Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1927, Page 37

FORMER YANKEE PITCHER | APT TO SHINE WITH NATS Hurler Procured_i-n—l;;!h;;;ed k;egnrded as Most Promising Young Left-Hander inn Majors. Few Moundsmen Available for Trades. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, February 4.—It is impossible to pry a pitcher loose from a major league club just at this pre-season period, when talk of Bpring training. camps flll the alf and the ‘base ball bug is beginning to stir out of its snug Winter quarters. Proposals and counter proposals for rades have been {rritating the malls ind annoying the telegraph wires for cight weeks and out of it all there has not come much of anything except the swap of Peckinpaugh of Wagh- ington to the (hicago White Sox for Churston and Mangum, pitchers. Perhaps neither of the clubs lost by hat trade. The moods of Peckin- 'JlTugh's underpinning will tell the tale. The New York YVinkees have been openly in the shambles for pitchets, but they haven't landed anything vet. Of all the American League clubs needing pitchers, the Yanks need them worst, because they have a pen- nant prestige to maintain—and it will take more than an eruption of home- un socking by Babe Ruth to main tain t, Yanks Got Nothing. The Yanks angled” around with fiies dnd plath worms, but they ouldn't get a bite, They sent Aaron Ward to Chicago for Grabowsk! ahd Morehart, a catcher and an inflelder, but they would more willingly have picked out a Chicago pitcher or two, it they could have got the kind that Miller Hugging wanted. It is occurring to the Amerfcan Ledgue managers that the 1927 race they had to lose Braxton at the end of the season to Washihgton, Braxton i8 & pitcher of the Pennock type. He seems frail in comparison with some others. If time is taken to look over left-hind Pltching talent it will be noted that thode shadowy birds who throw the ball from the port sige have almost invariably bean great pitchers. Wiltse was tall and skihny. Schupp in his great year was a slender kid. Plank was a narcissus waving wildly in the breeze, Pennock seemed to be less rugged than other world Rerles gi!lvl;nrs, but he pitched them all to & nish. Braxton Looks Good. Braxton 1s ofie of the miost promis- ing left-handed young men in the majors, providing his first season in base ball did not give hith a wrong impresgion of His relation to the ghime. The major league managers know they cannot walve a pitcher out of their league until after the boys hayve gone to. Spring truining camp. They can trade among themselves, but this year the tnajor league scouts are likely to follow Fival clubs right into thelr trajning camps to see how the pitchers show up, The Columbus club of the Atnerlcan Association has named Plant City, ¥Fla,, for its trining cunip, Kansas City is poing to lake Charles, Lz Milwaukee will try Hot Springs, Ark. Minneapolis goes to Decatur, Ala., and St. Paul to_Minemal Wells, Tex., a good place to train. Toledo is bound for Jackson, Tenn. That's down near Memphis and is new for a tmining mp. . g The Dénver club will go to Long i3 shaping daily Into a closer contest than it promised to be a while back. The St. Louls team hfis been bargain- ng with skill and prudence. The Browns_are going iito the shindy next Spring with & better chanve than they were accorded a few months ago, The Yanitees took Dutch Ruether over from Washington last seagon and paid an allfired good price, bechuse Beach, Cull Larédo, Tex., on the Méxioin border; gets Des Moines, and Oklahoti City will triain at Weather- ford, Tex. flas @il go to Mineri) Wells. All the othel: Texas clubs truin on thetr tome grounds, and at Fofi Worth Juke Atz 15 bmnhmg to polish up his bats, ready to go after aunother pen- ROSENBERG IS EXPECTED | TO KEEP BANTAM HONORS Champion Is Siigh't Favorite ffii}oflght’s Batile § With Graham, Althoigh He Is Having Hard Struggle to Mike Title Weight. By ite Associated Press, EW YORK, February 4.