Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1927, Page 28

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, New Points in Case of Cobb and Speaker Furnish a Problem for Judge Landis —By RIPLEY l ‘M 1927. SPORTS. SACHEMS OF SPORT—The Cowboy. cNEELY SIGNS, FILLING STATUS OF TWO DIAMOND STARS IS MUCH INVOLVED American League Owners Likely to Bid for Their Services and Magnates of Parent Circuit All of last year's National regu- lars excepting the batterymen now are signed for the 1927 base ball campaign. The outfield delegation was swung into line complef {Psmdi". when the contract bear- ing the signature of Earl McN rrived at President Clark G fith’s office. The infleld lot was completed last week, when First Baseman Joe Judge accepted terms. McNeely’'s agreement is the twen- ty-third between club and player to be recorded. Seventeen players still are without the fold. ¢ George Moriarty, Ty Cobb’s Successor as Pilot of Tigers, Has Three of League’s Four Leading Hitters Willed to Him. May Become Sharp Competitors. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. HICA January possibilities have thrust sharp new points into celebrated case of Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker. One of them jabbed the American League owners first, or some of them. They suddenly discovered that an opportu- nity might develop for the National League owners to become sharp com- petitors for the services of two very valuable base ball stars. Secondly, some prominent base ball men brought up the gquestion whether Judge Landis, when he makes a de. ision in the case this week, may not ~stablish a policy that the American League owners will have prior claim to the services of Cobb and Speaker. | American League to have first claim Two | on_them as play ome| Waivers wer the i given by both leagues | so it is reported. If | , still another problem | Detroit manager is well on his way to | his home in Georgia. He was in-| formed by Judge Landis that the de- | Note: This is the winth of & |Jack Tavener will bs returnsd to series of stories on 1927 major |[shortstop and Lou Blue will remain e 7 | league clud proapects. at first base. Charlie Gehringer will i?}'l'at";: t'}‘ulg | | By the Ascoctated Press. be\x‘o::dn‘; 'nfi"filf&‘.'.f.?{a sllence as is to be faced, because the men would | 4 ! | BROWNS AND YANKS | ETROIT, January 26-—Three|to reorganization plans, but he has then be free agents under the 10-year 5 A 3 ‘ | | of the four leading hitters of |launched extensive efforts to bufid & | rule. MAY MAKE B'G DEAU the American League left |new pitcheing staff. A score of < It seems now that if the American over from Ty Cobb's steward- |ers, many of them holdovers, will en- League had not wanted the two play- ship of the Detroit Tigersare |ter Spring training several weeks be- ers because of “Dutch” Leonard’s | the heritage of George Moriarty, for- | fore the bulk of the Tiger retinue iv revelations, it would have been better | By the Amdciated Press. | mer p,}fle.;l::nrh{bfl&ge umplre, who | to join them in San Antonfo, Tex. policy in the first place to have re- NEW YORK, January 26.—A deal|™ A . Sl e i o A leased both outright. 3 between the New York Yankees and | this star outfleld trio wil bo selected | Toronto Trio Is Due. All kinds of rumors have been in the St. Louis Browns, Involving four | for the centerfield position vacated Jess Doyle, Owen Carroll and Cari circulation in_ Chicago about rivalr: or 1iore 4 is ‘reported under DY the Georgia Peach, playing man- Hubbell, thres pitchers who helped | between the New York clubs in see Way by New Yoik newspaper men; an | SSF TR f0uL veurs. Toronto win the International 3 | ing the services of Cobb. The former | ronte to York with Col. Jacob! Heinie Manush, the league-leading | pennant last year, are to lend thelr Ruppert, Yankee president. from the | Patter. Whose average last vear was |experience in Morfarty's attempt to , American League club owners® meet- | - Bob Fothergill and Harry Heil. |lift Detroit out of the league's second mann, who tled with averages of .367 | division. It is assumed that some American League owners may become bidders for the services of both Cobb and | Speaker. Also It is true that if they were transferred to other American league clubs both of them might be healthy rivals against the two clubs which have declined their services. Navin's Position Peculiar. With Ban Johnson retired, for the time being at least, as president of the American League, the question also urises whether Acting President Navin will_have anything to say in regard to the future of either player. The chances are that he will not, in view of the fact that