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SPORTS. Winter Dead as a Doornail, Base Ball Is Everything Now, Judge Land APATHY OF GIANTS FADES ASMcGRAW TAKES CHARGE Peppery Manager Begins 25th Year at Helm. Haines of Cardinals Gets in Line—Mack Hears 5 From Pitcher Shores—Other Camp News, GREAT PENNANT BATTLES Too Busy to Take Vacation, Game’s Boss Predicts Wonderful Season—Says Fans Will Be Keyed to Hig‘ller Pitch Than Ever. BY JOHN B. FOSTER of the clubs in training. He had Py g A wppe | Planned to go to California and the HICAGO, February —"1he| (ulifornians were preparing to give game’s the thing from NOW |y, 4 fine reception. But work piled on,” Judge l\v‘no\u\\ A\lnl»lnh\l {up and that has just about been called Landis, commissioner of base | o™ fje nlso had planned to go to ball, observed to the writer to- | Florida, where there is a base ball “The Winter is dead, dead as @ | clyb on every other acre, but even ot a word about scandal | that pleasure may be denied him. Still, he expects to see some training camps before the season starts. | “What do I make out of all that?" Judge Landis sajd. “Just what T told you before: A busy season body is bus nd when every- S rest assured that there more palpitating hearts in ad- vance of the coming first game, than 1 are when this game is taken as o time-honored custom. Is Busy Man Now. Winter's base | _“Tase ball needs nothing from me >l except to say that of all the games the human mind has invented, there is none better. Show me where you !l can combine all manner of g and beneficial athletic maneuve! gether with mental acumen to g advantage than in base ball, Thai why I'm busy, I guess, and gettir no vacation.” Then to wind up “you can report th going to be a good care how strong y The mildest of Spring zephyrs was ing Chicago, when the Judge shot a weather eye out over Lake Michigan and said: “This is base ball Sveather. Tt's in the air. The season is onand I am up to my neck in work Club owners never have been busier | are in their lives thun they are this Spring, and the busicr they are, the busier T/ am. I never have known more clubs | ¥ fspiring to win championships in my | { the n blown away by cezes. Thoughts | e in the game are turned | toward the coming season, with e thing pointiig 1o a season of sucee Fine Races “Isn't th 2 wonderful variety of | championship fights in sight?” Judge Yandis queried. “DIid vou ever see| enything like it? Look where vou | will, some club is battling to get in st row. It's wonderful what | is on the platters for the Ameri- | n in this 1927 But the Judge would make no ob. ®ervations on the recent decisions | which he handed down on the Winter base ball scandals. He simply noted that his actions speak for themsely The judge had thought that h would be ab t away to sce some Prospect. judge s: d this ason, and 1 don 1 put it. Beside se ball day I can | ary in all my life. 1| wonder what it be by the Fourth | of July. There are four'or five of them, say, that seem to have a chance There 1 'go fanning again. But I | stand pat on its being a_good season, and why shouldn’t 17 Isn't this the United States?” (Copyright. 1927.) season.” | Pipgras, George W. TAKES 10 POLICEMEN | T0 ROUND UP NELSON By the A=sociated Press. CHICAGO, February 24.—Ten stal- wart policemen won a two-round argument over Oscar Battling Nelson, former lightweight champion, wheén he was arrested last night in his home on a Montana larceny warrant. ound one found two coppers try- ing to enter the house. Nelson barred the door and refused to come out. The gong for round two sounded as a detective bureau squad car clattered up with reinforcements. Then a lieu- tenant crawled in through an un- Jocked window and gave a-decision. “We'll go back to the station,” he =aid. Nelson went. For several days the police have held a warrant sent here by Sheriff Angus McLeod of Silver Bow, Mont., accusing Nelson of the theft of the TAYLOR FIGHTS SHEA IN CHICAGO TONIGHT By the Associated Press CHICAGO, Fgbruary 24—Bud Taylor of Terre Haute, recognized as the ‘world bantamweight cham pion in 18 States, meets LEddie Shea of Chicago in the main go of the | Coliseum boxing show tonight. Barring an upset, Tay) manager expects this match to prepare the Hoosier blond for a legitimate claim on the championship in the battle with Tony Canzoneri of New York, now set for the latter part of March. Canzoneri was to have been the Terra Haute boy’s opponent tonight, but suffered an injury to his foot which caused a month’s postpone- ment. Walcott Langford, Chicago negro middleweight who has won his last three matches by knockouts, meets Pitchers. Beall, Walter E. . Cannon, S. L. . Chesterfiel Giard, Joseph . Hoyt, Walte € Johnson, Henry . Moore, Wilcle . Pennock, Herber Bats. "Phr. :‘Hgfl xI=E= Ruether, Walter H. Shawkey, J. Robert Shocker, Urhan J. Thomas, Myles L. Wiltse, James ... Catchers. Bengough, Bernard 0. .. Patrick T. RARE SIREX Virgil L. . Grabowski, John ¥ Philips, Edward . Williams, Baxter Infielders. ; Adams, Spencer D. Dugan, Joseph A. . Ferrell, Hugh . Flickering, Do Gazella, Mich: Gehrig, Henry Koenig, Mark A. i e Morehart, : Wera, Julian .. Outficlders. Combs, Earl B, Davis, George W T d Durst, Cedric Funk, Elias . Meusel, Robert W Paschal, Benjamin J. .. Ruth, George H. ........ L Jacob Ruppert, president: Edward Roth, traveling secretary; ITFrN IR JTATCIIINT ITIIIIT IXNIBTRCOT NSO SRI-T X REEe Finished first in the American I ), eague, record of 91 victories and 63 defeats, for a percentage of .591. h Played with in 1926. Yankees G. ‘Waco (Texas League) 43 g'llk (Ints.) . 34 Sttt (Cot. Sid X .. Albany (Eastern) . Greenville (Sally) ... Yankees . . Yankees . Hattlesburg (Cot. St 1-pro Yankees . Yankees . Yankees . Yankees . ‘White Sox St. Paul (A. A.). Yankees .. Browns . Okla. City Yankees . Yankees . Yankees . G. Barrow, business L) ls‘g Vest. L. S 108 er; Mark manag Miller J. Huggins, manager; Arthur Fletcher and Charles O’Leary, coaches; St. Petersburg, Fla., t camp. '6 record— their fourth pennant, with a Were defeated vorld series by the Cardinals, three games to four. ENGLISH RACE STAKES SOUGHT BY U. S. OWNER ¢ the Associated Press. Stephen Sanford, American race horse owner, is making a determined effort to win the English steeplechase of the year, the Grand National, March He is said to have secured the services of Jack Anthony, probably the hest steeplechase jockey in the United Kingdom, to ride one of his four horses entered for the event, Brights Boy, Marsin, Blancona and Mount Etna. Anthony has ridden the winner of the Grand National on three occasions. Sanford has 'won it once with Sergeant Murphy. RADIATORS, FENDERS BODIES MADE AND REPAIRED NEW RADIATORS FOR AUTOS WITTSTATT'S R. & F. WKS. _1533 14th 8t. N.W. 319 13th N.W. armonServic 1227 R Street N.W. GIRL,16, GETS PERFECT SCORE IN RIFLE TEST CHICAGO, February 24 (#).—They call her “Sure Shot Mary” now at Lakeview High School because 16- year-old Mary Ward, seeking a. R. O. T. C. marksmanship medal, shot 500 out of a possible 500 with an Army rifie to win not only her badge but four honors as well. SPORTS. is Insists By the Associated Press. EW YORK, February 24.— Pep and determination grip the Giants’' training camp at Sarasota, Fla., today. John McGraw, silver-haired pilot, is there. The bustling manager, starting his twenty-fith year at the wheel of the New York machine, arrived In ca yesterday from Havana and the magic of his name at once transformed . list- less scene to motion. Rookie hurlers jogging lazily about the outfleld in the hot sun of a sultry afternoon, suddenly chased madly after fly balls batted their way when the quiet stranger who appeared in the shadows of the dugout turned out to be McGraw, - Pit¢Ners warming up at onee acquired a Taster pace. Rogers Hornsby bunted to perspir- ing athletes, whanged out fungoes and alded Roger Bresnahan in coaching the pitchers. Bresnahan is trying to iron the kinks out of Jack Bentley's complicated left-hand delivery. A southpaw Cuban hurler, Almada, from California, appeared on the lot. Five players, Grabowski and Phil- 1ips, catchers; Wiltse, pitcher; Gehrig, first baseman, and Davis, outflelder, will leave here tomorrow as the ad- vance guard of the Yankee squad which will gather at St. Petersburg, Fla., Sunday. ST. LOUIS, February 24 (#).—Jess Haines, who only a few weeks ago was looked on as decidedly on the outs with the Cardinals as to contract terms, was ready to don_ his uniform today at the Avon Park, Fla., camp. The veteran right-hander came in with seven excess pounds that he said he would work off in a week. With leaves only Flint Rhem, Jimmy Ring, Eddie Dyer and Frank Snyder of the battery, who! haven't answered "the roll. Rhem is a holdout, Ring has an illness in hig family and the othef two are said to be en route. The Browns, at Tarpon Springs, Fla., staged.a prodigal son drama, when Willlam Killifer “came home” yesterday. Killiter joined the Browns in 1909 as a recruit catcher, winding up last year with the Cardinal cham- pions. He was back today with the Browns as coach, after 18 years’ ab- sence. PHILADELPHIA, February 24 (®). —William Shores, right-handed pitch- er from Lawn, Tex., expects to join the Philadelphia Athletics at thelr training camp in Fort Myers, Fla., on Saturday. The whereabouts of Shores, who pitched for Mexia, in the East Texas League, last season, had. been some- what of a mystery to manager Connie Macit. Reports today from Fort Myers said o telegram had been recelved from the big right-hander stating that illness n his family had caused the delay. ‘Word - also has been received by Manager Mack that Joe Pate, the sole holdout in the Athletics' ranks, would &0 to Fert Myers Sunday to talk over the situation with Mack. Pate is now at-Fort Worth, Tex. Practice at the Athletics' camp this week has been confined chiefly to bat- ting and pitching exercises to work | out the Winter kinks. PASO ROBLES, Calif., February 24| (#).