Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1927, Page 32

32 SPORTS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1927. SPORTS. Harris Thinks Griffs Will Sign Speaker : Majors Hope to Improve Schedules GENEROUS POOR 1926 DATE-MAKING TRIS WILL GET OFFER FROM NATIONALS TO BE AVOIDED THIS YEAR | o e s’ much | Big Leagues See Folly in Crowding Games as They President Griffith’s Prompt Expression of Faith in Deposed Indian Pilot’s Honesty May Sway | B phta, For Mo omt winout| Did Last Year—National Has Harder Problem to Solve—Not to Adopt L. L. Plan. | GRIFFS AND MACKS | " FAVORED BY SPOKE. i ’ ! ¥ o N ,‘ PHILADELPHIA, January 31 BELIEVE IT OR NOT signing an Athletic contract® Unless he i{s made dizzy by a spec tacular offer from Col. Jacob Ruppert Tris admitted to friends that he would | sign either with the Athletics or { Washington team. | Latter—Spoke Sees Huggins Today. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, January ‘Schedule making for the 1927 | need to jump to any one city to \dvantage of a Sunday game for a single day. In the National Leagis He declared that he preferred these | oty two clubs because their owners had | been friendly to hi durin, is 1 2 4 not pl: Su v 1 | early meeting in Chicago, when the in New York City today in| nd al mes 1 e S0 Whiols oMictal buse bail woela had b | order that the National League | runged s 12 ive St Viiting (o0 ed agalnst him and Ty, Connle Mack |may consider its dates at its annual |40 idle Sunday ittshurg som and Clark Griffith alone shook hands | SPring meeting here, beginning Tues. | time. | with him and expressed their hener{“fi&‘;*h"‘“o"!,‘_"-ma“‘mm“ of dates, Seek New York Sunday Games v Sl bl ! East citie: b e that he vms Innocent of &ny WOnk|,,ier nas been surpassed for general | ERsCerm SiEs of b leag Mack made Speaker a princsly offer | debility. Teams went scurrying here | 1€ J m‘“vf;i;'mm”" and Tris told him he would é’iva it |and there for one-day stops. Nw‘ York ,”m' the National p careful consideration. That's ‘as far |crambled state of affalfs was caused | yor und Brookivn. Nefther « as elther man would go after the | Py, the adoption of @ HX . { in Philadelphia or Boston on meeting ended ending the season in 'September However. in both leag i . Despite all that has been said in re-| [IOWESr U N gard to the ending of base ball in TAMPA, Fl. nuary 31.—Clark Griffith, president of the Wash- ington Senators, said today he will make Tris Speaker a definite offer over the telephone tonight, and added that it is one “which I expect him to accept.” Speaker wired me this morning that he would talk with me again on long distance tonight,” Griffith said. “At that time I will make him a definite offer which I expect he will accept.” Griffith talked with Speaker on the telephone Thursday, but a faulty connection kept them from understanding each other enough to reach an agreement, Griffith said. “This matter is a bit difficult to straighten out, but | am certain we will reach an agreement tonight.” N\gnfifoy\\ 0o ~0{ Guilfesid, Vg3 ™ WAS REJECTED BY. THe | ARMY, NAVY, AND THe MARINES YET SERVED 13 MONTHS share and By the Associated Press UNTINGTON, Yanks had given up efforts to locate | him for the day. When Spoke tele- phoned the Huggins home late in| the day, the Yankee pilot had “gone | W. Va., Janu- ary 31.-—Tris Speaker, former manager of the Cleveland there for York to visit friends.” Time was set, how- ever, for a meeting today although the hour was not disclosed. “I haven't hooked up with any | club yet,” Speaker sald when he alighted from the train that brought him here from Philadelphia. He said he was consldering offers from four clubs in the American League, but | which four he would not say. Both | Washington and Philadelphia are | known to be in the field with the Yankees. Any arrangement Huggins cares to make with Speaker will be satisfac- tory to him, Col. Jacob Ruppert, »wner of the Yankees, said last night, | adding that if “Hug wants Speaker he can have him.” CLEVELAND, January 31 P.