he dissolved relations with Cobb as his own manager at De- troit, and he would not immediately attempt to interfere with the policy of the Cleveland club, which is & rivai in_his own league. Washington might take Speaker. With Goslin, Rice and Speaker for his outfield, Clark Griffith would have a combination embracing veterans and voungsters that would certainly not be a drag to the ambition of Wash- ington to win another pennant. Judge Landis would not be without Justice in giving the American League prior claim to Cobb and Speaker, on the_ground that if these men are not eligible to be managers of American League clubs there would be a certain cislon of the commissioner’s office would be made within this week. If there is any objection to any part of it, Cobb’s plea then rests squarely with Landis because the whole mat- ter now is out of the jurisdiction of the American League. Pepper Report Is Just Talk. The talk about a movement to in- duce Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania to accept the presidency of the Ameri- can League as Ban Johnson's suc- cessor is just that—talk. Most of it originated with base ball writers here in Chicago and none of it was heard among the American League owners, when they came here for conference with Johnson and Landis. There has been no serious consideration given as yet to a successor to Johnson. Some base ball men who have been foremost in criticising Johnson's methods in the past now are censur- ing the league because it gave John- son a rest. Medical men who are cognizant of the condition of John- son say it would have been next to criminal on the part of the Ameri- can League to have continued him actively in office. Johnson has gone to Excelsior Springs, Mo., for his health, but few who have seen the change in the man’s physical condi- tion in the last few weeks are hope- ful of his early recovery. amount of moral right to permit the (Cobyright. 1927.) | Twenty yearsago Joe Humphries, the loud speaker of the prize ring, received a_ wire from a mining town out West containing a most extravagant offer of $15,000 for Terry McGovern to fight Jimmy Britt. Joe was managing Terrible Terry at the time and when he opened the wire he snickered out loud. Imagine anybody offering a prize fighter $15,000 win, lose or draw! And who such a wire? of him or his town. The “nut’—the man who sent the telegram—was Tex Rickard. The name of the town was Gold- field, Nev. Naturally, Joe Humphries didn’t * bother to answer such a silly offer. Nobody in_their right mind would think of offering that much money for any bout—Cain and Abel in- cluded. When Rickard failed to hear from Britt or McGovern, he tried s the nut that sent Nobody ever heard Harris and Peck Are Picked By Collins for His Second All-American League Team TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF BASE BALL. BY EDDIE COLLINS. XI—The Second Team. Weeler, right field; Jones, left fleld; Sislér, first base; Pelsch] ‘denter ' field ‘Weaver, third base; Clarke, catch; 8. Harris, second base; Peckinpaugh, shortstop; Walsh, pitch; Bender, pitch. Picking a shortstop for the frst team and a second baseman for this combination were the two hardest problems connected with the selection of these two all-American League champlons. In finally settling on ley Harris, I had in mind not only the individual merits of the energetic lead- er of the two-time champions, but his ability to co-operate with his short- stop. As Roger Peckinpaugh deserved and received serious consideration for the short fleld position on the first team, I have become convinced that no other possible combination would have been as strong as this pair— Peck-Harris. Were Core of Griffmen. Jointly they were the core of the Washington club, and I believe their work for three seasons never has been equalled for keen perception of the proper play, for brilliancy of execution and unvarying steadiness. In attain- ing their high degree of perfection I think Peck was a greater aid to Har- ris than the latter was to Peck. I have a high regard for the hustling leader of the Senators, but Peckin- paughs have been extremely few and far between. Bisler draws the assignment for first base, a greater natural batter than Chase and a flelder of rare ability, though he lacks a little of the superb artistry that made Hal stand out as one apart. George, with as much natural abllity as any man living, re- minds me of the blacksmith's coals that won't glow unless fanned. Sisler does not put forth his greatest efforts unless roused by an unusual situation or_condition. I understand that more than any other single factor, Bisler was re- sponsible for the fall of the