Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1927, Page 33

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 SPORT S. " Cobb to End Base Ball Career With A’s : Natiom' REGULAR RIGHT F IS ASSIGNED TY BY MACK Salary Said to Be Highest i troit Manager in New n Game Given Former De-| Berth—Macks Have Fine Flag Chance, Says Georgian. By the Associated Press HILADELPHIA, February 9 Tyrus Raymond Cobb will wear the uniform of the Phila- delphia Athleti year. The veteran of Americ league penm: campaigns has cepted the terms of Manager Connie Mack, and probably will close his base ball career as a member of Mack’s team. The contract is for the season of 1927 and C - nounced that he will retire from the game at the ciose ! The “Georgia Peach” announced at Philadelphia sports writers din- where he was a guest last night, epted Mack's offer, | ie terms of which, he said would have to be disclosed by the manager the Athletics if they were to be made public. Mack’ declined to dis- | cuss the financial details. Persons close to both aid the contract 000 for signing, r $10,000 bonus. Others aced the amount at $75,000. Either gure would be the highest salary ever paid a base ball player. There had been keen riv tween the Athletics and St. Browns for Cobb's services was cleared of base ball charges by Commissioner Landis. | Other American League teams also were said to have made him offers Lut Manager Mack and Howley made | special trips to bb’s home in | Augusta, Ga., in their efforts to get | him. Howley was reported to have offered the former Detroit manager $50,000 to join the Browns. think this is the proper spot for | me,” Cobb said at his hotel today, | “and I am glad to be with the Ath-| letics. They have a mighty fine| chance for the pennant. I only hope that I will be spared any illness or accidents, for I am just rarin’ to show the public that I can still reach dizzy heights in base ball. Because of cer- tain incidents that received promi- nence during the off season, I call this vindication year, and I am out to play the kind of base ball that will make folks write letters to their cousins in the country. “I never felt better. My legs are strong and I can go a fast clip from the kick-off to the finish. I have al- way had much admiration for Connie Mack. I am strong for his ideas and policies and am glad to lay down the managerial reins of the Detroit team and play for him this year as a private in the ranks.” Mack announced that Cobb would play In right fleld and would be third in the bacting order. With Zach Wheat at left, Simmons in center and Jamar and French in reserve, the Athletics’ pilot said he had an outfield of which any club should be proud. “Cobb will add power, experience and brains to the team,” added Mack. A's Have Many Vets. ‘The Athletics, who finished third last year, will start the 1927 season with two new men in the outfleld and three in the infleld. In addition to Cobb and Wheat, they are Eddie Col- lins, former manager of the Chicago ‘White Sox, who will play second base; Joe Boley, formerly of the Baltimore Internationals, at shortstop, and Branom, obtained from the Kansas n the Cobb and alled for $25,000 Iry be Louis | ce he | scandal | ment with the Giants believed to | month, has been reported | sums ranging between $7 Boley the greatest shortstop ever seen in uniform Based on reported prices paid for new players in building up his 1927 | team, Manager Mack has spent ap-| proximately = $250,000. Boley and nom cost total of $125,000, contr and bonus totaled 00, Collins’ contract, $20,000, and Cobb between $60,000 and $75,000. In he had 1‘ ct IELD JOB | WHILE FANS HEREABOUT ARE SHIVERING, GROWLING AND IMPATIENTLY WAITING 1ddition to these several pitchers and | n_outfielder were purchased from Texas League clubs at a total outlay | of $15,000. TRIS TO GET $75,000, SAYS DAME RUMOR By the Associated Press. YORK, Februa hase I meetings wa at both Tri aind Ty Cobb would be paid $ their work the coming s One story was that Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington club, met Speaker and asked him his terms some | time ago. | ‘Seventy-five thousand.” ‘I'll give it to you.” Speaker ,000 for | The highest salaried man in base | of the New York Giants, who draws down $65,000 yearly. Babe Ruth has been the highest salaried player, his contract calling for $52,000 yearly. | Rogers Hornsby has been ranked next, with the terms of his two-year agree- all | for $40,000 per annum. Ruth, who is expected to negotiate with the Yankee management for the renewal of his expired contract this s seeking 5,000 and $100,000 for his yearly home run clout- ing in the future. Ruth, who is 33 years old, a check for $33,000 to the Bank of | Manhattan Co., in New York, as the| first installment of a $100,000 trust fund to provide against the time when four-base clouts no longer hide in his war clubs, U RS SETS AUTO RECORD. CULVER CITY, Calif., February 9§ (P).