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U previous occasions, S Cobb-Speaker Case Soon to Be Settled to End OUSTED LEADERS LIKELY PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THREE AMI‘]fiIAN iEAGUE Johnson Named by Collins - CLUBS SAID TO WANT TRIS| For All-Time All-American Deposed Cleveland Leader Supposed to Be Eager to Return to Game, But Ty Probably Seeks Only Vindication Before Retirement. By the Associated Press HICAGO, nuary cation or base ball lies just und for Ty Cobb Speaker. These two stars, the one with more base ball records than any Cindi- ostracism the cor and Tris player ever held, the other a playing | leader who took Cleveland to its only world championship, are to hear the verdict of Commissioner Landis, within a day or two. The decision Landis is to probably will concern itself with the question: “was the Jand-Detroit American League of September 1919, ‘fixed’ as charged by Hubert (Dutch) Leonard, former Detroit pitcher?" Roth players have denied this charge and also assertions by Leonard that they planned to bet on the game Vindication for the fidently predicted by Speaker and Cobb. They left for their homes vesterday in much higher spirits than they have shown since the commissioner made public the charges. Both, however, ob- served to the letter the orders of their attorneys not to talk. Were Ready for “Showdown.” The two former managers, Cobb of Detroit where he played since 1905, and Speaker of Cleveland, came here for the howdown™” meeting called by Landis, at which Ban Johnson, American League president, was to have been asked to explain state- ments credited to him concerning the Cobb-Speaker case. Action of- the league club owners Sunday in giving Johnson a vacation and elevating to the active presidency Frank J. Navin make largely Cleve- two supporters of er | action of other | hAs eight more years to serve, I ball's ame | was con- oot 0 | | 500 to sign a vear's | League Club. Johnson, who is in ill health. ap- peared somewhat more cheerful today. He had no comment to make on the the club owners of the | league which he organizd 27 yvears ago {and of which he always has heen the head. Under his contract, Johnson at an annual salary of $40.000. When Commissioner his promised statement on peaker case, the Winter of base discontent virtually will have been wiped clean from the records. the Cobb- off Buck ball s most sensational wili ba the bid of Weaver for the right to don once more a playver's uniform. Weaver was swept out of base ball following seasons | the 1919 worid series scandal Speaker Would Play. effect vindication from Lan » might have upon the future of Cobb and Speaker was con Cobb has heen offered §: contract to pla) Baltimore International At least three Ameri can League clubs have indicated the would like to sign Speaker. There also was talk today of a deal that would send: Cobb to Cleveland and Speaker to Detroit Speaker has indicated a desire to continue in uniform. Cobb, on the other hand, has said he is “through” with base ball, eager only to leave the game with no stigma attached. A trip to Europe is on his program for this Summer, Technically, both men agents, having resigned clube they managed last year, cluh owners, however, are awalting a “green light” from the commission er's office before they go ahead with What " offl jectural with the free from the are of Detroit, automatically cancelled the “showdown” meeting. definite negotiations for the services | of either man, WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINN. LAYING in the opening game on their schedule, the Gunston Hall basketers were defeated, 50 to 12, by the speedy team from ‘Warrenton Country School yesterday in the Marjorie Webster gymnasium. - Excellent -team piay coupled with neat passing and the uncanny eye of Capt. Harriet Wadsworth, who found the basket for 20 field goals, accounted for the Virginians' easy victory. Miss Wadsworth, working with Caro Henr: side center, formed an offensive com- bination that the Gunston tossers were umable to check. Imogene Taylor, side center and captain of the Gunston Hall squad, was the outstanding performer for the Jocals. Members of the Warrenton squad who made the trip to Washington, chaperoned by Esther Burnes and Lu- creta Upshur, coaches, included Ha riet Wadsworth and Natura Peabody, | forwards; Fracia Grieb, center; Caro Henry, side center; Georgla Miller and Betty Ilgenfritz, guards. . Gunstoh was represented by Mary. Matheson, Martha Lineberger--and Elizabeth Dunlop, forwards; Harriet Carter, center; Imogene Taylor, side center; Margaret Jose, Helen Hotch- inson and Lwne Swift, guards. After playing to a standstill on two Iowa avenue sex- tet finally succeeded in earning a hard-fought victory over the Park View playground squad to win the Section 2 championship of the inter- playground basket ball series yester- day at Noel House. This triumph gives lowa avenue the right to meet Georgetown for the championship of the Western section of the cf This argument will be decided Wednesday afternoon, also at Noel House, in the event that the outdoor courts still are too wet to play upon. Rosedale holds the championship of the Eastern section and will meet the winner of Wednesday’s