Athletics & year ago and the consequent loss of the pennant when it seemed that they ‘would breeze in. Sisler Beat the Macks. For some reason one or more of Mack's young men conceived the happy idea of “riding” George, per sonally, when the A’s got into St Louis for their last Western trip. They irritated him considerably, and almost single-handed he beat them three games and they never stopped until they had dropped 12 straight games and the flag. A good moral, for visiting players, to leave George alone. “Buck” Weaver, who loved to play ball better than any one I ever saw pull on a glove, goes to third. Not as smooth a flelder as J. Collins, nor per- heps Bradley, but a wonder on hard hit balls and bunts, a strong and ac- curate thrower and a fighter from start to finish Weaver a splendid base runner, equally effective hitting right or left- hended, and batted to all flelds. ‘Though he never attained the high average that Bradlev and ol 1 think he would have been a more dangerous sticker than eitner hau remained in the game. This combination of Sisler, Harris, Peck and “Buck” is more colorful and Taster than my first selections, lack- ing a little, however in offensive strength. Strong Outfleld Trio. Keeler, Fielder Jones and Felsch nre a strong enough outfield for any champlon team. Little Willie ranked I r Stan- urprised on looking up his record to find that for the first seven of his major league career he battcd far above .300. Those were days wken to hit that often was a mark of dis- tinction. I know he was a great ground coverer and a daring and successful base runner. On top of that his record with the old White Sox shows that he was a competent leader. Felsch a Wonder Player. In my humble judgment *Happ: Felsch never had an equal in the out- fleld except Speaker. He handled ground balls like an inflelder and threw the ball as if it came out of a rifle. A great right-hand hitter and into a position. “Nig” Clarke. Fans of the present may not recall him, but *hose familtar with the games of 1907, 1908 and 1909 will bear me out. He was a heavy “KEELER RANKED WITH LAJOIE AND CHASE AS A PLACE HITTER.” hitter and fast on his feet. It is un- usual, you know, for a catcher to be fast and a prime thrower and re- cefver. The battery of Joss and Clarke ranks with the greatest. Walsh and Bender get the pitching jobs. Big Ed never had an equal in his specialty; he was the greatest spit- ball pitcher in history, a veritable ‘iron man,” who crowded 15 years' service into 7. He was by far the greatest rescue pitcher ever known. Fans who marvel at Fred Marberry should remember what Walsh did. In | 1908, when the Jones team lost by a single game, Walsh won 40 games and lost but 15. That season he stalked out to the slab 66 times, which would have been marvelous had he been only a relief pitcher. On some of those occasions he saved games for other pitchers, in addition to the 40 he won. A record of his herolc feats would require more space than I can s , and I can only say; “All hail to the ‘Big Moose.’ I have discussed Charles Albert | Bender at length elsewhere in these articles. 1 have chosen him for Walsh's associate because of his un- courage and his brains. In making these selections I have of necessity been obliged to pass over many great players, a great many of them men whom I admired for their professional skill and also for their estimable personal qualities. Other Great Performers. Of Sam Crawford, Bill Donovan, Donies Bush and Harry Heilmann, of Detroit; Terry Turner, Bradley, Elmer Flick, Bill Bernhard, Harry Bemls, {Joe Sewell, of Cleveland; Charley Hemphill, Jess Burkett, Barne; of St. Louts: Frank Isbell, with Lajole and Chase as a place hitter; with Donle Bush as a hard man to pitch to, his bases_on balls always mounting, during all his long career, to high figures. In addition to his extraordinary ability on attack, fie was a fast and sure flelder with a 0od arm. ¥ Phough I only saw Jones during his last three seasons, those who played with and against him have confirmsd my own opinion that he had murits that have been equaled by but few players. When I saw him he not aocounted a great hitter, but was ponaldered Donohue, George Davis, “Doc” White, Willie Kamm and Bib Falk, of Chi- |cago; “Cy” Young, Lou Criger “Chick” Stahl, Bill Dinneen, Fred ! Parent, Helnie Wagner, Bill Carrigan, | Everett Scott, Duffy Lewis, of Boston; 1 Jimmy Williams, Jack Chesbro, Jess | Tannehill, Bob Meusel, Walter Pipp, | Joe Dugan and others, of New York, and Clyde Milan, Goslin, Rice, Ruel, Judge and Coveleskle, of Washington, 1 have said little or nothing, simply because the limitations of these lacked ability. a dangerous one. 1 wa‘ geasons | fast on the bases, he simply is forced | gl /o “wno was born In Ten. My second choice to Ray Schalk is | exampled mastery of his trade, his | Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. VERNON, _ Calif. — Jackie Flelds, Los Angeles, beat Harry “Kid" Brown, Philadelphia (10). SEATTLE.