Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1927, Page 37

SPORTS. Probable That National League May Get Cobb and Speaker THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (. FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1927. SPORTS. MeGRAW MIGHT TAKE TY, WHILE PIRATES LIKE TRIS American Deposed League Managers Probably Would Have Been Grabbed by Senior Circuit Clul BY JOHN B. FOSTER. Amer cag s | quoted cor | nothing Speaker except incompete < agers, it will not be strange to both stz Ns League are within do so, *providing thei son and they been engaged by clubs for the 1 the fact that cert get. therh had be to zo slow The Giants wanted Cobb and the Pi rated would gladly have taken Speaker. John McGraw would taken to put Cobb on the ts if he could have was satisfied another year of basc have under. New York ded. would have ;.1\: n tremendous pull at 1t \i(‘(-r‘ll\ Told to “Lay l)H y determination to go on n to Cobb was stopped d to have received from Judge Landis telling him to “lay off desire to play if he gets a ¢ During the I National League meeting burgh club might take Speak Barney Dreyfuss deriied that he would, and yet. if Speaker had an un- | conditional release and were eligible the Pirates might have got a out of and, with Waner and | been able to put would keep any- the Nat ‘out an outfield tha thing League. cally all of of the city in the tournament | under way King Pin | sweepstakes that will get T6w night on the . the winner of the affair will | get a. count of 6 pins. get nothing more out of it than the substantial stake that goes with first place. In no sense Will the winnes be the District champion duck pinner. The sanctioned by Duckpin A | games. has not been| Washington City | tournament the ion, the recognized | governing organization of the duck- | pin sport he Without such sametion, the tournament lacks pres tige, No doubt it will proye one of the most interesting events of the bowling season b but it will be merely a “pol” proposition. It i mnfortunste that the Wash- Ishot ‘at morning newspapée drive | ington City Duckpin Association is not back of the tournament, Washington really needs an annual affair to determine an individual | bowling champion. It would help the | game tremendously. are some who contend the winner of | Post, a championship tournament is cham- pion of that tournament the | . general public has nizing su that pa - of And he goes down in the rm‘ords as 1 champion with a capital C | 'he varigus alley and p ranged tourneys, howeves nothing more to the general public han interesting contests. \\mm—n‘ em get little more than passing nition. The records do not| wide gov- organization is necessary to | One can’t ernin; the making of a champion. away from that fact. { For some time the star bowlers here have contended that the W. C. D. does not make its tournaments worth | while to them. The bowler, like the billiardist, makes no pretense of being | an amateur in his sports endeavors. Jie wants substantial reward for his efforts on the drives, and the better a duckpinner the more he} for the bowler public and the game T ed | some conside it The average | tar bowler us pretty well | in a money W the Winter, | with the sever: r establishments around town offering opportunities to ak and the many in a regularl all, some dignity | port so extensively as ington. captain and_anchor man for Aggie Inter- | also shoots | ) the Fed thing Stork, @ Accounts quint of the reau League, and w} anchor for the Ag W circuit, has estab * a record in making ve times when ¢ his final boxe He in' the In spare box to | couple | unusual in the ked : » pulled the stering a spare s team deadlo en counting e iy on 0o n Incidentally » highest individ mpiled by an A shooter, wrk being a trifle over 112 for 42| games. p | ins took two from Meyer | night in the District | thank Howard Camp. ging them out of the King x‘m- HAWKINS N MOTOR CO. | Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street 1333-37 14th St. M-uSJBO x\\\\\\‘\s\&mssmxssmsx\\ r wish to jal | | Both Cobb and Speaker B | | the former | if | King Pins were 15 pins to the bad. | two of the engagements and was just | | nosed out. 2 | set was his second in a for | match with the Post shooters vester- Although there | the match. | three of the Hams bettering 360, the g e COLLEGE SWIMMER A, | veterans. | | made last year by Arne Borg, who did | the * | fight of Miller's career so far. n Fall, But For Tip From Judge. | improbable that two Amer night have been to engage Speaker were it not for the fact that the American League clubs seem to have been forced out of bidding for hoth Cobb and Sp hemselv point now come: and Speaker were re- | -d from the American League thing more than incompetency, ged by Ban Johnson, both play would be eligible to be signed by any ational League club. If the only reason for their release was incompe tency, there is nothing in base ball by which the American League could go to Commissioner Landis and say that Cobb and Speaker might not y in the National League or any other league outside the American. Went Out “Tagged.” If the League released | these men because of incompetency they should have been granted an un-| itional