game for the interplayground title. Virginia Monk and Anna Tucker, Jowas' forwards, divided honors in mooring yesterday Virginia made three two-pointers and two one-point- ers from the field and one toss from the foul line. Anna accounted for three two-pointers and as many one- pointers, Towa avenue's forwards were well supported in every position. The work of the guards was particularly note- worthy. Iras Burroughs succeeded in blocking many scoring attempts. The two teams were well matched at center, Katherine Jones and Ger trude McDonald being equally alert on | the tip-off. In the second half, Park View quickened its pace and played on even terms with the lowans, but was un- able to overcome the lead the latter | had established | Personnel of the two teams: Towa, | Virginia Monk, right forward: Anna Tucker, left forward: Katherine Jones, center: Helen Behren, side center: Iras Burroughs, right guard: Katherine Doomis, left guard Park View: Madeline Cambrey, left forward: Betty Story, right forward: Gertrude McDonald, center: Mary Hoy, side center; Mary Beck. left guard: Dorothy Jones, right guard, Mildred Allen, reserve guard. Washington, Field Hockey Club mambers will play basket ball in the Holton Arms gymnasium on Thursday nights at 8:15 o'clock, ac- cording 1o a vote taken last night at a meeting of the organization held at the home of Alice Nicoll, president. Practices will begin Thursday night, February 3, and will continue every other Thursday throughout the Win- ter. The club will meet for pra tomorrow night at Central High School with the N. A. A. F. group and on alternate Wednesdays thereafter. In arranging fts practice schedule, Miss Nicoll states, the club has en- In the Holton gymnasium fall weeks that the N. A. A. I not have hasket ball, in order that the lub will have the advantage of some play each week rather than two work- outs in succession. Miriam jes was elected official representative from Washington on the executive board of the Baltimore Fleld Hockey Association of which the | Washington club is 2 member organi zation at the meeting last night By a vote of 10 to 1 it was decided that the local group would cast a bal- lot for the election of officers of the ssociation, as follows: Mrs. Charles uchanan, president; Dorothy Corn- Ing, vice president, and Mrs. Kather- Ine Willis, secretary The election will take place in Balti more, the Washington ballot to be cast by mall ‘Washington Athletic Club's basket ball squad will practice tonight as | h alternate | ctice | deavored to have the practice nights | in the | group does | E FRAZIER game with the Gallaudet Saturday night they will Baltimore to engage the fast S tin's team in another practice ti Basketeers of Calvary M. E. Church defeated the Capitol A. C. squad, 20 to 15, in a practice game last night in the former's gymnasium. The Capitols utilized their entire reserve squad in order to give every player a work-out. sextet and journey to Mar- A special meeting of all members of the Capitol A. C. basket ball squads has been called by Elizabeth Bertha Smith for tonight immediately fol- lowing the game with the Jewlish Community Center team at the Co- lumbia Heights Community gym In the Wilson Normal School. Miss Smith is planning to resume r activities with the club after sev- eral months' absence due to il health, and_has something of impor- tance to bring before the players to- night, according to Frankie Ross, | program chairman. COAST LOOP WOULD EXPLOIT TY AND TRIS \ HOLLYWOOD, Calif., January 24 UP)—Echoes of the recent base ball scandal were heard as club owners and directors of the eight clubs of the Pacific Coast League assembled for the annaul meeting here today. A motion, offered by the San Fran- cisco and Mission clubs, that Hubert “Dutch” Leonard, former Detroit pitcher, be barred for life from all Coast League parks, as a result of the scandal involving Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker appeared certain to come up at the opening session today. It was indicated, however, that the proposal would be rejected. Leonard is now living on_his ranch near Fresno. From Charles Lockard, president of the Seattle club, came the announce- at the meeting a resolution authoriz- ing each club of the league to sign Cobb and Speaker for a week's ap- pearance during the forthcoming sea- son. This, Lockard said, will give the fans of the league an opportunity to show their faith in Cobb and Speaker and give them a chance to see two of the greatest stars in base ball per- form. His plan calls for each of the clubs to sign Cobb and Speaker to a one-week contract calling for $2,500 per week each. ANOTHER BARRY AIMS T0 WIN ROWING TITLE LONDON, January 25 (P).—H. A. Barry, son of W. A. Barry, who was champion sculler of England in 1898, and a nephew of Ernest Barry, ex- champion sculler of the world, has challenged Maj. Goodsell of Austra- lia, holder of the world's sculling champlonship, to a match for the title. It is suggested that the maten be staged at Parramatta, New South Wales, in June. Barry, who is not vet 25 years old, has never been beaten in a scratch sculling event, and in 1920 won the Putney coat and badge. in 1921 the Kingston, London, coat and badge and in 1925 Doggett’s coat and badge. The three events are famous races rowed annually on the Thames. RICHARDS SH.OULD LEAD NET LIST, SAYS TILDEN NEW YORK, January 25 ().