—Billy Bonillas, Los Angeles, drew with Doc Snell, Tacoma. (6). BILOXI, Miss.—Jack Melrose, Canada, technically knocked out Mike Arnold, Denver (3). CINCINNATI.—Midget Guery, La- tonia, knocked out Frankie Murray, Jersey City (1); Farmer Joe Cooper, Terre Haute, beat Jack Silva, San Francisco. DENVER.—Tiger Flowers, middleweight champion, beat Lee Anderson (4); Johnny Clinton, New York, beat Fighting Nobe Cervantes, Denver (4). former FOCESERSI BROWN, U. S. BOXER, WHIPS FRENCH IDOL By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 26.—A question involving' Panama and the United States has been ocleared up for | French inquirers by Al Brown, negro nessee but has lived in Panama nearly | all of his 21 years. After Brown last night had knocked out Edouard Mascart, who ranks next to Carpentier among France's fistio idols, a_French reporter asked: “Are you a Panaman or an Ameri- can?” “‘Both,” the pugilist replied. “What's the difference.” Brown knocked out Mascart, claim- ant of the European featherweight championship, in the fifth round of a scheduled 12-round bout. MALONEY-DELANEY BOUT TO DRAW A RECORD GATE NEW YORK, January 26 (#).—The record for receipts at an indoor box- ing match in New York is due to be broken when Jim Maloney of Boston and Jack Delaney, light-heavyweight champion, clash in Madison Square February 18. With a “top” charge of $20 for ringside seats, allowed by the boxing commission yesterday, Tex Rickard expects the receipts will exceed $200,000. Delaney and Paul Berlenbach, in a light-heavyweight champlonship match at the Garden more than a year ago, drew $162,266 to the box office. DUNDEE FRACTURES FOOT IN TRAINING By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, January 26.—Joe Dundee, Baltimore boxer, and a lead- ing contender: for the 'welterwelght champlonship held by Pete Latzo, is laid up today with a fractured right foot suffered while training in his gymnasium. ~ An X-ray showed several small bones in the instep fractured. Later today his physiclan will put the injured, ankle in a plaster cast and it may be six weeks before Dundee will be able {to resume training the doctor said. | Meanwhile his scheduled bout with {Johnny Mendelsohn of Milwaukee, next Monday night, and other pro-| posed battles are held in abeyanca, While sparring yesterday Dundee caught his foot in the canvas when he attempted to sidestep. His foot| pained him but he continued his exer- | cise. When he stopped and removed | his shoe his ankle had swollen to twice its normal size. 1929 FUTURITY DRAWS | RECORD LIST OF 2.105' NEW YORK, January 26 (#).—The | largest entry ever received for a rac- | |ing stake has been drawn for the | Futurity to be run at Belmont Park | in the Autumn of 1929. | "The receipt of 27 belated nomina- tions from the Hartzburg stud of Ger- | many and French breeders, has raised | the tfotal to 2,105. | BRITONS ARE DEFEATED. NEW YORK, January 26 (#).—New was | articles forbld and not because they | York squash racket team defeated the invading British Internationalists 4 matches to 2 yesterday, A again. Gans and Nelson answered him, but they made him pile the money in gold in a window so that the whole world could see it before they would enter the ring. This occasion was the first time hat Rickard and Goldfield were ever heard of Goldfield has slipped that day in 1906, but Tex has come on Tex is easily the best, and the best known, boxing promoter in the world. 'Since that hot afte noon in Goldfield when Gans Nelson fought 42 found Rickard has promoted many world cl pionships. He has taken in s $20,000,000 in gaie receipts and + just the other day he added to his Madison, Square Garden stock until he now holds more than a million dollars’ interest in the cor- poration, He 1s president of the Rickard Oil Co. and a few other little en- terprises in Texas and around the ¢ of his birth, an enthusiast in tty well line of sport and a big gambler with every sort of promotion, except professional foot ball, of which he doesn’t think so much . Sports in Varied Lines. Those _individu: who think Kansas City's undying fame rests solely on the packing prowess of the Cudahy family, its proximity to the mother State of prohibition and its marvelous railroad tangles are all wrong. For out of the city of sausage and mashed potatoes our mogul of sports and cattle raising, not to mention ofl