of mud on it. It would have “sailed” i plenty, but the batter asked the um- pire to look at it. Of course, the pitcher knew he was caught, 8o he 1 | One of my | wiped off the mud~and showed it to| the ump all O. K. Then the batter made a hit and scored two runs. | would have been a cinch for the pitch- er if he could have thrown it just | that once. Tomorrow 'MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE SOUGHT FOR BRITON By the Associated Press. LONDON, January to bring the world middleweight | champlonship back to Furope, an | English boxing promoter has sailed for new York to fix up a match with | Mickey Walker, holder of the title. | _An agreement has heen signed at | Pontyprida_for Frank Moody, Welsh | middleweight, well known in_ Amer- Managers. | 17.—Preparing |ica, to meet Roland Todd in London | ebruary 16. It is understood that the winner may meet Tommy Milligan of Scot- land, European champlon, and it is proposed that the winner of this match shall oppose Walker, It | PRO COURT LEAGUE. STANDING OF TEAMS, P : .3 33 nd A #m.:ns New 'P:d . v ort ayne. . Teaco itimore LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS. Washington, 38: Fort Wayne, 15, GAME_TONIGHT. Fort Wayne at WASHINGTON, GAME TOMORROW. Baltimore at New York. GAMES TRURSDAY. WASHINGTON " Fort Warneat Rochester " Clevetand at Baltimore. GAME SATURDAY. Fort Wayne at Rochester. GAME SUNDAY t WASHINGTON. PALACE BASKETERS WIN IN OVERTIME Two more strenuous games with teams in the professional loop are bill- ed for the Palace Club hasketers early this week. George Marshall's aggre- gatfon will face Fort Wayne again tonight at the Arcadia, and tomorrow will travel to Brooklyn to meet the Celties, who have already trounced it twice this year, Vietories ‘tonight and tomorrow will put Palace just that much relation to the league-leading Cleve. land Rosenblums, although Palace seems o have second place clinched As the end of the first haif of the pro circuit nears, Washington went_into an extra period to trounce Fort Wayne last night; 38 to 35, after a Palace debacle seemed on the cards. Efficient guard- ing kept the teams from scorfng from the floor in the early part of the game, with the result that one goal represented the fleld efforts of the two teams, while both had annexed points from the foul toss line, Tied 9 to 9 at the end of the half, George Glasco looped one in from the floor, but then Fort Wayne went to work and led 22 to 16, with but 10 minutes to go. At this point Ripley and Saunders stepped out to put Pal- ace in front, 20 to 24, only to have Fort Wayne come back to knot the count at 30-all as the regulation pe- riod ended. Beénnie Borgeman, forward for Fort Wayne, slipped in a two-pointer one minute after the extra period started But Kennedy and Smythe scored 3 from the floor to get the game for Palace. Waivers have been asked by the Washington club on Tillie Voss, with Ted Kearns, formerly of the Balti- more Orfoles, scheduled to come to ‘Washington. Announcement was made that Lou Sugarman, pilot of the Baltimore Orioles, is to be released. Efforts are being made . to secure Johnny Beck- man of the Celtics to lead the last- place Raltimore outfit. BASE BALL DEFENDED BY WALTER JOHNSON Base ball is as honest as any pro- fession, and more so than most Waltér Johnson, prémier pitcher of the American League, told a large audiénce of boys and men at the aft- ernoon service vesterday at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase,” Md. Mén occasionally go wrong in évery thér sort of occupdtion, the veteran xplained, but the whité light of ublicity which beats on major and minor league players renders their failings sensational. Mén engaged in banking and in law go “erookéed,” he told his eager hear- ers, but nobody gets péssimistic over the future of either inatitution. Base ball, as a national professional game, he averred, is perfectly safe in gpite of oceasforial malodorous happenings. LEADERS AT HOCKEY HAVE EASY SAILING By tha Associated Pres NEW YORK, January 17.—Little opposition appeared directly ahead of | the Ottawa Senators, leaders in the international section of the National Hockey League, and the New York Rangers, pacémakers in the American group, in the league schedule for the coming week. While the flashy Otta- wa skaters ran the lead they hold over the New York Americans, runners-up in the international section, from 7 to 11 points, the Rangers spurted two more games ahead of Chicago during the past week of play. Ottawa reaches into the American League séction to engage the Pitts- burgh Pirates, tailenders in that branch, on Tuesday night while the Rangers, fresh from a tight 5-4 win over Chicago last night, tackle the Boston Bruins on both Tuesday and Thursday. Ottawa fakes on the cham- pion Montreal Maroons, now resting in fourth