— Vincent Richards would rank No. 1 in American tennis for 1926 despite his turn to the professional game at | the close of the season, if Willlam T. | Tilden, deposcd singles champion, were making up the list. The Metropolitan Lawn Tennis As. sociation ranked Richards No. 1 in the sectional list. | “Richards is clearly entitled to 1 ranking on the season's play den said. |YOUTHFUL BOXER DIES AFTER BLOW IN BOUT PITTSBURGH, Pa., o Til- { January 25 boxer, died today from the effects of a blow recelved last night in a bout at Braddock, a suburb. Maham, entered in the western Pennsylvania amateur hoxing tourna- ment, collapsed after a blow in the usual in the Eastern High gymnasium ar 8:40 o'clock. Friday night the Washingtonians will play a practice pit of the stomach in his bout with Joe Toviano. He died carly today in & hospital. Landis makes | The only unfinished business of one | |of base | ment last night that he would submit | P).—Leo Maham, 17-year-old amateur { League Championship Team \If Not Claimed by American League, Players Would | ONE YEARS OF BASE BALL. BY EDDIE COLLINS. XX Cobb, right field: Chase, first base; Ruth, left field; Speaker, center fleld: Lajoie, second base: Jimmy Collins, | third " base: Wallace, shortstop; | Schalk, ecatcher; ‘Johnson, pitcher; Waddell, pitcher. 1 have been requested to select two | so-called all-American champion | teams representing the best players of the last 25 vears. ever having seen many famous tional League players at all, and ers, including Wagner and Horns- in only one or two exhibitions, 1 that I am not qualified to judge them as I can those of the American League. [ have personally played | with or against nearly every one of the outstanding stars of the American League and therefore my selections are confined to our league and they simply represent in my judgment two of the best combinations it is | possible to_choose. | " Making first and second choices has been mighty hard in some cases, but [ 2bove is the roll of my first team. | Fasy to Pick Batteries. Most readers may think that selec- tion of the batteries is the hardest | task of all in view of the great num- | ber of sterling pitchers and catchers who have won the favor of the fans. To me that Is the easiest part of the Job, 1 must have one right and one left hand pitcher for my first team, and here they are: Walter Johnson and “Rube” Waddell. As I have discussed each one separately and at length in previous articles, I won't dwell upon their merits here, except to re. peat that 1 consider them the two | greatest twirlers that ever stood a rubber, Picking their receiver is still easjer. Catchers come and catchers go, but my first cholice, like Tennyson’s brook, koes on and on. Ag an opponent I feared and hated him and as a team- mate I have learned to admire, re- spect and idelize him. Rayménd W. Schalk is in a_class by himself. In_spite of diminutive size, Schalk is a tower of strength behind that bat. A bundle of nerves, keved up constantly, a cat on his feet and a wonder at getting 100 per cent work out of a pitcher. He is the best in the world for pepper and hustle on & ball club, an accurate thrower, and for keen judgment and “smartness'* he ranks at the top. As a catcher of fouls he never had an equal. Always Dangerous Hitter. Ray never has been a heavy slug- ger, but always a dangerous hitter in a pinch. He shares with Jack Barry the honor of being the best man on the business end of a squeeze play that I ever saw. Schalk’s only fault, if such it is, has been a reluctance to take a need ed rest. Good catchers have gone to seed on the Sox club for lack of opportunity to work. After some study, picking the in- field was not so hard for me as I first anticlpated. Only one position in our league has been filled by as many stars as have appeared at short. Wallace, Fred Parent, George Davis, Terry Turner, Heinle Wagner, Bush. Barry, Peckinpaugh and Scott, all these at different times were chosen as the leading shortfielder of their day on -LARRY REACHED OUT WITH ONE LONG ARM.” All but two had werld series experi- ence and acquitted themselves well. To select the best from this list re quired plenty of figuring, reading and asking of questions. I sought advice from old players and several promi- nent managers, examined the records, and when I had finished analyzing my own opinion and experiences and as- similating the information I had gleaned from others 1 found that Bobby Wallace filled the bill. Long an Outstanding Figure. ‘Wallace was an outstanding figure over a long course of vears. In all my experience only one man, Bush, ‘could go as far to his left as Bobby. His arm was strong and true, and he was In a class all alone in touching runners. 