wells and picture col- lection, George L. Rickard emerged into Texas back in 1890 or_so. ! Tex went into the cattle busine: from the ground up. In fact, first year was mostly ground. His | mustangs saw to that | earned his title of Te natel and thoroughly. Before he left the Lone Star State in 1895 he knew | | ack since what cattle were from pretty well every angle, Quits Lariat and Horse. Also he never threw away his tools, by which is meant his skill with'lariat and horse. He left Texas to go to Point Bar- row and Nome in Alaska during the gold rush up in the North coun- try in 1895. Th stablished and ran for s years the Northern Hotel, a combination of miners’ rendezvous, legitimate and licensed gambling house, hostelry and bank of the community. Gold got Tex at that time and trom Point Barrow off he went to Goldfield, Nev., where he establish- ed another hotel similar in scope and patronage to the one in Alaska. Stages His First Fight. About the time the gold bug was flitting at its best In Tonopah and Goldfield, Tex decided that the precious metal could be obtained in many more ways than with a pick and shovel, and so staged his first prizefight. He started out to stage the first real battle of the century in San Francisco between Jeffries and Johnson and had things golng as prettily as he did the Tunney- Dempsey go here when the Gov- ernor of California literally chased him across the State border. Nevada was willing and Tex de- 'FOUR Do “ided on Reno as the most conven- ient spot. Before he could get started, how- “ver, the question of a referee be- ame a battle royal between all arties concerned and Tex in des- jon decided to make his debut a referec himself. It was his one only experience, and in his iwn language not much at that. Success in Argentina. He went to the Argentine there- ‘ fter and started cattle ranching :n a very I scale. Emerging c enterprise in period, he staged rd bout. The war ded his cattle enterprise and he s0ld out to go back into the promo- <ion line with the Dempsey-Willard #out at Toledo and his career there- #fter is pretty well an open book. In his career he has taken in fome $20,000,000 in gate receipts, fost of which, of course, went in xpenses and boxers' fees. . Jeffries, Dempsey, Firpo. { Tex never had a narrow escape. Fle found Billy Nolan the toughest Business proposition of his career. Got held up for $10,000 extra money by Jack Johnson when he brought Jeffries out of cold storage and says his funniest experience was when Bat Nelson took a bath in a barrel full of lemonade, which was brewed the night before for the waiting crowd at the Dempsey- Willard go in Toledo. Tex's greatest trouble was the arrest of Firpo on the eve of his battle with Willard in Jersey City. In mentioning it he apparent- ly forgets his little setto with Box- ing Commissioner Jim Farley over the Dempsey-Tunney business when he took a metaphorical back seat. But he won out, as usual, at the Sesqul. BOUTS A YEAR FOR HEAVIES URGED By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 26.—Heavy- weight champions should fight at least four times a year if they ex- pect to defend successfully their crowns against outstanding rivals, in the opinion of William Muldoon, 81~ year-old member of the State Ath- letic Commission and former trainer Sullivan. f work rather than over- s been the downfall of every ght champlon in the past said the veteran expert. It looks to me as if Gene Tunney s ‘licking himself’ the same as Jack Dempsey did—through inac- | Fighting once a year for a ywelght champion =~ is ot enough. Muldoon expressed the view that the present crop of heavyweight challengers is the best in the history of the game. TWO MATCHES CARDED IN CUE EVENT TODAY Maches between Willlam Smale and Morris Dent and Gene Ruark and Wil- liam Reddy will be played in the Dis- trict pocket billiard match at the Arcadia today. FBdward Tindell defeated Morris Dent, 100 to 52, last night. When Base Ball Was Young BY JOHN B. FOSTER When Latham’s Head Was Hard Ball players of the old days were| a lot better base runners than the | ball players of today. If there is any | old-time_fans. | Arlie Latham, who played third base | for the St. Louls Browns and was one | of the best base runners of his time, | bushes is being given his first lesson | in base stealing. Down the track he| comes at full speed and plunges head to grab in lleu of an actual base. “Why you seventh son of a monkey- brained seventh son of a son of some- | thing else, what in the name of ‘the | ing in Chicago Sunday. | The swap is said to involve Pitchers Sam Jones and Walter Beall of the | Yank and Pitcher Joe Giard of the Browns. A trade last December, in