place in the Senators’ section, on Saturday, while the Rangers meet their fellow townsmen, the New York Americans, in Madison Square Garden next Sunday. Only one change took place in the Standing of thé teams during the week. The Detroit Cougars by means of two victories managed to edge out of the cellar in the American group, pushing Pittsburgh, which dropped two meetings, to the bottom of the standing. —ananha 2I58maan Cleveland 7 Standing of Teams. AMERICAN SECTION. New York Rangers Chicago Boston Detroft Pittabureh INTE Ottawa ... New York Ameri cans. Refinish your car in lacquer—any color de- sired. Lasts longer than paint, looks better. Requires less attention. Low prices. Takes but a few days. Joseph McReynolds Inc. 36 Years Refinishing Automobiles Georgia Ave, at Upshur Columbia 3052 better in | Everyhody wore whiskers back in 1850. The men wore them, the boys wore them as soon as they could raise them; even ball players wore them. Photographs of ball players made in those days, still treasured in base ball libraries, are welrd and wonderful to behold. But the appearance of the ¢ players was no more weird and wonderful than the game itself. For instance, in the old da necessary for a team to get to win. The number of innings played | did not matter. The first team that | scored 21 runs was declared the win- ner. | floated aroiind the bases with his whiskers breezing behind him, and occasionally he made the cireuit two or three times in the same inning. If by then his team was not put out he continued to float around the bases until it was out. Sometimes an inning lasted an hour. Father No Uncompleted Innings. There were no uncompleted innings in those days for the winning team, either. If the side was not out by the time 21 runs had heen scored the boys kept on piling up the score until they finally were put out. The greater the score the greater the victory. | Base ball had growa to be quite a | stripling before the rule was adopted | that a team first at bat when licked, was licked, and the game need go no further. When that rule was put into effect in the professional leagues— | and it was not until the time of pro- | fessional base ball that it was adopted the crowd would leave the grounds denouneing the management because the game had not been plaved to.a fintsit, even if the home team had licked its rivals. The _spectators thought they were entitled to a com- | plete ghree men out or nothing, and it was & year or two before they got over their grouch Returning to this matter of whisk- ers and 21 runs, there was a :very remarkable game played in New York City in 1854 at the cofner of 106th street and Second avenue, When Base Ball Was Young By JOHN B. FOSTER Ball Players With Whiskers They called that particular spot the “Old_Red House Ground” and there is a legend to the effect that the Old Rted House dispensed liquids that were cooling and invigorating after the con testants had played a game of ba ball and run their fool legs off make 21 runs. Th contending teams were Gothams and the Knickerboc names long famous in New York game lasted 16 innings and the run on the Old Red House bar never was surpassed and never before had been approximated. The Gothams won The silent vote against any future Volstead law was unanimous and was carried 50 or 60 times to make sure that it did carry. Sixteen innings of base ball to a victory were celebrated with red fire at night, and long after the sun had set the glad tidings were being driven about all over the city Fast colts trotted back to Long Is land, their reinsmen stopping en route to spread the news that there had been a base ball game at the Old Red House which had lasted 16 innings and that the red glare in the sky in the northwest was from the huge bonfiré that some of the kids had lighted. to the ers, The Hundreds Visit Scene, The next day hundreds went to the scene of the game, They walked around the fleld, examined with much care the spot where home plate was located and stood on a mark drawn where the pitchers had worked. They walked over the ground until it looked like the site of the famous crabapple tree of New Brunswick, N. J. You've seen the fans do that these days at the world series. Base ball is much like it was when Uncle Bill Hopkins hitched up his Hambletonian and drove to the Old Red House 7: years ago, taking his toddy standing and wanting to bet “eight shillin' " that there never would be another such game played in the world. Tomorrow: “Fifty Call Before a Strik (Coprricht. 