—An unofficial world record for 91 cuble inch displacement racing gars was set here when Leon Duray of Los Angeles turned a lap of the mile and a quarter Culver City bowl at a speed of 138 miles an hour. s i A. A. TO MEET MONDAY. CHICAGO, February 9 (#).—Club | owners of the American Assoclation | will meet in special session here Mon- | day to conslder the new major-minor draft proposal. Under the new propo- | sition the major leagues offer to in- crease the class “AA” draft price of players from $5,000 to $7,500. | —_— WILL LEAD WHEELING. WHEELING, W. Va., February 9 (#).—Bob Pryock, manager last year of Bay City, champlons of the Michi- gan-Ontario League, has signed to pllot the Wheeling Stogies in the City team of the American Associa- tion, at first base. Manager Howley of the St. Louls Browns recently called When Base Ball Was Young BY JOHN B. FOSTER ome Funny Rules of 1866 There wers exoceedingly grave in- structions given to bell players in 1866. Boys of today, read what your grandsires did in olden times. If they did not always do as they were told, they were advised to try to play base ball as quoted from all and crum- bling book. The instructions related to the pitch- er and the striker. The striker now has become the batter or batsman. The old-time rules in regard to bat- ting_are excruciatingly funny. But | the batting in those days was whole- some and rugged. Definition of Fair Ball. In the rule about delivering a fair ball, the expression “fairly for the striker” was embraced. This is what “fairly for the striker” meant: “It means balls pitched within his legitimate reach—that is, the length of his bat from him—and not balls which the striker's whim or fancy may call for. If the batsman is in the habit of striking a very low or very high ball, then the pitcher must pitch the ball to suit his peculiar style, viz.: ‘fairly for the striker,’ but he is not required so to pitch unless the bats- man is in the habit of striking at balls of the kind, or, in other words, the batsman cannot demand a low hall If he is in the habit of striking one hip high. “The change in the rule for the coming vear is the reduction of the line of the pitcher’s position from 12 feet to xix, and requiring none but fair balls to be delivered to the bats- joan. Before the striker could call for any ball he liked, fair or unfair; now he can only demand one pitched 1o the point he has been in the habit of striking from, and not where he may want it for a special purpose.” Wouldn't it be fun to see Babe Ruth walk to the plate and have a pitching method like that to face? Having the right to demand a ball pitched to the point where he h heen striking from, how many bas balls would Ruth lose over the fence | in the course of a season? Suppose ) that the batter should change nind and on the second time up, ask for & hgih ball, when on the first time up he had asked for a low ball. They did that, too, in the old times, and then an argument breezed up be- | tween the bater and the umpire if | the latter had a good memory. “Why, Mr. Smith, the last time you | batted you wanted a low ball. You ask now for a high one. You know | you can't do that.” | “Why not? There ain’t any rule in | base ball that a man can't change his | mind, is there?” | Then they had it out, and the batter | usually won his case. Batters always | have had a habit of doing that. | The Way It Goes Toda; ! Nowadays the batter waltzes to the plate, if that be correct. He takes a | %rip on his bat and the pitcher takes | Gne on the ball, and “bizz!" & beaner | RADIATORS, FENDERS DIES MADE AND REPAIRED RADIATOR! FOR AUTOS WITTSTATT'S R. & F. WKS. | MOVED TO | 1833 14th St. N.W. Wardman Motor Oe. at Front and Rear at 319 13th St. N.W. | i j Middle Atlantic Base Ball League. He succeeds John Hummel, former Brook- lyn outfielder. shoots by the batsman’s nose before he"l;u time to think. “‘Another one like that and you go out of the game!" “There is a happy land, far, far away, where they shoot the umpires up three times a day.” “Get to the bencl Manager to player retu bench: “What'd ye call him?” “Nawthin’. He called me!’ Imagine that as hgainst pitching fairly for the striker” in the sixties! (Copyright. 19! ing to and Western also will compete. | ball has been John McGraw, manager | ‘Somewhere the sun is shining. In this instance it's at Tampa, where this view was snapped the other day between rounds on the links. It shows Ed Eynon and Clark Griffith, secretary and president, respectively, of the Nationals, and Walter' Kennett, pro at the Palma Ceia Golf Club, where the dia- mond officials have been taking daily’ workouts, awaiting the arrival of the players to start training for the base ball campaig WOMEN 1 IGH SCHOOL markswomen will have an opportunity to shoot for national interscho- lastic range honors this sea- son in a match to be staged by the National Rifle Association. March 23 has been set as the final date on which scores can be turned in. Firing will begin February 24. This will be the second N. R. A. national championship open to high school riflists of the fair sex. In 1924 a similar affair was sponsored by the association and was won by the Cen- tral High School team of this city. Competition was not considered sufficiently keen at that time, how- ever, to warrant establishing the | event as an annual feature of the scholastic range program. Interest has grown so much within the past two years, according to N. R. A. officials, that it was decided to offer a_second interscholastic champlon- ship. Central High School already has en- tered two teams of 10 girls each, and there is a possibility that l-‘.:xstt;rn c- cording to Louise Hart, faculty ad-, visor, the Centralists are going into the event for experience rather than for honors, and a squad of 35 xirls will be utilized in firing the three stages rather than just the first 10 shots on the team. | Rules governing the match will be the same that- govern the intercol- legiate championship. Only 10 girls | may fire in any one stage, but a dif- ferent group may be used each time. One week is allowed for the firing of a stage. Two strings will be fired in the prone position for each stage. Silver medals will be awarded mem- bers of the winning squad. Bronze badges will go to second and third place winners, During the “closed season,” while the flelds are not incondition for play, hockey enthusiasts at Central have enjoyed o unique indoor program un- der the direction of Katherine Knaebel and Anne Heider, coaches. A series of athietic stunts and field events has been staged, with the group divided into two sections— Juniors and Seniors. Each girl has been scored on her performance in the stunts, including the roll-over, amble somersault, knee dip, fish haw dive, tipup and stunt walk; and in Tomorrow—A Base Runner Who Out- Ty-ed Cobb. BRIEF ITEMS OF Guy Sturdy, first baseman of the Tulsa club, who has been drafted by the St. Louls Browns, led the Western League with home runs, with 49. He also scored the most runs in the league, 163, and finished with an aver- age of .353. In addition to his 49 Ruthian clouts he made 9 triples and 54 doubles. He | s in slugging, | with a total of 452. Probably, some day, urdy may become the home- run ng of the big leagues. On his batting record alone he is entitled to a place in the big leagues. Charley Schmidt, former catcher of the Detroit Tigers, will lead the Quincy team in the ThreeI League | next season. Schmidt and Ty Cobb | once engaged in a fistic battle in the Detroit clubhouse. | | “Hobie” Kitchen of the Detroit | Cougars has been suspended so often | that he is now called the “Rube Wad- | dell of hockey. Leo Najo, sensational Mexican ball suffered a broken leg last | season, ha en signed by the San | Antonfo Bears in the Texas League. vton basket ball team defeated | pfogels _quintet in_Denver r Leads the World in Motor Car Value Built in 23 Models Ranging in Price From $925 to $2,090 Wallace Motor Co. Distridbutor 1709 L Street Main 7612 | fielder, who is now 38, f the fleld events including the. hop- | step and jump, standing broad jump, | relay races and three hops. | SPORT l cently, 207 to 3, one 23 field goals. Cy Williams, | player scoring | hard-hitting Philly | aces his si teenth season in the hig leagues with. | out ever having been on a pennant.