Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1927, Page 26

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1927. National Rookie Hurlers’ Progress Toward Fitness Exceeds All Expectations ; SPORTS. ! HERE IS ONE OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THE NATIONALS ARE GETTING IN TRIM SEVERAL PITCHERS READY TO TOSS TO BATTERS NOW Squad Is Following Heavy Daily Program at Tampa Camp—Volley Ball Is Providing Keen Sport as Well as Beneficial Exercise. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor. The Star PA, Fla., February 22. the standing order to “take it easy” being rigidly enforced and with no flagrant violations detected, the rookle pitchers of the Nationals are making prog- ress toward fitness for real work in. the box that exceeds the fondest ex pectations of the field bosses. Due'in large measure to the often reiterated warning to all candidates to avoid overexertion, there is not a single case of a genuinely sore arm in camp, whereas at this corresponding period in other Spring training ses- slons it has been nothing unusual for a half dozen to be listed as casuals. The clinical book is not entirely without entries, of course, for the usual crop of torn finger nails, thumbs and blistered hee! lervested, but the ailments all are minor in nature and thus far none has been prevented from indulging in his daily course of calisthenics. Such satistactory strides toward general conditioning have been made by some members of the cast that if the regulars were due to unlimber their bludgeons for the first batting practice of the season today, instead of next Monday, they would find more than a couple of the slingers ready with offerings that would furnish all they could cope with. Soappy Drill After Lay-off. After a day of complete cessation from all diamond chores the aspirants for box berths yesterday were so eager to labor that the drill sergeants had to redouble their efforts to prevent over- exertion. The Sabbath respite, com- bined with the fact that the-day was a bit coolish gwith a breeze that made sweaters and windbreakers comfort- able, so filled the boys with pep that they went about their duties with a greater amount of enthusiasm than has yet been shown. 1n the warming-up session that al- ways opens the day's program, Coaches Onsiow and Schacht, Benny Tate, John Berger and a couple of local lights named Lopez and Hud- gins, who have beén hired for the purpose, don the big miws and each Teceives the offerings of two or three pitchers, while some of the heavier members of the box brigade are get- preliminary lap or two around the track. Then follow the “pepper games" where Harris, Schacht and Altrock bat short hoppers around, each with & group of pitchers to fleld them, with | the usual volley ball contest to top it all off, although recently the pro- eram has been varied a hit by Onslow knocking out flies for the benefit of three or four of the boys who are con- sidered in need of a little additional leg_work. . Volley ball has proved to be by long odds the most popular of the daily stunts. It 1s a game in which nearly all of the players can participate and it furnishes keen sport as» well as beneficial exercise for participaants in addition to affording much amuse- ment for the crowd of spectators, which is daily growing in size. Harris Volley Ball Star. Harris leads one team, which usally has Lefty Thomas or Ralph Stewart doing the serving, while Altrock serves in the dual capacity of manager and server for the other outfit. Due to his experience at basket ball, Har- ris is one of the volley ball experts and has playing up forward with him Mur- ray and Mangus, both adepts at the game, while Altrock’s aces are Ogden, Thurston and McEvoy, who are sta- tioned close to the net, where the telling “kills’’ are made. The Rev, Billy Sunday visited the field bright and early yesterday and stayed throughout most of the prac- tice. He remarked on the difference in conditions now and those prevailing when he broke into the game back in the 80s, a period when the boys jumped right off the lots into the big show and when their big league race was run were forced to quit the game because there was no large string of minor leagues for the players to taper off in. The famous evangelist failed to carry out his threat of asking for a uniform and working out with the boys, but smilingly asserted he still retained the ability to spear a line drive. . Jack Blair, the juvenile receiver who accepted terms with the Nationals following a week end conference with Clark Griffith, failed to put in his aj pearance yesterday as he had indi- cated, but he is expected to arri?