—| Friends of Tris Speaker here were informed today that he will make no announcement of the club he intends to sign with for the 1927 season until | after he s returned to Cleveland either tomorrow or Wednesda Spoke plans to seek the advice of friends who stood by him during his fight for vindication of “game fixing” clarges, it was said. WOMEN IN SPORT BY CORINNE FRAZIER i TUDENTS of the National|mental exercises, folk dancing ahd | Cathedral School for Girls en-|schlag ball will feature the program | gage in a varied program of | of the National Amateur Athletic Fed- activities during the two terms | eration group Wednesday night for | into which their school year|the weekly recreation period at Cen- | divide : tral High School from 830 to 10 Archery, basket ball and tennis oc- | g’clock. cupied the attention of the fair ath- Isabel Patterson of Holton Arms letes before Chr Archery has!will lead the gymnastic drills, been one of th - sports at the | genia Davis, also of Gunston Hall, w Cathedral School since 1910, some 10| direct the Danish gymnastics, and vears before any other school in the | [sabel Stevenson of the National Cath- District revived the pastime of ancient | olic Service School will conduct the | days. The tourney staged in the Fall| class in folk dancing, while Alice | was won by a member of Class A, the | Nicoll of Holton Arms will have freshman class. Her performance Was | charge of the schlag ball. considered unusual, as the task| Any girl or woman desiring to join of learning to handle the bow and ar- | the N. A. A. F. group in this recrea- row with skill is most difficult and | tion program is welcome to do o, usually requires long tralning. without charge, except for the 10-cent Singles tennis honors were decided | foq required by the community cen- in the Fall and the doubles title Will | tar department of all who the gym be determined in the Spring. Class C,| pagium in the evening to defra the Junior class, claims the holder of | sxnenses of lighting and janitor sery- the singles title. S Ninety-two girls reported out: for basket ball in the Fall, one of the largest groups in the history of the school, according to Margaret Bogen- rief, athletic director. Class groups were organized and practice games played for the purpose of determining the relative strength of the players, preparatory to picking the teams to represent the classes in the Spring series. Miss Bogenrief and Eleanor Tones, who co-operate in coaching the court squad, have made most of the selections for the class teams, but will not announce any until practice Americans, will appear in a Washington uniform this sea- son, Bucky Harris, youthful Nationals’ manager, believes Here on a visit, Harris said he thought Clark Griffith, president of tlie club, would be “generous with the old bank roll” in order to land Speaker. Dec before Speaker was red fixing” cha Griftith wrote him a letter expressing confidence in hun and bidding for his wervices when he was exonerated, Harris said he believed this would make the veteran outflelder look favorably upon any offer to join the Nationals Huggins Sees NEW YORK, January 31 (P).—Tris Speaker and Mill gir mixed their signals in the first of the New York mana S former Cleveland pilot to contract for 19 tried the over again today. Speaker, due here vesterday morn- ing to discuss terms with Huggins, failed to arrive until late in the aft- ernoon, when the mite leader of the poke Today. play e GREAT NIBLICK SHOT MADE BY THOMSON ‘Three members of the Washington Golf and Country Club still are dis- cussing a wonderful shot made last Thursday by Dave Thomson, diminu- tive professional, at the Virginia Club Fred D. Paxton, chairman. of the golf committee; Guy N. Church and Charles B. Stewart started out with Thomson, fLOSSIE LA BLANCHE LIFTED | 12, MEN —ON JuLy 4% LABOR DAY ALL THE CAILDREN OF MR¥ MRS PAULIET, of New Bedjord, Mass,, WERE BORN ON HOL\DAYS Z %, Y & L —=ON NEW EASTER MEMORIAL YEAR'S A DAY XMAs | i | 7| PITTSBURGH HOCKEY | { fully and make the competition in the | TEAM MAKING DASH | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, January 31L—The | Pittsburgh Pirates, heros of a last- minute dash in 1926 from the cellar | to a place in the National Hockey League championship playoff, again are on the upward move in the closing half of the 1927 race. The Pirates, in