Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1927, Page 27

SPORTS. SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1927. 21 ' Fans, Taking Up Base Ball War as Merrily as Players, Feel Thrill of Camps With the Bowlers TRAINING CIRCUIT SWING TWO COURT EVENTS Cover Opponent, VARIETY OF BOXING But Watch Ball HANSON IS PRIMED REVEALS PILOTS’ PLANS Followers of Game as Eager to Learn of Strength of Other Outfits as Well as Possibilities of Their Favorite Band of Athletes. | BY JOHN B. FOSTER. * EW YORK, February 22.—Mak- ing the circuit of the Spring training camps in base ball is like traveling around the rim of a track built for bicycle racing.. It'is a journey that scales mountain peaks, speeds along river valleys, crosses deser d puts out to sea and back again. Millions of fans not only want to hear about the home team, but they want to get the dope on ti fellow’s team so they'll he r gloat when the big fight is on. fans take up the war as merrily as the ball pla) that is ‘why base ball is it is and why it fights against every crooked impulse that tries to tear it down When the tri jor league terr dy to The in order to see what the players are like and to get the ideas of the managers—for their plans mean a lot in the Spring—there are no end of minor league teams close by to be looked over. Minor league base ball of the last three or four years has been so good that the fans of cities which are just a half inch removed from major league pomp get up every now and then and declare they see as good base ball as the fans of the big circuit. Sometimes they see much better base ball. Two Clubs in California. Two major clubs California this vear. They are the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs. Next year thé Chicago White Sox will be out in that State, and as likely as not the New York Giants will be there. The Giants have been prospecting out that way, though not & peep has been made about the trip. The first game of the major league season is quite a long way off—April 12—and yet but a short time in the coming. In some cities reserved seats for the first game have been sold. Fans of Cincinnati hold the opening of the season to be an event as thrilling as any holiday zame, and they fill the park to capacity on open- ing day. Tt is a good, old-fashioned custom, one that was in vogue in the West years ago when base ball was not very prosperous and the town folk turned out to show the owners that the hearts of the fans were with them. If the home team got a bad licking on the first day, the hearts of the fans usually froze up overnight. Be: tween the npening day and Decoration day, if the circulation was not re- stored to the fans' veins, the home team was likely to be in for a bad season. Opening-day games of 1927 probably will be attended by larger crowds than ever have seen base ball games in the history of the sport. It is simply a question of pleasant weather. Florida Great Camp. The Detroit club, which trains &t San Antonio, will be welcomed by a huge crowd when it plays for the home fans for the first time, and the Chicago Americans, who train at Bhreveport, La., will find a much larger base ball stand when it begins the season at home. Charlie Comiskey will have the finest stand in the are training in is made through ma- | i United Sta' es when his improvements are compl-ted. The Baston Americans will try to build up -ourage at New Orleans. All other major clubs not named above will train in Florida. Both major league champions, New York and St. Louis. train in Florida this vear, and there are also the Glants, the Cincin- nati Reds, Cleveland, the St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn. the Philadelpnia Athletics and the Phillies, the Boston Braves and Washington. . They are grouped in"a space of terri tory comparatively &mall, and the en- eral conditions are much alike, except that a ball field of one town may have more blades of grass than the field of another. Two blades of grass or so are a great deal to brag_about on a ball field in the State of Florida. (Copyrixht, 19 IRVING FIGHTS WAY T0 135-POUND TITLE| Given a severe pounding in the first round, Henry Irving of isherwood Athletic Club came back in the second round to put Hal Clagett of District Athletic Club on the verge of a knock- out, and eventually win the decision in the 135-pound feature bout of four District amateur boxing title contests held last night at the Jewish Com- | | a lacing in the first round, but his greater reach and faster punching won the decision for him. To meet Clagett he disposed of Leo Coveleskie of the Knights of Columbus by_the decision route. Benny Denninberg of the Jewish Community Center, won by a techni- cal knockout over Wallace Hughes, Knights of Columbus, in the second round of their scheduled three-round affair at 125 pounds. Hughes went down for the count of nine when Denninberg landed a right swing to| the neck. Dave Newman outpointed Bobby Goldstein In a three-round bout at 118 pounds. Both boys are members