release, but without any such as seems to have been ex lnanaiee Judge Landis when the evi dence and the Dutch Leonard letters were turned over to him The judge had a right to infer that | there was something behind the re tirement of the two managers more than the mere fact that the American League was tired of both of them Whether Cobb would play now js doubtful. He might think it worth while to enter into another season be- cause of pride. That Speaker v , the if Cobb American Like Cobb, he seems not improbable. r in him and | to have another good y s more than that. National League will refuse to anything to do with the issue has been raised between Judge Landis and the American League, but there is nothing alleged against Cobh and ‘Speaker other than inability manage ally, those two vers may vet be seen on National ue diamonds. | (Copyright, 1927.) lough of defeat in the first game of the match. When Anchor Howard came up for his last effort in the ini- tial encounter of the evening the All Howard did was sock a spare and Belmonts broke their tie with Jerry’s Stars in the National Capital League in decisive manner, taking all three The defeated team, however, gave the Belmonts a tough tussle in Incidentally, Jerr: s have uncovered a promising bov«l?r in 16-year-old Lefty Price. Last night's ue, and he shot 319. In his first league set he smashed the maples for 363. Herald duckpinners will have to | wait until next Winter for another | laurels. 1In the second block of their | day the Herald bunch was outbowled by 15 pins in three games, so their rivals finished 76 pins to the good in The total scores were: 2,986; Herald, 2.907. Smithfields hit the pins savagely to weep their set with Orrison Coal Co. n the Athletic Club League. With team had a eet of 1,741. B SRS WINS DIVING TITLE| | By the Associatea Press CHICAGO, January 21 legiate diver of promise has sw down among the amateur swimming stars to chalk up triumphs over two Swimming with the Northwestern University team, Walter Colbath last night bested both Halvorsen and | 0'Connor, Chicago A. A. mainstays, to win the Central A. A. U. diving cham- pionship. In the swimming events the speedy | Johnny Weismuller regained | title in the Century, cutting the Vi His time w: PETROLLE IS HELD TO DRAW BY MYERS By the Associated Pre CHICAGO, January 21.—Billy Pe- trolle is knocking at the lightweight but apparently the challenger cannot shade Spug Myers, clever ldahoan. A chance at Sammy Mandell's crown was promised Petrolle if he beat Myers last night, but after 10 v rounds two judges and a ref- reed that the fight was a draw. upper ranks in the feather- weight division were somewhat thin- ned, however, when Ray Miller won | decision_over Eddle Shea, also of Chicago_and also a prominent chal- lenger. Ringsiders called it the fimwtl not defen A gate of $31,000 packed the coli- [ seum with a capacity crowd of 9,000 | fans. | , | D. C. GOLFER SURVIVES. In the Florida Eas* Coast golf tour- an stine, William Car- 1 linksman, survived in the eight through the default of Broun of Hempstead, N. Y. ’Q‘S}‘&‘ ’ FROZEN | AUTO ¢ ENGINES WELDED $IN THE CAR Other metals welded at the WELDI;T NCO 516 1st St. N.W. é t St. | { promptly ¢ | GIRL SWIMMING STAR ENTERS SKATING FIELD NEW YORK. January 21 (#P).— Aileen Rlggin, having captured most of the honors available to women in the swimming and fancy diving field s turned her_attention to a new port, fancy skating Authorities dec! be ready to compete She won the Olymp title when 13 years old a set several swimming re WOULD LEGALIZE RACING. DOVER, Del., 21 (P).—A bill introduced in Delaware slature yesterday tracks in the State s, by mechanical ¢ to_be control of three appol ernor. Race meeti January the other dé¢ a comm the gov would , be re- | strictea to 60 days | The golf season at Mia get under way on January 1 |PLAY OF HIGH ORDER B! the three-cushion tournament | Lowis would leg lize | ’ o1 | WOMEN SWIMMERS WOULD BEAT MARKS By the Associated MIAMI an swimmers, | GRINNELL LOSES COACH IN THREE CUE MEETS H."PE?&’".’?KE,"E.T.E? ey | ——Grinnell College, in the Missourt alley Conference, will not have the | Fall former Towa Univer- | January 21.—Six wom 1l national champlon: .mlmnn\l.m tourna | cadia. George Kelly downed Chick | of Mike Hyland, sity star The Des Moines Register 35 to 29, | Hvland as saving i ced first. | Grinnell, s and Norwood in been prote innell was vio- | _Virginia at the |lating a conference rule which pro- | Norelius pl vides that the foot ball coach must be | marke for 300 meters, free style, with a full year man. Hyland, a lawyer at [ Adelaide Lambe; Tama, Towa, served Grinnell ony dur- | levelling off for a new mark in the son. | 110-yard American back-stroke event. | An~ exhibition in diving by b B y and an attempt by \gn.-q T L’”"’% WHEAT IS RECOVERING ghty to set a record for the 220- | afternoon bested | KANSAS CITY, January 21 (P).— |yard and 220-meter events will com Robert Fouts, 100 10 48 | Zack Wi Brooklyn outflelder for [Plete the program 18 years, is “doing nicely” after hav- | - . | ing his tonsils removed at a hospital | British athletes have decided to take {here. 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