little more than two weeks of play, have spurted from | the tail end of the Aemrican divi- jon to third place in the standing. Pittsburgh gained the third peg | Saturday night by whipping Boston, | 2 to 0. vanc Further opportunity to ad- | is afforded in the match with | | the New York Rangers, leaders of | | the American section, on Madison Square Garden ice next Sunda) Ottawa Senators, victims of a re- | cent slump that added a loss *nd tie to the record, have their leadership {of the international group further endangered in a meeting with the fast New York Americans Tuesday. The Capadians, who broke a tie for second place in that section by dumping the Americans, 2 to 1, last night, ® ckle the Rangers Tuesday. Montr- 11 Maroons, beginning to | show signs of the form that gained them the world’s championship last 3 the Chicago Black Hawks and Canadians Saturday. | (Note: This is the thirteenth of a series of stories of 1927 major league club prospects.) By the Associated Pre e OSTON, = January 31.—Cham<]| pionship visions loom again before Boston base ball fans with the return of Bill Carri- It was he who piloted the Red Sox. Sox to world championships in 19 1916 and then retired on his laurels, leaving material that brought Boston another world’s title in 1918, Return- ing to the game after an absence of a-decade, he now faces the task of making a winner out of a club that in recent years has been a tailender in begins for the series in the Spring. Two feature events on the Spring sport program at the Wisconsin ave- nue school are the fleld day and ath- Jetic day, both of which are held in May. On fleld day the entire student | body participates in a general review | of the indoor gymnasium work, in-| cluding picturesque folk dances, wand drills and a competitive ™ Athletic day is the day of days for the seminary girls. Each class vies with the other in the originality and completeness of costumes worn onto the field in the grand march which precedes the track and field events for interclass honors. According to the present plan, fleld day will be held this year on the second Friday of May and athletic day will follow on the third Saturday. Hockey is a minor sport at the sem- inary, as it was added to the program only last year. No organized games have been attempted vet, but practice is held throughout the season when- ever the field is in condition. Miss Jones drills the hockey group. First place in the District Girls' Basket Ball League will be hanging in the balance tomorrow night when Princess and Washington Athletic Club tossers meet on the Columbia Helights Community gym floor at Wil- son Normal School at 9 o'clock. Neith- er team has lost a game this season, S0 the one emerging tri- umphant from this initial meeting will step .into first place in the Jeague. Two other gumes between these sextets will follow with close scoring expected in each clash, as the teams have been evenly matched in the past and have exhibited about equal strength in preliminary encoun- ters this scason, according to available siope. There is little doubt but that the one which gains the edge in their three- pame serfes will be crowned District _eague champions, as the other teams n the loop appear to be no match for them. In fact, there probably will be po club that will challenge their right 10 the title of Dfistrict amateur cham- fons, as no other league in the city s playing off a title series, with the exception of the Columbia Federation roup which is playing only for the Y. P. U. honor Beveral new faces will appear in the Yne-up of both teams. Edith Mahon, former Business High star forward, is Sucion v TWO CLUBS TO HOLD tom i s ok BASE BALL MEETINGS hoop for Princess with unerring aim, ) while Betty Garber, former star ath: | Jete of Western High School, is count- | Two clubs will hold meetings this | ed upon by the Washingtonians to!week to discuss plans for the base ball | elude the opposing guards for some |season. | keen shooting. | National Circles are to gather to-| Princess tossers will be lined up in |night 0 Fourth street northeast. the following order: Miss Mahon, |Circles already have held one largely | right forward; Anabelle