—Chi ley (Phil) Rosenberg tod, dusted off his world bantani welght ring crown for its fArkt appearance in a titular mateh here {n a year-and 'd half. He will fight Bushy Graham of Utlea, N. Y. in Madison Square Garden tonight #t 15 rounds. Rosepberg has had a six weeks' fight against welght to reach the class it of 118 pounds. He still carried an excess three-quarters of & pound a8 ho left the tralfing rooni yesterday, and he had to make the weight this afternoon or see his title forfeited with & $2,500 guarantee that he would be within the limit. Z Rosehberg, an oft-suspended cham. pion because of his refusals tp defend the title, was a slight favorite in spec- ulation, but critics ¢onceded Graham & strong chénce to lift the crown, For a year Graham has been regarded as the outstanding challenger by the State Athletic Commission. Rogenberg 18 not recoghized Yampion In some States. In fact, nols regurds Bud Taylor as world agmaer. tural Bdntam, i m, a nhatural ntam, is_ex- pectéd 1o report at ringside in pcz.k condition. The commission announced the’ n&gg wodld be staged whethér Rosen made the weight or not. Rosenbe: ifted the championship s Il rg 1 dn Mareh, 1925, from Eddle (Cannon- A Ihtibe the_Staeky match. klyn fighter In & 15-réund n Sincé then he hAs defended the title only once agulhst an putstanding chal lenger, knocking out le Shea of Chicago in the fourth round, Grahait won his way to s»p ran mi.g erx!oonen lers by vic- 3?1&& r Harold Smith of Chicago, Abe Golw? former holder of the crown; Bud Taylor of Terre Haute, California Joe Lynch, Frankie uenu-aJ Kddle O'Dowd, Chick Suges an To’i“;\myiwwl' hip bout 18 scheduled . The g onship bout 18 schedul to get under way at 10 o'clock. In; . outpointing hi COBB NOT TO SIGN UNTIL STATUS IS By the Associated Press. UGUSTA, Ga., February 4.—Ty Cobb will not sign a contract to play base ball this season until he knows his exact status in the . Amerlcan League. He expects to make definite announcement of his plans in about two weeks. Commenting on published reports that Detroit had dsked waivers on him, Cobb said today he had heard of the development and expected it. “The Detroit Club made no sign to sypport me when I was in an unfor- tunate situation,” he sald, “and now that I am in good standing it is not Zoing to restrict my activiiés.” Dan Howley, manager of the St. Louis Americans, who is visiting in Cobb's home, sald if -walvers were 48ked on Cobb the action would have no effect on Cobb's latitude in choos- ing a team, and certainly no bear- DETERMINED ing_on his own éfforts to sign the vetéran to a contract.” “I haven't talked terms to him yef Howley said, “He understands that I Want him, and for the present we are talking about old times. He may de- chi: to play wtih us, and he mdy not,” Howley said he hoped to effect some sort of a trade with the New York Yankeé management whether he suc- ceeds In signing Cobb or ém. The Yankees also are after Cobb's serv- ices, are represented as trusting Cobb vAll g0 to St. Louis if théy are unsuc- cessful, in the hope'that Howléy thén would be more fnclined to let g0 8omé of his players. “I haven't anybody in mind,” said but we may work up a Negottations between the two clubs, inyolving several players, fell down suddenly about a week ago. RED SOX COME HERE FOR OPENING GAME By the Associated Presa, NEW YORK, February 4.—Major lekgue base ball will go back to its old opening and closing dates this r. Having tried out Commissioner Landis’ plan for an early finish jast yéar without success, the schedule committee has voted to drop the cur- tain on October 2, one week later than the closing date in 1 Tnaugural games been agreed upon AM! A‘R;('\ hia at Nes i gton, Detroft at Cleveland, Chi- eago at St. Louis, NATIONAL LEAGUE—Brooklyn at Boston, New York at Philadel- Eflfl. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, St. ouis at Chicago. The two leagues will hold separaté meetings here next Tuesday to ap- prove the schedules. WAGNER NAMED TO AID CARRIGAN AT BOSTON BOSTON, February 4 (#).—Bill Carrl- #en, managyr of the 1927 Boston Red Sox, has snnounced that Charles “Helne” Wagner, his old teammate d shortstop of the 1912 champion- p Hub team, would be his chief as- &istant in the coming campaign. Wagner at present is living in New Rochelle on April 12 have RADIATORS, FENDERS Rk (iR Fors ron AUTOR WITTSTATT’S R. & F. WKS. MOVED TO 1833 14th Se. N.W. %‘Y:rdnuil ,_?vln; Co. L BAN AND MRS. JOHNSON MAKE TRIP T0 SOUTH CHICAGO, Feébruary 4 (P).