19 Balls There is ta be a change in the stand- ing of two of the three leading teams in the senior basket ball circuit late tonight. Either 'Epiphany Roses or Arrows will be tied with Calvary toss- ers for the lead in the senior loop at the close of the scheduled game be- tween Epiphany and Arrows at the Arcadia. Both teams have won all their league games. Roses have piled up an im- pressive record of 25 straight victories. Play will start at 6:30 o'clock and will precede a contest between the Washington Wonder five and the Fort Washington tossers. After this ‘match the Palace club professional tossers will engage the Fort Wayne team. Elliotts and Calvary are scheduled to take the floor in one game of a double-header at Washington Bar- racks Wedneeday night, with Kana- whas and Auths opposing in the other fracas. Anacostia Esgles secured sweet re- venge for an early season trouncing at the hands of the Hyattsville Guards men, outclassing the Company F Reg- ulars in a game in the Congress He;gfih(s Auditorium to the tune of 41 to 16. Washington Yankees put a stop to the winning streak of the Reina Mer- cedes quint of Annapolis in Gonzaga lsyrz:‘. trouncing the gob tossers, 43 0 21, Columbia A. C. tossers rolled up a 29-to-3 score on the Elliotts in a pre- liminary game to the professional con- test at the Arcadia. The game put Columbia eighth in the senfor loop and settled Ellfotts in last place. Stantons downed St. Stephen’s toss- ers 34 to 18 in a game played in Gon zZaga gym. Richmond Y. M. H. A. floo A fast game from the Y. M. H. A. tossers in mmunity gym, 28 to 28. men won Washington the Jewish Arrows ran thelr senior league rec- ords to six_straight wine by trimming :hlznl"rk‘\'lewn at Gonzaga gym, 28 0 20. St. Martin’s Midgets won a close game from the Live Wires, 17 to 15. {..h'e Wires had won a previous con- est, Boys' Club Celtles annexed a game from the Wizard flve in Congress Heights gym, 21 to 7. Palace Preps 115-pound aggregation scored & 20-t0-19 victory over the Em- erald Athletic Club five. Five games are billed this week in the Community Center League. . The following . senior” games are listed: Tuesday, Live Wires vs, Auroras; Thursday, Warwicks ve. Independ- ents; De Molays vs. Auroras; Satur- day, Live Wires va. Warwicks. Pon- tiacs will meet Eastérn Preps in the Junior division tomorrow. All games Established 1898 At the Sign of the Moon Big Values in Fine Tailcring You Save By Buying Now We have marked Bargain Prices on All Woolens Suit or Overcoat Tailored to Meet Your Individual Requirements. $ 2 2.50 Regular 335 Grade Proportionate Reductions in Other Grades. Mertz & MertzCo., nc. SENIOR COURT LEADERS STAGE CONTEST TONIGHT will gym. Warwick Preps will engage the Swavely Prep team tomorrow at Ma- nassas, Va. Washington Preps #re looking for several firdPclass players to round out the entry in the Community Center League, be played in the Eastern High Games with midget fives are wanted by the Kennedy quint. They may be booked at Columbla 1662. Stanten A. C. floormen want games with- teams having gyms. game between Webster Night hool and Eagles billed for tomorrow evening at Business High School has | been postponed. Park View basketers will - night at 1114 Park road. A A meeting of the Anacostia Eagle Juniors will be held ‘tonight at 1335 Ridge place southeast. _Seneca Juniors are seeking action. Call Manager Clark, Lincoln 18%3.J. Roamer floormen seek games in the unlimited and eenior class. Call Man- ager Pitts at Lincpin 1944. Comet Junior floormen of Hyatts. ville want a game with a Washing- ton team tomorrow night. Z - ville 606. . Sirdina iy 0dd Fellows' phreys 56 to 13, quint of Fort Hum- trimmed the 8 Commercials, BASE BALL MEETINGS CALLED BY TWO CLUBS Two organizations will discuss for the base ball season at mPUngr":axr:: night. Moose players who ladt season, performing as juniors, won the Sport A\{m League title, and this yvear will play as seniors, will gather $ home of Manager FNalley, " z”fi Eleventh strest southeast. Last sea- son's players, as well as new candi- dates, are expected to attend. Newcomers also are invited to ai tend the session of Anacostia Fagle Juniors, to be held at 7 o'clock at 1335 Ridge place southeas Huggins Ha Prove Difficult to (Note stories dea prospects. ) By the Associat NEW YORK that Ame: The club the 1926 upsetting will cam- | January 17 smashed way Le: pennant prédictions, d intact f an gue pre-season take the paign Seasoned 1, probably * the 1 their victory as well as | by only’ York have a world searies fight that was lost by a narrow margin, the New Yankees, most believe, | of d experience, speed and hit- that will he difficult to stop To Keep Ranks Solid. While many of their rivals face re- organi ion this Spring—five of them having acquired new gers—the | Yankees have the advant of keep- |ing their ranks solid. They went | through drastic shake-up a vear ago, but packed sufficient punch to | offset any weaknes developed molding a new “kid infield.’ This Inner cordon, Manager Huggins believes, will be the high- spot of the 1927 Yankee drive. He looks for the combination of Gehrig, Lazzerl and Koenig, along with the veteran third sacker Dugan, to smooth out the kinks and show big improvement. Koenig was an uncer- tain link last season and there was talk that he would be replaced, but Huggins has not lost confidence in the former St. Paul star Babe Ruth, who staged a comeback last year, is out for another crack at his homé run record. Huggins lieves the Babe again will he the main gun on attack,sflanked by Bob Meusel and Earl Combs. ither outfield reg- ulars, as well as the big bats of Laz- zeri and Gehrig. Depend on Vet Pitchers. Unless new pitching quired from a batch of re the trade route, the club depend on its vet eritic a youth ting powe well bhalanced combination a Miller its or via gain must Of these, of slipping, but Pennock and Hoyt, stars of the world series.s again are | eran. Behind the bat recovered from Bengough, his arm last season's break, Grabowski, acquired from the White | This | que in | be- | trength is ac- | Shawkey and Jones have shown signs | counted on as mainstays, along with | Shocker and Reuther, southpaw vet- | will do the bulk of the work, aided by | YANKEES TO TAKE FIELD INTACT FOR 1927 SEASON Well Balanced Aggregation That I\l.ay top, But Probably Must Depend on Veteran Pitchers with Ray Morehart exchange for Aaron Wa the only one of conse Yankees have made th S0 far, 'MAJOR-MINOR DRAFT | CONFAR IS ON TODAY By the Associate CHICAGO, Commi deal is Winter Press, January 17 took Rase Landis his four base ball frregu larities to the meeting of the major minor league French Ball proposals aimed at base committees Ind., today rules which written int e ball wer of the inves ndil charges that Sox bought a | from Detroit in 1917 absolved the former aid he favored a any more 10-year-old scandals bobbing up and he also suggested some severe penalties for betting At French Lick committees of th representing each major league and the minors had before them the re newal of the draft agreement which based upon the continuance of Lan. dis commissioner of base ball. Three class AA leaguas were ey | pected to renmew their objectiona t the draft, with all the other mino accepting its continuance for the r | seven-year term of the com | _ The International and P: Leagues and the Ame tion are the circuits which do not sub. mit to the major league draft. increase of the number of players the majors are permitted to have out on option may be urged by the big league | committeemen. At pre: | s permitted only five plavers out the minors subject to recall FIGHTS TONIGHT. By the Associated Press Indianapolis — Young Bob Fitzsim- | mons vs. Chuck Wiggins (10). Cleveland—Louis (Kid) Kaplan, New | York, vs. Lou Paluso, Salt Lake City {10). | Brooklyn—sid | Mitchell (10). at Lick § The e commissione the code of orgar rmulated as n of the Ri as in Tetris Ray | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. January pugilistic pot bubbled about Madison Square Garden today as Tex Rickard set his stage for one championship battle and worked out details leading | to a second While Fidel Labarba, fvweight | champion from California, and Elky | Clarke, kingpin of Europe’s little men in that division, entered the final| stages of t ning for the first inter- | national fiyweight championship str gle since the days of Jimmy 3 which is to be held in the Garden Friday night, Rickard worked on plans for the first important battle in a coming heavyweight series, He was in conference today with | Pete Reilly, manager of Jack Delaney, |in an effort to close a match between | the light heavyweight champion and |Jimmy Maloney, RBoston slugger. | Reflly announced that Delaney was ready. to meet any heavyweight in the | elimination series that to decide Champlon Gene Tunney's challenger | next September. Reilly asked for a | match with Paolino Uzcudun, Span- | ish heavyweight, who knocked out the | | Cuban champion Ferro in one round |at Havana Saturday night, but was | told that Uzeudun did not wish such |a_match at this time. The terms toffered Reilly for a Maloney match | are understood to be satisfactory to | the light heavyweight King. loney’s attitude is not known. Meanwhile, betting commissioners offered odds of 2 to 1 that La Barba Would defeat the British challenger for the world's honors Frid The speed and punching p | Ma- | 17.—The | 'ONE TITLE BOUT CARDED; " RICKARD PLANS ANOTHER | the western youth, not yet 22 yvears old, are expected to count heavily in his favor over the comparatively short 12-round route. Clarke, skilled veteran of 29, is admittedly more at home over a distance of 15 to 20 rounds. The semi-final of the championship fight, also 10 rounds, will bring to gether Frankie Genaro, who lost his American_title to La Barba and ewsboy Brown, of Sioux City, Towa. 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