Totten, left |attended meeting. They are planning forward; Edith Spencer, center; Doro. » get an early start with a view to thy Reed, side center; Margaret Joyce, |cutting a real figure in unlimited right guard; Edith Riley and Frances | ranks. Cooper, left guards. Smithfield Athletic Club _diamond Washington A. C. will start the|aspirants will assemble Wednesday game with Miss Garber at right for-|pight at the Convention Hall bowling Bwrd, Gertrude Boger, left forward;|alleve at § o'clock. The club plans to Mre. Melvin Leech, formerly Mirlam |compete in the unlimited class, after Viearne, center; Mary Tew or Eleanor | Showing strongly in the younger cir- Watt, side center; Stella Hearne, right | cles for some years guard, and Betty Kronman or Julla e — Randall, left guard. CUEISTS PLAY TONIGHT. Jack Haas, manager of the D. C. = Giirls' League, announces the standing | Ublarik is to meet Green at §:1§ of the teams to date as follows: {o'clock tonight in the opening match Ton Won. Lost, Pet, |Of & pocket billiard tourney at Scan- 250 lon's parlors, Ninth and D streets, Other tourney tlits for the week are: Wednesday, Watt vs. Martin; Thurs- the professional playlng the best ball | of the trio. They came to the seven- ! teenth hole with the match close, and | smiled inwardly when Thomson drove into the ditch near the bridge, certain | that a par 4 would win the hole. | But they didn't reckon on Scotch | stick-to-it-lveness, or whatever it is| that inspires brilliant golf shots by | Scottish professionals in the pinches. For Thomson waded down into the mud and water carpeting the floor of the ditch, his trusty niblick in hand, and blazed away, erupting a shower of dirt and water. Up came the ball high in the air, falling right alongside the hole, where the professional easily tapped it in for a birdie 3. The shot, according ‘to those who saw it and “bought” it, was one of the greatest golf shots ever made, equal- ing the shot made by Johnny Farrell from the same ditch last Spring in an exhibition match. Farrell likewise registered a birdile 8 on the seven- teenth from what appeared to be an impossible lle. February 2, 3 and 4 have been set as qualifying days for the women's in- door putting competition to be run off in the golf school at Meyer's shop, 1331 F street, under the direction oé A. B. Thorn, instructor at the school. Thorn, who holds down the profes- sional berth at the Town and Country Club in the warm months, reports great interest in the tourney. En- lsrkfl: may be phoned to him at Main 044, Chevy Chase Club has completed the task of fencing In the club prop- erty on all sides with a 6-foot steel fence of the factory type, designed to keep out persons not authorized to enter the property. Several valuable trees had to be destroyed behind the fifth green to make way for the fence and in connection with the widening of Wisconsin avenue, now under way on the west side of the club property. Congressional Country Club closed its first nine for a few days last week to permit several of the holes to dry out and to complete necessary con- struction work. the American League. The Red Sox’s most vulnerable spot last season was its battery weakness. A catcher himself, Carrigan will con- certrate on strengthening the pitching and catching departments. Toward this end, he has mustered a group of promising recruits to go into Spring training at New Orleans, March 1. Freddy Hofmann is slated to be first string backstop for the Red Sox dur- ing the coming seaon. He comes from the St. Paul Club of the Ameri- can Assoclation, where he was rated as one of the best in the league. For Hofmann's understudy, Carrigan has Grover Cleveland Harfley, a veteran obtained from the Indlanapolls Club. Three other recruits will be taken ITH only five games to bowl to complete the 15-game Howard Campbell sweep- stakes, it appears that of the 28 stellar duckpinners competition only the five now I e fop of the lot have really good chances to get the big prize. Perce Ellett, who wrested the lead from Clem Weldman when the second block was rolled last week, will carry fnto the final block at Convention all Saturday night an advantage of eight pins over the man he displaced