Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1927, Page 40

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Carroll Apt to Draw Suspens ROOKIE HURLER’S ABSENCE NETTLES - GRIFF OFFICIALS Unless Tardiness Actually Is Caused by Illness, Little Rock Man Will Be Punished—Mangum Shows Poor Spirit in Training. | | | nd the incident oc-! ¢ ball contest vester |is the “elin Sports E AMPA, da Youni Joe Carroll's chances of | The contests have been held daily, | landing a big league berth with [but that of yesterday s a speciad the Nationals have ju affa The huge sum of Wag- gone by the’ board. re ered by Al Sc n't know it, but when, and if, he | team, with Manager Harris, s here he will learn that the Wash- | the other, and the teams we | on ball club doesn't stand for any fully picked, the coach having Man- | i lly on the part of | Sum, Ogden, Tate and Morrell on his | Q@ roc 9 ¢ side. while Harrls played with Burke. | 1t will be vecalled that a week ago | ‘T*Fvoy, Stewart and Lisenbee. last Monday. when he was due ‘ With a record gallery cheering the check in and start conditioning with | contenders on, Schacht’s team took | the batter \ndidates, Pres |the opening battle and Harris® outfit 1dent oveived o telegram |copped the second. —Interest was at from a physician in Little Rock to the | fever heat when the rubber contes! effect that Carroll that day was to be | S0t under way, and with play waxing onarated on for follicular tonsilitis, | fast and furious the boys naturally That was all right in itself, for a |0t a little rough, the forwards man never iy ruarantee as to | Decially having a lively time in ex- the time tonsils muy act upon him, |Changes at the net which Involved snd the management considers that | Pedily contact. ol g N athlets is beiter off without the | Mangum was one of the forwards, pesky things anyhow, but the wire |and in his efforts totmake Kills he got so st roll would | get |many a bump from his antagonists here part of last- week—- | throush the netting. Je heefed a bit snil heid@lin't. }mm stewed around some throughout Now if the young man had a re- |the first two games and in the mid- lapse. or complications of some kind {dle of the deciding battle after re in that were calculated to make jCeiving a couple of acidental Kicks Traveling inadvisable. that would be [N the. shin and several smashes in S ilure to keep the | the face from the ball batted by his als advised as to his condi. | 'ivals, he quit cold, picking up his tion does not sit well with them, and |SWeater and striding in high dudgeon they indicated today that they had |t0 the clubhouse, just about lost patience with him. _ When Mangum left the game kflm' 0 i it was necessary to draft Altrock to . znl iy Fches. _,{fill in, and as Nick had to come in Carroll s the biggest man on the |eold without a chance to warm up, t ear, according to the table | the Schachtmen naturally were placed statistics, stamding 6 feet 2 inches | a¢ o disadvantage, with the result “nd weighing 200 pounds. At least e | that #larris and his henchmen went 0id before being separated {rom part lon to victory. of his anatomy, He is 22 vears old, 2 g | and with Little-Rock of the Southern | Spirit Not Liked. | Association last son he won 7 of| The run-out powder that Mangum set the 15 games that he participated in that went to a decision involving him. Tt it developes that Carroll has been genuingly all these days, no pun- ishment be meted out to him, but if he merely has been trying to dodge 4 bit of the training grind under the cuise of being disabled—a stunt that frequently has been tried, but seldom with any degree of success—he is due to become a sadder and wiser youth. bona fide excuse for his tardiness, backed with a doctor’s cer- tificate and some other indisputable evidence that no flim-flamming has been attempted, will mean a suspen- sion for Carroll, and while he is under that ban he will find it impossible to obtain work in organized base ball at the union rate of pay. The contention that pitching -candi- dates “weed themselves .out” in the battle for berths already has an ex- emplification in the camp of the Na- tionals, and no test under fire on the diamond was needed. Leo Mangum took brought no official communique from headquarters, but all the who's who were present and it was apparent that his action made a deep impres- sion. As a result, regardless of any | strength of arm he may display in the drills it is more than a pos bility that when the time arvives for| deciding on the fate of the hurling | aspirants it probably will be con- cluded that Leo is temperamentally unfit as a cog for a go-getting, never- say-die championship machine and that he