which the Yankees offered Jones, | third pitcher for Durst, Giard and either McManus or Robertson, infield- ers, fell through when the Yanks failed to obtain Pitcher Stewart of the Toronto Internationals to complete the deal, the writers said. of the Browns yesterday refused a ong this same line, whereupon substituted a second which St. Louls now is 11 BIG LEAGUE CLUBS | T0 TRAIN IN FLORIDA By the Associated Press. Eleven of the 16 major league base ball clubs will do their Spring training under Florida skies. Louisiana and California will each attract two and | the other one will get in shape in Texas. The New York Giants will restrict their activities to Florida, but will use two camps, starting the training | period at Sarasota, but later to St. Augustine. Training camps include: National League. | New York-—Sarasota and St. Augus- tine, Fla. Brooklyn—Clearwater, Fla. Cincinnati—Orlando, Fla. Pittsburgh—Paso Robles, Calif. Chicago—Catalina Island, C: Boston—St. Petersburg, Fla. 8t. Louis—Avon Park, Fla. Philadelphia—Bradenton, Fla. American l&uflb. Chicago—Shreveport, La. Boston—New Orleans, La. New York—St. Petersburg, Fla. 8t. Louis—Tarpon Springs, Fla. Philadelphia—Fort Myer, Fla. Cleveland—Lakeland, Fla. Detroit—San Antonio, Tex. Washington—Tampa, Fla. TURTON AND DODGE WIN IN THREE-CUSHION PLAY Matches played in the District three- cushion championship last night at Lewls and Krauss parlors found F;f.mk Turton and John win- ning. Turton beat Murray, 85 to 19, and Dodge defeated Muir, 35 to 13. Con- nolly defeated Muir, 85 to 82. adjourning of 6. Dodge had an unfinished run |of & | STRICKLER WINNER IN BOUT WITH RYAN Billie Strickler, boxer from Frankie Mann's stable, won an 8-round decls- ion over Jack Ryan of Baltimore in the main bout of a card at the Ar- cadia Sporting Club last night. Strickler tied up Ryan with his long reach and cleverness. Marty Gallagher of the St. Stephen’s Club knocked out Jack Clifford in the fifth round of the semi-final. Jack Shaddock won from Walter McFeeley of Georgetown University, Frankle Welnert put Paul FEdwards away in the fourth and Paul Bruen outpointed Ray Tanner in the 4-round opener. EIGHT CLUBS WANTED IN PIEDMONT LEAGUE DURHAM, N. C., January 26 (#). —The Piedmont Base Ball e next season will be composed of eight clubs instead of six, if W. G. Bram- ham, league president, can obtain the two additional clubs by February 8. The directors approved the trans- fer of the Greensboro franchise to Rocky Mount and voted to allow High Point to retain its team. Clubs now in the league are Ra- {one who disbelieves this, let him usk | foremost into the yielding sand, look- |leigh, Durham, Winston-Salem, Rocky {the managers of the old days or tho |ing for the bag that he is presumed | Mount, High Point and Salisbury, REDS RECALL SUKEFORTH. Clyde Sukeforth, former George- was sought to give advice when he|gyeat bazoo do you mean by sliding | town catcher, who was signed by the was young and chipper. They asked | him as to the best way of sliding to bases. Lanham replied: “The runner about to steal a base should keep an eye, a very close eye, on the pitcher. At the first motion by that worthy he should be off like a flash. The runner should take care not to wait unti] the pitcher has let go of the ball, but should be off at the very first move- ment of the pitcher’s body or arm. In sliding to a base the runner sh gauge his distance well, never r the head-first plunge until ha ve | that he can make the bag. The plaver who slides head first is seldom injured, while broken Hmbs often result from the feet-first slide.” | Advice Termed Good. | And the commentator added: “Lath’s advice is good, because he does as | much base running as any one in the profession and never has been in- Jjured.” Now let us jump ahead a few vears. The Giants are training rliz, Tex. They have a pit dug there and it is filled with soft earth. This is the sliding pit to teach base running, first tried out by John J. McGraw. Latham {s coaching for the Glants and his speclalty Is to teach base run- | ning A candidate who has ju: emerged from what is called the TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F | modern spikes uplifted in the air is! head first? You poor sap, who ever told you to do that to steal a base on r? Never slide head foremost. th your feet and legs! ?7??? The punctuation is a sketch of Latham running around in a circle and barking at an imaginary wolf in the next lot. Spikes Aid Effectiveness. Cincinnati Reds last season and sent recalled by the major league team. Besides catching for the Hilltoppers, Sukeforth played often in the outfleld. TES GET INFIELDER. | PITTSBURGH, Pa., January 