and one of 41 pins over Glenn Wol- stenholme, now fifth in the list. Two dark horses of the tourney are among the first five. They are Joe Mulroe, who holds third place, 38 pins back of Ellett, and Henry Hiser, the Hyattsville star, in fourth position, 40 pins back of the leader. The per- formances of these men have been the surprises of the sweepstakes. Others apt to make & determined bid for prize money next Saturday night are Walter Megaw, only six pins shy of Wolstenholme's total; Freddie Moore, Jack Whalen and ) Rosenberg. The remainder of the feld seems to be hopelessly out of the running. s Weekly reports of league activities continue to pour into The Star. Sev- eral accounts of circuit bowling last week follow: LADIES' DISTRICT LEAGUE. Team Standing. Hall . Lost. Convention King Pin Temple 9 fon Hall, 542 [t team game. (Convention individual sev—Fre individual kame—Bailey (King Pin), tri] Bailey (King Pin). 10. b ovares—Frere ( Convention Hall]. 40. (Convention Hall), Mildred Hicks packed the punch that enabled the Meyer Davis team of the Ladies’ District League to score a clean sweep over the Petworth girls last week. Mildred’s 318 set was the | high mark for the week, while Miss Caldwell, a_newcomer in the King Pin team, shot the high game, 120. | Jennie Malcolm led the Convention | Hall team with high game, 115, ang a 299 set in its 2-to-1 victory over the Northeast Temple five. King Pin failed to gain on the lead- ing Convention Hall quint by drop- | day. Cross vs. Hissey: Friday, Uhlarik Gy mnastic Danish funda Vs, Moye. ping a game to Arcadia. Mabel Wil- 1 liams contributed 114 to the King Pin RED SOX FANS ENTHUSED OVER CARRIGAN’S RETURN| Have Vision of Another Pennant Now That Man Who Gave Them World Championship Is in Charge. Pilot Would Bolster Battery. | with Hartford in the Eastern League, gan as manager of the Red | With the Bowlers of South as candidates for a catcher’s job. They are Clifford Knox, formerly William Moore, from Portland, Me., and Chester Horan, from Frederick, Mid. A promising group of youngsters P will contend with the veterans Charles | ¥t Ruffing, Jack Russell, Fred Wingfleld, 1" Bryan Harris, Delmar Lundgren, Tony Welzer and Harold Wiltse for places | on the pitching staff. Among them are Johnny Wilson, who won 16 and lost 6 games for Sanford, Fla., last season, and was sought by the Pitts- burgh Pirates; Danny MacFayden, a 20-year-old Somerville, Mass., young- ster; Fred Benjamin, who performed well for Topeka last season; Rudolph Somers from Columbus, and Bob Adams from Dover, Del. In the deal that brought Catcher Hoffman to Boston, the Red Sox also acquired Paul Wanninger from St. Paul. Wanninger was considered the outstanding shortstop in the American | Association. To fill another gap in| the infield the Sox are counting on| Russell Rollins, a youngster discovered by Scout Hugh Duffy from the Dix League, where he was a malnstay with the Mobile Club. The Sox have recalled Jack Rothrock from Roches- ter and Bill Rogell from Jersey City as other infleld prospects. A newcomer as candldate for an out- fleld berth is Leo Carlyle from To- ronto. Kin ot Upd Dix Gory Con! total in the last game, while Hazel Jarratt was high for the Arcadians, with 112. COMMERCE LEAGUE. Team Standing. Won, Lost. o 5 5 i i a Standards ... Patent OMce M S T. il ¥. and D. Commerce No. 2 High team sets—Coast A F. and D. Commerce (No. 1), 1.680. High “téam_games—F. and 'D.’ Commerce (No."2), bb4: Mines, 544, High " Individual = sets—Parkhurst, Coast Survey, 366: Fugett, Mines, 303 High individual gamcs — MacDonald, Census. and Simmons, Patent Office, 13 High individual averages.—Watson, Stand- ards, 108-0: Fugetl, Mines, 106-0: Sim- mons, Patent Office,’ 105-11 Total pins still decide the placement of the several teams in the Depart- ment of Commerce League. F. and D. Commerce No. 1 rolled | the highest single game to date last weelc with a’ total of in its second contest. Miltner of F. and D. Commerce No. 1 shot high set, totaling 533 pins, and Simmons of Patent Office tied the high game mark for the second series, get- ting a total of 139 pins in his first game, Survey, Gis Qui Mo QT Peal Lof Sic REAL FSTATE LEAGUE. Team Standing. 