will be divorced on the srounds of incompatability. With first-class weather prevailing the athletes are displaying better form with the workouts lengthening a bit each succeeding day. Some of the boys have been experimenting a bit with hooks and twisters, with the sanction of the coaches, and there seems little doubt that by the first of next week they will be breezing the ball over the pan in close to mid- season style. shat- OUTHWEST WILDCATS: handed the Northwest Squirms a° fine trouncing in 'a. battle for the doubles bowling championship of the Holy Rosary Dramatic Club. Gino Simi_and_Angelo Ganna, shoot- ing for the Wildcats, scored over Joseph Marcellino and Leo Balducci of the Squirms, 1,021 to 983, in a five- game encounter The Wildcats staged a’ magnificent rally to grab the laurels. After the game the Squirms enjoved u advantage, having outbowled i 610 to 565. In the fourth game, however, the Wildcats came through with a fine 242 to the opposi- | tion's 187, and found themselves 10 maples to the good. In the final brush the Squirms were outshot, 214 to 186, Gunna was the big scorer of the | match, contributing u 554 set to the Wildcat cause. Balducel was the bet- ter of the Squirms with 519. Simi of the Wildcats outbowled Marcellino, 467 to 464. The highest game of the struggle was negotiated by Balducci. In his first ¢ffort he counted 132. The victors will be challenged by tie 13 Street Scarolas, composed of Jumes and Fritz Ferraro. | Tragedy and comedy walked hand tn hand on the Coliseum alleys re-| eently in the Agricultural League | matches. In the first game between | and Interbureaus Hank ting at anchor for w.e latter team, went into the tenth box with his team apparently 13 pins in the rear. Needing a mark and a count of 4 to win, Hank naturally put everything he had on the ball. His first delivery, however, left him with a split, but he pulled a slide shot, which left a single pin standing, with a fallen pin_revolving about it. For “n eternity Hank and his teammates | Stood on the alley watching that fallen pin circlé nearer and nearer to the one left standing, Finally it struck | it and after a little wavering the final pin fell weakly to the floor. Then Hank, on the verge of nervous stration, took his extra shot—and ‘ut_out 3 pins. Walking dejectedly to_the bench, | nk found that Capt. Holmes had ked the figures, found an er Interbureau had actually 7 pins. It m: foliks, but it was just plain tragedy to Hank. * ng with the So-| s in the Aggie circuit and staging come-back after some ce from the alleys, ran into a combination of good and bad Ray Ennis, cellaneous managed to uven% out at the hands of the Solititors in the Internal Revenue League. Ed- dingfield of the winners was in fine f?gleé hitting ‘the little pins for a total of 376. P Socrates showed the way to Her- cules in two of three games in an Ahepa League match. G. Dracos shot well for the Philosophers, while Placos led the attack of the losing Strong- arms. Registry swept its set with Dis- tributors, and Railway Mail Service, after losing the first game, twice de. feated Money Order in the Post Office League. Seyfarth, Registry anchor, with , was the best bowler of the matches, A Y Year after year Harvard has had to purchare new shirts for its racing crew, due to the tradition that re- quires the losers in the annual Yale- Harvard race to toss their jerseys to the victors, have been a comedy to some | ik in one of his games recently when n the| T ¥ other es kept 1, when under | . he could have | the! 0 low counts in score down ordinary circumst counted on at least or better for record. However, the 1 his team from a shutout auds of the Interbu cloud produc B. ¥ M C g to be nothing to ipionship race are setting the pa “ lead over the Saujrrels, while the re teams of the circuit are well back of he second-place aggre Night Owls have won 48 games and lost 1%, ~ high average man of the circui < Murphy of Railway Mail Se who was hit 109-8 in 27 games. game has been rolled by MeCall of B. 150, while Edwa rmakers has hit high st at 376 d of the te most spares, 140, Railway Mail Ser the Boilermakers, strike-making, each R. Holder of jce, and Jenkins of shave the lead in ing toppled 24. and Handley Motors handed the Duni cans a kb e trimming in the Sub. nwhan League. Clampitt, with a set of 235, had much to do with the Handley vietory. Turner, with 318, was best of the Dinigans effort Sheotin 1 in its 1 s of the | Mign, 131 but the Night | High | % has made the | THE EVENING DIXIE PITCHER DATES ARE SOUGHT BY BALTIMORE NINE| Base ball games with Washington | and Alexandrla teams are wanted by the Rice Bakery Club of Baltimore for Saturdays and Sundays through- out the season, They may be arranged thrcugh the manager at Rice Bakery, 418 Hanover street, Baltimore, Md. Candidates for the Shamrock nine are to meet tonight at the home of Willie Glascoe, 1316 L street south- to discuss plans for the season: Sweeney has been elected cap- tain of the team. C. diamond candidates are ight at the home of Man- Johnny Wiles is organizing a midget base ball team and wants ‘midget players to talk with him at Potomac 3743-W. ; WESTERN LEAGUE WQULD BARGAIN ON DRAFT !