1 had the pleasure of play- ing alongside of him once in a benefit game for Addie Joss' widow. He showed me plenty in just that one game. As a steady, consistent and brilliant flelder over many seasons, along with his hitting, he is entitled to a place on the first team. Second base certainly was easy, Lajoie being so far in front that the next candidate is hardly entitled to better than third or fourth place. Larry and Wallace around that sec- ond bag! 1 guess that would have been some pair to shoot at. Lajoie was the greatest natural hitter 1 ever saw and as a flelder he was the per- fect machine. Grace was his middle name, and around that sack he was truly an artist. As long as 18 seasons ago the Frenchman made a record in the fleld that still stands, 988 accepted chances out of a total of 1,020. He always was }a champlon hitter. Pitchers on the A’s used to say: “No use trying to ! fool him, he hits more bad balls than } he does good ones.” | Coombs Most Successful. ! Ry throwing balls half speed right [through the middle John Coombs got |away better than any of the others. | One’ time, with two men on, Byron | Houck tried to walk him. After he (he had thrown three balls Larry reached out with one long arm and hit the ball against the right field | wall for a double, scoring two runs and beating us. Hal Chase is my pick for first [base, the king cf all the stars, in my opinion. He set a new style for playing that bag, as Mr. Comiskey Is {sald to have done 20 years or more | before Chase came in. In.flelding bunts he never had an equal and pos- mbly none in receiving throws. 1 have seen him field a bunt, an at- tempted sacrifice, on the third base line, and get the runner going Into second. Probably he was the best Kitand-run man ever in the Ameri- can League. They couldn't throw the ball by him #f he wanted to hit. Ira Thomas joined the Yankees as & kid when Chase was at his best. Later on. a good while later, after Thomas had,come to the A's, we wera playing the 'Yanks and Thomas no-| 4 My All-American League Championte———— | ticed Chase give the runner the hit and-run sign. “Why, Hal," sald Thomas, “are you using the same old sign?" S “I sure am, Ira, and here it is, sald Chase 4 And it was. Thomas signed for a pitch-out, Chase threw his bat at the ball, hit 1t and scored a run. Jimmy Collins Stands Out. James Collins stands out at third, ar do Lajole at second and Chase af first. Like those two masters, Collins did his work easily, gracefully and methodically, and, besides, he had one great asset that they lacked: He was an executive, a strong character, and asc aptain and then manager he radi ated personality. The outfield is a cinch. How can any one improve on Cobb, Speaker and Ruth? T have sald enough in pre- vious articles to leave no doubt of my. respect and regard for Cobb. And as far as Speaker is concerned, he ranks a_close second—in fact, In defensive ability he excela Cobb. On fensive alone does “Spoke” bow to Ty. As a fielder Tris is the greatest T ever have seen, though in one respect, ground-covering ability, Mostil, on my own club, ranks pretty close Speaker. The public and players alike ac. knowledge and appreciate Ruth's emi- greatest individual factor in creating during the last 10 years, “Bambino” has been chiefly respon sible. Babe's Contribution Timely. In making this great change “Babhe" did more; he popularized it bevond the dreams of any of the older generation of magnates or players. What is still more important, he started his henefi- cent work when base ball was nang ing on the ropes as the result of the 1919 blow. Ruth stands alone as the greatest magnet the game has known because of his penchant for home runs. But players, teammates and opponents alike know him for a great fielder, good base runner and dangerous all round player. Tomorrow [ team and will players whom from both lists. (Couyright. 1927.) will list my second name certain other I am obliged to omit Tomorrow: The Second Team. | volved. |n T the of-!hoth Cohb and nence as a slugger. He has been the | the new game of base ball, for the | game has, indeed, been revolutionized | and the | D. -C., -TUESDAY,-- JANUARY -25, 1927. Base Ball’s TO BE CLEARED BY JUDGE Be in Position to Accept Places With Any Other Circuit—To Ban Gambling. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. HICAGO, | Landis will rende in the Cobb-Speaker fore this week end safe to say that neither Cobb nor Tris Speaker will be made ineligible by the ruling of the com- missioner of base ball . ““There is no reason to delay cision,” the judge said today reason none was given vious enough Presume that which purported to give facts, and which did not give them, had been made- public prior to the rendering of any opinion by this office. It would have made the situation more in A decision at this time can clear the matter up.” If the two plavers are declared eligi ble, it seems apparent that they will ot he engage by the American _eague for 1927 unless some one of those owners makes a bid for their services. If not taken by the Ameri can League, any club in any gn them. {dering Judge decision a_de- “The a story what has happened, peaker are not averse to playing actfvely this vear. And if they are engaged there is little doubt | they would play with all the vim and | o | fire they could muster T L | would be a | the mental | endured during the dis Their season vindication after which both have losure of the Leonard letters and other muck raking which has been going on. Both in Good Condition. The two men are in good condition and should be .300 hitters in another