1. Dallas Grady. . Hoss & Phelps Douglass & Phiilips Sansbiu . Shapiro. el | Boss & Phelps took two games from N. L. Sansbury last week in the Real Estate League. Douglass & Phillips took two from the Shapiro team and Shannon & Luchs took three from Hedges & Middleton, High team set was rolled by Doug- lass & Phillips with 1,500, High indi- vidual game was rolled by Stafford of the N. L. Sansbury team with 120. High individual set was rolled by Wedding ot Boss & Phelps with 237. 3 1 1 o 0 I3 8 I8 Maize ... Eckhardt " Shea Outeanit Rea: the league He. te 70 g dike on man o Soper ki > fit Brightm Brandon Greene . Covert Barnes Stone Ritnour . ... Montzomery Ferguson Hug) ohen Hussey = Miller 0 Adams’ Joyee Courbat Mitchell nn ore Burton 0ole Haig Pomeroy Newkirk Logsdon Kavanaug] ke tus 1o star, part in MENTON WILL REFEREE.” ATLANTA, Ga., January 31 (®).—1 Officials have been selected for the 1927 Southern Conference basket ball tournament. They are Tom M. Thorp, Atlanta; Stanley Sutton, Birmingham, and Paul . Menton, Baltimore. tournament will be held here next month. Commerce ha place in the Federal Bowling League|XN. y. at present, being four game; runner-up leaders Ship. Board. . a fair Interiors also are pace at pin toppling with a total of 28,3 COMMERCE BOWLERS | HEAD FEDERAL LOOP hold on first setting INDIVIDUAL RECORDS. Clements Miltner Flannery Overheim Callahan TDotson eler " Watson De Glantz oulihan Haneke Boylan Pierce . Jeliter | Elias . Stoner . Lansdale Kendrick Roberts . Dunavent Lambert * Riddiford Dunker Commerce. G.HS. S 1390 358 8 225 32555337 xmEEDa— BRI RDD i NEW YORK, January 31 (#).—Vin- 3 cent Richards, former amateur tennis now a member of Suzanne! Lenglen’s professional entourage, is {1l and probably will be unable to take matches for at months, members of his family said. least two in front The ; the L The late engagements of the week | match Toronto with the Boston Bruins on both Tuesday and Satur- | day, and with the Americans Thurs- | d Chicago meets Detroit Tues- day and Ottawa Saturday in addi- tion to the Maroon fracas, Standing of the clubs: AMERICAN SECTION. Rangers. ... Boston . Pittaburgh | Chicago ™. Detro Ottawa CRUICKSHANK WINS | $1,500 GOLF TOURNEY i | | | By the Associated Press. t SAN ANTONIO, Tex., January 31.— | With $1,500 representing first place in | the sixth annual Texas open golf tournament added to the prize for similar honors in the recent Los Angeles open, Bobby Cruickshank of Purchase, N. Y., today led a field of professional and amateur golfers on the trek to Shreveport, La., where they will display their skill in a three- day session, starting Friday next. | Cruickshank, runner-up in last vear's Texas open, yesterday turned | in cards of 75 and 73 for a total of | 2 to lead a fleld of more than 70 | ayers by three strokes. His play - the Willow Springs course was consistent throughout the 72 holes de- spite a week of adverse weather which preceded the tournament. He dug| }u par 71 out of the mud Saturday | | morning and scored a 78 on the sec- |ond round to capture honors for the | first 36 holes. the final round in par to take second place with 295, while ““Wild Bill"” Mehl- | has | like the divan pillow: Lo = | derogatory Larry Nabholtz of Cleveland made | o111 “regretted that the glove in its September, it cannot be done success. major leagues anything like conserva tive effort. Int. System Not Good. Because the International time that the major leagues play the same thing. The argument is not headers. owners. _ Artificial double-headers cheapen the game and work the play ers to a shred. Even the ball player physical limits, although working hours seem few in numbe It is possible for the Ameri League to make dates in consecutiv do so. The American Sunday base ball in all National to League pl: of its We of three Pullman cars, what with m, those who never will b nguished guests, the writers, wives and so on. Now and then some owner of a ball club raises merr Ned about the high cost of b: ball and then forgets it. much about it the fans are likely to the t he di go to the games because mission is too high. Heydler, the present president of the Natlonal League, was somewhere