_}ULE By the' Associated Press, * & Although turning down the posed. major-minor draft agreement drawn at. French Lick, Ind., -the Western League :owners have indk cated they might accept either of two other propoitions. The proj agreement would have given :the majors the right to draft players in the Western League at a price lof $5,500. Under the present agreement theyy can draft only players who went] from the major leagues. The club owners indicated they would accept the agreement if the draft price was increased to $7,500, or would accept it at 6,000 if the major leagues would agree not to go below class A leagues to draft. Both propositions will be presented to the major leagues, Dale Gear, president of the Western League, . my loes / Pve bem than I can count ’em. Pm Barking —th E:gothe:,w cigarette. A richer, Making oo _.me “on my toes”—but try for a few days and you'll ow why they’re so wild about me. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. AT TAMP. This young and lanky right-hander, who cellent ch (.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1927 MP HIGHLY RATED BY HEADS OF NATIONALS | ion Because of Failure to Report at Tampa Camp DEMPSEY MUST BATTLE TO GET GO WITH TUNNEY Rickard Declares That Only Way Jack Can Obtain Chance to Regain Title Is to Meet Winner of Elimination Tournament. Press | among the contenders for the heavy- W YORK, February 24.—An!weight title,” the promoter said in an ultimatum’ by Tex Rickard to | swer to reports that Jack wonld meet Jack Dempsey settles the [ the champion or no ene. “By that I status of the former heavy-|mean he must whip the winner of the weight champion in the pro-|present series. moter's matchmaking plans. “When I started this tournament ¥ Dempsey must defeat the winner of | signed contracts with all the men en- the elimination tournament now being | tered. 1 (d to give them Tunney staged at Madison S rden in |if they fought their way to the front order to gain r atch nditions Gene , Shar retired © They with that goul with from consideration as are fighting honestly in mind. “I couldn’t sidetrack any of them |and shove Dempsey ‘n with Tunney | for the simple reason that each man could hold me to my contract and sue me for breach of it. 1 wouldn't turn | them down for Dempsey in justice to | them either.” Rickard said he expected to learn Dempsey’s plans from the champion within a few days. “But he won't get anywhere with me if he i | sists on getting into the ring with Tun ney next September without openers he added. The last foreign entry. Paulino Uz udun of Spain, is slated for a prelin, With Jimmy | inary test Friday night against Knute Ind. (10). | Hansen, Western heavyweight. The Los|only remaining contest already arg wut | vanged in the series brings to the tour-? ey 1 TI.\'lmrk.,\".:( Boston against : - ike McTigue, who eliminated Pa FIGHTS TONIGHT. | Berlonbach. This bout s schedated 0. — Bud Tayl Terre | for March 3. Eddie Shea, Chicago m.»i will not meet Turney un ge: less he proves he is the best man By the Associated Pre, GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,,—John Risko, Cleveland, and Jack Dema RANCISCO.—Tim _Vahey isco, and Johnny Preston v wk, drew (4). SAN ANTONIA, Tex.— Minneapol drew McDermott, Terre Haute, FRESNO, Calif.—Bert Colima, Angeles, scored a technical kne overyllilly McGowan, Atlanta, ( nmy Rat CH Haute, v Buy the NEW Walcott Langford. Chicago, vs. Dave Shade, California (10). BROOKLYN. — Eddie Roberts vs, Saflor Friedman (12) | PHOTOS BY CARL T THONER- DECATUR JONES. & me to the Griffs' from Chattanooga late last season, seems to have an ex- of landing a permanent big league job. TWIRLER BAUMGARTNER | "RETIRES FROM DIAMOND HILADELPHIA, February 24 (@), imgartner former pitcher, ‘today an- | nounced his retirement from base bail. | He is to work for a newspaper. Baumgartner had been a member of both the local American and > tional League teams. He by the Athletics last ves Portland club of the Pacifi ue_in_a_trade, TYDOL GASOLINE At MOTOR INN Authorized AAA Station x 218-220 MASS. AVE. NW. BALKS ON SALARY CUT, | MUDDY RUEL DECLARES | By the Associated Press. ST. 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