campaign. Speaker especially is de sirous of appearing again as a fighter for a pennant. If either should land with a National League club that league would gain at the expense of its rival, getting players who could not have heen taken two or three years ago at any price. Judge Landis is going to New York on February 8, to he a guest of the base ball writers. When he goes he expects to have all of his Winter work completed, with the load of investiga tions, recriminations and villifications off his shoulders. He looks for en. joyment and is sanguine that the 1927 season will begin with the atmosphere purged of innuendo and suspicious rumor. Dutch Leonard, Risberg and Gandil all_have spoken their last word and will slide back out of sight. It is a fact that a great deal of the sly scandal, which has been circulated sort of strain (Note: This is the ecighth of a series of stories on 1927 major league club prospects.) INCINNATI, January 25 (@) —The pennant which they missed by a narrow margin last vear is fluttering in the eyes of the Cincinnati Reds of 1827, With Horace Ford ready to start the season at shortstop, Manager Jack Hendricks believes the Reds have an excellent opportunity to finish in front this season. Ford was out for the greater part of the race last Summer when the Reds ran second to St. Louis. Had he been holding down short when the season opened Hendricks believes the Reds would have won the cham pionship with a margin of games to the good. The Reds had the batting leadership of the League last year and three of the leading hitters. Hendricks expects to open the season with the game play- ers that placed the club in the run- ner-up position last vear. Fourteen on Pitching Staff. No outstanding trades have been negotiated outside of the purchase of Kolp, a pitcher bought from St. Paul of the American Association. Enough recruits have been added to bring the Reds’ pitching roster up to 14. With Ford among the regulars, the infield is one of the strongest in the league. Pipp will be at first base, Critz, who was voted the second most valuable player in the National League, at sec- ond, and Dressen at third. Pittinger, obtained from Louisville last vear, will act as first substitute infielder for the REDS HAVE FLAG CHANCE, | PILOT HENDRICKS THINKS Believes That Loss of Ford Last Year Cost Them Pen- nant and This Player Is Ready to Open Season at Short—Team Can Hit. left sfde of the diamond. Bressler will be ready to play first base should he be needed to replace Pipp. For the outfield, the Reds have Christensen, left field: Roush, center, and Walker, right, with Bressler and Zitzman as reservi Bressler prob. ably will play left field when a left hand pitcher is in the box for the op- posing team. The pitching staff is conceded to be strong, with the line-up of Luque, the Cuban; Mays, the submarine hurler: Donohue, Jakie May, Nehf and others. Luque has announced that he may not leave Cuba to play with Cincin- nati the coming season, but it is be- lieved he will answer the call of “play ball” when the season opens. Nehf has reported that the neuritis has left his pitching hand and that he will he in shape to take his regular turn in the box. Hargrave Is Fine Catcher. Catcher Eugene (“Bubbles) Har grave, considered by John Hevdler, president of the National League, as the leading batter last year, will catch the major portion of the games. Val Picinich will be second-string catcher, with Clyde Sukeforth, who was re- called from the minors, as third man. The Reds will train this Spring along the usual lines. They will go to Orlando, Fla., on February 26 and femain in the South six weeks. Aftar meven days’ practice, exhibition games will begin with the Cleveland Indians at Orlando _on March 8. Then will follow the New York Americans, St. Louls Americans, Washington and In- dianapolis. The team will leave Flor- 1da_ March 31, playing six games in four different cities on the way home. GOLF STARS PREPARE FOR $10,000 EVENT SAN ANTONIO, Tex., January 25 (#).—More than 30 of the leading pro- fessional and amateur golf players were here today to practice for the annual $10,000 Texas open tourna- ment scheduled to open Thursday over the Willow Springs course. Bobby Cruickshank, New York pro- fessional, who won the Los Angeles open, and Tommy Armour, profes- sional from the Congressional Coun- try Club, Washington, D. .. who played first in the Il Paso open Sun- day, were among those eager to try the course today. Play has been forbidden at Willow Springs for two days because of heav. rain. Walter Hagen also has entered, and these three are favorites to place well up in the money. Others entered or expected to enter before the list is closed Wednesday night include: Joe Turnesa, Long Island; Art Demane and “Wild Bill" Mehlhorn, New York: John Golden, Paterson, N. J.: Willie Hunter, Los Angeles; Joe Kirkwood and Ed Dud- ley, Hollywood; Frank Walsh, waukee; Art Longworth, St. Louls; George Kerrigan, Fred Baroni and Walter Loeffler, Pittsburgh, and W.C. Gordon, Rockford, Til. ELIMINATION TOURNEY FOR AMATEUR CUEISTS An elimination tournament designed to select the man best qualified to rep- resent Washington in the American amateur telegraph billiard tournament is likely to be staged soon. Wood of the King Pin _has received word from Charles C. Peterson that Washington is to be a member of the league, comprising 24 cities, the matches to be played by telegraph. The winner and runner-up in the elimination contest will represent the Capital Clity in the tourney. Mil- | Manager | UZCUDUN’S GREAT FIGHT MUST HAVE BEEN DREAM NEW YORK, January 25 (#).