in’ the vicinity of sweet 16 which had 'so few players that the squad mans, In 1883 a gallant little band iron men won the pennant for Boston. There were eleven of them. answer has the to that? pitchers, no coaches——just ball players. John Morrill, captain, manager first baseman; “Black Jack"” Burdock, pinch managers, ford, right field; Charley Smith, cen- ter field; Joe Hornung, left fleld; Charley Buffington and Jim Whitney, pitchers, and Mike Hines and “Merty" Hackett, catchers. It isn't certain that they could not defeat some of the championship teams that have cropped up since then—say about 50 per cent of them. Gloves Were Homemade. These ball players had no mask, and the only gloves of which they boast- ed were homemade affairs, nothing with ball players equip themselves in the days. Once, John Morrill, who was about as nifty at first base as any man who has played it, and who never could be induced to say a word to any ball player on present state of yielding softness had not been invented when he was a ball horn of Los Angeles and Waldo Crowder of Shreveport tied for third and fourth money with 296. Mike Brady of Mamaroneck, N. fifth place with 298; S. W. Hutchinson, Oklahoma City, was sixth with 299. ‘Washington, D. C., who won the re- cent El Paso open, triple tie with L. B. Schmutte, Lima, Ohio., and John Golden of Paterson, N.J. Joe Turnesa was next with 301. Other scores: Frank Walsh, Apple- ton, W Edwin Juelg, Mercedes, Tex., and Joe Kirkwood, Albany, Ga. Archie Loeffler, San Antonio, 303: Cooper, Los Angeles, and George Kerrigan, New York, 305; Jack Burke, Houston, Tex., 306; Willie Hunter, Los Angeles, 308; Hutt Mar- tin, Los Angele: 309; Pat Doyle, White Plains, N ., and Eddie Gayer, Chicago, Walter Hagen, Pasadena, Fla., Jack Forrester, Short Hills, N. J., and Arthur De Maine, Great Neck, Long Island, 312. Following the tournament at Shreve- port, many of the players plan to enter the South Central open at Hot Springs, Ark., next week. aigtaas 0 \ ROSENBERG WILL RISK HIS TITLE ON FRIDAY NEW YORK, January 31 ®.— Charley Phil Rosenberg, will take his bentanwelght championship into the ring at Madison Square Garden next Friday night for the second world titular battle of 1927 in that arena. Rosenburg is due to face the dazzling speed of Bushy Graham of Utlea, N. Y., for 15 rounds, e HOPPE WINS EASILY. BOSTON, January 31 (#).— Willle Hoppe still is world champlon at 18.2 | balkline billlards. He took the final block of a 12-block match from Erich Hagenlacher, 300 to 253. This gave him a grand total of 8,257 agalnst Hagenlacher' 66 HAWKINS J.'Dallas Grady and Cafritz teams will bowl tomorrow night. e ‘WILL DEFEND TITLE. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., January 31 (P).—Frank Jackson, Kellerton, lowa, farmer, is expected to defend his title here February 14 in the an- nual world horseshoe-pitching cham- plonship tournament. > TROUSERS To Match Your 0dd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F MOTOR - CO. Fourteenth Street 14th St... Main 5780 1333- player. “I would have a fielding average Y., took | of 1.000,” said Morrill, “and it would have fnade our championships so much easier that all of us might Tommy Armour, professional from | have played championship base ball four or five years longer than we took 300 for a|did.” It will be observed that two pitchers were all the champion iron men of Boston carried in 1883 and all that they thought necessary. One of them pltched on Friday and the other on Saturday and they tossed up to see which should begin the week on the next Monday. There was scarcely a player on the team but could play any position on the diamond, although the catchers and the pitchers were allowed to special ize except, when Whitney wasn't pitching he liked to play right fleld, because he wae particularly fond of batting the ball. In that respect he was much like Babe Ruth, who would rather bat the ball than pitch, ;n,dd-flm! is why he plaved the out el Faced Underhand Pitching. The ball players of those days swung against underhand pitching, so called. Most of that underhand pitching was hip high and it was as speedy and could raise as much Ned as the speedy pitching of