—B. B. Johnson, president of the American Leaghb, on leave, has gone to Hot Springs, Ark., accompanied by Mrs. Johhson, who also has been in pogr health. The Ameérican League executive ek- pects to rémain in Hot Springs for Beveral days, later going to Texas. LEAGUE HOCKEY. New York Americans, 1; Toronto St. atricks, 1. . “The_Nation’s Bt 7S | A Snyder & Little design, de- veloped Strictly by hand, offers the wearer the utmost in shoe satis | ( i | | When Base Ball Was Young BY JOHN B. FOSTER Early Rowe Over B In the first week of Decemnber, 1882, the directors of the National League held their annual meeting at Washing. ton. Those present were A. H. Soden of Boston, A. L. Hotchkin of Troy ¥.; George H. Hughson of Buffalo, W. G. Thompson of Detroit, Freeman Brown of Worcester, Mass Here follotvs an extract from the minutes of the meeting: “The secretary presented a tabular stateinerit of champlonship games won and Jost Quring the season of 1882, sHowing the Chicago club to have won the greatest number.” On motion, the followihg resolution was adopted: “Resblved, That the Chicago Base Bail Club of Chicago, 111, having woh the greatest number of games in the thamplonship series, is hereby award- Bd the league champlonship of the United States for the vear 1882. Special Series Proposed. “In conniection with the subject of the champlonship, we find that several games were played by four league clubs after the conclusion of the champlonship season, in pursuance of an agreement made by representa tives of six league clubs. Under the present constitution of the league, such games can have no place in the champlonship record, but e recom. mend such legislation as will provide for a special series to determine the champlonship in case two or more clubs be found tled for first place on gumes won and lost at the conclusion of the series covered by the annual champlonship schedule.” Probibly the modern base ball en thusiast will believe this resolution had something to do with a world Beries, but it didn't. It represented a_state of mind on the part of the Nationdl Yedgue club owners wlhich was stibborh, unylelding and blunder- ing, but eventudlly was remedfed. The National Leagiie would not décide {ts champlonship season on the percentage basis, despite the fact that it had beén urged to do so by men of keen mind who had gone over the plan in every detail time and again and who had tried to prevail upon those unyielding old club own- ers to &top trying to win a pennant by victories and defeats. The club owners simply couldn’t see anything and ase Ball Percentage: in it but some hocus, pocus thit would make no end of trouble for them. Another reason why the National League was so slow about adopting | the percentage system was the success | the American Association had fenced in using it. The associa tion twas quicker to sée that it was he only sound way in which a pen- | nant could be won. Anything which the American Association did was a8 velcome in the National League as a revenue inspector moonshinery. Plan Finally 1s Adopted. Despite the fact that the league had quarreled about its winner® every now and then and that there always | was some one who wished to play post- | season games to decide something or other after the end of the schedule, it was not until after the AmericAn Association plan had proved to be the only theoretieal and practical system that the National League finally gave |in and adopted it to decide its own championships. The percentage system of -deciding pennants made it possible for the schedule to stop on a certain date, with allowance for one or two games that might not have been played by a certain team. A team’s percentage was based solely on what it had done and it might win a pennant because it had the best percentage in the league. Where the old-fashioned round robih method had operated it often happen- ed that a team winning the same number of games, as another team, although the number of defeats might not be the same, would clalm as much right to the champlonship as its near- est_rival. That wds why the National League clubs had played post-season games which the league refused to_sanction {as regular championship contests. But |it took a very long time to get the “arithmetics” through the heads of the old-timers (Copyright. 