— Paolino UZcidun, Spanish heavy- weight, said today he had the flerc. est battle of his career in Cuba re- cently, but it was not in the ring. He said three wild boars charged him while' hunting, and after shooting one and clubbing the sec- ond to death with his gun, he was forced to kill the third with his bare hands when the gun broke. El Mundo, Havana newspaper, when informed of his statement, wired: “Yes, but we have no wild boars in Cuba.” JEFFERSON HIGH (7)UV|NT DEFEATS GEORGE MASON ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 25 Jefferson High School tossers defeated the George Mason High team, 34 to 16, last night in one of the hest attended basket ball games played this year in the Armory Hall. ~Although out- weighed, the ‘Jefferson tossers made up for the difference in weight by their speed. Lee-Jackson quint downed Oakton High, 20 to 16, in a game yesterday, while the girls’ sextet won from the Oakton High girls 24 to 2. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F STARTER TROUBLE? WE REPAIR ALL MAKES CREEL BROS. 1811-17 14th St. N.W. Potomac 473 | Representing 48 Leading Mfrs. of Auto Electrical Equipment and Motor Parts - Ty | before i oh- | league | ] even among players who were young and knew nothing of the events of | the past, has had behind it the in spiration from these men who were | tried in hase ball and found faithless to their trust. They now are “out” in_a superlative degree. With regard to the American League presidency, that organization has done nothing as a body to con- sider a successor to Ban Johnson. It is not likely that they will plan on any successor until they know whether his health would permit him ever to resume the duties of that | office. Sexton Would Be Candidate. It a suecessor is to be chosen later, M. H. Sexton, president of the Na tional Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues, would hecome a candi date. He has served long in base hall and aspires to the honor of heing the leader of a major league. There is no immediate |as American League owners do not | get enthusiastic. They might lose C‘obb and Speaker to the National | League by a queer turn of fortune's | wheel, but they are not scrambling to |get a prior National League leader |as their chief executive in exchange. | Nor is it likely that Frank J. Navin {of Detroit will he continued indefinite- |1y, unless by chance he should be | willing to withdraw as principal owner | of the Detroit club. On another point the gambling re- rfivri(linns which have heen suggested | by the conference committee of the | major and minor leagues, through the | office of the commissioner, will be en |acted by every league in the United | States and will become operative at | the earllest opportunity. They will be enforced with severity. There 1s a strong tendency to put a complete han upon hetting on horse races. Many members of the com- mittee heartily favor it. Base ball | owners have crusaded against gam- | bling, but have been opposed by a coterie of professional gamblers. Of course, if such a restriction had been in effect in the past, it would have had its bearing on such inci- dents as that which has cropped out in regard to Rogers Hornsby. (Covyright. 1927.) Fights Tonight By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH.—Pete Latzo, world welterweight champion, beat Jimmy Jones, Youngstown, Ohio (10). Title not at stake. NEW YORK.—Andre Routis of France beat Petey Mack, Jersey City, N. J. a0, ROCHESTER.—Phil O'Dowd, Co- lumbus, Ohlo, beat Phil Verde, Roch- ester (6). PHILADELPHIA — Al Foreman, Washington, beat Mike Ballerino, Bayonne, J. (10). Al Gordon, Phil- adelphia, beat Robert Servain, Paris, France (10). Georgie Nickford, Brook- lyn, knocked out Hillle Miske, Wash- ington (4). MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Pinky May, Savannah, beat Benny Reagan, Atlan- ta (10) SIOUX CITY, lowa.—Buzz Griffith, Sioux City, knocked out Rich Matlock, Omaha (1). Louie Mays, Des Moines, drew with Tully Griffith, Sioux City (8). Pinky George, Des Moines, drew with Johnny Burds, Sioux City MILWAUKEE.—Howard Bentz, Mil- waukee, beat Jack Schoendorf, Mil- waukee, on a technical knockout (3). CHICAGO.—Happy Atherton, In- dianapolis, beat Jimmy Sayers, Lafay- ette, Ind. (10). TORONTO, Canada.—Larry Gains, Toronto, knocked out Joe Burke, De- troit (3). Art Love, Liverpool, beat | Frankie Buff, Pittsburgh (6. Dave Jackson, Buffalo, knocked out Harry Henning, Toronto (3). LONDON, England.—Jlohnny Cuth- bert, Sheflleld. beat Johnny Curly, title holder, for featherweight champion- ship of Great Britain (20) Fights Tonight. DES MOINES, Iowa.—Larry Cole- man, 8t. Paul, vs. Emil Morrow, Sioux City (10). DENVER, Colo.