® from his home at Palm Beach today, possibly in time to participate in the ting their blood in circulation with a practice, BABE RUTH DUE TO OPEN SALARY DEBATE MARCH 2 By the Associated Prets. - EW YORK, February 22.—Babe Ruth will make the first move. toward settlement of his financial disagreement with the New York Yankees over terms for the 1927 ving e son, early in March. The move, a hop of 2,600 miles”from California to New York, will bring the homerun king into the Yankes i the opening of parleys on ok It is the belief of ‘the mi that on the day after the satisfled Babe, duly sig: 3 least another season, will be heading South with ‘the remainder of the Yankee regulars: to report’ at:.St. Petersburg, Fla., training camp by March 6. There were no indications today of the sum which Col. Jacob ‘Ruppert. expects to name in order to appease the mighty slugger. Estimates ranged. all the way from $60,000 to $100,000 a year, with the general ‘average struck at $75,000. Ruth has said that failure to increase the $52,000 salary he bas received for several years will bring about his retirement from base ball. He returned a contract at that figure mailed him by the Yankees several weeks ago. Ruth’s correspondence = with the | club, in addition to setting a date for contract discussion, said that he has attained fine condition while working g a ‘moving picture in Hollywooad, His weight is down to 224 pounds and his neck to 16 inches. His chest measures 38 inches normally and 45 inches expanded. His waist is 393 inches; hips, 40; thigh, 2434 calf, 16; biceps, 15%, and forearm, 12%;. Daily training drills, one at 6:30 a.m., and the other at noon, consist boxing, hand ball, rope-skipping and running, in addition to the weight reducing incurred in working long hours before the Klieg lights. In winning his tussle with avotrdupois, Ruth has lost 8% ' inches of his waist-line in two weeks. LINAMENT POPULAR IN CAMP OF GIANT. At | BY the Associated Prees. "NEW YORK, February 22.—Ambi- tious rookies and seasoned veterans alike were reaching for the linament bottle today in the Giants' training camp at Sarasota, Fla. The Giants pried the lid off their 1927 season yesterday with a fanfare of batting practice and the whiz of speedballs under the direction of Roger Bresnahan, coath, who subbed at the inaugural for Manager John McGraw, delayed in his trip to Florida from Havana by a storm. Ten players tooR :"’ part in two workouts. Young pitchers, young catchers, and a new inflelder, Rogers Hornsby, stepped- about briskly in the hot sun of the morning and the hotter sun of the afternoon. Hornsby, between posing for photographs, flelded for a time around second base, where he campaigned as manager of the world champion St. Louis Cardinais last year. v -9 Three southpaw huriers, Jack Bent- |QBrie ley, Harry Courtney and Dutch Henry, all veterans of one league or another, came under Bresnahan's watchtul eye | §°) in an effort to eliminate unnecessary windup motions. Howard Holland and Ned Porter, right-hand hurlers, whipped several fast ones over in bat- ting prae<ice and bunting drill TRIO DEADLOCKED AT TOP , IN EASLCHURQI LEAGUE With the third series under way in the East Washington Church Duckpin League, three teams are deadlocked at | 3 the top of the 12-team circuit. They are Ingram, Ninth No. 2 and Cen- tennial. 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LOUIS, February 22.—Revamp- Ing an old mottd, the managers of the Browns and Cardinals have evi- dently adopted the slogan “Spare the workouts and spoil the player” at their Spring training camps. Manager Dan Howley of the Browns has announced at Tarpon Springs, Fla., that his training camps have not been ‘“places of rest” in the past and will not he in the future. His three-hour workout on,the first day )| of training gave welght to his words. He sald he favored one dai out to Jast ‘“‘until the; enough.” Manager Bob O'Farrell of the Cardi- nals, who will put his charges through their first session today at Avon Park, Fla., favors two workouts a day be- cause he sald it was difficult to “get the men tired in only one.” He prom- ised the Cardinal pitchers plenty of work in the outfield. NELSON IS CHARGED WITH TAKING FILMS 100 | By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, February 22.