1927.) at a Tororrow: A One-Hand Infleld. HEAD OKLAHOMA SPORTS. NORMAN, Okla., February 4 (#). Ben G (“Benny”) Owen, veteran Uni- versity of Oklahoma foot ball coach, | GREAT SEASON EXPECTED Club Owners Have Ended Discord and Are Ready to Prepare for Flag Battle in Which New Pilots (Note: This is the seventeenth of a series of stories about the 1927 major league clubs.) By the Associated Press. HICAGO, February > greatest upheaval In the years' existence of the Amer- ican League swept through the organization this Winter. Ban Johnson, the patrlarch of the league, was placed ‘“‘on leave” to re- cover Bis health, and the executive authority turned over to Frank Navin, leagie vice persident and owner of the Detroit club. Johnson's retirement wis the climax to the downfall of a procession of club mandgers unprecedented in major league history. Five new pilots will be at the helms this year, the only hold- overs being the perefinial Connie Mack of the Athletics, Bucky Harris with Washington and Miller Huggins with the Yankees, Torn by stories of scandals all Win- ter, the club owners finally managed to end the discord, and then turned to bid against each other for. the sérvices of Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, the storm centers of one of the chief dis- putes of the stove league season. Speaker finally chose to sign with Washington, after considering and re- jecting offers from New York and Phitadelphia. Cobb is still dickering, with the St. Louis Browns apparently having the inside track. New Men Step In. THe pluces they vacated as man- @pgers at Detroit and Cleveland were fillled by George Moriarty and Jack McCallister. Dan Howley succeeded George Sisler as manager of the St. Louis Browns. Bill Carrigan, who led the Boston Red Sox to their serles of successes 10 years ayo, WAs per- suaded to come back and get them out of the cellar. Eddie Collins gave up the management of the White Sox to return to his first leader, Connie is to retire from that position to be- come director of athletics, Mack, and Ray Schalk, premfer back- stop of the American League, was named manager. SPORTS. Braxton Looms as Good Southpaw: American League “Made Over” for Campaign VINCENTINI COMING BACK. SANTIAGO, Chile, February 4 (#). —Luls Vicentinl, Chilean lightweight, who was considered a prominent con- tended for the world title two years ago, hds announced that he will go to the United States soon to continue With such a_series of managerial appointments, the club owners seemed to have little time left to swap and purchase players, but the White Sox and Yankees completed one deal, &nd the Detroit and St. Lonis clubs made another important trade In their first American League trade in many years the White Sox obtained Aaron Ward to flll the second base vacancy, and Detroit got Marty Me- Manus, the Browns’' shortstop. Outside these few outstanding deals the Winter player market was largely a matter of changing trad- his ring activitie: ADAMS WILL PILOT. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., February 4 (P —Charles “Babe” Adams, former dtcs burgh Natlonal League pltcher, has 8igned a oneyear cohtract to manage the Johnstown club of the Mid-Atlan tic League. The Johnstown club won the Mid-Atlantic pennant in 1925 and 1926. FIELDS Will hold a ing material or ‘The pennant-winnir pitching talent fielder, Ward, and southpaw and two for its star shortstop. Yankees for st. likely Big Change by Mack. return to base with the Athletics was the out- standing change Mack made for his pennant chase, aside from his propo- Eddie Collins’ sition to Speaker. Bill Carrigan was the only man- ager not seeking either of the two veteran outfleld stars, nounced he was building up a club of _youngsters, Phil Ball, owner of the St. Louils leadifig bidder for The Georgia Peach told his friends’ he wanted to play but one more year in the majors to vindi- cate both his honesty and ability, and then looked forward to a long rest and & tour of Europe, truth in the old broom sweeps the flve hew broom wielders in the American League this year d lot of dust from the time the signal is given April 12, Browns, “obb. 18 the If there is any ddage that a new clean, should create a CHISOX PICK 1928 CAMP. HOLLYWOOD, Fia., February 4 (). —Hollywood has been selected as the 1928 Spring training quarters for the The White Sox will train this season at Shreveport, La. Chicago White Sox. For A Limited Time Only! 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