—Tiger Flowars, At- lanta, vs. Lee Anderson. CINCINNATIL—Jack Silva, Kansas City, vs. “Farmer Joe" Cooper (10). | | | | STRICKLER AND RYAN WILL BOX AT ARCADIA f Arcs san of Baltimore, two | Billy Strickler Athletic Club and Jack F peppery fighters, will trade punches | in the eight-round main bout of the | card of boxing exhibitions to he staged the Arcadia’Sporting Club tonight at the Arcadia Auditorium. Only members of the club will be admitted. Strickler has won seven of his last nine bouts by knookouts, and at Kenil- worth the past season won all his starts. In the six-round semi-final y Gallagher of the Arcadia A. C. faces Johnny Conover of Baltimore. Both are big fellows and have impressive records. Bill Shattuck, a rugged scrapper, and Walt McFeeley of Georgetown University meet in another six- rounder. Two tests, each at four rounds, will bring together Dick Rich- ardson of Kenilworth and Allan Small- waod of Arcadia A. C. and Paul Bruen of Arcadia A. C. and Roy Tanner of Mohawk A. (. Chick Holden of Ar cadia A. C. and Kid Bender of Balti- more swap wallops in a third four- ia | Mar likelihood | that John K. Tener, former president | of the National League, will be chosen, | SPORTS. The professional ball players are not the only ones who have devised things to help perfect the national game. In the days of old, when the colleges thought much more of base ball than they did of foot ball, college man were as busy trying to become leaders in the sport as were the professionals Perhaps on the whole they were because the professional side of the game still was too much enveloped in | the atmosphere of the poolroom and held too much of the aroma of the har room. The professionals of those davs were sought as companions by the men who “lived about town.” who were sure that they attracted to them a crowd of admiring followers if they could tota around a well known ball | player or a well known trotting horse driver, or perhaps a well known pugil ist All Pro Offers Rejected. At Yale there was a young pitcher who had made such a name for him self that professional base ball clubs were very anxious to obtain his ser- vices. As salary prices went then, they climbed high for him. But the professionals couldn’t get him to leave his college and he politely demurred whenever a new agent went to New Haven and tried to Induce him to be a big leaguer His name was Amos Alonzo Stagk Tt still is Stagg and he is the coach of the University of Chicago foot ball eleven and physical Instructor for the university and beloved by all of the grads and the undergrads of Chicago. But what made him famous for a moment at Yale, in addition to his ability to pitch—and there have been precious few who could equal him as a college pitcher—was a contraption that he invented to teach college men how to slide to bases. In the gym at Yale he had constructed a pine frame 14 by 7 feet, covered with canvas tightly drawn’ with an over covering N the Aggie Interbureau League the team representing the Bureau of Plant Industry seems irtent upon hogging all the records of the organization—both ways and in the middle. It started by dropping 11 of its first 15 games, then it shifted gears and won 13 of 15. Practically establishing a low mark for the league in shooting a set of 1,363, it came back with a three-game total of 1612, the second best effort for the season. And it has topped all these stunts by acquiring a low team game of 427 to match It with a count of 570 shortly afterward. Part of the explanation lies in the fact that a couple of the team's star shooters are unable to bowl regularly Sometimes their substitutes do and sometimes they don't Riggs bowlers, led by the ever-reli- able Capt. Joe Keene, who is ably as- sisted by Kay Brooks, Benny Worms ley, Gimpy Coe and Raymond Marx, is making a great. bid for the cham- pionship of the Bankers' League in one of the hottest season races ever staged in that circuit. Five teams are bunched around the top, and the late matches of the campaign are ex- pected to determine the outcome. of the tifular struggle. The Riggs duck: pinners are flashing their finest form at present, having just broken the high_game record for the season with 597 count. They are in fourth po- ition now, only two games behind the leading aggregation. Stanford Paper Co. team will visit the Grand Central alleys tonight for a District League battle with Cornell Lunch. The Papermen are expected to-take a fall out of the Eats bunch. Belmonts and Arcadias will battle on the King Pin drives tonight in the National Capital League. Since they trimmed Jerr Stars for three in a |row the Belmonts are somewhat chesty and probably will make matters more than interesting for the crowd from John Blick's upper Fourteenth street establishment. All the plumbers had a great time last night at the Recreation when the newly organized Plumbing Industry League bowled its first matches. Scores were not particularly high, but that did not interfere with the evening's enjoyment. Standard Sani- tary Manufacturing Co. and Edgar Morris Co. teams swept matches with the Cunningham and Schafers, re- spectively, while Master Plumbers took two from the Plumbing Inspec- tors and O'Hanlons grabbed the odd from the Cranes. King Pin Is rigging up a match with a Baltimore team to be bowled some ext month. More than likel owerd Campbell, genial assistant to Bill Wood at King Pin, will head the group