26 (®), | —Richard Bartell, 19-year-old short- McGraw would not have & head-|stop of Oakland, Calif., who played foremost slider with him unless he s forced to do so because he was able to break the man of what | Mack thought a bad habit. That was one reason why Latham became such a rabid teacher of the cult of sliding feet foremost. Then, too, a | player going into second base with the | more dangerous than the player ad-| vancing with his head, i “Yes,” yowled the husky who had | been called down by Latham, “but I can show you an old Guide where you 1id slide head first, and I'll bet you two to one I can prove it. “Save your money, my boy,” safd McGraw, who was passing by. “Lath did slide head foremost—but the old boy's head was harder then tham it last year in the Butte Mines League, will be given a tryout with the Pitts- burgh Pirates, LEAGUE HOCKEY. Montreal Maroons, 2; Detroit Cou- ars, 1. ‘Bolton Bruins, 3; Pittsburgh Pi- rates, 1. Na:r York Americans, 6; Ottawa Oor's, HAWKINS is now.” (Covyright. 1927.) | B;l"]n!'nonow—"flnllmnded into Base | 1 RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE AND REPAIRED WITTSTATT'S R & F. WKS.| MOVED TO 1533 14th St. N.W. ite Wardman Motor Co. op%lanm-nd Rear at 819 13th St, N.W. I i U MOTOR CO. - 2 Canveniently Located |1333-37 14%h St.© Main 5780 d Outfielder Cedric Durst | Beall and a | They disclosed that President Ball Turton had seven runs of 3 and one. to the minors for seasoning, has been | each, back of Babe Ruth in second | place, are Moriarty's 1927 nucleus. McManus Prize Purchase. | The outstanding Winter purchase of the Tiger management was Marty Mc- Manus, St. Louls Browns' infielder, who was sought by several other ma- jor league clubs. McManus will play third base, present plans indicate. { HILE the sweepstakes tour- | nament that started last | Saturday night on the King | Pin drives and is due to continue at the Coliseum and Convention Hall alleys is really nothing more than a “pot” affair, it has brought home strongly the fact that Washington certainly needs a worthwhile individual champlonship event in duckpins. There {8 a growing demand by the stellar bowlers of the city that such a_tournament be arranged by the Washington City Duckpin Associa- tion, the controlling organization of the sport here. For some years a so-called individual tournament has been held, but usually it has not been | the blg bowlers. Of course, it would be fine if these stars were generous enough once a | year to forget their money shooting and actually roll for championship {laurels alone. But, getting down to brass tacks, that cannot be expected of the stars. They know they are 8ood and insist upon realizing on their ability, So the next best thing, probably, would be a tournament sanctioned by the W, C. D. A., with the controlling organization putting up medals and the entrants adding their own money "for the substantial prize. If these high-class shooters insist upon hav- ) ing something worth while to shoot for, let them dig in thelr own pockets for a city champlonship as they have | done in the privately run sweepstakes, | Bowling never has been regarded as an amateur sport. For the novice it is fine recreation, but as an organized game it has developed into a strictly money proposition. In practically ail leagues money prizes only are at stake. It seems to be the one sport that has been overlooked by the Simon Pures in athletics. There are nu- merous duckpinners who strive for cash awards on the drives and com- pete in other branches of sport un- der the gulse of amateurs, The boys, and the girls, too, for that matter, must have the coin in sight, however, when they start their matches on the drives, so why not glve them tournaments that carry with them championships as well as bundles of kale. Let the W. C. D. A. {put up the titular emblems and the bowlers the money. In that way, per- haps, all hands would be satisfied, Smithfleld Athletic Club, rol set of 1,736, took two of lhl‘:: g:i‘ne: ly crimping the aspirations of the lat- ter for high honors in the Athletic Club League. Bowling on the Conven- tion Hall alleys, the Hams grabbed the first two games of the match, tak- ing the second decisively ufter being well fought in the first. The Arling- tons came to life in the third en- counter of the evening, however, and :}ug’:nd :fl t;%mptl’ete defeat. Tl as the busy bowler for the Hams. He smacked a set of 372 that included two game: fecte games near the 130 Grabbing tl Kuatark hree games from the the Beeques strengthene: their lead in the ‘Washington gLad;‘e:’ League. Catherine Quigley, who bowled so sensationally in the matches last we'ek. again starred for