of the Jewish Community Center. The bhouts were refereed by Goldie Ahearn, local featherweight, and sports writers on the Washington papers were the judges. YRS CUE “LEAD IS AT STAKE. Leadership in the pocket billiard tournament at the Arcadia is at stake tonight when Gene Ruark, now ahead, meets Fred Talbert. Chick Lappine last night defeated Edward Tindell 100 to 72 in the tourney. With an un- finished run of 22, Frank Hissey de- feated Steve Uhlarick 100 to 95, in a pocket billlard match last night at Scanlor’s. H. D. Cross meets Carl Green tonight. gt e SOUTH CAROLINA AHEAD. COLUMBIA, S. C. February 22 (). —South Carolina, playing ~ bril- liantly, closed its regular basket ball season last night with a 34-t0-29 vie- tory over Davidson College. | every N the Internal Revenue League, a couple of teams appear to have the race to themselves. They are Personal Audit, which is leading, and Annex 1. The former now holds an advantage of two games over the runner-up. The third-place Clearing Division team is four teams back of Annex No. 1. Following these teams in the order named are Miscellaneous, Solicitors, Consolidated, Executives and Special Adjustments. . Bowlers strive for many prizes in the Internal Reveriue circuit. How the shooting for these stakes has progressed follows: High averages—Leslle, 108-20; Tar- ter, 107- Mansuy, 106-56; Kasson, 106-38; Davis, 105-53; Speer, 105-44. High individual sets—Leslie, 377; Lewis, 372. High individual games—Shear, 149; Skeen, 145. High spares—Leslie, 140; Allen, 138. High strikes—Tarter, 36; Beyer, 35. High team games—Clearing Divi- 594; Personal Audit;«587; Mis- cellaneous, 568. High team sets—Solicitors, .1,646; Personal Audit, 1,644; Miscellaneous, 1,632, Concerning the matter of trying for pin, there is such a thing as overdoing it, a veteran bowler be- lieves. He views bowling as primarily an exercise and entertainment, not a business, and considers that ordinarily an intense concentration is perhaps not worth while aside from the fact that a person should ordinarily try to do his best in everything he under- takes. To let up in one direction is apt to mean a let-up in others: in other words, the old copybook maxim, “Whateve: is worth doing at all is worth doing well,” holds in duckpins as in other things, the veteran contends, However, he insists there is what m ethi often missed by the average man, and that is, that while in prac- tice games he may throw away a pin or so whenever he sees fit, the mo- ment he joins a team he is honor bound, out of loyalty to his team- mates, to try for every pin. Comparatively few bowlers do, of course, and that is why practically every close game is followed by fits of remorse on the part of men who can recall a pin left standing here and there during the games that might have been toppled with a little more care in going after it. A check of the scores of one of the ‘closed” leagues recently showed no fewer than 34 games in four months lost by margins of 1 or 2 pins each. The wise captain emphasizes this angle of the game to his team and this often explains . how some relatively weak teams finish high in the league standing vear after year, often beat- ing out quints that rate considerably stronger on the basis of the averages of the men in the line-up. Upsets continue in rapid succession in the War Department League. The teams now are so well bunched that it is all but impossible to get a good line on any of them. Topos, though winning but three of their last nine games, have managed to remain at the top of the laddeér, but only by vir- tue of total pinfalls. They are tied in winning percentage by Quartermas- ters. A game behind, Frankies and Srnndh! are deadlocked in third pesi- ion, A game farther back are Barbettes, Hobbies and Statistics in a fifth-place tie. Only recently, Statistics was lead- ing the circuit, but the team has lost eight of is last nine games. Medicos, Auditors and Engineers “over a million a day” 1. Burn. Note La Palina’s fine, free, even, long-ashed burn. 2. Aroma. La Palina’s mild, bears witness to the world's finest tobaccos. uisite aroma 3. Taste. Mellow, friendly, smooth—every La Palina is a smoke-treat indeed. 4. Color. No pale, ish leaves, but the rich light brown of fully matured tobacco. S. Workmanship. Each La Palina is fectly made— flawless, firm, neither hard nor too spongy. Such supreme quality could not fail to be ized. 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Harrison has shot 384, while Matlock and Dulin each s credited with a count of 375. The hest game has heen hit by Dabney with 162. Eil- bert has hit 160 and J. Harrison. 135. Hamann is strike leader with 41. E. Murrell has bowled 37 and J. Murrell 33, Schott tops the spare-makers with 155. Sneigosky follows with 136, while J. Harrison has made 135. The leading average bowler is Schott with a rating of 109-6. P. Har- rison has second best average with 108-45 and Matlock third best with 108-25. TUNNEY TO GET BUSY SOON. CHICAGO, February 22 (®).