—Today is ton's birthday and of Battling Nelson's fight with Ad Wolgast. Seventeen years ago today Nelson lost his world lightweight title on a technical xnockout after 40 gruelling jrounds to the “Cadillac. Wildcat." | Now, “17 vears later,” as the movies say, Nelson is given new cause to re- member the event. 5 The movies, as a matter of fact, are at the bottom of it. The fight was photographed, and it {s charged that Nelson recently went West and appro- priated the film record of the fight. A warrant arrived yesterday from Sheriff Angus McLeod of Sliver Bow, M charging Nelson with grand rceny on charges made by & J. of a Butte, Mont., theater. Sullivan sald he would prose. cute to the limit. ’ Mike Martin on sidelines watching BY FAIRPLAY. EW YORK, February Any one who is devoted sport and follows it with an interest which delv below surfsce facts and impressions must have gathered an immense amount of material for sardonic philosophy at the so-called battle between Jack De- laney and Jim Maloney at the Madi gon Square Garden last Friday night. Here were gathered some 20.000 boxing enthusiasts. Many of had paid anywhere from which, on_the merits of the s proved to be at least $20 too much— to $250 for the more favorably located seats, Of the others, hundreds, per- hape thousands, had pald a goodly premium for the privilege of purchas- ing seats. Suspiclons Are Aroused. All of them knew there was a chance that something would be wrong with the fight. For days in advance rumors to this effect were discussed by ring experts in the daily press. The activities of the important gamblers were observed, as closely as activities of these gentry can be ob- gerved, and, as the day of the combat drew near, pulses stopped beating and the earth seemed about to abandon its customary orbital trend when the dark whisper went abroad that the greatest and most canny gambler of all was plunging against the l’m'nnlhe. In all preliminary discussions of the bout among fans it may be certain that one question was always put forth. Do you think the go Will be on the level?” This reflects the spirit which in part, at least, characterizes the conduct of professional boxing in this city, where the situation is such that the boxing board dares not select, or at least finds it highly inexpedien® to designate the referee and judges until the fighters are about to enter Ih;‘:l’,"l‘!; spite of all this, the demand for tickets is so great when two well | known boxers are to meet that an arena such as the Madison Square Garden is not half large enough to hold those who are not only willing to pay the exorbitant face value of tickets, but meet any of the skyrock- eting demands of the speculators. Turn Out In Droves. Fired by their own fatuous enthu- slasm, utterly in the face of experience which has shown them that not one big bout in ten is worth anywhere near the price asked, they. turn out in droves in response. to the piping of the time-honored ballyho, just as last Fri- day night they filled the Garden to the roof tree, buoyed and inspired by the hope that this time, anyway, they would see a thrilling fight. | And how knowing they all are, these Manager Harris foins in volley -ball game. Murray is on right with Harris in air. Orie the other side McEvoy fs | Y. dyedin-the-wool fight fans of going up. Thomas is back of him. Gotham These wise-cracking, sophisticated Fights Last Night *| By the Associated Press. NEW YORK—Jack Bernstein, New York., outpointed Jimmy Goodrich, Buffalo, N. Y. (10). Jimmy Moore, California, scored a technical knock- out pver Pete Willilams, New York (8): PHILADELPHIA — Joe Simonich, Butte, Mont., knocked out Lew Ches- ter, New York (9). Vincent Forgione, Philadelphia, defeated Al Webster, Bil- lings, Mont. (10). Joey Willlams, Phil- adelphia, beat Sailor Larson, Moline, . (6). BUFFALO, N. Y.