- | winning team. | | | the | Having captured about all the honors available in swimming and fancy diving, Aileen Riggin has en- tered a new field of athletic endeavor —that of fancy skating. If |opinions of several authorities on the | latter sport count for anythfhg, she | will soon be writing her name agains® | as many ice titles as she did against | water championships. At 12 she was | runner-up to the national fancy div- | ing champion and, at 13, she won the Olymple fancy diving title. rter, county clerk and treasurer of Norfolk County, Ontario, is now in his thirty ond successsive vear as penalty timekeeper in hockey. Jonathan P BY CORINN N SPORT E FRAZIER Juniors have been declared winners of the serfes, having collected a total of 553 to 533. Individual honors went to Eleanor Lindsay, a senior, with 33 points. Edith McCulloch came second, scoring 31. The ‘series is to be followed imme- diately by a program of indoor games, including volley ball, cito ball and in: door base ball, which will be continued until the weather permits the squads to resume hockey practice. Climbing out of a hole in a fourth. riod rally, Princess A. C. basketers scored a one-point vietory over the Eagles in a game played at Business High School last night. Eagles held the lead for more than three-fourths of the game, and were on the heavy | end of a 15-to-10 count when the last | period opened. ith Mahon, Princess right for- | ward, rolled in the two-pointer which | turned defeat into victory shortly be- fore the whistle blew, when the score was standing 16-15 for the Eagles. First Baptist Church scored a 13-to- 12 victory over the West Washington tossers in another close contest last ight, which was a part of the B. Y. P. U. Federation league schedule. _The match was played in the Colum-| bia Heights Community Center gym- nasium at Wilson Normal School. Helen French, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. French of Washington, has been elected manager and captain of her class basket ball team at Hood College, Frederick, Md. Miss French | is a junior at Hood College and ha: been active in all major sports. Jewish Community Center Seniors will play the Basketeers tonight at 8 o'clock ‘on the former’s court in a | senior division Washington Recreation League tilt. | Strayer Senlors and Hyattsville Com- pany F Auxiliary sextets will clash in an intermediate division contest of the | Recreation League tonight at 7 o’clock | in the Central Community gym. A correction has been made on the | list of approved basket ball officials | issued recently by the Washington board of officials. The telephone num- | ber for Abble Green was incorrectly given. Miss Green's number is Cleve- land 2733. All athletic directors who have been supplied with mimeograph- ed coples of the list,are requested to | note this change. “HAIR-GROOM” Keeps Hair Combed, Glossy: Well-Groomed all Day “Hair-Groom” i a dignified comb- ing cream which costs only a few cents a jar at any drug store. Mil: lions use it be- cause it gives that natural gloss and well groomed ef- fect to the hair— that final touch to good dress both in business and on social occasions. Zven stubborn, unruly or shampooed r stays combed all day in any y like. “Hair-Groom” is le also helps grow thick, greasel I lustrous hair. heav HAVE THEM ALL! Suiting the customer—both > as to price and style is a BRODTS, Inc., feature. We do not limit the selection in o any particular grade. 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He was to leave the hospital where he has been confined since the accident yesterday but it is de- sired to avoid chance of a set-back in the satisfactory progress he is making toward recovery. League A who have won the title|" NET DOUBLES TITLE AT STAKE TONIGHT Doubles champions will be crowned in the first indoor net tourney -of the District tonight, when Emmet Pare {and Tom Mangan meet A. Gwynn King and Dooley Mitchell on the Ar- dia court at 7:30. Fast tennis and close play should re- sult from the match which will find the Capitol's two most brilliant per- formers paired against one of the best team combinations in this