today. The curve, of course, changed bats- men's minds very much about pitch- ing._The catcher did net stand up Mister English M. P. (Must be Perfect) 1p fact, the whols sh ily erdect tables true _balls to feel precieely at home. DId you aver enjoy a game \when the tatle and balls wouldn't “take tish ? Mister " English igns _supreme a King Pin. 31 Brand-New Tables | Open From 10 AM. 1o 1 AM. KING PIN P 14th Street at Monroe § a and League | plays 168 games in about the same |, it has been argued the majors can do | paclcs 80 gqod. The International plavs its | 163 games by fixing artificlal double- The policy is bad and the more conservative of the International owners know it is bad, but they have | That hasn't hee never been able to overcome the min- strel show ideas of some of the other his an | order, where it is not possible for the ern cities and there s no When a base ball team of the major | behind league starts South to train in these | sixth days it usually can filt the better part | tov If he talks too|in New York and sits in the take him at his word and forget to| these day: the ad- | pall as he w "They had ball teams when John |«hefied it. would have been lost in three Pull-i that it often hopped a 17 What | Present-day manager | No pinch_hitters, no pinch | no | They were | and | which | Sunda possible, o that shave in the n times t | was wont to let { ride where they c {lucky enough to ight not_get four. Thi Saturday dates nd Philadelph aturday Back fn the ‘lubs played |and the Wester East on Memorial d gan Poss receipts old tionald Le day f a team was get e vear fit ther bec: fixed on in ™ | Every effort to avoid break the fight. If te for three or fou an effort will be 926 24-hour of thing for big organizations like major leagues. 1se the the rival hor When Base Ball Was Young BY JOHN B. FOSTER Eleven Players Win a Pennant—————— the called rd the to field the plate until ball. Then ter and v ball if the 1 about t. he mov prepared tter mi the players who will be members of | the third strike. The | days 2 livelie all w as lively in the it fs now. It may have bee Joe Horning was marchin; s the Polo Grounds at a recen ation of base ball. Joe lives Is the turn of the ( He picked up a base as walking over the so! to home plate and box and on his way “They call this lively,” said Joe “If it is then a croquet ball is made of rubber. You should o seen our base ball in '83. It was so livels foot fence on the first bound.” (Copyright. 1027.) Tomorrow: “The First $10,000 Beauty.” 3-CUSHION TOURNEY IS FIRST IN 5 YEARS By the Assoclated Pres: “HICAGO, January 31.--The first national three-cushion billlard cham plonship tournament for five years opened today, with $5,000 in prizes and the title at stake for 10 entrants. who will play daily round robin matches untfl February 14. Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia, the present champion, was = matched | against Charles McCourt of Cleveland in the third contest today. Several of the three-cushion stars of the pasi are missing from the tournamen: Bob Cannefax is ill, Willle Hoppe i busy with 18.2 challengers and Johnuy Layton's entry was not received. Raimundo Campanioni of Havana, the Cuban champion for many years is on the first day's round with Alles Hall of St. Louis, who is expected to test whether the Cuban is the real dark horse of the tournament. Tiff Denton of Kansas City and Arthur Thurnblad of Chicago open the tourna ment at 1:30 p.m. Augie Kieckhefer and Leonard Kenney, both Chicagoans, play the final match of the day. Kenney is now leading the Interstate Three Cushion League, in which Kieckhefer and Thirnblad also are competing. Gus Copulos of Detroit and Earl Lookabaugh, another Chicagoan, are the two players not on the first day's round. second baseman; Sam Wise, shortstop; | Ezra B. Sutton, third base; Paul Rad- | EatabNshed 1804 At the Bipn o February Means Tailoring Values All woolens, both heavy and medium weight, go in the special reduction sale. Suit or OQvercoat Taélored to Meet Your Individual Requiremenits. $2 .50 V.h;u o “Fs Proportionate Reductions in Other Grades. Full Dress Suits To Order, :4 5 / Silk Lined Mertz & Mertz Co., Ixc. 1342 G St. N.W;