—A squad of 20 batterymen, offi- cials and coaches of the Pittsburgh National League Club was registered him came Bill Sherdel and "a young |for the opening of the Pirate’s Spring right-hander named Ray Shelberg, training camp here today. property ‘of the Houston club. This The big leaguers were greeted upon The new TRAFFIC TYDOL DELANEY TO AWAIT OUTDOOR CAMPAIGN BY FAIRPLAY. their arrival yesterday by a delegation of several hnudred fans and a band. It is the fourth consecutive season that the Buccaneers have established their camp here. The first contingent included Mana- ger Donic Bush, Trea m Drey 4 ! N A e NEW YORK, February 24.—Jack fuss and Coaches Os Stanage and | pgjaney iy due to drop out of the pie Jewell Ens. The players numbered 16 | ture the remainder of the Winter. But pitchers, half of them rookies, and 4 ' he will be back in time to make a dent catchers, The balance e party of in the outdoor season 35 which detrained was made up of | In his behalf it might be said it is scouts and newspaper m now generally recognized by fans who Infielders and outflelders know something uled to report next week. Delaney is capa Among the moundsmen was Byron | battle than he Speece, a husky right-ha who | Maloney. played with Washington and Cleveland | Undoubtedly the illness of his wife in the American League vho was | caused him to work under a serious sent to the minors because of wild-|mental handicap. He knew all about ness. He is counted upon by Manager | this prior to the fight and it would Bush as a winner for Pittsburgh. The | hive been better for him to have de- Pirate leader says Speece has achieved | manded a postponement, which would readily have been granted control. |re ouble was that the bally- PASO ROBLI so far and public squad had been worked up to a degree fcials and coaches of eat that the cupidity of all con National League Club | cerned probably did not admit of a for the opening of the Pirate’s Spring | postponement training camp here today Whether or not Delaney at his hest The big leaguers were greeted upon | would have been able to prod o big thelr arrival yesterday by a delega- | and strong a lad as Maloney out of tion of several hundred fans and a|the picture is highly doubtful. But it band. It is the fourth consecutive|does scem certain that he would have season that the Buccaneers have e~tu\»-( put up a much better fight than he are sched: »f a much better B showed againgst Jim lished their camp here. did, The first contingent included Man-| From Australia comes word that ager Donle Bush, Treasurer Sam | Tiger Jack Payne, an American Dreyfus and Coaches Oscar Stange | fighter, beat George Thompson for the and Jewell Ens. The players num-|heavyweight championship of that bered 16 pitchers, half of them rookles, | country and 4 catchers. Payne took a trip to the Antipodes S T fas a sparring partner of Sunny Jim CHICAGO, February 24 (®).—Twen- | Williams and Ansell Hell. Now it ty-three players, leaving Chicago to-|would seem that the lowly sparring day, headed the annual trek of the|partner had outstripped the men to Chicago Cubs for their Catalina|\hom he was supposed to play second Island training camp, with a George Cook, who sojourned of tickets reserved for men to SUBITY for & wWhiie AL fachs picked up at Kansas City and Los|do nothing with American heavies, is Angeles, { next in line for Payne. The two will Among the players expected | fight a 20-round bout with the title at Kansas was Percy Lee Jones, wtnl though President Veeck had no defi- | = nite assurance that the regular| pitcher, dented a salary raise request, | SPEEDOMETER TROUBLE ? would join the troupe there. We Repair All Makes Another absentee when noses were CREEL BROS. counted on the eve of departure was Elwood English, 19-year-old shortstop. 1811-17 14th St. N\W. Pot, 433 Representing 48 Leading Manufacturers of purchased from the :Toledo Associa- | Auto Electrical Equipment and Motor Parte. tion club. He was reported to have| delayed his reporting in an effort to| obtain part of the purchase price paid for him by the Cubs. Repairs to All Mabkes of High- Grade Cars Potomac 861 Showrooms Cor. Conn. his most dangerous opponent in the semi-windup in Dave Shade, the Californian, who is on his way back to ring laurels after recovering from an attack of typheid. T A ‘ ROOKIE DEMANDS BONUS. EWARK, Ohio, February 24 (&).— Elwood English, Chicago Cubs’ prize $50,000 shortstop, purchased from the Toledo, American Association, team, has announced at his home here he will not join Manager McCarthy’s out- fit until he is granted $5,000 of the sale price from the Toledo club, movie flni of his ficht with Ad Wol- att and H. D. Cross, setting the pocket billiard tourney at Scanlon’s, will cross cues tonight for the leadership in the event. 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