of local stars that will compete with the crowd of the Maryland me. troplis. John Marshall Place Interchurch League has an enthustiastic lot of duckpinners. They don't go in for high scoreing, but they get a big kick out of the game. In the league's latest matches Metropolitan No. 4 took two games from Trinnity Lutheran, Metro. politan No. 2 swept its set with ' Presbyterian No. 3 and First Presby terian No. 1 took the odd from First Presbyterian No. 2 Georgetown letic Association managed to score a four-pin victory over the Ahepas in the first game of an Athletic Club League match; then it dropped two games in a row. Wal- lace, Tompros and Metrakos howled well for the Greek maple spillers. Arcadias surprised the Meyer Davis crew in a District League match, tak- ing all three games. The Musicians put up a real battle for the third game, but were nosed out by four pins. Shooting a set of 1 Rosslyn, in the National Capital cir- cuit. - Sullivan, leading off for the Case: hit a set of 353. rounder that will open the card at 8:30 o'clock. and Graha sary. A ager at upont Circle. Wallace Motors managed to get SALESMEN To Sell Dodge Brothers Motor Cars m Trucks On a Salary Basis Previous automobile experience not absolutely neces- more original than the professionals | the Knights | N >f Columbus tpok all three games from | Weird “ Off” Season When Base Ball Was Young! BY JOHN B. FOSTER Stagg and His Base Sliding Machine of velvet carpet and with its surface |elevated about four feet from the |ground. His puplls ran a distance of about 20 feet to get a good start and |then they hurled themselves head-on {into this machine in order to get the knack of stealing bases well. Head-First Sliding Ruled. |, It will be noted that in those days | they wera all for head-foremost steal- |ing. To steal bases feet foremost was | considered to be very risky. The aver- {age manager valued the feet and legs {of his ball players much more than | their heads, and that is a sort of heri | tage today in base ball, because there |ara plenty of managers who will first devote to telling how fast thefr plavers can run, how far they |ean throw and how long they can hit, |and then refer somewhat dejected)~ |and sometimes with fury to a certain growth of bone above the neck. It is |a very difficult matter to find any manager who ever would agree that all of the ball players of his team had |escaped the aflment of thickening of the skull bones. Stagg's base-stealing machine seemed | to be good to the manager of the New York team, and he suggested to on of his plavers that he go to New Haven and look it over. The vetera: went. He returned and made a repor somewhat as follows “It's all right for them dudes, that thingabob up there. They go to co lege with brains to spill, but Jim, | ve put that machine in the clubhon |of us, they'll be =0 d—d little bra | remaining at the end of the weel | that we won't win another game come | Christmas. Put the boys on the ma |chine after a hard night and the | would be that seasick we wouldn't have the groundkeeper left by noon So the machine invented by Stags | never was adopted professionally. Tomorrow: “When Latham's Head | Was Hard." (Covyright. 1927.) With the Bowlers away well and took two of three games from the Wilkins Coffees, in the Business Men's loop. Palmer. Wallace anchor, was high for the match, with a three.game total of 331 Using seven bowlers in its line-up. Section- 5 bagged the odd game of match with Construction, in the Vet. {erans’ Bureau League. Winneke of 'lh- losers got the best game, however };"hen he hit for 133 in his second el ort. Information swept its set with Lar Economics and Farm Management got | two of three games bowled with Frui: |and Vegetables, in the Ladies’ A | cultural League. Bertha Greev | Information had a set of 323. \GOLFERS TO SPEND $138,000,000 IN 192 By the Associated Prass CHICAGO, January 25—One business that promises to keep go at a lvely rate in 1927 is golf. It ports indicate that a thousand ne 8olf clubs were started in 1926, Experts estimate that they spend approximately $138,000.000 ing 1927 for real estate, course co struction and club buflding, $32,00¢ 000 for new sprinkling systems an. supplies, and $15,000,000 for salarie: awards and entertainment. The expenditures of the 4,000 clul previously in existence, added t those of the new ones, and the in cidentals of members for clubs, bal and clothing, statisticians say, wi run the total golf bill far past th billion-dollar mark reached in 1982° RACING DOG AND HORSE, CONTINUES IN FLORID: | TALLAHASSEE, Fla., January (#)—Florida’s thoroughbred sports horse and dog racing, curtailed las: week by court orders today had a-new lease on life through additional court actlon. Granting of writ of suspersedeas by the State Supreme Court yesterds immediately brought announcemen from officials of the Tampa Down< and Pompano Horse Club that racins would reopen quickly on their tracks. Racing at Tampa Downs is expected to_begin tomorrow. The same State Supreme Court order also temporarily stayed an in i)"h(‘llnn to prevent operation of the | Hillsborough Kennel Club track at Tampa. It is planned to resume dog cing here tonight. 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