Bronson Qualtes’ outfit, toppling a set of 345. In other league contests last night Nationals swept their set with the Daughters of Isabella, Hilltoppers took two from the Climbers, Commer- clals bagged the odd in a tiit with the Frankies and the Columbians won three from the Bethanys. Rena Levy, star of the Columbians, who has been {ll for several weeks, took her place in the line-up, but was still too weak to bowl and had to retire after the first game. Park View gave the Dunigans a fine walloping in the Suburban | League, winning all three games. | I:‘rye was the big nolse of the Park | Views with a set of 388 that included | & game of 162. Semper Fidells and Anchor teams attractive enough financially to satisfy | ' IS MADE BY GARCIA ¢ last night from the Arlingtons, severe- | George Dauss, Kenneth Hollowa: | Rip Collins, Lil’ Stoner, Sam Gibson and George Smith lead the right handed holdover staff. Earl White hill, Edwin Wells and August Johns are 19 portsider: | Three recruits have been taken from | the Texas League. They are Owens and Watt of San Antonio and Walkup of Fort Worth. With the Bowlers T | Eagles. Van Edsinga of the Globes | had high game of the matches with a second effort of 107 Stanford Paper Co. garnered three games at the expense of Cornell Lunch in the District League, Harry Stanford crashed into the lineup of the paper gang in the first game and shot a sterling 96. Lorraine Gulli's bowling at anchor told heavily against General Account ing as Supply won three games in the Veterans' Bureau Ladies' League. She hit the pins for a set of 33 COMEBACK IN RING | BY FAIR PLAY. NEW YORK, January 26-—Bobby Garcia, the little Indian, and former Army champion, seems to have found the fountain of youth. Garcia, you know, took an awful drubbing at the hands of Kid Kaplan when the latter was the featherweight boss, and many thought that Bobby was through as a top-notcher. Garcia was known throughout the country for his wonderful gameness and ability to make a fight of it all the way. He was a busy fellow and either made his opponent jump out of the ring or fight. Lou Brown, the soldier lad’s mana. ger, says this about his charge: “Bobby is not an every-day fighter. I have to be careful making matches for him, because he is unable to fight often. Bobby fights so hard and takes such hard socks going to his man that he is all done up after a fight and requires at least two weeks befors he is ready to answer the bell again. Unlike other fighters I have handled, Garcia will not tell me to fight him every week. He does not like the idea of holding back and saving himself for future matches. He I8 one boy who goes in there trying all the time and gives all he has.” Garcia has taken a good rest. He has taken on weight and is now mix- |ing it with the junior lightwelghts. | Since his comeback Bobby has been | doing exceptionally well. Knocking | out his old rival, Lew Mayrs, in three rounds was quite a feat. Then he ‘took on Ruby Stein and treated him to the same dose in nine rounds. It was Bobby's luck to flash this good work before Baltimore audiences, where he is a great favorite. Clarcia was stationed just outside that city and {s considered a native down there. BLICK IS HONORED BY CUE ASSOCIATION John 8. Blick, president of the Con- vention Hall and Arcadia compantes, was elected honorary vice president and representative of the District of Columbia at the recent fifth annual meeting of the National Billlard As soclation held at Detroft. In addition to his bowling enter- prises Blick is interested in ths cue game, and it is through his efforts that the world champlonship 13.2 balkline billlard tournament that will be held at the Arcadia March 1 to 15 ‘was secured for this city. Contestants will {nolude _‘Willte Hoppe, John Schaefer and Walker Cochran of the United States and one representative each from Ger: many, Belgium, France and Japan LATZO OFFERS LEVINE ANOTHER TITLE CHANCE NEW YORK, January 28 (). Charles Cook, manager of George Levine, announced that the New York welterweight had been offered & re turn match with Champion Pete were winners in the Marine Corps Girls’ League, the former taking the odd from Globe, while the Anchors did the same In their clash with the i | ! Show us the man lookin; % many different styles, help from finding just ing ot Brodia, Inc. braads makes §ood all our cl res, B B E: l Body Knows IR "Brodts, Inc., S nackiates Aow's Ches? Latzo of Scranton, Pa., to be lald in Chicago in February. Latzo won from Levine on a foul four rounds e his title 18 ‘lnat July in defens in of % for 3 Dt and we'll ehow him e'hal he and and shad 4 o, I b ot aims of G“A’“J M”“m:: Schobles, Mallo- (