—Gene Tunney will get back into the ring in a few months and will “lick 'em all,” in the confident opinion of his manager, Billy Gibson, now enroute to the coast to join the heavyweight champion. EASTERN “LIGHTS” SCORE. With Moeller leading their attack, lightweight basketers of Eastern High easily downed Silver Spring, Md., High's team yesterday in the Eastern ym. Butler was the losers’ high scorer. P FOR SCISSORS KING Charley Hanson, boasting of an “fronbound’” stomach, arrived today in what he sald was the best condition of hig career for his world heavyweight championship match Thursday night at the Arcadia with Joe Stecher. Hanson is physical director of the Ar- cadia and has been away on leave. Hanson sald he had concentrated for two weeks on the development of stomach muscles, the better to with- stand the favorite hold of the “scissors king,” who employs a leg grip which is a cross between that of an octopus and a vise. ) Hanson thinks, in the ‘event Stecher clamps him, that he will be able to hang on until Stecher's legs tire and then break the hold. To do this he would need be more durable than a sack of meal. Stecher trains for the scissors hold by bursting such sacks. The champion, in wiring his appear- ance money to John S. Blick, the Ar- cadia magnate, was noncommittal on the match with a crack wrestler who has tried in vain, until now. to engage him. Hanson first challenged Stecher five vears ago. The champion now is meeting all comers, and Hanson is in the front rank. Thursday night's preliminary, be- tween Dutch Green and Harry Nixon, has Interesting possibilities. Green declares he has never been beaten in a finish match, and claims the middle- weight championship of the South. Nixon is the Army title holder. DATES FOR BIG RACES SET. BALTIMORE, Md., February 22 (#). —Dates for the Preakness and the Dixie Handicap, outstanding events of the Pimlico Spring meeting, have been announced by the Maryland Joc- key Club. The $25,000 Dixie, a 3-16- mile race for 3-year-olds and upward, will feature the opening day card, May 2. The Preakneess, $50,000 added, for 3-year-old, colts and fillies at the same distance, is scheduled for y 9 FOR ARCADIA SHOW Thirty-four rounds of boxing, topped by a 10-round star bout between Andy Bowen and Sailor McKenna, is the card for the members of the Arcadia Sporting Club at Blick's Arcadia to- night. The bouts will range from flyweight to heavyweight affairs. A six-round semi-final will find Jack Cafonl swapping wallops with Pete Lastic at 112 pounds. Marty Gallagher, pride of Foggy Rottom, will battle Jim Daley of Bal- timore 'in a heavyweight bout. Two four-rounders will bring to- gether Chick Holden and Billy Dixon at 112 pounds. and Young Brown and Kid Norfolk at 135, Central High School students will provide four bouts as openers. Kid Sullivan will be third man in the ring. ROy g GIVES CHESS EXHIBITION. Playing blindfolded, Newell Bank- ers, chess expert, last night won elght and earned draws in two matches at the Arcadia over leading Washington players. Players that tied Banks were C. A. Cran and W. H. Robinson. He defeated Clifton Yeoman, E. F. Mul- lan, S. Polen, jr., A. S. Wright, H. 8. Reese, T. J. Loftus, John Grimm and Cleo Harris. SHOOTERS ARE BUSY. . Scatter gun artists of the Washing- ton Gun Club were to take part in a four-event program this afternoon on the Benning range. Next Saturday the Washington marksmen will go to Bal- timore to shoot a postponed match with the Orlole Gun Club. e e NEW YORK, February 22 (#).— Dartmouth defeated Columbia in an intercollegiate league basket ball game last night, 38 to 14. The win marked the Green's fifth victory in seven league contest: ASKET BALL & - Q=2 lNG BY SOL METZGER. Basket ball coaches agree that the hardest points for young players to grasp are the simplast ones. Take, for example, the matter of guard- ing an opponent whose team has the ball. Tnvariably, according to Coach Schlademan of Washington State, the young player will freeze fast to his opponent and fail to watch the ball. As a result he is easily shaken off Ly feints and is never effective In intercepting passes made to his cpponent. ‘When one watches a player like Kittredge of Holy Cross covering his opponent, he learns what good guarding is. Kittredge plays his man closely and also keeps his eye on the ball, as in the upper illustra- tion. Ability to stick with your man and to keep betwean him and the basket he is shooting for is the trick in guard play. SHREVEPORT, La., February 22 (#).—Ed “Strangler” Lewis, claimant of the heavyweight wrestling cham- plonship, defeated Jim Clinstock, Ok- lahoma Indian, here last night, win- ning the last two falls. LISTED FOR CHICAGO By the Associated Prese. CHICAGO, February 22.—The crack prep school basket ball teams of the Natlon will bring to a sharp climax their season of court play when they come to Chicago next month to en- gage in two national tournaments— one for Catholic, the other for public high schools. 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