~Jimmy Slattery, Buffalo, defeated Ray Fay, Pittsburgh (6). Benny Ross, Buffalo, defeated Jimmy Delaney, St. Paul (6). BALTIMORE—John Ceccoli, Scran- ton, Pa., defeated Bob Garcia, Balti- more (12). % TORONTO, Ontario—Chris Newton, Toronto, knocked out CHiff Graham, To- ronto, lightweight champion of Canada (9). Frenchy Belanger, Toronto, and Joe McKeon, Detroit, drew (6). Jackie Phillips, Toronto, beat Berne Tre- maine, Cleveland (8). MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Harry Kahn, Milwaukee, outpointed Basil Galliano, New Orleans (10). Billy Bortfeld, Mil- waukee, defeated Johnny Mendelsohn, Milwaukee (8). CHICAGO—Bartley Madden, New York, shaded Chief John Metoquah, Chicago (10). Roy Williams, Chicago, beat Dick Watzell, 8t. Paul (6). Pete Wistort and Rocky Adams drew (6). DALLAS, Tex.—Clyde Hull won a newspaper decision over Pet Latzo, welterweight champion (10). PROVIDENCE, R. I.—Ray Mitchell, Philadelphia, shaded Sjd Barbarian, Detroit (12). £ LINCOLN, Nebr.—Teddy Garten, Lincoln, Knocked out Jack O'Neill, Duluth, Minn. (1). MEMPHIS, Tenn—Frankle Garcia, Los Angeles, defeated ~Tommy Fowlkes, Memphis (8). Carl Cannon, Memphis, knocked out Oklahoma Kid Harvey (1), VANCOUVER, British Columbia.— Harry Dillon, Winnipeg, won the light heavyweight boxing championship of Canada from Charlie Belanger, Van- couver (15 LOUISVILLE — Jimmy Finley, Louisville, won a newspaper deciston over Leo Wax, Australia (10). Fights Tonight. E SAN FRANCISCO—Louis (Kid) Kap- lan vs. Jimmy McLarnin (10). MILWAUKEE—Solly Seeman, New York, vs. Billy Petrolle, Fargo, N. Dak. (10). ATLANTA, Ga—~W. L. (Young) Stribling vs. Homer Smith, Kalama- 700, Mich. (10). LOS ANGELES—Lew Tendler vs. ‘oung Harry Wills (10). KANSAS CITY, Kans.—Joe Rivers Buster_Brown (10). | TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S 7th & F A Plain Glass Lens Is Legal With Flatlite l};flecton 'CREEL "BROS. 1811-17 14th St. N.W. Pot. 473 Headlights nted * Ford 7 * NDLEY . . 3730 Georgia Ave. AUTO INJURIES FATAL. LOS ANGELES, February 22 (#).— Armstrong of San Bernardino, | automobile race driver, died in!at'a Speedway race. - denizens of the white lights, who a hospital vesterday of injurles’ re-|never arise before noon and never go ” » to bed until the pallid fingers of cefved when his car failed to make a dawn -are . groping_ toward Manhat- urn and‘crashed into the grandstand | 1an's serrated skyline, heave a deep - contempt -for any section of these FIGHT FANS IN NEW YORK LIKE THEIR PUNISHMENT Pose as “Wise Gays,” But Constantly Fall for Bouts That Are Mere Ballyhoo—Delaney-Maloney Go Is Sample of How Easy They Are. United States lying west of the Hud- son River and north of 125th street. Yet no visitor from the sticks who ever hought a gold brick, or whose interest was enlisted in green goods, had half the simple gullibility of these “wise guys” who are plucked and befuddled to a fare-you-well every time Tex Rickard or some other promoter stages a few rounds of boxing. Just how exact is knowledge of boxing form in this great pugilistic center shown by the fact that more than nine-tenths of the crowd that filled the Garden came there utterly gulled as to Delaney’s prowess as a glant-killer, The few really wise layers, whose betting activities so alarmed others of their fraternity as well as enthusi- aste generally—the alr belng filled with consequent reports that the great hattle was to be “one of those things’—actually had no inside fn- formation. They had stmply figured out the fight as they would have doped a horse race, on form alone. They saw nothing in Delaney's record particularly in the pas to war. rant belief in his ability to stow away a falrly good man, outwelghing him by _more than 30 pounds. They did nothing but prove that every New Yorker is not a fall.guy; but they were Jost in the throng of the simplest and most impressianahle coterie of come-on's who inhabit this earth AS for the sport of professional bo: ing itself, the Fridayv night show s of a piece with what New York usually sees when the ballyhoo has ended and the promoters produce thelr shoddy goods, —— LATZO IS BATTERED BY TEXAS SCRAPPER By the Associated Pre DALLAS, Tex., February 22.—Pete Latzo, Scranton miner, who ham. mered his way to the world welter- weight champlonship, nursed bruises today folloviing a 10-round battle with Clyde Hull here last night in which the Dallas fighter won on points, in the opinfon of newspaper men. The title was not at stake, as both meén were over weight. 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