vicinity. | Neither King nor Mitchell have the power individually, perhaps, that Pare and Mang: can claim, but they are a seasoned team where the individual |stars are paired for the first time. Following the doubles encounter, an exhibition mixed doubles match will be played between Phoebe Moorhead, in- door women’s champion, and Paul Harding, opposed by Frances Krucoff, runner-up for the indoor crown, and A. O. Whi Prizes will be awarded the winners |of each event in the indoor tourney, | 1 of which was completed last month with the exception of the double: WILL BRING More Drastic Action Than By the Associated Press EW YORK, February 9—More drastic action than Commis- sloner Landis recommended is the Natlonal Leagu contribution to base ball's “clean shop” movement A “gift” from members of one team to another as reward for de- feating a third club in an important serfes should be punished by ineligi- bility for three years, the League | magnates decided at their Mu!w(n:er; session yesterda Commissioner Landis, after the recent scandal in- vestigations, suggested ineligibility for a year as penalty for “gift” offerings. Other recommendations growing out of the commissioner's hearings | in Chicago of the Risberg-Gandil charges, which disclosed that mem- bers of the Chicago White Sox raised a pool in 1917 to reward| Detroit players for beating Boston. | were approved fully by the club owners, The club magnates *endorsed: a statute of Jimitations to out after a flv as Risber ineligibility for a period of one year| as punishment for any player, who | bets on a game other than one in| which he took (3) permanent | ineligibility for any player, who bets on a game in which he plays. Junior League Waits. Although the American League tabled action on, the regulations yes- terday until the next meeting, sched- | uled next Winter, a new code of rules to cover the situation was regarded as a probable topic of discussion for the meeting of the joint Major League steering committee today. Formal ratification of 1927 sched ules took place at both meetings Opening games will be played on April 12, with the closing of the s son October 2, a week later than las year. The opening dates, which alone were made public, were: American | League—Detroit at St. Louis, Chicago at Cleveland, Boston at Washington and Philadelphia at New York; in the National League—Brooklyn at Bo: ton, New York at Philadelphia, Pitts burgh at Cincinnat! and St. Louls at Chicago. Raise Draft Price. Despite refection of the Major-Minor league draft agreement by leading minor organizations, including the | Pacific Coast League, International and Western, club owners of both major circuits approved the raise in price of a drafied player from $3,000, | to $7,500. Interest was stolen a bit from the | | magnates’ sessions by completion of | a_dicker in the trading field and fail- | ure of the National League to discuss | Rogers Horsby's stock triangle in-| volving President Sam Breadon of the | St. Louis Cardinals and the New York | Giants, to whom he was traded for | Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring. The situation appeared at an impasse and Breadon left for St. Louis immediately after the sessions (1) w | “GIFTS” TO RIVAL TEAMS PUNISHMENT Judge Landis Suggested Indorsed by Senior Circuit—No Player to Bet on Game in Which He Plays. The Yankees announ of Sam Jones, or to the S for Pitcher Joe Ced Durst volved DIAMOND ARGUMENT IS WON BY WALKER By the Ase HAMPTON Frank Wa ly sellir and buying passit staff a Pre ROADS Februa 9 cializes in pers ball ice e t whict of b again won o this time uniforn to ing ar mistake Walker er of the of the Virgini to the Giant price of $11,000, and : sent to Indianapoli He also made his services with Athletics several yes bought SIX LACROSSE GAMES CARDED FOR VIRGINIA ITY, Va., February § lacrosse schedule of six games includes contests with some of the strongest teams in the_country Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Yale and: Princeton are among the teams that will be met - Walter B. Power, jr., of Redlands Calif., is captain of the sport this sea son, and the team will again be coached by Dr. Allen E. Voshell, former lacr star of Johns.Hopkins now a member gf the faculty of the Medi hool was started at Virginia tw ars ago. 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